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• Rotten to the Core | DVD | (19/05/2014) from £12.98   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A riotously funny crime caper in the classic tradition of Two-Way Stretch and The Lavender Hill Mob Rotten to the Core boasts a top-notch cast with early roles for Anton Rodgers and Charlotte Rampling; produced directed and co-scripted by the legendary Boulting brothers this rare comedy gem earned a BAFTA Award nomination in 1966 for art director Alex Vetchinsky. Rotten to the Core is presented here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. Lenny Jelly and Scapa are the three loyal henchmen of The Duke. After 18 months in jail they are eager to rejoin their leader... and even more eager to receive a share of the stash that sent them there. Having been told that the Duke has died and all the money was spent on hospital bills the they eventually meet up with their boss again; however they find that his methods have become far more sophisticated and before long they're involved in an elaborate plan to carry out a daringly audacious heist. Special Features: Image Gallery Original Pressbook PDF

• The Sweeney Double Feature - The Sweeney 1 / The Sweeney 2 | DVD | (25/08/2003) from £25.99   |  Saving you £-10.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Sweeney! Hard-bitten Flying Squad officer Jack Regan (Thaw) gets embroiled in a deadly political plot when an old friend asks him to investigate the death of his girlfriend. Framed on a drink-driving charge and suspended from the force with his partner and best mate George Carter (Waterman) unable to help Jack must rely on his wits to evade deadly government hitmen and expose the real villain... Sweeney 2 Regan and Carter head a n investigation into a series of British bank raids by a team of well-armed villains who are flying in from the continent.

• 3 Classic Charles Dickens Films - Great Expectations / A Tale Of Two Cities / Oliver Twist | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Great Expectations (1946) - David Lean directed this stylish film presentation of Charles Dickens' heart warming story of a young man befriending an escaped convict who becomes his unknown benefactor and of the consequences for the young man as he establishes himself in the world. A Tale Of Two Cities - Dickens' epic tale set during the French Revolution follows the fortunes of a disillusioned English lawyer Sidney Carton (Dirk Bogarde) whose solace is drink and wh

• A French Mistress | DVD | (02/02/2009) from £8.00   |  Saving you £7.99 (99.88%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A French Mistress

• Night Crossing | DVD | (20/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  In the fall of 1979 one of history's most ingenious and courageous flights to freedom took place when two families fled from Communist East Germany to the West in their own handcrafted hot air balloon. Starring John Hurt (HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE) Jane Alexander (THE CIDER HOUSE RULES) and Beau Bridges Walt Disney Pictures brings to the screen this remarkable true story of the Strelzyk and Wetzel families and their daring death-defying escape.

• Catherine Cookson - Rags To Riches | DVD | (21/08/2006) from £29.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (33.34%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Catherine Cookson was born Catherine McMullen in 1906. Her life began in poverty and she grew up believing her real mother was her sister. In a life that could have been taken from any of her own novels Catherine aspired to achieve more than many of her time. From poverty to wealth she left the sadness behind to start a new life in Hastings where she was to meet her husband Tom Cookson. As a form of therapy Catherine began to write and never stopped and became one of the world's be

• Carlton-Browne Of The F.O. | DVD | (08/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A perennial afternoon telly treat, Carlton-Browne of the F.O. is a little less tart and smart in its assault on British diplomacy than the earlier John and Roy Boulting satires. The much-loved Terry Thomas, is the idiot son of a great ambassador, given a sinecure in the Foreign Office that becomes a hot seat when crises rock the almost-forgotten former colony of Gaillardia. Clod-hopping "dance troupes" of every world power dig for cobalt, a line of partition is painted across the entire island, and the young King (Ian Bannen) is undermined by his wicked uncle (John le Mesurier) and unscrupulous Prime Minister Amphibulos (Peter Sellers). There's a touch of Royal romance as the King gets together with a rival princess (the winning Luciana Paoluzzi), but it's mostly mild laughs at the expense of British ineptitude, with Thorley Walters as the dim army officer who sends his men to put down a rebellion with orders that lead them to turn in a circle and capture his own command post, Miles Malleson as the gouty consul who should have come home in 1916, and a snarling Raymond Huntley as the minister appalled that the new monarch of a British ally was a member of the Labour Party at Oxford. The film finds Sellers' non-specific foreign accent unusually upstaged, with Terry Thomas walking off with most of the comedy scenes, blithely inspecting a line of shabby crack troops who keep passing out at his feet. It fumbles a bit with obvious targets, especially in comparison with similar films like Passport to Pimlico and The Mouse That Roared, but you can't argue with a cast like this. Down in the ranks are: John Van Eyssen, Irene Handl, Nicholas Parsons, Kenneth Griffith, Sam Kydd and Kynaston Reeves. On the DVD: Carlton-Browne of the F.O. comes to disc in fullscreen, with a decent-ish quality print. The film is also available as part of the four-disc Peter Sellers Collection.--Kim Newman

• The Lady And The Highwayman | DVD | (29/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  The Lady and the Highwayman, produced by Lew Grade as part of a series of Barbara Cartland dramatisations in 1987, contains all the ingredients that made Cartland's unique style of romantic fiction so successful. The highwayman in question, known as Silver Blade, is actually an aristocratic outlaw played by a youthful Hugh Grant in a bouffant mullet wig. The lady is Panthea (Lysette Anthony), delicate but firm of purpose, who knows her man when she sees him. It's Restoration England, so the frocks are fabulous. But Cartland's pretensions to historical accuracy evaporate when she makes Charles II's mistress, Barbara Castlemaine (Dynasty's Emma Samms), the villainess of the piece. From there, it's a freewheeling ride of Robin Hood-inspired philanthropy, duplicitous cousins and some uncomfortably fetishistic shots of the rituals and instruments of execution, although everybody is rescued in time for the romantic soft-focus finale. Full of splendidly self-indulgent performances from the likes of Claire Bloom, John Mills and Michael York, The Lady and the Highwayman is a feast of thespian ham. Somehow, the cast triumph over the banality of the basic material. On the DVD: The Lady and the Highwayman is presented in 4:3 aspect ratio with a standard Dolby Digital stereo soundtrack. With an eye on the international market, it looks and feels like any lush mini-series of the 1980s. There are no extras. --Piers Ford

• PD James' Adam Dagliesh Chronicles | DVD | (19/02/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £99.99

  A collection of the many cases of Detective Adam Dalgliesh.

• Catherine Cookson - The Complete Collection | DVD | (21/08/2006) from £71.96   |  Saving you £48.03 (66.75%)   |  RRP £119.99

  Catherine Cookson was born Catherine McMullen in 1906. Her life began in poverty and she grew up believing her real mother was her sister. In a life that could have been taken from any of her own novels Catherine aspired to achieve more than many of her time. From poverty to wealth she left the sadness behind to start a new life in Hastings where she was to meet her husband Tom Cookson. As a form of therapy Catherine began to write and never stopped and became one of the world's be

• Doomwatch - Digitally Remastered | DVD | (20/06/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Feature fi lm of the BBC TV series in which Dr Del Shaw (Ian Bannen) of Doomwatch - the British government's environmental monitoring organisation - travels to the island of Balfe to investigate pollution. A year earlier, an oil tanker's cargo contaminated the local waters - but has there been any adverse long-term effects - such as the villager menfolk transforming into near-neanderthals? Judy Geeson, Percy Herbert and George Sanders co-star.

• The Flight Of The Phoenix | DVD | (17/04/2006) from £13.23   |  Saving you £-0.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In a gripping tale of courage resourcefulness and determination the consequences of a plane crash strip bare the morals of the survivors. The pilot of the doomed aircraft Frank Towns (James Stewart) is an aviator of the old school used to seat-of-the-pants flying distrustful of new technology. With his navigator Lew Moran (Richard Attenborough) he is piloting a cargo-cum-passenger plane high above the Arabian desert when a powerful sandstorm rises from below. Trusting his instin

• Psyche 59 (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (29/08/2022) from £13.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Patricia Neal (fresh from her 1963 award-winning role in Martin Ritt's Hud) stars as a woman suffering from hysterical blindness, and a blank in her memory which may hide the cause of her affliction. When she and her sex-addict husband (Curt Jurgens The Enemy Below, The Spy Who Loved Me) move in with her younger sister (Samantha Eggar The Collector, The Brood), she begins to piece together the events leading to her psychological trauma. Ahead of its time in its discussion and depiction of all manner of taboo subjects (rape, child abuse, nymphomania, psycho-sexual disorder, masochism), Psyche 59 is one of British cinema's most daring and provocative adult dramas. Product Features High Definition remaster Original mono audio The BEHP Interview with Walter Lassally (1988, 94 mins): an archival audio recording, made as part of the British Entertainment History Project, featuring the renowned cinematographer in conversation with Roy Fowler Come to Silence (2019, 12 mins): award-winning actor Samantha Eggar recalls her work on Psyche 59 Intangible Visions (2019, 14 mins): composer Kenneth V Jones discusses his score An Abstract Quality (2019, 11 mins): critic, lecturer and broadcaster Richard Combs analyses Psyche 59 and the career of director Alexander Singer Original theatrical trailer Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

• Behind the Mask | Blu Ray | (17/05/2021) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Michael Redgrave gives a striking performance as a distinguished surgeon fighting against the depersonalisation of progress in this engrossing medical drama from director Brian Desmond Hurst. Also featuring Niall MacGinnis, Tony Britton, Ian Bannen and Vanessa Redgrave in her film debut, Behind the Mask is featured here as a brand-new High Definition transfer from original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio. Backroom rivalry at the Graftondale Royal Hospital surgical unit is unspoken but self-evident. Sir Arthur Gray, a staunch traditionalist, is determined to keep things going his way in spite of his rival's ambitions to turn the hospital into a laboratory . Then, while carrying out a delicate heart operation, Sir Arthur has a momentary blackout.

• Lamb | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In an early performance Liam Neeson plays Brother Sebastian a man questioning his faith and his role in life. He befriends a small boy named Owen who has had a troubled life. When Sebastian's father dies and leaves the estate to him he takes the money and runs away with young Owen.

• The Offence | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Detective Sergeant Johnson (CONNERY) has been with the British police force for 20 years. In that time the countless murders rapes and other serious crimes he has had to investigate has left a terrible mark on him. His anger and aggression that had been suppressed for years finally surfaces when interviewing a suspect Baxter whom Johnson is convinced is the man that has been carrying out a series of brutal attacks on young girls. An amazing look at the human psyche THE OFFENCE

• The Fifteen Streets | DVD | (14/04/2003) from £4.96   |  Saving you £3.03 (61.09%)   |  RRP £7.99

  a powerful drama set against the harsh and turbulent background of poverty and class distinction in Tyneside at the beginning of the century. A young docker John O'Brien falls deeply in love with Mary Llewellyn the daughter of a local shipbuilder. Their love unites them but the fifteen streets which separate poverty from wealth threaten to stand in their way.

• Suspect | DVD | (30/09/2007) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Crime melodrama about a frustrated young scientist's involvement with subversive elements.

• The Sweeny - Series 1-4 - Complete/The Sweeney/The Sweeney 2 | DVD | (29/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £99.99

  Jack Regan (John Thaw) is a hard edged detective in the Flying Squad of London's Metropolitan police. He pursues villains by methods which are underhand often illegal themselves frequently violent and more often than not successful.

• Doomwatch | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  A remote island village... A team of intrepid scientists... A terrifying secret... The mysterious island village of Balfe is experiencing unexplainable phenomena... from grossly oversized sea-life to half-buried bodies in the dark woods to strange Neanderthal like men suffering from a rare disfiguring disease. Is this town afflicted by radioactive waste contaminating their water? Is there a vengeful mutant monster lurking in the woods? Or worse are the townsfolk being punished by an act of God for their past sins? It is up to Dr. Del Shaw and the dedicated scientists at Doomwatch headquarters to discover the cause of these horrific mutations. Infuriating local villagers who cling to their secluded island's survival Dr. Shaw (Ian Bannen) and local school teacher Victoria Brown (Judy Geeson) risk their lives to uncover the truth behind the strange happenings no matter how frightening or dangerous it may be. Based on the British television series of the same name Doomwatch is a haunting telltale film that just might be hazardous to your health!