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• Law And Order | DVD | (14/04/2014) from £5.72   |  Saving you £7.27 (127.10%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Marshal Frame Johnson plans to retire and settle down with his fiancée. But when Tombstone's citizens ask him to tackle a gang of outlaws he reaches for his holster once more.

• Jack The Giant Killer | DVD | (18/02/2013) from £18.88   |  Saving you £-3.89 (-26.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

  1960s fantasy adventure about a young farmer who becomes the protector of a princess. In an attempt to overthrow the kingdom, evil sorcerer Pendragon hatches a plan to kidnap Princess Elaine using giant Cormoran. Jack kills the beast, saving Elaine, and her father, King Mark (Dayton Lummis), requests that her rescuer safeguards her on a journey across the ocean. Pendragon sends his witches after them, however, and the princess ends up in the wizard's clutches once again. With help from friend Peter, Viking Sigurd and leprechaun Diaboltin, Jack makes his way to Pendragon's castle to rescue Elaine.

• The Black Castle | DVD | (28/07/2014) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A forbidding castle holds danger for Sir Ronald Burton (Richard Greene) when he falls in love with the Count's wife Elga (Paula Corday) who is being held prisoner by Gargon (Lon Chaney Jr). Only the castle physician Dr. Meissen (Boris Karloff) has the power to free the lovers but he could put them in even greater jeopardy...

• Brain From Planet Arous, The / Teenage Monster / Space Cadet | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  You have to credit the folks who put this double bill together. The Brain from Planet Arous, a low-budget alien invasion 1958 film, is one of those programmes that lingers in the memory as much for its title and impressively ludicrous giant-staring-transparent-brain monster as for its poverty row dramatics, in which the usually stiff John Agar grins evilly and flashes contact lenses when possessed by the creature and a good guy brain shows up to take over his dog to thwart the renegade cerebrum's plan for world domination. For this release, Brain is teamed with its original co-feature, a movie so bad you wouldn't buy it on its own but whose presence here is a pleasing extra. Whereas Brain from Planet Arous delivers exactly what its title promises, Teenage Monster is a cheat: rather than feature a mutant 1950s delinquent in a leather jacket, it's a melodramatic Western in which prospector's widow Anne Gwynne keeps her hulking caveman-like son (who seems to be well into middle-age) hidden, only for a scheming waitress to use the goon in her murder schemes. Brain is snappily directed, even when staging disasters well beyond its budget, while Teenage Monster drags and chatters and moans until its flat finale. On the DVD: The Brain from Planet Arous/Teenage Monster double bill disc is a solid showing for such marginal items, featuring not only the trailers for these attractions but a clutch of other 1950s sci-fi pictures (Phantom from Space, Invaders from Mars, etc.) and a bonus episode ("The Runaway Asteroid") from a studio-bound, live-broadcast juvenile space opera of the early 50s (Tom Corbett, Space Cadet) in which hysterical types in a capsule break off from the space programme to deliver ringing endorsements of gruesome-looking breakfast foods. --Kim Newman