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• Short Circuit | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £19.19   |  Saving you £-9.20 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  John Badham's family-orientated adventure comedy Short Circuit, though obviously hatched in the wake of E.T. and Star Wars, manages to create its own identity through a sweet tone and an affectionate sense of fun. Military robot Number 5, a well-armed killing machine, is zapped by lightning during a test and emerges with a wacky sense of humour and a new peace-loving philosophy. Ally Sheedy (who debuted in Badham's hit WarGames) is the animal-lover whose home is sanctuary for a zoo-full of strays and who adopts the adolescent robot. Steve Guttenberg is the goofy but reclusive robotics designer who goes off in search of his creation to save him from the gun-happy army. The mix of gentle slapstick and innocent romance makes for a harmless family comedy. It veers toward the terminally cute, what with Number 5's hyperactive antics and E.T.-ish voice, and the mangled grammar of Guttenberg's East Indian sidekick (Fisher Stevens) threatens to become offensive, but Badham's breezy direction keeps the film on track. Sheedy and Guttenberg deliver spirited and engaging performances, but most importantly the robot emerges as a real person. Give credit to designer Syd Mead, an army of puppeteers and robotics operators, and the cartoony voice of Tim Blaney: Number 5 is alive. --Sean Axmaker

• Big Trail, The / The Comancheros / North To Alaska / The Undefeated | DVD | (31/05/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Four classic John Wayne films are featured on this fantastic box set. The Big Trail: John Wayne hits the pioneer trail in his first feature film. Starring as the leader of a wagon trail he battles through tough terrain and Indian attacks and learns of love and friendship in this sweeping Western epic! The Comancheros: John Wayne is a Texas Ranger in this rollicking good humored western assigned to bring an arms-running gang to justice. After Wayne arrests one of the

• Action Films (Box Set) | DVD | (13/01/2003) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-12.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  This box set contains the following four titles: Skeleton Coast: Colonel Smith's son a CIA agent is captured by some bad guys involved in an african civil war. Smith puts together a group of military pros to save him. The Klansman: When a black man is arrested for the rape of a white woman a showdown between the law and the clan is inevitable. Massacre In Rome: In the last days of the Nazi Occupation a group of partisans plan an attack on a German 'police' column. Return From The River Kwai: One of the last untold stories of World War II in the Far East. Starving British and Australian POW's make an attempt to escape Japanese brutality.

• Dead Reckoning | DVD | (27/01/2003) from £5.00   |  Saving you £7.99 (159.80%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Rip Murdock (Bogart) and Johnny Drake (Prince) are en route to Washington when Johnny disappears and then turns up dead. Rip learns that Johnny had been accused of murder and sets out to resolve the mystery surrounding his death...

• Delta Force / Delta Force 2 / Missing In Action | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £39.99   |  Saving you £-20.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Delta Force (Dir. Menahem Golan 1986): Political extremists have taken innocent people hostage and only super-soldiers Chuck Norris and Lee Marvin can rescue them in this astounding mix of fact fantasy and heavy-duty adventure (Variety). Co-starring Martin Balsam and Shelley Winters The Delta Force is wall-to-wall action! When a U.S. passenger plane is seized by vicious hijackers and taken to Beirut the President calls in The Delta Force - a crack team of commandos led by Colonel Nick Alexander (Marvin) and Major Scott McCoy (Norris). Against all odds the men blast into the compound and - taking no prisoners - rescue the hostages. But the mission is not yet over. A few remaining passengers are being 'escorted' to Teheran initiating a desperate race against time as Alexander and McCoy try to save them - and avenge America's honor - before it's too late. Delta Force 2 (Dir. Aaron Norris 1990): When notorious drug lord Ramon Cota captures a team of American narcotics agents as well as a member of Colonel Scott McCoy's elite Delta Force commando unit and imprisons them in his remote San Carlos compound the Delta Force charges into action waging war against Cota's powerful cocaine empire. Against all odds McCoy and his squad must fight their way to a blistering final battle to free the hostages and destroy the ruthless criminal mastermind in this lightning-paced and outrageously exciting (Video Movie Guide) turbo charged adventure! Missing In Action (Dir. Joseph Zito 1984): American servicemen are still being held captive in Vietnam - and it's up to one man to bring them home in this blistering fast-paced action-adventure starring martial arts superstar Chuck Norris. Following a daring escape from a Vietnamese POW camp Special Forces Colonel James Braddock (Norris) is on a mission to locate and save remaining MIAs. Aided by a beautiful State Department official (Lenore Kasdorf) and a former Army buddy (M. Emmet Walsh) Braddock amasses top-secret information and state-of-the-art weaponry. Now this one-man army is prepared to blast his way into Vietnam...but will he be able to blast his way back out?

• Top Cat Vol.4 | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £5.95   |  Saving you £2.04 (34.29%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Top Cat remains a favourite cartoon of many for its slyly subversive yet comically light-hearted anti-authoritarian themes. Set in the trash-strewn alleyways of New York City the animated series centres around charismatic con-man Top Cat and his gang of lowlife felines as they dodge nemesis Officer Dibble in their eternal quest for get-rich schemes.

• Marvin Gaye - Greatest Hits - Live In 76 | DVD | (01/12/2008) from £6.23   |  Saving you £1.02 (20.52%)   |  RRP £5.99

  This concert was recorded live on Marvin Gaye's first European tour in 1976. Filmed in Holland Edenhall Concert Hall in Amsterdam before a sell-out audience this show preserved now for prosperity was one of the rare live performances captured on film. Including the songs: All The Way Round Since I Had You Come To Get This Let's Get It On Ain't That Particular You're a Wonderful One Stubborn Kind of Fellow Pride And Joy Little Darling (I Need You) I heard It Through The Grape Vine Hitch Hike You Too Busy Thinking About My Baby How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) What's Happening? Save The Children You're All I Need Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing Heaven Must Have Sent You It Takes Two Ain't No Mountain High Enough and Distant Lover.

• The Wild One | DVD | (06/03/2006) from £18.01   |  Saving you £-8.02 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  An angry young Marlon Brando scorches the screen as The Wild One in this powerful '50s cult classic. Brando plays Johnny the leader of a vicious biker gang that involves a small sleepy California town. The leather-jacketed young biker seems hell-bent on destruction until he falls for Kathie (Mary Murphy) a ""good-girl"" whose father happens to be a cop. Unfortunately for Johnny his one shot at redemption is threatened by a psychotic rival Chino (Lee Marvin) plus the hos

• Twilight Zone - Season Three | DVD | (01/08/2011) from £21.99   |  Saving you £15.99 (84.16%)   |  RRP £34.99

  The complete third season of the classic American television sci-fi series by Rod Serling. In each of these 37 stand alone episodes an ordinary person finds himself in an extraordinary situation where the laws of reality are suspended. In this series a group of neighbours fight each other over the use of a single bomb shelter in the face of an alien invasion a young boy has the power to read minds and control thoughts in a small town and when a man falls into a lake on a hunting trip he finds that no one can hear or see him anymore.

• The Big Heat (Dual Format Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (27/03/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  There's a satisfying sense of closure to the definitive noir kick achieved in The Big Heat: its director, Fritz Lang, had forged early links from German expressionism to the emergence of film noir, so it's entirely logical that the expatriate director would help codify the genre with this brutal 1953 film. Visually, his scenes exemplify the bold contrasts, deep shadows, and heightened compositions that define the look of noir, and he matches that success with the darkly pessimistic themes of this revenge melodrama. The story coheres around the suicide of a crooked cop, and the subsequent struggle of an honest detective, Dave Bannion (Glenn Ford), to navigate between a corrupt city government and a ruthless mobster to uncover the truth. Initially, the violence here seems almost timid by comparison to the more explicit carnage now commonplace in films, yet the story accelerates as its plot arcs toward Bannion's showdown with kingpin Lagana (Alexander Scourby) and his psychotic henchman, the sadistic Vince Stone, given an indelible nastiness by Lee Marvin. When Bannion's wife is killed by a car bomb intended for the detective, both the hero and the story go ballistic: suspended from the force, he embarks on a crusade of revenge that suggests a template for Charles Bronson's Death Wish films, each step pushing Lagana and Stone toward a showdown. Bodies drop, dominoes tumbled by the escalating war between the obsessed Bannion and his increasingly vicious adversaries. Lang's disciplined visual design and the performances (especially those of Ford, Marvin, Jeanette Nolan as the dead cop's scheming widow, and Gloria Grahame as Marvin's girlfriend) enable the film to transcend formula, as do several memorable action scenes--when an enraged Marvin hurls scalding coffee at the feisty Debby (Grahame), we're both shattered by the violence of his attack, and aware that he's shifted the balance of power. --Sam Sutherland

• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (2012 re-pack) | DVD | (06/08/2012) from £11.98   |  Saving you £3.00 (30.03%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A senator, who became famous for killing a notorious outlaw, returns for the funeral of an old friend and tells the truth about his deed.

• I am Duran | DVD | (28/10/2019) from £4.69   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Roberto Durán is a boxing behemoth, a titanic figure straddling five epic decades as a fighter ranked as one of the most entertaining, controversial and finest of all time. This is the story of four-time World Champion Panamanian boxer Roberto Durán. A one man wrecking-ball who took on the world, transcended his sport and helped inspire a nation to rise up against its CIA funded dictator to achieve independence. From his days shining shoes on the street, to packing out arenas across the world, this is the story of modern Panama and its most celebrated child. Starring Roberto Duran, Robert De Niro, Mike Tyson, Oscar De La Hoya, Lennox Lewis, Marvin Hagler, Ricky Hatton and Sylvester Stallone.

• Marty | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £39.29   |  Saving you £-26.30 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Before beginning the main feature make sure you watch Burt Lancaster's endorsement of Marty in the appended theatrical trailer first. Yes, he was involved as coproducer, but his conviction clearly stems from the film itself. This screen adaptation of Paddy Chayevsky's play was a breakthrough in an American neo-realism that would sustain itself for two decades. Ernest Borgnine is in his element as the Bronx butcher in his mid-30s seemingly destined for a bachelor existence on account of past disappointments. There's a winningly natural performance from Esther Minciotti as his well-meaning, ever-interfering mother, while Betsy Blair is inspired casting as schoolteacher Clara, plain and diffident but with the proverbial good heart. The supporting cast is one of telling cameos, simply and unselfconsciously delivered. Delbert Mann conveys the energetic bustle of the Italian ex-pat community, and ensures that the intimacy of the original play is not lost. On the DVD: Marty's black-and-white print reproduces crisply in the DVD format, as does Roy Webb's score, which vividly evokes 1950s American city life. There's dubbing in four and subtitles in five European languages, together with the original trailer mentioned above. Having seen Marty, you'll surely agree that Lancaster's enthusiasm was not misplaced. --Richard Whitehouse

• 7 Men From Now | DVD | (14/05/2007) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-10.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A former sheriff haunted by the loss of his wife in a Wells Fargo robbery hunts for the seven men responsible for her death...

• Where Eagles Dare / Kelly's Heroes / The Dirty Dozen | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Three all time classic war films on this fantastic boxed set featuring the screen presence of Clint Eastwood Richard Burton Donald Sutherland and Telly Savalas. Where Eagles Dare: The mission is clear. Get in. Get the general. Get out. Commandos charged with freeing a U.S. general from an Alpine fortress should also be told to trust nothing - including the search-and-rescue orders just issued. Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood go Where Eagles Dare in this twisty World War

• Silverado | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £15.50   |  Saving you £-1.25 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Four strangers became friends. Four friends became heroes. On the road to... Silverado. Get ready for some horse-ridin' gun-totin' whiskey drinkin' fun in this digitally remastered DVD edition of Lawrence Kasdan's Silverado! This spirited Western stars Kevin Kline Scott Glenn Kevin Costner and Danny Glover as four unwitting heroes who cross paths on their journey to the sleepy town of Silverado. Little do they know the town where their family and friends res

• Shout At The Devil | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £5.72   |  Saving you £0.27 (4.72%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Shout at the Devil was Roger Moore's second starring role in an adaptation of one Wilbur Smith's bestselling African adventures (the first being 1974's Gold, also directed by Peter Hunt). Taking its mixture of comedy and drama, and part of its plot, from The African Queen the movie finds Moore's decent, upright Englishman teamed with Lee Marvin--in a variation on his Cat Ballou drunken brawler comedy persona--fighting the Germans in colonial East Africa at the beginning of the Great War. Moore plays it straight and makes a most heroic and handsome matinee idol hero. Produced between Moore's second and third outings as Bond, Shout at the Devil was staffed with various 007 regulars, including Hunt who was had edited the first three and directed On Her Majesty's Secret Service, title designer Maurice Binder and director John Glen. It even has a ticking clock-gigantic explosion finale. This is an exciting, beautifully shot escapade which deserves to be much better known. On the DVD: The original Panavision 2.35:1 image is incorrectly letterboxed at around 2:1, cropping so much picture information that the credits disappear at either side of the screen. The print used is of very variable quality, with some scenes looking fine, others washed out and lacking detail, with long shots often being slightly out of focus. Adding to the problems is the abysmal digital encoding which, despite anamorphic enhancement, has left many scenes swarming with compression artefacts. The sound is adequate mono. Unfortunately this disc uses a heavily re-edited and shortened version of the film--cut from 147 to 119 minutes following poor reviews--and the losses in continuity, especially in the early part of the film are very noticeable. The extras are the original trailer, which reveals the entire plot right up to and including the ending, comprehensive filmographies of Marvin, Moore and Hunt, and a seven-minute compilation of posters and publicity stills set to the main themes from Maurice Jarre's score. --Gary S Dalkin

• Hell In The Pacific | DVD | (27/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  It is 1944 and the war in the Pacific is at its height. On a small deserted Pacific island a Japanese naval officer and U.S. naval pilot find themselves marooned. The two men are bitter wartime enemies but now stranded and with no one else to help them will they decide to fight each other to the death or work together for survival? As adversaries can their mutual hatred suspicion and mistrust be overcome and can humanity survive under such extreme conditions?

• The Nutcracker Prince | DVD | (02/04/2007) from £11.95   |  Saving you £-7.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Join us in a classic tale of adventure romance bravery and a really mean mouse.... Clara is on the verge of gowing up with dreams of traveling the world in the grand ballet. Then during the annual Christmas party the mysterious family friend Drosselmeier tells her a story about a young man named Hans who rescued a princess who was put under a spell by the Mouse Queen and her whining son. As punishment for his good deed the Mouse Queen managed to transform Hans into a nutcracker (prince of the dolls) before her death; the same nutcracker Drosselmeier had and gives to Clara that day. When midnight comes Clara finds herself trapped in the middle of a battle between the mice and her toys being lead by the confused nutcracker. If the prince of the dolls can defeat the Mouse King and win the hand of a fair maiden it can break the curse upon him. However Clara must chose between the dreamworld of her new companion and his adventures or her real world where the dreams and adventures of growing up still await her.

• The Delta Force | Blu Ray | (05/05/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Hijack...The Ordeal...The Rescue... Cannon Films are known for having produced some of the most enjoyable and eccentric action flicks of the '80s - but The Delta Force which boasts scenes of Chuck Norris flying through the air on a missile-mounted motorbike surely stands as one of their most entertaining efforts. American Travel Ways Flight 282 has been hijacked by a group of terrorists claiming to represent the New World Revolutionary Organisation. The Delta Force under the leadership of Captain Scott McCoy (Chuck Norris) is called in to handle the situation. Still smarting from an ill-fated hostage rescue mission several years prior this elite squad of Special Forces are determined to succeed in their mission this time - and assert the might of the American military once and for all. Drawing on a number of true-life terrorist incidents for inspiration most notably the 1985 hijacking of TWA Flight 847 The Delta Force is a non-stop thrill ride which culminates in one of the most explosive action flick finales of all time. With Chuck Norris on hand to provide the obligatory muscle and gravelly-voiced Lee Marvin in his last ever screen role The Delta Force is one mission you can't afford not to accept. Special Features: High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation of the feature transferred from original film elements by MGM Original uncompressed 2.0 PCM stereo Audio Optional English SDH subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Genre Hijackers: Mark Hartley on Cannon Films - The filmmaker discusses the explosive legacy of Golan and Globus Chuck Norris Scribe: An Interview with writer James Bruner May The Delta Force Be With You! - An interview with Commandant Christian Prouteau founder of the French GIGN and instructor of the first Delta Force Original Theatrical Trailer Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Graham Humphreys Collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by author John Kenneth Muir and a contemporary article on Cannon Films illustrated with original archive stills and posters