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starring: Sting, Denholm Elliott, Joan Plowright, Suzanna Hamilton, Benjamin Whitrow directed by: Richard Loncraine  List Price: $14.95 Price: $0.48 You Save: $14.47 (97%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780792819035 Format: Color, Dolby, HiFi Sound, NTSC ISBN: 0792819039 Label: Mgm Entertainment Manufacturer: Mgm Entertainment Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Mgm Entertainment Release Date: June 30, 1993 Running Time: 87 minutes Studio: Mgm Entertainment Theatrical Release Date: November 12, 1982 Sales Rank: 29664 Related Items:
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 Rating: - Be Careful What You Allow Into Your Home... Sweet words and the ability to lie with utter conviction. These are the tools that Martin Taylor (Sting) utilizes in order to bamboozle his way into the lives of total strangers. After initial failure, Martin "accidentally" bumps into Mr. Tom Bates (Denholm Elliott). Bates tries to give him the brush-off, but Martin is far too cunning for such a simple dismissal! Mr. Bates arrives home, where his wife, Norma (Joan Plowright) has been caring for their bed-ridden, brain-damaged daughter (Suzanna Hamilton ... Read More Rating:  - 'When the Trumpet of the Lord Shall Sound and Men Shall Be No More'The transition from play to film rarely works, `Sleuth' and `the Anniversary' spring to mind as successes, but the over-riding memory of these things, is those messy Joe Orton adaptations of the 60's, all garish colour and frenzied editing. It's as if the directors of the films want to make up for the inevitable staginess of the plays by projecting them as far away as possible from their original concepts. Imbuing them with sex and outrage to `modernise' them for audiences who wouldn't be seen dead at the ... Read More Rating:  - Sting - MovieBrimstone and Treacle 1982 - I loved this movie. Sting is very good in this movie as the devil's or perhaps the angel's advocate to help a family resolve their emotional problems. Sting's character, Martin Taylor, is the catalyst to help the Bates family expose their family secrets and bring their daughter Patricia back into the world from her self imposed hiding. She needed an emotional shock to bring her back to her family. This is the second version of this movie, with the first produced in the 1970s ... Read More Rating: - Very under-rated film that deserves more attentionTo quote a review I remember reading when this film came out, "Never have nice manners seemed so menacing." This is a creepy film - without doubt. Some people will definitely be freaked out by some of the subject manner. However, nothing is quite as it seems in this movie. Sting does a damn fine job of acting here. I don't think anyone other than Sting could have done justice to the lead role, except perhaps a young Malcolm McDowell. The script by Dennis Potter is very smart too. I won't summarize ... Read More Rating: - classic Sting from way back whenAt the height of The Police's rise to stardom, Sting decided he wanted to act. I'm not sure if he's acting here, but it's a great film for sure. Actually, the perfect role for Sting. Denholm Elliott is superb, and Joan Plowright is well...Joan Plowright - what can you say, she's an amazing person. Sting managed to get the other Policemen into a studio and cut a couple of tracks for the soundtrack, and did the rest of the score himself. I was so happy when this came out on DVD, my original home-recorded VHS copy ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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