"Actor: Martin"

• The Outlaw | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £12.23   |  Saving you £-6.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The publicity campaign surrounding The Outlaw's release was a masterpiece. Armed with stills of 19-year-old Jane Russell revealing a remarkable dcolletage (while stopping to pick up a pair of milk pails!) Producer/Director Howard Hughes spent tens of thousands of dollars purposely to agitate the censors and arouse public indignation. He released the film independently in San Francisco in 1943 after United Artists refused to distribute it; it was quickly closed down by civic groups.

• The Lonely Guy / Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid / The Jerk | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Lonely Guy (Dir. Arthur Hiller 1984): The one and only Steve Martin stars along with Charles Grodin and Tony Award winner Judith Ivey in this funny and poignant romance inspired by Bruce Jay Friedman's tongue-in-cheek survival manual. The Lonely Guy follows the progress of Larry (Steve Martin) and his buddy Warren (Charles Grodin) as they attempt to eke out a successful social life in the Big Apple. They're losers until one day Larry writes a book that turns loneliness into the ultimate love potion and life is never the same! Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (Dir. Carl Reiner 1982): As the private eye of private eyes Steve Martin is Rigby Reardon. He's tough rough and ready to take on anything when Juliet Forrest appears on the scene with a case: her father a noted scientist philanthropist and cheesemaker has died mysteriously. Reardon immediately smells a rat and follows a complex maze of clues that lead to the 'Carlotta Lists'. With a little help from his 'friends' Alan Ladd Barbara Stanwyck Ray Milland Burt Lancaster Humphrey Bogart Charles Laughton and others Reardon gets his man. An exciting action-fun packed film the way 40's films used to be! The Jerk (Dir. Carl Reiner 1979): That wild and crazy guy Steve Martin makes his acting debut in this wild and crazy comedy hit The Jerk. Steve portrays Navin Johnson adopted son of a poor black sharecropper family whose crazy inventions lead him from rags to riches and right back to rags. Along the way he's smitten with a lady motorcycle racer survives a series of screwball attacks by a deranged killer becomes a millionaire by inventing the opti-grab handle for eyeglasses - and shows why he's the hottest comic performer in America today.

• Battle Recon - The Call to Duty | Blu Ray | (21/05/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In the thick of WWII the 1st Special Forces Unit is called to duty on a secret rescue mission. Challenged by Nazis at every turn our band of heroes bunker in a bombed out city and race against time to relay a message that is crucial to the allies D-Day Invasion. Cornered and caught between a rock and a hard place they only have one option: FIRE MORE BULLETS!

• The Best Of Dean Martin And Jerry Lweis | DVD | (21/04/2008) from £24.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Disc 1: The Colgate Comedy Hour Volume 1 1950 - 1952 Show 1 Original broadcast date 17th September 1950. Guest Stars Marilyn Maxwell Barr & Estes The Honeydreamers. Songs Include Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter Talk Of The Town La Vie En Rose Frankie & Johnny. Show 2 Original broadcast date 21st September 1952. Guest Stars Rosemary Clooney Danny Arnold. Songs Include You Belong To Me Hominy Girls. Sketches Include The Wedding Detective Cranky Little Boy. Disc 2: The Colgate Comedy Hour Volume 2 1953 - 1954 Show 1 Original broadcast date 4th October 1953. Guest Stars Burt Lancaster Sidney Sillman The Skylarks. Songs Include Great To Be Home Youre The Right One Thats Amore Theres No Tomorrow. Sketches Include The Escaped Lunatic. Show 2 Original broadcast date 19th December 1954. Guest Stars Vera Miles Milton Frome Jack Benny. Songs Include Long Face Without A Word Of Warning Mambo Italiano Every Streets A Boulevard. Sketches Include At Deans Dinner Jerry Is Adopted. Disc 3: At War With The Army Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis star in their first film together a hilarious slapstick comedy about two buddies mishaps at an army training camp during World War II. Dean Martin is Vic Puccinelli a newly promoted sergeant who finds himself head over heels in love with pretty Polly Bernen. Desperate Martin enlists the aid of his bumbling pal Private Alvin Corwin (Jerry Lewis) to help him win her over.

• Handel: Teseo (Pal) | DVD | (01/08/2005) from £20.20   |  Saving you £7.78 (45.21%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Opera in Five ActsRecorded Live from the 8th to the 11th of July 2004 at the Schlosstheater Neues Palais Potsdam

• Love For Lydia - Episodes 1 To 5 | DVD | (19/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The first five episodes of the lavish ITV costume drama series set in the late 1920s as Lydia Aspen a provincial heiress who develops from an awkward teenager into a wild flapper toys with the affections of the men around her...

• McLintock | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  George McLintock has to try and convince his wife that he has been faithful after a two year seperation with their fights the talk of the town. Matters are not helped by the extremely attractive cook Mrs Louise Warren he has hired at the ranch house... The film achieved a certain notoriety for the 'spanking' scene widely regarded as a cinematic first.

• Oscar Peterson - Easter Suite | DVD | (20/02/2004) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Oscar Peterson on piano. Featuring the tracklist: 'Why Have You Betrayed Me' 'The Trial' 'Are You Really The King Of The Jews' 'Jesus Christ Lies Here Tonight' and 'He Has Risen'.

• Space: 1999 - Series 2 - Vol. 1 | DVD | (12/11/2001) from £25.00   |  Saving you £-9.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Metamorph: Koenig goes to rescue two captured pilots from the planet Psychon but comes to meet Mentor a man lording over a world of virtual zombies who work for him as miners. Koenig believes he is capable of defeating Mentor and preventing him using a biological computer that feeds on the minds and bodies of his slaves. The Exiles: Travelling through space are fifty cylinder-shaped objects. When Koenig recovers one inside is a young man named Cantar. This is the mark of the trouble to come as Cantar and his wife force their way into the power station and use its energy to transport them to their own planet from which they were exiled. One Moment of Humanity: Zamara a striking alien woman materialises aboard Moonbase and takes two people back to her own planet. However Zamara and her accomplice Zarl are in fact super-androids developed by successive generations of self-reproducing computers and want to wipe out the humans who invented them. All That Glisters: After scanning a planet which contains Milgonite a rare mineral vital to Alpha's life support system the Alphans are eager to visit it. However by the time that they discover that there is no Milgonite only a deceptive lethal drug it is too late. The deadly rock is already aboard Alpha.

• Brotherhood Of Murder | DVD | (04/02/2002) from £5.99   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Based on a true story, Brotherhood of Murder is the sorry tale of Tony Martinez, an army dropout who becomes convinced that the downturn his life has taken is attributable to the fact that America's ethnic minorities are getting a better deal than he is. There's a ghastly inevitability to what follows as he joins a group of white supremacists who are funding a survivalist community largely through criminal activities. Eventually it's more than even he can bear, so he betrays the group to the FBI. Along the way, there are a few extraordinary scenes, such as when the group cleans out the cash register of a porno video store, leaving the proprietor unharmed but demanding that he remove from his shelves any material depicting interracial sex. This low-key but compelling production gives an insight into how such a strange and very ugly culture can arise out of ignorance and blunted perception. The disc also includes a trailer and a Synergy showcase. --Roger Thomas

• Space: 1999 - Vol. 2 | DVD | (30/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  For the time, there had never been a more lavishly produced science fiction TV series than Space: 1999, which was British-made on a first-season budget of 3.25 million pounds--an astounding amount--and ran for two seasons from 1975 to 77. What keeps fans enthralled after all these years has only partly to do with the first-rate production values, the plausibly constructed spaceship models and expert special effects. The tone of the show is one of scientific dispassion, setting it apart from its TV SF predecessors such as Star Trek in which the mood is more generally convivial. Our heroes here are in dire circumstances that require cool heads as a survival trait. Those circumstances are: the moon and the 311 crew members of Moonbase Alpha experience a cataclysm that causes the moon to break away from its orbit and travel endlessly through space, making our heroes into unintentional explorers. No TV series has created a more palpable feel of hard science fiction than this. Of course the show is not without its detractors, having been soundly lambasted for its many scientific errors. No less august a figure than Isaac Asimov criticised the show for its premise in the opening episode "Breakaway", which had nuclear explosions on the "dark side of the moon" somehow propel it out of orbit and sent it flying through space without regard for any physical laws. In "Earthbound", aliens travelling to Earth state it will take them 75 years to reach their destination, making one wonder why it didn't take the moon that long to encounter the aliens. While these are serious complaints, fans tend to remember the scientific seriousness of the series and the sense of awe created by the many strange creatures and phenomena they encounter on their journey through the galaxy. --Jim Gay, Amazon.com

• Still Game - Series 3 - Episodes 1 To 3 | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Another helping of real life warts and all served up by Jack and Victor! Episodes comprise: 1. Hoaliday 2. Swottin' 3. Cairds

• Madama Butterfly - Puccini | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £25.65   |  Saving you £4.34 (16.92%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Robert Wilson's pure and highly stylized 2003 production enhances the timeless beauty of Puccini's moving Japanese tragedy. Cheryl Barker and Martin Thompson lead an inspired cast in a highly charged recording from the Amsterdam Muziektheater with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by a masterful and passionate Edo de Waart.

• Merlin The Magical Puppy - Merlin Goes Camping And Others Stories | DVD | (24/05/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In another five fun filled adventures dreams are only a wish away for Merlin and his magical red collar. Merlin's nose for adventure finds the mischievous black labrador puppy getting himself into more unexpected predicaments ... with hilarious results!Merlin decides it would be great to be a famous artist. Sadly the weather and his friends conspire to ruin every attempt he makes - with unexpected results...Merlin decides that he would love to appear as the star in

• A Genius, Two Partners And A Dupe | DVD | (07/04/2003) from £9.98   |  Saving you £10.01 (100.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Produced by Sergio Leone (and considered by many the missing link in Leone's career) Genius features Terence Hill and a barnstorming performance from McGoohan plus a bizarre cameo from Klaus Kinski. In one of the last major productions of the 70s boom in Italian Westerns Hill plays freewheeling con-artist Joe Thanks in this semi-sequel to the hugely succesful 'My Name is Nobody' up against crooked cavalry officer Major Cabot (McGoohan) who is planning an Indian massacre in orde

• Princess Cut | DVD | (28/03/2016) from £12.76   |  Saving you £4.23 (24.90%)   |  RRP £16.99

  True Love Is Worth The Wait. A lifelong Carolina farm girl, now in her early 20's, Grace has dreamed all her life of the day when the ˜perfect man' slips a Princess Cut diamond on her finger and swears his eternal love to her. Tonight may be that night as Stewart has something special planned after 15 months together! But when things don't go as planned and romance crashes down around her, it launches her on a quest, aided by her father, to understand what it means to truly love another person. Will Grace discover her true love or ruin her chances for happiness forever?

• Men Behaving Badly - Last Orders | UMD | (07/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

• Da | DVD | (17/01/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  The Da in 'Da' is the recently deceased foster father of 40 year old Irish playwright Charlie who now lives in New York and has returned to Ireland for his father's funeral. Da in typical Irish style can't bear to miss his own funeral! As Charlie sorts through the old man's papers burning most of them who strolls in but Da himself. Shocked Charlie reminds him that he is dead and tells him to 'get out of my head'... Most of the action takes place in Charlie's mind and memory moving from present reality to the past and back again as the two struggle to understand each other. In the process other significant and colourful characters of Charlie's early life are resurrected including his mother the family dog and his tyrannical employer. His reverie is interrupted by Mr. Drumm who was entrusted with Da's will which much to Charlie's dismay bequeaths everything to him including all of the money Charlie ever sent his Da. Charlie learns that he cannot exorcise the past. Like all mankind he is part of a human chain and to reject his father even in memory is to deny himself... Based on the highly acclaimed Broadway play and written by Hugh Leonard Da features Barnard Hughes recreating his Tony award winning performance for the screen Martin Sheen as Charlie and William Hickey as Drumm.

• Blue Streak | Blu Ray | (03/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Master jewel thief Miles Logan (Martin Lawrence Life Bad Boys) has a big problem. A million problem. Recently released from prison for the botched heist of a huge diamond he's anxious to retrieve the hot rock which he hid at a construction site two years earlier. Unfortunately his hiding place is now at the center of a recently completed high-security police precinct. Posing as a detective and partnered with straight-laced rookie Carlson (Luke Wilson Home Fries Bottle Rocket) Miles utilizes his criminal expertise and inadvertently rises up the ranks winning the respect of his fellow boys in blue.

• Keeping Mum, The Complete 1st & 2nd Series Box Set | DVD | (19/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In this complete 4DVD set of the classic BBC comedy Keeping Mum meet the hilarious Peggy (Stephanie Cole) the dotty and rather forgetful mother of sons Richard and Andrew. Richard (David Haig) is a successful dentist married with children and can do no wrong. Andrew (Martin Ball) a major disappointment divorced with no children and now back living with his mother. Watch the trials and tribulations of a family at war when even making a cup of tea causes chaos. A true classic British sitcom from a different era that you will find both endearing and amusing with a chuckle in every episode. Series 1: The daily trials and tribulations between the brothers their mother and Tina (Meera Syal) the acid-tongued wife of Richard help to create many hilarious moments in this superb comedy. It's a situation that people everywhere can relate to: an elderly parent a caring son and selfish relations. Series 2: Peggy is up to her old tricks again and poor Andrew is once more the reluctant guardian teacher peacemaker and pragmatist. Still living in the shadow of older and 'favourite' child Richard this second series sees Andrew more determined than ever to have a life outside of the house and to cut the apron strings once and for all.