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I Comedy starring I John Wayne
Duke is a rodeo performer who loves his horse better than anything else, until he falls into the lap of Mollie, a city slicker from New York. Charles Winninger WACO
Director William Seiter
SEE FILMS pages 63-72

Contributors

Unknown:
John Wayne
Director:
William Seiter
DukeHudkins:
John Wayne
Mollie Truesdale:
Jean Arthur
Smiley Lambert:
Phil Silvers
FlorrieBendix:
Mary Field

Western starring Kenny Rogers, Pam Dawber

An ex-rodeo rider looking for a way out of his mundane existence signs up for a wild mustang round-up.
Director Dick Lowry
SEE FILMS page 63-72

Contributors

Director:
Dick Lowry
Matt Cooper:
Kenny Rogers
Daryl Reese:
Pam Dawber
Chuck Reese:
Richard Farnsworth
Bill Ward:
Ben Johnson
Dean Ellis:
David Andrews

Strangeways Prison, wrecked by rioting in 1990, has been rebuilt and is ready for business. But who will run it, the present staff or a private contractor? This report profiles three of the competitors and examines their ambitious new approaches to prison management from the point of view of the people who live and work in jail.
(Stereo) (Subtitled)

Contributors

Producer:
James Reed

Series on the history of maps.

"Big arrows, small maps, that's the way to kill the chaps" - maps have long been a precarious guide through the fog of war. Richard Holmes explores the First World War killing fields of Cambrai through maps made on the days of battle.
(Stereo) (Subtitled)

Contributors

Presenter:
Richard Holmes
Producer:
Julian Stenhouse

Italian style meets American muscle in the brutal shape of the De Tomaso Pantera. But can this 20-year-old design still hack it in today's cut-throat supercar marketplace? Producer JonBenMey
Executive producer Dennts Adams
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Contributors

Producer:
Dennts Adams

Last in a series of films starring the Comic Strip regulars.

John should have the perfect life - a beautiful wife, a desirable house, a job in computing. But, believing his wife to be unfaithful, he is driven to spying and adopts ludicrous disguises.
A Comic Strip production for BBCtv
(Subtitled)

Contributors

Director:
Robbie Coltrane
Producer:
Lolly Kimpton

Documentary stories from unfamiliar cultures.
Boys from Brazil. Over the past ten years something strange has been happening on the midnight streets of many Mediterranean cities. Local prostitutes have been ousted by "travestis" - illegal Brazilian immigrants. They are neither men nor women, but both - men with implants and hormone treatments, breasts and male genitals.
Director John-Paul Davidson
Series editors Alan Bookbinder, Bill Hilary

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