"Actor: Robinson"

• The Tough Guys Collection - Bullets Or Ballots/San Quentin/A Slight Case Of Murder | DVD | (28/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £20.99

  Bullets Or Ballots: After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner former detective Johnny Blake knocks him down convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. ""Buggs"" Fenner thinks Blake is a police agent. San Quentin: Do the crime do the time. But what happens during the long years spent behind the walls of San Quentin? The penitentiary's new yard captain wants to make those years a time of rehabilitation rather than punishment. But not everyone's buying it. Humphrey Bogart portrays Red continuing his climb to stardom in this brisk film that's one of a string of Depression-era works combining gangster-movie elements with a Big House setting. Studio mainstay Pat O'Brien plays Steve Jameson whose carrot-and-stick reforms begin to change Red's thinking. An inmates' strike and a scripture-quoting con who swipes a rifle are among the troubles Jameson faces- and Red is another as he reverts to his old ways and makes a violent break for freedom. A Slight Case Of Murder: A breakneck-paced comedy starring Edward G. Robinson as a tough but good-hearted bootlegger. When Prohibition is repealed Robinson faces a financial crisis: His beer tastes so awful that no one wants to drink it legally. As an additional headache Robinson is under scrutiny from the Law which is waiting to slip the cuffs on him for the slightest infraction. He arrives at his rented Saratoga mansion with his wife (Ruth Donnelly) daughter (Jane Bryan) and adopted son (Bobby Jordan) only to discover that a killer has left four corpses in his bedroom. Robinson and his stooges are forced to hide the bodies before his future son-in-law (Willard Parker) who happens to be a cop tumbles to the dilemma. Based on a stage play by Howard Lindsay and Damon Runyon.

• Triangle (1970) All Region | DVD | (07/09/2009) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A bisexual novelist accepts a teaching job from his wealthy aunt who runs a private girls school.He is torn between his feelings for one of his colleagues and a student. This once controversial movie from 1970 is presented on DVD for the first time.

• Standing Room Only | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Three live concerts from Grove Washington (1990) Smokey Robinson (1990) and Ray Charles (1999) in one box set!

• Art Made Easy For Kids | DVD | (22/11/2004) from £25.90   |  Saving you £-5.91 (-29.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Patricia Robinson began her fine art training at the age of twelve and went on to study at St. Martin's in London and the Beaux Arts and the Grande Chaumiere in Paris. She then taught at the prestgious Royal College of Art in London working alongside leading British Artists. Thousands of children and hundreds of teachers have found these programs energizing easy to teach and easy to learn. This DVD contains eight separate tutorials designed to teach kids the basics of art: 1.

• Drive-In Movie Memories | DVD | (14/03/2011) from £20.08   |  Saving you £-0.09 (-0.50%)   |  RRP £19.99

  What began as an auto parts owner's business venture to make some easy money accidentally became a magical place where romance, fun and a sense of community flourished. This film chronicles the drive-in's birth and development, its phenomenal popularity with audiences of all ages, its tragic decline, and its inevitable comeback as a classic form of Americana. Described by Variety as 'slick and entertaining,' Drive-In Movie Memories includes photos and footage from the mid-1930s until ...

• Smokey Robinson - The Very Best Of - In Concert | DVD | (18/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Recorded at the Desert Inn in Las Vegas in July 1992 Smokey Robinson Live showcases one of Motown's greatest talents. In this intimate concert Smokey Robinson performs his UK number one hits Tears Of A Clown and Being With You together with his trademark romantic ballads and up tempo party tunes. Tracklist: I Want A Love I Can See The Way You Do The Things You Do It's Growing Since I Lost My Baby Don't Look Back Get Ready My Girl Save The Best For Last More Love Tears Of A Clown Being With You Shop Around Intro And Vamping Shop Around I Second That Emotion Really Got A Hold On Me Ooh Baby Baby More Than You Know Double Good Everything I Love Your Face Rewind Tracks of My Tears Just To See Her Going To A Go Go.

• Stranger, The / Orson Welles On Film | DVD | (01/11/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  The Stranger, according to Orson Welles, "is the worst of my films. There is nothing of me in that picture. I did it to prove that I could put out a movie as well as anyone else." True, set beside Citizen Kane, Touch of Evil, or even The Trial, The Stranger is as close to production-line stuff as the great Orson ever came. But even on autopilot Welles still leaves most filmmakers standing. The shadow of the Second World War hangs heavy over the plot. A war crimes investigator, played by Edward G Robinson, tracks down a senior Nazi, Franz Kindler, to a sleepy New England town where he's living in concealment as a respected college professor. The script, credited to Anthony Veiller but with uncredited input from Welles and John Huston, is riddled with implausibilities: we're asked to believe, for a start, that there'd be no extant photos of a top Nazi leader. The casting's badly skewed, too. Welles wanted Agnes Moorehead as the investigator and Robinson as Kindler, but his producer, Sam Spiegel, wouldn't wear it. So Welles himself plays the supposedly cautious and self-effacing fugitive--and if there was one thing Welles could never play, it was unobtrusive. What's more, Spiegel chopped out most of the two opening reels set in South America, in Welles' view, "the best stuff in the picture". Still, the film's far from a write-off. Welles' eye for stunning visuals rarely deserted him and, aided by Russell Metty's skewed, shadowy photography, The Stranger builds to a doomy grand guignol climax in a clock tower that Hitchcock must surely have recalled when he made Vertigo. And Robinson, dogged in pursuit, is as quietly excellent as ever. On the DVD: not much in the way of extras, except a waffly full-length commentary from Russell Cawthorne that tells us about the history of clock-making and where Edward G was buried, but precious little about the making of the film. Print and sound are acceptable, but though remastering is claimed, there's little evidence of it. --Philip Kemp

• King Richard II | DVD | (09/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The tragedy of a self-centred king whose treachery causes his own destruction. King Richard II was an inept and incompetent monarch who could not fend off his enemies in Ireland without the unity and support of his English noblemen. Yet he makes an enemy of the influential Bolingbroke his own cousin by seizing his property. Bolingbroke leading an army of discontented English noblemen rebels against Richard who succumbs and is imprisoned where he meets his death as Bolingbroke is

• Macbeth | DVD | (01/08/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Macbeth, one of William Shakespeare's finest works, is the tragedy of a king so blinded by ambition and paranoia that he senselessly murders those in his path, eventually leading to his own demise.

• Tom Robinson - Bedrock Live | DVD | (26/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

  Tom Robinson in concert recorded in Nottingham 1991 performing some of the best of his work. Tracklist: Number One Protection Winter Of '89 You Gotta Survive Rigging It Up Duncannon Green Green Green Green Green Blood Brother Glad To Be Gay War Baby 2 4 6 8 Motorway Up Against The Wall Power In The Darkness.

• Braveheart | DVD | (04/11/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A stupendous historical saga, Braveheart won five Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director for star Mel Gibson. He plays William Wallace, a 13th-century Scottish commoner who unites the various clans against a cruel English King, Edward the Longshanks (Patrick McGoohan). The scenes of hand-to-hand combat are brutally violent, but they never glorify the bloodshed. There is such enormous scope to this story that it works on a smaller, more personal scale as well, essaying love and loss, patriotism and passion. Extremely moving, it reveals Gibson as a multitalented performer and remarkable director with an eye for detail and an understanding of human emotion. (His first directorial effort was 1993's Man Without a Face.) The film is nearly three hours long and includes several plot tangents, yet is never dull. This movie resonates long after you have seen it, both for its visual beauty and for its powerful story. --Rochelle O'Gorman

• The Tami TNT Show - Rock 1964/1965 | DVD | (17/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £21.99

  In 1964 and 1965 thirteen of the top teenage recording acts were assembled for two spectacular shows: now they're here together in one red-hot rock n' roll extravaganza! 1. Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode Maybeline Sweet Little Sixteen Nadine 2. Gerry And The Pacemakers - Maybeline 3. Bo Diddley - Hey Bo Diddley Bo Diddley 4. Smokey Robinson And The Miracles - That's What Love Is Made Of You Really Got A Hold On Me Mickey's Monkey 5. The Ronettes - Be My Baby Shout 6. Mar

• The Stranger | DVD | (19/05/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  The Most Deceitful Man A Woman Ever Loved! Welles stars as college professor Charles Rankin who is living a quiet life in a small Connecticut town with his lovely wife Mary. The arrival of jumpy German fellow Meineke leaves Rankin disturbed and his quiet life is destroyed as he must go to deadly measures to stop Meineke revealing his dark secret.

• Crossing The Line | DVD | (17/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Laura a former basketball star is forced to coach her local team when their coach suffers a heart attack. The team continue to lose under Laura's direction and the fans begin to become violently involved with the games. As the arguments and violence start to get out of hand the girls find themselves teaching everyone a lesson in sportsmanship...

• The Stranger | DVD | (18/10/1999) from £4.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (160.32%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The legendary story that hovers over Orson Welles' The Stranger is that he wanted Agnes Moorehead to star as the dogged Nazi hunter who trails a war criminal to a sleepy New England town. The part went to Edward G. Robinson, who is marvellous, but it points out how many compromises Welles made on the film in an attempt to show Hollywood he could make a film on time, on budget and on their own terms. He accomplished all three, turning out a stylish if unambitious film noir thriller, his only Hollywood film to turn a profit on its original release. Welles stars as unreformed fascist Franz Kindler, hiding as a schoolteacher in a New England prep school for boys and newly married to the headmaster's lovely if naive daughter (Loretta Young). Welles, the director, is in fine form for the opening sequences, casting a moody tension as agents shadow a twitchy low-level Nazi official skulking through South American ports and building up to dramatic crescendo as Kindler murders this little man, the lovely woods becoming a maelstrom of swirling leaves that expose the body he furiously tries to bury. The rest of the film is a well designed but conventional cat-and-mouse game featuring an eye-rolling performance by Welles and a thrilling conclusion played out in the dark clock tower that looms over the little village. --Sean Axmaker

• Ten Commandments Gift Set | Blu Ray | (29/03/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £30.78

  Legendary silent film director Cecil B. DeMille didn't much alter the way he made movies after sound came in, and this 1956 biblical drama is proof of that. While graced with such 1950s niceties as VistaVision and Technicolor, The Ten Commandments (DeMille had already filmed an earlier version in 1923) has an anachronistic, impassioned style that finds lead actors Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner expressively posing while hundreds of extras writhe either in the presence of God's power or from orgiastic heat. DeMille, as always, plays both sides of the fence as far as sin goes, surrounding Heston's Moses with worshipful music and heavenly special effects while also making the sexy action around the cult of the Golden Calf look like fun. You have to see The Ten Commandments to understand its peculiar resonance as an old-new movie, complete with several still-impressive effects such as the parting of the Red Sea. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Miss Congeniality (Gift Set) | DVD | (21/03/2005) from £22.96   |  Saving you £-5.98 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Sandra Bullock stars as a bumbling female FBI agent assigned to go undercover as a participant in the Miss United States beauty pageant when it is discovered that one of the contestants is being targeted for murder. Benjamin Bratt leads the undercover team while also playing the reluctant love interest. Candice Bergen and William Shatner manage the pageant and hire Michael Caine to turn Bullock from rough and tumble agent to stunning beauty queen. The physical transformation is impressive although the klutzy personality remains. Everything seems to be fine once the killer is suddenly caught but Bullock suspects there is more to this story and the truth eventually unfolds with an unexpected twist... CD tracklist: 1. Esthero - Wikkid Lil' Grrrls 2. Natasha Bedingfield - I'm A Bomb 3. Pink - trouble 4. Spiderbait - Black Betty 5. Paul Anka - (You're) Having A Baby 6. Carl Carlton - She's A Bad Mama Jama 7. Ohio Players - Fire 8. Thelma Houston - Don't Leave Me This Way 9. The Staple Singers - 'I'll Take You There' 10. Ike And Tina Turner - Proud Mary 11. Patti LaBelle - New Attitude 13. Liza Minelli - Cabaret (live version)

• Mahalia Jackson - You'll Never Walk Alone | DVD | (13/01/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.46

  Tracklist:; 1. You'll Never Walk Alone ; 2. Just As I Am ; 3. Lord Don't Move The Mountain ; 4. Highway To Heaven ; 5. The Lord's Prayer ; 6. Tell It, Sing It, Shout It ; 7. The Rosary ; 8. My Faith Looks Up To Thee ; 9. Come On Children, Let's Sing ; 10. Somebody Bigger Than You And I ; 11. I Believe ; 12. My Lord And I ; 13. I Trust In God ; 14. I Asked The Lord ; 15. Joshua Fit The Battle Of Jericho ; 16. God Will Take Care Of Thee ; 17. Didn't It Rain

• Orson Welles - Double Feature 1 | DVD | (10/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  The Stranger: In postwar Germany a meeting of the War Crimes Commission is being held. Those present decide that a heinous Nazi war criminal (Konstantin Shayne) should be released from prison in the hopes that he will lead the commission to his superior the infamous Franz Kindler (Orson Welles) one of the architects of the genocide against the Jews. A federal agent (Edward G. Robinson) is assigned to follow Shayne and the chase begins. This exciting thriller from Orson Welles moves to the town of Harper Connecticut where the Nazi Kindler is living under an assumed name... King Lear: Orson Welles stars in the title role in this made-for-television production of the Shakespearean tragedy about an aging king betrayed by his daughters.

• Horror: Stigmata, Hellraiser, Children Of The Corn | DVD | (30/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Stigmata: A lost soul has just received the wounds of Christ...and a shocking message that will alter history. Stunning performances from Patricia Arquette (True Romance) Gabriel Byrne (The Usual Suspects) and Jonathan Pryce (Ronin) and a cutting edge score by Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins and Elia Cmiral make Stigmata a visual and visceral feast. Hellraiser 1: When Frank Cotton solves the mystery of a Chinese puzzle box he enters the world of the Cenobites. A world where these cruel sadists thrive on pain. Written and directed by the brilliant Clive Barker Hellraiser is a film that cannot be ignored. Children Of The Corn: Traveling through Nebraska Burt (Peter Horton) and Vicky (Linda Hamilton) stop in a small town to report the death of a child on the highway. There they discover something strange about the community: all the grownups are gone and the children seem to belong to a strange cult. What's worse it's a cult that sacrifices adults to the dreadful he who walks behind the rows. Based upon a Stephen King short story.