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• The Kentuckian | DVD | (01/03/2004) from £9.43   |  Saving you £3.56 (37.75%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Burt Lancaster's one and only feature as star and director, The Kentuckian, has a bedrock American folk tale at its core, but scarcely a clue how to tell it. For all his balletic control as an actor-athlete, Lancaster shows no sense of how a film should move and breathe over an hour and a half, or how to make the characters' growth or changes of mind credible. It's the early 18th century--Monroe is president--and buckskin-clad Lancaster and his son (Donald MacDonald) are lighting out for Texas. "It ain't we don't like people--we like room more." They plan briefly to visit Lancaster's tobacco-dealer brother (John McIntire) in the river town of Humility, and then move on. But there are complications from a long-running feud, and some nasty baiting from a whip-cracking storekeeper (Walter Matthau in his film debut); the need to replace their "Texas money" after buying freedom for a bondservant (Dianne Foster); also the matter of deciding who's prettier, her or the local schoolmarm (Diana Lynn). Lancaster aims for some quaint Americana--a sing-along to the tinkling of a pianoforte, a jaw-dropping riverside production number--and there's one nifty bit of action based on how long it took to reload a flintlock rifle. But mostly this film just lies there in overlit CinemaScope. --Richard T Jameson

• The Boy Merlin - The Complete Series | DVD | (02/05/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This enchanting children's drama series devised by Anne Carlton and written by Stewart Farrar develops the theme of the single play first shown in 1978 as part of Thames' acclaimed supernatural anthology series Shadows. The play and all six episodes are included in this set complete and uncut. Set in Wales during the Dark Ages the series tell the story of the young apprentice magician Merlin - the grandson of King Conaan fostered by the family of Dafydd Ismena. Merlin s father is unknown; some say he was a demon of the night. His foster-grandmother Myfanwy who also possesses magical powers is the only one to realise that Merlin's destiny lies at the court of King Arthur and it is she who schools him in magic and witchcraft. However because of the circumstances surrounding his birth Merlin is in constant danger from Vortigern the Saxon High King and his beautiful queen Rowena...

• A Run For Your Money | DVD | (02/02/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A Run For Your Money

• Prince Of Darkness | DVD | (21/10/2002) from £9.98   |  Saving you £9.00 (128.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Deep in the crypt of an old church absolute evil has been lurking in the form of the Sleeper a sinister green liquid that contains the essence of the Devil himself. Discovered by a priest this liquid is investigated by physics experts in the hope that science will help fight the battle against evil but their experiments unwittingly set Satan free...

• Path To War | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £15.17   |  Saving you £-9.18 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  As the successor to a martyred president Lyndon B. Johnson sought to transform America into a 'Great Society' of equal opportunity. Instead he became the symbol for the most unpopular war in U.S. history. Michael Gambon (as President Johnson) Donald Sutherland (as Clark Gifford) and Alec Baldwin (as Robert McNamara) star in a compelling drama of soaring ambition and shattered dreams set inside the LBJ White House in the volatile years leading up to and during Vietnam. This HBO production was decorated director John Frankenheimer's final film.

• Sherlock Holmes - The Hound Of The Baskervilles | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £8.50   |  Saving you £-2.51 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A remake of one of Conan Doyle's most famous and popular Sherlock Holmes stories. Is Sir Charles Baskerville's strange death the result of demonic forces and a family curse? Sherlock Holmes searches for a more earthly explanation when Sir Henry Baskerville receives a death threat upon his arrival from America. In this eerie mystery hounds are howling on the moors... a killer is on the loose... and Holmes is on the case.

• Two A Penny | DVD | (18/11/2002) from £6.67   |  Saving you £9.32 (139.73%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A struggling art student looks for quick money and finds some bad company and a dangerous situation.

• Zombie Holocaust | DVD | (27/09/2004) from £25.63   |  Saving you £-19.64 (-327.90%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Bizarre morgue desecrations in a New York hospital finds Dr. Peter Chandler and the beautiful Dr. Laurie Miller at the head of an expedition to an island of terror. The remote tropical island is also peopled by a tribe of blood thirsty natives and soul devouring Zombies. One by one the members of the expedition die unspeakable deaths... Not for the faint-hearted...

• Savate | DVD | (03/09/2001) from £4.95   |  Saving you £-1.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  The true story of the worlds first kickboxer. In 1865 a corrupt Texas land owner's plan to evict innocent settlers is stopped dead by a new kind of fighter.

• Doctor At Large | DVD | (30/09/2002) from £11.84   |  Saving you £1.14 (12.88%)   |  RRP £9.99

  'Doctor At Large' was the third entry in the long running 'Doctor' series of films. Directed by Ralph Thomas (brother of Gerald the director of the 'Carry On 'movies) it follows the further madcap exploits of Dr. Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde) in particular his attempts at general practice.

• 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.

• 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

• Broken Blossoms | DVD | (16/10/2001) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A Chinese man visits London in the hope that he can bring the message of Buddha to others. He falls in love with the daughter of a prize fighter and cares for her when she is beaten. Their friendship is to prove fateful... Silent with the original 1919 orchestral score by Louis F. Gottschalk.

• The Street With No Name | DVD | (16/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A classic film noir from the 1940's. The FBI files are filled with many lurid crime stories. One case in particular baffles FBI Inspector Briggs (Lloyd Nolan). It's the murders of a housewife and a bank guard with no connection between the victims - except the murder weapon. Determined to solve the case Briggs sends his best agent undercover to penetrate the inner circle of a notorious gang run by up-and-coming crime boss Stiles played by Richard Widmark in one of his most

• Monster In The Closet | DVD | (18/12/2003) from £12.99   |  Saving you £-6.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  After several people and a dog are found dead in their closets a 'mild mannered' reporter a college professor her son and a befuddled professor band together to uncover the mystery but not without involving the U.S. Army and creating mass panic!

• Young Mr Lincoln | DVD | (21/02/2005) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-3.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Revered director John Ford's fictionalized account of the early life of the American president as a young lawyer facing his greatest court case...

• Magic Town | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £6.47   |  Saving you £3.52 (54.40%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Rip Smith (Stewart) discovers a town statistically identical to the entire country so he and his assistants go there to run polls easily and cheaply. When he meets local civic cruader Mary Peterman (Wyman) romantic involvement follows and things start to change rapidly...

• Bridge Too Far, A / The Battle Of Britain / The Great Escape | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £16.23   |  Saving you £3.76 (23.17%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A Bridge Too Far: In September 1944 flush with success after the Normandy Invasion the Allies confidently launched Operation Market Garden a wild scheme intended to put an early end to the fighting by invading Germany and smashing the Reich's war plants. But a combination of battlefield politics faulty intelligence bad luck and even worse weather led to the disaster beyond the Allies' darkest fear. The Great Escape: One of the most ingenious and suspenseful adventure films of all time The Great Escape is a masterful collaboration between director John Sturges (The Magnificent Seven) screenwriters James Clavell ('Shogun') and W.R. Burnett and composer Elmer Bernstein. Based on a true story. The Battle Of Britain: This is a spectacular retelling of a true story that shows courage at its inspiring best. Few defining moments can change the outcome of war . But when the outnumbered Royal Air Force defied unsurmountable odds in engaging the German Luftwaffe they may well have altered the course of history!

• Monster in the Closet | DVD | (08/09/1998) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.59

• The Disappearance | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Jay Mallory (Donald Sutherland - The Italian Job). is a man with no past and dubious future. He is an assassin murdering for money no question asked. But when Mallory accept a 'hit' that proves to be more dangerous than he anticipates. The tables are turned. His wife disappears and as Mallory is drawn in further he realises that there could be more than an ironic link between the new target and the disappearance of his wife. A tense intelligent and disturbingly dark thriller.