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• Santa Fe Trail | DVD | (25/03/2002) from £10.23   |  Saving you £-6.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  History and Hollywood have always made strange bedfellows. And there's no better example of that than Santa Fe Trail (1940) from director Michael Curtiz. Historical accuracy is never allowed to interfere with setting up a great action sequence. Errol Flynn is Jeb Stuart. Ronald Reagan is George Armstrong Custer (a part Flynn would play in 'They Died With Their Boots On'). Raymond Massey makes a flamboyant John Brown. And rounding out the cast are Oliveia de Haviland Alan Hale Van

• Cribb - Vol. 1 - Swing, Swing Together | DVD | (14/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Alan Dobie stars as Detective Sergeant Cribb a member of Scotland Yard's newly formed CID unit in Victorian London. Known for his wry sense of humour Cribb is aided and at times hindered by the ever-faithful Constable Thackeray... Featuring Episodes Swing Swing Together Abracadaver The Detective Wore Silk Drawers The Horizontal Witness Wobble To Death

• The Lost City | DVD | (19/09/2011) from £9.70   |  Saving you £-3.71 (-61.90%)   |  RRP £5.99

  An evil scientist has invented a machine that can cause earthquakes, which he is unleashing as part of his plan for world domination. Electrical engineer Bruce Gordon is sent to Africa, the likely source of the disturbances, to investigate the phenomenon.

• Vigo - Passion For Life | DVD | (19/04/2010) from £9.98   |  Saving you £8.00 (100.12%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Julien Temple directs this modern and personal take on an extraordinary story. Vigo is a tragic but inspiring film about the passionate relationship between French film-maker Jean Vigo and his beautiful wife Lydu. The film is interspersed with extracts of Vigo's work.

• The Unwanted | DVD | (30/01/2017) from £6.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Horror drama adaptation from Bret Wood starring Hannah Fierman, Christen Orr and William Katt. A wandering young woman named Carmilla (Orr) makes her way to a quiet little town on a journey to discover the truth about her mother, of whom she has no memory. In the town she meets a sensitive woman called Laura (Fierman) and they start a physical relationship. But in confiding in her new lover about her lost mother, she invites the scorn of Laura's brooding father, Troy (Katt).

• 3 Classic Musicals Of The Silver Screen - Vol. 3 | DVD | (08/05/2006) from £14.99   |  Saving you £-10.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Something To Sing About: Cagney is at his best as a Manhattan bandleader who journeys to Hollywood when he is offered a contract with a studio but he is determined to do things his way and not theirs. A classic 1930's musical about Hollywood studio life that won an Oscar for best score. Basin Street Revue: Musical variety filmed at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem New York City. This is a collection of exciting R&B performances from the early-mid 1950's including Cab Ca

• 21 Hours At Munich | DVD | (23/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Based on the true story of terrorism striking at the 1972 Olympics in Germany this film does not spare viewers the violence and intensity of the real event. A Munich police chief learns that during the games a group of Palestinian extremists have kidnapped members of the Israeli team. With the help of a brave policewoman the cops negotiate with the terrorists in an attempt to buy time until the authorities can devise a rescue plan. As time ticks away the skirmishes escalate into gu

• Wu Tang Vs Ninja | DVD | (19/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Fast and furious martial arts action in which the evil Abbot White teams up with Japanese ninjas to destroy the Shaolin Temple!

• Audrey Hepburn | DVD | (05/11/2001) from £13.95   |  Saving you £6.04 (43.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  For almost 20 years Audrey Hepburn's pixie-like features lit up Hollywood's silver screens with hit after hit and she became not only a screen icon, but also a style icon (with a little help from Givenchy), and still features high in polls of the world's most beautiful women. It's perhaps no surprise, then, that Paramount have chosen to honour her with a box set of some of her best-known films. However, this is only "some of", with the absence of her dazzling performances in Roman Holiday and My Fair Lady, leaving three out of the four films included here lacking in comparison. Breakfast at Tiffany's is the strongest and certainly the best-loved Hepburn film in this collection, offering beautifully comic performances by both Hepburn and her leading man, George Peppard. Funny Face also makes a welcome entry, if only for the wonderful performance by Fred Astaire; Hepburn, though, was not a strong enough dancer to hold her own against Astaire's brilliance. Sabrina holds its own as the Cinderella story of a chauffeur's daughter who turns into a beautiful society girl, but it was clearly a quick and easy vehicle for Paramount to produce in the wake of Hepburn's success in Roman Holiday. The mysterious entry of the collection is Paris When It Sizzles, probably one of Hepburn's least-known and most quirky films, with two parallel love stories played out on the screen. Although not an obvious hit and hard work in places it offers an interesting screwball performance by Hepburn, even if the sparks did not fly with her screen partner William Holden. On the DVD: The Audrey Hepburn Collection offers a nice clean widescreen transfer for three of its movies, but Sabrina is a full-frame transfer that lacks something in comparison. All but Breakfast at Tiffany's (which has a 5.1 Dolby Digital soundtrack) are mono sound transfers, which is only a real disappointment in Funny Face because of George and Ira Gershwin's score. The special features are also lacking, with only a trailer offered on two of the films and a mildly interesting documentary on Sabrina. The best is the featurette on Funny Face, which charts the success of Paramount in the 1950s, but offers nothing a film fan would not have known already. All in all this is an attractive box set, but perhaps one for the die-hard Hepburn fan only. --Nikki Disney

• The Shadow Box | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  At a hospice facility nestled in the mountains of Southern California three very different families face the one thing they have in common: One member of each family is in the last stages of a terminal illness.

• Look Both Ways | DVD | (22/01/2007) from £7.94   |  Saving you £15.04 (303.84%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An innovative mix of animation and live action, the film deals with the intersecting lives of three people.

• Star Trek - Space Enterprise - Complete Box Set | DVD | (24/11/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Great Moment | DVD | (05/05/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The story of Dr. W.T Morgan the 19th century dentist who discovered anesthesia.

• Scream Bloody Murder | DVD | (26/06/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Planning a summer filled with fun and romance at the remote Placid Pines Camp nothing can prepare a group of young students for the terror-filled encounters ahead of them. Following in the camp tradition the first night is spent playing a spooky game called 'Bloody Murder'. Thrills by the camp fire soon turn into the students worse nightmare as they begin to disappear one by one...

• Formula For Death | DVD | (25/03/2002) from £10.98   |  Saving you £-8.99 (-451.80%)   |  RRP £1.99

  As the rare and deadly African Ebola virus spreads uncontrollably through the largest urban areas of America a lone doctor fearlessly searches for the truth and uncovers a conspiracy that puts her own life in danger...

• The Time Of Your Life | DVD | (01/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  When James Cagney starred in the movie adaptation of The Time of Your Life in 1948, it was hotly been debated whether William Saroyan’s stage play was really filmable at all. Because of its small cast, because all the action takes place on a single claustrophobic set, because the "plot" consists entirely of sub-plots, and because Saroyan’s "dirty sentimentality" isn’t to everyone’s taste, such doubts are still understandable today. However, accept the movie for what it is--a play in a box--and you’ll be captivated. The story revolves around a slightly down-at-heel bar-restaurant, where a group of disparate characters come and go as their stories gradually unfold. They include an ex-prostitute desperately seeking a new life, a dancer looking for a break into showbusiness, a down-and-out who discovers a vocation as a pianist, a beer-sodden cowboy and a villainous "stoolie" who, needless to say, gets his comeuppance. This gaggle of misfits is presided over by an enigmatic, champagne-drinking philanthropist (brilliantly played by Cagney) who gently nudges them towards their goals while indulging his own fascination with the minutiae of daily life. Throughout this quietly delightful picture the audience are not told why he’s this way, but it is possible to make an educated guess. On the DVD: The Time of Your Life might be a classic, but it apparently warrants no extra features. The black and white picture is 4:3. --Roger Thomas

• Curdled | DVD | (01/03/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A young women named Gabriela has been fascinated with murder ever since she was a child. Moving one step closer to her obsession Gabriela takes a job with a crime scene cleaning service in Miami all the while fantasising about meeting the notorious 'Blue Blood' serial killer. Gabriela's dream is soon filled with a chilling face-to-face encounter with the psychopath... but will she live to tell the tale? Don't miss the surprising conclusion to the film that is as funny as it is frigh

• Bubblegum Crisis - Tokyo 2040 - Vol. 3 | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A new horror envelops Tokyo in a web of fear as a mysterious entity runs amok pulling it's victims into the sewers and devouring them! Can even the combined forces of the Knight Sabers Genom and the A.D. Police stop the monster before it chooses its next victim? Then with Linna missing and Sylia and Nene out of action Priss finds herself facing her most deadly adversary yet a gargantuan military boomer that she cannot possibly stop alone. Contains the episodes: My Nation Underg

• Breach Of Trust | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Mark and Cassie Woodman (William Russ and Roma Downey) could be just the perfect couple. They married young and although they've had their problems there proud of their teenage son Kevin and are still as happy as they were on the day they first got married. But when Mark takes a short buisness trip Cassie and Kevin's secure family world is lost when they see a TV news report that Marks plane has crashed with loss of many lives. After an anxious wait they hear the news they've been praying for - Mark is alive although badly injured and unconscious. However Cassie is stunned to discover that Mark had a travelling companion listed as Mrs C.Whitman who didnt survive the crash. The shocks don't end there leaving her wondering if she knew her loving husband at all...

• The Lord of the Rings -- Limited Edition Box Set | DVD | (26/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated adaptation of The Lord of the Rings is a bold, colourful, ambitious failure. Severely truncated, this two-hour version tackles only about half the story, climaxing with the battle of Helm's Deep and leaving poor Frodo and Sam still stuck on the borders of Mordor with Gollum. Allegedly, the director ran out of money and was unable to complete the project. As far as the film does go, however, it is a generally successful attempt at rendering Tolkien's landscapes of the imagination. Bakshi's animation uses a blend of conventional drawing and rotoscoped (traced) animated movements from live-action footage. The latter is at least in part a money-saving device, but it does succeed in lending some depth and a sense of otherworldly menace to the Black Riders and hordes of Orcs: Frodo's encounter at the ford of Rivendell, for example, is one of the film's best scenes thanks to this mixture of animation techniques. Backdrops are detailed and well conceived, and all the main characters are strongly drawn. Among a good cast, John Hurt (Aragorn) and C3PO himself, Anthony Daniels (Legolas), provide sterling voice characterisation, while Peter Woodthorpe gives what is surely the definitive Gollum (he revived his portrayal a couple of years later for BBC Radio's exhaustive 13-hour dramatisation). The film's other outstanding virtue is avant-garde composer Leonard Rosenman's magnificent score in which chaotic musical fragments gradually coalesce to produce the triumphant march theme that closes the picture. None of which makes up for the incompleteness of the movie, nor the severe abridging of the story actually filmed. Add to that some oddities--such as intermittently referring to Saruman as "Aruman"--and the final verdict must be that this is a brave yet ultimately unsatisfying work, noteworthy as the first attempt at transferring Tolkien to the big screen but one whose virtues are overshadowed by incompleteness. --Mark Walker