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• Scales of Justice - The Complete Series | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Following the success of Anglo-Amalgamated's Scotland Yard and Edgar Wallace Mysteries, the production company scored another hit with Scales of Justice, thirteen dramas based on real-life trials that dramatise events from the alleged crime to the courtroom. As with the previous series, the films were produced at the company's Merton Park Studios to be screened as support features in British cinemas, making a successful transition to the small screen during the 1970s. This set contains all thirteen films, produced between 1962 and 1967. Introduced by crime writer Edgar Lustgarten and complemented by The Tornados' memorably pacy theme music, the dramas feature performances from some of the era's finest, and now most instantly recognisable, actors - including Alexandra Bastedo, Patrick Wymark, Peter Barkworth, Keith Barron, and Barrie Ingham.

• Scotland Yard - The Complete Series | DVD | (14/01/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Scotland Yard was perhaps the best-known series to emerge from Anglo-Amalgamated's output of crime drama. Shot as cinema support features at the company's Merton Park Studios in South Wimbledon, these half-hour thrillers - based on real-life cases from the vaults of London's Metropolitan Police headquarters - were a successful regular feature in cinemas over nearly a decade from the early 1950s onwards. Like sister series Scales of Justice, Scotland Yard is introduced by celebrated writer and criminologist Edgar Lustgarten and presents case after intriguing case, with many solved onscreen by the redoubtable Inspector Duggan (played by Australian-born Russell Napier). This set comprises all 39 films, also featuring appearances by Harry H. Corbett, Peter Bowles, John Le Mesurier, Peter Arne and Robert Raglan, among many others.

• Shadows of Progress - Documentary Film in Post-War Britain 1951 - 1977 | DVD | (12/04/2013) from £23.29   |  Saving you £6.70 (28.77%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Building on the phenomenal success of its 2008 DVD release Land of Promise The British Documentary Movement 1930-1950 the BFI here presents an expansive 4-disc reappraisal of documentary filmmaking in the post-war years. Examining films commissioned by both private industry and government departments this collection provides a fascinating portrait of Britain s social cultural and industrial development throughout the 1950s 1960s and 1970s. The films explore topics more resonant today than ever: the joys of childhood holidays music the place of the dispossessed and the marginalised in a prosperous society; industry processes and landscapes the environment people and places tradition and the future. Presented with a fully illustrated 64 page booklet containing contextualising essays on all of the films and filmmakers. Special Features: All films newly transferred to High-Definition from original film elements Includes fully illustrated 64 page booklet containing essays from Lord David Puttnam historian Dominic Sandbrook and other leading scholars 'Perspectives on documentary filmmaking' (2010) - A newly created documentary about the filmmakers and their work

• Edgar Wallace Mysteries - Volume 7 | DVD | (22/10/2012) from £13.98   |  Saving you £18.00 (150.12%)   |  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.

• The Andromeda Anthology | DVD | (24/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Comprising the 1961 & 1962 serials A For Andromeda and its sequel The Andromeda Breakthrough both written by Fred Hoyle and John Elliott. A For Andromeda sees the construction of an alien designed computer by scientist John Fleming (Peter Halliday). Once built however the computer secretly kills one of the lab assistants Christine (Julie Christie) then gives detailed instructions for a new biological organism to be created which quickly develops into a full

• Inspector Morse - Series 8 | DVD | (21/02/2005) from £25.63   |  Saving you £-0.64 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  This box set features all the special episodes of the classic British Television drama Inspector Morse. Episodes comprise: 1. Way Through The Woods: A man accused of being the Lover's Lane killer is killed in a prison fight before his trial. But Inspector Morse is convinced that he was innocent and that the key to the murderer can be found in the depths of Wytham Woods... 2. The Daughters Of Cain: What first appears as a routine case for Morse and Lewis becom

• Rumpole Of The Bailey - Series 2 | DVD | (27/12/2002) from £4.98   |  Saving you £20.01 (401.81%)   |  RRP £24.99

  This double DVD contains all six episodes of the second series of Rumpole Of The Bailey that starred Leo McKern as the eccentric Old Bailey defence lawyer. Rumpole is set a wide range of challenges including in the first case 'Rumpole and the Man of God' defending a vicar who is in court on a shoplifting charge. Rumpole is also called in to defend a man who claims that his arrest was a case of mistaken identity as well as a known fascist who is facing a charge under the Race Relations Act and a naive young teacher accused of seducing one of his students. It's not an easy life for the lawyer as all the time Rumpole is also trying to stay on top of the day to day shenanigans at chambers whilst constantly endeavouring to pacify wife she who must be obeyed.