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• Smash and Grab | DVD | (19/10/2015) from £7.98   |  Saving you £4.00 (66.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Forming a hugely popular screen partnership during the inter-war years, dapper comic player Jack Buchanan and musical star Elsie Randolph bring a characteristic elan to this stylish and entertaining crime caper from the late 1930s. Directed by Q Planes' Tim Whelan, Smash and Grab (released in the US as Larceny Street) is presented here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements and in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio.John Forrest, an insurance investigator with a weakness for model railways, is on the trail of a gang of smash-and-grab thieves targeting Europe's most prestigious jewellers. As the chase leads him to Ireland, Forrest finds he needs help and who better to call upon than his impossibly elegant, highly capable wife, Alice?SPECIAL FEATURE:Image GalleryOriginal Pressbook PDF

• Broken Blossoms | DVD | (18/04/2011) from £8.95   |  Saving you £4.04 (45.14%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This 1936 Twickenham production Produced by Julius Hagen who put together a fine team of technicians. Hagen a German, called upon several countrymen, Hans Brahm Director, Curt Courant Photography then on screen Dolly Haas, and our own master of the scissors Ralph Kemplen. Comparisons are made to the DW Griffith version which seems unnecessary. The early model work is not the best but enjoy this fine but not pc production. The picture and sound have been restored to a very good quality for a title of this age.

• The Great Defender | DVD | (18/08/2014) from £7.98   |  Saving you £4.00 (66.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A skilfully constructed melodrama with a genuinely thrilling dénouement The Great Defender tells the story of an artist wrongly accused of murdering his model and of the efforts of an eminent KC to clear him. Featuring a characteristically powerful performance from Matheson Lang the classical actor who became one of Britain's most successful screen stars during the twenties this superb feature is presented here in a brand-new digital transfer from original film elements. Sir Douglas Rolls is a highly respected defence lawyer of many years' experience. Now in rapidly failing health he is advised to retreat from the courtroom and pursue more pleasurable activities. But it is just at this point in his life that his great lost love - a woman his own strong sense of duty led him to give up twenty years ago and whom he still loves deeply - walks into his chambers to ask that he defend her adulterous husband now to stand trial for murder. Reluctantly agreeing to take on the case Sir Douglas soon finds there is more to the story than meets the eye... Special Features: Promotional Material PDF