"Actor: Billie Whitelaw"

• Napoleon and Love | DVD | (15/06/2009) from £32.38   |  Saving you £-7.39 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Featuring an illustrious cast headed by Ian Holm this dramatised account of the life and loves of Napoleon Bonaparte is a much sought-after classic series from Thames Television. Billie Whitelaw stars as Napoloeon's first wife Josephine with mistresses Desiree Clary and Marie Walewska played by Karen Dotrice and Catherine Schell. Featuring high calibre actors Ronald Hines Peter Bowles Gary Waldhorn and Stephanie Beacham this complete series features all nine hour-long episodes originally transmitted in 1974. At 25 Napoleon is already a general in the French army although on the unemployed list. In Marseilles he woos Desiree Clary the daughter of a rich merchant; but her family refuse a marriage until he has position and money. Napoleon leaves for Paris where he is put in charge of the Tuilleries and is soon made Commander of the Army of the Interior. There he meets and falls passionately in love with Jos''phine Beauharnais...

• The Edgar Wallace Anthology | DVD | (20/07/2020) from £65.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The thrillers of Edgar Wallace one of the twentieth century s most successful crime novelists have been widely adapted for film and television, with the most memorable adaptation being the Edgar Wallace Mysteries series made at Merton Park Studios during the first half of the 1960s. A noir-esque series, it updates some of the author s stories to more contemporary settings, blending classic B-movie elements with a distinctly British feel. Transferred from the original film elements, all 47 films are included in this anthology set alongside a wealth of special features. SPECIAL FEATURES Urge to Kill a non-Wallace story that was included in syndication packages as an Edgar Wallace Mystery Seven films made by Independent Artists Ltd during the same period as the Merton Park films two of which were from Wallace stories Exclusive booklet by author and critic Kim Newman Image galleries PDF material

• The Chain | DVD | (11/09/2006) from £6.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (42.92%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Chain is linked by a series of moves. As one couple moves out of their current residence to live in posher quarters another moves in and so it goes all the way up to the lavish mansioned owned by self-made millionaire Leo McKern. The cycle starts all over again when McKern wishing to be closer to his roots returns to the working-class neighborhood whence he came. Each move is wryly commented upon by the team of professional movers headed by Warren Mitchell.

• Charlie Bubbles (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (27/06/2022) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After achieving international renown as one of the finest actors of his generation in films such as Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and Tom Jones, Albert Finney turned director for this surreal comic twist on the 'kitchen sink' dramas in which he'd made his name. Finney plays Charlie Bubbles, a successful writer suffering a mid-life crisis, who attempts to re-connect with his northern working-class roots and estranged family. Based on a screenplay by Shelagh Delaney (A Taste of Honey), the script clearly references both her and Finney's personal experience of their shared working class origins (both were Salford natives), and the consequences of achieving great success. Product Features High Definition remaster Original mono audio Audio commentary with film historians Thirza Wakefield and Melanie Williams A Very Personal Film (2018, 3 mins): a new interview with producer Michael Medwin Down to Earth (2018, 9 mins): director of photography Peter Suschitzky recalls working with actor-director Albert Finney Off the Cuff (2018, 9 mins): first assistant director Terence A Clegg discusses his time working on the film Finney and Football (2018, 17 mins): actor Timothy Garland remembers his role as Charlie Bubbles' son Motorway Café Society (2018, 9 mins): a new interview with actor Susan Engel Entirely Harmonised (2018, 15 mins): composer Misha Donat reflects upon his distinctive score for the film To Shape the Country (2018, 5 mins): a short appreciation by film critic Danny Leigh Another World (2018, 22 mins): John Harding, author of Sweetly Sings Delaney: A Study of Shelagh Delaney's Work 195868, discusses the author and playwright's career and her work with Finney CCTV Test Footage (1966, 3 mins, mute): previously unseen camera tests supervised by Stephen Frears, Finney's personal assistant on the film Original theatrical trailer Image gallery: promotional photography and publicity material New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

• Charlie Bubbles | DVD | (15/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Charlie Bubbles is a writer from working-class Manchester but he has gotten caught up in his riches and fame and has forgotten his ability to connect to people. He sets out to reconnect with the important people in his life and re-establish his roots and family.

• Small Hotel | DVD | (03/08/2015) from £6.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (42.92%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In his penultimate film Gordon Harker heads a strong cast in a charming comedy charting the battle between the staff of a none-too-prosperous hotel and a supervisor eager to make some unpopular changes. Co-starring Marie Lohr John Loder and Billie Whitelaw Small Hotel is featured here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements. The dining room of the Jolly Fiddler has long been presided over by Albert an aged but very shrewd waiter. A past master of the gentle art of fiddling he extracts the maximum profit from his job while managing to endear himself to both the customers and staff. Then there's a visit from Mr Finch. He thinks it's time Albert was replaced... Features: Original Theatrical Trailer

• Armchair Theatre - Vol.1 | DVD | (18/01/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Armchair Theatre: Volume 1

• No Love For Johnnie | DVD | (05/09/2011) from £5.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (116.86%)   |  RRP £12.99

  First time on DVD! Re-elected to the House of Commons, Labour Party member Johnnie Byrne suffers two setbacks: he fails to receive a Cabinet post, and his wife, a Communist, leaves him. The professional failure disturbs Johnnie and he is persuaded to join a left-wing splinter group bent on harassing the prime minister. One evening, Johnnie's neighbour, who is in love with him, takes him to a party where he meets model Pauline. After a few dates, Johnnie is desperately in love with her and fails to appear in Parliament on the day he is scheduled to ask a crucial question to discredit the government. Pauline, decides that marrying a man twice her age is too great a risk, and leaves London. Johnnie is then summoned to a meeting of his constituents who attack him for his neglect. Failing to win back Pauline, Johnnie receives a surprise offer from his wife suggesting they try again. Johnnie is inclined to accept her offer, but the prime minister offers him a Cabinet post with the stipulation that he remain apart from his Communist wife, Johnnie decides against the reconciliation. Alone and without love or friends, he occupies one of the front seats reserved for Cabinet members. Is it all really worth it? Based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Wilfred FienburghPeter Finch won Best British Actor BAFTA in 1962.

• Supernatural (DVD) | DVD | (18/11/2013) from £22.19   |  Saving you £2.80 (12.62%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Werewolves vampires and ghosts haunt the living in this long-awaited double-disc presentation of the much sought-after BBC horror series Supernatural. Originally broadcast on BBC 1 in 1977 and rarely seen since this classic series ran for eight terrifying episodes. In each a different prospective member of the Club of the Damned is required to tell a story that will chill the blood of the club’s members and their application for membership would be judged on how frightening the story was. Failure to induce terror in all who attend would lead to the death of the storyteller… A timeless example of British Gothic horror at its best Supernatural boasts a superb cast of acting talent including Billie Whitelaw Jeremy Brett Robert Hardy Gordon Jackson Sinead Cusack Denholm Elliott and Ian Hendry. Content First ever DVD release of this much sought-after and highly acclaimed BBC TV series Disc One includes: 1. ‘Ghosts of Venice’ – with Robert Hardy and Sinead Cusack 2. ‘Countess Ilona’ – with Billie Whitelaw Ian Hendry and Edward Hardwicke 3. ‘The Werewolf Reunion’ – with Billie Whitelaw Ian Hendry and Edward Hardwicke 4. ‘Mr Nightingale’ – with Jeremy Brett and Lesley-Anne Down Disc two includes: 5. ‘Lady Sybil’ – with Denholm Elliott 6. ‘Viktoria’ – with Catherine Schell and Judy Cornwell 7. ‘Night of the Marionettes’ – with Gordon Jackson Kathleen Byron and Vladek Sheybal 8.’Dorabella’ – with Jeremy Clyde

• Catherine Cookson - A Dinner Of Herbs | DVD | (23/07/2007) from £5.97   |  Saving you £-0.98 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Based on Catherine Cookson's best-selling novel of murder passion and betrayed friendships this sweeping drama spans forty years during the second half of the 19th century. Roddy Greenback arrives in a remote Northumberland community. His father meets a violent death leaving the boy alone with no family to speak of. The young Roddy is adopted and raised by Kate Makepeace a good friend of his father and develops a close friendship with Hal and Mary Ellen but their sibling bond is put to the test as they become adults. The hidden secrets of the past are painfully unearthed as their lives continue to be intertwined by a tragic destiny.

• Armchair Theatre - Volume 3 | DVD | (27/08/2012) from £25.98   |  Saving you £16.00 (66.69%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Pioneering, enormously influential and often challenging, Armchair Theatre was ITV's flagship drama anthology series. Bringing high-quality contemporary drama to a wider viewing public, the series easily demonstrated the network's potential to rival the BBC's drama output with diverse and powerful plays by some of Britain's most gifted writers. This set comprises twelve plays taken from the series' first incarnation, produced by ABC and broadcast in the 1950s and '60s. An astonishing roll-call of writers includes J.B. Priestley, James Mitchell, Fay Weldon and Alun Owen; Patrick McGoohan, Stanley Baker, Billie Whitelaw, Colin Blakely, Judy Cornwell and Hugh Griffith are among the celebrated and accomplished actors appearing in groundbreaking dramas ranging from the playful to the poignant.

• The Lost Son | DVD | (28/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Former French Policeman Xavier Lombard exiled in disgrace and currently living in London makes a living as a private investigator and takes up a seemingly routine case of finding a rich family's missing drug addict son Leon. What begins as a straight forward missing persons case for Lombard becomes a personal quest to uncover the truth about Leon's involvement in a child smuggling ring. Lombard undertakes to bring the guilty to justice and his journey takes him to Mexico from where the elusive Austrian runs his empire. A taut compelling and uncompromising thriller charting one man's fight to end the suffering.

• The Comedy Man (Vintage Classics) | Blu Ray | (18/03/2024) from £10.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Twisted Nerve | DVD | (04/06/2007) from £10.35   |  Saving you £2.64 (25.51%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Cleaver. Cleaver. Chop. Chop. First the mom and then the pop. Then we'll get the pretty girl. We'll get her right between the curl. A 21-year-old man suffers from a schizophrenia that makes him behave as a 6-year-old. He is taken in by a young woman and her mother but his behavior soon turns violent.

• Quills | DVD | (29/10/2001) from £8.09   |  Saving you £4.90 (60.57%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The award winning tale of the last days of the Marquis de Sade, imprisoned in an asylum in Paris 1807.

• Canterbury Tales | DVD | (23/05/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Earning a nomination at the Academy Awards for Best Animated Short Film in 1998 this collection of nine animated tales is cleverly and faithfully adapted from one of the most audacious and astonishing works in English literature. Via cel animation clay animation and impressionistic drawings the viewer is transported on a vivid journey to medieval times taking in chivalry love lust the Black Death rape deception and chickens. Introducing a group of men and women from various st

• The Krays (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (12/07/2021) from £20.00   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From their humble East End beginnings, Ronnie and Reggie Kray became the most notorious figures in London's gangland underworld. From extortion to murder, their horrific brutality became legendary and throughout the 50s and 60s they ruled by fear, until life sentences in 1969 finally ended their bloody reign of terror. Limited Edition Contents: Rigid slipcase Perfect-bound booklet with new essays by Andrew Graves, Neil Mitchell and Shelagh Rowan-Legg 6 collectors' art cards Special Features New interview with Director Peter Medak New interview with Producer Ray Burdis Writing The Krays: a new audio interview with screenwriter Philip Ridley New audio commentary by film historian Scott Harrison Archive audio commentary by Peter Medak, Gary Kemp and Martin Kemp BFI 2015 Q&A with Gary Kemp, Martin Kemp, Kate Hardie, Peter Medak and Philip Ridley

• A Murder Of Quality | DVD | (19/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  When George Smiley receives a mysterious letter from Stella Rode a teacher's wife at Carne School intimating that her husband is out to murder her he decides to phone the school only to find that Stella was killed the previous evening... Based on a novel by John Le Carre.

• Make Mine Mink | DVD | (27/05/2002) from £7.28   |  Saving you £2.71 (37.23%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Make Mine Mink (1960) was adapted from a West End stage farce, Breath of Spring. In a mansion block in Knightsbridge, a gang of middle-aged biddies decide to brighten up "the dullness of the tea time of life" by staging a series of robberies on furriers, then donating the proceeds to charitable concerns. Terry Thomas as a retired army officer leads the gang, which includes Athene Seyler and Hattie Jacques, on a series of capers that nearly go awry when their maid, Billie Whitelaw, an ex-con and also a resident of the block, falls for a police officer. Among many funny scenes is a particular gem between Seyler and Kenneth Williams, her nephew to whom she hopes to palm off a stolen mink, and another where Terry Thomas enters a low-down dive to the accompaniment of the "Harry Lime theme". The playing of the whole cast is second to none under the direction of Robert Asher, who with his cameraman disguises the stage origins of the piece very adeptly. On the DVD: Make Mine Mink comes to DVD in 4:3 ratio with a mono soundtrack. The theatrical trailer is introduced by Terry Thomas, who presents us to his gang of fur thieves as the voice on the soundtrack announces him as "fur, fur funnier than you've seen him before". More TT tomfoolery can be found in the three-disc Terry Thomas Collection. --Adrian Edwards

• Payroll *Digitally Restored | DVD | (13/07/2015) from £10.35   |  Saving you £7.64 (73.82%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Payroll is a 1961 British crime thriller; starring Michael Craig and Billie Whitelaw. Traversing the criminal underworld of the north-east of England some ten years before Get Carter Johnny Mellor’s band of ruthless criminals attempt to get away with murder but as the police close in the gang begins to fall apart with each member seeking a way out – and in their panic no one realizes there is one adversary they have all overlooked.