Classic Films

• Will Hay - Old Bones Of The River | DVD | (03/12/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  When Professor Benjamin Tibbets (Will Hay) travels to Africa up river to open schools for the natives he experiences several setbacks. His new pupils are less than receptive and when the commander of the local base goes down with malaria he takes on his duties as well. Aided by the crew of the boat on which he arrived (Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt) he sets about collecting taxes from the locals with hilarious results.

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

  Dr. Benjamin Twist (Will Hay) is invited to act as tutor to the son of a millionaire in the United States of America after posing as a famous professor. Twist discovers that two gangs of villains are out to kidnap his precocious young pupil Bernie Schultz...

• Vixen | DVD | (28/03/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Is she woman ... or animal? Vixen (Erica Gavin) and her bush pilot husband Tom (Garth Pillsbury) live in the remote Canadian Northwest. A young robust woman Vixen eagerly finds ways to temper her fiery libido while Tom is off picking up passengers in his plane. Also a racist she takes pleasure in ridiculing conscientious objector Niles (Harrison Page) a black American friend of her brother's. When Tom brings Dave (Robert Aiken) and Janet (Vincene Wallace) an attractive young

• Millionairess / Trial And Error With Peter Sellers | DVD | (29/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Millionairess (1960): Based on a play by George Bernard Shaw which studies an immensely wealthy woman who falls for the charms of a poor Indian doctor. Sophia Loren plays a spoilt heiress able to buy anything she wants. When she meets an Indian doctor (Peter Sellers) whose sole concern is to help the poor and needy she knows that this is the man for her. Although in love with her he is so terrified of being in her power that he foils all her attempts to 'buy' him. Only

• Dreams That Money Can Buy | DVD | (31/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Hans Richter was for four decades one of the most influential members of the cinematic avant-garde. In this film he made the bold attempt to introduce this work to a wider audience. Using the framing story of a man who discovers how to craft and sell dreams to a series of anxious clients Richter allotted each dream (seven in all) to artists who included Max Ernst Man Ray Marcel Duchamp and Alexander Calder. Some chose to reprise their work in cinematic form - Ernst recreates a sequence from his collage novel La Semaine de Bont and Richter uses music by composers ranging from Darius Milhaud and John Cage to Duke Ellington. Shot for just $25 000 in a Manhattan loft the film went on to win the Venice Film Festival Award for the best original contribution to the progress of cinematography.

• The Magnificent Showman (John Wayne) | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £12.89   |  Saving you £-2.90 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Hollywood's take on the big-top life as the Duke shepherds his three-ring extravaganza through a European tour while searching for the aerialist he loved and lost - the mother of his daughter. Plenty of real-life circus performers perfectly balance the performance of The Duke.

• Carry On Christmas - 1972 (DVD) | DVD | (30/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  More camp christmas capers with the Carry On crew.

• Rashomon | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Rashomon DVD - classic film by Akira Kurosawa. Won Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 1952.

• The Dracula Legacy Set | DVD | (06/10/2014) from £33.73   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The original Dracula is one of the silver screen's most unforgettable characters and along with the other Universal Classic Monsters defined the Hollywood horror genre. Dracula: Complete Legacy Collection includes all 5 films from the original legacy including the frightening classic starring Bela Lugosi and the timeless films that followed. These landmark motion pictures defined the iconic look of the famed vampire and continue to inspire countless remakes and adaptations that strengthen the legend of Dracula to this day. Films Included: Dracula (1931) Dracula's Daughter (1936) Son of Dracula (1943) House of Frankenstein (1944) House of Dracula (1945) Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) Special Features: Dracula (1931) The Road to Dracula: An Original Documentary by David J. Skal Feature commentary With Film Historian David J. Skal New Score by Phillip Glass preformed by the Kronos Quartet Poster and Photo Montage Theatrical Trailer Dracula's Daughter and Dracula (1931) Spanish Version Dracula's Daughter Dracula 1931 (Spanish Version) House of Frankenstein Theatrical Trailer House of Dracula Inspirations for Van Helsing: Dracula Featurette Van Helsing Trailer The Chronicles of Riddick Trailer

• Stranger/Orson Welles on Film | DVD | (27/06/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.30

  The Stranger, according to Orson Welles, "is the worst of my films. There is nothing of me in that picture. I did it to prove that I could put out a movie as well as anyone else." True, set beside Citizen Kane, Touch of Evil, or even The Trial, The Stranger is as close to production-line stuff as the great Orson ever came. But even on autopilot Welles still leaves most filmmakers standing. The shadow of the Second World War hangs heavy over the plot. A war crimes investigator, played by Edward G Robinson, tracks down a senior Nazi, Franz Kindler, to a sleepy New England town where he's living in concealment as a respected college professor. The script, credited to Anthony Veiller but with uncredited input from Welles and John Huston, is riddled with implausibilities: we're asked to believe, for a start, that there'd be no extant photos of a top Nazi leader. The casting's badly skewed, too. Welles wanted Agnes Moorehead as the investigator and Robinson as Kindler, but his producer, Sam Spiegel, wouldn't wear it. So Welles himself plays the supposedly cautious and self-effacing fugitive--and if there was one thing Welles could never play, it was unobtrusive. What's more, Spiegel chopped out most of the two opening reels set in South America, in Welles' view, "the best stuff in the picture". Still, the film's far from a write-off. Welles' eye for stunning visuals rarely deserted him and, aided by Russell Metty's skewed, shadowy photography, The Stranger builds to a doomy grand guignol climax in a clock tower that Hitchcock must surely have recalled when he made Vertigo. And Robinson, dogged in pursuit, is as quietly excellent as ever. On the DVD: not much in the way of extras, except a waffly full-length commentary from Russell Cawthorne that tells us about the history of clock-making and where Edward G was buried, but precious little about the making of the film. Print and sound are acceptable, but though remastering is claimed, there's little evidence of it. --Philip Kemp

• Tess of the Storm Country | DVD | (14/12/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.46

• Murder | DVD | (24/07/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.30

  This 1930 drama was an early field day for Alfred Hitchcock and his evolving ideas about the blurring of opposites: reality and illusion, guilt and innocence, observing and doing, men and women. A rare whodunit in the director's canon, the story of Murder finds a stage actress (Norah Baring) convicted of murdering a female friend. Herbert Marshall stars as a veteran theatre actor and, coincidentally, member of the jury who has grave doubts about the verdict and decides to investigate the crime on his own. His efforts lead him through a world with which he is sufficiently familiar--that of backstage intrigues--and toward what some critics have charged is an unfortunate link between villainy and a gay stereotype. But that limited critique completely misses the playful overlapping of faulty perceptions invited by this movie, in which Hitchcock deliberately confuses us at times about whether the action we're seeing is real or occurring on a stage. Even when the distinction is obvious, thematic echoes bounce wildly between the two, such as an early scene in which policemen observing a play don't realise the solution to the real murder is weirdly foretold in what they're watching. --Tom Keogh

• Phantom Creeps | DVD | (06/01/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.30

• Stella Maris | DVD | (18/04/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.46

• Newsies | DVD | (06/03/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

• Tosca | DVD | (10/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  The opera Tosca composed by Giacomo Puccini.

• The Prince And The Showgirl | DVD | (09/12/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  One of the later films of her notably stellar career The Prince and The Showgirl teams Marilyn Monroe with the world's most respected thespian Sir Laurence Olivier in a humorous romp of a stately prince charming and his love for a humble but incredibly infectious performer. A fairy tale born in the Hollywood dream factory this film continues to be a lasting favourite. This Deluxe Series box set will include: DVD of 'The Prince And The Showgirl' DVD documentary 'The Legend Of Marilyn Monroe' a film Senitype'' (image from the film and 35mm film frame) US one sheet movie poster and an exclusive commemorative 16-page picture book of rare Marilyn images.

• Wuthering Heights - Samuel Goldwyn Presents | DVD | (13/02/2017) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Set on the murky, isolated moors in pre-Victorian England, this adaptation of Emily Bronte's classic novel tells the story of doomed love between a young, aristocratic woman and the young man who works in her father's stables.

• Dead End - Samuel Goldwyn Presents | DVD | (13/02/2017) from £9.45   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Humphrey Bogart is outstanding (Variety) as a vicious gangster on the run in this masterful gripping drama (Motion Picture Daily) directed by William Wyler (Ben-Hur) and written by Lillian Hellman (The Little Foxes). Nominated* for four Academy Awards(r), including Best Picture, Dead End is powerful, entertaining and a true landmark in moviemaking. On the mean streets of New York's Lower East Side, Drina (Sylvia Sidney) hopes to save herbrother from a life of crime. But notorious hoodlum Baby Face Martin (Bogart) has come back to his old haunts looking for trouble and threatening to drag the boy down with him. Drina turns to her childhood friend Dave (Joel McCrea) for help. But can he stop Martin without becoming just like him? *1937: Best Picture, Supporting Actress (Claire Trevor), Cinematography, Art Direction

• The Bishop's Wife - Samuel Goldwyn Presents | DVD | (13/02/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Heavenly bells are ringing, jubilant choirs are singing and Christmas joy is blanketing the world like freshly fallen snow. But the Yuletide spirit has yet to warm Bishop Henry Brougham's Victorian home. Struggling to raise funds for a new cathedral, the preoccupied young clergyman has neglected his loving wife Julia, and now only divine intervention can save their marriage! But the powerful and handsome angel sent from above has a mind of his own and teaching mortal Henry an immortal lesson inromance isn't all he's got planned! Starring Oscar(r) winners* Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven, and featuring a stellar supporting cast (The Hollywood Reporter) that includes James Gleason and Monty Woolley, this delightful romantic comedy is wondrous, witty andtruly divine! *Grant, Honorary Oscar (1969); Young, Actress, The Farmer's Daughter (1947); Niven, Actor, Separate Tables (1958)