... The show is a great drama, it has romance, comedy, drama and everything all rolled into one.
The show is written by Kay Mellor who has written many fantastic drama series, such as Fat Friends and Band of Gold. The cast reads like a who's who of tv stars and includes:
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Returning a lost wallet to its rightful owner gains honest Chuck Scott a job as a ... more
chauffeur for Eddie Roman. Roman is a local gangster who treats his wife as badly as he treats his enemies, and Chuck is soon plotting to help Lorna escape the clutches o...
The moral foundation of a small Texas town is torn apart in this explosive drama about ... more
power and greed, starring Academy Award winners Marlon Brando (Best Actor in a Leading Role - The Godfather, 1972, and On the Waterfront, 1954), Robert Redford (Best...
The moral foundation of a small Texas town is torn apart in this explosive drama about ... more
power and greed, starring Academy Award winners Marlon Brando (Best Actor in a Leading Role - The Godfather, 1972, and On the Waterfront, 1954), Robert Redford (Best Director - Ordinary People, 1980) and Jane Fonda (Best Actress in a Leading Role - Coming Home, 1978, and Klute, 1971). Sheriff Calder (Brando) isn't the only person chasing Bubber Reeves (Redford) when he escapes from prison. Oil and cattle baron Val Rogers (E.G. Marshall) wants Bubber out of the way to cover up the love affair his son Jason is having with Bubber's wife (Fonda). The Chase is on. When bigotry and booze propel the townsfolk into a vigilante mob, Calder's wife (Dickinson) tries to convince her husband that he doesn't have to bring Bubber in alive. But the sheriff is fighting for justice and he won't be stopped until the shattering climax.
For decades Clive Cussler has been delighting readers with novels filled with suspense ... more
action and sheer audacity. Now he does it again in one of the wildest most entertaining historical thrillers in years. April 1950: The rusting hulk of a steam locomotive rises from the deep waters of a Montana lake. Inside is all that remains of three men who died forty-four years before. But it is not the engine nor its grisly contents that interest the people watching nearby. It is what is about to come next...1906: For two years the western states of America have been suffering an extraordinary crime spree: a string of bank robberies by a single man who then cold-bloodedly murders any and all witnesses and then vanishes without a trace.Fed up by the depredations of "The Butcher Bandit " the U.S. government brings in the best man they can find - a tall lean no-nonsense detective named Isaac Bell who has caught thieves and killers from coast to coast.But he has never had a challenge like this one.From Arizona to Colorado to the streets of San Francisco during its calamitous earthquake and fire he pursues what is quickly becoming clear to him is the best criminal mind he has ever encountered and the woman who seems to hold the key to the man's identity.Using science deduction and intuition he repeatedly draws near only to grasp at empty air but at least he knows his pursuit is having an effect. Because his quarry is getting angry now and has turned the chase back on him. The hunter has become the hunted. And soon it will take all of Bell's skills not merely to prevail...but to survive. Filled with intricate plotting his signature dazzling set pieces and not one but two extraordinary villains this is the master working at the height of his powers.
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Returning a lost wallet to its rightful owner gains honest Chuck Scott a job as a ... more
chauffeur for Eddie Roman. Roman is a local gangster who treats his wife as badly as he treats his enemies, and Chuck is soon plotting to help Lorna escape the clutches of her madman husband.
Production Year: 1996 - Action/Adventure - Director: Tom Clegg - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring:Daragh O'Malley, Oliver Cotton, Jason Durr, Sean Bean, Allie Byrne
Production Year: 1964 - Action/Adventure - Director: Cyril Endfield - Original Language: English - Classification: Parental Guidance - Starring:Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson, James Booth, Michael Caine, Nigel Green
Production Year: 1995 - Action/Adventure - Director: Tom Clegg - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring:Sean Bean, Daragh O'Malley, Allie Byrne, Oliver Cotton, Emily Mortimer, Michael Cochrane
Production Year: 2002 - Action/Adventure - Director: Vincenzo Natali - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring:Lucy Liu, David Hewlett, Anne Marie Scheffler, Joseph Scoren, Matthew Sharp, Jeremy Northam
Production Year: 1977 - Action/Adventure - Director: Clint Eastwood - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring:Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Pat Hingle, William Prince, Bill McKinney
Advantages: great serial drama Disadvantages: none
...started to watch some of the second series, but as I like to know what's what and who's who in these shows, I decided to stop watching Series 2 on tv, wait for it to come out on dvd and buy both Series 1 and 2 on dvd.
I have just finished watching Series 1 on dvd and I can highly recommend it. The show is a great drama, it has romance, comedy, drama and everything all rolled into one.
The show is written by Kay Mellor ... ...and Band of Gold. The cast reads like a who's who of tv stars and includes:
Keith Barron - plays George Williams
Gaynor Faye - plays his daughter Anna
Nicola Stephenson - plays his daughter Sarah
Michelle Holmes - plays his second wife Claudie
Janet Dibley - plays Rick\'s wife
Reece Dinsdale - plays Rick
Sunetra Sarker - plays Claire
Rachael Davies - plays Margaret
Heather Pearce ... more
For some reason I missed this series when it was shown on BBC television and I started to watch some of the second series, but as I like to know what's what and who's who in these shows, I decided to stop watching Series 2 on tv, wait for it to come out on dvd and buy both Series 1 and 2 on dvd.
I have just finished watching Series 1 on dvd and I can highly recommend it. The show is a great drama, it has romance, comedy, drama and everything all rolled into one.
The show is written by Kay Mellor who has written many fantastic drama series, such as Fat Friends and Band of Gold. The cast reads like a who's who of tv stars and includes:
Keith Barron - plays George Williams Gaynor Faye - plays his daughter Anna Nicola Stephenson - plays his daughter Sarah Michelle Holmes - plays his second wife Claudie Janet Dibley - plays Rick\'s wife Reece Dinsdale - plays Rick Sunetra Sarker - plays Claire Rachael Davies - plays Margaret Heather Pearce - plays Fiona
All of these stars have appeared in other top dramas, such as Holby City, Brookside, Coronation Street, Londons Burning, Band of Gold. Of course Gaynor Faye is Kay Mellor's daughter and as such seems to appear in every drama that her mother has written!
The Chase is Chevin Chase, a veterinary practice in the fictional village of Oxley in Yorkshire. It was built up by George Williams and his late wife Imogen and is now run by George along with his daughter Anna, her husband Tom, and Rick who is a senior partner. His other daughter Sarah returns from London for his wedding to Claudie and is persuaded to stay and work on at the vets practice.
Rick's wife Deborah is the Practice Manager and Fiona, Clare, Margaret and Matt are the practice nurses.
The series covers starts with the wedding of George to Claudie, whereby he breaks the bombshell to his daughters that he is off to Malta for a few months and will be signing the vets practice and house over to them. This is totally out of the blue for the family. Anna is pregnant with her fourth child and Sarah wants to go back to London.
What the girls decide to do and what happens next for the family takes up the first series.
Some of the relationships are complex, Fiona is Sarah and Anna\'s cousin and hides a guilty secret. The two daughters tolerate Claudie because she makes their father happy, but there is a big age gap and he listens to everything that Claudie says.
Rick is despairing of his marriage to bossy Deborah, so who does he turn to for comfort? Claudie has a secret of her own that she hopes wont come out. Sarah left for London after discovering Fiona's secret. Now that she is back will she be able to keep quiet? and what happens to her London boyfriend now?
Sarah also wants to modernise the practice but faces some opposition from her father. Tom also has a secret that will ruin his life if it gets out. George has a secret that will devastate one of his daughters.
With all these secrets just waiting to come out, it makes for really good drama.
While the series is based around a vets practice you do not see any awful lot of the animals, mainly some cats and dogs, and the occasional hand up a cows bum scene, which is obligatory in any vets tv show, remember All Creatures Great and Small?!
I have just started to watch Series 2 on dvd, and will review that when I have watched it all, but I am sad that BBC have decided not to make any more series of this drama as it is well written and very watchable.
As with any good drama you get drawn into the characters lives and start to empathise with them.
I think that any great drama needs good strong characters that you can believe in and The Chase certainly has that. Michelle Holmes plays Claudie brilliantly, she comes across as slightly niave and innocent, but calculating at the same time!
Gaynor Faye is always the same, good performance, but hard to tell one character from another sometimes. Nicola Stephenson turns in a good performance. Reece Dinsdale does get on your nerves a bit in that he is a bit smarmy and cheesy. I love Rachel Davies, she has been in so many top dramas. She is woefully underused in this show, but gives a good performance as Mags going through the menopause. Keith Barron I usually associate more with comedy that drama, but he pairs well with Claudie to make an unlikely relationship seem believeable.
I would recommend this dvd series for some light hearted entertainment.
Advantages: cool Disadvantages: not the best of its genre
...it is a shame that the younger kids today have probably never heard of him as he hasn’t made anything for a while. He starred in the spoof classics Hotshots and Hotshots part deux. He was also Dick in Young guns with Emilio Estevesz , but his most famous role has to be as the young rookie soldier in Platoon. Living in the shadow of your famous father cant help either, and Charlie Sheen has now become a bit of a black sheep.
He stars in ‘The ... ...car chase that lasts for the whole movie. The film has a strong and entertaining line of comedy running through it, which is funny without interfering with the plot. The film has many stock characters from other comedies like the bumbling cops, the pompous millionaire father and the irritating journalists. It actually takes a big swipe at the media and all the reporters who cover the story are portrayed as pathetic, desperate lowlifes.
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willgould 15.06.2001
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