Classic Films

• What Did You Do In The War Daddy? | DVD | (01/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  It's World War II Italy and by-the-book Captain Lionel Cash (Shawn) is sent by his general (O'Connor) to take over a troop of misfit soldiers led by the wily and resourceful Lieutenant Christian (Coburn). Cash's orders? To capture a nearby village. He finds the Italian soldiers eager to surrender but first they insist that the Americans join them in a night of carousing at the local festival. By the time everyone comes to the entire German and American armies are certain a pitched battle is in progress. Who wins? Who loses? Who ends up in the village beauty's bed? War may be hell but it sure can be fun!

• The Land Of Promise | DVD | (28/04/2008) from £27.95   |  Saving you £7.04 (25.19%)   |  RRP £34.99

  40 films over 4 DVDs. Extensive collection is a major retrospective of the British documentary film movement during its period of greatest influence. These films many of which are made available here for the first time since their original release - capture the spirit and strength concerns and resolve of Britain and its people before during and after the Second World War. These diverse and compelling films are fascinating historical documents bearing witness to the social and industrial transformations of the rapidly changing world. Yet they are also striking in their different approach to the form. Using poetry dramatic reconstruction modernist techniques and explicit propaganda the film-makers found fresh new ways to get their message across.

• Those Were The Days - Britain In The 1950s | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £5.65   |  Saving you £6.34 (112.21%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Through the eyes of the newsreel cameras and advertising of the time we present an affectionate look at the way we were in the 1950s: the way we dressed the way we laughed (and cried) - even the way we holidayed. In 1950 Britain was working hard to recover from the Second World War. Yet as the decade went on and economic conditions improved - prompting Prime Minister Harold Macmillan to tell people of Britain 'You've never had it so good' - a cascade of wonderful gadgets found their way into British homes and families began holidaying on the beaches and promenades. By the end of the decade booming Britain was in overdrive with five and a half million cars on the road the opening of the M1 and the arrival of the first mini. The teenager had also come of age with new dance crazes and flamboyant fashions interspersed with bizarre hairstyles - anything to make them stand out from the crowd!

• Blood Of Fu Manchu / Castle Of Fu Manchu | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Blood Of Fu Manchu: The treacherous villain Fu Manchu brought to life by Christopher Lee kidnaps ten of the world's most beautiful women administers a drug with the power to kill any man who kisses their lips and plots the end for his 10 most hated enemies. Fu Manchu sends the deadly ladies around the world to inflict the 'kiss of death' on his enemies. First stop his arch-nemesis Nayland Smith (Richard Greene)... Castle Of Fu Manchu: The malevolent Fu Manchu unleashes a device that if all goes to his twisted plan will cause the Earth's oceans to freeze over...

• Voyage To The Prehistoric Planet | DVD | (22/03/2010) from £5.38   |  Saving you £-3.39 (-170.40%)   |  RRP £1.99

  A planned exploration of Venus starts to go wrong when one of the sapceships is in collision with an asteroid. Two astronauts and a robot make it down onto the Venetian surface but they find more than they expected on the planet.

• Jean-Luc Godard Box Set - Alphaville/Le Petit Soldat/Une Femme Est Une Femme | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Contains three films by Jean Luc Godard: ALPHAVILLE UNE FEMME EST UNE FEMME and LE PETIT SOLDAT.ALPHAVILLE:With 1965's ALPHAVILLE--part sci-fi action film part noir thriller--the acclaimed French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard achieves a stunningly clinical futurism using absolutely no special visual effects. The result is a moving original film that with its abstract political and intellectual themes essentially redefines the apocalyptic science fiction genre. ALPHAVILLE clearly the product of one of cinema's greatest contributors is nothing less than a bona fide cult classic.UNE FEMME EST UNE FEMME:Godard pays tribute to American musicals in much the same way that his debut feature A BOUT DE SOUFFLE did to American gangster films. The story follows the beautiful Angela (Anna Karina) a strip-tease artist who wants nothing more than to have a baby. Her live-in boyfriend Emile (Jean-Claude Brialy) doesn't want to refuse and risk sparking major friction between the two. However fed up with her constant pleading Emile finally suggests that she shack up with his best friend Alfred (Jean-Paul Belmondo) and much to Emile's dismay she eventually takes his advice. Godard's second feature employs jump cuts and jarring sound mixing--most notably during Karina's strip-tease performances. Godard is at his most affectionate and good-natured here. He also makes several cinematic in-jokes including one in which Belmondo's character mentions that he wants to hurry home to watch A BOUT DE SOUFFLE the film that turned Belmondo into a megastar just one year before. Featuring a magnetically cute performance from Karina who soon after the film became Godard's wife this loving romantic comedy is a dazzler.LE PETIT SOLDAT (1960):Michel Subor stars as Bruno a hitman under contract by the French government who suddenly develops a conscience and a philosophy when he is ordered to kill a left wing Arab leader. His newfound ideals are provoked by the stunning Veronica (Karina) a young woman who is secretly employed by the Arabs. The two fall in love and not surprisingly Bruno finds it impossible to carry out his mission bringing down the wrath of the French government on both he and Veronica. Beautifully filmed by Raoul Coutard LES PETIT SOLDAT is less interested in the mechanics of plot as it is in providing Godard a voice for thoughts and musings on the politics and horrors of the Algerian War. It was originally banned in France because of its frank depiction of torture during Algeria's war of Independence which was tearing France apart at the time of the film's completion.

• Romeo And Juliet - G.C.S.E. Video Revision Notes - Act By Act / Scene By Scene | DVD | (20/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.99

  Achieve exam success with Peter Andrews B.Ed. MA. Head of English at the King Alfred School in London renowned for it's creative approach to learning and two of his students Liberty Mosse and Ben Farleigh who will take you through 'Romeo and Juliet' for G.C.S.E. National Curriculum Key Stage 4. The two teenage students describe with total clarity act by act scene by scene all aspects of Romeo and Juliet. Every key element in this play is covered - action characters themes

• No Trace | DVD | (10/02/2014) from £7.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (62.58%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Crime novelist Robert Southley (Hugh Sinclair) has a fondness for basing his books on his own experiences. When his luxurious London lifestyle is threatened by an American blackmailer, Southley chooses murder as his best weapon. To his horror, Southley is invited to help solve the case by Inspector MacDougall, in charge of the investigation at Scotland Yard. He reluctantly embarks on tracking down the 'unknown' killer... himself! Adding to his anxiety, his meddlesome secretary pitches theo...

• Return of the Fly | DVD | (05/11/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The horror is back! The boundaries of science are pushed to their eery limits in this sequel to the classic, ever-popular The Fly. Here Phillipe, the son of the ill-fated scientist, naively continues his father's misguided experiments. The victim of his traitorous assistant's greedy ambitions, Phillipe finds himself in a terrifying limbo - he's grown the head and limbs of a fly! Taking spectacular revenge on his betrayers, Phillipe must also race against time and find a way to reverse...

• Bulldog Drummond Double Feature | DVD | (05/04/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Million Dollar Mermaid | DVD | (26/06/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Massenet - Thais (Votti, Fenice Venice Orchestra, Mei) | DVD | (31/05/2004) from £14.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (33.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  ACT 11. Voici le pain2. Helas! enfant encore3. Vision4. Toi qui mis la pitie dans nos ames5. Esprit de lumiere et de grace6. Va mendiant chercher ailleurs ta vie!7. Viola donc la terrible cite!8. Athanael! C'est toi!9. Il est jeune!10. Garde-toi bien!11. C'est Thais. I'idole fragile12. Qui te fait si severeACT 213. Ah! je suis fatiguee a mourir!14. Etranger te voila comme tu l'avais dit!15. Je suis Athanael Moine

• Quadrophenia - Screen Outlaws Edition | Blu Ray | (08/04/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Jimmy is a teenager growing up in the first half of the 1960's; he rides through London on his scooter, pops pills, is mad about rock and roll and wears a Parka and Levis, nothing to extraordinary about that. But Jimmy's life comes to an aggressive climax during a violent Holiday weekend controntation between Mods and Rockers on Brighton beach. Special Features: Exclusive Artwork and Artcards

• Carry On Doctor | DVD | (04/05/2001) from £9.12   |  Saving you £0.87 (9.54%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Bedpan humour rules in Carry On Doctor, the vintage 1968 offering from the familiar gang, assisted by guest star Frankie Howerd as bogus faith healer Francis Bigger. Hospitals, of course, always provided the Carry On producers with plenty of material. Today, these comedies induce a twinge of serious nostalgia for the great days of the National Health Service when Matron (Hattie Jacques, naturally) ran the hospital as if it was a house of correction, medical professionals were idolised as if they were all Doctor Kildare and Accident and Emergency Departments were deserted oases of calm. But even if you aren't interested in a history lesson, Talbot Rothwell's script contains some immortal dialogue, particularly when Matron loosens her stays. "You may not realise it but I was once a weak man", says Kenneth Williams' terrified Doctor Tinkle to Hattie Jacques. "Once a week's enough for any man", she purrs back, undaunted. Other highlights include Joan Sims, excellent as Frankie Howerd's deaf, bespectacled sidekick, Charles Hawtrey suffering from a phantom pregnancy, 1960s singer Anita Harris in a rare film role, and Barbara Windsor at her most irrepressible as nurse Sandra May. This is one of the best. On the DVD: Presented in 1.77:1 format for a pseudo-widescreen effect, the picture quality is good and sharp, accompanied by a standard mono soundtrack. The same no-frills approach is taken with the packaging; a functional scene index and no extras. Yet again, a missed opportunity to use the DVD release to provide some context. At their best, the Carry On films are rightly seen as classic comedies of their type. They really deserve to be better celebrated. --Piers Ford

• The Plane Makers - Volume 2 | DVD | (01/07/2013) from £35.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The prequel to ATV's famous boardroom drama The Power Game, The Plane Makers follows the fortunes of the Scott Furlong airplane development company and its managing director, the ruthless John Wilder (Patrick Wymark). This release contains fifteen classic episodes, originally shown as part of series two. Having suffered a setback to his ambitions in failing to become Chairman, Wilder takes a wild gamble on the future of Scott Furlong, pushing through a plan to build twelve more Sovereign aircraft before the money has been recovered on the initial order. The scheme is vehemently opposed by new Chairman Sir Gordon Revidge - and it is Revidge's merchant bank that will have to finance the project. As uncertainty and unrest sweep through the factory, a game of bluff and counter-bluff takes place in the boardroom...

• The Guns of Navarone SteelBook (4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital) | Blu Ray | (07/11/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Not Wanted on Voyage | DVD | (28/01/2008) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-7.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A rollicking comedy adventure with Brian Rix and Ronald Shiner playing two cabin stewards bound for Tangiers aboard a cruise ship. As comedy enthusiasts would expect Rix loses his trousers as the two bumbling stewards attempt to uncover the identity of a jewel thief and recover the priceless diamonds of a wealthy passenger.

• Indiscreet | DVD | (04/04/2011) from £11.98   |  Saving you £-1.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Anna Kalman (Ingrid Bergman) is a wealthy actress whose love affairs never last for long. When she meets businessman Philip Adams (Cary Grant) at a NATO dinner she is attracted to him. He reveals that he is married but this does not prevent them embarking on a love affair. However just as Philip prepares to depart for a job in New York Anna discovers that he has been less than honest with her...

• Laurel And Hardy - Be Big / Laughing Gravy | DVD | (24/01/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

• Family Plot | Blu Ray | (13/05/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Alfred Hitchcock's final film Family Plot is understated comic fun that mixes suspense with deft humour, thanks to a solid cast. The plot centres on the kidnapping of an heir and a diamond theft by a pair of bad guys led by Karen Black and William Devane. The cops seem befuddled, but that doesn't stop a questionable psychic (Barbara Harris) and her not overly bright boyfriend (Bruce Dern, in a rare good-guy role) from picking up the trail and actually solving the crime. Did she do it with actual psychic powers? That's part of the fun of Harris's enjoyably ditsy performance. --Marshall Fine