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John Addison
1) Sleuth
Publisher
Anchor Bay
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
A mystery novelist invites his wife's lover to dinner and plays diabolical and deadly tricks on him.
Series
Criterion collection volume 829
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on one of the most controversial plays of its time, a disaffected teenager finding her way amid the economic desperation of industrial Manchester, and despite an absent, self-absorbed mother. With its unapologetic identification with social outcasts and its sensitive, modern approach to matters of sexuality and race, a classic that is still a startling benchmark work of realism.
Series
Criterion collection volume 829
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on one of the most controversial plays of its time, shows how a disaffected teenager finds her way amid the economic desperation of industrial Manchester, and despite an absent, self-absorbed mother. With its unapologetic identification with social outcasts and its sensitive, modern approach to matters of sexuality and race, a classic that is still a startling benchmark work of realism.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
In April 1944, an allied agent is sent to France in order to rescue an "overlord" captured by the Germans. (An "overlord" is one of the few men who knew the date and place of the "D" day). To achieve this goal, he will be supported by a secret friend of the allies, a very important German officer and the French resistance.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
In September 1944, flush with success after the Normandy Invasion, the Allies confidently launched Operation Market Garden, a wild scheme intended to put an early end to World War II by invading Germany and smashing the Reich's war plants. However, a combination of battlefield politics, faulty intelligence, bad luck and worse weather led to disaster.
7) Tom Jones
Series
Criterion collection volume 910
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows the bawdy activities of Tom Jones, a foundling of mysterious origin, adopted by a squire in eighteenth-century England.
8) Swashbuckler
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A buccaneer saves his friend from execution and then comes to the aid of a wronged noblewoman. Together they attempt to free the citizens of Jamaica from an evil lord.
10) The honey pot
Publisher
MGM/UA Home video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A millionaire pretends to be dying and summons three former mistresses to his bedside in Venice. He then lies back to enjoy their greedy scramble to inherit his fortune. One of them suddenly dies mysteriously, and an elaborate murder scheme unfolds.
11) A bridge too far
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
A dramatic recreation of an Allied airdrop behind German lines in Holland, and the subsequent disastrous Battle of Arnhem.