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• The Duellists | DVD | (24/03/2003) from £12.87   |  Saving you £3.12 (24.24%)   |  RRP £15.99

  One of the great directorial debuts, Ridley Scott's The Duellists is an extraordinary achievement which weaves an epic-in-miniature set around the edges of the Napoleonic Wars. Based on a story by Joseph Conrad, in turn inspired by real events and filmed in part where those events took place, this is the tale of a 15-year conflict between two French army officers: the level-headed Armand D'Hubert (Keith Carradine) and the obsessive Gabriel Feraud (Harvey Keitel). Each time they meet they duel, until the original purpose of the conflict is all but lost. Beyond the two American stars, who fill their roles with rare commitment--accents not withstanding--Scott assembled a stellar cast: Albert Finney, Edward Fox, Pete Postlethwaite, Diana Quick, Cristina Raines, Robert Stephens, Tom Conti, John McEnery, Maurice Colbourne and Jenny Runacre. The production values are astonishing and the film revels in the exquisite painterly visuals which have become a Scott trademark. Howard Blake's elegiac theme adds immeasurably to the impact of a film influenced by Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon (1974), and anticipating Scott's own Best Picture Oscar-winning Gladiator (2000). A haunting work of spectral beauty, it is also a worthy companion to Scott's shamefully neglected 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992). On the DVD: The Duellists is transferred at 1.77:1 with full sound atmospherically remixed in Dolby Digital 5.1. A new 29-minute documentary finds Scott discussing The Duellists with Kevin (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves) Reynolds, which is particularly enlightening given the relative merits of the two swashbucklers. Scott's absorbing commentary track provides an in-depth look into the film-making process. Equally, film music aficionados will be delighted to find not just an isolated music track, but an informative commentary by composer Howard Blake, though he does sometimes talk over the beginning or end of cues. Most unusual but very welcome is the inclusion of Scott's first short film, Boy and Bicycle (1965), a 25-minute b/w mood piece starring Tony Scott, with music by John Barry. Other extras are a storyboard-to-screen comparison, the American trailer and four galleries of posters, stills and production photos. --Gary S Dalkin

• Rumble Fish | Blu Ray | (27/08/2012) from £9.69   |  Saving you £5.30 (54.70%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The second of Francis Ford Coppola's films based on the popular juvenile novels of S.E. Hinton (the first being The Outsiders), Rumble Fish split critics into opposite camps: those who admired the film for its heavily stylised indulgence, and those who hated it for the very same reason. Whatever the response, it's clearly the work of a maverick director who isn't afraid to push the limits of his innovative talent. Filmed almost entirely in black and white with an occasional dash of color for symbolic effect, this tale of alienated youth centers on gang leader Rusty James (Matt Dillon) and his band of punk pals. Rusty's got a girlfriend (Diane Lane), an older brother named Motorcycle Boy (Mickey Rourke), and a drunken father (Dennis Hopper) who've all given up trying to straighten him out. He's best at making trouble, and he pursues that skill with an enthusiastic flair that eventually catches up with him. But it's not the whacked-out story here that matters--it's the uninhibited verve of Coppola's visual approach, which includes everything from time-lapse clouds to the kind of smoky streets and alleyways that could only exist in the movies. The supporting cast includes a host of fresh faces who went on to thriving careers, including Nicolas Cage, Christopher Penn, Vincent Spano, Laurence Fishburne, and musician Tom Waits. --Jeff Shannon

• The Avengers: The Complete Series 1-6 | DVD | (28/04/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £99.99

  All the surviving episodes from series 1-6 of the cult 1960s action series starring Patrick MacNee, Honor Blackman and Diana Rigg. Series 1 episodes are: 'Hot Snow' (incomplete; first 15 minutes only), 'Girl On a Trapeze', 'The Frighteners'. Series 2 episodes are; 'Mission to Montreal', 'Dead On Course', 'The Sell Out', 'Death Dispatch', 'Propellant 23', 'Mr Teddy Bear', 'The Decapod', 'Bullseye', 'The Removal Men', 'The Mauritius Penny', 'Death of a Great Dane', 'Death On the Rocks', 'Traitor in Zebra', 'The Big Thinker', 'Intercrime', 'Warlock', 'Immortal Clay', 'Box of Tricks', 'The Golden Eggs', 'School for Traitors', 'The White Dwarf', 'The Man in the Mirror', 'Conspiracy of Silence', 'A Chorus of Frogs', 'Six Hands Across a Table' and 'Killer Whale'. Series 3 episodes are: 'Concerto', 'Brief for Murder', 'The Nutshell, 'The Golden Fleece', 'Death a la Carte', 'Man With Two Shadows', 'Don't Look Behind You', 'The Grandeur That Was Rome', 'The Undertakers', 'Death of a Batman', 'Build a Better Mousetrap', 'November Five', 'Second Sight', 'The Secrets Broker', 'The Gilded Cage', 'The Medicine Man', 'The White Elephant', 'Dressed to Kill', 'The Wringer', 'The Little Wonders', 'Mandrake', 'The Trojan Horse', 'The Outside-In Man', 'The Charmers', 'Esprit de Corps' and 'Lobster Quadrille'. Series 4 episodes are: 'The Town of No Return', 'The Murder Market', 'The Master Minds', 'Dial a Deadly Number', 'Death at Bargain Prices', 'Too Many Christmas Trees', 'The Cybernauts', 'The Gravediggers', 'Room Without a View', 'A Surfeit of H20', 'Two's a Crowd', 'Man-Eater of Surrey Green', 'Silent Dust', 'The Hour That Never Was', 'Castle De'ath', 'The Thirteenth Hole', 'Small Game for Big Hunters', 'The Girl from Auntie', 'Quick-Quick Slow Death', 'The Danger Makers', 'A Touch of Brimstone', 'What the Butler Saw', 'The House That Jack Built', 'A Sense of History', 'How to Succeed... at Murder' and 'Honey for the Prince'. Series 5 episodes: 'The Fear Merchants', 'Escape in Time', 'The Bird Who Knew Too Much', 'From Venus With Love', The See-Through Man', 'The Winged Avenger', 'The Living Dead', 'The Hidden Tiger', 'The Correct Way to Kill', 'Never, Never Say Die', 'Epic', 'The Superlative Seven', 'A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Station', 'Something Nasty in the Nursery', 'The Joker', 'Who's Who???', Death's Door', 'Return of the Cybernauts', 'Dead Man's Treasure', 'The £50,000 Breakfast', 'You Have Just Been Murdered', 'Murdersville', 'The Positive-Negative Man' and 'Mission... Highly Improbable'. Series 6 episodes are: 'The Forget-Me-Knot', 'Invasion of the Earthmen', 'The Curious Case of the Countless Clues', 'Split!', 'Get-A-Way!', 'Have Guns-Will Haggle', 'Look-(Stop Me If You've Heard This One) But There Were These Two Fellers...', 'My Wildest Dream', 'Whoever Shot Poor George Oblique Stroke XR40?', 'You'll Catch Your Death', 'All Done with Mirrors', 'Super Secret Cypher Snatch', 'Game', 'False Witness', 'Noon-Doomsday', 'Legacy of Death', 'They Keep Killing Steed', 'Wish You Were Here', 'Killer', 'The Rotters', 'The Interrogators', 'The Morning After', 'Love All', 'Take Me to Your Leader', 'Stay Tuned', 'Fog', 'Who Was That Man I Saw You With?', 'Pandora', 'Thingumajig', 'Homicide and Old Lace', 'Requiem', 'Take-Over' and 'Bizarre'.

• The Wings Of The Dove | DVD | (12/02/2001) from £13.39   |  Saving you £4.59 (44.13%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Queen of the costume drama Helena Bonham Carter finally got a chance to loosen her corset a bit with this exquisitely mounted (Sandy Powell's costumes were nominated for an Academy Award) romantic drama based on Henry James's classic novel. Set in turn-of-the-century London and Venice, Wings of the Dove is a stately departure--more PBS than MTV--for Iain Softley, director of Hackers and the birth-of-the-Beatles biopic Backbeat. But there's enough romantic intrigue to perhaps fuel a week's worth of daytime TV talk shows: My Lover Seduced a Dying Heiress for Her Money. Bonham Carter, who won several critics association honours for her performance (she was nominated for a Golden Globe and Oscar as well) stars as Kate, who is engaged in a secret affair with Merton (Linus Roache), a journalist whose poor financial standing makes marriage impossible. Kate's manipulative aunt (Charlotte Rampling) threatens to disown her unless she marries the more suitable Lord Mark (Alex Jennings). Opportunity--admittedly sordid--arrives in the form of Millie (Alison Elliott), an American heiress whom Kate befriends. When Kate learns that Millie is dying, she suggests to Merton that he seduce her to make her last days happy, and ensuring that Millie will leave Merton her money when she dies. Merton reluctantly agrees, just as Kate begins to have second thoughts that threaten to sabotage the scheme. One of the most rapturously reviewed films in recent years, Wings of the Dove is a must-own video for the Merchant-Ivory crowd. But guys: don't dismiss this as a "chick flick". Beneath its Masterpiece Theatre exterior beats the wild and untamed heart of Dawson's Creek. --Donald Liebenson

• The Landlord (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (29/07/2024) from £17.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In 1970s Brooklyn, gentrification is already beginning to take hold in the predominantly black neighbourhood of Park Slope. Spoiled trust fund kid Elgar Enders (Beau Bridges) buys an apartment block in the area with the intention of evicting the tenants and building himself a bachelor pad. But upon moving in and unexpectedly befriending the inhabitants, he decides to let them stay and become their landlord. Rebelling against his rich, racist family, he embarks on affairs with two black women, causing uproar in the country clubs and the ghetto tenements of Park Slope alike. This outrageous satire marks the debut of Hal Ashby (Harold and Maude) as director, with a wicked script from Bill Gunn (Ganja & Hess) and stunning photography from Gordon Willis (The Godfather). The Landlord is a scabrous and unflinching look at race relations far ahead of its time, and a unique and important work in the annals of American screen comedy.

• Silkwood | DVD | (13/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Like most of the people in her town Karen Silkwood worked at the local nuclear plant producing highly radioactive plutonium. Exposed one day to a lethal dose of radiation Karen faces the blank walls of corporate indifference and denial whilst coming to terms that she will suffer a painful and lingering death as a result of company negligence. As her illness increases her protest grows louder and she becomes an obvious danger to the powers that be. But Karen is too spirited to be silenced and takes on the plant with devasting consequences. Written by Nora Ephorn and with a star studded cast including Oscar winners Meryl Streep Cher and Kurt Russell this is the remarkable and poignant true story of one woman's struggle to tell the truth at all costs.

• Victoria And Albert | DVD | (05/08/2002) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-1.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  In revealing the strength of the marriage which left Queen Victoria so devastated as a widow, the colourful costume drama Victoria and Albert could almost serve as a prequel to the film Mrs Brown. In common with that dramatisation, this TV drama features performances (and cameos) from some of Britain's finest actors, this time including Jonathan Pryce, David Suchet, Penelope Wilton, Peter Ustinov, Richard Briers and the wonderful Nigel Hawthorne as Lord Melbourne. Victoria Hamilton and Jonathan Firth are the impressive leads who command the viewer's attention through the lengthy process of turning Albert and Victoria's arranged marriage into a love story, from their first inauspicious meetings, to Albert's dissatisfaction over the impotence of his position. Concentrating as it does on Victoria's early reign means the drama does tend to skip over the couples' later years with their children and disappointments over their heir, Bertie, but overall this story has all the romance, settings, make-up and wigs of a fine costume drama. On the DVD: Victoria and Albert comes as a two-disc set that features an informative 25-minute "making of" documentary presented by the producer, that includes contributions from the Screenwriter, Director, stars Jonathan Firth and Penelope Wilton, and the Director of Photography. The filmographies are somewhat abridged but the Victoria Timeline is interesting for those wanting to learn more about the authentic history of events. --Rachel Ediss

• Wilt | Blu Ray | (10/02/2020) from £13.65   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Henry Wilt spends his evenings walking his dog and fantasising about murdering his domineering wife, Eva. Whilst incredibly drunk at a party, Wilt's entanglement with a life-size inflatable doll ends with him dumping it in a convenient hole at a building site. The following morning, when Eva cannot be found, Wilt's activities attract the suspicion of the dogged Inspector Flint of Norwich CID, who firmly believes that Mrs Wilt is now pushing up twenty tons of pre-mixed concrete... Griff Rhys Jones and Mel Smith star as the hapless Wilt and his single-minded pursuer in this classic comedy film, adapted from Tom Sharpe's outrageously funny novel by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick. Co-starring Alison Steadman and Diana Quick, Wilt is presented here as a brand-new High Definition transfer from the original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio. SPECIAL FEATURES: Archive interviews Location footage Theatrical trailer Image gallery

• Barney's Great Adventure - The Movie | DVD | (26/08/2002) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-10.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Barney stars in his first movie which sees Mom and Dad leaving the children at home to be looked after by Grandpa and Grandma. A shooting star delivers a colourful egg and the children go off in search of it...

• Hedda Gabler | DVD | (23/06/2008) from £15.67   |  Saving you £-5.68 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Hedda Gabler has just come back from her honeymoon married to boring but reliable academic George Tesman. Refusing to tie herself down in life and name Hedda is banking on George being appointed a professorship to secure a better life for the young couple. However the arrival of cleaned up ex-lover Eilert threatens to destroy everything.

• The Psycho Collection Limited Edition 4K UHD | Blu Ray | (25/09/2023) from £199.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  WE ALL GO A LITTLE MAD SOMETIMES... Shattering expectations and shocking audiences around the world, Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho changed the face of cinema in 1960. It remains one of the most iconic and influential movies ever made. Twenty three years later, Australian filmmaker Richard Franklin (Patrick, Road Games) boldly followed in the master's footsteps and directed Psycho II, a sequel that not only delivered on the promise of his earlier films, but also lived up to Hitchcock's original. Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) is declared sane and released from the facility in which he was being held, despite the complaints of Lila Loomis (née Crane, Vera Miles) sister of Norman's most famous victim. All Norman wants to do is live quietly and productively as a normal member of society. But is returning to the house he once shared with his mother, and running the motel that was the site of so many murders, really a good idea? Is he cured, or will he kill again? Psycho III would see Anthony Perkins himself take the franchise's reins for his directorial debut, bringing a stylish flair that suggested his time working with not only Alfred Hitchcock, but Orson Welles and Ken Russell had been well spent. A fallen nun (Diana Scarwid as Maureen Coyle), a sleazy drifter (Jeff Fahey as Duane Duke), and a curious reporter looking for a scoop (Roberta Maxwell as Tracy Venables) all arrive at the Bates Motel and 'Mother' is less than happy, especially when Norman begins to fall in love. Meanwhile, Psycho IV: The Beginning, written by Joseph Stefano (screenwriter of the 1960 original) and directed by master of horror Mick Garris, returns to the primal scene to show us how it all began in Anthony Perkins' final franchise appearance. Rehabilitated and happily married, Norman Bates has finally escaped from the overbearing influence of his abusive mother. But his wife is pregnant, and Norman finds himself afraid that the child will inherit his mental illness. When he hears talk radio host Fran Ambrose (CCH Pounder) discussing the topic of matricide, Norman calls in under a false name, to tell his story. Starring Henry Thomas (E.T.) as young Norman and Olivia Hussey (Black Christmas) as his mother, Norma. Presented together for the first time in the UK on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray, featuring all new restorations of Psycho II, III and IV from the original camera negatives, Arrow Video invites you back inside the Bates Motel and wishes you a very pleasant stay. Product Features 4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray (2160p) presentations of all four films New 4K restorations of Psycho II, Psycho III and Psycho IV from the original camera negatives DTS:X and mono audio options for Psycho, lossless stereo and 5.1 options for Psycho II and Psycho III, and lossless stereo audio for Psycho IV Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Reversible sleeves featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Matt Griffin Double-sided posters for each film featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Matt Griffin 9 postcard sized reproduction art cards 120-page perfect bound collector's book featuring new writing by film critics John-Paul Checkett and Johnny Mains plus select archival material Disc 1 PSYCHO (4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY) 60th Anniversary edition from Universal Pictures with uncut and re-release versions of the film Audio Commentary with Stephen Rebello, author of Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho The Making of Psycho documentary In the Master's Shadow, Hitchcock's Legacy featurette Hitchcock / Truffaut audio interview with scenes from the movie Newsreel Footage: The Release of Psycho featurette The Shower Scene: With & Without Music featurette The Shower Sequence, storyboards by Saul Bass image gallery Psycho Sound featurette The Psycho Archives image gallery Posters and Psycho Ads image gallery Lobby Cards image gallery Behind the Scenes Photographs image gallery Publicity Shots image gallery Theatrical trailer Re-Release trailers Disc 2 - PSYCHO II (4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY) New audio commentary by film critics Michael Brooke and Johnny Mains Archival audio commentary by screenwriter Tom Holland Behind the Curtain: The Masters of Horror on Psycho, panel discussion with screenwriter Tom Holland and Psycho IV director Mick Garris moderated by Robert V. Galluzzo Giving Bloch His Due, interview with Chet Williams, author of Psycho: Sanitarium on the legacy of Norman Bates' creator, author Robert Bloch Anthony Perkins TV interview Anthony Perkins audio interview Richard Franklin audio interview Richard Franklin On Set featurette Richard Franklin scene commentary A sequel to a Classic featurette The House on the Hill featurette Personality Profile: Anthony Perkins featurette Personality Profile: Richard Franklin featurette Still Crazy After all these Years Behind the scenes featurette Anthony Perkins interview Vera Miles interview Janet Leigh interview Jerry Goldsmith demo Trailers & TV spots Image gallery Audio press kit/promotional record Record gallery Disc 3 - PSYCHO III (4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY) New Commentary by film critics Michael Brooke and Johnny Mains Archival audio commentary by screenwriter Charles Edward Pogue Carnival of the Heart, a new visual essay by film scholar Alexandra Heller Nicholas Scream of Love, a new interview with composer Carter Burwell Watch the Guitar, archival interview with actor Jeff Fahey Patsy's Last Night, archival interview with actor Katt Shea Mother's Maker, archival interview with special make-up effects artist Michael Westmore Body Double, archival interview with actress Brinke Stevens Original electronic press kit Alternate opening Theatrical trailer TV spot Image gallery Disc 4 - PSYCHO IV: THE BEGINNING (4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY) 4K (2160p) Ultra HD presentation of the film in director's preferred 1.78:1 aspect ratio Archival audio commentary with director Mick Garris, actor Henry Thomas, and actress Olivia Hussey Death by Strings, new visual essay by author and critic Guy Adams on music across the franchise The Making of Mother, an archival interview with make-up effects artist Tony Gardner Behind-the-scenes footage A Look at the Scoring of Psycho IV, archival featurette Trailer Disc 5 - PSYCHO IV TV Aspect Ratio (4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY - LIMITED EDITION EXCLUSIVE) 4K (2160p) Ultra HD presentation of the film in 1.33:1 TV aspect ratio

• It's A Grand Life | DVD | (28/08/2006) from £9.98   |  Saving you £3.01 (30.16%)   |  RRP £12.99

  First ever DVD release of this classic British comedy which has never been seen since its 1950's cinema run. The final film showcase for music hall comedian Frank Randle as an accident-prone Private who cannot even make a cup of tea without making a disaster. However he does succeed in rescuing corporal Diana Dors from the lecherous clutches of his Sergeant Major. This fast moving film features stars of the music hall days such as champion wrestler Jack Pye and introduces the BBC Radio and TV star Winifred Atwell.

• The Mary Millington Collection | Blu Ray | (18/08/2023) from £48.09   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This special edition Blu-ray box set features Mary's most glamorous film roles, with stunning 2K restorations, including: Come Play with Me (1977), The Playbirds (1978), Confessions from the David Galaxy Affair (1979), Queen of the Blues (1979), Mary Millington's True Blue Confessions (1980) plus Respectable: The Mary Millington Story (2015), an in-depth documentary chronicling her extraordinary life.

• Barbie: A Perfect Christmas / Barbie in the Nutcracker (Double Pack) | DVD | (03/11/2014) from £6.99   |  Saving you £1.00 (14.31%)   |  RRP £7.99

  2 Barbie Christmas titles for a magical Christmas. Barbie in the Nutcracker: This modern apaptation of the Christmas classic sees Barbie starring as both Clara and the Sugarplum Princess. the magical adventure begins when Clara recieves a fine Nutcracker as a gift from her aunt. That night shes awakes to find the Nutcracker has come to life and is battling the sinister Mouse King. The Mouse King casts a spell over Clara that causes her to shrink and she and the Nutcracker set out on a fantastic adventure to find the Sugarplum Princess who has the power to undo the evil spell. This enchanting tale is enhanced with spectacular dance scenes created by acclaimed choreographer Peter Martins and features the beloved music by Tchaikovsky. The real-life movements of five dancers from New York City Ballet bring to the screen in a way never seen before. Barbie in the Nutcracker shows girls that with self reliance and confidence anything is possible... Bonus Features: Perfect Christmas: Trailer Gallery Outtakes Perfect Christmas Music Video Camping with Barbie & Her Sisters

• Killing Season | Blu Ray | (18/08/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Sharing the screen for the first time in motion picture history, Academy Award® winner Robert De Niro and two-time Oscar® nominee John Travolta star in the nail-biting Killing Season. Two veterans of the Bosnian War - one an American named Benjamin Ford (Robert De Niro), the other a former Serbian soldier, Emil Kovac (John Travolta) - engage in a tense, action-packed cat and mouse game, against the backdrop of America's most forbidding and remote landscape - the Appalachian mountain wilderness.

• You, Me & The Apocalypse | DVD | (29/02/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Seven eclectic and seemingly unconnected characters' lives start to intersect in the most unexpected ways as news breaks that a comet is on an unavoidable collision course towards Earth and will hit in just 34 days! Some of them are destined to make it to a bunker deep beneath the suburbs of Slough and, as a result, will become the hugely unlikely (and, frankly, somewhat unsuitable) future of mankind. Starring Rob Lowe (Parks and Recreation), Jenna Fischer (The Office), Megan Mullally (Will & Grace) and Mathew Baynton (The Wrong Mans).

• Theatre Of Blood | DVD | (21/10/2002) from £14.99   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A brilliant, bizarre 1973 comedy-horror, Theatre of Blood pitches somewhere between a Hammer horror and the Ealing comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets. Vincent Price stars as the hammy, self-important and thoroughly psychotic Edward Lionheart, a veteran thespian who refuses to play anything other than Shakespeare. Piqued by a circle of critics, whom he feels were disrespectful in their notices and denied him his rightful Best Actor of the Year Award, he decides to murder them one by one in parodies of some of Shakespeare's grislier scenes. He's aided by his daughter Edwina (played by Diana Rigg, often in fake moustache and male drag) and a ghoulish company of dosshouse zombies. Some of the murders are quite extraordinarily gruesome, despite their camp, comedic overtones. Arthur Lowe's henpecked critic has his head sawn off while asleep (in a parody of Cymbeline) and Robert Morley's plumply effete dandy is force-fed a pie made from his beloved poodles, choking him to death (cf Titus Andronicus). Jack Hawkins and Michael Horden also meet unpleasant ends. Theatre of Blood is a genuine and underrated oddity in the annals of British cinema and especially uncomfortable for those who happen to be in the reviewing trade. On the DVD: Theatre of Blood on disc is not a triumph of digital enhancement, with sound blemishes unamended and hazy, faded visuals in places. The only extra is the original trailer. --David Stubbs

• Mozart: Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute) -- Royal Opera House/Davis | DVD | (22/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A performance of the David McVicar production of Mozart's last opera. Colin Davis conducts the Royal Opera Chorus and Orchestra. Recorded at Covent Garden.

• An Ideal Husband | DVD | (03/09/2012) from £8.39   |  Saving you £7.60 (90.58%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Directed by Sir Alexander Korda, An Ideal Husband is a charmingly witty film adaptation of the classic Oscar Wilde comedy, starring Paulette Goddard as Lady Chevely, who attempts to blackmail Sir Robert Chiltern (Hugh Williams) so that he will encourage support for what is, in essence, a scam in which she has invested. Williams turns to a friend, Viscount Arthur Goring (Michael Wilding) for advice.

• West 11 (Vintage Classics) | Blu Ray | (05/07/2021) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A brand-new restoration of Michael Winner's 1963 crime drama WEST 11, starring Alfred Lynch, Kathleen Breck, Eric Portman and the inimitable Diana Dors. Based on the novel The Furnished Room by Laura Del-Rivo and filmed on location in Notting Hill, Michael Winners foray into British social realism sees an authentic portrayal of the grittier, darker side of West London in the 60s. Joe Beckett, seasoned citizen of the bed-sitter belt is the renegade son of middle-class parents and as he himself describes it, ˜an emotional leper'. He decides that he needs a violent shock to shake him back into life and as a result accepts a criminal commission from a man he meets in a coffee bar. Extras Interview with Film Historian Matthew Sweet Original Theatrical Trailer