"Actor: Chaplin"

• Apple Tree Yard | Blu Ray | (20/02/2017) from £15.76   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  All the episodes from the British television drama adapted from Louise Doughty's novel. Emily Watson stars as Yvonne Carmichael, a married woman living a quiet life with her husband and two children. Her world is turned upside down however, when a chance meeting with alluring stranger Mark Costley (Ben Chaplin) leads to a passionate affair. Despite her best attempts to keep her home life and career separate from her affair, Yvonne begins to lose control as a series of bad decisions soon leave her facing a court trial. The cast also includes Kezia Burrows, Mark Bonnar and Rhashan Stone.

• City Lights (1931) (Criterion Collection) UK Only | Blu Ray | (12/12/2022) from £22.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The most cherished film by CHARLIE CHAPLIN (Modern Times) is also his ultimate Little Tramp chronicle. The writer-director-star achieved new levels of grace, in both physical comedy and dramatic poignancy, with this silent tale of a lovable vagrant falling for a young blind woman who sells flowers on the street (a magical VIRGINIA CHERRILL) and mistakes him for a millionaire. Though this Depression-era smash was made after the advent of sound, Chaplin remained steadfast in his love for the expressive beauty of the pre-talkie form. The result was the epitome of his art and the crowning achievement of silent comedy. Product Features New, restored 4K digital film transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack New audio commentary by Charlie Chaplin biographer Jeffrey Vance Chaplin Today: City Lights, a 2003 documentary on the film's production, featuring Aardman Animations cofounder Peter Lord Chaplin Studios: Creative Freedom by Design, a new interview program featuring visual effects expert Craig Barron Archival footage from the production of City Lights, including film from the set, with audio commentary by Chaplin historian Hooman Mehran; a costume test; a rehearsal; and a complete scene not used in the film Excerpt from Chaplin's short film The Champion (1915), along with footage of the director with boxing stars at Chaplin Studios in 1918 Trailers PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Gary Giddins and a 1966 interview with Chaplin

• The Crimson Field | Blu Ray | (19/05/2014) from £18.98   |  Saving you £8.00 (47.09%)   |  RRP £24.99

  In a British base hospital near the front a team of doctors nurses and VADs are working together to heal the bodies and souls of the men in their care. This hospital on the coast of France is a frontier between two worlds: between the trenches and the home front between the old rules regulations hierarchies class distinctions and a new way of thinking. Written by Sarah Phelps (Great Expectations Oliver Twist) and starring Oona Chaplin (The Hour) Hermione Norris (Spooks) Suranne Jones (Scott and Bailey) Kevin Doyle (Downton Abbey) Kerry Fox (Shallow Grave) and Marianne Oldham (WPC 56) this is the story of World War One's front line medics - their love affairs professional triumphs personal tragedies fears and hopes as they fight for the future.

• The Charlie Chaplin Collection BR 11 discs | Blu Ray | (07/12/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £79.99

  THE CHAPLIN REVUE The Chaplin Revue consists of three highly acclaimed short silent comedies featuring Chaplin's famous trademark character, the Little Tramp. A Dog's Life (1918) The Little Tramp and his dog companion struggle to survive in the inner city... Shoulder Arms (1918) Chaplin features as a boot camp private who has a dream of being a hero who goes on a daring mission behind enemy lines... The Pilgrim (1923) Featuring the Tramp as an escaped convict who is mistaken as a pastor in a small town church... CITY LIGHTS Wandering the city streets, the Little Tramp happens upon a blind flower girl who mistakes him for a wealthy gentleman, and manages to save and befriend a drunken millionaire who is trying to drown himself in the river. A world of disenchanted bourgeoisie, where social structure and class are misconceived and questioned at every turn, City Lights has gone down in history as not only one of Chaplin's best films but one of the best ever committed to celluloid. THE CIRCUS The Little Tramp is hired by a circus and soon becomes the main attraction when his comedic blunders drive the crowd wild. Yet he himself is unaware of this newly acquired eminence due to his tunnel vision of love for the ringmaster's daughter. The Circus features one of the most memorable appearances by the Little Tramp where Chaplin delivers a whirlwind of visual gags that are quite literally show stopping.

• All About The Benjamins | DVD | (30/09/2002) from £10.83   |  Saving you £9.16 (84.58%)   |  RRP £19.99

  One's a top dog bounty hunter; the other a two-bit hustler. Add to the mix a botched diamond heist a lost wallet with a winning lottery ticket and one thing becomes clear: it's 'All About The Benjamins'...

• The Canterbury Tales (I Racconti di Canterbury) | DVD | (18/06/2001) from £8.97   |  Saving you £11.02 (122.85%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini's film of The Canterbury Tales was one of a trilogy from the early 1970s that, like its companions The Decameron and the Arabian Nights, was an international box-office hit playing for long runs in mainstream cinemas. All of them adapt a masterpiece of literature where man becomes the moral catalyst for his own destiny. Chaucer's ribald sense of humour was a natural outlet for Pasolini's own desire to throw caution to the wind on screen, causing controversy at the time by displaying all facets of the male and female body unadorned. (Although it all looks pretty tame now, the Italian authorities were a threatening presence to Pasolini at the time.) Produced by Alberto Grimaldi with a large budget, the location scenes were filmed in many historic sites in England, notably Wells Cathedral, its crypt, and the surrounding flatlands leading toward Glastonbury, captured in early spring by Tonino Delli Colli's cinematography. The cast with Italian and English actors dubbed into Italian with English subtitles is a mixed blessing. Hugh Griffith as Sir January is one Anglo-Saxon recognisable from his role as the lecherous squire in Tom Jones, and overacts like the rest of the cast. Pasolini himself appears briefly as Chaucer in a non-speaking role that one regrets he didn't enlarge for himself in this sprawling tableaux of pilgrim's tales (Ken Russell's excesses from the same period come to mind). The musical score, an adaptation by Ennio Morricone of some traditional indigenous melodies, prefigures the early music revival by a few years and provides a stimulating soundtrack. --Adrian Edwards

• The Three Musketeers | DVD | (17/03/2003) from £8.74   |  Saving you £4.25 (48.63%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The young D'Artagnan (Michael York) arrives in Paris with dreams of becoming a king's musketeer. He meets and quarrels with three men Athos (Oliver Reed) Porthos (Frank Finlay) and Aramis (Richard Chamberlain) each of whom challenges him to a duel. D'Artagnan finds out that they are musketeers and is invited to join them in their efforts to oppose Cardinal Richelieu (Charlton Heston) who wishes to increase his already considerable power over the king. D'Artagnan must also juggle

• The Mirror Crack'd | DVD | (07/01/2008) from £6.44   |  Saving you £7.81 (150.77%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The year is 1953. The small English village of St. Mary Mead home to Miss Jane Marple is delighted when a big American movie company arrives to make a movie telling of the relationship between Jane Grey and Elisabeth I starring the famous actresses Marina Rudd and Lola Brewster. Marina arrives with her husband Jason and when she discovers that Lola is going to be in the movie with her she hits the roof as Lola and Marina loathe each other on sight. Marina has been getting death threats and at a party at the manor house Heather Babcock after boring Marina with a long story drinks a cocktail made for Marina and dies from poisoning. Everybody believes that Marina is the target but the police officer investigating the case Inspector Craddock isn't sure so he asks Miss Marple his aunt to investigate...

• The Great Dictator - Charlie Chaplin DVD | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £11.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (60.06%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Chaplin plays two characters in his first full talkie. Adenoid Hynkel, the dictator of Tomania, and a Jewish Barber. The Barber recovers from amnesia to discover Hynkel is persecuting all the Jews in his country. The film ends with a message of hope for the world.

• The Circus  (Criterion Collection) - UK Only | Blu Ray | (04/12/2023) from £22.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  New Cover by Mark ChiarelloProduct Features New 4K digital restoration of Charlie Chaplins 1969 rerelease version of the film, featuring an original score by Chaplin, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray New audio commentary featuring Chaplin biographer Jeffrey Vance Interview with Chaplin from 1969 New interview with Chaplins son Eugene Chaplin In the Service of the Story a new program on the films visual effects and production design by film scholar Craig Barron Chaplin Today: The Circus a 2003 documentary on the film featuring filmmaker Emir Kusturica Excerpted audio interview from 1998 with Chaplin musical associate Eric James Unused cafe sequence with new score by composer Timothy Brock, and related outtakes with narration by comedy choreographer Dan Kamin Newly discovered outtakes featuring the Tramp and the circus rider Excerpts from the original recording session for the films opening song Swing Little Girl Footage of the films 1928 Hollywood premiere Rerelease trailers PLUS: An essay by critic Pamela Hutchinson

• Dinotopia | DVD | (26/12/2002) from £18.97   |  Saving you £1.02 (5.38%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Kids will love this sweeping story of two brothers whose plane crashes on a mysterious island called Dinotopia, where human beings live in harmony with dinosaurs--the herbivores, anyway. The carnivores present a problem, as the humans' defences against them--a mystical power source called sunstones--are losing strength. As they try to save the island, Carl and David (Tyron Leitso and Wentworth Miller) struggle not only with tyrannosaurs and prehistoric crocodiles, but also with repressive Dinotopian traditions and a scheming malcontent (David Thewlis) who stirs up all kinds of trouble. Meanwhile, they also wrestle with each other over the lovely daughter of the mayor of Waterfall City (Katie Carr). The pacifist ideals of Dinotopia are refreshing, but it's the special effects that will hook viewers: riding on the backs of brachiosaurs, flying atop pteranadons, arguing in court with triceratops and ankylosaurs. Anyone fascinated with dinosaurs (and who isn't?) will enjoy this whimsical fantasy. A host of British character actors also helps keep the human side of this four-hour mini-series lively; Alice Krige (also known as the Borg Queen in Star Trek: First Contact) gets a much more benevolent role here. --Bret Fetzer

• Modern Times - Charlie Chaplin DVD | DVD | (24/08/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Little Tramp experiences the dull, dispiriting rigmarole of the modern world as he gets caught up in the sprockets and cogs of modern industrialisation and, subjected to the factory's infernal production rate, starts to go mad. The only saving grace appears in the form of a beautiful orphaned gamine whom he helps escape from the police.

• Agatha Christie's The Mirror Crack'd | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The scene is set in the Coronation year of 1953 and the archetypal English village of St. Mary Mead. All is as it should be until Hollywood arrives in the form of an internationally famous film cast leading to much local excitement and an epidemic of sudden death to which local sleuth Miss Marple sets her mind...

• Winter Solstice/Summer Solstice | DVD | (02/04/2007) from £13.06   |  Saving you £6.93 (34.70%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This double DVD set features Rosamunde Pilcher's Winter Soulstice and the sequel Summer Solstice Winter Solstice is the entrancing story of shattered lives and broken hearts and a Christmas retreat which brings healing and happy endings. When recently bereaved Elfrida Phipps moves into a tiny cottage she soon makes friends with her new neighbours the Blundells. Elfrida's favourite niece Carrie returns from Austria heartbroken and briefly meets businessman Sam on her flight home. A tragic accident befalls the Blundells and with everyone's lives in ruins Oscar Blundell Elfrida Carrie and her young sister Lucy decamp to a house on a Scottish Estate which is part owned by Oscar. Once in Scotland the party encounters the local landowner The Countess of Rhives and Carrie comes face to face with Sam again. Set in the beautiful surroundings of the wild Scottish Highlands Summer Solstice stars Jaqueline Bissett Sinad Cusack Jason Durr and Honor Blackman. Sam and Carries newly formed business empire is struggling. The exclusive Rhives Castle Hotel isnt attracting enough guests. Elfrida gets her big break when she is offered a small part in a soap opera. Meanwhile Lucinda The Countess of Rhives is enjoying her new found lease of life away from the burden of running the castle.

• The Truth About Cats And Dogs | DVD | (04/02/2002) from £5.02   |  Saving you £7.97 (158.76%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Charming and bittersweet this modern-day romantic comedy starring Uma Thurman Janeane Garofalo and Ben Chaplin explores the beguiling perils of mistaken identity. Abby a gutsy and witty veterinarian who hosts her own radio talk show is anything but confident when it comes to love. A petite brunette she describes herself as tall and blonde when Brian a caller who is smitten with her radio persona asks her on a date. She talks her tall blonde neighbour Noelle into assuming

• The Thin Red Line (1998) (Criterion Collection) UK Only | Blu Ray | (22/11/2021) from £23.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After directing two of the most extraordinary movies of the 1970s, Badlands and Days of Heaven, American artist TERRENCE MALICK disappeared from the film world for twenty years, only to resurface in 1998 with this visionary adaptation of James Jones's 1962 novel about the World War II battle for Guadalcanal. A big-budget, spectacularly mounted epic, The Thin Red Line is also one of the most deeply philosophical films ever released by a major Hollywood studio, a thought-provoking meditation on man, nature, and violence. Featuring a cast of contemporary cinema's finest actorsSEAN PENN (Dead Man Walking, Milk), NICK NOLTE (The Prince of Tides, Affliction), ELIAS KOTEAS (Zodiac, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), and WOODY HARRELSON (Natural Born Killers, The People vs. Larry Flynt) among themThe Thin Red Line is a kaleidoscopic evocation of the experience of combat that ranks as one of cinema's greatest war films. Special Features Restored high-definition digital transfer, approved by director Terrence Malick and cinematographer John Toll (with DTS-HD Master Audio) Audio commentary featuring Toll, production designer Jack Fisk, and producer Grant Hill Outtakes from the film Video interviews with several of the film's actors, including Jim Caviezel, Elias Koteas, and Sean Penn; composer Hans Zimmer; editors Billy Weber, Leslie Jones, and Saar Klein; and writer James Jones's daughter Kaylie Jones Video interview with casting director Dianne Crittenden, featuring original audition footage World War II newsreels featuring footage from Guadalcanal Original theatrical trailer PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic David Sterritt and a 1963 essay by James Jones on war films

• Talk To Her | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £6.19   |  Saving you £13.80 (222.94%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Love and friendship flourishes in this Pedro Almodavar Oscar nominated romance.

• The Water Horse - Legend Of The Deep | Blu Ray | (30/06/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A lonely boy discovers a mysterious egg that hatches a sea creature of Scottish legend that enchants and mystifies to this day.

• City Lights - Charlie Chaplin Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (24/08/2015) from £12.09   |  Saving you £7.90 (65.34%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Wandering the city streets, the Little Tramp happens upon a blind flower girl who mistakes him for a wealthy gentleman, and manages to save and befriend a drunken millionaire who is trying to drown himself in the river. A world of disenchanted bourgeoisie, where social structure and class are misconceived and questioned at every turn, City Lights has gone down in history as not only one of Chaplin's best films but one of the best ever committed to celluloid.

• A Foreign Field - BBC | DVD | (07/05/2018) from £9.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A heart-warming comedy/drama about old comrades reuniting through love and bittersweet memories. Originally shown as a part of the BBC One's series of plays for Screen One in 1993. Two veterans of the D-Day landings, Cyril (Leo McKern) and Amos (Alec Guinness) return to Normandy for the first time in 50 years. Amos, who took some shrapnel in the skull during the battle of Normandy, has been mentally scarred ever since. Cyril has brought Amos to visit the grave of their wartime buddy, Briggsy, but is also keen to catch up on another wartime friend, Waldo (John Randolph). Reminiscing about Angelique (Jeanne Moreau), a French woman they were both enamored with in their soldiering days, Cyril & Waldo decide to try and track her down, and fight for her affections once again, but where is Angelique, their former French sweetheart? And who exactly is Lisa (Lauren Bacall) the sorrowful American staying at the same hotel, and what is the guilty secret she appears to be nursing? Secrets will be revealed, rivalries stoked, and memories evoked at the Normandy cemeteries as the parties converge to pay their respects.