"Actor: Day"

• Calamity Jane / Seven Brides For Seven Brothers / My Fair Lady | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.99

  This 1953 musical is very much a vehicle for Doris Day, in the title role, as a wild cowgal who can out-shoot and out-sing any boy on the range. When an actress arrives in Deadwood and uses her feminine charms on Jane's secret love, Wild Bill Hickock (Howard Keel), Jane tries to mend her tomboy ways. Not exactly up to the feminist code of honour, this is still energetic and Day is very perky. Of course, one could almost detect a homosexual undercurrent with the cross-dressing Jane, but this was Hollywood in the 1950s, so we best not. Calamity Jane won an Oscar for Best Song--"Secret Love", by Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster. --Rochelle O'Gorman

• Green Day - American Idiot - World's Greatest Albums | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £5.15   |  Saving you £9.10 (233.93%)   |  RRP £12.99

  American Idiot is the Grammy award-winning album which cemented the superstar status of Green Day and transformed the group into global superstars capable of filling the biggest stadiums on earth. Featuring clips of rare concert footage and the reflections of the band alongside the views of a leading team of music critics and studio insiders this is the independent critical review of the album that rocked the world... the how and why of American Idiot and how it works its magic. F

• A Kid For Two Farthings (DVD + Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (19/08/2019) from £18.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A Kid For Two Farthings (DVD + Blu-ray) Directed by Carol Reed Carol Reed's last film for the legendary Alexander Korda and his first in colour is the whimsical tale of a young boy, Joe, who buys a small goat in the belief it's a magical unicorn that will grant him and his friends wishes. Counter-balancing this is the equally childlike romance of Sonia (Diana Dors) and her body-building boyfriend Sam (Joe Robinson), and the latter's misguided involvement with crooked wrestling promoter Blackie Isaacs (Lou Jacobi). A very rare example of an Anglo-Jewish film, it was partly shot on location in Petticoat Lane in London's East End, at the heart of what was still a thriving Jewish community. Special features: Presented in High Definition and Standard Definition ***FIRST PRESSING ONLY*** fully illustrated booklet with new writing on the film and full film credits Other extras TBC

• The BBC Sherlock Holmes Collection | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  A collection of BBC adaptations featuring Arthur Conan Doyle's celebrated super-sleuth. A Study In Scarlet: Peter Cushing stars as the intrepid private eye Sherlock Holmes and has to perform a little forensic investigation. The Boscombe Valley Mystery: Peter Cushing stars as Sherlock Holmes in another unfathomable mystery story with Nigel Stock as his faithful sidekick. The Hound Of The Baskervilles: Classic two-part story starring Peter Cushing and Nigel Sto

• All For Mary | DVD | (08/04/2013) from £10.98   |  Saving you £4.00 (44.49%)   |  RRP £12.99

  1950s British comedy following two men who compete for the affections of the same woman in a Switzerland skiing resort. While holidaying in the Swiss Alps Clive (Nigel Patrick) and Humpy (David Tomlinson) both fall for Mary (Jill Day). They each try different ways to win her over without much success and when they contract chicken pox they find themselves in quarantine under the watchful eye of Humpy's old nanny Miss Cartwright (Kathleen Harrison). Their situation becomes even more complicate...

• Purple Rain (Two Disc Special Edition) | DVD | (18/10/2004) from £17.67   |  Saving you £-3.68 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  While "rock musical" remains a phrase used by sadistic parents to give their offspring nightmares the genre does occasionally throw up the odd gem, Purple Rain being perhaps the shiniest example. Given the theatricality of Prince's stage shows, it was only a matter of time before the diminutive pop potentate found himself a big-screen vehicle but few could have predicted that Purple Rain would become nothing less than a cultural phenomenon. The story, co-written by one-time Starsky & Hutch scripter William Blinn, may be a somewhat hackneyed tale with His Purpleness overcoming a troubled background and musical rival Morris Day to achieve his dreams of rock stardom. However, the cast, which also includes Prince protegée Appollonia, rises above the clichés to hand in a set of performances which, while never likely to trouble the Oscars, prove that all concerned can at least play a rough approximation of themselves with minimal difficulty. What really helped push the film's box-office receipts through the roof, however, was its soundtrack featuring a clutch of hit singles--notably "When Doves Cry"--and which cemented our pint-sized hero's position as one of the globe's premiere performing artists. Sadly, subsequent attempts to re-bottle this particular brand of lightning with Under a Cherry Moon and Graffiti Moon would prove substantially less successful but Purple Rain still looks--and, more importantly sounds--rarely less than funktastic. --Clark Collis

• The Fast Show - Series 3 | DVD | (30/08/2004) from £6.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (157.37%)   |  RRP £17.99

  These eight episodes from the Fast Show's third series brought us sparking new characters like the 13th Duke of Wybourne No Offence Taff Lad and the Hearty Hikers and treats in the shape of Swiss Toni Dave Angel Eco-Warrior and the Posh Cockneys to join old favourites like Suits You Chanel 9 Colin Hunt Ted and Ralph and the ever-increasing parade of catchphrase heroes.

• Hitchcock Vol. 1 | Blu Ray | (23/09/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  The Volume 1 of Alfred Hitchcock's greatest films including Psycho (1960) Rope Saboteur Rear Window Shadow of a Doubt The Trouble with Harry and The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956). Saboteur (1942)Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane goes on the run across the United States when he is wrongly accused of a fire that killed his best friend. Special Features: Saboteur: A Closer Look Storyboards: The Statue of Liberty Sequence Alfred Hitchcock's Sketches Production Photographs Theatrical Trailer Shadow of a Doubt (1943)A young woman discovers her visiting Uncle Charlie may not be the man he initially seemed to be. Special Features: Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film Production Drawings by Art Director Robert Boyle Production Photographs Theatrical Trailer Rope (1948)Two young men strangle their classmate hide his body in their apartment and invite his closest friends and family to a dinner party as a means to challenge the perfection of their crime. Special Features: Rope Unleashed Production Photographs Theatrical Trailer Rear Window (1954)A wheelchair bound photographer spies on his neighbours from his window and becomes convinced one of them has committed a serious murder. Special Features: Rear Window Ethics: An Original Documentary A Conversation with Screenwriter John Michael Hayes Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of The Master Breaking Barriers: The Sound of Hitchcock Hitchcock-Truffaut Interview Excerpts Masters of Cinema Feature Commentary with John Fawell author of Hitchcock's Rear Window: The Well-Made Film Production Photographs Theatrical Trailer Re-Release Trailer Narrated by James Stewart The Trouble with Harry (1955)The trouble with Harry is that everyone seems to have a different idea of what needs to be done with his body. Special Features: The Trouble with Harry Isn't Over Production Photographs Theatrical Trailer The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)A family holidaying in Morocco stumble on to an assassination plot and the conspirators are determined to prevent them from interfering. Special Features: The Making of The Man Who Knew Too Much Production Photographs Trailers Psycho (1960)A young woman steals $40 000 from her client and subsequently encounters a young motel proprietor who has been too long under the presence and domination of his mother. Special Features: The Making of Psycho Psycho Sound In The Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy Hitchcock-Truffaut Interview Excerpts Newsreel Footage: The Release of Psycho The Shower Scene: With and Without Music The Shower Scene: Storyboards by Saul Bass The Psycho Archives Posters and Psycho Ads Lobby Cards Behind-the-Scenes Photographs Production Photographs Theatrical Trailer Re-release Trailers Feature Commentary with Stephen Rebello (author of Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho)

• Andy's Prehistoric Adventures - Paraceratherium & Skin (BBC) - Vol 3 | DVD | (08/05/2017) from £4.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Andy is back at the National Museum, and with the help of his trusty old time-travelling grandfather clock he's about to set off on an epic journey to visit the dinosaurs and the ice age beasts that once roamed our planet. Helped by his new, tech-savvy assistant Jen and hindered by the accident-prone Janitor, Andy s adventures stretch across 170 million years of pre-history. Andy comes face to face with ferocious predators, such as the carnivorous Spinosaurus, bigger than a T-Rex; and meets the mighty Argentinosaurus, a 30-metre-long giant, one of largest animals ever to have walked on land. But this time it's not just dinosaurs on Andy s sightseeing list: there are also the weird and wonderful beasts that followed in their footsteps Woolly Mammoths, Sabre Toothed Cats, even our very own ancient relatives, the Neanderthals.

• The Golden Bowl | DVD | (04/11/2002) from £18.28   |  Saving you £-3.29 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The latest Merchant Ivory period drama stars Uma Thurman, Jeremy Northam, Kate Beckinsale and Nick Nolte in a tale of passion & intrigue.

• Aardman Darkside | DVD | (18/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A compilation of animation from the ""darker side"" of Aardman which includes episodes from Angry Kid Big Jeff the naked Australian Rex The Runt A Town called Panic plus 3 hilarious short stories! Angry Kid: Idiotic stubborn and relentless Angry Kid is a snot-nosed troublemaker with a serious attitude problem. He is immature arrogant and a real pain to his Dad his strange super-intelligent little sister and not to mention his unfortunate friend 'Speccy'! Big Jeff

• Daughters of the Dust (DVD + Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (26/06/2017) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  At the dawn of the 20th century, a multi-generational family in the Gullah community on the Sea Islands off of South Carolina - former West African slaves who adopted many of their ancestors Yoruba traditions - struggle to maintain their cultural heritage and folklore while contemplating a migration to the mainland, even further from the roots. This is a new 25th anniversary restoration of director Julie Dash's landmark film. The first wide release by a black female filmmaker, Daughters of the Dust was met with wild critical acclaim and rapturous audience response when it initially opened in 1991. Casting a long legacy, Daughters of the Dust still resonates today, most recently as a major influence on Beyonce's video Album Lemonade. Restored (in conjunction with UCLA) for the first time, complete with the correct colour grading overseen by cinematographer Arthur Jafa, audiences will finally see the film exactly as Julie Dash intended. Special Features: Fully illustrated booklet with new writing on the film and full credits Other extras TBC

• My Beautiful Laundrette | DVD | (10/09/2001) from £10.43   |  Saving you £-0.44 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In case you'd forgotten, My Beautiful Laundrette will remind you of those mid-80s days when Thatcherism ruled the earth (or so it seemed) and money was king. Stephen Frears' low-budget realisation of Hanif Kureishi's subversively critical play captures the contradictions of that time in a way that's as fresh today as when it was new. Omar's wheeler-dealer uncle, Nasser (Saeed Jaffrey), sums it up when he says, "In this damn country, which we hate and love, you can get anything you want". He sets up Omar (Gordon Warnecke) with a rundown laundrette and the instruction to make it a success, which Omar temporarily does, with the help of his childhood friend Johnny (Daniel Day-Lewis). When the film first came out, it was the gay content that dominated the column inches, whereas now it seems a sensitive and multi-faceted summation of its decade, exploring social, ethnic and sexual issues and contradictions. Bringing together two such different characters as Omar--Asian, ambitious, for whom success is defined by wealth--and former childhood friend Johnny--white trash, ex-National Front--was inspired. Watching their friendship develop into love, and the ensuing bitterness and misunderstanding that they suffer from friends and family is very poignant. All the lead roles are well taken, the contradictory character of Nasser in particular. By turns, funny, touching and anger-inducing, this is a movie that wears its age lightly and its era proudly. On the DVD: the picture is in 4:3 ratio with a Dolby Digital soundtrack. There's an original trailer and filmographies of the four main characters, with an additional biography for Day-Lewis. --Harriet Smith

• The Doris Day Collection | DVD | (28/09/2009) from £44.00   |  Saving you £-24.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Titles Comprise: 1. Pajama Game: The Pajama Game based on the hit Broadway show is packed full of musical numbers and romantic subplots the real story is the seven-and-a-half-cents-per-hour raise the pajama factory workers are demanding to keep their salaries comparable with other garment workers pay. 2. By The Light Of The Silvery Moon: The stars come out when the night shimmers like this! Young lovers Doris Day and Gordon MacRae return in a moonlit sequel to On Moonlight Bay. By The Light Of The Silvery Moon has charm by the bucketful as Leon Ames Rosemary DeCamp Mary Wickes and Billy Gray rejoin the two leads in this remembrance of World War I-era Americana. 3. Lucky Me: Candy Williams is a struggling performer in a musical troupe which has fallen on hard times forcing the members to take up cleaning jobs to pay their way. Their luck changes when Candy catches the eye of a celebrity songwriter who could be their way to the top. 4. On Moonlight Bay: The Winfield family moves to a small Indiana town where tomboy Marjorie begins a romance with the boy across the street. However his unconventional ideas lead to a dispute with her father who deems him unsuitable. 5. Tea For Two: Wealthy heiress Nanette dreams of making it as a star and so bets her uncle 000 she can say no to everything for 48 hours. If she succeeds she can invest the money in a Broadway show in which she will star The trouble for Nanette is that the Stock Market Crash has wiped out her uncle's wealth. 6. Lullaby Of Broadway: Musical troupe star Melinda has been working abroad making a name for herself but decides to make a surprise visit home to see her successful Broadway star mother working in Manhattan. However on her arrival she discovers her mother has burnt out and is now living in a haze of whiskey. 7. April In Paris: A bureaucratic mix-up sends chorus girl Ethel Jackson all the way to Paris to represent the American Theatre at an Arts Show instead of the professional Ethel Barrymore.

• Ballad Of Josie - Westerns Collection 2011 | DVD | (30/05/2011) from £11.24   |  Saving you £-1.25 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Hollywood sweetheart Doris Day lights up the screen with her timeless sparkle in this light hearted Western. Upon the death of her husband, feisty rancher Josie is determined to make a success of her sheep farm in small town Wyoming, much to the outrage of her male counterparts. Determined to prove her equality and defend her land, she stirs up a women’s rights riot, and even a little romance along the way.

• The Moth Diaries | DVD | (16/09/2013) from £3.77   |  Saving you £10.98 (546.27%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Led by British talent Lily Cole (Snow White and the Huntsman The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus) Moth Diaries is a modern gothic coming of age story set in a world of obsessive teenage girl friendship. Rebecca (Sarah Bolger) a young girl haunted by her father's suicide begins a new year at an elite girls' boarding school. Before long Rebecca's close friendship with the popular Lucy (Sarah Gadon) is tested by the arrival of the dark and mysterious Ernessa (Lily Cole). Lucy quickly falls under the glamorous Ernessa's spell and becomes emotionally and physically consumed by their intense friendship. Hurt and confused Rebecca develops a crush on her English teacher Mr. Davies (Scott Speedman) who is teaching a class in Gothic fiction. As she immerses herself in their assigned reading the vampire novel Carmilla Rebecca becomes convinced that Ernessa is a vampire. Mysterious deaths begin to occur and Rebecca is convinced Ernessa is to blame but when her warnings are dismissed as the result of obsessive jealousy she decides that she must take drastic action to save herself and those around her.

• Handgun | DVD | (20/05/2013) from £12.98   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Shortly after moving to Dallas, a young woman is raped at gunpoint. Her intense anger drives her to seek revenge, and she becomes a hunter on a vengeance mission.

• Ballad Of Jack And Rose | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £8.75   |  Saving you £11.24 (128.46%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An isolated father and daughter grapple with the limits of family and sexuality.

• It Happened To Jane | DVD | (04/04/2005) from £4.98   |  Saving you £1.01 (20.28%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Doris Day was nearing her popular zenith, and Jack Lemmon just hitting his stride, when they teamed up for It Happened to Jane, a small-town comedy in the Capra vein. Doris is a widowed mom whose Maine lobster business is snarled by railroad tycoon Ernie Kovacs (hiding behind a skullcap and a huge cigar), the "meanest man in America." Her lawsuit against him, aided by lawyer-suitor Lemmon, gains national headlines. This is a curious movie: crucial scenes seem to have been left unwritten, while sequences involving Cub Scouts and an oddly impassioned Town Hall Meeting go on endlessly. Director Richard Quine was making some fun movies around this time (Bell, Book, and Candle), but the fizz is only intermittent here, mostly provided by Lemmon's jack-in-the-box youthfulness. Doris sings a couple of tunes and brings her downhome tomboy routine to New York City, where the movie employs some of the quaint TV personalities of the day. --Robert Horton

• That Touch Of Mink | DVD | (04/06/2007) from £6.41   |  Saving you £3.58 (55.85%)   |  RRP £9.99

  How much should a girl sacrifice to get the man of her dreams? That's the question facing an innocent country girl (Doris Day) who is swept into the whirlwind of the rich and famous when a Rolls Royce splashes her with mud. Profound apologies come courtesy of a romantic business tycoon (Cary Grant) who becomes enchanted with the girl's simple direct manner and open honest heart. But he's not interested in marriage...and she's never been interested in anything else. It's a delicious game of cat-and-mouse as working girl and wealthy bachelor pursue each other with hilarious results. 'That Touch Of Mink' is an enchanting romantic comedy featuring wonderful performances from Hollywood favourites Cary Grant and Doris Day. Bouncy dialogue and superb supporting performances from Gig Young and Audrey Meadows earned this dazzling comedy three Oscar nominations including Best Screenplay in 1962.