Shooting the Past

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Shooting the Past ★★½ 1999

Christopher Anderson (Cunningham) is a wealthy American developer who has just purchased an old London mansion, which he is intending to convert into a business school. The mansion presently houses the Fallon Photo Library, consisting of some 10 million historical pictures. The indiffer ent Anderson says the pictures must be sold or destroyed within a week. But An derson reckons without the library's imper vious employees, who will do whatever is necessary to save their library. 180m/C VHS, DVD . GB Liam Cunningham, Lindsay Duncan, Timothy Spall, Emilia Fox; D: Stephen Polia koff; W: Stephen Poliakoff. TV

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