"Actor: Basil Appleby"

• 49th Parallel | DVD | (15/04/2002) from £27.99   |  Saving you £-18.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  49th Parallel is a powerful and important piece of World War 2 propaganda which controversially was filmed from the point of view of a group of German soldiers. Asked to make a flag waver by the Ministry of Information the brilliantly gifted film-making team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger elected to set the action in Canada. The film features a stellar cast who all waived their fees in the interests of the war. A Nazi U-boat is sunk by the Canadian Air Force and all the crew are lost except six men who had been sent ashore before the attack. They stumble across an Eskimo village where Scott Peter and his Eskimo servant Martin live. Also present is a French trapper Johnnie (played by Laurence Olivier) who panics when held at gunpoint and is shot by one of the Nazis. After this the Allies send an S.O.S. plane and it is the intention of the Nazis to hijack it and fly to neutral America. When the plane arrives there is a scuffle but they manage to take off. Will they be caught before they kill again?

• Heights Of Danger | DVD | (30/08/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  A big garage profiteer seeks to sabotage a British father and his children's chances of winning an Alpine motor car rally the 500 prize money from which would preserve their small and struggling garage business. Continental motor racing adventure Heights of Danger (1953) features Basil Appleby and Freda Bamford but the real star is the MG TD Sports Car - tenacious and reliable to the last amidst the twisting and mountainous road condtions through the picturesque Edelweiss Pass and through all the villain's devious attempts to scupper its ultimate victory!