"Actor: Crawford"

• Il Bidone | DVD | (29/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In Fellini's sardonically humorous yet powerfully dramatic 'Il Bidone' three small-time crooks impersonate priests in Rome to con poor people out of their money. Academy Award-winner Broderick Crawford is extraordinary as the group's world-weary leader whose chance meeting with his daughter opens his eyes to his wrongdoing. Too late he suffers a crisis of conscience in this absorbing tale of hope desperation and finally redemption. One of Fellini's most realistic films 'Il Bido

• Rage | DVD | (17/02/2014) from £2.92   |  Saving you £3.07 (105.14%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Rage tells the story of Dennis Twist, a suburban 30-something year old man who on his day off from work heads downtown where he unintentionally provokes the wrath of a mysterious and homicidal motorcycle rider called The Biker . The confrontation between the two escalates into a daylong battle of cat and mouse where Dennis must fight for his very life, just to survive through the day.

• Eternally Yours | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

• The Time Of Your Life | DVD | (01/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  When James Cagney starred in the movie adaptation of The Time of Your Life in 1948, it was hotly been debated whether William Saroyan’s stage play was really filmable at all. Because of its small cast, because all the action takes place on a single claustrophobic set, because the "plot" consists entirely of sub-plots, and because Saroyan’s "dirty sentimentality" isn’t to everyone’s taste, such doubts are still understandable today. However, accept the movie for what it is--a play in a box--and you’ll be captivated. The story revolves around a slightly down-at-heel bar-restaurant, where a group of disparate characters come and go as their stories gradually unfold. They include an ex-prostitute desperately seeking a new life, a dancer looking for a break into showbusiness, a down-and-out who discovers a vocation as a pianist, a beer-sodden cowboy and a villainous "stoolie" who, needless to say, gets his comeuppance. This gaggle of misfits is presided over by an enigmatic, champagne-drinking philanthropist (brilliantly played by Cagney) who gently nudges them towards their goals while indulging his own fascination with the minutiae of daily life. Throughout this quietly delightful picture the audience are not told why he’s this way, but it is possible to make an educated guess. On the DVD: The Time of Your Life might be a classic, but it apparently warrants no extra features. The black and white picture is 4:3. --Roger Thomas

• Rain | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £4.99   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

• New Killers In Town / Escape From Brothel | DVD | (03/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  New Killers In Town: Battling babes heroine Moon Lee and Shaw Brothers veteran Lui Chi Liang prepare to do battle with the chinese underworld. One of the best Asian babe flicks of the 1990's. Escape From Brothel: When two young girls are trapped in a ruthless vice ring they enlist the help of their brothers to regain their freedom. However the brutal gang lords have other idea! An all-out Kung Fu fest with Billy 'Fist Of A Legend' Chong and sex kitten Pauline Wong this best seller is now available on DVD for the first time.

• New York Confidential | DVD | (03/10/2011) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The true story of the gang battle that blasted a city!The kill-or-be-killed world of organised crime is the focus of this hard-hitting expose from the Oscar-nominated writing team of Russell Rouse and Clarence Greene. Broderick Crawford is the NYC mob boss dealing out death as the answer to every crisis-from a minor member of his own syndicate, to a Washington lobbyist, to his own hired killers!

• Cimarron Strip - The Blue Moon Train | Blu Ray | (19/05/2007) from £12.32   |  Saving you £-6.33 (-105.70%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When a ruthless prison con comes to Cimarron he has more on his mind than just sweeping the floors of the Wayfarers Inn. Knowing that a prison train loaded with convicts will be going through an abandon ghost town outside of Cimarron A-1 Joe Lehigh devises a plan to free his prison buddies. After kidnapping Francis and holding him as a hostage Joe swears to kill the young man unless Crown releases the outlaw's former gang. Realising that Francis has been shot and that he is slowly bleeding to death Crown faces insurmountable odds when he must both find Francis and stop A-1 Joe from freeing his gang. A great sinister performance by Broderick Crawford.

• Nemesis Game | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Introverted college student Sara Novak has a few skeletons in her closet. Shying away from her classmates she prefers to spend her time with Vern a comic storeowner who shares her passion for mind games and riddles. But when the puzzles she solves lead to the deaths of those around her she realises this is much more than just a simple game.

• The Sherlock Holmes Casebook | DVD | (12/02/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Includes the following: The Case Of The Texas Cowgirl The Case Of The Thistle Killer The Case Of The Shoeless Engineer The Case Of The Christmas Pudding The Case Of The Imposter Mystery

• Classic Cuts Collection - Oscar Winning Drama | DVD | (26/03/2007) from £9.95   |  Saving you £15.04 (151.16%)   |  RRP £24.99

  All The Kings Men (Dir. Robert Rossen): Broderick Crawford stands out in this fine drama about the rise and fall of a corrupt southern governor who promises his way to power. Crawford portrays Willie Stark who once he is elected finds that his vanity and power lust prove to be his downfall. The film is based on the 1946 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Robert Penn Warren which in turn was based largely on the story of Louisiana legend Huey Long. From Here To Eternity (Dir. Fred Zinnemann): Director Fred Zinnemann's 1953 Oscar-winning best picture 'From Here To Eternity' is a powerful portrait of a peacetime military camp stationed in Hawaii just before the attack on Pearl Harbour. Montgomery Clift is superlative in the major role of Robert Prewitt while Frank Sinatra delivers an electrifying Academy Award-winning (1953 Best Supporting Actor) performance as Clift's buddy. Deborah Kerr's love scene in the Hawaiian surf with Burt Lancaster is enshrined as one of the most famous moments in cinema history. To Kill A Mockingbird: Gregory Peck won an Oscar for his brilliant performance as the Southern lawyer who defends a black man accused of rape in this film version of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel. The setting is a dusty Southern town during the Depression. A white woman accuses a black man of rape. Though he is obviously innocent the outcome of his trial is such a foregone conclusion that no lawyer will step forward to defend him - except Peck the town's most distinguished citizen. His compassionate defense costs him many friendships but earns him the respect and admiration of his two motherless children. Harvey (Dir. Henry Koster): James Stewart stars as Elwood P. Dowd a wealthy alcoholic whose sunny disposition and drunken antics are tolerated by most of the citizens of his community. That is until Elwood begins to claim that he has a friend named Harvey who is an invisible six foot rabbit. Elwood's snooty socialite sister Veta determined to marry off her daughter Myrtle to a respectable man begins to plot to keep Elwood's lunacy from interfering.

• Dawn of the Dead | DVD | (03/10/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  As a blend of horror, action, tension, and humour, Dawn of the Dead stands in a class of its own as the only true zombie epic of all time. A National Emergency grips the US as the zombie population grows at an alarming rate. Two S.W.A.T. officers, a helicopter pilot and his girlfriend escape the city and take refuge in an abandoned shopping mall after securing it following a series of flesh-shredding confrontations with the undead. Their survival is threatended when a band of looters leave a door open allowing the zombies access to the mall once more and a final stand-off for survival must play out.With near unbearable tension throughout, George A. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead is a work of zombie film-making genius. Special Features:Also includes 2 Audio commentaries with George Romero, Tom Savini and more plus For every night there is a Dawn Collector's Booklet!

• Primer | DVD | (28/01/2013) from £11.89   |  Saving you £1.10 (9.25%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Independent sci-fi drama. Abe (David Sullivan) and Aaron (Shane Carruth) are two young engineers who work in an anonymous city for a large corporation and who in their spare time conduct their own scientific experiments in their garage. While working on a device that will block the gravitational pull of an object and so reduce its apparent mass the two scientists discover an extraordinary side-effect that allows them to manipulate time. Immediately taking advantage of this opportunity they are soon having to deal with its consequences and with its effect on their strained working relationship.

• The Buster Keaton Collection | DVD | (08/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Buster Keaton's 1926 masterpiece The General shows the great stone-faced comedian at the height of his powers. Buster is a train driver from the South who's caught up in the American Civil War. The film is basically an extended chase, with trains pursuing each other up the track. The level of stuntwork (including a huge train wreck) has to be seen to be believed, but it's the deftness and elegance of Keaton's comedy that is ultimately most memorable. For many, Buster Keaton is the greatest comedian of the silent era rated even above Chaplin, and College (1927) is one of his finest films. A poor student who has to work his way through college, Buster is desperate to win the attention of a pretty girl so takes up sports. Through every disaster, the great "stone face" as he was nicknamed betrays not a flicker of emotion, enduring all humiliations with aplomb. College shows Keaton at the top of his form. Steamboat Bill Jr dates from 1928 and is the last great film Buster Keaton made before he gave up his independence. Buster is the rather fey son of an elderly steamboat owner who is being driven out of business by a wealthy competitor. More by accident than intention Buster turns things around and gets the girl as well. The last 15 minutes are truly astonishing: a storm sequence in which a whole town is blown apart, with Buster experiencing a series of amazing escapes as buildings fall down around his ears. Tragically, the following year he lost his independence when he signed for MGM. His career collapsed, his marriage broke up and he became an alcoholic, never to regain former glories. On the DVD: The organ music accompanying this silent feature is pleasantly unobtrusive, and apart from a short section in the middle where it deteriorates, the print quality is a reasonable 4.3. In addition there are five excellent Keaton shorts, One Week (1920), The Boat (1921) Cops (1922), The Blacksmith (1922) and The Balloonatic (1923). --Ed Buscombe

• The Fantastic World of Michael Crawford | DVD | (29/07/2013) from £9.43   |  Saving you £-2.44 (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Michael Crawford has starred in some of the biggest box-office hits of all time. From Frank Spencer in Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, to the original Phantom in Phantom of the Opera, both in London's West End and on Broadway; from circus showman in Barnum to EFX, the multi- million extravaganza at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, then the biggest hotel in the world, which he dominated for over two years, playing Merlin, Houdini and H.G. Wells, and which broke all existing box office records. He is the ...

• Into the Woods UK Exclusive Limited Edition Steelbook | Blu Ray | (02/10/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Daughter Of Darkness | DVD | (15/01/2007) from £12.96   |  Saving you £3.02 (30.29%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In Ballyconnen Emmy Baudine (Siobhan McKenna) is a beautiful but disturbed young woman who works for the local priest. When the carnival comes to town she encounters a handsome young boxer called Dan (Maxwell Reed) and lays his face open with her fingernails when he expects sexual favours from her. Hurriedly packed off by Father Corcoran (Liam Redmond) to Yorkshire Emmy is taken in by a farming family and manages to suppress the strange feelings of fascination and repulsion that she experiences in the presence of the opposite sex. Until that is the carnival comes to town and brings with it the vengeful Dan...

• Top Spot | DVD | (24/04/2006) from £32.37   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Taking its title from a teenage disco, this eagerly anticipated first feature from British artist Tracey Emin marks a new chapter in her body of autobiographical work...Drawing on her experiences growing up in Margate, the film features six teenage girls - Frances, Helen, Katie, Kieri, Laura and Lizzie - who all have a tale to tell. One moment filled with bravado, the next awkward and insecure. In a series of interviews to camera, the Margate girls tell their individual stories. We learn about Helen and her love of the Sphinx, a ride at the Dreamland funfair, where she snogged a lad who she is convinced has joined the foreign legion. Katie was raped at the end of her Christmas holiday - he broke me in, she says of the abuser. Kieri has a lovebite as a result of a strange sex game involving an older woman. And Lizzie takes the stories to a harrowing and dramatic culmination, involving a miscarriage and suicide.The film is hard-edged and disturbing, but it's also Emin's poem to Margate, mixing DV footage Super 8 film into lyrical montage. The natural beauty of the sea and the sunsets is linked with Margate's more manmade pleasures, underscored with a selection of 70s songs that formed the soundtrack to the artist's own adolescence.

• Thor: The Hammer Of The Gods | Blu Ray | (16/04/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In the epic tale of The Hammer of the Gods, Thor sets out with his army of Vikings on a journey to discover foreign lands, in search of fame and honour. But when a scout goes missing on a strange island, the search party chance upon the terrified natives...

• College | DVD | (09/04/2001) from £9.94   |  Saving you £10.05 (101.11%)   |  RRP £19.99

  For many, Buster Keaton is the greatest comedian of the silent era rated even above Chaplin, and College (1927) is one of his finest films. A poor student who has to work his way through college, Buster is desperate to win the attention of a pretty girl and takes up sports. His attempt at the high jump is a classic piece of clowning, and as the cox in a boat race Buster displays his full genius for comic invention. Through every disaster, the great "stone face" as he was nicknamed betrays not a flicker of emotion, enduring all humiliations with aplomb. If not quite the equal of The Navigator (1924) or its immediate predecessor The General (1927), College shows Keaton at the top of his form. Tragically, the following year he lost his independence when he signed for MGM. His career collapsed, his marriage broke up and he became an alcoholic, never to regain former glories. On the DVD: The organ music accompanying this silent feature is pleasantly unobtrusive, and apart from a short section in the middle where it deteriorates, the print quality is reasonable. In addition there are two excellent Keaton shorts, One Week (1920) and The Blacksmith (1922).-- Ed Buscombe