"Actor: Patrick McGoohan"

• Best Of British Mystery | DVD | (23/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  None of these British films have ever been released before on video or DVD since their original cinema run. All are re-mastered from the negatives. Featuring British thriller film stars Patrick McGoohan Sylvia Syms Tom Bell Susan Hampshire Herbert Lom Carole Landis Ed Begley and many other British stars. Includes: 1. Brass Monkey 2. The Quare Fellow 3. Violent Enemy

• Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World / Braveheart | DVD | (31/05/2005) from £11.30   |  Saving you £4.69 (29.30%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Master And Commander: Russell Crowe is Lucky Jack Aubrey the Navy's greatest fighting captain and Paul Bettany is ship's doctor Stephen Maturin. The ship the Surprise is suddenly attacked by a superior enemy. With the Surprise badly damaged and much of his crew injured Aubrey - the ""Master"" of the Surprise and ""Commander"" of his men - is torn between duty and friendship as he sets sail in a high-stakes chase across two oceans to the far side of the world to intercept and capture their foe. It's a mission that can decide the fate of a nation - or destroy Lucky Jack and his crew. The film is based on the narrative outline of the tenth book in Patrick O'Brien's legendary ""Aubrey/Maturin"" series of high seas novels about the British navy during the Napoleonic Wars. Braveheart: Mel Gibson stars on both sides of the camera playing the lead role plus directing and producing this brawling richly detailed saga of fierce combat tender love and the will to risk all that's precious: freedom. In an emotionally charged performance Gibson is William Wallace a bold Scotsman who used the steel of his blade and the fire of his intellect to rally his countrymen to liberation. Filled with sword-clanging spectacle Braveheart is a tumultuous tapestry of history come alive ""the most sumptuous and involving historical epic since Lawrence Of Arabia."" (Rod Lurie Los Angeles Magazine.)

• Braveheart (Special Edition) | DVD | (08/02/2006) from £15.81   |  Saving you £-9.82 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Fight and you may die run and you'll live... at least for a while. And dying in your beds many years from now would you be willin' to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance just one chance to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives but they'll never take... our freedom! Mel Gibson directs and stars in this Academy Award-winning epic based on the life of legendary thirteenth century Scottish hero William Wallace. Returning to his homeland following the death of an heirless king Wallace (Mel Gibson) finds the political landscape precarious. Edward the Longshanks King of England (Patrick McGoohan) has captured Scotland's throne and threatens the freedom of all Scottish people as tyrannical policies instituted by the English plague the Scots. Initially Wallace is content to stand by the wayside yearning for the simple life of building a home and raising a family. However when the woman he loves (Catherine McCormack) suffers a cruel fate at the hands of English soldiers Wallace takes a stand against the new rule. With his fierce patriotism and determination he gathers an amateur but passionately rebellious army

• Escape from Alcatraz - Paramount Originals (includes Limited Edition reproduction film poster) | DVD | (23/07/2007) from £12.98   |  Saving you £-2.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Superstar Clint Eastwood and director Don Siegel re-team for their fifth film in this fascinating account of the only three men ever to escape from the infamous maximum security prison at Alcatraz. In 29 years the seemingly impenetrable federal penitentiary which housed Al Capone and 'Birdman' Robert Stroud was only broken once - by three men never heard of again. Eastwood portrays Frank Morris the cunning bank robber who masterminded the elaborately detailed escape; Patrick McGo

• Treasure Planet (Read Along) | DVD | (26/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Treasure Planet, a pet project of Little Mermaid, Aladdin and Hercules codirectors Ron Clements and John Musker, is an ambitious animation hybrid (traditional animation combined with elaborate CGI backgrounds). It was the subject of numerous in-studio battles, but Disney office politics and a poor public reception shouldn't distract one from its many admirable qualities, not the least being its overall fidelity to Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel Treasure Island. Curiously revamped as a sci-fi adventure with space-faring galleons, flintlock ray guns and extreme-sports attitude, it caters to a young audience for whom Stevenson's adventure is an undiscovered treasure, revving up the material with arcade-game excitements. It's entertaining, for what it is, and kids will surely enjoy it. Maybe next time, however, Disney will follow its own legacy and properly adapt Stevenson (as they did with their 1950 live-action classic) for a new, and hopefully receptive, generation. --Jeff Shannon

• All Night Long | DVD | (26/01/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Set in London's Jazz scene of the 1950s this atmospheric modernisation of Othello features a strong cast and appearences by some of the best-known names from the music world.

• Braveheart | DVD | (04/11/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A stupendous historical saga, Braveheart won five Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director for star Mel Gibson. He plays William Wallace, a 13th-century Scottish commoner who unites the various clans against a cruel English King, Edward the Longshanks (Patrick McGoohan). The scenes of hand-to-hand combat are brutally violent, but they never glorify the bloodshed. There is such enormous scope to this story that it works on a smaller, more personal scale as well, essaying love and loss, patriotism and passion. Extremely moving, it reveals Gibson as a multitalented performer and remarkable director with an eye for detail and an understanding of human emotion. (His first directorial effort was 1993's Man Without a Face.) The film is nearly three hours long and includes several plot tangents, yet is never dull. This movie resonates long after you have seen it, both for its visual beauty and for its powerful story. --Rochelle O'Gorman

• Scanners | DVD | (25/10/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  David Cronenberg's 1981 horror film Scanners is a darkly paranoid story of a homeless man (Stephen Lack) mistakenly believed to be insane, when in fact he can't turn off the sound of other people's thoughts in his telepathic mind. Helped by a doctor (Patrick McGoohan) and enlisted in a programme of "scanners"--telepaths who also can will heads to explode--he becomes involved in a battle against nefarious forces. A number of critics consider this to be Cronenberg's first great film, and indeed it has a serious vision of destiny that rivals some of the important German expressionist works from the silent cinema. Lack is very good as the odd hero, and McGoohan is effectively eccentric and chilly as the scientist who saves him from the street, only to thrust him into a terrible struggle. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Scanners | DVD | (18/07/2005) from £9.90   |  Saving you £-3.91 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  There are 4 billion people on earth. 237 are Scanners. They have the most terrifying powers ever created... and they are winning. Cameron Vale is living on the fringe of society self-induced due to his telepathic ability to read other people's minds. Darryl Revok (Michael Ironside) has the same condition and is the head of an underground association of so-called Scanners that want world domination. When Vale is taken to Dr Paul Ruth as a result of supposed insanity he's enlisted into a program that will involve him in a battle against his fellow Scanners.

• The Quare Fellow | DVD | (22/01/2007) from £8.98   |  Saving you £4.01 (44.65%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Arthur Dreifuss's adaptation of Brendan Behan's play starring Patrick McGoohan. Set in an Irish prison Behan's comedy-drama brings together a large cast of colourful characters in a dark but amusing portrait of life inside. With music humour and compassion he presents the sparring between inmates and warders and the ritual and customs that lead to the quare fellow's appointed hour.

• Scanners | DVD | (25/09/2006) from £6.73   |  Saving you £-0.74 (-12.40%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Cameron Vale is living on the fringe of society self-induced due to his telepathic ability to read other people's minds. Darryl Revok has the same condition and is the head of an underground association of so-called Scanners that want world domination. When Vale is taken to Dr Paul Ruth as a result of supposed insanity he's enlisted into a program that will involve him in a battle against his fellow Scanners.