Ian Carmichael
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In Dorothy L. Sayer's third Lord Peter Wimsey novel, Unnatural Death, Agatha Dawson, a woman of advancing years, appears to suffer a natural demise. Amidst the façade of calm, a disquieting unease piques the curiosity of aristocratic crime fighter Lord Peter Wimsey, prompting him to send his investigator, Miss Catherine Climpson, to do some sleuthing in the quaint village of Leahampton. A mystery develops when the body of one of Dawson's maids is...
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Much to Bertie's astonishment, The Times has announced his engagement to the beautiful Bobbie Wickham. To add to the confusion, Uncle Tom's antique silver cow-creamer is missing; Kipper Herring has libeled his former headmaster; and British psychiatrist Sir Roderick Glossop is posing as a butler. As always, it takes the unflappable Jeeves to sort everything out.
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Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2002]
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2 videodiscs (200 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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It looks like a tragic accident when Victor Dean falls down the spiral staircase at Pym's Publicity Ltd. His replacement (Wimsey in disguise) sets out to find the truth which leads him to a drug ring operating through someone at the agency.
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Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2002
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2 DVDs (180 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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The mystery begins in the lounge of the Bellona Club where the elderly members all slumber like corpses in their chairs. On Armistice Day 1922, one of them really is a corpse. Question is, did the General or his sister, the wealthy Lady Dorland, die first? Wimsey uncovers love, greed, anguish, betrayal and finally, the bitter truth.
5) Gaudy night
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Audio Partners Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
[1993]
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12 CDs (15 hr., 39 min.) : digitial ; 4 3/4 in.
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A reunion at Oxford ensnared mystery writer Harriet Vane in a case of a poison pen poltergeist. No one is immune to the nasty newsprint notes, not even Harriet. With Lord Peter Wimsey, she must find out what's going on.
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Lord Peter Wimsey. Set one volume disc 3
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Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2009
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1 videodisc (ca. 177 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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When a member of the prominent Bellona Club dies on the same day as his sister, Lord Peter must determine who will inherit a sizeable fortune.
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Anchor Bay Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
2003
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1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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"Peter Sellers won his only British Academy Award for his career-making performance as Socialist shop steward Fred Kite in this brilliant class-struggle comedy. Ian Carmichael ... co-stars as naive Oxford graduate Stanley Windrush, who is hired as a common worker at his wealthy uncle's missile factory and quickly becomes a pawn in the battle between management and Mr. Kite's labor union. But can both sides stop a complete nitwit from single-handedly...
10) Heavens above!
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Anchor Bay Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
c2003
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1 DVD (118 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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An idealistic clergyman is accidentally assigned to a wealthy parish where he insists on ministering to the rich and poor alike, infuriating the town, the religious hierarchy, and the government.
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Distributed in the US and Canada by Warner Home Video
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[2001]
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3 DVDs (ca. 300 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Sweet Molly Gibson was living life pleasantly when her widowed father decides that, for the good of his daughter, he must remarry. In comes Claire and Molly's life is turned upside down by the usually well meaning but off-the-mark Claire, who insists on things being done the proper way. Added to the stew is Claire's beautiful, educated daughter Cynthia, and the Hamleys, a well-to-do family headed by a squire who is not happy about the romantic interests...
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Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2007]
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1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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Mr. S. Potter is headmaster of a school which gives instruction on "How to win without actually cheating." The school teaches the ways to seduce a woman, gain points in a conversation, or beating someone who plays a better game. One of Mr. Potter's pupils is a desperate Henry Palfrey whose every attempt to win the heart of April Smith has been thwarted by the cad Raymond Delauney. Needless to say Mr. Potter's instructions allow Henry to vanquish his...
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Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2020]
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4 blu-rays (365 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Follows the adventures of the students and staff of a private girls' school in England; an awkward and kind man, who is frequently pushed around and taken advantage of, enrolls at the School of Lifemanship that teaches losers how to gain an upper hand invarious life situations; a rich practical joker leaves his fortune to his four surviving relatives on the condition that each of them performs a prescribed task that goes against their nature; a boy...
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Film Movement Llc
Pub. Date
2020
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5 DVDs (572 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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The villagers of Bromley End, an English hamlet, welcome a platoon of soldiers who have been assigned to their village during World War II. When the residents discover that the soldiers are disguised German paratroopers who plan to take over Bromley End, they bravely fight the Nazi occupation of their village.
Deep inside the Reich, prisoners of every nationality make it a point of honor to attempt departure from the ultimate in escape-proof prisons....