"Actor: Doris"

• On The Buses - The Best Of Series 3 And 4 - Vol. 3 | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £18.70   |  Saving you £-8.71 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Running from 1969 to 1973 On The Buses was one of the most successful comedy series ever made. Re-live the flares and wide collars with the On The Buses crew. 'On the Buses' is British comedy at its best. Starring Reg Varney as jack-the-lad bus driver Stan Bob Grant as his chirpy conductor Jack and Stephen I'll 'ave you Butler! Lewis as the long-suffering dim-witted Inspector Blake who does his best to get the buses out on time while making their lives as miserable as possible. Episode titles: Going Steady The Squeeze On The Make Brew It Yourself.

• A Farewell To Arms | DVD | (01/07/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  The 1932 version of A Farewell to Arms owes as much to the shimmering house style of Paramount Pictures as it does the novel by Ernest Hemingway. If Hemingway purists can get past the romanticising of the book, however, this film offers its own glossy appeal. On the Italian front in World War I an American ambulance driver (Gary Cooper) falls in love with a nurse (Helen Hayes). Cooper was a Hemingway friend in real life, and later played the hero of Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls; his boyish simplicity is just right for director Frank Borzage's heartfelt approach. The Oscar-winning cinematography of ace cameraman Charles Lang is the kind of lush black and white that can capture the glow from a cigarette as it plays across Cooper's darkened face--a breathtaking touch. The jaded battle scenes show the influence of the hit film version of All Quiet on the Western Front, especially in a gripping montage depicting Cooper's progress alone through the war zone. Hemingway would have none of it, of course; he once disdainfully wrote that "in the first picture version Lt. Henry deserted because he didn't get any mail and then the whole Italian Army went along, it seems, to keep him company". This is first and foremost a love story, however, and as such it succeeds beautifully, right through to the remarkably intense ending. --Robert Horton, Amazon.com

• The Doris Day Special | DVD | (05/02/2007) from £12.13   |  Saving you £-4.14 (-51.80%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Film and recording superstar Doris Day stars in her first tv music special featuring a collection of her greatest hits (It's Magic' 'Sentimental Journey' 'Secret love') showtunes and other pop classics including the Beatles' 'Ob-la-di Ob-la-da' special guest Perry Como duets with Doris for a nostalgic medley including 'Everybody Loves A Lover' 'Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars' 'When You Were Sweet Sixteen' and 'Let Me Call You Sweetheart'. In addition Doris's motion picture partner Rock Hudson makes a special appearance! Track List: 1. Opening Medley 2. Hurry It's Lovely Up Here 3. You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby 4. Didn't We 5. Fashion Sequence 6. The Gypsy in My Soul 7. Them Was the Good Old Days 8. Doris Day & Perry Como Medley 9. You Oughta Be in Pictures 10. Rock Hudson Special Appearance 11. Both Sides Now 12. It's Magic 13. Sentimental Journey

• On The Buses - The Best Of Series 3 And 4 | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  One of the most successful TV series ever made running from 1969 to 1973 'On the Buses' is great British comedy at its best. Starring Reg Varney as jack-the-lad bus driver Stan and Stephen Lewis as the long-suffering dim-witted Inspector Blake ('Blakey') who does his best to get the buses out in time whilst making their lives as miserable as possible.

• The Honeymoon Killers | DVD | (27/08/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Though it was pre-produced by Martin Scorsese, who left the project after arguments with the producers, The Honeymoon Killers wound up being written and directed by Leonard Kastle, one of cinema's great one-hit wonders. The Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer of 1969, The Honeymoon Killers follows hefty nurse Martha Beck (Shirley Stoler, who looks like a humourlessly malevolent Roseanne) and her low-rent gigolo lover Raymond Fernandez (Tony Lo Bianco) as they take up serial murder for profit and passion, luring middle-aged women into marriage through lonely-hearts ads, then killing them and raiding their savings. Based on a genuine crime case history, it is filmed in the candid-camera style of a Frederick Wiseman documentary. The intense scenes (such as the couple's frightening love-play: escalating arguments that end in awkward killings) unfold with a fly-on-the-wall dryness, showcasing the extraordinary acting of the leads and their cameo victims. A rare film in which genuine romantic love does not excuse the central couple's amoral behaviour, this still manages to generate some sympathy for the truly monstrous Martha. The washed-out black and white photography and sometimes scratchy soundtrack (the score is sampled from Mahler) have a deliberately amateurish feel which adds to the film's chilling power, lodging it into the memory. On the DVD: Along with a lurid trailer and gallery of images are filmographies for Stoler, Lo Bianco and (redundantly) Kastle. The widescreen transfer is excellent, representing perfectly the film's rough-hewn look but also bringing out a lot of detail--like Stoler's freckles, which have looked like grain on video releases. --Kim Newman

• Oasis Of The Zombies | DVD | (09/02/2004) from £8.46   |  Saving you £12.53 (148.11%)   |  RRP £20.99

  During World War II a small German squad was assigned to the task of carrying a shipment of Nazi gold across the African desert. Ambushed by Allied forces only one soldier survived the confrontation. Years later this American GI is murdered by a German treasure hunter intent on locating the stash. The soldier's erstwhile son swears revenge and heads to Africa to locate the killer and the loot. However both are soon terrified by the dangers that surround the gold...

• Rameau - Platée / Marc Minkowski, Laurent Pelly, Opéra de Paris | DVD | (19/03/2004) from £27.55   |  Saving you £2.44 (8.86%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Platee - Rameau

• On The Buses - The Best Of Series 3 And 4 - Vol. 2 | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Running from 1969 to 1973 On The Buses was one of the most successful comedy series ever made. Re-live the flares and wide collars with the On The Buses crew. 'On the Buses' is British comedy at its best. Starring Reg Varney as jack-the-lad bus driver Stan Bob Grant as his chirpy conductor Jack and Stephen I'll 'ave you Butler! Lewis as the long-suffering dim-witted Inspector Blake who does his best to get the buses out on time while making their lives as miserable as possible. Episode titles: Mum's Last Fling Radio Control Foggy Night The New Uniforms.

• Classic Cuts Collection - Funny Ladies | DVD | (26/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Bell Brook And Candle (Dir. Richard Quine): A New York Greenwich Village self-proclaimed witch puts spell on her neighbor's girlfriend in order to obtain his affection... His Girl Friday (Dir. Howard Hawks): This hilarious re-working of The Front Page by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur sees Grant as the savage editor and in a switch the reporter played by scheming Rosalind Russell. This version adds the twin lures of sex and romance. The film moves at whirlwind speed as Director Howard Hawks instructed his actors to overlap their lines so much so that at times everyone seems to be talking at once. Hawks also had his cast move at twice the normal speed so the screen looks frantic from scene to scene thus conveying the urgency of the news world he was depicting. It's undoubtedly Cary Grant's greatest comedic role proving once again the amazing versatility of this Hollywood legend. Pillow Talk (Dir. Michael Gordon): Day is an uptight interior decorator forced to share a party line with an amorous playboy who ties up the line with his exploits while she is trying to conduct business. When the two accidentally meet he's taken with her beauty and pretending to be a wealthy Texan begins to court her mercilessly. Though flattered by this stranger's attention it's not long before she discovers his true identity. Now it's her turn to have a little fun...at his expense! Bringing Up Baby (Dir. Howard Hawks): A dog belonging to an eccentric heiress (Hepburn) steals a dinosaur bone from David (Grant) an absent-minded Zoology professor. David follows the heiress to her home and all hell breaks loose when he loses his pet leopard known as 'Baby'. Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn give fantastic performances in one of Hollywood's finest screwball comedies superbly directed by Howard Hawks.

• Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 - Choral | DVD | (23/09/2002) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-1.59 (-8.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A performance of Beethoven's renowned symphony under the baton of Kurt Masur.

• The Demons | DVD | (20/06/2011) from £18.88   |  Saving you £-3.89 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The prolific and manic Jess Franco has directed well over 200 films. Some are dire the majority functional and a few are absolute classics of exploitation cinema. The Demons Franco's shameless cash in on Ken Russell's the Devils is a true Franco masterpiece featuring everything from torture lesbian sex and demonic possession. The film centres on a witch who is burned at the stake by the inquisition but who before the flames consume her manages to curse the principal witchfinder and his minions with dire results. What follows is a catalogue of depravity and sexual violence on a truly orgiastic scale while Franco's camera gleefully captures every perverse moment and gratuitous exposure of female flesh!

• Luther | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Rebel. Genius. Liberator. An all-star cast feature in this classic tale of a man who defined history. The film follows Martin Luther the 16th century priest who led the Christian Reformation and opened up new possibilities in exploration of faith. The film begins with his vow to become a monk and continues through his struggles to reconcile his desire for sanctification with his increasing abhorrence of the corruption and hypocrisy pervading the Church's hierarchy. He is ultimate

• Doris Day Collection - Series 1 - Vol. 5 | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Doris Day one of the greatest box-office names in motion picture history made her television debut in The Doris Day Show. This heart-warming comedy series originally ran for five successful years on CBS-TV from 1968-1973. Featuring Doris as Doris Martin a widowed mother who has left the city to raise her two young sons on the Mill Valley California farm of her father Buck (Denver Pyle from Dukes of Hazzard). Also amongst the motley crew is the hired hand Leroy B.

• Vegas In Space | DVD | (01/08/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Vegas in Space follows the futuristic fortunes of four male astronauts who on a secret mission to the Planet Clitoris are ordered by the Empress of Earth to swallow gender reversal pills and thus change thier sex turning themselves into mid-Twentieth Century show girls from Earth in order to infiltrate the glamorous Clitorean resort Vegas in Space.

• Wagner: Das Rheingold | Blu Ray | (02/09/2013) from £32.38   |  Saving you £-2.39 (-8.00%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The La Scala Rheingold in May 2010 inaugurated Guy Cassiers Ring- Cycle and introduces a completely new paradigm to this work. While before him Patrice Ch�reau had laid his focus on a historical analysis from 1870 to 1930 Germany, Guy Cassiers' Ring unfolds 'from our own present-day moment; it [takes] place in the now', the Jetztzeit (Walter Benjamin), placing our present and our future into the context of the promises and curses that we have inherited from history The Cassiers Ring shows how...

• Doris Day Collection - Series 1 - Vol. 1 | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Doris Day one of the greatest box-office names in motion picture history made her television debut in The Doris Day Show. This heart-warming comedy series originally ran for five successful years on CBS-TV from 1968-1973. Featuring Doris as Doris Martin a widowed mother who has left the city to raise her two young sons on the Mill Valley California farm of her father Buck (Denver Pyle from Dukes of Hazzard). Also amongst the motley crew is the hired hand Leroy B.

• The Doris Day Special | DVD | (05/02/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Film and recording superstar doris day stars in her first tv music special featuring a collection of her greatest hits (It's Magic' 'Sentimental Journey' 'Secret love') showtunes and other pop classics including the Beatles' 'Ob-la-di Ob-la-da' special guest Perry Como duets with Doris for a nostalgic medley including 'Everybody Loves A Lover' 'Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars' 'When You Were Sweet Sixteen' and 'Let Me Call You Sweetheart'. In addition Doris's motion picture partner Rock Hudson makes a special appearance! Track List: 1. Opening Medley 2. Hurry It's Lovely Up Here 3. You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby 4. Didn't We 5. Fashion Sequence 6. The Gypsy in My Soul 7. Them Was the Good Old Days 8. Doris Day & Perry Como Medley 9. You Oughta Be in Pictures 10. Rock Hudson Special Appearance 11. Both Sides Now 12. It's Magic 13. Sentimental Journey

• Aggravated Assault | DVD | (14/02/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  After a long stint doing time for a string of brutal crimes John leaves jail determined to get his life back on track. Taking a job in the local boxing gym he makes new friends and seems to be getting on the straight and narrow but his gangland past soon comes back to haunt him as violence spills on to his own doorstep... Aggravated Assault is a tough tense and all-too-real account of the shocking acts committed by gangs the speed at which events can escalate and the difficulty of maintaining integrity in a world fraught with danger.

• Richard Strauss: Salome (Arthaus: 108037) | Blu Ray | (31/01/2012) from £30.05   |  Saving you £-0.06 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Live aus dem Festspielhaus Baden-Baden

• Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina (Munich 2007) (Paata Burchuladze/ Anatoly Kotscherga/ Camilla Nylund/ Bayerisches Staatsorchester/ Dmitri Tcherniakov/ Kent Nagano) (Euroarts: 2072424) | Blu Ray | (17/09/2012) from £12.19   |  Saving you £17.80 (146.02%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Khovanshchina