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• Vera Cruz | DVD | (11/06/2001) from £6.40   |  Saving you £6.59 (102.97%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Vera Cruz was only director Robert Aldrich's second Western (his first, made a few months earlier, was the revisionist, pro-Native-American Apache), but it's such an assured, stylish affair that he might have been roaming the sagebrush for decades. In the aftermath of the American Civil War two lone adventurers make their way south of the border, where Mexico is fighting a civil war of its own to rid the country of the French-imposed Emperor Maximilian. Neither the dour Benjamin Trane (Gary Cooper) nor the grinning, devil-may-care Joe Erin (Burt Lancaster) has much in the way of idealism, but Trane still retains a thin bitter edge of integrity, a quality quite alien to the cheerfully amoral Erin. In uneasy alliance, constantly looking to outwit or double-cross each other, the two find themselves escorting a beautiful French countess (Denise Darcel) and a shipment of gold across country. Cooper and Lancaster create a superb double-act, using their contrasted screen personas to point up the humour and the cynicism of the two mercenaries' relationship. Darcel makes less than she might of the femme fatale role, but there are relishable cameos from Cesar Romero as a suavely duplicitous aristo and Ernest Borgnine as another gringo with an exceptionally vicious streak. The script, according to Aldrich, was written on the run, "always finished about five minutes before we shot it", but you wouldn't guess it from the laconic wit of the dialogue. It looks great, too--Ernest Laszlo's widescreen photography makes the most of the handsome Mexican locations. With its irreverent take on the accepted moral conventions of the genre, Vera Cruz ushered in a new kind of Western, and its central love-hate relationship would be replayed in Sam Peckinpah's Ride the High Country (1962) and Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966). On the DVD: Not much in the way of extras but the mono sound has been expertly remastered to the benefit of Hugo Friedhofer's spirited score. Above all, the film's presented in its full Superscope ratio (16:9), a blessed relief after all those years when it showed up panned-and-scanned on BBC1. If ever a movie needed widescreen, it's this one--if only to fit in all Burt's teeth. You can see why they called him "Crockery Joe". --Philip Kemp

• The Only Way Is Essex - Series 1-6 | DVD | (08/10/2012) from £17.09   |  Saving you £22.90 (134.00%)   |  RRP £39.99

  It's time to raise another glass of Cristal champagne for the BAFTA award-winning series that brought vajazzling to the masses. Relive all your favourite moments from the UK's most talked about show in this bumper box set of all the episodes from series 1 - 6 of The Only Way is Essex! Delve into the uber-glamorous world of Essex where nail bars, nightclubs and tanning salons, act as backdrops to the action. Join your favourite tantastic stars as they go about their totally Essex lives...

• Dukes Of Hazzard - Season 5 | DVD | (10/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  The Duke cousins Vance and Coy come to Hazzard to embark on a new series of adventures while Bo and Luke race the NASCAR circuit. The Duke family is back for more down-home adventure in The Dukes of Hazzard: The Complete Fifth Season now on DVD in this 4-disc 22 episode collector's set. Episodes Comprise: 1.The New Dukes 2.Dukes Strike It Rich 3.Lawman of the Year 4.Coy Meets Girl 5.The Hazzardgate Tape 6.Big Daddy 7.Vance's Lady 8.Hazzard Hustle 9.Enos in Trouble 10.Th

• Endeavour Series 1-5 | DVD | (12/03/2018) from £27.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (7.15%)   |  RRP £29.99

• King Kong | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £8.45   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  "Now you see it. You're amazed. You can't believe it. Your eyes open wider. It's horrible, but you can't look away. There's no chance for you. No escape. You're helpless, helpless. There's just one chance, if you can scream. Throw your arms across your eyes and scream, scream for your life!" And scream Fay Wray does most famously in this monster classic, one of the greatest adventure films of all time, which even in an era of computer-generated wizardry remains a marvel of stop-motion animation. Robert Armstrong stars as famed adventurer Carl Denham, who is leading a "crazy voyage" to a mysterious, uncharted island to photograph "something monstrous ... neither beast nor man." Also aboard is waif Ann Darrow (Fay Wray) and Bruce Cabot as big lug John Driscoll, the ship's first mate. King Kong's first half-hour is steady going, with engagingly corny dialogue ("Some big, hard-boiled egg gets a look at a pretty face and bang, he cracks up and goes sappy") and ominous portent that sets the stage for the horror to come. Once our heroes reach Skull Island, the movie comes to roaring, chest-thumping, T. rex-slamming, snake-throttling, pterodactyl-tearing, native-stomping life. King Kong was ranked by the American Film Institute as among the 50 best films of the 20th century. Kong making his last stand atop the Empire State Building is one of the movies' most indelible and iconic images. --Donald Liebenson

• Puccini - La Boheme (Levine, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra) | DVD | (19/09/2005) from £24.99   |  Saving you £-14.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  Puccini - La Boheme (Levine Metropolitan Opera Orchestra)

• When The Boat Comes In - Series 3 | DVD | (12/07/2004) from £49.97   |  Saving you £10.02 (20.05%)   |  RRP £59.99

  A boxed set containing the three double DVD's which comprise the third series of this classic television drama series starring James Bolam as Jack Ford. Set on Tyneside after the first World War this DVD set contains the all fifteen episodes from the hugely popular and highly acclaimed series.

• Canterbury Tales | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  BAFTA-award winning drama from the BBC. The Miller's Tale: When smooth talking Nick arrives in a flash red sports car young wannabe pop star Alison thinks that her dreams have come true and incites the jealousy of her husband Dennis Waterman. The Wife Of Bath's Tale: Beth Craddock is a TV actress who still believes in Mr. Right even after a number of failed marriages. But is her dashing co-star Jerome her soulmate despite their large age difference. The Knight

• Howards End (the Merchant Ivory Collection) | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £8.89   |  Saving you £1.10 (12.37%)   |  RRP £9.99

  ""Only Connect"". This famous command is the catalyst which brings together two very different Edwardian families - the one passionate and progressive the other hidebound by wealth and social status - with irreversible and devastating consequences. A dying woman's impulsive wish marks a turning point in the relationship between the cosmopolitan Schlegel sisters Margaret and Helen and the wealthy Wilcox family when Ruth Wilcox bequeaths her idyllic country house Howards End to Margaret (Emma Thompson). Convinced that he is acting in the best interests of his family the patriarcal Henry Wilcox destroys his wife's ""unofficial"" will. But as the lonely repressed Henry falls in love with Margaret and Helen's willful attacks on class and convention strike at the very heart of the Wilcox family fate decrees that Henry must pay dearly for his deceit.

• A Man Called Horse (New to Blu-Ray) | Blu Ray | (11/06/2018) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In 1825, an English aristocrat is captured by Native Americans. He lives with them and begins to understand their way of life. Eventually, he is accepted as part of the tribe and aspires to become their leader.

• A Guy Thing | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  When a man wakes up the morning after his bachelor party in bed with a strange woman he presumes he must have cheated on his fiancee!

• Bloody Sunday | DVD | (03/03/2008) from £19.74   |  Saving you £-1.75 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  On 30th January 1972 British Soldiers shot dead 13 unarmed civilians taking part in an anti-internment civil rights in march in Derry Northern Ireland. This event Bloody Sunday was a major turning point in the history of the modern Irish troubles catapulting the conflict into a civil war driving many young men into the IRA and fuelling a 25-year cycle of violence. This film tells the story of Bloody Sunday in just one day from dusk till dawn.

• Frank Capra Box Set | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  It Happened One Night (1934) Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert team up for laughs as mismatched lovers in this 1934 screwball comedy classic. Spoiled Ellie Andrews (Colbert) escapes from her millionaire father (Walter Connolly) who wants to stop her from marrying a worthless playboy. En route to New York Ellie gets involved with an out-of-work newsman Peter Warne (Gable). When their bus breaks down the bickering couple set off on a madcap hitchhiking expedition. Peter hopes

• All The Queen's Men | DVD | (17/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Led by an American a mismatched team of British Special Services agents must infiltrate in disguise a female-run Enigma factory in Berlin and bring back the decoding device that will help end the war.

• A Touch of Frost: Series 3 | DVD | (01/06/2009) from £13.50   |  Saving you £11.49 (85.11%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The complete third series of investigations by Detective Frost... Episodes comprise: 'Appropriate Adults' 'Quarry' 'Dead Male One' and 'No Refuge'.

• Angels Hard As They Come | Blu Ray | (26/06/2023) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Where the Angels ride, mayhem follows. A hard-living band of bikers, they live by the rules of the road... and a fiercely loyal code of honor. But when they cross paths with the Dragon - a rival biker gang they find their loyalty tested and their lives on the line in wake of a violent act that leaves a young, hippie woman murdered. Product Features Subtitles Still Gallery

• About Last Night | DVD | (05/02/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Rob Lowe doesn't want to get serious. Demi Moore doesn't want to get used. Together they're an unforgettable couple in the sexy contemporary comedy. After drinks at a favourite Chicago hangout Danny Martin (Lowe) and Debbie Sullivan (Moore) head to Danny's place to indulge in the predictable single's quest - the one-night stand. Their affair is casual sensual and supposedly over until something surprising happens. They want to see each other again. It's the start of an intense relationship that irritates Danny's rowdy best friend (James Belushi) and astounds Debbie's cynical buddy/roomie (Elizabeth Perkins) who do everything possible to break them up. But Danny and Debbie wind up living together and midst the daily drudge of domestic life they begin to realise that making love is easy saying ""I love you"" more difficult and being in love the hardest of all.

• El Dorado | Blu Ray | (04/12/2017) from £8.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Legendary producer-director Howard Hawks teams with two equally legendary stars, John Wayne and Robert Mitchum, in this classic Western drama. Mitchum plays to perfection an alcoholic but gutsy sheriff who relentlessly battles the dark side of the wild West, ruthless cattle barons and crooked businessmen. The Duke gives an equally adept performance as the sheriff's old friend who knows his way around a gunfight. Filled with brawling action and humor, El Dorado delivers the goods. James Caan and Ed Asner co-star.

• Top Gear 3: to the Metal | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £4.94   |  Saving you £11.05 (223.68%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Winter Olympics Special episode in full including a Mini driven down a ski jump and an ice hockey game with cars!

• An Ungentlemanly Act | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £42.35   |  Saving you £-40.36 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Based on actual accounts this film portrays the days and hours before and during the invasion of the Falkland Islands by Argentina which eventually led to the Falklands War. As the Argentine forces land on the main island and make their way towards Government House the British Royal Marines batten down the hatches and prepare to defend Governer Rex Hunt his family and their fellow islanders from the invaders.