"Actor: Frank Atkinson"

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  • The Village [2004]The Village | DVD | (31/01/2005) from £6.24   |  Saving you £11.75 (188.30%)   |  RRP £17.99

    The man behind "The Sixth Sense" and "Signs" returns with a tale about an isolated village whose inhabitants live with the frightening knowledge that evil and foreboding creatures live in the surrounding woods.

  • The Will Hay Collection [1935]The Will Hay Collection | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £31.99   |  Saving you £18.00 (56.27%)   |  RRP £49.99

    The Will Hay Collection is a nine-disc box containing the following films: Ask a Policeman / Boys Will Be Boys Oh, Mr Porter! / Convict 99 Old Bones of the River / Where There's a Will Good Morning Boys / Hey! Hey! USA! Windbag the Sailor (exclusive to this box set): dating from 1936 this is the first film to unite Will Hay, Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt. The hapless trio find themselves as the crew of a decrepit ship.

  • Freedom of the Seas [DVD]Freedom of the Seas | DVD | (10/11/2014) from £7.98   |  Saving you £4.00 (66.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

    Character player Clifford Mollison and celebrated playwright and actor H.F. Maltby are among the cast of this sprightly early-thirties comedy charting the exploits of an unlikely wartime hero. Freedom of the Seas – also notable as French director Marcel Varnel’s first British film following a period in Hollywood – is featured here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. Mollison plays Smith a mild-mannered clerk who becomes one of the first men to join up after the declaration of war in 1914. He joins the Navy and – to the amazement of all and sundry – succeeds in outwitting various spies and sinking an enemy submarine... Special Features: Image Gallery Promotional Materials PDFs

  • Mad Dog Morgan [1976]Mad Dog Morgan | DVD | (26/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

    A young man finds no luck in the Australian gold rush and drifts into petty crime. His life changes when he gets twelve years in an infamous prison.

  • The Man Who Knew Too Much [1934]The Man Who Knew Too Much | DVD | (31/01/2000) from £8.96   |  Saving you £1.03 (11.50%)   |  RRP £9.99

    Alfred Hitchcock himself called this 1934 British edition of his famous kidnapping story "the work of a talented amateur", while his 1956 Hollywood remake was the consummate act of a professional director. Be that as it may, this earlier movie still has its intense admirers who prefer it over the Jimmy Stewart--Doris Day version, and for some sound reasons. Tighter, wittier, more visually outrageous (back-screen projections of Swiss mountains, a whirly-facsimile of a fainting spell), the film even has a female protagonist (Edna Best in the mom part) unafraid to go after the bad guys herself with a gun. (Did Doris Day do that that? Uh-uh.) While the 1956 film has an intriguing undercurrent of unspoken tensions in nuclear family politics, the 1934 original has a crisp air of British optimism glummed up a bit when a married couple (Best and Leslie Banks) witness the murder of a spy and discover their daughter stolen away by the culprits. The chase leads to London and ultimately to the site of one of Hitch's most extraordinary pieces of suspense (though on this count, it must be said, the later version is superior). Take away distracting comparisons to the remake, and this Man Who Knew Too Much is a milestone in Hitchcock's early career. Peter Lorre makes his British debut as a scarred, scary villain. --Tom Keogh

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