"Actor: Alfie"

• The Lavender Hill Mob (60th Anniversary Edition) | DVD | (01/08/2011) from £7.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (100.13%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Directed by Charles Crichton, who would much later direct John Cleese in A Fish Called Wanda (1988), 1951's The Lavender Hill Mob is the most ruefully thrilling of the Ealing Comedies. Alec Guinness plays a bowler-hatted escort of bullion to the refineries. His seeming timidity, weak 'r's and punctiliousness mask a typically Guinness-like patient cunning. "I was aware I was widiculed but that was pwecisely the effect I was stwiving to achieve". He's actually plotting a heist. With more conventionally cockney villains Sid James and Alfie Bass in tow, as well as the respectable but ruined Stanley Holloway, Guinness' perfect criminal plan works in exquisite detail, then unravels just as exquisitely, culminating in a nail-biting police car chase in which you can't help rooting for the villains. The Lavender Hill Mob depicts a London still up to its knees in rubble from World War II, a world of new hope but continued austerity, a budding new order in which everything seems up for grabs; as such it could be regarded as a lighter hearted cinematic cousin to Carol Reed's 1949 masterpiece The Third Man. The Lavender Hill Mob also sees the first, fleeting on-screen appearance of Audrey Hepburn in the opening sequence. --David Stubbs

• Tom's Midnight Garden | DVD | (02/04/2001) from £10.90   |  Saving you £5.09 (46.70%)   |  RRP £15.99

  An enchanting adaptation of the classic children's book by Philippa Pearce about Tom Long who has to spend the summer at his aunt's house.

• Queer As Folk - Definitive Collector's Edition | DVD | (08/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  A drama which follows the lives of three men living in Manchesters gay village. Stuart is rich and gorgeous Vince is funny and Nathan is young and wild as he finds his own identity.... This special collector's box set contains all the episodes from series 1 and 2.

• Pool Of London | Blu Ray | (24/10/2016) from £11.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Directed by Basil Dearden, 1951 Ealing classic Pool of London has been stunningly restored. Filmed on location in the City of London itself, on the River Thames and its wharves, on London Bridge and in the blitzed streets around St. Paul's, this is an authentic and unmissable slice of film history. Everything changes for two sailors on shore leave when they inadvertently become caught up in a crime as murky as the great river itself. For one of them, Johnny, life is further complicated when he falls in love with Pat, a local ticket seller, forming one of the first inter-racial relationships in British film. EXTRAS: Locations Featurette With Richard Dacre New Interview With Earl Cameron Stills Gallery

• Army Game - Vol.2 | DVD | (14/08/2006) from £28.25   |  Saving you £11.74 (41.56%)   |  RRP £39.99

  The Army Game was a sitcom giant of its time and one of ITV's most popular shows. Created by Sid Colin it pre-dated the more famous Dad's Army by a number of years. A group of men serving out time as conscripts in the army are determined to dodge duty and derive maximum fun out of a situation they'd rather not be in. Because WWII was only 12 years passed and national service was very much a reality many viewers found they could identify with the characters and the situation they found themselves in.

• Pool Of London | DVD | (24/10/2016) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Directed by Basil Dearden, 1951 Ealing classic Pool of London has been stunningly restored. Filmed on location in the City of London itself, on the River Thames and its wharves, on London Bridge and in the blitzed streets around St. Paul's, this is an authentic and unmissable slice of film history. Everything changes for two sailors on shore leave when they inadvertently become caught up in a crime as murky as the great river itself. For one of them, Johnny, life is further complicated when he falls in love with Pat, a local ticket seller, forming one of the first inter-racial relationships in British film. EXTRAS: Locations Featurette With Richard Dacre New Interview With Earl Cameron Stills Gallery

• Game of Thrones Complete Collector's Edition  | Blu Ray | (02/12/2019) from £59.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Based on the best-selling novel series by George R.R. Martin, HBO's drama series Game of Thrones holds the record as the most awarded series in television history. This limited-edition, custom-designed complete collector's set includes all 73 episodes of this epic eight season series. Also included is 15 hours of bonus content and never-before-seen footage.

• Hell Drivers | DVD | (26/01/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Hell Drivers sees James Bond (Sean Connery), Doctor Who (William Hartnell), one of the men from UNCLE (David McCallum), the Prisoner (Patrick McGoohan) and a Professional (Gordon Jackson), all supporting Stanley Baker in this hard-as-nails British action picture realistically set in a bleak late-1950s England. Baker plays Tom Yately, an ex-con who takes the only job he can get--truck driving at breakneck speeds for a corrupt manager (Hartnell) and brutal foreman (McGoohan). The constant short runs and competition between the drivers makes for an intense atmosphere which inevitably explodes into violence. Baker's only friend is an Italian ex-POW played sensitively by Herbert Lom, while Peggy Cummings is a remarkably free-spirited heroine for a British film of the time. Baker himself is superb, quietly tough, and broodingly charismatic, McGoohan is compellingly malevolent and Hartnell simply chilling. The film is consistently engrossing and often exciting, even when the plot spirals into melodrama towards the finale. One has to wonder where the police are during all this mayhem, but the fact that the screenplay, by John Kruse and Cy Endfield, received a BAFTA nomination suggests the scenario was at least reasonably realistic. Endfield also directed this, the second of six films he would helm for Baker, the most famous of which would be the all-time classic, Zulu (1964). On the DVD: Hell Drivers is presented in an anamorphically enhanced ratio of 1.77:1. This means a little of the original 1.96:1 VistaVision (70mm) image is cropped at the sides, which is just noticeable in a few shots. The print used is excellent, with only very minor damage, and the mono sound is fine. The disc also includes Look in on Hell Drivers, a 1957 TV programme that offers interviews with Stanley Baker, Cy Endfield and Alfie Bass, as well as comments from genuine truck drivers confirming the realism of the story, and a contemporary 15-minute television interview with Baker, which focuses on Hell Drivers, Sea Fury(1958) (also directed by Cy Endfield) and Violent Playground (1958). The original trailer rounds out an excellent package. --Gary S Dalkin

• Brief Encounter | DVD | (02/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Noel Coward's timeless movie of a couple who meet in a railway station and must make a decision that will change their lives forever.

• La Cha Cha | DVD | (13/12/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum | DVD | (12/01/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The words of the opening song pretty much describe the menu in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum--"Something familiar, something peculiar, something for everyone: a comedy tonight!"--a frantic adaptation of the stage musical by Larry Gelbart and Burt Shevelove. The wild story, based on the Latin comedies of Plautus and set in ancient Rome, follows a slave named Pseudolus (Zero Mostel, snorting and gibbering) as he tries to extricate himself from an increasingly farcical situation; Mostel and a bevy of inspired clowns, including Phil Silvers, Jack Gilford and Buster Keaton, keep the slapstick and the patter perking. The cast also includes the young Michael Crawford as a love-struck innocent. This project landed in the lap of Richard Lester, then one of the hottest directors in the world after his success with the Beatles' films. Lester telescoped the material through his own joke-a-second sensibility, and also ripped out some of the songs from Stephen Sondheim's Broadway score. The result is very close to the vaudeville spirit suggested by the title--though anyone with a low tolerance for Zero Mostel's overbearing buffoonery may be in trouble. Oddly enough, amid all the frenzy, Lester creates a grungy, earthy Rome that seems closer to the real thing than countless respectable historical films on the subject. Frankie Howerd, who played Pseudolus on the London stage, kept the tradition going with his Up Pompeii TV series. --Robert Horton

• Alfie - Paramount Originals (includes Limited Edition reproduction film poster) | DVD | (23/07/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Alfie is not really a bad sort. It's just that he has this overwhelming desire for the opposite sex. You might say that ""birds"" are irresistible to him sort of second nature. With Michael Caine in the title role Alfie is a ribald and wild comedy filled with sex and sin. For those who want to be entertained Alfie is charming delightful and quick-moving. For those who want more there is beneath the surface a lingering tragedy simply and poignantly told about the taker and the t

• Bootsie And Snudge - Series 1 - Complete | DVD | (13/08/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Bootsie And Snudge: Series 1 (5 Discs)

• Game of Thrones - Season 1 | 4K UHD | (04/06/2018) from £32.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Based on the bestselling fantasy book series A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin, this sprawling new HBO drama is set in a world where summers span decades and winters can last a lifetime. From the scheming south and the savage easternlands, to the frozen north and ancient Wall that protects the realm from the mysterious darkness beyond, the powerful families of the Seven Kingdoms are locked in battle for the Iron Throne. This is a story of duplicity and treachery, nobility and honour, conquest and triumph. In the Game of Thrones, you either win or you die. Features: Making of Game of Thrones, Character Profiles Creating the Dothraki Language Inside the Night's Watch From the Book to the Screen Histories Creating the Show Open Cast Audition Dragon Eggs Anatomy of Episode 6 A Golden Crown Commentaries

• Plastic | DVD | (08/09/2014) from £9.48   |  Saving you £12.50 (166.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  After falling foul of a sadistic crime boss a bunch of university students fly from London to Miami to target Florida's big spenders and their credit cards with a series of smart cons. But as greed and jealousy threaten the friends they need one last heist before their past catches up with them. Boasting a sparkling array of the hottest British talent - including Ed Speelers (Eragon Downton Abbey) Will Poulter (We're the Millers) Alfie Allen (Game of Thrones) and beautiful fresh recruit Emma Rigby (The Counselor) - Plastic is 'deliciously twisty' and 'one of the better British crime capers of recent years' (Daily Star Sunday). Special Features: Plastic: The Making Of Theatrical Trailer

• The Lavender Hill Mob | DVD | (13/11/2006) from £7.28   |  Saving you £5.71 (78.43%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Mr. Holland (Alec Guinness) has supervised the bank's bullion run for years. He is fussy and unnecessarily overprotective but everyone knows he is absolutely trustworthy. And so on the day the bullion truck is robbed he is the last person to be suspected. But there is another side to Mr. Holland; he is also Dutch the leader of the Lavender Hill Mob. Prolific Ealing writer T.E.B. Clarke won an Oscar for his deft script but he was helped greatly by the precise direction and impeccable timing of director Charles Crichton and by the brilliance of Alec Guinness's performance. When he tries to recruit Mr. Pendlebury (Stanley Holloway) as Pendlebury chips away at one of his sculptures Guinness circles Holloway playfully seducing him into the idea of robbery and as Holloway finally understands the proposition Guinness looks back over his shoulder like some elfin Lucifer. When the mob goes over its robbery plans Guinness insists on a detail and Shorty (Alfie Bass) acknowledges that Guinness is the boss. Guinness concentrating agrees. Then as he relaxes and eases back in his chair Guinness sheds his years of servitude to the bank - Dutch Holland is indeed the boss...

• Mike The Knight: A Very Knightly Christmas | DVD | (21/10/2013) from £6.17   |  Saving you £3.82 (61.91%)   |  RRP £9.99

  It's Christmas Eve and one of Santa's reindeer is sick. Mike makes it his mission to save Christmas and does everything he can to nurse the reindeer back to health making sure he is included on Santa's nice list. Meanwhile Mr Cuddles is sent on a wild toboggan ride Squirt gets stuck in a giant snowball and Mike learns that Vikings like to have fun in the snow too! So join Mike on his next mission to make it a very Knightly Christmas. Special Bonus Disc Features: Mike's Hidden Treasure - Includes 6 Bonus Episodes!

• Cribb | DVD | (14/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Alan Dobie stars as Detective Sergeant Cribb a member of Scotland Yard's newly formed CID unit in Victorian London. Known for his wry sense of humour Cribb is aided and at times hindered by the ever-faithful Constable Thackeray...

• Till Death Do Us Part - 1974 Series | DVD | (30/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This release features the complete 1974 series of Johnny Speight's Till Death Us Do Part from 1972 featuring Warren Mitchell as Alf Garnett. Episode titles: TV Licence The Royal Wedding Strikes And Blackouts Party Night Three Day Week Gran's Watch 'Paki-Paddy'.

• Brandy For The Parson | DVD | (07/04/2008) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-3.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Long Lost Comedy Classics is a collection of films from a golden age of British Cinema remembered for timeless stars and some unique movies that have stood the test of time. So why not take a trip down memory lane and see how cinema used to be? Bill Harper (James Donald) and Petronilla Brand (Jean Lodge) a young couple on a yachting holiday together become involved with Tony Rackham (Kenneth More) who is smuggling brandy from France to a respectable London wine merchants. Through various mishaps Bill and Petronilla find themselves personally responsible for transporting the brandy kegs to London whilst being pursued by Customs officials...