"Actor: Zero Mostel"

• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum | DVD | (22/02/2016) from £5.49   |  Saving you £10.50 (65.70%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The words of the opening song pretty much describe the menu in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum--"Something familiar, something peculiar, something for everyone: a comedy tonight!"--a frantic adaptation of the stage musical by Larry Gelbart and Burt Shevelove. The wild story, based on the Latin comedies of Plautus and set in ancient Rome, follows a slave named Pseudolus (Zero Mostel, snorting and gibbering) as he tries to extricate himself from an increasingly farcical situation; Mostel and a bevy of inspired clowns, including Phil Silvers, Jack Gilford and Buster Keaton, keep the slapstick and the patter perking. The cast also includes the young Michael Crawford as a love-struck innocent. This project landed in the lap of Richard Lester, then one of the hot test directors in the world after his success with the Beatles' films. Lester telescoped the material through his own joke-a-second sensibility, and also ripped out some of the songs from Stephen Sondheim's Broadway score. The result is very close to the vaudeville spirit suggested by the title--though anyone with a low tolerance for Zero Mostel's overbearing buffoonery may be in trouble. Oddly enough, amid all the frenzy, Lester creates a grungy, earthy Rome that seems closer to the real thing than countless respectable historical films on the subject. Frankie Howerd, who played Pseudolus on the London stage, kept the tradition going with his Up Pompei TV series. --Robert Horton, Amazon.com

• The Front | DVD | (06/06/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.

• Sirocco / Dead Reckoning / The Harder They Fall / In A Lonely Place | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £24.28   |  Saving you £-1.29 (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  This box set features a collection of some of Bogie's finest efforts in the 'film noir' genre. Sirocco (Dir. Curtis Bernhardt 1951): In 1925 Damascus Harry Smith (Bogart) runs guns to the rebels under Emir Hassan. The French arrest him along with others and force him to sell weapons to them where hHe develops an dangerous interest in French intelligence officer Feroud's mistress Violette... Dead Reckoning (Dir. John Cromwell 1947): Rip Murdock (Bogart) and Johnny

• The Producers | DVD | (24/04/2006) from £16.51   |  Saving you £8.48 (51.36%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A down on his luck producer and his accountant plan to get rich quick in this remake.

• Rhinoceros | DVD | (23/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The comedy that proves people are still the funniest animals! 'The Producers' leading pair Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder reunite for Eugene Ionesco's absurdist play telling of a French town plagued by rhinoceroses. Or is that people who've become victims of 'rhinoceritis'? Or is it something else entirely?

• Mastermind | DVD | (31/03/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Mastermind stars Zero Mostel as Japanese detective Inspector Hoku a man filled with delusions that he is a Samurai warrior. Mayhem ensues when he's forced to use all the resources at his disposal to stop international spies from getting their hands on a newly developed robot....

• Watership Down | DVD | (29/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  From Richard Adams' best seller comes a beautifully realized animated adventure about a nomadic band of rabbits. Nestled among the rolling hills and peaceful meadows of England lives a community of rabbits. When their warren is threatened a small group of brave rabbits escapes into the unknown countryside in search of a new home. Led by the visionary Fiver the courageous Bigwig the clever Blackberry and the honerable Hazel they face daunting challenges and use their strength and cunning to survive while pursuing their dream. Along their trek they make an unlikely friend - a looney seagull named Kehaar - and battle the vicious General Woundwort the cruel leader of another warren.

• Watership Down | Blu Ray | (22/10/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  From Richard Adams' best seller comes a beautifully realized animated adventure about a nomadic band of rabbits. Nestled among the rolling hills and peaceful meadows of England lives a community of rabbits. When their warren is threatened a small group of brave rabbits escapes into the unknown countryside in search of a new home. Led by the visionary Fiver the courageous Bigwig the clever Blackberry and the honerable Hazel they face daunting challenges and use their strength and cunning to survive while pursuing their dream. Along their trek they make an unlikely friend - a looney seagull named Kehaar - and battle the vicious General Woundwort the cruel leader of another warren.