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Classic Hitchcock. It is 1939 and Johnny Jones, a naive police reporter, is sent by his even more naive boss to cover a "crime" story that's unfolding in Europe: the potential outbreak of a second world war. Unprepared for the dangerous political landscape he's entering, Johnny manages to land smack in the middle of a spy ring that is masquerading as a peace organization.
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Price: £89.99 Encyclopædia Universalis 28-volume French-Language Set The Encyclopaedia Universalis on DVD is the French touch in culture an intellectual work born under the auspices of the French spirit. The result is an encyclopaedia, well known for its complementary vision: facts and opinions. The Encyclopaedia Universalis DVD holds a special recommendation of the French ministry of Education. This label guarantees the quality of the content for institutional and individual customers. It...
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Foreign Correspondent" DVD
An acclaimed thriller in which a newspaper reporter gets snared in a tangled web of spies which takes him to improbable locations all over Europe.
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This video is designed for babies aged one to thirty-six months, introducing the sounds of foreign languages via a combination of images and music. Infants have a natural ability to assimilate the sounds of different tongues, and while this video is not designed to actually teach any foreign languages, it should help stimulate your child's learning abilities.
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Jean Arthur stars as Congresswoman Phoebe Frost in Wilder's satire of American sexual mores. She arrives in bombed-out postwar Berlin in 1947 as part of a congressional delegation assigned to investigate the moral behavior of the American occupying troops.
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Film Synopsis:- In 1939, the Editor of the New York Daily Globe sends Haverstock (Joel McCrea), a crime reporter, into Europe in the hope of getting a fresh angle. Naive and wholly ignorant of international affairs, Haverstock launches himself eagerly onto the London scene, where he meets and falls in love with Carol Fisher, whose father heads an important peace organisation. Before long, Haverstock witnesses the assassination of a Dutch diplomat at terrifying close hand. Hot on the trail of the...
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With unparalleled access to life within the Foreign Legion, this film follows one young recruit from Kircaldy in Fife, 22 year old former Royal Marine Dean Heggie as he arrives in Paris and tackles one of the toughest training programmes in the world. Endless drill at all hours of the day and night, gruelling physical training, hours devoted to learning the Legion`s songs and even the correct swaggering walk.
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part of the documentary series looking at the course of the first world war. this volume continues the story into 1915, when the great mobile battles of the previous year had resulted in stalemate following the defeat of germany's drive towards paris. both sides began to dig in, making the first moves towards constructing the vast trench networks that would result in years of attritional warfare. includes rare archive footage.
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A Foreign Affair [DVD] [1948]
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Five decades after blood flowed freely on its shores, Normandy is revisited by a handful of nostalgic World War Two veterans. It isn't long before the men begin to reopen old wounds as they explore the battlefield that shaped their lives. Two of the men search for an old flame and, in their quest, find much more.
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An acclaimed thriller in which a newspaper reporter gets snared in a tangled web of spies which takes him to improbable locations all over Europe.
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A former Royal Marine arrives in Paris to train for the most romantic army in the world - the Foreign Legion. This video charts his progress, as he is inducted to the Legion's special codes, and taken jungle training deep in the Amazon.
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Because he refuses to throw a wrestling match, Abdullah (Wee Willie Davis) joins the Foreign Legion in Algeria. The promoters, Johnny (Bud Abbott) and Max (Lou Costello), go after him to bring him back to the U.S. No sooner do Johnny and Max arrive in Algeria than a spy reports their presence to Sheik Hamud El Khalid (Douglass Dumbrille), desert Sheik and a cousin of Abdullah. While trying to elude Hamud's assassins, Johnny and Max get into a slave market and unknowingly outbid Hamud for six beautiful...
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Foreign Land (DVD)
After the unexpected death of his mother, Paco, an aspiring actor from Sao Paulo, longs to leave his native Brazil. Tired of living in squalor, he accepts a 'delivery job' from a shady antique dealer and travels to Lisbon carrying a violin filled with uncut diamonds. But when the exchange goes bad, he finds himself on the run from an underworld thug and in the arms of Alex, a beautiful woman caught up in the Portuguese black-market
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Two British war vets meet an American vet when all three return to Normandy on the 50th anniversary of D-Day. Old rivalries resurface when two of the men discover they are searching for the same lost love. A lonely woman with her own painful but mysterious memories joins the group, while the American vet's petulant daughter and bumbling son in law struggle to keep up with the exploits of their elders. This disparate band of survivors eventually finds common ground in the memory of what they lost...
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Part of the documentary series looking at the course of the First World War. This volume continues the story into 1915, when the great mobile battles of the previous year had resulted in stalemate following the defeat of Germany's drive towards Paris. Both sides began to dig in, making the first moves towards constructing the vast trench networks that would result in years of attritional warfare. Includes rare archive footage.
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Abbott And Costello - In The Foreign Legion/Meet The Keystone Cops [DVD]
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Classic romantic comedy from director Billy Wilder starring Marlene Dietrich and John Lund . Captain John Pringle (Lund) is an American army captain who is having an affair with German singer Erika Von Schluetow (Dietrich). When Congresswoman Phoebe Frost ( Jean Arthur ) is sent to Germany on a fact-finding mission, John decides to clean up his act - or at least make it appear that way. Phoebe eventually falls for John, but Erika has other ideas.
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