"Actor: Shirley"

• 21 Hours At Munich | DVD | (23/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Based on the true story of terrorism striking at the 1972 Olympics in Germany this film does not spare viewers the violence and intensity of the real event. A Munich police chief learns that during the games a group of Palestinian extremists have kidnapped members of the Israeli team. With the help of a brave policewoman the cops negotiate with the terrorists in an attempt to buy time until the authorities can devise a rescue plan. As time ticks away the skirmishes escalate into gu

• Meyerbeer: L'Africaine | DVD | (03/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Enormously popular and influential in its time, Meyerbeer's L'Africaine has become a rarity--the conventions of grand opera which it embodies so thoroughly are only familiar as adapted by Verdi and Wagner, so this work usefully reminds us of how radical they were. Meyerbeer and his librettist Scribe give us a five-act plot full of confrontations and threats of death, a shipwreck and the suicide of the Indian heroine Selika and her rejected suitor by inhaling the poisonous aromas of a deadly tree. The expedition of Vasco Da Gama round the Cape of Good Hope and up to the spice ports of India becomes less a story about the crusade for profit and more a matter of messy triangular love affairs. Heavy fathers, Brahmin priests and Grand Inquisitors are handled with much facility and no intensity. What L'Africaine really amounts to is a singers' display piece, and the two principals here--Shirley Verrett as Selika and Placido Domingo as Vasco--are entirely up to its demands. Domingo reminds us that Vasco's Act 4 aria "Oh Paradis" was for decades a standard tenor showstopper. The other principals, Ruth Ann Svenson and Justino Diaz, are entirely admirable and Marco Arena and the San Francisco Opera give the work as a whole both the grandeur it certainly possesses and rather more subtlety than one might have expected. On the DVD: The DVD, presented in 4:3 ratio, and in PCM stereo, has no features apart from instructions and subtitles in French, German, English and Spanish. This failure to provide extras, or even an especially informative leaflet, becomes especially regrettable with a work whose conventions are now far out of the operatic mainstream. --Roz Kaveney

• Divine Secrets Of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood / Two Weeks Notice | DVD | (24/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  Divine Secrets Of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood: Mothers. Daughters. The never-ending story of good vs. evil... After years of mother-daughter tension Siddalee (Bullock) receives a scrapbook detailing the wild adventures of the 'Ya-Yas' her mother's girlhood friends... (Dir. Callie Khouri 2002 Cert. 12) Two Weeks' Notice: Attorney Lucy Kelson wants to save the world. Instead she's choosing ties and interviewing prospective girlfriends for her handsome and hapless billion

• My Geisha | DVD | (04/12/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Paul Robaix (Yves Montand) is a well known director married to Lucy Dell (Shirley MacLaine) a famous movie star. Robaix wants to make a movie of the classic play Madame Butterfly but he doesn't want his wife to play the leading part as in his previous pictures. Producer Sam Lewis (Edward G. Robinson) and Lucy Dell think up a scheme to get her in the picture after all. Lucy disguises as a Geisha and gets the leading part in the picture. When Robaix finds out he gets so mad he wants to divorce Lucy...

• Terms Of Endearment | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Nominated for 11 Oscars and winner of 5 Terms Of Endearment dazzled critics and audiences alike with its believable insightful story of two captivating people mother and daughter unforgettably played by Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger. Jack Nicholson turns in a great comic performance as MacLaine's neighbour a boozy womanizing former astronaut. From grand slapstick to deepest sentiment director James L. Brooks masterfully paints scenes from their evolving 30-year rela

• Stowaway | DVD | (20/02/2006) from £3.98   |  Saving you £9.01 (226.38%)   |  RRP £12.99

  While rubbing elbows with millionaires in Shanghai Shirley inadvertently lands on a ship to America with two new parents who just happen to love to hate each other.

• Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself | DVD | (19/04/2004) from £15.97   |  Saving you £-1.98 (-14.20%)   |  RRP £13.99

  The chronically suicidal Wilbur only needs the love of a good woman to save him, his brother and friends reckon. But when she shows up, a deeply buried secret threatens to destroy it all in this poignant pic set in Glasgow.

• Riot | DVD | (23/12/2013) from £1.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From the explosive star and producer of The Rise and Fall of A White Collar Hooligan comes a powerful tale of justice and vengeance. Damien (Nick Nevern) is a London copper with a past he's trying to forget. Before signing up for the force he ran with a football firm getting involved in tear-ups up and down the country. Now he's on the other side of the law he faces a tough decision: side with his old crew or protect London as it burns and rioters run amok? Brace yourself for a film that packs one hell of a punch.

• The Girl Hunters | DVD | (24/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer murder mysteries have sold millions of copies worldwide and it is Spillane himself that brings this tough gritty character to the screen in this film noir thriller. Mike Hammer's secretary has been kidnapped by a ruthless band of communist spies who want Hammer dead prepare for some rough ripping action as he goes in search of her even more dangerous is the bikini clad widow who's caught Hammer's eye!

• John Wayne: Complete Collection (34 Films) | DVD | (22/11/2004) from £399.99   |  Saving you £-250.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £149.99

  The ultimate collection (56 hours!) of John Wayne movies many of which have been previously unavailable on DVD! 1. Stagecoach (1939) 2. The Long Voyage Home (1940) 3. Fort Apache (1948) 4. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) 5. Rio Grande (1951) 6. The Quiet Man (1952) 7. Sands of Iwo Jima 8. The Fighting Seabees 9. The Flying Tigers 10. Back to Bataan 11. Jet Pilot 12. The Flying Leathernecks 13. Dark Command 14. Tall in the Saddle 15. Angel and the Bad Man 16. The Fighting Kentuckian 17. The War Wagon 18. Rooster Cogburn 19. The Spoilers 20. Tycoon 21. Wake of the Red Witch 22. The Conqueror 23. The Magnificent Showman 24. Hellfighters 25. Seven Sinners 26. Three Faces West 27. Lady from Louisiana 28. The Shepherd of the Hills 29. In Old California 30. Pittsburgh 31. Reap the Wild Wind 32. War of the Wildcats 33. Dakota 34. Flame of Barbary Coast

• Flash Gordon Conquers The Universe - Chapters 7 To 12 | DVD | (08/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Ming The Merciless Emperor of Mongo has unleashed his latest terrible weapon for the destruction of Earth a 'purple dust' that is killing the population. Flash Gordon Dale Arden and Dr Zarkov take off for the planet of Mongo to confront Ming and destroy his deadly factory. Before Flash Gordon can 'conquer the universe' he must confront Ming the Rock Men and Annihilations and protect the mining for Polarite the only known antidote to the purple dust.

• Portrait Of Jason | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A Portrait Of Jason is a counter-culture classic documenting the inner-thought of Aaron Payne (aka: Jason Holliday) a would be cabaret performer and self-proclaimed hustler giving one man's gin-soaked view of what it is like to be coloured and gay in 1960's America.

• Stowaway | DVD | (24/09/2012) from £9.49   |  Saving you £0.50 (5.27%)   |  RRP £9.99

  While rubbing elbows with millionaires in Shanghai, Shirley inadvertently lands on a ship to America, with two new parents who just happen to love to hate each other.

• Shirley Temple - Early Years Volume 2 | DVD | (07/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Shirley Temple: Early Years - Vol. 2

• Captain January | DVD | (09/04/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Shirley Temple sings, dances and charms an entire New England fishing town in one of her best-loved movies. Four-year-old star (Temple) has been living with Captain January (Guy Kibbee) ever since he rescued her from a shipwreck when she was a baby. Now their happy life together is unexpectedly threatened when the town's new truant officer tries to take her away from the lighthouse keeper and place her in an institution. Features the Temple classic The Codfish Ball, a marvellous song-and-dance routine with Buddy Ebsen.

• Poor Little Rich Girl | DVD | (20/02/2006) from £6.98   |  Saving you £6.01 (86.10%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Shirley is a motherless rich girl who runs away from her father and lands in the home and stage act of a husband and wife team of entertainers. Her father's desperate mission to find his daughter is aided when he hears her performing on the radio.

• Being There | Blu Ray | (23/02/2009) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-1.59 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Peter Sellers stars as Chance a dapper mentally deficient gardener who has spent his entire life in the home of a rich recluse. He has learned of the outside world only through television and speaks in minimal easy-to-digest sound bites. When Chance steps out into the world for the first time though his idle sayings are interpreted as philosophical wisdom by a wealthy industrialist and soon after swallowed whole by the American public to the point where Chance becomes a media celebrity...

• Petulia | DVD | (27/04/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Set during the swinging sixties in San Francisco Richard Lester's landmark romantic drama tells of the charmingly kooky socialite Petulia (Julie Christie) who has been recently married to David (Richard Chamberlain). Unhappy with her marriage she embarks on a love affair with a melancholy recently-divorced doctor (George C. Scott) as they try to make sense of their dispassionate lives. Through Nicolas Roeg's cinematography the non-linear fragmented love story loops back and forth and the dark reality emerges from the idyllic fa''ade of sixties opulence. As the story of Petulia's abuse at the hands of her husband unfolds the lovers try to find the courage to change the course of their lives in the face of their respective demons.

• Come Back Little Sheba | DVD | (08/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Shirley Booth won the 1953 Best Actress Oscar for her role as Lola an ageing woman dealing with loss: the loss of ""herself"" and her dreams twenty years before and the recent loss of her dog Sheba - in effect her replacement for a child. Burt Lancaster plays Doc Lola's husband; an ex-alcoholic dwelling on his belief that he was forced into marriage due to Lola's pregnancy which was subsequently lost. When a young college student named Marie rents a room in their house Doc f

• Steamboat Round The Bend | DVD | (23/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  John Ford's view of Americana with Will Rogers in his final screen performance. Fun and games on board as our hero's paddlewheeler is fed into it's own furnace in a steamboat race - until the fuel runs out....