"Actor: Ed Sullivan"

• Carry On Teacher | DVD | (27/08/2001) from £6.66   |  Saving you £10.33 (155.11%)   |  RRP £16.99

  When Carry On Teacher was released in 1959, the series was still in its infancy but all the familiar constituent parts were already in place. Innuendo, naturally, reigns supreme and on the brink of the permissive 1960s it's surprising what Peter Rodgers and the gang were able to get away with. "Are you satisfied with your equipment, Miss Allcock?", child psychologist Leslie Phillips asks gym mistress Joan Sims. Naturally, it isn't five minutes before Miss Allcock's shorts have split, leading to a series of pants gags. And we're off. For Carry On fans, Teacher contains many of the funniest lines and certainly some of the best performances from the whole series. Kenneth Williams is still acting rather than giving his mannerisms a good work out. Hattie Jacques is establishing her gorgon-with-a-soft-centre-for-the-right-man persona and Charles Hawtrey's birdlike twitching makes him ideal as the precious music teacher. A youthful Carol White and Richard O'Sullivan are among the scheming pupils. But you don't have to be a diehard Carry On fan to appreciate the boisterous, sub-St Trinians comedy. And thanks to Ted Ray's poignant acting as the headmaster, there's a real moment of Mr Chips-style bathos at the very end. On the DVD: Carry On Teacher doesn't gain much from being presented in widescreen. Much of its appeal lies in its familiarity. All we ask for is a clear print--and in black and white this is diamond sharp--and decent sound quality. The whole thing fits like a comfortable old shoe. But apart from the scene index there are no extras on the disc. Given the cult status of the Carry On films, and the wealth of documentary material which has been made about them and their stars, you'd think something extra could have been offered with the DVD releases to make them a more worthwhile alternative to the video. --Piers Ford

• Ed Sullivan's Rock 'N' Roll Classics - Rockin' The Sixties | DVD | (31/10/2005) from £13.70   |  Saving you £-6.71 (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  For 23 years Ed Sullivan hosted an American institution ""The Ed Sullivan Show"". Every Sunday at 8 o'clock Americans turned on their televisions to watch his live variety show not only hoping to catch a glimpse of the established stars of popular music but also to discover new trends and up and coming stars. One thing that could be counted on was you'd witness legendary performances that would be riveting to watch and exhilarating to hear. San Fransisco Scene: 1. Crown Of

• The War Zone | DVD | (29/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Tim Roth makes his feature film directorial debut with The War Zone, starring Tilda Swinton and Ray Winstone.

• The Secret Life of Us : Series 1, Part 1 | DVD | (27/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The Secret Life of Us follows eight twentysomethings sharing three apartments in a Melbourne residential block, and may well be Channel 4's best-kept secret. Buried in a mid-week late-night slot the show has nevertheless developed a cult following as an antipodean answer to This Life, though one mercifully free of amateurish shaky photography. This is actually a good-looking soap spiced with post-watershed language, sex, nudity and a refreshing dose of humour--think Sex and the City meets Coupling, or Dawson's Creek goes to The Book Group. The show takes a while to get going, introducing too many characters too quickly in disorientating fashion, but becomes engrossing entertainment filled with realistically young, aimless and confused, if not very likeable characters. Central to the show is Alex (Claudia Karvan, soon to become much more famous in Star Wars: Episode III) giving a strong performance as an emotional insecure doctor who sets things rolling by having a fling with her best friend's boyfriend. Samuel Johnson meanwhile is the highly sexed struggling novelist whose work in progress, the titular Secret Life of Us offers commentary on the ever more tangled web of romance, deception and friendship. It's Australian drama for those who have outgrown Melbourne's Neighbours. On the DVD: The Secret Life of Us comes to DVD in an anamorphically enhanced 16:9 transfer which looks fine, showing just a little graininess in the darker scenes. The sound is Dolby Prologic and is more than adequate given the small-scale, intimate nature of the production. There are optional subtitles. --Gary S Dalkin

• Dead Zone / Firestarter | DVD | (20/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Dead Zone: Christopher Walken stars as high school teacher Johnny Smith a car crash victim who emerges from a 5 year coma with the ability to see into people's future. Consequently this extra sensory perception enables Johnny to avert several potential disasters and earns him a degree of local celebrity. After his 5 missing years however Johnny has lost both his job and his fiance and he longs for his former existence minus his new 'gift'. That is until he meets with local politicians and would-be Presidential candidate Greg Still son (Martin Sheen) and sees future-events of genuinely cataclysmic proportions. It is only then that Johnny must come to terms with his powers his conscience and his destiny... Firestarter: Firestarter the best-seller by top writer Stephen King came blazing to the screen in a million saga produced by Dino De Laurentiis. Eight year-old Drew Barrymore who won America's heart in E.T.-The Extra-Terrestrial stars as the child who has the amazing ability to start fires with just a glance. But can this power and the love of her father save her from the sinister government agency.. 'The Shop'? The top-notch story an all-star cast that includes George C. Scott Martin Sheen Louise Fletcher Art Carney David Keith and Heather Locklear plus amazing special effects and stunts from the masters who worked on Star Wars E.T.-The Extra-Terrestrial and Raiders Of The Lost Ark make Firestarter the classic 80s horror movie.

• My Sister's Keeper | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  'My Sister's Keeper' is a startling portrayal of one woman's fight for survival against all the odds. Set in Appalachia in 1943 the film depicts Maggie's three day deadly struggle with her husband's killer. Maggie found her husband's body beaten and bloody hanging in the smokehouse. With no help to hand she returns home to avoid the vicious pack of wild dogs that roam around killing at their own will. Tension and danger mount as a stranger appears and Maggie submits to being raped

• Madman | Blu Ray | (10/07/2017) from £22.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE ALONE. Gather around the campfire, and hearthe tale of Madman Marz an ill-tempered farmer who, one dark night, chopped up his wife and two children into pieces. When the locals learned of his heinous crimes, they exacted revenge sinking an axe into his head and hanging him from a nearby tree. But the next day, Marz s body was gone... Thus the camp counsellor finishes his tale, closing with the warning never to say Marz s name above a whisper, lest the hideously-deformed farmer comes looking for them. Naturally, the first thing that one of the young campers does is calls out Marz s name precipitating a terrifying night of murder, mayhem and sexy Jacuzzi vignettes! Inspired by the same Cropsey urban legend which informed 1981 s The Burning and starring Dawn of the Dead s Gaylen Ross (appearing under the pseudonym Alexis Dubin ), Madman stands as one of the finest offerings from the golden age of hack n slash.

• Western Classics Collection | DVD | (22/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  A collection of 7 classic westerns! Broken Arrow: By 1870 there has been ten years of a cruel war between settlers and Cochise's Apache Indians. Tom Jeffords an ex-soldier saves the life of a young Apache boy and starts to reassess his opinions of the Indians. As an ambassador of goodwill he enters Cochise's stronghold but is peace achievable? (Dir. Delmer Daves 1950 Cert. PG) Broken Lance: Tyrannical cattle baron Matt Devereaux (Spencer Tracy) has raised his ol

• Ed Sullivan's Rock 'N' Roll Classics - Chart Toppers 1965/66/67 | DVD | (28/06/2004) from £14.98   |  Saving you £-7.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  For 23 years Ed Sullivan hosted an American institution ""The Ed Sullivan Show"". Every Sunday at 8 o'clock Americans turned on their televisions to watch his live variety show not only hoping to catch a glimpse of the established stars of popular music but also to discover new trends and up and coming stars. One thing that could be counted on was you'd witness legendary performances that would be riveting to watch and exhilarating to hear. This series of DVD releases captures the v

• Henry - Portrait Of A Serial Killer | DVD | (25/05/2001) from £13.59   |  Saving you £-3.60 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Most horror films exist in a fantasy movie-world safely removed from our existence, populated by zombie-like killers and psychopathic madmen. The power of Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer is its chilling placement in the mundane existence of everyday life. Michael Rooker plays Henry not as a raving psychopath but as the frumpy guy next door, a drifter who takes out his frustrations on random victims and escalates his body count after teaming up with the violent ex-con Otis (Tom Towles). Though not exceedingly gory in light of the excesses of such fantasy horrors as the Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street series, director John McNaughton's straightforward presentation and documentary-like style creates a chilling realism that many viewers will find hard to watch. McNaughton neither comments on nor flinches at the brutal violence, which reaches its apex in a disturbing camcorder-eye view of a particularly sadistic murder of a middle-class couple, with Henry and Otis smiling through the deed as they record it for their continued pleasure. Henry straddles the line between True Crime (though fictional, the story was inspired by the confessions of real-life serial killer Henry Lee Lucas) and horror, a bleak, brutal kind of terror for a generation deadened by the escalating outrageousness of movie murders and nightly news crime scene clips. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com

• Ed Sullivan's Rock 'N' Roll Classics - Chart Toppers 1968/69/70 | DVD | (08/10/2007) from £11.98   |  Saving you £-0.99 (-9.00%)   |  RRP £10.99

  For 23 years Ed Sullivan hosted an American institution. Every Sunday at 8 o'clock Americans turned on their TV's to watch his live variety show not only hoping to catch a glimpse of the established stars of popular music but also to discover new trends and up and coming stars. Tracklisting: Gary Puckett & The Union Gap - Lady Willpower / Tommy James & The Shondells - Mony Mony / The Chambers Brothers - Time Has Come Today / The Beach Boys - Do It Again / Spanky & Our Gang - Lik

• Camp Blood | DVD | (17/06/2002) from £8.08   |  Saving you £-0.09 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  A slasher-horror film with enough campy humor to entertain most genre fans. Four friends go on a camping trip in the woods at a site the locals have dubbed Camp Blood. It isn't long before a maniac shows up donning a clown mask and ready for a killing spree.

• Madman | DVD | (25/02/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Considered by many to be an unsung slasher classic MADMAN follows the lives (and gruesome deaths) of six counselors working at the North Sea Cottages for Gifted Children during the chilly month of November. After hearing the tale of Madman Marz the local psycho who murdered his family and who will supposedly appear if his name is called loudly enough one unfortunate victim tempts fate by doing exactly that. Soon enough the inevitable happens and bloody axe-grinding mayhem ensues.

• Ed Sullivan's Rock 'N' Roll Classics - Love Songs | DVD | (13/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  For 23 years Ed Sullivan hosted an American institution. Every Sunday at 8 o'clock Americans turned on their TV's to watch his live variety show not only hoping to catch a glimpse of the established stars of popular music but also to discover new trends and up and coming stars. Tracklisting: The Mamas & The Papas - Dedicated To The One I Love / Little Anthony & The Imperials - Hurts So Bad / The Carpenters - Close To You / Smokey Robinson - Yesterday / The Beatles - From Me To Yo

• Madman | DVD | (10/07/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE ALONE. Gather around the campfire, and hearthe tale of Madman Marz an ill-tempered farmer who, one dark night, chopped up his wife and two children into pieces. When the locals learned of his heinous crimes, they exacted revenge sinking an axe into his head and hanging him from a nearby tree. But the next day, Marz s body was gone... Thus the camp counsellor finishes his tale, closing with the warning never to say Marz s name above a whisper, lest the hideously-deformed farmer comes looking for them. Naturally, the first thing that one of the young campers does is calls out Marz s name precipitating a terrifying night of murder, mayhem and sexy Jacuzzi vignettes! Inspired by the same Cropsey urban legend which informed 1981 s The Burning and starring Dawn of the Dead s Gaylen Ross (appearing under the pseudonym Alexis Dubin ), Madman stands as one of the finest offerings from the golden age of hack n slash.

• Doctor In Charge - Series 2 - Complete | DVD | (12/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The continuing misadventures of Duncan Waring (Robin Nedwell) Dick Stuart-Clark (Geoffrey Davies) and Paul Collier (George Layton) see them move further up the promotion ladder but no change in their fondness for slacking off and trying to chat up girls nor in their ability to drive Professor Loftus (Ernest Clark) round the bend. But there's more trouble for the boys in the form of brown-noser Lawrence Bingham (Richard O'Sullivan) who trots about after Loftus in the hope of crawling into the good books.

• Ed Sullivan's Rock 'N' Roll Classics - Legends Of Rock | DVD | (29/08/2005) from £14.56   |  Saving you £-7.57 (-108.30%)   |  RRP £6.99

  For 23 years Ed Sullivan hosted an American institution. Every Sunday at 8 o'clock Americans turned on their TV's to watch his live variety show not only hoping to catch a glimpse of the established stars of popular music but also to discover new trends and up and coming stars. Tracklisting: Elvis Presley - Don't Be Cruel / The Beatles - All My Loving / The Beach Boys - Wendy / The Doors - Light My Fire / Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son / James Brown - It's A Man's

• The Oh, God! Collection | Blu Ray | (24/08/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Jerky Boys | DVD | (08/03/2004) from £6.46   |  Saving you £8.53 (56.90%)   |  RRP £14.99

  When a former high school classmate brags about his mob connections the Jerky Boys -- a pair of thirtysomething slackers who pride themselves on devious prank phone calls -- decide to have a little fun in the mafia underworld. However when a cop mistakes the Jerky Boys for actual hit men their innocent game causes more trouble than they would've ever imagined.

• Ed Sullivan's Rock 'N' Roll Classics - Elvis Presley And Other Rock Greats | DVD | (19/02/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  For 23 years Ed Sullivan hosted an American institution: 'The Ed Sullivan Show'. Every Sunday at 8 o'clock Americans turned on their televisions to watch his live variety show not onl;y hoping to catch a glimpse of the established stars of popular music but also to discover new trends and up-and-coming stars. One thing that could be counted on was you'd witness legendary performances that would be riveting to watch and exhilarating to hear. Elvis Presley: 1. Don't Be Cruel