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[Steve Crook]

name='Chris B']Just had A 2 disc edition of the uncut full version of A CANTERBURY TALE A very nice transfer with excellent restoration work, the extras disc has a a couple of interesting items especially one, that is looking at the sites used in the film as they are today. Released by Criterion in the states, the English version I believe is the cut version, paid £20-68 inc P&P. Another Powell an Pressburger gem under their Archers Banner.

Glad you liked it



We do that location walk on the last Sunday in August every year and quite a few people in this forum have been on them. Although that one on the Criterion DVD was a bit special because it was Powell's centenary year so we went and looked at the places where he was born and grew up as well as looking at a few of the places where they made the film.



Both DVDs (Criterion and Carlton and the French one) have the full film. The American version of the film does still exist but isn't shown very often, only at a few special screenings.



If you, or anyone else, wants to find out more about it, there's a great book, A Canterbury Tale: Memories of a Classic Wartime Movie. That has all the locations complete with lots of "then & now" photos as well as interviews with a lot of the cast & crew



Steve

[Steve Crook]

One of the P&P email group has just pointed out some new DVDs that he spotted being offered by Amazon.fr



[ame=http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/B002IWF18E/papas011-21]The Fire Raisers (1934)[/ame]



[ame=http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/B002IWF184/papas011-21]The Phantom Light (1934)[/ame]



[ame=http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/B002IWF18O/papas011-21]Red Ensign (1935)[/ame]



[ame=http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/B002IWF17U/papas011-21]They're a Weird Mob (1966)[/ame]



It's a bit odd putting TaWM in with those others, but it's good to see them all being offered.



Amazon.fr do say "Langue: Français" but I'm not sure if they really are dubbed into French.

I'll find out in a few days when they arrive - I've just ordered them all



Steve

[DB7]

The Dam Busters: Special Edition (Digitally Remastered)

Landfall

Bunny Lake Is Missing

Age Of Consent

Strip Tease Murder

Return of a Stranger

Footsteps In The Fog

The Wrong Box (1966)

Take A Girl Like You (1970)

Father Brown

Frightmare

Die Screaming Marianne

[retrospecta]

The Sentimental Agent - The Complete Series DVD is out from Monday 17th May 2010



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Carlos Varella (Carlos Thompson) is an import-export agent with a finger in every pie. Charming, elegant, sophisticated and widely travelled, hes the sort of man that people come to for help. With the aid of his secretary Suzy Carter, manservant Chin (the legendary Burt Kwouk) and fellow Mercury International employee Bill Randall, Carloss devil-maycare attitude and infectious sense of humour see him through the stickiest of situations!



Spinning off from an episode of Man of the World (also available on DVD from Network), this quirky and humorous thriller has scripts from writers Brian Clemens (The Avengers, Thriller), Tudor Gates (The Sweeney) and Julian Bond (Tales of the Unexpected).



SPECIAL FEATURES



[] Burt Kwouk: With This Face brand new interview with the legendary actor (Disc 3)

[] Episode stills galleries (all four discs)

[] Promotional PDF material



[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yE3zZNDrLY]YouTube - The Sentimental Agent - Complete Series DVD (web exclusive) clip[/ame]

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Leonard Nimoy, Susan Hampshire and Vera Miles star in Baffled!, released by Network DVD on Monday 17th May 2010.



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Who dares to walk the line between life and death?



Star Trek icon Leonard Nimoy, Susan Hampshire and Vera Miles star in this eerie story of revenge and murder from beyond the grave. Baffled, an intriguing ITC pilot for a never-completed series, is directed by Phillip Leacock and also stars Rachel Roberts, Christopher Benjamin, Angharad Rees and Ray Brooks.



Tom Kovak is a hard-nosed racing driver, until a sudden supernatural vision causes him to lose control of his car as he hurtles along at 140 miles per hour. Michele Brent is the woman who convinces Tom that his apparitions are signifi cant. When she leads him to the manor house of his vision, he meets glamorous fi lm star Andrea Glenn and her daughter, Jennifer, whose screaming image was the last thing he saw before his near-fatal crash. Despite Toms initial doubts, he is inextricably drawn into their lives, as together they combat a force that they cannot see, but can feel only too well. An ominous, vengeful presence engulfs the manor house. Its only aim is death, and its intended victim is Andrea; little Jennifer is its weapon. Tom must now find the means to tap his powers. It is their only hope...



Special Features



[] Image Gallery - including a number of behind-the-scenes stills

[] PDF promotional material



[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-gHDfUeMeU]YouTube - Leonard Nimoy racing clip from Baffled! DVD out from 17th May 2010[/ame]

[Lord Brett]

name='retrospecta']The Sentimental Agent - The Complete Series DVD is out from Monday 17th May 2010



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I was always under the impression that this was shot on video - probably some nonsense I picked up from an old TV guidebook. Glad I was wrong.

[Toscana]

name='retrospecta']The Sentimental Agent - The Complete Series DVD is out from Monday 17th May 2010



http://www.networkdvd.net/product_inf...



Carlos Varella (Carlos Thompson) is an import-export agent with a finger in every pie. Charming, elegant, sophisticated and widely travelled, hes the sort of man that people come to for help. With the aid of his secretary Suzy Carter, manservant Chin (the legendary Burt Kwouk) and fellow Mercury International employee Bill Randall, Carloss devil-maycare attitude and infectious sense of humour see him through the stickiest of situations!



Spinning off from an episode of Man of the World (also available on DVD from Network), this quirky and humorous thriller has scripts from writers Brian Clemens (The Avengers, Thriller), Tudor Gates (The Sweeney) and Julian Bond (Tales of the Unexpected).



SPECIAL FEATURES



[] Burt Kwouk: With This Face brand new interview with the legendary actor (Disc 3)

[] Episode stills galleries (all four discs)

[] Promotional PDF material



YouTube - The Sentimental Agent - Complete Series DVD (web exclusive) clip

This is brillient ITC at its best. Starts car driving over Tower Bridge around the docks and pulls up outside an Elstree Studio building. Those sheds and studios must have been evrey port or industrial estate in the world over the years.

If you learn anything from these shows its that you never ever trust the switchboard operator in a hotel, come to that anybody who works a switchboard or has access to a party line. You don't get anything like this now with bloody mobile phones.

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The Georgian House DVD - the remaining episodes plus scripts



Eerie, unsettling and one of the key children’s TV productions of the 1970s, The Georgian House was written by acclaimed author Jill Laurimore with noted producer/writer Harry Moore (The Clifton House Mystery, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) and produced by the renowned Leonard White (The Avengers, Armchair Theatre). Cult children’s television actor Spencer Banks (Timeslip, Tightrope) stars alongside Jack Watson (Sky, Arthur of the Britons) in a series that The Stage lauded as “visually rich, sumptuously produced [and] a quality production”.



Though made as a seven-episode series, unfortunately only a few episodes are now known to exist – two in original transmission format and one on home video held in private hands. Long sought by archive TV collectors, this release includes all three remaining episodes of The Georgian House – episodes one, three and seven.



Two students, Abbie and Dan, take a holiday job in a museum that 200 years ago was the home of the Leadbetter family. The pair are drawn to an African carving which suddenly emits a voice summoning them back in time to 1772. Dan is transformed into a kitchen boy and Abbie becomes a member of the Leadbetter household. They soon realise they have a task to fulfil before they can return to their own time – helping a black servant with strange powers who is about to be sent back to the misery of the sugar plantations...



SPECIAL FEATURES

[] Introductory note by Jill Laurimore (inner sleeve)

[] Original breakdown for first four episodes (PDF)

[] Rehearsal scripts for episodes three, four and five (PDF)

[] Original draft script for episode six (PDF)



Georgian House (The): Network DVD



[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-c38XAEgcA]YouTube - Spencer Banks in The Georgian House DVD - the remaining episodes plus scripts[/ame]

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Sharman - The Complete Series DVD out 24th May 2010



Sharman: The Complete Series: Network DVD



Oscar-nominated Clive Owen (Chancer, Closer) brings a brooding intensity to the role of private detective Nick Sharman in this stylish drama based on the best-selling novels by Marc Timlin.



Blending classic noir elements with hard-hitting 90s realism and explosive action, Sharman consolidated Clive Owens remarkable success and helped pave the way to Hollywood superstardom.



The series features rapidly paced storylines from, among others, Tony Hoare (The Sweeney, Minder) and the award-winning Paul Abbott (Shameless, Touching Evil); Samantha Janus, Keith Allen, Gina Bellman, Ray Winstone and Bill Paterson are among the guest stars.



This release contains the complete series, originally aired in 1996, and pilot episode The Turnaround from 1995.



[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9Hzy626AkA]YouTube - Clive Owen is private eye Nick Sharman in DVD clip[/ame]

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A Bunch of Fives - The Complete Series DVD



A Bunch of Fives, starring Jamie Foreman and Lesley Manville, was devised and written by the Grange Hill team of John Sichel and Colin Rodgers, and, as might be expected, is every bit as hard-hitting and humorous. This release comprises both series, originally screened in 1977 and 1978.



Out on DVD on 24th May 2010 as a web exclusive available only at - Network DVD



Episode 1 intro: A Bunch of Fives - The Complete Series DVD



[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJnTUwnsMl0]YouTube - Episode 1 intro: A Bunch of Fives - The Complete Series DVD[/ame]

[cornershop15]

New from Network

The surprises and delights never cease with this company, who must have changed the viewing habits of many of us in recent years. Soon after the welcome release of Whodunnit?, and with the all the surviving episodes of Callan finally available, there is yet more exciting news for us Edward Woodward fans.

I remember The Bass Player and the Blonde, a mini-series from 1978, and am really looking forward to seeing it again after all this time. The inclusion of the ITV Playhouse 'pilot' is a great bonus that will also interest didi-5, following our discussions at the http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/lo...ove-story.html thread.

I did say, quite recently, that our best hope of seeing these rarities is probably as a 'Special Feature' on DVDs and have been proved right! Another example was The Prodigal Daughter, an additional Extra to Network's release of Cottage to Let (both starred Alistair Sim). There are also a couple of ITV Playhouse productions on the Armchair Cinema boxset.

The Edward Woodward Hour is another treat but there is Bad News as all three shows were wiped. All that remains, mercifully, is an "off-air video recording" of one of them. Guests include Beryl Reid and Patrick Cargill (double cool), and I can't wait to see the bizarre-sounding "Callan vs Father Dear Father" sketch, with Russell Hunter again playing Lonely.

On the Sitcom front, Spring and Autumn immediately caught my eye when I saw it listed last month. I think it's going to be released this Monday ("Date Expected: 7 February 2011"). Still can't quite believe that I'll have the chance to see this again soon. I've had just one memory since it was last shown: widower Jimmy Jewell and child actor Charlie Hawkins sitting on a park bench. Either one particular scene affected me or it was a regular haunt for them.

It's strange how I've kept getting 'lumbered' with single images from forgotten shows. Another one is Sadie, It's Cold Outside, with Rosemary Leach and Bernard Hepton. Great actors, but all I remember is the sundial in their back garden! That sitcom isn't among the Forthcoming Releases but a later show, also on ITV, IS - Astronauts.

The only moment I remember from this is when one of the men (Christopher Godwin or Barrie Rutter) bemoans not having 'it' for three weeks. Hearing the bitchy Carmen du Sautoy retorting "Yes, I suppose three weeks is a long time!" gave me a bit of a turn as a 16-year-old, I can tell you

The last 'main attraction' I'd like to promote is An Audience with Jasper Carrott: The Complete Series, from 1978. I quickly became a massive fan of the comedian when this was originally broadcast and recorded a couple of the later episodes on audio cassette (likewise the second series of Fawlty Towers). I did the same thing for his Live one hour special the next year. Unfortunately, this is not included as a bonus feature.

At one point, he picked up a television on the stage and, to prove it really was Live, showed the audience what was on the other channels ("There's Shakespeare on BBC2 ..."). When I listened to my recording of the show, I was particularly frustrated at not being able to see that moment.

The first video recorder didn't appear in this house until Christmas 1981, for the TV premiere of Gone with the Wind. Now I have four DVD players in my room - two on computers. It's brilliant to have these opportunities but I wish it had been a very long time ago.

Other highlights in Network's Forthcoming Releases:

Shadow Squad. Another tragic series, I'm afraid. Robbed of 175 of it's 179 episodes, with the surviving one of spinoff Skyport also included. Surprisingly, the stars of this now-obscure show are Peter Williams and George Moon, both only known to me for their minor roles, including my beloved Public Eye - unsurprisingly!

Tightrope. Spencer Banks and his fans must again be wondering whether it's Good or Bad News for this intriguing Children's adventure series to be released, nearly 40 years later. Just like Timeslip, "a 16mm black-and-white film print exists, but the programme was originally made using 2" colour videotape." (LostShows). 'Good News' in the sense that we can still watch and admire ... but not as intended. Spencer's co-star was John Savident, would you believe. A candidate for 'Actors We Didn't Expect to See Together'.

Series 3 of both The Cuckoo Waltz and The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club are also on offer but I'll leave it a while longer to see if Network produce boxsets, as they've done with And Mother Makes Three and Father Dear Father - both ordered yesterday.