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  • Indiscretion Of An American Wife 1953: Mary Forbes, an American housewife holidaying in Italy, reluctantly decides to end her brief affair with Italian academic Giovanni. She feels to Romes Stazione Termini, where she bids him farewell - can she resist his please for her to stay? Montgomery Clift, Jennifer Jones. The North Star 1943: A group of anti-Nazi villagers fight a desperate rear-guard action against the Germans and discover a new reserve of courage, fortitude and skills. Dana Andrews, Anne Baxter, Walter Brennan and Farley Granger. Monsoon 1952: Julia brings her fiance and his mother to meet her brother and father in India. Hospitality is in short supply - and matters take a turn for the worse with Julia's seductive younger sister arrives. Ursula Thiess, Diana Douglas and Ellen Corby. Borderline 1950: Undercover agents John McEvoy and Madelaine Haley who are working to infiltrate a Mexican drug ring hide their identities from each other - and begin to fall in love. Fred MacMurray, Claire Trevor and Raymond Burr. To buy each of these films alone would cost between $60 - $80.
  • While travelling by train, Miss Marple witnesses the strangling of a young woman in another train on a parallel track. The police find nothing to support her story, so she conducts her own investigation, with the aid of her close friend Jim Stringer.  They conclude the body must have been thrown from the train near Ackenthorpe Hall. There's only one thing for it - Miss Marple goes undercover as a housekeeper at the Hall. Based on Agatha Christie's 4.50 From Paddington. Also stars James Robertson Justice, Joan Hickson and Rutherford's husband Stringer Davis. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/4-50-from-paddington-agatha-christie/   https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/margaret-rutherford-dreadnought-good-manners-andrew-merriman/
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  • Volume II of Jurassic Park. It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end - the dinosaurs destroyed, the park dismantled, the island indefinitely closed to the public. But there are rumors that something has survived.... DVD: Jurassic Park:Laura Dern; Jeff Goldblum: preloved; very good condiition; regions 2 and 4. DVD: Jurassic World: Chris Pratt; Bryce Dallas Howard;Vincent D'Onofrio: preloved; very good condition; regions 2,4 and 5.
  • Book I of The Vampire Chronicles. In a  darkened room a young man tells the macabre  story of his life. It is Louis' story, told in his own words, of his journey through mortal and immortal life. Louis recounts how he became a vampire at the hands of the radiant and sinister Lestat and how he became indoctrinated, unwillingly, into the way of the vampire,  gifted with eternal life and cursed with the craving for human blood. DVD: Region 4; preloved.
  • A feast for sci-fi fans of the 'Old Masters'.  In this volume: Foundation (Foundation I): For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying, and only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future - to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the Galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for a future generations. He calls his sanctuary The Foundation.  Foundation And Empire (Foundation II): Led by its founding father Hari Seldon, and utilising science and technology, the Foundation survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Now cleverness and courage may not be enough. For the Empire - the mightiest force in the Galaxy - is even more dangerous in its death throes. Even worse, a mysterious entity called the Mule has appeared with powers beyond anything humanly conceivable. Who - or what - is the Mule? And how is humanity to defend itself against this invulnerable avatar of annihilation? Second Foundation (Foundation III): The Foundation lies in ruins - destroyed by a mutant mind bent on humanity’s annihilation. But it’s rumored that there’s a Second Foundation hidden somewhere at the end of the Galaxy, established as insurance to preserve the knowledge of mankind. Now a desperate race has begun between the survivors of the First Foundation and an alien entity to find this last flicker of humanity’s shining past - and future hope. Yet the key to it all might be a fourteen-year-old girl burdened with a terrible secret. Is she the Foundation’s savior - or its deadliest enemy? The Stars, Like Dust (Galactic Empire I): Biron Farrell was young and naïve, but he was growing up fast. A radiation bomb planted in his dorm room changed him from an innocent student at the University of Earth to a marked man, fleeing desperately from an unknown assassin. He soon discovers that, many light-years away, his father, the highly respected Rancher of Widemos, has been murdered. Stunned, grief-stricken, and outraged, Biron is determined to uncover the reasons behind his father’s death, and becomes entangled in an intricate saga of rebellion, political intrigue and espionage. The Naked Sun (Robot II): A millennium into the future, two advancements have altered the course of human history:  the colonisation of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain.  On the beautiful Outer World planet of Solaria, a handful of human colonists lead a hermit-like existence, their every need attended to by their faithful robot servants.  To this strange planet comes Detective Elijah Baley, sent from the streets of New York with his positronic partner, the robot R. Daneel Olivaw, to solve an incredible murder that has rocked Solaria to its foundations.  The victim had been so reclusive that he appeared to his associates only through holographic projection.  Yet someone had gotten close enough to bludgeon him to death while robots looked on.  Now Baley and Olivaw are faced with two clear impossibilities:  Either the Solarian was killed by one of his robots - unthinkable under the laws of Robotics - or he was killed by the woman who loved him so much that she never came into his presence... I, Robot (Robot I):  A robot must not harm a human being; a robot must obey human orders; and a robot must protect its own existence - as long as that protection does not conflict with rules one and two. With these Three Laws of Robotics, humanity embarked on a bold new era of evolution that would open up enormous possibilities - and unforeseen risks. For the scientists who invented the earliest robots weren't content that their creations should remain programmed helpers, companions, and semi-sentient worker-machines. And soon the robots themselves, aware of their own intelligence, power and humanity, aren't either. As humans and robots struggle to survive together - and sometimes against each other - in earth and in space, the future of both hangs in the balance. Here human men and women confront robots gone mad, telepathic robots, robot politicians and vast robotic intelligences that may already secretly control the world. And both are asking the same question: What is human? And is humanity obsolete? DVD: Will Smith; Alan Tudyk: preloved; very good condition; region 4
  • The Godfather: The violent, chilling portrait of the Corleone family's struggle to stay in power in a post-war America of corruption, deceit and betrayal. Preloved; very good condition; region 4. The Godfather II: Two interwoven stories of the Corleone family work as both prequel and sequel to The Godfather. One story shows the humble Sicilian beginnings and the New York rise of the young Vito Andolini - now Vito Corleone - who marries, has a son and on losing his job in a grocery store, begins his life of crime;  and the other shows the ascent of Michael as the new Don. Brand new; factory sealed; region 4. The Godfather III: Now in his sixties, Michael Corleone is consumed with guilt for his past deeds while he plans his family's re-emergence as a completely legitimate corporation. And to do that, he has his eye on a controlling interest in the Vatican Bank.Brand new; factory sealed;region 4
  • A huge helping of chillers including 1408 - a motel room where people have the unaccountable urge to commit suicide and where a young sceptical reporter finds out that all he's heard - and more - is true; The Road Virus Heads North - A painting done by a disturbed and lately deceased man comes alive in a very horrendous fashion; Lunch at the Gotham Cafe - a recently separated couple meet with a lawyer to end their marriage, but do not bargain on the head waiter's behaviour.  These and eleven other stories that no other writer would ever dream of.  DVD: preloved; region 4