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• Meet John Doe | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Frank Capra started as a Mack Sennett gag writer and soon thereafter moved over to the Poverty Row studio of Columbia Pictures as a director. Capra helped lift Columbia out of the low budget ranks, up to major studio. His remarkable string of hits in the 1930's - IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT, MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN, YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU, LOST HORIZON AND MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON - made him not only one of the industries most highly esteemed figures, but also a popular draw himself. He was ...

• Meet John Doe | DVD | (27/01/2003) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-0.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  In protest at the corruption and hypocrisy he sees all around him an unemployed man calling himself ""John Doe"" has written to the New Bulletin newspaper pledging to throw himself from the top of City Hall on Christmas Eve. Written by a discharged journalist as a publicity stunt and as a parting shot at the paper's new editor the premise of the letter unexpectedly fires the imagination of the bulletin's readers and the wider American public. Its real author Ann Mitchell (Barbar

• A Star Is Born (Deluxe Series) | DVD | (17/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  The A STAR IS BORN Deluxe Series box set will include: box set will include: two disc special edition (packed with extras) the complete set of eight limited edition lobby card prints a film Senitype'' (image from the film and 35mm film frame) US one sheet movie poster and an exclusive collection of behind-the-scenes black and white photo stills; plus an in-pack free rolled US cinema poster (one sheet) mail-in offer. Full details of content listed below A STAR IS BORN is the quintessential story of a couple one who's career is on the rise the other on the decline is made extraordinary by the performances of Judy Garland and James Mason. It marked Judy Garland's return to movies after a four year absence director George Cukor's first musical and first colour film and a showcase for the great Harold Arden/Ira Gershwin songs in state-of-the-art stereo. Shortened after its premiere the movie underwent one rebirth in 1983 when almost all the cut sequences were found and reconstructed to near its original length. Its new DVD rebirth is this breathtaking digital surround stereo track and incorporating picture and musical material recently found in the vaults.

• Odd Man Out | DVD | (28/08/2006) from £13.98   |  Saving you £8.00 (66.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  James Mason stars in this powerful suspense drama as Johnny McQueen the leader of a quasi-IRA group. When he's wounded in a botched robbery he becomes the object of an intense police manhunt and must scramble desperately about Belfast in an attempt to escape. Kathleen (Kathleen Ryan) the woman who loves him also takes off in pursuit of Johnny hoping to reach him before the police do.

• Odd Man Out | DVD | (07/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Odd Man Out is a British classic from 1947 that fits the film noir definition in almost every respect. It's one of the milestones of its era, highlighted by what is arguably the best performance in the illustrious career of James Mason, here playing the leader of an underground Irish rebel organisation, who is seriously wounded when a payroll heist goes sour. Left for dead by his accomplices on the streets of Belfast he's forced to hide wherever he can find shelter and as his gunshot wound gradually drains his life away, his lover (Kathleen Ryan) struggles to locate him before it's too late. Although the IRA and Belfast are never mentioned by name, this film was a daring and morally complex examination of Northern Ireland's "troubles" and the compelling tragedy hasn't lost any of its impact. A study of conscience in crisis and the bitter aftermath of terrorism, this was one of the first films to address IRA activities on intimately human terms. Political potency is there for those who seek it, but the film is equally invigorating as a riveting story of a tragic figure on the run from the law, forced to confront the wrath of his own beliefs in the last hours of his life. It was this brilliant, unforgettable film that established the directorial prowess of Carol Reed, whose next two films (The Fallen Idol and The Third Man) were equally extraordinary. --Jeff Shannon