"Actor: Avice Landone"

• Carve Her Name With Pride | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-10.01 (-100.20%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The moving and dramatic story of Violette Szabo (McKenna) a courageous WW2 secret agent who was captured in northern France... Carve Her Name With Pride is the inspiring true life story of Violette Szabo. During World War II Violette (Virgina McKenna) volunteers to parachute into France as a secret agent to aid a Resistance group. Her mission successful she joins the Resistance where she stays until captured by the Germans. Tortured by the Gestapo for information she refuses to betray her comrades... Directed by Lewis Gilbert Carve Her Name With Pride is a moving tale about the endurance of the human spirit in even the most adverse circumstances.

• Blood On Satan's Claw | DVD | (26/01/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The discovery of furry remains believed to be the Devil sparks a barrage of evil un-doings in a small town. Soon after their discovery the Devil's remains disappear hampering the investigation by the local Judge (Patrick Wymark). But the evil forces that take over are frightening proof that the Devil may indeed be among the villagers...

• The Adventures Of Barry McKenzie | DVD | (05/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Barry McKenzie a loud-mouthed sex crazed innocent travels to London to get a cultural education. His Aunt Edna Everidge accompanies him to keep him out of harm's way. Barry's adventures take him from the Australian colony of Earl's Court to Rickmansworth and the strange perversions of England's upper classes then along the hippie trail meeting the swindlers of the British music industry before landing him back in London this time among the poofters and lezzas of Notting Hill.

• Gaolbreak/Danger By My Side | DVD | (21/10/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  GaolbreakA 1962 Butchers Production Crime Drama where The Wallis's are a family of burglars led by Ma Wallis (Avice Landone). Their plans for a safe cracking job are scuppered when one of the family is arrested and jailed. Her idea is to spring him and rob the safe as planned. Also stars Peter Reynolds David Kernan and features an early performance by Carol White who found fame in Ken Loach's television play 'Cathy Come Home' and his feature 'Poor Cow' in her too short life. Danger by my SideWith the help of the Met Police Lynne (Maureen Connell) tries to find the gang that killed her detective brother. The trail leads to a steamy club in Soho where she takes a job to help catch her brother's killer. Also stars Anthony Oliver Bill Nagy and Alan Tilvern. A 1962 Butchers Production filmed at Shepperton Studios.

• Man at the Top: The Complete Series | DVD | (12/02/2018) from £43.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  An intense, compelling series from the early '70s, Man at the Top stars Kenneth Haigh in the continuing story of Joe Lampton, the aggressively ambitious anti-hero of John Braine's bestselling novel Room at the Top. Haigh won a BAFTA nomination for his portrayal of Lampton, and a strong supporting cast includes Zena Walker, Paul Eddington, George Sewell and Colin Welland. This set contains both series and the hit film sequel from Hammer Films. Thirteen years on from his marriage to the pregnant Susan, Joe is now a father of two with a stockbroker-belt home and a career in management consultancy. As tenacious and pushy as ever, his attentions rarely remain fixed; with plenty of candidates eagerly forming the 'other woman' queue, Joe will seize any opportunity, be it personal or professional, to further his climb to the top in the world of big business and beyond...

• 3 Classic Wartime Dramas - A Town Like Alice / Carve Her Name With Pride / This Happy Breed | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A Town Like Alice - Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch star in this moving story about a party of women compelled to trek through the Malayan jungle during World War II as no Japanese office will take responsibility for their care. Based on Nevil Shute's best selling novel the film tells how the women come to terms with their hardships and how they are befriended by a tough Australian prisoner of war who dreams of returning to his home town of Alice Springs... Carve Her Name With Pride - The moving and dramatic story of Violette Szabo (McKenna) a courageous WW2 secret agent who was captured in northern France... Carve Her Name With Pride is the inspiring true life story of Violette Szabo. During World War II Violette (Virgina McKenna) volunteers to parachute into France as a secret agent to aid a Resistance group. Her mission successful she joins the Resistance where she stays until captured by the Germans. Tortured by the Gestapo for information she refuses to betray her comrades... Directed by Lewis Gilbert Carve Her Name With Pride is a moving tale about the endurance of the human spirit in even the most adverse circumstances. This Happy Breed - 'This Happy Breed' is a splendidly acted classic portraying how an ordinary British family lived between the wars. Just after WWI the Gibbons family moves to a nice house in the suburbs. The inhabitants of 17 Sycamore Road are ordinary people with their irritable in-laws their just-plain-folks camaraderie and their unshakeable belief that no matter how hard the times are Mother England is forged of good stock and common sense will somehow prevail. This is a wonderful adaptation of Noel Coward's play written by Anthony Havelock-Allan and directed by David Lean who brought us the critically acclaimed classic 'Brief Encounter'.

• Guilt is My Shadow | DVD | (16/03/2015) from £6.25   |  Saving you £3.74 (59.84%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Elizabeth Sellars gives a powerful performance as a woman tormented by her own conscience in this haunting atmospheric crime thriller filmed on location in Devon. Based on a novel by bestselling author Norah Lofts (as Peter Curtis) Guilt Is My Shadow is featured here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. On the outskirts of the little village of Welford in Devon lives a young farmer. He lives alone undisturbed by strangers and he prefers it that way. But when his nephew arrives – on the run from the police – a series of tragic events is set in motion. Bonus Features: Image Gallery Original Pressbook PDFs

• Man At The Top | DVD | (18/01/2010) from £24.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (20.01%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Man At The Top (3 Discs)