"Actor: Martha"

• Scorpion Spring | DVD | (06/03/2003) from £7.96   |  Saving you £-0.98 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Two strangers pick up a desperate fugitive and his mysterious companion. They discover that nothing is what it seems and learn that the road to truth is long and treacherous and getting there can be murder.

• A Breath of Scandal / Houseboat Double Pack | DVD | (22/04/2013) from £8.08   |  Saving you £4.91 (60.77%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A Breath Of Scandal: Drawn from Sidney Howard's successful Broadway Americanization of the Molnar farce Olympia, and adapted by a then-blacklisted and uncredited Walter Bernstein, the film opens in the Austrian countryside of 1907. The widowed Princess Olympia (Loren) is living a lush, if dull, exile from the court of Frances Joseph I, banished as a result of vaguely-referenced indiscretions that have caused the royal family embarrassment. She's desperate for distraction, wh...

• Martha Argerich And Friends | DVD | (17/04/2004) from £12.79   |  Saving you £0.20 (1.50%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A rare filmed performance of one of the greatest pianists of all times Martha Argerich who is almost as well known for her reclusive nature as she is for her exciting performances. Born in Argentina Argerich made her debut at the age of five and later came to Europe to study with such famous artists as Freidrich Gulda and Michelangeli.

• I'm Gonna Explode | DVD | (12/04/2010) from £10.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (45.50%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Roman and Maru, two troubled teenagers, attempt an impossible rebellion against the adult world.

• Music From Another Room | DVD | (07/05/2012) from £5.29   |  Saving you £0.70 (11.70%)   |  RRP £5.99

  What do you do when you've loved someone literally all their life? Five-year-old Danny is with his father, a U.S. Army doctor, when he is faced with an emergency - Grace Swan (Brenda Blethyn), an old friend of the family, is in the last stages of labour and there's no time to get her to the hospital. Danny ends up helping his father deliver the infant and, moments after birth, Danny is holding the baby in his arms, convinced this is the girl he will marry someday. 20 years later, Danny (Jude Law), now an artist educated in England after the death of his father, is back in the States to help restore a church. He meets Anna (Gretchen Mol), the girl he helped deliver - however, she's become cold and cynical, and has a fianc to boot. Against all the odds, can Danny win her heart?

• STANLEY & IRIS - MOVIE | Blu Ray | (05/04/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Undiscovered Tomb | DVD | (23/08/2004) from £6.33   |  Saving you £10.65 (318.86%)   |  RRP £13.99

  When the power of the Stone Warriors is coming back everyone will be crushed unless all unite! An expedition is embarked upon to uncover the tablets of Eternity which bear the promise of abnormally long lifespan. However with a prize as great as this many will fight and indeed kill for the treasure...

• Doctor Who - The New Series - Series 1 - Vol. 4 | UMD | (26/12/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

• Doll Face | DVD | (17/03/2008) from £8.98   |  Saving you £2.00 (33.39%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Doll Face is a hugely entertaining musical starring Vivian Blaine Carmen Miranda who brings her unique and special charm to 'Chico' Martha Stewart with the amusing 'Dig You Later' and Perry Como sings his chart topping hit 'Hubba Hubba Hubba'. A semi-biographical tale based on the play 'Naked Genius' by legendary burlesque queen-turned-actress Gypsy Rose Lee in which a veteran burlesque queen yearns for the big time and publishes her autobiography ghost written by a high society writer in order to make it big on Broadway.

• Laurel And Hardy Super Box Set | DVD | (18/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Featuring fifteen comedy classics: 'The Home Wrecker' 'Four Wheeled Terror' 'Roughest Africa' 'Crazy To Act' 'The Paper Hanger's Helper' 'Lucky Dog' 'Oranges And Lemons' 'Yes Yes Nanette' 'West Of Hot Dog' 'Enough To Do' 'Hop To It Bell Hop' 'Along Came Auntie' 'On The Front Page' 'Bromeo And Juliet' and 'This Is Your Life'. Please Note: Not all films contained in this box set stars Stan and Ollie together. These are very rare 1920's releases of both of their work before they became the legendary team that they would later become. Most if these shorts were made pre-1925 on very small budgets hence the struggling sound/screen quality.

• Martha Reeves And The Vandellas In Concert | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-3.49 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Driven by the soulful brassy lead vocals of Martha Reeves Martha and the Vandellas were one of Motown's earliest and most exciting vocal groups; an earthier more aggresive alternative to Diana Ross and the Supremes. Recorded live at the Rock 'n' Roll palace Orlando Florida. Tracklist: 1.Dancing in the Street 2.Nowhere to Run 3.Heatwave 4.Come and get these Memories 5.Jimmy Mack 6.Dancing in the Street 7.Hold on I'm Coming (With special guest Sam Moore) 8.Wrap it up I'll

• Wagner: Die Walkure -- Metropolitan/Levine | DVD | (12/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The 1990 Metropolitan Opera performance of Die Walkure ("The Valkyrie") with James Levine conducting is a solid, four-square performance with few frills and no gimmicks, just extraordinarily fine singing and orchestral playing. There is no point in this where you find yourself asking why the director did something: this is the sort of production which could be criticised as unimaginative but defended as serving Wagner's intentions for this instalment of his Ring cycle. Levine and his orchestra give the music an emotional intensity that never overwhelms its grandeur, though perhaps in Wotan's farewell to Brunnhilde, we feel him more as father than as god. James Morris as Wotan has real stature, making us feel that he has finally created the free agents he needs to avoid the curse he has unleashed on the world, but he has broken his heart in the process. Jessye Norman is surprisingly good and erotically self-assured as Sieglinde; the Act 1 love duet with Gary Lake as Siegmund has an ardour that makes the incestuous aspect less a matter of perversity than of the conduct of heroes. Kurt Moll makes Sieglinde's rapist and husband Hunding, a three-dimensional sinister villain; and Christa Ludwig almost manages to sell us Fricka's interminable paean to family values. The most impressive performance here, though, is Hildegard Behrens as Brunnhilde, the steely godling who sacrifices everything because she learns to feel and to know what is right. On the DVD Die Walkure on disc comes with menus and subtitles in German, French, English, Spanish and Chinese and with a picture gallery of the production. Awkwardly it is presented in (American) NTSC format not PAL, with a visual aspect of standard TV 4:3. More impressive is the choice of PCM stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 or DTS 6.1; the sound is admirably clear and well-balanced. --Roz Kaveney

• Martha Argerich | DVD | (22/02/2002) from £20.49   |  Saving you £-1.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.99

  Martha Argerich - Schumann Piano Concerto (Decker CBCSO)

• Humphrey Bogart Crime Collection | DVD | (06/11/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  THE BIG SLEEP: L.A. private eye Philip Marlowe takes on a blackmail case...and follows a trail peopled with murderers pornographers nightclub rogues the spoiled rich and more. Humphrey Bogart plays Raymond Chandler's legendary gumshoe and director Howard Hawks serves up snappy character encounters (particularly involving Lauren Bacall) a brisk pace and atmosphere galore in this certified classic. KEY LARGO: A hurricane swells outside but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco (Edward G. Robinson) holes up and holds at gunpoint hotel owner Nora Temple (Lionel Barrymore) and ex-GI Frank McCloud (Humphrey Bogart). McCloud's the one man capable of standing up against the belligerent Rocco. But the postwar world's realities may have taken all the fight out of him. John Huston co-wrote and compellingly directs this film of Maxwell Anderson's 1939 play with a searing Academy Awardwinning performance by Claire Trevor as Rocco's gold-hearted boozy moll. In Huston's hands it becomes a powerful sweltering classic. THE MALTESE FALCON: A gallery of high-living lowlifes will stop at nothing to get their sweaty hands on a jewel-encrusted falcon. Detective Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) wants to find out why - and who's gonna take the fall. This third screen version of Dashiell Hammett's novel is a film of firsts: John Huston's directorial debut rotund 62-year-old Sydney Greenstreet's screen debut film history's first film noir and Bogart's breakthrough role after years as a Warner contract player. When George Raft refused to work with a first-time director Bogart took on the role of Spade - and launched the most acclaimed period of his career.

• Zane Grey - Box Set 2 | DVD | (22/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Zane Grey (1872-1939) was one of the most popular authors of western fiction ever, and 60 years after his death many of his 78 books, such as Riders of the Purple Sage, are still in print. In the silent era Hollywood filmed many of his stories with stars such as Tom Mix and Jack Holt. Grey knew the west well, particularly the deserts of Arizona and Utah, and demanded accurate locations for the films. Later, however, many of these films were remade, sometimes two or three times, without Grey's involvement, and the relation between novels and films grew much looser. The films are quintessential B-moveis: black and white, just over an hour, featuring minor stars and formulaic plots with some music and comedy thrown in. Committed fans of the western genre will not be disappointed, and others will derive pleasure from the delightful Jane Greer in Sunset Pass and Tim Holt, son of Jack, in the other three films. The location shooting, mostly in the Lone Pine area of California, has an authentic feel. Titles are: Under the Tonto Rim (1947); Thunder Mountain (1947); Sunset Pass (1946); Wild Horse Mesa(1947). On the DVD: This box set contains two DVDs, each of which include two movies deriving from Zane Grey novels. Print quality and sound is generally acceptable, though Under the Tonto Rim has poor definition and is a bit scratchy. Aspect ratio is 14:9. The DVDs contain no extras of any kind. --Ed Buscombe

• Lotte Lenya & Gisela May - Theatre Music of Brecht & Weill | DVD | (04/07/2005) from £27.94   |  Saving you £-2.95 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Lotte Lenya and Gisela MayTheater Music of Brecht and Weill including performances by Martha Schlamme and Will Holt.Lotte Lenya (1958)Gisela May (1972)Martha Schlamme (1970/1963).

• I'm Not Rappaport | DVD | (06/07/2009) from £6.73   |  Saving you £-0.74 (-12.40%)   |  RRP £5.99

  I'm Not Rappaport

• The Stranger | DVD | (18/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  The Stranger, according to Orson Welles, "is the worst of my films. There is nothing of me in that picture. I did it to prove that I could put out a movie as well as anyone else." True, set beside Citizen Kane, Touch of Evil, or even The Trial, The Stranger is as close to production-line stuff as the great Orson ever came. But even on autopilot Welles still leaves most filmmakers standing. The shadow of the Second World War hangs heavy over the plot. A war crimes investigator, played by Edward G Robinson, tracks down a senior Nazi, Franz Kindler, to a sleepy New England town where he's living in concealment as a respected college professor. The script, credited to Anthony Veiller but with uncredited input from Welles and John Huston, is riddled with implausibilities: we're asked to believe, for a start, that there'd be no extant photos of a top Nazi leader. The casting's badly skewed, too. Welles wanted Agnes Moorehead as the investigator and Robinson as Kindler, but his producer, Sam Spiegel, wouldn't wear it. So Welles himself plays the supposedly cautious and self-effacing fugitive--and if there was one thing Welles could never play, it was unobtrusive. What's more, Spiegel chopped out most of the two opening reels set in South America, in Welles' view, "the best stuff in the picture". Still, the film's far from a write-off. Welles' eye for stunning visuals rarely deserted him and, aided by Russell Metty's skewed, shadowy photography, The Stranger builds to a doomy grand guignol climax in a clock tower that Hitchcock must surely have recalled when he made Vertigo. And Robinson, dogged in pursuit, is as quietly excellent as ever. On the DVD: not much in the way of extras, except a waffly full-length commentary from Russell Cawthorne that tells us about the history of clock-making and where Edward G was buried, but precious little about the making of the film. Print and sound are acceptable, but though remastering is claimed, there's little evidence of it. --Philip Kemp

• Pecker/Hairspray (1988)/A Dirty Shame | DVD | (24/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Pecker (1998): Pecker, a sandwich shop clerk, takes photos of his rather odd family and friends and nobody thinks anything of them until one day a New York art dealer discovers his work and makes him famous. Is this what Pecker really wants? Another quirky entry from cult director John Waters. Hairspray (1987): It's 1962 and Tracy Turnblad has the largest bouffant on the block. She also has all the right moves to be on the local dance show and win the crown of Miss Auto Show, a...

• Edward G. Robinson - Scarlet Street / The Stranger | DVD | (18/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In a way, Scarlet Street is a remake. It's taken from a French novel, La Chienne (literally, "The Bitch") that was first filmed by Jean Renoir in 1931. Renoir brought to the sordid tale all the colour and vitality of Montmartre; Fritz Lang's version shows us a far harsher and bleaker world. The film replays the triangle set-up from Lang's previous picture, The Woman in the Window, with the same three actors. Once again, Edward G Robinson plays a respectable middle-aged citizen snared by the charms of Joan Bennett's streetwalker, with Dan Duryea as her low-life pimp. The plot closes around the three of them like a steel trap. This is Lang at his most dispassionate. Scarlet Street is a tour de force of noir filmmaking, brilliant but ice-cold. The Stranger, according to Orson Welles, "is the worst of my films. There is nothing of me in that picture". But even on autopilot Welles still leaves most filmmakers standing. A war crimes investigator, played by Edward G Robinson, tracks down a senior Nazi to a sleepy New England town where he's living in concealment as a respected college professor. Welles wanted Agnes Moorehead as the investigator and Robinson as the Nazi Franz Kindler, but his producer, Sam Spiegel, wouldn't wear it. So Welles himself plays the supposedly cautious and self-effacing fugitive--and if there was one thing Welles could never play, it was unobtrusive. Still, the film's far from a write-off. Welles' eye for stunning visuals rarely deserted him and, aided by Russell Metty's skewed, shadowy photography, The Stranger builds to a doomy grand guignol climax in a clocktower that Hitchcock must surely have recalled when he made Vertigo. And Robinson, dogged in pursuit, is as quietly excellent as ever. On the DVD: sparse pickings. Both films have a full-length commentary by Russell Cawthorne which adds the occasional insight, but is repetitive and not always reliable. The box claims both print have been "fully restored and digitally remastered", but you'd never guess. --Philip Kemp