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• Abbott And Costello - Jack And The Beanstalk | DVD | (21/01/2002) from £10.23   |  Saving you £5.75 (79.42%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Bud and Lou take on a babysitting job and find themselves involved in the Jack And The Beanstalk fairy tale.

• 3 Classic Comedies Of The Silver Screen - Vol. 2 - Jack And The Beanstalk / Utopia / Spooks Run Wild | DVD | (07/02/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Jack And The Beanstalk: The legendary comedic duo Abbott and Costello provide fairy tale fun for kids (of ALL ages!). The wacky pair pretty much stick to the outline of the original childrens fairytale but add their own signature comic flourishes and slapstick details. Utopia: Stan and Ollie inherit a yacht along with a small island. They set sail accompanied by a stateless refugee and a stowaway. A violent storm causes our heroes to crash on their island. Together

• Abbott And Costello - Jack And Beanstalk | DVD | (23/07/2007) from £6.09   |  Saving you £1.90 (31.20%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Abbott & Costello were one of the greatest comedy teamsin the history of show business. They mastered the straightman/clown relationship creating a magical chemistrythat would take them from the burlesque stage to radio to broadway to film ... and finally to television.After falling asleep whilst babysitting Costello dreams himself into the magical fairy tale 'Jack And The Beanstalk'.Begins in sepiatone then changes to colour.

• Abbott & Costello - Collectors Box Set (Routines 1&2, Africa, Jack) | DVD | (07/09/2009) from £15.14   |  Saving you £14.85 (98.08%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Titles Comprise: 1. Funniest Routines - Vol. 1 2. Funniest Routines - Vol. 2 3. Africa Screams 4. Jack And The Beanstalk

• Sonny and Cher - the Christmas Collection | DVD | (15/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  This DVD includes 2 Christmas Specials from the Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour which aired in 1972 and 1973 and a third from the Sonny & Cher Show in 1976 digitally remastered from the original CBS master tapes. Highlights from the Sonny & Cher's three Christmas variety shows make this a unique treat for fans. Guests include William Conrad Bernadette Peters Captain Kangaroo and Chastity Bono. Songs featured comprise: 1. Jingle Bells - Sonny & Cher 2. A Gift Of Song and O Holy Night - Cher 3. The Twelfth of Never - Sonny 4. Caroling medley - Cast Extras include two animated Christmas videos of Sonny & Cher covering ""Black & White"" by Three Dog Night and Stevie Wonder's ""Higher Ground."" A must-have for Sonny & Cher fans everywhere! 'The Sonny And Cher Comedy Hour' was the show that took America by storm and became a focal point for 70's pop culture. The programme exploded on the scene as a five-week summer replacement series for the Ed Sullivan Show in August 1971. Excitement was so high the show was brought back in December. America fell in love with the battling Bonos as they sang and joked their way through the brightest musical comedy program ever produced!

• Dateline Diamonds | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  A swinging sixties musical adventure featuring appearances from the Small Faces and David Hemmings. Lester Benson the manager of a top rock band; The Small Faces is hiding a secret. His true name is Arthur Gittins and he is and ex-con. This explosive secret could ruin his career and destroy the band. Enter a diamond thief who knows lester's true identity. Desperate to ship his hoard of stolen stones out to Amsterdam he blackmails The Small Faces' manager into smuggling the contraband onto an offshore pirate radio ship where it will be collected by Kiki Dee's crooked agent! It looks like the perfect crime but unfortunately the daughter of the police chief heading the case is a big Small Faces fan. Featuring four top tracks from The Small Faces two great performances by the Chantelles and a sizzling number from Kiki Dee 'Dateline Diamonds' is a true rock 'n' roll gem!

• Abbott And Costello - Laugh-A-Thon | DVD | (21/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Abbott & Costello Classic Comedies three-disc collector's set consists of oddments from the latter days of their career that have fallen into public domain; which means you don't get their best routines or classiest productions, and indeed find the double act doing fairly tired schtick as Costello is chubbily chicken-hearted and Abbott grumpily money-grubbing. Africa Screams is a 1949 safari parody, with Costello running away yelping from sundry alligators, gorillas (including a Kong-sized giant), cannibals ("Chief have sweet tooth for little fat man") and lions amid backlot jungles as Abbott competes with stock villains for a fortune in diamonds. Jack and the Beanstalk, from 1952, finds the duo attempting to sell themselves as children's entertainers in a Wizard of Oz-influenced fairytale book-ended by sepia modern-day segments. The magical story unfolds in wonderfully gruesome cheap colour with some of the worst musical numbers ever committed to film ("he's perpendicular-la-la") as Jack the Clod (Costello) and Mr Dinkelpuss the Butcher (Abbott) climb the beanstalk and plod around the Giant's lair until the story runs out. Possibly the most interesting item is the third disc, which offers an episode of the Colgate Comedy Hour (aka The Abbott and Costello Show) from the 1950s. It shows the pair doing live routines closer to their original vaudeville act than their film roles (including an amazingly cruel bit in which Abbott slaps Costello every time he says the word "tin"). A loose plot about Latin American intrigue, with Lou hired to stand in for an assassination target "El Presidente", makes room for speciality guest stars ranging from child xylophonist Baby Mistin to four starlets (including Jane Russell and Rhonda Fleming) harmonising on a "Happy Easter" medley. Best of all, and now funnier than the comedy, are original hard-sell ads for household products like "Ajax, the foaming action cleanser" and "Halo, the shampoo that glorifies your hair". --Kim Newman

• Jack and the Beanstalk | DVD | (10/08/2009) from £10.78   |  Saving you £-2.79 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Abbott & Costello star in this version of Jack and the Beanstalk. After a modern prologue in monochrome Bud and Lou adapt their usual sharpie-and-patsy roles to colorful fairytale settings and Buddy Baer is an excellent foil as the fearsome giant. (Listen for cartoon-voice Mel Blanc playing several roles in the I Fear Nothing song.) Makes a fabulous children's matinee.

• Vengeance - the Story of Tony Cimo | DVD | (16/01/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In this suspenseful drama, a bereaved bricklayer vows to avenge the brutal murder of his parents. The killer is brought in, but is not given the death penalty. The young man then decides to take matters into his own hands. He oversteps the law and eventually begins to question his actions.

• The Conqueror | DVD | (04/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Genghis Khan! The world trembled at his name! John Wayne stars as the Mongolian chieftain Temujin better known as Genghis Khan. The Mongol warlord must do battle against the rival tribe that killed his father however the battle pales in comparison with Temujin's home life. He must attempt to woo the heart of the red-haired Tartar prisoner Borlai (Susan Hayward) whom he captured in a raid...

• Waxworks | DVD | (05/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A