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• Deanna Durbin | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  A collection of five classic musical films starring the singing star Deanna Durbin. The box set features: Up in Central Park Hers to Hold Nice Girl? It Started with Eve and His Butler's Sister.

• Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg -- Australian Opera / Mackerras | DVD | (20/02/2004) from £32.38   |  Saving you £-2.39 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg is Wagner's most life-affirming opera, a romantic comedy about life and love in 16th century Nürnberg with none of the mythological characters and settings of the composer's other operas. The story concerns a knight, Walther Von Stolzing (here sung by Paul Frey) who must win the hand of the woman he loves, Eva (Helena Doese) by competing in a competition to become the Master Singer of the city. Against him are various romantic rivals, while in the role of his eventual mentor is the shoemaker Hans Sachs (Donald McIntyre). Doese brings just the right innocent femininity to one of only two important female roles--the other is filled by Rosemary Gunn as her governess, Magdalene. Paul Frey is fine as the romantic young knight, but the opera belongs to the great New Zealand Wagnerian bass-baritone, Donald McIntyre. His performance is richly insightful as only one so steeped in the world of the composer could be. The staging is deliberately unspectacular, the colours muted to the natural earth tones of the Middle Ages, focusing all attention on the characters, drama and exhilarating music. Though running three-and-a-half hours, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg is an excellent introduction to Wagner's art; especially as presented in this 1990 performance in an engagingly direct and unpretentious style, one that draws the audience in and makes for highly effective small-screen viewing. On the DVD: Die Meistersinger is presented on two DVDs to maximise picture quality over the 227-minute playing time. The image is 4:3 and is typical of a 1990 live opera performance recorded on video, being perfectly acceptable while revealing all the faults of the medium. The stereo sound is very good without being exceptional. There are optional subtitles in English, German, French and Spanish but no extras. --Gary S Dalkin

• Pot O' Gold | DVD | (10/06/2002) from £4.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (240.48%)   |  RRP £16.99

  While Born To Dance is the movie musical most associated with James Stewart the largely forgotten Pot o' Gold is the one in which he is most involved with music. The plot has Stewart as Jimmy Haskell a music-loving harmonica-playing man who comes across a poor but excellent band (led by Horace Heidt) that rehearses on a boarding-house roof. Jimmy becomes interested in the people who own the boarding-house Ma McCorkle (Mary Gordon) and her lovely daughter Molly (Pau

• Gasaraki (Vol.1): The Summoning | DVD | (08/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Apocalypse Is Now! Get ready for an all-out assault on the senses as the key creative talents behind Patlabor 2 & Bubblegum Crisis join forces with the producers of the Mobile Suit Gundam saga for the ultimate animated epic! The flames of war explode in the Middle East as two shadow forces unleash monstrous new weapons of mass destruction! But in a world in which giant robots are real the most dangerous weapon of all lies buried within a human mind. Yushiro the fourth son of the mysterious and powerful Gowa family finds himself at the center of events that will change the future of mankind forever! Nothing can prepare the human race for what is about to be unleashed in Gasaraki! . Episodes: On The Ancient Stage Of Stone Opening Movement Tantric Circle Mirage.

• 3 Ninjas Knuckle Up | DVD | (06/07/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Rocky Colt and Tum Tum find themselves in action again as they get drawn into a struggle between an American Indian tribe and a ruthless businessman who is dumping toxic waste on their land.

• Charles Munch Conducts Berlioz L'enfance Du Christ | DVD | (28/02/2005) from £20.56   |  Saving you £2.43 (10.60%)   |  RRP £22.99

• Colonel Effingham's Raid | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £4.99   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

• It Had To Be You | DVD | (18/09/2006) from £15.36   |  Saving you £-2.37 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Ginger Rogers stars as a complicated young woman who has left three grooms standing at the altar and is ready to do it again! That is until handsome Johnny (Cornel Wilde) appears just in time hoping to change her ways forever....

• The Spikes Gang | DVD | (08/09/2008) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The story of three boys who want to fulfill their wish to be like their hero - Harry Spikes. Soon they have achieved what they wished but now like him they are wanted... dead or alive.

• This Land Of Mine | DVD | (02/07/2007) from £9.43   |  Saving you £3.56 (27.40%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Albert Lory is a teacher at a school in German-occupied France. He is a coward but he is drawn into the actions of the resistance. Arrested by the Germans because of a murder the German officers promise him freedom if he is willing to collaborate with them against France.

• Sherlock Holmes-Triumph of | DVD | (01/01/1900) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Wontner) and Dr. Watson (Ian Fleming) are lured out of retirement to investigate a mysterious murder at Birlstone Castle. They discover that a group of coalminers calling themselves The Scowlers are caught up in the plot along with the treacherous Professor Moriarity (Lyn Harding). Holmes must battle wits and might with Moriarity and an American gangster to find the murderers and save The Scowlers from destruction. Stylishly shot with thrills and mystery at every turn this fourth film in a series of five with Arthur Wontner as Sherlock Holmes is one of the best.

• The Pirates Of The Silver Screen Collection | DVD | (10/07/2006) from £11.71   |  Saving you £1.28 (9.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A bounty of five swash buckling adventures comprises this cracking boxed set. Contains: Disc 1 - The Black Pirate (1926) and Captain Kidd (1945) Disc 2 - Treasure Island (1960 TV) The Dancing Pirate (1936) and Shanghaied (1915) Disc 3 - Long John Silver's Return To Treasure Island (1954) and The Love Nest (1923) Disc 4 - The Adventures Of Long John Silver -TV series with Robert Newton:The Necklace Ship O'The Dead Sword of Vengeance Miss Purity's Birthday Dead Reckoning Th

• A Gorgeous Girl Like Me | DVD | (19/02/2007) from £19.33   |  Saving you £0.66 (3.41%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Stanislas Previne is a young sociologist he meets Camille Bliss who is in prison to interview her as researching for a book entitled Women Criminals... Camille is accused of having murdered her lover Arthur and her husband Clovis. She tells Stanislas her life and her love affairs...

• George King - Gaiety George | DVD | (24/08/2009) from £14.98   |  Saving you £-1.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Matinee idol Richard Greene stars in this spectacular musical romance based on the true-life story of London's first theatrical impresario George Edwardes. The dashing entrepreneur buys a run-down music hall in the capital and fills it with musical comedies much to the delight of his audiences. But after George marries a beautiful young chorus girl played by Ann Todd a vindictive theatre critic attempts to destroy his career...

• For Their Own Good | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £5.95   |  Saving you £3.03 (102.36%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A disturbing true story set in Texas 1984. A large corporation producing toxic substances that might cause defects in an unborn child orders the female workforce to have compulsory sterilisation or be sacked. One poverty-stricken woman fights back...

• Red Dwarf: Series 5 (Limited Edition Gift Set) | DVD | (08/11/2004) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The complete fifth series of interstellar comedy from the Red Dwarf crew filled with classic moments such as Rimmer finally making it into the Space Corps not to mention Mr Flibble and the first appearance of Cat's alter-ego the dreaded Dwayne Dibley... Holoship: Rimmer is transmitted from Red Dwarf to the advanced Holoship Enlightenment which contains the cream of the Space Corps. Everything he has dreamed of exists on this ship; can he earn a commission to join this fantastic vessel? The Inquisitor: The Inquisitor roams through time weeding out life's wastrels and deleting the worthless: the crew of Red Dwarf crew are in serious trouble! Terrorform Rimmer: is taken prisoner inside his own mind and ends up being stripped oiled manacled licked chained taunted humiliated and nearly has a knobbly thing the size of a Mexican agarve cactus jammed up where only customs men dare to probe... Quarantine: After an encounter at a viral research centre Rimmer forces the crew to spend twelve weeks in quarantine. But who's watching the watcher? Demons And Angels: Who knows what evil lurks within the hearts of men? The Red Dwarf crew find out when they encounter their dark sides - four evil 'doppelgangers' hell bent on their destruction! Back to Reality: The crew discover an abandoned space ship on an ocean bed. However the salvage operation suddenly doesn't sound quite so sexy when they realise all of the occupants of the vessel committed suicide. Attack by a gigantic sea monster makes escape the favourite option...

• Abbott And Costello - Africa Screams | DVD | (27/03/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Abbott and Costello go on an African safari armed with a secret map which will lead them to hidden diamonds.

• Man Push Cart | DVD | (05/02/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A Pakistani immigrant wonders if he will ever escape his fate in this New York drama.

• Neverland - The Complete Series | DVD | (04/02/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Back in 1991, Steven Spielberg came something of a cropper when he dug into the story of Peter Pan, and tried to establish what happened once everyone had grown up. Neverland has a lot more luck going the other way, though. It sets its story before the well known adventures of Peter Pan, and tries to find out just how he became who he was. To do this, it moves the story back to the start of the 20th Century, and crucially, pulls in a really impressive cast. Writer and director Nick Willing has brought together Charlie Rowe as Peter, along with Bob Hoskins as Smee--reprising the role he played in the aforementioned Hook. Then there's Anna Friel, Charles Dance, Keira Knightley voicing Tinkerbell, and Rhys Ifans stealing any scene he's let near as James Hook. It's Ifans who you long to see as much of on the screen, and Neverland doesn't disappoint. He does the role proud. This release sees the original mini-series brought together in one, and it's all the better for it. It's a rollicking adventure, with its ambitions firmly in entertaining a family audience. What's particularly impressive is that it finds interesting things to do with a bunch of characters familiar to most, if not all, of us to some extent. And, more than that, that familiarity adds to the fun. An excellent family adventure, with good, broad appeal. --Jon Foster

• Beyond Chritsmas | DVD | (07/09/2009) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-12.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

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