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• D-Day, The Sixth Of June/Young Lions double pack | DVD | (02/06/2003) from £16.00   |  Saving you £-1.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A World War II double-bill comes to DVD with the pairing of The Young Lions (1958) and D-Day the Sixth of June (1956). Edward Dmytryk's The Young Lions is one of the most thoughtful films about the War. Based on a novel by Irwin Shaw, it tells parallel stories of two American soldiers (Montgomery Clift and Dean Martin) and one German officer (Marlon Brando), whose war experiences we follow until they intersect outside a concentration camp. Martin plays what he calls "a likable coward", Clift is intense as a Jewish GI, and Brando experiments with the limits of his part as a Nazi re-evaluating his beliefs. Legend has it that Clift accused Brando of bleeding-heart excessiveness. Interestingly, the two Method actors share no scenes together. --Tom Keogh D-Day the Sixth of June is a misleading title for a very tame wartime romance with barely 10 minutes of combat in the last reel. What we mostly get is a year's worth of flashbacks depicting the reluctant, London-based affair of a married US staff officer (Robert Taylor) and a British Red Cross worker (Dana Wynter) whose commando suitor (Richard Todd) is fighting in Africa. To be sure, the emotional desperation and embattled decency of good people in time of war is as worthy of film treatment as any military campaign, and the script works pre-invasion Anglo-American tensions into the story. But the CinemaScope production is utterly formulaic, with leaden direction by Henry Koster. Wynter's porcelain beauty apparently didn't permit changes of expression, and Taylor looks about 15 years past his prime. --Richard T Jameson

• Audrey Hepburn | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £19.39   |  Saving you £30.60 (157.81%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Breakfast At Tiffany's:The names Audrey Hepburn and Holly Golightly have become synonymous since this dazzling romantic comedy was translated to the screen from Truman Capote's best-selling novella. Holly is a deliciously eccentric New York City playgirl, determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. George Peppard plays her next-door neighbour, a writer who is 'sponsored' by a wealthy Patricia Neal. Guessing who's the right man for Holly is easy. Seeing just how that romance blossoms is one of the enduring delights of this gem-like treat set to Henry Mancini's Oscar-winning score and the Oscar-winning Mancini-Johnny Mercer song, 'Moon River'.Paris When It Sizzles:William Holden portrays a screenwriter with a script deadline in three days. When he asks secretary Audrey Hepburn to help concoct ideas, she acts out a potpourri of preposterous plots. Beautifully shot on location in Paris by famed cinematographer Claude Renoir.Funny Face:Paris, the City of Light, shines even brighter when Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire team up for the only time and bring their luminous starpower to this exquisite musical featuring songs by George and Ira Gershwin. This dazzling romp - filmed on location in Paris - garnered four Academy Award nominations. In the role of a bookstore clerk transformed into a modelling sensation, Hepburn showcases singing and dancing skills she had honed on the London stage, performing How Long Has This Been Going On?, a Basal Metabolism dance in a cool-cat bistro and more. Astaire, as the fashion photographer who discovers her, conjures up his inimitable magic for sequences that include Let's Kiss And Make Up matador diversion, a heavenly dance with Hepburn to He Loves And She Loves and, again with Hepburn, the title-tune enchantment, I Love Your Funny Face. Now and Forever, so do we.Also includes the following films:Sabrina and Roman Holiday

• Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Collection | DVD | (26/07/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Sherlock Holmes The Complete Collection - Case Files Contains 16 discs, over 37 hours and all 4 series Starring Jeremy Brett, Created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Product Code: 5037115337436 cat.no. 3711533743 "Sherlock Holmes, the creation of novelist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of the world's greatest and most popular fictional detectives, as famous for his deerstalker and pipe as his legendary powers of observation and deduction. He is an aloof and private man driven by a fierce intellect that gives him astounding brilliance and unfathomable eccentricity in equal measure. The late Jeremy Brett, the definitive Holmes, stars in these beautiful adaptations taken from the classic ITV1 series and as ever Dr Watson is on hand as his indispensable assistant." 16 DISC SET The Adventures, The Return, The Casebook, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Based on the crime novels and short stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, this acclaimed series recreates the classic Sherlock Holmes mysteries of murder and theft in Victorian times. Jeremy Brett stars in the lead role of Detective Sherlock Holmes, with David Burke playing the role of his assistant, Doctor John Watson, in Series One. In the second series, Burke is replaced by Edward Hardwicke. ITV

• Species / Species 2 / Species 3 | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Species (Dir. Roger Donaldson 1995): Men cannot resist her. Mankind may not survive her! When a creature geneticaly engineered through extraterrestrial intelligence escapes from observation scientist Xavier Fitch (Kingsley) assembles an elite team of experts to track it down. The crew - a government assassin (Madsen) an empath (Whitaker) a biologist (Helgenberger) and an anthropologist (Molina) - combines their expertise and traces their prey to Los Angeles. The

• House On Terror Tract | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  For the life of him real estate agent Bob Carter (John Ritter) can't figure out why three of his listings are such a tough sell. Sure the homes have blood-soaked histories. True the owners are all dead or insane. But these are top-notch houses in turnkey condition ready to move in! However today Bob has a sure thing; a newlywed couple in search of the tract home of their dreams. The couple are delighted by what they see...until Bob tells them the fates of the previous owners. T

• Darling / L-Shaped Room | DVD | (23/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Darling: (FS 4:3) Everyone calls Diana Scott (Julie Christie) 'Darling'. She is that kind of girl. As an ambitious model searching for new experiences she breathes in the sweet smell of success yet forget to exhale. Using a stream of famous and infamous men to sexaully manipulate her way to the top she becomes a prisoner of the jet-set lifestyle she herself conquered. Julie Christie won an Oscar for best Actress. Oscars also went to both Fredric Raphael for Best Original Story & Screenplay and to Julie Harris for her Costume Design The L-Shaped Room: (WS 1.66:1) In a sensitive study of social morals at the dawning of the 1960s sexual revolution a woman faces life in a shabby suburban bed-sit after being jilted and left pregnant. Sharing her desperation with an assortment of neighbours they help her to decide whether to have an abortion...

• The Red Nights Of The Gestapo | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  May 10th 1941 Rudolph Hess secretary of the Nazi party and Hitler's chosen successor the number two in command of the third Reich flies to England to negotiate a peace treaty. Hess and all those close to him are considered traitors. The German SS blackmail Hess's right hand man Colonel Werner von Uhland (Ezio Miani). They want him to help them infiltrate and exterminate the secret organization known as the German intelligence. Colonel Werner von Uhland via each of the men's weakness manages to get all the members of the German intelligence together for one last meeting. At 3:30 A.M. on June 22nd 1941 in the wake of the Schloss Grunewald massacre Hitler would launch an attack on Russia...

• Saturday Morning Pictures - The Best Of The Children's Film Foundation - Vol. 1 | DVD | (30/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Adventures Of Hal 5: Hal 5 is a very old Austin with great character owned by the Hayward family. A wicked garage owner plots to steal the car to sell for a great deal of money but the Hayward children are out to stop him... Egghead's Robot: 'Eggheaed' Wentworth adapts his father's robot to perform the chores but forgets to programme him to stay out of trouble...

• 21 Jump Street - The Complete First Season | DVD | (31/01/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The smash hit TV series starring Johnny Depp on DVD for the first time ever! It all begins here as baby-faced rookie Officer Tom Hanson (Johnny Depp) is assigned to an elite squad of young undercover cops - Judy Hoffs (Holly Robinson) Doug Penhall (Peter DeLuise) and Harry Truman Ioki (Dustin Nguyen) - to infiltrate high schools and fight crime. Frederic Forrest and Steven Williams co-star in this classic first season that also features such guest stars as Jason Priestly Josh Bro

• Good Times | DVD | (08/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A real archaeological artefact from 1967, Good Times will be mostly of interest to anyone who wants to see a parade of fashions that Austin Powers would reject as too garish to be seen on the street in. The nothingy plot concerns then-married Sonny and Cher playing themselves as a one-note bickering sit-com couple, signing up with sinister film tycoon Mordicus (an impeccable George Sanders) to make a movie but not wanting to do the mouldy rags-to-riches hillbilly script on offer. Cher is supposed to be less interested than Sonny in making a movie--which might well have been the truth since she mostly lies around doodling outrageous fashion designs or contributing her strange sung-through-the-nose vocals as poor, goofy Sonny does all the hard work flogging life into skits that had been squeezed dry by the Monkees before being passed to him. The finale finds Sonny and Cher standing up for integrity and refusing to make a bad film even if it means they gets blacklisted all over town--a lesson it's a shame that they (especially Cher) didn't take to heart in their later careers. Astonishingly, this was the feature directorial debut of The Exorcist's William Friedkin, who fills the screen with colour, action and gaggery after the manner of the then-hip Batman TV show while focusing on screaming outfits that remain among the darnedest things you ever saw. Aside from a reprise of "I Got You, Babe", the score is a little light on the slim canon of S&C hits; the songs included are "It's the Little Things", "Good Times", "Trust Me", "Don't Talk to Strangers", "I'm Gonna Love You" and "Just a Name". The DVD extras include a few sketchy bios and a jump-to-a-song feature. --Kim Newman

• The Sherlock Holmes Catalogue - The Master Blackmailer | DVD | (28/04/2003) from £6.46   |  Saving you £3.53 (54.64%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Master Blackmailer is a two-hour 1991 Granada TV adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's story The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton, which for the most part sticks close to the details of the original. Holmes (Jeremy Brett) takes on the reputed king of all blackmailers, Milverton (Robert Hardy), who has made a fortune extorting money from the famous and the blue-blooded and who routinely ruins others' lives when not pleased. Unable to talk Milverton into turning over letters belonging to Lady Eva Brackenwell, Holmes decides to steal them, going undercover as a plumber and even romancing Milverton's housemaid, Agatha (Sophie Thompson), to gain better access in the house. (The ethical Watson, played by Edward Hardwicke, is upset to hear of Holmes's deception of an innocent woman.) The story builds to a surprisingly violent finale, but the real hook is Brett's performance as the disguised detective and the startling suggestion that Holmes's close contact with Agatha truly moved the bachelor sleuth. --Tom Keogh

• The Burning Hills | DVD | (14/09/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Wimbledon: 2009 Official Film | DVD | (07/09/2009) from £11.79   |  Saving you £-7.80 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Wimbledon 2009 is the definitive story of the 123rd Championships. In the Men's Singles the defending champion Rafael Nadal dramatically withdrew because of injury leaving Roger Federer the favourite to win his sixth crown. In the Ladies Singles defending champion Venus Williams was also attempting to win her sixth title. Andy Murray carried the hopes of the home nation. In the fourth round against the Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka the Scot came through a five-set epic which ended at 10.38pm under the new Centre Court roof the latest a match has finished at SW19. Serena Williams defeated Russia's Elena Dementieva in the longest ever Ladies Semi Final with the American coming back from the brink of defeat. On July 4th the Ladies Final was an all-American family affair Serena Williams versus her older sister Venus. Serena won her third Wimbledon title and the sisters went on to win the Ladies Doubles title. In the Men's Final Roger Federer secured a record-breaking fifteenth Grand Slam singles title defeating the American Andy Roddick who had beaten Andy Murray in the Semi Finals. In the record books Federer has now surpassed Pete Sampras who was present on the Centre Court for the final. Narrated by Sam Hazeldine written by Barry Flatman and featuring exclusive contributions from Roger Federer Serena Williams Venus Williams Andy Roddick Andy Murray Martina Navratilova Pete Sampras and Rod Laver this documentary is a dramatic and highly entertaining record of the proceedings at The Lawn Tennis Championships at Wimbledon 2009.

• The Devil Came From Akasava | DVD | (08/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A new mineral is discovered which can turn metal to gold or humans into zombies. When the mineral is stolen secret agents are despatched to get it back!

• Cabbage Patch Kids - Saturday Night / The Clubhouse | DVD | (21/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Saturday Night: Norma Jean wants to go to the elementary school dance on Saturday night but she's worried she won't have a partner. When Travis' friend Seth comes to visit Norma discovers a partner for the dance... and two girls who want to spoil her fun... The Clubhouse: The junkyard gang is in for a big surprise when the challenge The Girls to a clubhouse building competition and gets more that they bargained for.

• Tiger Heart | DVD | (20/08/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Soon after Eric meets gorgeous Stephanie he discovers she and her uncle are being forced out of their store by unscrupulous property developers. Martial arts devotee Eric and his high-kicking friend Brad prepare to take on the bad guys.

• The Brady Bunch - Series 2 | DVD | (24/03/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Here's the story...of America's grooviest TV sitcom family! It's the story of The Brady Bunch and in Season Two of this best-loved comedy series there are plenty of high jinks underfoot in split-level suburbia. Greg? He's got a far-out new bachelor pad to impress all the chicks. Marcia? She's embracing Woman's Lib. Peter? He's headed for the doghouse after breaking Carol's favorite vase. Jan? She's gone from ""hair of gold"" to hair of black-via a brand new wig. Bobby's pet parakeet may help him overcome his fear of heights and Cindy's plagued by a schoolyard bully who's been making fun of her lisp. On the adult front Mike's architectural firm plans to build right on top of a beloved neighborhood park; Carol tries her creative hand at writing for a woman's magazine...and Alice the housekeeper has called the exterminator on ""Myron""- Greg's science project! There are 24 episodes in The Brady Bunch: The Complete Second Season...all featuring laughter tears and Day-Glo colors. It's the way they all became The Brady Bunch!

• I Could Read The Sky | DVD | (27/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Adapted by Nichola Bruce from the acclaimed photographic novel by Timothy O'Grady and Steve Pyke 'I Could Read The Sky' is a haunting and lyrical film about identity love loss and the isolation and loneliness of the immigrant. Dermot Healy movingly portrays a man reflecting upon his life from his rural upbringing on the West Coast of Ireland to his journey to London and experiences in the vividly modern metropolis. Driven by a dynamic music soundtrack that draws from both envir

• Heavy Gear - Series 1 | DVD | (17/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  On the planet Terra Nova in a distant future war veterans have become the providers of entertainment battling each other in huge armour called 'Gears'... This double DVD contains 13 episodes from the incredible CGI animated TV series with 10 episodes edited into 2 explosive stories - 'The Dragon's Shadow' and 'Battle for the Badlands'.

• Mean Johnny Barrows | DVD | (14/05/2007) from £6.46   |  Saving you £-1.47 (-29.50%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Johnny Barrows is thrown out of the US Army for striking an officer and upon arriving back on the street is mugged. The only job he is able to get is working as a lowly assistant at a gas station even though local gangsters want to employ him for his killing skills.