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• Betty's Bath And Other Stories | DVD | (15/02/2010) from £12.58   |  Saving you £0.41 (3.20%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A unique collection of eight short, erotic silent black and white films shot in Hollywood in the early 1920s by Cine Art productions, using studio stages after hours and featuring wannabe starlets with their clothes off. They were featured in Kevin Brownlow's wonderful series about early Hollywood made for Thames Television some years ago. By modern-day standards, the films are fun and innocent and feature girls disporting themselves without clothes in a selection of situations and stories - on the beach, hiding in caves, dressing up in a revue. The films were found next to a hand grenade in an air-raid shelter! Contains: Betty's Bath, Desert Nymphs, A Girl Review, Hollywood Models, Jazz Babies, The Idol: A Phantasy, Lingerie, Sirens of the Sea 20% of the profits on the sale of this DVD will be donated to Cancer Research.

• Made For Each Other / James Stewart On Film | DVD | (01/11/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Produced in a time when films were both literally and figuratively black and white, Made for Each Other was unique in its effective blending of the comedic, the dramatic and, as perhaps some would insensitively say, the melodramatic. Beautiful Carole Lombard and likeable James Stewart are Jane and John Mason, a couple who meet, fall madly in love, marry and quickly have a baby. But while they--and the audience--are confident that they are meant for each other, life intercedes and the couple must meet with disapproving in-laws, job stress, financial challenges and, finally, a devastating illness.Lombard and Stewart--and the genuinely good people they portray--are utterly compelling and charming. Say yawningly what you will about tradition but the Masons' path is one that many, if not most, go down. And unlike the wonderful but wholly fantasy world of peer Preston Sturges, director John Cromwell's universe is, like real life, full of ups and downs. It's an accessible, sensitive portrayal. He gives the audience characters they want to see succeed, and to see stay together in the process. It may be a tale of triumph of the human spirit but its ultimate sentiment--one that celebrates the kindness of strangers--is thoroughly sweet, though in no way saccharine. Look for a great supporting cast, including a blustery Charles Coburn as John Mason's boss and Lucile Watson as Mason's interfering mother. --N F Mendoza

• The Trouble With Harry | DVD | (11/02/2000) from £4.98   |  Saving you £8.28 (166.27%)   |  RRP £13.26

  The Trouble with Harry is a lark, the mischievous side of Hitchcock given free reign. A busman's holiday for Alfred Hitchcock, this 1955 black comedy concerns a pesky corpse that becomes a problem for a quiet, Vermont neighbourhood. Shirley MacLaine makes her film debut as one of several characters who keep burying the body and finding it unburied again. Hitchcock clearly enjoys conjuring the autumnal look and feel of the story, and he establishes an important, first-time alliance with composer Bernard Herrmann, whose music proved vital to the director's next half-dozen or so films. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• GEGEN ALLE FLAGGEN - GEGEN ALL | DVD | (02/03/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Court Jester | DVD | (08/10/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A