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• Paths Of Glory | DVD | (15/07/2002) from £8.81   |  Saving you £7.18 (81.50%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The pity of war has been a much-favoured film topic; the treachery of war much less so, though never more persuasively than in Paths of Glory, Stanley Kubrick's breakthrough feature from 1957. Kirk Douglas gives one of his finest screen performances as Colonel Dax, the idealistic First World War soldier appalled by the arbitrary court-marshal meted out to three of his men after an impossible attempt to storm German lines goes disastrously wrong. George Macready is an utterly believable Gerneral Mireau, obsessed with his own honour and standing, whom Adolphe Majou complements tellingly as the urbane and cynical General Bruler. Those who know Kubrick from his later sprawling epics will be surprised at the tautness and concision shown here, even though the screenplay--which he co-wrote--has a certain theatrical stiffness. On the DVD: Paths of Glory on disc reproduces well in full-screen format, and Gerald Fried's bitingly ironic score comes through powerfully. There are five dubbed and six subtitled languages. The original trailer is a masterpiece of gritty reportage, well worth reviving. Along with Dr Strangelove and 2001, this is Kubrick's most focussed and durable film. --Richard Whitehouse

• Frank Sinatra | DVD | (03/07/2006) from £14.98   |  Saving you £-0.58 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.40

  Tony Rome: Tony Rome a tough Miami PI living on a houseboat is hired by a local millionaire to find jewelry stolen from his daughter and in the process has several encounters with local hoods as well as the Miami Beach PD. The Detective: A hard-boiled mystery starring Frank Sinatra as the tough-as-nails Detective Joe Leland 'The Detective' was based on a novel by Roderick Thorp. Called in to investigate the murder of Teddy Leikman the homosexual son of a well-conn

• The Detective | DVD | (03/07/2006) from £6.23   |  Saving you £6.76 (108.51%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A hard-boiled mystery starring Frank Sinatra as the tough-as-nails Detective Joe Leland The Detective was based on a novel by Roderick Thorp. Called in to investigate the murder of Teddy Leikman the homosexual son of a well-connected department store mogul Leland executes an open-and-shut investigation. He quickly elicits a confession from Teddy's crazy roommate and the defendant is convicted and executed while Leland scores a promotion. But when the widow of an accountan

• Guadalcanal Diary | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £8.69   |  Saving you £4.30 (49.48%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Based on the best seller of the same name Guadalcanal Diary is one of the greatest war movies of all time. This strikingly realistic film follows a devoted platoon of Marines through the terrors of war in the South Pacific. The all-star cast includes Lloyd Nolan William Bendix Preston Foster and Anthony Quinn as soldiers battling disease treacherous terrain and unrelenting weather as well as a human enemy. Poignantly narrated and with explosive action rooted in a solid historic

• Reform School Girl | DVD | (17/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Gloria Castillo stars as mixed up teenager Donna Price. When she witnesses her boyfriend steal a car and get involved in a fatal hit and run accident he frames her for the accident to save himself and she is sent to reform school on car theft charges. Despite her innocence Donna refuses to reveal who was really driving the stolen vehicle it is only once the culprit reveals himself to be throughly nasty that Donna is able to extricate herself from her spiralling dilemma.