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Hoping to repeat the success of its 1929 musical spectacular Rio Rita, RKO Radio reteamed leading lady Bebe Daniels and the comedy team of Bert Wheeler & Robert Woolsey for the equally lavish Dixiana. Set in antebellum Louisiana, the film casts Daniels as the title character, a lovely and charming circus entertainer. Dixiana is loved by Carl Van Horn (Everett Marshall), the son of plantation owner Cornelius Van Horn (Joseph Cawthorn).

Ultimate Driving Songs serves up 100 exhilarating hits and drive-time classics to accompany you on the great open road! Whatever your mood, this superb compilation contains the perfect singalong songs from some of the biggest artists in the world. The rock standards are delivered courtesy of Foreigner, ZZ Top, The Pretenders, Roxette, The Stooges. Also included are 80s anthems from Madness, Duran Duran, New Order & more.

Most music lovers have encountered George Frederick Handel through holiday-time renditions of the Messiah's "Hallelujah" chorus. And many of them know and love that oratorio on Christ's life, death, and resurrection, as well as a few other greatest hits like the orchestral Water Music and Royal Fireworks Music, and perhaps Judas Maccabeus or one of the other English oratorios. Yet his operas, for which he was widely known in his own time, are the province mainly of specialists in Baroque music, and the events of his life, even though they reflected some of the most important musical issues of the day, have never become as familiar as the careers of Bach or Mozart. Perhaps the single word that best describes his life and music is "cosmopolitan": he was a German composer, trained in Italy, who spent most of his life in England.

DEAD END (1969) offers a rather unusual attempt by director Chang Cheh and his two stars, Ti Lung and David Chiang, to craft a contemporary drama that has nothing in common with the martial arts spectacles this trio made for the Shaw Bros. studio throughout the 1970s (THE HEROIC ONES, DUEL OF THE IRON FIST, THE NEW ONE-ARMED SWORDSMAN, BLOOD BROTHERS, SHAOLIN TEMPLE, FIVE SHAOLIN MASTERS, etc.). Here Ti Lung plays Zhang Chun, a disaffected young ladies' man in Hong Kong (ca. 1968) who has difficulty holding down a job or showing any responsibility whatsoever, yet he thinks he's worthy of a rich girl, Wen Rou (Li Ching), whom he first meets when he comes to her aid after her Mercedes Benz has broken down on a highway. They embark on an unlikely romance, arousing the ire of her protective brother (Chen Hung Lieh), who proceeds to make life rough for Zhang, whose acquisition of a gun leads a to a predictable tragic turn of events.

Most music lovers have encountered George Frederick Handel through holiday-time renditions of the Messiah's "Hallelujah" chorus. And many of them know and love that oratorio on Christ's life, death, and resurrection, as well as a few other greatest hits like the orchestral Water Music and Royal Fireworks Music, and perhaps Judas Maccabeus or one of the other English oratorios. Yet his operas, for which he was widely known in his own time, are the province mainly of specialists in Baroque music, and the events of his life, even though they reflected some of the most important musical issues of the day, have never become as familiar as the careers of Bach or Mozart. Perhaps the single word that best describes his life and music is "cosmopolitan":

En suivant le parcours d'Apator, chef Éduen et bras droit de Vercingétorix, ce docu-fiction propose de retracer le destin de tout un peuple. En un an à peine, Apator a vu la Gaule s'embraser, et les tensions s'exacerber entre Romains et Gaulois, jusqu'à l'affrontement final, à Alésia. Ce sera l'une des plus grandes batailles de l'Antiquité. Un duel au sommet entre Jules César et Vercingétorix. Un moment unique de l'histoire qui voit les peuples gaulois s'unir pour la première et dernière fois. L'affrontement épique a opposé 70 000 légionnaires romains à plus de 300 000 guerriers gaulois. Un siège interminable, où les deux camps vont se livrer une véritable guerre des nerfs.