"Actor: Alan Bates"

• Far From The Madding Crowd | DVD | (13/09/2004) from £17.98   |  Saving you £-4.99 (-38.40%)   |  RRP £12.99

  John Schlesinger's solid adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel sees three rival suitors vying for the affections of the beautiful Bathsheba Everdene (Julie Christie decked out in a variety of bonnets and frilly dresses), who has just inherited a farm. The men in her life are stout, whiskered yeoman Gabriel Oak (Alan Bates), an impoverished local farmer; neurotic, repressed squire William Boldwood (Peter Finch); and handsome rascal Sgt Troy (Terrence Stamp), who dresses as if he's Flashman and breaks women's hearts for a hobby.Thanks to cameraman Nic Roeg and production designer Richard MacDonald (who also worked for Joseph Losey), 19th-century Dorset looks as pretty and as picturesque as a John Constable reproduction on top of a biscuit tin. Not that Schlesinger or screenwriter Frederic Raphael underplay the duress of rural life. We see the hardship of the farm workers' lives as the seasons turn. The film opens with a spectacular sequence in which Gabriel Oak's dog drives his flock of sheep over a cliff, thereby forcing him into penury. Whether hunger or heartbreak, every character here suffers. Bathsheba (like the model Christie plays in Darling) is a free-spirit in a society in which women's rights are severely restricted. --Geoffrey Macnab

• The Mothman Prophecies (2002) Blu-Ray Imprint Limited Edition #39 | Blu Ray | (07/05/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Spartacus | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Once a slave. Forever a legend. Sentenced to spend out the rest of his adult life labouring in the harsh deserts of Egypt Thracian slave Spartacus gets a new lease on life when he is purchased by the owner of a Roman gladiator school. Moved by the defiance of Ethopian warrior Draba Spartacus leads a slave uprising which threatens the very foundations of the republic of Rome...

• The Return of The Soldier | Blu Ray | (10/08/2020) from £8.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The returning soldier is amnesia victim Alan Bates, who remembers nothing of his life before suffering shell-shock, not even his long-term marriage to snooty Julie Christie. Spinsterish Ann-Margret, who has long harbored a fondness for Bates, hopes to take advantage of his memory loss.

• Studio Classic: Classic Award Winners | DVD | (10/10/2005) from £22.93   |  Saving you £12.06 (52.59%)   |  RRP £34.99

  All About Eve (Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1950): From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door Eve Horrington (Anne Baxter) moves relentlessly towards her goal: taking the reins of power from the great actress Margo Channing (Bette Davies). The cunning Eve manoeuvres her way into Margo's Broadway role becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend (Gary Merrill) her playwright (Hugh Marlowe) and his wife (Celeste Holm). Only

• Sum Of All Fears, The / Along Came A Spider / Kiss The Girls | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Morgan Freeman Collection containing three of his best known films. Kiss The Girls: North Carolina police detective Dr. Alex Cross (Morgan Freeman) tracks an elusive psychopath whose modus operandi is not necessarily killing the young women he abducts but ""collecting"" them as trophies. Unfortunately his quarry includes the detective's own law-student niece so his race against time with the help of a no-nonsense medical intern Dr. Kate McTiernan (Ashley Judd) who esca

• We Think The World Of You | DVD | (04/04/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Frank's lover Johnny gets sent to prison. Offering to help out Frank begins to visit Johnny's mum and soon sees that his beautiful dog Evie is being neglected. Frank's longing for Johnny mutates into love for the dog. He cares with increasing desperation. His war of nerves with Johnny's wife intensifies. He can give poor Evie a good life! Can't Johnny see that? Can't his family see that? Hilarious yet touching the film carefully preserves the stifling discretion of the era.

• Royal Flash | Blu Ray | (20/05/2013) from £29.68   |  Saving you £-7.69 (N/A%)   |  RRP £21.99

  In this unique and outrageous period comedy adapted from George MacDonald Fraser's novel, Malcolm McDowell stars as a comic character come to life. It is 19th Century Europe and Captain Harry Flashman (McDowell) is a gutless bully who seeks admission into European high society. Seeing a chance to promote their own menacing political schemes devious Otto von Bismarck (Oliver Reed) and Rudi Von Sternberg (Alan Bates) convince Flashman to disguise himself as a Prussian noble so that he can marry a gorgeous duchess (Britt Ekland). However, the hoax is discovered, and Flashman flees the continent, experiencing one calamity after another - as well as some of history's most significant events - in this hilarious romp that might just make you laugh instead of marvel at the next comic book hero you encounter! Special Features: Commentary with Actor Malcolm McDowell and Film Historian Nick Redman Inside Royal Flash Featurette Meet Harry Flashman Featurette Original Theatrical Trailer

• Arabian Nights | DVD | (30/05/2007) from £28.80   |  Saving you £-24.81 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  A young Sultan named Schahriar must find a wife before the next full moon, otherwise the kingdom will be given to his exiled brother, Schahzenan. Schahriar is skeptical about marrying again, having been the target of a failed assassination attempt by his first wife and his evil brother. However, he sends the old Grand Vizier, Jafar, to find a wife for him, planning to kill her the day after he inherits the kingdom. Ironically, it is Jafar's own daughter, Scheherazade, who offers to marry Scha...

• Prince And The Pauper | DVD | (06/01/2003) from £6.99   |  Saving you £-4.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Mark Twain's classic story of the Pauper who dreams of riches and the prince who just wants to behave like a normal boy. After a chance meeting the two boys become friends and are amazed to discover that they are identical and can easily pass for each other- an opportunity to get what they have both always wanted! But both learn that no life is as it seems: the Prince has to overcome an alcoholic father's wrath and a spell in prison while the Pauper is trapped in a palace rampant with political intrigue and in-fighting when the old king dies.

• Nicholas Gift | DVD | (28/04/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Viva Nicholas! Viva Nicholas! shouts Reg Green at the dedication of a school named after his slain son. And that sums up how all of Italy feels about 7-year-old Nicholas Green and American tourist and accidental victim of a bandit's bullet. In this highly publicized 1994 crime would-be robbers who fired the fateful shots were not even after the Greens but were trying to intercept a jewelry shipment. Still the bizarre story of mistaken identity is little more than a footnote to the powerful true story of two parents' generosity and willingness to forgive - all while dealing with their boy's grim prognosis. Under the worst circumstances Reg and Maggie Green make the most courageous decision possible: They will donate Nicholas' organs a practice almost unheard of in Italy at that time. Since then organ donation in Italy has increased 118 percent giving more than 3 000 people a second chance at life. It is call The Nicholas Effect.

• Hamlet | DVD | (10/08/2015) from £7.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Franco Zeffirelli's stripped-down, two-hour version of Shakespeare's play stars Mel Gibson as a rather robust version of the ambivalent Danish prince. Gibson is much better in the part than many critics have admitted, his powers of clarity doing much to make this particular Hamlet more accessible than several other filmed versions. The supporting cast is outstanding, including Glenn Close as Gertrude, Alan Bates as Claudius, Ian Holm as Polonius, and Helena Bonham Carter as Ophelia. Zeffirelli's vigorous direction employs a lively camera style that nicely alters the viewer's preconceptions about the way Hamlet should look. --Tom Keogh

• Prince & The Pauper | DVD | (29/03/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Mark Twain's classic story of the Pauper who dreams of riches and the prince who just wants to behave like a normal boy. After a chance meeting the two boys become friends and are amazed to discover that they are identical and can easily pass for each other- an opportunity to get what they have both always wanted! But both learn that no life is as it seems: the Prince has to overcome an alcoholic father's wrath and a spell in prison while the Pauper is trapped in a palace rampant with political intrigue and in-fighting when the old king dies.

• Crazy People | DVD | (16/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  'Crazy People' is a sharp and satirical film about the fickle world of advertising starring Dudley Moore as Emory an advertising executive who believes honesty is the best approach for his new advertising campaign. In a bid to 'recover' from his loss of perspective Emory is sent to a clinic by his bosses. The fine line between certified insanity and what society accepts as normal is expertly developed when Emory's world collides with the lives of the clinic's patients. Emory

• 12 Drama and True Story DVD Movies | DVD | (08/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Contains;- A Place For Annie - A nurse battles to keep the AIDS baby she has looked after since it was abandoned.- First Do No Harm - A woman seeks help for her son as the medical establishment closes ranks against her.- Nicholas' Gift - Two grieving parents turn a tragedy into an act that would bring hope to other blighted lives.- The Shell Seekers - Rosamunde Pilcher's story centres on a mother and her troubled relationship with her 3 children.- Fifteen & Pregnant - The searing true story of a 15 year-old girl's experience of teenage parenthood.- Too Young To Die - Shocking drama about 2 teenagers and the death penalty.- Untamed Love - Through love patience and extraordinary commitment a teacher 'tames' a highly disturbed child.- A Message For Holly - Holly's daughter is her life. In six months she must give up both.- Ginger In The Morning - Whilst hitch-hiking in New Mexico Ginger is picked up by Joe and the attraction is mutual.- Circle Of Two - A 16 year-old girl finds comfort in an ageing artist leading to an ill-fated romance.- No One Could Protect Her - Jessica is raped and almost killed in her own home by an intruder...and he's coming back.- Sad Inheritance - To regain custody of her affected baby a drug addict must clean up her life.

• The Three Sisters | DVD | (28/06/2004) from £7.16   |  Saving you £6.83 (95.39%)   |  RRP £13.99

  In a remote little town in turn of the century Russia three sisters - Olga (Jeanne Watts) Irina (Louise Purnell) and Masha (Joan Plowight) - and their brother Andrei (Derek Jacobi) fantasise about their return to their former home in Moscow. For them Moscow is a city of dreams magnetism and inspiration - a far cry from their current life - an oppressive and overbearing existence devoid of hope. As they muddle through life they hold on to the memory of a place they once knew and

• Quartet | DVD | (12/02/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A young woman (Isabelle Adjani) in Paris in the 1920s is left penniless and without means of support. A rather strange English couple (Maggie Smith Alan Bates) offer her refuge but at the price of seduction by the husband...

• Three Sisters | DVD | (28/03/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In a remote little town in turn of the century Russia three sisters - Olga (Jeanne Watts) Irina (Louise Purnell) and Masha (Joan Plowight) with their brother Andrei (Derek Jacobi) fantasise about their return to their former home in Moscow. For them Moscow is a city of dreams magnetism and inspiration - a far cry from their current life - an oppressive and overbearing existence devoid of hope. As they muddle through life they hold on to the memory of a place they once knew and t

• The Shout | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  During a cricket match at a lunatic asylum patient Crossley relates a strange story to a composer Anthony Fielding and his wife Rachel. Crossley once lived with Australian aborigines who taught him the secret of a deadly shout which has the power to kill anyone within earshot. Crossley moves in with the couple and starts an affair with Rachel. Meanwhile Anthony wants to harness the energy of the shout for his music and will not rest until he has discovered the truth about his guest's stange powers...

• Nicholas' Gift | DVD | (23/07/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  This is the extraordinary true story of a close and loving family on a sightseeing holiday in Italy in September 1994 whose lives were shattered one desolate night with the indiscriminate shooting of their little seven year old son Nicholas. As Nicholas lies dying in hospital his devastated parents take the most painful decision imaginable to donate Nicholas' organs so that other little children may receive the gift of life. What begins as an intensely private and unbelievably courageous act of love and human compassion was soon to send emotional ripples right around the world that would come to be known as the Nicholas Effect.