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• Lifeboat | Blu Ray | (23/04/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Based on an unpublished novella by John Steinbeck (written on commission expressly to provide treatment material for Hitchcock's screen scenario), Lifeboat found the Master of Suspense navigating a course of maximal tension - in the most minimal of settings - with a consistently inventive, beautifully paced drama that would foreshadow the single-set experiments of Rope and Dial M for Murder. After a Nazi torpedo reduces an ocean liner to wooden splinters and scorched personal effects, the survivors of the attack pull themselves aboard a drifting lifeboat in the hope of eventual rescue. But the motivations of the German submarine captain (played by Walter Slezak) on the eponymous craft might extend beyond mere survival... With a cast including Shadow of a Doubt veteran Hume Cronyn and the extraordinary, irrepressible Tallulah Bankhead, this picture of characters, as Franois Truffaut aptly termed the film, oscillates dazzlingly between comic reparte and white-knuckle suspense - a perfect example of the Hitchcock touch.

• Battleground | DVD | (31/05/2004) from £5.56   |  Saving you £8.43 (151.62%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Director William Wellman (The Big Heat) offered up this 1949 treatment of the Battle of the Bulge, which won Oscars for best screenplay and best cinematography. The film concentrates on the camaraderie and the divisions between the troops as they prepare for the big offensive. Told in a taut narrative, the men of the 101st, led by Van Johnson, wait out the winter in the Ardennes forest to confront the German army in what would be the last major offensive of World War II. The men are demoralised and trapped, with no hope of support from the Allies as they are forced to band together and defend their position. A classically assembled war drama that nevertheless manages to be both engrossing and entertaining, Battleground is a mainstay of the genre. --Robert Lane

• Somewhere in the Night | DVD | (24/09/2012) from £14.99   |  Saving you £-2.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Meet That Guild Gal...She gives as Good as She Gets!A man awakens in a Honolulu hospital with no memory of his identity. He has three personal items: a wallet, a letter from an angry ex-lover, and a note from one Larry Cravat, and apparent business associate. Searching for Cravat, the amnesiac heads to Los Angeles, enlisting the help of a saloon singer (Nancy Guild), her boss (Richard Conte) and a police lieutenant (Lloyd Nolan). When he starts asking questions, he's blindsided by goons and chased by cops... But ultimately makes a shocking discovery.

• Lifeboat | Blu Ray | (23/04/2012) from £28.33   |  Saving you £-5.34 (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Based on an unpublished novella by John Steinbeck (written on commission expressly to provide treatment material for Hitchcock's screen scenario), Lifeboat found the Master of Suspense navigating a course of maximal tension – in the most minimal of settings – with a consistently inventive, beautifully paced drama that would foreshadow the single-set experiments of Rope and Dial M for Murder.After a Nazi torpedo reduces an ocean liner to wooden splinters and scorched personal effects, the survivors of the attack pull themselves aboard a drifting lifeboat in the hope of eventual rescue. But the motivations of the German submarine captain (played by Walter Slezak) on the eponymous craft might extend beyond mere survival...With a cast including Shadow of a Doubt veteran Hume Cronyn and the extraordinary, irrepressible Tallulah Bankhead, this 'picture of characters', as Franois Truffaut aptly termed the film, oscillates dazzlingly between comic reparte and white-knuckle suspense – a perfect example of 'the Hitchcock touch'.

• Harvey Girls, The | Blu Ray | (15/12/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Somewhere In The Night | DVD | (16/01/2006) from £6.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (85.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Meet That Guild Gal...She gives as Good as She Gets! A man awakens in a Honolulu hospital with no memory of his identity. He has three personal items: a wallet a letter from an angry ex-lover and a note from one Larry Cravat and apparent business associate. Searching for Cravat the amnesiac heads to Los Angeles enlisting the help of a saloon singer (Nancy Guild) her boss (Richard Conte) and a police lieutenant (Lloyd Nolan). When he starts asking questions he's blindsided by goons and chased by cops... But ultimately makes a shocking discovery.

• Across the Wide Missouri | DVD | (25/10/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Accross The Wide Missouri

• Jane Austen In Manhattan | DVD | (27/10/2003) from £20.96   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Two teachers vie for the right to stage a play written by Jane Austen when she was twelve years old...

• The Maisie Collection: Volume 2 | DVD | (26/07/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Lifeboat | DVD | (27/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Six men and three women. Against the sea. Against each other. Nine survivors of a torpedoed ship awaiting a rescue that may never arrive find themselves in the same boat with one of the perpetrators... Alfred Hitchock's nail-biting guessing game thriller was nominated for 3 Oscars.