"Actor: Marilyn"

• Some Like It Hot - Special Edition | DVD | (26/11/2001) from £6.10   |  Saving you £13.89 (227.70%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Maybe "nobody's perfect", as one character in this masterpiece suggests. But some movies are perfect, and Some Like It Hot is one of them. In Chicago, during the Prohibition era, two skirt-chasing musicians, Joe and Jerry (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon), inadvertently witness the St Valentine's Day Massacre. In order to escape the wrath of gangland chief Spats Colombo (George Raft), the boys, in drag, join an all-woman band headed for Florida. They vie for the attention of the lead singer, Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe), a much-disappointed songbird who warbles "I'm Through with Love" but remains vulnerable to yet another unreliable saxophone player. (When Curtis courts her without his dress, he adopts the voice of Cary Grant--a spot-on impersonation.) The script by director Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond is beautifully measured; everything works, like a flawless clock. Aspiring screenwriters would be well advised to throw away the how-to books and simply study this film. The bulk of the slapstick is handled by an unhinged Lemmon and the razor-sharp Joe E. Brown, who plays a horny retiree smitten by Jerry's feminine charms. For all the gags, the film is also wonderfully romantic, as Wilder indulges in just the right amounts of moonlight and the lilting melody of "Park Avenue Fantasy". Some Like It Hot is so delightfully fizzy, it's hard to believe the shooting of the film was a headache, with an unhappy Monroe on her worst behaviour. The results, however, are sublime. --Robert Horton

• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (BD) | Blu Ray | (10/04/2023) from £18.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Five friends travelling through rural Texas stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. The group soon find themselves picked off, one-by-one, by a masked madman with a chainsaw. Product Features 2 disc edition A new presentation featuring additional restoration work Audio tracks include new Dolby Atmos, stereo and restored original mono mix produced by Second Sight Films New Audio commentary by Amanda Reyes and Bill Ackerman Audio commentary with Writer-Producer-Director Tobe Hooper Audio commentary with Cinematographer Daniel Pearl, Editor J. Larry Carroll, Sound Recordist Ted Nicolaou Audio commentary with Writer-Producer-Director Tobe Hooper, Cinematographer Daniel Pearl, Actor Gunnar Hansen Audio commentary with Actors Marilyn Burns, Allen Danziger and Paul A. Partain, and Art Director Robert A. Burns The Legacy of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre - a new feature length documentary produced by Second Sight Films Behind The Mask: Alexandra Heller-Nicholas on The Texas Chain Saw Massacre The Shocking Truth documentary, plus outtakes Cutting Chain Saw with Editor J. Larry Carroll Granpaw's Tales with Actor John Dugan Horror's Hallowed Grounds Flesh Wounds: Seven Stories of The Saw Off The Hook with Actor Teri McMinn The Business of Chain Saw with Production Manager Ron Bozman House Tour with Actor Gunnar Hansen Tobe Hooper interview Kim Henkel interview Deleted Scenes Outtakes Trailers TV and Radio Spots Stills Gallery

• Forever Marilyn Four Film Collection | DVD | (23/07/2012) from £17.98   |  Saving you £-3.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Marilyn Monroe forever stands alone as Hollywood's quintessential icon of sex appeal and timeless allure. Her breathy voice, voluptuous figure and wide-ranging talents catapulted her to superstardom, where she remains as legendary today as ever. Immortalized here in this must-own collection are four of her best and most popular films, showcase Marilyn's flawless beauty and captivating performances as they're meant to be seen. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes:Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell co-star as showgirls who set a course for love and laughter on board a luxury liner sailing to France.How To Marry A Millionaire:Marilyn, Betty Grable and Lauren Bacall play three Manhattan models who concoct a wild scheme to meet the men of their dreams.The Seven Year Itch:Marilyn plays a seductive starlet who tests the wedding vows of a married man when she moves into the apartment above him.Some Like It Hot:Marilyn is the lead singer of an all-girl band joined by Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, who are posing as women to hide from the mob.

• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (4K UHD) | Blu Ray | (10/04/2023) from £21.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Five friends travelling through rural Texas stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. The group soon find themselves picked off, one-by-one, by a masked madman with a chainsaw. Product Features A new presentation featuring additional restoration work Presented in Dolby Vision HDR produced by Second Sight Films Audio tracks include new Dolby Atmos, stereo and restored original mono mix produced by Second Sight Films New Audio commentary by Amanda Reyes and Bill Ackerman Audio commentary with Writer-Producer-Director Tobe Hooper Audio commentary with Cinematographer Daniel Pearl, Editor J. Larry Carroll, Sound Recordist Ted Nicolaou Audio commentary with Writer-Producer-Director Tobe Hooper, Cinematographer Daniel Pearl, Actor Gunnar Hansen Audio commentary with Actors Marilyn Burns, Allen Danziger and Paul A. Partain, and Art Director Robert A. Burns The Legacy of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre - a new feature length documentary produced by Second Sight Films Behind The Mask: Alexandra Heller-Nicholas on The Texas Chain Saw Massacre The Shocking Truth documentary, plus outtakes Cutting Chain Saw with Editor J. Larry Carroll Granpaw's Tales with Actor John Dugan Horror's Hallowed Grounds Flesh Wounds: Seven Stories of The Saw Off The Hook with Actor Teri McMinn The Business of Chain Saw with Production Manager Ron Bozman House Tour with Actor Gunnar Hansen Tobe Hooper interview Kim Henkel interview Deleted Scenes Outtakes Trailers TV and Radio Spots Stills Gallery

• Rabid | Blu Ray | (25/05/2020) from £16.00   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  101 Films presents Rabid (1977), an enduringly tense and gruesome horror that marked a landmark in David Cronenberg s early career. Title 009 on 101 Films Black Label, this double Blu-ray is stacked with extras, including Part 1 of a new feature length documentary on Canadian horror film. When Rose suffers terrible injuries in a motorcycle crash, she is taken to a nearby clinic run by Dr Keloid for experimental skin-graft surgery. At first, the revolutionary procedure proves successful, but it soon leaves Rose with a strange orifice protruding from her armpit and an insatiable thirst for human blood. Hell-bent on satisfying her bloodlust, Rose leaves a trail of insane and uncontrollably aggressive victims, as the unknown virus engulfs North America in an orgy of frenetic violence. Starring: Marilyn Chambers, Howard Ryshpan, Frank Moore and Patricia Gage (American Psycho). Rabid is written and directed by David Cronenberg (Videodrome) and produced by John Dunning, Ivan Reitman and Don Carmody. Brand New Extras The Quiet Revolution: State, Society and the Canadian Horror Film Part One: Gimme Shelter: Cinepix and the Birth of the Canadian Horror Film, a brand new feature-length documentary exploring the social contexts behind Canadian horror cinema from filmmaker and author Xavier Mendik Audio commentary with filmmakers Jen & Sylvia Soska Additional Extras Audio commentary with writer-director David Cronenberg Audio commentary with William Beard, author of The Artist as Monster: The Cinema of David Cronenberg Audio interview with Jill C. Nelson, author of Golden Goddesses: 25 Legendary Women Of Classic Erotic Cinema, 1968-1985 and Marilyn Chambers' Personal Appearances Manager Ken Leicht Young And Rabid An interview with actress Susan Roman Archive interview with David Cronenberg The Directors: David Cronenberg a 1999 documentary on the filmmaker Radio spots Trailer

• Iron Eagle 4 | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  General 'Chappy' Sinclair starts a school for young offenders. Whilst in training the youngsters discover a group of Air Force officers moving canisters containing toxic substances. So enraged by the potential dangers the youngsters decide to take action...

• The Misfits | Blu Ray | (17/03/2014) from £9.69   |  Saving you £3.30 (34.06%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Expertly directed by John Huston (The Maltese Falcon) from a screenplay by Pulitzer Prize winner Arthur Miller The Misfits is a 'probing exciting drama' (Film Daily) of honesty intensity and sheer poetic brilliance. Divorced and disillusioned Roslyn (Marilyn Monroe) befriends a group of 'misfits ' including an aging cowboy (Clark Gable) a heartbroken mechanic (Eli Wallach) and a worn-out rodeo rider (Montgomery Clift). Through their live-for-the-moment lifestyle Roslyn experiences her first taste of freedom exhilaration and passion. But when her innocent idealism clashes with their hard-edged practicality Roslyn must risk losing their friendship... and the only true love she's ever known.

• Some Like It Hot | DVD | (23/07/2012) from £7.19   |  Saving you £2.80 (38.94%)   |  RRP £9.99

  When two musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.

• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: 40th Anniversary Restoration - 2 Disc Standard Edition | Blu Ray | (17/11/2014) from £29.99   |  Saving you £-10.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This sensational, extremely influential, 1974 low-budget horror movie directed by Tobe Hooper (Poltergeist, Lifeforce, Salem's Lot), may be notorious for its title, but it's also a damn fine piece of moviemaking. And it's blood-curdling scary, too. Loosely based on the true crimes of Ed Gein (also a partial inspiration for Psycho), the original Jeffrey Dahmer, Texas Chainsaw Massacre follows a group of teenagers who pick up a hitchhiker and wind up in a backwoods horror chamber where they're held captive, tortured, chopped up, and impaled on meat hooks by a demented cannibalistic family, including a character known as Leatherface who maniacally wields one helluva chainsaw. The movie's powerful sense of dread is heightened by its grainy, semi-documentary style--but it also has a wicked sense of humour (and not that camp, self-referential variety that became so tiresome in subsequent horror films of the 70s, 80s and 90s). OK, in case you couldn't tell, it's "not for everyone", but as a landmark in the development of the horror/slasher genre, it ranks with Psycho, Halloween, and A Nightmare on Elm Street. --Jim Emerson

• CHAMPION (Masters of Cinema) Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (06/12/2021) from £10.89   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The brutal and uncompromising Champion earned Kirk Douglas his first ever Oscar nomination and was a huge success for director Mark Robson (Von Ryan's Express, Valley of the Dolls). Michael Midge Kelly (Douglas) is a boxer whose fight to the top is unhampered by ethics or gratitude. A hero to his fans, his friends know him to be a selfish egomaniac who allows nothing to stand in his way. After winning a fight he was supposed to throw, Mike's life is threatened by the mob, and he is only saved through the intervention of a woman who becomes yet another pawn in his climb up the ladder. Ultimately, he is forced to re-enter the ring and confront his biggest opponent... himself. Fully restored and featuring gorgeous black and white cinematography by Franz Planer (Breakfast at Tiffany's), the Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Champion on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK. Special Features 1080p presentation on Blu-ray Optional English SDH Subtitles Brand new audio commentary by professor and film scholar Jason A. Ney Stills Gallery PLUS: A collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by critic Richard Combs; and a piece on boxing in cinema by author / screenwriter S. B. Caves *All extras subject to change

• Puccini: La Boheme -- Royal Opera House/Gardelli | DVD | (21/08/2000) from £17.00   |  Saving you £0.99 (5.82%)   |  RRP £17.99

  This full-blooded 1982 performance of Puccini's most-loved opera demonstrates just how much drive and powerful emotion can make up for a certain lack of subtlety. Cotrubas' Mimi is entirely moving in both joy and death, while never quite feeling as thoroughly frail as some of her quieter rivals; stronger tenor voices than Neil Shicoff's have recorded the role, and yet he has a Romantic passion and a dignity that many of his rivals fail to bring to the role. That under-rated singer Gwynne Howell is especially moving in Colline's farewell to his cloak--one of those perfect little showcase sections Puccini sometimes gives to minor parts. Marilyn Zschau's Musetta is broad and comic and yet somehow includes the audience in the glorious joke that her sexuality is for her; when Thomas Allen sings, to her waltz theme, of youth that is not yet dead, his ardour transcends realism. Gardelli knew this score in his bones--the production bounces along from comedy to tears to eroticism to tragedy and neither cast nor orchestra miss a single one of Puccini's wonderful touches of emotional exploitation. --Roz Kaveney

• Monkey Business | DVD | (23/07/2012) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  After a chimpanzee gets loose in a pharmaceutical lab and randomly concocts a youth-restoring drug, staid scientist Dr. Barnaby Fulton (Cary Grant) unknowingly samples the potion and acquires the energy and tempement of a college student!

• Kentucky Fried Movie | DVD | (22/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Twenty years before the Farrelly Brothers turned raunch into acceptable film comedy, the team of David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker exploited it first. The college threesome made it big with Airplane in 1980, but this 1977 cinematic version of their live theatre show was the ground zero for their talents. Kentucky Fried Movie is a mish-mash of sketches, fake commercials, and parodies with no central theme--except their crudeness and laugh-out-loud humour. Highlights include a commercial for "Scot Free", a board game based on the Kennedy assassination conspiracy; "The Wonderful World of Sex", in which a couple goes through foreplay with a self-help narrator instructing them step-by-step; and a 20-minute spoof of Bruce Lee films entitled "A Fistful of Yen". Brazen to a fault, the movie will reach for any punchline, no matter how crude (and those who flocked to the film's initial release looking for R-rated sex will remember the final sketch and the infamous trailer for "Catholic High School Girls in Trouble".) Directed by then-unknown John Landis (who went on to make The Blues Brothers and An American Werewolf in London) on a shoestring budget, the film has aged. But crassness, when this funny, is forever. --Doug Thomas, Amazon.com

• The Misfits | Blu Ray | (18/09/2023) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Night of the Living Dead | Blu Ray | (07/10/2024) from £29.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Night of the Living DeadShot outside Pittsburgh on a shoestring budget, by a band of filmmakers determined to make their mark, Night of the Living Dead, directed by horror master George A. Romero, is a great story of independent cinema: a midnight hit turned box-office smash that became one of the most influential films of all time. A deceptively simple tale of a group of strangers trapped in a farmhouse who find themselves fending off a horde of recently dead, flesh-eating ghouls, Romero's claustrophobic vision of a late-1960s America literally tearing itself apart rewrote the rules of the horror genre, combining gruesome gore with acute social commentary and quietly breaking ground by casting a Black actor (Duane Jones) in its lead role.Night of the Living Dead was restored by the Museum of Modern Art and The Film Foundation, with funding provided by the George Lucas Family Foundation and the Celeste Bartos Preservation Fund.4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES¢ New 4K digital restoration, supervised by director George A. Romero, co-screenwriter John A. Russo, sound engineer Gary R. Streiner, and producer Russell W. Streiner¢ New restoration of the monaural soundtrack, supervised by Romero and Gary Streiner and presented uncompressed¢ One 4K UHD disc of the film and two Blu-rays with the film and special features¢ Night of Anubis, a work-print edit of the film¢ Program featuring filmmakers Frank Darabont, Guillermo del Toro, and Robert Rodriguez¢ Sixteen-millimetre dailies reel¢ Programme featuring Russo on the commercial and industrial film production company where key Night of the Living Dead participants got their starts¢ Two audio commentaries from 1994 featuring Romero, Russo, producer Karl Hardman, actor Judith O'Dea, and others¢ Archival interviews with Romero and actors Duane Jones and Judith Ridley¢ Programs about the film's style and score¢ Interview program about the direction of ghouls, featuring members of the cast and crew¢ Interviews with Gary Streiner and Russell Streiner¢ Newsreels from 1967¢ Trailer, radio spots, and TV spots¢ PLUS: An essay by critic Stuart Klawans¢ Illustration by Sean Phillips

• Touchez Paz Au Grisbi | DVD | (13/08/2007) from £11.55   |  Saving you £6.44 (55.76%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Jean Gabin is at his most wearily romantic as aging gangster Max le Menteur in the Jacques Becker gem Touchez pas au grisbi (Hands Off the Loot!). Having pulled off the heist of a lifetime Max looks forward to spending his remaining days relaxing with his beautiful young girlfriend. But when Riton (Ren Dary) Maxs hapless partner and best friend lets word of the loot slip to loose-lipped two-timing Josy (Jeanne Moreau) Max is reluctantly drawn back into the underworld. A

• All About Eve | DVD | (23/07/2012) from £9.15   |  Saving you £0.84 (9.18%)   |  RRP £9.99

  An ingenue insinuates herself in to the company of an established but aging stage actress and her circle of theater friends.

• Farewell To The King | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £6.22   |  Saving you £0.77 (12.38%)   |  RRP £6.99

  During World War II a British Army officer is despatched to Borneo to train the local tribesmen to fight the Japanese and is surprised to discover the tribal king is an American. The two train the tribe and fight in a series of battles but both are sadly aware that their destruction is imminent...

• All About Eve (1950) (Criterion Collection) UK Only | Blu Ray | (23/08/2021) from £25.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In this devastatingly witty Hollywood classic from JOSEPH L. MANKIEWICZ (Cleopatra), backstage is where the real drama plays out. One night, Margo Channing (Now, Voyager's BETTE DAVIS) entertains a surprise dressing-room visitor: her most adoring fan, the shy, wide-eyed Eve Harrington (The Magnificent Ambersons' ANNE BAXTER). But as Eve becomes a fixture in Margo's life, the Broadway legend soon realizes that her supposed admirer intends to use her and everyone in her circle, including an acid-tongued critic played by GEORGE SANDERS (Rebecca), as stepping-stones to stardom. Featuring stilettosharp dialogue and direction by Mankiewicz, and an unforgettable Davis in the role that revived her career and came to define it, the multiple-Oscar-winning All About Eve is the most deliciously entertaining film ever made about the ruthlessness of show business. Special Features: 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack Two audio commentaries from 2010, one featuring actor Celeste Holm, director Joseph L. Mankiewicz's son Christopher Mankiewicz, and author Kenneth L. Geist; the other featuring author Sam Staggs All About Mankiewicz, a feature-length documentary from 1983 about the director Episodes of The Dick Cavett Show from 1969 and 1980 featuring actors Bette Davis and Gary Merrill New interview with costume historian Larry McQueen Hollywood Backstories: All About Eve, a 2001 documentary featuring interviews with Davis and others about the making of the film Documentaries from 2010 about Mankiewicz's life and career, the short story on which the film is based and its real-world inspiration, and a real-life Sarah Siddons Society based on the film's fictional society Radio adaptation of the film from 1951 Trailer PLUS: An essay by critic Terrence Rafferty and the 1946 short story on which the film is based

• Eyes of Laura Mars (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (16/09/2019) from £8.19   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Irvin Kershner's stylish, violent cult thriller from an original screenplay by John Carpenter stars iconic star Faye Dunaway as glamorous fashion photographer Laura Mars, who begins to experience horrific visions when she ˜sees' a series of brutal murders as they happen. Extras: High Definition remaster Original mono audio Audio commentary with director Irvin Kershner The Eyes Have It (2017, 14 mins): an appreciation by critic Kat Ellinger Visions (1978, 7 mins): original 'making of' documentary Eyes on Laura Mars (1999, 8 mins): on-set photography with commentary Original theatrical trailer David DeCoteau trailer commentary (2013, 4 mins): a short critical appreciation Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing