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• One Good Turn | DVD | (12/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Reunited with many of the team behind Trouble in Store (1953), his smash hit of the previous year, for his second starring role Norman Wisdom played the oldest orphan of Greenwood Children's Home. Having being raised in the home Norman has stayed on as odd-job man, a role which ideally suits his man-child persona. Not only does he have to find the money to buy one of the orphans a model car, but after a visit to Brighton he discovers Greenwood is due to be closed down by the home's own unscrupulous chairman, a property developer with plans to build a factory on the site. Also starring Thora Hird, One Good Turn was surely a film with a personal resonance for Wisdom who was himself brought-up in an orphanage after his mother died and his father was unable to raise him. As would become a tradition, he contributes a song, "Please Opportunity", and the movie, though produced by Rank, now sits easily in that classic Ealing era where the ordinary man took on the big guys and won. The innocent knockabout humour remains appealing and it is simply impossible not to like Norman Wisdom. The film's success led directly to the aptly named Man of the Moment (1955). --Gary S Dalkin

• Donizetti: La Fille du Regiment (Daughter of the Regiment) | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Daughter Of The Regiment - Opera in Two Acts by Gaetano Donizetti.Recorded at the Wolf Trap Festival 1974.

• William Burroughs: A Man Within | DVD | (26/12/2011) from £29.99   |  Saving you £-15.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A portrait of one of the 20th century's most influential cultural icons, with testimonies from artists, musicians, writers and friends. William Burroughs is now regarded as a huge influence over late 20th century fiction and cultural life. This documentary features previously unseen footage of Burroughs in conversation, as well as footage of him at many of his infamous readings, where he brought to life his writing, in front of audiences the world over.

• A Soldier's Story | DVD | (17/08/2009) from £9.95   |  Saving you £-3.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Charles Fuller adapted his Pulitzer Prize-winning A Soldier's Play for the big screen in 1984. The film version, A Soldier's Story is essentially a murder mystery, played out against a background of inter and intra-racial conflict at a Second World War training camp. To the consternation of his white opposite number at the camp, a black captain (Howard W Rollins) arrives to investigate the death of a black sergeant (Adolph Caesar). Suspicion immediately falls on a pair of bigoted white officers but as the tale unfolds in a series of flashbacks, it soon becomes clear that a different kind of prejudice is also at work. Assisted by some excellent performances, director Norman Jewison opens the story out from its stage roots. There's a wonderful baseball scene (filmed on location at Little Rock) in which the double standards of Dennis Lipscomb's fidgety white captain are exposed with neat irony; he'll cheer his successful black team all the way home in the name of sport. His gradual, forced liberalisation provides the film with an important comic element. A Soldier's Story wears its heart on its sleeve without being superficial in any way. It's a compelling tale, well told and often highly entertaining, in which nobody gets off lightly, least of all the good guy. On the DVD: The widescreen presentation helps give an epic feel to what could, in other hands, have been a claustrophobic production. The picture quality is fine. But the monaural sound track is often rather muffled, leaving you straining to catch some of the dialogue. This is also a shame because the blues music--an inspired job by Herbie Hancock, assisted by Patti Labelle singing her lungs out as bar owner Big Mary--is an important element of the film's underlying theme and deserves to be better heard. The extras are valuable. Norman Jewison's commentary is detailed and sensitive. As he says, the film deals with "ideas in racism never seen on screen before", and he acknowledges the strength of his actors in getting those ideas across. "March to Freedom" is an excellent short documentary which features the moving testimonies of black servicemen on the insufferable prejudices they encountered while attempting to defend their country during the Second World War; A Soldier's Story is thus put sharply into context. --Piers Ford

• Little Annie Rooney | Blu Ray | (20/11/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Night Of The Living Dead | DVD | (23/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Thirty years ago in the quiet Pennsylvania countryside the dead began to walk. Fuelled by an insatiable hunger for living human flesh the ghouls' ghastly quest inadvertently brought together six strangers whose inability to unite would ultimately lead to their tragic downfall. To celebrate its thirtieth anniversary the cult classic Night of the Living Dead has been expanded and enhanced to bring you the best visual and audio version ever available. So turn out the lights board up the windows and get ready for an all-new experience with the definitive horror film of all time.

• The Counterfeit Traitor | Blu Ray | (25/10/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Black Hawk Down - The Reel Collection | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £44.98   |  Saving you £-31.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The harrowing true account of what happened when a mission by a group of elite US troops in Somalia went terrribly wrong.

• Hop-A-Long Cassidy | DVD | (21/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  The full 52 episode series featuring the further adventures of the black-clad Hop-A-Long Cassidy played by William Boyd and his faithful horse Topper and trusty side-kick Red Connors (Edgar Buchanan). On 12 DVD's.

• The House On 92nd Street | DVD | (23/04/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  ""The F.B.I.'s own tense terrific story behind the protection of the Atomic Bomb!"" Nazi spies have infiltrated America one of which tries to recruit a college graduate who then becomes a double agent for the F.B.I.

• Wes Craven's Don't Look Down | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £7.97   |  Saving you £-1.98 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Wes Craven acts as executive producer on this psychological horror film. Carla's (Megan Ward) sister accidentally falls off a cliff when the railing becomes loose while Carla's boyfriend takes photos. She has a hard time getting over her death and keeps having visions of her sister yelling at her for not saving her. It seems that every time she gets next to the edge of a high area she gets terrified. She then starts to take a class with other acrophobiacs. Then the people in the group start getting killed one by one. She starts to suspect that someone wants her never to get over her fear and that he loose railing was meant for her...

• Swann | DVD | (05/01/2004) from £6.90   |  Saving you £6.09 (88.26%)   |  RRP £12.99

  From the novel by Carol Shields: Sarah is an author researching for a book on Mary Swann a little known poet who was axed to death by her husband who then shot himself. Sarah meets Rose the last person known to have seen Swann and who is compiling Mary's works into a museum. They uncover information of significance the more so when thefts occur at the museum. They follow an unexpected trail....

• Thunder Mountain / Wild Horse Mesa | DVD | (08/09/2008) from £3.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (50.13%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In 'Thunder Mountain' a western based on the Zane Grey novel 'To The Last Man' Marvin Hayden finds himself right in the middle of two feuding families. In 'Wild Horse Mesa' a cowboy called Dave along with his best friend Chito set out to find the person responsible for murdering his boss.

• Britain At War - Keep Smiling Through | DVD | (28/06/2004) from £12.24   |  Saving you £-10.25 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  The fighting spirit of the people during World War 2 has never been denied. From the home front to the front line they kept smiling through - with a little help fromt he stars in battle dress. Arthur Askey Jack Warner Gert & Daisy Max Wall Tommy Trinder and George Formby all lent a hand each bringing their individual brand of humour to the war effort. New songs and old favourites sung by Gracie Fields Beryl Davis Syd Walker and Bernie Clifton all helped to raise morale. While an army of unsung amateur performers enlisted by ENSA entertained their hearts out for the troops the public and the spirit of the nation. This warm funny and highly enjoyable programme will keep you smiling too.

• Toll Booth | DVD | (05/07/2005) from £8.99   |  Saving you £-5.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  A tollbooth attendant's fascination with a young woman who works at a gas station leads him into a love triangle and murder.

• Bullitt / Getaway / The Towering Inferno | DVD | (08/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Bullitt: Detective Frank Bullitt's new assignment seems routine: protect a star witness for an important trial. But before the night is out the witness lies dying and the cool no-nonsense Bullitt ( Steve McQueen) won't rest until the shooters - and the kingpin pulling their strings - are nailed. The Getaway: Master thief Doc McCoy knows his wife has been in bed with the local political boss in order to spring him from jail. What he can't know is the sinister succession of double-crosses that will sour the deal once he's on the oustisde - and executing the ultimate robbery. Towering Inferno: A dedication ceremony at the world's tallest skyscraper turns into a high-rise catastrophe when an electrical flare-up causes a raging fire trapping society's most prominent citizens on the top floor!

• Family Plot | Blu Ray | (10/05/2022) from £32.60   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• XXX | UMD | (01/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Vin Diesel is no James Bond, and he doesn't want to be. That's why XXX announced Diesel as the adrenalin-junkie Bond of the PlayStation generation, copying the Bond formula so shamelessly that this action-packed silliness would be a Bond movie if it starred Pierce Brosnan. Reuniting Diesel with his Fast and the Furious director Rob Cohen, XXX has an attitude (if not a brain) all its own, plucking Diesel's Xander Cage from his celebrity as an extreme sports renegade, recruited by a National Security Agency big shot (Samuel L. Jackson) to foil a nasty Czech villain (Marton Csokas) who's eager to depopulate Prague with remote-controlled biological weaponry. Toss in a sulky, sultry Russian agent (Asia Argento) and you've got extreme Bond-age for anyone who thinks tuxedos are passé. With a handful of eye-popping action sequences, XXX launched a movie franchise with a cool guy, another cool muscle car, and plenty of box-office sizzle. --Jeff Shannon

• DOCTOR WHO-DER ERSTE DOKT - MO | DVD | (29/06/2018) from £24.72   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Devil Doll | DVD | (11/02/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Grab a good seat and don't look away from the stage for The Great Vorelli (Bryant Haliday) is about to dazzle London with his eerie mixture of hypnotism and ventriloquism. However there may be something a little too lifelike about his dummy Hugo who has the ability to walk across the stage all by himself. Experience the haunting imagery and unforgettable twist ending of Devil Doll the cult horror classic from producer Richard Gordon which has chilled audiences for decades. Hailed as tense and terrifying this gem of psychological suspense and supernatural thrills can now be enjoyed in a dazzling new transfer--so little Hugo can reach out and shock you like never before!