"Actor: Laurence"

• The Manchurian Candidate | DVD | (31/07/2017) from £11.48   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  You will never find a more chillingly suspenseful, perversely funny, or viciously satirical political thriller than The Manchurian Candidate, based on the novel by Richard Condon (author of Winter Kills). The film, withheld from distribution by star Frank Sinatra for almost a quarter-century after President Kennedy's assassination, has lost none of its potency over time. Former infantryman Bennet Marco (Sinatra) is haunted by nightmares about his platoon having been captured and brainwashed in Korea. The indecipherable dreams seem to centre on Sergeant Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey), a decorated war hero but a cold fish of a man whose own mother (Angela Lansbury, in one of the all-time great dragon-lady roles) describes him as looking like his head is "always about to come to a point". Mrs Bates has nothing on Lansbury's character, the manipulative queen behind her second husband, Senator John Iselin (James Gregory), a notoriously McCarthyesque demagogue. --Jim Emerson

• Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - The Hollow | DVD | (13/09/2004) from £14.98   |  Saving you £-1.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Poirot joins Sir Henry Angkatell and fellow guests at Sir Henry's country retreat The Hollow. When the handsome doctor John Christow is found dead Poirot investigates and in doing so uncovers a love triangle. A crime of passion or a pack of lies? Confused by the different stories told by the family and guests Poirot starts to believe that he is deliberately being kept from the truth.

• The Collection | DVD | (20/04/2009) from £5.65   |  Saving you £4.34 (43.40%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Collection takes as its departure point the moment when four elegant lives are suddenly shaken by the suggestion of infidelity. The sinister anonymous phone call that disturbs Harry Kane at four o''clock in the morning setting in motion the drama''s events also foreshadows the ominous deepening mystery in which the characters find themselves and in which 'the truth'' becomes increasingly hard to establish... Laurence Olivier stars in and co-produces The Collection a darkly comic play of suspense and sexual jealousy by Nobel Prize-winning playwright author and director Harold Pinter. Also featuring the talents of Helen Mirren Alan Bates and Malcolm McDowell with direction by the multi-award winning Michael Apted (7Up Enigma) this adaptation was originally screened in 1976 as part of the celebrated Granada series Laurence Olivier Presents and earned Apted a Director''s Guild of America nomination for Outstanding Directorial Achievement.

• Bunny Lake Is Missing | Blu Ray | (27/02/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Darkly poetic and reflective, Otto Preminger's psychological thriller centres on an American woman living in London (Carol Lynley) who believes her four-year-old daughter has been kidnapped. The police (headed by a splendid Laurence Olivier) can't do much to help because, try as she might, Lynley can't prove to them that she ever had a daughter at all INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION SPECIAL FEATURES: 4K restoration Audio commentary with film historians Lem Dobbs, Julie Kirgo and Nick Redman Interview with actor Carol Lynley (2017, tbc mins) Interview with actor Clive Revill (2017, 14 mins) Isolated score: experience Paul Glass' original soundtrack music Trailers Image gallery New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing Limited edition exclusive booklet with a new essay by Chris Fujiwara Limited Dual Format Edition of 3,000 UK Blu-ray premiere

• I Am A Camera (Vintage Classics) | DVD | (23/05/2022) from £7.65   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A brand-new restoration of I Am a Camera, a 1955 British comedy-drama film based on the 1945 book The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood (also the inspiration for the hit stage and film sensation Cabaret) and the 1951 eponymous play by John Van Druten. The story is based on a fictionalized account of Isherwood's time living in Berlin between the World Wars. Directed by Henry Cornelius, from a script by John Collier, I Am a Camera stars Laurence Harvey as Isherwood and Julie Harris recreating her Tony Award-winning performance as Sally Bowles. Product Features Peter Parker on Christopher Isherwood Interview with journalist and film critic Anna Smith Stills gallery Trailer

• Spartacus | Blu Ray | (24/01/2011) from £14.45   |  Saving you £5.54 (38.34%)   |  RRP £19.99

  They trained him to kill for their pleasure... But they trained him a little too well... This presentation of the powerful film classic features an additional five minutes cut from the films original release plus the original overture and extended soundtrack. Director Stanley Kubrick tells the tale of Spartacus (Kirk Douglas) the bold gladiator slave and Varinia (Jean Simmons) the woman who believed in his cause. Challenged by the power-hungry General Crassus (Laurence Olivier) Spartacus is forced to face his convictions and the power of the Roman Empire at it's glorious height. The inspirational account of one man's eternal struggle for freedom Spartacus combines history with spectacle to create a moving drama of love and commitment.

• Spike Lee DVD Collection | DVD | (19/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £54.99

  A collection of 9 Spike Lee's most known films. Films Comprise: 1. Mo' Better Blues 2. Crooklyn 3. Inside Man 4. Clockers 5. School Daze 6. She Hates Me 7. Do the Right Thing 8. Get on the Bus 9. Jungle Fever

• Hoodlum | DVD | (19/03/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Hoodlum, Bill Duke's interesting but flawed blaxploitation take on the classic gangster movie, usefully redresses a balance. It is all too easy to see the criminal underworld of the 1920s as an all-white affair, in which Harlem is an exotic locale where occasionally white gangsters patronise the black performers of the Cotton Club, from which black audiences were specifically barred. Yet one of the principal sources of illegal revenue was the numbers racket in Harlem--gambling on stock market closing figures--revenue on which the likes of Dutch Schultz and Lucky Luciano were keen to lay their hands. Lawrence Fishburne is an impressive "Bumpy" Johnson, the street enforcer turned strategist for the matriarchal Queen (Cicely Tyson), gradually learning a ruthlessness that forfeits him the love of a good woman, Francine (Vanessa Williams). Tim Roth as Schultz and Andy Garcia as Luciano are essentially melodramatic turns--the foul-mouthed punk and the reptilian smoothy--and both turn in enjoyably full-blooded unsubtle performances. --Roz Kaveney

• Gardens Of Stone | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The subtext of Gardens of Stone, a grim, snail-paced Francis Ford Coppola film, is the death of Coppola's son Giancarlo in a boating accident. Coppola came back with this Vietnam-era military drama about the men assigned to patrol and serve at the funerals at Arlington National Cemetery. James Caan is the world-weary patrol leader with a fatherly interest in a gung-ho cadet (DB Sweeney). Caan tries to show Sweeney the potentially fatal future that awaits him if he volunteers for combat, but he can't break through his young charge's zealousness. The subplot involves crusty Caan's attempts at romance with Anjelica Huston, who can't quite fathom his contradictions. The story is all glum and lumbering, despite a warm, full-bodied performance by James Earl Jones as one of Caan's buddies.--Marshall Fine

• The Gaelic King | DVD | (10/07/2017) from £5.00   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Set in the war-torn dark ages of 800AD Scotland, this is the story of a young Warrior-King named Alpin. When his family is murdered by a rival Pict King, Alpin and his infant brother Finn, are the sole escapees. Alpin swears to one day return, seeking vengeance and regain his rightful claim to the throne. Ten years later Alpin and Finn, return and come across a community whose children are being kidnapped by the mysterious dark ˜Shadow Warriors'. When Finn gets captured, Alpin sets out to rescue him, accompanied by a Druid-monk called Lachlan. What ensues is a gripping adventure, culminating in a final epic battle between Alpin and Nathara, the sorceress who awoke and controls the Shadow Warriors.

• The Snarling | DVD | (29/10/2018) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When a zombie film is being made in their village, locals Les (LAURENCE SAUNDERS, Doctors), Mike (CHRIS SIMMONS, The Bill) and Bob (BEN MANNING) see their chance to cash in and get famous. But it soon becomes apparent that the film is cursed, and there is real gore and guts as the mutilated bodies begin to pile up. There s a full moon rising, and the local Detective Inspector and his hapless sergeant (STE JOHNSTON, No Offence) investigate the killings, as the race is on to stop the bloodshed. Also stars JULIA DEAKIN (Spaced, and Shaun of the Dead).

• The Matrix - Premium Collection Steelbook (Blu-ray + UV Copy | Blu Ray | (12/11/2012) from £26.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Perception: The Everyday World is Real. Reality: That World is a hoax an elaborate deception spun by all-powerful machines of artificial intelligence that control us. Mind blowing stunts. Techno-slamming visuals. Megakick action. Keanu Reeves and Laurence Fishburne lead the fight to free humankind in The Matrix the cyber thriller that you will watch again and again. Written and Directed by the Wachowski brothers (Bound) the story sears the special effects stake out new movie-making territory - the movie leaves you breathless.

• The Matrix Reloaded | Blu Ray | (23/03/2009) from £5.64   |  Saving you £14.35 (254.43%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Neo, Trinity and Morpheus continue to battle a war against the A.I.s and free more minds from the Matrix.

• Hannibal: Series 1 And 2 | Blu Ray | (22/09/2014) from £27.08   |  Saving you £22.91 (45.80%)   |  RRP £49.99

• The Entertainer | DVD | (01/03/2004) from £20.97   |  Saving you £-4.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Entertainer of the title is Archie Rice, a mediocre music hall artist upholding a dying tradition in an English seaside against a background of the 1956 Suez Crisis. Laurence Olivier stars and is supported by a superb cast including a young Alan Bates as his son, Roger Livesey as his kindly, now retired, always more talented and popular father, and Joan Plowright as his daughter (who, ironically given the story, married Olivier the following year). Albert Finney makes his screen debut in a tiny role and the remarkable cast also features Daniel Massey, Shirley Anne Field, Thora Hird and Charles Gray. Archie himself is a hollow man who brings pain to all around him, and while Olivier's brilliant performance reveals the layers of cynicism which disguise the emptiness inside, the emotional resonance lies with those forced to endure Rice's manipulations, adulteries and deceits. On stage John Osborne's play proved to be a signature part for Olivier, and director Tony Richardson--who filmed Osborne's equally sour Look Back In Anger (1958)--handles the material with unvarnished realism. Unfolding like a dark variation on Chaplin's Limelight (1952), the film equally casts a shadow over the less stellar Tony Hancock vehicle The Punch and Judy Man (1963), ultimately working as both family tragedy and allegory for a declining post-war England. Surprisingly an American 1976 TV movie remake starring Jack Lemmon held its own against this minor British classic. On the DVD: The Entertainer is presented letterboxed at 1.66:1, and sourced from an excellent print preserves the look of the original black and white cinematography very well. Even so a little material is clipped from either side of the image, though this is most notable on the left of the picture. The mono sound is very good. There are no features other than optional subtitles, including English for those hard of hearing. --Gary S Dalkin

• Armored | DVD | (31/05/2010) from £3.63   |  Saving you £9.36 (257.85%)   |  RRP £12.99

  "Vacancy" director Nimrod Antal helms the crime thriller "Armored", starring Matt Dillon as an armored truck guard who gets wrapped up in a heist scheme hatched by his friends.

• Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - One, Two, Buckle My Shoe | DVD | (14/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Poirot's dentist Morley is found dead in surgery. It appears to be a simple case of suicide but why has Morley's secretary received a hoax phone call claiming her Aunt was ill? And who is the woman with the broken shoe buckle masquerading as Miss Sainsbury Seale? When a Mr Amberiotis is found dead in his hotel room with an overdose of Novocaine Poirot begins to assemble the evidence...

• Hellraiser 1-3 Boxset | DVD | (04/10/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Titles Comprise: Hellraiser: When Frank Cotton solves the mystery of a Chinese puzzle box he enters the world of the Cenobites. A world where these cruel sadists thrive on pain. Later restored to life by the blood of his brother Larry Frank rises to feed on the life force of others. When Larry's wife agrees to provide the sacrifices he needs the spills chills and thrills are just beginning. Written and directed by the brilliant Clive Barker Hellraiser is a film that cannot be ignored. Hellraiser 2: Hellbound: Kirsty Collins (Ashley Laurence) lies in a psychiatric hospital haunted by the night of unspeakable terror that destroyed her family. Now only hours later the nightmare is beginning again. From the bloodstained mattress secreted in his home obsessive psychiatrist Dr. Channard (Kenneth Cranham) raises the remains of Kirsty's murderous stepmother Julia (Clare Higgins). Together Chanard and Julia unlock the secret of the lament Configuration puzzle box to release the unlimited horrors and ultimate pleasures of Hell. For the second time Kirsty must return beyond the limits to the Outer Darkness to confront the darkest desires of Hell and free her father's soul. Hellraiser 3: Hell on Earth: Pinhead is stuck inside a block and is determined to free himself. The block is bought by a young man to use as a sculpture. Once Pinhead is free (by means of a series of somewhat gruesome murders) he wants to destroy the block so that he never has to return to Hell. Only one thing stands between him and his goal a female reporter.

• The Human Centipede (First Sequence) + (Full Sequence) 2-disc DVD Edition | DVD | (29/10/2012) from £9.95   |  Saving you £5.04 (50.65%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The Human Centipede: First SequenceFilm Director Tom Six's Award winning vision begins with The Human Centipede (First Sequence). Here we are introduced to retired surgeon Dr Heiter, a man who harbours a sick lifetime fantasy of being the first person to create a Siamese triplet. He just requires the necessary pieces. Two pretty American girls walk unwittingly up to his door in search of help when their car breaks down and find themselves on his operating table, alongside another hapless Japanese tourist Heiter has acquired for his project. In 100% medically accurate detail Dr Heiter first describes to his ensnared patients the operation which will take place in order to conjoin them via their gastric systems, then commences his twisted surgery to create The Human Centipede. The Human Centipede 2: Full SequenceLike a Centipede's segments The Human Centipede (First Sequence) is inextricably joined to The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) where we find mentally disturbed car park attendant Martin obsessed with watching Tom Six's film. Pushed to the brink by his belligerent mother and haunted by the teasing voices of his abusive and imprisoned father, Martin plans to emulate Heiter's Centipede by creating his own version. In brutal juxtaposition Martin has no surgical skills, nor access to surgical implements. Anaesthesia is replaced by crowbar, stitches and sutures replaced by staple guns and duct tape, scalpels replaced by various household tools. What follows is one of the most harrowing and terrifying films ever conceived. First Sequence Special Features: Full Length Commentary with Director Tom Six Q and A with Director Tom Six and Actor Dieter Laser Two Interviews with Director Tom Six Original Theatrical Trailer Behind the Scenes Foley Session Casting Session Deleted Scene Full Sequence Special Features: DTS-HD MA 5.1 Surround Sound Interview with Director Tom Six Behind the Scenes Foley Session Deleted Scene

• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Complete Season 1 | DVD | (08/12/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £58.99

  It's all here. All the cases. All the evidence. All the solutions. All 23 episodes of the Golden Globe nominated first season of CSI. Now available in this special edition DVD set. Episodes comprise: 1. Pilot 2. Cool Change 3. Crate 'n Burial 4. Pledging Mr. Johnson 5. Friends & Lovers 6. Who Are You? 7. Blood Drops 8. Anonymous 9. Unfriendly Skies 10. Sex Lies and Larvae 11. I-15 Murders 12. Fahrenheit 932 13. Boom 14. To Halve And To Hold 15. Table Stakes 16.