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• Boris Karloff Triple DVD Box Set | DVD | (18/03/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Boris Karloff is recognised as one of the true icons of horror cinema. Born William Henry Pratt on November 23rd 1887 in Camberwell London England he was educated at London University in anticipation that he would pursue a diplomatic career. However he migrated to Canada in 1909 and joined a touring company and adopted the stage name ""Boris Karloff"". He toured for over ten years in a variety of low-budget theatre shows and eventually ended up in Hollywood with very little money to his name. Needing cash to support himself Karloff secured occasional work in the fledgling silent film industry. Eventually along came the role of Mr Wong the distinguished gentlemanly Oriental detective whose detective skills were incomparable.

• Watching The Detectives | DVD | (04/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A four disc DVD set of classic detective films. With Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes; Peter Lorre as Mr Moto; Boris Karloff as Mr Wong and Ralph Byrd as Dick Tracy. Mr. Moto's Last Warning (Dir. Norman Foster 1939): A Japanese man claiming to be Mr Moto of the International Police is abducted and murdered soon after disembarking from a ship at Port Said in Egypt. The real Mr Moto is already in Port Said investigating a conspiracy against the British and French government

• The Mystery Of Mr. Wong | DVD | (19/07/2004) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-3.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Detective James Lee Wong must find the 'Eye of the Daughter of the Moon' a priceless but cursed sapphire stolen in China and smuggled to America. His search takes him into the heart of Chinatown and to the dreaded 'House Of Hate' to find the deadly gem before it can kill again.

• The Men | DVD | (10/01/2005) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This is Marlon Brando's screen debut; he plays a paraplegic World War II veteran who sinks into depression until his former girlfriend (Teresa Wright) manages to bring him out of it. Controversial at the time for it's vivid semi-documentary style and it's no-holds barred treatment of sexual problems.

• The Mystery Of Mr Wong | DVD | (13/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The Mystery of Mr. Wong"" is the second in the series featuring Boris Karloff as the Chinese detective. This time around gem collector Brandon Edwards (Morgan Wallace) has acquired the ""Eye of the Daughter of the Moon "" the largest star sapphire in the world. Unfortunately the gem has been stolen from China. While exhibiting the gem during a party at his home Edwards tells Mr. Wong he is worried and the next thing we know Edwards is shot during a game of charades. The gem disappears taken by Drina (Lotus Long) the maid who intends to return it to its sacred resting place in China. But then Drina is murdered as well...can Mr. Wong find the gem and manage to stay alive himself...