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• The Stranger | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Stranger, according to Orson Welles, "is the worst of my films. There is nothing of me in that picture. I did it to prove that I could put out a movie as well as anyone else." True, set beside Citizen Kane, Touch of Evil, or even The Trial, The Stranger is as close to production-line stuff as the great Orson ever came. But even on autopilot Welles still leaves most filmmakers standing. The shadow of the Second World War hangs heavy over the plot. A war crimes investigator, played by Edward G Robinson, tracks down a senior Nazi, Franz Kindler, to a sleepy New England town where he's living in concealment as a respected college professor. The script, credited to Anthony Veiller but with uncredited input from Welles and John Huston, is riddled with implausibilities: we're asked to believe, for a start, that there'd be no extant photos of a top Nazi leader. The casting's badly skewed, too. Welles wanted Agnes Moorehead as the investigator and Robinson as Kindler, but his producer, Sam Spiegel, wouldn't wear it. So Welles himself plays the supposedly cautious and self-effacing fugitive--and if there was one thing Welles could never play, it was unobtrusive. What's more, Spiegel chopped out most of the two opening reels set in South America, in Welles' view, "the best stuff in the picture". Still, the film's far from a write-off. Welles' eye for stunning visuals rarely deserted him and, aided by Russell Metty's skewed, shadowy photography, The Stranger builds to a doomy grand guignol climax in a clock tower that Hitchcock must surely have recalled when he made Vertigo. And Robinson, dogged in pursuit, is as quietly excellent as ever. On the DVD: not much in the way of extras, except a waffly full-length commentary from Russell Cawthorne that tells us about the history of clock-making and where Edward G was buried, but precious little about the making of the film. Print and sound are acceptable, but though remastering is claimed, there's little evidence of it. --Philip Kemp

• The Italian Job/The Italian Job | DVD | (07/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Italian Job (1969): Charlie Croker is out of jail and on the make with an ingenious plan for the heist of the century. Aided and abetted by top criminal mastermind Mr. Bridger Charlie sets off with an ace team of villains and three very special minis to lift 000 000 from under the noses of the Turin Polizi. The trouble is with the cops and the Mafia on his tail Charlie finds that grabbing the money is kid's stuff compared to getting away with it... The Italian Job (2003): After a master thief loses his heist in a double-cross he and his team set out to re-steal the loot - by creating the largest traffic jam in L.A. history!

• Jeanette Macdonald Double-Bill: Maytime (1937) / New Moon (1940) - Region 2 PAL Import, Plays in English Without subtitles | DVD | (01/06/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Battlestar Galactica: Season 3 (2004) | Blu Ray | (25/08/2014) from £68.83   |  Saving you £-18.84 (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Sci Fi's greatest TV series blasts onto Blu-ray with Battlestar Galactica Season 3 in Dolby 5.1 Surround Sound! The season opens with the stranded Colonials struggling to survive under the heavy handed Cylon rule on New Caprica. Follow Tigh Tyrol and Anders as they lead the Resistance with increasing and shocking violence towards the Cylons and Admiral Adama's personal struggles while leading Galactica to save the survivors and resume its quest to find Earth. Featuring a bonus disc with 'The Story So Far' this Season will leave you clinging to the edge of your seat. Will Number Six formulate a truce between the Humans and the Cylons? Who are the 'Final Five' and where will they place their loyalties? Who will find Earth first? Where Will You Stand? Special Features: Battlestar Blips (on-screen factoids) Audio Commentaries Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance Webisodes David Eick's Video Blogs Deleted Scenes

• Battlestar Galactica: Season 2 (2004) | Blu Ray | (25/08/2014) from £68.83   |  Saving you £-18.84 (-37.70%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Sci-fi's hottest TV series returns as Battlestar Galactica Season 2 blasts onto Blu-ray in Dolby 5.1 Surround Sound. As the epic second season begins the fight to save humanity rages on - even as the civil war looms within the fleet between the followers of President Roslin and Commander Adama. Relive all the intensity and excitement aboard the Galactica with a supernova of explosive bonus features including deleted scenes and commentaries. It's a heart-pounding adventure you can't afford to miss! Special Features: Audio Commentaries RND Logo's David Eicks Video Blogs Battlestar Galactica Career Assignment Quiz Deleted Scenes

• The Ten Commandments | DVD | (30/08/2004) from £16.78   |  Saving you £-0.79 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Cecil B. DeMille's Biblical epic starring Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner is a vintage product of the old Hollywood studio system complete with sweeping scenery and breathtaking effects including the crossing of the Red Sea by thousands of Hebrew slaves. With a dramatic and gripping plot superbly acted by Heston as the Hebrew saviour Moses The Ten Commandments has lost none of the impact and power it held over audiences on its initial release back in 1956.

• 3 Classic Tarzan Films Of The Silver Screen | DVD | (05/09/2005) from £10.61   |  Saving you £-5.62 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  A triple bill of Tarzan movies! Tarzan And The Trappers: Made from three TV episodes from a series that never came to be Tarzan must stop mean white hunters searching for treasure in the jungle. The New Adventures Of Tarzan:More adventures with the King of the jungle Bruce Bennett takes up the lead as Tarzan. Tarzan The Fearless:Tarzan discovers the lost city of Zar when he goes up against a group of Arabs who try desperately to kill him while he tries to hel

• Juno And The Paycock | DVD | (28/02/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Juno And The Paycock is set in Ireland chronicling the financial and emotional ups and downs of the Boyle clan. When the father learns that he is about to inherit a fortune he and his family go shopping with a vengeance and rack up some serious debts. Furthermore the promise of wealth also makes the Boyles very haughty and they even dump their working-class friends. However the Boyles find themselves in big trouble - financially and otherwise - when it is revealed t

• Blonde Venus/The Devil Is A Woman | DVD | (26/12/2006) from £11.89   |  Saving you £1.10 (9.25%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Blonde Venus (Dir. Josef von Sternberg 1932): American chemist Ned Faraday marries a German entertainer and starts a family. However he becomes poisoned with Radium and needs an expensive treatment in Germany to have any chance at being cured. Wife Helen returns to night club work to attempt to raise the money and becomes popular as the Blonde Venus. In an effort to get enough money sooner she prostitutes herself to millionaire Nick Townsend. While Ned is away in Europe she continues with Nick but when Ned returns cured he discovers her infidelity. Now Ned despises Helen but she grabs son Johnny and lives on the run just one step ahead of the Missing Persons Bureau. When they do finally catch her she loses her son to Ned. Once again she returns to entertaining this time in Paris and her fame once again brings her and Townsend together. Helen and Nick return to America engaged but she is irresistibly drawn back to her son and Ned. In which life does she truly belong? The Devil Is A Woman (Dir. Josef von Sternberg 1935): Film told in flashbacks of an older man's obsession for a woman who can belong to no-one but can frustrate everyone. The backdrop is Sternbergs surreal and fantastic Carnaval in Spain. In a cafe the older man details his encounters with the heartbreaker that his younger friend has only just met at the parade. Forewarned the young man swears he will avoid the fate of his friend but rushes all the same to his evening rendevous. A dreamlike story of frustrated lost romance spoken in the past tense never really resolved. Ironically the film too now appears to be lost.

• Classic Dracula Collection - Dracula/Dracula/House Of Dracula | DVD | (09/04/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Dracula (1931 & 1999 version with new soundtrack by Phillip Glass) : Although there have been numerous screen versions of Bram Stoker's classic tale none is more enduring than this 1931 original. Towering ominously among the shadows of the Carpathian Mountains Castle Dracula strikes fear in the hearts of the Transylvanian villagers below... Illuminated by the haunting presence of Bela Lugosi as the Count Tod Browning's direction makes full use of crisp black and white cinematography to create that class chill... House Of Dracula: Dracula appears at Dr. Edelman's office on the pretense of a cure for his vampirism his real intention is the Doctor's beautiful female assistant...

• True Stories Box Set | DVD | (14/01/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  True Stories Box Set. Includes:KING OF THE WORLD:Climaxing in his crucial 1964 world title fight against Sonny Liston this film traces Ali's meteoric rise to fame. This is a must for all boxing fans and lovers of true-life drama.RETURN FROM THE RIVER KWAI:One of the last untold stories of World War II in the Far East. Starving British and Australian POWs make an attempt to escape Japanese brutality.JOAN OF ARC: A LEGEND A SAINT:The story of a passionate peasant girl who united the French nation only to be betrayed & burned at the stake.JAMES DEAN: RACE WITH DESTINY: The gripping story of James Dean's rise to fame his romantic entanglements and his fatal desire for fast cars that led to his untimely death.

• The Italian Job | HD DVD | (26/05/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

• Mr. Deeds Goes to Town/Wild One/Holiday/the Howards of | DVD | (12/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Mr Deeds Goes To Town (1936): Gary Cooper is the pixilated small-town resident who refuses to let a million inheritance and a New York mansion alter his down-to-earth faith in people in Frank Capra's delightful comedy. Jean Arthur co-stars as the cynical reporter who falls for Deeds. Wild One (1954): Brando plays Johnny the leader of a vicious biker gang that involves a small sleepy California town. The leather-jacketed young biker seems hell-bent on destruction until he falls for Kathie (Mary Murphy) a good-girl whose father happens to be a cop. Unfortunately for Johnny his one shot at redemption is threatened by a psychotic rival Chino (Lee Marvin) plus the hostility and prejudice of the townspeople. All their smouldering passions explode in an electrifying climax. Holiday (1938): An iconoclastic young man (Cary Grant) who's engaged to a snooty heiress (Doris Nolan) discovers he's really in love with his fianc''e's down-to-earth sister (Katharine Hepburn) in director George Cukor's stylish comedy... The Howards Of Virginia (1940): Leading man Cary Grant plays Matt Howard a common man who gains employment as a surveyor through the help of Thomas Jefferson. Howard quickly falls head over heels for his wealthy employer's daughter Jane Peyton (Martha Scott). The couple appear to be set for happiness until Matt becomes involved in politics and the War of Independence arrives...

• Nixon/Shadow Conspiracy/American History X | DVD | (31/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Nixon (Dir. Oliver Stone 1995): Nixon takes a riveting look at a complex man whose chance at greatness was ultimately destroyed by his passion for power - when his involvement in conspiracy jeopardized the nation's security and the presidency of the United States! With a phenomenal all-star cast. Shadow Conspiracy (Dir. George Pan Cosmatos 1997): Bobby Bishop (Charlie Sheen) is one of the President's most powerful and trusted advisors but when he becomes involved with a college professor who has information on a traitor he suddenly becomes a fugitive. Hunted down in the dead of night by a ruthless killer Bishop enlists the help of former girlfriend Amanda Givens (Linda Hamilton) a plucky reporter and together they uncover a hideous conspiracy. But Bishop is now an outsider and must try to get Washington to believe him before it's too late... American History X (Dir. Tony Kaye 1998): Derek Vinyard (Edward Norton) the charismatic leader of a group of young white supremacists lands in prison for a brutal hate-driven murder. Upon his release ashamed of his past and pledging to reform Derek realises he must save his younger brother Danny (Edward Furlong) from a similar fate. A groundbreaking controversial drama about the tragic consequences of racism in a family.

• I'm No Angel | DVD | (06/03/2006) from £4.97   |  Saving you £5.02 (101.01%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Mae West's reputation for tweaking the noses of film censors was well-established by the time she made I'm No Angel generally considered her most successful picture. The frank-speaking blonde bombshell delivered some of her most classic double entendres in this 1933 film her second consecutive outing opposite the luminous Cary Grant. The two had made She Done Him Wrong earlier that year and in I'm No Angel West does Grant wrong again to hilarious effect. West

• Ed Wood - Vol. 2 - Glen Or Glenda | DVD | (17/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The infamous cult director and frequent cross-dresser returns from the grave with this delicious double-bill of kitsch classics. Glen or Glenda (1953): After a hard day at the movie studio film maker and director Ed Wood would relax by dressing up in female clothing. If only he could combine his favourite pastime with his job as a movie director! That's exactly what Ed Wood does in this off the wall and hilarious tribute to cross-dressing! The suicide of a local transvesti

• Blue Steel | DVD | (22/08/2005) from £4.98   |  Saving you £1.01 (20.28%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Gold brings out the desperation in man! A band of ruthless outlaws try to force out the townsfolk in a small community after gold is discovered there. But one brave man stands in their way in this tense film considered to be one of Wayne's best early works...

• Saving Private Ryan | DVD | (08/12/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In the last great invasion of the last great war the greatest danger for eight men ...was saving one.Internationally acclaimed by critics and audiences alike Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan is an unforgettable film achievement that has had profound and lasting impact throughout world. Winner of five Academy Awards including Best Director the film also captured Oscars for Cinematography Film Editing Sound and Sound Effects Editing. More than 70 critics (including those at the Time magazine USA Today The New York Times and Entertainment Weekly) and critics' groups in New York Chicago Dallas-Ft. Worth and Great Britain named the film Best Picture Of The Year while the Los Angeles Toronto and Broadcast Film Critics honoured it with both Best Picture and Best Director awards. In addition Spielberg received his third Directors Guild of America Award the American Legion The Spirit Of Normandy Award a USO Merit Award from the USO of Metropolitan Washington as well as the highest civilian public service award from the Department of the Army. Selected for more than 160 Top Ten lists Saving Private Ryan's other honours include Golden Globes for Best Picture (Drama) and Best Director the Producers Guild of America Award and ten nominations from the British Academy Film Awards. Saving Private Ryan was the top-grossing motion picture of 1998.Seen through the eyes of a squad of American soldiers the story begins with World War II's historic D-Day invasion then moves beyond the beach as the men embark on a dangerous special mission. Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks) must take his men behind enemy lines to find Private James Ryan whose three brothers have been killed in combat. Faced with impossible odds the men question their orders. Why are eight men risking their lives to save just one? Surrounded by the brutal realities of war each man searches for his own answer - and the strength to triumph over an uncertain future with honour decency and courage.

• The Animal | UMD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

• A Month By The Lake | DVD | (21/03/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  At a luxurious lakeside resort an attractive red-headed guest (Vanessa Redgrave - THE PLEDGE; GIRL INTERRUPTED) has her eye on a handsome well-to-do bachelor. But when he's more interested in a beautiful young flirt (Uma Thurman - KILL BILL VATEL) the mischievous redhead goes to outrageous lengths - including a fling with a passionate younger man - to reel in her wealthy catch! Filled with laughs and riotous comic confusion - everyone's sure to love this delightfully sexy comedy!