Starring: William Lanteau, Paul Carpenter, Noelle Middleton, Christopher Rydell, Richard Wattis, Peter Swanwick, Peter Bull, James Robertson Justice, Bob Hope, Alan Gifford, Sid James, Dabney Coleman, Henry Fonda, Walter Gotell, Robert Morley, Humphrey Bogart, Olaf Pooley, Tutte Lemkow, Robert Helpmann, Doug McKeon, David Kossoff, Richard Marner, Theodore Bikel, Katharine Hepburn, Jane Fonda

Directed by: Mark Rydell, Ralph Thomas, John Huston

Triple bill featuring three classic movies starring Katharine Hepburn. In 'The African Queen' (1951) a prim missionary (Hepburn) is forced to team up with a gin-swilling river trader (Humphrey Bogart) when her village is destroyed during the Great War. They flee from the Germans down the Congo, aboard the trader's battered ship, 'The African Queen'. In 'On Golden Pond' (1981), for 48 years, Professor Norman Thayer Jr (Henry Fonda, in his last film performance) and his wife Ethel (Hepburn) have holidayed at their New England cottage on Golden Pond. This time round they have an extra guest - Billy Ray (Doug McKeon), the son of their daughter Chelsea's (Jane Fonda) boyfriend, Bill. The generation gap is soon highlighted, with Norman and Billy clashing frequently and fiercely. However, as the summer progresses Norman begins to forge the kind of close relationship with the boy that he has always denied Chelsea, and comes to realise how much happiness he has missed out on with his own daughter. In 'The Iron Petticoat' (1956), when a Russian Mig strays into US air space, airforce captain Chuck Lockwood (Bob Hope) is given the task of forcing it down and apprehending its pilot. He is surprised to find that his quarry is a woman, Captain Kovelenko (Hepburn), who has chosen to defect on the grounds that as a woman she is discriminated against in her homeland. As the pair debate the values of capitalism against communism, love begins to cut across the political divide, but the romance is put on hold when a disgruntled KGB makes moves to apprehend the defector.

DVD EXTRAS

Interactive menus, Interviews (Clive James)

Soundtrack Languages

 Unknown Sound Format: English

Technical Details

Certification: PG
Duration: 294 mins
Format: DVD
Region: 2
Cat. No: 3711524333(GRANADA VENTURES LTD)