Classic Films

• Cream - Farewell Concert | DVD | (24/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

• Five Minutes To Live | DVD | (02/07/2007) from £13.95   |  Saving you £-0.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Originally released in 1961 as a crime drama. Fred (Tayback) narrates the film in flashback detailing a suburban bank robbery that goes awry. In his simple plan he hires a hard-up hood Johnny Cabot (Cash) to take the wife of the bank's vice president hostage. Cabot will hold her until he gets a call alerting him that Fred has been successful in getting ransom money. Cabot waits and watches the Wilson house as the husband (Woods) leaves for the bank and their young son (Howard) heads off to school. Posing as a door-to-door guitar instructor he forces his way into the house and takes Nancy Wilson (Forrester) hostage. At the bank Fred talks his way into Ken Wilson's office and presents his personal check for $70 000 intending that Wilson will withdraw the funds to cover the check as a ransom for his wife. He has Wilson call home to prove that Nancy is being held by the unstable Cabot and gives Wilson 5 minutes to make his decision. If Fred fails to call the house back Cabot is to kill Nancy.

• Bela Bartok - After the Storm | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A detailed and often revealing portrait of the last five years of the composer's life - The Times. The composer's friends and colleagues including Sir Georg Solti and Yehudi Menuhin join his sons Peter and Bela Jr. to tell the story of Bartok's years of exile in America. After his journey to New York in 1940 from war-torn Europe he found himself lost in an unfamiliar culture. He was to spend the rest of his life there fighting sickness poverty and failure. Nevertheless consoled by the cycles of nature his last five years produced some of his greatest and most moving music.

• Singin' In The Rain Ultimate Collection Edition | Blu Ray | (25/04/2022) from £34.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Burgess Meredith Collection | DVD | (14/04/2008) from £18.99   |  Saving you £-15.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Titles comprise: Man On The Eiffel Tower (1949): A criminal genius orchestrates a complex game of murder ensnaring everyone around him in his web of deceit. After a wealthy American is murdered a poor street vendor found with blood on his hands is the obvious suspect. Inspector Maigret discerns that there is more to the story and begins to decipher hidden clues buried beneath the surface. When the detective and the mastermind come face to face they engage in a thrilling battle of wills. The killer leads the police on a furious chase through the streets and rooftops of Paris lashing out as the noose grows tighter around him. Winterset (1936): A young man returns to New York City 15 years after his father was tried and executed for a murder he did not commit. His search to find the real killers brings him to the slums of the city where he falls in love with a young girl Marianne and uncovers the truth he's been searching for his entire life. Adapted from the Broadway play by Maxwell Anderson and nominated for two Academy Award Winterset is a moody journey into the dark arms of malice murder and retribution. A rain-drenched testament to the tortured human condition. Second Chorus (1941): A marvelously delightful 1930's style song and dance spectacular the likes of which would be wiped away by the December bombing of Pearl Harbor Second Chorus finds Fred Astaire as a struggling bandleader chased by a collection agent (Paulette Goddard). She serves the papers he chases her. She wangles him an audition with Artie Shaw which Burgess Meredith hilariously sabotages. A rich sugar daddy (the marvelous Charles Butterworth) smoothes things over with Artie and through it all Fred and Paulette dance and sing. For what more could you ask?

• Cky Trilogy | DVD | (22/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

• Blackmail/Easy Virtue | DVD | (24/07/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Fred Astaire - Signature Collection - Easter Parade/Broadway Melody Of 1940/Finian's Rainbow/The Barklays Of Broadway/The Band Wagon | DVD | (22/10/2007) from £24.28   |  Saving you £0.71 (2.80%)   |  RRP £24.99

  This 6DVD box set features 5 classic films from the king of dance: Fred Astaire. Featured in the set are Easter Parade, Broadway Melody Of 1940, Finian's Rainbow, The Barklays Of Broadway and the 2DVD Special Edition of The Band Wagon.

• The Themes Of Shakespeare - Macbeth And King Lear | DVD | (20/08/2007) from £11.23   |  Saving you £-1.24 (-12.40%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Produced by the Emmy Award winning team at Cromwell Productions this DVD is an invaluable guide to understanding Shakespeare's tragedies. With the expert knowledge and interpretation of Professor Stanley Wells of the Shakespeare Institute and Dr Robert Smallwood of the Shakespeare Centre Stratford-Upon-Avon the central themes of two of Shakespeare's works are examined. Topics addressed include: Macbeth: Q - How does the relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth change? Q - I

• Mozart - Idomeneo - Britten | DVD | (09/06/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  This DVD is part of the Britten-Pears DVD Collection. This collection features four historically and musically significant films from the BBC archives of works and performances by Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears one of the greatest English tenors and Britten's long-term partner and artistic inspiration. None of these films have been available before on any home video format. This colour film recording of Mozart's Idomeneo dates from a period when Mozart's first mature masterpiece was barely known. This may indeed be the first-ever film of the opera. Conducted by Benjamin Britten using his own performing edition the opera is sung in English with Peter Pears singing Idomeneo - the only film recording with Peter Pears in the title role. The cast also includes renowned British soprano Heather Harper and a young Robert Tear. Each act begins with a spoken introduction from John Warrack revered music historian and academic.

• Graduation Day | DVD | (01/10/2002) from £14.06   |  Saving you £-1.76 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.30

• The Indestructible Man | DVD | (25/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  A mad doctor brings a dead killer back to life after he is executed in a gas chamber. But he is soon back to his own murdering ways and looking for revenge! Please note: This is a NTSC disc.

• Berlioz:Roméo et Juliette (Béjart - Florence 1972) | DVD | (24/10/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Eric Burdon And The New Animals - The Best Of Beat Beat Beat Vol.3 | DVD | (07/07/2008) from £4.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Beat Beat Beat was a German music programme that ran during the sixties. Not to be confused with the other well known German pop programme Beat Club Beat Beat Beat was broadcast out of Frankfurt commencing in 1966. The programme ran to 26 episodes between its launch in 1966 and the final programme in January 1969 all of which are still in the German television archives. The shows were eclectic affairs and included performances by artists as diverse as Eric Burdon and the New Animals The Move Sam and Dave Cat Stevens and Barry Ryan to name just a few. This disc in the series of Beat Beat Beat releases features just one band - Eric Burdon and The New Animals. Eric Burdon had achieved massive worldwide success with the original Animals in 1964. By 1967 the original band had split and Eric influenced by the new sounds coming out of America's West Coast formed the New Animals which were more psychedelically inclined. The band performs five tracks including a cover of the song Morning Dew made famous by Tim Rose. Other songs include Trumpets Blow See See Rider and a harking back to the style of the older Animals with the John D Loudermilk song Tobacco Road and Road Runner. Rarely seen before this footage is not only historical but an amazing document of the times. Tracklist: 1. Episode 6 - Morning Dew 2. Episode 6 - I Hear Trumpets Blow 3. Eric Burdon & The New Animals - Tobacco Road 4. Eric Burdon & The New Animals - Road Runner 5. Eric Burdon & The New Animals - See See Rider

• JESUS VON NAZARETH - VARIOUS | DVD | (09/03/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Brahms/Hindemith/Stravinsky - Boston So Archives | DVD | (23/05/2005) from £19.79   |  Saving you £3.20 (13.90%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Brahms/Hindemith/Stravinsky - Boston SO Archives

• Hügel der blutigen Stiefel/Zwei hau'n auf den Putz (Mediabook A) (+ CD) | Blu Ray | (16/12/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Man With The Golden Arm | DVD | (07/04/2008) from £7.09   |  Saving you £-1.10 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Frank Sinatra plays a superb role in this 1955 drama about a crooked card dealing junkie who just can't resist one more rigged marathon poker game. After six months in rehab Frankie Machine (Frank Sinatra) is trying to stay clean by trying his luck as a jazz drummer. Zosch his crippled wife is far from enthused with this idea and insists on his return to his crooked gambling ways. When Frankie falls for Molly (Novak) he has his chance to follow his musical dreams in secret at her apartment. Will Frankie succumb to the pressures of his wife Zosch and his gambling boss (Strauss) or will he pursue his dream of becoming a jazz musician? The ""Man with the Golden Arm"" is a story of gritty realism and is Frank Sinatra at his best.

• Jane Eyre | DVD | (11/11/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This 1943 version of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre was made just two years after Citizen Kane, and it certainly looks like star Orson Welles muscled his way behind the camera much of the time. (In fact, co-star Joan Fontaine--who plays the title character--has maintained that Welles methodically did just that every day on the set.) Not that the film's official director was a hack: Robert Stevenson gets the credit, a man who later had a busy career at Disney making numerous live-action hits such as Mary Poppins. But there's no mistaking Welles' masterful hand in this film's bold and creative look, and there's no getting away from his enigmatic charisma as Rochester, the widower who takes in Jane as a governess to his daughter. An engrossing, gorgeous film, there's even a small role for Elizabeth Taylor at the beginning as Jane's unlucky, doomed friend at a cruel boarding school. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Two Guys From Milwaukee | DVD | (05/01/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A