"Actor: Anthony Newley"

• Doctor Dolittle | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £5.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (66.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Doctor Doolittle was an expensive 1967 movie that nearly wiped out the studio (20th Century-Fox) that made it, owing to public apathy. It doesn't engender much more excitement today. Rex Harrison still looks lost in the overblown production, the songs are still awful (except "Talk to the Animals", of course), the story of one man's communication with beasts devoid of enchantment. Director Richard Fleischer (The Vikings) certainly shares in the blame. --Tom Keogh

• The Strange World of Gurney Slade | DVD | (15/08/2011) from £8.14   |  Saving you £6.85 (84.15%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Both firmly of its time and spectacularly ahead of it The Strange World of Gurney Slade is to television comedy what The Prisoner has become to television drama - brilliantly inventive startlingly surreal and unlike anything previously seen on television. Anthony Newley stars as an actor who walks off the set of a banal sit-com and into a fantasy world of his own imagination. In this surreal odyssey through his own personal alternative reality he indulges in random conversations with both animals and inanimate objects it s a world in which characters can step out of advertising posters and where he can hear the most intimate thoughts of passers by. An unpredictable absurdist fantasy Gurney Slade created an indelible impression upon anyone who saw it. Created by Newley and written by the highly talented Sid Green and Dick Hills (who were soon to become key writers for Morecambe and Wise) this series has been newly transferred from the original 35mm film elements specifically for this release.

• The Garbage Pail Kids Movie | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  It doesn't get grosser than this... Meet Windy Winston Messy Tessie Foul Phil Valerie Vomit and the whole outrageous Garbage Pail crew. When the stinky bunch are let loose in the junk shop of mysterious Captain Manzini young helper Dodger finds these grimy new arrivals are just the help he needs to deal with the local bullies. But how can he get them back where they belong now they're free to gross out the world!

• The Small World Of Sammy Lee (Digitally Restored) | Blu Ray | (14/11/2016) from £11.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (91.74%)   |  RRP £22.99

  A 1963 British crime film directed by Ken Hughes and starring Anthony Newley, Julia Foster and Robert Stephens. THE SMALL WORLD OF SAMMY LEE is just around any corner in Soho. Peopled by the pimps, the punters, the brasses and the bookies, and with boils on its face like the sleazy Peepshow club where Sammy (Anthony Newley) comperes the strip-tease. Sammy Lee is worried. When you owe £300 to a bookie like Conner you're entitled to be worried. Particularly when his muscle men (Kenneth J. Warren and Clive Colin Bowler) are coming in a few hours' time to collect the cash. Refused help from brother Lou (Warren Mitchell) by Lou's wife (Miriam Karlin) who won't pour the profits of their delicatessen into bookies' pockets, Sammy is desperately setting up shady deals to raise the money. EXTRAS: New Interview with Julia Foster New Locations Featurette with Film Historian Richard Dacre New Interview with Mike Hodges

• The Small World Of Sammy Lee (Digitally Restored) | DVD | (14/11/2016) from £10.35   |  Saving you £7.64 (73.82%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A 1963 British crime film directed by Ken Hughes and starring Anthony Newley, Julia Foster and Robert Stephens. THE SMALL WORLD OF SAMMY LEE is just around any corner in Soho. Peopled by the pimps, the punters, the brasses and the bookies, and with boils on its face like the sleazy Peepshow club where Sammy (Anthony Newley) comperes the strip-tease. Sammy Lee is worried. When you owe £300 to a bookie like Conner you're entitled to be worried. Particularly when his muscle men (Kenneth J. Warren and Clive Colin Bowler) are coming in a few hours' time to collect the cash. Refused help from brother Lou (Warren Mitchell) by Lou's wife (Miriam Karlin) who won't pour the profits of their delicatessen into bookies' pockets, Sammy is desperately setting up shady deals to raise the money. EXTRAS: New Interview with Julia Foster New Locations Featurette with Film Historian Richard Dacre New Interview with Mike Hodges

• Oliver Twist -- Special Edition | DVD | (26/09/2008) from £12.98   |  Saving you £3.01 (23.19%)   |  RRP £15.99

  There have been many film and TV adaptations of Oliver Twist but this 1948 production from director David Lean remains the definitive screen interpretation of the Charles Dickens classic. From the ominous symbolism of its opening storm sequence (in which Oliver's pregnant, ill-fated mother struggles to reach shelter before childbirth) to the mob-scene climax that provokes Bill Sikes's dreadful comeuppance, this breathtaking black-and-white film remains loyal to Dickens while distilling the story into its purest cinematic essence.Every detail is perfect--Lean even includes a coffin-shaped snuffbox for the cruel Mr. Sowerberry--and as young Oliver, eight-year-old John Howard Davies (who would later produce Monty Python's Flying Circus for the BBC) perfectly expresses the orphan's boyish wonderment, stern determination and waifish vulnerability. Best of all is Alec Guinness as Fagin, so devious and yet so delightfully appealing under his beak-nosed (and, at the time, highly controversial) make-up. (Many complained that Fagin's huge nose and greedy demeanour presented an anti-Semitic stereotype, even though Lean never identifies Fagin as Jewish; for this reason, the film wasn't shown in the US until three years after its British release.) Likewise, young Anthony Newley is artfully dodgy as Fagin's loyal accomplice, the Artful Dodger. Guinness's performance would later provide strong inspiration for Ron Moody's equally splendid portrayal of Fagin in the Oscar-winning Oliver! and while that 1968 musical remains wonderfully entertaining, it is Lean's film that hews closest to Dickens' vision. The authentic recreation of 19th-century London is marvellous to behold; Guy Green's cinematography is so shadowy and stylised that it almost qualifies as Dickensian film noir. Lean is surprisingly blunt in conveying Dickens's theme of cruelty but his film never loses sight of the warmth and humanity that Oliver embodies. --Jeff Shannon

• The Garbage Pail Kids DVD & Blu-Ray Limited Edition Mediabook (+ Bonus Blu-Ray) | Blu Ray | (06/05/2024) from £26.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Meet the Garbage Pail Kids: Nat Nerd, Messy Tessie, Greaser Greg, Windy Winston, Foul Phil, Valerie Vomit and Ali Gator! They look as strange as their names and have come all the way from outer space to land their garbage can rocket straight into Captain Manzini's antique shop. There they befriend the orphan boy Dodger, who helps out in the store and could really use the support of the seven trash can children. But his new friends show him that true beauty comes from within and that the journey of growing up can sometimes be pretty disgusting.3-Disc Limited Collector's Edition Mediabook with the film on Blu-ray and DVD, a bonus Blu-ray and a 24-page booklet with a text by Marc Spark. Bonus: The Kids Aren't Alright - Interviews with Garbage Pail Kids actors Kevin Thompson and Arturo Gil, The Artful Dodger - Interview with Mackenzie Astin, The Effects of the Garbage Pail Kids - Interviews with Effects Design supervisor John Carl Buechler and Special Effects Creator Gino Crognale, On Set Interview with Assistant Director Thomas A. Irvine, Original Theatrical Trailer. Bonus Blu-ray: Documentary 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

• The Strange World of Gurney Slade | Blu Ray | (24/05/2021) from £26.03   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Anthony Newley stars as an actor who walks off the set of a banal sit-com and into a fantasy world of his own imagination in this surreal odyssey through one man's personal alternative reality. An unpredictable, absurdist fantasy, the series was created by Newley and written by comedy legends Sid Green and Dick Hills (soon to become key writers for Morecambe and Wise). Restored in High Definition from original 35mm film elements, this limited anniversary edition also includes: Three Saturday Spectacular shows from 1960 featuring Anthony Newley alongside Shirley Bassey, Peter Sellers, Janette Scott, Lionel Blair and others. These variety specials feature Newley's initial attempts at building the internal monologue character that would eventually become Gurney Slade. Original Gurney Slade promotional shorts Extensive image galleries The Small World of Sammy Lee: the classic 1963 British crime film starring Anthony Newley The Small World of Sammy Lee special features: newly-discovered archive film material featuring an alternative ending, textless titles and a promotional interview with Anthony Newley Commemorative booklet with contributions from Andrew Pixley, Dick Fiddy and Andrew Roberts

• X The Unknown | DVD | (12/09/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Mysterious events surround the sudden appearance of a gaping fissure at a remote Scottish army base: soldiers on manoeuvres nearby develop a debilitating sickness while a small boy is engulfed by an eerie presence. The radioactive subterranean monstrosity seems to have been brought to life by recent atomic experiments - but can it ever be destroyed?

• It Seemed Like A Good Idea At the Time | DVD | (26/06/2017) from £8.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  John Candy heads up a hysterical cast in this laugh a minute tale of a jealous husband and his attempts to keep his wife from leaving him. When Skeet, played by Anthony Newley, vows to stop at nothing to win back his wife, he signs up for more than he bargained for and one by one his bungled plans descend into comedic chaos!

• Idol On Parade | DVD | (07/06/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Rare 2012 UK release of this classic film.Anthony Newley found his career taking off after being cast as the singing idol 'Jeep Jackson', the 'King of Rock-A-Boogie', who is called up to National Service in this 1959 British musical comedy. Jeep does his best to fit in as a squaddie - but soon there are hordes of screaming pop fans at the barracks gates, the other recruits think he's after their girls - and the C.O.'s daughter (Anne Aubrey) decides that he is the boy of her dreams! Jeep's devious manager (Sid James) is determined that a little thing like National Service won't spoil his star's career. He smuggles him out of camp at every opportunity to perform pop concerts and to cut new hit records. But Jeep's Sergeant (William Bendix) is getting very suspicious of what's going on after lights out... Idol On Parade features no less than five songs from Anthony Newley, including Idle Rock-A-Boogie, Sat'Day Night Rock-A-Boogie, Won't Get No Promotion, Idle on Parade and I've Waited So Long - two of which were to become smash chart hits.

• David Lean Box Set | DVD | (20/11/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  A collection of David Lean's finest films. Include: 1. The Sound Barrier (1952) 2. Hobsons Choice (1954) 3. Blithe Spirit (1945) 4. Brief Encounter (1945) 5. Great Expectations (1946) 6. Oliver Twist (1948) 7. Madeleine (1950) 8. The Passionate Friends (1949) 9. This Happy Breed (1944)

• Doctor Dolittle | DVD | (28/02/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Get ready for the wildest adventure of a lifetime in the most ambitious musical production ever brought to film. Earning a 1967 Academy Award nomination for Best Picture this dazzling fantasy turns both ordinary and exotic animals into talking dancing and singing sensations! Rex Harrison is unforgettable in this inspiring adaptation of Hugh Lofting's classic stories. Step into the English country home of the good doctor as he performs remarkable treatments on the wildest variety of patients you could imagine. Discover his secret cures and watch wide-eyed excitement as he and his four-legged fine-feathered friends charm their way into your heart!

• Vice Versa | DVD | (15/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Mr Bultitude is returning his reluctant son Dick to boarding school when he announces he wishes he were a boy again. Being in the possession of the Garuda Stone a magical Indian treasure his wish is granted. Moments later his son takes the stone and wishes to be an adult. So the two swap roles and lives but as they both live out their desires they get slightly more than they bargained for. Based on the acknowledged masterpiece of Victorian comic literature by F. Anstey this i

• Oliver Twist / Great Expectations | DVD | (17/03/2008) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An astonishingly good David Lean double-bill featuring his two Dickensian adaptations, Great Expectations (1946) and Oliver Twist (1948), this is a reminder that cinema does not necessarily have to debase its literary sources, sometimes it can enhance them. Lean's painterly eye for evocative locations--be they windswept marshes or bustling London streets--provides the backdrop, but his focus on smaller details--the ominous tree in the graveyard with its almost human face, the reaction of Bill Sikes' dog to Nancy's murder--adds the vital ingredient that brings both place and character to life. Starring a youthful John Mills as Pip, Lean's Great Expectations is an unadulterated delight, a serendipitous gelling of screenplay, direction, cinematography and acting that produces an almost perfect film. The cast is exemplary, with Alec Guinness in his first (official) role as Pip's loyal pal Herbert Pocket; Martita Hunt is a cadaverous Miss Havisham; Finlay Currie transforms himself from truly threatening to entirely sympathetic as Magwitch; while the young Jean Simmons makes more of an impact as the girl Estella than Valerie Hobson does as the older incarnation. Perhaps best of all, though, is Francis Sullivan as the pragmatic but kindly attorney Jaggers. The cinematography alone (courtesy of Guy Green) would qualify Oliver Twist as a classic: the opening sequence of a lone woman struggling through the storm is an indelible cinematic image. Fortunately, Lean's film has many more aces up its sleeve thereafter, notably Alec Guinness' grotesque Fagin--a caricature certainly, but a three-dimensional one--and Robert Newton's utterly pitiless Bill Sikes. The skewed angles and unsettling chiaroscuro lighting transform London itself into another threatening character. --Mark Walker

• The Lady is a Square | Blu Ray | (22/03/2021) from £10.60   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Anna Neagle, Frankie Vaughan and Janette Scott star alongside Anthony Newley and Wilfrid Hyde White in this swinging musical from the late 1950s! 'Mr Showbusiness' sings four top tunes in what was to be the swansong for both Neagle and her long-time creative partner and husband, director Herbert Wilcox. The Lady is a Square is featured here as a brand-new High Definition remaster from original film elements in its as-exhibited aspect ratio. Widowed socialite Frances Baring encounters financial problems that put her late husband's classical orchestra in peril. Can a chance encounter with an aspiring young singer overcome her prejudice against pop and save the day? Special Features Theatrical trailer Image gallery

• Vice Versa | Blu Ray | (05/09/2022) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Roger Livesey and a very young Anthony Newley star as a Victorian father and son who accidentally swap bodies after a foolishly casual wish made in the presence of a magical Indian artefact! Written and directed by filmmaker, wit and reconteur Peter Ustinov, Vice Versa is featured here as a brand-new remaster from original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio. During a heart-to-heart with his son, pompous businessman Paul Bultitude envies his schoolboy son Dick's youth, while Dick wishes he were grown up. They both get what they wish for when, magically, the son becomes the father (and vice versa) - a situation that soon causes consternation and uproar! Product Features Image gallery The Strange World of Gurney Slade episode one Saturday Spectacular: an Anthony Newley variety show from early 1960 Limited edition booklet by Neil Sinyard

• X The Unknown | DVD | (26/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A strange blob-like creature terrorises the inhabitants of a Scottish village.

• Lady Is A Square, The | DVD | (03/01/2011) from £11.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (25.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Lady Is A Square marked Anna Neagle's last big screen appearance and a fine conclusion to a hugely successful career. Neagle stars as Frances Baring a socialite widow attempting to keep her late husband's symphony orchestra going. Reluctantly she enlists the help of a young pop singer (Frankie Vaughan in a rare starring role) who has fallen for Baring's daughter Joanna played by a young Janette Scott.

• The Lady is a Square | DVD | (22/03/2021) from £4.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  1950s musical comedy starring Frankie Vaughan. When up-and-coming musician Johnny Burns (Vaughan) falls for Joanna Baring (Janette Scott), the daughter of widowed classical musical promoter Frances Baring (Anna Neagle), he does all he can to get on her mother's good side. Upon signing a record deal Johnny uses the cash advance to help out Joanna who is struggling financially. However, when Joanna's mother finds out that Johnny is a pop musician, she is less than impressed.