"Director: David Eady"

• Children's Film Foundation Bumper Box (3-disc DVD set) | DVD | (22/10/2018) from £15.05   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Children's Film Foundation Bumper Box (3-Disc DVD set) A wizard weekend for all the family is guaranteed with his carefully curated assortment of tasty cinematic treats from the Children's Film Foundation: Britain's best-loved and longest running producer of quality cinema entertainment for kids of all ages. It's fun and adventure all the way from the feisty Fifties to the electric Eighties with this bumper box set, lovingly loaded with nine fab, fast, furious full-fat vintage features and a brand-new documentary. Switch off your phone, grab the duvet and hit the sofa-'cos it's time to bed down for a binge-watch bonanza! Stand well back for 1960s bonfire-night fun in Peril For the Guy, have a classic kick-about with George Best and Bobby Charlton at Manchester United in Cup Fever and share your orange squash with an incredible invisible rabbit in Mr Horatio Knibbles. Take your seats in the Big Top for circus hi-jinx with Anoop and the Elephant, befriend the world's only ice-lolly-loving Yeti in The Zoo Robbery and become a young 1970s eco-warrior for The Battle of Billy s Pond. Attempt the avert nuclear disaster in the nail-biting One Hour to Zero, chase cockney crooks down London's canals as you join 4D Special Agents and enlist The Who's Roger Daltrey to back your 1980s reggae band on Brighton Pier in Pop Pirates! Take doggie delight in Rover Makes Good, Juno helps Out and To The Rescue three 1950s canine crackers from the CFF vaults, guaranteed to make you roll over, woof and wag your tail. Do your film-history revision fun-style with a new interview with veteran CFF writer John Tully (16 mins) and The Children's Film Foundation Story (84 mins) a fabulous new feature-length documentary telling the true tale of the Foundation and the talents who worked there. Featuring interviews with CFF luminaries including John Krish, Harley Cokeliss and a cast of thousands!

• Children's Film Foundation Collection: Runaways | DVD | (21/04/2014) from £15.98   |  Saving you £6.00 (42.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  JOHNNY ON THE RUN | HIDE AND SEEK | TERRY ON THE FENCE For Over 30 years the Children’s Film Foundation produced quality entertainment for young audiences employing the cream of British filmmaking talent. Newly transferred from the best available elements held in the BFI National Archive these much-loved and fondly remembered films finally return to the screen after many years out of distribution in this specially curated DVD release from the BFI. Johnny on the Run a superb early work by illustrious British director Lewis Gilbert (You Only Live Twice Education Rita Alfie) follows orphaned Polish refugee Janek who runs into trouble in the shape of two scheming thieves. Starring Sydney Tafler (Carve Her Name with Pride The Spy Who Loved Me) as a cunning spiv and featuring an appearance from John Laurie (The 39 Steps Dad’s Army) Johnny on the Run is an action-packed adventure with a remarkable performance from its young lead. Hide and Seek stars a teenage Gary Kemp (The Krays) as do-gooding Chris who becomes entangled with a borstal escapee known locally as the Deptford Dodger. With friend Bev Chris traces the ungrateful Dodger’s disreputable dad. With Roy Dotrice and Robin Askwith in supporting roles this thriller is among the best of the Foundation’s 1970s output. In Terry on the Fence when our 11-year-old protagionist runs away from home he only intends to put the wind up his parents. But a gang of older bullies led by tough-nut Les soon draw him into their daunting world of break-ins and stolen goods. Based on the book by author Bernard Ashley Terry on the Fence goes far beyond the concept of goodies and baddies to the ambiguity at the heart of Terry’s moral dilemma.

• Edgar Wallace Mysteries - Volume 6 | DVD | (22/10/2012) from £27.09   |  Saving you £2.90 (10.71%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The thrillers of Edgar Wallace one of the twentieth century’s most successful crime novelists have been widely adapted for film and television – the most memorable of which being the Edgar Wallace Mysteries series made at Merton Park Studios during the first half of the 1960s. A noir-esque series it updates some of the author’s stories to more contemporary settings blending classic B-movie elements with a distinctly British feel. Unseen for decades these dramas have been freshly transferred from the original film elements specifically for this release.

• Three Cases of Murder and Orson Welles Ghost Story | DVD | (11/10/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Unseen for many years Three Cases Of Murder and Return To Glennascaul are something of a treat for lovers of British film. The main feature is an excellent portmanteau in which the viewers' imagination is challenged by the bizarre and macabre. A notable supporting cast of British actors includes John Gregson Elizabeth Sellars Andre Morell Hugh Pryse Eddie Byrne and Alan Badel.

• Children's Film Foundation Volume 1: London Tales (DVD) | DVD | (23/07/2012) from £10.69   |  Saving you £9.30 (87.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  For over 30 years the Children's Film Foundation dedicated itself to producing quality entertainment for young audiences, employing the cream of British filmmaking talent. Villains, gangsters and conmen are foiled by plucky London youngsters. Helmed by such celebrated directors as John Krish and Pat Jackson, the films in London Tales feature assured performances from an array of familiar faces, including a fresh faced John Moulder Brown (playing a schoolboy in trouble) and Bernard Cribbins (as a dastardly master of disguise). Newly transferred from the best available elements held in the BFI Archive, these much loved and fondly remembered family films finally make their welcome return to the screen after many years out of distribution. Includes: The Salvage Gang (1958), Seventy Deadly Pills (1966), Operation Third Form (1966) and Night Ferry (1976)

• Leslie Phillips Box Set | DVD | (08/08/2016) from £14.55   |  Saving you £1.44 (9.90%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Triple bill of British comedies starring Leslie Phillips. In 'The Man Who Liked Funerals' (1959) Simon Hurd (Phillips) takes it upon himself to raise the necessary finances to keep the local youth club open. But he uses a peculiar technique to do so - he attends funerals and blackmails mourners into giving him money by threatening to reveal unfortunate stories about them to the press. However, he may regret his pitches after potentially meeting his match... In 'Don't Just Lie There, Say Something' (1974) Phillips stars as Sir William Mainwaring-Brown, a Government minister with a roving eye who has just introduced a bill to combat libertarian behaviour in Britain. Sir William, however, is having affairs with both his secretary Miss Parkyn (Joanna Lumley) and Wendy (Anita Graham), the wife of an eminent reporter. A group of hippies who oppose the bill seek to derail his campaign by discrediting co-founders Sir William and his best friend Barry Ovis (Brian Rix). In 'In the Doghouse' (1962) Phillips and James Booth star as rival vets. After ten long years of training, Jimmy Fox-Upton (Phillips) finally qualifies as a vet and opens his own practice. Settled in London, Jimmy opposes the money-grabbing ways of his fellow graduate Bob Skeffington (Booth) and sets about exposing his lucrative equine export scam.

• The Man Who Liked Funerals | DVD | (13/06/2016) from £8.45   |  Saving you £4.54 (53.73%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In order to help a youth club which is under threat of closure, a man begins attending funerals where he blackmails the relatives of the recently deceased, threatening to publish incriminating stories about them. However, his plans encounter problems when he tries to blackmail the family of a prominent villain.

• Faces in the Dark | DVD | (28/11/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Faces In The Dark is a suspenseful drama by director David Eady. Richard Hammond (John Gregson) owns a factory, and on the very day his wife Christine (Mai Zetterling) is coming to his office to tell him she wants a divorce, he is accidentally blinded during an experiment. His wife relents in her decision, but Richard is still as abrasive as ever, and now the bumpy spots in his personality are made worse by self-pity and a suspicion that he is losing his sanity. Meanwhile, Richard begins to suspect that the cool and aloof Christine and Richard's partner conspire against him, but as a blind man he has fewer resources to pinpoint why he is suspicious....

• Saturday Morning Pictures - The Best Of The Children's Film Foundation - Vol. 2 | DVD | (30/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Cup Fever Barton United's hopes of winning the Manchester junior football league receive a setback when their ground is taken over and used as a car park forcing the boys into action... Hide & Seek Keith absconds from school in the hope that his father will take him to Canada yet Keith's father seems more interested in robbing a bank...