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• Sense And Sensibility | DVD | (09/09/2002) from £5.00   |  Saving you £7.99 (159.80%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Emma Thompson scores a double bull's-eye with Sense and Sensibility, a marvellous adaptation of Jane Austen's novel. Not only does Thompson turn in a strong (and gently humorous) performance as Elinor Dashwood--the one with "sense"--she also wrote the witty, wise screenplay. Austen's tale of 19th-century manners and morals provides a large cast with a feast of possibilities, notably Kate Winslet, in her pre-Titanic flowering, as Thompson's deeply romantic sister, Marianne (the one with "sensibility"). Winslet attracts the wooing of shy Alan Rickman (a nice change of pace from his bad-guy roles) and dashing Greg Wise, while Thompson must endure an incredibly roundabout courtship with Hugh Grant, here in fine and funny form. All of this is doled out with the usual eye-filling English countryside and handsome costumes, yet the film always seems to be about the careful interior lives of its characters. The director, an inspired choice, is Taiwan-born Ang Lee, here making his first English-language film. He brings the same exquisite taste and discreet touch he displayed in his previous Asian films (such as Eat Drink Man Woman). Thompson's script won an Oscar. --Robert Horton

• Sense And Sensibility | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £7.05   |  Saving you £12.94 (183.55%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Emma Thompson scores a double bull's-eye with this marvellous adaptation of Jane Austen's novel . Not only does Thompson turn in a strong (and gently humorous) performance as Elinor Dashwood--the one with "sense"--she also wrote the witty, wise screenplay. Austen's tale of 19th-century manners and morals provides a large cast with a feast of possibilities, notably Kate Winslet, in her pre-Titanic flowering, as Thompson's deeply romantic sister, Marianne (the one with "sensibility"). Winslet attracts the wooing of shy Alan Rickman (a nice change of pace from his bad-guy roles) and dashing Greg Wise, while Thompson must endure an incredibly roundabout courtship with Hugh Grant, here in fine and funny form. All of this is doled out with the usual eye-filling English countryside and handsome costumes, yet the film always seems to be about the careful interior lives of its characters. The director, an inspired choice, is Taiwan-born Ang Lee, who brings the same exquisite taste and discreet touch he displayed in his previous Asian films (such as Eat Drink Man Woman). Thompson's script won an Oscar. --Robert Horton, Amazon.com

• The Bette Davis Collection (Now Voyager / The Letter / Dark Victory / Mr Skeffington) | DVD | (22/08/2005) from £25.49   |  Saving you £9.50 (37.27%)   |  RRP £34.99

  The Letter (Dir. William Wyler 1940): While her husband inspects his rubber planatation Leslie Crosbie murders Geoffrey Hammond. His widow has a letter written by Leslie asking him to meet her as her lover the night of the murder. Leslie can buy the letter but must come for it herself. Learning that he is broke from paying for the letter Leslie's husband next learns its contents. He forgives her. Leslie walks into the garden where the widow appears with a dagger. Now V

• Holiday Inn (Colourised Version) | DVD | (22/11/2010) from £3.05   |  Saving you £3.39 (189.39%)   |  RRP £5.18

  With music by Irving Berlin songs by Bing Crosby and dancing by Fred Astaire Holiday Inn is one of the most delightful and memorable musicals of all time nominated for 3 Academy Awards. Crosby plays Jim Hardy a song and dance man who leaves showbiz to open a Connecticut Inn. Astaire plays Ted Hanover Hardy's former partner and rival in love. And of course there are girls (Marjorie Reynolds and Virginia Dale) an agent (Walter Abel) and plenty of lavish song and dance routines with spectacular production numbers. It contains all your favourite Irving Berlin hit songs including the one and only White Christmas.

• 13 Rue Madeleine | DVD | (24/09/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A group of Allied agents prepare to infiltrate German intelligence in Paris to find the whereabouts of a secret rocket site during World War 2. Their task is made even more hazardous by the fact that one of them is a double agent...

• Island In The Sky | DVD | (14/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The frozen unforgiving terrain of subarctic Canada is the setting as screen giant John Wayne heads an all-star cast in this meticulously restored adventure drama. Set after World War II Wayne play Dooley a former army pilot flying transport missions who is forced to crash-land his fuel-starved plane on a frozen lake after is strays from its course. A desperate game of survival begins as Dooley and his men confront a meager food supply limited shelter inadequate clothing a primitive emergency radio transmitter and an impending arctic storm. Meanwhile Dooley's fellow pilots and their crews launch a seemingly overwhelming air search of the bleak uncharted landscape - grimly realizing that the rescue of the missing men diminishes with each tick of the clock. Lloyd Nolan Walter Abel James Arness Andy Devine and Harry Carey Jr. also star in this engrossing tale of bravery hope and survival of the human spirit.

• Bing Crosby - Screen Legends - A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court / Going My Way / Holiday Inn / Pennies From Heav | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £14.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (66.71%)   |  RRP £24.99

  This box set features a quartet of 'Der Bingle's' best-loved movies! A Road To Zanzibar (Dir. Victor Schertzinger 1941): Chuck and his pal Fearless flee a South African carnival when their sideshow causes a fire. After several similar escapades they've finally saved enough to return to the USA when Chuck spends it all on a ""lost"" diamond mine. But that's only the beginning; before long a pair of attractive con-women have tricked our heroes into financing a comic safari featur

• Christmas Classics Collection | DVD | (23/10/2017) from £13.78   |  Saving you £7.20 (66.73%)   |  RRP £17.99

  It's a Wonderful LifeVoted the # 1 Most Inspiring Film Of All Time by AFI's 100 Years... 100 Cheers, It's A Wonderful Life has had just that. With the endearing message that no one is a failure who has friends, Frank Capra's heartwarming masterpiece continues to endure, and after 70 years this beloved classic still remains as powerful and moving as the day it was made. White ChristmasTwo 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. One winter, they join forces with a sister act (Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen) and trek to Vermont for a white Christmas. Of course, there's the requisite fun with the ladies, but the real adventure starts when Crosby & Kaye discover that the inn is run by their old army general who's now in financial trouble. And the result is the stuff dreams are made of. Holiday InnWith music by Irving Berlin, songs by Bing Crosby and dancing by Fred Astaire, Holiday Inn is one of the most delightful and memorable musicals of all time, nominated* for 3 Academy Awards®. Crosby plays Jim Hardy, a song and dance man who leaves showbiz to open a Connecticut Inn. Astaire plays Ted Hanover, Hardy's former partner and rival in love. And, of course there are girls (Marjorie Reynolds and Virginia Dale), an agent (Walter Abel) and plenty of lavish song and dance routines with spectacular production numbers. Scrooge. The spirit of Christmas becomes a musical celebration of life in this rousing adaptation of Charles Dickens' beloved family classic, A Christmas Carol. Mean-spirited and stingy, Ebenezer Scrooge (Albert Finney) has a sour face and humbug for anyone who crosses his path. But on this Christmas Eve, he will learn the terrible fate that awaits him if he continues his miserly ways. One by one, the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future take the startled Ebenezer on an incredible journey through time - showing him in one magical night what takes most people a lifetime to learn. Filled with joyous songs, this delightful tale is sure to enrich the lives of young and old alike for many more generations.

• Holiday Inn | DVD | (20/02/2006) from £5.38   |  Saving you £7.61 (141.45%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Holiday Inn is the perennial Christmas-season favourite from 1942 that teams Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire as entertainers (and rival suitors of Marjorie Reynolds) running an inn that is only open on holidays. It's a great excuse for lots of singing and dancing, seamlessly wrapped in a catchy story, and Astaire's frequent director Mark Sandrich (Top Hat, Shall We Dance) doesn't let us down. The Irving Berlin numbers (each one connected to a different holiday) are winners, with Crosby's warm performance of "White Christmas" a movie touchstone. --Tom Keogh

• The Indian Fighter | DVD | (14/03/2005) from £6.98   |  Saving you £6.01 (86.10%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Showing why he will forever rank among Hollywood's most virile leading men Kirk Douglas gallops fights and woos his way across the danger-filled prairie in this Western from director Andre DeToth. Douglas plays a frontier scout responsible for a wagon train of settlers headed for Oregon Territory. Though known as an Indian fighter he falls head over moccasins for a proud young Sioux girl. Thus sidetracked he's unaware of the bad blood caused by two gold hungry crooks who trade wh

• 13 Rue Madeleine | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A group of Allied agents prepare to infiltrate German intelligence in Paris to find the whereabouts of a secret rocket site during World War 2. Their task is made even more hazardous by the fact that one of them is a double agent...

• Time To Leave | DVD | (25/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  One of Francois Ozon's most intimate and lyrical work 'Time to Leave' features a moving performance from Melvil Poupaud as a 30 year-old man facing up to the reality of his own mortality. With his perfect life thrown into chaos by the shock diagnosis of a serious illness fashion photographer Romain finds himself unable to share the news with his boyfriend or family confiding instead only in his grandmother (affectingly played by screen legend Jeanne Moreau). But anger and denial give way to an acceptance of sorts when a chance encounter with a waitress (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi) offers Romain a glimmer of hope and the unexpected chance to leave something of himself behind.

• John Wayne: Complete Paramount Collection | DVD | (06/01/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Box set containing fourteen John Wayne films: True Grit (1969), El Dorado (1966), The Sons of Katie Elder (1965), In Harm's Way (1965), The Shootist (1976), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), Rio Lobo (1970), Big Jake (1971), Donovan's Reef (1963), Hatari! (1961), McLintock! (1963), Island in the Sky (1953), Hondo (1953) and The High and the Mighty (1954).

• John Wayne - Complete Paramount Collection | DVD | (12/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  This boxset features the following films: Hondo: Wayne plays Hondo Lane a cavalry rider who becomes the designated protector of the strong-willed Angie Lowe (Geraldine Page) as well as a father figure to her boy Johnny (Lee Aaker). Angie determinedly awaiting the return of her brutish husband (Leo Gordon) refuses to leave their homestead despite the growing danger from nearby warring Native American tribes. And she finds herself growing more and more enthralled with this stranger Hondo - a man hardened by experience but still capable of sympathy kindness and love. McLintock: George McLintock has to try and convince his wife that he has been faithful after a two year seperation with their fights the talk of the town. Matters are not helped by the extremely attractive cook Mrs Louise Warren he has hired at the ranch house... True Grit: A drunken hard-nosed U.S. Marshal and a Texas Ranger help a stubborn young woman track down her father's murderer in Indian territory. Rio Lobo: After the Civil War Cord McNally searches for the traitor whose perfidy caused the defeat of McNally's unit and the loss of a close friend. El Dorado: Robert Mitchum plays to perfection an alchoholic but gutsy sheriff who relentlessly battles the dark side of the wild West ruthless cattle barons and crooked businessmen. The Duke gives an equally adept performance as the sheriff's old friend who knows his way around a gunfight. Filled with brawling action and humor El Dorado delivers the goods. James Caan and Ed Asner co-star. Big Jake: John Wayne is Jacob McCandles an ageing cowboy in an Old West that is on the verge of modernization. When his eight-year-old grandson is kidnapped by a violent gang led by the evil John Fain (Richard Boone) Jacob's estranged wife (Maureen O'Hara) enlists his help to rescue the boy. Jacob and his three sons (one of whom is portrayed by Wayne's real-life son Patrick) set out to bring the gang to justice. The Shootist: A dying gunfighter spends his last days looking for a way to die with a minimum of pain and a maximum of dignity. The Sons of Katie Elder: Ranch owner Katie Elder's four sons determine to avenge the murder of their father and the swindling of their mother. Features John Wayne Dean Martin Earl Holliman and Michael Anderson. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: 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. Hatari! A group of men trap wild animals in Africa and sell them to zoos. Will the arrival of a female wildlife photographer change their ways? In Harm's Way: A naval officer reprimanded after Pearl Harbor is later promoted to rear admiral and gets a second chance to prove himself against the Japanese. The High and the Mighty: Wayne plays Dan Roman a veteran pilot haunted by a tragic past. Now relegated to second-in-command cockpit assignments he finds himself scheduled on a routine Honolulu-to-San Francisco flight - one that takes a terrifying suspense-building turn when disaster strikes high above the Pacific Ocean at the point of no return. Island in the Sky: Set after World War II Wayne play Dooley a former army pilot flying transport missions who is forced to crash-land his fuel-starved plane on a frozen lake after is strays from its course. Donovan's Reef: Life on a South Pacific island for two ex-Navy buddies is just about perfect. That is until a beautiful straight-laced Bostonian arrives on the island in search of her father...

• Untouchables: Complete Season 3 | DVD | (20/09/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Untouchables: Season 3

• 13 Rue Madeleine | DVD | (09/05/2005) from £6.73   |  Saving you £6.26 (48.20%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A group of Allied agents prepare to infiltrate German intelligence in Paris to find the whereabouts of a secret rocket site during World War 2. Their task is made even more hazardous by the fact that one of them is a double agent...

• Calamity Jane | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £10.93   |  Saving you £8.05 (101.39%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The TV movie remake of the classic 1953 Oscar winning western this tells the story of the famous cowgirl who could outshoot and top any man at everything in the west along with her up-and down romance with Wild Bill Hickok...

• The Affairs of Susan | DVD | (21/03/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Oscar-winning screen idol Joan Fontaine (Suspicion, Rebecca) stars as Susan Darrell, a stunning but naïve actress from New York who is about to get married. Though she only met her fiancé Richard (Walter Abel) a few weeks previously, the lovebirds are set on tying the knot and throw a party to celebrate. Mingling amongst their guests, Richard finds three former because of Susan's and starts probing them on how they met. All the men clearly still carry a torch for Susan, but each of them knows a very different woman not so naïve after all. Broadway big-shot Roger (George Brent), Millionaire Mike (Don DeFore) and novelist Bill (Dennis O'Keefe) each give Richard a conflicting portrait of his fiancée. With their wedding rapidly approaching, Richard is left wondering exactly what kind of woman he will be facing at the altar William A. Seiter (Laurel and Hardy Sons of the Desert) directs an all-star cast in this sharp, witty comedy-drama as chaotic and enchanting as Susan herself. Also stars Byron Barr.

• Holiday Inn | DVD | (01/12/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Holiday Inn is the perennial Christmas-season favourite from 1942 that teams Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire as entertainers (and rival suitors of Marjorie Reynolds) running an inn that is only open on holidays. It's a great excuse for lots of singing and dancing, seamlessly wrapped in a catchy story, and Astaire's frequent director Mark Sandrich (Top Hat, Shall We Dance) doesn't let us down. The Irving Berlin numbers (each one connected to a different holiday) are winners, with Crosby's warm performance of "White Christmas" a movie touchstone. --Tom Keogh

• Dummy | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Adrien Brody is Steven a wannabe ventriloquist who lives with his eccentric parents and his sister Heidi in the suburbs. They love him but don't understand him or his passion for the unusual dream of being a ventriloquist. But in a world surrounded by misfits and eccentrics his dream makes sense. His best friend Fangora is a punk rocker with a lot of attitude and a lot of bad advice. His sister Heidi is a wildly emotional wedding planner obsessed with Michael her ex-fiance who is currently stalking her. A sequence of hilarious events lead up to a wedding day in which everyone takes part including Fangora and her band Steven and his Dummy as entertainment and Heidi as the wedding planner. Michael shows up in a violent last ditch effort to get Heidi back. Steven in a surprising show of strength comes to her rescue gaining the respect of his family and friends and the love of Lorena the girl he longs for...