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• Popeye's Voyage - The Quest For Pappy | DVD | (25/02/2008) from £9.98   |  Saving you £0.01 (0.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The world's favourite spinach-slinging sailor takes to the high seas in a daring trip to rescue the father who abandoned him as a child! Popeye sets sail for the Sea of Mystery with his seaworthy crew: the loutish Bluto the lovelorn Olive Oyl the fearless Swee'pea and a hamburger-loving stowaway Wimpy. Unaware of the dangers that lie ahead Popeye bravely sets out to reunite his family even though he's unsure of his own emotions for the man who orphaned him so many years ago. As the voyage progresses toward the Sea of Mystery the Sea Hag's domain strange and scary things begin to happen. The Hag uses every wile deception and disguise in her arsenal to lure Popeye to his doom. Mists sirens and serpents attack the intrepid seafarers but Popeye resists with his wits and his strength. The crew then heads ashore for a sumptuous holiday feast prepared by none other than Pappy followed by a Christmas tree trimming by all three generations - Pappy Popeye and Swee'pea.

• The Inspector General | DVD | (23/06/2003) from £9.35   |  Saving you £7.64 (81.71%)   |  RRP £16.99

  In this delightful period farce set in Russia in the 1800's Danny Kaye plays and illiterate buffoon who is mistaken by the villagers for their feared Inspector General. Hilarious situations ensue as Danny is caught up in court intrigue without having a clue of what is going on.

• Clockwork Orange (Deluxe Box) | DVD | (12/08/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Stomping whomping stealing singing tap-dancing violating. Derby-topped teddy-boy hooligan Alex has his own way of having a good time. He has it at the tragic expense of others. Alex's journey from amoral punk to brainwashed proper citizen forms the dynamic arc of Stanley Kubrick's future-shock vision of Anthony Burgess' novel. Unforgettable images startling musical counterpoints the fascinating language used by Alex and his pals - Kubrick shapes them into a shattering whole. Hugely controversial when first released A Clockwork Orange won the New York Film Critics Best Picture and Director honors and earned four Academy Award nominations including best picture. The power of its art is such that it still entices shocks and holds us in its grasp.

• My Dear Secretary | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  If Charles Martin's wisecracking 1948 period-piece My Dear Secretary hasn't quite endured as a classic of its kind, it still commands attention as an appealing and often very funny curiosity. Kirk Douglas rightly earned his status as one of the titans of big-screen epic drama, so it's a surprise to encounter him in this romantic comedy as a feckless writer who can always find something to do rather than get down to work, leaving a string of outraged, frustrated or compromised secretaries in his wake. Douglas has a reasonably light comic touch and spars well with Laraine Day, in determined form as the secretary whom finally tames him and, in a notable strike for women's liberation, becomes a successful author herself in the process. But this is a film in which the supporting cast steal the best lines and scenes. Keenan Wynn is delightful as Ronnie, Douglas' neighbour and partner in the pursuit of pleasure. Some splendid high campery offers ample evidence that in a more enlightened age, Ronnie would surely have been openly gay. How else to explain his hilarious last reel marriage of convenience to the wealthy dragon of a landlady, played by the irrepressible Florence Bates? It isn't vintage screwball by any means, but My Dear Secretary is witty and literate enough to make you long for a revival in sophisticated cinema comedy. Truly, they don't make 'em like they used to. On the DVD: As the rush to release long-forgotten gems on DVD turns into a deluge, we will probably have to get used to the sort of disappointment on offer here: unrestored prints with no digital remastering and lousy sound quality, simply slammed onto the disc. The film could hardly be served less adequately. There isn't even any static background information on the production or the actors, making the package rather poor. --Piers Ford

• Quicksand | DVD | (11/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Mechanic Dan Brady borrows out of his firm's till in order to take waitress Vera Novak out on a date intending to replace it on payday. When the accountant turns up earlier than expected Dan soon finds himself 0 out of pocket. Thereafter whenever he attempts to make good things just go from bad to worse.

• A Clockwork Orange | HD DVD | (24/03/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Stomping whomping stealing singing tap-dancing violating Derby-topped teddy-boy hooligan Alex (Malcolm McDowell) has his own way of having a good time. He has it at the tragic expense of others. Alex's journey from amoral punk to brainwashed proper citizen forms the dynamic arc of Stanley Kubrick's future-shook vision of Anthony Burgess's novel. Unforgettable images startling musical counterpoints the fascinating language used by Alex and his pals - Kubrick shapes them into a shattering whole.

• The Horror Stack | DVD | (25/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Ravage: Can one man's vengeance-driven soul survive? Criminal psychologist Gregory Burroughs is trying to catch serial killer 'Hannibal Lecterish' the man responsible for the death of his daughters and the murder of several policemen. Greg follows a trail of carnage and destruction to a violent underworld and becomes entangled in a web of brutality surrounded by an army of cold-blooded assassins. The resulting explosion of action and violence propels Gregory to the ultimate chance to attain the vengeance he so desires... (Dir. Ronnie Sortor 1997) The Bride Of Frank: Frank O' Brien formerly homeless now has a warehouse job in the outskirts of New Jersey. He may be getting old and a little rough round the edges but he's finally got a home. Now he's lonely. Things are looking up for him when a colleague places an ad in the personals on Frank's behalf. He goes on a handful of dates but the women are judgemental and obnoxious so Frank - naturally - kills them in various ways -some too horrible to imagine! Ways that you simply won't believe. Escalpo Don Bald's (Steve Ballot) notorious underground horror/comedy features disturbing scenes of violence and cruelty and is not for those who are easily offended! (Dir. Steve Ballot 1996) Ozone: A horrifying new drug is released on the streets going by the name of Ozone. Its chilling side-effects are numerous perhaps the worst being its ability to mutate addicts into hideous rotting monsters. One cop makes it his mission to battles through a hoard of horrors to get to the drug kingpin behind the mutating madness! (Dir. J.R. Bookwater 1993)

• The Horrible Doctor Bones | DVD | (27/12/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Notorious record producer Doctor Bones finds a dynamic new hip hop group and turns their music into a deadly anthem to zombify the entire world! Cult classic hip-hop horror.

• Titanic (2 Blu-ray 3D) (+ Blu-ray 2D) (+ Bonus-Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (21/12/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Tiger Bay / Whistle Down The Wind / Moving Memories | DVD | (17/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  3 Classic Mills FilmsTIGER BAYPolish actor Korchinsky (Horst Buchholz - The Magnificent Seven) is furious to discover his lover has left him for another man and shoots her. The crime is witnessed by 10-year-old Gillie (BAFTA-nominated Mills) who steals the gun. Investigating officer Graham (John Mills) is in pursuit when Korchinsky abducts Gillie.WHISTLE DOWN THE WINDHayley Mills (Bell's daughter and a recipient of one of the film's four BAFTA nominations) Diane Holgate and Alan Barnes live on their widowed father's farm in the north of England.Their lives are disrupted when they discover a wanted man (Alan Bates) hiding out in their father's barn. After a confrontation and misunderstanding they come to the conclusion he is Jesus Christ.SIR JOHN MILLS' LOVING MEMORIESDiscovered years later in an attic clear out and seen here for the first time this extraordinary footage which spans 25 years has a cast list which reads like a who's who of British cinema. Never before has there been such an intimate behind the scenes look at the life of an actor who without doubt is considered to be a legend in his own lifetime.

• Various Uhrwerk Orange | DVD | (12/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Christmas Is Here Again | DVD | (28/12/2015) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-16.99 (-170.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

• Scream House Triple Terror 1 | DVD | (25/09/2006) from £12.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A triple DVD pack of nostalgic horror featuring Just Before Dawn Devil's Hand and Fear In The Night. Just Before Dawn (1981 Dir. Jeff Lieberman): Despite the local Ranger's ominous warning a party of three boys and two girls take a camping trip to the mountain. In the steamy backwoods they sense an atmosphere of mounting tension. Soon they realise there is some deadly horror lurking in the woods. The Ranger had been right! They meet a strange girl and her equally strange family. Then one of them is murdered...then another...and another... Will any of them survive those dark hours JUST BEFORE DAWN? Devil's Hand (1962 Dir. William J. Hole Jr.): Robert Alda stars as a man who becomes entranced by the beautiful high-priestess of a voodoo cult. Totally bewitched he realizes that he has to break his own spell when his fiance is kidnapped and due to be sacrificed. Fear In The Night (1972 Dir. Jimmy Sangster): Joan Collins stars in this this tense study of paranoia set in a boy's prep school that has pervasive surrealistic qualities. A young woman (Geeson) who has recently suffered a nervous breakdown moves with her husband to a rural English boarding school. However her nerves are not assuaged when she meets the school's intimidating headmaster (Cushing) and his vampy wife (Collins). Unfortunately Geeson's tension only gets worse when she finds herself being stalked and harassed by a one-armed man who seems to be a deranged psychotic. Unable to convince anyone that what is happening to her is real Geeson begins to suspect her husband of trying to kill her until one night of almost unbearable terror that reveals a secret more shocking than anything she could have imagined...

• Quicksand | DVD | (21/09/2009) from £10.78   |  Saving you £-2.79 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £7.99

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• My Dear Secretary | DVD | (27/08/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  If Charles Martin's wisecracking 1948 period-piece My Dear Secretary hasn't quite endured as a classic of its kind, it still commands attention as an appealing and often very funny curiosity. Kirk Douglas rightly earned his status as one of the titans of big-screen epic drama, so it's a surprise to encounter him in this romantic comedy as a feckless writer who can always find something to do rather than get down to work, leaving a string of outraged, frustrated or compromised secretaries in his wake. Douglas has a reasonably light comic touch and spars well with Laraine Day, in determined form as the secretary whom finally tames him and, in a notable strike for women's liberation, becomes a successful author herself in the process. But this is a film in which the supporting cast steal the best lines and scenes. Keenan Wynn is delightful as Ronnie, Douglas' neighbour and partner in the pursuit of pleasure. Some splendid high campery offers ample evidence that in a more enlightened age, Ronnie would surely have been openly gay. How else to explain his hilarious last reel marriage of convenience to the wealthy dragon of a landlady, played by the irrepressible Florence Bates? It isn't vintage screwball by any means, but My Dear Secretary is witty and literate enough to make you long for a revival in sophisticated cinema comedy. Truly, they don't make 'em like they used to. On the DVD: As the rush to release long-forgotten gems on DVD turns into a deluge, we will probably have to get used to the sort of disappointment on offer here: unrestored prints with no digital remastering and lousy sound quality, simply slammed onto the disc. The film could hardly be served less adequately. There isn't even any static background information on the production or the actors, making the package rather poor. --Piers Ford

• Ultimate Studio Classics Collection (Pack of 70 DVDS - Exclusive to Amazon.co.uk) | DVD | (28/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £450.99

• It Ain't Half Hot Mum - Series 6 | DVD | (09/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The complete sixth series of adventures (and misadventures) with the Royal Artillery concert party as the end of the Second World War creeps closer... Episodes Listing: 1. The Stars Look Down 2. The Big League 3. The Big Payroll Snatch 4. The Dhobi Wallahs 5. Lead Kindly Light 6. Holidays At Home 7. Caught Short

• Classic Horror Collection - Hands of the Ripper/The Monster/The Uncanny (3 disc set) | DVD | (07/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Countess Dracula (1970); The erotic horror tale of a countess who discovers that the blood of young virgin girls will restore her to the passionate beauty she was 25 years before...; ; Twins Of Evil (1971); Both look exactly alike: which one was the twin of evil? Victims of a vampire curse lead to a witch-hunt headed by Gustav Weil (Peter Cushing), a fanatical Puritan leader of a bizarre religious sect. Only a vampire hunter can save the innocent!; ; Monster; A supernatur...

• Around The World In 80 Days | UMD | (27/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

• Ken Russell Collection - Gothic/The Rainbow/Women In Love | DVD | (09/07/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Titles Comprise: Gothic:A richly detailed delightfully chilling horror tale centering around the romanticism's poetic elite. When Lord Byron Percy and Mary Shelley and other assorted artistic guests gather at a secluded mansion they enjoy a frightfully scary drug-induced evening that ultimately inspires the writing of both Mary Shelley's ""Frankenstein"" and Polidori's ""The Vampyre."" The Rainbow:Defying the moral constraints of Victorian England and her parents a young woman engages in unbridled promiscuity with two partners before setting out to capture the full sensuality of life itself. Based on the novel by D.H. Lawrence. Women In Love:Growing up in sheltered 1920s England Gudrun and Ursula know little about the ways of love. So when they pursue thrilling torrid affairs with a notorious playboy and a brooding philanderer what they discover about themselves and their lovers may be more all-consuming than they ever dared imagine.