"Actor: Charles"

• Whirlpool | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

• Charlie Chaplin - Gold Rush | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Chaplin's personal favourite among his own films, The Gold Rush embodies all the trademarks of his mix of slapstick, satire, social commentary and sentiment--a perfect showcase for his ever-popular Little Tramp. Set during the Klondike Gold Rush in 1898, the film features a comic reworking of the gruesome Donner Party story, where a group of snowbound immigrants resorted to eating their clothes and then each other to stay alive. It opens with a grand shot of gold prospectors snaking up the side of a mountain. We then see the Tramp, typically estranged from the rest of the group, making his own way across the snow. Seeking shelter in a blizzard, he finds the cabin of the dangerous criminal Black Larson (Tom Murray) and when another prospector, Big Jim McKay (Mack Swain), comes along, the two of them take charge of the cabin and eventually drive him out. Starving on Thanksgiving, the pair decide to dine in style when the Tramp cooks one of his shoes, famously acting as if he's cooking a fine piece of meat; twirling the laces up like spaghetti and savouring every last nibble. When he finally escapes, the Tramp ends up in a local town and falls in love, only to be rebuffed on New Year's Eve. When a chance meeting reunites him with Big Jim, the two go back in search of gold hidden near the cabin. Despite its unlikely origins, the story is shaped into a classic comedy containing many famous set-pieces, including the cabin teetering on the edge of a cliff and the Tramp morphing into a chicken before the starving Big Jim. Ultimately it's Chaplin's endearing and amusing persona that makes this material genuinely enduring. On the DVD The Gold Rush comes to DVD in a decent transfer with good mono sound and the option of Dolby Digital 5.1. The second disc of bonus features opens with an introduction by David Robinson, who chronicles Chaplin's work on the film, which was interrupted when his clandestine affair with his 15-year-old leading lady meant that, due to her becoming pregnant, the filming had to close for a few months while a new female lead was found. The original 1925 version of the film, before Chaplin updated it with the addition of sound in 1942, appears in full. The Chaplin Today documentary illustrates the influence of the film on director Idrissa Ouedraogo from Burkina Faso, whose own work follows similar themes, as well as going behind the scenes on the original production. Trailers, posters and stills round off this worthy addition to the Chaplin Collection. --Laura Bushell

• Scanners | DVD | (18/07/2005) from £9.90   |  Saving you £-3.91 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  There are 4 billion people on earth. 237 are Scanners. They have the most terrifying powers ever created... and they are winning. Cameron Vale is living on the fringe of society self-induced due to his telepathic ability to read other people's minds. Darryl Revok (Michael Ironside) has the same condition and is the head of an underground association of so-called Scanners that want world domination. When Vale is taken to Dr Paul Ruth as a result of supposed insanity he's enlisted into a program that will involve him in a battle against his fellow Scanners.

• The Rocky Horror Picture Show | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Celebrate 25 years of midnight movie madness! The Rocky Horror Picture Show is an erotic nightmare beyond any measure. Relive Richard O'Brien's sinfully twisted salute to horror sci-fi B-movies and rock music - a sensual daydream to treasure forever - starring Tim Curry (in his classic gender-bending performance) Barry Bostwick and Oscar winner Susan Sarandon. Do the Time Warp and sing Hot Patootie with Meatloaf again...and again...and again...at home or in a movie theater where it will probably be playing for another 25 years!

• Charlie Chaplin - Modern Times | DVD | (01/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Modern Times marks the last proper appearance of Charles Chaplin's iconic Little Tramp, and finds our hero struggling to make ends meet in the Depression of the 1930s. Along the way he takes up with a juvenile delinquent (actually 24-year-old Paulette Goddard) and plays a prison incident with "nose powder" for drug-induced laughs--both plot elements seeming quite innocent here, though both would provoke controversy today. Modern Times' most famous sequences portray the dehumanisation of factory labour to fine comic effect, balancing satire with slapstick to perfection in several superbly executed set-pieces. While the film has sound-effects and musical score, speech is only presented through mechanical means, via a gramophone, or through wall-sized TVs far more futuristic than in those in HG Wells' Things to Come (also 1936)--it's an interesting footnote that the comic and the SF visionary were friends. Chaplin famously not being a fan of sound cinema acknowledges the need to move with the times, yet hilariously spoofs the exploitation of man and machine while doing so. Amid some great laughs, the political message comes though clearly: the boss is making a fortune while doing jigsaw puzzles in his luxury office, the workers are toiling ever harder on the production line for their pittance. On the DVD: Modern Times is offered in the original 4:3 black and white with good mono sound evidencing just a little distortion and a very clean, clear picture with minimal grain to give away its age. Also included are French and Italian dubbed versions and a pointless and ineffective English Dolby Digital 5.1 version of the soundtrack. The disc features multiple subtitle options, including English for hard of hearing. Disc Two begins with a six-minute introduction by David Robinson. Next comes a very worthwhile 26-minute documentary by Philippe Truffault, Chaplin Today, centred around a perceptive subtitled discussion between French filmmakers Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne. There are three trailers, beautifully reproduced posters, an eight-part photo gallery and one entertaining deleted scene, as well as Chaplin's "nonsense song" from the film in isolated form and in a "Karaoke" version. The Documents section begins with a silent 42-minute 1931 documentary/propaganda film, In the Machine Age made by the US Dept of Labor. Along similar but more entertaining lines is Symphony in F a 1940 colour film combining music, manufacturing footage and animation celebrating the Ford motor company, while also included is a sequence from the Liberace Show (1956) with the star performing the vocal version of "Smile", the theme from Modern Times. Demonstrating the truly universal appeal of Chaplin is a 1967 short For the First Time, documenting what happens when the people of the remote Baracoa mountains in Cuba see their first ever movie, Modern Times. This is a remarkable collection which does a great film justice. --Gary S Dalkin

• The General | DVD | (12/01/2004) from £9.99   |  Saving you £-5.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  A train engineer is turned down when he tries to join the confederate army during the civil war because his job is deemed too important. But when his train is stolen by union soldiers he finds himself in the war after all...

• Affair To Remember, An / Love Is A Many Splendored Thing | DVD | (31/01/2005) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-4.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  An Affair To Remember:In this poignant and humorous love story nominated for four Academy Awards Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr meet on an ocean liner and fall deeply in love. Though each is engaged to someone else they agree to meet six months later if they still feel the same way about each other. But a tragic accident prevents their rendezvous and the lovers' future takes an emotional and uncertain turn. Love Is A Many Splendoured Thing: Set in Hong Kong at the time

• Day Of The Dead/Night Of The Living Dead | DVD | (01/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Titles Comprise: Day Of The Dead (2008): Nick Cannon Mena Suvari and Ving Rhames star in this horror film based on the George A. Romero classic zombie film. A mysterious virus has infected the small town of Leadville Colorado and the military is brought in to enforce a quarantine and stop the spread of the disease. As people perish survivors realize that the virus is creating the walking dead who crave human flesh. Only a small number of people are immune to the virus and those few survivors must battle to fend off the infected zombies while trying to make it out of town alive. Night Of The Living Dead (1968): The story begins casually enough; a brother and sister go to visit the grave of their father in a remote graveyard in the woods. There a strange man grabs at O'Dea and her brother rushes to her defense at which the man bites him and knocks him out. Terrified the girl jumps in the car and speeds to a nearby farm house to get help. She goes inside and the house appears to be deserted and the phone disconnected. She looks out the window and to her horror she sees the man trying to get inside the house! That is just the beginning of the seminal horror movie that is Night Of The Living Dead!

• Fear In The Night | DVD | (20/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Murder... The only clue a nightmare! Fear In The Night finally makes its way to DVD. This was the film that marked the celluloid debut of the late DeForest Kelley - the fantastic genre actor best known for his role as Dr. Leonard ""Bones"" McCoy in the Star Trek series. Cliff Herlihy (Paul Kelly) has a terrible nightmare in which he sees himself killing a complete stranger. When Cliff awakens he discovers evidence that his nightmare was no dream at all. Whilst

• Barbra Streisand - The Belle Of 14th Street | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Barbra is the ""top-billed act"" in this affectionate tribute to turn of the century vaudeville. No detail was too small for this lovingly created world of a bygone era. Her first television special to feature guest-stars The Belle of 14th Street celebrates in ways both comedic and heartfelt ""The Golden Age of Song"". A marvelous showcase for such evergreens as Sophie Tucker's ""Some Of These Days "" ""How About Me"" (written by ""a new young talent"" Irving Berlin) the poignant ""I'm Always Chasing Rainbows "" and the sublime ""My Buddy"" - all classics of the vaudeville era reinvented by the ""greatest star"" of our time. This DVD is from the 5-disc boxed set Barbra Streisand: The Television Specials.

• Charlie Chan's Secrets | DVD | (06/11/2006) from £20.59   |  Saving you £-7.60 (-58.50%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An ocean liner sinks off Honolulu and Allen Colby heir to millions is presumed dead. Local sleuth Charlie Chan is not so sure and flies to San Francisco to investigate further. Somehow the missing Colby is there ahead of him...but is knifed in the back before seeing anyone. Further events revolve around spiritualist Mrs. Lowell her family of suspicious characters and the spooky untenanted Colby mansion where the body turns up during a seance!

• Charlie Chaplin - Monsieur Verdoux | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  This blistering little black comedy was well ahead of its time when released in 1947. Originally Orson Welles had wanted Chaplin to star in his drama about a French mass murderer named Landru but Chaplin was hesitant to act for another director and used the idea himself. He plays a dapper gent named Henri Verdoux (who assumes a number of identities) a civilised monster who marries wealthy women then murders them (as we meet him he's gathering roses as an incinerator ominously bel

• Ed Wood - Vol. 2 - Glen Or Glenda | DVD | (17/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The infamous cult director and frequent cross-dresser returns from the grave with this delicious double-bill of kitsch classics. Glen or Glenda (1953): After a hard day at the movie studio film maker and director Ed Wood would relax by dressing up in female clothing. If only he could combine his favourite pastime with his job as a movie director! That's exactly what Ed Wood does in this off the wall and hilarious tribute to cross-dressing! The suicide of a local transvesti

• Rocky Horror Picture Show | DVD | (31/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Celebrate 25 years of midnight movie madness! The Rocky Horror Picture Show is an erotic nightmare beyond any measure. Relive Richard O'Brien's sinfully twisted salute to horror sci-fi B-movies and rock music - a sensual daydream to treasure forever - starring Tim Curry (in his classic gender-bending performance) Barry Bostwick and Oscar winner Susan Sarandon. Do the Time Warp and sing Hot Patootie with Meatloaf again...and again...and again...at home or in a movie theater where it will probably be playing for another 25 years! Bonus CD Tracklisting: 1. Science Fiction (Original Soundtrack) 2. Dammit Janet (Brad) (Janet) 3. Over At The Frankenstein Place (Brad) (Janet) (Riff Raff) 4. The Time Warp (Columbia) (Magenta) (Riff Raff) 5. Sweet Transvestite (Frank N Furter) 6. I Can Make You A Man (Frank N Furter) 7. Hot Patoothie (Eddie) 8. I Can Make You A Man (Frank N Furter) 9. Touch-A Touch-A Touch Me (Janet) 10. Eddie (Dr Scott) 11. Floor Show (Brad) (Columbia) (Janet) (Rocky) 12. I'm Going Home (Frank N Furter) 13. Super Heroes (Brad) (Janet) 14. Science Fiction (Richard O'Brien) (Reprise) 15. The Time Warp (Remix: 1989 extended version) 16. The Time Warp (Background track + U-mix)

• Death Wish 2 | DVD | (27/10/2003) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-7.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Vigilante Paul Kersey now lives in L.A. with his daughter who is still recovering from her attack when street gangs threaten his family and unwittingly spark off a terrible plan of revenge...

• Night Of The Living Dead | DVD | (29/07/2003) from £8.14   |  Saving you £-6.15 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  The radiation from a fallen satellite causes the recently deceased to rise from the grave and seek the living to use as food. Seven people barricade themselves inside a farmhouse while the army of flesh-eating zombies roams the countryside... Still one of the scariest horror movies ever made George A. Romero's first feature film was way ahead of its time and heralded a new dawn in horror film-making.

• George Clooney Box Set | DVD | (09/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  A cracking compendium of films featuring George Clooney. One Fine Day (Dir. Michael Hoffman, 1996: In this charming, romantic comedy, three-time Academy Award nominees Michelle Pfeiffer and George Clooney find that opposites attract whether they like it or not... Melanie Parker (Pfeiffer) is juggling single parenthood with a career as an architect. Jack Taylor (Clooney) is a commitment-shy newspaper columnist who only has his daughter every other weekend. When their kids miss a scho...

• The Old Dark House | DVD | (21/08/2006) from £16.92   |  Saving you £-3.93 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Seeking shelter from a pounding rainstorm in a remote region of Wales several travellers are admitted to a gloomy foreboding mansion belonging to the extremely strange Femm family. Trying to make the best of it the guests must deal with their sepulchral host Horace Femm and his obsessive malevolent sister Rebecca. Things get worse as the brutish manservant Morgan gets drunk runs amok and releases the long pent-up brother Saul a psychotic pyromaniac who gleefully tries to destroy the residence by setting it on fire!

• Hunchback of Notre Dame 1 & 2 | DVD | (20/05/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Hunchback Of Notre Dame (1996):Inspired by Victor Hugos classic novel. Disney brings the heroic adventures of Quasimodo the gentle and lonely bell ringer of Notre Dame to spectacular life. At the urging of his hilarious gargoyle pals Victor Hugo and Laverne Quasimodo defies his evil guardian Frollo and ventures from his tower to the joyous Festival of Fools below. But the crowd turns cruel and rejects Quasi because of the way he looks. After another outcast the gypsy Esmeralda (Demi Moore) rescues him Quasi finds himself battling to save the people and the city he loves -- while reminding us to see people for who they are rather than how they appear. Hunchback of Notre Dame II: The Secret of the Bell (2001):In The Secret of the Bell the gentle but lonely Quasi has settled into Parisian life when he meets Madelline a beautiful girl from the circus. Immediately Quasi falls in love and in time Madelline grows fond of Quasi. When Sarousch Madelline's master steals the precious 'La Fidele' jewelled bell from the cathedral Quasi banishes Madelline from his trust believing that she befriended him only to help steal the bell. Quasi ignores some hilarious advice from the cathedral gargoyles Victor Hugo and Laverne and with the help of his friends re-captures 'La Fidele'. Through this fun-filled adventure Quasi learns how he too must look past appearances to find true love.

• Charles Bronson: Chino/Man With a Camera | DVD | (15/12/1998) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.47