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• Edsel Show, The - Starring Bing Crosby With Frank Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney And Louis Armstrong | DVD | (23/05/2005) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-3.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Ford Motors put on a massive star-studded network television spectacular to give their new Edsel maximum exposure. Bing Crosby was hired to host a live jazz music extravaganza on CBS Television shortly after the Edsel's introduction. Crosby convinced pals Frank Sinatra Rosemary Clooney and Louis Armstrong to join him with a 'surprise' visit by Bob Hope. These well known and loved entertainers were at the peak of their careers at the time and their presence virtually assured a m

• The Comedians - Series 6 - Complete | DVD | (21/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Comedians: Series 6

• Seance On A Wet Afternoon | DVD | (26/01/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An intensely claustrophobic nail-biter to rival prime Hitchcock, 1964's Séance on a Wet Afternoon is a classic British thriller written and directed by Bryan Forbes. Set largely in an imposing Gothic house in north London, the film stars Richard Attenborough as Bill Savage, a man struggling to maintain his marriage to his increasingly unbalanced wife, Myra, played in an Oscar-nominated performance by the little-known but brilliant Broadway actress Kim Stanley. Myra, who believes she is a medium, plans a scheme that will make her famous, involving kidnapping then "psychically" locating a little girl. Attenborough (who won a BAFTA) and Stanley are both superb in what is part riveting battle of wills, part nerve-wracking kidnap thriller with, just possibly, a touch of the supernatural. Gerry Turpin's precise b/w cinematography and John Barry's chilling score add significantly to the atmosphere of dread, and if the plot has one or two gaping holes, Forbes's direction covers them deftly. Forbes explored female delusion again in The Whispers (1967) and The Mad Woman of Chaillot (1969); the film also marked a major entry in his long-term collaboration with John Barry and with his wife, the actress Nanette Newman. Séance clearly had an influence on Attenborough's own directorial contribution to the genre, the highly unsettling Anthony Hopkins vehicle, Magic (1978). On the DVD: Séance on a Wet Afternoon is presented in an excellent 16:9 transfer, anamorphically enhanced for widescreen televisions, that effectively captures the brooding look of Gerry Tupin's BAFTA-nominated cinematography. Unfortunately the print used, though generally very good, does show some damage, including some instances that appear to run through the best part of a reel. Though noticeable and sometimes distracting, they barely mar this gripping film. The mono soundtrack is fine, though there is the very occasional touch of distortion. The disc comes with optional English subtitles, the excellent original trailer and a new and first-rate 33-minute interview with Bryan Forbes in which he engagingly explains every aspect of the making of the film. --Gary S Dalkin

• Abbott And Costello - Africa Screams | DVD | (27/03/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Abbott and Costello go on an African safari armed with a secret map which will lead them to hidden diamonds.

• Lifeforce | DVD | (24/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In the blink of an eye the terror begins. A mission to investigate Halley's Comet discovers an even more fascinating phenomenon: an alien spacecraft! After a deadly confrontation the aliens travel to Earth where their seductive leader begins a terrifying campaign to drain the lifeforce of everyone she encounters. Her victims in turn continue the cycle and soon the entire planet is in mortal danger. And when the mission's sole survivor sets out to destroy her he comes face to face with the most charming - and horrifying - being he's ever known. Will he be able to destroy the lovely vampiress... or will he become yet another victim of her fatal charm?

• I Am Waiting No More | DVD | (05/07/2005) from £6.54   |  Saving you £-2.55 (-63.90%)   |  RRP £3.99

  This is a hilarious comedy about a man who suffers from a severe identity crisis as his 30th birthday apparoaches.

• His Girl Friday | DVD | (07/08/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  His Girl Friday is one of the five greatest dialogue comedies ever made. Howard Hawks had his cast play it at breakneck speed, and audiences hyperventilate trying to finish with one laugh so they can do justice to the four that have accumulated in the meantime. Rosalind Russell, not Hawks' first choice to play Hildy Johnson--the ace newsperson whom demonic editor Walter Burns is trying to keep from quitting and getting married--is triumphant in the part, holding her own as "one of the guys" and creating an enduring feminist icon. Cary Grant's Walter Burns is a force of nature, giving a performance of such concentrated frenzy and diamond brilliance that you owe it to yourself to devote at least one viewing of the movie to watching him alone. But then you have to go back (lucky you) and watch it again for the sake of the press-room gang--Roscoe Karns, Porter Hall, Cliff Edwards, Regis Toomey, Frank Jenks, and others--the kind of ensemble work that gets character actors onto Parnassus. --Richard T Jameson, Amazon.com

• No Tomorrow | DVD | (03/03/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When the world's most notorious criminal allies himself with a senior employee of a major shipping corporation a lethal deal is struck to secure a multi million dollar arms transaction. As word of the sinister deal spreads through the underworld a big city mobster an extreme militia force and the FBI enter the clandestine mix blurring the lines of loyalty and trust. With the deal in place and fortune at their fingertips it becomes apparent that no one is quite who they seem to be....

• Cocaine Fiends | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £6.73   |  Saving you £-1.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Jane Bradford (Lois January) moves from a small town to a large city and is turned into a cocaine addict by drug running gangsters. When her brother Eddie (Dean Benton) arrives in the city he too becomes addicted and forces his girlfriend into prostitution in order to support their habit. Similar in style to Reefer Madness this has become something of a cult classic with the underlying message being ""There always will be Jane Bradfords until you Mr Citizen co-operate with the forc

• Remembering Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra And Dean Martin | DVD | (19/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Judy Garland Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin were three of the most iconic figures of the 20th century. Their dominance of showbusiness spanned decades and traversed the world. This DVD features each of them performing live as individuals and as duets. Songs featured include You're nobody til somebody loves you You do something to me This can't be love Stormy Weather I can't give you anything but love Somewhere over the rainbow and many more. The DVD also includes biographies of J

• Le Nozze Di Figaro - Mozart | DVD | (13/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Though performed in the original Italian Peter Sellars' production of Le nozze di Figaro relocates Mozart's social comedy to the tinted-glass elegance of New York's Trump Tower high above the turbulent world of late-twentieth-century America.

• And God Created Woman | DVD | (24/09/2001) from £14.08   |  Saving you £5.91 (29.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Despite being directed by Roger Vadim, this And God Created Woman is not the 1956 classic but a loose remake from some 30 years later (1987) which attempts to update the original's themes. Rebecca De Mornay takes the central role, this time as Robin, a woman released from jail on parole due to her recent marriage to Billy (Vincent Spano). Once on the outside, she pursues her dreams of rock stardom and enters into a love triangle with state governor elect, James Tiernan (Frank Langella). Whereas Vadim's own original film may have exuded unspoken sexual tension (in no small part due to its star, Brigette Bardot), any pretence of subtlety here is lost as De Mornay sheds her clothes at every possible opportunity in the film's series of soft porn sex scenes, all accompanied--as indeed is virtually every moment of the film--by an appalling 80s rock soundtrack. The acting is uniformly awful, with De Mornay taking the prize for the worst performance of all, fighting a losing battle for the viewer's attention with her seemingly ever-growing hair. Indeed, And God Created Woman is best recommended to those who gleefully indulge in the worst that the cinematic arts have to offer and it would easily feature in a top ten of most awful films of recent years.On the DVD: Alongside the chapter selection facility, the various filmographies point to what a waste of potential talent this film is. With the picture quality unable to improve on the TV-movie feel of the whole project, the audio presents the horrible American rock backing in all its glory--despite that fact the music sequences are amongst the most laughingly unconvincing ever committed to celluloid. --Phil Udell

• The Twilight Zone - Vol. 3 | DVD | (29/05/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In 1959 screenwriter Rod Serling first opened the door to the "dimension of imagination" that is The Twilight Zone, a show quite unlike anything that had gone before, and better than much that has followed in its wake. This original and daring television series ran for a magnificent five seasons from 1959 to 1964 and still looks as fresh as ever, particularly on DVD. What distinguished the series (and still does) is the quality of the scripts, many of which were penned by Serling, but with significant contributions from veteran sci-fi authors and screenwriters such as Richard Matheson. Actors of the calibre of Robert Redford, Burgess Meredith, Lee Marvin and William Shatner gave some of their best small-screen performances, while an unforgettable main title theme by Bernard Herrmann and musical contributions from young turks such as Jerry Goldsmith underlined the show's attraction for great creative talent both behind and in front of the cameras. Volume 3 contains another selection of four episodes from across the series. "Steel" (episode 122) stars Lee Marvin in a futuristic Richard Matheson story concerning a penniless boxing manager who is forced into the ring when his robot boxer breaks down. Matheson is concerned to illustrate the lengths to which people are forced to go when desperate, but his moral is undermined a little by setting the story in the far future of 1974; Marvin, however, is a magnetic presence. In the tense and tautly written "A Game of Pool" (episode 70), Jack Klugman (The Odd Couple, Quincy) is a boastful pool player who challenges champion "Fats" Brown (Jonathan Winters) to a match in which the stakes are his life. "Walking Distance" is a slice of wistful, semi-autobiographical nostalgia from Serling in which a burned-out media exec returns to the town of his childhood (watch out for a very young Ron Howard as one of the kids). Bernard Herrmann's masterful score for this episode was composed not long after his music for Hitchcock's Vertigo, and has a similar tragi-romantic streak. Finally, "Kick the Can" (episode 86) is the story of the residents of a retirement home who discover (or rediscover) Peter Pan's secret for staying permanently young: it's easy to see why Steven Spielberg decided to adapt this episode for the 1983 movie. On the DVD: A neat animated menu with a winking eye guides the viewer "Inside the Twilight Zone", which consists of digests of background information on the individual episodes, as well as a general history of the show, season-by-season breakdown and a potted biography of Serling. --Mark Walker

• The Man With The Golden Arm | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

• FRANK SINATRA - The Premier Collection Vol 3 | DVD | (13/04/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Hound Dog Entertainment proudly presents three fantastic hour long television shows starring Frank Sinatra and the cream of 1950's musical entertainment. Episode 1: In 1957 the Ford car company authorized a live star-studded network television spectacular to give their new Edsel maximum publicity. Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby were hired with pals Rosemary Clooney Louis Armstrong and a surprise visit by Bob Hope. Episode 2: In this Timex Special - High Hopes - Old Blue Eyes pairs up with fellow Rat Packer Dean Martin and crooner Bing Crosby. Episode 3: Cole Porter's classic musical/comedy Anything Goes starring Frank Sinatra and Ethel Merman ably supported by Bert Lahr and Sheree North. Sinatra is on top of his form singing Porter's music live.

• The Unbelievable | DVD | (08/04/2002) from £7.89   |  Saving you £0.10 (1.30%)   |  RRP £7.99

• The Doors - Storytellers | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  On this exclusive VH1 Storytellers compilation some of rock's biggest names come together to pay tribute to The Doors - the band that would forever change music in the 1960s. Jim Morrison's poetic and controversial lyrics combined with the band's dark hypnotic sound continue to influence artists and fans from all walks of music. This DVD is a mere sampling of The Doors' monumental impact on the rock world. Tracklisting: L.A. Woman (Excerpt) - Perry Farrell from Jane's Addiction Love Me Two Times - Pat Monahan from Train Whiskey Bar - Ian Astbury from The Cult The End - Travis Meeks from Days of the New Break On Through - Scott Weiland from Stone Temple Pilots Five To One - Scott Weiland from Stone Temple Pilots Light My Fire - Scott Stapp from Creed Roadhouse Blues - Scott Stapp from Creed Bonus Tracks: Wild Child - Ian Astbury from The Cult Riders On The Storm - Scott Stapp from Creed.

• Island Of Lost Souls / Mystery Of The Wax Museum | DVD | (26/02/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

• TV Gold Collectors Edition | DVD | (17/11/2008) from £8.97   |  Saving you £11.02 (122.85%)   |  RRP £19.99

  TV Gold offers you a glimpse into the talent that truly ushered in a whole new era of entertainment. You'll see some of the pioneers of film entertainment and sports as well as those classic TV commercials which all contributed to what has become known as the Golden Age of television. Variety: Three great shows: The Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis Show with guest star Burt Lancaster The Frank Sinatra Show in which Frank Sinatra welcomes home 'The King' Elvis Presley back from the army and The Edsel Hour starring Frank Sinatra Bing Crosby Louis Armstrong & Bob Hope. Drama: The Goldbergs one of the original early TV dramas starring Gertrude Berg and A classic US Marshal episode guest starring Charles Bronson as the bad guy. Classic Commercials AD Break: A truly great collection that will astound you! Features Andy Warhol The Marx Brothers Ozzie & Harriet Laurence Oliver Sonny Liston John McEnroe John Wayne Tom Selleck Cybil Shepard plus spots for Winston Cigarettes the 1959 Chevy Impala Green Stamps Chrysler and Butternut Coffee Comedy: Leo G Carrol stars as Cosmo Topper in a classic episode of Topper. Sports: Action-packed tributes to the legends of baseball Mickey Mantle Willie Mays and the legendary 1956 Yankees TV Facts: A fun trivia game about classic television. You have 10 seconds on each question to come up with the correct answer. Music: Swingtime featuring the greats... Louie Prima The Mills Brothers Peggy Lee Count Basie and Nat King Cole. We love Dino - wonderful performances by the beloved Dean Martin from the 50's Game Shows: The legendary and beloved Lucille Ball makes a hysterical guest star appearance in this episode of I've Got A Secret and a very funny Whats My Line with guest stars Desi Arnaz and the stunning Kim Novak TV Gold Bonus Nuggets: Two icons of the 20th Century Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby sing a duet and you'll love Bob Hope and Jack Benny as the over-the-hill surfers who meet the Beach Boys!

• The Bogus Witch Project | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £6.55   |  Saving you £2.43 (68.26%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A spoof on 'The Blair Witch Project': suddenly everyone's getting lost in the woods shopping malls and public parks searching for that Witch!