"Director: Raoul Walsh"

• John Wayne Box Set (Undefeated/The Comancheros/The North to Alaska/The Big Trail) | DVD | (01/10/2012) from £15.05   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Box-set featuring four classic John Wayne movies. 'The Big Trail' (1930) was Wayne's first starring role. He plays the young leader of a pioneer wagon train travelling across the Oregon Trail. Repulsing Indian attacks and battling against the hostile elements, The Duke still finds time for romance with a fellow traveller (Marguerite Churchill). In 'The Comancheros (1961), Wayne stars as Texas Ranger Jake Cutter whose path crosses with that of professional gambler Paul Regret (Stuart Whitman). The two become uneasy bedfellows in their quest to crush a powerful outlaw gang who are selling arms and alcohol to the local Indians. This was director Michael Curtiz's last film and also stars Lee Marvin and Ina Balin. 'North to Alaska' (1960) is a lighthearted Western starring Wayne and Stewart Granger as rough and tumble gold prospectors in Alaska. When Sam McCord (Wayne) and George Pratt (Granger) eventually strike it rich in the gold rush, George sends Sam to Seattle to fetch his fiancee; but Sam falls in love with her. George eventually accepts his loss and sets about finding a new gal, but only seems to find trouble. In 'The Undefeated' (1969), Confederate Colonel James Langdon (Rock Hudson) prepares to travel to Mexico with his family. When they are attacked by bandits, Union Colonel J.H. Thomas (Wayne) comes to their aid. The former enemies find themselves united in their efforts to resist Mexican Emperor Maximillian, and Juarez, the rebel leader. When the rebels kidnap the Southerners, Colonel Thomas must decide whether to surrender his valuable herd of 3,000 horses and secure their release, or leave them to their fate.

• The James Cagney Collection | DVD | (17/09/2012) from £11.99   |  Saving you £-1.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.50

  4 DISC DVD BOXSET.FEATURING THE PUBLIC ENEMY,WHITE HEAT,THE ROARING TWENTIES,THE FIGHTING 69TH. UK CERTIFICATE 15.

• Dark Command (John Wayne) | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £6.83   |  Saving you £3.16 (46.27%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A Civil War tale based on the exploits of the notorious outlaw Quantrill. The Duke plays a U.S. Marshal out to stop the cutthroat raider and his band. Based on the novel by W.R. Burnett.

• The Thief of Bagdad | Blu Ray | (24/11/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Dating from 1924 this Thief of Bagdad is justifiably billed here as "one of the truly great silent films of the 1920s." As the forerunner of generations of magical, effect-laden fantasy epics, its importance is practically immeasurable. And still, after eight decades, it has startling, thrilling qualities which the finest computer graphics would struggle to surpass. Douglas Fairbanks, co-founder of United Artists, is the eponymous hero, swindling, fighting and leaping his way to true love through a series of adventures which take him from a magnificently surreal Bagdad to enchanted forests, ocean bottoms and magic carpet rides. "Happiness must be earned," is the motto; Fairbanks and his director Raoul Walsh certainly don't short-change their audience in bringing it to life. The effects are stunning, with a particularly gruesome slaying of a monster. Every scene is crammed with detail and incident. Fairbanks is a whirlwind of muscular, balletic flamboyance. And while his princess (Julanne Johnson) is a stereotype of vapidity, there's gleamingly malevolent support from Anna May Wong as the evil Mongol Slave Girl. Over two hours of sheer enjoyment belie the notion that cinematic sophistication is a modern achievement. On the DVD: The Thief of Bagdad disc presents the restored and remastered print (the tints have a luminous quality) complete with a 1975 score by master organist Gaylord Carter--you can almost feel the Wurlitzer rising from the pit of your entertainment centre. The audio essay, written by film historian R Dixon Smith, is an invaluable extra, providing essential information on how the picture was made and how the art designers played with proportion to create many of the visual tricks and a fantastical atmosphere. --Piers Ford

• Blackbeard The Pirate | DVD | (29/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In 1674 reformed pirate Sir Henry Morgan is a high official in Jamaica. Edward Maynard hopes to win a large reward by proving Morgan still dabbles in piracy. Maynard goes undercover as ship's surgeon with a Morgan henchman.who's been supplanted by the notorious Blackbeard himself. Also on board the ship is Edwina Mansfield seemingly a damsel in distress to whom there's much more than meets the eye....

• James Cagney - Signature Collection Box Set (Angels with dirty faces / Public enemy / Roaring twenties / White heat) | DVD | (19/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  The Public Enemy (Dir. William A. Wellman 1931): Tom's bad way of life is constantly set up against his brother Mike's who has a job during the day and goes to night school. Mike will enroll in the Marines to fight in WWI. He will come back and will constantly try to put Tom back on the right path. White Heat (Dir. Raoul Walsh 1950): Cody Jarrett is the sadistic leader of a ruthless gang of thieves. Afflicted by terrible headaches and fiercely devoted to his 'Ma ' Cody is a volatile violent and eccentric leader. Cody's top henchman wants to lead the gang and attempts to have an 'accident' happen to Cody while he is running the gang from in jail. But Cody is saved by an undercover cop who thereby befriends him and infiltrates the gang. Finally the stage is set for Cody's ultimate betrayal and downfall during a big heist at a chemical plant. Angels With Dirty Faces (Dir Michael Curtiz 1938): Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connolly were tough kids who grew up together in the toughest part of New York - Hell's Kitchen. Early on Rocky gets sent to reform school where he learns how to be a first class criminal. Jerry who had escaped from the law goes straight and becomes a priest. As adults they reunite in the old neighborhood: Jerry works with the kids who like he and Rocky could end up on either side of the law. Rocky has returned looking for a safe place to stay till he can get back into his old racketeering organization -- something that his old partner isn't anxious to have happen. Lots of rapid fire wisecracks roughhousing and gunfire ensues. The Roaring Twenties (Dir. Raoul Walsh 1939): After the WWI Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.

• The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw | Blu Ray | (26/03/2018) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Jonathan Tibbs (Kenneth More) reckons that a good way to improve the fortunes of his uncle's London gun company is to sell their products in the Wild West, so he sets off for Fractured Jaw. Once there, a series of misunderstandings give him the completely false reputation of being a smooth-talking, fast-on-the-draw gunman, and he is inveigled into becoming sheriff. With the two trigger-happy local ranches squaring up against each other, it's as well he is getting advice from sassy and sweet-on-him Kate (Jayne Mansfield)Extra's Features: New HD Transfer Commentary with Western expert's C. Courtney Joyner and Marilyn Moss Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature Still Gallery Trailer

• White Heat | DVD | (07/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  James Cagney plays a psychotic thug devoted to his hard boiled ma.

• Blackbeard the Pirate | DVD | (13/06/2011) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-7.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Splice the main-brace and set sail with one of Hollywood's greatest pirate yarns. Robert Newton (Treasure Island) has the role of a lifetime as Blackbeard holy terror of the high seas. It's set at a time of buccaneers and privateers; plucky Robert Maynard (Keith Andes) infiltrates the ship of notorious pirate Charles Bellamy searching for vital evidence that will convict crooked official Henry Morgan. But Bellamy has been deposed; Blackbeard is captain now and he doesn't trust Maynard. There's treasure to plunder and a fair maiden to rescue but Blackbeard is a dangerous man and will not easily be defeated...

• Big Trail, The / The Comancheros / North To Alaska / The Undefeated | DVD | (31/05/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Four classic John Wayne films are featured on this fantastic box set. The Big Trail: John Wayne hits the pioneer trail in his first feature film. Starring as the leader of a wagon trail he battles through tough terrain and Indian attacks and learns of love and friendship in this sweeping Western epic! The Comancheros: John Wayne is a Texas Ranger in this rollicking good humored western assigned to bring an arms-running gang to justice. After Wayne arrests one of the

• The Enforcer | DVD | (09/10/2006) from £13.95   |  Saving you £-0.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  ""If you're smart you'll come down - if you're dumb you'll be dead..."" This fast paced crime/noir thriller is reminiscent of some of Bogart's best films of the 30's. Bogart plays a tough District Attorney who goes after an organized gang of killers based on the real life 'Murder Inc.' case. Bogart trades bullet for bullet when his chief witness falls mysteriously to his death and is given 24 hours to rebuild his case.

• Objective Burma | DVD | (28/06/2013) from £4.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (401.34%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station.

• Saskatchewan (Universal) | DVD | (19/05/2007) from £7.79   |  Saving you £2.20 (22.00%)   |  RRP £9.99

  On their return from a hunting trip in the Canadian mountains, Mountie Thomas O'Rourke (Alan Ladd) and his Cree half brother Cajou (Jay Silverheels) stumble upon a burned out wagon train and its sole survivor, Grace Markey (Shelley Winters). Indian tensions are running high as the warring American Sioux cross the border from the United States in an attempt to enlist the help of the Cree to fight the U.S. Cavalry. To prevent the alliance between the two Indian nations, the Canadian troops embark on a march to Fort Walsh, a dangerous journey with death stalking their every move. Caught between his duty as a soldier and his beliefs as a man raised by the Cree, O'Rourke must decide where his loyalties lie.

• The Big Trail | DVD | (12/03/2012) from £9.93   |  Saving you £0.06 (0.60%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In this sweeping pioneer adventure, a courageous young scout leads hundreds of settlers across treacherous cliffs, through brutal snowstorms, Indian attacks and buffalo stampedes to their destiny out west. Along the way, he loses his heart to a beautiful pioneer woman and never stops trying to win her love. Tyrone Power co-stars in this visually spectacular epic from Raoul Walsh.

• The Big Trail | DVD | (18/04/2005) from £4.20   |  Saving you £10.05 (341.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In this sweeping pioneer adventure a courageous young scout leads hundreds of settlers across treacherous cliffs through brutal snowstorms Indian attacks and buffalo stampedes to their destiny out west. Along the way he loses his heart to a beautiful pioneer woman and never stops trying to win her love. Tyrone Power co-stars in this visually spectacular epic from Raoul Walsh.

• Gun Fury | DVD | (04/06/2007) from £8.75   |  Saving you £4.24 (48.46%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Hudson and Reed are newlyweds traveling to the West. Carey in a wonderful performance as a psychotic outlaw kidnaps Reed. Hudson is then forced to pursue the gang and tries to maintain his composure but ends up becoming just as crazed as Carey.

• Sea Devils | DVD | (07/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Rock Hudson stars in Sea Devils - Based on Victor Hugo's Toilers of the Sea this classic adventure is a swashbuckling tale of spies counter-spies and star crossed love! The threat of Napoleonic invasion hangs heavy over Britain. The mysterious Drouette (Yvonne DeCarlo) meets Gilliat (Rock Hudson) a Guernsey smuggler who directs her to the chief of customs. He agrees to help her to get back to France to help her to save her brother from the guillotine but all is not as it seems.

• The Tall Men | DVD | (28/08/2006) from £15.58   |  Saving you £-2.59 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Clark Gable and Jane Russell star in this spectacular western directed by Hollywood legend Raoul Walsh. When Ben Allison and his brother Clint journey to Montana for gold they save a party of settlers under attack from a group of Red Indians. Grateful for the Allison Brothers' interventions Nella Turner promptly joins the sibling duo and on to Montana. However this buxom babe proves to be more trouble than she's worth and the brothers soon find themselves at loggerheads over their

• Humphrey Bogart Collection | DVD | (05/10/2009) from £22.44   |  Saving you £-7.45 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Titles Comprise: Casablanca:easy to enter but much harder to leave especially if your name is on the Nazis' most wanted list. Atop that list is Czech resistance leader Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid) whose only hope is Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) a cynical American who sticks his neck out for no one especially Victor's wife Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) the ex-lover who broke his heart. So when Ilsa offers herself in exchange for Laszlo's safe transport out of the country the bitter Rick must decide what's more important - his own happiness or the countless lives that hang in the balance... Treasure of Sierra Madre:Dobbs and Curtin meet up in Mexico and go to work for a contractor MacClane who takes them away to remote site and tells them they will be paid when the job is finished. When they are finished they return to town to find MacClane to get their wages. MacClane gives them a few dollars and says he'll just go to the bank and pick up the payroll for them. Dobbs and Curtin then meet up with an old prospector who claims the hills are still full of gold and if they can get the cash he'll go with them. They eventually get the cash from MacClane after a little persuasion and all three set off for the hills as good friends but will they return that way? The Maltese Falcon:A gallery of high-living lowlifes will stop at nothing to get their sweaty hands on a jewel-encrusted falcon. Detective Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) wants to find out why - and who's gonna take the fall. This third screen version of Dashiell Hammett's novel is a film of firsts: John Huston's directorial debut rotund 62-year-old Sydney Greenstreet's screen debut film history's first film noir and Bogart's breakthrough role after years as a Warner contract player. When George Raft refused to work with a first-time director Bogart took on the role of Spade - and launched the most acclaimed period of his career. High Sierra:A seminal gangster film that focused attention on Bogart and writer Huston. Bogart plays a violent criminal just released from prison who knows he's got just one more job in him. An aging gang boss wants Bogart to lead a jewel heist at a resort. When he sees the inexperienced men he'll be leading (and fends off the attentions of Lupino the girlfriend of one of the thugs) Bogart suspects there will be trouble and there is when a cop is killed during the robbery. A manhunt drives Bogart to the highest peak in the High Sierras where he awaits death at the hands of the police. A gripping portrait of a desperate outlaw and a breakthrough for its creators.

• John Wayne Collection - Legend Of The Lost/The Big Trail/The Comancheros/North To Alaska/The Undefeated | DVD | (19/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  This fantastic feature box set showcases the Duke in some of his finest performances. Features Comprise: Legend Of The Lost (Dir. Henry Hathaway 1957): An unlikely trio treks across the Sahara Desert in search of a lost city and riches. But they might not like what they find there. Bonnard an apparently religious man enlists the aid of trial guide Joe January to help him find a cache of loot stashed in the sand by Bonnard's long-lost father. Dita a young local woman with a checkered past tags along. When they learn that Bonnard's father isn't the good man everyone imagined him to be Bonnard himself reveals another ugly side. The Big Trail (Dir. Raoul Walsh 1930): John Wayne hits the pioneer trail in his first feature film. Starring as the leader of a wagon trail he battles through tough terrain and Indian attacks and learns of love and friendship in this sweeping Western epic! The Comancheros (Dir. Michael Curtiz John Wayne 1961): John Wayne is a Texas Ranger in this rollicking good humored western assigned to bring an arms-running gang to justice. After Wayne arrests one of the criminals matters are complicated when they wander into an area controlled by the Comancheros- a group of Anglos aiding the warring Comanche Indians. Director Curtiz' last film is based on the novel by Paul I. Wellman. North To Alaska (Dir. Henry Hathaway 1960): A tough Alaskan gold digger (John Wayne) agrees to pick up his partner's (Stewart Granger) fiancee but winds up bringing back a beautiful substitute instead. With both men vying for her favor trouble inevitably breaks out between the best friends exacerbated by a shifty con-man (Ernie Kovacs) hoping to steal the men's gold claim. The Duke is in usual macho form in this entertaining Alaskan adventure based on the play 'Birthday Gift' by Laszlo Fodor. The Undefeated (Dir. Andrew V. McLaglen 1969): In the tumultuous aftermath of the Civil War Union Cavalry officer John Henry Thomas (John Wayne) takes his heroic men West while Southerner James Langdon (Rock Hudson) takes his soldiers to Mexico. When their paths cross they forge an uneasy friendship that is quickly tested as they get caught between Mexican rebels and the Emperor's forces and find themselves fighting side by side.