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• The Wicked Lady | DVD | (15/03/2004) from £4.49   |  Saving you £5.50 (122.49%)   |  RRP £9.99

  An extraordinarily racy movie for its time, The Wicked Lady was and still is as notable for its acres of heaving bosom as for its radical challenge to female stereotypes. This bodice-ripper about a bored aristocratic woman who turns highwayman just for kicks became a huge box-office success in post-war Britain, but Margaret Lockwood's eloquent bust proved a bit too expressive for Hollywood, so the film was expensively reshot for a sanitised US release. (From 1945 right up to Janet Jackson at the 2004 Superbowl, American audiences apparently have an enduring problem with those prominent parts of the female anatomy). This is the definitive Gainsborough picture, a period romp crammed with cads, in which the camera gazes lasciviously down (it's all shot from a male eyelevel) at the low-cut ladies' dresses. But this time the female anti-heroine gives as good as she gets... and then some. Lockwood's Lady Barbara Skelton is quite gleefully amoral--more so even than Thackeray's arch-manipulator Becky Sharp from Vanity Fair--failing even to pay lip service to the moral standards of the 1940s, let alone those of the 17th century. It is she who wears the trousers (quite literally, in her highwayman guise) while the weak-chinned and weak-willed men around her crumble under the weight of their conventionality. Only James Mason's handsome dandy highwayman can keep up with her, but even he has to draw the line somewhere. Ultimately, social mores reassert their grip and Lady Barbara gets her comeuppance, but not before she's overturned every contemporary movie convention about femininity. "She was the wickedest woman ever seen on the screen", trumpets the original theatrical trailer on this otherwise bare-bones DVD release: it's still probably true even today. --Mark Walker

• Mutiny On The Bounty | DVD | (01/06/2006) from £8.67   |  Saving you £5.32 (61.36%)   |  RRP £13.99

  During a voyage to South America, a British naval captain is cast adrift...

• Living Dangerously | DVD | (26/10/2015) from £7.98   |  Saving you £4.00 (66.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Matinee idol Otto Kruger stars in the dramatic story of a normal, intelligent man of good principles driven to contemplate thoughts of murder. This powerful suspense drama is featured in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements, in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio.Doctor Stanley Norton is struck off the medical register following an unfounded accusation of misconduct by his corrupt former partner, Henry Pryor. Emigrating to America under a new name, Norton begins life afresh with Helen, the woman he loves, and he eventually achieves great renown as a heart specialist. Then Pryor, ruined and fixated on revenge, tracks Norton down determined to benefit from his former partner's wealth... or destroy him utterly!SPECIAL FEATURES:Image galleryMemorabilia PDF

• Sensation | DVD | (01/02/2016) from £7.98   |  Saving you £4.00 (66.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

  An early feature by Brian Desmond Hurst the prolific, acclaimed Belfast-born director whose numerous triumphs include the incomparable Scrooge, Malta Story and wartime epic Theirs Was the Glory Sensation stars John Lodge as a brash young reporter who is one step ahead of the police in a high-profile murder investigation. Hurst and Lodge's third film together, Sensation is featured here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio.Pat Heaton may be the best crime reporter in town but his fiancée Claire, despairing of the more tawdry aspects of his profession, makes him promise to give the job up. When a pretty waitress is found murdered, however, Pat falls in line with the rest of the 'Murder Gang' the pack of reporters who gather to glean stories by fair means or foul!SPECIAL FEATURES: Image gallery Original pressbook and script PDF

• Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel | DVD | (08/08/2016) from £12.98   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Capitalising on the huge success of The Scarlet Pimpernel, this Alexander Korda-produced sequel stars Barry K. Barnes as the enigmatic saviour of aristocrats during the Revolutionary Terror. The final film directed by Austrian émigré Hanns Schwartz, The Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel also stars James Mason, Sophie Stewart, and Francis Lister as Sir Percy's ruthless arch-enemy, Chauvelin. The film is featured here in a brand-new transfer from the original elements, in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. This transfer, however, has intermittent, decades-old film damage so the previously released archive transfer is also included as an alternative viewing experience. Sir Percy alias the Scarlet Pimpernel is being pressured by his wife, Marguerite, to retire from his daring escapades. The French still want the Pimpernel's head, however, and so set a trap for him involving the bold rescue of a Spanish actress and her lover! SPECIAL FEATURES: Image gallery Memorabilia PDFs

• Home To Danger/Master Spy | DVD | (18/03/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

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• Return Of Bulldog Drummond | DVD | (22/06/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Retired British military officer Capt. Hugh Bulldog Drummond is the leader of the Black Clan a secret organisation crusading to rid England of crime by means of a purge against foreign undesirables. When World Peace Conference delegate Brunel is assassinated en-route to Birmingham Drummond and his sidekick Algy kidnap arms dealer Charles Latter and set about threatening a foreign consortium to leave the country within 24 hours after the Black Clan pay them a visit. The ringleader of the syndicate is Drummond's old adversary European arms dealer Carl Peterson who kidnaps Drummond's wife to use her as bait to capture her husband. After walking into Peterson's trap Drummond is drugged and placed in a car that is driven into a nearby river; he narrowly escapes drowning and sets about liberating his wife from the gang's lair. Meanwhile Algy organises for the Black Clan to intervene and rescue Drummond and his wife.