Leslie Phillips
1) Venus
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Maurice and Ian are successful, but aging actors. The two are close friends whose conversation generally revolves around theatrical shop talk and the infirmities of other aging actors. Ian is fearful that death is right around the corner, so he agrees to let his niece's daughter, Jessie, move in to his flat to care for him. Jessie is a modern woman in her early twenties. She turns out to be a nightmare for Ian, especially since she is a hard-drinking,...
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 650 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Stephen Crane is a con artist, swindler, and purported savior of a struggling sports car company. Sacked from an investment bank after one dodgy deal too many, Stephen lands a job at Douglas Motors, a business distinguished by old-fashioned craftsmanship and plagued by decades of familial mismanagement. There he finds himself playing surrogate son to the family patriarch, confidant to the adulterous son-in-law, and lover to the beautiful but willful...
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media U.S
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 463 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Master of the moor: As a boy, Stephen Whalby took to his beloved moor to escape trouble at home. Trouble follows him there as an adult, however, when women's bodies begin turning up among the rocks, heather, and bogs. Stephen finds no refuge when D.I. Manciple--a rude outsider, unwelcome in the village of Vangmoor--targets him as the prime suspect.
Vanity dies hard: In the town of Salstead, the lives of two friends seem to take different trajectories....
Series
Publisher
VCI Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (153 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The limping man: An ex G.I. returns to England to look up a wartime girlfriend and rekindle their romance. He soon realizes his ex-girlfriend has become involved with racketeers but before he can untangle her mess, he helps the local police track down a deadly sniper. The scar: When a crooked gambler seeks to hide from a rival mobster, he hatches a plot to take the place of a psychiatrist that he's a dead-ringer for. But it's not long before the good...