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• The Complete Sartana Collection | Blu Ray | (28/10/2019) from £42.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Clint Eastwood's Man with No Name spawned imitations, variations and shameless rip-offs keen to emulate his success at the box office. Within months of A Fistful of Dollars' release, Giuliano Gemma was playing Ringo, who was then followed by Franco Nero's Django, Tony Anthony's The Stranger and Gianni Garko's Sartana each providing their own twist on the Eastwood antihero, and each of them then subject to their own spate of unofficial sequels, spoofs and cash-ins. Sartana tapped into more than just his Spaghetti Western predecessors a mysterious figure, he has a spectral quality, aided by his Count Dracula-like cloak which also nods towards comic strip figure Mandrake the Magician, with whom he shares a penchant for card tricks. He takes pride in his appearance unlike the Eastwood's dusty wanderer or Nero's mud-caked drifter. And there's a dose of James Bond too in his fondness for gadgetry and the droll sense of humour. Unsurprisingly, this unique figure in the genre was treated to four official follow-ups. The Complete Sartana collects all five films, presented here in brand-new restorations: If You Meet Sartana... Pray for Your Death, I Am Sartana, Your Angel of Death, Have a Good Funeral My Friend... Sartana Will Pay, Light the Fuse... Sartana Is Coming, and Sartana's Here... Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin, in which George Hilton replaced Garko in the lead role. Special Edition Contents: Brand-new 2K restoration of If You Meet Sartana... Pray for Your Death from original film materials, carried out by Arrow Films exclusively for this release Brand-new 2K restorations of I Am Sartana, Your Angel of Death, Sartana's Here... Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin, Have a Good Funeral My Friend... Sartana Will Pay and Light the Fuse... Sartana Is Coming from original camera negatives, carried out by Arrow Films exclusively for this release Original Italian and English soundtracks on all five films Uncompressed mono 1.0 PCM audio Newly translated English subtitles for the Italian soundtracks Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtracks Audio commentary on If You Meet Sartana... Pray for Your Death by filmmaker Mike Siegel Audio commentaries on I Am Sartana, Your Angel of Death and Have a Good Funeral My Friend Sartana Will Pay by Spaghetti Western experts C. Courtney Joyner and Henry Parke Gianfranco Parolini on If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death, a brand-new interview with the writer-director Light the Fuse: Sartana's Casting, a video essay guide to many familiar faces in the Sartana films by Jonathan Bygraves Sal Borgese on I Am Sartana, Your Angel of Death and Light the Fuse Sartana Is Coming, two brand-new interviews with the actor Ernesto Gastaldi on I Am Sartana, Your Angel of Death and Light the Fuse Sartana Is Coming, two brand-new interviews with the writer Sartana Shoots First, a brand-new interview with George Hilton on Sartana's Here... Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin Erika Blanc on Sartana's Here... Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin, a brand-new interview with the actor - Tony Askin on Sartana's Here... Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin, a brand-new interview with the actor - Roberto Dell'Acqua on Have a Good Funeral My Friend... Sartana Will Pay, a brand-new interview with the actor Sartana Lives, an archive featurette on Light the Fuse Sartana Is Coming featuring interviews with actor Gianni Garko and director Giuliano Carnimeo Galleries of original promotional images from the Mike Siegel Archive for all five films Reversible sleeves featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Matthew Griffin

• Deep Cover (1992) (Criterion Collection) UK Only | Blu Ray | (23/08/2021) from £19.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Film noir hits the mean streets of 1990s Los Angeles in this stylish and subversive underworld odyssey from veteran actor-director BILL DUKE (The Killing Floor). LAURENCE FISHBURNE (The Matrix) stars as Russell Stevens/John Hull, a police officer who goes undercover as the partner of a dangerously ambitious cocaine trafficker (The Fly's JEFF GOLDBLUM) in order to infiltrate and bring down a powerful Latin American drug ring operating in LA. But the further Stevens descends into this ruthless world of money, violence, and power, the more disillusioned he becomesand the harder to make out the line between right and wrong, crime and justice. Steeped in shadowy, neon-soaked atmosphere and featuring DR. DRE's debut solo single, this unsung gem of the nineties' Black cinema explosion delivers a riveting character study and sleek action thrills alongside a furious moral indictment of America and the devastating failures of the war on drugs. Special Features: New 4K digital restoration, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack New interview with director Bill Duke New conversation between film scholars Racquel J. Gates and Michael B. Gillespie about Deep Cover's place within both the Black film boom of the early 1990s and the noir genre New conversation between scholar Claudrena N. Harold and professor, DJ, and podcaster Oliver Wang about the film's title track and its importance to the history of hip-hop Panel discussion from 2018 featuring Duke and Fishburne and moderated by film critic Elvis Mitchell Trailer English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing PLUS: An essay by Gillespie

• Cast A Giant Shadow | DVD | (20/05/2002) from £11.42   |  Saving you £1.57 (13.75%)   |  RRP £12.99

  1966’s Cast a Giant Shadow is based on Ted Berkman’s biography of Colonel "Mickey" Marcus, the American soldier who served as an adviser in the fight to establish the state of Israel in 1948. It stars Kirk Douglas as the likeable "stiffneck" and WWII veteran persuaded to take up the cause. Israel back then was depicted as a negligible military force under threat of extinction at the hands of its Arab neighbours, hamstrung by a UN embargo on arms supplies. It takes Douglas at his most square-jawed to see off the Egyptian military and defy a blockade to beat a path through to Jerusalem. This is not cinema verité but Hollywood. Marcus’ dilemma--to settle into peacetime in America or follow his more natural, combative instincts abroad--is symbolised by a love triangle, involving wife Angie Dickinson and Santa Berger as Magda, the soldier whom he falls for in Palestine. Although lavish and spectacular, especially in the war scenes--filmed in the actual Middle Eastern locations in which they occurred--Cast a Giant Shadow is not entirely authentic (for a start, they’re driving 1950s vehicles in the 40s). Moreover, in the light of later troubles in the region, not everyone will be heart warmed by this depiction of plucky little Israel coping against Arab foes who are barely depicted as human throughout the film, merely as tanks and gunfire. Still, it’s an impressive enough relic of epic 1960s cinema, with cameos from Yul Brynner, John Wayne as Marcus’ wartime general, and Frank Sinatra as a pilot scattering the enemy by dropping soda dispensers on them. On the DVD: Cast a Giant Shadow‘s restoration here is visually immaculate. The mono sound, however, is often indistinct, with a good deal of sibilant hiss. Disappointingly, the only extra is the original trailer.--David Stubbs

• Salon Kitty | Blu Ray | (09/05/2011) from £12.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (69.28%)   |  RRP £21.99

  Based on a true story this shockingly controversial film is an unflinching portrayal of the criminal depravity of Nazi Germany and the ruthless use of sex to destroy opponents. Now presented fully uncut for the first time in UK in high definition showcasing the stunning production design of Ken Adams (designer of most James Bond sets and twice Oscar winner for Barry Lyndon and The Madness Of King George).

• Our Man in Marrakesh | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £6.25   |  Saving you £3.74 (59.84%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A traveller making a journey to the exotic Moroccan capital finds himself enmeshed in a web of suspicion and counter-espionage in this star-studded spy thriller with a difference!Odd Couple star Tony Randall is the American tourist whose eagerly awaited vacation turns into a potentially deadly adventure; Herbert Lom, Terry-Thomas and Austrian-born star Senta Berger are among the assorted spies and villains with whom he unwittingly tangles, with Klaus Kinski in suitably menacing form as the sinister stranger who tracks his every move.Directed by Hammer Films veteran Don Sharp and scripted from a story by British B-movie mogul Harry Alan Towers (under his regular pen-name 'Peter Welbeck'), Our Man in Marrakesh is a colourful blend of humour, glamour and intrigue, presented here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements.SPECIAL FEATURES:Original Theatrical Trailer Image GalleryPromotional Material PDF>

• The Quiller Memorandum | DVD | (08/05/2006) from £12.98   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Pursuing or Pursued... he played it alone... the most dangerous game in Europe. This special edition version of The Quiller Memorandum is sourced from a brand-new digitally restored HD print and is presented in its original aspect ratio. In West Berlin secret agent Quiller (Segal) is assigned to unmask the leaders of a suspected Neo-Nazi organisation. The last two men given this job have already been killed and the agent soon realises that he can trust no-one not ev

• The Garden of the Finzi Contini | DVD | (08/08/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The celebrated director of neoreliast masterpieces including Bicycle Thieves and Shoeshine Vittorio De Sica once again stuck gold in 1970. After ten years of trying he finally adapted Giorgio Bassani's celebrated novel to great acclaim and an Oscar for Best Foreign Film. Set at the outbreak of War De Sica's film tells the story of the Finzi-Continis an aristocratic Jewish family protected by the walls of their idyllic estate. Whilst outside Mussolini bans Jews from tennis courts the Finzi-Continis are not worried as they rally on their own living in their dreamland. Giorgio (Lino Capolicchio) is the middle-class Jew in love with his childhood friend Micol (Dominique Sanda) of the Finzi-Contini family but she is in love with a gentile and wanting of experiences outlawed by the new government. With Giorgio's separation of Micol De Sica tracks the loss of an idyllic way of life from the tennis courts to the waiting rooms where Jews await transportation to the concentration camps. Arrow Academy presents Vittorio De Sica's autumnal masterpiece The Garden of the Finzi Contini on DVD for the first time in the UK.

• Cross of Iron (Vintage Classics) 4K UHD | Blu Ray | (13/11/2023) from £21.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Based on the novel by Will Heinrich, Sam Peckinpah's only war film is an intense and uncompromising affair that brilliantly reflects both the futility of conflict and the director's fascination with individuals confronted by events beyond their control. A World War II tale told from the German perspective, Cross Of Iron follows a platoon of German soldiers in Russia when the German Wehrmacht forces had been decimated and the Germans were retreating along the Russian front. Rolf Steiner (James Coburn) is a German corporal and recipient of the Iron Cross who has grown disenchanted with Hitler's war machine. When Captain Stransky (Maximilian Schell) assumes charge, the pair are thrown into immediate conflict, the autocratic but ultimately cowardly Stransky coveting the loyalty and honour Steiner commands. Evocatively shot by John Coquillon (Billy the Kid) in sombre tones to emphasise the horrors of combat, the superlative lead performances are matched by David Warner and James Mason as war-weary senior officers. Viewed as one of Peckinpah's most powerful works, it's an unflinching vision of the Second World War. Product Features UHD & Blu-Ray Disc 1 Audio Commentary by filmmaker and film historian Mike Siegel NEW Promoting STEINER NEW STEINER on the set NEW Filming STEINER NEW Filming STEINER pt 2 NEW STEINER in colour Blu-Ray Disc 2 On Location: Sam Peckinpah On Location: James Coburn On Location: Maximillian Schell On Location: James Mason On Location: David Warner Passion and Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's War Kruger Kisses Kern Vadim & Sam: Father & Son Cutting Room Floor Steiner in Japan: Ads filmed in 1977 Mike's Home Movies: Steiner & Kiesel Meet Again US/UK Trailer German Trailer US TV Spot

• Titian | DVD | (23/07/2018) from £7.85   |  Saving you £2.14 (27.26%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Titian is one of the undisputed masters of Western art and his influence has proved to be as long lasting as it is widespread. His fresh interpretations of old stories and constant reinvention of the portrait have inspired artists for over four centuries. Filmed in France and Italy as well as the UK this film explores the reasons for the enduring power and abiding attraction of Titian's paintings. His work and life are investigated by a wide range of enthusiasts: John Berger Charles hope Tom Phillips Katya Berger John Lessore Jill Dunkerton Ray Richardson and Amanda Bradley.

• Conversation Piece (1974) (Masters of Cinema) Dual Format (Blu-ray & DVD) edition | Blu Ray | (15/08/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Eureka Entertainment to release Luchino Visconti's CONVERSATION PIECE, a heartfelt tale of loneliness and intimacy starring Burt Lancaster and an international ensemble cast, in a Dual Format edition as part of the Masters of Cinema Series on 15 August 2016. Eleven years after The Leopard, the revered Italian maestro Luchino Visconti reteamed with the iconic Burt Lancaster on the lavish Conversation Piece [Gruppo di famiglia in un interno]. A retired American professor (Lancaster) lives a solitary and luxurious life in a house in Rome. His world takes an unexpected turn when he is forced to rent part of his house to a countess and her companions: a lover, a daughter and the daughter's boyfriend. Forced into interaction with the unruly younger group, the professor's growing fascination begins to stir the possibilities of a life he had previously kept at arm's length. A sumptuous, grandly enjoyable chamber drama with a wry sense of humour, Conversation Piece features an international ensemble cast including Helmut Berger, Silvana Mangano and Stefano Patrizi (with uncredited cameos by Claudia Cardinale and Dominique Sanda). The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Visconti's penultimate film in a new dual-format edition from a brand new 2K restoration. Click Images to Enlarge

• Transformers Season 2.1 - Re-Release | DVD | (15/06/2009) from £26.24   |  Saving you £-13.25 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Relive the adventures of The Transformers on this DVD set containing the first half of Season 2. Episode comprise: 1. Autobot Spike 2. Changing Gears 3. City of Steel 4. Attack of the Autobots 5. Traitor The Immobilizer 6. The Autobot Run 7. Atlantis Arise 8. Day of the Machines 9. Enter the Nightbird 10. A Prime Problem 11. The Core 12. The Insecticon Syndrome 13. Dinobot Island (Part 1) 14. Dinobot Island (Part 2) 15. The Master Builders 16. Auto Berserk 17. Microbots 18. Megatron's Master Plan (Part 1) 19. Megatron's Master Plan (Part 2) 20. Desertion of the Dinobots (Part 1) 21. Desertion of the Dinobots (Part 2) 22. Blaster Blues 23. A Decepticon Raider in King Arthur's Court.

• F1 1980-89 (10 DVD) Box Set | DVD | (17/12/2018) from £92.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Transformers: The Movie - 4K | Blu Ray | (25/10/2021) from £21.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Exclusive Art By Matt FergusonThe year is 2005 For millennia, the heroic Autobots, led by Optimus Prime (Peter Cullen), have been at war with the evil Megatron (Frank Welker) and his Decepticons over control of their home planet of Cybertron. However, an even greater threat Unicron (Orson Welles, Citizen Kane), a colossal converting planet that devours everything in its path is heading right for Cybertron. The only hope is the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. Will the Autobots be able to save themselves and their home world in time?An all-star cast, including Judd Nelson (The Breakfast Club), Leonard Nimoy (Star Trek), Eric Idle (the Monty Python films) and Robert Stack (The Untouchables), brings this inimitable, explosively entertaining Autobot adventure to life.Special FeaturesNew 4k Transfer From Original Film ElementsNew Feature-Length Storyboards, including deleted, alternate and extended sequencesNew Fathom Events 30th Anniversary Featurette, including Stan Bush's acoustic performances of The Touch and Dare 'Til All Are One A comprehensive documentary looking back at The Transformers: The Movie with members of the cast and crew, including story consultant Flint Dille, cast members Gregg Berger, Neil Ross, Dan Gilvezan, singer/songwriter Stan Bush, composer Vince Dicola and others!Audio Commentary with Director Nelson Shin, story consultant Flint Dille and star Susan BluFeaturettesAnimated StoryboardsTrailers and TV Spots

• The Transformers: The Movie - 4K Steelbook Limited Edition | Blu Ray | (25/10/2021) from £19.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Exclusive Art By Matt Ferguson The year is 2005 For millennia, the heroic Autobots, led by Optimus Prime (Peter Cullen), have been at war with the evil Megatron (Frank Welker) and his Decepticons over control of their home planet of Cybertron. However, an even greater threat Unicron (Orson Welles, Citizen Kane), a colossal converting planet that devours everything in its path is heading right for Cybertron. The only hope is the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. Will the Autobots be able to save themselves and their home world in time? An all-star cast, including Judd Nelson (The Breakfast Club), Leonard Nimoy (Star Trek), Eric Idle (the Monty Python films) and Robert Stack (The Untouchables), brings this inimitable, explosively entertaining Autobot adventure to life. Special Features New 4k Transfer From Original Film Elements New Feature-Length Storyboards, including deleted, alternate and extended sequences New Fathom Events 30th Anniversary Featurette, including Stan Bush's acoustic performances of The Touch and Dare 'Til All Are One A comprehensive documentary looking back at The Transformers: The Movie with members of the cast and crew, including story consultant Flint Dille, cast members Gregg Berger, Neil Ross, Dan Gilvezan, singer/songwriter Stan Bush, composer Vince Dicola and others! Audio Commentary with Director Nelson Shin, story consultant Flint Dille and star Susan Blu Featurettes Animated Storyboards Trailers and TV Spots

• Metropolis | DVD | (27/01/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Fritz Lang's Expressionistic masterwork continues to exert its influence today, from Chaplin's Modern Times (1936) to Dr Strangelove (1963), and into the late 1990s with Dark City (1998). In the stratified society of the future (Y2K no less), the son of a capitalist discovers the atrocious conditions of the factory slaves, falling in love with the charismatic Maria in the bargain, who preaches nonviolence to the workers. But even the benevolent leadership of Maria is a challenge to the privileged class, so they have the mad-scientist Rotwang concoct a robot double to take her place and incite the workers to riot. The story is melodrama, but it's the powerful imagery that is so memorable. One of the most arresting images has legions of cowed workers filing listlessly into the great maw of the all-consuming machine-god Moloch. Unfortunately, the print used for this DVD is unfocused, scratchy, and five minutes short, altogether unworthy of a visionary masterpiece. It may be too much to hope for the complete film to be restored (only two hours of the original three-hour film are extant), but a clean transfer from a fine-grain negative ought to be possible. And why, when there are other possible future Metropolises to be had, should we downtrodden masses accept this junk? --Jim Gay

• The Swiss Conspiracy | DVD | (14/06/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  When a Swiss bank discovers that the confidentiality of some of its account holders has been comprised it calls in an American investigator. The action soon heats up with two of the account holders being blackmailed and then killed...

• Faccia A Faccia | Blu Ray | (21/02/2011) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  One of the best films from Italian genre master Sergio Sollima (The Big Gundown) Faccia a Faccia (Face to Face ) is a gangbusting western saga and a gripping parable of the rise of fascism. Upstanding history professor Brad Fletcher (played by the incomparable Gian Maria Volonte) is forced into retirement by his poor health and moves west for the warmer climate. Almost as soon as he arrives however he is taken hostage by famed bandit Solomon Bennett (the great Tomas Milian) in an accidental confrontation and by necessity is forced to take up with his cohorts. But the learned man's growing identification with the gang encourages him to stage a takeover from Bennett and a new crueller system of leadership is put into place. Produced by Sergio Leone's longtime partner Alberto Grimaldi featuring stunning Techniscope cinematography and a pounding score by il maestro Ennio Morricone this long-requested Italian western makes its first appearance on Blu-ray anywhere in the world from a beautiful high-definition master with both English and Italian soundtracks.

• Five Dolls For An August Moon Dual Format | Blu Ray | (01/02/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  ISLAND OF TERROR! A weekend retreat on a private island should be a recipe for rest and relaxation unless you're appearing in a giallo by the master of the macabre, Mario Bava (Black Sunday, Blood and Black Lace) Wealthy industrialist George Stark (Teodora Corrà, Django the Bastard) has gathered a group of friends played by a who's who of Italian genre cinema including William Berger (Faccia a faccia), Ira von Fürstenberg (The Fifth Cord), Edwige Fenech (Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key) and Howard Ross (The New York Ripper) to his island retreat. He hopes to entice them into investing in a new project, but soon the sunbathing and cocktails parties give way to murder, as the corpses begin to pile up one by one. Paying homage to Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians, Five Dolls for an August Moon turns the style up to ten. Surrounded by beautiful women, stunning locations and flamboyant fashions and abetted by Piero Umiliani's equally exotic score Bava creates one of his most eye-catching movies, a visual tour de force. SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentations Optional English and Italian soundtracks presented in original uncompressed mono PCM audio Optional isolated Music and Effects track Optional English subtitles for the Italian audio and English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English audio Audio commentary by Mario Bava's biographer Tim Lucas Mario Bava: Maestro of the Macabre a documentary profile of the director, hosted by Mark Kermode and featuring interviews with Joe Dante, John Carpenter and Tim Burton Theatrical trailer Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Graham Humphreys Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Glenn Kenny and a new essay by Adrian Smith on the Fancey family and their efforts to bring international exploitation titles, including Five Dolls for an August Moon, to a UK audience during the 60s, 70s and 80s

• The Transformers: The Movie - Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (25/10/2021) from £11.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Autobots, led by the heroic Optimus Prime, prepare to make a daring attempt to retake their planet from the evil forces of Megatron and the Decepticons. Unknown to both sides, a menacing force is heading their way Unicron. The only hope of stopping Unicfron lies within the Matrix of Leadership and the Autobot who can rise up and use its power to light their darkest hour. Will the Autobots be able to save their native planet from destruction or will the Decepticons reign supreme?

• Cross Of Iron | DVD | (29/01/2007) from £9.43   |  Saving you £3.56 (37.75%)   |  RRP £12.99

  1943: a German platoon suffers heavy bombardment from surrounding Soviet troops as they try to affect their withdrawal from Russia: knowing that defeat is inevitable their only goal is survival...