"Actor: Norman"

• Delius - Song Of Summer | DVD | (10/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Perhaps the finest of the series of biographical films that Ken Russell made for the BBC in the sixties 'Song of Summer' is an immensely moving story of sacrifice idealism and musical genius. Based on Eric Fenby's 1936 memoir 'Delius As I Knew Him' it traces the last years of Frederick Delius and Fenby's dedication in giving up five years of his life to helping the blind paralysed composer set down the unfinished scores he could hear in his head. There are terrific performa

• Barabbas | DVD | (25/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Starring Anthony Quinn in the title role Barabbas was released in 1961 in the midst of a wave of widescreen epics based on Biblical characters. "It begins where the other big ones leave off", declaims the trailer. The screenplay, by playwright Christopher Fry (who also contributed to Ben-Hur), is an unusually intelligent one: listen out for Barabbas' final encounter with the Apostle Thomas, for example. Further assets are the imaginative, sparingly orchestrated score by Mario Nascimbene and a handsome production design by art director Mario Chiari that is so rewarding to the eye in Aldo Tonti's often dazzling cinematography. Like the other Biblical epics of the day, in its original theatrical incarnation Barabbas had an intermission and orchestral intermezzo which is sadly missing from this version. (It occurred at the point where Barabbas emerges from a 20 years exile in the sulphur mines in Sicily, allowing the audience to dwell on his recuperation before we next encounter him. He now appears muscled and bronzed ploughing the verdant fields outside Rome in all too quick a fashion!). Many scenes, such as Christ's crucifixion, are shot and staged like tableaux in a style reminiscent of the great masters of art. And in Fleischer's hands this film surpasses anything Ridley Scott achieved years later in Gladiator: he fills the huge arena--a vast Roman amphitheatre--with a gladiatorial school of hand-to-hand combat, a parade of elephants and a den of lions, and then caps his production with a riveting and thrillingly mounted duel between Jack Palance, careering round the circumference of the arena in his chariot, and Barabbas dodging him on foot. The supporting cast, who sport a variety of accents call for some tolerance, however. On the DVD: Barabbas on disc comes devoid of any extra features other than trailers for it and another contemporaneous blockbuster, The Guns of Navarone. --Adrian Edwards

• Norman Wisdom - The Early Bird | DVD | (21/10/2009) from £9.13   |  Saving you £-2.88 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  An hilarious comedy about the deadly rivalry between a giant milk marketing company and an old-fashioned one-horse dairy.

• Cilla's Comedy Six - The Complete Series | DVD | (07/10/2013) from £7.55   |  Saving you £5.44 (72.05%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Marking a phenomenally successful fifty years in showbiz, this DVD set celebrates the talents of Cilla Black, one of Britain's most charismatic and best-loved celebrities. In Cilla's Comedy Six, the Liverpudlian singer and comedienne dipped a toe into the world of acting in a series of humorous vignettes in which she portrayed a range of female roles. From Mrs. Average Housewife (mid-'70s style) to a temp fending off the amorous advances of her latest boss, from a woman caring for her...

• The Boneyard | Blu Ray | (09/04/2018) from £17.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Released in 1991, THE BONE YARD is a certified cult classic of the VHS era that mixes the bad taste splatter humour of such classics as THE EVIL DEAD and RE-ANIMATOR with enough corpse-shambling thrills and ghoulish chills to make for an essential late night watch. Telling of a living dead outbreak in a coroner's office, THE BONE YARD is a claustrophobic love letter to George A. Romero that inotrduces some original ideas to the well-worn meat-munching trope. With a cast that includes television legend Phyllis Diller and B-movie veteran Ed Nelson (A BUCKET OF BLOOD) and with ertswhile makeup effects genius James Cummins (THE THING) as director - this is one low budget bout of blood-splattered brilliance that more than deserves its HD premiere from 88 Films!! Starring: Ed Nelson, Deborah Rose, Norman Fell Directed by: James Cummins SPECIAL FEATURES: New HD Restoration from the Original Negative Uncompressed LPCM Stereo Soundtrack Optional English Subtitles Audio Commentary with Director James Cummins and Producer Richard F. Brophy Interview with Actress Phyliss Diller Interview with Director James Cummins Interview with Producer Richard F. Brophy Reversible Sleeve with Alternate Comedy Artwork

• Over The Garden Wall | DVD | (26/03/2007) from £4.98   |  Saving you £8.01 (160.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Over the Garden Wall put the two comic geniuses together as a one of the funniest fictional husband and wife teams to grace a British screen and inspired Les Dawson's famous female impersonation. In this riotous comedy they plan to give their daughter and new American son-in-law a right Northern Welcome.

• Inspector Morse - Series 1 | DVD | (21/02/2005) from £25.63   |  Saving you £-0.64 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  This box set features the entire first series of the classic British Television drama Inspector Morse. Episodes comprise: 1. The Dead of Jericho: Morse who never quite finds romance thinks that at last things will turn out differently when he meets beautiful Anne Stavely (Gemma Jones). But it is a love destined not to be when Anne is found hanging from a beam in mysterious circumstances. Morse suspects murder and sets out to discover the truth. Joining him is Serg

• The Bretts: The Complete Series | DVD | (09/05/2016) from £34.22   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Chronicling the fortunes of four generations of a London theatrical family through the 1920s and '30s, The Bretts ran for two memorably successful series during the late 1980s. An Upstairs Downstairs of the theatrical set, it stars Norman Rodway as the effusive, charismatic Charles Brett and Barbara Murray as his strong-willed wife Lydia. With scripts from veteran screenwriters Rosemary Ann Sisson, Bill Craig, Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran, this set features both acclaimed series.It's 1927, and thespians Charles and Lydia Brett are at the peak of their careers. Intending to capitalise on their success by acquiring their own theatre, will this bid for creative freedom ensure their family's theatrical legacy?

• Peter Grimes | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Benjamin Britten's powerful opera 'Peter Grimes' is considered to be one of the masterpieces of the 20th century. In this famous production by Elijah Moshinsky for The Royal Opera Canadian tenor Jon Vickers stars as the complex and misunderstood fisherman. The conductor is Sir Colin Davis who worked for several years with the cast of this production resulting in a masterly interweaving of characters in this gripping drama. ""One of the most riveting operatic impersonations o

• First Men In The Moon | DVD | (14/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  H. G. Wells' fantastic account of life on the moon is vividly brought to the screen by special effects master Ray Harryhausen in this amazing sci-fi epic featuring extraterrestrial creatures. Told mostly in flashback the movie starts with preparations for a modern mission to the Moon being interrupted by an old man's ramblings about a flight he and two companions took to the moon many decades earlier...

• Mozart: Die Zauberflote | Blu Ray | (29/09/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed | DVD | (28/06/2013) from £8.96   |  Saving you £9.03 (100.78%)   |  RRP £17.99

  When a doctor is killed at a mental asylum the evil Baron Frankenstein seizes the chance to transplant his brain into the meek body of Doctor Richter. But the bloody operation creates an entity of evil which shatters the lives of everyone...

• Between The Sheets - Complete Series One | DVD | (01/02/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Written by BAFTA award winning writer Kay Mellor comes this witty emotional story centred around a unique selection of people whose lives are inextricably intertwined on a journey of discovery as they come face to face with their sexual problems....

• Dennis Potter | DVD | (26/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £99.99

  This mammoth box set features eight works of Dennis Potter spread over eleven discs. The Singing Detective:Slowly recovering from a terrible skin disease in a busy National Health hospital cynical thriller writer Phillip Marlow continues to unravel the traumas of his wartime boyhood while working through the plot of his greatest detective story - with himself as a crooning '40s detective on the trail of murderous Nazi plotters. But what is real and what is imagined? As childh

• Ronnie Barker - A Home Of Your Own | DVD | (07/08/2006) from £4.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (100.20%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A groundbreaking comedy and a subtle satire of the UK building industry in the 1960s (which is still frighteningly relevant today!) an excellent cast of comedians in their early days (Ronnie Barker Richard Briers Peter Butterworth Bernard Cribbins) will have you rolling in the aisles!

• The Sandwich Man | Blu Ray | (29/08/2022) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Original Goon Michael Bentine co-writes and gives a memorable performance as an amiable 'Sandwich Man' in this gentle, whimsical comedy that features a Who's Who? of British talent, including Norman Wisdom, Diana Dors, Harry H. Corbett, Dora Bryan, Bernard Cribbins and Terry-Thomas. The Sandwich Man is featured here as a brand-new remaster from original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio. Horace Quilby treads a perpetual odyssey through the London streets on behalf of Finklebaum and O'Casey - dealers in 'misfit clothing'. Resplendent in top hat, tails and sandwich board his is a unique angle from which to observe life. Today, however, he is preoccupied - Esmerelda, his racing pigeon, is taking part in the race of her life!

• The Sweeney - The Complete Series 3 | DVD | (12/09/2005) from £39.90   |  Saving you £-9.91 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The complete 3rd series of the crime action series starring John Thaw Dennis Waterman and Garfield Morgan. Featuring all 13 episodes from the 1976 season the episodes have been digitally restored from the original materials and presented with a new Dolby 5.1 track. Episode Titles: 1. Selected Target 2. In From The Cold 3. Visiting Fireman 4. Tomorrow Man 5. Taste of Fear 6. Bad Apple 7. May 8. Sweet Smell of Succession 9. Down to You Brother 10. Pay Off 11. Loving Arms 12. Lady Luck 13. On the Run

• The Phantom Of The Opera | DVD | (22/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The original version of Gaston Leroux's legendary book 'The Phantom Of The Opera' is an awesome monument to the Golden Age of Hollywood starring ""The Man of a Thousand Faces"" Lon Chaney. In the film Chaney is Erik the horribly disfigured Phantom who leads a menacing existence in the catacombs and dungeons beneath the Paris Opera. When Erik falls in love with a beautiful prima donna (Mary Philbin) he kidnaps her and holds her hostage in his lair where he is destined to have a

• Dead Poets Society / Good Will Hunting | DVD | (15/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Dead Poets Society (1989): Academy Award winner Robin Williams delivers a brilliant performance in one of Hollywood's most compelling and thought-provoking motion pictures. Williams portrays passionate English professor John Keating who in an age of crew cuts sport coats and cheerless conformity inspires his students to live life to the fullest exclaiming... ""Carpe diem lads! Seize the day. Make your lives extraordinary!"" The charismatic teacher's emotionally charged challenge is met by his students with irrepressible enthusiasm - changing their lives forever. Magnificently directed by Peter Weir (The Truman Show) Dead Poets Society earned unparalleled praise among audiences and critics alike. Discover for yourself what all the cheering's about. (Dir. Peter Weir Cert. PG) Good Will Hunting (1997): Will Hunting (Damon) is a headstrong working-class genius. After one too many run-ins with the law Will's last chance is a psychology professor (Williams). Experience this powerful and unforgettable movie. From highly acclaimed director Gus Van Sant this triumphant story was nominated for 9 Academy Awards - winning Oscars for Robin Williams and hot newcomers Matt Damon and Ben Affleck and also features nominee Minnie Driver. (Dir. Gus Van Sant Cert. 15)

• The Quiet Earth | DVD | (15/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  'The Quiet Earth' centres around a scientist called Zack who wakes on morning to discover he is alone in the world. The global top-secret energy project (Operation Flashlight) which he has been working on for a year has changed the world. Humanity seems to have been wiped out. Zac begins a frantic search for other survivors. At the same time he has the chance to live out his fantasies. In a world where excess and wealth have no meaning he switches from dwelling to dwelling and vehi