"Actor: Russell Hicks"

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  • Agatha Christie's Marple - The Complete CollectionAgatha Christie's Marple - The Complete Collection | DVD | (17/07/2006) from £29.93   |  Saving you £0.06 (0.20%)   |  RRP £29.99

    Geraldine McEwan takes over the coveted mantle of the titular super sleuth in a box set of all-star cast adaptations of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple novels. Episodes Comprise: 1.Sleeping Murder 2.The Sittaford Mystery 3.The Moving Finger 4.By The Pricking Of My Thumbs

  • Captain America: The Serial 2 [DVD] [1944]Captain America: The Serial 2 | DVD | (01/02/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

    Superhero Captain America battles the evil forces of the arch villain called The Scarab who poisons his enemies and steals a secret device capable of destroying buildings by sound vibrations. Episodes Comprise: 6. Vault of Vengeance 7. Wholesale Destruction 8. Cremation in the Clouds 9. Triple Tragedy 10. The Avenging Corpse.

  • Follow The Fleet [1936]Follow The Fleet | DVD | (04/04/2005) from £13.47   |  Saving you £2.52 (18.71%)   |  RRP £15.99

    When the fleet puts in at San Francisco sailor Bake Baker tries to rekindle the flame with his old dancing partner... A jamboree for fans of Hollywood musicals with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin.

  • To The Shores Of Tripoli [1942]To The Shores Of Tripoli | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £5.84   |  Saving you £7.15 (122.43%)   |  RRP £12.99

    When a carefree playboy (John Payne) joins the Marine Corps he tests the skill and patience of the tough veteran sergeant (Randolph Scott) who tries to whip him into a real Marine. But as his training proceeds the recruit's cocky selfishness is replaced by selfless valour and he eventually earns the love of a beautiful Navy nurse (Maureen O'Hara)...

  • Eight Days a WeekEight Days a Week | DVD | (01/01/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

    Peter loves his next door neighbour Erica and on the advice of his uncle decides to camp out on her front lawn for the entire summer...

  • The Razor's Edge [1984]The Razor's Edge | DVD | (15/01/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

    The Story Of One Man's Search For Himself. Bill Murray makes an unforgettable dramatic debut as Larry Darrell the free-spirited seeker in this gripping adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's classic novel. When Larry returns from World War I disillusioned with Jazz Age values he undertakes a quest which leads him to reject his rich fiance (Catherine Hicks) and his superficial lifestyle to go search for truth in the Himalayas. But Larry learns that the path to enlightenment is as difficult as treading ""the sharp edge of a razor"" and returns to civilization where he tastes life's dark side when he tries to save a hometown girl turned prostitute (Theresa Russell).

  • Western Union [1941]Western Union | DVD | (21/02/2005) from £22.06   |  Saving you £-12.07 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

    Former outlaw Vince Shaw gives up a life of crime and goes to work for a telegraph company. However his brother Jack Slade leads a gang of criminals to prevent the company from connecting the line between Omaha and Salt Lake City bringing the two into deadly conflict...

  • Lady From Louisiana / Flame Of The Barbary Coast [1941]Lady From Louisiana / Flame Of The Barbary Coast | DVD | (26/06/2006) from £6.47   |  Saving you £3.52 (54.40%)   |  RRP £9.99

    Lady From Louisiana (Dir. Bernard Vorhaus 1941): Northern lawyer John Reynolds travels to New Orleans to try and clean up the local crime syndicate based around a lottery. Although he meets Julie Mirbeau and they are attracted to each other the fact that her father heads the lottery means they end up on opposite sides. When her father is killed Julie becomes more and more involved in the shady activities and in blocking Reynolds' attempts at prosecution. Flame Of Barbary Coast (Dir. Joseph Kane 1945): A cowboy competes with a gambling tycoon on the Barbary Coast for the hand of a beautiful dance-hall queen. However the 1906 San Francisco earthquake provides a climactic twist though...

  • A Christmas Carol / Old Scrooge [DVD]A Christmas Carol / Old Scrooge | DVD | (02/11/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

    Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is a Victorian morality tale of an old and bitter miser Ebenezer Scrooge who undergoes a profound experience of redemption over the course of one Christmas Eve. We are proud to bring you two versions of this holiday classic.

  • Scarlet Street [1946]Scarlet Street | DVD | (18/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

    In a way, Scarlet Street is a remake. It's taken from a French novel, La Chienne (literally, "The Bitch") that was first filmed by Jean Renoir in 1931. Renoir brought to the sordid tale all the colour and vitality of Montmartre; Fritz Lang's version shows us a far harsher and bleaker world. The film replays the triangle set-up from Lang's previous picture, The Woman in the Window, with the same three actors. Once again, Edward G Robinson plays a respectable middle-aged citizen snared by the charms of Joan Bennett's streetwalker, with Dan Duryea as her low-life pimp. But this time around, all three characters have moved several notches down the ethical scale. Robinson, who in the earlier film played a college professor who kills by accident, here becomes a downtrodden clerk with a nagging, shrewish wife and unfilled ambitions as an artist, a man who murders in a jealous rage. Bennett is a mercenary vamp, none too bright, and Duryea brutal and heartless. The plot closes around the three of them like a steel trap. This is Lang at his most dispassionate. Scarlet Street is a tour de force of noir filmmaking, brilliant but ice-cold. When it was made the film hit censorship problems, since at the time it was unacceptable to show a murder going unpunished. Lang went out of his way to show the killer plunged into the mental hell of his own guilt, but for some authorities this still wasn't enough, and the film was banned in New York State for being "immoral, indecent and corrupt". Not that this did its box-office returns any harm at all. On the DVD: sparse pickings. There's an interactive menu that zips past too fast to be of much use. The full-length commentary by Russell Cawthorne adds the occasional insight, but it's repetitive and not always reliable. (He gets actors' names wrong, for a start.) The box claims the print's been "fully restored and digitally remastered", but you'd never guess. --Philip Kemp

  • Scarlet Street [1946]Scarlet Street | DVD | (17/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

    In a way, Scarlet Street is a remake. It's taken from a French novel, La Chienne (literally, "The Bitch") that was first filmed by Jean Renoir in 1931. Renoir brought to the sordid tale all the colour and vitality of Montmartre; Fritz Lang's version shows us a far harsher and bleaker world. The film replays the triangle set-up from Lang's previous picture, The Woman in the Window, with the same three actors. Once again, Edward G Robinson plays a respectable middle-aged citizen snared by the charms of Joan Bennett's streetwalker, with Dan Duryea as her low-life pimp. But this time around, all three characters have moved several notches down the ethical scale. Robinson, who in the earlier film played a college professor who kills by accident, here becomes a downtrodden clerk with a nagging, shrewish wife and unfilled ambitions as an artist, a man who murders in a jealous rage. Bennett is a mercenary vamp, none too bright, and Duryea brutal and heartless. The plot closes around the three of them like a steel trap. This is Lang at his most dispassionate. Scarlet Street is a tour de force of noir filmmaking, brilliant but ice-cold. When it was made the film hit censorship problems, since at the time it was unacceptable to show a murder going unpunished. Lang went out of his way to show the killer plunged into the mental hell of his own guilt, but for some authorities this still wasn't enough, and the film was banned in New York State for being "immoral, indecent and corrupt". Not that this did its box-office returns any harm at all. On the DVD: sparse pickings. There's an interactive menu that zips past too fast to be of much use. The full-length commentary by Russell Cawthorne adds the occasional insight, but it's repetitive and not always reliable. (He gets actors' names wrong, for a start.) The box claims the print's been "fully restored and digitally remastered", but you'd never guess. --Philip Kemp

  • King Of The Cowboys [1943]King Of The Cowboys | DVD | (14/02/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

    Roy is sent by the Governor to investigate a gang of saboteurs and bring them in to justice. Joining a travelling show Roy discovers that the saboteurs communicate during Maurice's mind-reading act.

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