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• Sunset Boulevard 75th Anniversary Collectors Edition | Unknown | (04/08/2025) from £39.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Fame isn't foreverjust ask Norma Desmond. Once a Hollywood legend, now a forgotten relic. When struggling screenwriter Joe Gillis stumbles into her decaying mansion, he becomes trapped in her web of obsession and delusion. What starts as an opportunity soon spirals into something far more dangerous. Widely considered one of the greatest from the golden age of cinema, it's a dark, twisted, and haunting look at Hollywood's cycle where youth is currency, talent fleeting, and the spotlight always fades.This 75th anniversary collectors edition includes the following:4 x Collectible ˜Paramount' original Lobby cards˜Billy Wilder' Director/Trivia cardReproduction of ˜Norma's Note'Capacity wallet designed like the ˜Script'Collectible street sign2 x fold out posters6 x art cardsPhoto BookBlu-ray Special Features:Sunset Boulevard: The BeginningSunset Boulevard: A Look BackThe Noir Side of Sunset BoulevardSunset Boulevard Becomes a ClassicTwo Sides of Ms. SwansonThe City of Sunset BoulevardDeleted Scene The Paramount Don't Want Me BluesGalleriesAnd Much Much More!

• Sunset Boulevard | DVD | (07/04/2003) from £5.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (166.94%)   |  RRP £15.99

  More than half a century after its release in 1950, Sunset Boulevard is still the most pungently unflattering portrait of Hollywood ever committed to celluloid. Billy Wilder, unequalled at combining a literate, sulphurous script with taut direction, hits his target relentlessly. The humour--and the film is rich in this, Wilder's most abundant commodity--is black indeed. Sunset Boulevard is viciously and endlessly clever. William Holden's opportunistic scriptwriter Joe Gillis, whose sellout proves fatal, is from the top drawer of film noir. Gloria Swanson's monstrously deluded Norma Desmond, the benchmark for washed-up divas, transcends parody. And her literal descent down the staircase to madness is one of the all-time great silver-screen moments. Sunset Boulevard isn't without pathos, most notably in Erich von Stroheim's protective butler who wants only to shield his mistress from the stark truths that are massing against her. But its view of human beings at work in a ruthlessly cannibalistic industry is bleak indeed. Nobody, not even Nancy Olson's sparkily ambitious writer Betty Schaefer, is untainted. And neither are we, "those wonderful people out there in the dark". Norma might be ready for her close-up, but it's really Hollywood that's in the frame. No wonder Wilder incurred the charge of treachery from his peers. It's cinematic perfection. On the DVD: Sunset Boulevard lends itself effortlessly to a collector's edition of this quality. The film itself is presented in full-frame aspect ratio from an excellent print and the quality of the mono soundtrack is faultless: the silver screen comes to life in your living room. The extras are superb, including a commentary from film historian Ed Sikov and a making-of documentary which includes the memories of Nancy Olson. Interactive features such as the Hollywood location map add to the fun. --Piers Ford

• The Third Man | DVD | (25/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  This classic noir mystery from the team of Carol Reed and Graham Greene is regarded to be the best filmwork of both of these extreme talents. The Third Man features Joseph Cotten as Holly Martins a pulp novelist who has come to post-WWII Vienna with the promise of work from his friend Harry Lime (Orson Welles). When he finds that Lime has just been killed in a questionable car accident he decides to remain in the city to investigate his friend's mysterious death. The Third Man is a masterpiece of melancholia featuring extraordinary writing acting and directing as well as a classic zither score by Anton Karas.

• La Grande Illusion 75th Anniversary | DVD | (23/04/2012) from £8.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (122.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  During WWI, three French officers are captured. Captain De Boeldieu is an aristocrat while Lieutenant Marechal was a mechanic in civilian life. They meet other prisoners from various backgrounds, as Rosenthal, son of wealthy Jewish bankers. They are separated from Rosenthal before managing to escape. A few months later, they meet again in a fortress commanded by the aristocrat Van Rauffenstein. De Boeldieu strikes up a friendship with him but Marechal and Rosenthal still want to escape... One of the very first prison escape movies, La Grande Illusion is hailed as one of the greatest films ever made.

• Shark Water | DVD | (19/05/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  For filmmaker Rob Stewart, exploring sharks began as an underwater adventure. What it turned into was a beautiful and dangerous life journey into the balance of life on earth.

• Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete Story of Friday 13th | DVD | (09/06/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  For more than 30 years Friday The 13th has proven to be as unstoppable at the box office as its hockey-masked villain Jason Voorhees having spawned twelve feature films (and counting) a syndicated television series and an extensive line of books merchandise and collectables Friday The 13th has been anything but 'bad luck' generating nearly $600 million in US box office receipts and turning an unstoppable machete-wielding madman into a true pop-culture icon. Inspired by the critically acclaimed book Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday The 13th takes viewers behind the mask on an epic journey into the making of the landmark horror franchise - from its humble beginnings in 1980 at a New Jersey summer camp to the blockbuster releases of its 2009 'reboot'. Combining hundreds of rare and never seen before photographs film clips outtakes archival documents conceptual art and behind-the-scenes-footage and featuring interviews with more than 150 cast and crew members spanning all twelve films and the TV series Crystal Lake Memories is the ultimate tribute to one of horror's most iconic and enduring franchises.

• La Grande Illusion | Blu Ray | (25/01/2021) from £14.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  One of the most acclaimed films of all time, and a powerful anti-war statement, Jean Renoir's profoundly humanist La Grande Illusion remains as vibrant, exciting, and wise today as it was when it was released in 1937. Set in the German prison camps of WWI, the film stars Jean Gabin as Maréchal, and Marcel Dalio as Rosenthal. Like the charming aristocrat Captain de Boeldieu (Pierre Fresnay), these two French aviators were shot down and now spend most of their time escaping from German prison camps before inevitably being recaptured. Between escapes, they do what they can to amuse themselves, but after a tunnel they've dug is discovered, the three are sent to Wintersborn, a forbidding fortress of a prison commanded by former ace pilot Von Rauffenstein (Erich Von Stroheim). Von Rauffenstein cannot help but strike up a friendship with Captain de Boeldieu, a kindred spirit from the doomed nobility. Extras: Introduction by Jean Renoir The original negative of La Grande Illusion : An exceptional story Introduction by Professor Ginette Vincendeau Success and Controversy by Olivier Curchod John Truby talks about La Grande Illusion Trailer (1937) Trailer (1958)

• Nightwatch | DVD | (08/04/2002) from £6.12   |  Saving you £8.87 (144.93%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Ole Bornedal's thriller about a young law student who takes a job as a night watchman in a creepy morgue is long on style but comes up a little short on quality of storytelling. Bornedal sets things up in high style as Martin Bells (Ewan McGregor doing an American accent) makes his rounds in the middle of the night, with only corpses and his own paranoia for company. When bodies start coming in, the prostitute victims of a grisly serial killer, the imposing detective on the case (a hulking Nick Nolte) begins to suspect that Bells is the killer, as all clues start pointing to him. Coscripted by Steven Soderbergh (Out of Sight) and adapted from Bornedal's 1994 Danish thriller, Nightwatch forsakes out-and-out thrills for a more moody approach with flickering lights, menacing shadows and echoing footsteps down long hallways. If only there was a little more energy before the highly effective denouement, which does get scares, even after the killer is revealed. Still, McGregor is supported by a stronger than average cast: in addition to Nolte, Josh Brolin does an amusing turn as McGregor's out-of-control best friend, Patricia Arquette fares well in the standard girlfriend role and the always creepy Brad Dourif makes the most of a sinister and funny bit part as the on-call doctor. You won't jump out of your seat but by the end of Nightwatch you will find yourself remarkably tense. --Mark Englehart

• Unfaithful | DVD | (28/04/2003) from £6.98   |  Saving you £9.01 (129.08%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A middle-aged wife and mother has an unexpected and torrid affair with a handsome younger man. After her husbands discover they must face the consequences of their actions...

• The Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe | DVD | (18/06/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Includes all 13 episodes.

• Madam Secretary: Season 3 | DVD | (25/09/2017) from £10.98   |  Saving you £3.35 (41.93%)   |  RRP £11.34

  A political drama which looks into the life of the Secretary of State as she tries to balance work with family

• The Third Man | DVD | (14/01/2002) from £10.78   |  Saving you £8.21 (76.16%)   |  RRP £18.99

  The fractured Europe post-World War II is perfectly captured in Carol Reed's masterpiece thriller, set in a Vienna still shell-shocked from battle. Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten) is an alcoholic pulp writer come to visit his old friend Harry Lime (Orson Welles). But when Cotton first arrives in Vienna, Lime's funeral is under way. From Lime's girlfriend and an occupying British officer, Martins learns of allegations of Lime's involvement in racketeering, which Martins vows to clear from his friend's reputation. As he is drawn deeper into post-war intrigue, Martins finds layer upon layer of deception, which he desperately tries to sort out. Welles' long-delayed entrance in the film has become one of the hallmarks of modern cinematography and it is just one of dozens of cockeyed camera angles that seem to mirror the off-kilter post-war society. Cotten and Welles give career-making performances and the Anton Karas zither theme will haunt you. --Anne Hurley

• Sunset Boulevard | Blu Ray | (04/02/2013) from £6.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (185.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Intense, enthralling, and unforgettable, Sunset Boulevard stars Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, a faded silent-movie star, and William Holden as Joe Gillis, a down-on-his-luck screenwriter whom she enlists to help her make her triumphant return to the screen. Directed and co-written by acclaimed filmmaker Billy Wilder, this mesmerising Hollywood classic won three Academy Awards.

• Missing in Action | DVD | (18/09/2000) from £5.78   |  Saving you £7.21 (124.74%)   |  RRP £12.99

  American servicemen are still being held captive in Vietnam - and it's up to one man to bring them home in this blistering fast-paced action-adventure starring martial arts superstar Chuck Norris. Following a daring escape from a Vietnamese POW camp Special Forces Colonel James Braddock (Norris) is on a mission to locate and save remaining MIAs. Aided by a beautiful State Department official (Lenore Kasdorf) and a former Army buddy (M. Emmet Walsh) Braddock amasses top-secret in

• Madam Secretary Season 1-5 | DVD | (23/09/2019) from £42.43   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  State of CourageElizabeth McCord (Téa Leoni) has led many roles in life: wife, mother, Ph.D, and former CIA analyst, but as America's newest Secretary of State, she must master diplomacy at home and abroad with the help of her supportive husband, CIA Agent Henry (Tim Daly) and her teenage children. Using her sage counsel to advise President Conrad Dalton (Keith Carradine), even as she goes toe-to-toe with White House Chief of Staff Russell Jackson (Zeljko Ivanek), Elizabeth knows she can rely on her brilliant staff, spearheaded by seasoned State Department insider Nadine Tolliver (Bebe Neuwirth). Catch all the rising tension in this five-season collection, including historic appearances from former Secretaries of State Madeleine Albright, Hillary Clinton and Colin Powell, playing themselves. The personal and political collide in 110 gripping episodes, including revealing special features, on 29 discs.

• Sissi Trilogie - Purpurrot-Edition | DVD | (13/10/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Friday The 13th: Part 4 - The Final Chapter | DVD | (18/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The body count continues in this vivid thriller the fourth but not final story in the widely successful 'Friday The 13th' series. Jason Crystal Lake's least popular citizen returns to wreak further havoc in 'Friday The 13th Part 4: The Final Chapter'. After his revival in a hospital morgue the hockey-masked murderer fixes his vengeful attention on the Jarvis family and a group of hitherto carefree teenagers. Young Tommy Jarvis is an aficionado of horror films with special talent f

• I Was An Adventuress | DVD | (19/08/2013) from £3.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (225.56%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Posing as the fabulously glamorous Countess Tanya Vronsky, a poor young ballet dancer (Vera Zorina) and her twoaccomplices (Peter Lorre, Erich von Stroheim) are really a team of skilled con artists! They mingle with Europe's highsociety, always looking for the next wealthy victim to fleece with their fake jewellery scam...Then Tanya meets the dashing young Paul Vernay (Richard Greene). At first she wants to rob him. Then she decides shewants to marry him - and to leave her criminal past behind her. Her accomplices agree - but only if she'll join them inone last, big swindle...

• Dog Days | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £6.49   |  Saving you £13.50 (67.50%)   |  RRP £19.99

  If your idea of Austrians is of cheerful folk cavorting about mountains or relaxing in old-world coffee-shops, Dog Days will come as quite a shock. Set amid the residential streets and shopping precincts of a charmless, sterile southern suburb of Vienna, documentary-maker Ulrich Seidl's first feature revels in the ugliness, both physical and moral, of his characters. None of these are people you'd want to spend time with: in fact most of them you'd go several miles out of your way to avoid, which perhaps accounts for the strangely perverse fascination there is about watching them. Dog Days--it takes place, as you might guess, during a sticky, sweltering July heatwave that improves tempers not one bit--comes on rather like a low-rent version of Robert Altman's Short Cuts. We meet a dozen or so main characters, all of whom gradually come to impact on each other's lives in various ways. Among them, a girl with a psychotically jealous boyfriend; an elderly man who obsessively stockpiles groceries, first weighing them to check for the least hint of short measure; an estranged couple still sharing a house, where the wife entertains her lovers under her husband's morose gaze; a middle-aged schoolteacher whose abusive lover invites lowlifes to join in humiliating her; a no-hoper salesman of security systems; and the world's most excruciatingly irritating hitch-hiker. There's a dark humour at work here; after a while the sheer bleakness and collective vindictiveness become wincingly funny. Seidl's disenchanted view of his compatriots, and his contempt for their vaunted gemütlichkeit, is epitomised by his image of a man forced to sing the Austrian national anthem ("A nation blessed by its sense of beauty") stark naked with a lighted candle up his backside. To cap it all, he can't remember the words. --Philip Kemp

• Johann Strauss - Die Fledermaus - Karl Bohm/Wiener Philharmoniker | DVD | (05/11/2007) from £15.75   |  Saving you £1.24 (7.30%)   |  RRP £16.99

  This is Otto Schenk's quintessentially Viennese 1972 production of Strauss's masterpiece Die Fledermaus featuring a Viennese dream cast - Janowitz Wchter Windgassen Bhm and the Vienna Philharmonic. Tracklisting: 1. Overture 2. Nr.1 Introduktion: ""Tubchen das entflattert ist"" 3. ""Das ist er der Alfred!""/Nr. 1a ""Ach ich darf nicht hin zu dir"" 4. ""So ein Pillerl beruhigt enorm"" 5. Nr.2 Terzett: ""Nein mit solchen Advokaten"" 6. ""Also den sind wir los"" 7. Nr.3 Duett: ""Komm mit mir zum Souper"" 8. ""Was ist denn das?"" 9. Nr.4 Terzett: ""So muss allein ich bleiben"" 10. Na der wird sich fabelhaft im Arrest amsieren"" 11. Nr.5 Finale: ""Trinke Liebchen trinke schnell"" 12. ""Da kommt doch jemand?"" 13. ""Mein Herr was dchten Sie von mir"" 14. Mein schnes grosses Vogelhaus 15. Nr.6 Introduktion: ""Ein Souper heut uns winkt"" 16. ""Ida!"" - ""Adele!"" 17. Nr.7 Couplet: ""Ich lade gern mir Gste ein"" 18. ""Nasdrowje!"" 19. Nr.8 Ensemble und Couplet: ""Ach meine Herr'n und Damen"" 20. ""Mein Herr Marquis"" 21. ""Aber meine Herrschaften"" 22. Nr.9 Duett: ""Dieser Anstand so manierlich"" 23. ""Da ist sie ja die schne Unbekannte!"" 24. Nr.10 Csrds: ""Klnge der Heimat"" 25. ""Na bin ich eine echte Ungarin?"" 26. Nr.11 Finale: ""Im Feuerstrom der Reben"" 27. ""Herr Chevalier ich grsse Sie!"" 28. Brderlein und Schwesterlein 29. Polka ""Unter Donner und Blitz"" op.324 30. ""Genug damit genug"" 31. Dialog: Tubchen das entflattert ist 32. Nr. 13 ""Mongolen sagen immer"" 33. ""Was sagen Sie? - ""Sie besoffener Idiot!"" 34. Nr.14 Couplets: ""Spiel' ich die Unschuld vom Lande"" 35. ""Aber selbstverstndlich werd' ich Sie ausbilden lassen!"" 36. Nr.15 Terzett: ""Ich stehe voll Zagen"" 37. ""So du willst dich also rchen"" 38. Nr.16 Finale: ""O Fledermaus o Fledermaus""