"Actor: Bernard Cribbins"

• The Water Babies | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The Water Babies is a classically enchanting tale of a young chimney sweep apprentice forced to work long hours and in terrible conditions at the hands of his heavy drinking and dishonest master (Triple Oscar nominee James Mason). One day the young boy Tom is unfairly accused of stealing silverware from the home of a client. Frightened and confused he makes a run for it and leaps into Dead Man's Pool where he is magically transported to a fantasy world filled with animated creatures. Here he makes friends with The Water Babies and becomes immersed in an amazing world of adventure and song. Before he can return to the surface however he must help the Babies escape a tyrannical eel and a devious shark who are holding them prisoner.

• Goodnight Sleep Tight | DVD | (18/09/2006) from £12.98   |  Saving you £-2.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  It's time for bed! After a long and busy day young children need to calm down before getting ready for bed. This fully animated collection of films is the perfect way to end the day and make bedtime fun! Featuring stories from the best-loved children's writers and illustrator such as Penelope Lively Colin & Jacqui Hawkins and Tony Ross each eppisode has its own theme. Episodes Comprise: 1. Dad! I Can't Sleep 2. Bedtime Story 3. Get Into Bed 4. Go To Sleep! 5. Little Princess' Bedtime 6. Sleep Tight 7. I'm Not Sleepy 8. Goodnight Everyone

• She | DVD | (29/10/2001) from £18.23   |  Saving you £-2.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Hammer's She might be a travesty of Rider Haggard's epic adventure novel, scaling things down to fit into a budget lavish only by the studio's low standards. At least the film opens with the unexpected sight of Peter Cushing and Bernard Cribbins in a dive in Palestine in 1919, shimmying with belly-dancers and brawling with the locals John Ford-style. Less entertainingly the film then switches attention to blonde clod John Richardson who is dreamily visited by blonde goddess Ursula Andress--her eerie beauty enhanced by the usual Hammer trick of dubbing the foreign crumpet with a posh voice.Our adventurers are given a map which leads them through deserts and mountains to the lost city of Kuma, an Egyptian-style civilisation ruled by Ayesha. This immortal She-Who-Must-be-Obeyed has been unaccountably waiting for Richardson to be reincarnated ever since she pettishly killed him thousands of years ago. In this reading, She is an Aryan fascist given to tipping those who displease her into a pit of molten lava. Her final comeuppance--as she bathes again in the blue flame of immortality and finds the process reversed so she suffers one of Hammer's patented Dracula dissolves to dust--takes place during a native uprising which overthrows her whole corrupt regime.The leads look terrific but can't act for beans so it's a mercy that stalwarts Cushing and Christopher Lee (as the treacherous High Priest) are on hand, not to mention Cribbins (comedy servant in bowler hat), Andre Morell and Rosenda Monteros.The James Bernard music is enchanting in a way Robert Day's direction sadly isn't, but the sets and (especially) costumes are splendid and the film has its moments of magic and terror: as the centurion pours out the remains of Morell's daughter from a jar, as the flame burns blue and the lovers bathe in it.On the DVD: the 2.35:1 widescreen print is in very good shape. Otherwise, there's not even a trailer. --Kim Newman

• Frenzy | Blu Ray | (23/09/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  In modern-day London a sex criminal known as the Necktie Murderer has the police on alert and in typical Hitchcock fashion the trail is leading to an innocent man who must now elude the law and prove his innocence by ?nding the real murderer. Jon Finch Alec McGowen and Barry Foster head this British cast in the thriller that alternates suspense scenes with moments of Hitchcock's distinctive black humour. Screenplay by Anthony Shaffer. Special Features: The Story of Frenzy Production Photographs Theatrical Trailer

• Dangerous Davies - The Last Detective | DVD | (12/01/2004) from £59.99   |  Saving you £-43.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  A detective who is a danger to both himself and others finds himself investigating a fifteen year old murder unofficially. Based on the book by Leslie Thomas.

• Carry On Jack | DVD | (27/08/2001) from £4.50   |  Saving you £11.49 (255.33%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Carry On Jack was the 1963 offering from a team which had, by then, become a repertory company with special guests dropping in for a dose of innuendo. "What's all this jigging in the rigging?" demands Kenneth Williams, this time playing a ship's captain, and the scene is set for 90 minutes of ribaldry involving cross-dressing, press-ganging and plank walking. The plot scarcely matters. It's set after the Battle of Trafalgar and the sea is awash with Spanish galleons and pirates as the British navy sets about defending its shores with as much incompetence as possible. Sally, a barmaid at the Dirty Duck (Juliet Mills in feisty principal boy mode), knocks Bernard Cribbins on the head and steals his uniform so that she can go in search of her childhood sweetheart. He is promptly press-ganged and they end up on the same ship. Williams, on the brink of his ascendancy as a star turn, just about keeps the mannerisms under control enough to build the character of the naïve and neurotic captain. Familiar Carry On faces on top form include Charles Hawtrey and Jim Dale, while Peter Gilmore--in his pre-Onedin Line days--appears as a pirate. Peter Rodgers' script is not quite vintage Carry On but the jokes keep coming and it's all good, clean fun. On the DVD: This was one of the first Carry On films to be made in colour. The print is in reasonable condition. The picture quality, apart from a couple of scratchy scenes of sailing ships that were probably drafted in from stock footage, is fair, as is the sound. But apart from the scene index there are no extras on the disc. Given the cult status of the Carry On films, and the wealth of documentary material which has been made about them and their stars, you'd think something extra could have been offered with the DVD releases to make them a more worthwhile alternative to the video. --Piers Ford

• The Avengers: The Definitive Dossier 1966 Vol. 1 | DVD | (15/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Swingingly stylish adventures with super spies John Steed and Mrs Peel! Flashback to the Sixties with the coolest duo in crimefighting! Episodes: Too Many Christmas Trees: Steed hangs up his stocking and Emma asks for more... Silent Dust: Steed watches birds and Emma goes hunting. The Girl From Auntie: Steed almost outbids himself and Emma is a bird in a gilded cage. The Thirteenth Hole: Steed finds a bogey and Emma gets a birdy. The Quick-Quick Slow Death: Steed has two left feet and Emma dances with danger. The Danger Makers: Steed joins a secret society and Emma walks the plank. The House That Jack Built: Steed takes a wrong turning and Emma holds the key to it all.

• Moschops - The First Flower | DVD | (27/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Set in prehistoric times this series initially appeared in the 1980's and stars a young baseball capped dinosaur and his friends Ally (an allosaurus) Uncle Rex (a tyrannosaurus) Mrs. Kelly (a triceratops) big Grandfather Diplodocus and Mr Icthyosaurus a Welsh water-saurus who dwells in the nearby lake. Featuring the first 5 episodes! Episodes Comprise: 1.The First Flower 2.All's Well That Ends Well 3.Nightmare Sun 4.Fiercest Dinosaur 5.Tidiest Dinosaur

• Saturday Morning Pictures - The Best Of The Children's Film Foundation - Vol. 2 | DVD | (30/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Cup Fever Barton United's hopes of winning the Manchester junior football league receive a setback when their ground is taken over and used as a car park forcing the boys into action... Hide & Seek Keith absconds from school in the hope that his father will take him to Canada yet Keith's father seems more interested in robbing a bank...

• Wrong Arm Of The Law, The / Never Let Go / Waltz Of The Toreadors / Soft Beds, Hard Battles | DVD | (07/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Wrong Arm Of The Law Peter Sellers stars as gang-leader Pearly Gates who has a double life as Monsieur Jules the manager of a fashion house. The criminal world of London is being reduced to chaos by an Australian 'IPO mob' who acting on information provided by Gates' girlfriend Valerie (Nanette Newman) impersonate police officers and take the spoils of the true criminals after the crime has been safely committed. The crimes are relatively victimless involving jewellery thefts from the rich or robbery from institutions such as banks and post offices. Gates is instrumental in getting a deal between organised crime and Scotland Yard. Never Let Go A cosmetic salesman sets out to prove to himself and his wife that he is not a failure. Waltz Of The Toreadors The immortal Peter Sellers is hilarious as a pompous retired general who still has a taste for the ladies in French playwright Jean Anouilh's philosophical farce. A lusty comedy of manners 'Waltz of the Toreadors' tempers its treatment of an old rake's delusions with generous dollops of wit and compassion. Soft Beds Hard Battles Peter Sellers plays six different characters in this hilarious sexploitation comedy. A renowned Paris brothel has turned into an active centre for the French Resistance. The girls assist the Allied war effort by attracting and eliminating the enemy amongst its clientele in the bedroom...

• Moschops - Ally Takes To The Air | DVD | (12/03/2007) from £6.73   |  Saving you £3.26 (48.44%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Set in pre-historic times this delightful and amusing series stars an energetic young dinosaur called Moschops. Together with his friend Ally they embark on amazing adventures meeting up with their other pals along the way: Uncle Rex Mrs Kerry Big Grandfather Diplodocus Mr Icthysaurus and of course Flower - a mystical plant! Episodes 1. Ally Takes to the Air 2. Wheels Within Wheels 2. Moschops' Garden 4. Moschops' Party 5. Just Like Me

• The Girl On The Boat | DVD | (25/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Sam Marlowe travels to the States with the intention of convincing his aunt to let him rent out her summer house in England. But when the aunt discovers that Eustace Sam's cousin is planning to secretly marry she sends them back to England. On the return trip Sam meets and falls for Eustace's ex-fiancee Billie with hilarious results. Adapted from the P.G. Wodehouse novel.

• Jackanory - Peter Pan | DVD | (09/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The classic J.M. Barrie tale as told by Jan Francis.

• The Water Babies | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The Water Babies tells the story of Tom, a chimney sweep who gets framed for theft in 1850s England. Even though a young girl named Ellie knows the real thieves' identities and tries to clear Tom's name, Tom's desperate escape run lands him right in the middle of Dead Man's Pool. Assumed to have met certain death, Tom gets sucked into a magical underwater world. Tom befriends the creatures he meets beneath the sea, and they accompany him on a journey to the land of Water Babies, where he intends to ask the all-powerful Cracken to help him return to the world above the water. However, when Tom finally does manage to return to land, life is far from idyllic as he must set out clear his name and trap the real thieves. Many adults possess fond memories of seeing this 1978 movie as children. The land portions of this musical feature live-action footage, while the water sequence is fully animated. To a fresh, modern audience, the abrupt change from one format to the other is somewhat disconcerting, as is the choppy, older animation style. The story, based on the classic children's book of the same name by Charles Kingsley, is an intriguing look at both Victorian culture and the fantasy world. (Ages 4-8) --Tami Horiuchi, Amazon.com

• The Happy Birthday | DVD | (18/09/2006) from £8.07   |  Saving you £1.92 (19.20%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This fully animated collection of films celebrates the most exciting day in every child's life one which happily returns every year! Featuring stories from best-loved children's writers and illustrators such as Shirley Hughes Helen Oxenbury Allan Ahlberg and Michael Foreman each episode has its very own birthday theme. Episodes comprise: 1. Badger's Bring-Something Party 2. It's My Birthday 3. The Trouble With Jack 4. How Many Days Until My Birthday 5. Elephant Pie 6. Bear's Surprise 7. Surprise! Surprise!

• Moschops | DVD | (12/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Fun with Moschops.

• Ronnie Barker, British Comedy Heroes | DVD | (08/11/2008) from £4.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (100.20%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In this hilarious programme we revisit some of Ronnie Barker's funniest moments from an illustrious career that has made him one of Britain's best loved comedy heroes. Laugh again at some of the best sketches ever written for television and a few that may have escaped you from his earlier career. In addition to archive interviews with Mr Barker himself we also hear the first hand reflections of his long term partner Ronnie Corbett and others he starred with such as Terry Wogan Erik Sykes Bernard Cribbins and Lynda Baron who all pay tribute to the comic genius that was Ronnie Barker. Although sadly missed Ronnie Barker will continue to entertain us on TV screens for years to come via the comic legacy that is The Two Ronnies Going Straight Open All Hours Porridge and much more.

• Jackanory - Charlotte's Web | DVD | (09/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The adventures of brave little pig Wilbur and Charlotte the friendly spider...

• Doctor Who - The Motion Pictures (Gold Edition) | DVD | (09/12/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £44.99

  The legendary Peter Cushing stars in two thrilling big screen adventures of the beloved BBC serial that captured the imagination of the world. A huge hit on release these films remain classic British Sci-Fi movies all self-respecting Dr. Who and sci-fi fans shouldn't be without them attractively packaged with additional high quality film memorabilia. This Classic Collection box set will include: DVD of 'Doctor Who And The Daleks' DVD of 'Dalek Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.' two collectible film Senitypes'' (image from the film and 35mm film frame) two original full colour printed theatrical campaign brochures one from each film; plus an in-pack free rolled cinema poster (one sheet) offer of each film.

• Jackanory | DVD | (08/01/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Four stories for children taken from the hugely popular and fondly remembered television series: 'Peter Pan' (read by Jan Francis) 'Alice's Adventures In Wonderland' (read by Penelope Wilton) 'Alice Through The Looking Glass' (read by Peter Davison) and 'Charlotte's Web' (read by Connie Booth).