Engelbert Humperdinck: Totally Amazing - DVD

Pop crooner Engelbert Humperdinck offers up an entertaining collection that mixes old chestnuts with new recordings. While the deep-voiced, U.K.-bred singer presents lounge-ready standards, fans of the Hump may be most interested in the previously unissued title track, a smooth, string-laden number that perfectly suits the performer's romantic, Don Juan persona.

"But he was murdered, wasn't he?" Dash it all, what a frightfully un-British comment to make at the reading of the will. But that's dotty Aunt Cora for you. Then a mysterious hand offs Aunt Cora, and suddenly the old girl's observation doesn't seem quite so dotty after all. Margaret Rutherford returns as amateur detective Miss Marple in a delightful whodunit based on Agatha Christie's After the Funeral. This time she's joined by a perfe

Chart topper Engelbert Humperdinck takes you on a guided tour of his private life and meteoric career. One of ten children born to a British Army Officer and his Indian wife, Arnold Dorsey grew up yearning for a voice like Nat King Cole. As a teenage crooner, he made his singing debut at a working class social club where rowdy patrons pelted unpopular acts with empty bottles. Billing himself as Gerry Dorsey, the singer endured poverty, poor health and rejection after rejection... until Tom Jones' manager suggested he try changing his stage name. When Engelbert Humperdinck filled in for a sick performer on Sunday Night at the Palladium in April 1967, London traffic snarled as fans mobbed the venue... and a star was born. Catch Engelbert's act backstage and onstage, and in vintage kinescopes, film and video tape, as he performs many of his hit songs, including Inch Me,Inch InchThe Last WaltzInch InchAfter the Lovin'Inch and InchQuando, Quando, Quando.Inch for over fifty years, Engelbert Humperdinck has been breaking hearts and breaking records... long live the King of Romance.