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• Whispering Smith Hits London Limited Collector's Edition | Blu Ray | (15/12/2025) from £36.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In this rediscovered classic, restored for a new generation, Private detective Steve Whispering Smith is intent on holidaying in England but soon becomes distracted by a pretty face. Unfortunately, the pretty face comes with a problem attached and that problem is murder.Featuring strong support from Greta Gynt, Herbert Lom, Rona Anderson and Alan Wheatley, Whispering Smith Hits London has been painstakingly restored by Hammer in 4K from the original film negatives.In Hammer's take on the hard-boiled detective, Hollywood mainstay and latter-day science-horror notable Richard Carlson gives an affable performance as a two-fisted detective let loose in London in this exciting and at times unsettling Noir-tinged crime thriller.The discs feature:New commentary with the bfi's Curator of Fiction Jo Botting and podcaster Dave Thomas.New commentary with film historian Richard Holliss and author/screenwriter Gavin Collinson.He's Got a Gun!: Author, film-maker and Film Noir fan Chris Alexander casts an appreciative eye over a film that he believes is a perfect example of Hammer doing what they did best at this period .Acting the Foreigner: Film historian Lucy Bolton, author Barry Forshaw and William Fowler and Vic Pratt, authors and creators/curators of the bi's ongoing Flipside series cast an appreciative eye over acting legend Herbert Lom's early career.Titillating Titles: When there is more than one version of a film, which is the definitive article? Vic Pratt and William Fowler examine the differences between the UK and US versions of Whispering Smith and discuss how versions of the same material can resonate in different ways for different audiences.Alfie Cox Interview: Interviewed in 1992 for the British Entertainment History Project, this extract from editor Alfie Cox's career-long interview covers his time as editor at Hammer.The Village of Bray: Filmed in 1950 and released a year later, this short documentary travelogue made by Exclusive Films looks at the bucolic Thames-side village of Bray and its inhabitants.A gallery of stills and publicity material alongside tracks from Frank Spencer's score.The booklet features:New article by Hammer expert Wayne Kinsey examining the making of Whispering Smith Hits London.New article by Philip Kemp, who considers the many aspects of Whispering Smith in books and on films and television.New article by Nora Fiore, who appraises the Noir films of eternal femme fatale Greta Gynt.New article by Vincent Barnett, who investigates the many flavours of Hammer's crimer output and how it informed their later work.New article by Sarah Morgan, who shines a light on Richard Carlson, once a prolific actor but now almost an enigma.New article by Wayne Kinsey, who examines how James Carreras' wheeler-dealing gave Hammer an enviable advantage over their British competitors.

• Battleground | DVD | (31/05/2004) from £5.56   |  Saving you £8.43 (151.62%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Director William Wellman (The Big Heat) offered up this 1949 treatment of the Battle of the Bulge, which won Oscars for best screenplay and best cinematography. The film concentrates on the camaraderie and the divisions between the troops as they prepare for the big offensive. Told in a taut narrative, the men of the 101st, led by Van Johnson, wait out the winter in the Ardennes forest to confront the German army in what would be the last major offensive of World War II. The men are demoralised and trapped, with no hope of support from the Allies as they are forced to band together and defend their position. A classically assembled war drama that nevertheless manages to be both engrossing and entertaining, Battleground is a mainstay of the genre. --Robert Lane

• Dive Bomber | DVD | (28/06/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  With war approaching a new flight surgeon and a Navy pilot overcome personal differences to work on solving the problem of altitude sickness which causes blackouts at high altitude...

• The Lady Vanishes | DVD | (07/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A stylish remake of the Hitchcock original in which two young people are searching for an old lady who has mysteriously disappeared on the train journey back to London from Switzerland...

• Rascal | DVD | (06/07/2004) from £11.29   |  Saving you £3.70 (32.77%)   |  RRP £14.99

  If man's best friend is a dog get ready to meet man's funniest friend: he's 4lbs of sheer delight and one of the best scene stealers to ever upstage an actor! Rascal tells a story of a boy (Bill Mumy) and his rescued pet raccoon an animal whose talent for causing loads of mischief is equalled only by his power to trigger tons of laughter!

• I Bury The Living | DVD | (27/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The new manager of a cemetery (Richard Boone) begins to question reality when he places black pins instead of white in the cemetery map seemingly causing the owners of the plots to die. As the death count rises the mystery gets deeper and deeper pointing to a resolution almost too strange to face...

• I Bury The Living | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £9.43   |  Saving you £-4.44 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  The newly appointed chairman of a cemetery discovers that by replacing the white pins on a cemetery map to black he can cause the death of the plot owner...

• High Wall | DVD | (24/11/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A