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• Blazing Saddles 50th Anniversary Collector's Edition with Steelbook | Blu Ray | (18/11/2024) from £44.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A 'crazed grab bag of a movie that does everything to keep us laughing' (The Chicago Times). The classic Western satire is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a brand new 4K restoration and Collector's Edition featuring the film in 4K UHD and Blu-Ray, a Steelbook with new key art, theatrical poster and other premiums. Welcome to the Western only Mel Brooks could create. Voted #6 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs, this comedy classic stars Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder as a sheriff and sharpshooter defending a small town from villains Slim Pickens and Harvey Korman. Featuring a brilliant cast that includes Brooks and an Oscar®-nominated Madeline Kahn and loaded with one-liners, gags and cameos, this breakthrough parody still breaks the rules, breaks stereotypes and breaks wind, all in one sitting. See it again and laugh like it's the first time!All Artwork Subject To Change

• Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory (1971) | DVD | (04/07/2005) from £7.19   |  Saving you £6.80 (94.58%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Having proven itself as a favourite film of children around the world, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is every bit as entertaining now as it was when originally released in 1971. There's a timeless appeal to Roald Dahl's classic children's novel, which was playfully preserved in this charming musical, from the colourful carnival-like splendour of its production design to the infectious melody of the "Oompah-Loompah" songs that punctuate the story. Who can forget those diminutive Oompah-loompah workers who recite rhyming parental warnings ("Oompah-loompah, doopity do...") whenever some mischievous child has disobeyed Willy Wonka's orders to remain orderly? Oh, but we're getting ahead of ourselves ... it's really the story of the impoverished Charlie Bucket, who, along with four other kids and their parental guests, wins a coveted golden ticket to enter the fantastic realm of Wonka's mysterious confectionery. After the other kids have proven themselves to be irresponsible brats, it's Charlie who impresses Wonka and wins a reward beyond his wildest dreams. But before that, the tour of Wonka's factory provides a dazzling parade of delights, and with Gene Wilder giving a brilliant performance as the eccentric candyman, Wonka gains an edge of menace and madness that nicely counterbalances the movie's sentimental sweetness. It's that willingness to risk a darker tone--to show that even a wonderland like Wonka's can be a weird and dangerous place if you're a bad kid--that makes this an enduring family classic. --Jeff Shannon

• Blazing Saddles | DVD | (19/07/2004) from £6.45   |  Saving you £9.54 (147.91%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The railroad's got to run through the town of Rock Ridge. How do you drive out the townfolk in order to steal their land? Send in the toughest gang you've got...and name a new sheriff who'll last about 24 hours. But that's not really the plot of Blazing Saddles just the pretext. Once Mel Brooks' lunatic film many call his best gets started logic is lost in a blizzard of gags jokes quips puns howlers growlers and outrageous assaults upon good taste or any taste at all! Cleavo

• Young Frankenstein | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £8.25   |  Saving you £4.74 (57.45%)   |  RRP £12.99

  If you were to argue Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein ranks among the top-10 funniest movies of all time, nobody could reasonably dispute the claim. Spoofing classic horror in the way that Brooks' previous film Blazing Saddles sent up classic Westerns, the movie is both a loving tribute and a raucous, irreverent parody of Universal's classic horror films Frankenstein (1931) and Bride of Frankenstein (1935). Filming in glorious black and white, Brooks recreated the Frankenstein laboratory using the equipment from the original Frankenstein (courtesy of designer Kenneth Strickfaden), and this loving attention to physical and stylistic detail creates a solid foundation for non-stop comedy. The story, of course, involves Frederick Frankenstein (Gene Wilder) and his effort to resume experiments in re-animation pioneered by his late father. (He's got some help, since dad left behind a book titled How I Did It.) Assisting him is the hapless hunchback Igor (Marty Feldman) and the buxom but none-too-bright maiden Inga (Teri Garr), and when Frankenstein succeeds in creating his monster (Peter Boyle), the stage is set for an outrageous revision of the Frankenstein legend. With comedy highlights too numerous to mention, Brooks guides his brilliant cast (also including Cloris Leachman, Madeline Kahn, Kenneth Mars and Gene Hackman in a classic cameo role) through scene after scene of inspired hilarity. Indeed, Young Frankenstein is a charmed film, nothing less than a comedy classic, representing the finest work from everyone involved. Not one joke has lost its payoff, and none of the countless gags have lost their zany appeal. From a career that includes some of the best comedies ever made, this is the film for which Mel Brooks will be most fondly remembered. No video library should be without a copy of Young Frankenstein. And just remember--it's pronounced "Fronkensteen". --Jeff Shannon

• Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory | Blu Ray | (28/06/2021) from £19.97   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Rediscover the magic of Roald Dahl's family classic about the legendary Candy Man, Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder). This dazzling musical, filled with incredible chocolate waterfalls, Oompa-Loompas and industrial-sized confections, never fails to enchant both young and old. Special Features Delectable Documentary Pure Imagination: The Story of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory Mouth-Watering Commentary with the Wonka Kids 4 Scrumptious Sing-Along Songs Tasty Vintage Featurette Theatrical Trailer

• See No Evil, Hear No Evil | DVD | (11/09/2000) from £6.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (85.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  See No Evil, Hear No Evil is a comedy thriller about disability that teeters perpetually on the brink of execrable taste, but more often ends up being bland. Brash blind Wally (Richard Pryor) and mild-mannered, cute deaf Dave (Gene Wilder) form a working partnership based partly on mutual regard and partly on desperation. A man is killed at the counter of their cigar store and neither of them can quite account for their actions or identify the killer, Eve (Joan Severance). They find themselves arrested and subsequently on the run. Eve and her henchman--a surprisingly sinister Kevin Spacey--pursue them remorselessly, searching for a gold coin that is more and less than it appears. Mild sexual chemistry between Wilder and the villainess is perhaps one of the few elements here not entirely watered down from late-period Hitchcock. Playing disability for slapstick is perhaps not the most enlightened way to increase sympathy for the disabled: this is a crass film whose good intentions are more than usually fragile. On the DVD: the disc includes a rather smug featurette and filmographies of the two stars. --Roz Kaveney

• Haunted Honeymoon | DVD | (10/10/2022) from £11.89   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  What do you get when you combine three of Hollywood's most hysterical talents with a creaky old castle and a werewolf legend? An amiable, kinky blend of high jinks and horror that'll leave you howling with laughter! Starring Gene Wilder, Gilda Radner and Dom DeLuise, this ingenious, amusing horror comedy will put a smile on your face - and keep it there! At the mansion of his Great Aunt Kate (DeLuise), Larry Abbot (Wilder) is undergoing a psychological procedure designed to rid him of his irrational phobias...by frightening them right out of him! But the jolts and frights may turn out to be the least of his problems when Great Aunt Kate names him her sole heir. Suddenly, the entire family seems a little too vigorous in participating in his scare-apy , - leading Larry to believe that one of his jealous kin may be murderous...and that another may be werewolverous! Product Features Legendary laughs: slapstick memories of a comedy icon Eve Ferret interview (sylvia) Ruth Myers interview (costume designer)

• The Producers | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £8.63   |  Saving you £4.36 (50.52%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Low rent Broadway producer Max Bialystock (Zero Mostel) and his high-strung accountant Leo Bloom (Gene Wilder) discover that with the help of a few gullible investors they can make more money on a flop than on a hit! Armed with the worst show ever written (Springtime For Hitler) and an equally bizarre cast this double dealing duo is banking on disaster. But when their sure-to-offend musical becomes a smash hit they find themselves in the middle of a Broadway blitzkrieg! Winner of an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay Mel Brooks recently adapted his classic film as a Broadway musical and scooped a record-breaking 12 Tony awards.

• Danny, The Champion Of The World / The Witches / Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory | DVD | (12/07/2010) from £16.49   |  Saving you £13.50 (81.87%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory (Dir. Mel Stuart 1971): It's everybody's non-pollutionary anti-institutionary pro-confectionery factory of fun! Thirty-five years after this merry movie charmed audiences with a colourful mix of song humour and life lessons the Candy Man still wields magic especially now in a vibrant new print with a soundtrack in true stereo. From the classic Roald Dahl story comes a lip-smacking delight with jolly tunes among them 'The Candy Man' and 'Pure Imagination'. With a golden ticket young Charlie Bucket (Peter Ostrum) wins a tour of the factory of wily mogul Wonka (Gene Wilder) and run by his Oompa-Loompa crew. There Charlie his Grandpa Joe (Jack Albertson) and others discover a kind heart is a finer possession than a sweet tooth. Don't let the tour leave without you! Danny Champion Of The World (Dir. Gavin Millar 1989): In a small English town a widowed father and his son own and operate a gas station that rests on land coveted by a local developer. They must fight to keep their land and retain the traditional values they have come to live by against harsh government inspectors who are privately in league with the developer. The Witches (Dir. Nicolas Roeg 1990): Saving the world from witches is a tall order for a boy they've turned into a mouse! Luke a young boy recently orphaned is brought to England by his grandmother. At a hotel in which they are staying a group of witches have gathered to prepare a plot to rid the world of all children!

• Bonnie And Clyde | DVD | (01/06/2006) from £7.19   |  Saving you £6.80 (94.58%)   |  RRP £13.99

  One of the landmark films of the 1960s, Bonnie and Clyde changed the course of American cinema. Setting a milestone for screen violence that paved the way for Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, this exercise in mythologized biography should not be labelled as a bloodbath; as critic Pauline Kael wrote in her rave review, "it's the absence of sadism that throws the audience off balance". The film is more of a poetic ode to the Great Depression, starring the dream team of Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway as the titular antiheroes, who barrel across the South and Midwest robbing banks with Clyde's brother Buck (Gene Hackman), Buck's frantic wife Blanche (Estelle Parsons) and their faithful accomplice C W Moss (the inimitable Michael J. Pollard). Bonnie and Clyde is an unforgettable classic that has lost none of its power since the 1967 release. --Jeff Shannon

• Young Frankenstein | Blu Ray | (07/10/2013) from £10.75   |  Saving you £-0.76 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  If you were to argue Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein ranks among the top-10 funniest movies of all time, nobody could reasonably dispute the claim. Spoofing classic horror in the way that Brooks' previous film Blazing Saddles sent up classic Westerns, the movie is both a loving tribute and a raucous, irreverent parody of Universal's classic horror films Frankenstein (1931) and Bride of Frankenstein (1935). Filming in glorious black and white, Brooks recreated the Frankenstein laboratory using the equipment from the original Frankenstein (courtesy of designer Kenneth Strickfaden), and this loving attention to physical and stylistic detail creates a solid foundation for non-stop comedy. The story, of course, involves Frederick Frankenstein (Gene Wilder) and his effort to resume experiments in re-animation pioneered by his late father. (He's got some help, since dad left behind a book titled How I Did It.) Assisting him is the hapless hunchback Igor (Marty Feldman) and the buxom but none-too-bright maiden Inga (Teri Garr), and when Frankenstein succeeds in creating his monster (Peter Boyle), the stage is set for an outrageous revision of the Frankenstein legend. With comedy highlights too numerous to mention, Brooks guides his brilliant cast (also including Cloris Leachman, Madeline Kahn, Kenneth Mars and Gene Hackman in a classic cameo role) through scene after scene of inspired hilarity. Indeed, Young Frankenstein is a charmed film, nothing less than a comedy classic, representing the finest work from everyone involved. Not one joke has lost its payoff, and none of the countless gags have lost their zany appeal. From a career that includes some of the best comedies ever made, this is the film for which Mel Brooks will be most fondly remembered. No video library should be without a copy of Young Frankenstein. And just remember--it's pronounced "Fronkensteen". --Jeff Shannon

• Blazing Saddles Steelbook | Blu Ray | (27/01/2025) from £29.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A 'crazed grab bag of a movie that does everything to keep us laughing' (The Chicago Times). The classic Western satire is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a brand new 4K restoration. Welcome to the Western only Mel Brooks could create. Voted #6 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs, this comedy classic stars Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder as a sheriff and sharpshooter defending a small town from villains Slim Pickens and Harvey Korman. Featuring a brilliant cast that includes Brooks and an Oscar®-nominated Madeline Kahn and loaded with one-liners, gags and cameos, this breakthrough parody still breaks the rules, breaks stereotypes and breaks wind, all in one sitting. See it again and laugh like it's the first time!On-Disc Special Features4K: ¢ Scene Specific Commentary by Mel Brooks¢ Inappropriate Inspiration: The Blazing Saddles Effect - In the 50 years since it redefined cinematic comedy, the wickedly satirical Blazing Saddles has inspired generations of comedians, writers, actors and filmmakers. Some of today's most creative comic minds detail the film's brilliance and reveal how it continues to challenge and inspire them.¢ Blaze of Glory: Mel Brooks' Wild Wild West¢ Back In The Saddle¢ Additional ScenesBD: ¢ Blaze of Glory: Mel Brooks' Wild, Wild West¢ Additional Scenes¢ Commentary by Mel Brooks¢ Back in the Saddle Vintage Featurette¢ Black Bart: The 1975 Pilot Episode of the Proposed TV Series Spinoff¢ Theatrical Trailer

• The Frisco Kid | Blu Ray | (04/03/2024) from £13.81   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A KOSHER COWBOY WITHOUT A PRAYER - BUT WITH PLENTY OF LAUGHSIt's 1850, and new rabbi Avram Belinski sets out from Philadelphia toward San Francisco. Cowpoke bandit Tom Lillard hasn't seen in a rabbi before. But he knows when one needs help. And getting this tenderfoot to Frisco in one piece will cause rouble - with the law, Native Americans and a bunch of killers.Gene Wilder and Harrison Ford are one feisty team as rabbi and rescuer in this rough-'n'-ready romp that rivals Wilder's earlier Blazing Saddles in Wild West hilarity. Director Robert Aldrich is a seasoned hand at blending roughhouse and laughter, as fans of his earlier The Dirty Dozen and The Longest Yard will attest. With a full posse of screen talents, The Frisco Kid rides tall in the comedy saddle.

• Blazing Saddles - 40th Anniversary Edition | Blu Ray | (23/06/2014) from £8.75   |  Saving you £9.24 (105.60%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Welcome to the Western only Mel Brooks could create. Voted #6 on AFI’s 100 Years...100 Laughs this comedy classic stars Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder as a sheriff and sharpshooter defending a small town from villains Slim Pickens and Harvey Korman. Featuring a brilliant cast that includes Brooks and an Oscar®-nominated Madeline Kahn and loaded with one-liners gags and cameos this breakthrough parody still breaks the rules breaks stereotypes and breaks wind all in one sitting. See it again and be offended like it’s the first time!

• Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory | Blu Ray | (17/04/2019) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  It's everybody's non-pollutionary anti-institutionary pro-confectionery factory of fun! Thirty-five years after this merry movie charmed audiences with a colourful mix of song humour and life lessons the Candy Man still wields magic especially now in a vibrant new print with a soundtrack in true stereo. From the classic Roald Dahl story comes a lip-smacking delight with jolly tunes among them The Candy Man and Pure Imagination. With a golden ticket young Charlie Bucket (Peter Ostrum) wins a tour of the factory of wily mogul Wonka (Gene Wilder) and run by his Oompa-Loompa crew. There Charlie his Grandpa Joe (Jack Albertson) and others discover a kind heart is a finer possession than a sweet tooth. Don't let the tour leave without you!

• Willy Wonka / Charlie And The Chocolate Factory (Twin Pack) | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £9.45   |  Saving you £-1.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.49

  This box set features Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory starring Gene Wilder and Tim Burton's Charlie And The Chocolate Factory. Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory (Dir. Mel Stuart) (1971): From the classic Roald Dahl story comes a lip-smacking delight with jolly tunes among them The Candy Man and Pure Imagination. With a golden ticket young Charlie Bucket (Peter Ostrum) wins a tour of the factory of wily mogul Wonka (Gene Wilder) and run by his Oompa-Loompa crew. There Charlie his Grandpa Joe (Jack Albertson) and others discover a kind heart is a finer possession than a sweet tooth. Don't let the tour leave without you! Charlie And The Chocolate Factory (Dir. Tim Burton) (2005): Tim Burton brings his vividly imaginative style to the beloved Roald Dahl classic Charlie and the Chocolate Factory about eccentric candy-maker Willy Wonka (Johnny Depp) and Charlie Bucket (Freddie Highmore) a good-hearted boy from a poor family who lives in the shadow of Wonka's extraordinary factory. Long isolated from his own family Wonka launches a worldwide contest to select an heir to his candy empire. Five lucky children including Charlie draw Golden Tickets from Wonka chocolate bars and win a guided tour of the legendary candy-making facility that no outsider has seen in 15 years. Dazzled by one amazing sight after another Charlie is drawn into Wonka's fantastic world in this astonishing and enduring story.

• Blazing Saddles | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Mel Brooks scored his first commercial hit with this raucous Western spoof starring the late Cleavon Little as the newly hired (and conspicuously black) sheriff of Rock Ridge. Sheriff Bart teams up with deputy Jim (Gene Wilder) to foil the railroad-building scheme of the nefarious Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman). The simple plot is just an excuse for a steady stream of gags, many of them unabashedly tasteless, that Brooks and his wacky cast pull off with side-splitting success. The humour is so juvenile and crude that you just have to surrender to it; highlights abound, from Alex Karras as the ox-riding Mongo to Madeline Kahn's uproarious send-up of Marlene Dietrich as saloon songstress Lili Von Shtupp. Adding to the comedic excess is the infamous campfire scene involving a bunch of hungry cowboys, heaping servings of baked beans and, well, you get the idea. --Jeff Shannon

• Blazing Saddles | Blu Ray | (18/11/2024) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Welcome to the Western only Mel Brooks could create. Voted #6 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs, this comedy classic stars Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder as a sheriff and sharpshooter defending a small town from villains Slim Pickens and Harvey Korman. Featuring a brilliant cast that includes Brooks and an Oscar®-nominated Madeline Kahn and loaded with one-liners, gags and cameos, this breakthrough parody still breaks the rules, breaks stereotypes and breaks wind, all in one sitting. See it again and laugh like it's the first time! 4K: Scene Specific Commentary by Mel Brooks Inappropriate Inspiration: The Blazing Saddles Effect - In the 50 years since it redefined cinematic comedy, the wickedly satirical Blazing Saddles has inspired generations of comedians, writers, actors and filmmakers. Some of today's most creative comic minds detail the film's brilliance and reveal how it continues to challenge and inspire them. Blaze of Glory: Mel Brooks' Wild Wild West Back In The Saddle Additional Scenes

• The Producers Special Edition | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £10.55   |  Saving you £9.44 (89.48%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Low rent Broadway producer Max Bialystock (Zero Mostel) and his high-strung accountant Leo Bloom (Gene Wilder) discover that with the help of a few gullible investors they can make more money on a flop than on a hit! Armed with the worst show ever written (Springtime For Hitler) and an equally bizarre cast this double dealing duo is banking on disaster. But when their sure-to-offend musical becomes a smash hit they find themselves in the middle of a Broadway blitzkrieg! Winner of

• Pryor & Wilder, 1980-1991 (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (18/11/2024) from £34.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  STIR CRAZY (Sidney Poitier, 1980)SEE NO EVIL, HEAR NO EVIL (Arthur Hiller, 1989)ANOTHER YOU (Maurice Phillips, 1991)Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder were two of American cinema's best-loved comic actors, and this box set collects three of their classic collaborations.In Stir Crazy, Skip (Wilder) and Harry (Pryor) are sentenced to 125 years for a bank robbery they didn't commit and must rely on each other to survive in a maximum-security prison. In See No Evil, Hear No Evil, blind Wally (Pryor) and deaf Dave (Wilder) team up to foil a murderous gang of thieves. Finally, in Another You, compulsive liar George (Wilder) is mistaken for the heir to a fortune, to the delight of conman Eddie (Pryor).This essential three-disc collection features newly remastered versions of all three films, accompanied by an array of fascinating contextualising extras, including newly recorded commentaries, interviews, and critical appreciations, as well as a 100-page book containing new and archival writings. Strictly limited to 6,000 individually numbered units. INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION 3x BLU-RAY BOXSET SPECIAL FEATURES High Definition remasters of Stir Crazy, See No Evil, Hear No Evil and Another You Original mono audio on Stir Crazy Original stereo audio on See No Evil, Hear No Evil and Another You Audio commentaries on Stir Crazy and See No Evil, Hear No Evil with entertainment journalists Max Evry and Bryan Reesman (2024) Audio commentary on Another You with film historian Kim Newman and Empire magazine editor Nick de Semlyen (2024) Interview with Tom Scott (2024): the composer and actor talks about his work on the Stir Crazy score Interview with Stewart Copeland (2024): the composer and Police drummer recalls his work on the See No Evil, Hear No Evil score Michael Boyce Gillespie on Sidney Poitier (2024): the cinema studies professor discusses Poitier's directorial career and his relationship with Richard Pryor The Making of ˜See No Evil, Hear No Evil': archival promotional documentary Original theatrical trailers Image galleries: promotional and publicity materials New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Limited edition exclusive 100-page book with new essay by Jeff Billington, extracts from archival interviews with Pryor and Wilder, archival production reports on Stir Crazy, extracts from the films' pressbooks, an overview of contemporary critical responses, and full film credits UK premiere on Blu-ray Limited edition of 6,000 individually numbered units for the UK All extras subject to change