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• 55 Days At Peking | DVD | (07/04/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Diplomats soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion in China. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing factions overwhelming odds delayed relief and the support of the Boxers by the Chinese Empress and her generals.

• Classic Cuts Collection - Film Noir | DVD | (26/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Gilda (Dir. Charles Vidor): The legendary Rita Hayworth sizzles with sensuality and magnetism as she sings ""Put the blame on Mame"" and delivers a dazzling performance as the enticing temptress Gilda. In the story of Gilda Johnny Farrell (Glenn Ford) goes to work for Ballin Mundson (George MacReady) the proprietor of an illegal gambling casino in a South American city and quickly rises to become Mundson's ""main man"". All is well until Mundson returns from a trip with his new bride Gilda - a woman from Johnny's past. Mundson unaware of the previous love affair assigns Farrell the job of ensuring Gilda is a faithful wife. Fraught with hatred Gilda does her best to antagonize intimidate and instill jealousy in Farrell - until circumstances allow him to get even. In A Lonely Place (Dir. Nicholas Ray): A screenwriter is in need of an alibi after being charged with murder. Laurel Gray a neighbour comes to the rescue and provides an alibi but their closeness casts doubt on his innocence... The Killers (Dir. Robert Siodmak): Two professional killers invade a small town and kill a gas station attendant ""the Swede "" who's expecting them. Insurance investigator Reardon pursues the case against the orders of his boss who considers it trivial. Weaving together threads of the Swede's life Reardon uncovers a complex tale of treachery and crime all linked with gorgeous mysterious Kitty Collins. Double Indemnity (Dir. Billy Wilder): Director Billy Wilder and writer Raymond Chandler ('The Big Sleep') adapted James M. Cain's hard-boiled novel into this wildly thrilling story of insurance man Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) who schemes the perfect murder with the beautiful dame Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck): kill Dietrichson's husband and make off with the insurance money. But of course in these plots things never quite go as planned and Barton Keyes (Edward G. Robinson) is the wily insurance investigator who has a feeling that not all is as it seems...

• Charlton Heston Triple Bill - Mother Lode, 55 Days an Peking & Proud Men | Blu Ray | (28/11/2022) from £16.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  55 Days at Peking Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking, China during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival by the Chinese Empress and her generals. starring silver screen heavyweights Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner and David Niven. Mother Lode - A couple of adventurers go into the wilds of British Columbia in search of a lost colleague, but when their plane crashes they find themselves at the mercy of an isolated, crazy miner. Proud Men - A conservative rancher disowns his son after he refuses to go to Vietnam to fight. Fifteen years later, his mother makes one last desperate attempt to reconcile father and son Product Features Boasting an all-star cast, including Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner and David Niven First Ever UK Blu-Ray Release of Proud Men, Mother Lode

• Pandora and the Flying Dutchman - Dual Format Edition | Blu Ray | (09/08/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Originally released in 1951, PANDORA AND THE FLYING DUTCHMAN is iconoclastic director Albert Lewin's deliriously romantic and contemporary Technicolor visualisation of the often told legend of the sea.

• Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema VI | Blu Ray | (26/04/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• 3 Leading Ladies Of The Silver Screen - Vol. 1 - Father's Little Dividend / Nothing Sacred | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Father's Little Dividend: Reprising his role from the 1950 release 'Father Of The Bride' Spencer Tracy rejoins Joan Bennett Elizabeth Taylor and Don Taylor in a charming sequel. Tracy portrays Elizabeth Taylor's father Stanley Banks who is still recovering from the effects of giving up his ""little girl"" Kay to Buckley Dunstan played by Don Taylor. Upon hearing the news that the newlyweds are expecting Tracy opposes the new arrival feeling the stresses of middle ag

• On The Beach | DVD | (12/10/2015) from £14.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (33.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  After World War III is over, all life in the northern hemisphere is wiped out. Only the inhabitants of Australia, along with the crew of the US submarine Sawfish, survive. But when the Sawfish goes on an exploratory journey to assess the atmosphere, it soon becomes apparent that the end is near for everyone. Acclaimed Hollywood film-maker Stanley Kramer (Inherit the Wind, Judgement at Nuremberg) directs an all-star cast which includes Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner and Fred Astaire, along with Anthony Perkins and Donna Anderson as the young parents who must make a terrible decision, in one the most powerful films of all time.

• One Touch of Venus (Region 2) | DVD | (01/06/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Priest of Love | DVD | (19/11/2012) from £22.98   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  In his first starring role, Sir Ian McKellen (Lord of the Rings, Gods and Monsters) gives a sensational performance as D.H. Lawrence in the impressively mounted and acted biopic (Variety) Priest of Love. After the English government burns copies of The Rainbow, Lawrence continues through his exodus around the world, joined by his combative wife Frieda (Janet Suzman). From his destructive sojourn to the American Southwest, to an earth-shaking visit to Oaxaca, and finishing with his erotic adventures in Italy, Priest of Love provides a colorful and insightful portrait of Lawrence's life and art. Featuring an excellent supporting cast of Ava Gardner, Penelope Keith and John Gielgud. Special Features: Christopher Miles: Early Career Featurette Chistopher Miles: Priest of Love and D.H. Lawrence Featurette The Way We Got it Together - A Documentary on the Making of the Film Christopher Miles Interviews Ian McKellen Bloopers Trailers Stills Gallery

• Ghosts On The Loose | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

• My Forbidden Past | DVD | (08/08/2011) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A passionate romance starring Ava Gardner as a beautiful heiress driven to extreme lengths when her dreams of true love are cruelly thwarted. New Orleans the 1800's: Barbara Beaurevel (Gardner Mogambo) inherits a fortune from her grandmother a woman with a notorious reputation. Barbara pledges to use the money for good works but her noble intentions are quickly tested... Barbara's in love with Dr Mark Lucas (Mitchum Angel Face); when he returns to the city with a new bride Corinne Barbara becomes desperate. She pays her wicked cousin Paul to seduce Corinne hoping Mark will then abandon his wife. But when Corinne is murdered Mark is blamed. Only Barbara can save him but she could lose everything if she does...

• The Snows Of Kilimanjaro | DVD | (06/04/2009) from £16.16   |  Saving you £-10.17 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  As writer Harry Street (Gregory Peck) lays gravely wounded from an African hunting accident he feverishly reflects on his life. Through his delirium he recalls his one true love Cynthia Green (Ava Gardner) whom he lost through his obsession for roaming the world in search of stories for his novels. Though she is dead Cynthia continues to haunt Street's thoughts. In spite of one successful novel after another Street feels he has compromised his talent to ensure the success of his books making him a failure in his eyes. His neglected wife Helen (Susan Hayward) tends to his wounds listens to his ranting endures his talk of lost loves and tries to restore in him the will to fight his illness until help arrives. Her devotion to him makes him finally realise that he is not a failure. With his realisation of a chance for love and happiness with Helen will he regain his will to live?

• The Snows Of Kilimanjaro | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £10.57   |  Saving you £-6.58 (-164.90%)   |  RRP £3.99

• The Snows of Kilimanjaro/Farewell to Arms | DVD | (31/12/2007) from £19.17   |  Saving you £2.82 (12.80%)   |  RRP £21.99

  The Snows Of Kilimanjaro: This lavish big-budget blockbuster combined tales from Ernest Hemingway's life with Papa's already famous autobiographical novel of the same name. As Harry (Gregory Peck) lies wounded and delirious in an African campsite at the foot of the snow-covered slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro he recounts the story of his life in a series of flashbacks. Writing women and big-game hunting - these are the things that have defined and dominated his existence. In pursuit of all three he has travelled the globe from the salons of Bohemian Paris to the battlefields of Spain to the plains of Africa. Now in the shadow of the greatest mountain and his own approaching death from gangrene he tries to make sense of his failures. Few Hemingway novels play as well onscreen as they do on paper but under the direction of Henry King Peck and Susan Hayward who plays Harry's devoted beau turn in inspired performances but both are eclipsed by Ava Gardner as Cynthia the love he lost. A Farewell To Arms: Ernest Hemingway's tragic story was first brought to the screen in 1932 by Frank Borzage in a surprisingly sophisticated and respectful form. The director brilliantly alternates objective and subjective camerawork (for which Charles Lang won and Oscar) and obtains superior performances from his leading players Helen Hayes as the British nurse and the sublimely handsome and charming American Ambulance driver Gary Cooper. The storyline was difficult to get past the censors even in pre-code days but Paramount managed to release the film with only brief cuts. However the studio fretted that audiences would not accept the novel's bleak finale and insisted that Borzage film an alternate 'happy' ending.

• The Ernest Hemingway Collection - A Farewell To Arms/Hemingway's Adventures Of A Young Man/The Snows Of Kilimanjaro/Under My Skin | DVD | (17/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £27.99

  Titles Comprise: A Farewell To Arms (Dir. Charles Vidor) (1957): This dense adaption of Ernest Hemingway's novel features Rock Hudson as American soldier Lt. Henry and his ill-fated love affair with British Nurse Catherine portrayed by Jennifer Jones during World War I. The two lovers will stop at nothing to be together but Lt. Henry's internal struggles ultimately threaten the relationship. Hemingway's theme of questioning the nature of war and fighting is fully recognised under Charles Vidor's direction. Hemingway's Adventures Of A Young Man (Dir. Martin Ritt) (1962): Nick Adams leaves his rural Michigan home to embark on an eventful cross-country journey. He is touched and affected by his encounters with a punch-drunk ex-boxer a sympathetic telegrapher and an alcoholic advanceman for a burlesque show. After failing to get a job as reporter in New York he enlists in the Italian army during World War I as an ambulance driver. His camaraderie with fellow soldiers and a romance with a nurse he meets after being wounded propel him to manhood. The Snow Of Kilimanjaro (Dir. Henry King) (1952): Based on the Ernest Hemigway novel of the same name Peck plays the part of a wounded hunter who is accompanied by two young women in the African wilds. Each of them tries to analyse his or her past life. Under My Skin (Jean Negulesco) (1950): After expatriate American jockey Danny Arnold double-crosses ruthless gambler Louis Bork he flees Italy with his adoring son Joe who isn't aware of his father's lies and corruption. While in France he begins a relationship with a beautiful French nightclub singer and buys a problematic racehorse that no one seems to be able to train. After Joe suggests that the horse has a future as a jumper Danny converts him to the steeplechase and turns him into a consistent winner. When Bork shows up and tells him he must lose the big race or die Danny must weigh his life against his son's faith that he has become a man of honor.

• Films That Define A Decade: '70s | DVD | (22/08/2016) from £5.35   |  Saving you £4.65 (86.92%)   |  RRP £10.00

  They say the ˜60s really happened in the ˜70s. Bell-bottoms and disco took over, while films from the ˜70s captured the free-spirited movement of the decade in many ways. There was the LA disaster epic Earthquake; pushing all boundaries came the cult classic National Lampoon's Animal House; there was the rip-roaring road trip Smokey and the Bandit; and crime caper The Sting starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford.

• Disaster - 10 movies | DVD | (07/12/2009) from £27.99   |  Saving you £-25.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Box set features: Epicenter FBI agent Amanda Foster is escorting Nick Constantine to prison when a massive earthquake hits LA. The unlikely couple are forced to team up to survive whilst being pursued by ruthless assassins and corrupt cops. Earthquake When the most catastrophic earthquake of all time rips through Southern California it levels Los Angeles and sends shockwaves through the lives of all who live there... Charlton Heston stars as a construction engineer whose life is devastated when the quake hits in a disaster film which showcases some of the most chilling special effects ever filme Volcano Quakes Riots Mudslides. Los Angeles has seen it all..almost. Get set for nonstop action searing suspense and explosive special effects when Oscar winner Tommy Lee Jones stars in the first great action film of the year!. Something unspeakably chilling is heating up the city of Angels. Beneath the famed La Brea Tar Pits a raging volcano has formed raining a storm of deadly fire bombs and an endless tide of white-hot lava upon the stunned city. Experience the pulse-pounding thrills as the dream capital of the world erupts into the stuff nightmares are made of. Avalanche Disaster Absolute Zero: An inconvenient reality No Warning. No Time. No Escape. Miami's Never Been So Cold. Stunned scientist David Koch (Jeff Fahey) has discovered evidence that it was a shift in the Earth's polarity that triggered the last Ice Age... in just 24 hours. Miami the 21st Century and it's happening again. As the temperature plummets disaster looms. Miami is blasted with snow and ice a communications satellite falls from orbit and an iceberg appears off the Florida coast. In the ensuing panic evacuation routes are jammed. The only chance David and his wife Bryn (Erika Eleniak) have is to hole themselves up in a special government 'Absolute Zero' chamber. But they have to reach it first. Fire Tornado Flight 747 Uncle Sam is about to have his wallet lifted at 30 000 feet... Kyle Ketchum and Paul Daltrey are two career criminals who plan the heist of their lifetime to rob a U.S treasury Jumbo Jet in mid-air. Their bold plan is hatched when a former associate provides them with a luxury Learjet and they embark on their mission to steal a cool Six Hundred Million Dollars. Ultimate Limit

• Killers | DVD | (22/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Killers (1946): Uses Ernest Hemingway's classic short story as a jumping-off point for an intense hard-edged and stylish tale of robbery unrequited love double-crosses and brutal betrayal. The Killers (1964): Two hired killers muscle their way into a school for the blind and terrorize the secretary until she reveals the whereabouts of racecar driver Johnny North. When the gunmen track him down Johnny wordlessly accepts his fate with the passivity of a man already dead. Why?

• Leading Ladies - Vol. 1 | DVD | (06/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A box set of films featuring some of Hollywood's leading ladies. Films Comprise: 1. Father's Little Dividend (Dir. Vincente Minnelli 1951) 2. Nothing Sacred (Dir. William A. Wellman 1937) 3. Ghosts On The Loose (Dir. William Beaudine 1943) 4. Of Human Bondage (Dir. John Cromwell 1934) 5. Behave Yourself (Dir. George Beck 1951) 6. Home Town Story (Dir. Arthur Pierson 1951) 7. Hell's House (Dir. Howard Higgin 1932) 8. The Bigamist (Dir. Ida Lupino 1953) 9. High Voltage

• The Sentinel | DVD | (28/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

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