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• Leave Her To Heaven | DVD | (18/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Leave Her to Heaven is one of the most unblinkingly perverse movies ever offered up as a prestige picture by a major studio in the golden age of Hollywood. Gene Tierney, whose lambent eyes, porcelain features, and sweep of healthy-American-girl hair customarily made her a 20th Century Fox icon of purity, scored an Oscar nomination playing a demonically obsessive daughter of privilege with her own monstrous notion of love. By the time she crosses eyebeams with popular novelist Cornel Wilde on a New Mexico-bound train, her jealous manipulations have driven her parents apart and her father to his grave. Well, no, not grave: Wilde soon gets to watch her gallop a glorious palomino across a red-rock horizon as she metronomically sows Dad's ashes to the winds. Mere screen moments later, she's jettisoned rising-politico fiancé Vincent Price and accepted a marriage proposal the besotted/bewildered Wilde hasn't quite made. Can the wrecking of his and several other lives be far behind? Not to mention a murder or two. Fox gave Ben Ames Williams's bestselling novel (probably just the sort of book Wilde's character writes) the Class-A treatment. Alfred Newman's tympani-heavy music score signals both grandeur and pervasive psychosis, while spectacular, dust-jacket-worthy locations and Oscar-destined Technicolor cinematography by Leon Shamroy ensure our fixed gaze. Impeccably directed by the veteran John M. Stahl (who'd made the original Back Street, Imitation of Life, and Magnificent Obsession a decade earlier), the result is at once cuckoo and hieratic, and weirdly mesmerizing. Bet Luis Buñuel loved it. --Richard T. Jameson

• The Tingler (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (26/04/2021) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Horror icon Vincent Price (The Mad Magician) plays a scientist who makes a remarkable discovery: within every human resides a creature, attached to the spine, that tingles in cases of fear. He manages to extract a Tingler from a recently murdered housewife, but the creature escapes One of the highpoints in the career of famed producer-director William Castle, The Tingler is an outlandish, inventive B-movie classic. And remember: a scream at the right time may save your life. Extras High Definition remaster Original mono audio Alternative feature audio with stereo ˜Scream' sequence Alternative feature audio with drive-in ˜Headlights' sequence Fully restored bathroom scene, scanned in 4K from a rare 35mm print Audio commentary with Kevin Lyons, editor of The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Film and Television, and Jonathan Rigby, author of American Gothic: Six Decades of Classic Horror Cinema Imaginary Biology (2018, 17 mins): appreciation by Kim Newman, critic and author of Nightmare Movies I Survived ˜The Tingler' (2018, 4 mins): interview with actor Pamela Lincoln Unleashing ˜Percepto' (2018, 3 mins): interview with publicist Barry Lorie Scream for Your Lives! William Castle and ˜The Tingler' (1999, 16 mins): documentary featuring interviews with actor Darryl Hickman, archivist Bob Burns, author Lucy Chase Williams and film historian David Skal Isolated music & effects track Theatre lobby spot (1959, 3 mins): promotional recording featuring Vincent Price Original theatrical trailer Joe Dante trailer commentary (2013, 3 mins): short critical appreciation Promotional materials gallery: stills, lobby cards and posters ˜Percepto' instruction manual: gallery of the original installation guide New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing

• The Strange Love Of Martha Ivers | DVD | (29/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  This dark melodrama based on the John Patrick story 'Love Lies Bleeding' stars Barbara Stanwyck as the wonderfully wicked Martha Ivers a wealthy and domineering woman who controls a small town after inheriting a large family fortune. She lives with her weakling husband a district attorney running for mayor played by Kirk Douglas in his feature film debut - a role that's an unusual departure from his later work. What no one in the town knows however is that Stanwyck and Douglas are bound by a dark secret involving murder. Gripping and suspenseful this film noir classic also stars Van Heflin as Martha's old love who returns to town after an 18-year absence whom Douglas thinks is there for one reason: blackmail.

• Destination Gobi | DVD | (12/05/2014) from £7.75   |  Saving you £5.24 (67.61%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Richard Widmark accompanies a group of US military meteorologists, sent to Inner Mongolia during World War II, serving as a weather station monitoring conditions for the Navy. When their commanding officer is killed during a Japanese attack, Chief Petty Officer Sam McHale (Widmark) takes the reins and leads the men on an 800-mile trek in the intense arid Gobi Desert to safety. When their convoy comes under attack from the Japanese, they are forced to seek the help of a group of Mongol tribe.

• The Strange Love Of Martha Ivers | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

• Leave Her To Heaven | DVD | (18/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The manipulative Ellen (Tierney) lures the handsome Richard (Wilde) into marriage despite knowing him just a few days and while she is engaged to a politician. Richard soon learns that Ellen's selfish possessive love has previously ruined other people's lives so when his brother drowns while in Ellen's care Richard grows increasingly suspicious of her insatiable devotion...

• King Lear | DVD | (02/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  King Lear is the renowned story of mistaken love deceit betrayal jealousy and murder. Enjoy a front row seat in the comfort of your home with a Shakespeare classic starring an internationally acclaimed cast.

• The Strange Love Of Martha Ivers | DVD | (06/11/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  This dark melodrama based on the John Patrick story 'Love Lies Bleeding' stars Barbara Stanwyck as the wonderfully wicked Martha Ivers a wealthy and domineering woman who controls a small town after inheriting a large family fortune. She lives with her weakling husband a district attorney running for mayor played by Kirk Douglas in his feature film debut - a role that's an unusual departure from his later work. What no one in the town knows however is that Stanwyck and Dougl