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• Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - The Cornish Mystery / The Disappearance Of Mr Davenheim | DVD | (12/05/2003) from £9.70   |  Saving you £0.29 (2.99%)   |  RRP £9.99

  David Suchet brings the great detective Hercule Poirot to rich life in The Cornish Mystery / The Disappearance of Mr Davenheim. These two episodes are lovingly true to their 1930s settings. In The Cornish Mystery Poirot has an unusual visitor--a victim who says she's not dead yet but is slowly being poisoned. The Disappearance of Mr Davenheim takes the standard case of a businessman's disappearance and spices it up with a friendly wager that Poirot can't solve the mystery without leaving his apartment. --Ali Davis

• Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - The Adventure Of The Egyptian Tomb / The Underdog | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £6.28   |  Saving you £3.71 (59.08%)   |  RRP £9.99

  More intriguing investigations for Agatha Christie's famed Belgian detective... The Adventure Of The Egyptian Tomb: An archaeological expedition has discovered the tomb of King-Men-her-Ra in the Valley of the Kings. When Sir John Willard smashes the seal of the burial chamber he suffers a heart attack and dies. One by one the men involved in the expedition begin to drop off like flies. Is there a curse on the tomb or are there more sinister forces at work? Poirot is called in to investigate. The Underdog: Horace Trefusis the chief chemist at the chemical factory is going through confidential papers concerning a new compound called Astroprene when an intruder disturbs him. Poirot becomes involved and finds himself investigating a case of intruige and sabotage.

• Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - The Affair At The Victory Ball / The Mystery Of Hunter's Lodge | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  More intriguing investigations for Agatha Christie's famed Belgian detective... The Affair At The Victory Ball: The Victory costume ball is in full swing just before midnight when a brutal murder is discovered. Poirot has only his own observations a mysterious note and a silver monogrammed case of cocaine to lead him to the killer. The Mystery Of Hunter's Lodge: Hastings accompanied by Poirot has been invited to a Grouse shoot on his uncle's estate. Amidst the gloomy Emglish weather and gun-smoke Poirot finds himself investigating a case of bizarre disguise and mistaken identity.

• Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - The Kidnapped Prime Minister / Western Star | DVD | (12/05/2003) from £8.53   |  Saving you £4.45 (80.32%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In The Kidnapped Prime Minister / The Adventure of the Western Star David Suchet once again brings the great detective Hercule Poirot to rich life. In The Adventure of the Western Star a Belgian film star's priceless diamond disappears after she receives threatening letters from a Chinese man. When Britain's Prime Minister vanishes on the eve of important international negotiations, Poirot is called in to solve the case of The Kidnapped Prime Minister. The deceptions in each crime are elaborately plotted, but for Poirot the solution is usually as simple as a children's nursery rhyme. Suchet portrays the dapper detective with a quiet dignity and sublime smile that often infuriate his action-hungry clients. But as Agatha Christie readers know quite well, all of the real action takes place in Poirot's "little grey cells". Providing comic counterpoint to Poirot's method is his sidekick, Captain Hastings (Hugh Fraser), whose well-meaning but befuddled attempts to help solve each case make these episodes entertaining even if you've already figured out whodunit. --Larisa Lomacky Moore

• Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - Murder On The Links | DVD | (14/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Paul Renauld hopes to escape blackmail but his copy cat crime is more exact than he intended. He is found murdered with a love letter in his pocket. The plot is complicated by Bella Duveen the beautiful singer stealing the murder weapon and the discovery of the body of a tramp who was stabbed after he died...

• Ballad Of Josie | DVD | (31/07/2006) from £14.56   |  Saving you £-4.57 (-45.70%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Josie Minick is acquitted for accidentally killing her drunken husband; nevertheless her 8-year-old son Luther is taken to Cheyenne to be cared for by her wealthy father-in-law Alpheus Minick. Despite the offer of her rancher neighbour Arch Ogden to buy her rundown ranch Josie decides to renovate the place with her husband's insurance money but she soon becomes discouraged by her failure to resurrect the place. She tries a job as a waitress but is equally unhappy. Finally she

• Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - The Dead Man's Mirror / Jewel Robbery At The Grand Metropolitan | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £11.23   |  Saving you £1.75 (21.24%)   |  RRP £9.99

  More intriguing investigations for Agatha Christie's famed Belgian detective... The Dead Man's Mirror: Art dealer Gervase Chevenix is not a popular man. So when he dies in mysterious circumstances Poirot has no shortage of suspects to choose from. The Jewel Robbery At The Grand Metropolitan: A holiday for Poirot on the South Coast turns into one of the most absorbing cases ever encountered. The pearls of the Tsar are missing and a man's life is at stake.

• Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - The Mystery Of The Spanish Chest / The Theft Of The Royal Ruby | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £9.96   |  Saving you £0.03 (0.30%)   |  RRP £9.99

  More intriguing investigations for Agatha Christie's famed Belgian detective... The Mystery Of The Spanish Chest: Poirot is approached by Lady Chatterton who believes that her beautiful friend Marguerite Clayton is in danger the suspect being her over-possessive husband. The mystery deepens when Poirot is summoned as a witness to a murder when a body is found in an ornate Spanish trunk. The Theft Of The Royal Ruby: Called urgently to the foreign office Poirot is briefed on the theft of a priceless ruby from the Prince of Egypt. He is forced to spend Christmas at the home of Colonel Lacev the infamous Egyptologist only to discover there is intrigue all around him.

• Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - Problem At Sea / The Incredible Theft | DVD | (12/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Problem At Sea: Poirot and Hastings are enjoying a pleasant cruise but are asked to investigate a case of murder on the high seas when the wife of one of their fellow passengers is robbed and murdered in her cabin. The Incredible Theft: The future safety of the country rests on Poirot's shoulders when a vital design sheet for a secret new fighter aircraft goes missing. Can one of Lord Mayfield's trusted weekend guests really be spying for the Germans?

• Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - Third Floor Flat / Triangle At Rhodes | DVD | (12/05/2003) from £22.75   |  Saving you £-12.76 (-127.70%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Third Floor Flat: Poirot is bored and discontended as he has had no murder case to investigate for several weeks. Only hours later he finds himself embroiled in the strange shooting of Mrs Grant the new resident who has moved in just two floors below his own apartment. Triangle At Rhodes: Poirot is on holiday at Rhodes' Palace Hotel when a British woman is mysteriously poisoned. Is this the simple crime of passion it appears to be or is the woman's husband an innocent man?

• Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - How Does Your Garden Grow? / The Million Dollar Bond Robbery | DVD | (29/05/2003) from £9.27   |  Saving you £3.71 (59.08%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A potpourri of international intrigue awaits Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot in How Does Your Garden Grow? / The Million Dollar Bond Robbery. An alleged Communist conspiracy casts suspicion on the Russian servant of a murdered woman in How Does Your Garden Grow?. In The Million-Dollar Bond Robbery, it's the theft of American bonds en route from London to New York. But even the most devious criminal mind is no match for Agatha Christie's famous detective. --Larisa Lomacky Moore

• Younger And Younger | DVD | (16/05/2005) from £5.99   |  Saving you £-4.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Jonathan never realized his wife was such a vision. Jonathan Younger (Sutherland) appears to be a successful businessman. However he owes everything to his wife Penny (Davidovich) and when she dies suddenly Jonathan is lost. Returning from Europe to look after the Younger business son Winston (Fraser) believes that his father is behaving very oddly seeing as he does the 'spirit' of his late wife and seeking to repair the damage of being a poor husband... An oddly quirky comedy!

• The Shepherd | DVD | (01/09/2001) from £6.35   |  Saving you £-4.36 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Welcome to a world where freedom is forgotten. The inhabitants of this future world have a choice to follow the rules or follow The Shepherd. In this world their destiny is dictated by militant cults and those who stray will be 'cleansed' by The Shepherd. Soon The Shepherd becomes the hunted and he must fight for his survival and that of his new flock.

• The Lord of the Rings -- Limited Edition Box Set | DVD | (26/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated adaptation of The Lord of the Rings is a bold, colourful, ambitious failure. Severely truncated, this two-hour version tackles only about half the story, climaxing with the battle of Helm's Deep and leaving poor Frodo and Sam still stuck on the borders of Mordor with Gollum. Allegedly, the director ran out of money and was unable to complete the project. As far as the film does go, however, it is a generally successful attempt at rendering Tolkien's landscapes of the imagination. Bakshi's animation uses a blend of conventional drawing and rotoscoped (traced) animated movements from live-action footage. The latter is at least in part a money-saving device, but it does succeed in lending some depth and a sense of otherworldly menace to the Black Riders and hordes of Orcs: Frodo's encounter at the ford of Rivendell, for example, is one of the film's best scenes thanks to this mixture of animation techniques. Backdrops are detailed and well conceived, and all the main characters are strongly drawn. Among a good cast, John Hurt (Aragorn) and C3PO himself, Anthony Daniels (Legolas), provide sterling voice characterisation, while Peter Woodthorpe gives what is surely the definitive Gollum (he revived his portrayal a couple of years later for BBC Radio's exhaustive 13-hour dramatisation). The film's other outstanding virtue is avant-garde composer Leonard Rosenman's magnificent score in which chaotic musical fragments gradually coalesce to produce the triumphant march theme that closes the picture. None of which makes up for the incompleteness of the movie, nor the severe abridging of the story actually filmed. Add to that some oddities--such as intermittently referring to Saruman as "Aruman"--and the final verdict must be that this is a brave yet ultimately unsatisfying work, noteworthy as the first attempt at transferring Tolkien to the big screen but one whose virtues are overshadowed by incompleteness. --Mark Walker

• Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - The Veiled Lady / The Lost Mine | DVD | (12/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In The Veiled Lady / The Lost Mine David Suchet once again brings the great detective Hercule Poirot to rich life. The Veiled Lady is a comic caper, as Poirot and the ever-ready Captain Hastings (Hugh Fraser) resort to burglary to stop a blackmailing cad. The Lost Mine is cleverly set in a Chinatown reminiscent of the 1930s concept of the Mysterious East. Suchet is a perfect Poirot, capturing both his dignity and his humour, and Fraser does a beautiful job of underplaying Hastings enough to keep him the perfect sidekick without ever making him boring. --Ali Davis

• Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - 5 Little Pigs / Sad Cypress | DVD | (19/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Five Little Pigs: Poirot is called in to investigate a fourteen year old murder... A woman was hanged for poisoning her husband to death. Her only daughter has come of age and is back from living overseas. She must find out if there was a mis-carriage of justice all those years ago if she is to have any future. Her late father was an artist reknowned for having affairs with his models. The family home was full of visitors. Who else had a motive? The Sad Cypress: Another intriguing investigation for the brilliant Belgian detective as the beautiful Elinor Carlisle stands accused of a double murder; that of her wealthy aunt Laura Wellman and also of her rival in love Mary Gerrard. Elinor had the motive and the opportunity to administer the fatal poison to both women. Poirot believes the evidence to be irrefutable but once his little grey cells get to work he begins to piece together another version of events as Elinor finds time running out...

• Agatha Christie's Poirot - The Complete Collection | DVD | (01/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £149.99

  David Suchet stars as Agatha Christie's sleuth Hercule Poirot in the complete collection of cases from the long running ITV series. Whether he's on holiday abroad taking a countryside break or simply going about his business near his central London home Poirot finds himself in the middle of a police investigation and cannot help himself from joining in whether they ask for his help or not! He's often accompanied by his trusty sidekick Captain Hastings (Hugh Fraser) and their paths cross Scotland Yard's Inspector Japp (Philip Jackson) who has a grudging respect for the meticulous if eccentric private detective. The drama is a charming and glamorous depiction of the middle and upper classes of the 1930s through the elegant costumes settings and locations.

• Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot | DVD | (12/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £199.99

  Two words suffice to sum up the enduring and endearing qualities of Agatha Christie's Poirot: David Suchet. Despite all the careful Art Deco trappings, the light, spacious sets and luxurious country locations, despite the excellent supporting cast and atmospheric music score, despite all its admirable qualities this series would be for nothing without Suchet's magnificent grasp on the fussy little Belgian detective. Poirot's obsessive mannerisms, his mania for sartorial detail, his maniacal devotion to personal hygiene (especially when it comes to looking after the moustache) are all rendered exactly by Suchet, clearly as much a perfectionist in this respect as his alter ego in every other. Buoyed by their success with Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes, Granada TV brought a lighter touch to Poirot, which first aired in 1989, and this series is often breezily humorous in contrast to the gloomy Victorian Gothic of its predecessor. The producers took similar care in maintaining the spirit of Christie's original books even when--as with the Holmes adventures--the screenwriters occasionally took pardonable liberties with story and characters. Suchet is ably supported by Hugh Fraser as the Bertie Woosterish Captain Hastings, Philip Jackson as the tenaciously bulldog-like Inspector Japp, and Pauline Moran as Poirot's often exasperated PA, Miss Lemon. --Mark Walker

• Robocop - The Prime Directives 1 To 4 | DVD | (06/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  A quartet of Robocop adventures from the 'Prime Directives' series. Dark Justice (2000): Ten years after his resurrection Robocop is up against a renegade cyborg creating havoc known as Bone Machine. A sinister rebel group called The Trust secretly re-programmes Robocop to kill Delta City's security commander Cable. An all-out three way tussle between Robocop Cable and Bone Machine proves to be the Delta City champion's biggest challenge yet... Meltdown: A sinister rebel group The Trust schemes to take control of Delta city. They transform the dead body of Robocop's best friend Cable into a machine designed to destroy Robocop. Will Cable remember he is the man inside the machine? Resurrection: Fugitives on the run Robocop and former partner Cable are separated during a pitched battle with Robohunters falling into the hands of two opposing mercenary groups who restore and re-programme them for the purposes of their respective dark crusades... Crash And Burn: With Delta City on the verge of a new Dark Age Robocop and Cable are trapped inside the towers of Control Headquarters. To save the city the embattled defenders must shut down the all-powerful computer and in doing so the ultimate sacrifice must be made...