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• Sherlock Holmes - 4 Classic Episodes - Vol. 1 - The Case Of The Night Train Riddle / Case Of Lady Beryl | DVD | (04/04/2005) from £3.49   |  Saving you £1.50 (42.98%)   |  RRP £4.99

  From 1954-1955 39 TV films were made starring Ronald Howard as Sherlock Holmes and Howard Marion Crawford as Dr. Watson. This DVD contains 4 of these TV films: The Case of the Night Train Riddle The Case of Lady Beryl The Mother Hubbart Case The Case of the Gravestone Inscription.

• The Sound Of Music | DVD | (12/11/2007) from £9.98   |  Saving you £3.01 (30.16%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Winner of five Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director the beloved Rodgers and Hammerstein musical based on the lives of the Von Trapp Family singers will inspire and entertain young and old alike. When postulate Maria (Julie Andrews) proves a bit too high-spirited for Mother Abbess and the other nuns Mother Abbess arranges for Maria to become governess to the seven unruly Von Trapp children before joining the order. Captain Von Trapp (Christopher Plummer) a widowed naval officer who educates his children with military discipline prescribes stern child-raising but Maria wins the children over with her natural warmth and kindness and teaches them to sing. Only one thing threatens the happiness and laughter that Maria has brought into the Von Trapp household: the threat of Nazi occupation in Austria.

• Passion And Prejudice | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  This is the true story of Dr Gwen Barry (Frances Fisher) a sexually repressed woman with a lifetime of passion simmering just below the surface. When she hires a day-release prisoner- the muscular Dalton (derwin Jordan)- to help with her garden they soon start an exhilarating affair. Gwen imagines they will stay together forever when Dalto leaves prison but he has his own ideas. When police find Gwen cowering naked next to a badly wounded Dalton they arrest him for attempted murder. Is this the work of an habitual criminal or the revenge of a woman scorned...

• MacGyver - Season 1 | DVD | (18/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  MacGyver (Richard Dean Anderson) is a modern-day ""knight-errant"" a person people turn to in a crisis. He has a penchant for arriving on the scene in the eleventh hour when the clock is ticking ominously and innocent lives often are at stake. MacGyver is a packrat collecting ordinary items of seemingly little value and stashing them in his knapsack ""for a rainy day"". And it is these same items that he uses to improvise his way out of trouble. MacGyver's ingenious solutions to see

• Band Waggon | DVD | (19/02/2007) from £7.98   |  Saving you £-2.99 (-59.90%)   |  RRP £4.99

  A spin-off movie from Askey's popular BBC radio programme of the same name in which after being evicted from Broadcasting House Askey and Richard 'Stinker' Murdoch move to a castle where they come upon television equipment which they use to put on a show - not realising that is in use by German agents. The show is of course the ideal vehicle for the variety acts from the radio show.

• Francis the Talking Mule: 7 Film Collection | Blu Ray | (03/05/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Housesitter | DVD | (25/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A slick, smart vehicle for Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn, Housesitter offers an acceptably daffy premise and enough inventive business to sustain it through to the, not unexpected, happy ending. Architect Martin builds a dream home for his childhood sweetheart (Dana Delaney) only to be rejected when he proposes marriage. After a one-night stand, Hawn--a daffy waitress with a gift for making up improbable but convincing lies--moves into Martin's house and tells his parents (Donald Moffatt, Julie Harris) and the whole community that she is his surprise new wife. When he sees how this impresses Delaney, Martin goes along with the charade, encouraging wilder and wilder fictions and doing his best to join in so that he can rush through to a divorce and move on to the woman he has always wanted. Hawn has to recruit a couple of winos to pose as her parents and impress Martin's boss into giving him a promotion, but we glimpse her real misery at his eventual intention to toss her out of the make-believe world she has created because her own real background is so grim. Its sit-com hi-jinx are manic enough not to be strangled by an inevitable dip in to sentiment towards the end, and Hawn, who always has to work hard, is better matched against the apparently effortless Martin than in their subsequent pairing in Out-of-Towners. Martin, often wasted in comparatively straight roles, has a few wild and crazy scenes as Hawn prompts him into joining her improvised fantasies. Director Frank Oz, a frequent Martin collaborator (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Little Shop of Horrors, Bowfinger), is the model of a proper, competent, professional craftsman when he sets out to put a comedy together--but the film misses streaks of lunacy or cruelty that might have made it funnier and more affecting. On the DVD: The disc offers a pristine widescreen non-anamorphic transfer, letterboxed to 1.85:1. There are no extra features to speak of, just text-based production notes, cast and director bios, plus a trailer and an assortment of language and subtitle options. --Kim Newman

• How To Get Ahead In Advertising | DVD | (26/12/2006) from £12.96   |  Saving you £7.02 (70.41%)   |  RRP £16.99

  The career where two heads are better than one! To hotshot advertising executive Dennis Bagley (Richard E. Grant) people are pathetic sheep to whom he can sell anything...except a brand-new pimple cream. Creatively blocked Dennis becomes so stressed that he sprouts a pimple of his own...a pimple that eventually grows intoia huge head with a mind and a voice! Before long the sassy carbuncle takes over Dennis' life revealing to him a diabolical plan to control the masses. Now Dennis must find courage deep within himself to save society and himself from the beastly blemish!

• The 12 Dogs Of Christmas | DVD | (14/11/2005) from £5.38   |  Saving you £13.61 (252.97%)   |  RRP £18.99

  It's Christmas time in 1930's Pittsburgh and motherless 12 year old Emma O'Conner has been sent to her 'Aunt Delores' in Doverville. On arrival Emma finds herself unwelcomed by Delores and caught in the middle of a war over dogs. On one side is Mayor Nobel Doyle and the Town Council who are determined to maintain the 'No Dogs Allowed' law of Doverville. On the other side is Cathy Stevens 'The Dog Lady' who has been taking in people's dogs from all over the country as they can no

• The One | DVD | (08/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Jet Li stars in this science fiction tale about a killer travelling through parallel universes, killing other versions of himself to gain power.

• The Arthur Askey Collection - Back Room Boy/Band Waggon/Bees In Paradise/King Arthur Was A Gentleman/Miss London Ltd/I Thank You | DVD | (19/02/2007) from £49.99   |  Saving you £-25.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A six disc collection from Arthur Askey including: Back Room Boy Band Waggon Bees In Paradise King Arthur Was A Gentleman Miss London Ltd I Thank Yo

• The Girl On The Boat | DVD | (25/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Sam Marlowe travels to the States with the intention of convincing his aunt to let him rent out her summer house in England. But when the aunt discovers that Eustace Sam's cousin is planning to secretly marry she sends them back to England. On the return trip Sam meets and falls for Eustace's ex-fiancee Billie with hilarious results. Adapted from the P.G. Wodehouse novel.

• Stargate SG-1: Season 6 (Vol. 26) | DVD | (31/03/2003) from £6.54   |  Saving you £13.45 (67.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Redemption - Part 1: The SGC has come under attack from Anubis who has a device that can use one Stargate to destroy another. With a wormhole dialed in to Earth's stargate the SGC can not contact its off-world allies for help. Carter works furiously to find a solution... Redemption - Part 2: Teal'c is off world attending his wife's funeral; his son believes she would not have been killed if Teal'c had not joined the fight against the Goa'uld. Wanting proof that the Goa'uld are not gods and can be stopped he insists that Teal'c allow him to join in battle so he can see for himself what the war is all about. Together they search for Anubis... Descent: SG-1 heads for the now abandoned Goa'uld mothership that once belonged to Anubis and now houses a downloaded version of Thor's mind. Frozen: The SGC's study of the Antarctic Gate site reveals a woman buried in the ice who is revived. Unwittingly carrying a deadly disease she poses a deadly threat to the team.

• Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World | UMD | (08/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Russell Crowe stars as "Lucky" Jack Aubrey, who pits his crew of the HMS Surprise against a much better armed and ruthless enemy in a chase that takes him all the way to the far side of the world.

• Papillon / Midnight Express / Missing | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Papillon (Dir. Franklin J. Schaffner 1973): They called him Papillon meaning butterfly. If only he had wings to go with the name. Unable to fly Henri Charriere virtually willed himself free. He persisted until he did the impossible: escape Devil's Island. Based on Charriere's bestseller and shot in Spain and Jamaica Franklin J. Schaffner's film of Papillon united two stars at key career junctions. After a decade of fine work in The Great Escape The Sand Pebbles and Bullitt Steve McQueen found in Charriere another ideal tough-guy role. Coming off The Graduate Midnight Cowboy and Little Big Man Dustin Hoffman again distinguished himself as Dega Charriere's scruffy friend. Midnight Express (Dir. Alan Parker 1973): Brad Davis and John Hurt star in this riveting true story of a young American's nightmarish experiences in a Turkish prison and his unforgettable journey to freedom. Busted for attempting to smuggle hashish out of Istanbul American College student Billy Hayes (Davis) is thrown into the city's most brutal jail. After suffering through four years of sadistic torture and inhuman conditions Billy is about to be released when his parole is denied. Only his inner courage and the support of a fellow inmate (Hurt) give him the strength to catch the Midnight Express (prison code for escape). Missing (Dir. Costa Gavras 1982): Director Constantin Costa-Gavras made his English-language film debut with this political thriller based on a true story. Although the nation depicted is never named directly the action clearly takes place in Chile after the military coup. Missing centers around the disappearance of Charles Horman (John Shea) an American expatriate who lives with his wife Beth (Sissy Spacek) in South America. One night armed soldiers enter their home and drag him away. In desperation Beth decides to contact Charles's father Ed (Jack Lemon) and ask for help. In contrast to his left-wing daughter-in-law Ed is staunchly patriotic. But as he gets the runaround from both American and Chilean officials Ed receives a cold hard lesson in political reality... and learns some ugly truths about US involvement in Latin America.

• Mit stahlharter Faust, 1 Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (25/03/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Princes Of Comedii | DVD | (28/12/2005) from £6.55   |  Saving you £13.44 (67.20%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The most hip hilarious lewd and crude DVD you'll ever see! For one night only Richard Blackwood and friends come together to give a sensational performance at the Clapham Grand in London. The Princes of Comedii showcases the finest black comedians from both sides of the Atlantic as they join forces to bring the best of established and up and coming talent to DVD. Blackwood returns to what he does best and is accompanied by fellow stand-ups Wil Kojo and Slim. Wil has made a big

• D.W. Griffith - Monumental Epics | DVD | (24/06/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  There’s little doubt that much of what we now take for granted about cinema owes much to the vision of director D W Griffith. Monumental Epics collects five of his most influential silent masterpieces. The Birth of a Nation (1915) is also the birth of the epic film. Made to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of the American Civil War this provocative film unflinchingly shows the humiliation of Southern culture, the "heroism" of the Ku Klux Klan, and links the Union and Confederacy by a common Aryan birthright. All of which has to be viewed in its period context if it is to be viewed at all. Intolerance (1916) is film-making of epic complexity. Human intolerance is related through a modern tale of wrongful conviction, intercut by three stories from Babylonian, Judean, and French history to point up the issue through the ages. The intricacy of the intercutting is breathtaking even now, but those as confused as the first audiences evidently were can opt to see each story separately. Sensitively tinted, this is Griffith's finest three hours. Broken Blossoms (1919) has Griffith venturing into domestic melodrama. Although there's a clear moral to be drawn from this tale of compassion in the face of ignorance and brutality, neither the over-acting of Lillian Gish and Donald Crisp, nor the vein of sentimentality that creeps into their characters' relationship allow the viewer to forget the period-piece nature of the film. Here an appropriately expressive musical score helps keep viewing at an attentive level. Way Down East (1920) shows Griffith moving from the epic to the personal, though still on a large scale. The combining of old-style melodrama with latter-day female emancipation is tellingly brought off, and Lillian Gish excels as the country girl used and abused by male society, until "rescued" by a farmer of true moral scruples. Unconvinced? Then go straight to the climactic snowstorm and ice floe sequences--Eisenstein et al are inconceivable without this as trailblazer. Abraham Lincoln (1930) marked Griffith's entry into the talkie era. Tautly directed, it offers a historically accurate account of the 16th US President's rise to power and his visionary outlook on American society. Civil War scenes are implied rather than enacted, and its Walter Huston's robust yet understated acting that carries the day, with sterling support from Una Merkel as Ann Rutledge and Hobart Bosworth as General Lee. On the DVD: Stylishly packaged, restoration and digital remastering has been carried out to Eureka's usual high standard, and the 4:3 aspect ratio has commendable clarity. Birth of a Nation has Joseph Carl Breil's original orchestral score and a pithy "making of" film by Russell Merritt. Intolerance contains a useful rolling commentary and a great wurlitzer soundtrack too. Way Down East includes a commentary. Abraham Lincoln also has a commentary, though Hugo Riesenfeld's score often verges on the mawkish. Overall this set is a must for anyone remotely interested in film as a living medium.--Richard Whitehouse

• The Adventures Of Robin Hood - The Complete Series 3 | DVD | (18/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  First broadcast in 1955 The Adventures of Robin Hood stars Richard Green as Robin of Locksley. Together with his band of merry men he protects the countryside from evil Prince John (Donald Pleasence). Features all 39 episodes from the third series spread over 5 discs: The Salt King A Tuck In Time Pepper The Charter A Change Of Heart Brother Battle My Brother's Keeper An Apple For The Archer The Angry Village The Mark The Bride Of Robin Hood To Be A Student Th

• Lord Peter Wimsey - Clouds Of Witness | DVD | (08/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Based on the series of novels written by Dorothy L Sayers in the 1920s and 30s, Lord Peter Wimsey was dramatised for TV by the BBC between 1972-5. Ian Carmichael, veteran of British film comedy, played the genial, aristocratic sleuth; Glyn Houston was his manservant Bunter. The pair are similar to PG Wodehouse's Jeeves and Bertie Wooster (whom Carmichael played in an earlier TV adaptation) though here the duo are equal in intelligence, breezing about the country together in Wimsey's Bentley and stumbling with morbid regularity upon baffling murder mysteries to test their wits. Those for whom this series forms hazy memories of childhood might be surprised at its somewhat stagy, lingering interior shots, the spartan paucity of music, the miserly attitude towards locations, especially foreign ones, and the rather genteel, leisurely pace of these programmes, besides which Inspector Morse seems like Quentin Tarantino in comparison. It seems that initially the BBC was reluctant to commission the series and ventured on production with a wary eye on the budget. The Britain depicted by Sayers is, by and large, populated by either the upper classes or heavily accented, rum-do-and-no-mistake lower orders, which some might find consoling. However, the acting is generally excellent and the murder mysteries are sophisticated parlour games, the televisual equivalent of a good, absorbing jigsaw puzzle. There were five feature-length adaptations in all. "Clouds of Witness" sees Wimsey investigate the death of his brother the Duke of Denver's fiancée. --David Stubbs