Classic Films

• A Dispatch From Reuters | DVD | (12/07/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Thirteen Ghosts / Darkness Falls / Night Of The Living Dead | DVD | (17/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Thirteen Ghosts: The family may have moved in but the ghosts aren't moving out in this special-effects update of William Castle's classic 1960s shocker... Darkness Falls: A young man Kyle (Kley) is considered insane by everyone in town with the exception of his childhood girlfriend Caitlin (Caufield) and her younger brother Michael (Cormie). Kyle must confront his fears and his past to save Michael from the hands of a small town's legendary evil the Tooth Fairy. Night Of The Living Dead - The Remake: It's a new night for terror ... and a new dawn in horror movie-making when special-effects genius Tom Savini (creator of the spectacularly gruesome make-up in 'Friday The 13th' and 'Creepshow') brings modern technology to this colourful remake of George A. Romero's 1968 cult classic. Dead bodies are returning to life and eating human flesh! A group of survivors seeks refuge in a farmhouse hoping to protect themselves from the hordes of advancing zombies. Trapped and alone they fight for their lives... hoping this horrible nightmare will come to an end. Who will survive the night of the living dead?

• There Goes The Bride | DVD | (25/05/2009) from £5.95   |  Saving you £4.04 (67.90%)   |  RRP £9.99

  On the morning of an unwonted marriage reluctant bride Annette runs away to Paris. On the train she is robbed of her purse and meets a dashing wealthy young man Max who allows her to stay with him for 24 hours. Detectives trace the runaway and take her home but Max follows her and together they elope after eluding her captors.

• Scarlet Street | DVD | (18/03/2002) from £14.98   |  Saving you £1.01 (6.74%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In a way, Scarlet Street is a remake. It's taken from a French novel, La Chienne (literally, "The Bitch") that was first filmed by Jean Renoir in 1931. Renoir brought to the sordid tale all the colour and vitality of Montmartre; Fritz Lang's version shows us a far harsher and bleaker world. The film replays the triangle set-up from Lang's previous picture, The Woman in the Window, with the same three actors. Once again, Edward G Robinson plays a respectable middle-aged citizen snared by the charms of Joan Bennett's streetwalker, with Dan Duryea as her low-life pimp. But this time around, all three characters have moved several notches down the ethical scale. Robinson, who in the earlier film played a college professor who kills by accident, here becomes a downtrodden clerk with a nagging, shrewish wife and unfilled ambitions as an artist, a man who murders in a jealous rage. Bennett is a mercenary vamp, none too bright, and Duryea brutal and heartless. The plot closes around the three of them like a steel trap. This is Lang at his most dispassionate. Scarlet Street is a tour de force of noir filmmaking, brilliant but ice-cold. When it was made the film hit censorship problems, since at the time it was unacceptable to show a murder going unpunished. Lang went out of his way to show the killer plunged into the mental hell of his own guilt, but for some authorities this still wasn't enough, and the film was banned in New York State for being "immoral, indecent and corrupt". Not that this did its box-office returns any harm at all. On the DVD: sparse pickings. There's an interactive menu that zips past too fast to be of much use. The full-length commentary by Russell Cawthorne adds the occasional insight, but it's repetitive and not always reliable. (He gets actors' names wrong, for a start.) The box claims the print's been "fully restored and digitally remastered", but you'd never guess. --Philip Kemp

• Part Time Wife | DVD | (16/11/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Tom is an unsuccessful insurance salesman with only one ray of sunshine in his life his beautiful new bride Jenny. When Tom looks up his old army buddy Drew in an attempt to sell him some car insurance for the company fleet Drew hatches a plan to convince his uncle and owner of the company that far from being a playboy crook he is a happily married man. The only problem is he's chosen Jenny to be his pretend wife. Drew and Jenny must play the perfect husband and wife until Drew's uncle returns to America while Tom must do everything he can to ensure the plan goes without a hitch in order to secure the biggest insurance deal of his life... and to guarantee the innocence of his wife!

• Play Drums Today | DVD | (09/04/2003) from £12.98   |  Saving you £0.01 (0.10%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A complete guide to the basics of learning an instrument for all musical styles. Includes instruction on songs riffs scales chords playing tips and techniques standard notation and tablature.

• Die Brücke von Remagen | Blu Ray | (10/12/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Drowning Pool | DVD | (08/11/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Duel in Diablo | Blu Ray | (09/04/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Yehudi Menuhin : Classic Archive Series | DVD | (10/09/2007) from £18.88   |  Saving you £-2.89 (-18.10%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Featuring great performances from legendary artists of the golden age, classic archive offers a unique historical glimpse into our classical heritage, presented on DVD for the very first time. Lovingly restored, using the finest state-of-the-art technology, these generous, full-length programmes include complete musical performances, comprehensive booklets and rare bonus footage.Yehudi Menuhin Playing:Beethoven - Violin Concerto In D Major.Mozart - Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major.Bruch - Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor.

• Films That Define A Decade: '90s | Blu Ray | (22/08/2016) from £9.48   |  Saving you £4.83 (50.95%)   |  RRP £14.31

  The glorious ˜90s when grunge became chic and Spice Girls ruled pop culture. We witnessed the supersonic development of technology and welcomed the internet into our homes. Best of all, the '90s gave us some of the greatest films ever made, and we have four of them right here: American Pie defined a generation; Jeff Bridges was ˜The Dude' in cult classic The Big Lebowski; Robert De Niro showed us the underbelly of Las Vegas in Casino; and The Mummy was a box office smash.

• Sons And Lovers | DVD | (13/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Set against the background of a grimy village near Nottingham this story of a coal-miner's son with promising artistic talents unfolds with sensitivity and intelligence in Jack Cardiff's adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's semi-autobiographical novel. Caught up in his mother's possessiveness and his father's violent bouts Paul Morel (Dean Stockwell) sacrifices his chance to study art in London and the local girl he loves and eventually becomes involved with a woman separated from her hus

• Wrong Arm Of The Law, The / Never Let Go / Waltz Of The Toreadors / Soft Beds, Hard Battles | DVD | (07/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Wrong Arm Of The Law Peter Sellers stars as gang-leader Pearly Gates who has a double life as Monsieur Jules the manager of a fashion house. The criminal world of London is being reduced to chaos by an Australian 'IPO mob' who acting on information provided by Gates' girlfriend Valerie (Nanette Newman) impersonate police officers and take the spoils of the true criminals after the crime has been safely committed. The crimes are relatively victimless involving jewellery thefts from the rich or robbery from institutions such as banks and post offices. Gates is instrumental in getting a deal between organised crime and Scotland Yard. Never Let Go A cosmetic salesman sets out to prove to himself and his wife that he is not a failure. Waltz Of The Toreadors The immortal Peter Sellers is hilarious as a pompous retired general who still has a taste for the ladies in French playwright Jean Anouilh's philosophical farce. A lusty comedy of manners 'Waltz of the Toreadors' tempers its treatment of an old rake's delusions with generous dollops of wit and compassion. Soft Beds Hard Battles Peter Sellers plays six different characters in this hilarious sexploitation comedy. A renowned Paris brothel has turned into an active centre for the French Resistance. The girls assist the Allied war effort by attracting and eliminating the enemy amongst its clientele in the bedroom...

• Maria Callas - Live In Concert Hamburg 1959 And 1962 (1959/62) | DVD | (18/09/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  From 15th May, 1965 Featuring:La Vestale “Tu che invoco con orrore (Atto II)”, by Spontini, Macbeth “Nel di della vittoria io le incontrai… Vieni, t’affretta (Atto I)” by Verdi, Il Barbiere di Siviglia “Una voce poco fa (Atto I)” by Rossini, Don Carlo “Tu che le vanita (Atto IV)” by Verdi and Il Pirata “Oh! S’io potessi dissipar le nubi (Atto II)” by Bellini.From 16th March 1962 Featuring:Le Cid “De cet affreaux combat… Pleurez, mes yeux (Acte III)” by Massenet, Mireille “Overture” by Gounod, Carmen “”Prelude, Habanera (Acte I), Entr’acte (Acte III) and Seguidille (Acte I)” by Bizet, La Forza del Destino “Overture” and Ernani “Surta e la notre, Ernani, involami (Atto I)” by Verdi, La Cenerentola “Nacqui all’affanno e al pianto… Non piu mesta (Atto II)” by Rossinni and Don Carlo “O don fatale, o don crudel (Atto III)” by Verdi.

• 2000 Maniacs | DVD | (28/10/2002) from £10.55   |  Saving you £2.44 (23.13%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Available "fully uncut" for the first time in the UK, Two Thousand Maniacs! is the second of director HG Lewis' "blood" trilogy. Though the "once-in-a-lifetime" title makes a promise no film could keep--only about 30 maniacs show up--and the level of gore is a notch or so down from Blood Feast--only four deaths--this is perhaps the director's most watchable film. The Brigadoon-derived plot nugget concerns a Deep South town (variously suggested to be in Georgia or Arkansas, but actually Florida) wiped out by Union raiders during the Civil War, which reappears once every 100 years to wreak "blood vengeance". For the centennial celebrations, Pleasant Valley lures Yankee tourists off the road and subjects them to gruesome fairground games--a cannibal BBQ, a "horse-race", a "barrel roll" and "teetering rock". The ideas are nasty, and Lewis even attempts subtlety by keeping the quartering and the spiked barrel inside mostly off screen, but the creepiest touch is the "aw-shucks" good humour with which the ghostly Confederate maniacs--led by a mayor who is the spitting image of Sergeant Bilko's Colonel Hall--treat their horrible sport. It has the usual Lewis drawbacks--mostly inept staging, acting that veers between the wooden ("Playmate" Connie Mason) and the amateurishly hammy (one of the worst child actors in film history), clumsy editing, community theatre production values--but his fans wouldn't have it any other way and the hayseed music is great! On the DVD: The full-screen image is as good as this ever will look, considering Lewis' primitive understanding of lighting cinematography, with rich scarlet blood, vividly ugly 1963 leisurewear and very few print imperfections. The features offer an imaginative "Welcome to Pleasant Valley Centennial" menu, with buttons like the target you have to hit to drop the "teetering rock" on the Yankee; lurid original trailer ("Two thousand maniacs crazed for carnage started bathing a whole town in pulsing, human blood ... brutal, evil, ghastly beyond belief"); filmographies for Lewis, Friedman and star William Kerwin (aka Thomas Wood); promotional art gallery; notes by aptly-monickered expert Billy Chainsaw, highlighting the connections with John Waters and Brigadoon; a teaser trailer for "the Herschell Gordon Lewis Collection"; a mass of trailers for other "Tartan terror" titles. The Lewis-Friedman commentary and mind-numbing outtakes reel available on the Region 1 DVD are sadly absent, but that release doesn't have this one's major bonus addition--the entire soundtrack album, with compositions by Lewis himself (including the immortal "Yee-Hah, the South's Gonna Rise Again") and Flatt and Scruggs (of Bonnie and Clyde fame). --Kim Newman

• The Beatles - Red Album | DVD | (27/08/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Red Album remains one of the finest showcases for the early Beatles work available and here the best of the music from the early days is reviewed by a leading team of critics and contemporaries of the band. Fantastic archive performance footage is combined with insights from Bill Harry and three of the best Beatles book authors to set pen to paper!

• The Joseph Losey Collection | DVD | (20/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  The Go Between: Summer 1900: Queen Victoria's last and the summer Leo turns 13. He's the guest of Marcus a wealthy classmate at a grand home in rural Norfolk. Leo is befriended by Marian Marcus's twenty-something sister a beauty about to be engaged to Hugh a viscount and good fellow. Marian buys Leo a forest-green suit takes him on walks and asks him to carry messages to and from their neighbor Ted Burgess a bit of a rake. Leo is soon dissembling realizes he's betraying Hugh but continues as the go-between nonetheless asking adults naive questions about the attractions of men and women. Can an affair between neighbours stay secret for long? And how does innocence end? The Servant: In this landmark drama of class struggle and moral decay a pampered playboy (James Fox) acquires an elegant townhouse complete with a dedicated man servant (Dirk Bogarde). But when the young man's fiance (Wendy Craig) becomes suspicious of the servant's intentions he and his 'sister' (Sarah Miles) thrust the household into a sinister game where seduction is corruption and power becomes the most shocking desire of all. Accident: When an accident kills one of his student and Oxford professor (Dirk Bogarde) recounts the circumstances of their meeting. But as these turbulent memories unfold they reveal a series of shocking relationships betrayed by adultery obsession and self-destruction in which nothing is what it seems and everything has its cost. The Criminal: Stanley Baker (Hell Is A City Zulu) stars as underworld kingpin Johnny Bannion sprung from prison by his best friend Mike Carter to mastermind a daring racetrack heist. But when Johnny is sent back to jail shortly after hiding the stolen loot he must survive and ordeal of brutality and betrayal at the hands of his fellow convicts and former accomplices in this gritty drama that was originally advertised as The Toughest Film Ever Made In Britain! Eva: Welsh writer Tyvian Jones (Stanley Baker) seems to have it all Sixties style -- an international best seller an apartment in Rome a gorgeous fianc''e in Virna Lisi - but he's bitter anyway. He meets his existential match in ennui in the mod seductress Eve played by Jeanne Moreau who was never more cynical or iconic. Decked out in pointy pumps and heavy eyeliner listening to Billie Holiday on scratchy LPs as she counts the lire and smokes endless packs of cigarettes in strangers' bedrooms she is the epitome of frayed glamour. An emotional tyrant Eve's casual maneuvering forces Baker to confront his past - and his weaknesses - as a man and an artist. Mr. Klein: As Jews flee Paris Mr. Klein exploits them preying on their desperation by buying their valuables at a fraction of their worth... until he finds his name is shared by a Jewish member of the anti-Nazi resistance. Klein reports this to the authorities only find that he is uncontrollably sinking into the quicksand of mistaken identity. The Sleeping Tiger: An intriguing psychological drama starring Dirk Bogarde as a petty crook who is sheltered by a psychiatrist planning to use him as a guinea pig until Bogarde seduces his wife. The Big Night: After his adored father is savagely beaten by sports writer Al Judge 17 year-old George goes on a mission of revenge. In a twisted coming of age tale George explores the seedy side of his town and in his inability to understand the savage attack gets more than he bargained for.

• The Dick Van Dyke Show - The Complete Season Two | DVD | (21/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The Dick Van Dyke Show which ran from 1961 to 1966 on the CBS Network ushered in the golden age of the situation comedy poised as it was on the threshold between the comedy-variety star vehicles of the 1950s and the neorealist socio-comedies of the early 1970s. The Dick Van Dyke Show truly found it's niche in its second season. Millions tuned in weekly for the fun with comedy writer Rob Petrie (Dick Van Dyke) on the job with his wisecracking co-workers (Morey Amsterdam Rose Maria) and at home with his lovely wife Laura (Mary Tyler Moore). Now enjoy all 32 of the season's hilarious episodes each digitally remastered to its original full-length version. Episodes Comprise: 1. Never Name a Duck 2. The Two Faces of Rob 3. The Attempted Marriage 4. Bank Book 6565696 5. Hustling the Hustler 6. My Husband Is Not a Drunk 7. What's in a Middle Name? 8. Like a Sister 9. The Night the Roof Fell In 10. The Secret Life of Buddy and Sally 11. A Bird in the Head Hurts 12. Gesundheit Darling 13. A Man's Teeth Are Not His Own 14. Somebody Has to Play Cleopatra 15. The Cat Burglar 16. The Foul Weather Girl 17. Will You Two Be My Wife? 18. Ray Murdock's X-Ray 19. I Was a Teenage Head Writer 20. It May Look Like a Walnut! 21. My Husband Is a Check-Grabber 22. Don't Trip Over That Mountain 23. Give Me Your Walls! 24. The Sam Pomerantz Scandals 25. The Square Triangle 26. I'm No Henry Walden! 27. Racy Tracy Rattigan 28. Divorce 29. It's a Shame She Married Me 30. A Surprise Surprise Is a Surprise 31. Jilting the Jilter 32. When a Bowling Pin Talks Listen

• Female Jungle | DVD | (28/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  A blonde actress is murdered across the road from a bar. An off duty cop has been getting drunk at the bar but becomes worried about his innocence when he is told he was seen leaving the establishment with the blonde but doesn't remember. As he investigates he interviews a columnist who was dating the actress a caricaturist who drew the victim the caricaturist's wife who works at the bar and the caricaturist's lover and slowly begins to put the pieces of the puzzle together.

• The Dick Van Dyke Show Series 1 - Complete | DVD | (05/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Remember when Laura got her toestuck in a hotel bathtub? When Rob dreamed about ever-presentwalnuts and an alien with no thumbs that looked like Danny Thomas? Trip into the living room of comedy writer Rob Petrie (Dick Van Dyke) along with his lovely wife Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) wisecracking co-workers and nutty neighbors. Consistently ranked among the top TV comedies of all time and renowed for its top-notch cast and stellar writing.