Donald Pleasence
1) Pygmalion
Author
Language
English
Description
One of George Bernard Shaw's best-known plays, Pygmalion is based on ancient Greek mythology. Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to life. The general idea of that myth was a popular subject for Victorian era British playwrights.
Shaw's updated and revised version of this ancient Greek legend was first presented in England in 1914. Poking fun of the antiquated British class system, it introduces Henry Higgins, a professor...
2) Halloween II
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Michael Myer, a psychopath left for dead, picks up where he left off stalking the halls of the hospital where his sister lies waiting.
3) Halloween
Publisher
Starz Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In 1963, six-year-old Michael Myers brutally killed his older sister. The silent child was incarcerated in the Smith's Grove Sanitarium under the care of psychiatrist Sam Loomis. Michael's hometown of Haddonfield was slowly begining to forget the tragic crime. That is until Loomis returns to the town to warn them of Myers' escape from Smith's Grove. With Michael set on killing a group of high school students, Loomis gets the hesitant town sheriff...
4) THX 1138
Language
English
Description
"Like all other drones in the sprawling subterranean technocracy, he has a designation: THX 1138. He's the product of a number-crunching, soul-numbing society. But there's a flaw: He's human and wants out."--Container.
5) "Oh, God!"
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Jerry Landers, (John Denver) a supermarket assistant manager and a good yet non-religious person, suddenly finds a note in the mail one day that grants him an "interveiw" with God. Thinking it to be a hoax he tosses it away, but when it keeps reappearing he finally gives in. Skeptical at first, he ends up carrying His personal message - that the world can work with what God's given us.
7) Will Penny
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Will Penny, an aging, out of work cowboy, is left in the desert to die by a ruthless gang of outlaws. A beautiful young woman and her son, on her way to join her husband, stops to help him and nurses him back to health. Suddenly, Will sees a lifestyle he's never known as he falls in love with her, but the gang is on its way to finish him off.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A disaster in space pushes humankind toward World War 3, and only James Bond can prevent it. Agent 007 travels to Japan to stop the Evil Spectre organization and its leader from instigating global warfare from his giant headquarters inside of an active volcano." --
9) Halloween
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Language
English
Description
On October 31, 1963, six-year-old Michael Myers brutally stabs his sister Judith to death with a kitchen knife at their home in Haddonfield, Illinois. He is sent to Smith's Grove-Warren County Sanitarium and placed under the care of psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis (Donald Pleasance). Loomis suspects that there is more to Myers than meets the eye and plans to have him committed indefinitely, despite the fact that Michael seems docile and does not speak...
10) The monster club
Publisher
Pathfinder Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"A writer of horror stories is invited to a 'monster club' by a mysterious old gentleman. There, three gruesome stories are told to him; between each story some musicians play their songs. In the end, it's recognized he's the greatest monster of all"--Summary written by Homme A. Pies
11) Fantastic voyage
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
An elite team of medical and scientific specialists race to save a top government scientist who is suffering from blood clot on the brain. Their mission is to be reduced along with their submarine-like craft to microscope size, enter the bloodstream of the ailing scientist, and journey to the brain to perform an emergency procedure. With only sixty minutes to complete their mission, the scientists find themselves fighting off an attack by white corpuscles,...
13) The Great Escape
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1943, the Germans opened Stalag Luft III, a maximum-security prisoner-of-war camp designed to hold even the craftiest escape artists. In doing so, however, the Nazis unwittingly assembled the finest escape team in military history-who worked on what became the largest prison breakout ever attempted.
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
On Halloween night years ago, little Michael Meyers brutally slaughtered his sister in cold blood. But for the last fifteen years, town residents have rested easy, knowing that he was safely locked away in a mental hospital ... until tonight. Tonight, Michael returns to the same quiet neighborhood to relive his grisly murder again ... and again ... and again. Tonight is Halloween!
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
The Swiss conspiracy: When a Swiss bank can no longer protect its clients from theft, an American investigator is called upon. But when an illegal scheme of fraud and deceit begins to unravel, the perpetrators will do everything in their power to stop the investigator from uncovering their actions. Will he survive this deadly game of corporate scandal, seduction and murder?
Casablanca express: It is fall of 1942; Winston Churchill boards a British...
17) Halloween
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
On Halloween night years ago, little Michael Meyers brutally slaughtered his sister in cold blood. But for the last fifteen years, town residents have rested easy, knowing that he was safely locked away in a mental hospital ... until tonight. Tonight, Michael returns to the same quiet neighborhood to relive his grisly murder again ... and again ... and again. Tonight is Halloween!
18) Scoop
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Mistaken for a foreign correspondent, a mild-mannered wildlife writer is sent to a fictional African country on the eve of a war. He flounders through a sea of wild rumors and sleazy journalists desperate for a story.
19) Halloween II
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Picking up exactly where its predecessor left off, follows 'boogeyman' Michael Myers as he stalks the deserted halls of the hospital where his intended victim lays waiting. Meanwhile, his doctor desperately continues to hunt him down." --
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Escape to witch mountain: Two orphan children escape from a scheming millionaire and discover they have come from another planet.
Return from witch mountain: The entire city of Los Angeles teeters on the brink of nuclear disaster when the greedy criminals manipulate a young boy's supernatural powers for their own devious gain. But the youth's sister and a streetwise band of truants join forces in a desperate attempt to save the city from destruction....