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• The Damned (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (19/07/2021) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Having been exiled from Hollywood in the 1950s, American filmmaker Joseph Losey settled in Britain, where he made a series of remarkable and highly individual works. A film about the horrors of the nuclear age, and the irresponsible science which spawned it, The Damned is one of Losey's and Hammer's - most idiosyncratic films, and one which has grown in reputation through the years. Special Features 2K restoration Original mono audio Alternative presentations of the complete 96-minute version, playable as either The Damned or These Are the Damned Audio commentary with film historians Kat Ellinger and Samm Deighan On the Brink: Inside ˜The Damned' (2019, 27 mins): documentary, featuring Alan Barnes, Kevin Lyons, Nick Riddle and Jonathan Rigby, exploring aspects of the film production Hammer's Women: Viveca Lindfors (2019, 15 mins): profile of the renowned actor by film historian Lindsay Hallam Looking in the Right Place (2019, 10 mins): actor Shirley Anne Field recalls working with Oliver Reed and Joseph Losey Children of ˜The Damned' (2019, 24 mins): former child actors David Palmer, Kit Williams and Christopher Witty discuss their experiences making The Damned Something Out of Nothing (2019, 7 mins): screenwriter Evan Jones reflects on this first feature-film credit Smoke Screen (2019, 12 mins): interview with camera operator Anthony Heller Beneath the Surface (2019, 26 mins): interview with filmmaker Gavrik Losey, son of director Joseph Losey Beyond Black Leather (2019, 15 mins): academic I Q Hunter discusses The Damned No Future (2019, 26 mins): appreciation by author and film historian Neil Sinyard The Lonely Shore (2019, 21 mins): appreciation of James Bernard's score by David Huckvale, author of James Bernard, Composer to Count Dracula: A Critical Biography Isolated music & effects track Original US theatrical trailer Joe Dante trailer commentary (2013, 4 mins): short critical appreciation Image gallery: promotional and publicity materials New and improved subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing

• The Whole Truth (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (17/06/2024) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Stewart Granger (Footsteps in the Fog), Donna Reed (Scandal Sheet), George Sanders (Endless Night), and Italian sex symbol Gianna Maria Canale (I vampiri) star in The Whole Truth, a wry suspense thriller set on the French Riviera. When film producer Max (Granger) begins an affair with Gina (Canale), the star of his latest production, it isn't long before she threatens to tell his wife, Carol (Reed), what is going on. However, the price of Gina's silence changes for Max when she is found murdered, and he must convince Inspector Carliss of the Yard (Sanders) of his innocence... Directed by John Guillermin (Town on Trial), photographed by Wilkie Cooper (The 7th Voyage of Sinbad), and co-written by Philip Mackie (The Naked Civil Servant), The Whole Truth is a stylishly shot and tautly plotted murder mystery. INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES High Definition remasterOriginal mono audio Audio commentary with film historians Kevin Lyons and Jonathan Rigby (2024) Robert Shail on 'The Whole Truth' (2024): the film historian discusses the film and British production company Romulus FilmsThe BEHP Interview with Ronald Spencer (1991): archival audio recording, made as part of the British Entertainment History Project, featuring the assistant director in conversation with Joyce RobinsonOriginal theatrical trailer Image gallery: promotional and publicity materials New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearingLimited edition exclusive booklet with a new essay by Barry Forshaw, archival interviews with George Sanders and Gianna Maria Canale, archival article on Canale and Donna Reed, extracts from the films campaign book, an overview of contemporary critical responses, and film creditsWorld premiere on Blu-rayLimited edition of 3,000 copies for the UK All extras subject to change

• The Damned | DVD | (04/10/2010) from £9.74   |  Saving you £1.51 (17.81%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The brutality of modern society is fast encroaching on the picturesque seaside town of Weymouth. American tourist Simon Wells (Macdonald Carey) is looking for a relaxing holiday but he is mugged by the psychopathic King (Oliver Reed) and his gang of thugs. Wells escapes with Kings sister, Joanie (Shirley Anne Field), and they stumble upon a sinister establishment where nine ice-cold children are being subjected to a horrifying experiment. The shadowy authorities control of the base will stop at nothing to safeguard their secret, but it is the mysterious children who will doom them all... Special Features: Photo Gallery 24-page illustrated booklet This Official UK DVD is Region 2,4,5

• Tommy | DVD | (23/01/2012) from £9.55   |  Saving you £3.44 (36.02%)   |  RRP £12.99

  If you've ever wanted to hear Jack Nicholson sing or marvel at the sight of Ann-Margret drunkenly cavorting in a cascade of baked beans, Tommy is the movie you've been waiting for. The Who's brilliant rock opera is sublimely matched by director Ken Russell's penchant for cinematic excess during the peak of his filmmaking audacity. Tommy revolves around the 'deaf, dumb, and blind kid' (Roger Daltrey) who survives the childhood trauma that stole his senses to become a Pinball Wizard in Pete Townshend's grandiose attack on the hypocrisy of organised religion. Tommy's odyssey is rendered through wall-to-wall music, from the bloodstream shock of Tina Turner to Elton John's towering rendition of 'Pinball Wizard' and Daltrey's epiphanous rendition of 'I'm Free'. Other star performers include Eric Clapton and the Who's drummer Keith Moon in this classic of creative rock cinema.

• Angel and the Badman (John Wayne) | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £4.90   |  Saving you £5.09 (103.88%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Quirt Evens an all round bad guy is nursed back to health and sought after by Penelope Worth a quaker girl. He eventually finds himself having to choose from his world or the world from which Penelope lives by.

• Tommy (Special Edition) | DVD | (14/06/2004) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-10.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Even by the standards of a genre not characterised by restraint, the 1974 rock opera Tommy is endearingly barmy, a bizarre combination of Pete Townshend's disturbed inspiration and director Ken Russell's wildly eccentric vision. Even if you gamely try and read allegorical meaning into it, the story is frankly odd: a child becomes psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind after witnessing the murder of his father by his stepdad and goes on to become rich and famous as the world pinball champion (since when was pinball a world-class competitor sport?), before setting himself up as a latter-day messiah. It's about the travails of the post-war generation, the disaffection of youth, the trauma of childhood abuse, the sham nature of new-age cults, and many other things besides. At least, that's what Townshend and Russell would have you believe. But what's really important is the many wonderful, utterly bonkers set-pieces--effectively a string of pop videos--that occur along the way, performed by great guest stars: Tina Turner as the Acid Queen, Eric Clapton as the Preacher, Keith Moon as Uncle Ernie, Elton John's mighty rendition of "Pinball Wizard", even Jack Nicholson doing a turn as a suave specialist. Roger Daltrey is iconic in his signature role, and Oliver Reed makes up for a complete inability to sing with a bravura performance as his sleazy stepdad, but best of all is Ann-Margret as Tommy's mother Nora: her charismatic presence holds the loose narrative together and she richly deserved her Academy Award nomination; the sight of her in a nylon cat suit being drenched in baked beans and chocolate from an exploding TV set is worth the price of admission alone. On the DVD: Tommy comes to DVD in a two-disc set, with the feature on disc one accompanied by three audio tracks: Dolby Stereo or 5.1 surround, as well as the original "Quintaphonic" surround mix--a unique experience with effectively two pairs of stereo tracks plus a centre track for the vocals. The anamorphic picture adequately recreates the original theatrical ratio. The second disc has a series of lengthy and illuminating new interviews with the main (surviving) players: Townshend, Russell, Daltrey and Ann-Margret, in which we learn among other things, that Daltrey wasn't Townshend's first choice for the role, that Stevie Wonder was the original preference for the Pinball Wizard, and that Ken Russell had never heard of any of these rock stars before agreeing to helm the movie. There's also a feature on the original sound mix and its restoration for DVD. All in all, a satisfying package for fans of one of the daftest chapters in the annals of rock music. --Mark Walker

• The Mikado | DVD | (22/08/2011) from £14.75   |  Saving you £2.24 (15.19%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Based on the stage production by Anthony Besch.

• Troll / Troll 2 | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.32

  Be afraid... Be twice as afraid! Troll: When an evil troll named Torok attempts to bring about cataclysmic changes that will forever erase mankind an ancient sorceress and a young boy join forces to stop him before he can carry out his diabolical plan. Troll II: Trolls live in the woods around Nibog and feed on the town's population. By transforming themselves into people the trolls are able to come into town and pick their menu. This summer their prey is the Waits

• Captain Clegg (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (26/02/2024) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Peter Cushing (The Gorgon, Corruption) and Oliver Reed (The Scarlet Blade) star in Peter Graham Scotts Captain Clegg, which sees the legendary Hammer Films studio fuse horror and adventure in a film that was released in the US as Night Creatures. When Captain Collier (Patrick Allen, Never Take Sweets from a Stranger) investigates reports of smuggling in the tiny coastal village of Dymchurch, the villagers, under the leadership of Parson Blyss (Cushing), refuse to co-operate. Colliers men are plagued by apparitions of marsh phantoms and tales of Captain Clegg, the fearsome pirate leader who was buried there... Or was he?

• Proof Of Life | DVD | (27/08/2001) from £8.24   |  Saving you £5.75 (69.78%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Russell Crowe stars as Terry Thorne, a K&R (kidnap and rescue) expert called in by the wife of an American engineer (played by Meg Ryan) when her husband is kidnapped in South America.

• It's A Wonderful Life | Blu Ray | (07/11/2016) from £10.76   |  Saving you £-1.76 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.00

  Now perhaps the most beloved American film, It's a Wonderful Life was largely forgotten for years, due to a copyright quirk. Only in the late 1970s did it find its audience through repeated TV showings. Frank Capra's masterwork deserves its status as a feel-good communal event, but it is also one of the most fascinating films in the American cinema, a multilayered work of Dickensian density. George Bailey (played superbly by James Stewart) grows up in the small town of Bedford Falls, dreaming dreams of adventure and travel, but circumstances conspire to keep him enslaved to his home turf. Frustrated by his life, and haunted by an impending scandal, George prepares to commit suicide on Christmas Eve. A heavenly messenger (Henry Travers) arrives to show him a vision: what the world would have been like if George had never been born. The sequence is a vivid depiction of the American Dream gone bad, and probably the wildest thing Capra ever shot (the director's optimistic vision may have darkened during his experiences making military films in World War II). Capra's triumph is to acknowledge the difficulties and disappointments of life, while affirming--in the teary-eyed final reel--his cherished values of friendship and individual achievement. It's a Wonderful Life was not a big hit on its initial release, and it won no Oscars (Capra and Stewart were nominated); but it continues to weave a special magic. --Robert Horton

• Smokey and the Bandit | Blu Ray | (31/05/2021) from £16.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Starring Burt Reynolds, Jackie Gleason, Sally Field and Jerry Reed, Smokey and the Bandit delivers outrageous laughs in one of the biggest box-office hits of all time. Bandit (Reynolds), a fun-loving, fast-talking trucker, takes on his craziest haul yet - delivering 400 cases of beer from Texarkana to Atlanta in just 28 hours. With Sheriff Buford T. Justice (Gleason) hot on his trail and eager to teach him some respect for the law, the Bandit joins forces with good ol' boy, Cledus (Reed) and runaway bride Carrie (Field). Gear up for huge laughs, pedal-to-the-metal action, and some of the wildest car crashes ever filmed! Bonus Features Loaded Up and Truckin': Making Smokey And The Bandit Snowman, What's Your 20?: The Smokey And The Bandit CB Tutorial 100 Years of Universal: The '70s 100 Years of Universal: The Lot Theatrical Trailer

• The Scarlet Blade (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (22/07/2024) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Lionel Jeffries (First Men in the Moon), Oliver Reed (The Damned), Jack Hedley (The Secret of Blood Island), and June Thorburn (The Three Worlds of Gulliver) star in Hammer's The Scarlet Blade. During the English Civil War, Roundhead leader Colonel Judd (Jeffries) kidnaps King Charles I, aided by his sadistic second-in-command, Captain Sylvester (Reed). The task of rescuing the King falls to the secretive Scarlet Blade (Hedley), aided by Judd's daughter, Claire (Thorburn). Directed by John Gilling (The Pirates of Blood River), The Scarlet Blade is an action-packed period drama. INDICATOR STANDARD EDITION SPECIAL FEATURES High Definition remaster Original mono audio Two presentations of the film: The Scarlet Blade, with the original UK title sequence, and The Crimson Blade, with the alternative US titles New audio commentary with Kevin Lyons, editor of The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Films and Television Hammer's Women: June Thorburn (2020, 19 mins): profile of The Scarlet Blade actor by film historian Josephine Botting Stephen Laws Introduces 'The Scarlet Blade' (2020, 7 mins): appreciation by the acclaimed horror author Doing Battle (2020, 8 mins): second assistant director Hugh Harlow and continuity supervisor Pauline Wise discuss the challenges of making the film Almost an Auteur (2020, 28 mins): horror author and critic Kim Newman looks at the career of director John Gilling and considers the films he made for Hammer Appropriately Military (2020, 12 mins): appreciation of Gary Hughes' score by David Huckvale, author of Hammer Film Scores and the Musical Avant-Garde Original US theatrical trailer Image gallery: promotional and publicity materials New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

• Smokey And The Bandit 3 | DVD | (05/12/2016) from £8.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Second sequel to the 1977 comedy. Two entrepreneurs hire truck driver Cletus (Jerry Reed) to deliver a replica shark from Miami to a seafood restaurant in Texas. On the way, Cletus is mistaken by Sheriff Buford T. Justice (Jackie Gleason) for his old enemy The Bandit (Burt Reynolds), and a high-speed chase ensues as Buford and his son set out to apprehend him.

• The Twilight Saga: Eclipse | DVD | (06/12/2010) from £3.40   |  Saving you £17.85 (834.11%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger as Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge.

• From Here to Eternity | DVD | (03/09/2012) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Director Fred Zinnemann's 1953 Oscar-winning best picture From Here To Eternity is a powerful portrait of a peacetime military camp stationed in Hawaii just before the attack on Pearl Harbour. Montgomery Clift is superlative in the major role of Robert Prewitt, while Frank Sinatra delivers an electrifying Academy Award-winning (1953, Best Supporting Actor) performance as Clift's buddy. Deborah Kerr's love scene in the Hawaiian surf with Burt Lancaster is enshrined as one of the most famous moments in cinema history.

• The Breed | DVD | (09/10/2003) from £6.98   |  Saving you £-0.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  With a hot cast and a sexy look 'The Breed' puts a stylish twist on the classic vampire tale. FBI Agent Steven Grant (Woodbine) is reluctantly assigned to track a renegade bloodsucker that is bent on exposing a government plan to integrate vampires into society. Along with his new partner 'good' vampire cop Aaron Grey (Paul) Grant follows the clues and the bodies to the lair of the stunningly beautiful Lucy (Ling). Trusting any vampire is difficult for Grant but when he finds hi

• Poldark Series 5 Blu-Ray | Blu Ray | (02/09/2019) from £19.23   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Ross Poldark returns to England after fighting in the American Revolution. His family and friends thought he was dead. The woman he hoped to marry is now engaged to his cousin. His father is dead, and the property he has inherited has been allowed to deteriorate. It is the late 1700s in Cornwall, England. This is a family drama, but is also about the challenges and conflicts between the rich and the poor. It is a time when fishermen are not catching much fish, tin and copper mines are closing down because prices are too low, but the price of food and rents are high. Ross faces the challenge of making his land productive, caring for the tenants who rely on him, and trying to win back the woman he loved - or finding a reason to live without her.

• Annie / Oliver! Deluxe Box set | DVD | (26/09/2011) from £12.98   |  Saving you £2.00 (18.20%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Titles Comprise: Annie (1982): Annie is the story of a plucky, red-haired girl who dreams of a life away outside her orphanage and its gin-soaked tyrant, Miss Hannigan (played to perfection by Carol Burnett). One day Annie meets the famous billionaire, Daddy Warbucks, and the pair share spectacular times in 1930's New York City. But Miss Hannigan and her zany, villainous colleagues are determined to spoil the fun for America's favourite orphan...Oliver! (1968): Experience the high-spirited adventures of Oliver Twist in this Oscar-winning musical adaptation of Charles Dickens classic tale!Young Oliver Twist (Mark Lester) is an orphan who escapes the cheerless life of the workhouse and takes to the streets of 19th-Century London. Hes immediately taken in by a band of street urchins, headed by the lovable villain Fagin (Ron Moody), his fiendish henchman Bill Sikes (Oliver Reed) and his loyal apprentice The Artful Dodger (Jack Wild). Through his education in the fine points of pick-pocketing, Oliver makes away with an unexpected treasure... a home and a family of his own.Set to a heartfelt score that includes such favorites as Consider Yourself, Where Is Love? and As Long As He Needs Me, Oliver! leads us on a journey in search of love, belonging and honour among thieves. Winner of six Academy Awards , including Best Picture and Best Score, Oliver! will steal your heart!

• Women In Love | DVD | (02/08/2004) from £17.99   |  Saving you £-5.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Before director Ken Russell's name became synonymous with cinematic extravagance and overkill, he actually directed what is one of the most passionate and involving adaptations of DH Lawrence in recent memory. Oliver Reed and Alan Bates star as friends who fall in love with a pair of sisters (Jennie Linden and Glenda Jackson, who won an Oscar for the role). But the relationships take markedly different directions, as Russell explores the nature of commitment and love. Bates and Linden learn to give themselves to each other; the more withdrawn Reed cannot, finally, connect with the demanding and challenging Jackson. Shot with great sensuality, Women in Love was surprisingly frank for its period (1970) and includes one of the most charged scenes in movie history: Bates and Reed as manly men, wrestling nude by firelight. --Marshall Fine