Armchair Cinema Collection (Complete Series) - 5-DVD Set ( Regan / Suspect / Rumour / The Sailor's Return / Charlie Muffin (A Deadly Game) )

Armchair Cinema Collection (Complete Series) - 5-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Regan / Suspect / Rumour / The Sailor's Return / Charlie Muffin (A Deadly Game)
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

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

Running Time:
817 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1969 - 1979 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Tom Clegg
Mike Hodges
Jack Gold

Written By:
Ian Kennedy Martin
Mike Hodges
David Garnett
James Saunders
Brian Freemantle
Keith Waterhouse

Actors:
John Thaw ..... Det. Insp. Jack Regan
Dennis Waterman ..... Det. Sgt. George Carter
Lee Montague ..... Arthur Dale
Garfield Morgan ..... Det. Chief Insp. Frank Haskins
David Daker ..... Tusser
Janet Key ..... Kate Regan
Maureen Lipman ..... Annie
Morris Perry ..... Det. Chief Supt. Maynon
Stephen Yardley ..... Det. Insp. Laker
Barry Jackson ..... Morton
Miquel Brown ..... Miriam
Peter Blythe ..... Peter
Carl Rigg ..... Det. Sgt. Kent
Michael Da Costa ..... South
Ron Pember ..... Landlo
Rachel Kempson ..... Phyllis Segal
Bryan Marshall ..... Mark Segal
George Sewell ..... DI Barnes
Michael Coles ..... Det. Supt. Jagger
Jean Alexandrov ..... Jean Segal
Roger Rowland ..... Det. Sgt. Brightwell
Russell Hunter
Dorothy White
Michael Coles ..... Sam Hunter
Ronald Clarke ..... Vic Smith
Mark Baxter ..... Cleaner
Joyce Blair ..... Betty Jacobs
Kevin Brennan ..... Arthur Kook
John Caesar ..... Belly dancer
David Cargill ..... James
Martin Carroll ..... Julian Crawford
Jill Chartell ..... Mike Weston
Ernie Clayden ..... Det. Sgt. Brown
Ian Cooper ..... First reporter
Paul Dawkins ..... Liza Curtis
Ivor Dean ..... Cherry
Jim Delaney ..... Sally Brent
James Donnelly ..... Anne Wright
Patrick Jordan ..... Hotel receptionist
Jonathan Lynn ..... Farrett
Jimmy Mac ..... Det. Insp. Ross
Larry Martyn ..... Photographer
Vivienne Maya ..... Al Jacobs
Lane Meddick ..... Mrs. Webb
Rita Merkelis
Frank Middlemass
Clifford Mollison
Clovissa Newcombe
Colette O'Neil
Richard Pescud
Vikki Richards
Robert Robertson
David Simeon
John Stone
Peter Stratford
Gordon Tanner
Stella Tanner
Tom Bell ..... William Targett
Shope Shodeinde ..... Princess Tulip
Elton Charles ..... Billy / Olu Targett
Denyse Alexander ..... Mrs. Cherret
Julia Swift ..... Annie
Pat Keen ..... Mrs. Bascombe
Nigel Hawthorne ..... Mr. Fosse
Jill Spurrier ..... Mrs. Frickes
Ray Smith ..... Fred Leake
Mick Ford ..... Tom Madgwick
Peter Benson ..... Charlie Nye
Ann Way ..... Mrs. Clall
Paola Dionisotti ..... Lucy Sturmey
George Costigan ..... Harry Targett
Clive Swift ..... Reverend Pottock
David Hemmings ..... Charlie Muffin
Sam Wanamaker ..... Ruttgers
Jennie Linden ..... Edith
Pinkas Braun ..... Valery Kalenin
Ian Richardson ..... Cuthbertson
Ralph Richardson ..... Sir Archibald Willoughby
Shane Rimmer ..... Braley
Tony Mathews ..... Harrison
Christopher Godwin ..... Snare
Norwich Duff ..... Cox
Rohan McCullough ..... Janet
Donald Churchill ..... Wilberforce
Frederick Treves ..... Wilcox
Clive Revill ..... Berenkov
Phillip Joseph ..... Bay

Synopsis:

Armchair Cinema was one of the first projects undertaken by Thames Television's Euston Films subsidiary. Based on the format of the hugely successful and influential Armchair Theatre, Armchair Cinema presented a series of individual film dramas and is perhaps best remembered for one ground-breaking and phenomenally successful film - Regan, which introduced John Thaw and Dennis Waterman's maverick Flying Squad detectives, gaining a huge audience and leading to the commissioning of The Sweeney. The standard of drama offered by the series was consistently high; its flexibility and scope attracted some of the best contemporary television writers, and every film showcased the talents of first-class performers - including John Thaw, Edward Woodward, Anthony Valentine and Tom Bell. This five disc set also includes Suspect and Rumour - two Thames Television filmed plays by Mike Hodges which were a dry run for the Euston Films style - alongside The Sailor's Return and Charlie Muffin, two standalone television movies made by Euston Films. List of Films: Regan (1974) Suspect (1969) Rumour (1970) The Sailor's Return (1978) Charlie Muffin (1979)

Regan (1974)
This one-off TV play became the pilot episode of the British police series 'The Sweeney', and introduced the tough detective Jack Regan, whose hard, unconventional methods of detection bring him more trouble from his bosses than from criminals.

Suspect (1969)
A proud woman coldly concentrates on keeping up appearances when her 50-year old husband and a young schoolgirl go missing at the same time.

Rumour (1970)
A journalist stumbles onto a political conspiracy.

The Sailor's Return (1978)
Based on a novel by David Garnett, Sailor's Return is a British Victorian-era domestic drama, with plenty of domesticity and precious little drama. Tom Bell stars as a sailor who returns to his home village with his new bride (Shope Soleinde). The bride is black; the village is aghast. Struggling against the prejudice of the townsfolk and his own doubts about the wisdom of his union, Bell opens a pub. No distributor wanted to have anything to do with Sailor's Return, a dilemma due less to the film's subject matter than to its production ineptitudes. The film finally got its first showing on British television, two years after its completion.

Charlie Muffin (1979)
Charlie Muffin, top British Intelligence operative, has just broken up a major Soviet spy network in England. However, a new Director with new ideas takes over and wants Charlie out. But then a high-ranking Soviet spy-master hints that he wants to defect, and both British Intelligence and the CIA want him and will do anything to get him. Charlie may be the only man who can bring the defection off successfully, but is the whole thing an elaborate set-up? And when your so-called allies are stabbing each other and you in the back to get this prize, whom can Charlie trust on either side?

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