"Director: John Eldridge"

• Brandy For The Parson | DVD | (07/04/2008) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-3.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Long Lost Comedy Classics is a collection of films from a golden age of British Cinema remembered for timeless stars and some unique movies that have stood the test of time. So why not take a trip down memory lane and see how cinema used to be? Bill Harper (James Donald) and Petronilla Brand (Jean Lodge) a young couple on a yachting holiday together become involved with Tony Rackham (Kenneth More) who is smuggling brandy from France to a respectable London wine merchants. Through various mishaps Bill and Petronilla find themselves personally responsible for transporting the brandy kegs to London whilst being pursued by Customs officials...

• Laxdale Hall / The Glen is Ours | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Laxdale Hall a rarely seen British comedy receiving its first release to home entertainment is a 1952 film directed by John Eldridge and starring Ronald Squire Kathleen Ryan Raymond Huntley Prunella Scales Fulton Mackay Roddy McMillan Jameson Clark and Jean Colin with Rikki Fulton as a poacher in his first film role. The few residents of Laxdale who own cars are refusing to pay their road fund licence because of the poor state of the only road which links them to the rest of Scotland. A parliamentary delegation including Samuel Pettigrew M.P. (Raymond Huntley) and Andrew Flett (Fulton Mackay) is dispatched to the Scottish Highlands to quell the rebellion! Along the way they encounter resistance from school teacher Morag McLeod (Prunella Scales in her first film) and her roguish dad Roderick McLeod (Jameson Clark). With a brief appearance by Rikki Fulton in his film debut as a salmon poacher there's plenty of action and laughter. Filmed amongst the beautiful scenery of Applecross Laxdale Hall is not to be missed. Also features The Glen Is Ours (1946) a timeless parable of politicians at odds with the will of their electorate. Recently de-mobbed Hector Andrews takes to the hustings to stop Cadisburn Glen being sold and converted from a beauty spot into an amusement park. With Ealing stalwarts Edie Martin and Anthony Baird and Sheila Latimer recently seen in BBC Scotland's Still Game.

• 40's Britain - Our Country / The Dim Little Island | DVD | (22/08/2005) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A sailor on leave in Our Country finds wartime Britain in good spirits in this experiment with narrative poetry on screen. With the words of Dylan Thomas and the music of William Alwyn. The Dim Little Island by Humphrey Jennings his penultimate film dispels the myth of the British being a dull insular race as it explores the achievements of Britain and its people. Featuring Osbert Lancaster cartoonist Ralph Vaughan Williams composer James Fisher naturalist and John Ormston industrialist.

• The Glen Is Ours | DVD | (01/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Three Scottish films from 1946 about rural issues many still relevant today. The Glen Is Ours is a drama about the importance of local democracy. The two Scottish members of the Pattern of Britain series are also included: Crofters visits Achriesgill Sutherland and North East Corner visits the farms and fishing ports of Aberdeen Fraserburgh and the Buchan area.

• Waverley Steps / Edinburgh / Northern Capital | DVD | (20/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Featuring EDINBURGH Campbell Harper's 1966 Technicolor film of Edinburgh life and its historical heritage.

• Comedy Classics Collection Vol.2 | DVD | (26/05/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Long Lost Comedy Classics is a collection of films from a golden age of British Cinema remembered for timeless stars and some unique movies that have stood the test of time. So why not take a trip down memory lane and see how cinema used to be? Long Lost Comedy Classics is a collection of films from a golden age of British Cinema remembered for timeless stars and some unique movies that have stood the test of time. So why not take a trip down memory lane and see how cinema used to be? Miss Robin Hood: A newspaper columnist conspires with an elderly fan to steal a secret whiskey formula from a wealthy distiller. However it's not long before Scotland Yard is on the case! You're Only Young Twice: A young girl Ada Shore arrives at Skerryvore University in Scotland in search of her long lost uncle who was once a subversive Irish poet but is now working under another name as the University Gate Keeper... Brandy For The Parson: A young couple on a yachting holiday become involved with Tony Rackham who is smuggling brandy from France. Through various mishaps they find themselves personally responsible for transporting the brandy kegs to London whilst being pursued by Customs officials... Time Gentlemen Please: The PM is planning a celebration visit to the model village of Little Hayhoe. However local lay-about Dan Dance refuses to work so he's shipped off to the local almshouse where he awaits an uncertain yet very funny future.