"Actor: Forsyth"

• The War Lord | DVD | (21/06/2010) from £23.95   |  Saving you £-11.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  One of the finest historical adventure films ever made The War Lord dramatises with uncommon intelligence and integrity the brutality difficulties and injustices of the Middle Ages. Charlton Heston (Ben Hur Touch of Evil The Ten Commandments) stars as Chrysagon an honoured knight who takes over a castle tower in the swampland of Normandy to strengthen his duke's authority. But his struggles to maintain power in the face of Pagan villagers barbarian attackers and his brother's jealous counsel are shaken by his growing weariness with bloodshed in a cruel world. Never before released for home viewing in the UK this collaboration between OSCAR-winning director Franklin J. Schaffner and the legendary Charlton Heston three years before their iconic reunion on Planet of the Apes is a gripping saga of ferocious battles heartfelt emotion and powerful storytelling.

• Slinger's Day - The Complete Series | DVD | (23/04/2012) from £10.38   |  Saving you £9.61 (92.58%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Featuring light entertainment legend Bruce Forsyth in his only sitcom role, Slinger's Day charts the trials and tribulations of the beleaguered manager of a London supermarket. This hilarious Thames series boasts scripts by veteran comedy writers Brian Cooke and Vince Powell, Sorry creators Ian Davidson and Peter Vincent, and novelist Alex Shearer. This set contains both series. Environmental protesters, a shoplifting epidemic, a burgeoning butter mountain and largely incompetent staff are just a few of the problems facing Cecil Slinger, the new manager of Supafare. And just how is he supposed to offload 560 packets of Jacobson's Savoury Fishcakes when no-one wants to buy them? Slinger is forced to concede that the public doesn't respond to lying, cheating and deception any more. Whatever happened to the old values?

• The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins | DVD | (30/03/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Seven comic episodes from one of the most read book in the World: the Bible! Each episode highlights one of the seven deadly sins and a hilarious come-uppance for the sinner. This comic portmanteau stars the cream of British talent such as Harry H. Corbett Ian Carmichael Spike Milligan Leslie Phillips and many more!

• Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads - Series 2 | DVD | (07/08/2006) from £9.21   |  Saving you £6.78 (73.62%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Terry Collier (James Bolam) and Bob Ferris (Rodney Bewes) return for another series of Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads? Episodes Comprise: 1. Absent Friends 2. Heart to Heart 3. The Ant and the Grasshopper 4. One for the Road 5. The Great Race 6. Some Day We'll Laugh About This 7. In Harms Way 8. Affairs and Relations 9. The Expert 10. Between Ourselves 11. The Go Between 12. Conduct Unbecoming 13. The Shape of Things to Come

• Bedknobs And Broomsticks | DVD | (22/07/2002) from £4.24   |  Saving you £13.75 (324.29%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Angela Lansbury plays a good witch who uses her powers against the Nazis in World War II and is aided by three children in the effort. This 1971 movie directed by Disney stalwart Robert Stevenson (Mary Poppins) was never up to the studio's best efforts--the music isn't all that good and the idea just doesn't quite catch on. But Lansbury, David Tomlinson and the late Roddy McDowall are good and there are some clever sequences blending animation and live action, most memorably a soccer game between the kids and some cartoon animals. --Tom Keogh

• Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads - The Very Best Of Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads | DVD | (30/09/2002) from £4.95   |  Saving you £8.04 (162.42%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads was actually a revival, in 1973, of the successful Dick Clements/Ian La Frenais 1960s comedy The Likely Lads, so notable for its fibrous but sympathetic treatment of life for two young men coming of age in North East England. This "Very Best of" collection brings together classic episodes from the 1973 series. Although tinged with nostalgia--the décor and styles of the early 1970s are almost pungently evocative--the quality of the writing defies the passage of time. Seven years on from their initial adventures, Rodney Bewes (upwardly mobile, self-improving Bob) and James Bolam (feckless, chippy Terry) meet by accident on the train. Bob is about to marry Thelma and move into modern semi-detached heaven, while Terry is just out of the army and drifting back home without a great deal of purpose. The relationship between the two men, basically sound but frequently compromised by their very different aspirations, is very cleverly drawn and played so that your sympathies never stay on one side for very long. Best of all, Brigit Forsyth's Thelma, a dragon in the making, adds an astringent dynamic. She is, says Terry, "so stuck up she thinks her backside's a perfume factory". The insecurity he generates in her is responsible for much of the comedy. On the DVD: The Very Best of Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads comes to disc with no extras, simply standard 4:3 picture format video production and episode selection. But it's still fresh as a daisy all the same. --Piers Ford

• Star! | DVD | (04/07/2005) from £12.48   |  Saving you £0.51 (3.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Julie Andrews stars as stage legend Gertrude Lawrence a glamorous flamboyant and charismatic personality - a woman who is both 'maddening and infuriating' and 'probably the most beautiful and entrancing creature ever to walk onto a stage.' Robert Wise's lavish musical recalls the golden age of musical theatre from 1912 to 1940. Lawrence rises from irrepressible chorus girl in the music halls to become the toast of two continents. Her lifelong friend Noel Coward (Daniel Massey) pr

• John Carpenter's Ghosts Of Mars | DVD | (10/05/2004) from £5.89   |  Saving you £0.10 (1.70%)   |  RRP £5.99

  John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars attempts a productive combination of SF elements (a largely terraformed Mars with its long-lost civilisation) and horror (mass possession that turns the victims into rampaging, self-mutilating monsters that kill and burn). A police-force detachment turn up in a mining community to collect a bandit, whose last heist was uncharacteristically violent, and soon find themselves under siege from rampaging hordes who used to be solid citizens. This is a fairly simple set of variations on stock Carpenter elements--a hybrid between Assault on Precinct 13 and In the Mouth of Madness. However, there is some powerful chemistry between Nastasha Henstridge's icy, drug-abusing police lieutenant and Ice Cube's bandit, Desolation Williams, made stronger by the lack of sexual tension. Other characters, such as Pam Grier's tough commander and Clea Duvall's nervous rookie, are more or less defined by plot functions; the mobs never become more than faceless, or facially distorted, anonymous menaces. This is one for die-hard Carpenter fans only. On the DVD: Ghosts of Mars on disc comes with Dolby Digital sound and its original widescreen ratio of 2.35:1. A sparky commentary by Carpenter and Henstridge is included, which is informative, but otherwise there are uninspiring documentaries on the musical score, the special effects and the difficulties of shooting at night in the Mexican desert, as well as filmographies and the theatrical trailer. --Roz Kaveney

• Shenandoah - Westerns Collection 2011 | DVD | (30/05/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  With the integrityand depth of an epic,Shenandoah tells the dramatic story of a mancaught in a dilemma. James Stewart stars as a Virginia farmer during the Civil War.He refuses to support the Confederacy because he is opposed to slavery, yet he will not support the Union because he is deeply opposed to war. When his son is taken prisoner, Stewart goes to search for the boy.Seeing first-hand the horrors of war, he is at last forced to take his stand.

• The Naked Civil Servant | DVD | (11/03/2002) from £4.98   |  Saving you £11.01 (221.08%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Award Winning film autobiography of the English eccentric Quentin Crisp. The film traces Crisp's life from the early 1930's telling of his blatent exhibitionism as an outrageously effeminate homosexual. John Hurt's unforgettable performance won him a BAFTA for Best Actor while director Jack Gold won the Academy's highest commendation The Desmond Davies Award for outstanding creative contribution to television.

• The Fruit Machine | DVD | (16/07/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Lovers Eddie and Michael witness a murder and go on the run with a professional hitman on their trail.

• Playing The Field - Series 1 And 2 - Complete | DVD | (29/01/2007) from £50.49   |  Saving you £-25.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The on-the-field trials and tribulations and the off-the-field lives loves and infidelities of 'The Castlefield Blues' an under funded badly managed ladies football team from South Yorkshire in the north of England whose loyalty to the team the game and each other far exceeds their chances of ever winning the championship. Features the complete first and second seasons.

• The Gladiator | DVD | (04/03/2002) from £4.99   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Los Angeles which lives by the automobile has begun to die by it. A homicidal maniac the Skull has been terrorizing the city killing motorists at random with his death car. But when Rick's little brother is killed Rick becomes part Guardian Angel part crusader and part warrior with one thing on his mind - revenge.

• Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads | DVD | (22/05/2006) from £14.09   |  Saving you £1.90 (13.48%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais returned to the world of The Likely Lads with this sequel series which is generally considered to be even better than the original show. Terry Collier (James Bolam) returns from his stint in the army to find his north-east home-town and its inhabitants have changed beyond recognition. Out of contact during the intervening years his best friend Bob Ferris (Rodney Bewes) has settled into a respectable white-collar job and is engaged to his boss'

• The Bruce Forsyth Show | DVD | (09/11/2020) from £13.53   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Undeniably the King of Light Entertainment, Bruce Forsyth's career on television spanned a remarkable seven decades from the London Palladium shows of the 1950s to over ten years worth of Strictly Come Dancing from the mid-noughties. An all-round entertainer and light comedian, Brucie was never better than in the run of shows he did in the mid 1960s with Morecambe and Wise's scriptwriters Sid Green and Dick Hills. Mixing music, dancing and comedy in the time-honoured tradition, ABC's The Bruce Forsyth Show focussed on laughter, glamour and big name guests, including Frankie Howerd, Cilla Black, Dudley Moore (and his trio), Tommy Cooper, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Diana Dors, Kathy Kirby, Julie Rogers, Harry Secombe, Engelbert Humperdinck, Tom Jones and more! This release contains every show that remains from this classic light entertainment series alongside the 1965 Christmas special and the incomplete Frankie Howerd edition from 196

• The Likely Lads | DVD | (25/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Bob (Rodney Bewes) and Terry (James Bolam) find their lifelong friendship beginning to change as Terry becomes involved with a new woman and the lads' weekly drinks sessions stop. Bob is dismayed but his wife sees the opportunity to get Terry married off and put a wedge between the friends. Of course this being a spin-off from the popular BBC sitcom nothing runs smoothly as they all embark on a caravan touring holiday!

• Gray Lady Down (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (25/10/2021) from £17.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In Gray Lady Down, the race is on to rescue a crew of sailors after a nuclear submarine collides with a Norwegian freighter and becomes stranded on the seabed. Skilful direction from David Greene (The People Next Door) and top-tier performances by Charlton Heston, David Carradine, Stacy Keach, Ned Beatty, Stephen McHattie and Ronny Cox combine to make this the definitive disaster film. Special Features: High Definition remaster Original mono audio Audio commentary with film historian Peter Tonguette (2021) The Guardian Interview with Charlton Heston (1985): archival audio recording of the great actor in conversation with Quentin Falk at the National Film Theatre, London New interview with actor Stacey Keach (2021) New interview with actor Stephen McHattie (2021) Original theatrical trailer Radio spot Image gallery: promotional and publicity material New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing Limited edition exclusive booklet with a new essay by Omar Ahmed, archival articles on the film, an overview of contemporary critical responses, and film credits UK premiere on Blu-ray Limited edition of 3,000 copies All extras subject to change

• Shenandoah | DVD | (23/08/2004) from £17.97   |  Saving you £-4.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  James Stewart stars as a Virginia farmer during the Civil War. He refuses to support the Confederacy because he is opposed to slavery yet he will not support the Union because he is deeply opposedito war. When his son is taken prisoner Stewart goes to search for the boy. Seeing first-hand the horrors of war he is at last forced to take his stand...

• Sunday Night at the London Palladium - Volume One | DVD | (08/11/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Sunday Night At The London Palladium: Volume One (2 Discs)

• House! | DVD | (04/12/2000) from £7.45   |  Saving you £1.53 (34.30%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A whimsical fantasy, revolving around the world of Bingo, House (2000) was slipped innocuously into the UK’s staple cinematic diet of gangster movies and period dramas and emerged as a genuinely charismatic and immensely likeable film, blissfully content with its small-scale ambitions, not to mention lottery money well spent. Linda (Trainspotting’s Kelly MacDonald) is devoted to her job at the faltering La Scala Bingo Hall in rural Wales, which provides a welcome escape from her domineering aunt. Facing stiff competition from a rival hall, La Scala’s owner Mr. Alanzi (the wonderful Freddie Jones) is at a loss of how to save his beloved home, but Linda’s discovery of an unexpected gift could reverse their fortunes. Effortlessly charming and perfectly cast, House weaves its spirited feel-good tale with an eclectic set of characters (Jason Hughes’ flamboyant star number caller, Mossie Smith’s monstrous flirting colleague), while delivering a realistic glimpse of what makes a place special and memorable. Highly enjoyable, this is a small-scale gem.On the DVD: Director Julian Kemp delivers a competent, if sometimes rambling commentary that delivers the goods about a straightforward production. Other than six trailers, there’s the chance to glimpse Kemp’s short-film Suckers, a suitably wry and cynical look at the world of door-to-door salesmen. --Danny Graydon