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• Piccadilly Incident | DVD | (26/05/2014) from £6.50   |  Saving you £3.49 (53.69%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A massive box-office hit this romantic drama set in World War Two and its aftermath is an emotional tour de force that marked the first screen pairing of Anna Neagle and Michael Wilding who would become one of Britain's best-loved film couples throughout the later 1940s. Directed by Herbert Wilcox Neagle's then husband and featuring inventive dance sequences by renowned choreographer Wendy Toye Piccadilly Incident is presented here in a brand-new digital transfer in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. Alan Pearson a Naval Intelligence Captain and WREN Diana Fraser meet by chance in Piccadilly during an air raid. They fall in love and after a brief courtship marry just hours before Diana is due to be sent to Singapore; theirs is one of many hasty wartime romances. But their love story is cut short when Diana is reported missing believed drowned after the fall of Singapore. In time Alan finds love again and remarries. But Fate is to bring about an impossible situation which can only be resolved by considerable self-sacrifice... Special Features: Image Gallery Original Pressbook PDF

• 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.

• The Galloping Major (Vintage Classics) | DVD | (08/08/2022) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This brand-new restoration of the 1951 British comedy The Galloping Major directed by Henry Cornelius is based on an idea by Basil Radford. After a successful day at the races, Major Arthur Hill (Basil Radford) and Harold Temple (Hugh Griffith) decide to raise a £300 syndicate to buy a certain racehorse. With excited help from their friends (Janette Scott, Jimmy Hanley, Rene Ray, Joyce Grenfell, A. E. Matthews) they get the money, but things don't go so smoothly from here. First, they accidently buy the wrong horse which proves to have more of an affinity for jumping than racing. They then decide to train it themselves as a jumper under the new name The Galloping Major . However, on the night before the Grand National, the horse mysteriously disappears... Product Features NEW Locations featurette with Historian Richard Dacre Betting On Success - Matthew Sweet On the Galloping Major Stills Gallery

• The Galloping Major (Vintage Classics) | Blu Ray | (08/08/2022) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This brand-new restoration of the 1951 British comedy The Galloping Major directed by Henry Cornelius is based on an idea by Basil Radford. After a successful day at the races, Major Arthur Hill (Basil Radford) and Harold Temple (Hugh Griffith) decide to raise a £300 syndicate to buy a certain racehorse. With excited help from their friends (Janette Scott, Jimmy Hanley, Rene Ray, Joyce Grenfell, A. E. Matthews) they get the money, but things don't go so smoothly from here. First, they accidently buy the wrong horse which proves to have more of an affinity for jumping than racing. They then decide to train it themselves as a jumper under the new name The Galloping Major . However, on the night before the Grand National, the horse mysteriously disappears... Product Features NEW Locations featurette with Historian Richard Dacre Betting On Success - Matthew Sweet On the Galloping Major Stills Gallery

• The Weak and the Wicked | DVD | (10/08/2015) from £12.98   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Glynis Johns Diana Dors and Sybil Thorndike star in this powerful sympathetic drama tracing the contrasting lives and often faltering progress of the inmates of a women's prison. Based on the best-selling semi-autobiographical novel by Joan Henry – a writer and former debutante who further drew upon her own prison experience for the novel and classic film Yield to the Night – The Weak and the Wicked is directed by Henry's future husband Oscar-nominated J. Lee-Thompson. The film is featured here in a brand-new transfer from original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. Jean Raymond an upper-class woman with a gambling addiction is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts. At first she is overwhelmingly depressed by life in the women's prison; gradually however her misery is relieved by the many close friends she makes there. Features: Original theatrical trailers Image gallery Promotional material PDF  

• Who Goes There? | DVD | (07/03/2016) from £7.20   |  Saving you £2.79 (38.75%)   |  RRP £9.99

  United they staggered, divided they fell...Valerie Hobson, George Cole and Peggy Cummins are among the stars of this ebullient, cleverly plotted farcical comedy. Adapting the stage play by John Dighton the double-Oscar-nominated playwright and screenwriter whose credits include Kind Hearts and Coronets and Roman Holiday Who Goes There! (retitled The Passionate Sentry on its American release) is featured in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements, in its original theatrical aspect ratio.When Miles Cornwall returns to his home in a grace-and-favour house in St. James's Palace, he finds a pretty Irish girl in his favourite armchair. And so begins a series of highly amusing romantic adventures, which can only be resolved when everyone has the partner whom he or she deserves!SPECIAL FEATURES: Image Gallery Memorabilia PDF

• The Chiltern Hundreds | DVD | (05/05/2014) from £11.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Few actors could be better suited than David Tomlinson for the role of a doltish viscount unintentionally entangled in politics and this brisk 1949 satire was a huge success both for the accomplished character player and his similarly gifted co-stars Cecil Parker and eighty-year-old film veteran A.E. Matthews. The Chiltern Hundreds is directed by John Paddy Carstairs - whose later career encompassed a string of box-office hits with the likes of Frankie Howerd Norman Wisdom and Tommy Steele - and is presented here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements. Young Viscount Tony Pym wangles National Service leave on the pretext of standing as a Tory candidate for a local seat held by his family for generations. The request is a ruse to enable Pym to marry his wealthy American fiancée while she's still in England but his masterplan backfires when he finds himself swept into an election campaign and beaten by Labour's Mr Cleghorn - who is then made a peer. In an attempt to save face Pym decides to stand again - as a socialist. It all proves too much for the Pyms' loyal true-blue butler Mr Beecham... Special Features: Image Gallery

• Million Pound Note - Gregory Peck | DVD | (20/10/2008) from £10.91   |  Saving you £2.07 (26.14%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Two old, bored and fabulously wealthy brothers, Roderick and Oliver Montpelier, strike up a cruel wager. They draw up a currency note worth £1 million. Roderick believes it would be quite useless for any poor but honest man to use. Oliver however believes that - just by possessing the note and never cashing it - any man could live like a lord. To find out who is right, the two old millionaires pick on Henry Adams (Gregory Peck), a young and impoverished American hopelessly adrift in London. Will the £1 million pound note change his life for the better or the worse? This classic, sparkling comedy - an updated version of the riotous short story by Mark Twain - sees Gregory Peck giving one of his finest performances aided and abetted by a distinguished cast which includes Joyce Grenfell and Wilfrid Hyde White.

• Jumping for joy | DVD | (27/06/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  It's a dog's life in this hilarious British comedy! When Willie Joy (comedy legend Frankie Howerd) is fired from his job at the greyhound stadium he takes pity on a fellow victim and adopts an injured greyhound called Lindy Lou who would otherwise be destroyed. Teaming up with amiable con-man 'Captain' Montague (Stanley Holloway - The Lavender Hill Mob The Titfield Thunderbolt) Willie decides to train Lindy to compete for the prestigious Golden Bowl trophy. But it's not just the other dogs she has to beat - there are crooked bookies and race-track spivs to deal with too!

• Whisky Galore | DVD | (10/10/2005) from £24.99   |  Saving you £-5.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A Highland fling on a tight little island! The Scottish islanders of Todday bypass war time rationing and delight in smuggling cases of their favourite tipple from a wrecked ship... Basil Radford stars as the teetotal English official who is totally unable to comprehend the significance of whisky to the islanders. Marvellously detailed and well played it firmly established the richest Ealing vein with the common theme of a small group triumphing over a more powerful opponent.