"Actor: Barbara"

• Get Smart - Series 2 | DVD | (21/07/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

• Rio Grande | Blu Ray | (07/08/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Home Town Story | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £4.99   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

• Icons: Barbra Stanwyck - Double Indemnity (1944)/The Lady Eve/The Bitter Tea Of General Yen/The Golden Boy (1939)/The Miracle Woman/All I Desire | DVD | (27/09/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  A bumper box set of classic films featuring 'The Queen' Barbara Stanwyck! Double Indemnity (Dir. Billy Wilder 1944): 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... The Lady Eve (Dir. Preston Sturges 1941): In 1941 Barbara Stanwyck was offered two screwball roles equally suited to her tart intelligence deft comic timing and undeniable sex appeal and it's a photo finish as to which was funnier; showgirl-on-the-lam Sugarpuss O'Shea the title character in Howard Hawks's 'Ball of Fire' or con artist Jean Harrington a.k.a. Lady Eve Sidwich the delirious fulcrum for this classic Preston Sturges comedy. Under Sturges's typically antic microscope the collision between the gold-digging Harrington and the very rich very hapless brewery-heir-turned-herpetologist Charles Pike (a wonderfully callow guileless Henry Fonda) yields ample opportunity for the writer-director to skewer issues of class and sex; as always Sturges is bold in pushing the censors' envelope capturing a palpable erotic heat between the canny Jean and the literally feverish Charlie who after a year up the Amazon is instantly smitten by the mere sight of her shapely ankles (in hindsight a precursor to her subsequent effect in 'Double Indemnity'). The Bitter Tea Of General Yen (Dir. Frank Capra 1933): Caught in a Chinese rebellion newly-arrived American Megan Davis (Stanwyck) is rescued by a cultured bandit General Yen. When she realises she is being held captive she sets about undermining her captor. In time however she finds that it is not her confinement she must fight against - rather it is her growing attraction to the man... The Golden Boy (Dir. Rouben Mamoulian 1939): The tale of Joe Bonaparte; a boy encouraged by his father to pursue his dream of playing the violin who turns to boxing when poverty sets in. What he witnesses is the tough and uncompromising world of major league boxing; the widespread corruption; and the alluring qualities of one hot dame! The Miracle Woman (Dir. Frank Capra 1931): Barbara Stanwyck stars as Sister Faith Fallon the charismatic leader of a Pentecostal sect. David Manners plays John Carson the blind man whose life is changed by her powerful sermon. Little does he know that Faith works alongside a con-man performing hoax miracles to boost the coiffeurs. Will John's love for Faith finally steer her back onto the right path? All I Desire (Dir. Douglas Sirk 1953): Barbara Stanwyck stars as Naomi Murdock a wayward mother and struggling actress who yearns for her old life before she walked out on her family. Returning to town she finds herself the subject of hearsay and loose speculation from the locals. More importantly her husband is striking up a relationship with a local school teacher and her oldest daughter remains hostile to the mother who abandoned her. Will Naomi be able to repair the damage done and rest her demons?

• Moonlight Sonata | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.99

  Moonlight Sonata (1937 Feature Film)

• L'ora Della Furia (1968) | DVD | (10/03/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Abbott And Costello - Laugh-A-Thon | DVD | (21/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Abbott & Costello Classic Comedies three-disc collector's set consists of oddments from the latter days of their career that have fallen into public domain; which means you don't get their best routines or classiest productions, and indeed find the double act doing fairly tired schtick as Costello is chubbily chicken-hearted and Abbott grumpily money-grubbing. Africa Screams is a 1949 safari parody, with Costello running away yelping from sundry alligators, gorillas (including a Kong-sized giant), cannibals ("Chief have sweet tooth for little fat man") and lions amid backlot jungles as Abbott competes with stock villains for a fortune in diamonds. Jack and the Beanstalk, from 1952, finds the duo attempting to sell themselves as children's entertainers in a Wizard of Oz-influenced fairytale book-ended by sepia modern-day segments. The magical story unfolds in wonderfully gruesome cheap colour with some of the worst musical numbers ever committed to film ("he's perpendicular-la-la") as Jack the Clod (Costello) and Mr Dinkelpuss the Butcher (Abbott) climb the beanstalk and plod around the Giant's lair until the story runs out. Possibly the most interesting item is the third disc, which offers an episode of the Colgate Comedy Hour (aka The Abbott and Costello Show) from the 1950s. It shows the pair doing live routines closer to their original vaudeville act than their film roles (including an amazingly cruel bit in which Abbott slaps Costello every time he says the word "tin"). A loose plot about Latin American intrigue, with Lou hired to stand in for an assassination target "El Presidente", makes room for speciality guest stars ranging from child xylophonist Baby Mistin to four starlets (including Jane Russell and Rhonda Fleming) harmonising on a "Happy Easter" medley. Best of all, and now funnier than the comedy, are original hard-sell ads for household products like "Ajax, the foaming action cleanser" and "Halo, the shampoo that glorifies your hair". --Kim Newman

• Country Ladies | DVD | (18/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Country Ladies

• Prima Donna | DVD | (26/10/2009) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-7.98 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.25

  Prima Donna

• The Lucky Texan | DVD | (12/02/2008) from £14.98   |  Saving you £-11.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

• The Execution | DVD | (04/12/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  A Group of holocaust survivors recognise a local restaurant owner as the Nazi doctor who tortured them as girls. To their horror he has already been tried for his crimes and served only a few years. They therefore decide to perform their own ""execution"".

• Latex | DVD | (14/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

• Disgaea Vol.1 | DVD | (08/06/2009) from £12.95   |  Saving you £3.04 (19.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The King of the Netherworld has died and various demons are now building their own empires in an effort to take control. However the late King's son has arrived and is out to reclaim his rightful place as ruler of the Netherworld! Along to help him is his vassal; Etna with her Prinny squad and Flonne an angel-in-training originally sent to assassinate the king only to find that he has already died. Join our three intrepid and somewhat eccentric heroes as they initiate their plan to conquer the Netherworld Heaven and Earth!

• The Strange Love Of Martha Ivers | DVD | (06/11/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  This dark melodrama based on the John Patrick story 'Love Lies Bleeding' stars Barbara Stanwyck as the wonderfully wicked Martha Ivers a wealthy and domineering woman who controls a small town after inheriting a large family fortune. She lives with her weakling husband a district attorney running for mayor played by Kirk Douglas in his feature film debut - a role that's an unusual departure from his later work. What no one in the town knows however is that Stanwyck and Dougl

• Serial Killers - The Real Life Hannibal Lecters | DVD | (06/07/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The world's fascination with serial killers has spawned hundreds of fictional madmen in novels and feature films such as Silence of the Lambs Seven Kiss the Girls and The Bone Collector. None are more notorious than Thomas Harris' diabolical creation Dr Hannibal Lecter. However before Lecter there were a select group of real life monsters that terrorized our neighbourhoods; Albert Fish Andrei Chikatilo Jeffrey Dahmer Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy. Between them they claimed over 150 lives. Serial Killer - The Real Life Hannibal Lecters will take you into a world that is rarely shown on television such as the grotesque and macabre world that these monsters lived in. With never before seen footage including interviews with world renowned experts on serial killers and exclusive footage of these real life cannibals you will experience the holocaust these animals created. These killers were the models for Hannibal Lecter.

• Valley Of The Dolls | DVD | (14/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  What a trip! An entertainingly psychedelic adaptation of Jacqueline Susann's splendidly trashy novel telling the story of three remarkable women whose lives are affected by show-business celebrity. Revered composer John Williams (Star Wars) won his very first Oscar - and nomination - for Best Music.

• Hostel/The Hitcher | DVD | (06/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Hostel: Paxton and Josh two college friends are lured by a fellow traveler to what's described as a nirvana for American backpackers - a particular hostel in an out-of-the-way Slovakian town stocked with Eastern European women as desperate as they are gorgeous. The two friends arrive and soon easily pair off with exotic beauties Natalya and Svetlana. In fact too easily... Initially distracted by the good time they're having the two Americans quickly find themselves trapped in an increasingly sinister situation that they will discover is as wide and as deep as the darkest sickest recess of human nature itself - if they survive. The Hitcher: The open highway becomes a terrifying battleground of blood metal fear and murder when a young couple Grace and Jim (Sophia Bush and Zachary Knighton) hit the road and encounter the mysterious hitchhiker John Ryder (Sean Bean) during a violent storm. The initial encounters with Ryder escalate rapidly as he transforms into a deadly racing psychopath and the stakes are raised further when he frames Grace and Jim for a horrific slaying that makes them fugitives from the law. As the carnage mounts and the action pushes you to the edge of your seat Grace and Jim must fight for their lives and face their fears head-on.

• The Hitchcock Collection | DVD | (28/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £159.99

  This Alfred Hitchcock Collection DVD box set contains 17 Hitchcock films, from 1940's Foreign Correspondent to 1976's Family Plot. Please refer to the links below to read our reviews for each title: Foreign Correspondent (1940), Mr & Mrs Smith (1941), Suspicion (1941), Saboteur (1942), Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Rope (1948), Rear Window (1954), The Trouble with Harry (1955), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), Vertigo (1958), Psycho (1960), The Birds (1963), Marnie (1964), Torn Curtain (1966), Topaz (1969), Frenzy (1972), Family Plot (1976)

• Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann | DVD | (01/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Offenbach - Hoffmann (Guingal Choir Of Teatro Regio Parma)

• Charro! | DVD | (19/01/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In his twenty-ninth movie role Elvis Presley stars as outlaw Jess Wade who tries to break free from the clutches of a notorious gang. His former partners-in-crime seek payback as well as a cannon which everyone seems to want to get their hands on.