"Actor: Harry"

• Dirty Harry | DVD | (21/01/2002) from £4.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (180.36%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Whether or not you can sympathise with its fascistic/vigilante approach to law enforcement, Dirty Harry (directed by star Clint Eastwood's longtime friend and directorial mentor, Don Siegel) is one hell of an American cop thriller. The movie makes evocative use of its San Francisco locations as cop Harry Callahan (Eastwood) tracks the elusive "Scorpio killer" who has been terrorising the city by the Bay. As the psychopath's trail grows hotter, Harry becomes increasingly impatient and intolerant of the frustrating obstacles (departmental red tape, individuals' civil rights) that he feels are keeping him from doing his job. A characteristically taut and tense piece of filmmaking from Siegel (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Shootist, Escape from Alcatraz), it also remains a fascinating slice of American pop culture. It was a big hit (followed by four sequels) that obviously reflected--or exploited--the almost obsessive or paranoid fears and frustrations many Americans felt about crime in the streets. At a time when "law and order" was a familiar slogan for political candidates, Harry Callahan may have represented neither, but from his point of view his job was simple: stop criminals. To him that end justified any means he deemed necessary. --Jim Emerson

• Friday The 13th | Blu Ray | (19/10/2009) from £8.69   |  Saving you £9.30 (107.02%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A group of fun-loving teenagers take jobs at a recently re-opened summer camp unaware of the circumstances that had led to its closure: the drowning of a young boy named Jason and subsequent murder of two counsellors over twenty years before. No sooner has the camp re-opened for business than the killing begins again as the teens are picked off one by one.

• New In Town | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £5.87   |  Saving you £14.12 (240.55%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Renee Zellweger stars as the career woman who embarks on the challenge of her life, only to discover the love of her life waiting for her there!

• Straight Story | DVD | (22/07/2019) from £12.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Alvin's eyesight is poor, he has little money and he can't stand the thought of being driven anywhere. So when he discovers his estranged brother has suffered a stroke he decides to make the journey by the only means of transport available to him . By lawn mower. Hundreds of miles, six weeks and several breakdowns later Alvin Straight finally pulls up to his destination, where the fate of his brother awaits him.

• Men Behaving Badly - Series 1 To 6 | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  From humble sitcom beginnings to the smash hit final series get all those hilarious adventures of Gary and Tony behaving badly!

• Dragnet | DVD | (14/04/2003) from £6.79   |  Saving you £4.46 (80.65%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A seemingly squeaky-clean TV reverend and a porno magazine king are suspected of operating a crime-ridden cult. Joe Fridays nephew and his hip partner are given the task of proving these allegations with just the facts...

• The Shootist | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £9.29   |  Saving you £10.70 (115.18%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The last film of John Wayne, The Shootist, could not have been more fitting, full of details that can't help but make one reflect upon his legacy in the movies and his life as a star. Wayne plays a career gunfighter in the autumn of his life, trying to hang up his pistols after he discovers he's dying of cancer. Boarding in the house of an attractive widow (Lauren Bacall) and her son (Ron Howard), Wayne's character opts for peace in his final days but is dogged by his reputation when a handful of killers seeks him out for a final fight. Howard is fine as a fatherless boy who needs the strong mentor the hero represents, and James Stewart--who costarred with Wayne in the great Man Who Shot Liberty Valance--plays the doctor who gives the big man the bad news. Don Siegel (Invasion of the Body Snatchers) thoughtfully directs a very special and sensitive production. --Tom Keogh

• Anne Rice's Mayfair Witches: Season 1 | DVD | (08/01/2024) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

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

  Batten down the hatches for unstoppable hilarity that takes 200 years of naval tradition...and throws it overboard! Veteran skipper John Dodge (Grammer) will never be a textbook officer but he's a brilliant seaman who's always wanted to command a nuclear submarine. Unfortunately Dodge is given the helm of a diesel powered WWII sub crewed by a collection of maladjusted and mistake-prone misfits. When he's tagged 'the enemy' in a crucial war game Dodge is ordered to take on the U.

• The Simpsons - Season 6 | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £33.80   |  Saving you £6.19 (18.31%)   |  RRP £39.99

  The complete sixth season of The Simpsons. Episodes Comprise: 1. Bart Of Darkness 2. Lisa's Rival 3. Another Simpson Clip Show 4. Itchy & Scratchyland 5. Sideshow Bob Roberts 6. Treehouse Of Horror V 7. Bart's Girlfriend 8. Lisa On Ice 9. Homer Badman 10. Grandpa vs. Sexual Inadequacy 11. Fear Of Flying 12. Homer The Great 13. And Maggie Makes Three 14. Bart's Comet 15. Homie The Clown 16. Bart vs. Australia 17. Homer vs. Patty And Selma 18. A Star Is Burns

• Royle Family The Finale | DVD | (30/10/2006) from £5.49   |  Saving you £10.50 (191.26%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Six years after the final Christmas special in 2000 Caroline Aherne and co return to the sofa for a one-off episode of The Royle Family.

• Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 3 | DVD | (06/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Sarah Michelle Gellar returns as the teen thrust into a supernatural world where she must become Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Buffy boasts a rabid fan base and has spawned a spin off Angel based on a troubled vampire played by David Boreanaz. This collection features all 22 episodes of the third season. Episodes Comprise: 1. Anne 2. Dead Man's Party 3. Faith Hope And Trick 4. Beauty And The Beasts 5. Homecoming 6. Band Candy 7. Revelations 8. Lover's Walk

• Steptoe And Son - Series 2 | DVD | (08/08/2005) from £4.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (160.32%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett play Albert and Harold rag-and-bone merchants in this comedy classic. Father and son are always arguing but the wily old man always comes out on top. In a house filled from top to bottom with junk the gruesome twosome get up to the most indescribable antics! This release features all 7 classic episodes from Series 2. Episodes comprise: 1. The Bath 2. Wallah-Wallah Catsmeat 3. The Stepmother 4. Sixty-Five Today 5. A Musical Evening 6. F

• Alexander The Great | DVD | (03/01/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Richard Burton stars in Alexander the Great, a middling entry in the 1950s CinemaScope epic cycle. The film boasts excellent production values and a fine cast--including Frederic March, Claire Bloom, Harry Andrews, Stanley Baker, Peter Cushing and Michael Hordern--but it rarely comes to life other than as a big fat ancient Greek wedding of the talents of Burton and Bloom. They strike real dramatic sparks together, so much so they would be reunited in Look Back in Anger (1958) and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965). The film's failures must be laid at the feet of writer, director and producer Robert Rossen, who never before or after helmed anything remotely on this scale; his best work would follow with the intimate The Hustler (1961). Rossen simply shows little sensibility for the epic, staging lavish but brief and rather pedestrian battles and somehow drawing from the usually mesmerising Burton a performance lacking the charisma essential to a great military commander. Burton fans can enjoy him at his epic best as Marc Anthony in Cleopatra (1963). On the DVD: Alexander the Great is presented anamorphically enhanced at 2.35:1, although the picture is still obviously cropped at either side of the screen throughout. The print is very variable, in places quite grainy and soft with some serious flickering blotchiness, but otherwise it has strong colours, detail and contrast. The sound is primitive stereo. The only extra is the theatrical trailer, effectively presented in anamorphic 2.35:1. --Gary S. Dalkin

• Last Kingdom Season 3 (DVD) | DVD | (28/01/2019) from £21.93   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Time is running out for King Alfred (David Dawson) to unite the kingdoms. With his health failing and the line of succession uncertain, Alfred looks to our hero Uhtred (Alexander Dreymon) to ensure his young son Edward (Timothy Innes) becomes the next king. Meanwhile, dark forces are moving outside the court and when a powerful Danish warlord Bloodhair (Ola Rapace) attacks, Uhtred must lead Wessex's forces into battle. Uhtred captures Bloodhair's mysterious lover, the savage sorceress Skade (Thea Sofie Loch Næss), who throws a curse and his world becomes blighted by tragedy. In this dangerous time of treachery and chaos, Uhtred is caught between enemies both Dane and Saxon and confronts a difficult choice if he deserts Alfred's cause, the future of the English people will be changed forever. Special Features: The Battles of The Last Kingdom Season 3

• The Blacklist Season 08 | DVD | (27/09/2021) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Following the startling revelation that Raymond Red Reddington (James Spader) isn't who he says he is, Elizabeth Keen (Megan Boone) is torn between the relationship she's developed with the man claiming to be her father and her desire to get to the bottom of years of secrets and lies. Meanwhile, Red leads Liz and the FBI to the most strange and dangerous criminals yet, growing his empire and eliminating rivals in the process. All throughout, Liz and Red engage in an uneasy cat-and-mouse game in which lines will be crossed and the truth will be revealed.

• Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas | DVD | (05/09/2005) from £4.67   |  Saving you £12.58 (368.92%)   |  RRP £15.99

  ""We were somewhere around Barstow when the drugs began to take hold."" It is 1971: journalist Raoul Duke barrels towards Las Vegas to cover a motorcycle race accompanied by a trunkful of contraband and his slightly unhinged Samoan attorney Dr. Gonzo. But what is ostensibly a cut-and-dry journalistic endeavor quickly descends into a feverish psychedelic odyssey and an excoriating dissection of the American way of life. Director Terry Gilliam and an all star cast (headed by

• Bandolero! | DVD | (04/07/2005) from £16.00   |  Saving you £-3.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  It's a Wild West clash of personalities in Val Verde Texas for the warring Bishop brothers (Dean Martin and James Stewart) who must now join forces to escape a death sentence. Featuring an all-star cast including Raquel Welch and George Kennedy and exploding with action Bandolero! packs a smoking six-gun wallop from its first tense show-down to its last exciting shootout.

• The Missouri Breaks | DVD | (05/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Montana Badlands rancher David Braxton is a self-made man. Through years of tireless effort and determination he has transformed his vast and rugged land into a thriving prosperous empire. So when his livestock his fortune are threatened by a ruthless horse thief Braxton takes matters into his own hands. Hiring a sadistic 'regulator' to track down the outlaw Braxton intends to liberate the territory from crime but what he initiates instead is a complex series of events that re

• Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939) | DVD | (01/10/2018) from £7.55   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Mr Smith Goes To Washington (1939). Import from The Netherlands with English soundtrack and subtitles. Jean Arthur, James Stewart and Claude Rains star in Frank Capra's MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON, the award-winning 1939 classic about an idealistic, small town American senator who heads to Washington D.C. and suddenly finds himself single-handedly battling ruthless politicians out to destroy him. Receiving a total of eleven 1939 Oscar(r) nominations (including Best Picture and Best Director), and winning one (Best Writing, Original Story), MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON is considered one of Capra's, Stewart's and Columbia's finest films. In Frank Capra's bright, funny and beautifully paced satire Mr Smith Goes to Washington political heavyweights decide that Jefferson Smith (James Stewart), an obscure scoutmaster in a small town, would be the perfect dupe to fill a vacant US Senate chair. Surely this naïve bumpkin can be easily controlled by the senior senator (Claude Rains) from his state, a respectable yet corrupted career politician. Capra fills the film with Smith's wide-eyed wonder at the glories of Washington, all of which ring false for his cynical secretary (Jean Arthur) who doesn't believe for a minute this rube could be for real. But he is. Capra was repeating the formula of a previous film, Mr Deeds Goes to Town, but this one is even sharper. Stewart and Arthur are brilliant, and the former cowboy-star Harry Carey lends a warm presence to the role of the vice-president. Mr Smith Goes to Washington is Capra's ode to the power of innocence--an idea so potent that present-day audiences may find themselves wishing for a new Mr Smith in the halls of power. The 1939 US Congress was none too thrilled about the film's depiction of their august body, denouncing it as a caricature; but even today, Capra's jibes about vested interests and political machines look as accurate as ever.