"Actor: W C Fields"

• Mae West in Hollywood, 1932-1943 (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (13/12/2021) from £59.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When Mae West went to Hollywood in the early 1930s, she was already a major star. Having sensationalised Broadway, it was time for the movies to receive the same. Her fame allowed her control, picking her co-stars (including a young Cary Grant), receiving screenwriter credits, and baiting censors and audiences alike as the pre-Code era gave way to a more sanitised period in American filmmaking. This six-disc collection brings together all ten of West's classic Hollywood features, from her supporting turn in 1932's Night After Night to 1943's musical extravaganza, The Heat's On. Special Features 4K restoration of I'm No Angel 2021 restorations of Belle of the Nineties, Go West Young Man and Every Day's a Holiday from 4K scans 2018 restorations of Goin' to Town and My Little Chickadee from 4K scans 2017 restoration of She Done Him Wrong from a 4K scan High Definition remasters of Night After Night, Klondike Annie and The Heat's On Original mono soundtracks Audio commentary on She Done Him Wrong by critic and film historian Pamela Hutchinson (2021) Audio commentary on I'm No Angel by critic and writer Farran Smith Nehme (2021) Audio commentary on Klondike Annie by academic and curator Eloise Ross (2021) Audio commentary on Go West Young Man by writer and film historian Nora Fiore (2021) Mae West at UCLA (1971): archival audio recording of the great performer in conversation at the University of California, Los Angeles Introduction to My Little Chickadee by Harriet Fields, granddaughter of W C Fields (2021) Lucy Bolton on Mae West (2021): the writer and academic discusses the irrepressible stardom of West Christina Newland on Mae West (2021): the writer and critic looks at West's glamour and attitudes to sex Two Super 8 versions of I'm No Angel: a pair of original cut-down home-cinema presentations, each consisting of unique scenes Super 8 version of The Heat's On Original theatrical trailers New and improved subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing Limited edition exclusive 120-page book with a new essay by Iris Veysey, archival articles, a critical archive, and film credits World and UK premieres on Blu-ray Limited edition of 6,000 numbered units MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED! All extras subject to change

• Alien 3 | DVD | (15/05/2000) from £2.89   |  Saving you £17.10 (591.70%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Directed by stylemaster David Fincher, who went on to greater things with Seven and Fight Club, Alien 3 was the least successful of the Alien series at the box-office. Ripley, the only survivor of her past mission, awakens on a prison planet in the far corners of the solar system. As she tries to recover, she realises that not only has an alien got loose on the planet, the alien has implanted one of its own within her. As she battles the prison authorities (and is aided by the prisoners) in trying to kill the alien, she must also cope with a distinctly shortened life span that awaits her. But the striking imagery makes for muddled action and the script confuses it further. The ending looks startling but it takes a long time--and a not particularly satisfying journey--to get there. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.com On the DVD: The clarity of the digital picture throws light into some of Fincher's darker recesses, but is unkind to the primitive computer animation (the CGI alien is never convincing). Compared to the Alien DVD there are few extras, although a "making of" featurette that covers all three movies is included.

• Alien 3 - The Director's Cut (Two Disc Special Edition) | DVD | (12/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Lt. Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is the lone survivor when her crippled spaceship crash lands on Fiorina 161 a bleak wasteland inhabited by former inmates of the planet's maximum security prison. Ripley's fears that an Alien was aboard her craft are confirmed when the mutilated bodies of ex-cons begin to mount. Without weapons or modern technology of any kind Ripley must lead the men into battle against the terrifying creature. And soon she discovers a horrifying fact about her link with the Alien a realisation that may compel Ripley to try destroying not only the horrific creature but herself as well.

• W.C. Fields Collection | DVD | (10/12/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £20.00

  Set Comprises: Big Broadcast Of 1938 The Bank Dick You Can't Cheat an Honest Man My Little Chickadee Man on the Flying Trapeze Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch The Old Fashioned Way You're Telling Me! Six of a Kind International House Million Dollar Legs If I Had A Million Mississippi Poppy Never Give a Sucker an Even Break It's A Gift Alice in Wonderland Tillie and Gus

• W.C. Fields - Six Classic Shorts | DVD | (23/07/2007) from £6.89   |  Saving you £1.10 (15.97%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Born on 29th January 1880 W.C. Fields found his break in acting by pretending to drown at an amusement park to attract media attention and visitors. A skilful juggler and a master pool player Fields was known as a distinguished comedian by the age of 19. His memorable voice and even more memorable quotes are priceless. Here he stars in six classic short films: The Pool Shark The Golf Specialist The Dentist The Fatal Glass of Beer The Pharmacist The Barber Shop

• A Chorus Line | DVD | (20/05/2002) from £12.95   |  Saving you £3.03 (30.42%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An adaptation of one of the most successful and unusual musicals of all time. A group of Broadway hopefuls auditioning for a place in the chorus line of a new show relate the stories of their lives -- their disappointments their dreams and the professional rejections and successes. Among the dancers trying to make the grade is the director's former lover a woman who once made it big and now would be grateful just to dance in the chorus.

• Alice In Wonderland | DVD | (24/05/2010) from £7.79   |  Saving you £2.20 (28.24%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Alice In Wonderland (1933)

• Little Caesar | DVD | (19/06/2006) from £19.90   |  Saving you £-1.91 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Edward G. Robinson stars as Enrico Bandelli in the role that made him a household name. Bandelli moves to the big city with partner in crime Joe Massara (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) and becomes a member of Sam Vettori's Mafia gang. In spite of the urgings of pretty girl Olga Strassoff (Glenda Farell) to quit the mob Rico quickly becomes the head of the Vettori gang and with a couple of quick kills scares mob boss Arnie Lorch back to Detroit. Bandelli dubbed Little Caesar by the press is known as a boss in his own right but what goes up must come down...

• Kenny Rogers - The Gambler - The Adventure Continues | DVD | (24/02/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Brady Hawkes is back in this riproaring sequel to The Gambler. When Brady's son Jeremiah is kidnapped by a vicious gang, the gambler and his sidekick Billy Montana saddle up to rescue him. With the aid of the quickdrawing Kat Muldoon (Linda Evans - Dynasty), the stakes couldn't be higher. Will this pair of aces with a queen kicker come out on top?

• The Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett Story | DVD | (31/07/2006) from £8.93   |  Saving you £-2.94 (-49.10%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The sudden departure of Syd Barrett in 1968 marked the closure of the first prolific chapter in the Pink Floyd story. A maverick artist and a true individual Syd Barrett helped forge the British psychedlic scene when he formed Pink Floyd with Roger Waters Rick Wright and Nick Mason in 1965. This special programme charts the band's rise to fame under the influence of founder member Syd Barrett to his premature departure under a cloud of drug abuse and psychological problems. Richly illustrated with rare and early footage of the band performing alongside new interviews with members of the band and also associates fans and friends such as Jerry Shirley (Humble Pie) Graham Coxon (Blur) and original band member Bob Klose. Also features classic early Pink Floyd songs Shine on You Crazy Diamond Interstellar Overdrive Arnold Layne See Emily Play Bike and more!

• World War II - The British Movietone Newsreel Years | DVD | (21/09/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Hungry for news during World War II people flocked to cinemas to watch British Movietone News cover both the home front and overseas. For the first time many of these news reels have been remastered for this special Collector’s Edition - with some unseen since the war. Sometimes heroic sad or hilarious; this collection is a testament of British spirit and humour that will delight those who lived through it and also younger generations learning about this major event in British history.

• My Little Chickadee | DVD | (05/05/2008) from £8.99   |  Saving you £1.00 (11.12%)   |  RRP £9.99

  West portrays voluptuous Flowerbelle Lee, whose reputation is tarnished when she is seen embracing a masked bandit in her bedroom. Forced to leave town until she can prove she is respectable -and married - Flowerbelle boards a train where she meets incorrigible Guthbert J. Twillie (Fields). Believing he's quite a catch, Flowerbelle accepts Twillie's marriage proposal. The newlyweds stop in the town of Greasewood where Twillie's exaggerated tales of adventures earn him the honor of becoming the sheriff of the town and bartender at 'The Last Gasp' saloon. Mishaps magnify as West continues her flirtatious ways leading to one of the funniest scenes in the film - when the masked bandit visits again and he's not at all who Flowerbelle expects!

• The Doctor | DVD | (13/07/2004) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-5.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A heart surgeon gets to experience firsthand exactly the kind of treatment that his patients receive. Through it all Jack learns that compassion and caring are a physician's most important skills and he ultimately becomes an extraordinary doctor....

• Laurel And Hardy - Way Out West | DVD | (27/12/2000) from £7.79   |  Saving you £10.20 (130.94%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Way Out West, Laurel and Hardy's sole foray into cowboy country, benefits from their rousing rendition of "The Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia" (a song which made it into the British charts a few years ago) and some inspired villainy from James Finlayson, the Scottish actor who was frequently cast as Stan and Ollie's nemesis (here, he plays villainous bartender Mickey Finn). The plot is some hokum about Stan and Ollie's attempts to deliver deeds to a gold mine to the daughter of an old pal. What matters is the clowning--most of which is inspired. --Geoffrey Macnab

• Communion | DVD | (24/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  When Whitley Strieber's bestselling book Communion--quickly followed by this film adaptation--posited the notion of alien abduction, it did so to an eager audience who had yet to be bombarded with similar scenarios by The X-Files. Although somewhat eccentric in his general behaviour already, "Whit" (Christopher Walken) becomes ever stranger as he is gripped by increasing paranoia. One night at his family's country cabin he was unaccountably "visited". It's hard not to be as confused and frightened as he is when viewing the apparent corroborating evidence: recurring dreams, fleeting images, shadowy masked faces, vague comments from his young son and the occasional splitting headache. One of the strong points of Strieber's tale has always been the trepidation with which he approached it. The doctor's appointments and plucking up the courage to be hypnotised all offer a genuine reaction to inexplicable circumstance, and this is aided enormously by one of Walken's most mesmerising performances. He's well supported by Lindsay Crouse as his wife, Joel Carson as a thankfully believable yet cute son and an ambiguous musical theme from Eric Clapton. On the DVD: Given that a Region 1 Special Edition exists, this is a disappointing bare-bones DVD transfer. The picture is in full-screen 4:3 and the sound in Dolby 2.0 Stereo. The only extras are a few pages of filmography for director Philippe Mora, Christopher Walken, Lindsay Crouse and Frances Sternhagen. --Paul Tonks

• W.C. Fields Extravaganza | DVD | (05/09/2005) from £9.35   |  Saving you £0.64 (6.84%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The legendary W.C. Fields cultivated the persona of a misanthropic cynic and many found it hard to tell where the stage character ended and the real person began. The Great Man lives on in his movies and the appreciation of comedy fans everywhere. Here is a collection of films starring the immortal W.C. Fields featuring some of his best loved movies along with cinema rarities. A comedy cavalcade! Disc 1: Comedy Talkie Shorts: The Fatal Glass Of Beer The Golf Specialist The

• Hello Again | DVD | (12/04/2004) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-5.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Resurrected by her psychic sister after a year in the grave a woman finds plastic surgeon husband married to one of her gold-digging friends! Undeterred by this she is hellbent on getting back with her husband even if it does require a little wizardry...

• To Live For | DVD | (26/06/2006) from £6.54   |  Saving you £-0.55 (-9.20%)   |  RRP £5.99

  It's only when you're life is truely on edge that you appreciate how precious and important everyday every moment is. After finding she has a life-threatening illness Susan Allen decides to spend what time is left to the fullest with her young daughter Carson. Tortured between her own terrible plight and what will happen to Carson she then crosses paths with an irresistable stranger. Although reluctantto get too involved as any future together seems impossible she soon finds out

• The Last Line Of Defense | DVD | (24/01/2000) from £4.99   |  Saving you £1.00 (20.04%)   |  RRP £5.99

• Brother Can You Spare A Dime | DVD | (01/09/2008) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-5.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Brother Can You Spare A Dime? is the chronicle of an unforgettable period in American history - twelve painful years from the Wall Street crash to Pearl Harbour. By juxtaposing contemporary news and documentary footage with Hollywood film classics Philippe Mora Sandy Lieberson and David Puttnam create an evocative film scrapbook of America during the Depression. Songs and images stick in the mind: whilst Bessie Smith sings Nobody loves you when you're down and out a ragged child huddles against the bleak landscape. Fortunes dwindle the small man's savings disappear men lose their jobs and the banks go bust. Two American heroes emerge: James Cagney Hollywood's little man who won't be beaten and Franklin D. Roosevelt stepping into the breach as America's new President.