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• Cary Grant - Screen Legends | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Awful Truth (Dir. Leo McCarey 1937): Love is a comic battlefield especially when presided over by two superbly-matched sparring partners Cary Grant and Irene Dunne. A classic screwball Hollywood romp! Bringing Up Baby (Dir. Howard Hawks 1938): A dog belonging to an eccentric heiress (Hepburn) steals a dinosaur bone from David (Grant) an absent-minded Zoology professor. David follows the heiress to her home and all hell breaks loose when he loses his pet leopard

• Bringing Up Baby | DVD | (04/06/2007) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-3.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn star in the classic screwball comedy of 1938.

• Bringing Up Baby (1938) (Criterion Collection) UK Only | Blu Ray | (26/07/2021) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Screwball sparks fly when CARY GRANT (Charade) and KATHARINE HEPBURN (The Philadelphia Story) let loose in one of the fastest and funniest films ever madea high-wire act of invention that took American screen comedy to new heights of absurdity. Hoping to procure a million-dollar endowment from a wealthy society matron for his museum, a hapless palaeontologist (Grant) finds himself entangled with a dizzy heiress (Hepburn) as the manic misadventures pile upa missing dinosaur bone, a leopard on the loose, and plenty of gender bending mayhem among them. Bringing Up Baby's sophisticated dialogue, spontaneous performances, and giddy innuendo come together in a whirlwind of comic chaos captured with lightning-in-a-bottle brio by director HOWARD HAWKS (Red River). Special Features: New, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack Audio commentary from 2005 featuring filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich New video essay on actor Cary Grant by author Scott Eyman New interview about cinematographer Russell Metty with cinematographer John Bailey New interview with film scholar Craig Barron on special-effects pioneer Linwood Dunn New selected-scene commentary about costume designer Howard Greer with costume historian Shelly Foote Howard Hawks: A Hell of a Good Life, a 1977 documentary by Hans-Christoph Blumenberg featuring the director's last filmed interview Audio interview from 1969 with Grant Audio excerpts from a 1972 conversation between Hawks and Bogdanovich Trailer English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing PLUS: An essay by critic Sheila O'Malley

• The Cary Grant Collection | DVD | (10/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Contains the titles: Indiscreet: Wealthy American Philip and famous actress Anne meet just as Anne insists that all the best men have already been taken. Though Philip is taken Anne can't resist their instant attraction and electricity. But the rather big and unexpected secret Philip hides from his new love threatens to spoil everything. Operation Petticoat: When Adm. Matt Sherman's (Grant) submarine the Sea Tiger is damaged during the attack on Pearl Harbor he nee

• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | DVD | (01/01/2008) from £13.96   |  Saving you £-7.97 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The 1938 version of Adventures of Tom Sawyer appears to be producer David O. Selznick's dry run for Gone with the Wind what with its similarities in period costumes color scheme and production design (both films shared the services of the great Hollywood art director William Cameron Menzies). Selected from hundreds of applicants (a precursor to Selznick's upcoming search for Wind's Scarlet O'Hara) Tommy Kelly is visually perfect as Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer though his acting varies from scene to scene. Better cast is Jackie Moran as the laconic pipe-smoking Huck Finn (Moran would show up in Wind as Dr. Meade's son). Never forcing its pace the film manages to include most of Twain's classic sequences including the fence-whitewashing episode Tom's rescue of Becky Thatcher (Anne Gillis) from the wrath of their schoolmaster (Olin Howlin) Tom and Huck's death and resurrection after the boys briefly skipped town for an idyll on a remote island the murder trial of town drunk Muff Potter (Walter Brennan) and ultimately unmasking of the vicious Injun Joe (Victor Jory) as the real killer and of course the chilling climax in the cave wherein Tom protects Becky from the fugitive Injun Joe. Originally released at 93 minutes Adventures of Tom Sawyer was trimmed to 77 minutes for a 1959 reissue; it has since been restored to its full length on videotape. In 1960 Tom Sawyer was syndicated to television by Selznick with accompanying commentary by the film's now-grown-up Becky Thatcher Anne Gillis.

• Jean Harlow: 7-Film Collection | DVD | (19/09/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer | DVD | (13/09/2002) from £12.23   |  Saving you £-6.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Mark Twain's Beloved Story. Live Action.

• A Star is Born | DVD | (01/01/2020) from £9.43   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• East of Elephant Rock | DVD | (28/10/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  East of Elephant Rock is a 1977 British independent drama film directed by Don Boyd and starring John Hurt, Jeremy Kemp and Judi Bowker. It was Boyd's second feature film following his little-noticed 1975 Intimate Reflections. Like William Somerset Maugham's 1927 play The Letter and two subsequent film adaptations, its narrative content depended on the 1911 Ethel Proudlock murder in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, which became a cause clbre scandalising British colonial society and which had been featured in a Sunday Observer article as recently as the year before. Boyd, drawing in part on his own experience of growing up in an increasingly dysfunctional family in Kenya during the Mau Mau rebellion, wanted to tell a story about the decline of the Empire and the surrender of responsibility.

• Dancing Lady | DVD | (26/04/2010) from £19.59   |  Saving you £-6.60 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her get a job in a real Broadway musical being directed by Patch.

• Katharine Hepburn - Rooster Cogburn/State Of The Union/Bringing Up Baby/ Guess Who's Coming To Dinner/Holiday (1938)/Suddenly, Last Summer | DVD | (27/09/2010) from £21.58   |  Saving you £18.41 (85.31%)   |  RRP £39.99

  A bumper box set of classic films featuring 'The First Lady of Cinema' Katharine Hepburn! Titles Comprise: Rooster Cogburn (Dir. Stuart Millar 1975): Two of the most popular stars in screen history are brought together for the first time in the follow up to True Grit. The film returns John Wayne to the role of the rapscallion eye patched whiskey guzzling Deputy Marshall that won him an Academy Award. Katharine Hepburn is prim Eula Goodnight a Bible thumping missionary who teams up with the gun fighter to avenge the death of her father. While in pursuit of the outlaws a warm rapport develops between the rough n' tumble lawman and the flirty reverend's daughter. State Of The Union (Dir. Frank Capra 1948): The Flamboyant businessman Grant Matthews (Spencer Tracy) is persuaded by his mistress the powerful publishing heiress Kay Thorndyke (Angela Lansbury) to seek the Republican nomination in the forthcoming elections. Mary Matthews (Katharine Hepburn) joins her estranged husband to present a public portrait of a happy family for the voters. With the aid of the conniving political boss Jim Conover (Adolphe Menjou) Grant begins the long road to the White House... Bringing Up Baby (Dir. Howard Hawks 1938): A dog belonging to an eccentric heiress (Hepburn) steals a dinosaur bone from David (Grant) an absent-minded Zoology professor. David follows the heiress to her home and all hell breaks loose when he loses his pet leopard known as 'Baby'. Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn give fantastic performances in one of Hollywood's finest screwball comedies superbly directed by Howard Hawks. Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (Dir. Stanley Kramer 1967): Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn (who won the Academy Award as Best Actress for her performance) are unforgettable as perplexed parents in this landmark 1967 movie about mixed marriage. Joanna (Katharine Houghton) the beautiful daughter of a crusading publisher Matthew Drayton (Tracy) and his patrician wife Christina (Hepburn) returns home with her new fiancee John Prentice (Sidney Poitier) a distinguished black doctor. Christina accepts her daughter's decision to marry John but Matthew is shocked by this interracial union; and the doctor's parents are equally dismayed. Both families must sit down face to face and examine each other's level of intolerance. Holiday (Dir. George Cukor 1938): An iconoclastic young man (Cary Grant) who's engaged to a snooty heiress (Doris Nolan) discovers he's really in love with his fianc''e's down-to-earth sister (Katharine Hepburn) in director George Cukor's stylish comedy... Suddenly Last Summer (Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1959): Elizabeth Taylor and Katharine Hepburn each received Oscar nominations for best actress in this gripping adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play filmed at Shepperton Studios by director Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Catherine Holly (Taylor) is committed to a mental institution after witnessing the strange and horrible death of her cousin. Catherine's aunt Violet Venable (Hepburn) tries to influence Dr Cukrowicz (Montgomery Clift) a young neurosurgeon to surgically end Catherine's haunting hallucinations. By utilising injections of Sodium Pentothal Dr Cukrowicz discovers that Catherine's delusions are in fact true. He then must confront Violet about her own involvement in her son's lurid death...

• A Star Is Born | DVD | (21/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A classic which has been remade twice in 1954 with Judy Garland and in 1976 starring Barbara Streisand this the 1937 version is regarded by many to be the premier version of the tragic tale of a movie star declining in popularity who marries a shy girl and helps her become a star. Her fame eclipses his and tragic consequences follow. The stunning ending is based on the real life tragedy of silent film star Wallace Reid who died of a morphine overdose aged 31 in 1923.

• The Texans | DVD | (02/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Randolph Scott plays Kirk Jordan a cattle herd driver who is instrumental in carving out the Chisholm Trail a commercial route from Texas to Kansas. Indians are only part of the problem as Kirk must also contend with the Ku Klux Klan and crooked carpetbaggers to fulfill his duties.

• A Star Is Born | DVD | (22/11/2004) from £6.75   |  Saving you £-2.76 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  A classic which has been remade twice in 1954 with Judy Garland and in 1976 starring Barbara Streisand this the 1937 version is regarded by many to be the premier version of the tragic tale of a movie star declining in popularity who marries a shy girl and helps her become a star. Her fame eclipses his and tragic consequences follow. The stunning ending is based on the real life tragedy of silent film star Wallace Reid who died of a morphine overdose aged 31 in 1923.

• A Star Is Born | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £15.99   |  Saving you £-11.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Farm girl Esther dreams of making it big in Hollywood and travels to Tinseltown to be closer to her dream. She lands a waitressing job at a celebrity party and meets idol Norman Maine. Thanks to Norman's intervention she lands her big break.

• Lady For A Day | DVD | (28/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A Cinderella fairy tale set in the early 1930s Lady For A Day is a delightfully charming mix of drama and comedy that earned four Academy Award nominations and propelled Frank Capra to the top ranks of popular filmmakers. This was Capra's first major success establishing the model for the ""Capra-esque"" films that followed; and his first collaboration with legendary screenwriter Robert Riskin a partnership that produced such Oscar-winning classics as It Happened One Night

• Bringing Up Baby | DVD | (10/01/2005) from £13.34   |  Saving you £2.65 (19.87%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A dog belonging to an eccentric heiress (Hepburn) steals a dinosaur bone from David (Grant) an absent-minded Zoology professor. David follows the heiress to her home and all hell breaks loose when he loses his pet leopard known as 'Baby'. Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn give fantastic performances in one of Hollywood's finest screwball comedies superbly directed by Howard Hawks.