Action Collection (5 Movies) - 2-DVD Set ( The Music of Chance / Snowman's Pass / The Survivor / The Boys Next Door / The Whistle Blower ) ( What Lies Above (Snow man's Pass) / Blind Rage (Big Shots) )

Action Collection (5 Movies) - 2-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: The Music of Chance / Snowman's Pass / The Survivor / The Boys Next Door / The Whistle Blower
Alternate Title: What Lies Above (Snow man's Pass) / Blind Rage (Big Shots)
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Australian Film Institute
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
483 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1981 - 2004 and produced in:
Australia ( Australia, New Zealand )
Canada ( USA, Canada )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Philip Haas
Rex Piano
David Hemmings
Penelope Spheeris
Simon Langton

Written By:
Paul Auster
Belinda Haas
Peter Layton
David Ambrose
James Herbert
Glen Morgan
James Wong
Julian Bond
John Hale

Actors:
James Spader ..... Jack Pozzi
Mandy Patinkin ..... Jim Nashe
M. Emmet Walsh ..... Calvin Murks
Charles Durning ..... Bill Flower
Joel Grey ..... Willy Stone
Samantha Mathis ..... Tiffany
Chris Penn ..... Floyd
Pearl Jones ..... Louise
Jordan Spainhour ..... Floyd Jr.
Paul Auster ..... Driver
Nicole Eggert ..... Diana Pennington
Marc Singer ..... Curt Seavers
George Stults ..... Tyler
Mike Dopud ..... Hugo
Bruce Dawson ..... Ed
Garvin Cross ..... Brian
Joe MacLeod ..... Eugene
Robert Powell ..... Keller
Jenny Agutter ..... Hobbs
Joseph Cotten ..... Priest
Angela Punch McGregor ..... Beth
Peter Sumner ..... Tewson
Lorna Lesley ..... Susan
Ralph Cotterill ..... Slater
Adrian Wright ..... Goodwin
Tyler Coppin ..... Boy
Kirk Alexander ..... Dr. Martindale
Jon Nicholls ..... Jackson
Roger Cardwell ..... Flight Engineer
Jenufa Scott-Roberts ..... Stewardess
John Edmund ..... Goswell
Denzil Howson ..... Rogan
Maxwell Caulfield ..... Roy Alston
Charlie Sheen ..... Bo Richards
Patti D'Arbanville ..... Angie
Christopher McDonald ..... Detective Mark Woods
Hank Garrett ..... Detective Ed Hanley
Paul C. Dancer ..... Chris
Richard Pachorek ..... Boyfriend
Lesa Lee ..... Girlfriend
Kenneth Cortland ..... Dwayne
Moon Unit Zappa ..... Nancy
Dawn Schneider ..... Bonnie
Kurt Christian ..... Shakir
Don Draper ..... Mr. Heaton
Blackie Dammett ..... Bartender
Phil Rubenstein ..... Gutfield
Michael Caine ..... Frank Jones
James Fox ..... Lord
Nigel Havers ..... Robert 'Bob' Jones
John Gielgud ..... Sir Adrian Chapple
Felicity Dean ..... Cynthia Goodburn
Barry Foster ..... Charles Greig
Gordon Jackson ..... Bruce
Kenneth Colley ..... Bill Pickett
David Langton ..... Government Minister
Dinah Stabb ..... Rose
James Simmons ..... Mark
Katherine Reeve ..... Tiffany
Bill Wallis ..... Dodgson
Trevor Cooper ..... Inspector Bourne
Peter Miles ..... Stephen Kedge

Synopsis:

The Music of Chance (1993)
A former fireman and drifter (Nashe) meets a professional poker player (Pozzi) that convinces him to back a high-stakes card game with two eccentric millionaires. When they lose, Nashe and Pozzi wind up building a seemingly meaningless stone wall across a meadow on the millionaires' estate to work off their debts.

Snowman's Pass (2004)
Adventure drama. A mountain guide returns to the treacherous pass that claimed the life of her fiancé. She is accompanied by a group of scientists who claim they can locate the body using satellite technology. But it soon becomes apparent that the team's motives are far more sinister.

The Survivor (1981)
A plane crashes just after takeoff and the only survivor, the pilot walks out of the wreckage. He doesn't remember the explosion or the crash, but 300 passengers & crew are dead. As the investigation goes on people want answers.

The Boys Next Door (1985)
The Boys Next Door is a 1985 independent adventure-drama film about two boys who leave their small town home on the day of their high school graduation and embark on a crime and murder spree.

The Whistle Blower (1987)
About a man who sets out to investigate the 'accidental' death of his son, a linguist in the Russian section of GCHQ in Cheltenham.

The Music of Chance (1993)
Whilst traveling across America living off the money from a large inheritance, ex-fireman Nashe has a chance meeting with Pozzi, a professional gambler and card shark. Nashe agrees to fund the penniless Pozzi in a game of poker against two eccentric millionaires, Flower and Stone, in an attempt to regain some of his spent fortune. His gamble has unforeseen and bizarre consequences for both himself and Pozzi. This film is an almost exact translation of the novel by Paul Auster.

Snowman's Pass (2004)
Still struggling to accept her fiancé's death in a rock climbing accident, mountain guide DIANA PENNINGTON gratefully accepts industrialist CURT SEAVER's offer to find the body using a new satellite imagery technology his company has developed. But while traversing the legendary 'Snowman's Pass' with Curt and his companions HUGO and TYLER, Diana is horrified to discover the search for her fiancé is a decoy; they are in fact hunting for a fallen spy satellite, property of an enemy foreign power. Barely escaping with her life, Diana finds herself pursued through the cold and threatening mountains in a deadly cat and mouse game, with only a backpack full of climbing gear and her instincts to defend herself against the dangerous, and increasingly desperate men.

The Survivor (1981)
An airplane suddenly goes down in a small Australian village killing three hundred passengers. The only survivor is pilot David Keller (Powell) who escaped without a scratch but has retrograde amnesia. His co-worker and friend Tewson (Peter Sumner, THE CHANT OF JIMMY BLACKSMITH) promises to bend the rules to keep Keller appraised of all of the developments of the investigation, and supervisor Slater (Ralph Cotterill, THE CHAIN REACTION) is concerned about the publicity that the airline is getting (especially when he discovers that Keller was romantically involved with Beth [Angela Punch-McGregor, THE ISLAND], the wife of the airline's chairman [Denzil Howson, PHAR LAP] who was also killed aboard the plane). Keller is approached by Hobbs (Jenny Agutter, AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON) a psychic medium, but he is skeptical about meeting with her. This changes when he takes a flight over the crash scene to jog his memory and cannot see the wreckage from overhead, and Hobbs tells him that the spirits of the dead are using her to get him to find out how they died. Meanwhile, the dead are none-too-happy with various people in the village connected with the crash - including a photographer (Adrian Wright, SKY PIRATES) who wants to make money off of his gruesome crash site photos, his assistant (Lorna Lesley, A TOWN LIKE ALICE), and a none-too-subtle looter (Paul Sonkkila, THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY) - who begin to die mysteriously.

The Boys Next Door (1985)
Roy and Bo leave their small town the weekend after graduation for a short road trip to LA. Soon, they find themselves lashing out and leaving a trail of bodies behind them. The violence escalates throughout.

The Whistle Blower (1987)
A war veteran tries to investigate the murder of his son who was working as a Russian translator for the British intelligence service during the Cold War. He meets a web of deception and paranoia that seems impenetrable…

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