Short Sharp Shocks (2-disc Blu-ray)

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Terence Alexander boards a train and recognises a nun who helped him escape the Nazis under similar circumstances during the war in this rather slight tale directed by 'Zichy' (first name actually Theodore). Easily the least of the films on the set so if this is one of the first you watch don't worry, they do get better. The phrase is spoken by roadie Roger Manifold in the Pink Floyd song " Us and Them" on the band's 1973 album, The Dark Side of the Moon. [6] Return once more to the heyday of the supporting programme with another curious cornucopia of eerie, eccentric and edgy short films. Settle down for another strange cinematic journey through uncanny stories, twists in the tale, low-budget weirdness, stylish spectacle, peculiar public information, monstrous music and provocative experiment – all with oodles of atmosphere and in High Definition. Disc Two's extras include a lengthy interview with the irrepressible David McGillivrary who offers an engaging career overview with elements that will be familiar to many, especially those who have read his book (he leaves out the spicier bits, naturally). There's also an interview with Julie Peasgood (18 minutes) and another with Peter Shillingford covering his career in British cinema as both cinematographer and producer. Finally there are image galleries for TELL-TALE HEART, THE LAKE and THE ERRAND, script galleries for THE LAKE and THE ERRAND and the original short story of the latter. The first pressing also comes with a booklet featuring new writing on the films from Vic Pratt, William Fowler and Josephine Botting.

a b Jones, Bill (12 June 1999). Political Issues in Britain Today. Manchester University Press. p.238. ISBN 978-0-7190-5432-7. Detective Inspector Frost (no, not that one!) invites his viewers to beat him at his own game of solving a grisly murder. He relays the facts and we see a reconstruction, of sorts, of his own investigation. Some unfortunate chap is murdered on a golf course, and it soon becomes apparent who clubbed him to death – well, it was obvious, the perp’ looked dodgy and smoked! However, I was worried about the cop’s powers of observation since, at one point he describes a modest-sized suitcase as being large! We were made to stand there for what felt like hours while they just stared at us and hurled verbal abuse,” he recalled. Like Return to Glennascaul, Strange Stories tells us its tales at one remove and has real-life people as our hosts, though this time neither story is supernatural. Valentine Dyall drives John Slater to a train station, and they tell each other a story. The first story, “The Strange Mr Bartleby” is a loose adaptation of Herman Melville’s novella Bartleby the Scrivener (the first screen version of it, in fact), and sets up two storylines. A young woman (Naomi Chance) asks Gillkie (Norman Shelley), a solicitor, to trace a man called Stephen Zwane. Meanwhile, Gillkie encounters a mysterious tramp called Bartleby (John Laurie). In the second story, “Strange Journey”, based on the story “Saloon Passenger” by E.W. Hornung, Charles Kellerton (Colin Tapley) steals from his employer and in an argument kills him. Assuming the man’s identity, Charles and his wife Marie (Helen Horton) board a ship to Tasmania. They are the only passengers, and so they spend much time with the Captain (Peter Bull). But soon Charles suspects the Captain is on to him…

The majority have their lives sent down the other path with this kind of treatment, especially with sexual abuse as well.”

Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. Volume 1 contained nine films and Volume 2 ten, and another ten are present here. They form the usual miscellany of cinema releases, television productions (including one cinema/TV hybrid), public information films and non-theatrical pieces. Some are very short: those two public information films are under a minute each, and two television productions both come in around the three-and-a-half minute mark. At the other end of the scale, two films in this set are just under the forty-five minutes which the Internet Movie Database defines as feature-length.

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Dozens of victims are calling for a public inquiry into the abuse as police investigate allegations relating to Medomsley Detention Centre in County Durham and Kirklevington Detention Centre in North Yorkshire, where over 400 victims have already come forward. Police are already investigating allegations relating to Medomsley Detention Centre in County Durham and Kirklevington Detention Centre in North Yorkshire, where more than 400 victims have already come forward. This is especially true of the older films in the collection, with a particular highlight being the version of The Tell-Tale Heart from 1953, featuring a performance of the famous Edgar Allan Poe short story by Stanley Baker. This is a film that was considered lost until it turned up by chance in 2018, and it exudes charm as Baker dramatically moves across a cramped set delivering the story with extravagant gusto, feeling all the while like a gem of British horror history that has been saved for posterity, and rightfully so. It's the gem of the whole collection and the one that should be sought out most of them all. The latest in the critically acclaimed BFI Flipside series – continuing its ongoing mission to curate an alternative Brit-screen history of overlooked rarities in deluxe home –entertainment editions – is a second edition of strange, striking, thrilling, horrific, eerie and eccentric short subjects from the heyday of the British cinematic supporting programme. Professor David Wilson, a criminologist who was governor of a progressive young offenders’ institution in the 1980s, said detention centres were run to deliberately put inmates under psychological and physical stress.

Mr Carré-Rice, who has since written books based on his experiences, said the abuse appeared to be “random”.

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