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• Verdi: Falstaff | DVD | (06/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  This 1956 Falstaff from Radiotelevisione Italiana is one of the finest of the many studio productions that RAI presented in the 1950s. In addition to the presence of the legendary maestro Tullio Serafin there is the elegant physical production and brilliant staging by the renowned opera director Herbert Graf. the top-notch cast includes a number of singers particularly associated with this opera. Anna Moffo scored many of her early successes as Nannetta often opposite Luigi Alva's Fenton. Just a month after appearing in this production the two joined the cast of the studio recording of Falstaff under Karajan also featuring Fedora Barbieri as Mrs Quickly. Giuseppe Taddei Rosanna Carteri and Anna Maria Canali had also taken part in a 1949 Cetra recording of the opera. Taddei Rosanna Carteri and Anna Maria Canali had also taken part in a 1949 Cetra recording of the opera. Taddei who made a specialty of the title role began his long career in the mid-1930s.

• Violence In A Woman's Prison | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-4.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Shot back to back with 'Emanuelle In Prison' 'Violence In A Woman's Prison' is along the lines of 'The Concrete Jungle' and such other caged delights. Laura Gemser plays yet another Emanuelle a reporter who goes to prison undercover on trumped up charges to expose the corruption within the prison and to secure a scoop about the bad conditions run by sadistic warden Lorraine De Selle. Naturally the place is a hellhole. Gemser bares her fabulous body has sex with Gabrielle Tinti dumps a bucket of faeces on a guard and spends time in the hole where she is devoured and chewed on by hungry rats! Extremely kinky as expected with Mattei managing to stage a somewhat bizarre art rape-scene which looks like something from a Tinto Brass movie where the warden and her lover gets horny while watching a girl being raped and beaten up by male inmates (oh yes there are male inmates here too!). Lorraine De Selle is great as the evil warden and there's another loud great soundtrack by Luigi Ceccaralli.

• Hostile Advances - The Kerry Ellison Story | DVD | (04/03/2002) from £7.53   |  Saving you £-3.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Kerry Ellison becomes the object of desire for Sterling Gray who deals with his attraction by stalking and terrorising Kerry's life. When her official complaint of sexual harassment is dismissed by the courts she realises she is the only one with the power to get her life back.

• Fifi's Carnival | DVD | (25/05/2009) from £7.52   |  Saving you £2.47 (32.85%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Fifi And The Flowertots: Fifi's Carnival

• Maria Callas at Covent Garden (Pretre, Cillario) | DVD | (01/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Now for the first time Maria Callas' legendary live performances from the Royal Opera House Covent Garden are available on DVD. These 2 memorable concerts from 1962 and 1964 celebrate her triumphant return to the Covent Garden stage. This is Maria Callas as the world remembers her. Tracklisting: Verdi: Tu che le vanita (Don Carlo) Bizet: Habanera & Seguedille (Carmen) Puccini: Tosca (Act II complete)

• House Of Witchcraft | DVD | (24/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  HOUSE OF WITCHCRAFT is one of the two films Umberto Lenzi made for VIPCOS four part Houses of Doom Lucio Fulci helming the others. A young man dreams a recurring nightmare in which he is running away from someone before he's reaching an old house where an ugly old woman boils his own head in a big kettle! His girlfriend thinks it's good for him to take a few days off and they drive to an old house that belongs to her family. The house is the one the young man always enters in his

• MGM Western Greats - Part 1 | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £68.95   |  Saving you £-18.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Includes the following classic 10 Westerns! 1. The Alamo (dir. John Wayne, 1960) 2. Apache (dir. Robert Aldrich, 1954) 3. The Big Country (dir. William Wyler, 1958) 4. A Fistful Of Dynamite (dir. Sergio Leone, 1971) 5. The Kentuckian (dir. Burt Lancaster, 1955) 6. Posse (dir. Mario Van Peebles, 1993) 7. Red River (dir. Howard Hawks, 1948) 8. The Scalphunters (dir. Sydney Pollack, 1968) 9. Vera Cruz (dir. Robert Aldrich, 1954) 10. Wild Bill (dir. Walter Hill, 1995)

• The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor | Blu Ray | (29/01/2018) from £10.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Brendan Fraser and Jet Li star in the action-packed adventure The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor! When a 2,000-year-old curse is broken, a ruthless dragon emperor (Jet Li) comes back to life with a diabolical plan to enslave the world. Mankind's only hope against him and his legions of undead warriors lies with the courageous O'Connell family, who chase him from the dangerous catacombs of China, to the icy Himalayas and beyond. Featuring intense battle sequences, breathtaking visual effects and extraordinary creatures, it's a thrilling journey that Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times calls the best in the series! Bonus Features Feature Commentary Know Your Mummy Creating New And Supernatural Worlds Preparing For Battle With Brendan Fraser and Jet Li Legacy Of The Terra Cotta, And More!

• I Could Read The Sky | DVD | (27/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Adapted by Nichola Bruce from the acclaimed photographic novel by Timothy O'Grady and Steve Pyke 'I Could Read The Sky' is a haunting and lyrical film about identity love loss and the isolation and loneliness of the immigrant. Dermot Healy movingly portrays a man reflecting upon his life from his rural upbringing on the West Coast of Ireland to his journey to London and experiences in the vividly modern metropolis. Driven by a dynamic music soundtrack that draws from both envir

• Spanish Night | DVD | (04/02/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Plácido Domingo is no stranger to stadium events, though in the old days it was as a singer with his pals, Pavarotti and Carreras. In Spanish Night with baton in hand he has an appealingly avuncular manner, and he couldn't hope for a better class of orchestra than the Berlin Philharmonic, here playing in their annual open-air concert given at the city's Waldbühne. It's a real crowd-pleaser of a programme (and the audience's enthusiasm is immediately apparent and increasingly boisterous as the evening wears on). None of the works stretches the concentration unreasonably, and the views of Spain come not only from home-grown composers (Sarasate, Torroba, Serrano and Vives) but also as viewed through other eyes: Rimsky-Korsakov's Capriccio espagnole, Chabrier's España and Johann Strauss II's Spanish March. A pair of soloists increase the sequin quotient of the evening: the consummately poised violinist Sarah Chang (who has been round for so long it's difficult to believe she's still only 20) and the full-voiced soprano Ana María Martínez, winner of the Plácido Domingo Vocal Competition in Barcelona. Given the visual limitations of such events, the camerawork is imaginative without being distracting, and the sound, if a little boxy, is perfectly acceptable. Above all there's a great sense of fun to the occasion, and in the final number, Lincke's Berliner Lufte, Domingo is unable to resist seizing the microphone and leading the singing. On the DVD Sound options are either Dolby Digital 5.1 or PCM stereo and the picture is formatted for 16:9 TVs. A variety of goodies have been added to the concert itself, including interviews with Domingo and Sarah Chang, footage of flamenco dancing in Berlin (which is vaguely relevant) and a behind-the-scenes documentary.--Harriet Smith

• The King's Beard | DVD | (13/01/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A man who has plans to become a wealthy barber travels to the Mirrored Kingdom to seek his fortune. But none of the men in the town want a haircut for the King sports the longest beard in the world...

• The Ghost Galleon | DVD | (14/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The motor launch of a pair of models staging a publicity stunt on the high seas bizarrely disappears having reporting a mysterious vessel. After learning that the uninhabited ship seen had been reported lost for years a search party sets out and discovers that the ship is in fact populated inhabited by undead blood-drinking Templar knights!

• The Arena | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £8.08   |  Saving you £-0.09 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Female gladiators fight to the death. Inspired by the story of Spartacus follow the adventures of a bevy of slave girls who upon finding themselves thrust into the gladiator ring mount a vicious rebellion to fight their way to freedom.

• Amazing Adventures Of The Living Corpse, The Blu-ray/DVD Combi | Blu Ray | (21/10/2013) from £8.49   |  Saving you £1.50 (15.00%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Based on the Dynamite Publishing comic series 'The Living Corpse: Exhumed' The Living Corpse is a rotting mass of bone and tissue. Moldy clothes hang on the ghastly frame of this impossible visage of death. Gnarled teeth gnash on a dinner of brains and blood - nutrition for what by all accounts is your typical 'zombie'. But this monster is different than your typical mindless corpse-devouring skeletons. This monster has a soul. Through monasteries and churches long forgotten and tunnels and catacombs never seen by mortal man The Living Corpse searches for clues to the whereabouts of his son Taylor the only survivor of a zombie attack led by The Living Corpse himself. Decades pass as The Living Corpse becomes a tool of the underworld dispatching all manners of horrible creatures in all corners of the globe while constantly keeping up hope that his child is out there somewhere in the terrible world. Will he find his son? Will his son forgive him? What price will be paid? All will be answered as we watch The Amazing Adventures of The Living Corpse!

• Carjacked | Blu Ray | (28/05/2012) from £12.96   |  Saving you £7.03 (54.24%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Two-time Golden Globe nominee Maria Bello of Prime Suspect stars as Lorraine, a stressed out single mom harassed by an abusive ex-husband, struggling to raise her 8-year-old son. Her world changes in an instant when she and her child are carjacked by a fugitive bank robber (Stephen Dorff of Immortals) and taken on a desperate drive to retrieve his loot. But Lorraine refuses to be a victim. She is about to take control and fight back. And tonight, what she will do to survive may lead to the most shocking crime of all. Joanna Cassidy (Six Feet Under) and Catherine Dent (The Shield) co-star in this intense action-thriller.

• La Traviata - Verdi | DVD | (02/05/2006) from £34.55   |  Saving you £-4.56 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Norah Amsellem as Violetta leads a cast of outstanding talent in Pier Luigi Pizzi's beautiful production filmed with High Definition cameras and recorded in multi-track surround sound. Jes''s L''pez Cobos conducts the Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real (Madrid Symphony Orchestra and Chorus) in an acclaimed reading of one of Verdi's greatest works.

• The Assassination Of Trotsky | DVD | (27/12/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Mexico City 1940. Communist parades are celebrating May day. In a hotel room near Zocalo Square there are two people who are destined to play a major part in the events leading to the assassination of Leon Trotsky the ageing idealist and 'dedicated Marxist and atheist' banished from Russia by Josef Stalin who has been given sanctuary by the Mexican Government - Frank Jacson travelling on a Canadian passport who claims to be a Belgian in Mexico avoiding national service and Gita Samuels a one-time translator.

• Maria Callas | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Maria Callas is without question the greatest opera legend of the 20th century. This unique DVD offers a rare opportunity to view the celebrated and candid 1968 BBC interviews she gave with Lord Harewood intimately filmed in her Paris apartment. Included in the programme is an interview with French television presenter Bernard Gavoty coupled with superb performances of arias by Massenet Bellini and Puccini (1965).

• Godzilla --Superbit | DVD | (14/10/2002) from £10.59   |  Saving you £2.40 (22.66%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In the steamy jungles of the South Pacific an enormous creature is created by nuclear fallout. Lost for decades the power and the fury of the world's largest monster are about to be unleashed. He's the most spectacular creature in cinematic history with a foot the size of a bus a body as tall as London's Big Ben and strength and agility the likes of which the world has never seen...

• Venus In Furs | DVD | (11/06/2007) from £18.85   |  Saving you £-3.86 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  This infamous erotic shocker features a jazz score by the legendary Manfred Mann the famous Klaus Kinski and singer Barbara McNair. Venus In Fur tells the story of a Jazz musician in the throes of a breakdown who is sucked into a perverse mire of psycho-sexual horror after finding the dead body of a girl he had watched being stripped and whipped the previous evening. This DVD has been Remastered from the original negative and is presented here totally uncut and uncensored.