"Director: Victor Saville"

• Ealing Studios Rarities Collection: Volume 13 | DVD | (19/05/2014) from £9.85   |  Saving you £5.14 (52.18%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A global byword for cinematic quality of a quintessentially British nature Ealing Studios made more than 150 films over a three decade period. A cherished and significant part of British film history only selected films from both the Ealing and Associated Talking Pictures strands have previously been made available on home video format - with some remaining unseen since their original theatrical release. The Ealing Rarities Collection redresses this imbalance - featuring new transfers from the best available elements in their correct aspect ratio this multi-volume collection showcases a range of scarce films from both Basil Dean's and Michael Balcon's tenure as studio head making them available once more to the general public. IT HAPPENED IN PARIS (1935) Whilst looking for artistic inspiration in Paris a millionaire's son falls for a beautiful girl. Romantic complications arise when he feigns poverty in order to win her love. Black and White / 66 mins / 1.33:1 / Mono / English AUTUMN CROCUS (1934) In his final film role Ivor Novello plays the married owner of a Tyrolean inn; Fay Compton is the holidaying schoolteacher who falls hopelessly in love with him. Black and White / 80 mins / 1.33:1 / Mono / English THE DICTATOR (1935) A drama depicting the stormy marriage of King Christian VII and his English consort Caroline Matilda and the Queen's tragic affair with the royal physician Struensee. Black and White / 82 mins / 1.33:1 / Mono / English SECRET LIVES (1937) A powerful World War I drama tracing the life of a German-born woman who is trained by the French as a spy but pays a heavy price for her apparent freedom. Black and White / 78 mins / 1.33:1 / Mono / English

• Kim | DVD | (26/05/2008) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  An epic magnificent adventure set in Victorian India the story of KIM (Dean Stockwell) who is recruited to train as a spy for the Raj. Written by the author of The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling starring Errol Flynn (Robin Hood Captain Blood) at his very best as Mahbub Ali mentor to the young boy Paul Lukas plays the mysterious Lama from Old Tibet a host of Hollywood's greatest character actors Richard Hale Reginald Owen Douglas Creighton provide support for this screen panorama a joy for the whole family filmed in brilliant Technicolor.

• Dark Journey | DVD | (08/02/2010) from £17.97   |  Saving you £-1.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Vivien Leigh and Conrad Veidt star in this dashing spy thriller set in Sweden during the First World War. Spring 1918. Madeleine Goddard (Vivien Leigh) runs an elite fashion boutique - a job that often takes her to Paris. She is also a high-ranking German spy. Vying for her affections are an English secret agent and the charming aristocratic German deserter Baron von Marwitz (Conrad Veidt). When her spy cell appears to have been compromised Madeleine is sent to Paris to discover the fate of other agents. As her affair with von Marwitz deepens she must decide which is more important to her love or duty.

• I Was A Spy | DVD | (19/05/2014) from £6.55   |  Saving you £7.70 (145.56%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Martha and Stephan are two Belgians working in a German hospital during the First World War. This is their cover: they are in fact spies for the Allies. After blowing up an ammunition dump Martha puts herself in more danger by accompanying the German Commandant to Brussels where she hopes to gather vital information about the Kaiser. Her mission becomes fraught with danger and it gets harder and harder for her to hide her true identity. Knowing this Stephan sets off to help her but will he be too late? Starring Madeleine Carroll Herbert Marcshall and Conrad Veidt.

• The Jessie Matthews Revue Vol. 1 | DVD | (06/04/2015) from £5.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (116.86%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Throughout the 1930s Jessie Matthews was Britain's best-loved musical film star her dynamism and gamine charm beguiling audiences on both sides of the Atlantic. With a string of box-office hits spotlighting her unique talent and charisma it's easy to see how she became so popular – and why she remains so to this day. Showcasing some of the era's finest cinema talent – including director Victor Saville writer Sidney Gilliat and comedy star (and Matthews' husband) Sonnie Hale – the two films on this volume are presented as transfers from the original film elements in their as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratios. FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH Six very different people are involved in a fatal omnibus accident; which two were killed on this unluckiest of days is eventually revealed in a compelling blend of humour and pathos. Black and White / 83 mins / 1.33:1 / Mono / English FIRST A GIRL A messenger girl and would-be entertainer's big break arrives when she stands in for a drag artiste stricken with laryngitis... and finds life can get very complicated for a girl impersonating a boy impersonating a girl! Black and White / 88 mins / 1.33:1 / Mono / English

• The Jessie Matthews Revue Volume 2 | DVD | (22/06/2015) from £8.08   |  Saving you £4.91 (60.77%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Throughout the 1930s Jessie Matthews was Britain's best-loved musical film star her dynamism and gamine charm captivating audiences on both sides of the Atlantic. With a string of box-office hits spotlighting her unique talent it's easy to see how she became so popular – and why she remains so to this day. Showcasing some the era's finest cinema talent – including directors Victor Saville and (in a change from his normal fare) Alfred Hitchcock actors Robert Young and Esmond Knight as well as comedy star (and Matthews' husband) Sonnie Hale – the two films on this volume are presented as transfers from the  original film elements in their as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratios. It's love again! A young actress secretly seizes the chance to play the part of an imaginary socialite invented by a gossip columnist. The enigmatic beauty becomes famous but the columnist is mystified when his fictional star appears in person! Waltzes from Viennna A pretty girl works in the bakery in which aspiring composer Johann Strauss is also forced to work by his father. Can she help him achieve his dreams despite his father's objections?

• Tonight And Every Night | DVD | (07/10/2013) from £3.00   |  Saving you £9.99 (76.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A musical wartime morale booster in which star Rita Hayworth is but one of a lively ensemble. Set in battle-scarred Britain, the action takes place in a seedy old music hall, which never misses a performance even at the height of the blitz. Five times a day like clockwork, American-born entertainer Rosalind Bruce (Rita Hayworth) and her British cohorts put on a show for their ever-appreciative audiences.

• Evergreen | DVD | (25/05/2009) from £8.98   |  Saving you £6.00 (85.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In Edwardian London music-hall star Harriet Green (played by the multi-talented Jessie Matthews) performs to adoring audiences. Then just as she is about to marry her aristocratic fianc'' her former lover appears threatening to unleash a public scandal that could ruin her: she already has an illegitimate daughter by him. Harriet flees abroad leaving her daughter also called Harriet in the care of her dresser. When years later the younger Harriet attends an audition for a musical - intent on pursuing her own stage career - a young publicity agent Tommy believes he has hit upon the perfect idea for a stage act based upon Harriet's remarkable resemblance to her mother... Evergreen was a major success for Jessie Matthews one of British cinema's best-loved stars. Also starring Matthews' husband Sonnie Hale and silent-screen star Betty Balfour (known as 'the British Mary Pickford') this charming musical comedy - featuring music by Rogers and Hart and outstanding choreography by Buddy Bradley - was a hit on both sides of the Atlantic.

• The Jessie Matthews Revue volume 4 | DVD | (05/10/2015) from £12.98   |  Saving you £2.00 (18.20%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Throughout the 1930s Jessie Matthews was Britain's best-loved musical film star, her dynamism and gamine charm beguiling audiences on both sides of the Atlantic. With a string of box-office hits spotlighting her unique talent, it's easy to see how she became so popular and why she remains so to this day.Showcasing some the era's finest cinema talent including actor-director (and Matthews' husband) Sonnie Hale, director Victor Saville and art director Alfred Junge the two films on this volume are presented as transfers from the original film elements, in their as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratios.THE GOOD COMPANIONS (1933)Jessie shares the bill with John Gielgud and Edmund Gwenn in JB Priestley's famous tale of a failing concert party and the three 'angels' who come together by chance to rescue it.Black and White / 108 mins / 1.33:1 / Mono / EnglishSAILING ALONG (1938)Kay is a star-struck young woman working on a Thames barge. When she's spotted by a producer her dream of fame comes true but will she still have time for her boyfriend?Black and White / 91 mins / 1.33:1 / Mono / English

• Forever And A Day | DVD | (25/05/2015) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  1940s drama made by the collaborative efforts of seven directors and 21 writers. Gates Trimble Pomfret (Ken Smith) travels from America to England during the Blitz in order to sell his family's home in London. When he gets to the house he discovers that Leslie Trimble (Ruth Warrick) has been living there and refuses to move. As Leslie tries to persuade Gates not to sell up, she recounts the house's 140-year history hoping to appeal to his romantic side.

• The Jessie Matthews Revue: Volume 6 | DVD | (27/06/2016) from £5.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (116.86%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Throughout the 1930s Jessie Matthews was Britain's best-loved musical film star, her dynamism and gamine charm beguiling audiences on both sides of the Atlantic. With a string of box-office hits spotlighting her unique talent, it's easy to see how she became so popular and why she remains so to this day. Showcasing some the era's finest cinema talent including Betty Balfour, Victor Saville, Michael Balcon, and actor/director (and Matthews' husband) Sonnie Hale two films in this set are presented as transfers from the original film elements, in their original theatrical aspect ratios. There Goes the Bride Fleeing her own wedding, Annette heads for Paris with detectives hot on her heels! The last thing she needs is to fall in love with a stranger... Black and White / 76 mins / 1.37:1 / Mono / English Evergreen The illegitimate daughter of starlet Harriet Green has inherited her mother's looks and talent and, thanks to a wily agent, a unique stage act is born! Black and White / 86 mins / 1.37:1 / Mono / English

• The Iron Duke (Remastered) | DVD | (18/09/2017) from £8.66   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Chronicling the life of Arthur Wellesley, the first Duke of Wellington, who faced down Napoleon's armies at Waterloo and also served as Prime Minister.

• Storm In A Teacup | DVD | (25/05/2015) from £8.55   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Gloria Swanson and Laurence Olivier star in this 1930s comedy drama directed by Cyril Gardner. Newlyweds Judy and Nicholas Randall (Swanson and Olivier) seem to have the ideal marriage based on perfect understanding and mutual respect. While away on their honeymoon Nicholas gets drunk and sleeps with his former mistress Stephanie (Nora Swinburne). Overcome with guilt Nicholas confesses to Judy who promptly forgives him although deep down she conceals feelings of anger and betrayal. When Nicholas suspects Judy of having an affair he confronts her and the pair realise that maybe their marriage isn't perfect after all.

• British Comedies of the 1930s: Volume 8 | DVD | (21/03/2016) from £8.04   |  Saving you £4.95 (61.57%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The ebullient comedy films of the 1930s brought escape and laughter to millions of British cinemagoers, enabling veteran stars of the music-hall and theatre to reach out to a wider audience making household names of performers like Leslie Fuller, Hal Gordon, Bobby Howes, Ernest Lotinga and Gene Gerrard.Although comedy would prove to be the decade's most successful film genre, many of these classic early talkies have remained unseen since their original release. From boisterous knockabout humour to polished adaptations of popular stage farces, this ongoing collection showcases a wealth of rare features, each presented uncut, in a brand-new transfer from the best available elements in their as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio.THE CAMELS ARE COMING (1934)A British squadron leader is tasked with uncovering a desert dope-smuggling operation, but unwittingly becomes a Sheik's drugs mule!Black and White / 77 mins / 1.37:1 / Mono / EnglishME AND MARLBOROUGH (1935)1710: a feisty young woman disguises herself as a man, joins the Duke of Marlborough's army and sets off to try to rescue her press-ganged husband.Black and White / 80 mins / 1.37:1 / Mono / English

• Dark Journey | DVD | (26/03/2018) from £8.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Vivien Leigh stars as a Stockholm-dwelling British double agent who delivers bogus Allied information to German intelligence headquarters in Paris, only to fall in love with a suave baron who just happens to be heading up the German intelligence-gathering efforts.

• World War 1 Box | DVD | (02/06/2014) from £11.29   |  Saving you £3.70 (32.77%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Collection of feature films inspired by the Great War. In 'I Was a Spy' (1933), Martha Cnockhaert (Madeleine Carroll) works as a spy in a German hospital, acting for the allies. Aided by orderly Stephan (Herbert Marshall), Martha plots to blow up a German ammunition dump. When Martha accompanies a German Commandant to Brussels, a change in the Kaiser's movements inadvertently reveals Martha's true purpose. '1914 All Out' (1987) is a made-for-TV drama set during World War I in a quiet Yorkshire village. While the locals are enjoying a Bank Holiday cricket match, their fun is cut short when war breaks out and the men go off to fight for their country. Set in the Scottish Orkney Islands during the First World War, 'The Spy In Black' (1939) tells the story of three German spies plotting to sink the British fleet. When U-Boat Captain Hardt (Conrad Veidt) makes contact with his beautiful co-conspirator (Valerie Hobson), he falls in love with her, but she is already having an affair with the third spy in their group, Royal Navy traitor Lieutenant Ashington (Sebastian Shaw).

• Paul Newman Collection Vol.2 - Silver Chalice/The Helen Morgan Story/The Outrage/Rachel Rachel/When Time Ran Out | DVD | (21/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  The Silver Chalice (1954): He looks like Marlon Brando some reviewers said of this movie's 29-year-old star but those comparisons would soon end. Soon to impress with his own intense brilliance Paul Newman made his movie debut in this Biblical saga in the mode of Quo Vadis and The Robe. Set in Rome during the early Christian era it focuses on an ill-fated sculptor sold into slavery and torn between his adoring wife (Pier Angeli) and a wily temptress (Virginia Mayo) - and threatened in his work by a power-mad sorcerer (Jack Palance) bent on overturning Christianity and becoming his own true messiah. The Silver Chalice's cast also includes Lorne Greene E.G. Marshall and a blonde Natalie Wood. But Newman is the movie's heart. This young man director Victor Saville predicted is destined for great things. The Helen Morgan Story (1957): Helen Morgan has beauty talent success. Yet they mean nothing to her without the love of Larry Maddox the bootlegger who leads Helen on and drops her so often she finally hits bottom. Set in the roaring '20s The Helen Morgan Story is also Maddox's story. In his fifth film Paul Newman plays the mobster with slick assuredness. In her final movie Ann Blyth portrays the troubled songstress (and Show Boat original cast member) with Gogi Grant performing vocals on signature Morgan tunes. Appearances by '20s icons Rudy Vallee Walter Winchell and Morgan's real-life accompanist Jimmy McHugh bring bracing authenticity to this tale of a legend whose songs could heal any heart but her own. The Outrage (1964): A notorious bandit confesses to rape and murder and justice is sure to be swift. But wait. Witnesses to the outrage come forward each offering different versions of the events. Does truth lie in the eyes of the beholder? A year after Hud star Paul Newman and director Martin Ritt teamed again and gave the Japanese classic Rashomon an Old West setting crafting a brisk and challenging drama far removed from the norm in film fare (A.H. Weiler The New York Times). Newman drawing deep into his talent reservoir portrays the brazen desperado at the center of conflicting events. Laurence Harvey Claire Bloom Edward G. Robinson and William Shatner offer luminous support in this tale of a quest for truth. And of the humanity or inhumanity behind it. Rachel Rachel (1968): New England schoolteacher Rachel Cameron's life is small and safe. Too small and too safe for a warmhearted woman who wants to do something - anything - to keep from slipping into spinsterhood. Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward joined their stellar talents on this powerfully human movie he debuting as a director and she giving one of her hallmark screen performances. Both won New York Film Critics and Golden Globe awards for their work and the film garnered four Academy Award nominations including Best Picture. The Newmans teamed afterward on other masterful films (The Glass Menagerie Mr. & Mrs. Bridge Empire Falls). But for tenderness insight and artistry none surpasses Rachel Rachel. When Time Ran Out (1980): Enough stars to light five marquees. Enough subplots of passion power and greed to fill 10 movies. Plus fiery special effects galore. A South Pacific island's dormant volcano unexpectedly erupts in fury. Among those imperiled are wildcat oil driller Paul Newman hotel baron William Holden and Jacqueline Bisset as a PR executive who must choose between them. Which familiar faces will survive when there's no such thing as safe ground? Watch - and watch out - for yourself. As the lava flows so also flows rare and rousing screen excitement!