"Director: Val Guest"

• The Day the Earth Caught Fire (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (17/11/2014) from £7.65   |  Saving you £12.34 (161.31%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Newly remastered by the BFI National Archive and available in high definition for the very first time this is the definitive version of the classic British science fiction thriller. When the USA and Russia simultaneously test atomic bombs the earth is knocked off its axis and set on a collision course with the sun. As the planet inexorably heats up and society slowly breaks down Peter Stenning (Edward Judd) a washed-up Daily Express reporter breaks the story and sets about investigating the government cover-up. Made at a time when the nuclear threat of the Cold War loomed large The Day the Earth Caught Fire is an expertly crafted British science fiction film that boasts a BAFTA winning screenplay gritty characters and a vision of end-of-days London that really burns. Also Starring Leo McKern (Rumpole of the Bailey) and Janet Munro and directed by veteran Val Guest (The Quatermass Xperiment). Bonus Features: Brand new 4 K High Definition digital restoration by the BFI national archive. The H-bomb (David Villiers 1956 21 mins): Civil defence film showing by diagrams and demonstrations the damage that might be expected from a ten megaton bomb. Operation Hurricane (Ronald Stark 1952 33 mins): The work involved in and the research behind Britain’s first atomic bomb tests. The Hole in the Ground (David Cobham 1962 30 mins): A dramatisation of nuclear attack demonstrating of the operation of Britain's warning system for atomic war. The Day the Earth Caught Fire: An Audio Appreciation by Graeme Hobbs (9 mins) Original trailer Stills gallery

• Saucy 70S! - A British Sex Comedy Threesome - Deluxe Collector's Edition | Blu Ray | (19/12/2022) from £29.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Zeta One, Au Pair Girls, The Sex Thief From the era that also bought us the seedier Carry On films and the Confessions movies there also came a run of other 'delightfully of their time' British sex comedies. This beautifully presented set brings together three of those typically silly and salacious soft porn romps in Zeta One (1970), Au Pair Girls (1972) and The Sex Thief (1973). Combining elements of science fiction, crime and plenty of smut these movies could only have sprung from that strangely odd time which fell somewhere between the dying sixties and the Deep Throat generation. Featuring an eclectic mix of talent including James Robertson Justice (Doctor in the House), Me Me Lai (The Man from Deep River), Charles Hawtrey, (Carry on up the Jungle) and Diane Keen (Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush) these films are at least guaranteed to raise a smile if nothing else Daring, daft and unspeakably naughty, here is a threesome you'll never forget.

• Peter Sellers Collection - Pink Panther/What's New Pussycat?/The Party/Casino Royale/After The Fox/The World Of Henry Orien | DVD | (04/12/2006) from £22.89   |  Saving you £-4.22 (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.67

  Whats New Pussycat (Dir. Clive Donner 1965): O'Toole stars as a fashion editor in Paris who is constantly surrounded by beautiful women - a leggy American stripper a blonde daredevil and a neurotic nymphomaniac. The problem is that they all find him irresistable which makes it almost impossible for O'Toole to settle down with his marriage-minded girlfriend. Woody Allen makes his film debut as O'Toole's sex-starved friend who would kill to have such problems! Peter Sellers in a dazzlingly demented performance plays a famed psychotherapist who is crazier than his patients. Combining satire slapstick and good old-fashioned sex appeal Woody Allen's wildly original script pokes fun at everything from Freud to Fellini culminating in one of the most outrageous finales ever filmed! The Party (Dir. Blake Edwards 1968): Hollywood mogul Fred Clutterbuck isn't just giving a party he's giving 'The Party'. Absolutely everyone who's anyone will be there: gorgeous models ravishing starlets powerful producers - even a baby elephant! And by mistaken invitation accident-prone Indian actor Hrundi V. Bakshi (Peter Sellers) will be there too. He wouldn't miss it for the world and if you enjoy side-splitting gags neither should you! Casino Royale (Dir. Val Guest 1967: Things are looking decidedly bleak for British Intelligence in both senses of the term. SMERSH has begun to sabotage global stability no less than 11 agents have been lost and to make matters worse our greatest secret agent 007 is languishing in stately retirement. M - together with the heads of the CIA and KGB - have only one hope: to bring Sir James Bond (David Niven) out of retirement and into the field. Finding himself pitched against an opposition of fiendish intensity - an array of female secret agents armed with explosive grouse; a baccarat-playing illusionist (Orson Welles) and a neurotic megalomaniac (Woody Allen) - Bond launches his brilliant plan... After the Fox (Dir. Vittorio De Sica 1966): Millions of dollars worth of gold bullion is on its way from Cairo to an unknown Italian destination. There is only one criminal mastermind capable of stealing it: Aldo Vanucci (Peter Sellers) also known as ""the Fox."" Aldo devises the perfect plan to seize the gold: Posing as a flamboyant film director he casts an aging egotistical film star (Victor Mature) and his own voluptuous sister (Britt Ekland) in a fake film about a gold theft! But the action really heats up when the boat with the real gold arrives. The World of Henry Orient (Dir. George Roy Hill 1964): Two starry-eyed schoolgirls spy stalk and scheme their way into the life of a concert pianist (Sellers) in this ""wacky piece of inspired lunacy"" (The Hollywood Reporter). With half of New York - including a bevy of befuddled cops and one man-hungry mom - in tow these precocious teens do all they can to keep tabs on their harried hero turning The World Of Henry Orient entirely upside down! Pink Panther (Dir. Blake Edwards 1963): When the famous Pink Panther diamond goes missing the bumbling Inspector Clouseau goes on the trail of notorious jewel thief The Phantom but looks everywhere except in the right place!

• Hammer Vol 3 - Blood And Terror - Limited Edition Blu Ray | Blu Ray | (30/07/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Four classic and controversial works from the vaults of Hammer Films, all released on Blu-ray for the very first time. Containing a wealth of new and archival extra features - including exclusive new documentaries and appreciations, new interviews with actors and crew members, archival audio commentaries, and extensive booklets - this stunning Limited Edition Box Set is strictly limited to 6,000 numbered units. INDICATOR LIMITED BLU-RAY EDITION SPECIAL FEATURES: High Definition remasters of all four films Original mono audio New, title-specific documentaries featuring interviews with film historians Jonathan Rigby and Dr Josephine Botting, produced and directed by Hammer expert Marcus Hearn The Stranglers of Bombay audio commentary with screenwriter David Z Goodman The Terror of the Tongs audio commentary with screenwriter Jimmy Sangster, assistant editor Chris Barnes, and Marcus Hearn The Guardian Interview with Val Guest (2005): archival audio recording with the prolific and highly respected filmmaker in conversation with film historian Jonathan Rigby at London's National Film Theatre New interviews with actors Barbara Brown (The Terror of the Tongs) and Edwina Carroll (Yesterday's Enemy) New interviews with props master Peter Allchorne (The Terror of the Tongs) and assistant costume designer Yvonne Blake (The Terror of the Tongs) ˜The Stranglers of Bombay' and the Censor (2018): ex-BBFC examiner Richard Falcon discusses the film's history with the Board David Huckvale on James Bernard (2018): a new appreciation of the renowned composer by the author of Hammer Film Scores and the Musical Avant-Garde Steve Chibnall on Val Guest (2018): a new appreciation of the great British filmmaker by the director of the Cinema and Television History Research Centre at De Montfort University Hammer's Women (2018): a series of new appreciations of the female players from the films: Mary Merrall, Edwina Carroll, Jan Holden and Yvonne Monlaur Original theatrical trailers The Stranglers of Bombay trailer commentary (2013): a short critical appreciation by Brian Trenchard-Smith Image Galleries: promotional and on-set photography, poster art and archive materials Limited Edition Box Set exclusive booklets for each film with new essays by Kim Newman, Neil Mitchell, James Oliver and Samm Deighan, archival materials, contemporary reviews, and film credits World premieres on Blu-ray Limited edition box set of 6,000 numbered units ...AND MORE! All extras subject to change

• The Abominable Snowman | DVD | (12/09/2011) from £10.00   |  Saving you £-4.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A kindly English botanist and a gruff American scientist lead an expedition to the Himalayas in search of the legendary Yeti.

• Au Pair Girls | DVD | (29/07/2013) from £13.05   |  Saving you £-0.06 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  These sexy au pairs only came to make the beds... but they end up doing everything! Four Continental dolly-birds arrive in London to work as home-helps but within 24-hours they all lose all of their clothes in this raucous 1970s sex comedy classic! Directed by veteran filmmaker Val Guest (Confessions of a Window Cleaner) and based on a kinky story by David Grant (Love Variations) Au Pair Girls features hilarious cameos from a host of famous faces including John Le Mesurier (Dad's Army) Trevor Bannister (Are You Being Served?) and Richard O'Sullivan (Man About the House).

• Margaret Lockwood Collection | DVD | (16/06/2008) from £12.56   |  Saving you £-1.66 (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.90

  This box set features the following films: The Wicked Lady (Dir.Leslie Arliss) (1945): The lusty bawdy epic story of England's legendary highwayperson Lady Barbara Skelton who married a nobleman lusted after a highway-man and sought the love of the only man she could never have... Love Story (Dir. Leslie Arliss) (1944): After successful pianist Lissa Campbell is diagnosed with a terminal heart defect she vows to make her last months worth living. She takes a trip to Cornwall where she meets Tom Tanner Kit Firth and Judy Martin. Bank Holiday (Dir. Carol Reed) (1938): Various people set off on an August bank holiday including a raucous Cockney family a would-be beauty queen and two young lovers - whose relationship starts to come apart when one has to deal with a bereavement at the hospital where she works. Give Us The Moon (Dir. Val Guest) (1944): A young man Sascha joins a group call 'The Elephants' whose principle is to abide by a complete disregard for work. However chaos ensues when the group decides to help run the hotel owned by Sascha's father! Highly Dangerous (Dir. Roy Ward Baker) (1950): When British Intelligence discovers that a (mythical) Iron Curtain country is developing insects as weapons they dispatch entomologist Fraces Gray to get into the county and collect specimens. However her cover is almost immediately blown on her arrival and her contact is murdered... The Lady Vanishes (Dir. Alfred Hitchcock) (1938): Intrigue and espionage and the effects on the lives and futures of passengers aboard a Trans-Continental Express emerge when a girl traveller (Margaret Lockwood) returning from a holiday strikes up an acquaintance with a middle-aged English governess who during the journey mysteriously disappears from her compartment. The girl seeking an explanation for the disappearance is accused of hallucinating and is nearly convinced that her new friend does not exist. However further inquiries made among the passengers reveal the curious behaviour of a group of foreign government agents who are also travelling as passengers... Classic Hitchcock!

• Space: 1999: The Complete Series | DVD | (16/10/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  September 13th, 1999... a nuclear waste dump on the moon unexpectedly detonates, blasting the moon out of orbit and taking the inhabitants of Moonbase Alpha on a fantastic voyage of discovery to the stars, fraught with danger at every turn! Gerry Anderson's cult sci-fi series is presented here as stunning restorations from original film elements, giving an exceptional level of picture quality Space: 1999 has never looked better. Special Features: Digitally restored from new High Definition transfers Newly remixed Dolby 5.1 tracks Music-only tracks on most episodes Original 'as broadcast' mono track Gerry Anderson commentary on Breakaway and Dragon's Domain Text episode commentaries on The Last Sunset and Space Brain Image galleries of rare and previously unseen stills

• Casino Royale | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  With gadgets, gaming and girls galore, this camp classic celebrates 40 fabulous years as not only the coolest of the spy films, but also as a brilliant parody of - itself! Will the real James Bond please stand up?When secret agency chief M (John Huston) is killed, Sir James Bond (David Niven) is thrust out of spy retirement to help smash SMERSH, the band of hitmen who are likely responsible. And to protect his real identity, Bond's name is given to numerous other agents, including Evelyn Tremble (Peter Sellers) and Bond's neurotic nephew, Jimmy (Woody Allen). With five directors, a cast of Hollywood icons that also includes Ursula Andress, Charles Boyer, Peter O'Toole, Jacqueline Bisset and Orson Welles, a soundtrack by Burt Bacharach, and a frisky, farcical script, Casino Royale is Bond. Psychedelic Bond.

• The Boys In Blue | DVD | (18/10/2004) from £3.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (150.38%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Sgt. Cannon and PC Ball 'run' the police station in the sleepy town of Little Botham. When the station is threatened with closure due to the lack of crime they decide to invent some crimes to justify their positions. In response they try to steal a painting from a local businessman (Kinnear) and accidentally stumble across a gang of real art thieves who have just stolen one million pounds worth of paintings. It is up to the two inept cops to stop them escaping with their haul!

• Space: 1999: The Complete Series | Blu Ray | (16/10/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  September 13th, 1999... a nuclear waste dump on the moon unexpectedly detonates, blasting the moon out of orbit and taking the inhabitants of Moonbase Alpha on a fantastic voyage of discovery to the stars, fraught with danger at every turn! Gerry Anderson's cult sci-fi series is presented here as stunning restorations from original film elements, giving an exceptional level of picture quality Space: 1999 has never looked better. Special Features: Digitally restored from new High Definition transfers Newly remixed Dolby 5.1 tracks Music-only tracks on most episodes Original 'as broadcast' mono track Gerry Anderson commentary on Breakaway and Dragon's Domain Text episode commentaries on The Last Sunset and Space Brain Image galleries of rare and previously unseen stills Restored Series One textless titles Unfinished Generic Textless Opening Titles Textless Episode Material (Mute) Textless End Titles Seed of Destruction Series One Version: a second series episode presented in the style of the first series

• The Day the Earth Caught Fire (DVD) | DVD | (17/11/2014) from £6.59   |  Saving you £13.40 (203.34%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Newly remastered by the BFI National Archive and available in high definition for the very first time this is the definitive version of the classic British science fiction thriller. When the USA and Russia simultaneously test atomic bombs the earth is knocked off its axis and set on a collision course with the sun. As the planet inexorably heats up and society slowly breaks down Peter Stenning (Edward Judd) a washed-up Daily Express reporter breaks the story and sets about investigating the government cover-up. Made at a time when the nuclear threat of the Cold War loomed large The Day the Earth Caught Fire is an expertly crafted British science fiction film that boasts a BAFTA winning screenplay gritty characters and a vision of end-of-days London that really burns. Also Starring Leo McKern (Rumpole of the Bailey) and Janet Munro and directed by veteran Val Guest (The Quatermass Xperiment). Bonus Features: Brand new 4 K High Definition digital restoration by the BFI national archive. The H-bomb (David Villiers 1956 21 mins): Civil defence film showing by diagrams and demonstrations the damage that might be expected from a ten megaton bomb. Operation Hurricane (Ronald Stark 1952 33 mins): The work involved in and the research behind Britain’s first atomic bomb tests. The Hole in the Ground (David Cobham 1962 30 mins): A dramatisation of nuclear attack demonstrating of the operation of Britain's warning system for atomic war. The Day the Earth Caught Fire: An Audio Appreciation by Graeme Hobbs (9 mins) Original trailer Stills gallery

• The Persuaders!: The Complete Series - | DVD | (19/09/2011) from £35.98   |  Saving you £16.00 (47.07%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Nitro and gylcerine... and I light the fuse!Two millionaire playboys - one a peer of the realm, born into money, and the other a self-made man who fought his way out of the New York slums - are conned by a retired judge into righting wrongs in a series that combines action, style, humour and panache in large quantities!Regarded by many as the finest of Lew Grade's ITC film series, The Persuaders! stars Roger Moore and Tony Curtis as the mismatched playboys with an eye for the ladies and a penchant for landing themselves in trouble.

• The Persuaders!: The Complete Series | DVD | (14/05/2018) from £43.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Between heroic spells as the Saint and James Bond, Roger Moore was teamed with Tony Curtis in The Persuaders, a derivative but fun series about a couple of millionaire dilettante adventurers who swan around the world competing for the attention of beautiful women and getting involved in perplexing mysteries. Moore is Lord Brett Sinclair, an upper crust Brit of impeccable breeding, while Curtis is Danny Wilde, an up-from-the-streets self-made man whose trademark is a pair of brown gloves. The allegedly tasteful Brett and the crasser Danny both model a succession of garish early 70s fashions while their pursuits of duplicitous crumpet usually wind up with the women getting away and the heroes stuck with each other. Given all that, this may well be the most blatantly homoerotic of all the buddy television pairings (see the eponymous stars of Starsky and Hutch, Regan and Carter in The Sweeney, Bodie and Doyle of The Professionals) that ran ove! r the screen in the 70s, in which the male leads sublimated their feelings for each other by pulling out their guns and shooting at baddies. --Kim Newman

• Never Say Never Again/Casino Royale | DVD | (19/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

  Never Say Never Again (Dir. Irvin Kershner 1983): Sean Connery is back for his final performance as super agent James Bond in this high-velocity action thriller from the director of 'The Empire Strikes Back'. In this remake of the 1965 spy classic Thunderball two atomic warheads are hijacked by the evil SPECTRE organization forcing agent 007 out of retirement and hurling him into an explosive pulse-pounding race to save the world from nuclear terrorists. Casino Royale (Dir. Val Guest 1967): Things are looking decidedly bleak for British Intelligence in both senses of the term. SMERSH has begun to sabotage global stability no less than 11 agents have been lost and to make matters worse our greatest secret agent 007 is languishing in stately retirement. M - together with the heads of the CIA and KGB - have only one hope: to bring Sir James Bond (David Niven) out of retirement and into the field. Finding himself pitched against an opposition of fiendish intensity - an array of female secret agents armed with explosive grouse; a baccarat-playing illusionist (Orson Welles) and a neurotic megalomaniac (Woody Allen) - Bond launches his brilliant plan... ""from now on all agents will be known as James Bond including the girls"".

• Carry On Admiral | DVD | (10/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A case of mistaken identity means that Tom Baker (David Tomlinson) Parliamentary Private Secretary to the First Sea Lord is piped aboard HMS Sherwood as the new Captain. Calamity rules as the 'Captain' causes a right old carry-on.

• Hell Is A City | DVD | (08/10/2012) from £8.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (77.86%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A 1960's Hammer films production, Hell Is A City is a taut, fast-paced thriller set against the grimy back streets and rain-streaked bright lights of Manchester. Stanley Baker (The Cruel Sea) stars as a tough, dedicated police inspector on the trail of a man on the run - a man who he had put away for 14 years for robbery - and who will now be sent to the gallows for murder! Clubbing a warder to death as he broke out of jail, the inspector knows now he'll stop at nothing... Special Features: Alternate Ending

• 80,000 Suspects | DVD | (19/10/2015) from £8.50   |  Saving you £1.49 (17.53%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Richard Johnson and Claire Bloom, multi-award-winning stars of The Haunting, headline this powerful romantic drama set against the backdrop of a smallpox epidemic in the city of Bath. One of BAFTA-winning director Val Guest's most memorable films, 80,000 Suspects is presented here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements, in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. Dr Steven Monks suspects smallpox when he is asked to examine a patient with unusual symptoms. The diagnosis is quickly confirmed and the authorities mobilise to try to contain the outbreak, with Monks working tirelessly to prevent an epidemic. With his marriage on the verge of collapse, however, this personal crisis threatens to overshadow his vital work as the deadly disease moves ever closer to those he loves...

• Expresso Bongo (Flipside 031) (DVD + Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (25/04/2016) from £9.49   |  Saving you £10.50 (110.64%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Val Guest's 1959 London-shot Brit Beat classic charts the fortunes of aspiring musician Bert Rudge (Cliff Richard). Rudge stands little chance in the music business but is propelled to major stardom after being discovered in an espresso coffee shop by sleazy Soho agent Johnny (Laurence Harvey). In quick succession Rudge changes his name to Bongo Herbert, gets a record deal and strikes up a relationship with an ageing American singing sensation. As Johnny starts ˜Herbert' on the road to stardom, an unfair deal is cut which exploits the young singer and leads their relationship to turn sour. This sharp satire on the music industry was originally a successful 1958 West End musical, adapted for the big screen the following year, and designed as a star vehicle for the young Cliff Richard and The Shadows.

• The Runaway Bus | DVD | (16/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When heavy fog prevents any flights from leaving London Airport a group of passengers are put on a bus driven by Percy Lamb (Frankie Howerd in his first starring role) to drive to another airport. The fog is that heavy Percy doesn't know where he is going or that he is carrying stolen gold bullion that the robbers and police are relentlessly pursuing.