"Actor: Donald Pleasence"

• The Caretaker | DVD | (21/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Caretaker was the play that made Harold Pinter's name when it was first performed at the Arts Theatre London in 1960 and it remains probably his most famous. Two years later Clive Donner's film version began shooting after producer Michael Birkett had raised the finance from such figures as Noel Coward Richard Burton Elizabeth Taylor Peter Sellers Peter Hall and Leslie Caron - all passionate admirers of the play. For the film two of the cast of the original production

• Eagle Has Landed, The / The Ipcress File | DVD | (17/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In the spy-crazed film world of the 1960s, Len Deighton's antihero Harry Palmer burst onto the scene as an antidote to the James Bond films. Here was a British spy who had a working-class accent and horn-rimmed glasses and above all really didn't want to be a spy in the first place. As portrayed by Michael Caine, Palmer was the perfect antithesis to Sean Connery's 007. Unlike that of his globetrotting spy cousin, Palmer's beat is cold, rainy, dreary London, where he spends his days and nights in unheated flats spying on subversives. He does charm one lady, but she's no Pussy Galore, just a civil servant he works with, sent to keep an eye on him. Eventually he's assigned to get to the bottom of the kidnapping and subsequent "brain draining" of a nuclear physicist, all the while being reminded by his superiors that it's this or prison. Things begin to get pretty hairy for Harry. Produced by Harry Saltzman in his spare time between Bond movies, the film also features a haunting score by another Bond veteran, composer John Barry. --Kristian St. Clair, Amazon.com

• Halloween 5: The Revenge Of Michael Myers Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (15/10/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Following her mysterious behaviour at the conclusion of Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, young Jamie (Danielle Harris) is committed to the psychiatric care of Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasence). Meanwhile, Michael Myers is presumed dead following a shoot-out with the Haddonfield Police and a fatal fall down a mineshaft entrance. A well-meaning derelict nurses Michael back to health, and one year later he is back to kill again! Jamie finds herself the object of Michael's murderous ...

• River of Death | DVD | (26/09/2016) from £12.95   |  Saving you £0.04 (0.31%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In the nightmarish last days of the Third Reich, a psychotic Nazi scientist (Robert Vaughn) escapes to the impenetrable jungles of the Amazon. Years later, a mysterious incurable disease breaks out among the natives and adventurer John Hamilton (Michael Dudikoff) is hired to lead investigators on a search for the cause. Braving bloodthirsty rives pirates, hostile native tribes and headhunting cannibals, Hamilton, guides a group of explorers up the deadly Rio del Morte to the fabulous lost Inca city.

• Hell Is A City | DVD | (04/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Detective Inspector Martineau (Baker) is tough hard working and one of Manchester's top policeman. So when he hears of a jailbreak involving ruthless criminal and jewel thief Don Starling (John Crawford) whom he helped put away he is convinced Starling will come back to Manchester for one last heist. But when a simple robbery turns to murder Martineau is on the case determined to catch him whatever the cost...

• Escape From Witch Mountain / Return To Witch Mountain | DVD | (10/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Escape To Witch Mountain (Dir. John Hough 1975): Two young orphans with supernatural powers are adopted by a ruthless millionaire who plans to harness use their abilities for his own selfish purposes... Return From Witch Mountain (Dir. John Hough 1978): An entire city teeters on the brink of nuclear disaster when greedy criminals manipulate a young boy's supernatural powers for their own devious gain.

• All Quiet On The Western Front | Blu Ray | (19/10/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A devastating story of war and a generation destroyed. In 1914 a group of German schoolboys idealistic and inflamed with youthful patriotism set off to fight in the glorious war. During their brutal basic training disenchantment begins. Then boarding a train for the front they see the wounded being rushed back to the hospitals and they begin to grasp the grim reality of war. Amongst them is Paul Baumer (Richard Thomas) whose preconceptions are shattered upon witnessing the horror of life at the front. This is the second film version (the first was made in 1930) of Erich Maria Remarque's classic novel.

• Fantastic Voyage/Voyage to Bottom of the Sea | DVD | (02/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Irwin Allen's visually impressive but scientifically silly Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea updates 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea as the world's most advanced experimental submarine manoeuvres under the North Pole while the Van Allen radiation belt catches fire, giving the concept "global warming" an entirely new dimension. As the Earth broils in temperatures approaching 170 degrees F, Walter Pidgeon's maniacally driven Admiral Nelson hijacks the Seaview sub and plays tag with the world's combined naval forces on a race to the South Pacific, where he plans to extinguish the interstellar fire with a well-placed nuclear missile. But first he has to fight a mutinous crew, an alarmingly effective saboteur, not one but two giant squid attacks and a host of design flaws that nearly cripple the mission (note to Nelson: think backup generators). Barbara Eden shimmies to Frankie Avalon's trumpet solos in the most form-fitting naval uniform you've ever seen; fish-loving Peter Lorre plays in the shark tank; gloomy religious fanatic Michael Ansara preaches Armageddon; and Joan Fontaine looks very uncomfortable playing an armchair psychoanalyst. It's all pretty absurd, but Allen pumps it up with larger-than-life spectacle and lovely miniature work. Fantastic Voyage is the original psychedelic inner-space adventure. When a brilliant scientist falls into a coma with an inoperable blood clot in the brain, a surgical team embarks on a top-secret journey to the centre of the mind in a high-tech military submarine shrunk to microbial dimensions. Stephen Boyd stars as a colourless commander sent to keep an eye on things (though his eyes stay mostly on shapely medical assistant Raquel Welch), while Donald Pleasence is suitably twitchy as the claustrophobic medical consultant. The science is shaky at best, but the imaginative spectacle is marvellous: scuba-diving surgeons battle white blood cells, tap the lungs to replenish the oxygen supply and shoot the aorta like daredevil surfers. The film took home a well-deserved Oscar for Best Visual Effects. Director Richard Fleischer, who had previously turned Disney's 1954 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea into one of the most riveting submarine adventures of all time, creates a picture so taut with cold-war tensions and cloak-and-dagger secrecy that niggling scientific contradictions (such as, how do miniaturised humans breathe full-sized air molecules?) seem moot. --Sean Axmaker

• Halloween | DVD | (10/10/2005) from £14.70   |  Saving you £-8.71 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  It was a cold Halloween night in 1963 when six year old Michael Myers brutally murdered his 17-year-old sister. Fifteen years later he escapes from prison and returns home...

• The Adventures Of Robin Hood - The Complete Series 1 | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £35.34   |  Saving you £4.65 (13.16%)   |  RRP £39.99

  The rollicking adventures of Robin Hood in the long running TV series starring Richard Green as the titular green tight-clad hero. Includes the complete first series with the following episodes: The Coming Of Robin Hood The Moneylender Dead Or Alive Friar Tuck Maid Marian A Guest For The Gallows The Challenge Queen Eleanor Checkmate The Ordeal A Husband For Marian The Highlander The Youngest Outlaw The Betrothal The Alchemist The Jongleur The Brothers The Intruders

• Halloween IV: The Return of Michael Myers | DVD | (27/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  You can't kill the bogeyman", the children insist to a terrorised Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) in the original Halloween. How right they are. Laurie is gone, but guess who's back in Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers? Acting as if the third entry never existed, this instalment picks up 10 years after the original, with mad maniac Myers in a coma and moved to a new facility. But wouldn't you know it that as soon as a loose-lipped orderly lets slip that Myers has a surviving niece he springs back into action, leaving a bloody trail of corpses on the road to Haddonfield. Donald Pleasance returns as Dr Loomis, scarred and crippled from his last encounter with Myers and seething with a fanatical zeal to stop the freak from repeating his previous rampage. Pleasance is the best thing about the film as an ageing hero seemingly on the verge of madness who drags a bum leg in his manic rush to save little orphan Jamie (Danielle Harris), the 10-year-old waif terrorised by her homicidal uncle. Director Dwight Little has managed a generic if professional slasher picture, rife with improbabilities and dominated by a killer whose superhuman powers reach near-mystical dimensions, but he delivers the goods: shocks, stabs and cold, cruel killings. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com

• Phenomena (Dual Format DVD + Blu Ray) | Blu Ray | (26/11/2012) from £16.18   |  Saving you £3.81 (19.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Master of Italian Horror Dario Argento is joined by Jennifer Connelly for a gory 80s classic in Phenomena, a terrifying slice of fear cinema that mixes extreme violence, pounding Metal music, a vicious chimp wielding a scalpel and enough buzzing insects to choke an entire school... Poor sleepwalking Jennifer doesn't fit in at her boarding school and her uncanny ability to control insects isn't helping her popularity. With the aid of a local Entomologist (Donald Pleasence), can she use her psychic insect skills to find the killer who's leaving her fellow pupils in bloody pieces? Argento piles on the bloody kills and surreal nightmares as the deafening buzz of a million bugs shatters your eardrums in one of the most demented Body-Horror movies ever produced. Special Features: HD Blu-ray and SD DVD presentation of the Italian cut of the film Original Italian and English Stereo Audio Brand new subtitle translation of the Italian and optional English subtitles of the English audio Dario's Monkey Business: The Making of Phenomena - A 50 minute long documentary featuring interview with key talent behind the film including Director Dario Argento, star Daria Nicolodi, underwater photographer Gianlorenzo Battaglia and more! Music for Maggots - An interview with composer Claudio Simonetti Creepers for Creatures - Sergio Stivaletti live Q&A sessions from Dublin and Edinburgh Exclusive collector's booklet featuring brand new writing on the film by Alan Jones, author of 'Profondo Argento' Reversible sleeve with original and newly commissioned artwork

• Halloween V: The Revenge of Michael Myers | DVD | (05/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Starting around Halloween 4, that masked nut Michael Myers stopped chasing his sister (played by Jamie Lee Curtis in the first and second films, as well as Halloween H20) and went after his niece. Now he's chasing her around again in part 5, but it's a lot of other people who die in the process. Donald Pleasence continues his mad-doctor bit from the earlier movies, Danielle Harris is the unfortunate relation, and Donald L. Shanks plays the monster. The film is an improvement on parts 2 and 4 (part 3 having nothing to do with Michael Myers), but it still amounts to routine slaughter with none of John Carpenter's stylistic brilliance from the original movie. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Halloween: The Complete Collection (Eight Disc Box Set) | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  A group of teens win a contest to spend a night in Michael Myers' childhood home to be broadcast live on the internet. But things go frightfully wrong and the game turns into a struggle to make it out of the house alive.

• Halloween V: The Revenge of Michael Myers | DVD | (27/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Starting around Halloween 4, that masked nut Michael Myers stopped chasing his sister (played by Jamie Lee Curtis in the first and second films, as well as Halloween H20) and went after his niece. Now he's chasing her around again in part 5, but it's a lot of other people who die in the process. Donald Pleasence continues his mad-doctor bit from the earlier movies, Danielle Harris is the unfortunate relation, and Donald L. Shanks plays the monster. The film is an improvement on parts 2 and 4 (part 3 having nothing to do with Michael Myers), but it still amounts to routine slaughter with none of John Carpenter's stylistic brilliance from the original movie. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Halloween IV: The Return of Michael Myers | DVD | (05/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  You can't kill the bogeyman", the children insist to a terrorised Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) in the original Halloween. How right they are. Laurie is gone, but guess who's back in Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers? Acting as if the third entry never existed, this instalment picks up 10 years after the original, with mad maniac Myers in a coma and moved to a new facility. But wouldn't you know it that as soon as a loose-lipped orderly lets slip that Myers has a surviving niece he springs back into action, leaving a bloody trail of corpses on the road to Haddonfield. Donald Pleasance returns as Dr Loomis, scarred and crippled from his last encounter with Myers and seething with a fanatical zeal to stop the freak from repeating his previous rampage. Pleasance is the best thing about the film as an ageing hero seemingly on the verge of madness who drags a bum leg in his manic rush to save little orphan Jamie (Danielle Harris), the 10-year-old waif terrorised by her homicidal uncle. Director Dwight Little has managed a generic if professional slasher picture, rife with improbabilities and dominated by a killer whose superhuman powers reach near-mystical dimensions, but he delivers the goods: shocks, stabs and cold, cruel killings. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com

• The Eagle Has Landed | Blu Ray | (06/01/2023) from £63.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Phenomena | DVD | (15/01/2018) from £9.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From master of horror Dario Argento (Suspiria, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage) comes Phenomena one of his most eccentric and unique thrillers, featuring telepathic insects, maggots galore, and even a razor-wielding chimp! Jennifer Corvino (Jennifer Connelly, Labyrinth), daughter of a world-renowned movie star, arrives in the so-called Swiss Transylvania to attend an exclusive girls' school. However, a vicious killer is targeting the pupils, and sleepwalker Jennifer finds herself in the assassin's headlights when her nocturnal wanderings cause her to witness the death of a fellow pupil. Aided by paraplegic entomologist John McGregor (Donald Pleasence, Halloween) and her own uncanny ability to communicate telepathically with insects, Jennifer sets out to track down the killer before she herself becomes the latest victim Released in 1985, towards the end of Argento's decade-long golden age as a director, Phenomena co-stars Dalila Di Lazarro (Andy Warhol's Frankenstein), Patrick Bauchau (Clear and Present Danger) and Daria Nicolodi (Tenebrae), and features lush cinematography by Romano Albani (Inferno) and a pounding prog rock score by Goblin (Deep Red, Suspiria). Presented here in a sumptuous new 4K restoration of the film and with a newly created hybrid English/Italian audio track, this is the definitive release of Argento's creepy classic. SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS: ¢ Brand new 4K restoration of the full-length 116-minute Italian cut of the film from the original camera negative ¢ New 5.1 surround mix of the Italian soundtrack, derived from the original 4-channel Dolby Stereo elements ¢ New hybrid English/Italian soundtrack in lossless 5.1 and 2.0 stereo* ¢ Italian soundtrack in PCM 2.0 stereo ¢ English subtitles for the Italian soundtrack ¢ Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtrack ¢ New audio commentary by Troy Howarth, author of So Deadly, So Perverse: 50 Years of Italian Giallo Films ¢ Of Flies and Maggots, a new feature-length documentary including interviews with co-writer/producer/director Dario Argento, actors Fiore Argento, Davide Marotta, Daria Nicolodi and Fiorenza Tessari, co-writer Franco Ferrini, cinematographer Romano Albani, production manager Angelo Jacono, special optical effects artist Luigi Cozzi, special makeup effects artist Sergio Stivaletti, makeup artist Pier Antonio Mecacci, underwater camera operator Gianlorenzo Battaglia, and composers Claudio Simonetti and Simon Boswell ¢ Original Italian and English theatrical trailers ¢ Jennifer music video, directed by Dario Argento ¢ Rare Japanese vintage pressbook ¢ Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Candice Tripp * The 116-minute Italian cut features approximately six minutes of footage for which English audio does not exist. In these instances, the hybrid track reverts to Italian audio with English subtitles.

• The Adventures Of Robin Hood - The Complete Series 2 | DVD | (26/04/2004) from £79.99   |  Saving you £-40.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  First broadcast in 1955 The Adventures of Robin Hood stars Richard Green as Robin of Locksley. Together with his band of merry men he protects the countryside from evil Prince John (Donald Pleasence). This release features all the episodes from Series Two. Episode titles: A Village Wooing The Scientist Blackmail A Year and a Day The Goldmaker The Imposters Ransom Isabella The Hero The Haunted Mill The Black Patch Outlaw Money The Friar's Pilgrimage The Trap Hubert

• Battle Of The Sexes | DVD | (21/07/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Angela Barrows (Constance Cummings) is a man-eating businesswoman who is sent by her American employer to investigate their export opportunities in Edinburgh. En route she meets Robert MacPherson (Robert Morley) a businessman who asks for help to bring his company into the 20th century. The staff led by Mr Martin (Peter Sellers) has other ideas however and a comic battle between the old and new business methods soon breaks out. A vintage Peter Sellers comedy that ranks amongst his funniest!