"Actor: Alan"

• The House Across the Lake | Blu Ray | (13/06/2022) from £16.21   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  American screen siren Hillary Brooke plays the consummate femme fatale in this gritty '50s Brit Noir from Hammer Films shot just a year before they made their name with The Quatermass Xperiment. An early feature by Emmy-winning writer-director Ken Hughes, The House Across the Lake is featured here as a brand new High Definition remaster from original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio.Author Mark Kenrick's plan to hide out in a quiet bungalow and thrash out his new novel is disrupted by the noise coming from a lively party at an exclusive home across the lake from his retreat. He is shocked to find the lady of the house both calculating and manipulative... and learns the hard way just how far she will go to get what she wants!Product FeaturesTheatrical trailerAlternate TitlesThe House Across the Thames: interview with Continuity Supervisor Renee GlynneThe Dame Wore Tweed: Barry Forshaw examines Brit NoirScotland Yard: The Drayton CaseImage galleryLimited edition booklet written by Neil Sinyard

• The Duke Wore Jeans | DVD | (19/07/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Comedy about a cockney lad who pretends to be a Lord in order to woo a South American princess.

• The Indian Fighter | DVD | (14/03/2005) from £6.98   |  Saving you £6.01 (86.10%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Showing why he will forever rank among Hollywood's most virile leading men Kirk Douglas gallops fights and woos his way across the danger-filled prairie in this Western from director Andre DeToth. Douglas plays a frontier scout responsible for a wagon train of settlers headed for Oregon Territory. Though known as an Indian fighter he falls head over moccasins for a proud young Sioux girl. Thus sidetracked he's unaware of the bad blood caused by two gold hungry crooks who trade wh

• The Fourth Protocol | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £13.90   |  Saving you £-7.91 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  On July 1 1968 America Britain and Russia signed a treaty to halt the spread of nuclear weapons. The powers then added four extra clauses. The most secret of them was and remains the final. One winter the Chairman of the KGB hatches a plan to breach this Fourth Protocol and destroy NATO. He sends an agent Major Petrofsky (Pierece Brosnan) to assemble the operation. It is now up to MI6 agent John Preston (Michael Caine) who now must race against an unknown deadline to stop him and his devasting mission. Based on the novel by the best-selling author Frederick Forsyth.

• Secret Friends (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (24/02/2020) from £17.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Unfairly neglected since its original low-key cinema run, Secret Friends is the only feature to be written and directed by Dennis Potter (Pennies from Heaven, The Singing Detective). Made shortly after his hugely controversial mini-series Blackeyes, the film centres on a writer, played by Alan Bates (A Day in the Death of Joe Egg), who descends into a kind of madness during a train journey as memories, fantasies and psychotic visions collide. Extras: High Definition remaster Original stereo audio New audio commentary with Graham Fuller, editor of Potter on Potter Bon Vivant (2020): actor Ian McNeice recalls working with Dennis Potter Theatrical trailer Image gallery: publicity and promotional material New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing Limited edition exclusive 36-page booklet with a new essay by Jeff Billington, Dennis Potter on the making of Secret Friends, an extract from Potter on Potter, an overview of critical responses, and film credits World premiere on Blu-ray Limited edition of 3,000 copies All extras subject to change

• Merchant-Ivory Connoisseur Collection | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Maurice Maurice Hall and Clive Durham find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. In a time when homosexuality was punishable by imprisonment, the two must keep their feelings for one another a complete secret. After a friend is arrested and disgraced for 'the unspeakable vice of the Greeks', Clive abandons his forbidden love and marries a young woman. Maurice however, struggles with questions of his identity and self-confidence, seeking the help of a hypnotist to rid himself of his ...

• Berserker | DVD | (02/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Berserker' is based upon an old Nordic legend. A 'Berserker' was a bloodthirsty warrior who was kept in chains and used as the first line of assult in Viking raids. Now in the present day America the 'Berserker' has risen out of hell to stalk a mixed group of college students camping in the woods. When the blood feast begins the screaming suspense starts clawing at the nerves. Can anything human destroy the Berserker? Or will the carnage continue over the centuries....?

• Nora | DVD | (25/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  On June 10th 1904, James Joyce, one of this century's greatest modern writers, was a young man grasping for funds and desperate to make his mark as a writer.

• The January Man | DVD | (12/08/2002) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-7.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The January Man is an odd comedy-thriller about the hunt for a serial killer that could just be a case of too many stars spoil the movie. The screenplay is by John Patrick Shanley, who won an Oscar for Moonstruck. The plot goes like this: a serial killer is terrorising Manhattan, targeting one woman a month, much to the horror of the mayor (a rabid Rod Steiger, more foam than substance) and the police commissioner Frank Starkey (Harvey Keitel). There's only one man to save their bacon: enter Nick Starkey (Kevin Kline), brother of Frank, who had been a cop but was kicked out of the force for his unorthodox ways. Being a heroic kind of guy, his next career move was as a firefighter and we first see him leaping out of a burning building, carrying a child under his arm. Kline agrees to go back on one condition: that he cooks dinner for his brother's wife (the fantastically haughty Susan Sarandon), a former girlfriend for whom he still holds a candle. The pace hots up, Nick finds himself a new girlfriend, the mayor's daughter Bernadette (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio), whose main claim to fame is that her best friend was murdered by the serial killer. Oh, and of course he gets the guy, in the nick of time (literally). Confused? You won't be. The plot is an improbable potion of coincidences and divine inspiration but it's not complicated. Kline overcomes the shortcomings of the script with a charmer of a performance, but the real star is the funny, sly Alan Rickman. The January Man is worth seeing for some very fine individual turns (Sarandon is terrific), but in all honesty, it doesn't add up to a great movie, mainly because it can't quite decide what it wants to be, genre-wise, settling on an uneasy compromise of comedy and thriller. On the DVD: The January Man disc has absolutely no-frills. Picture and sound are perfectly adequate without being anything to write home about. And if you're looking for extra goodies, you'll be disappointed: there's the original theatrical trailer and a wide array of subtitle languages, but that's it. --Harriet Smith

• Nothing But The Truth | Blu Ray | (20/05/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In Washington DC, a female reporter faces a possible jail sentence for outing a CIA agent and refusing to reveal her source.

• Abbott And Costello In Buck Privates | Blu Ray | (26/02/2018) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Comedy legends Bud Abbott and Lou Costello cemented their place in film history with the hilarious wartime comedy classic Buck Privates. After spending years on stage in burlesque and on radio perfecting classic routines such as 'Who's on First?', the duo transitioned to motion pictures at Universal in 1940. In their first leading roles, Bud and Lou play con artists who accidentally enlist in the U.S. Army to avoid going to jail. Making matters worse, their no-nonsense drill sergeant turns out to be the cop who tried to arrest them! Featuring classic routines such as 'Drill', 'Dice Game' and 'You're Forty, She's Ten', the film also starred the popular singing group The Andrews Sisters performing the Academy Award nominated song 'Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy'. Following the success of Buck Privates, Bud and Lou made an astounding 26 more movies at Universal leaving a legacy of laughter that will be treasured forever.

• A Soldier's Story | DVD | (04/10/2010) from £6.73   |  Saving you £-0.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Charles Fuller adapted his Pulitzer Prize-winning A Soldier's Play for the big screen in 1984. The film version, A Soldier's Story is essentially a murder mystery, played out against a background of inter and intra-racial conflict at a Second World War training camp. To the consternation of his white opposite number at the camp, a black captain (Howard W Rollins) arrives to investigate the death of a black sergeant (Adolph Caesar). Suspicion immediately falls on a pair of bigoted white officers but as the tale unfolds in a series of flashbacks, it soon becomes clear that a different kind of prejudice is also at work. Assisted by some excellent performances, director Norman Jewison opens the story out from its stage roots. There's a wonderful baseball scene (filmed on location at Little Rock) in which the double standards of Dennis Lipscomb's fidgety white captain are exposed with neat irony; he'll cheer his successful black team all the way home in the name of sport. His gradual, forced liberalisation provides the film with an important comic element. A Soldier's Story wears its heart on its sleeve without being superficial in any way. It's a compelling tale, well told and often highly entertaining, in which nobody gets off lightly, least of all the good guy. On the DVD: The widescreen presentation helps give an epic feel to what could, in other hands, have been a claustrophobic production. The picture quality is fine. But the monaural sound track is often rather muffled, leaving you straining to catch some of the dialogue. This is also a shame because the blues music--an inspired job by Herbie Hancock, assisted by Patti Labelle singing her lungs out as bar owner Big Mary--is an important element of the film's underlying theme and deserves to be better heard. The extras are valuable. Norman Jewison's commentary is detailed and sensitive. As he says, the film deals with "ideas in racism never seen on screen before", and he acknowledges the strength of his actors in getting those ideas across. "March to Freedom" is an excellent short documentary which features the moving testimonies of black servicemen on the insufferable prejudices they encountered while attempting to defend their country during the Second World War; A Soldier's Story is thus put sharply into context. --Piers Ford

• Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things | Blu Ray | (24/07/2023) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  101 Films presents Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things, Bob Clark's first step into Horror. With almost no budget and a cast and crew made up of friends, Clark triumphs with an eerie, funny and genuinely terrifying Zombie classic with an excellent turn by frequent collaborator Alan Ormsby as the dreaded director 'Alan'. Led by a mean-spirited director, a theatre troupe travels by boat to a small island for buried criminals. The group gets more than they bargained for when the dead rise from their graves. Can they stay put until daylight against the undead onslaught, or do they flee into the pitch-black night? Will anyone survive? Product Features Commentary with Alan Ormsby, Jane Daly and Anya Cronin Alan Ormsby Interview Memories of Bob Clark Confessions of a Grave Digger: Interview with Ken Goch Grindhouse Q&A Cemetery Mary - Music Video Dead Girls Don't Say No - Music Video Trailer Photo Gallery

• Alan's Garden Secrets 4 DVD BOX SET | DVD | (26/11/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Alan Titchmarsh discovers the big moments and the master gardeners that shaped our landscape and shows us how to achieve a little piece of the spectacular in our own back garden. In each DVD of Alan s Garden Secrets we get the opportunity to visit one of Britain s most spectacular showpiece gardens that usually remain hidden from public view. These gardens will be routed in and influenced by a specific era in British gardening s evolution and as Alan meets the owners, custodians and curious characters that maintain and develop them, he will discover how the garden was inspired and influenced by the master gardeners of the era. As we move through the big moments in gardening history Alan will be able to contrast the work of contemporary master garden designers such as Piet Oudolf, Tom Stuart-Smith and Christopher Bradley-Hole with those famed for shaping vast areas of the British landscape such as Lancelot Capability Brown, Humphry Repton and William Kent, who planted up our landscape in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, giving us the outlook we enjoy today.

• Spy Kids 2 | Blu Ray | (15/08/2011) from £16.55   |  Saving you £8.44 (51.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

  In this sequel to the 2001 hit the Cortez family return, as brother & sister Carmen & Juni battle another pair of spy kids.

• QI - Series 2 | DVD | (17/03/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Behold QI's big-sized ""B"" bundle benevolently blending bug-eyed bafflement and brilliant badinage by Britain's brightest babble-meisters. Bananas! Bamboo! Baguettes! Baldness! Bagpipes! Biscuits! Bernards! This beauteous boxset brims bountifully Brian could somebody please rewrite the copy from this point on? This idea is fantastically tedious and unfunny. Yes leave it with me no problem I'll have a go at it after lunch. Does the Pope eat beaver? Where did the Greeks put their blackberries? How big is a barnacle's boner? Discover answers to questions you never dreamt of asking and find that everything you think you know is wrong. This complete second series is devoted entirely to the letter beloved by Balzac Bertolt Brecht and the Bronts you can take those out too. I've never heard of any of them and all 12 glorious episodes are included. Your beaming host QI Master Stephen Fry winner of the 'Golden Rose of Montreux' for best game-show host quizzes the likes of Bill Bailey Brand (Jo) Barry (Cryer) and Briain (Dara O') in a quite interesting and unquestionably hilarious trawl through the world of bugs beetles bangs Bermuda shorts Brownian motion Bombay duck Irving Berlin the list is OK but take out the word 'beaming' please and Birmingham. Starring Alan Davies and a lot of other people without a B in their name: Sean Lock Rich Hall Phil Kay Clive Anderson Mark Gatiss Phill Jupitus Jeremy Hardy Jeremy Clarkson Jimmy Carr Anneka Rice Arthur Smith Linda Smith Fred MacAulay Josie Lawrence John Sessions and Mark Steel.

• A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (Dual Format Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (28/08/2017) from £19.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Playwright Peter Nichols adapted his own blackly comic 1967 Tony Award-winning play for this confrontational film version by director Peter Medak. Alan Bates and Janet Suzman play a married couple struggling to come to terms with their daughter's disability using comedy and cruelty to dispel the desperation of their situation. This uncomfortable, provocative film about marriage, children and life choices is startlingly funny as well as deeply moving. INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION SPECIAL FEATURES: High Definition remaster Original mono audio Audio commentary by director Peter Medak New interview with actor Janet Suzman (2017, tbc mins) New interview with playwright and author Peter Nichols (2017, tbc mins) Original theatrical trailer Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography New English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing Limited edition exclusive booklet with a new essay by Marcus Hearn, an overview of contemporary critical responses, and historic articles on the film World premiere on Blu-ray Limited Dual Format Edition of 3,000 copies

• Flame | DVD | (17/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

• In The Beginning | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £9.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (-233.80%)   |  RRP £2.99

  The epic Old Testiment story of Hebrew patriarch Abraham and his descendants. A star-studded cast brings these compelling stories to life featuring: Abraham's call to find the promised land; the stories of Isaac Rebeccah Esau and Jacob; Joseph's remarkable rise to power despite being sold into slavery by his brothers; Moses receiving the ten commandments and the liberation of the jews from Egypt.

• Georgy Girl - Limited Edition | Blu Ray | (26/11/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  One of the defining films of the 1960s, Silvio Narizzano's adaptation of Margaret Foster's 1965 novel stars Lynn Redgrave in an Oscar-nominated role as the put-upon teenager Georgy Parkin. Awkward and full of self-doubt, Georgy finds herself forever just outside of the ˜Swinging Sixties' London life she craves. Marked by a wonderfully warm and appealing central performance from Redgrave, and with its superb supporting cast including Charlotte Rampling (Death in Venice, The Night Porter), Alan Bates (A Kind of Loving, Women in Love) and the great James Mason (The Reckless Moment, Age of Consent, The Deadly Affair), Georgy Girl captures the spirit of the era and boasts one of the all-time great film theme tunes. INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES: High Definition remaster Original mono audio New and exclusive audio commentary with Diabolique magazine's editor-in-chief Kat Ellinger Interview with Charlotte Rampling One of the defining films of the 1960s, Silvio Narizzano's adaptation of Margaret Foster's 1965 novel stars Lynn Redgrave in an Oscar-nominated role as the put-upon teenager Georgy Parkin. Awkward and full of self-doubt, Georgy finds herself forever just outside of the ˜Swinging Sixties' London life she craves. Marked by a wonderfully warm and appealing central performance from Redgrave, and with its superb supporting cast including Charlotte Rampling (Death in Venice, The Night Porter), Alan Bates (A Kind of Loving, Women in Love) and the great James Mason (The Reckless Moment, Age of Consent, The Deadly Affair), Georgy Girl captures the spirit of the era and boasts one of the all-time great film theme tunes. INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES: High Definition remaster Original mono audio New and exclusive audio commentary with Diabolique magazine's editor-in-chief Kat Ellinger Interview with Charlotte Rampling (2018) Jim Dale on ˜Georgy Girl' (2018): a new audio interview with the beloved actor and award-winning songwriter Interview with Peter Nichols (2018): new and exclusive interview with the author, playwright and co-screenwriter of the film Interview with editor John Bloom (2018) Interview with art director Tony Woollard (2018) Original theatrical trailer Image gallery: promotional photography and publicity material New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing Limited edition exclusive booklet with a new essay by Leanne Weston, an overview of contemporary critical responses and historic articles on the film World premiere on Blu-ray Limited Edition of 3,000 copies (2018) Jim Dale on ˜Georgy Girl' (2018): a new audio interview with the beloved actor and award-winning songwriter Interview with Peter Nichols (2018): new and exclusive interview with the author, playwright and co-screenwriter of the film Interview with editor John Bloom (2018) Interview with art director Tony Woollard (2018) Original theatrical trailer Image gallery: promotional photography and publicity material New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing Limited edition exclusive booklet with a new essay by Leanne Weston, an overview of contemporary critical responses and historic articles on the film World premiere on Blu-ray Limited Edition of 3,000 copies