An Ideal Host - DVD

One of the greatest directors of the 1980s, John Landis (The Blues Brothers, Trading Places), expertly combines macabre horror with dark humor in the lycanthropic classic, An American Werewolf in London. American tourists David (David Naughton) and Jack (Griffin Dunne) are savaged by an unidentified vicious animal whilst hiking on the Yorkshire Moors. David awakes in a London hospital to find his friend dead and his life in disarray. Retiring to the home of a beautiful nurse (Jenny Agutter, Walkabout) to recuperate, he soon experiences disturbing changes to his mind and body, undergoing a full-moon transformation that will unleash terror on the streets of the capital... An American Werewolf in London had audiences howling with laughter and recoiling in terror upon it's cinema . Landis' film has gone on to become one of the most important horror films of it's decade, rightly lauded for it's masterful set-pieces, uniquely unsettling atmosphere and Rick Baker's truly ground-breaking, Oscar-winning special make-up effects. Now newly restored and presented with an abundance of extra features, this big beast of horror can be devoured as never before

This DVD was recirded live at the Shaftebury Theatre in London in 1996. Extras include BBC documentary, audio commentary, trivia track, photo gallery, and bleeped audio track.

Glenn Ford averts a general disaster in the World War II action-comedy Imitation General, costarring Red Buttons and Taina Elg. Surrounded by the Germans and with commanding officer General Lane dead, Sgt. Savage (Ford) and Corp. Derby (Buttons) wonder what to do next. So when Corp. Sellers (Dean jones) mistakes the sergeant for Lane, Savage decides to pretend he's the general and lead a counterattack. The only hitch in his plan is Orvi