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• The Scarlet And The Black | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £6.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (42.92%)   |  RRP £9.99

  During the German occupation of Rome in 1943 an athletic Irish priest Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty (Gregory Peck) devotes all the time he can spare from his work at the Vatican to hiding Allied POWs from the Nazis. Col. Herbert Kappler (Christopher Plummer) Rome's chief Gestapo Officer suspects O'Flaherty of hiding escapees but can do little about it because of the priest's Vatican diplomatic immunity. But when he unearths proof of O'Flaherty's complicity he orders that the priest be

• Straw Dogs | DVD | (07/10/2002) from £14.44   |  Saving you £-6.45 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  According to critic Pauline Kael Straw Dogs was "the first American film that is a fascist work of art". Sam Peckinpah's only film shot in Britain is adapted from a novel by Gordon M Williams called The Siege of Trencher's Farm which Peckinpah described as a "lousy book with one good action-adventure sequence". The setting is Cornwall, where mild-mannered US academic David Sumner (Dustin Hoffman) has bought a house with his young English wife Amy (Susan George) in the village where she grew up. David is mocked by the locals (one of whom is Amy's ex-boyfriend) and treated with growing contempt by his frustrated wife, but when his house comes under violent siege he finds unexpected reserves of resourcefulness and aggression. The movie, Peckinpah noted, was much influenced by Robert Ardrey's macho-anthropological tract, The Territorial Imperative. Its take on Cornish village life is fairly bizarre--this is a Western in all but name--and many critics balked at the transposition of Peckinpah's trademark blood-and-guts to the supposed peace of the British countryside. A scene where Amy is raped caused particular outrage, not least since it's hinted she consents to it. Not for the first time in Peckinpah's movies there are disquieting elements of misogyny, and it doesn't help that the chemistry between Hoffman and George is non-existent. (Impossible to believe these two would ever have clicked, let alone married.) But taken as a vision of irrational violence irrupting into a civilised way of life Straw Dogs is powerful and unsettling, and the action sequences are executed with all Peckinpah's unfailing flair and venom. Oh, and that title? A quote from Chinese sage Lao-Tze, it seems, "The wise man is ruthless and treats the people as straw dogs." The film was long withheld from home viewing in Britain by nervous censors, but this release presents it complete and uncut. --Philip KempOn the DVD: Straw Dogs is as jam-packed a disc as is possible for a film made before the days of obligatory "making of" features. Both the sound and visuals have transferred well, and, like the script, have aged well. There's a bumbling original interview in the style of Harry Enfield's Mr. Cholmondley-Warner, along with stills and original trailers. The new material includes a feature on the history of the film's censorship and commentaries by Peckinpah's biographers musing over interesting fan-facts (though none of the speakers have any first-hand experience of the making of the film). However, Katy Haber's commentary, and interviews with Susan George and Dan Melnick, offer a much more in-depth and intimate portrayal of the man and the making of the film. --Nikki Disney

• Perfect Friday | DVD | (17/06/2013) from £12.98   |  Saving you £9.00 (81.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Directed by Sir Peter Hall and featuring cool tunes by Johnny Dankworth, this sexy, mischievous early '70s crime caper stars the always-watchable Stanley Baker as a bank manager who teams up with a glamorous, aristocratic couple (David Warner and Ursula Andress) to pull off the ultimate inside job. Perfect Friday is featured here in a brand-new High Definition transfer from original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio on both Blu-ray and DVD.. Lord Nicholas Dorset and h...

• Red Scorpion | DVD | (01/01/2000) from £3.65   |  Saving you £-0.66 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

• Napoleon and Love | DVD | (15/06/2009) from £32.38   |  Saving you £-7.39 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Featuring an illustrious cast headed by Ian Holm this dramatised account of the life and loves of Napoleon Bonaparte is a much sought-after classic series from Thames Television. Billie Whitelaw stars as Napoloeon's first wife Josephine with mistresses Desiree Clary and Marie Walewska played by Karen Dotrice and Catherine Schell. Featuring high calibre actors Ronald Hines Peter Bowles Gary Waldhorn and Stephanie Beacham this complete series features all nine hour-long episodes originally transmitted in 1974. At 25 Napoleon is already a general in the French army although on the unemployed list. In Marseilles he woos Desiree Clary the daughter of a rich merchant; but her family refuse a marriage until he has position and money. Napoleon leaves for Paris where he is put in charge of the Tuilleries and is soon made Commander of the Army of the Interior. There he meets and falls passionately in love with Jos''phine Beauharnais...

• Straw Dogs | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £5.93   |  Saving you £0.06 (1.01%)   |  RRP £5.99

• Ulysses | DVD | (23/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  An adaptation of James Joyce's monumental modernist novel. Dublin June 16 1904. Stephen Dedalus (Maurice Roves) embarks on a day of wandering about the city during which he finds friendship and a father figure in Leopold Bloom (Milo O'Shea). Meanwhile Bloom's day is illuminated by a funeral and an evening of drinking and revelry that stirs paternal feelings toward Stephen and ends with a rapprochment with Molly Bloom (Barbara Jefford) his unfaithful wife.

• Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man | DVD | (02/08/2004) from £5.99   |  Saving you £14.00 (233.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The trials and tribulations of Stephen Dedalus a young man growing up in Ireland in the early part of the 20th century. He starts to feel a stranger in his own land as he starts to understand the nature of art and politics and he has to make a decision whether to accept exile in another land or stay and fight....

• All in Good Faith - The Complete Series 2 | DVD | (21/04/2014) from £7.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (62.58%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In his first comedy series for ITV Richard Briers stars as a beleaguered vicar who abandons the comforts of his affluent Oxfordshire parish for the more challenging climes of a run-down Midlands town. Co-starring Barbara Ferris Irene Handl Robert Dorning and Jan Ravens among others this hugely engaging sitcom was penned by noted screenwriter (and Me and My Girl creator) John Kane and directed by multi-award winner John Howard Davies. Hoping for a fresh start and a renewed sense of purpose the Rev. Philip Lambe has convinced his family to join him in the inaptly named town of Edendale where he has taken up a new position. But ministering to his new urban flock brings many unforeseen problems: this second series sees the well-meaning but naïve clergyman coming into conflict with a local martial-arts club finding a homeless couple on his doorstep and coming face to face with a delusional gun-toting stranger...

• Justice - The Complete Series 2 | DVD | (22/04/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Margaret Lockwood, one of British cinema's greatest stars, takes on the role of a no-nonsense female barrister in this compelling courtroom drama from the makers of Yorkshire Television's classic series The Main Chance. This second series also features guest appearances by Brian Blessed, Michael Elphick, Paul Eddington and Angela Thorne, among many others. Harriet Peterson is intuitive, tenacious and highly principled - and she's determined to succeed in a world still largely dominated by me...

• All Creatures Great And Small | DVD | (24/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Claude Whatham's 1974 film All Creatures Great and Small is a modest and charming cornucopia of nostalgia, cuddly calves, romance and acerbic-yet-warm-hearted Yorkshire folk. It's based of course on James Herriot's phenomenally popular tales of a vet's life in the Dales and spawned a long-running BBC series with a different cast. Here, we have a fresh-faced Simon Ward as James, joining Siegfried Farnon's small town practice. As the benignly despotic Farnon, a pre-Hannibal Lecter Anthony Hopkins already exudes plenty of brooding charisma. Lisa Harrow, fetching in 1930s slacks, is Helen, the farmer's daughter who catches James' eye. Their adventures with the local animal populace in the incredibly beautiful pre-Second World War Dales run the gamut, from arms up cows' bottoms to tender birthing scenes, over-indulged pooches, horses with torsions and one moment which will strike a poignant note with pet owners of all ages. It's taught and witty thanks to distinguished dramatist Hugh Whitemore's delightful script and as comforting as a warm blanket, a stodgy tea and a roaring fire on a winter's evening. On the DVD: with no extras apart from the chapter list, this is a basic package. Presented in 1.85:1 Anamorphic aspect ratio and a Dolby Digital 2.0 soundtrack, it's easy viewing, offering more than adequate picture and sound quality. --Piers Ford

• Red Scorpion | DVD | (28/06/2004) from £14.78   |  Saving you £-8.79 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Lieutenant Nikolai is a member of the Soviet Special Forces assigned to infiltrate a rebel uprising and assassinate the leader that is causing problems for the Cuban forces occupying the territory. When Nikolai fails to complete the mission he pays the price; torture by the Cuban leaders! He manages to escape to the desert and find the rebel army once more but this time he is on their side! It's all out warfare as he leads a daring attack against his former comrades!

• Silver Dream Racer | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Two professional motorcycle racers (a cossetted professional and a hotheaded privateer) competing in the world motorcycle championships find themselves at odds in a more personal type of competition: they both love the same woman...

• Thriller - Episodes 1 To 10 | DVD | (20/09/2004) from £49.99   |  Saving you £-25.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Thriller is a fantastic British television series created and written by Brian Clemens (The Avengers). Designed as an anthology series of suspense thrillers it traversed a multitude of different ideas - and guest stars! Episodes comprise: 1. Lady Killer 2. Possession 3. Someone At The Top Of The Stairs 4. An Echo Of Theresa 5. The Colour Of Blood 6. Murder In Mind 7. A Place To Die 8. File It Under Fear 9. The Eyes Have It 10. Spell Of Evil

• Straw Dogs | UMD | (28/11/2005) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-5.59 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

• Straw Dogs | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  According to critic Pauline Kael Straw Dogs was "the first American film that is a fascist work of art". Sam Peckinpah's only film shot in Britain is adapted from a novel by Gordon M Williams called The Siege of Trencher's Farm which Peckinpah described as a "lousy book with one good action-adventure sequence". The setting is Cornwall, where mild-mannered US academic David Sumner (Dustin Hoffman) has bought a house with his young English wife Amy (Susan George) in the village where she grew up. David is mocked by the locals (one of whom is Amy's ex-boyfriend) and treated with growing contempt by his frustrated wife, but when his house comes under violent siege he finds unexpected reserves of resourcefulness and aggression. The movie, Peckinpah noted, was much influenced by Robert Ardrey's macho-anthropological tract, The Territorial Imperative. Its take on Cornish village life is fairly bizarre--this is a Western in all but name--and many critics balked at the transposition of Peckinpah's trademark blood-and-guts to the supposed peace of the British countryside. A scene where Amy is raped caused particular outrage, not least since it's hinted she consents to it. Not for the first time in Peckinpah's movies there are disquieting elements of misogyny, and it doesn't help that the chemistry between Hoffman and George is non-existent. (Impossible to believe these two would ever have clicked, let alone married.) But taken as a vision of irrational violence irrupting into a civilised way of life Straw Dogs is powerful and unsettling, and the action sequences are executed with all Peckinpah's unfailing flair and venom. Oh, and that title? A quote from Chinese sage Lao-Tze, it seems, "The wise man is ruthless and treats the people as straw dogs." The film was long withheld from home viewing in Britain by nervous censors, but this release presents it complete and uncut. --Philip KempOn the DVD: Straw Dogs is as jam-packed a disc as is possible for a film made before the days of obligatory "making of" features. Both the sound and visuals have transferred well, and, like the script, have aged well. There's a bumbling original interview in the style of Harry Enfield's Mr. Cholmondley-Warner, along with stills and original trailers. The new material includes a feature on the history of the film's censorship and commentaries by Peckinpah's biographers musing over interesting fan-facts (though none of the speakers have any first-hand experience of the making of the film). However, Katy Haber's commentary, and interviews with Susan George and Dan Melnick, offer a much more in-depth and intimate portrayal of the man and the making of the film. --Nikki Disney