"Director: William Beaudine"

• 3 Classic Bela Lugosi - Vol. 2 - The Corpse Vanishes / The Ape Man / Bride Of The Monster | DVD | (06/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Featuring 3 films starring the personification of Hollywood's Dracula Bela Lugosi. The Corpse Vanishes (1942): A mad scientist aided by an old hag and her two compliant sons - a malicious dwarf and a brutish moron - kills virgin brides and steals their bodies in order to extract glandular fluid which keeps his ancient wife alive and young... The Ape Man (1943): Conducting weird scientific experiments crazed Dr. James Brewster aided by his colleague Dr. Randall has

• The Ape Man | DVD | (04/01/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Conducting weird scientific experiments crazed Dr James Brewster (Bela Lugosi) aided by his colleague Dr Randall has managed to transform himself into a hairy stooped over ape man. Desperately seeking a cure Brewster believes only an injection of a recently drawn human spinal fluid will prove effective. With Randall refusing to help him it falls to Brewster and his captive gorilla to find appropriate donors - living or dead!

• The Ape | DVD | (31/12/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  In this cult horror classic Boris Karloff is mad scientist Dr. Adrian a man who becomes obsessed with curing paralysis. Desperately trying to cure a crippled young women he discovers that he needs human spinal fluid for his vaccine - but how to get it? When an ape trainer at a local circus is badly mauled the doctor allows him to die so that he can tap his spine. But then the gorilla escapes and goes on a killing spree terrorizing the small town.

• Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter | DVD | (05/01/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Residing in an eerie hilltop mansion are Dr. Maria Frankenstein and her brother Rudolph conducting the same bizarre and deadly artificial brain transplant experiments that forced them to flee their European homeland. In a nearby town the legendary Jesse James and his companion Hank Tracy are caught in a gunfight that leaves Hank seriously wounded. Jesse brings back the only nearby doctor...the sinister Maria Frankenstein. Hank will be the perfect subject for her next experiment and Jesse the perfect target of her romantic desires. She successfully transplants an artificial brain into the skull of Hank transforming him into a monstrous creature named Igor.

• Will Hay - Boys Will Be Boys | DVD | (03/12/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Prison teacher Dr. Smart-Alec (Will Hay) steps up the career ladder to become headmaster of Narkover public school but his innate stupidity soon begins to create havoc. Will Hay dons a mortarboard on screen for the first time in the bumbling headmaster role that was to become his trademark.

• Will Hay - Where There's A Will | DVD | (03/12/2001) from £7.03   |  Saving you £2.96 (29.60%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Not quite vintage Will Hay, Where There's a Will dates from 1936--a year or two before the comic started turning out his best screen work--and casts Hay as an inept, drunken lawyer who begins the day by having the gas, phone and electricity cut off as he dryly plays off his cynical office boy (Graham Moffatt), but ends the film dressed as Santa Claus foiling a high society robbery and convincing even his stern, upper-crust brother-in-law (blustering HF Maltby) that he's earned a drink. It lacks the focus of Hay's best vehicles, with too much plot about conniving gangsters (slinky Gina Halo, sly Hartley Power) using the "Red-Headed League" ploy of hiring the lawyer to get him out of his office so they can rob the downstairs bank, while Hay's family complications revolve around a daughter (Peggy Simpson) who idolises him and doesn't know he's a failure. There are a few vaudeville-style turns, as Hay tries to blind officious landladies or potential clients with legal nonsense or gets a teetotal butler drunk, but it's mostly running-around. Imported Yank director William Beaudine, who gets a script credit with Hay (from a Sidney Gilliat/Leslie Arliss story), basically referees the show, standing back so the star can get on with it. Hammer fans should note that editor TR Fisher is Terence Fisher, future director of The Curse of Frankenstein and other classics.--Kim Newman

• Will Hay - Windbag The Sailor | DVD | (03/12/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This classic comedy has Will Hay as a bogus sea captain Ben Cutlet. He is tricked into taking command of an unseaworthy ship the Rob Roy which the owners intend to sink.He and two stowaways escape on a raft to an island inhabited by cannibals. The natives are frightened into friendliness by the radio set which the trio stole from the ship. Ben and the stowaways recapture the Rob Roy from the crooked crew whose efforts to sink her have proved in vain and sail home in triumph to their native town.

• Green Hornet / Green Hornet 2 | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Green Hornet: After Bruce Lee's untimely death in 1973 and the global success of 'Enter The Dragon' two 90-minute feature films were created to capitalise on Lee's worldwide stardom. The first of these films Green Hornet was released theatrically in 1974. Starring Bruce Lee as Kato and Van Williams as The Green Hornet the film capitalised on the existing popularity of the 1960s crime-fighting duo. Edited with Bruce Lee's star power in mind the film has an abundance of spectacular fight scenes. The Fury Of The Dragon: After Bruce Lee's untimely death in 1973 and the global success of Enter The Dragon two 90 minute feature films were created to capitalise on Lee's worldwide recognition. The second of these films Fury Of The Dragon was released theatrically in 1976. Starring Bruce Lee as Kato and Van Williams as the Green Hornet the 1960s crime fighting duo - by day Britt Reid publisher-editor of the Daily Sentinel and his chauffeur/man servant Kato - battle relentlessly against the forces of urban evil. This movie takes Kato and the Green Hornet on four epic adventures including trying to stop a plot to oust a young prince of foreign power and exposing two crooked cops a case that leads to the Green Hornet being wounded and then nearly killed. Kato and the Green Hornet are then pushed to the very limit by a well organised gang carrying out a million dollar art heist and using a fantastic ray gun to remove anyone in their path. Could this include our crime fighting duo? Finally the last adventure takes our heroes into the dark underworld of drug trafficking testing all their skills in crime fighting...