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• Hitchcock - Rebecca / Spellbound / The Paradine Case / Notorious | DVD | (22/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  The four classic films included in this Box Set are: 'Rebecca' 'Spellbound' 'The Paradine Case' 'Notorious

• The Affairs of Susan | DVD | (21/03/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Oscar-winning screen idol Joan Fontaine (Suspicion, Rebecca) stars as Susan Darrell, a stunning but naïve actress from New York who is about to get married. Though she only met her fiancé Richard (Walter Abel) a few weeks previously, the lovebirds are set on tying the knot and throw a party to celebrate. Mingling amongst their guests, Richard finds three former because of Susan's and starts probing them on how they met. All the men clearly still carry a torch for Susan, but each of them knows a very different woman not so naïve after all. Broadway big-shot Roger (George Brent), Millionaire Mike (Don DeFore) and novelist Bill (Dennis O'Keefe) each give Richard a conflicting portrait of his fiancée. With their wedding rapidly approaching, Richard is left wondering exactly what kind of woman he will be facing at the altar William A. Seiter (Laurel and Hardy Sons of the Desert) directs an all-star cast in this sharp, witty comedy-drama as chaotic and enchanting as Susan herself. Also stars Byron Barr.

• The Bigamist | DVD | (22/10/2007) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-0.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Bigamist goes where no movie has gone before; it gives us a bigamist as the central character and manages to make us sympathise with his plight. Harry Graham is a salesman who longs to spend time with his wife played by Joan Fontaine but she's a workaholic businesswoman who rarely finds time in her schedule for her husband. While on a sales trip Graham befriends a waitress played by Ida Lupino and as friendship turns to love Graham calls and teases wife about meeting another woman; we see a quick flash of fear in her eyes but then she immediately changes the conversation in a fake chirpy tone and pretends nothing bothers her. The well-detailed characters bring the drama of The Bigamist to life. The waitress is a tough but compassionate character much more full of life than Fontaine's Eisenhower era wife. Significantly we also discover that the waitress is much more fertile than Fontaine - who cannot bear children. This subtle critique of '50s families and the sterility of home life when business becomes more important than family communication makes The Bigamist just as relevant today as when it was made in 1953.

• Jane Eyre (Orson Welles) | DVD | (19/04/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This 1943 version of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre was made just two years after Citizen Kane, and it certainly looks like star Orson Welles muscled his way behind the camera much of the time. (In fact, co-star Joan Fontaine--who plays the title character--has maintained that Welles methodically did just that every day on the set.) Not that the film's official director was a hack: Robert Stevenson gets the credit, a man who later had a busy career at Disney making numerous live-action hits such as Mary Poppins. But there's no mistaking Welles' masterful hand in this film's bold and creative look, and there's no getting away from his enigmatic charisma as Rochester, the widower who takes in Jane as a governess to his daughter. An engrossing, gorgeous film, there's even a small role for Elizabeth Taylor at the beginning as Jane's unlucky, doomed friend at a cruel boarding school. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Alfred Hitchcock Box Set (Rebecca/Notorious/Spellbound/The Paradine Case) Exclusive to amazon.co.uk | DVD | (14/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Paradine Case:After being accused of poisoning her blind older husband the lovely Mrs. Paradine hires lawyer Anthony Keane (Gregory Peck) to represent her. Though Keane himself is married to a striking and devoted woman he finds himself strangely drawn to his glamorous defendant. However his deepening feelings convince him that she is innocent even though the evidence and his usual sense of logic and reason suggest otherwise... Spellbound:'Spellbound' was nominated for six Academy Awards and won the Oscar for its original score. Based of Francis Bleeding's novel 'The House of Doctor Edwards' it is one of Hitchcock's finest films full of classic plot twists and featuring a riveting dream sequence by Salvador Dali. Having retired from his position as head of the Green Manors Mental Asylum Dr. Murchison assigns famous psychiatrist Dr. Edwards (Gregory Peck) as his replacement. Dr. Edwards becomes attracted to the beautiful but cold Dr. Constance Petersen (Ingrid Bergman) who soon realises that he is in fact a paranoid amnesiac impostor. She sets out to cure him whilst solving the mystery of what happened to the real Dr. Edwards... Rebecca:This brilliant adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier's classic novel stars Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine. It was Hitchcock's first Hollywood film and won an Oscar for Best Picture. A timid young girl marries the handsome but troubled Cornish Landowner Maxim de Winter but very soon realises that her life is dominated by the image and memories of her husband's first wife Rebecca. The housekeeper still devoted to Rebecca makes the second Mrs. de Winter's life a misery. Soon after Rebecca's death is revealed as suicide events take another dramatic turn finally casting aside the spectre of Rebecca. Notorious:Regarded as one of Hitchcock's best thrillers this classic is also memorable for the teaming of Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman one of Hollywood's all-time great love matches. A Nazi agent is convicted of treason following the Second World War. American Intelligence agents realise that his innocent daughter would be ideal in helping to trap another Nazi mastermind now in Brazil. In Rio she cultivates the friendship of an old aquaintance of her father and marries him to help the U.S. government with their task. However she soon finds herself falling in love with her contact...

• Jane Eyre | DVD | (11/11/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This 1943 version of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre was made just two years after Citizen Kane, and it certainly looks like star Orson Welles muscled his way behind the camera much of the time. (In fact, co-star Joan Fontaine--who plays the title character--has maintained that Welles methodically did just that every day on the set.) Not that the film's official director was a hack: Robert Stevenson gets the credit, a man who later had a busy career at Disney making numerous live-action hits such as Mary Poppins. But there's no mistaking Welles' masterful hand in this film's bold and creative look, and there's no getting away from his enigmatic charisma as Rochester, the widower who takes in Jane as a governess to his daughter. An engrossing, gorgeous film, there's even a small role for Elizabeth Taylor at the beginning as Jane's unlucky, doomed friend at a cruel boarding school. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Leading Ladies - Vol. 1 | DVD | (06/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A box set of films featuring some of Hollywood's leading ladies. Films Comprise: 1. Father's Little Dividend (Dir. Vincente Minnelli 1951) 2. Nothing Sacred (Dir. William A. Wellman 1937) 3. Ghosts On The Loose (Dir. William Beaudine 1943) 4. Of Human Bondage (Dir. John Cromwell 1934) 5. Behave Yourself (Dir. George Beck 1951) 6. Home Town Story (Dir. Arthur Pierson 1951) 7. Hell's House (Dir. Howard Higgin 1932) 8. The Bigamist (Dir. Ida Lupino 1953) 9. High Voltage

• Fred Astaire RKO Collection | DVD | (03/04/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A wonderful 4 DVD box set of four of Fred Astaire's greatest dance films for RKO Pictures including Flying Down to Rio, The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle, A Damsel In Distress and The Sky's The Limit. Fred's co-stars include Ginger Rogers, Dolores Del Rio, Joan Leslie, George Burns, Joan Fontaine and Robert Ryan.

• James Stewart Boxset | DVD | (09/06/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £99.99

  A box set housing a bevy of brilliant Jimmy Stewart films from the Universal vaults. Films Comprise: 1. It's a Wonderful Life (1946) 2. The Rare Breed (1966) 3. Shenandoah (1965) 4. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) 5. Rear Window (1954) 6. Harvey (1950) 7. Destry Rides Again (1939) 8. Vertigo (1958) 9. Night Passage (1957) 10. The Glenn Miller Story (1953) 11. Thunder Bay (1953) 12. Bend Of The River (1952) 13. Winchester '73 (1950) 14. Rope (1948) 15. The Far Country (1954) 16. You Gotta Stay Happy (1948) 17. Vivacious Lady (1938) 18. Airport '77 (1977) 19. Next Time We Love (1936)