Classic Films

• Whatever Happened To Baby Jane | DVD | (17/07/2006) from £10.35   |  Saving you £5.64 (54.49%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Sister sister oh so fair why is there blood all over your hair? The film that paired two of the greatest screen-actresses not only lived up to its promise but provided years of Hollywood gossip at the expense of the two warring stars! Baby Jane (Davis) was a child star. When she grows up she is forgotten by the public. Instead her sister Blanche (Crawford) becomes famous as a Hollywood actress overshadowing her sister who is increasingly bitter. After a mysterious car ac

• Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter | DVD | (05/01/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Residing in an eerie hilltop mansion are Dr. Maria Frankenstein and her brother Rudolph conducting the same bizarre and deadly artificial brain transplant experiments that forced them to flee their European homeland. In a nearby town the legendary Jesse James and his companion Hank Tracy are caught in a gunfight that leaves Hank seriously wounded. Jesse brings back the only nearby doctor...the sinister Maria Frankenstein. Hank will be the perfect subject for her next experiment and Jesse the perfect target of her romantic desires. She successfully transplants an artificial brain into the skull of Hank transforming him into a monstrous creature named Igor.

• Whisky Galore (Single Disc) | DVD | (13/11/2006) from £9.43   |  Saving you £6.56 (41.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A Highland fling on a tight little island! The Scottish islanders of Todday bypass war time rationing and delight in smuggling cases of their favourite tipple from a wrecked ship... Basil Radford stars as the teetotal English official who is totally unable to comprehend the significance of whisky to the islanders. Marvellously detailed and well played it firmly established the richest Ealing vein with the common theme of a small group triumphing over a more powerful opponent.

• Lesley Garrett - Music From The Movies | DVD | (18/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  Lesley Garrett is one of Britain's best loved classical singers. This DVD features her stunning soprano voice on a selection of classic songs from the movies. The concert was recorded with the Orchestra of Opera North at last summer's 'Opera In The Park' concert in Leeds. It was broadcast by the BBC in autumn 2004. As well as Lesley Garrett the concert features contributions from Ruthie Henshall and Michael McCarthy. Tracklist: 1. Where Do I Begin? (Love Story) 2. Over The Rainbow (The Wizard Of Oz) 3. Puttin' On The Ritz (Puttin' On The Ritz) 4. The Man That Got Away (A Star Is Born) 5. New York New York (New York New York) 6. Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) 7. Moon River (Breakfast At Tiffany's) 8. Mein Herr (Cabaret) 9. Cabaret (Cabaret) 10. The Summer Knows (Summer Of '42) 11. The Impossible Dream (The Man From La Mancha) 12. And All That Jazz (Chicago) 13. He Was Beautiful (The Deer Hunter) 14. Nature Boy (Moulin Rouge) 15. One Day I'll Fly Away (Moulin Rouge) 16. Come What May (Moulin Rouge) Tracklist: 1. Tonight (Westside Story) 2. Somewhere (Westside Story) 3. A Boy Like That / I Have A Love (Westside Story) 4. Don't Rain On My Parade (Funny Girl) 5. Our Children (Ragtime) 6. I Dreamed A Dream (Les Miserable) 7. Sunset Boulevard (Sunset Boulevard) 8. Holy Ground

• Film Noir, Vol. 1: Stranger/Cause for Alarm! | DVD | (26/10/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The First Of The Few | DVD | (19/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This classic 1942 war movie tells the true story of how two of the most remarkable men in aviation history - Spitfire designer R.J. Mitchell and his test pilot Jeffrey Quill - developed the aeroplane whose technological superiority helped Britain to win the vital battle of the skies. It features two of Britain's best-loved stars: Leslie Howard (who also directs, and who tragically went missing in action shortly after the film was made) as Mitchell and David Niven as Quill. Scripted by two oth...

• Lost Films of Laurel & Hardy: The Complete Collection, Vol. 4 | DVD | (04/01/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.16

• The Song Of Bernadette | DVD | (18/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In 1858 Lourdes resident Bernadette Sobrirous a poverty-stricken peasant girl witness a vision of a 'beautiful lady'. However news of the 'miracle' polarises opinion in the town: adoration suspicion and greed among the simple townspeople stubborn scepticism from the local doctor and charges of insanity from the town prosecutor... Winner of four Oscars.

• Love Is A Many Splendored Thing | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  William Holden and Jennifer Jones star in one of drama's most endearing and intelligent love stories. Nominated for eight Academy Awards this timeless classic follows the passionate affair of an American correspondent and a Eurasian doctor whose love for each other must overcome racial prejudice and the outbreak of war in Korea.

• Will Hay - Boys Will Be Boys | DVD | (03/12/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Prison teacher Dr. Smart-Alec (Will Hay) steps up the career ladder to become headmaster of Narkover public school but his innate stupidity soon begins to create havoc. Will Hay dons a mortarboard on screen for the first time in the bumbling headmaster role that was to become his trademark.

• Will Hay - Where There's A Will | DVD | (03/12/2001) from £7.03   |  Saving you £2.96 (29.60%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Not quite vintage Will Hay, Where There's a Will dates from 1936--a year or two before the comic started turning out his best screen work--and casts Hay as an inept, drunken lawyer who begins the day by having the gas, phone and electricity cut off as he dryly plays off his cynical office boy (Graham Moffatt), but ends the film dressed as Santa Claus foiling a high society robbery and convincing even his stern, upper-crust brother-in-law (blustering HF Maltby) that he's earned a drink. It lacks the focus of Hay's best vehicles, with too much plot about conniving gangsters (slinky Gina Halo, sly Hartley Power) using the "Red-Headed League" ploy of hiring the lawyer to get him out of his office so they can rob the downstairs bank, while Hay's family complications revolve around a daughter (Peggy Simpson) who idolises him and doesn't know he's a failure. There are a few vaudeville-style turns, as Hay tries to blind officious landladies or potential clients with legal nonsense or gets a teetotal butler drunk, but it's mostly running-around. Imported Yank director William Beaudine, who gets a script credit with Hay (from a Sidney Gilliat/Leslie Arliss story), basically referees the show, standing back so the star can get on with it. Hammer fans should note that editor TR Fisher is Terence Fisher, future director of The Curse of Frankenstein and other classics.--Kim Newman

• A Streetcar Named Desire (2 Disc Special Edition) | DVD | (07/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £20.99

  Tennessee Williams based his screenplay on Oscar Saul's adaptation of Williams' own Pulitzer Prize-winning play set in a grimy New Orleans project. The story of the fragile sentimentalism of a woman who visits her sister only to be taunted mercilessly by her childish brother-in-law. This classic film garnered 12 Academy Award Nominations (including Best Picture Best Director Best Actor (Marlon Brando) and Best Screeplay) winning 4 including Best Actress (Vivien Leigh) Best Supporting Actress (Kim Hunter) and Best Supporting Actor (Karl Malden). This version features three minutes of footage that was deleted from the final 1951 release version upon demands made by the Production Code footage thought lost until its rediscovery in the early 1990s. This DVD release is the fully restored version of Elia Kazan's original cut and the documentary 'Desire And Censorship' on Disc 2 describes his struggle in getting the past the censors.

• Rebel Without A Cause (2 Disc Special Edition) | DVD | (07/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Jim Stark... a kid from a 'good' family - what makes him tick... like a bomb? In one of cinemas most influential and gripping roles James Dean plays Jim Stark the new kid in town whose loneliness frustration and anger mirrored those of most postwar teens - and reverberates more than 40 years later. Natalie Wood (as Jim's girlfriend Judy) and Sal Mineo (in his screen debut as Jim's tag-along pal Plato) were Academy Award nominees for their achingly true performances. Director Nicholas Ray was also an Oscar nominee for this landmark film chosen as one of the Top-100 American Films by the American Film Institute.

• The River | DVD | (31/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Director Jean Renoir's entrancing first colour film shot entirely on location in India is a visual tour de force. Based on the novel by Rumer Godden the film eloquently contrasts the growing pains of three young women with the immutability of the holy Bengal River around which their daily lives unfold. Enriched by Renoir's subtle understanding and appreciation for India and its peoples The River gracefully explores the fragile connections between transitory emotions and everlasting creation.

• The Battle of Britain | DVD | (01/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This is a spectacular retelling of a true story that shows courage at its inspiring best. Few defining moments can change the outcome of war . But when the outnumbered Royal Air Force defied unsurmountable odds in engaging the German Luftwaffe they may well have altered the course of history!

• Lost Films of Laurel & Hardy: The Complete Collection, Vol. 7 | DVD | (30/05/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.16

• Chaplin Mutuals, Vol. 2 | DVD | (19/11/1997) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.16

• Will Hay - Windbag The Sailor | DVD | (03/12/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This classic comedy has Will Hay as a bogus sea captain Ben Cutlet. He is tricked into taking command of an unseaworthy ship the Rob Roy which the owners intend to sink.He and two stowaways escape on a raft to an island inhabited by cannibals. The natives are frightened into friendliness by the radio set which the trio stole from the ship. Ben and the stowaways recapture the Rob Roy from the crooked crew whose efforts to sink her have proved in vain and sail home in triumph to their native town.

• Will Hay - Good Morning Boys | DVD | (03/12/2001) from £6.06   |  Saving you £5.19 (108.12%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The headmaster of St Michael's school Dr Benjamin Twist (Will Hay) finds himself in hot water after a government inspection. He is asked to resign unless he can prove that his educational methods work and so when he comes into possession of the French paper he does not need much coaxing before showing it to his students. The boys pass with honours but a congratulatory trip to Paris goes awry when they and Twist inadvertently help to steal the Mona Lisa.

• Will Hay - Convict 99 | DVD | (03/12/2001) from £11.84   |  Saving you £-1.85 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  One of Will Hay’s brisker comic efforts, 1936’s Convict 99 sees Dr Benjamin Twist, Hay’s clueless schoolmaster, caught in a case of mistaken identity and invited to head up a prison for especially hard-boiled criminals. Unable to believe his luck, Dr Twist celebrates his success with a few drinks, is still drunk when he arrives to take up his post and, confused with a new batch of inmates, ends up behind bars himself. There he makes the acquaintance of Moore Marriott as "Jerry the Mole", who has been digging an escape tunnel for nigh on 40 years and is only a fortnight away from his release date. When eventually reinstated as governor, Hay runs a loose ship, with inmates waited on by wardens, allowed to bet and even play the stock market. However, when a criminal on the outside attempts to defraud Twist, their indignation is naturally aroused. Convict 99 is a typical outtake from Hay’s bizarrely lawless universe, in which for all his harrumphing and bluster, he’s unable to exercise any sort of discipline whatsoever over the men in his charge. Hay plays exactly the same character from film to film, one so ill-equipped for any situation he’s equally suited for all. Whereas Twist is an incompetent who somehow muddles through, Hay the comic actor is a master of timing and double-takes who knows precisely how to create the air of a shambles. On the DVD: the original 1930s film stock has been well restored, give or take the odd crackle. But there are no extras, except scene index. --David Stubbs