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• The Traitor Aka The Accused | DVD | (27/06/2011) from £12.98   |  Saving you £0.01 (0.08%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This 1957 E.J. Fancey production is quite remarkable. Firstly it is the not a film typical of E.J. Fancey's output and in many people's opinion it is by far their best production. Although there aren't many location shots with a good script and a very fine cast the film works. Its a post wartime story of French resistance and a traitor; Anton Diffring is excellent as a concert pianist rather than his usual nasty Nazi and Chistopher Lee is very good without his cape and fangs! Mr Wolfit gives a typical Wolfit turn but most interesting is perhaps the director Michael McCarthy who also wrote the screenplay and passed away in 1959 at the tender age of 42 and seemed well set to go on to bigger and better things. Picture and sound are excellent following restoration.

• The Hound Of The Baskervilles | DVD | (25/04/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Of all the Sherlock Holmes tales written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles (one of the four novels) remains the best-known. Adding a dash of the supernatural to the Great Detective's adventures, it is certainly one of the most dramatic and an obvious target for screen interpretation. Prior to Jeremy Brett indelibly making the role his own to modern TV audiences, Ian Richardson made for a suitably incisive and enthusiastic Holmes in this enjoyable 1983 adaptation. The much-filmed tale finds Holmes and Watson drawn in to the mysterious curse afflicting the well-heeled Baskerville dynasty. Is a monster stalking the heir to the Baskerville fortune, or is the culprit a far from demonic force? As Holmes, Ian Richardson is blessed with the avian features that, like Basil Rathbone or Peter Cushing, effectively capture Sidney Paget's original likeness. Though Holmes' more anti-social facets are dispensed with, Richardson is engaging in such a well-explored role, recalling the razor-sharp wit and intelligence of Rathbone. Attracting a distinguished British cast (Brian Blessed, Denholm Elliot, Martin Shaw) and decent production values (though with a few Hammer Horror moments), this will not disappoint fans of Victorian literature's finest detective, nor those in search of a classic, chilling thriller. --Danny Graydon

• One Exciting Night | DVD | (24/10/2011) from £4.05   |  Saving you £5.94 (146.67%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The third and final film in Vera Lynn's delightful wartime musical trilogy. ONE EXCITING EVENING is a splendid British musical where the songs just keep on coming! While trying to do a good ded and return a stolen wallet, amateur singer Vera Baker (Vera Lynn) gets mistaken for the new girlfriend of famous composer Michael Thorne (Donald Stewart). Now she's invited to sing at a top variety show for charity. It seems like a dream come true - but there's trouble ahead. Michael has a valuable Rembrandt painting in his possesion and a criminal gang is determined to steal it from him. Can Vera wow the audience and save Michael and his painting? Also known as 'You Can't Do Without Love', this musical comedy has been digitally transferred from a high quality original 35mm print and is available on DVD for the first time. The film includes no less than six musical numbers from Vera Lynn - 'It's Like Old Times', 'There's A New World Over The Skyline', 'One Love', My Prayer', 'You Can't Do Without Love' and 'It's So Easy To Say Good Morning' with dance band legend Bert Ambrose. There's also a rare opportunity to enjoy the RAF Dance Orchestra with Jimmy Miller. ABOUT THE DVD: The film is presented in BLACK & WHITE and FULL SCREEN format (4:3 Aspect Ratio) and runs for 80 minutes - the AUDIO is the original ENGLISH language and MONO - SUBTITLES are English (Hard of Hearing) only.

• The Shakedown | DVD | (30/01/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The first ever release of this classic British title on DVD.Terence Morgan stars in this 1959 British production. Directed and co written by John Lemont which was distributed by Rank.Morgan plays Augie a crook just released from prison and intent on getting his rackets back from Gollar (Harry H Corbett). Augie sets up, down and out photographer (Donald Pleasence) in a studio with blackmail in mind.Well shot, this gritty crime flic is a must for crime buffs with a good supporting cast, Bill Owen, Robert Beatty and Hazel Court, whose first role in 1944 was a tipsy champagne drinker and her last role, in 1981 was a champagne drinker!

• Danger Man - Vol. 3 - Prisoner / Traitor / Deadline And Six More Episodes | DVD | (14/05/2001) from £50.02   |  Saving you £-34.03 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  John Drake is a special agent in the deadly world of international espionage. A master in his field he is free to go wherever duty calls. Danger Man does not simply attract danger he thrives on it. Episode 13 - The Prisoner: John Drake has to find a double for an American who has been accused of espionage and is kept prisoner in the American Embassy in a Caribbean City. Episode 14 - The Traitor: What makes a traitor? John Drake finds out when his latest assignment takes him to Kashmir in Northern India and to drama high up a mountain. Episode 15 - Deadline: Disguised as a gun runner Danger Man plunges into the African jungle in an attempt to penetrate a deadly terrorist group. Episode 16 - Colonel Rodriguez: John Drake flies to the Caribbean and masquerades as a reporter in a bid to aid an American jounalist who has been arrested on a spy charge. Episode 17 - The Island: Two assassins escape from Drake's custody in a mid aor struggle forcing the plane to crash. They survive and make it to a remote island where the real struggle begins. Episode 18 Find and Return: Drake finds himself in certain danger in the Middle East when he is assigned to find a woman wanted for espionage and possibly treason. He is not alone in his search. Episode 19 - The Girls Who Liked GI's: Drake investigates the death of a solider in Munich who worked on a top security missile section in Munich. The only clues are a roll of film and a girl who like Gls and the head of West German Intelligence. Episode 20 - Name Date and Place: A series of successive similar style murders in France Ireland Italy and London lead Drake to expose the possible link of a Murder Incorporated organisation.

• One Dark Night: Collector's Edition | Blu Ray | (24/08/2021) from £29.27   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Solo - a Star Wars Story | DVD | (26/09/2018) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Young Mr Lincoln | DVD | (21/02/2005) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-3.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Revered director John Ford's fictionalized account of the early life of the American president as a young lawyer facing his greatest court case...

• Ragtime | Blu Ray | (16/11/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Blood Relatives | DVD | (31/01/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  In this disturbing psychological thriller two young girls are attacked on the street by a violent rapist. Muriel (Langlois) is murdered but her cousin Patricia (Landry) survives. Inspector Carella (Sutherland) soon has a prime suspect - Doniac (Pleasence) - a known sex offender. He is released when Patricia fails to identify him and Carella turns his attention to Armstrong a man known to Muriel who fits the description. Muriel's funeral is marked by an emotional outburst from Patri

• Singin' in the Rain | Blu Ray | (15/04/2013) from £6.90   |  Saving you £13.09 (189.71%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Comedy romance great musical numbers stars at their best and a fond recreation of a bygone moviemaking era: Singin' in the Rain has so much that it ranked a lofty 10th on the American Film Institute's 100 Best American Films list. Gotta dance! sings star and co-director Gene Kelly. But the imperative of the film's storyline is gotta talk! Silents are giving way to Talkies - and a hoofer-turned-matinee-idol (Kelly) is caught in that bumpy transition as well as his buddy (Donald O'Connor) prospective ladylove (Debbie Reynolds) and shrewish co-star (Jean Hagen) in a hilarious Oscar-nominated performance). Singin' in the Rain is pure singin' dancin' laughin' lovin' moviewatchin' joy.

• Buried Alive | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £11.39   |  Saving you £-5.40 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  'Save Yourself...No One Can Hear You Scream'. Janet Pendleton arrives at Ravens-croft Reform School to teach Science but discovers macabre goings-on especially to wayward girls. Suffering hallucinations of someone being bricked-up behind a wall she seeks the help of the School Doctor only to discover he was once a patient at the School when it was an asylum...

• Laughter on Parade | DVD | (26/11/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  JOEY BOY While posters urge austerity and vigilance in wartime Britain, 'Joey Boy' Thompson has never had it better. But police stage a lightning raid and offer Joey and his fellow reprobates a stark choice: sign up for active service, or face another stint inside! Starring HARRY H. CORBETT, STANLEY BAXTER, BILL FRASER, PERCY HERBERT and LANCE PERCIVAL 1965 | 1.66:1 | Black and White | Mono | English | 88 mins | Cert PG OPERATION BULLSHINE A group of Auxiliary Territorial Service girls are stationed at an anti-aircraft post on the English coast along with the handsome lieutenant in charge of the battery and his wife (a fellow-ATS girl who's none too happy about her husband's latest posting!). Starring DONALD SINDEN, BARBARA MURRAY, CAROLE LESLEY, RONALD SHINER and NAUNTON WAYNE 1959 | 1.66:1 | Colour | Mono | English | 81 mins | Cert PG JOSSER IN THE ARMY Serial bungler Tommy Josser gets caught up in military escapades during wartime! Our hapless hero masquerades as a German general and unmasks a spy but ends up getting captured! Starring ERNEST LOTINGA, JACK FROST, HAL GORDON, HAROLD WILKINSON and ARNOLD BELL 1932 | 1.33:1 | Black and White | Mono | English | 75 mins | Cert U ON THE FIDDLE Tricked into joining the RAF by a wily judge, wide boy Horace Pope sets his sights on the main chance, teams with slow-witted, good-hearted gypsy Pedlar Pascoe, and works up a lucrative racket in conning both his colleagues and the RAF! Starring ALFRED LYNCH, SEAN CONNERY, CECIL PARKER, STANLEY HOLLOWAY and ALAN KING 1961 | 1.66:1 | Black and White | Mono | English | 93 mins | Cert PG

• The Great Escape/The Thomas Crown Affair/The Magnificent Seven | DVD | (16/10/2006) from £29.97   |  Saving you £-9.98 (-49.90%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Great Escape (Dir. John Sturges 1963): One of the most ingenious and suspenseful adventure films of all time The Great Escape is a masterful collaboration between director John Sturges (The Magnificent Seven) screenwriters James Clavell (""Shogun"") and W.R. Burnett and composer Elmer Bernstein. Based on a true story this film also stars Steve McQueen James Garner Charles Bronson and James Coburn. The Thomas Crown Affair (Dir. Norman Jewson 1968): Thomas Crown (Steve McQueen) is a lone wolf in chic clothing. He's a Boston tycoon who masterminds a daring bank job even though he doesn't need the money. What he needs is the thrill of the heist the adrenaline rush of not getting caught. Catching crooks is where insurance investigator Vicky Anderson (Faye Dunaway) comes in. She always gets her man. But this time she may be too much in love to give him up. McQueen and Dunaway are lovers and adversaries in a stylish cat-and-mouse thriller written by Alan R. Trustman and directed by Norman Jewison. Jewsion makes exciting use of split screen images as the action leaps from the boardroom to the boudoir the polo field to a glider cockpit. The Oscar winning Best Song (1968) ""The Windmills of Your Mind"" sets the perfect tone for the swirl of romance and intrigue... The Magnificent Seven (Dir. John Sturges 1960): Yul Brynner stars as one of seven master gunmen who aid the helpless farmers of an isolated village pitted against an army of marauding bandits in this rousing action tale based on Akira Kurosawa's classic Seven Samurai. Released in 1960 John Sturges' masterpiece garnered an Oscar nomination for Elmer Bernstein (for Best Score) and launched the film careers of Steve McQueen Charles Bronson Robert Vaughn and James Coburn.

• Die Die Darling | DVD | (20/03/2006) from £6.73   |  Saving you £6.26 (93.02%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In her last film Tallulah Bankhead portrays the fanatically religious Mrs. Trefoile a psychotic woman who with the help of her gardener (Donald Sutherland) imprisons her dead son's fiancee (Stephanie Powers) in a tiny room in her home so that the girl's soul will be properly cleansed in order to be reunited with her dead husband in heaven... Legendary British studio Hammer produced a script by Richard Matheson (author of I Am Legend) based on the novel by Anne Blaisdell.

• M.A.S.H. (Special Edition) | DVD | (08/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ensemble drama from acclaimed director Robert Altman centered around a group of ballet dancers, with a focus on one young dancer (Neve Campbell) who's poised to become a principal performer.

• Rosary Murders | DVD | (12/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A serial-killer begins a one man vendetta against the Catholic Church brutally slaying several priests and nuns. The police are baffled and the community frustrated. But someone may know who the murderer is... A man came to Father Koesler's confessional booth and said some things that made him suspect the stranger could be guilty of committing the heinous crimes. As a Catholic clergyman Koesler is forbidden to reveal anything said during the holy sacrament of Confession. But his co

• Never The Twain - The Complete Series 1 | DVD | (04/06/2001) from £12.98   |  Saving you £0.01 (0.08%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Remarkably, the Johnny Mortimer-scripted series Never the Twain ran to over 50 episodes between 1981 and 1984 on ITV. It starred Donald Sinden as Simon Peel, a stuffy, upper-middle class antiques dealer who lives next door to Oliver Smallbridge (Windsor Davies of It Aint Half Hot, Mum fame), a working-class lad made good, also in the antiques trade. As the first series establishes, theirs is a prickly relationship, not just because theyre rivals in trade but also rivals for the affections of the middle-aged, comely Veronica. They are aghast when they discover their respective son and daughter plan to marry, coming on like the Capulets and Montagues of Middle England. Never the Twain is a pleasantly predictable antique of the sitcom variety, redeemed by Sinden and Davies gruff, blustery and persistent antagonism. It depicts a cosy, never-never world of "dirty weekends", huge suburban houses, borderline homophobic mirth and reliable puns on "genes" and "jeans"--the sort of series in which characters greet surprising news by spraying a mouthful of tea halfway across the room. Some will find it barely endurable, others a welcome reminder of a bygone televisual era before alternative comedy became the ubiquitous norm. This DVD contains an episode guide and picture gallery. --David Stubbs

• Magic Town | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £5.55   |  Saving you £4.44 (80.00%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Rip Smith (Stewart) discovers a town statistically identical to the entire country so he and his assistants go there to run polls easily and cheaply. When he meets local civic cruader Mary Peterman (Wyman) romantic involvement follows and things start to change rapidly...

• Johnny Got His Gun (Imprint Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (08/04/2022) from £28.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  War Has Plunged Army Soldier Joe Bonham (Timothy Bottoms) Into An Unending Nightmare. Hit By An Artillery Shell In World War I, Joe Has Suffered Injuries That Have All But Erased His Humanity: He'S Lost His Sight, Speech, Hearing And Sense Of Smell. But He Still Has The Ability To Think And Remember, Which, In The End, May Be More A Curse Than A Blessing. Trapped In His Body, Joe Realizes There'S Only One Way Out Of His Misery: Death. Can He Get A Sympathetic Nurse To Help Him? Hollywood Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo Directed Just One Film In His Career, Johnny Got His Gun. Trumbo'S 1971 Adaptation Of His 1939 Novel Has Long Been Considered One Of The Most Powerful Anti-War Movies Ever Produced.New Audio Commentary By Cinema Author & Critic Matthew Asprey Gear Dalton Trumbo: Rebel In Hollywood DocumentaryInterview With Actor Timothy BottomsBehind-The-Scenes Footage (With Commentary By Timothy Bottoms And Director Of Photography Jules Brenner)1940 Radio Adaptation Starring James Cagney (Audio Only)Original Theatrical TrailerLimited Edition Slipcase On The First 2000 Copies With Unique Artwork.