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• Songs That Won The War | DVD | (02/05/2005) from £13.49   |  Saving you £2.50 (18.53%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This DVD goes back to the days of Second World War Britain and - through original artist performance movie and newsreel footage - brings to life the songs that lifted the spirit of a nation. To add to the authenticity Dame Vera Lynn presents this wonderful DVD. Includes the classics: We'll Meet Again / Sally / Wish Me Luck / As You Wave Goodbye / The White Cliffs Of Dover / As Time Goes By / Thanks For The Memory / And many more...

• The Many Saints of Newark | Blu Ray | (13/12/2021) from £23.69   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Many Saints of Newark is the muchanticipated feature film prequel to the groundbreaking, awardwinning HBO drama series The Sopranos. Young Anthony Soprano is growing up in the explosive era of the Newark's riots, becoming a man just as rival gangsters begin to rise up and challenge the all-powerful DiMeo crime family's hold over the increasingly race-torn city. Caught up in the changing times is the uncle he idolizes, Dickie Moltisanti, who struggles to manage both his professional and personal responsibilitiesand whose influence over his nephew will help make the impressionable teenager into the all-powerful mob boss we'll later come to know: Tony Soprano.

• The Prince And The Showgirl | DVD | (07/05/2001) from £5.81   |  Saving you £8.18 (140.79%)   |  RRP £13.99

  The Prince and the Showgirl (1957) was Marilyn Monroe's only British-made film and scores highly for curiosity value. There's something rather outrageous about this iconic American star playing a second-rate hoofer living in a theatrical boarding house in Brixton. Monroe herself is predictably good and touching as Elsie Marina, plucked from the chorus to entertain the Regent of Carpathia for the evening and ultimately smoothing his rough edges. There is, however, a rather uphill feeling all the way. The making of the movie was by all accounts a troubled experience for everybody concerned. Monroe, increasingly unreliable and exasperating, had an unsympathetic director in Laurence Olivier, also playing the Regent Charles, who hardly had the patience for a star of her mercurial talents with her own ideas of professional behaviour. His own performance as the Balkan royal is hammy and mannered and there isn't even a damp squib of sexual chemistry between them. Terence Rattigan's script, based on his successful play, is far too wordy and stage-bound. But somehow Monroe effervesces through all this adversity, aided considerably by British character actor Richard Wattis and the great Sybil Thorndyke, who became her ally during the difficult filming. Not vintage Marilyn but fascinating all the same, and she looks fantastic. On the DVD: The Prince and the Showgirl is presented in 4:3 with an occasionally muffled, apparently mono, soundtrack, giving this DVD a rather dusty quality which is in keeping with the vintage British 1950s production values. Extras include a cast list, original trailer and newsreel footage of the announcement that Marilyn was to make the film with Olivier, referred to at that stage as The Sleeping Prince. --Piers Ford

• King Kong | DVD | (01/10/2012) from £13.05   |  Saving you £-3.06 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A daring expedition happens across a giant ape in this classic 1933 creature feature.

• The Initiation Dual Format | Blu Ray | (07/11/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  HERE'S TO BEING YOUNG STAYING YOUNG AND DYING YOUNG. Marking TV star Daphne Zuniga's debut in a leading role, The Initiation ranks amongst the finest of the college-based stalk-and-slash flicks now finally restored in glorious High-Definition! Kelly's new sorority has a special initiation ritual in store for her an after-hours break-in of her father's department store. But what begins as a night of harmless college fun turns sour when, once inside the enormous mall, Kelly and her fellow pledges find themselves locked in for the night with a deadly intruder stalking the corridors. Arriving in 1984, The Initiation might have been late to the slasher party, but, alongside the likes of The House on Sorority Row and The Mutilator, it remains one of the stronger entries to emerge in the latter days of the slice-and-dice boom. SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS: Brand new restoration from original film elements High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation Original Uncompressed Mono PCM audio Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Brand new audio commentary by The Hysteria Continues Brand new interview with actor Christopher Bradley Brand new interview with actress Joy Jones Original Theatrical Trailer Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Justin Osbourn FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by critic James Oliver

• Too Many Crooks | DVD | (27/05/2002) from £4.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (100.20%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Too Many Crooks (1958) boasts an intricate plot in which Terry Thomas is being blackmailed for the hoards he's stashed away as a renowned tax dodger. Driving around in a Jaguar XK 150, a desirable sports car of the period, his intricate private life unravels as his put-upon wife, Brenda de Banzie, draws on her expertise as a wartime PT instructress to turn the tables on him by marshalling the support of a band of crooks (George Cole, Sidney James, Bernard Bresslaw and Joe Melia). Look out for the very funny court scene, where TT makes three appearances on separate charges before a bemused magistrate, John Le Mesurier. On the DVD: Too Many Crooks is in 4:3 ratio and has a mono soundtrack. The only extra feature is a trailer. More TT tomfoolery can be found in the three-disc Terry Thomas Collection. --Adrian Edwards

• Bates Motel - Season 3 | DVD | (12/10/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £21.99

  BATES MOTEL has vacancies and welcomes you for a second season starring Academy Award nominated actress Vera Farmiga and Freddie Highmore. In the aftermath of Miss Watson’s murder Norman’s (Highmore) innocence is buried under blackouts suspicious characters and his strange behaviour. Meanwhile Norma (Farmiga) faces dark truths of her own when family secrets begin to unravel and looming threats from local villains jeopardize Norma’s stab at happiness. No matter where you turn – there’s no escaping what bubbles beneath the surface in White Pine Bay. Experience every thrilling twist and turn with all 10 episodes back-to-back and uninterrupted from BATES MOTEL Season Two. Bonus Features: Deleted Scenes Season Premier Season Finale Featurettes

• Running Scared | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £5.30   |  Saving you £14.69 (277.17%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Joey Gazelle is a mob flunkie who disposes "hot" guns, but when one is stolen he finds himself in big trouble.

• White Christmas | DVD | (03/12/2001) from £4.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (220.44%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Two talented song-and-dance men (Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye) team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business.

• Iron Jawed Angels | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote...

• Bates Motel: Season 2 | DVD | (13/10/2014) from £9.15   |  Saving you £12.84 (140.33%)   |  RRP £21.99

  Season Two of Bates Motel. Special Features: Deleted Scenes Featurettes: Season Premier Season Finale

• The Conjuring 3 (UHD/ BD) | Blu Ray | (06/09/2021) from £19.96   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  One of the most sensational cases from Ed and Lorraine Warren's files, it starts with a fight for the soul of a young boy, then takes them beyond anything they'd ever seen before.

• Autumn In New York | DVD | (03/12/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A New York restaurant owner falls for a young woman chef. When she reveals a dark secret about herself, their relationship takes on deeper meaning.

• The Searchers | DVD | (01/06/2006) from £5.89   |  Saving you £8.10 (137.52%)   |  RRP £13.99

  A favourite film of some of the world's greatest filmmakers, including Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg, John Ford's The Searchers has earned its place in the legacy of great American films for a variety of reasons. Perhaps most notably, it's the definitive role for John Wayne as an icon of the classic Western--the hero (or antihero) who must stand alone according to the unwritten code of The West. The story takes place in Texas in 1868; Wayne plays Ethan Edwards, a Confederate veteran who visits his brother and sister-in-law at their ranch and is horrified when they are killed by marauding Comanches. Ethan's search for a surviving niece (played by young Natalie Wood) becomes an all-consuming obsession. With the help of a family friend (Jeffrey Hunter) who is himself part-Cherokee, Ethan hits the trail on a five-year quest for revenge. At the peak of his masterful talent, director Ford crafts this classic tale as an embittered examination of racism and blind hatred, provoking Wayne to give one of the best performances of his career. As with many of Ford's classic Westerns, The Searchers must contend with revisionism in its stereotypical treatment of "savage" Native Americans, and the film's visual beauty (the final shot is one of the great images in all of Western culture) is compromised by some uneven performances and stilted dialogue. Still, this is undeniably one of the greatest Westerns ever made. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• King Kong | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £8.45   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  "Now you see it. You're amazed. You can't believe it. Your eyes open wider. It's horrible, but you can't look away. There's no chance for you. No escape. You're helpless, helpless. There's just one chance, if you can scream. Throw your arms across your eyes and scream, scream for your life!" And scream Fay Wray does most famously in this monster classic, one of the greatest adventure films of all time, which even in an era of computer-generated wizardry remains a marvel of stop-motion animation. Robert Armstrong stars as famed adventurer Carl Denham, who is leading a "crazy voyage" to a mysterious, uncharted island to photograph "something monstrous ... neither beast nor man." Also aboard is waif Ann Darrow (Fay Wray) and Bruce Cabot as big lug John Driscoll, the ship's first mate. King Kong's first half-hour is steady going, with engagingly corny dialogue ("Some big, hard-boiled egg gets a look at a pretty face and bang, he cracks up and goes sappy") and ominous portent that sets the stage for the horror to come. Once our heroes reach Skull Island, the movie comes to roaring, chest-thumping, T. rex-slamming, snake-throttling, pterodactyl-tearing, native-stomping life. King Kong was ranked by the American Film Institute as among the 50 best films of the 20th century. Kong making his last stand atop the Empire State Building is one of the movies' most indelible and iconic images. --Donald Liebenson

• Please Teacher | DVD | (03/11/2014) from £7.98   |  Saving you £4.00 (66.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This entertaining pre-war farce stars diminutive music-hall stalwart Bobby Howes as an heir-hunter whose determined efforts to trace his aunt’s legacy lead to ructions in a girls’ school! Also featuring stage veteran Lyn Harding Australian comedienne Vera Pearce and noted character player Wylie Watson Please Teacher is presented here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. Tommy Deacon learns that a gift bequeathed by his aunt is hidden in her house inside a bust of Napoleon. However the house has been sold and is now a girls’ school – and to gain admission Tommy has to pose as the elder brother of Anne one of the pupils. His arrival in the school results in a variety of escapades but Tommy resolutely persists in his search for the missing legacy... Special Features: Image Gallery PDF Material

• Hell Drivers | DVD | (26/01/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Hell Drivers sees James Bond (Sean Connery), Doctor Who (William Hartnell), one of the men from UNCLE (David McCallum), the Prisoner (Patrick McGoohan) and a Professional (Gordon Jackson), all supporting Stanley Baker in this hard-as-nails British action picture realistically set in a bleak late-1950s England. Baker plays Tom Yately, an ex-con who takes the only job he can get--truck driving at breakneck speeds for a corrupt manager (Hartnell) and brutal foreman (McGoohan). The constant short runs and competition between the drivers makes for an intense atmosphere which inevitably explodes into violence. Baker's only friend is an Italian ex-POW played sensitively by Herbert Lom, while Peggy Cummings is a remarkably free-spirited heroine for a British film of the time. Baker himself is superb, quietly tough, and broodingly charismatic, McGoohan is compellingly malevolent and Hartnell simply chilling. The film is consistently engrossing and often exciting, even when the plot spirals into melodrama towards the finale. One has to wonder where the police are during all this mayhem, but the fact that the screenplay, by John Kruse and Cy Endfield, received a BAFTA nomination suggests the scenario was at least reasonably realistic. Endfield also directed this, the second of six films he would helm for Baker, the most famous of which would be the all-time classic, Zulu (1964). On the DVD: Hell Drivers is presented in an anamorphically enhanced ratio of 1.77:1. This means a little of the original 1.96:1 VistaVision (70mm) image is cropped at the sides, which is just noticeable in a few shots. The print used is excellent, with only very minor damage, and the mono sound is fine. The disc also includes Look in on Hell Drivers, a 1957 TV programme that offers interviews with Stanley Baker, Cy Endfield and Alfie Bass, as well as comments from genuine truck drivers confirming the realism of the story, and a contemporary 15-minute television interview with Baker, which focuses on Hell Drivers, Sea Fury(1958) (also directed by Cy Endfield) and Violent Playground (1958). The original trailer rounds out an excellent package. --Gary S Dalkin

• Bates Motel: Season 5 | Blu Ray | (16/10/2017) from £8.68   |  Saving you £9.30 (107.14%)   |  RRP £17.98

  At a girls' school in Virginia during the Civil War, where the young women have been sheltered from the outside world, a wounded Union soldier is taken in. Soon, the house is taken over with sexual tension, rivalries, and an unexpected turn of events. Deleted Scenes Gag Reel Bates Motel: Closed For Business Bates Motel: The Final Checkout

• The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - The Complete Collection (24 disc box set) | DVD | (11/01/2016) from £70.67   |  Saving you £29.32 (41.49%)   |  RRP £99.99

  All 93 episodes from the first three seasons of Alfred Hitchcock's thriller anthology series. The British film-maker returns with a spin-off to his TV show 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents' with more murderous and suspenseful tales of mystery. Season 1 episodes are: 'A Piece of the Action', 'Don't Look Behind You', 'Night of the Owl', 'I Saw the Whole Thing', 'Captive Audience', 'Final Vow', 'Annabel', 'House Guest', 'The Black Curtain', 'Day of Reckoning', 'Ride the Nightmare', 'Hangover', 'Bonfire', 'The Tender Poisoner', 'The 31st of February', 'What Really Happened', 'Forecast: Low Clouds and Coastal Fog', 'A Tangled Web', 'To Catch a Butterfly', 'The Paragon', 'I'll Be Judge - I'll Be the Jury', 'Diagnosis Danger', 'The Lonely Hours', 'The Star Juror', 'The Long Silence', 'An Out for Oscar', 'Death and the Joyful Woman', 'Last Seen Wearing Blue Jeans', 'The Dark Pool', 'Dear Uncle George', 'Run for Doom' and 'Death of a Cop'. Season 2 episodes are: 'A Home Away from Home', 'A Nice Touch', 'Terror at Northfield', 'You'll Be the Death of Me', 'Blood Bargain', 'Nothing Ever Happens in Linvale', 'Starring the Defense', 'The Cadaver', 'The Dividing Wall', 'Goodbye, George', 'How to Get Rid of Your Wife', 'Three Wives Too Many', 'The Magic Shop', 'Beyond the Sea of Death', 'Night Caller', 'The Evil of Adelaide Winters', 'The Jar', 'Final Escape', 'Murder Case', 'Anyone for Murder?', 'Beast in View', 'Behind the Locked Door', 'A Matter of Murder', 'The Gentleman Caller', 'The Ordeal of Mrs. Snow' ,'Ten Minutes from Now', 'The Sign of Satan', 'Who Needs an Enemy?', 'Bed of Roses', 'Second Verdict', 'Isabel' and 'Body in the Barn'. Season 3 episodes are: 'The Return of Verge Likens', 'Change of Address', 'Water's Edge', 'The Life Work of Juan Diaz', 'See the Monkey Dance', 'Lonely Place', 'The McGregor Affair', 'Misadventure', 'Triumph', 'Memo from Purgatory', 'Consider Her Ways', 'The Crimson Witness', 'Where the Woodbine Twineth', 'The Final Performance', 'Thanatos Palace Hotel', 'One of the Family', 'An Unlocked Window', 'The Trap', 'Wally the Beard', 'Death Scene', 'The Photographer and the Undertaker', 'Thou Still Unravished Bride', 'Completely Foolproof', 'Power of Attorney', 'The World's Oldest Motive', 'The Monkey's Paw - A Retelling', 'The Second Wife', 'Night Fever' and 'Off Season'.

• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (2012 re-pack) | DVD | (06/08/2012) from £7.05   |  Saving you £5.94 (84.26%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A senator, who became famous for killing a notorious outlaw, returns for the funeral of an old friend and tells the truth about his deed.