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Classic British Movies Collection Vol. 1 | DVD | (16/05/2011)
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| RRP Six classic British movies from directors including Alfred Hitchcock and Terence Fisher. Murder: A stage actress is convicted of murdering a female friend. An eary classic from the master of suspense.SKIN GAME-A tale of bitter class warfare in an English village. Young & Innocent: A case of mistaken identity sets off a chase through the Cornish countryside to catch a killer. Rich & Strange: Fred and Emily believe that their lives would be enriched if they were more financially well off. After writing to a relative to obtain an inheritance in advance the couple soon embark upon a life that they could previously only dream of but will riches bring them happiness? Sherlock Holmes - The Deadly Necklace: Legendary Baker Street sleuth Sherlock Holmes (Christopher Lee) takes on the evil Moriarty again when the mad doctor goes after a priceless necklace which once belonged to Cleopatra. Under Capricorn: In 1831 Irishman Charles Adare travels to Australia to start a new life with the help of his cousin who has just been appointed governor. When he arrives he meets powerful landowner and ex-convict Sam Flusky who wants to do a business deal with him. Whilst attending a dinner party at Flusky's house Charles meets Flusky's wife Henrietta who he had known as a child back in Ireland. Henrietta is an alcoholic and seems to be on the verge of madness.
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Young And Innocent (Hitchcock) | DVD | (12/04/2010)
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| RRP Among Alfred Hitchcock's pre-Hollywood movies, 1938's Young and Innocent is a most unfairly overlooked classic. It's full of themes and stylistic touches that became permanent fixtures in his career. Based on Josephine Tey's novel A Shilling for Candles, the film title refers to the characters' outlook. However Hitchcock characteristically chips away at that innocence with flourishes of macabre humour, such as scenes of a dead rat at the lunch table and a hopeless conference with a defence lawyer, while suspense is heightened in a game of blindman's buff at a children 's party. The story concerns a typically Hitchcockian innocent man (Derrick de Marney) on the run, with a trivial object to find (a raincoat) that will prove his innocence. He's helped by a fiery young girl (Nova Pilbeam) who's unfortunately the daughter of the chief constable, but has some handy first aid skills. There's also an oppressive mother figure in the shape of an overbearing aunt (Mary Clare). Aside from these thematic traits, what remains impressive for viewers new or old is Hitchcock's technical set-pieces: a car sinks into a mineshaft, a railway station is recreated in miniature, and the twitchy-eyed murderer is finally located via an extended aerial tracking shot across a ballroom (pre-empting many similar shots, eg: Notorious). This sequence took two days to accomplish, and demonstrates the director was more than ready to move to the older and less innocent American industry . --Paul Tonks
Alfred Hitchcock Presents Vol.2 | DVD | (31/10/2006)
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The Man Who Knew Too Much | DVD | (06/04/2009)
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| RRP The Man Who Knew Too Much is American doctor Ben McKenna. On holiday in Morocco with his wife Jo and his eight-year-old son Hank he inadvertently witnesses a murder in a market and becomes privy to a plot of political assassination. This being masterminded by the Draytons an English couple they have met in a restaurant and is due to take place in London in a few days' time. In order to prevent McKenna from going to the police the couple kidnap Hank. Ben is warned not to tell the police what he knows. Hank's life depends on his silence.
The Hitchcock Collection | DVD | (28/04/2003)
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| RRP This Alfred Hitchcock Collection DVD box set contains 17 Hitchcock films, from 1940's Foreign Correspondent to 1976's Family Plot. Please refer to the links below to read our reviews for each title: Foreign Correspondent (1940), Mr & Mrs Smith (1941), Suspicion (1941), Saboteur (1942), Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Rope (1948), Rear Window (1954), The Trouble with Harry (1955), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), Vertigo (1958), Psycho (1960), The Birds (1963), Marnie (1964), Torn Curtain (1966), Topaz (1969), Frenzy (1972), Family Plot (1976)
Man Who Knew Too Much | DVD | (24/07/1999)
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| RRP Alfred Hitchcock himself called this 1934 British edition of his famous kidnapping story "the work of a talented amateur", while his 1956 Hollywood remake was the consummate act of a professional director. Be that as it may, this earlier movie still has its intense admirers who prefer it over the Jimmy Stewart--Doris Day version, and for some sound reasons. Tighter, wittier, more visually outrageous (back-screen projections of Swiss mountains, a whirly-facsimile of a fainting spell), the film even has a female protagonist (Edna Best in the mom part) unafraid to go after the bad guys herself with a gun. (Did Doris Day do that that? Uh-uh.) While the 1956 film has an intriguing undercurrent of unspoken tensions in nuclear family politics, the 1934 original has a crisp air of British optimism glummed up a bit when a married couple (Best and Leslie Banks) witness the murder of a spy and discover their daughter stolen away by the culprits. The chase leads to London and ultimately to the site of one of Hitch's most extraordinary pieces of suspense (though on this count, it must be said, the later version is superior). Take away distracting comparisons to the remake, and this Man Who Knew Too Much is a milestone in Hitchcock's early career. Peter Lorre makes his British debut as a scarred, scary villain. --Tom Keogh
Secret Agent | DVD | (24/07/1999)
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| RRP One of Alfred Hitchcock's finest pre-Hollywood films, the 1936 Secret Agent stars a young John Gielgud as a British spy whose death is faked by his intelligence superiors. Reinvented with a new identity and outfitted with a wife (Madeleine Carroll), Gielgud's character is sent on assignment with a cold-blooded accomplice (Peter Lorre) to assassinate a German agent. En route, the counterfeit couple keeps company with an affable American (Robert Young), who turns out to be more than he seems after the wrong man is murdered by Gielgud and Lorre. Dense with interwoven ideas about false names and real identities, about appearances as lies and the brutality of the hidden, and about the complicity of those who watch the anarchy that others do, Secret Agent declared that Alfred Hitchcock was well along the road to mastery as a filmmaker and, more importantly, knew what it was he wanted to say for the rest of his career. --Tom Keogh
Skin Game | DVD | (24/07/1999)
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The Lodger - A Story Of The London Fog | DVD | (26/04/2004)
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| RRP A serial killer known as 'The Avenger' is attacking blonde women in the city of London. When a new lodger rents a room at the home of Mr and Mrs Bunting their daughter's boyfriend begins to suspect that he may be the killer....
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North by Northwest (Deluxe Series) | DVD | (16/09/2002)
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| RRP Cary Grant teams with Hitchcock for the fourth and final time in this superlative espionage caper judged one of the American Film Institute's Top 100 American Films and spruced up with a new digital transfer and remixed Dolby Surround Stereo. Grant plays a Manhattan advertising executive plunged into a realm of spy (James Mason) and counterspy (Eva Marie Saint) and variously abducted framed for murder chased and in another signature set piece crop-dusted. He also holds on for dear life from that famed carved rock (for which back lot sets were used). But don't expect the Master Of Suspense to leave star or audience hanging...
Sabotage | DVD | (26/07/2004)
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| RRP An innocent boy becomes the innocent victim of a foreign agitator when he unwittingly carries a bomb aboard a busy bus....
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The Farmer's Wife | DVD | (21/03/2005)
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| RRP Samuel Sweetland (Jameson Thomas) is a condescending farmer who finds himself all alone. His wife has died and his daughter has just gotten married. To find a new spouse Sweetland and his housekeeper Minta (Lillian Hall-Davis) make a list of the women who live nearby assuming that any one of them would kill to be his bride. But farmer Sweetland is in for a big surprise--and his ego is in for a major bruising--until the lovelorn Sweetland can acknowledge that he is secretly admire
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Juno And The Paycock | DVD | (28/02/2005)
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| RRP Juno And The Paycock is set in Ireland chronicling the financial and emotional ups and downs of the Boyle clan. When the father learns that he is about to inherit a fortune he and his family go shopping with a vengeance and rack up some serious debts. Furthermore the promise of wealth also makes the Boyles very haughty and they even dump their working-class friends. However the Boyles find themselves in big trouble - financially and otherwise - when it is revealed t
The Ring | DVD | (24/04/2006)
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| RRP This silent romantic-drama centers around a love triangle where two boxers Brisson and Hunter battle in the ring and the strains of the heart for the same woman.
Jamaica Inn | DVD | (27/02/2006)
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| RRP Mary an orphan girl goes to live with her Uncle Joss landlord of the Jamaica Inn. Working as a barmaid at the inn Mary discovers that her uncle is the head of a gang of pirates who prey upon wrecked ships that have foundered in the heavy seas. When she then finds out that the gang lure the ships to their doom in the first place her life is put in danger...
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The Trouble With Harry | DVD | (11/02/2000)
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| RRP The Trouble with Harry is a lark, the mischievous side of Hitchcock given free reign. A busman's holiday for Alfred Hitchcock, this 1955 black comedy concerns a pesky corpse that becomes a problem for a quiet, Vermont neighbourhood. Shirley MacLaine makes her film debut as one of several characters who keep burying the body and finding it unburied again. Hitchcock clearly enjoys conjuring the autumnal look and feel of the story, and he establishes an important, first-time alliance with composer Bernard Herrmann, whose music proved vital to the director's next half-dozen or so films. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com
Alfred Hitchcock's Under Capricorn | DVD | (22/05/2006)
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| RRP Mystery murder and passion from the master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock! Screen legends Ingrid Bergman and Joseph Cotten star in Under Capricorn a lush technicolor melodrama directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Cotton plays Sam Flusky a native Briton banished to Australia for murder. Bergman is his wife Henrietta the disturbed sister of the man Flusky was convicted of killing. When a new governor arrives he brings with him his cousin Adare (Michael Wilding) an old fri
The 39 Steps | DVD | (27/02/2006)
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| RRP Alfred Hitchcock considered The 39 Steps to be one of his favourite films partly because it launched his classic theme of the innocent man on the run from villains and lawmen. Robert Donat stars as Richard Hannay in this freely adapted version of John Buchan's story. Despite repeated remakes Hitchcock's riveting original remains unequalled.
Murder | DVD | (28/03/2005)
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| RRP A juror in a murder trial after voting to convict has second thoughts and begins to investigate on his own before the execution... An actress in a travelling theatre group is murdered and Diana Baring another member of the group is found suffering from amnesia standing by the body. Diana is tried and convicted of the murder but Sir John Menier a famous actor on the jury is convinced of her innocence. Sir John sets out to find the real murderer before Diana's death sentence is carried out....
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Strangers On A Train | DVD | (01/11/2004)
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| RRP Two strangers making idle chitchat on a train agree that ""some people are better off dead"" and hypothetically speculate that if they swapped murders they could commit the perfect motiveless crime. Only later does one of the men realise that the other was serious about his murderous intentions... This first-class thriller from Alfred Hitchcock the 'Master of Suspense' is based on a Patricia Highsmith novel and was co-scripted by Raymond Chandler. Robert Burks received an Oscar
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