"Actor: Roland Culver"

• Bing Crosby Collection - The Emperor Waltz / A Conneticut Yankee | DVD | (08/05/2006) from £7.02   |  Saving you £8.97 (127.78%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Emperor Waltz (Dir. Billy Wilder 1948): A rare musical comedy for Wilder it stars Bing Crosby as Virgil H. Smith a phonograph salesman plying his wares in turn-of-the-20th-century Vienna. Believing that if he's able to sell a phonograph to Emperor Franz Joseph I the rest of Austria will soon follow his example Virgil attempts to gain access to the man. After he's refused admission to the palace by guards who believe the phonograph to be a bomb he meets Countess Johan

• Next To No Time | DVD | (01/06/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  British cinema legend Kenneth More heads an outstanding comedy cast in this brilliantly engaging adaption of a story by Oscar-nominated screenwriter and novelist Paul Gallico. Filmed extensively on the Queen Elizabeth – then the largest liner in the world – Next to No Time is presented here in a brand-new transfer from original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. David Webb a brilliant backroom boffin who is cripplingly shy and nervous in unfamiliar situations has an ingenious scheme for converting his employer's factory to automation. The project however requires more capital than the firm can provide and to his horror Webb finds himself thrust aboard the liner Queen Elizabeth and heading inexorably to America where he is expected to track down a famous industrialist and persuade him to finance the scheme... Special Features: Original Theatrical Trailer Image Gallery Original Promotional Material PDF

• Dead Of Night | DVD | (13/11/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Architect Walter Craig seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse soon finds himself once again stuck in his recurring nightmare. Dreading the end of the dream that he knows is coming he must first listen to all the assembled guests' own bizarre tales.... A relatively unknown Ealing gem Dead Of Night is a portemanteau of the stories Christmas Party & The Ventriloquist's Dummy (dir. Alberto Cavalcanti) Golfing Story (dir. Charles Crichton) Hearse Driver (dir. Basil Dearden) and The Haunted Mirror (dir. Robert Hamer).

• The Hypnotist | DVD | (22/09/2014) from £6.39   |  Saving you £3.60 (36.00%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Roland Culver plays a psychiatrist with deadly intentions in this crime thriller of 1957 – a classic British noir also starring William Hartnell Gainsborough heroine Patricia Roc and veteran character actress Ellen Pollock. Also known as Scotland Yard Dragnet The Hypnotist is scripted and directed by crime/suspense specialist Montgomery Tully director of numerous instalments in the Edgar Wallace Mysteries series. It is featured here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. Recovering in hospital after a plane crash Val Neal a young test pilot begins to suffer psychosomatic attacks of pains in the chest choking and mental blackouts. Mary his fiancée calls in psychiatrist Dr Pelham but while under treatment Val becomes violent and escapes Pelham's care. When he returns Pelham tells him that during a mental blackout he has committed a murder... Special Features Original Theatrical Trailer Image Gallery Original Promotional Materials PDF

• The Man Who Loved Redheads | DVD | (07/07/2014) from £7.18   |  Saving you £2.81 (39.14%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Titian-haired screen icon Moira Shearer takes centre-stage to play multiple roles in this ravishing romantic comedy adapted by Terence Rattigan from his stage play Who Is Sylvia? and co-starring Roland Culver Denholm Elliott and Harry Andrews. Featuring exquisitely choreographed dance sequences and stunning cinematography by Oscar winner Georges Périnal The Man Who Loved Redheads looks more radiant than ever in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements. Mark St. Neots a young peer and a junior member of the Foreign Office is a man destined for a long and distinguished career in the Diplomatic Corps. Mark however is obsessed by a face: that of Sylvia a 16-year-old redheaded girl whom in his boyhood he vowed he would love to eternity. Although many years have passed since he made the promise and he is now a respectably married man Mark has never forgotten the face that symbolises his ideal woman… SPECIAL FEATURES: [] Original Theatrical Trailer [] Image Gallery [] Promotional Material PDFs

• Unpublished Story | DVD | (06/07/2015) from £3.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (225.56%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Wartime spy thriller. Richard Greene stars as war correspondent Bob Randall, who returns from Dunkirk to report on Nazi atrocities committed during the Blitzkrieg, and to deliver a stark warning about the traitors who aided the Germans in their conquest of Europe. He is outraged to discover that the 'People for Peace Society' in England are campaigning to appease the Germans, and tries to expose them for the fools they are - only to have his newspaper stories censored by Home Security. As the Blitz rages in London, Randall and fellow journalist Carol Bennett (Valerie Hobson) uncover an even more sinister side to the Society. Do they have advance knowledge of German bombing raids? And who is really controlling them?

• Wanted for Murder | DVD | (29/11/2021) from £9.45   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The son of a Victorian hangman is driven insane by thoughts of his father's profession. The young man emulates his father by strangling young women. He then meets and falls in love with a woman but can he suppress his urge to kill her?

• The Pallisers - Vol. 1 - Episodes 1 To 7 | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Set in the palatial country houses and grand Mayfair salons of mid-Victorian England The Pallisers is a saga of wealth passion power intrigue and scandal. Volume One of the classic Emmy Award winning BBC costume drama based on 6 political novels by Anthony Trollope this powerfully addictive series stars Susan Hampshire and Philip Latham as Lady Glenncora and Plantagenet Palliser. Their Politically advantageous marriage sets the stage for this fascinating chronicle of three gene

• Secret Mission | DVD | (08/02/2010) from £4.97   |  Saving you £8.02 (161.37%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Classic British WW2 movie starring James Mason and Michael Wilding. A behind-the-lines adventure with four British Intelligence Officers parachuting into occupied France. The mission that follows takes them into the heart of the Nazi headquarters in France.

• First of the Few | DVD | (02/04/2007) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-14.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  This classic 1942 war movie tells the true story of how two of the most remarkable men in aviation history - Spitfire designer R.J. Mitchell and his test pilot Jeffrey Quill - developed the aeroplane whose technological superiority helped Britain to win the vital battle of the skies. It features two of Britain's best-loved stars: Leslie Howard (who also directs and who tragically went missing in action shortly after the film was made) as Mitchell and David Niven as Quill. Scripted by two other great names from British cinema Miles Malleson and Anatole de Grunwald The First Of The Few also features a stirring score by William Walton.

• The Missionary | DVD | (23/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Fallen women? Does it mean they've hurt their knees? After a decade of soul-saving in Africa Charles Fortescue is asked to minister to the ladies of the night in 1906 London. So Fortescue feeds them shelters them and not infrequently provides them a bed: his!A naive man of the cloth becomes a man of the sheets in this playfully naughty yet always tasteful comedy that stars Monty Python's Michael Palin (who also wrote the script) as Fortescue and features a colourful array of cockeyed characters: a blissful airhead (Phoebe Nicholls) a lusty mission sponsor (Maggie Smith) a bewildered butler (Michael Hordern) an earthy bishop (Denholm Elliott) a cantankerous John Bull (Trevor Howard) and more. Jolly good fun!

• Hotel Sahara | DVD | (25/05/2015) from £12.59   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Ken Annakin directs this 1950s comedy starring Yvonne De Carlo, Peter Ustinov and David Tomlinson. The Hotel Sahara, located in the middle of the desert, is run by husband and wife team Emad and Yasmin Pallas (Ustinov and De Carlo). As the devastation of World War II reaches North Africa, Yasmin takes it upon herself to figure out a way to save the hotel from destruction.

• The Day Will Dawn | DVD | (08/02/2010) from £9.98   |  Saving you £3.01 (30.16%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This exciting British wartime film celebrates the heroism of the Norwegian resistance movement in fighting the Nazi invaders. With a distinguished cast including Ralph Richardson, Hugh Williams and Deborah Kerr, and a script by Terence Rattigan, this is the story of a British foreign correspondent sent to report on U-Boat attacks against Norwegian shipping.

• Unpublished Story | DVD | (08/02/2010) from £6.40   |  Saving you £6.59 (102.97%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Richard Greene and Valerie Hobson star in this British wartime spy thriller set in London's Docklands during the Blitz of 1940. War correspondent Bob Randall (Richard Greene) returns to England from Dunkirk with a powerful story of Nazi atrocities committed during the Blitzkrieg - and a stark warning about the traitors who aided the Germans in their conquest of Europe.

• Life And Death of Colonel Blimp, The / A Matter Of Life And Death | DVD | (17/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Two masterpieces of British cinema are paired here--Powell and Pressburger's first Technicolor triumph, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) and their even more ambitious A Matter of Life and Death (1946). Both pictures are transcendent examples of the filmmakers' craft, and remain models of great cinema long after their original wartime propaganda brief has expired. Based on a famously satirical cartoon strip that mocked outmoded attitudes of fair play at a time of "total war", Blimp subsequently became notorious as the film Churchill tried to have banned. Because the War Office objected to the screenplay, they refused to allow P&P's first choice for the role, Laurence Olivier, and the duo cast unknown stage actor Roger Livesey in his place. It is Livesey's sympathetic performance that transforms Clive "Sugar" Candy from an object of satire to one of warm affection, effectively reversing the film's intended message about old-fashioned decency versus wartime pragmatism. Anton Walbrook is a profound presence in a role that mirrored the actor's own plight as a German in Britain, while Deborah Kerr is a living leitmotif in the film, playing no fewer than three distinct but deliberately related roles. Briefed by the Ministry of Information to make a film that would foster Anglo-American relations in the post-war period, the duo, known as "the Archers", came up with A Matter of Life and Death, an extravagant and extraordinary fantasy in which David Niven's downed pilot must justify his continuing existence to a heavenly panel because he has made the mistake of falling in love with an American girl (Kim Hunter) when he really should have been dead. National stereotypes are lampooned as the angelic judges squabble over his fate. In a neat reversal of expectations, the heaven sequences are black and white, while earth is seen in Technicolor. Daring cinematography mixes monochrome and colour, incorporates time-lapse images, and even toys with background "time freezes" 50 years before The Matrix. Roger Livesey and Raymond Massey lead the fine supporting cast. On the DVD: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp and A Matter of Life and Death are presented in reasonably sharp 4:3 ratio with good mono sound. Blimp comes with a 25-minute documentary feature that tells us nothing revelatory about making the film, but has good new interviews with cinematographer Jack Cardiff (then an apprentice) and eloquent admirer Stephen Fry. Text biographies and stills are also included. Life and Death has no extras. --Mark Walker

• Encore | DVD | (21/05/2007) from £8.98   |  Saving you £3.00 (42.92%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Three short films based on stories by W. Somerset Maugham. Titles Comprise: The Ant and the Grasshopper Winter Cruise The Gigolo and the Gigolette

• Ealing Classics DVD Collection - Went The Day Well?/Dead Of Night/Nicholas Nickleby/Scott of the Antarctic | DVD | (08/09/2003) from £28.56   |  Saving you £6.43 (22.51%)   |  RRP £34.99

  While horror conventions may change from generation to generation, there are ideas that will scare us no matter what time period we inhabit. Dead of Night is a classic horror anthology that effectively plays on those timeless fears. Mervyn Johns stars as a man who has been summoned to a house with a group of strangers he has never met but has seen in his dreams. As they convene, he predicts certain events will happen as they do in his dreams and when they do, the other guests relate their own experiences with the supernatural, including tales of a possessed mirror, a sinister ventriloquist's dummy and an eerie premonition of death. Throughout the group meeting, the protagonist fears something horrible will happen to him and we are left to wonder what it might be. The film's final, revelatory sequence offers an unexpectedly horrific surprise. It may have been made in 1945 but Dead of Night is still spooky. --Bryan Reesman

• To Each His Own - Digitally Remastered | DVD | (07/03/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Josephine Norris (Olivia de Havilland) volunteers for a fire watch with Lord Desham (Ronald Culver) on the rooftops of London during the Blitz. When Lord Desham is nearly killed during the air raid the ageing pair reminisce over the lost loves of their youth. Josephine recalls her first and only love affair with World War I fighter pilot Captain Bart Cosgrove (John Lund). Their whirlwind romance during a fundraising tour for the American war effort lasts only a few days but when Captain Cosgrove returns to the front Josephine finds herself pregnant with an illegitimate child in an American backwater town. When she learns of Captain Cosgrove's death in action Josephine realises that she can never marry the father of her child so she decides to contrive an adoption of the child to herself. But fate plays its own hand...

• The Pallisers - Vol. 4 - Episodes 21 To 26 | DVD | (13/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Set in the palatial country houses and grand Mayfair salons of mid-Victorian England The Pallisers is a wonderful saga of wealth passion power intrigue and scandal. Lady Glencora has caused political trouble for Plantagenet but he refuses to blame her. Once again he places his loyalty to her above his political ambition Gerald is sent down from school and Silverbridge reveals shocking news about his political views. Glencora tries valiantly to keep her promise to her daughter Mar

• The First Of The Few | DVD | (14/10/2002) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-7.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This classic 1942 war movie tells the true story of how two of the most remarkable men in aviation history - Spitfire designer R.J. Mitchell and his test pilot Jeffrey Quill - developed the aeroplane whose technological superiority helped Britain to win the vital battle of the skies. It features two of Britain's best-loved stars: Leslie Howard (who also directs and who tragically went missing in action shortly after the film was made) as Mitchell and David Niven as Quill. Scripted by two other great names from British cinema Miles Malleson and Anatole de Grunwald The First Of The Few also features a stirring score by William Walton.