"Actor: Raymond Hatton"

• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Silent) | DVD | (16/11/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Lon Chaney, the man of a thousand faces, was best known for playing Quasimodo and the Phantom of the Opera. But the former role in The Hunchback of Notre Dame was clearly the most ambitious of his illustrious career, full of such longing and anguish. It's as though his entire being was consumed by this ugly outcast with a heart as big and beautiful as Notre Dame itself. And the makeup is still astonishing. The rest of this unrequited love story is pretty effective as well, with the re-creation of medieval Paris a standout for its lavishness. Like all great silent films, it delivers a poetry of life that is abstract and tangible at the same time. --Bill Desowitz

• John Wayne - The Three Musketeers | DVD | (09/06/2008) from £9.50   |  Saving you £-3.51 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  'All for one and one for all' in this action-packed 12 part serial adaptation of Alexander Dumas's The Three Musketeers. Tom Wayne (John Wayne) is a fugitive from justice framed for a murder he did not commit. El Shaitan the mysterious and diabolical leader of the Devil's Circle a group who are plotting an Arab rebellion against the Foreign Legion is to blame. It's up to Tom's sweetheart Elaine (Ruth Hall) and the trustworthy Three Musketeers - Clancy (Jack Mulhall) Renard (Raymond Hatton) and Schmidt (Francis X. Bushman Jr.) - to put an end to his reign of terror and clear Tom's name.

• Chiller Theatre Features | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  It's difficult sometimes to fathom how compilers think. This Chiller Theatre threesome consists of two classic silent horror films, plus a low-budget B-movie from the early 1960s. The connection? You decide! Yet these are films that belong in any self-respecting collection, and this package is a good way of acquiring them. Of those featuring Lon Chaney, it's the original 1923 The Hunchback of Notre Dame that comes across best. Chaney's grotesquerie is shot-through with pathos, and Patsy Ruth Miller's Esmeralda has enduring freshness. Wallace Worsley handles crowd scenes and cathedral stunts with aplomb, and there's an atmospheric "posthumous" soundtrack, though anyone looking for accuracy in the depiction of medieval French society is in for a shock. 1925's The Phantom of the Opera is slow-moving and uneventful by comparison, with Rupert Julian's direction never escaping the narrow Gothic trappings of the novel. Chaney cranks (or is that camps?) up his range of gestures to the limit, and Mary Philbin is an eye-catching heroine, but the denouement in the Paris sewers seems endless--with looped extracts of Schubert and Brahms as a hardly appropriate soundtrack. Cut to 1962, and The Carnival of Souls--made in Kansas for under $100,000--is an undeniable cult classic. Herk Harvey sustains the increasingly surreal narrative with ease, Candace Hilligoss is striking (if a tad gauche) as the young organist caught on the cusp of this world and the next, and Gene Moore's organ soundtrack is a masterly backdrop for the motley assemblage of ghouls who pursue her around the seaside pier in a memorable closing sequence. On the DVD: Chiller Theatre is very acceptably remastered--with 1.33:1 aspect ratio and 12 chapter headings per film--and decently if minimally packaged. --Richard Whitehouse

• The Day The World Ended | DVD | (26/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A rancher and his daughter are holed up in their ranch after a nuclear holocaust decimates most of the world's population. Five survivors arrive but an altogether unwelcome presence is hot on their heels: a pack of mutated radioactive animals!

• Hell Town / Frontier Horizon | DVD | (15/09/2003) from £4.97   |  Saving you £-0.98 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  In 'Hell Town' a carefree cowhand gets involved with rustlers. Based on a story by Zane Grey. In 'Frontier Horizons' some ranchers are cheated out of their land by three men who in turn have also been misled by others.

• Dawn On The Great Divide | DVD | (19/05/2007) from £6.76   |  Saving you £-0.77 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A classic western adventure starring screen legend Buck Jones as trailblazer Buck Roberts. Charged with leading a wagon train of railway supplies across the hostile Indian territory they have become a prime target for renegades and outlaws. To make it through to Beaver Lake in one piece Buck and his wagon train will have to fight off everything the Old West can throw at them.

• Steamboat Round The Bend | DVD | (23/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  John Ford's view of Americana with Will Rogers in his final screen performance. Fun and games on board as our hero's paddlewheeler is fed into it's own furnace in a steamboat race - until the fuel runs out....

• Shake Rattle And Rock! | DVD | (28/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  A group of concerned adults try to ban rock and roll music in their town believing that the music promotes juvenile delinquency. A prominent TV producer and a disc jockey attempt to convince the adults in the town that rock and roll is nothing but harmless fun. The two sides do battle in court during a televised trial. To help decide the future of rock and roll star witnesses are called from the rock and roll hall of fame.

• Motorcycle Gang | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  When a young trouble maker is released from jail he returns home. He finds that his tearaway pals have joined a supervised motorcycle club The Skyriders. He soon finds himself up against his old rival the person who put him inside....

• Girls In Prison | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  21 year old Anne Carson is convicted as an accomplice to a robbery and sent to prison with 3 other cell mates together they plot to escape from the trauma and violence that is all around them....

• Cecil B. De Mille's Carmen | DVD | (03/04/2006) from £17.09   |  Saving you £1.90 (11.12%)   |  RRP £18.99

  Cecil B. De Mille's Carmen

• The Three Musketeers - Vol. 1 | DVD | (21/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  ""One for all and all for one"" in this action-packed serial adaptation of Alexander Dumas's The Three Musketeers. Tom Wayne (John Wayne) is a fugitive from justice framed for a murder he did not commit. El Shaitan the mysterious and diabolical leader of the Devil's Circle a group who are plotting an Arab rebellion against the Foreign Legion is to blame. It's up to Tom's sweetheart Elaine (Ruth Hall) and the trustworthy Three Musketeers - Clancy (Jack Mulhall) Renard (Raymond Hatton) and Schmidt (Francis X. Bushman Jr.) - to put an end to his reign of terror and clear Tom's name. Tom and The Three Musketeers narrowly escape death in episode after episode as they saddle up for a Sahara thrill ride in the name of truth justice and brotherhood.

• The Three Musketeers - Vol. 2 | DVD | (21/11/2005) from £7.99   |  Saving you £-6.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  ""One for all and all for one"" in this action-packed serial adaptation of Alexander Dumas's The Three Musketeers. Tom Wayne (John Wayne) is a fugitive from justice framed for a murder he did not commit. El Shaitan the mysterious and diabolical leader of the Devil's Circle a group who are plotting an Arab rebellion against the Foreign Legion is to blame. It's up to Tom's sweetheart Elaine (Ruth Hall) and the trustworthy Three Musketeers - Clancy (Jack Mulhall) Renard (Raymond Hatton) and Schmidt (Francis X. Bushman Jr.) - to put an end to his reign of terror and clear Tom's name. Tom and The Three Musketeers narrowly escape death in episode after episode as they saddle up for a Sahara thrill ride in the name of truth justice and brotherhood!

• Rough Riders Round-Up | DVD | (14/02/2005) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-0.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  When Roy Rusty and Tommy join the Border Patrol Tommy gets killed in a saloon fight by Arizona Jack. Suspended from duty Roy and Rusty cross the border looking for the killer. Arizona Jack and mining engineer Lanning are running a gold smuggling racket and when Roy and Rusty find Arizona's hideout his gang captures them and they are slated to be killed.

• The Texans | DVD | (02/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Randolph Scott plays Kirk Jordan a cattle herd driver who is instrumental in carving out the Chisholm Trail a commercial route from Texas to Kansas. Indians are only part of the problem as Kirk must also contend with the Ku Klux Klan and crooked carpetbaggers to fulfill his duties.

• Rough Riders Triple Feature 1 | DVD | (08/05/2006) from £6.84   |  Saving you £2.41 (43.19%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Rough Riders - Triple Feature #1

• Rough Riders Triple Feature 2 | DVD | (08/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Rough Riders - Triple Feature #2

• Male and Female | DVD | (17/08/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.39