"Actor: Frank Sinatra"

• The Detective | DVD | (03/07/2006) from £6.23   |  Saving you £6.76 (108.51%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A hard-boiled mystery starring Frank Sinatra as the tough-as-nails Detective Joe Leland The Detective was based on a novel by Roderick Thorp. Called in to investigate the murder of Teddy Leikman the homosexual son of a well-connected department store mogul Leland executes an open-and-shut investigation. He quickly elicits a confession from Teddy's crazy roommate and the defendant is convicted and executed while Leland scores a promotion. But when the widow of an accountan

• Tony Rome | DVD | (03/07/2006) from £9.92   |  Saving you £3.07 (30.95%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Tony Rome a tough Miami PI living on a houseboat is hired by a local millionaire to find jewelry stolen from his daughter and in the process has several encounters with local hoods as well as the Miami Beach PD.

• Frank Sinatra - Legends In Concert | DVD | (27/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Francis Albert Sinatra was born in the month of December 1915 to Italian immigrants in the town of Hobokem. Scarcely could there be more ordinary beginnings for a man that was later to become an entertainer the world would find it difficult if not impossible to replace. In this DVD we present a 45 minute selection of his finest songs written by some of the world's most influential songwriters including such hits as 'High Hopes' and 'Old Man River' all drawn from television appearances spanning his heyday period from the 40s to the 50s. Sinatra's legacy to the world of music and film endures even to this day and this DVD stands as a tribute to one of the greatest singing talents the world has ever known.Performance Listing:1. Stardust2. Old Man River3. When You Are Smiling4. I'll Never Smile Again5. Last Night When We Were Young6. Witchcraft7. High Hopes8. Gone With The Wind9. Too Marvellous For Words10. I See Your Face Before Me11. Talk To Me12. Hello Young Lovers13. Luck Be A Lady14. Angel Eyes15. That Old Black Magic16. Love Makes Me Feel So Young17. For Somebody Else

• Frank Sinatra - The Sinatra TV Show | DVD | (18/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  One of the greatest performers of the twentieth century Frank Sinatra is presented here in a series of legendary American television series' from the 1950s. There's the Welcome Home Elvis show which features Frank and Nancy Sinatra Sammy Davis Jr and of course Elvis Presley a tribute show to the ladies and the performance of Cole Porter's Anything Goes among the seven shows. The performers include Ella Fitzgerald Bing Crosby Dean Martin Mitzi Gaynor and many more!

• Frank Sinatra | DVD | (17/11/2008) from £52.63   |  Saving you £-12.64 (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  In 1957 Timex sponsored a series of variety show specials starring Frank Sinatra broadcast on the ABC television network. The Sinatra Collection is remastered from the archive tapes of the original shows in their entirety including the sponsor's promotional segments. Disc 1: Welcome Home Elvis was the last in the series taped on 12th May 1960 in Miami and perhaps the best of all featuring Elvis Presley upon completion of his National Service. A rare record of two icons performing together. Songs performed include It's Nice To Go Travelling Witchcraft Gone With The Wind Love Me Tender and You Make Me Feel So Young. Disc 2: High Hopes with Dean Martin & Bing Crosby and includes Martins less than subtle plug for his new Hollywood restaurant. Songs performed include Day In and Day Out Together Old Man River High Hopes It Was Just One of Those Things & The Lady is a Tramp. Disc 3: You're Invited To Spend The Afternoon starring the legendary Ella Fitzgerald with Peter Lawford Hermione Gingold and Juliet Prowse with whom Sinatra was romantically involved at the time. Songs performed include It's Alright with Me There's a Lull in My Life Just You Just Me How High the Moon & Can't We Be Friends. Disc 4: When You Are Smiling the original Bulova Watch Company sponsored show starring Dagma Herbert & Saxon Eileen Barton Leona Irwin & The Tommy Hansen Dancers. Songs performed include When You Are Smiling My Romance Hello Young Lovers and A Slave To You. Disc 5: Tribute To The Ladies with the sensational Lena Horne as the special guest. Songs performed include Here's To The Ladies I've Got You Under My Skin Ring The Bell But Beautiful and Deep Blue Sea. Disc 6: The EDSEL Show TV Special starring Bing Crosby Frank Sinatra Louis Armstrong Rosemary Clooney with special guests Bob Hope Lindsey Crosby and the Four Preps. This is the show that introduced the Edsel to America and is complete with all commercials!

• Hollywood Musicals Of The 40's | DVD | (01/09/2000) from £9.47   |  Saving you £-3.48 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In the 1940s America was just emerging from The Great Depression. War engulfed half the world and the future looked uncertain. The Hollywood musical had the recipe to make things better. With the Hollywood musical people still believed that dreams really do come true. Glamour spread across the screen. In glorious colour and even in black and white the screen glittered. Join the biggest stars as we celebrate the great musicals of the 1940s when Hollywood put its best feet forw

• Till The Clouds Roll By | DVD | (21/10/2002) from £15.10   |  Saving you £-9.11 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Till the Clouds Roll By was the big MGM extravaganza of 1946, purporting to be a life of the first giant of the stage musical, Jerome Kern. Great chunks of Show Boat, Sweet Adeline and Sunny dominate while, in between excerpts, reliable Robert Walker does valiant work as Kern, lending a gentle credibility to even the most extravagant licenses taken by the writers. The liberties taken with Kern's story beggar belief, but what a fine excuse this is to sit back and enjoy a procession of gems from the great American songbook, performed by genuine legends. Judy Garland has two numbers as Marilyn Miller, both directed by husband Vincente Minnelli at the peak of their creative and personal relationships. Singing "Who?", she has to float down the proverbial staircase, obviously pregnant (Liza was born a short time later). Others to shine include Kathryn Grayson, June Allyson, Dinah Shore and, more bizarrely, a skinny young Sinatra drafted in at the last for a rousing "Old Man River". Most poignant of all is the presence of Lena Horne who, but for the racist values of Hollywood at the time, would have been a great film star. Ever confined to guest appearances, she here sings the songs of Show Boat's tragic half-caste Julie. When MGM filmed the musical in 1951, the same part went to Ava Gardner. On the DVD: Till the Clouds Roll By may boast digital remastering, but it could have done with a deal of restoration, too. Presented in 4:3 format, the picture quality is often pixellated and the soundtrack in "HiFi Stereo" is muffled and occasionally cracked. Considering its value as an archive of great performers, some rarely seen on film, this film deserves better DVD treatment. --Piers Ford

• Frank Sinatra Collection - The Golden Years | DVD | (28/07/2008) from £9.58   |  Saving you £20.41 (213.05%)   |  RRP £29.99

• Frank Sinatra - Sinatra | DVD | (19/11/2001) from £9.62   |  Saving you £5.37 (55.82%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Here's Frank Sinatra in 1969 when, after a brief sortie into retirement mid-way through the decade, he returned with hit after hit culminating in "My Way", which is flagged here by audience applause in recognition of its current chart success (in Britain it was in the Top 50 for 122 weeks!). Don Costa, one of the least celebrated of Sinatra arranger/conductors, presides over a collection of songs that includes a contemporary group by Stevie Wonder, Rod McKuen and Jimmy Webb. Sinatra forsakes black tie and the formal studio surroundings for those songs, appearing in a Manhattan-style apartment dressed in casual white jumper, slacks and smoking a cigarette. But he's clearly less than engaged, and his eyes dip down to the autocue for lyrics new to him. His voice shows signs of that cigarette smoke, too: the opening of "For Once in My Life" sounds a bit rough, and he becomes audibly hoarse after the midway climax on "My Way", placed daringly as the third item on the programme. Two arrangements are different from the original studio recordings: there's a cut in the coda to "My Way", and in "My Kind of Town", the finale of the programme, there are some additional verses and a punchier accompaniment as Sinatra cues in the closing credits on screen. His line in self-deprecating humour is turned to advantage when, with the aid of clips, he reviews his early screen career ("I started in Higher and Higher and went lower and lower"). But never less than in full command of his stage act, he turns in vintage performances of "All the Way", "Fly Me to the Moon", "Love's Been Good to Me" and Victor Young's underrated "Street of Dreams". On the DVD: The picture quality in the opening songs comes over a mite bright owing to the studio lighting on the set which, at a certain angle, fogs the profile of the singer. The orchestral sound stands up well with the large string section making for a comfortable aural backdrop. The trailer builds up a keen sense of anticipation as Sinatra arrives at the studio by limousine to a silent soundtrack, walks onto an empty soundstage, throws his hat on a stool and then takes to the podium as the camera cuts to him singing "I've Got You Under My Skin" with full orchestra. Stills of the other Sinatra concerts are also featured.--Adrian Edwards

• The Manchurian Candidate | Blu Ray | (23/02/2015) from £49.99   |  Saving you £-30.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  You will never find a more chillingly suspenseful, perversely funny, or viciously satirical political thriller than The Manchurian Candidate, based on the novel by Richard Condon (author of Winter Kills). The film, withheld from distribution by star Frank Sinatra for almost a quarter-century after President Kennedy's assassination, has lost none of its potency over time. Former infantryman Bennet Marco (Sinatra) is haunted by nightmares about his platoon having been captured and brainwashed in Korea. The indecipherable dreams seem to centre on Sergeant Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey), a decorated war hero but a cold fish of a man whose own mother (Angela Lansbury, in one of the all-time great dragon-lady roles) describes him as looking like his head is "always about to come to a point". Mrs Bates has nothing on Lansbury's character, the manipulative queen behind her second husband, Senator John Iselin (James Gregory), a notoriously McCarthyesque demagogue. --Jim Emerson

• The Man With The Golden Arm | Blu Ray | (22/06/2015) from £8.65   |  Saving you £6.34 (73.29%)   |  RRP £14.99

  One of America's most significant and controversial post-war films this triple-Oscar-nominated feature boasts a searing performance by Frank Sinatra as a war veteran caught between two worlds as he tries to kick his drug habit and establish a new life; Eleanor Parker is his embittered manipulative wife and Kim Novak the young woman who stands by him. With its groundbreaking subject and an authenticity rarely matched in the many films it inspired The Man with the Golden Arm combines masterly direction by Otto Preminger and a jazz score by the legendary Elmer Bernstein. It is featured here in a stunning new High Definition restoration in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. Having just served a prison term for possession of heroin poker dealer Frankie Machine vows to stay clean and find success as a jazz drummer. His wife left disabled by a car crash is equally determined he should remain in the lucrative gambling business. Pressurised by his wife after being asked to deal in a high-stakes game Frankie's fear of failure leads him straight back to the nearest fix...

• Frank Sinatra And The Rat Pack | DVD | (13/05/2002) from £14.67   |  Saving you £0.32 (2.10%)   |  RRP £14.99

  They were described as hip cool the Fabulous Five and in the mid 1960s no one could touch them. This entertaining programme follows the careers of Frank Sinatra and his Rat Pack as they rose from relative obscurity made a name for themselves seperately and then formed a dynamic fivesome on stage and screen. Several hit movies later they were a phenomenon showcasing their talents to adoring fans. Famous for their boisterous off-the-cuff stage routines at the height of their

• The Rat Pack - Greatest Hits | DVD | (18/10/2003) from £8.08   |  Saving you £-2.09 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Frank Dean and Sammy breeze through their most famous Las Vegas show tunes including: SEND ME THE PILLOW THAT YOU DREAM ON KING OF THE ROAD EVERYBODY LOVES SOMEBODY MEDLEY: VOLARE/ON AN EVENING IN RIOMA YOU'RE NOBODY TILL SOMEBODY LOVES YOU (ALL DEAN MARTIN) MY SHINING HOUR WHO CAN I TURN TO MEDLEY: I'VE GOT YOU UNDER MY SKIN?YOU CAME A LONG WAY FROM ST LOUIS/HIT THE ROAD JACK/YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE ONE FOR MY BABY ONE FOR THE ROAD (ALL SAMMY DAVIS JUNIOR) GET ME TO THE CHURCH

• Raquel Welch Collection | DVD | (04/09/2006) from £29.99   |  Saving you £-20.70 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.29

  Fathom: From exploding earrings to dances with bulls to leaps from a plane at 10 000 feet there isn't much Fathom can't handle in this wildly entertaining espionage spoof! Voluptuous dental hygienist-turned-skydiver Fathom Harvill (Raquel Welch) is recruited by a top-secret government agency to parachute into Spain in search of an elusive war defector (Tony Franciosa) and a missing H-bomb detonator he is believed to possess. But the super sexy spy may expose more than she bargained for as she unravels the truth behind her employer's motives - with hilarious results! (Dir. Leslie H. Martinson 1967) Fantastic Voyage: A Fantastic and spectacular voyage... Through the human body... Into the brain. Shrunk to microscopic size an elite scientific and medical team enters the bloodstream of an ailing scientist in a desperate effort to save his life. Battling the body's incredible defenses the crew must complete their mission before time runs out. The film was to win Oscars for Best Visual Effects (by Art Cruikschank) and Art Direction. The legacy of the film was to continue as 'Fantastic Voyage' later received an animated spin-off show. (Dir. Richard Fleischer 1966) Bandolero: It's a Wild West clash of personalities in Val Verde Texas for the warring Bishop brothers (Dean Martin and James Stewart) who must now join forces to escape a death sentence. Featuring an all-star cast including Raquel Welch and George Kennedy and exploding with action Bandolero! packs a smoking six-gun wallop from its first tense show-down to its last exciting shootout. (Dir. Andrew V. McLaglen 1968) Lady In Cement: The suave sleuth Tony Rome makes a shocking discovery while diving for treasure: a beautiful blonde woman anchored in a block of cement. When a local hood hires him to find his missing girlfriend his investigation begins with the mysterious ""Lady in Cement."" But everyone he talks to either is killed or trying to kill him... (Dir. Gordon Douglas 1968)

• West Side Story/Guys And Dolls/Fiddler On The Roof | DVD | (16/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  West Side Story (Dir. Robert Wise Jerome Robbins 1961): Garnering a total of ten Academy Awards - including Best Picture of 1961 - West Side Story set a brilliant standard for movie musicals that remains unsurpassed to this day. Directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins from Ernest Lehman's spectacular screenplay the film combines the unforgettable score of Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim with Robbins' exuberant choreography to create a transcendent fusion of realism and fantasy that will forever be a feast for the eye the ear and ultimately the heart. A triumph on every level this electrifying musical sets the ageless tragedy of Romeo and Juliet against a backdrop of gang warfare in the slums of 1950's New York. Guys And Dolls (Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1955): Hollywood legends Marlon Brando Frank Sinatra Jean Simmons and Vivian Blaine (from the original Broadway cast) are dazzling in this masterpiece unleashing a spectacular song-and-dance show that's loaded with entertainment. The slickest big-time New York City gamblers Sky Masterson (Brando) and Nathan Detroit (Sinatra) can't resist making or taking a bet on anything. So when a pretty missionary (Simmons) sets up shop in the neighbourhood Nathan stakes a grand that Sky can't seduce her. But all bets are off when Sky falls madly in love in this romantic musical spectacular that sets the Big Apple afire with excitement. Featuring hits like ""Luck Be A Lady"" and ""A Woman In Love"" this smash film version of one of Broadway's most popular musicals is guaranteed rip-roaring five-star entertainment. Fiddler On The Roof (Dir. Norman Jewison 1971): An outstanding accomplishment in every way this lavishly produced and critically acclaimed screen adaptation of the international stage sensation tells the life-affirming story of Tevye (Topol) a poor milkman whose love pride and faith help him face the oppression of turn-of-the-century Tsarist Russia. Nominated eight Academy Awards (1971) including Best Picture and Best Director and featuring such classic songs as ""If I were a rich man"" ""Matchmaker"" and ""Sunrise Sunset"" 'Fiddler On The Roof' is a universal story of hope love and acceptance: a musical masterpiece!

• Sinatra: 100th Anniversary | Blu Ray | (16/11/2015) from £21.99   |  Saving you £20.00 (100.05%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Anchors Aweigh Given free rein in choreographing Anchors Aweigh, Gene Kelly was eager to do the unexpected. But what? How about doing a dance witha cartoon? collaborator and friend Stanley Donen asked. How about it, indeed. Kelly's live-action fancy footwork with animated Jerry (of Tom and Jerry) remains a milestone of movie fantasy. Frank Sinatra and Kathryn Grayson also headline this wartime tale of two sailors on leave in Hollywood. Sinatra's I Fall in Love Too Easily , the exuberant Kelly/Sinatra We Hate to Leave and other highlights helped Anchors Aweigh weigh in with a 1945 Academy Award for Best Scoring of a musical Picture, plus four more Oscar nominations, inlcuding Best Picture and Actor (Kelly). On the Town New York, New York, it's a wonderful town - especially when sailors Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Jules Munshin have a 24-hour shore leave to see the sights...and when those sights include Ann Miller, Betty Garrett and Vera-Ellen. Robin and the 7 Hoods Robin and the 7 Hoods mirthfully gives the Robin Hood legend a Depression-era, mobtown Chicago setting. There, North Side boss Robbo (Frank Sinatra) hopes to get a leg up in his power struggle with rival racketeer Guy Gisborne (Peter Falk). Robbo sets himself up as a latter-day Robin Hood with philanthropic fronts enabling him to scam the rich, take his cut out and then give to the poor.

• The Manchurian Candidate | DVD | (31/07/2017) from £12.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  You will never find a more chillingly suspenseful, perversely funny, or viciously satirical political thriller than The Manchurian Candidate, based on the novel by Richard Condon (author of Winter Kills). The film, withheld from distribution by star Frank Sinatra for almost a quarter-century after President Kennedy's assassination, has lost none of its potency over time. Former infantryman Bennet Marco (Sinatra) is haunted by nightmares about his platoon having been captured and brainwashed in Korea. The indecipherable dreams seem to centre on Sergeant Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey), a decorated war hero but a cold fish of a man whose own mother (Angela Lansbury, in one of the all-time great dragon-lady roles) describes him as looking like his head is "always about to come to a point". Mrs Bates has nothing on Lansbury's character, the manipulative queen behind her second husband, Senator John Iselin (James Gregory), a notoriously McCarthyesque demagogue. --Jim Emerson

• Pal Joey | DVD | (18/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  First born in the pages of The New Yorker, then translated into a hit Rodgers and Hart Broadway musical, the title character of Pal Joey had undergone quite a transformation by the time he hit the movies in 1957. He was a singer, rather than a dancer, but more importantly he'd had his rough edges sweetly softened; the callous heel dreamed up by novelist John O'Hara was more of a naughty scamp in the film version. However, Pal Joey remains delightfully watchable for two very good reasons: a terrific song score and a surplus of glittering star power. Frank Sinatra, at the zenith of his cocky, world-on-a-string popularity, glides through the film with breezy nonchalance, romancing showgirl Kim Novak (Columbia Pictures' new sex symbol) and wealthy widow Rita Hayworth (Columbia Pictures' former sex symbol). The film also benefits from location shooting in San Francisco, caught in the moonlight-and-supper-club glow of the late 50s. Sinatra does beautifully with the Rodgers and Hart classics "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" and "I Could Write a Book" and his performance of "The Lady Is a Tramp" (evocatively shot by director George Sidney) is flat-out genius. Sinatra's ease with hep-cat lingo nearly outdoes Bing Crosby at his best, and included in the DVD is a trailer in which Sinatra instructs the audience in "Joey's Jargon", a collection of hip slang words such as "gasser" and "mouse." If not one of Sinatra's very best movies, Pal Joey is nevertheless a classy vehicle that fits like a glove. --Robert Horton

• Kings Go Forth | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In WWII France Corporal Britt Harris (Curtis) is assigned to work alongside war-weary Sgt. Loggins (Sinatra) - a man he soon rivals for the affections of the beautiful Monique Blair (Woods) an American who grew up in France. But when the men learn that Monique's parents are racially mixed it tests the character of each...

• Young At Heart | DVD | (08/03/2004) from £11.51   |  Saving you £6.48 (56.30%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Barney Sloan (Frank Sinatra) is a cynical down-on-his-luck musician who reluctantly agrees to help his composer friend Alex Burke (Gig Young) with a new comedy he is working on. However Barney gains a new perspective on life and love when he meets Alex's irrepressibly perky fiancee Laurie (Doris Day) - and promptly falls in love with her! A musical remake of the 1938 film 'Four Daughters' with Sinatra offering definitively gloomy renditions of 'Someone to Watch Over Me' and 'One More for My Baby' before Day manages to put a smile on his face featuring a superb score written by Cole Porter and George and Ira Gershwin.