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• Wrong Number | DVD | (18/04/2016) from £6.73   |  Saving you £3.26 (48.44%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A telephone number dialled in error could prove the downfall of a ruthless criminal gang in this gripping Merton Park thriller from versatile British director Vernon Sewell. Featuring Italian star Lisa Gastoni and noted character players Peter Reynolds and Paul Whitsun-Jones, Wrong Number is presented in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio.A security guard is murdered during a mail-van robbery and one of the van crew overhears the killer's name: Angelo. Before he can phone his boss to confirm that the job has been successfully accomplished, the elderly Miss Crystal mistakenly dials the same number and hears a girl ask if it is Angelo speaking. The next day, seeing the newspaper headlines, Miss Crystal realises she may have a valuable clue but can she remember the incorrect number she dialled..?

• Danger Man - Vol. 1 - Episodes 1,2,3 And 4 | DVD | (10/07/2000) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-10.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In 1960, television-executive Lew Grade's ITC company inaugurated a tradition of escapist adventure/mystery shows with Danger Man, a pocket-sized take on the spy stuff strutted in fiction by Ian Fleming's as-yet-unfilmed James Bond books. The versatile Patrick McGoohan took the lead role of John Drake, a daring spy for the NATO powers. This first, half-hour incarnation of the show (that would be known in the US as Secret Agent) concentrated on tight little plots executed at a rapid pace. McGoohan proved as adept in the numerous fight scenes and he was at spitting out the hardboiled dialogue which counterpointed Edwin Astley's memorable music. Although Drake is a deliberately colourless leading man, the format of the show allowed McGoohan to go undercover each week as a different, often strange character. Later, the series came back as an hour-long programme that segued wildly into McGoohan's masterpiece, The Prisoner. Volume One includes the following episodes: "View from the Villa" (with Barbara Shelley); "Time to Kill" (with Derren Nesbitt); "Josetta"; and "The Blue Veil" (with Ferdy Mayne). --Kim Newman

• The Strange Awakening | DVD | (27/07/2015) from £12.98   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Having found global fame as RKO's tenth Tarzan American actor Lex Barker established a long and successful career in Europe that began in 1957 with this classic tale of greed deception and murder. Co-starring Italian actress Lisa Gastoni and directed by B-movie stalwart Montgomery Tully Strange Awakening casts Barker as a man who loses his memory but gains a large inheritance… along with a sinister new 'family'! Also known as Female Fiends Strange Awakening is featured here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. Motoring in the South of France Peter Chance is attacked and left unconscious. On recovering he has no memory either of his past or who he is and is shocked to be told that he is the heir to two million dollars. As he slowly regains his health his suspicions are aroused by the women who claim to be his mother sister and wife. When police call to investigate the death of his father Chance realises that he too is a suspect and begins his own investigation... Features: Original Theatrical Trailer Image Gallery

• Visa to Canton (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (22/07/2024) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Richard Basehart (La Strada), Athene Seyler (Night of the Demon), and Lisa Gastoni (Eve) star in Visa to Canton (aka Passport to China), a classic spy film from Hammer. Don (Basehart) is a former pilot, now running a Hong Kong travel agency, who is reluctantly recruited to find a missing pilot. Travelling to the Chinese mainland, he becomes entangled with agent Sanchez (Gastoni), sparking a deadly pursuit. Directed by Hammer mainstay Michael Carreras (Maniac), written by Gordon Wellesley (Night Train to Munich), and with acting support from Eric Pohlmann (From Russia with Love), Bernard Cribbins (Carry On Spying), and Burt Kwouk (The Brides of Fu Manchu), Visa to Canton is a sizzling slice of Cold War espionage action. INDICATOR STANDARD EDITION SPECIAL FEATURES High Definition remaster Original mono audio Two presentations of the film: Visa to Canton, with the original UK title sequence, and Passport to China, with the alternative US titles New audio commentary with Kevin Lyons, editor of The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Films and Television Hammer's Women: Lisa Gastoni (2020, 15 mins): profile of the Visa to Canton star by critic and writer Virginie Sélavy Ticket to Ride (2020, 18 mins): film historian Vic Pratt explores the film's themes, characteristics and production history Bond Before Bond (2020, 15 mins): appreciation of Edwin Astley's score by David Huckvale, author of Hammer Film Scores and the Musical Avant-Garde Original UK theatrical trailer Image gallery: promotional and publicity materials New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

• They Who Dare | DVD | (18/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  During World War II a British Commando raiding party are despatched to Rhodes to destroy German airfields in a mission fraught with danger...

• RoGoPaG (Masters of Cinema) (DVD) | DVD | (27/08/2012) from £10.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (54.60%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Conceived by the legendary Italian producer Alfredo Bini, the multi-director portmanteau film Let's Wash Our Brains: RoGoPaG (Laviamoci il cervello: RoGoPaG) brought together four esteemed directors of European cinema to contribute comic episodes reflective of the swinging post-boom era. The resulting omnibus collectively examines social anxieties around sex, nuclear war, religion, urbanisation - and the promise of a modern cinema.Roberto Rossellini's Illibatezza (Virginity) follows an airline stewardess plagued by an obsessed American tourist whose 8mm camera enables the indulgence of a personal, and solipsistic, vision of the Ideal. Jean-Luc Godard's Il nuovo mondo (The New World) takes place in an Italian-dubbed Paris beset by nuclear fallout, and wittily chronicles the changes that take place in the lives - and medicine cabinet - of a handsome young couple. Pier Paolo Pasolini's scandalous La ricotta (Ricotta, as in the curded cheese) presents the goings-on around a film shoot devoted to the Crucifixion and presided over by none other than Orson Welles (playing a kind of stand-in for Pasolini himself); it is this episode that landed Pasolini with a suspended four-month prison sentence. Lastly, Ugo Gregoretti's Il pollo ruspante (Free-Range Chicken) depicts a middle-class Milanese family flirting with the purchase of real-estate and engaging catastrophically with an antagonistic consumerist infrastructure.

• Danger Man - The Complete Series 1 | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  John Drake is a special agent in the deadly world of international espionage and intrigue. A master in his field he is free to go wherever duty calls. Danger Man does not simply attract danger he thrives on it. Episode titles: The Key View From the Villa Find and Return Time To Kill Under the Lake The Journey Ends Halfway Position of Trust The Sisters An Affair Of State Deadline Bury The Dead The Girl In Pink Pyjamas Sabotage The Traitor The Nurse The Blue Veil The Lovers The Sanctuary The Deputy Coyannis Story The Brothers Colonel Rodriguez The Relaxed Informer Find and Destroy The Prisoner The Lonely Chair Dead Man Walks The Contessa Josetta The Island The Conspirators Name Date and Place The Leak The Honeymooners The Girl Who Liked GI's Hired Assassin The Gallows Tree The Vacation The Trap The Actor.

• Wake Up & Kill | Blu Ray | (23/11/2015) from £19.98   |  Saving you £2.00 (11.12%)   |  RRP £19.99

  During the 1960s Luciano Lutring committed more than one hundred armed robberies in Italy and on the French Riviera. To the media he was the ‘machine gun soloist’, a name he’d earned as he kept his weapon in a violin case. To the public he was a Robin Hood figure, one who only targeted the wealthy, stealing more than 35 billion lire during his criminal career. Wake Up and Kill was the logical extension of such fame. It became the first feature to commit Lutring’s story to celluloid, shooting having begun mere months after his eventual arrest. Capitalising on the breakthrough success of his performance in French television’s The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Robert Hoffmann is perfect as Lutring, bringing just the right amount of charisma and youthful exuberance to his first major big screen role. Directed by Carlo Lizzani (Requiescant), scored by Ennio Morricone, penned by the future screenwriter of Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, and featuring that film’s star, Gian Maria Volonté, in a key supporting role, Wake Up and Kill’s true-crime thrills serve as an enthralling dry run for the poliziotteschi movies that would follow a few years later. During the 1960s Luciano Lutring committed more than one hundred armed robberies in Italy and on the French Riviera. To the media he was the ‘machine gun soloist’, a name he’d earned as he kept his weapon in a violin case. To the public he was a Robin Hood figure, one who only targeted the wealthy, stealing more than 35 billion lire during his criminal career. Wake Up and Kill was the logical extension of such fame. It became the first feature to commit Lutring’s story to celluloid, shooting having begun mere months after his eventual arrest. Capitalising on the breakthrough success of his performance in French television’s The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Robert Hoffmann is perfect as Lutring, bringing just the right amount of charisma and youthful exuberance to his first major big screen role. Directed by Carlo Lizzani (Requiescant), scored by Ennio Morricone, penned by the future screenwriter of Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, and featuring that film’s star, Gian Maria Volonté, in a key supporting role, Wake Up and Kill’s true-crime thrills serve as an enthralling dry run for the poliziotteschi movies that would follow a few years later. Special Edition Contents: Brand new 2K restoration of the film from the original camera negative High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentations Optional English and Italian soundtracks presented in their original mono audio (uncompressed PCM on the Blu-rays) Newly-translated English subtitles for the Italian soundtrack Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtrack Theatrical trailer Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Reinhard Kleist Brand new 2K restoration of the film from the original camera negative High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentations Optional English and Italian soundtracks presented in their original mono audio (uncompressed PCM on the Blu-rays) Newly-translated English subtitles for the Italian soundtrack Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtrack Theatrical trailer Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Reinhard Kleist

• Second Fiddle | DVD | (29/06/2015) from £6.79   |  Saving you £3.20 (47.13%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The final film by veteran director Maurice Elvey takes a wry look at gender politics in the 1950s workplace casting Adrienne Corri as a high-flying advertising executive whose career is in jeopardy after the announcement of her forthcoming marriage. A sharply intelligent long sought-after comedy that was thought lost for many years Second Fiddle is featured here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements. Deborah and Charles young executives at the thriving Pontifex Advertising Agency are very much in love. Deborah is recognised by her employers as the most brilliant TV executive in the country while Charles is regarded as 'thoroughly reliable'. But there is one hard-and-fast rule at the agency: the board of directors will not allow any married women on their staff; as soon as a girl marries she must resign!

• Danger Man - Vol. 3 - Prisoner / Traitor / Deadline And Six More Episodes | DVD | (14/05/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  John Drake is a special agent in the deadly world of international espionage. A master in his field he is free to go wherever duty calls. Danger Man does not simply attract danger he thrives on it. Episode 13 - The Prisoner: John Drake has to find a double for an American who has been accused of espionage and is kept prisoner in the American Embassy in a Caribbean City. Episode 14 - The Traitor: What makes a traitor? John Drake finds out when his latest assignment takes him to Kashmir in Northern India and to drama high up a mountain. Episode 15 - Deadline: Disguised as a gun runner Danger Man plunges into the African jungle in an attempt to penetrate a deadly terrorist group. Episode 16 - Colonel Rodriguez: John Drake flies to the Caribbean and masquerades as a reporter in a bid to aid an American jounalist who has been arrested on a spy charge. Episode 17 - The Island: Two assassins escape from Drake's custody in a mid aor struggle forcing the plane to crash. They survive and make it to a remote island where the real struggle begins. Episode 18 Find and Return: Drake finds himself in certain danger in the Middle East when he is assigned to find a woman wanted for espionage and possibly treason. He is not alone in his search. Episode 19 - The Girls Who Liked GI's: Drake investigates the death of a solider in Munich who worked on a top security missile section in Munich. The only clues are a roll of film and a girl who like Gls and the head of West German Intelligence. Episode 20 - Name Date and Place: A series of successive similar style murders in France Ireland Italy and London lead Drake to expose the possible link of a Murder Incorporated organisation.

• Sacred Heart | DVD | (28/05/2007) from £9.39   |  Saving you £10.60 (53.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Your secret heart is a sacred heart. Irene is a workaholic property developer who takes on a restoration project that will force her to explore her past; the last person to live there was her mother whom she barely remembers. After an encounter with a street urchin Irene's world begins to collapse as the building and her mother's life increasingly fascinate her.

• Danger Man - Vol. 2 - The Lovers / Girls In Pink Pyjamas | DVD | (19/02/2001) from £91.32   |  Saving you £-75.33 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Patrick McGoohan stars as John Drake who's up to his neck in drug-smuggling kidnapping and espionage in these eight cult adventures. Episode 5 - The Lovers: Drake provides security for the visiting President of Boravia. Episode 6 - The Girl In Pink Pyjamas: Drake is assigned to look after a confused young woman. Episode 7 - Position of Trust: Drake and an American agent team up to break up a Middle East opium ring. Episode 8 - The Lonely Chair: The daughter of a designer is kidnapped and Drake impersonates her father. Episode 9 - The Sanctury: Drake mimics a newly released prisoner and lands himself into a web of danger. Episode 10 - An Affair of State: Drake investigates an apparent suicide but discovers the body is missing. Episode 11 - The Key: Information is being leaked from the US embassy in Vienna. Drake is called in to help. Episode 12 - The Sisters: A beautiful refugee's claim for political asylum gives Drake an awkward case.

• Danger Man - Vol. 4 - Conspirator / Honeymooners / Gallow Tree And Six More Episodes | DVD | (16/07/2001) from £15.58   |  Saving you £0.41 (2.63%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Features the next 8 superb episodes of international espionage featuring super-spy John Drake (Patrick McGoohan). Episode 21 - Vacation: Drake takes an assassin into custody then assumes his identity in order to uncover the intended victim. Episode 22 - The Conspirators: Drake is assigned as a bodyguard to protect the wife of a murdered diplomat. Episode 23 - The Honeymooners: Drake investigates when a groom is accused of murder on his honeymoon in the Far East. Episode 24 - The Gallows Tree: The fingerprints of a terrorist spy believed dead ten years earlier are discovered. Drake is brought in to uncover the mystery. Episode 25 - The Relaxed Informer: In order to unravel a security leak Drake carries out a daring hold-up which leads him into more trouble. Episode 26 - The Brothers: Two bandits kill one of the occupants of a crashed plane and steel a valuable diplomatic satchel. Drake is brought in to retrieve these documents at any cost. Episode 27 - The Journey Ends Half Way: Drake travels to China to investigate the disappearance of an eminent doctor who had bee trying to escape the Communist regime. Episode 28 - Bury The Dead: Drake takes over a dangerous mission when he receives an encoded ticket containing a message that a NATO agent has been killed.

• Come play with Me ---1968 --All Region | DVD | (07/09/2009) from £10.69   |  Saving you £2.30 (21.52%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Young Alvise's body is paralyzed or at least he thinks so. He is infatuated by his beautiful aunt Lea. What starts as innocent therapy and care soon develops into a strange erotic and psychological battle between them.

• Three Men In A Boat | DVD | (23/08/2004) from £7.97   |  Saving you £5.02 (62.99%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Typically British comedy with three London gentlemen taking holiday rowing down the Thames encountering various mishaps and misadventures along the way.