"Actor: Francis"

• Just Like a Woman | Blu Ray | (05/07/2021) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Wendy Craig and Francis Matthews star as a bickering couple going through an acrimonious separation in this swinging, offbeat comedy from producer Bob Kellett and idiosyncratic writer/director Robert Fuest. Also starring John Wood, Dennis Price, Miriam Karlin, Peter Jones and Clive Dunn, Just Like a Woman is presented here as a brand-new High Definition restoration from original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio. Lewis and Scilla's rocky marriage finally breaks apart a situation made worse by the fact that Scilla is a key part of the television show that Lewis produces. But while Lewis copes by picking up a passing starlet, Scilla indulges her passion for bathrooms by getting one custom-designed by an ex-Nazi architect!

• Miss Marple - The Body In The Library | DVD | (24/03/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The suspense of Miss Marple: The Body in the Library isn't the edge-of-your-seat variety; it's simply a perplexing puzzle that keeps niggling at the back of your mind. Just as one piece of the puzzle falls into place, another gap opens up, thanks to one of Agatha Christie's most intricate plots. Considering what a long film this is (150 minutes, lengthier than most Christie adaptations), it's impressive how tightly the mystery grips the viewer's attention. And not a second of Joan Hickson's marvellous performance as Miss Marple should be missed (the other performances, alas, fall short, except for Gwen Watford as Dolly Bantry, in whose library the body is found). To people meeting her for the first time, Jane Marple appears to be a sweet old dear, whose comments on the murder investigation are more likely to involve an obscure recollection of a frog jumping out of someone's coat than to have any direct bearing on the case. But as Christie fans know, beneath that dithery exterior lies one of the shrewdest minds in England. Hickson's understated portrayal reveals the humour in her character without ever making a mockery of Miss Marple and the results are delightful to watch. --Larisa Lomacky Moore, Amazon.com

• Goodnight Sleep Tight | DVD | (18/09/2006) from £12.98   |  Saving you £-2.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  It's time for bed! After a long and busy day young children need to calm down before getting ready for bed. This fully animated collection of films is the perfect way to end the day and make bedtime fun! Featuring stories from the best-loved children's writers and illustrator such as Penelope Lively Colin & Jacqui Hawkins and Tony Ross each eppisode has its own theme. Episodes Comprise: 1. Dad! I Can't Sleep 2. Bedtime Story 3. Get Into Bed 4. Go To Sleep! 5. Little Princess' Bedtime 6. Sleep Tight 7. I'm Not Sleepy 8. Goodnight Everyone

• The Owl Service: The Complete Series | Blu Ray | (27/03/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Under The Skin | DVD | (24/01/2005) from £10.35   |  Saving you £9.64 (93.14%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Things are going badly for Iris. Her mother has been given only weeks to live and she feels increasingly distant from her happily married and heavily pregnant older sister Rose. Unable to deal with her grief and jealousy Iris ditches her job her flat and her boyfriend and prowls the streets looking for love in all the wrong places. Sexy dark and ultimately uplifting Carine Adler's stylish debut won the Michael Powell award at the Edinburgh Film Festival and the Critics Prize at th

• Smokescreen/Hi-Jackers | DVD | (22/03/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The Hi-Jackers Terry a lorry driver meets Shirley at a roadside cafe and offers her a lift. His truck carrying a valuable shipment of whiskey is later hijacked but who tipped off the hijackers? Smokescreen A parsimonious insurance assessor is assigned the task of investigating the mysterious death of a businessman. Was it an accident? Suicide? Or something more sinister?

• The Day Will Dawn | DVD | (08/02/2010) from £9.98   |  Saving you £3.01 (30.16%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This exciting British wartime film celebrates the heroism of the Norwegian resistance movement in fighting the Nazi invaders. With a distinguished cast including Ralph Richardson, Hugh Williams and Deborah Kerr, and a script by Terence Rattigan, this is the story of a British foreign correspondent sent to report on U-Boat attacks against Norwegian shipping.

• Ashes to Ashes Series 1& 2 Boxset | DVD | (07/09/2009) from £39.99   |  Saving you £20.00 (50.01%)   |  RRP £59.99

  The follow up to Life On Mars Ashes To Ashes sees the return of DCI Gene Hunt (Philip Glenister)! But he's no longer the self styled 'Sheriff Of Manchester' - drawn by the action and intrigue of the London Met Gene's turned his attentions to taking on the 'southern nancy' criminal scum! He is joined by his faithful sidekicks Ray Carling (Dean Andrews) and Chris Skelton (Marshall Lancaster). DCI Alex Drake is thrown into the mix - after suffering a horrific accident in 2008 she finds herself in 1981 alongside Hunt and his team.

• Francis Rossi - Live From St Luke's London | Blu Ray | (14/03/2011) from £15.69   |  Saving you £-4.44 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Francis Rossi singer songwriter and guitarist of world-renowned Status Quo started and is re-launching his solo career with a kick. With his first solo album coming out a vast 14 years ago he is ready to jump back in and perform the ideas that have been rippling in his head. The Status Quo frontman has long been regarded as one of the UK's finest rock performers England has ever produced and his songwriting has been duly recognized by the Classic Songwriter Award and the BRIT Award for Outstanding Contribution To Music (jointly with Rick Parfitt). Also being awarded an OBE (Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in the New Year's Honours List London born Francis Rossi is famous for his dry wit and lyrical dash. Alongside his career with Status Quo Francis also made a name for himself as a producer and composer with various artists such as: Demis Roussos Graham Bonnet Johnny DuCann Mickey Jupp etc. In 1984 he and Guy Johnson teamed up and co-wrote three songs for Status Quo pegging a UK Top 20 Hit with Going Down Town Tonight as well as UK #42 Single in '96. Finally after selling 118 Million Quo albums world-wide playing more than 6 000 shows travelling 4 million miles with an immense 23-year career Francis has found time to launch off on his own solo career and present the new ideas collecting dust in his head the past 14 years. Being his first solo-tour Francis presents his wonderfully characteristic voice to London at St. Luke's. This live show now on CD DVD and Blu-ray features songs from his album One Step At A Time and includes not only Status Quo classics like 'Caroline' 'My Little Heartbreaker' and 'Don't Waste My Time' but also his solo songs like Crazy For You One Step At A Time and Sleeping On The Job. Showing his true talent and being one of the best rockers of our time he truly demonstrates not only his brilliant song-writing talents but also his wonderful way with his music and performance skills. With excellent quality the CD version of Live At St. Luke's London highlights 18 from the 20 songs played at St. Luke's clueing the listener in to every chord beat and sound that took place that night. The DVD contains the full show as well as an interview with Francis Rossi and the video of Faded Memory (the official single taken from his latest studio album One Step At A Time) as special bonus. In addition to that the Blu-ray also includes a 20 min. behind the scene documentary featuring rehearsals band interviews and soundcheck. Francis' solo album has allowed him to reveal another side of himself to the rock fraternity and also to step outside the Status Quo machine and indulge himself musically now experience it in top quality recordings of his mind-blowing live show to really see what he has. Tracklist: 01. Caroline (Shuffle Version) 02. Claudie 03. All We Really Wanna Do 04. You'll Come Round 05. Crazy For You 06. Old Time Rock And Roll 07. Strike Light Lightning 08. Tallulah's Waiting 09. Tongue Tied 10. Blessed are the Meek 11. My Little Heartbreaker 12. Electric Arena 13. One Step at a Time 14. Marguerita Time 15. Rolling Down The Road 16. Diggin' Burt Bacharach 17. Sleeping On The Job 18. Twenty Wild Horses 19. Can't Give You More 20. Don't Waste My Time

• The Edwardians | DVD | (06/07/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

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• Status Quo - Hello Quo | DVD | (29/10/2012) from £3.98   |  Saving you £16.01 (402.26%)   |  RRP £19.99

  With 128 million worldwide album sales already under their collective belts, two OBE awards, a million neon lit 'Sold Out' signs, a record 108 appearances on Top of the Pops, this will never be beaten or even equalled! You'd think that HRH Prince Charles favourite band had nothing more to prove in the field of entertainment... But, they've never in all their long and glorious history been seen on a cinema screen...

• Commando Leopard | DVD | (20/06/2005) from £6.78   |  Saving you £6.21 (91.59%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Hard as stone soldiers of fortune fighting to survive. In a small Latin American country corruption brutality and exploitation are the order of the day. An elite commando task force led by Carrasco (Lewis Collins) undertakes a desperate mission to overthrow the country's evil dictator Silveira (Klaus Kinski) who in turn is prepared to take any means necessary to kill Carrasco and destroy the revolutionaries. A non-stop action-packed adventure 'Commando Leopard' barely

• The Thrill Of It All / Lover Come Back / It Happened To Jane | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £14.90   |  Saving you £5.09 (34.16%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Thrill Of It All (Dir. Norman Jewison 1963): This romantic comedy takes a satirical aim at the frenetic world of television. Happily married Beverly Boyer is the ultimate housewife but her life is about to change dramatically. It seems that the president of a soap company who she has just met sees the clean-cut Beverly as the perfect TV pitchwoman for his product. After the ads air Beverly becomes famous from coast to coast and an even better breadwinner than her husband - who isn't coping with either of these occurrences very well. Can the Boyers patch up their crumbling marriage before it's too late? Lover Come Back (Dir. Delbert Mann 1961): Jerry Webster (Hudson) and Carol Templeton (Day) are rival Madison Avenue advertising executives who each dislike each other's methods. After he steals a client out from under her cute little nose revenge prompts her to infiltrate his secret VIP campaign in order to persuade the mystery product's scientist to switch to her firm. Trouble is the product is phony and the scientist is Jerry who uses all his intelligence and charm to steal her heart! It Happened To Jane (Dir. Richard Quine 1959): A little-known gem from 1959 this romantic comedy stars Doris Day Jack Lemmon and Ernie Kovacs in a classic tale of a small-town underdog triumph over corrupt big-business interests. Jane Osgood (Day) is a widowed mother who runs a struggling lobster business in coastal Maine while Harry Malone (Kovacs) is a wealthy businessman who has bought out the local railroad. He harbors big plans for it aiming to transform it into a luxury passenger train replacing the freight train the residents of the area depend upon. When a large lobster shipment of Jane's is rerouted and returned to her dead she decides to fight back and sues Malone with the help of her longtime friend and lawyer George Denham. This instigates a battle of increasingly epic proportions as Malone uses every trick in the book--as well as his massive bank account--to quell the resolve of the spitfire businesswoman; Jane for her part has public sympathy on her side. A reporter for the national news doing a story on Jane (Steve Forrest) begins to fall in love with her and she is forced to decide between the romantic journalist and her childhood friend George. The magical pairing of Lemmon and Day is augmented by the beautiful location photography in Maine and a stellar supporting cast including Mary Wickes Russ Brown and a rare film appearance from Kovacs.

• Captain Scarlet And The Mysterons - Vol. 3 - Episodes 13 To 18 | DVD | (12/11/2001) from £5.24   |  Saving you £10.75 (205.15%)   |  RRP £15.99

  First broadcast in 1967, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons was the most grown-up of all Gerry Anderson's SuperMarionation adventures. There are gadgets and toy-friendly machines galore, of course--like the Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle, the Angel Aircraft and Cloudbase itself--but, unlike the colourful fantasies of Stingray and Thunderbirds, this series' concern with an implacable, vengeful enemy, conspiracies and double-agents drew its inspiration from James Bond and the Cold War spy dramas of the 1960s. Special effects whiz Derek Meddings imbues the action sequences with a truly Bondian grandeur and, like the sinister Spectre of the Bond films, the Martian Mysterons seem all the more hostile for their unseen presence, their agents infiltrating every organisation dedicated to their destruction just as it seemed the Soviets were doing at the time. The indestructible Captain Scarlet is killed then resurrected every week (though not like South Park's Kenny), and more often than not the unstoppable Mysterons emerge triumphant, and always undefeated. The varied cast of Spectrum agents and their voice characterisations also aim at verisimilitude (Captain Scarlet, voiced by Francis Matt hews, sounds like a grim Cary Grant), while the puppetry is more realistic than ever. Now with newly remastered picture and Dolby 5.1 surround sound, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons still looks and sounds like the epitome of 60s cool. --Mark Walker

• Witness For The Prosecution | DVD | (01/05/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A young man is on trial for a wealthy widow's murder after he suspiciously profits from her will. His only hope for aquital is his wife's testimony but his airtight alibi shatters when she reveals some shocking secrets of her own...

• Gen X Cops | DVD | (07/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Produced by Jackie Chan (who also makes an uncredited cameo), Gen-X Cops is an attempt to kick-start a franchise that will play well in the international market--hence the odd mix of Cantonese and English dialogue throughout. Match, Alien and Jack are three unruly students kicked out of cadet college and adopted as a crack undercover unit of delinquent Gen-X Cops by a put-upon police inspector given to epileptic fits in times of stress. Augmented by token hacker chick Y2K, they are assigned to a case involving a shadowy, arms-dealing Yakuza and double-crossing Triad warlords. The principal cast, mainly made up of unknowns, models and Cantonese pop stars, inject their roles with an infectious charm and enthusiasm while Benny Chan (Code of Honour) admirably keeps a handle on the non-stop plot twists. The action relies more on gunplay and pyrotechnics than martial arts. The three leads dodge bullets and bomb blasts without the aid of stuntmen. Among several stunning set pieces are a gun battle in a labyrinthine boat warehouse, skydiving from skyscrapers and an explosive finale in Hong Kong's famed conference centre. On the DVD: Fully-animated menus and 30-chapter scene selection are just the tip of the iceberg with this feature-packed DVD. Extras include "No Pain No Gain", a 30-minute "making of" documentary, a music video for the Gen-X theme tune "You Can't Stop Me", in which the actors make like the Shanghai Sex Pistols but come off like Boyzone gone bad. There are also extensive cast and crew features and production notes. The transfer of the main feature is sharp and clear, presented in letterboxed widescreen with Dolby sound. An impressive selection of viewing options includes Cantonese dialogue with removable English sub-titles or an alternative English-dubbed audio track. --Chris Campion

• Where The Boys Are | DVD | (19/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Frustrated with the stuffy Midwest four college girls go on the road to seek fun in the sun of Fort Lauderdale during their spring vacation. But can they find happiness and romance while avoiding the pitfalls that await young ladies travelling alone?

• L'une Chante, L'autre Pas | DVD | (26/09/2011) from £11.49   |  Saving you £4.50 (39.16%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Agnes Varda focuses on the intertwined lives of two women brought together during the struggle of the Woman's Movement in 1970s France.

• The Professionals - Series 4 | DVD | (13/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  The complete fourth series of this much loved classic crime TV show featuring 14 episodes uncut and digitally remastered! Episodes include: 'The Acorn Syndrome' 'Wild' 'Need to Know' 'Takeaway' 'Blackout' 'Blood Sports' 'Slush Fund' 'The Gun' 'Hijack' 'Mixed Doubles' 'Weekend in the Country' 'Kickback' and 'It's Only a Beautiful Picture'.

• On The Nose | DVD | (09/02/2004) from £6.50   |  Saving you £3.49 (53.69%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Brendan (Robbie Coltrane) is a janitor at a university who has a fondness for gambling on the horses. The problem is he doesn't have much skill at it and poorly considered bets have drained all the money he'd set aside for his daughter's education. Brendan's wife (Brenda Blethyn) has made Brendan promise to give up gambling but when their daughter announces she's just been accepted to Trinity College in Ireland Brendan has to come up with the tuition money and fast! While doing h