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• The Lady From Shanghai | DVD | (18/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Legend has it that Orson Welles more or less conned studio boss Harry Cohn over the phone into making The Lady from Shanghai by grabbing the title from a nearby paperback. In any case, this is one of Welles's most fascinating works, a bizarre tale of an Irish sailor (Welles) who accompanies a beautiful woman (Rita Hayworth) and her handicapped husband (Everett Sloane) on a cruise and becomes involved in a murder plot. But never mind all that (the aforementioned legend also claims that Cohn offered a reward to anyone who could explain the plot to him). The film is really a dream of Welles's driving preoccupations both on and off-screen at the time: the elusiveness of identity, the mystique of things lost, and most of all the director's faltering marriage to Hayworth. In the tradition of male filmmakers who indirectly tell the story of their love affairs with leading ladies, Welles tells his own, photographing Hayworth as a deconstructed star, an obvious cinematic creation, thus reflecting, perhaps, a never-satisfied yearning that leads us back to the mystery of Citizen Kane. --Tom Keogh

• 3 John Wayne Classics - Vol. 2 - Paradise Canyon / The Dawn Rider / The Desert Trail | DVD | (01/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Paradise Canyon: An undercover federal agent is on the trail of a gang of counterfeiters. John Wyatt (Wayne) is sent under cover to follow Doc Carter's medicine show to expose a counterfeiting gang. When the main suspect is kidnapped with his daughter by the real villain Wyatt realises he has been chasing the wrong man and switches his attentions to the notorious Curly Joe... The Dawn Rider: John Mason is hit with a bullet. Alice who nurses him turns out to be the si

• Desert Trail / Dawn Rider / Paradise Canyon | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Desert Trail: A rodeo star joins his gambling friend in a few adventures including being unjustly accused of robbery. They fight to prove their innocence by travelling to Poker City to uncover the truth. The Dawn Rider: John Mason is hit by a bullet. Alice who nurses him turns out to be the sister of the man Mason is looking for; the man who gunned down his father... Paradise Canyon: An undercover federal agent is on the trail of a gang of counterfeit

• The Roller Blade Seven | DVD | (21/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99