"Actor: Graves"

• Whiplash - The Complete Series | DVD | (01/07/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  The only law a gun, the only shelter wild bush... In August 1851, the discovery of gold in Ballarat, Australia, sent shockwaves across the world. Hordes of adventurers flocked to the new land of the golden dream, encountering a harsh, frequently violent land. Despoiled by bushrangers, brutalised by the old convict system and torn by class conflicts, it took a certain kind of settler to rise to the challenges of the new country. Boston-born Christopher Cobb is one of those people. Seasoned with experience gained in the Californian gold rush, Chris's job is to find rights of way through the arid terrain of New South Wales, survey new lines of communication, and secure lucrative contracts for his expanding stagecoach business. He is a gentleman, yet no stranger to violence, and possesses an inherent hatred of injustice in any form - a trait that leads him into highly dangerous situations. In a land that has no sympathy for weaklings, Chris becomes whatever man he needs to be to. American actor Peter Graves (Mission: Impossible) brought his sun-bleached good looks to this joint venture between ATV/ ITC and the Australian Seven Network, with input from an American production crew and writers, Whiplash transposed the frontier drama of the classic western to the heat and dust of the bush and Cobb defended himself with a bullwhip rather than a pistol. First broadcast in the UK in 1960, Whiplash features fast-moving scripts, including several by future Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, and a memorably rousing theme composed by Edwin Astley and sung by international star Frank Ifield. This complete series is released here for the very first time.

• Parts - The Clonus Horror | DVD | (05/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Parts is the story of a man and a woman in love in a place full of lies deception death and danger. It is a story of a place called Clonus where nothing occurs by chance and everyone will die by the horror of freezing to be used later for their body parts. It is the story of the accidental love affair of Richard and Lena who are unwitting clones not people and of the doctors and guides and their lies and surveillance. But most of all it is the story of Richard who uncovers the truth and plots to escape. Parts is a film involving the realities of today's miracle science with the drama and shock of a horror thriller It is the story of what happens when science and nightmare merge.

• Intimate Relations | DVD | (08/03/2010) from £12.58   |  Saving you £3.41 (27.11%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Intimate Relations

• The Swap | DVD | (19/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Passion Deceit Blackmail. Robert DeNiro plays Sammy Nicoletti an adult film director who is murdered. His brother Vito vows to find the killer and avenge Sammy's death. When Vito is released from prison he begins his own investigation encountering deceit and blackmail. The final days of Sammy's life unfold from a party on long Island back to the big city. As Vito draws nearer to the truth his own life hangs precariously in the balance. This suspenseful drama comes crashi

• Roger Moore, A Matter of Class | DVD | (07/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Roger Moore, one of the most popular of actors, has travelled far... from working-class South London to the Riviera's glamorous St. Paul de Vence, from another contract player to The Saint and 007, from struggling film extra to Hollywood superstar, from unknown office boy to UNICEF's Ambassador-at-Large. Here is Roger Moore's own story, as told by the famous actor himself. This profile also includes the recollections of colleagues and friends like Gregory Peck, Michael Caine, Tony Curtis, C...

• Hammer House Of Mystery And Suspense - The Complete Collection | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  This fantastic box set features all 13 feature-length movies from the Hammer House Of Mystery And Suspense series of films. Featuring: 1.Czech Mate 2.The Sweet Scent Of Death 3.A Distant Scream 4.The Late Nancy Irving 5.In Possession 6.Black Carrion 7.Last Video And Testament 8.Mark Of The Devil 9.The Corvini Inheritance 10.Paint Me A Murder 11.Child's Play 12.And The Wall Came Tumbling Down 13.Tennis Court

• V For Vendetta | UMD | (31/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.99

• George King - Gaiety George | DVD | (24/08/2009) from £14.98   |  Saving you £-1.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Matinee idol Richard Greene stars in this spectacular musical romance based on the true-life story of London's first theatrical impresario George Edwardes. The dashing entrepreneur buys a run-down music hall in the capital and fills it with musical comedies much to the delight of his audiences. But after George marries a beautiful young chorus girl played by Ann Todd a vindictive theatre critic attempts to destroy his career...

• Get Christie Love | DVD | (12/02/2007) from £12.99   |  Saving you £-8.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Female detective Christie Love (Teresa Graves) goes undercover to try and obtain the ledger of gang boss Enzo Cortino (Paul Stevens) in this made for television film from 1974. The film's success prompted a teleivision series of the same name again starring Teresa Graves.

• Period Drama: The House Of Mirth, The Madness Of King George, Land Girls | DVD | (30/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  House Of MirthDirector Terence Davies' sumptuous adaptation of the Edith Wharton classic novel 'The House of Mirth' is a tragic love story set against a background of wealth and social hypocrisy in the turn of the century New York. The Madness Of King GeorgeIn 'The Madness of King George' George III (Nigel Hawthorne) begins to behave in an odd manner thirty years into his rule over England shouting obscenities at people spouting garbled rubbish and attacking his wife's young Mistress of the Robes Lady Pembroke (Amanda Donohoe). The Prince of Wales (Rupert Graves) is determined to see that his father is declared unfit to rule so he can become Regent and denies him access to those close to him. The Prime Minister is forced to intervene and sends his own doctor to help the King instead of the Prince's doctors and the King eventually begins to regain his sanity. Land GirlsIt's 1941. World War II continues to rage across Europe. The young men of England have been called to the front to fight. So back at home a new regiment is formed an army of England's young women who are dispatched across the countryside to pick up the slack known as 'The Land Girls'.

• Puccini | DVD | (18/01/2010) from £8.95   |  Saving you £5.04 (56.31%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Tony Palmer: Puccini

• Victory at Sea (six discs) | DVD | (21/10/2002) from £38.87   |  Saving you £1.12 (2.88%)   |  RRP £39.99

  A 26-episode World War II documentary from the American perspective, Victory at Sea is one of the most important series in the history of television. Made in 1952, the show was a huge success, winning many major awards and even spawning albums featuring the orchestral score by Richard--South Pacific--Rodgers. Produced with the full cooperation of the US Navy, each 26-minute programme consists of black and white wartime film edited to a narration by Leonard Graves. The two years leading up to America's entry into the war are dismissed in episode one, while the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour gets a show of its own, the raid depicted in a brilliantly edited montage which almost certainly contains "docu-drama" footage. Each episode contains at least one powerful stand-alone sequence in the tradition of Serge--Battleship Potemkin--Eisenstein, these action-suspense set-pieces giving the programmes an urgent, surprisingly modern feel. Indeed, the emphasis is at least as much on entertainment as information, the factual content delivered in poetic narration, the score transforming the war into a more than usually serious Hollywood adventure. The documentaries are nothing if not wide-ranging, covering parts of the land war despite the title, and including everything from the Atlantic convoys and U-boat "Wolfpacks", to war in Alaska, the South Atlantic, the Far East, the Pacific War and the Fall of Japan. There is an attempt to include other nations--certainly the D-Day episode acknowledges the British far more than Saving Private Ryan--but inevitably the focus is on America's war. The very dated narration gives a fascinating insight into how America saw WWII in the early 1950s, while the dynamic cutting and often genuinely remarkable wartime footage make Victory at Sea still gripping today. 20 years later, Granada's The World at War would become the definitive television WWII history but this release offers a unique opportunity to see a series of great importance from the very early days of television. On the DVD: The 26 episodes total approximately 11 and-a-half hours on six DVDs. The 4:3 picture varies depending on the different archive footage used but the image is always perfectly watchable and sometimes surprisingly good. The sound is mono and the music is sometimes distorted. Extras consist of reprinting the credits, an incredibly basic filmography and a gallery of 25 stills, presented without any supporting information and marred by a large Victory at Sea logo. These are the same on all six DVDs. Each disc also includes a few pages of disc-specific history, adding further detail to the events in each episode. --Gary S Dalkin

• Rag Tale | DVD | (09/10/2006) from £6.54   |  Saving you £-0.55 (-9.20%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Get a handle on the scandal. A contemporary urban satire set during a week in the life of a tabloid newspaper. The tyrannical tycoon chairman Richard Morton (Malcolm McDowell) and clever but desperate editor Eddy Taylor (Rupert Graves) battle for political supremacy in the boardroom using staff journalists as pawns in the power-games played out on the front pages of their paper. Set against the backdrop of the US election and the current celebrity culture Rag Tale gives a witty behind-the-scenes look at the tabloids.

• Cult Action Extravaganza | DVD | (21/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Cult Action Extravaganza three-disc set offers three very different movies that have nothing in common bar residency in Siren's film archive. They are: The Most Dangerous Game (1932), Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953) and Get Christie Love! (1974). The Most Dangerous Game is a classic, one of the first talkies to get pictures moving after five very static years following the birth of sound. The plot finds resourceful hero Joel McCrea and heroine Fay Wray being hunted on the island of the insane Zaroff (Leslie Banks). One of the grandfathers of the summer blockbuster, the film's setup has been reworked many times since, notably in John Woo's Hard Target (1993). By modern standards it's technically primitive, though still gripping stuff, complete with the jungle set built as a test run for King Kong (1933) and graced by Max Steiner's prototype of all Hollywood action scores. Beneath the 12-Mile Reef is another landmark or rather watermark. The third-ever CinemaScope production, this was a prestige release with Technicolor location filming at Key West, Florida of never-before-achieved underwater cinematography and four-channel stereo recording of a superlative Bernard Herrmann score. Even a still-impressive underwater battle with an octopus pre-dates the more famous giant squid of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954). The humans aren't bad either, with a young Robert Wagner making a charismatic if ethnically unconvincing Greek lead as sponge fisherman Tony and Terry Moore playing Juliet to his Romeo with real vivacity. Starring Theresa Graves, Get Christie Love! is a tame TV movie imitation of early 1970s female blaxploitation films such Pam Grier's Coffy (1973) and Foxy Brown (1974). Running a standard TVM 73 minutes and with a low budget and content sanitised to US network standards, this is lightweight stuff about an undercover cop determined to smash a drugs ring. Nevertheless the movie was popular enough to spawn a short-lived TV show and is significant for being the first time a black woman took the title role in any American network production. Tarantino completists may be interested, as before he paid homage to Christie Love in the dialogue of Reservoir Dogs (1991). On the DVD: Cult Action Extravaganza presents the films in their original aspect ratio and sound format; The Most Dangerous Game and Get Christie Love! are 4:3, mono. The former is faded b/w with reasonably sturdy sound, though the transfer suffers from compression artefacting. No one would expect great quality from a 1974 TV movie, but Get Christie Love! suffers from both a poor print and a mediocre DVD transfer. Beneath the 12-Mile Reef is presented in the extra wide 2.55:1 of early CinemaScope and though sadly not anamorphic both the seascapes and underwater cinematography are still impressive. The four-channel stereo sound is revelatory, clear, detailed and years ahead of what we have come to expect early 1950s films to sound like. --Gary S Dalkin

• Victory At Sea - Vol. 3 | DVD | (23/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A 26-episode World War II documentary from the American perspective, Victory at Sea is one of the most important series in the history of television. Made in 1952, the show was a huge success, winning many major awards and even spawning albums featuring the orchestral score by Richard--South Pacific--Rodgers. Produced with the full cooperation of the US Navy, each 26-minute programme consists of black and white wartime film edited to a narration by Leonard Graves. Each episode contains at least one powerful stand-alone sequence in the tradition of Serge--Battleship Potemkin--Eisenstein, these action-suspense set-pieces giving the programmes an urgent, surprisingly modern feel. Indeed, the emphasis is at least as much on entertainment as information, the factual content delivered in poetic narration, the score transforming the war into a more than usually serious Hollywood adventure. The documentaries are wide-ranging, including everything from the Atlantic convoys and U-boat "Wolfpacks", to war in Alaska, the South Atlantic, the Far East, the Pacific War and the Fall of Japan. The very dated narration gives a fascinating insight into how America saw WWII in the early 1950s, while the dynamic cutting and often genuinely remarkable wartime footage make Victory at Sea still gripping today. 20 years later Granada's The World at War would become the definitive television WWII history, but this release offers a unique opportunity to see a series of great importance from the very early days of television. --Gary S Dalkin

• Tauber - Waltz Time | DVD | (28/02/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  A charming joyous expertly crafted bon-bon of old Vienna full of fluffy cuddly girls of a bygone era gypsies romance gallantry and of course waltzing. The old guard views and waltz as immoral but at the end of the film it is adopted as the official court dance. Tauber is a shepherd and sings 'Break of Day' twice (mostly on camera). The others sing operetta-style arias and duets. Caressing violins punctuate the deft script.

• The Merchant Ivory Collection | DVD | (20/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £169.99

• Parts: The Clonus Horror | DVD | (30/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Somewhere in California is hidden a mysterious industrial complex. Apparently well known to certain privileged members of the inner circle of government this factory has only one product: human clones... Raised in a state of blissful ignorance both about their origins and their ultimate fate the clones dream of 'America' - where so their guardians tell them they will one day be sent. But what happens when one of these farmed clones starts to ask difficult questions...and comes looking for the real America? Peter Graves and Hollywood legend Keenan Wynn star in this dazzling political thriller that works equally well as a pulse-pounding horror film packed with moments of jaw dropping terror.

• Killers From Space | DVD | (23/05/2011) from £6.73   |  Saving you £-1.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Atomic scientust Doug Martin goes missing after his plane crashes on a reconnaissance mission following a nuclear test. He subsequently turns up at the base later and claims to have been revived by aliens but the authorities remain sceptical.

• Flatt And Scruggs - The Best Of Flatt And Scruggs TV Show Vol.5 | DVD | (14/04/2008) from £17.09   |  Saving you £-1.10 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Flatt & Scruggs are one of the two or three most respected and most popular bluegrass bands of all time. Along with Bill Monroe they propelled this great style into a widely successful and artistically praised musical format. They left a legacy of wonderful recordings made in the 1950s and 1960s on both Columbia and Mercury and were star attractions on the Grand Ole Opry for many years. Earl Scruggs together with Bill Monroe helped create the whole style of bluegrass. His highly influential new banjo style was the single most important factor in defining bluegrass and almost all other banjo players immediately jumped on his bandwagon as did almost all new players for the next 50 years! The performances in these DVDs showcase Flatt & Scruggs in their prime with their group the Foggy Mountain Boys playing many of their most famous songs as well as many other bluegrass classics.