"Actor: Shirley"

• Lord Peter Wimsey - Clouds Of Witness | DVD | (08/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Based on the series of novels written by Dorothy L Sayers in the 1920s and 30s, Lord Peter Wimsey was dramatised for TV by the BBC between 1972-5. Ian Carmichael, veteran of British film comedy, played the genial, aristocratic sleuth; Glyn Houston was his manservant Bunter. The pair are similar to PG Wodehouse's Jeeves and Bertie Wooster (whom Carmichael played in an earlier TV adaptation) though here the duo are equal in intelligence, breezing about the country together in Wimsey's Bentley and stumbling with morbid regularity upon baffling murder mysteries to test their wits. Those for whom this series forms hazy memories of childhood might be surprised at its somewhat stagy, lingering interior shots, the spartan paucity of music, the miserly attitude towards locations, especially foreign ones, and the rather genteel, leisurely pace of these programmes, besides which Inspector Morse seems like Quentin Tarantino in comparison. It seems that initially the BBC was reluctant to commission the series and ventured on production with a wary eye on the budget. The Britain depicted by Sayers is, by and large, populated by either the upper classes or heavily accented, rum-do-and-no-mistake lower orders, which some might find consoling. However, the acting is generally excellent and the murder mysteries are sophisticated parlour games, the televisual equivalent of a good, absorbing jigsaw puzzle. There were five feature-length adaptations in all. "Clouds of Witness" sees Wimsey investigate the death of his brother the Duke of Denver's fiancée. --David Stubbs

• Curious George/the Barney Movie | DVD | (01/11/2007) from £10.78   |  Saving you £-0.79 (-7.90%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Curious George (Dir. Matthew O'Cllaghan 2006): Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment bring Curious George the original ""monkey see monkey do"" chimp to the screen in an all-new animated adventure based upon the beloved tales that have been enchanting readers for more than 60 years. George the inquisitive little guy with an insatiable taste for adventure sets off in a brand new tale for the big screen where his spunky and fun-loving nature endears him to new friends he meets along the way and (of course) lands him in a series of (mis-) adventures. Barney's Great Adventure (Dir. Steve Gomer 1998): Barney stars in his first movie which sees Mom and Dad leaving the children at home to be looked after by Grandpa and Grandma. A shooting star delivers a colourful egg and the children go off in search of it...

• James Stewart - Western Box | Blu Ray | (09/12/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Just Around The Corner (Shirley Temple) | DVD | (05/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Plucky Penny Hale (Shirley Temple) is excited to return from boarding school to live with her widower dad (Charles Farrell) but when she learns that he's lost his real estate project and they now live in a basement she sets out to win over a crotchety real estate developer - whom she mistakenly believes is ""Uncle Sam"".

• One Good Turn | DVD | (12/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Reunited with many of the team behind Trouble in Store (1953), his smash hit of the previous year, for his second starring role Norman Wisdom played the oldest orphan of Greenwood Children's Home. Having being raised in the home Norman has stayed on as odd-job man, a role which ideally suits his man-child persona. Not only does he have to find the money to buy one of the orphans a model car, but after a visit to Brighton he discovers Greenwood is due to be closed down by the home's own unscrupulous chairman, a property developer with plans to build a factory on the site. Also starring Thora Hird, One Good Turn was surely a film with a personal resonance for Wisdom who was himself brought-up in an orphanage after his mother died and his father was unable to raise him. As would become a tradition, he contributes a song, "Please Opportunity", and the movie, though produced by Rank, now sits easily in that classic Ealing era where the ordinary man took on the big guys and won. The innocent knockabout humour remains appealing and it is simply impossible not to like Norman Wisdom. The film's success led directly to the aptly named Man of the Moment (1955). --Gary S Dalkin

• Captain January | DVD | (20/02/2006) from £9.95   |  Saving you £3.04 (30.55%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A lighthouse keeper finds a little girl who is washed ashore tied to some wreckage. He adopts her and they become inseparable. Eventually her real family finds her and tries to take her away.... Often considered as Shirley Temple's finest film with sterling support from a talented cast making this a firm family favourite!

• Devil's Nightmare | DVD | (28/05/2004) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Seven travellers stranded in the Italian countryside accept the hospitality of a kindly castle lord, but what horror awaits them: the family has a curse on it that dooms the eldest daughter of each generation to become an agent of the devil, and guess who's coming home. After a striking opening scene (involving a Nazi officer in 1944 overseeing the birth of his child, which turns out to be... an accursed daughter!), this horror tale drags along at a glacial pace until the visitors settle in enough to take a little time out for sex, which serves as an appetiser to sadistic murders. The guests, ostensibly representative of the Seven Deadly Sins, die in appropriately thematic twists at first, though after gluttony, greed and lust the point gets stretched. This low-budget example of horrotica has its entertaining moments, an appropriately lurid style (courtesy of Belgian director Jean Brismee), and even an appearance by former French matinee idol Jean Servais (Beauty and the Beast). Included are trailers for this and three other Italian exploitation films and an extended introduction by British horror hostess Eileen Daly (which was actually recorded for a different film!), a black-leather Elvira with a whip and a penchant for kink that may not be to the tastes of all audiences. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com

• Antonio Carlos Jobim - An All Star Tribute | DVD | (24/01/2005) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-1.99 (-8.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Direct from Brazil comes this deeply appreciative musical tribute to Antonio Carlos Jobim (1927-94) co-founder and leading composer of the Bossa Nova. With hundreds of songs to his credit Jobim virtually single handedly brought the Bossa Nova to the world where it became a staple ingredient in the jazz cookbook. Jobim's new sound adapted the rhythmic variety and percussive excitement of the samba to the intimacy of syncopated guitar while echoing the melodies and harmonies of co

• Anne Of Green Gables: A New Beginning | DVD | (11/10/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Anne Shirley (Golden Globe-winner Barbara Hershey) returns to Avonlea in 1945 and relives buried memories from before her time at Green Gables. This fascinating prequel features performances by Academy Award-winner Shirley MacLaine and Hannah Endicott-Douglas as Young Anne.

• The Honeymoon Killers | DVD | (27/08/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Though it was pre-produced by Martin Scorsese, who left the project after arguments with the producers, The Honeymoon Killers wound up being written and directed by Leonard Kastle, one of cinema's great one-hit wonders. The Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer of 1969, The Honeymoon Killers follows hefty nurse Martha Beck (Shirley Stoler, who looks like a humourlessly malevolent Roseanne) and her low-rent gigolo lover Raymond Fernandez (Tony Lo Bianco) as they take up serial murder for profit and passion, luring middle-aged women into marriage through lonely-hearts ads, then killing them and raiding their savings. Based on a genuine crime case history, it is filmed in the candid-camera style of a Frederick Wiseman documentary. The intense scenes (such as the couple's frightening love-play: escalating arguments that end in awkward killings) unfold with a fly-on-the-wall dryness, showcasing the extraordinary acting of the leads and their cameo victims. A rare film in which genuine romantic love does not excuse the central couple's amoral behaviour, this still manages to generate some sympathy for the truly monstrous Martha. The washed-out black and white photography and sometimes scratchy soundtrack (the score is sampled from Mahler) have a deliberately amateurish feel which adds to the film's chilling power, lodging it into the memory. On the DVD: Along with a lurid trailer and gallery of images are filmographies for Stoler, Lo Bianco and (redundantly) Kastle. The widescreen transfer is excellent, representing perfectly the film's rough-hewn look but also bringing out a lot of detail--like Stoler's freckles, which have looked like grain on video releases. --Kim Newman

• Captain January (Shirley Temple) | DVD | (05/03/2007) from £5.38   |  Saving you £7.61 (141.45%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An irrepressible orphan Star (Shirley Temple) loves her somewhat unusual life in the loving care of the wonderful old keeper of a lighthouse (Guy Kibbee) until a mean truant officer (Sara Haden) begins a relentless campaign to have Star sent to a boarding school far away.

• Britten: Owen Wingrave | DVD | (14/07/2009) from £19.92   |  Saving you £-3.93 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

• P.S. Your Cat Is Dead | DVD | (14/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Life. Love. And a little payback! It's New Years Eve and poor Jimmy Zoole is having a day from hell. His all puppet Shakespeare play is a flop his beautiful girlfriend has just dumped him his beloved cat is in hospital and his flat has been broken into almost daily. But Jimmy takes the world by the throat when he captures a burglar in the act and decides to change from victim to boss! Actor Steve Guttenberg's directorial debut of comic misadventures is a hilarious pitch

• Bewitched | DVD | (04/10/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Will Ferrell and Nicole Kidman star in this comedy based on the beloved '60s sitcom.

• Sailor Beware! | DVD | (26/12/2016) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

• The Shirley Temple Collection | DVD | (15/10/2007) from £10.78   |  Saving you £-2.79 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  There will always be speculation as to whether Shirley Temple could have made a successful transition from child star to adult star but by the time she left her teenage years she was married and looking to raise a family so turned her back on Hollywood. She left behind a rich legacy of both short subjects and feature length films. In the latter category is The Little Princess her first technicolour film and included here. In the former category are several shorts made between 1932 and 1934 and are included on two of the discs in this collection. 1. The Little Princess 2. Collection Vol 1 3. Collection Vol2

• The Astounding She Monster (Region 2) | DVD | (09/10/2009) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Opera Hits | DVD | (08/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Opera Hits features many of opera's best-loved arias duets and choruses in performances from La Scala Milan La Fenice Venice The Royal Opera Covent Garden Arena di Verona and Glyndebourne Festival Opera. The extracts are taken from some of the world's favourite operas: La Traviata The Barber of Seville Tosca Andrea Chnier Orfeo ed Euridice Aida Gianni Schicchi Samson et Dalila Carmen Les Contes d'Hoffmann La Bohme Madama Butterfly and Nabucco.

• Somebody Is Waiting | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Leon Ellis is a kind-hearted well-intentioned boy who just can't seem to stay out of trouble. His mother Charlotte is the soul of goodness dedicated to her five children but burdened with the sorrows of her cruel and nasty alcoholic husband who leaves the family destitute. However when Charlotte dies Leon must learn to take care of his family and himself.

• 24 Hour Party People (Special Edition) | DVD | (08/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The story of the Manchester music scene from 70s punk through to the early nineties, as seen from the perspective of Tony Wilson, musical entrepenuer who signed countless bands from Joy Division to the Happy Mondays to his legendary Factory Records label.