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• A Fire Has Been Arranged | DVD | (14/06/2004) from £11.13   |  Saving you £-0.14 (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  A pair of crooks discovers that after ten years in jail a department store has been built over the site of their buried loot. However the store is struggling and one of the owners is all too willing to have the crooks burn the store to the ground.

• DW Griffith Collection | DVD | (20/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Avenging Conscience:Nightmarish visions of ghouls and devils highlight this D.W. Griffith silent feature based around Edgar Allen Poe's The Telltale Heart and Annabelle Lee. A young man (Henry B. Walthall) finds himself prevented from wooing the girl he loves (Blanche Sweet) due to the tyrannical edicts of his mean old uncle (Spottiswoode Aitken). The poor lad becomes haunted by a series of visions that convince him to murder this interfering relative. After the murder has been planned and executed the man finds himself haunted by still more visions this time of the fire and brimstone variety. An inquiring detective (Ralph Lewis) adds to the ever-mounting paranoia. Birth Of A Nation: The first part of the film chronicles the Civil War as experienced through the eyes of two families; the Stonemans from the North and the Camerons of the South. Lifelong friends they become divided by the Mason-Dixon line with tragic results. Large-scale battle sequences and meticulous historical details culminate with a staged re-creation of Lincoln's assassination. The second half of the film chronicles the Reconstruction as Congressman Austin Stoneman (Ralph Lewis) puts evil Silas Lynch (George Siegmann) in charge of the liberated slaves at the Cameron hometown of Piedmont. Armed with the right to vote the freed slaves cause all sorts of trouble until Ben Cameron (Henry B. Walthall) founds the Ku Klux Klan and restores order and decency to the troubled land. While The Birth Of A Nation was a major step forward in the history of filmmaking it must be noted that the film supports a racist worldview. Broken Blossoms: This strangely beautiful silent film from D.W. Griffith is also one of his more grim efforts; an indictment of child abuse and the violence of western society. An idealistic Asian (Richard Barthelemess) travels to the west in hopes of spreading the Buddha's message of peace to the round-eyed sons of turmoil and strife. Instead he winds up a disillusioned opium-smoking shopkeeper in London's squalid Limehouse District. Down the street a poor waif (Lillian Gish) suffers horrific abuse at the hands of her boxer father (Donald Crisp). When fortune delivers the battered girl into the Asian's tender care a strange and beautiful love blossoms between them a love far too fragile to survive their brutal environment. Intolerance: D.W. Griffith's biggest most ambitious spectacle uses stories from different times and places to illustrate humanity's intolerance of religious differences throughout the ages. The most visually impressive of these chronicles is the fall of Babylon for which Griffith built the largest sets in Hollywood and filled them with thousands of extras; there's also Christ's crucifixion and the massacre of the Heugenots in 15th century France. The most emotionally involving tale is the modern one about a poor girl (Mae Marsh) whose life is repeatedly ruined by the zealotry of social reformers. The image of a mother (Lillian Gish) rocking her child in a cradle links the stories. At one point angels reach down from heaven to stop soldiers in midbattle making it clear that Griffith intended this follow-up to The Birth Of A Nation as a message of global peace and love Way Down East: Innocent Anna is sent by her poverty-stricken mother to visit rich relations in Boston where she is seduced into a sham marriage by a smooth-talking scoundrel. When she becomes pregnant he abandons her; later the baby dies. Now a social outcast she changes her name and eventually finds shelter at the estate of the sternly religious Squire Bartlett. She falls in love with his handsome son but cannot divulge to him her terrible secret for fear of his father's righteous

• Intolerance | DVD | (16/10/2006) from £4.10   |  Saving you £2.15 (75.70%)   |  RRP £4.99

  The effects of intolerance are considered in four historical periods: ancient Babylon Judea at the time of Christ sixteenth century Paris and modern America. DW Griffith's follow up to the epic Birth Of A Nation is rightfully considered another masterpiece.

• Mad Love | DVD | (24/06/2002) from £12.93   |  Saving you £7.06 (35.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Three silent films from the pioneering Russian film-maker Yevgeni Bauer. Includes newly composed music and video essay on Bauer. Twilight of a Woman's Soul (1913) his first surviving film already shows his masterful use of deep-focus photography. After Death (1915) is adapted from a story by Turgenev and is imbued with one of Bauer's favourite themes: the psychological hold of the dead over the living. The Dying Swan (1916) takes a sardonic view of the popular obsession with morb

• Safe House | Blu Ray | (15/06/2012) from £37.78   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds star in the action-thriller Safe House. Washington plays the most dangerous renegade from the CIA, who comes back onto the grid after a decade on the run. When the South African safe house he's remanded to is attacked by mercenaries, a rookie operative (Reynolds) escapes with him. Now, the unlikely allies must stay alive long enough to uncover who wants them dead. For the past year, Matt Weston has been frustrated by his inactive, backwater post in...

• Hell Fighters | DVD | (13/12/2004) from £12.99   |  Saving you £-3.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Paying tribute to oil field legend 'Red' Adair Wayne plays Chance Buckman a colourful Texan who tames out-of-control infernos in exotic locations around the world. Between blazes Chance carries the torch for Madelyn the wife who left him 20 years earlier because of his dangerous lifestyle and assistant Greg has his hands full at the poker table and in the bedroom with Chance's spunky daughter Tish.

• The Ultimate Drummers Weekend - 11th Anniversary DVD | DVD | (11/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £21.99

  Nearly four hours of workshops, seminars and incredible performance footage from some of the world's most celebrated drum stars. The 11th anniversary of Australia's biggest drum festival features intimate workshops with Thomas Lang, John Blackwell and Jimmy De Grasso, performances from the Glenn Cannon Band, footage of the Australia's best up and coming drummer competition and much much more.

• The Prince And The Showgirl | DVD | (09/12/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  One of the later films of her notably stellar career The Prince and The Showgirl teams Marilyn Monroe with the world's most respected thespian Sir Laurence Olivier in a humorous romp of a stately prince charming and his love for a humble but incredibly infectious performer. A fairy tale born in the Hollywood dream factory this film continues to be a lasting favourite. This Deluxe Series box set will include: DVD of 'The Prince And The Showgirl' DVD documentary 'The Legend Of Marilyn Monroe' a film Senitype'' (image from the film and 35mm film frame) US one sheet movie poster and an exclusive commemorative 16-page picture book of rare Marilyn images.

• Running Scared | UMD | (01/01/1980) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

• The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas | DVD | (02/11/2020) from £5.84   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It | Blu Ray | (24/08/2021) from £40.19   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Der Mann, der Liberty Valance erschoss- 4K UHD | Blu Ray | (19/05/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Many Saints of Newark, The | Blu Ray | (13/12/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Le Faux coupable | DVD | (24/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A