"Director: David Stevens"

• The Greatest Story Ever Told | DVD | (31/03/2003) from £4.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (220.44%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The life of Christ got an excessively long treatment (260 minutes, later trimmed to 195) in this 1965 film directed by George Stevens (The Diary of Anne Frank). Max von Sydow does beautiful work as Jesus--his spontaneous mourning at discovering his friend Lazarus has died is not like anything in other New Testament epics--and Stevens renders the familiar tale with a handsome authenticity. But the project is nearly undone by an unwise gimmick in which seemingly half of Hollywood's living stars at the time make brief cameo appearances, some of which are ridiculous (who can forget the sight of John Wayne as a Roman Centurion solemnly intoning, "Truly he was the son of Gaaad"?). But there is a lot to like in the film, and Von Sydow's sensitive nobility sticks in the memory. --Tom Keogh

• Kansas | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In Kansas Wade a wholesome law-abiding teenager meets Doyle a rough bad boy and the two become friends. But unfortunately the impressionable Wade begins to follow Doyle's lead and ultimately the two undertake a bank robbery. With the police catching up to them the boys separate. Wade hides under a bridge -- where he saves the life of the governor's young daughter an act caught on film by a newspaper photographer. Now Wade is not only a criminal wanted by the police but a m