"Actor: Elvis"

• Elvis -- That's The Way It Is | DVD | (30/01/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A concert documentary from 1970, Elvis: That's the Way it Is captures Elvis Presley midway through a fateful transition, seeking to reclaim his musical primacy after a decade of self-imposed exile from concert stages. Sidelined by his big-screen career, eclipsed by rock's mid-60s transformations, the King had begun his return two years earlier with the relatively lean attack of his fabled network television appearance, 68 Comeback Specia. Now the Memphis legend was poised to reposition his performing profile by pursuing the top rungs of headliner status in Las Vegas, a career choice that seems even more ephemeral in hindsight than it already did at the time. That's the Way it Is follows the show's genesis from rehearsal to stage, with the performance footage that provides its inevitable climax shot over six nights. The rehearsal footage, expanded for this special edition, offers further proof that Presley's band was simply superb: stripped of the orchestrations and lush choral arrangements that would be grafted onto the stage show, the sextet sounds both tough and nimble. In performance, we're treated to a mostly riveting glimpse of Presley in top vocal form, poised at the brink of bombast. This is Elvis before the onset of portentous Richard Strauss overtures, karate kicks and tossed scarves, kicking off the show with the classic "That's All Right". If he risks undercutting the punch of his early songs with self-deprecating clowning, he attacks two Ray Charles classics with gusto. --Sam Sutherland, Amazon.com

• Elvis 5 Movies Collection | DVD | (18/05/2020) from £28.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Tune in with the ˜King of Rock and Roll' with a curated collection of his finest movies. Includes performances of hit songs Wooden Heart , Shoppin Around , Little Egypt , Can't Help Falling In Love', Rock-A-Hula Baby , Bossa Nova Baby and Return To Sender . Lightweight fun and soundtracks to get you on your feet, there is no better gift for Elvis superfans. Collection Includes: G.I Blues Tulsa, a soldier with dreams of running his own nightclub, places a bet with his friend Dynamite that he can win the heart of an untouchable dancer...but when Dynamite is transferred, Tulsa must replace him in the bet. Blue Hawaii After arriving back in Hawaii from the Army, Chad Gates (Elvis Presley) defies his parents' wishes for him to work at the family business and instead goes to work as a tour guide at his girlfriend's agency. Girls! Girls! Girls! When he finds out his boss is retiring to Arizona, a sailor has to find a way to buy the Westwind, a boat that he and his father built. He is also caught between two women: insensitive club singer Robin and sweet Laurel. Roustabout After a singer loses his job at a coffee shop, he finds employment at a struggling carnival, but his attempted romance with a teenager leads to friction with her father. Fun in Acapulco A yacht owner's spoiled daughter gets Mike fired, but a boy helps him get a job as singer at Acapulco Hilton etc. He upsets the lifeguard by taking his girl and 3 daily work hours.

• Elvis Jukebox Movie Collection | DVD | (31/10/2005) from £79.99   |  Saving you £-25.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £54.99

  Roustabout (Dir. John Rich 1964): The year was 1964. The miniskirt is in. If you can't Watusi you can't dance. Cassius Clay (soon to be Muhammad Ali) claims the heavyweight crown. And Elvis is a karate-chopping biker who's hired as a carnival Roustabout. At first he just provides the muscle and a diversion for the beautiful carny girls. Then he picks up a guitar and gets the midway rockin'. Looks like this talented tough guy may be what the good-hearted owner (Barbara Stanwyc

• An American Icon | DVD | (22/03/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Track list DVD 1.Love me Tender - In concert 2.Introduction 3.Burning Love 4.I Got A Woman (Got a sweety) 5.That's All Right Mama 6.Something 7.Hound Dog 8.Baby What You Want Me To Do 9.You Gave Me A Mountain 10.Heartbreak Hotel 11.Blue Suede Shoes 12.Steamroller Blues 13.Love Me Tender 14.Lawdy Miss Clawdy 15.My Way 16.I Can't Stop Loving You 17.Are You Lonesome Tonight? 18.Love Me 19.Just Pretend 20.Medley: When My Blue Moon 21.Turns To Gold Again/ 22....

• Straight To Hell / Death And The Compass | DVD | (31/10/2005) from £25.63   |  Saving you £-5.64 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Straight To Hell:A team of inept hitmen (Sy Richardson Joe Strummer and Dick Rude) oversleep on the day of their big job and find their target has already fled town. Fearing reprisals from their boss (Jim Jarmusch) they pull a bank job and escape into the desert with Richardson's pregnant girlfriend (Courtney Love). When their car breaks down they seek shelter in a ghost town inhabited by the McMahons (The Pogues Biff Yeager) a murderous and incestuous clan of gun-crazy coffee addicts.Death And The Compass:In a totalitarian metropolis of the future Erik Lonnrot (Peter Boyle) a gifted detective investigates a series of strange murders and disappearances that seem to implicate the insane crime lord Red Scarlach. Enlisting the help of Alonso Zunz (Christopher Eccleston) a principled journalist Lonnrot believes that he has uncovered a labyrinthine occult conspiracy. However has the investigator's brilliance merely precipitated his own destruction?

• It Happened at the World's Fair | Blu Ray | (08/05/2023) from £16.15   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Fun, music and Elvis all happen in this romp boasting one of the best backdrops of any Elvis Presley movie: the 1962 Seattle World's Fair, with its showpiece Space Needle, monorail and more. The King of Rock 'n' roll plays pilot-for-hire Mike, whose hope of starting his own flying business is grounded by the gambling of his copilot Danny (Gary Lockwood). The two hitch to Seattle, where Mike finds romance, Danny finds easy marks and both find problems prior to a Happy Ending . Kurt Russell, star of 1979's biopic Elvis, plays the child who wallops Mike in the shins. And among the 10 songs are I'm Falling in Love Tonight , Relax and the gold record One Broken Heart of Sale . Product Features Theatrical Trailer

• Blue Hawaii | Blu Ray | (14/11/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Paramount brings Elvis Presley's eye-popping 1961 Technicolor musical to Blu-ray™. Ex-G.I. Chadwick Chad Gates is coming home to Hawaii. Though his mother (Angela Lansbury) expects him to take over the family business, Chad would rather wear an aloha shirt than a white collar. When he goes to work as a tour guide at his girlfriend's agency, it isn't long before a group of amorous gals fights for his attention. The first of three Elvis movies shot in Hawaii, the film's GRAMMY-nominated album totalled 20 weeks at #1 on the Billboard 200. Product FeaturesCommentary By Historian James L. Neibaur Blue Hawaii Photo Scrapbook Original Theatrical Trailer

• Viva Las Vegas Film & Soundtrack | Blu Ray | (20/06/2022) from £18.89   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Elvis Presley Signature Collection | DVD | (26/09/2011) from £22.99   |  Saving you £17.00 (73.95%)   |  RRP £39.99

  6-Disc 6-Film Set includes: Viva Las Vegas - Elvis Presley and vivacious Ann-Margaret sizzle in this dazzling funfest that's brimming with high-voltage musical numbers roaring race cars and glittery Vegas action. Jailhouse Rock- In one of his best-loved films Elvis Presley stars as a small-time convict who uses his time in prison to practice music then goes on to become a big-time performer. Co-stars Judy Tyler and Dean Jones. Spinout- Elvis Presley is at the wheel and headed for a romantic Spinout.

• King Creole | DVD | (18/03/2002) from £5.06   |  Saving you £7.93 (156.72%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Before his handlers persuaded him to settle for the safety of a screen franchise, the young Elvis Presley had weightier ambitions as an actor. The 1958 King Creole, his fourth feature outing, hints at the underlying seriousness of his goals. Presley plays Danny Fisher, a New Orleans teenager struggling to graduate from high school while working in a sleazy French Quarter club to support his family. He's also characterised as a troubled youth with a dangerous temper and feelings of shame and resentment toward his meek, unemployed father (Dean Jagger). When Danny's gift for singing provides him with a potential career break (and the requisite excuse for Elvis's production numbers), his involvement with a ruthless gangster (Walter Matthau) and his sultry, alcoholic moll (Carolyn Jones) threatens both his future and his family. King Creole boasts an impressive production pedigree (including producer Hal Wallis and director Michael Curtiz, the team behind Casablanca) and the supporting cast helps elicit one of Presley's most emotional performances. Jones in particular overrides the inherent clichés of her role: her self-loathing and sexuality are both palpable. Presley--still a few years away from the more sanitised image that would be integral to those franchise features--is young enough to be a credible teen, but more crucially he makes his rage and yearning largely convincing. --Sam Sutherland

• Elvis - Loving You | DVD | (02/06/2003) from £10.79   |  Saving you £1.20 (11.12%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Digitally re-mastered for superior sound and picture quality Lovin’ You is a genuine Elvis classic and an absolute “must have” for any true fan of the undisputed King of Rock’n’Roll from the days when he was lean mean and magnificent and had a hip wiggle that drove the girls crazy. Only Presley’s second ever feature film and his first in colour this rocking romance uncannily mirrors Elvis’s own explosion onto the music scene and rocket ride to fame and fortune. His raw animal prescence leaps sensationally from the screen in the all-singing all-dancing story of a humble delivery boy turned rock’n’roll star Deke Rivers – featuring the hit songs Teddy Bear Got A Lot Of Lovin’ To Do Hot Dog Mean Woman Blues Party and of course the tender ballad Lovin’ You. First released in the cinema in 1957 the movie showed Elvis had genuine acting talent with his gritty and emotional portrayal of a simple country boy catapulted to stardom. Interestingly two versions of the title song were recorded for the film and although two versions are on the Complete Fifties Masters both are shorter than the 2 minutes 12 seconds on-screen version here!

• Elvis on tour | Blu Ray | (24/08/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Paul Weller - Live - Route Of Kings / Later... With Jools Holland | DVD | (02/12/2002) from £13.50   |  Saving you £-7.51 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Paul Weller Live At Hyde Park Tracklist: Introduction Sunflower Bull Rush Magic Bus Friday Street Hung Up A Bullet For Everyone Whirlpools’ End Leafy Mysteries Up In Suze’s Room All Good Books Can You Heal Us (Holy Man) This Is No Time Foot Of The Mountain Broken Stones Picking Up Sticks You Do Something To Me Stanley Road Out Of The Sinking Peacock Suit Into Tomorrow The Changingman Standing Out In The Universe Wild Wood Call Me No. 5 Woodc

• Elvis Presley - '68 Comeback Special | DVD | (14/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Elvis Presley: '68 Comeback Special

• Clambake | DVD | (15/09/2003) from £8.71   |  Saving you £4.28 (49.14%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Elvis Presley sizzles as a lovelorn million-heir in this riveting and romantic rock 'n' roll romp. Vying for the attentions of the lovely Shelley Fabares Elvis finds himself caught up in a rivalry with playboy Bill Bixby against a tuneful background of comedy romance and speedboat racing! Clambake is pleasing escape entertainment and the wildest party to hit the beach since they invented the beach ball! It's a hip version of The Prince and the Pauper as Elvis relinquishes his oil

• Girls, Girls, Girls | DVD | (23/06/2003) from £7.30   |  Saving you £8.69 (119.04%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Ross Carpenter a fishing guide/sailor who loves his life out on the sea finds out his boss is retiring to Arizona and has to find a way to buy the Westwind a boat that he and his father built.

• Blue Hawaii 4K UHD | Blu Ray | (14/11/2022) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Paramount brings Elvis Presley's eye-popping 1961 Technicolor musical to 4K Ultra HD™ with HDR-10 and Dolby Vision. Ex-G.I. Chadwick Chad Gates is coming home to Hawaii. Though his mother (Angela Lansbury) expects him to take over the family business, Chad would rather wear an aloha shirt than a white collar. When he goes to work as a tour guide at his girlfriend's agency, it isn't long before a group of amorous gals fights for his attention. The first of three Elvis movies shot in Hawaii, the film's GRAMMY-nominated album totalled 20 weeks at #1 on the Billboard 200. Product Features Disc 1: 4K Ultra HD Feature Film Disc 2: Blu-Ray Feature film and special effects Commentary By Historian James L. Neibaur Blue Hawaii Photo Scrapbook Original Theatrical Trailer

• Elvis Presley - Aloha From Hawaii | DVD | (12/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £27.99

  Elvis Presley's performing career, punctuated by its extra-musical achievement as the first global satellite broadcast devoted to a single entertainer. Both the broadcast and its companion album captured the King in his most grandiose persona, fuelled by Hollywood scale and Vegas glitz, as a caped pop superhero.He may have looked trim, but posthumous accounts (especially Peter Guralnick's Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley, the second volume in his definitive biography) confirm what a second look suggests--on this evening, Elvis was alternately overwhelmed and distracted, bravura renditions of signature songs (most triumphantly, the "American Trilogy" medley originated by Mickey Newbury) offset by less-focused readings. Fans may still savour a generous and diverse song list, but viewed beside Presley's earlier, more consistent performances (including a rehearsal the previous night, since released as The Alternate Aloha Concert), this legendary concert anticipates Presley's imminent decline.In this remastered version, three songs have been deleted due to music clearance issues, while four songs taped after the actual show have been inserted. A fifth bonus track, "No More," makes its first appearance on video. --Sam Sutherland

• Clockers | DVD | (04/04/2005) from £3.79   |  Saving you £12.20 (321.90%)   |  RRP £15.99

  When there's murder on the streets everyone is a suspect. A gritty realistic adaptation of Richard Price's best-selling novel director Spike Lee examines the violent world of urban drug dealing through the eyes of Strike (Mekhi Phifer) a 19-year-old ""clocker "" short for round-the-clock pusher. Strike agrees to kill a fellow employee of his boss Rodney Little (Delroy Lindo) an influential popular drug lord. But when the hit goes down it is Strike's moral law-abiding brother V

• Elvis Presley - Elvis 56 | DVD | (16/10/1998) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  This 1987 documentary is distinguished by both its smart narrative premise and wonderful performance footage of Elvis Presley at the dawn of his remarkable career. With the King's melodramatic life already a familiar subject for film and print biographies, producer-directors Alan and Susan Raymond instead shaped this hour-long profile around the year that saw the charismatic Memphis singer's eruption as a pop sensation. By taking that selective path, and focusing tightly on Presley's crucial transition to a major record deal, national media exposure and the first decisive steps in his subsequent movie career, Elvis '56 achieves a unique cohesion while legitimately celebrating a remarkable period of growth.With the Band's Levon Helm narrating in his salty Arkansas drawl, the story effectively conveys Elvis' Southern perspective, while evocative use of Alfred Wertheimer's celebrated black-and-white still portraits sustains a visual style carrying over to the programme's real high points: early stage and television appearances by Presley and his original trio, later augmented into a quartet. Among the highlights are historic slots on Milton Berle's and Steve Allen's variety shows: we see the joyous physicality that made the Berle performance a topic of outrage (and, of course, a swoon-worthy moment for female fans), as well as Allen's glib solution to censors' worries, forcing a static, tail-coated Presley to sing "Hound Dog" to a basset hound. --Sam Sutherland