"Actor: Walter Brennan"

• Pittsburgh / Dakota (John Wayne) | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-3.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Pittsburgh (Dir. Lewis Seiler 1942): Charles 'Pittsburgh' Markham rides roughshod over his friends his lovers and his ideals in his trek toward financial success in the Pittsburgh steel industry only to find himself deserted and lonely at the top. When his crash comes he finds that fate has dealt him a second chance. Dakota (Dir. Joseph Kane 1945): John Devlin helps Dakota wheat farmers save their land from swindling entrepeneurs who hope to make a fortune selling it to the railroad for its right-of-way.

• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | DVD | (01/01/2008) from £13.96   |  Saving you £-7.97 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The 1938 version of Adventures of Tom Sawyer appears to be producer David O. Selznick's dry run for Gone with the Wind what with its similarities in period costumes color scheme and production design (both films shared the services of the great Hollywood art director William Cameron Menzies). Selected from hundreds of applicants (a precursor to Selznick's upcoming search for Wind's Scarlet O'Hara) Tommy Kelly is visually perfect as Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer though his acting varies from scene to scene. Better cast is Jackie Moran as the laconic pipe-smoking Huck Finn (Moran would show up in Wind as Dr. Meade's son). Never forcing its pace the film manages to include most of Twain's classic sequences including the fence-whitewashing episode Tom's rescue of Becky Thatcher (Anne Gillis) from the wrath of their schoolmaster (Olin Howlin) Tom and Huck's death and resurrection after the boys briefly skipped town for an idyll on a remote island the murder trial of town drunk Muff Potter (Walter Brennan) and ultimately unmasking of the vicious Injun Joe (Victor Jory) as the real killer and of course the chilling climax in the cave wherein Tom protects Becky from the fugitive Injun Joe. Originally released at 93 minutes Adventures of Tom Sawyer was trimmed to 77 minutes for a 1959 reissue; it has since been restored to its full length on videotape. In 1960 Tom Sawyer was syndicated to television by Selznick with accompanying commentary by the film's now-grown-up Becky Thatcher Anne Gillis.

• Drums Across the River | DVD | (21/01/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Gary Brannon (Audie Murphy) lives quietly with his father Sam (Walter Brennan), an honest homesteader, in the failing gold town of Crown City. While Sam works hard to maintain peace between the local populace and the neighboring Indian Ute tribe, Gary is consumed with hate for them ever since one of their number killed his mother. The Ute's mineral rich territory has become the region's only remaining exploitable resource, and local crook Frank Walker is determined to gain control of the la...

• 9 Movie Western Collection - Vol. 2 | Blu Ray | (26/11/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Deanna Durbin The Collection Box Set 3 (DVD) | DVD | (03/10/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £35.99

  From the late 1930s to the mid 1940s,Deanna Durbin was one of the most popular singing stars in the world. Her Hollywood musicals were a hit with the critics and the public alike and she was adored by countless millions of fans.The world reeled when, in 1948, Deanna suddenly announced that she was to retire from film-making at the age of just 27 and her name has since passed into Hollywood legend.Blessed with the voice of an angel, Deanna Durbin is now best remembered for her superb performances as a singer, but she was also an exceptionally gifted actress and comedienne.The five films included in this collection capture Deanna at the height of her career, singing many of her best-loved songs and leaving us with performances to cherish.Titles comprise:It Started With EveUp In Central ParkHers To HoldNice Girl?His Butler's Sister

• Swamp Water | DVD | (17/04/2006) from £11.49   |  Saving you £1.50 (13.05%)   |  RRP £12.99

  When hunter Ben (Andrews) happens upon a fugitive (Brennan) and his daughter (Baxter) living in a Georgia swamp he falls in love with the girl. However for them to be together he must first somehow pursuade the fugitive to return to town... A little seen wartime gem from French maestro Jean Renoir.

• Four Guns To The Border | DVD | (09/05/2016) from £4.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (160.32%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A smoulderingly laconic Rory Calhoun stars as Cully, charismatic leader of a gang of outlaws on the run after a bank robbery. Their dash for the border is brought to an abrupt halt by a chance meeting with an old compadre and his beautiful young daughter. Taking refuge from a storm in a barn, it's lust at first sight for Cully and the luscious Lolly Bhumer (Colleen Miller) but her trigger-happy father (Walter Brennan) soon puts a stop to that. Fate soon brings them back together when Cully and his men find the father and daughter being attacked by a band of renegade apaches.Heroically, Cully sacrifices his escape from the Sheriff's posse in order to rescue them. This is former actor Richard Carlson's second film and his first Western and perhaps that's why this adaptation of Louis L'Amour's novel is so exceptionally original for its genre. With a terrific supporting cast, including Walter Brennan, John McIntire and Charles Drake, this is a thoughtful and character-driven film. It's also sumptuously shot and thanks to the powerful sexual chemistry between Cully and Lolly, it exudes a steamy sensuality you wouldn't expect to find in a fifties Western!

• Meet John Doe | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £7.95   |  Saving you £-2.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  In protest at the corruption and hypocrisy he sees all around him an unemployed man calling himself ""John Doe"" has written to the New Bulletin newspaper pledging to throw himself from the top of City Hall on Christmas Eve. Written by a discharged journalist as a publicity stunt and as a parting shot at the paper's new editor the premise of the letter unexpectedly fires the imagination of the bulletin's readers and the wider American public. Its real author Ann Mitchell (Barbara Stanwyck) is rehired and now needs to find someone to play the part of the fictional ""John Doe""... Meet John Doe is often held to be part of a thematic trilogy that includes Mister Deeds Goes To Town and Mister Smith Goes To Washington. It explores a recurring notion in Capra's work that of the universal everyman exploited by a corrupt and powerful establishment. The film's reflections on corporate control of both the media and of ordinary people's lives is still as resonant as ever.

• Bogart And Bacall Signature Collection - The Big Sleep/To Have And Have Not/Key Largo/Dark Passage | DVD | (25/06/2007) from £25.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (15.39%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The Big Sleep:One of the most satisfying and sheerly entertaining movies ever to come out of Hollywood this marvellous 1946 classic adaptation of Raymond Chandler's hard-boiled novel is the perfect vehicle for the real-life team of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall whose sultry zingy dialogue adds spice to what has to be the most intricate and most exciting thriller plot ever filmed. In the hands of screen play writers William Faulkner Leigh Brackett and Jules Furthman and master director Howard Hawks who slings the lamps low and keeps violence crackling this movie zips along down Chandler's mean Los Angelino streets as Bogie's world-weary cynical private eye Philip Marlowe begins a search for a missing chauffeur that turns into a blackmail hunt with a pretty girl at each turn and a corpse on each corner. The sexual undercurrents are torrid the repartee remarkable the whole just simply terrific. To Have And Have Not:Help the Free French? Not world-weary gunrunner Harry Morgan (Humphrey Bogart). But he changes his mind when a sultry siren-in-distress named Marie asks ""Anybody got a match?"" That red-hot match is Bogart and 19-year-old first-time film actress Lauren Bacall. Full of intrigue and racy banter (including Bacall's legendary whistling instructions) this thriller excites further interest for what it has and has not. Cannily directed by Howard Hawks and smartly written by William Faulkner and Jules Furthman it doesn't have much similarity to the Ernest Hemingway novel that inspired it. And it strongly resembles Casablanca: French resistance fighters a piano-playing bluesman (Hoagy Carmichael) and a Martinique bar much like Rick's Cafe Americaine. But first and foremost it showcases Bogart and Bacall carrying on with a passion that smolders from the tips of their cigarettes clear through to their souls. Key Largo:A hurricane swells outside but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco (Edward G. Robinson) holes up and holds at gunpoint hotel owner Nora Temple (Lauren Bacall) and ex-GI Frank McCloud (Humphrey Bogart). McCloud's the one man capable of standing up against the belligerent Rocco. But the postwar world's realities may have taken all the fight out of him. John Huston co-wrote and compellingly directs this film of Maxwell Anderson's 1939 play with a searing Academy Award winning performance by Claire Trevor as Rocco's gold-hearted boozy moll. In Huston's hands it becomes a powerful sweltering classic. The Dark Passage:Bogey's on the lam and Bacall's at his side in Dark Passage Delmer Daves' stylish film-noir thriller that's the third of four films Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall made together. Bogart is Vincent Parry a prison escapee framed for murder who emerges from plastic surgery with a new face. Bacall is Irene Jansen Vincent's lone ally. In a supporting role Agnes Moorehead portrays Madge a venomous harpy who finds pleasure in the unhappiness of others. The chemistry of the leads is undeniable and they augment it here with exceptional tenderness. Exceptional too are the atmospheric San Francisco locations and the imaginative camera work that shows Vincent's point of view - but not his face - until the bandages are removed. Lest Irene get ideas the post-surgery Vincent tells her: ""Don't change yours. I like it just as it is.""

• The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer | DVD | (13/09/2002) from £12.23   |  Saving you £-6.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Mark Twain's Beloved Story. Live Action.

• The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle | DVD | (21/04/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The great Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers star in this fascinating biopic as the greatest ballroom dancing team of the first half of the 20th Century: Vernon and Irene Castle. This phenomenal dancing pair swept the world with their mastery of dancing and quickly became celebrities before World War I brought their fame to an end.

• Rio Bravo | Blu Ray | (25/02/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  On one side is an army of gunmen dead-set on springing a murderous cohort from jail. On the other is Sheriff John T. Chance (John Wayne) and two deputies: a recovering drunkard (Dean Martin) and a crippled codger (Walter Brennan). Also in their ragtag ranks are a trigger-happy youth (Ricky Nelson) and a woman with a past (Angie Dickinson) - and her eye on Chance. Director Howard Hawks lifted the Western to new heights with Red River. Capturing the legendary West with a stellar cast in peak form he does it again here.

• Bogart And Bacall Collection | DVD | (28/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Titles Comprise: The Big Sleep: One of the most satisfying and sheerly entertaining movies ever to come out of Hollywood this marvellous 1946 classic adaptation of Raymond Chandler's hard-boiled novel is the perfect vehicle for the real-life team of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall whose sultry zingy dialogue adds spice to what has to be the most intricate and most exciting thriller plot ever filmed. In the hands of screen play writers William Faulkner Leigh Brackett and Jules Furthman and master director Howard Hawks who slings the lamps low and keeps violence crackling this movie zips along down Chandler's mean Los Angelino streets as Bogie's world-weary cynical private eye Philip Marlowe begins a search for a missing chauffeur that turns into a blackmail hunt with a pretty girl at each turn and a corpse on each corner. The sexual undercurrents are torrid the repartee remarkable the whole just simply terrific. To Have And Have Not: Help the Free French? Not world-weary gunrunner Harry Morgan (Humphrey Bogart). But he changes his mind when a sultry siren-in-distress named Marie asks Anybody got a match? That red-hot match is Bogart and 19-year-old first-time film actress Lauren Bacall. Full of intrigue and racy banter (including Bacall's legendary whistling instructions) this thriller excites further interest for what it has and has not. Cannily directed by Howard Hawks and smartly written by William Faulkner and Jules Furthman it doesn't have much similarity to the Ernest Hemingway novel that inspired it. And it strongly resembles Casablanca: French resistance fighters a piano-playing bluesman (Hoagy Carmichael) and a Martinique bar much like Rick's Cafe Americaine. But first and foremost it showcases Bogart and Bacall carrying on with a passion that smolders from the tips of their cigarettes clear through to their souls. Key Largo: A hurricane swells outside but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco (Edward G. Robinson) holes up and holds at gunpoint hotel owner Nora Temple (Lauren Bacall) and ex-GI Frank McCloud (Humphrey Bogart). McCloud's the one man capable of standing up against the belligerent Rocco. But the postwar world's realities may have taken all the fight out of him. John Huston co-wrote and compellingly directs this film of Maxwell Anderson's 1939 play with a searing Academy Award winning performance by Claire Trevor as Rocco's gold-hearted boozy moll. In Huston's hands it becomes a powerful sweltering classic. The Dark Passage: Bogey's on the lam and Bacall's at his side in Dark Passage Delmer Daves' stylish film-noir thriller that's the third of four films Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall made together. Bogart is Vincent Parry a prison escapee framed for murder who emerges from plastic surgery with a new face. Bacall is Irene Jansen Vincent's lone ally. In a supporting role Agnes Moorehead portrays Madge a venomous harpy who finds pleasure in the unhappiness of others. The chemistry of the leads is undeniable and they augment it here with exceptional tenderness. Exceptional too are the atmospheric San Francisco locations and the imaginative camera work that shows Vincent's point of view - but not his face - until the bandages are removed. Lest Irene get ideas the post-surgery Vincent tells her: Don't change yours. I like it just as it is.

• Blood on the Moon | DVD | (13/06/2011) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Robert Mitchum stars in this atmospheric cowboy classic. Jim Gray (Mitchum) has been summoned by his old friend Tate Rilling (Robert Preston) who needs another set of guns to help in a dispute with his neighbour John Lufton (Tom Tully). But Tate's got more on his mind than a simple feud: his scheme is to drive Lufton off his land and he doesn't care how he does it. Jim reluctantly supports Tate at first but disgusted by his greed switches sides. Joining Lufton - and his feisty daughter Amy (Barbara Bel Geddes) - Jim finds himself squaring off to his old friend.

• Meet John Doe | DVD | (19/05/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  In protest at the corruption and hypocrisy he sees all around him an unemployed man calling himself John Doe has written to the New Bulletin newspaper pledging to throw himself from the top of City Hall on Christmas Eve. Written by a discharged journalist as a publicity stunt and as a parting shot at the paper's new editor the premise of the letter unexpectedly fires the imagination of the bulletin's readers and the wider American public. Its real author Ann Mitchell (Barbara Stanwyck) is rehired and now needs to find someone to play the part of the fictional John Doe... Meet John Doe is often held to be part of a thematic trilogy that includes Mister Deeds Goes To Town and Mister Smith Goes To Washington. It explores a recurring notion in Capra's work that of the universal everyman exploited by a corrupt and powerful establishment. The film's reflections on corporate control of both the media and of ordinary people's lives is still as resonant as ever.

• Nice Girl? | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A young girl finds herself attracted to one of her father's business partners.

• My Darling Clementine | DVD | (27/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  After Wyatt Earp's (Henry Fonda) brother James is murdered by cattle rustlers the frontier legend becomes Tombstone's marshal and sets out to avenge the younger man's death. Torn between his badge and his fury Earp confronts the likely killers the notorious lawless family of Old Man Clanton (Walter Brennan) setting the for the famed shootout at the O.K. Corral. Along the way Earp falls in love with a schoolteacher named Clementine (Cathy Downs) which also pits him against the can

• Hangmen Also Die | DVD | (23/09/2013) from £19.94   |  Saving you £-4.95 (-33.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Triple Oscar winner Walter Brennan stars alongside Brian Donlevy and Anna Lee in Fritz Lang's masterful 1943 epic of suspense. Prague 1942. Czechoslovakia is occupied by the Nazis and suffering under a brutal regime controlled by SS Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich - the vicious sadist the Czech's call 'The Hangman'. When Heydrich is gunned down by a Czech patriot the fleeing resistance fighter (Brian Donlevy) finds temporary refuge in the apartment of Nasha Novotny (Anna Lee) and her family before escaping. In retaliation the Nazis take hundreds of hostages - including Nasha's father (Walter Brennan) - and threaten to shoot them if Heydrich's assassin is not handed over. Nasha Novotny is left with the most terrible decision of her life. Should she save her father - by betraying Heydrich's killer to the Gestapo? Nominated for two Oscars and co-written by the legendary playwright Bertholt Brecht Hangmen Also Die is a gripping war story given a stunning Film Noir edge. Digitally restored and remastered it is now available to own on DVD for the very first time.

• Complete John Wayne Collection | DVD | (05/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £149.99

  Set Comprises: Angel And The Badman (1947) Back To Bataan (1945) Dakota (1945) Dark Command (1940) Flame Of The Barbary Coast (1945) Flying Tigers (1942) Fort Apache (1948) In Old California (1942) Lady From Louisiana (1941) Rio Grande (1950) Sands Of Iwo Jima (1949) She Wore A Yellow Ribbon (1949) Tall In The Saddle (1944) The Fighting Kentuckian (1949) The Fighting Seabees (1944) The First Rebel (aka Allegheny Uprising) (1939) Flying Leathernecks (1951) The Quiet Man (1952) Three Faces West (1940) Tycoon (1947) Wake Of The Red Witch (1948) War Of The Wildcats (aka In Old Oklahoma) (1943) Stagecoach (1939) The Hellfighters (1968) Pittsburgh (1941) Reap The Wild Wind (1942) Rooster Cogburn (1975) Seven Sinners (1940) The Spoilers (1942) The War Wagon (1967) Jet Pilot (1957) The Conqueror (1956) Lady For A Night (1942) Shepherd Of The Hills (1941)

• Meet John Doe | DVD | (15/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In protest at the corruption and hypocrisy he sees all around him an unemployed man calling himself ""John Doe"" has written to the New Bulletin newspaper pledging to throw himself from the top of City Hall on Christmas Eve. Written by a discharged journalist as a publicity stunt and as a parting shot at the paper's new editor the premise of the letter unexpectedly fires the imagination of the bulletin's readers and the wider American public. Its real author Ann Mitchell (Barbara S