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  • Kind Hearts And Coronets [1949]Kind Hearts And Coronets | DVD | (21/06/2004) from £7.18   |  Saving you £2.81 (39.14%)   |  RRP £9.99

    Set in Victorian England, Robert Hamer's 1949 masterpiece Kind Hearts and Coronets remains the most gracefully mordant of Ealing Comedies. Dennis Price plays Louis D'Ascoyne, the would-be Duke of Chalfont whose Mother was spurned by her noble family for marrying an Italian singer for love. Louis resolves to murder the several of his relatives ahead of him in line for the Dukedom, all of whom are played by Alec Guinness, in order to avenge his Mother--for, as Louis observes, " revenge is a dish which people of taste prefer to eat cold". He gets away with it, only to be arraigned for the one murder of which he is innocent. Guinness' virtuoso performances have been justly celebrated, ranging as they do from a youthful D'Ascoyne concealing his enthusiasm for public houses from his priggish wife ("she has views on such places") to a brace of doomed uncles and one aunt, ranging from the doddery to the peppery. Miles Malleson is a splendid doggerel-spouting hangman, while Valerie Hobson and Joan Greenwood take advantage of unusually strong female roles. But the great joy of Kind Hearts and Coronets is the way in which its appallingly black subject matter (considered beyond the pale by many critics at the time) is conveyed in such elegantly ironic turns of phrase by Dennis Price's narrator/anti-hero. Serial murder has never been conducted with such exquisite manners and discreet charm. --David Stubbs

  • Then Churchill Said To MeThen Churchill Said To Me | DVD | (17/07/2006) from £5.26   |  Saving you £10.73 (203.99%)   |  RRP £15.99

    Based on the format established by Up Pompeii an outstanding showcase for Frankie Howerd's peculiarly hesitant comic delivery Then Churchill Said To Me features Frankie in dual roles at both at ends of various military mishaps! Made in 1982 the series was shelved due to Britain's involvement in the Falklands War. Briefly seen on satellite TV in 2000 this is your chance to sample a lost comedy classic!

  • The Little Prince [1974]The Little Prince | DVD | (28/06/2004) from £5.98   |  Saving you £10.01 (167.39%)   |  RRP £15.99

    The Little Prince adapted from the poetic touching and much-loved allegory by the French pilot and explorer Antoine de Saint-Exupery is a feature-length tale of a pilot who crashes in the Sahara Desert and meets an enchanting young boy who comes from an Asteroid somewhere in outer-space. This ultimately sad but touching observation on life features some beautiful desert landscapes intergalactic flashbacks and great cameos from Gene Wilder and Bob Fosse.

  • Sex And The Other Woman [DVD]Sex And The Other Woman | DVD | (21/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

    Sex And The Other Woman / This That And The Other

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