Classic Films

• The Longest Day (Classic Collection Box Set) | DVD | (31/05/2004) from £59.99   |  Saving you £-20.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  On June 6 1944 the Allied Invasion of France marked the beginning of the end of Nazi domination over Europe. The attack involved 3 000 000 men 11 000 planes and 4 000 ships comprising the largest armada the world has ever seen. The Longest Day is a vivid hour-by-hour re-creation of this historic event. Featuring a stellar international cast and told from the perspectives of both sides it is a fascinating look at the massive preparations mistakes and random events that determined the outcome of one of the biggest battles in history. Winner of two Oscars (Special Effects and Cinematography) The Longest Day ranks as one of Hollywood's truly great war films.

• Freaks | DVD | (20/10/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  One of the most famous, most shocking and, for much of its existence, most elusive of cult films, Tod Browning's Freaks remains worthy of its dubious top billing by literary critic Leslie Fiedler as the greatest of all Freak movies. At the centre of the story are two circus midgets, Hans and Frieda (already well known in the 1930s through film and advertising appearances as Harry and Daisy Earles), whose marriage plans are blasted when Hans becomes the target of the aerialist Cleopatra's plot to marry him then kill him off for his money. During what is certainly one of the most notorious scenes in cult film history, the wedding party of freaks ritually embrace Cleopatra as one of us. Through her undisguised horror at this and her gruesome punishment by the freaks, the film bluntly confronts viewers about our awkwardness about different bodies while simultaneously stirring up fear and alarm in familiar horror-movie style. Better known for the Bela Lugosi version of Dracula (1931), Brownings showmanship was equally a product of the circus (he was himself an adolescent contortionist in a travelling show). His meshing of circus and cinema--two dangerous entertainments--produces Freaks' uniquely disquieting effect.Startled and indignant preview audiences forced the producers to add an explanatory foreword to the film but even this crackles with sensationalism as it veers between sideshow-style sympathy and fright warning. None the less, protests and local censorship ensued and the film never reached the mass audience for which it was made. Still, some of the real stars of the midway Ten-in-One shows of the 1920s and 30s (Johnny Eck, Daisy and Violet Hilton the Siamese twins, Prince Randian, the Hindu Living Torso) are showcased here as themselves and it is their undeniably real presence in what is otherwise familiar fictional terrain which is still so provocative. --Helen Stoddart

• Scarlet Street | DVD | (17/11/2003) from £11.80   |  Saving you £-6.81 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  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

• Doctor Who : Rememberance Of The Daleks | DVD | (02/07/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  ""Doctor my men have just put three highly explosive grenades into a confined area. Nothing remotely human could have survived that."" But as the Doctor informs Group Captain Gilmore the hostile agressor which has already killed one of his men is not remotely human. For London in 1963 is to be the alloted place and time for a further encounter between the Doctor and his most feared enemy - the Daleks. Accompanied by a streetwise teenager from the 1980's called Ace the Doctor must

• Laurel Hardy 4 Disc Set | DVD | (19/10/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  March of the Wooden Soldiers Evil old Silas Barnaby threatens to evict Widow Peep who lives in a shoe unless she lets him marry her daughter Bo-Beep who is in love with the dashing young Tom-Tom. Silas seeks revenge by banishing Tom-Tom to Bogeyland but with the help of Stan Ollie and a mouse Tom-Tom and Bo-Peep are saved and the monsters of Bogeyland chased out of Toyland. Flying Deuces Stan and Ollie are holidaying in Paris. Ollie intends to remain in France to marry Georgette (Jean Parker) the innkeeper's daughter but she refuses his proposal. Ollie decides instead to jump into the Seine along with Stan but Fran''ois (Reginald Gardiner) a Foreign Legion officer who is actually Georgette's husband offers an alternative. Utopia The last film Laurel and Hardy made together Stan and Ollie fly to London for the reading of Stan's late uncle's will. After Stan's uncle's cash is used to pay the solicitors death duties and tax the only things left are a yacht--and a South Sea island. Hilarious hijinks ensue... Disc 4 also includes Hustling for Health One Too Many and The Lucky Dog

• Horror Hotel | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

• Charade | DVD | (01/12/2003) from £6.93   |  Saving you £6.06 (87.45%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In Charade Audrey Hepburn plays a Parisienne whose husband is murdered and who finds she is being followed by four men seeking the fortune her late spouse had hidden away. Cary Grant is the stranger who comes to her aid, but his real motives aren't entirely clear--could he even be the killer? The 1963 film is directed by Stanley Donen, but it has been called "Hitchcockian" for good reason: the possible duplicities between lovers, the unspoken agendas between a man and woman sharing secrets. Charade is nowhere as significant as a Hitchcock film, but in terms of suspense it holds its own; and Donen's glossy production lends itself to the welcome experience of stargazing. You want Cary Grant to be Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn to be no one but Audrey Hepburn in a Hollywood product such as this, and they certainly don't let us down. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Rain | DVD | (07/09/2009) from £11.82   |  Saving you £-0.84 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Rain

• Mozart - Le Nozze Di Figaro | DVD | (04/02/2008) from £23.51   |  Saving you £-0.52 (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

• Brazil V Hungary 1966 | DVD | (06/12/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  In a free-flowing game, full of attacking flair, Hungary's latter-day heroes put mighty Brazil to the sword with a magnificent International performance. The game was so good that the crowd stood and cheered the teams for more than an hour - after the game had finished!! The knowledgeable Everton crowd cheered for Hungary and helped to lift the entire game to one of the finest ever seen in the World Cup. Watch for the tremendous organisation of the Hungarian defence, faced with football's most feared attack. Watch for the silky ball skills of Florian Albert - and the broken shoulder of Kalman Meszoly. A simple sling and he was back on the pitch! Features full match with slo mo replays Brazil Team Gylmar Santos Henrique Lima Bellini (c) Altair Garrincha Gerson Alcindo Tostao Jairzinho Hungary Team Gelei Matrai Kaposzta Meszoly Sipos (c) Szepesi Bene Mathesz Albert Rakosi Farkas The original BBC film, narrated by KENNETH WOLSTENHOLME

• Edward G. Robinson - Scarlet Street / The Stranger | DVD | (18/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  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. 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. The Stranger, according to Orson Welles, "is the worst of my films. There is nothing of me in that picture". But even on autopilot Welles still leaves most filmmakers standing. A war crimes investigator, played by Edward G Robinson, tracks down a senior Nazi to a sleepy New England town where he's living in concealment as a respected college professor. Welles wanted Agnes Moorehead as the investigator and Robinson as the Nazi Franz 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. 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 clocktower that Hitchcock must surely have recalled when he made Vertigo. And Robinson, dogged in pursuit, is as quietly excellent as ever. On the DVD: sparse pickings. Both films have a full-length commentary by Russell Cawthorne which adds the occasional insight, but is repetitive and not always reliable. The box claims both print have been "fully restored and digitally remastered", but you'd never guess. --Philip Kemp

• All That Jazz | DVD | (31/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Part tragic part comic this outrageous look at life in the fast lane is the Academy Award-winning musical about Bob Fosse's excessive life in show business (here played by an Oscar-nominated Roy Scheider). Dazzlingly presented this electrifying story about the perils of pushing yourself too hard is filled with Fosse's legendary song-and-dance choreography. Bonus CD Tracklisting: 1. Main Title (Instrumental) 2. On Broadway (George Benson) 3. Michelle 4. Take Off With Us 5. Vivaldi Concert In G (Instrumental) 6. Ponte Vecchio (Instrumental) 7. Everything Old Is New Again 8. South MT Sinai Parade (Instrumental) 9. After You've Gone (Leland Palmer) 10. There Will Be Some Changes Made (Ann Reinking) 11. Who's Sorry Now? 12. Some Of These Days 13. Going Home Now (Instrumental) 14. Bye Bye Love (Ben Vereen & Ray Scheider)

• Daniel Boone - Season 2 | DVD | (02/04/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Join Emmy nominated Fess Parker as legendary frontier hero Daniel Boone. Seen for the first time in glorious colour Daniel Boone ran for six seasons on the BBC from 1968-1973. Season 2 continues Boone's adventures as he carves out his new life on the untamed frontier. Over 28 thrilling episodes we see how Daniel meets his future wife and becomes embroiled in not only the hardship but the intrigue and betrayal of the settlers struggle to build a new life in the untamed West. Re-ignite the spirit of the frontier with this beautifully restored and re mastered piece of television history - available for the first time on DVD. Episodes Comprise: 1. Empire of the Lost 2. The Tortoise and the Hare 3. The Mound Builders 4. My Name Is Rawls 5. The Old Man and the Cave 6. The Trek 7. The Aaron Burr Story 8. Cry of Gold 9. The Peace Tree 10. The Thanksgiving Story 11. A Rope for Mingo 12. The First Beau 13. The Perilous Journey 14. The Christmas Story 15. The Tamarack Massacre Affair 16. Gabriel 17. Seminole Territory 18. The Deserter 19. Crisis by Fire 20. The Gun 21. The Prisoners 22. The Fifth Man 23. The Gun-Barrel Highway 24. The Search 25. Fifty Rifles 26. The Trap 27. The Accused 28. Cibola 29. The High Cumberland (1) 30. The High Cumberland (2)

• Happy Days | DVD | (01/01/1980) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Suffused with tenderness, lucidity and humour, this Samuel Beckett play is a comedy in pure, music hall style. Legendary actress, Irene Worth, stars as Winnie, an optimist who deep down senses she has little to feel happy about. Irene Worth gives a tour-de-force performance as she chatters incessantly and cheerily on a variety of subjects. Winnie never allows a day to pass without looking her best and hoping for better. Worth portrays Winnie as the embodiment of humankind's nobler virtues: wise, just, majestic, and committed to her conviction that this will have been a happy day.

• The Fabulous Thunderbirds - Invitation Only | DVD | (07/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Taking the stage in Los Angeles The Fabulous Thunderbirds perform some of their best-loved songs to a capacity crowd. Includes ""Wait On Time "" ""The Things I Used To Do "" ""Wrap It Up "" and many more.

• Dateline Diamonds | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  A swinging sixties musical adventure featuring appearances from the Small Faces and David Hemmings. Lester Benson the manager of a top rock band; The Small Faces is hiding a secret. His true name is Arthur Gittins and he is and ex-con. This explosive secret could ruin his career and destroy the band. Enter a diamond thief who knows lester's true identity. Desperate to ship his hoard of stolen stones out to Amsterdam he blackmails The Small Faces' manager into smuggling the contraband onto an offshore pirate radio ship where it will be collected by Kiki Dee's crooked agent! It looks like the perfect crime but unfortunately the daughter of the police chief heading the case is a big Small Faces fan. Featuring four top tracks from The Small Faces two great performances by the Chantelles and a sizzling number from Kiki Dee 'Dateline Diamonds' is a true rock 'n' roll gem!

• Big Bangers At Brands | DVD | (10/11/2008) from £11.79   |  Saving you £4.20 (35.62%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Big Bangers At Brands (1966)

• Jab Pyaar Kisise Hota Hai | DVD | (28/01/2013) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Little Richard - Live At The Toronto Peace Festival 1969 | DVD | (20/04/2009) from £5.49   |  Saving you £4.50 (81.97%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Considered a key figure in the transition from rhythm & blues to rock & roll in the 1950s Little Richard helped lay the foundation for rock and roll music and influenced generations of rhythm & blues rock and soul music artists. He has influenced giants such as James Brown Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix Otis Redding Wilson Pickett Paul McCartney George Harrison John Fogerty Bob Seger and David Bowie. Captured on film by the legendary music director D.A. Pennebaker here is the ultimate and outrageous Wildman himself in a 1969 concert at Toronto's Rock & Roll Revival tearing through infamous Richard classics. Tracklist: 1. Lucille 2. Good Golly Miss Molly 3. Tutti Frutti 4. Hound Dog 5. Long Tall Sally 6. Blueberry Hill 7. Rip It Up 8. Keep A Knocking 9. Jenny Jenny

• Nielsen - Stokowski Conducts Nielsen | DVD | (04/11/2008) from £9.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (130.13%)   |  RRP £22.99