"Actor: Elaine Stewart"

• Brigadoon | DVD | (16/05/2005) from £9.69   |  Saving you £4.30 (44.38%)   |  RRP £13.99

  The highland village of Brigadoon normally remains invisible sleeping in the Scottish mists. But one day in every one hundred years the town magically materializes. And when that day of joyful celebration ends Brigadoon vanishes from the countryside and returns to its slumber. There's only one catch: no native can leave the village or it will disappear forever. A pair of American hunters stumble upon Brigadoon on the single day it's come to life and when one of them falls for a

• Night Passage | DVD | (04/06/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  When the local railroad becomes the constant target of a band of desperadoes led by the notorious Whitey Harbin (Dan Duryea) train officials recruit soft-spoken but life-hardened employee Grant McLaine (Stewart) to guard the payroll from any more robberies. Trouble is the gang's most skilled and lethal gun-slinger the Utica Kid (Audie Murphy) is Grant's kid brother. Torn between the bonds of blood and his allegiance to the railroad Grant finds himself hoping for the best but preparing for the worst as the train comes under attack from Harbin's bandits climaxing in an unforgettable gun battle as the brothers from opposite sides of the law meet again to settle an old score.

• Night Passage | DVD | (23/08/2004) from £7.44   |  Saving you £-2.45 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Thanks to ultracrisp Technirama photography of great mountainside and river gorge locations in Colorado, Night Passage is often terrific to look at; you can almost feel the autumn sun and brisk air. This should have been another classic Western pairing James Stewart with director Anthony Mann. But after choosing the locations, cast, and crew, and directing the precredit sequence, Mann abruptly resigned. He found Borden Chase's screenplay an "incoherent" rehash of relationships and setups from their previous films, nor was he encouraged by Stewart's determination to play the accordion and sing. Stewart's an ex-railroad cop who became a pariah by letting a prisoner--Audie Murphy's "The Utica Kid"--escape. The two cross paths again in a ghost town where Dan Duryea, doing a zany version of his loony outlaw from Winchester '73, has holed up with his gang. Replacement director James Neilson, a newcomer destined for bland Disney servitude, fosters a lot of flatfooted standing-around.

• Escort West | DVD | (20/04/2015) from £7.20   |  Saving you £5.79 (80.42%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Victor Mature and Reba Waters star in this 1950s Western set in the aftermath of the US Civil War. Ben Lassiter (Mature) is a former Confederate soldier travelling to Western America with his daughter Abbey (Waters) after the end of the Civil War. On their journey they encounter two sisters, Beth and Martha (Elaine Stewart and Faith Domergue) who are travelling along the same path. Even though she is engaged to another man, Beth falls for Ben and the two must overcome battle and opposition from all sides if they want to be together.

• Screwed | DVD | (02/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Screwedwas another nail in the coffin of former Saturday Night Livewisecracker Norm MacDonald, following his dismal previous film, Dirty Work. However, while Screwedisn't particularly funny (the jokes about dentures, dog poop and dead bodies are pretty much as old as the hills), the plot exerts a perverse interest; for most of the film, it's genuinely unpredictable. MacDonald plays Willard, the butler-chauffer, all-purpose flunky of Mrs. Crock, the wealthy, penny-pinching owner of a pastry company. Fed up with her abuse, Willard and his friend Rusty (David Chappelle from Blue Streak and 200 Cigarettes) conspire to kidnap her dog Muffin. But Muffin escapes and returns home; the ransom note is assumed to be for Willard himself. Rusty and Willard run with the idea, sending in a videotape of himself being held prisoner. When a detective starts getting a little too close, they panic and decide to fake Willard's death. Okay, none of it makes much sense, but in a world of ridiculously formulaic films which slavishly follow every screenwriting cliché Screwed seems like a brief oasis of narrative invention. Of course, it still isn't funny. And by the end, it's lost whatever spark of imagination that got it started. Too bad. It's written by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, the screenwriters responsible for Problem Child, but also for Ed Wood and The People vs Larry Flynt--they should stick to biographies. --Bret Fetzer, Amazon.com

• Screwed | DVD | (05/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Chauffeur Willard Fillmore (Norm MacDonald) is over-abused and under-appreciated by his boss from hell Miss Crock (Elaine Stritch). Desperate for a payback he enlists the help of his hotheaded best friend Rusty (Dave Chappell) and they decide to dognap Miss Crock's precious pooch and hold it for ransom. But when the dog escapes and Miss Crock thinks Willard's the one being held for a price they must get help from the creepy and crazy mortician Grover Cleaver (Danny DeVito) to cash in on the payoff. Now the three have triple the trouble and triple the fun as they try to get even without getting screwed!