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• Scalpel | Blu Ray | (19/02/2018) from £9.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  HE LOST THE FACE OF THE WOMAN HE LOVED SO HE GAVE IT TO SOMEONE ELSE. US television staple Robert Lansing (Star Trek, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Twilight Zone) stars as a deranged surgeon in this twisty-turny psychological thriller from Blood Rage director John Grissmer. In Scalpel, Lansing plays Dr. Phillip Reynolds, a man whose daughter Heather (Judith Chapman, As the World Turns, General Hospital) has run away from home a year prior following the suspicious death of her boyfriend. When he happens across a young woman one night, her face beaten beyond recognition, the unhinged Reynolds sees his an opportunity to put his trusty scalpel to use - hatching a plan to reconstruct her face in the image of his missing daughter, and so claim her sizeable inheritance. Photographed by celebrated cinematographer Edward Lachman, who would go on to serve as DP on the likes of Erin Brockovich and The Virgin Suicides, Scalpel is an exemplary slice of Southern-fried gothic, filled finally rescued from VHS obscurity in this revelatory new Blu-ray edition from Arrow Video. DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS Brand new 2K restoration from original film elements High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation Original Uncompressed Mono Audio Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Brand new audio commentary by film historian Richard Harland Smith Brand new crew interviews Original Theatrical Trailer Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by The Twins of Evil FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Collector's booklet with new writing on the film by Bill Ackerman

• Fire On The Amazon | DVD | (17/06/2002) from £6.85   |  Saving you £2.13 (55.18%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In Bolivia's Amazon basin corporate cattle ranches are replacing the rain forest. When Santos charismatic leader of the union of rubber tappers forges an alliance with Indians to protest deforestation he is assassinated. O'Brien a US photo-journalist lacking skills as an investigator wants a story when he thinks the police have framed and murdered an innocent Indian as the assassin. In his search for the truth he involves Lysa Rothman who worked for Santos and with whom he falls in love. As he becomes ever more deeply embroiled he not only needs Lysa's help but that of the Indians' leader. How many will O'Brien endanger to get his story?

• Sons And Lovers | DVD | (14/01/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This television adaptation of D H Lawrence's 'Sons and Lovers' stars Sarah Lancashire as Gertrude Morel who is trapped in an unhappy marriage to Walter (Hugo Speer) a heavy-drinking brutish uneducated miner. As Gertrude becomes estranged from Walter she channels her love and life expectations into her sons- particularly Paul (Rupert Evans). As Paul matures tension develops in his relationship with Gertrude and his love for two other women causes a fatal battle of strangulating po

• The Selfish Giant | Blu Ray | (27/01/2014) from £8.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (122.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Selfish Giant is a contemporary fable about 13-year-old Arbor (Conner Chapman) and his best friend Swifty (Shaun Thomas). Excluded from school and outsiders in their own neighbourhood the two boys meet Kitten (Sean Gilder) a local scrapdealer - the Selfish Giant. They begin collecting scrap metal for him using a horse and cart. Swifty has a natural gift with horses while Arbor emulates Kitten - keen to impress him and make some money. However Kitten favours Swifty leaving Arbor feeling hurt and excluded driving a wedge between the boys. Arbor becomes increasingly greedy and exploitative becoming more like Kitten. Tensions build leading to a tragic event which transforms them all.

• For Queen And Country | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £17.99   |  Saving you £-12.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Denzel Washington adopts a British accent for the grim if compelling, 1989 social drama, For Queen and Country. Akin in mood and story to several American films (notably Rolling Thunder) about Vietnam veterans who return home to face indifference or hostility, For Queen and Country stars Washington as paratrooper Reuben James, a decorated veteran of the Falklands war and Britain's occupation of Northern Ireland. Returning to civilian life in the early '80s, Reuben discovers Thatcher's England (specifically London's East End) to be an intensely racist, violent ground for class warfare, crime, and drugs. Unable to find work, hassled by white cops, pressured by old mates to run afoul of the law, and rejected by a woman (Amanda Redman) who sees him as another product of a cruel and bloody era, Reuben's hope diminishes despite efforts to do the right thing. The downbeat, predictable drama is elevated by Washington's charismatic performance. --Tom Keogh

• A Stitch In Time | DVD | (12/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Norman Wisdom returns as his famous "Pitkin" character, but also for the first time since his appearance in 1958's The Square Peg, Edward Chapman is also back to provide Norman with the excuse to reprise his immortal catch-phrase "Mr Grimsdale". Following on from the previous year's On the Beat, this is actually Wisdom's third adventure as Norman Pitkin, and he certainly has a thing about uniforms. In the previous pictures he was in the army then the police, while here he succeeds in causing chaos in a St. John's Ambulance unit, as well as donning drag to play a blonde nurse complete with suspender belt and silk stockings. Each Norman Wisdom movie usually sees him as the accidental Lord of Misrule in one institution or another, and this time its the NHS: after being banned from his local hospital, Norman resorts to subterfuge to visit a little orphan girl. There's an autobiographical touch here, as Wisdom himself was raised in an orphanage and centred the plot of One Good Turn (1954) around such an establishment. It's all good fun and clearly shows where such later British comedy as Michael Crawford's BBC TV series Some Mothers Do 'Av 'Em (1973-78) found its inspiration. --Gary S. Dalkin

• Yellowbeard | DVD | (20/07/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

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• Bulldog Breed, The / One Good Turn | DVD | (12/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In 1960, Norman Wisdom was left all at sea in The Bulldog Breed. He had already made a farce of the army in The Square Peg (1958), so what better than to join the navy? Back in the real world, the Russians had kick-started the space race putting Sputnik into orbit, so Norman rapidly finds himself selected to be the first Brit in space. Playing to type, the result is excellent physical comedy and copious tomfoolery at the expense of the upper ranks. With support from John Le Mesurier and Edward Chapman (the legendary "Mr Grimsdale") and uncredited appearances from Oliver Reed and Michael Caine, this is a notable British comedy, with an unusually direct reference to the risqué Carry On movies. For his second starring role Norman Wisdom played the oldest orphan of Greenwood Children's Home in 1954's One Good Turn. Not only does he have to find the money to buy one of the orphans a model car, but after a visit to Brighton he discovers Greenwood is due to be closed down by the home's own unscrupulous chairman, a property developer with plans to build a factory on the site. Also starring Thora Hird, One Good Turn was surely a film with a personal resonance for Wisdom who was himself brought-up in an orphanage after his mother died and his father was unable to raise him. As would become a tradition, he contributes a song, "Please Opportunity", and the movie, though produced by Rank, now sits easily in that classic Ealing era where the ordinary man took on the big guys and won. The innocent knockabout humour remains appealing. --Gary S Dalkin

• Dog The Bounty Hunter - The Best Of Series 3 | DVD | (04/08/2008) from £9.43   |  Saving you £10.56 (111.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  With over 6 000 Herculean captures under his belt and counting Duane Dog Chapman is a hard-boiled ex-con turned bounty hunter who plays a high-stakes game of hide-and-seek - and always wins. Dog The Bounty Hunter: The Best Of Series 3 features Dog's personally selected favourite ten episodes from the fast and furious highly rated third season of the hit real-life A&E series. Follow Dog and his band of rugged crime-busting accomplices - which includes his own flesh and blood - as they scourge the land of bail jumpers escaped criminals and vagabond outlaws. As usual misleading informants impossible stakeouts and near-escapes are all in a day's work for the toughest law enforcer on television.

• The Young and the Guilty | DVD | (06/10/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Janet Munro and Andrew Ray give moving performances in this excellent late-fifties drama in which two sets of parents misunderstand the innocent nature of the relationship between their teenage son and daughter. Scripted by playwright Dixon of Dock Green creator and multiple BAFTA nominee Ted Willis The Young and the Guilty is featured here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. ‘The eighth deadly sin is to see evil where none exists...’ So schoolboy Eddie Marshall believes. The son of an ambitious mother who believes she married beneath her and a father considered stupid and selfish by his nagging wife Eddie has always found peace and satisfaction in his studies. And then he meets Sue – a shy dreamy and well-to-do fellow pupil at his school and the two fall deeply in love. Each day they write tender poetic letters to each other; but when Sue’s father finds and reads one of the letters he immediately jumps to the wrong conclusion...

• The Proud Valley | Blu Ray | (27/03/2017) from £12.64   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Hoping to find work in Wales, David Goliath (Paul Robeson: Show Boat), a ship's stoker, boards a train and winds up in a small mining town. There, his powerful physique and magnificent singing voice attract the attention of Parry (Simon Lack), the choir director, who hopes to win the national singing meet on the strength of David's vocal chords. Goliath soon finds himself embracing village life, working down the pit and singing with the choir. However, when a cave-in leads to disaster, the mine is closed and all the workers are left unemployed. Hoping to convince the owners to reopen the colliery, Goliath helps lead a group of activists in a walk to London. Along the way, they learn war has been declared, and begin to plan to get the mine up and running again in time to serve the nation's needs. With a wealth of musical numbers and Paul Robeson's undeniable charm, The Proud Valley is a must-see.

• Black Dynamite | Blu Ray | (16/02/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• 52 Pick Up | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Director John Frankenheimer's attention to detail coupled with excellent plot twists will keep you glued to this unmissable film. Roy Scheider plays the morally flawed hero with fantastic ease whilst John Glover's cool talking character makes a truly frightening villain. Harry Mitchell (Scheider) an L.A. manufacturer with a fancy car a nice house and a beautiful wife (Ann-Margret) running for city council has his life overturned when three hooded blackmailers appear with a video

• The Witch Who Came From The Sea | Blu Ray | (04/12/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  MOLLY REALLY KNOWS HOW TO CUT MEN DOWN TO SIZE!!! Representing something of an anomaly in the career of director Matt Cimber (whose other credits include such blaxploitation fare as The Candy Tangerine Man) The Witch Who Came from the Sea is an unnerving journey into madness and murder starring Millie Perkins (The Diary of Anne Frank). Molly (Perkins) experiences violent fantasies in which she ties muscular men up before bloodily dispatching them with a razor. But when a news report announces the shocking double-murder of two football players which strongly echoes one of Molly's most recent depraved flights of fancy, the fantasy starts to bleed into reality literally. Written by Perkins' late husband Robert Thom (Death Race 2000), The Witch Who Came from the Sea features early cinematography from DOP Dean Cundey, who would go on to expand his genre credentials with his work on Escape from New York and The Thing. DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS: ¢ 2K restoration from original vault materials ¢ High Definition Blu-ray presentation ¢ Original Mono Audio ¢ English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing ¢ Introduction to the film by Nightmare USA author Stephen Thrower ¢ Audio commentary with producer-director Matt Cimber, actress Millie Perkins and director of photography Dean Cundey ¢ Tides and Nightmares brand new making-of documentary featuring interviews with Cimber, Perkins, Cundey and actor John Goff ¢ A Maiden's Voyage archive featurette comprising interviews with Cimber, Perkins and Cundey ¢ Lost at Sea director Cimber reflects on his notorious cult classic ¢ Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly-commissioned artwork by The Twins of Evil

• Hellraiser | DVD | (03/07/2017) from £8.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Having made his reputation as one of the most prolific and gifted horror writers of his generation (prompting Stephen King to call him "the future of horror"), Clive Barker made a natural transition to movies with this audacious directorial debut from 1987. Not only did Barker serve up a chilling tale of devilish originality, he also introduced new icons of horror that since have become as popular among genre connoisseurs as Frankenstein's monster and the Wolfman. Foremost among these frightful, Hellraiser visions is the sadomasochistic demon affectionately named Pinhead (so named because his pale, bald head is a geometric pincushion and a symbol of eternal pain). Pinhead is the leader of the Cenobites, agents of evil who appear only when someone successfully "solves" the exotic puzzle box called the Lamont Configuration--a mysterious device that opens the door to Hell. The puzzle's latest victim is Frank (Sean Chapman), who now lives in a gelatinous skeletal state in an upstairs room of the British home just purchased by his newlywed half-brother (Andrew Robinson, best known as the villain from Dirty Harry), who has married one of Frank's former lovers (Claire Higgins). The latter is recruited to supply the cannibalistic Frank with fresh victims, enabling him to reconstitute his own flesh--but will Frank succeed in restoring himself completely? Will Pinhead continue to demonstrate the flesh-ripping pleasures of absolute agony? Your reaction to this description should tell you if you've got the stomach for Barker's film, which has since spawned a number of interesting but inferior sequels. It's definitely not for everyone, but there's no denying that it's become a semiclassic of modern horror. --Jeff Shannon

• Doctor At Large | DVD | (30/09/2002) from £11.84   |  Saving you £1.14 (12.88%)   |  RRP £9.99

  'Doctor At Large' was the third entry in the long running 'Doctor' series of films. Directed by Ralph Thomas (brother of Gerald the director of the 'Carry On 'movies) it follows the further madcap exploits of Dr. Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde) in particular his attempts at general practice.

• Monty Python And The Holy Grail | UMD | (31/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

• Man on the Run | DVD | (06/04/2020) from £16.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A key post-war British Noir unseen since the late 1940s, Man on the Run stars Derek Farr as an army deserter unjustly accused of murdering a policeman during an armed robbery. Co-starring Edward Chapman, Laurence Harvey and Kenneth More, it is presented here as a brand-new transfer from original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio. A prison escapee, army deserter Peter Burdon makes a new life for himself in London. Short of cash, he tries to pawn his old service revolver and is caught up in an armed robbery, during which a constable is shot and killed. Suspected of being part of the gang, Burdon must go on the run to prove his innocence. Special Feature: Image gallery

• Vesper Chronicles - Steelbook (4K Ultra HD) (+ Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (26/01/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman (DVD) | DVD | (18/02/2013) from £15.89   |  Saving you £2.10 (13.22%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Graham Chapman (the dead one from Monty Python) writes and stars in the movie of his own life story. Although Chapman selfishly dropped dead in 1989 he had taken the trouble to record himself reading his book and those recordings have now been used to provide Chapman's voice in the film. Fellow Pythons John Cleese, Terry Jones, Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam also turn up, along with a few surprise guest including Cameron Diaz, Stephen Fry and Lloyd Kaufman.