"Actor: Richard"

• The Lonely Guy / Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid / The Jerk | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Lonely Guy (Dir. Arthur Hiller 1984): The one and only Steve Martin stars along with Charles Grodin and Tony Award winner Judith Ivey in this funny and poignant romance inspired by Bruce Jay Friedman's tongue-in-cheek survival manual. The Lonely Guy follows the progress of Larry (Steve Martin) and his buddy Warren (Charles Grodin) as they attempt to eke out a successful social life in the Big Apple. They're losers until one day Larry writes a book that turns loneliness into the ultimate love potion and life is never the same! Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (Dir. Carl Reiner 1982): As the private eye of private eyes Steve Martin is Rigby Reardon. He's tough rough and ready to take on anything when Juliet Forrest appears on the scene with a case: her father a noted scientist philanthropist and cheesemaker has died mysteriously. Reardon immediately smells a rat and follows a complex maze of clues that lead to the 'Carlotta Lists'. With a little help from his 'friends' Alan Ladd Barbara Stanwyck Ray Milland Burt Lancaster Humphrey Bogart Charles Laughton and others Reardon gets his man. An exciting action-fun packed film the way 40's films used to be! The Jerk (Dir. Carl Reiner 1979): That wild and crazy guy Steve Martin makes his acting debut in this wild and crazy comedy hit The Jerk. Steve portrays Navin Johnson adopted son of a poor black sharecropper family whose crazy inventions lead him from rags to riches and right back to rags. Along the way he's smitten with a lady motorcycle racer survives a series of screwball attacks by a deranged killer becomes a millionaire by inventing the opti-grab handle for eyeglasses - and shows why he's the hottest comic performer in America today.

• Follow A Star | DVD | (12/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In The Square Peg Norman Wisdom plays one of a pair of council workmen who, while repairing the road outside an army base, come to illustrate the oxymoronic nature of the phrase "military intelligence". Finding themselves drafted, the workmen are sent to repair the roads ahead of the Allied advance through war-torn Europe by the sergeant they previously embarrassed. Norman finds himself behind the German lines, joins up with French Resistance, gets captured then sets out to rescue British prisoners from a German military HQ by impersonating General Schreiber. Of course Wisdom plays Schreiber too. The Square Peg is the film that introduced Norman Wisdom's famous catch-phrase, "Mr. Grimsdale!". Also here Hattie Jacques gets to sing a remarkable duet with Wisdom, and a pre-Goldfinger Honor Blackman provides the love interest. Following his rising star was just what Norman Wisdom's audience had been doing all through the 1950s and, by 1959, and after six films with director John Paddy Carstairs, it was time for a change. Hence Robert Asher made his directorial debut with Follow a Star. The plot is a comedy version of A Star is Born (1954), with Norman yet again playing a dreaming shop worker, this time aspiring to singing stardom. Vernon Carew (played by Wisdom regular Jerry Desmonde) is the fading singer who schemes to use Wisdom's talent to sustain his own rapidly failing career, while the girl is overlooked starlette June Laverick. Norman is surrounded by a particularly strong supporting cast, with Hattie Jacques returning from The Square Peg (1958), Richard Wattis, John Le Mesurier, Fenella Fielding, Ron Moody and, uncredited, future Bond villain Charles Grey. --Gary S Dalkin

• The Mysterious Lady | DVD | (19/09/2005) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-3.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Garbo plays a cunning spy in this silent film from director Fred Niblo. Shot in 1928 'Mysterious Lady' sees Garbo playing Tania Fedorova a wiley seductress who both falls in love with and steals documents from a high ranking military man...

• Wind In The Willows - Spring | DVD | (03/03/2008) from £6.73   |  Saving you £-1.74 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Wind In The Willows: Spring Follies features three tales brought to life from the pages of Kenneth Grahame's evergreen children's book. Join the classic characters Mole Rat Toad and Badger in their Spring Follies!

• Sam Kinison - Why Did We Laugh? | DVD | (30/10/2006) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A Film About The Man For fans of comedy Sam Kinison needs no introduction. His scathing comedy tackled tough topics like no other comedian dared. Fed up with his career as a preacher Sam left the ministry to try his hand at comedy. Almost immediately his peircing scream and extreme humour attracted attention. Containing rare early footage of Sam preaching and performing stand-up at the world famous Comedy Store Why Did We Laugh? tells the story of a comedic genius who touched a deeper chord.

• Abominable Snowman, The / X The Unknown | DVD | (08/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £23.99

  A double bill of vintage horrors from Hammer Studio: Val Guest directs Nigel Kneale's script of The Abominable Snowman (1957) while Leslie Norman directs Jimmy Sangster's Quatermass-inspired X The Unknown (1956).

• Short Eyes | DVD | (22/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Based on a play by Miguel Pinero Short Eyes is made up of a series of appalling episodes in prison in which inmate Bruce Davison is depraved by fellow inmates. Their reason for this is that he is a short eyes the prison slang for a man who sodomizes little boys. Despite their own notorious past they believe Bruce to be the scum of the earth and proceed to treat him accordingly.

• The Tale Of Peter Rabbit And Benjamin Bunny | DVD | (18/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Includes the classic stories:- 'The Tale Of Peter Rabbit And Benjamin Bunny', 'The Tale Of Flopsy Bunnies And Mrs Tittlemouse' and 'The Tale Of Tom Kitten And Jemima Puddle-Duck'.

• Don't Bother to Knock | DVD | (23/07/2012) from £24.21   |  Saving you £-14.22 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  An airline pilot, dumped by his girlfriend, pursues a baby-sitter in his hotel...and gradually realizes she's dangerous.

• Parasite | DVD | (21/06/2004) from £24.99   |  Saving you £-5.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  On an abandoned oil rig in the middle of the North Sea Dr. Christine Hansen (Saskia Gould) is charged with the task of testing an experimental fluid that could revolutionise the oil industry. A crew of engineers accompany Hansen but within hours one of them goes missing in mysterious circumstances. Things quickly go from bad to worse when an environmental activist and his associate seize control of the rig and hold everyone hostage. However soon the captors and captives will have to

• Victim of Love / Stalking Laura (I Can Make You Love Me) | DVD | (31/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Black Fist | DVD | (12/02/2007) from £5.49   |  Saving you £-0.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Street fighter Leroy Fisk finds himself working for the Mafia taking part in illegal street fights in order to make a living. He plans to save up enough to buy a nightclub but he will have to deal with a crooked cop and find who ordered the murder of his wife and brother in law.

• Jaws (1975) 30th Anniversary Collectors Edition (Limited Edition) | DVD | (29/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  In the vastly overrated 1998 book Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, author Peter Biskind puts the blame for Hollywood's blockbuster mentality at least partially on Steven Spielberg's box-office success with this adaptation of Peter Benchley's bestselling novel, Jaws. But you can't blame Spielberg for making a terrific movie, which Jaws definitely is. The story of a Long Island town whose summer tourist business is suddenly threatened by great-white-shark attacks on humans bypasses the potboiler trappings of Benchley's book and goes straight for the jugular with beautifully crafted, crowd-pleasing sequences of action and suspense supported by a trio of terrific performances by Roy Scheider (as the local sheriff), Richard Dreyfuss (as a shark specialist), and particularly Robert Shaw (as the old fisherman who offers to hunt the shark down). The sequences on Shaw's boat--as the three of them realize that in fact the shark is hunting them--are what entertaining moviemaking is all about. It's odd that the cornerstone of the new edition is a 10-year-old documentary. Shot for the laserdisc release (the unofficial 20th anniversary edition), the 2-hour "The Making of Jaws" is an excellent telling of how this film was made and became the top grossing film (and launched the career of extras filmmaker Laurent Bouzereau). An hour-long edited version appeared on the 25th anniversary DVD. Here's what else different from the 25th anniversary DVD: an interesting a 9-minute vintage featurette shot for British TV that has never been seen in the States; a few additions to the extensive "Jaws Archives" (production stills, storyboards and the like), and a few new fragments in the deleted scene roll. The image is the same excellent transfer as before but this time you can get the DTS and Dolby sound on the same disc plus a nice 60-page photo journal. A seaworthy set but hardly worth trading in your old DVD. --Doug Thomas, Amazon.com

• Bird Bath | DVD | (21/08/2006) from £14.56   |  Saving you £-5.57 (-62.00%)   |  RRP £8.99

  Narrated by Richard Briers all 8 Bird Bath stories from Channel 5's Milkshake programme follow the exciting adventures of the birds who live in a country garden. Every episode has a brand new song in a gentle and folksy style that both adults and children will love.

• The Third Secret (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (27/06/2022) from £14.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The apparent suicide of an eminent psychologist prompts his teenage daughter (Pamela Franklin The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Legend of Hell House) and one of his patients (Stephen Boyd Ben-Hur, Fantastic Voyage) to investigate. Convinced he was murdered, the two begin a journey into the lives and twisted psychoses of the doctor's disturbed patients. Directed by the great Charles Crichton (Dead of Night, The Lavender Hill Mob, A Fish Called Wanda), stunningly photographed by Douglas Slocombe (The Italian Job, Raiders of the Lost Ark), and starring an incredible cast which includes Jack Hawkins, Richard Attenborough, Diane Cilento and Judi Dench in one of her earliest screen roles, The Third Secret is a dark and elegant psychological thriller which has long been overlooked, but is now ripe for rediscovery. Product Features High Definition remaster Original mono audio Audio commentary with film historians Dean Brandum and Eloise Ross The BEHP Interview with Charles Crichton (1988, 103 mins): an archival audio recording, made as part of the British Entertainment History Project, featuring the celebrated filmmaker in conversation with Sidney Cole The BEHP Interview with Douglas Slocombe Part One, The Early Years (1988, 103 mins): an archival audio recording, made as part of the British Entertainment History Project, featuring the renowned cinematographer in conversation with Sidney Cole Crichton on Crichton (2019, 8 mins): a personal account by third assistant director David Crichton of working on his father's film An Unconscionable Thing (2019, 5 mins): second assistant director Kits Browning recalls the making of The Third Secret Mr Slocombe's Mattress (2019, 7 mins): focus puller Robin Vidgeon discusses the work of Douglas Slocombe Lost Souls (2019, 23 mins): an in-depth appreciation by author and film historian Neil Sinyard Theatrical trailer Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

• Van Helsing | UMD | (05/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Like a roller coaster ready to fly off its rails, Van Helsing rockets to maximum velocity and never slows down. Having earned blockbuster clout with The Mummy and The Mummy Returns, writer-director Stephen Sommers once again plunders Universal's monster vault and pulls out all the stops for this mammoth $148-million action-adventure-horror-comedy, which opens (sans credits) with a terrific black-and-white prologue that pays homage to the Universal horror classics that inspired it. The plot pits legendary vampire hunter Van Helsing (Hugh Jackman) against Dracula (the deliciously campy Richard Roxburgh), his deadly blood-sucking brides, and the Wolfman (Will Kemp) in a two-hour parade of outstanding special effects (980 in all) that turn Sommers' juvenile plot into a triple-overtime bonus for CGI animators. In alliance with a Transylvanian princess (Kate Beckinsale) and the Frankenstein monster (Shuler Hensley), Van Helsing must prevent Dracula from hatching his bat-winged progeny, and there's so much good-humored action that you're guaranteed to be thrilled and exhausted by the time the 10-minute end-credits roll. It's loud, obnoxious, filled with revisionist horror folklore, and aimed at addicted gamers and eight-year-olds, but this colossal monster mash (including Mr. Hyde, just for kicks) will never, ever bore you. --Jeff Shannon

• Verdi: La Traviata -- Sills | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £27.29   |  Saving you £-2.30 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Before live opera telecasts became regular television events The Grater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association ( WETA ) embarked on an ambitious project. In the summer of 1974 WETA began videotaping live operatic and concert performances at the Filene Center Auditorium in Wolf Trap Park for the Performing Arts in Vienna Virginia for broadcast in a series entitled In Performance at Wolf Trap. The overwhelming success of the series proved to public television stations throughout the country that audiences were eager for this kind of programming.In 1976 In Performance at Wolf Trap presented Beverly Sills in one of her most celebrated portrayals that of Violetta in Verdi's La Traviata. Just months earlier Sills had performed the role at the Metropolitan Opera to great acclaim.

• Richard Felix's Most Haunted Locations | DVD | (26/05/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Over the last four years Richard Felix has visited over forty counties in Great Britain investigating many of the countries most haunted sites. This DVD contains a selection of Richard's favourite haunts-Borley Rectory believed to be the most haunted house in Britain. The best ghosts story in the world-the Roman soldiers seen in the cellar of the Treasurers House in York. Also included is unseen footage of when Richard spent the night in the room at Berkeley Castle where King Edward II was brutally murdered. Perhaps the most chilling and disturbing of all the places Richard has visited is a derelict farmhouse on the Isle of Man which was the scene of a tragic murder and suicide.

• Donkey Kong Country - Bad Hair Day | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £17.94   |  Saving you £-7.95 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A spin-off from the wildly successful Nintendo video game this groundbreaking animated series stars Donkey Kong a peace-loving hugely strong ape with a big heart (but a small brain) who lives with his friends in the jungle. They are plagued by the evil King Karro who wants to defeat Donkey Kong for he possesses the Crystal Coconut a mystical sphere that can perform great spells...

• Final Mission | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Captain Tom 'Outlaw' is a crack pilot on a secret experimental Air Force programme. He knows he's been trained to hunt and destroy but he doesn't know he's been programmed to kill on command until he finds out the hard way...