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• Elmer Gantry | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £15.29   |  Saving you £-2.30 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Brothers and sisters, can we get a witness for Elmer Gantry, a woeful tale of saints and sinners? Burt Lancaster earned his only Oscar as the wide-smiling, glad-handing, soul-saving charlatan Gantry, a salesman who turns his gift for preaching into a career at the pulpit. Climbing on board the barnstorming evangelical tour of revivalist Sister Sharon Falconer (Jean Simmons), Gantry declaims, invokes, and sermonises his way to the top, until a former flame-turned-prostitute (Shirley Jones in an Oscar-winning performance) threatens to reveal his dark past as a womaniser and con man. Lancaster harnesses all his physical vigour and natural charisma for this role, literally throwing himself into his preaching with the suppleness of an acrobat and the sing-song delivery of a gospel singer--he even brays like a hound to show the Holy Spirit within him. Gantry is a showman, pure and simple, and while he doesn't fool true-believer Sister Sharon, he gives her a few object lessons in playing the crowd. Director Richard Brooks, who also took home an Oscar for his screenplay (adapted from the Sinclair Lewis novel), creates a rousing drama both on and off the pulpit, and provides fine roles for an excellent supporting cast, including Arthur Kennedy, Dean Jagger, John McIntire, and singer Patti Page. --Sean Axmaker

• Loot | DVD | (28/08/2017) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  British comedy adaptated from the play by Joe Orton. Two bank robbers, Dennis (Hywel Bennett) and Hal (Roy Holder), are on the run from the police after a successful heist. Needing somewhere to hide the loot, they turn to a funeral parlour where they can stash the cash in Hal's recently-deceased mother's coffin. Taking the coffin, they turn to Hal's father (Milo O'Shea) and hide it in the bathroom of his hotel. Before long the hotel is host to the eccentric Inspector Truscott (Richard Attenborough) as he traces the crooks, and the promiscuous nurse Fay (Lee Remick), who is also on the trail of the stolen money.

• Loot | Blu Ray | (28/08/2017) from £11.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  British comedy adaptated from the play by Joe Orton. Two bank robbers, Dennis (Hywel Bennett) and Hal (Roy Holder), are on the run from the police after a successful heist. Needing somewhere to hide the loot, they turn to a funeral parlour where they can stash the cash in Hal's recently-deceased mother's coffin. Taking the coffin, they turn to Hal's father (Milo O'Shea) and hide it in the bathroom of his hotel. Before long the hotel is host to the eccentric Inspector Truscott (Richard Attenborough) as he traces the crooks, and the promiscuous nurse Fay (Lee Remick), who is also on the trail of the stolen money.

• Shadows In The Sun | DVD | (11/01/2010) from £19.85   |  Saving you £-6.86 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Set in a remote house on the East Anglian coast in the 1960's Hannah (British-born Hollywood actress Jean Simmons - Spartacus) lives a perfectly happy life with her poetry garden and much younger friend Joe (Jamie Dornan) When Hannah's son Robert (James Wilby) arrives with his teenage daughter and younger son he becomes shocked with his mothers intimacy with her young friend. Emotions and tensions between the group begin to surface and it might take a tragic incident to bring them together. Writer/director David Rocksavage has produced this unique drama that explores the complexities of family relationships.

• Seven Days To Live | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Ellen (Amanda Plummer) and her husband Martin (Sean Pertwee) have just moved into an old house in the country to rebuild their life together after the tragic death of the young son. Before long Ellen begins to discover signs which suggest her life is in danger. She begins to understand that the death of her son is somehow connected with the house which is now hell-bent on destroying her.