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• WWE - The American Dream - The Dusty Rhodes | DVD | (17/07/2006) from £81.99   |  Saving you £-52.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The American Dream Dusty Rhodes will forever be remembered as the working mans champion. A three-time World Heavyweight Champion he has had numerous legendary confrontations with sports-entertainments top stars including Ric Flair Harley Race and Superstar Billy Graham. Decades later his contributions to sports-entertainment are still being felt. This 3-Disc DVD set will present his lifes story as well as his most memorable matches and interviews from Florida Championship Wrestling NWA WCW and WWE. Bout List: 1. AWA 09/03/73 - Dusty Rhodes & Dick Murdoch vs. Dick the Bruiser & The Crusher 2. AWA 24/03/73 - Dusty Rhodes & Dick Murdoch vs. Dick the Bruiser & The Crusher 3. AWA 06/10/73 - Dusty Rhodes & Dick Murdoch vs. Billy Robinson & Don Muraco 4. Championship Wrestling from Florida 5/1974 - Dusty Rhodes & Pak Song vs. Mike & Eddie Graham 5. Championship Wrestling from Florida Dusty Rhodes vs. Terry Funk 6. Championship Wrestling from Florida Lumberjack Match Dusty Rhodes vs. Harley Race 7. Madison Square Garden 26/09/77 - WWWF Heavyweight Championship Dusty Rhodes vs. Superstar Billy Graham 8. Madison Square Garden 19/12/77 - Dusty Rhodes vs. Stan The Man Stasiak 9. Madison Square Garden 20/12/77 - Dusty Rhodes vs. Johnny Rodz 10. Madison Square Garden 17/12/79 - NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship Dusty Rhodes vs. Harley Race 11. Atlanta GA 21/06/81 - NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship Dusty Rhodes vs. Harley Race 12. Great American Bash Charlotte NC 06/07/85 - World Television Championship Dusty Rhodes vs. Tully Blanchard 13. Great American Bash Greensboro NC 26/07/86 - NWA World Heavyweight Championship Dusty Rhodes vs. Ric Flair Commentary by: Steve Romero/Dusty Rhodes/Mike Graham 14. Starrcade Chicago IL 26/11/87 - NWA United States Heavyweight Championship Dusty Rhodes vs. Lex Luger 15. Clash of the Champions Greensboro NC 27/03/88 - Dusty Rhodes & Road Warriors vs. Ivan Koloff & Powers of Pain 16. NWA Main Event 03/04/88 - NWA United States Championship Dusty Rhodes vs. Ivan Koloff 17. Clash of the Champions II Miami FL 08/06/88 - NWA Tag Team Championship Dusty Rhodes & Sting vs. Arn Anderson & Tully Blanchard 18. Starrcade Norfolk VA 26/12/88 - NWA World Tag Team Championship Dusty Rhodes & Sting vs. Road Warrior 19. SummerSlam E. Rutherford NJ 28/08/89 - Dusty Rhodes vs. The Honky Tonk Man 20. Survivor Series Rosemont IL 23/11/89 - The Dream Team vs. The Enforcers 21. WrestleMania VI Toronto Canada 01/04/90 - Mixed Tag Team match - Dusty Rhodes & Sapphire vs. The Macho King Randy Savage & Queen Sherri 22. Madison Square Garden 24/11/90 - Dusty Rhodes & Dustin vs. Ted DiBiase & Virgil 23. Living Dangerously Danbury CT 12/03/00 - Dusty Rhodes vs. Steve Corino 24. Greed Jacksonville FL 18/03/01 - Kiss My Ass match Dusty Rhodes & Dustin vs. Ric Flair & Jeff Jarrett Plus promos and vignettes from CWF WWWF Championship Wrestling NWA World Championsip Wrestling World Wide Wrestling Mid-Atlantic Wrestling Superstars Saturday Night's Main Event Wrestling Challenge and RAW!

• Scarlet Street | DVD | (06/11/2006) from £12.63   |  Saving you £-7.64 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

• Scarlet Street | DVD | (18/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In a way, Scarlet Street is a remake. It's taken from a French novel, La Chienne (literally, "The Bitch") that was first filmed by Jean Renoir in 1931. Renoir brought to the sordid tale all the colour and vitality of Montmartre; Fritz Lang's version shows us a far harsher and bleaker world. The film replays the triangle set-up from Lang's previous picture, The Woman in the Window, with the same three actors. Once again, Edward G Robinson plays a respectable middle-aged citizen snared by the charms of Joan Bennett's streetwalker, with Dan Duryea as her low-life pimp. But this time around, all three characters have moved several notches down the ethical scale. Robinson, who in the earlier film played a college professor who kills by accident, here becomes a downtrodden clerk with a nagging, shrewish wife and unfilled ambitions as an artist, a man who murders in a jealous rage. Bennett is a mercenary vamp, none too bright, and Duryea brutal and heartless. The plot closes around the three of them like a steel trap. This is Lang at his most dispassionate. Scarlet Street is a tour de force of noir filmmaking, brilliant but ice-cold. When it was made the film hit censorship problems, since at the time it was unacceptable to show a murder going unpunished. Lang went out of his way to show the killer plunged into the mental hell of his own guilt, but for some authorities this still wasn't enough, and the film was banned in New York State for being "immoral, indecent and corrupt". Not that this did its box-office returns any harm at all. On the DVD: sparse pickings. There's an interactive menu that zips past too fast to be of much use. The full-length commentary by Russell Cawthorne adds the occasional insight, but it's repetitive and not always reliable. (He gets actors' names wrong, for a start.) The box claims the print's been "fully restored and digitally remastered", but you'd never guess. --Philip Kemp

• Scarlet Street | DVD | (17/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  In a way, Scarlet Street is a remake. It's taken from a French novel, La Chienne (literally, "The Bitch") that was first filmed by Jean Renoir in 1931. Renoir brought to the sordid tale all the colour and vitality of Montmartre; Fritz Lang's version shows us a far harsher and bleaker world. The film replays the triangle set-up from Lang's previous picture, The Woman in the Window, with the same three actors. Once again, Edward G Robinson plays a respectable middle-aged citizen snared by the charms of Joan Bennett's streetwalker, with Dan Duryea as her low-life pimp. But this time around, all three characters have moved several notches down the ethical scale. Robinson, who in the earlier film played a college professor who kills by accident, here becomes a downtrodden clerk with a nagging, shrewish wife and unfilled ambitions as an artist, a man who murders in a jealous rage. Bennett is a mercenary vamp, none too bright, and Duryea brutal and heartless. The plot closes around the three of them like a steel trap. This is Lang at his most dispassionate. Scarlet Street is a tour de force of noir filmmaking, brilliant but ice-cold. When it was made the film hit censorship problems, since at the time it was unacceptable to show a murder going unpunished. Lang went out of his way to show the killer plunged into the mental hell of his own guilt, but for some authorities this still wasn't enough, and the film was banned in New York State for being "immoral, indecent and corrupt". Not that this did its box-office returns any harm at all. On the DVD: sparse pickings. There's an interactive menu that zips past too fast to be of much use. The full-length commentary by Russell Cawthorne adds the occasional insight, but it's repetitive and not always reliable. (He gets actors' names wrong, for a start.) The box claims the print's been "fully restored and digitally remastered", but you'd never guess. --Philip Kemp