Emma Samms

The Shrimp on the Barbie
$9.95
The movie was in excellent shape the box was original and it was delivered in a timely manor. I would rate this company and its order and delivery practices very high.
thank you.

Mary Higgins Clark: Pretend You Don't [VHS]
$14.98
The pattern of the previous films of this series by Ms Clark is partly broken. The main character is not a radio anchorwoman but a female real estate agent. We are not dealing here with a serial killer but with a real hit man hired by a dirty soiled trafficker who appears slightly ambiguous because his secular but not criminal boss, who he cheats, is Italian, or has some kind of an Italian name. But it does not have anything to do with the mafia. The whole business is a cover up operation for a first murder that the police sloppily classified as being an accident. There the pattern is not broken. The police is still sloppy. What's more the police does not succeed where a simple woman, by taking risks and using her intelligence, baits the hit man and the rotten egg out of the basket in which they were hiding. The suspense is OK though of course we know from the very start what the stakes are and we are only missing the name of the man who is ordering these murders. The police will arrive just on time when it is needed not to get into more complicated business. And yet the whole film is built around a leak in the police protection of the main character and we will never know how this leak happened and where it came from. The police is always sloppy with Ms Clark, but Ms Clark is also sloppy on some basic logical elements.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine & University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne

Harlequin: Treacherous Beauties
$6.99
Sorry, I got sucked into this because I was desperate for something to watch, should have read a book.

The Lady and the Highwayman
$4.98
This was a very good film of 17th century Swashbuckling. One thing I found odd, was that my version of it (not the box displayed here) had images from the movie on it-- but on the back, instead of a picture of Michael York playing Charles II in "THe Lady & THe Highwayman", it had a picture of Michael York playing D'Artanan from "The Return of the Musketeers" which was filmed the same year!