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• The Last Metro | DVD | (26/08/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  François Truffaut again tackles the elusive nature of creativity and creation in his thoughtful, sumptuous 1980 film The Last Metro. Nominated for the Best Foreign Language film Oscar, and a winner of various Césars, The Last Metro is set in occupied France during World War II. Marion Steiner (Catherine Deneuve) manages the Theatre Montmarte in the stead of her Jewish husband, director Lucas Steiner (Heinz Bennent). He has purportedly fled France but is really hiding in the basement of the theatre. The one hope to save the Montmarte is a new play starring the dashing Bernard Granger (Gérard Depardieu). The attraction between Marion and Bernard is palpable, and as usual Truffaut creates tension and drama from even the most casual of occurrences. The theme of the director locked away while his lover and his creation are appropriated by others makes for interesting Truffaut study, but first and foremost this is a well-spun romance.--Keith Simanton, Amazon.com

• Viva Maria | DVD | (12/01/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  When two women-both named Maria-unwittingly invent the striptease circa 1910 they become such a hit that enthusiastic audiences strip along with them! But when one of the Marias falls for a handsome revolutionary (George Hamilton) she finds that she has unwittingly embroiled the two of them in an armed peasant revolt!

• Modern Times - Dual Format Edition | Blu Ray | (23/08/2010) from £22.99   |  Saving you £-3.00 (-15.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In Modern Times one of Charles Chaplin's most popular films The Tramp struggles to live in a modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman. This Dual Format Edition (Blu-ray and DVD) includes the 1936 feature which has now been restored in high definition.

• Parts - The Clonus Horror | DVD | (05/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Parts is the story of a man and a woman in love in a place full of lies deception death and danger. It is a story of a place called Clonus where nothing occurs by chance and everyone will die by the horror of freezing to be used later for their body parts. It is the story of the accidental love affair of Richard and Lena who are unwitting clones not people and of the doctors and guides and their lies and surveillance. But most of all it is the story of Richard who uncovers the truth and plots to escape. Parts is a film involving the realities of today's miracle science with the drama and shock of a horror thriller It is the story of what happens when science and nightmare merge.

• Hollywood Comedy Collection - Vol. 1 | DVD | (30/04/2007) from £30.76   |  Saving you £-10.77 (-53.90%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Road To Rio (Dir. Norman Z. McLeod 1947): To avoid being charged with arson after burning down a circus Hot Lips Barton (Bob Hope) and Scat Sweeney (Bing Crosby) stow away on an ocean bound ship. Aboard the vessel the duo fall for Lucia Maria de Andrade (Dorothy Lamour) who is under the spell of her evil aunt (Gale Sondergaard) who has arranged a marriage for the young beauty. This film was in good hands since many of Hope's best collaborators worked on the picture. Direct

• Aida - Giuseppe Verdi | DVD | (10/05/2008) from £6.15   |  Saving you £-1.16 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Set amidst the swirling sands of ancient Egypt Giuseppe Verdi's Aida is one of the most stirring and popular operas of all time. It is the tragic story of lovers separated by jealously and family loyalty at a time when the Pharaohs ruled.

• On Our Merry Way | DVD | (30/01/2006) from £19.42   |  Saving you £-6.43 (-49.50%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Also released under the title A Miracle Can Happen this three-part anthology features vignettes that are connected by a question from feature reporter Oliver Pease (Burgess Meredith): ""Has a child ever changed your life?"" In the first episode Henry Fonda and James Stewart star as Lank and Slim a pair of squabbling jazz musicians who try to pick up some extra money by rigging a music contest. Little do they know that their scam involves a babe rather than a baby. Th

• Pot O' Gold | DVD | (10/06/2002) from £5.39   |  Saving you £11.60 (215.21%)   |  RRP £16.99

  While Born To Dance is the movie musical most associated with James Stewart the largely forgotten Pot o' Gold is the one in which he is most involved with music. The plot has Stewart as Jimmy Haskell a music-loving harmonica-playing man who comes across a poor but excellent band (led by Horace Heidt) that rehearses on a boarding-house roof. Jimmy becomes interested in the people who own the boarding-house Ma McCorkle (Mary Gordon) and her lovely daughter Molly (Pau

• Second Chorus | DVD | (10/01/2011) from £11.25   |  Saving you £-1.26 (-12.60%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Trumpet players Danny (Fred Astaire) and Hank (Burgess Meredith) have been avoiding graduation for seven years so that they can continue playing with their college band. They hire pretty Ellen Miller (Paulette Goddard) as the band's agent and as she quickly increases their earning power the boys find themselves with flourishing musical careers. Ellen is one day hired as Artie Shaw's band manager and makes plans for Danny and Hank to audition for Shaw. Both however are keen rivals for Ellen's hand and the tension between them sees them attempting to foil eachother's chances as they audition for Shaw.

• Second Chorus | DVD | (18/12/2006) from £4.50   |  Saving you £3.49 (77.56%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Trumpet players Danny (Fred Astaire) and Hank (Burgess Meredith) have been avoiding graduation for seven years so that they can continue playing with their college band. They hire pretty Ellen Miller (Paulette Goddard) as the band's agent and as she quickly increases their earning power the boys find themselves with flourishing musical careers. Ellen is one day hired as Artie Shaw's band manager and makes plans for Danny and Hank to audition for Shaw. Both however are keen rivals for Ellen's hand and the tension between them sees them attempting to foil eachother's chances as they audition for Shaw.

• Parts: The Clonus Horror | DVD | (30/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Somewhere in California is hidden a mysterious industrial complex. Apparently well known to certain privileged members of the inner circle of government this factory has only one product: human clones... Raised in a state of blissful ignorance both about their origins and their ultimate fate the clones dream of 'America' - where so their guardians tell them they will one day be sent. But what happens when one of these farmed clones starts to ask difficult questions...and comes looking for the real America? Peter Graves and Hollywood legend Keenan Wynn star in this dazzling political thriller that works equally well as a pulse-pounding horror film packed with moments of jaw dropping terror.

• Second Chorus | DVD | (17/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Trumpet players Danny (Fred Astaire) and Hank (Burgess Meredith) have been avoiding graduation for seven years so that they can continue playing with their college band. They hire pretty Ellen Miller (Paulette Goddard) as the band's agent and as she quickly increases their earning power the boys find themselves with flourishing musical careers. Ellen is one day hired as Artie Shaw's band manager and makes plans for Danny and Hank to audition for Shaw. Both however are keen rivals for Ellen's hand and the tension between them sees them attempting to foil eachother's chances as they audition for Shaw.

• The Clonus Horror | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Somewhere in California is hidden a mysterious industrial complex. Apparently well known to certain privileged members of the inner circle of government this factory has only one product: human clones... Raised in a state of blissful ignorance both about their origins and their ultimate fate the clones dream of 'America' - where so their guardians tell them they will one day be sent. But what happens when one of these farmed clones starts to ask difficult questions...and comes looking for the real America? Peter Graves and Hollywood legend Keenan Wynn star in this dazzling political thriller that works equally well as a pulse-pounding horror film packed with moments of jaw dropping terror.

• Bob Hope Collection | DVD | (15/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  The Bob Hope collection contains some of the greatest works from the comic genius that is Bob Hope. Entertaining audiences during his long career & working alongside some of the greatest stars in the industry Bob Hope has stamped his mark in history. Tiitles Include: * My Favourite Brunette * Road To Rio * Road To Bali * The Bob Hope Story * Cat And The Canary

• Second Chorus | DVD | (30/10/2006) from £10.78   |  Saving you £-2.79 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Trumpet playing college students Fred Astaire and Burgess Meredith vie for a place in Artie Shaw's band and for the heart of their lovely manager in this breezy oscar winning musical that features such notable hits as: Would you like to be the love of my life Poor Mr Chisolm I'm Yours

• Pot O' Gold | DVD | (26/06/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Pot Of Gold / Made For Each Other | DVD | (26/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Pot 'O' Gold: While 'Born To Dance' is the movie musical most associated with James Stewart the largely forgotten Pot o' Gold is the one in which he is most involved with music. The plot has Stewart as Jimmy Haskell a music-loving harmonica-playing man who comes across a poor but excellent band (led by Horace Heidt) that rehearses on a boarding-house roof. Jimmy becomes interested in the people who own the boarding-house Ma McCorkle (Mary Gordon) and her lovely daughter

• Charlie Chaplin - Modern Times | DVD | (01/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Modern Times marks the last proper appearance of Charles Chaplin's iconic Little Tramp, and finds our hero struggling to make ends meet in the Depression of the 1930s. Along the way he takes up with a juvenile delinquent (actually 24-year-old Paulette Goddard) and plays a prison incident with "nose powder" for drug-induced laughs--both plot elements seeming quite innocent here, though both would provoke controversy today. Modern Times' most famous sequences portray the dehumanisation of factory labour to fine comic effect, balancing satire with slapstick to perfection in several superbly executed set-pieces. While the film has sound-effects and musical score, speech is only presented through mechanical means, via a gramophone, or through wall-sized TVs far more futuristic than in those in HG Wells' Things to Come (also 1936)--it's an interesting footnote that the comic and the SF visionary were friends. Chaplin famously not being a fan of sound cinema acknowledges the need to move with the times, yet hilariously spoofs the exploitation of man and machine while doing so. Amid some great laughs, the political message comes though clearly: the boss is making a fortune while doing jigsaw puzzles in his luxury office, the workers are toiling ever harder on the production line for their pittance. On the DVD: Modern Times is offered in the original 4:3 black and white with good mono sound evidencing just a little distortion and a very clean, clear picture with minimal grain to give away its age. Also included are French and Italian dubbed versions and a pointless and ineffective English Dolby Digital 5.1 version of the soundtrack. The disc features multiple subtitle options, including English for hard of hearing. Disc Two begins with a six-minute introduction by David Robinson. Next comes a very worthwhile 26-minute documentary by Philippe Truffault, Chaplin Today, centred around a perceptive subtitled discussion between French filmmakers Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne. There are three trailers, beautifully reproduced posters, an eight-part photo gallery and one entertaining deleted scene, as well as Chaplin's "nonsense song" from the film in isolated form and in a "Karaoke" version. The Documents section begins with a silent 42-minute 1931 documentary/propaganda film, In the Machine Age made by the US Dept of Labor. Along similar but more entertaining lines is Symphony in F a 1940 colour film combining music, manufacturing footage and animation celebrating the Ford motor company, while also included is a sequence from the Liberace Show (1956) with the star performing the vocal version of "Smile", the theme from Modern Times. Demonstrating the truly universal appeal of Chaplin is a 1967 short For the First Time, documenting what happens when the people of the remote Baracoa mountains in Cuba see their first ever movie, Modern Times. This is a remarkable collection which does a great film justice. --Gary S Dalkin

• An Ideal Husband | DVD | (06/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  If we men married the women we deserved...We should have a very bad time of it. 1890s high society provides the setting for Oscar Wilde's sparkling comedy of morals and manners in which an 'ideal' husband must fight to save both his marriage and reputation when a blackmailing adventures threatens him with a political scandal.

• Charlie Chaplin - Modern Times | DVD | (17/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £44.99

  Chaplin's last 'silent' film filled with sound effects was made when everyone else was making talkies. Charlie turns against modern society the machine age (the use of sound in films?) and progress. Firstly we see him frantically trying to keep up with a production line tightening bolts. He is selected for an experiment with an automatic feeding machine but various mishaps leads his boss to believe he has gone mad and Charlie is sent to a mental hospital... When he gets out he is mistaken for a communist while waving a red flag sent to jail foils a jailbreak and is let out again. We follow Charlie through many more escapades before the film is out.