Thanks to our friends at BBC Home video, we've got a massive giveaway featuring four DVDs: Women in Love, Spies of Warsaw, Parade's End and Last of the Summer Wine: Vintage 1998 featuring such stars as Judi Dench, David Tennant, Rosamund Pike and more!
Parade's EndBBC Home Entertainment presents the original 1964 mini-series starring Judi Dench newly restored from the original film masters! This 1964 film adaptation of the classic novel by Ford Madox Ford shows a young Judi Dench in one of her earliest screen roles. Considered by many as one of the pre-eminent literary works of the 20th-century Parade's End follows Christopher Tietjens (Ronald Hines) a wealthy member of Edwardian England's upper class as the country is drawn into World War One. Tietjens is at the center of a love triangle between his wife Sylvia (Jeanne Moody) a treacherous socialite who is trying to destroy him and his suffragette mistress Valentine (Dench). The warfare Tietjens encounters as an officer in Europe is but a backdrop to a personal battle of conflicting loyalties hidden passions and the rigid social expectations of his day.
Join everyone's favorite trio for another season of hilarious adventures! Hoping to keep his comrades as young and spritely as ever Foggy sets up a training course to get Compo and Clegg in shape but as usual safety isn't his first concern. When the trio gets a grill from Auntie Wainwrights they have a barbecue like never before. Foggy ever the inspired inventor comes up with the idea to create bicycle safety underwear and later in the season a three man windsurfing sailboard. Finally in the Christmas special the trio plan to host a visitor from outer space or maybe just a neighboring town.
Rosamund Pike and Rachael Stirling star in this powerful adaptation of D. H. Lawrence's novel. Following the banning of his earlier novel The Rainbow D. H. Lawrence shocked his 1920 audience yet again with Women in Love. Combining some elements of both novels this adaptation focuses on the lives of two sisters Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen as they struggle with their own loves desires and passions and relationships with two friends Rupert Birkin and Gerald Crich. As Ursula and Birkin's friendship and love develops Gudrun and Gerald's stormy and destructive relationship begins to spiral out of control.
David Tennant and Janet Montgomery star in this adaptation of Alan Furst's celebrated spy novel set in Poland, Paris and Berlin in the years leading up to the Second World War. At the french embassy in Warsaw, the new military attaché, Colonel Jean-Francois Mercier (Tennant), is drawn into a world of abduction, betrayal and intrigue in the diplomatic salons and back alleys of the city. At the same time, the handsome aristocrat is involved in a passionate love affair with a Parisian woman of Polish heritage (Montgomery), a lawyer for the League of Nations. Risking his life, Mercier works in the shadows amid a remarkable cast of characters, some known to him as spies, some never to be revealed. It is a city where people drink and fight and spy and love, because no one knows what tomorrow will bring.
And we're giving away three sets of all four discs to FOG! readers!
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