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• Hornblower - The Frogs And The Lobsters | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £7.97   |  Saving you £5.01 (100.60%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Based freely on the classic novels by C.S. Forester, Hornblower is a series of TV films following the progress of a young officer through the ranks of the British navy during the Napoleonic Wars. The series greatest asset is the handsome and charismatic Ioan Gruffudd in the lead role, surely a major star in the making. For television films the production values are very good, though as Titanic, Waterworld and The Perfect Storm demonstrated, filming an aquatic adventure is a very expensive business, and it is clear that the Hornblower dramas simply make the best of comparatively small budgets. No more faithful to Forester's books than the 1951 Gregory Peck classic Captain Horatio Hornblower, the real inspiration seems to have come from the success of Sharpe, starring Sean Bean, which likewise featured a British hero in the Napoleonic Wars. Nevertheless, while rather more easy going than the real British navy of the time, the Hornblower saga delivers an entertaining adventure, greatly enhanced by the presence of such guest stars as Denis Lawson, Cheri Lunghi, Ronald Pickup and Anthony Sher. "The Frogs and the Lobsters" provides a tough, complex and surprisingly violent drama concerning an attempt to mount a royalist counter-offensive against Revolutionary France.--Gary S Dalkin

• World War Dead | DVD | (04/05/2015) from £4.54   |  Saving you £11.45 (252.20%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A TV documentary crew travel to the battlefields to unearth new mysteries surrounding one of history’s bloodiest battles. However what they unearth is far from a new story of those that died 100 years ago - but an army of the undead.

• World War Dead - Rise Of The Fallen | Blu Ray | (04/05/2015) from £8.01   |  Saving you £14.97 (298.21%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A TV documentary crew travel to the battlefields to unearth new mysteries surrounding one of history’s bloodiest battles. However what they unearth is far from a new story of those that died 100 years ago - but an army of the undead.