"Actor: Fred"

• The Lemon Drop Kid | DVD | (30/10/2006) from £7.48   |  Saving you £5.51 (73.66%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Bob Hope stars as Sidney Melbourne (A.K.A. The Lemon Drop Kid named so after his love of the simple candy) a con man who offers a friendly ""sure thing"" horse tip to the girlfriend of mobster Moose Moran at the race track. When the horse loses and Moose's original pick wins Moose gives Sidney until Christmas to pay back the money he lost or his thug Sam-the-Surgeon will ""open"" Sidney after Christmas. To pay back the money he owes Moose Sidney enlists some pals to hit the street corners of New York dressed as Santa Claus accepting donations for a bogus elderly ladies' home. The calamity starts when gangster Oxford Charlie (Lloyd Nolan) tries to move in on Sidney's scam. What follows is vintage Hope shenanigans highlighted by a heart-warming rendition of the Christmas classic ""Silver Bells"" sung by Hope and Marilyn Maxwell (who appeared with Hope in the 1953 film Off Limits). Also starring William Frawley (I Love Lucy) and Tor Johnson (Plan 9 From Outer Space).

• The Little Hours | DVD | (12/03/2018) from £4.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Loaded with comedic talent and written with an off-kilter, yet knowing touch, The Little Hours is a charming & hilarious romp. Italy, 1347: Bored, volatile nuns Alessandra (Alison Brie - Glow), Fernanda (Aubrey Plaza Ingrid Goes West), and Ginevra (Kate Micucci The Big Bang Theory) live in a monastery under the watchful eye of Father Tommasso (John C. Reilly Step Brothers). The arrival of a handsome new groundskeeper (Dave Franco 21 Jump Street) - introduced to the sisters as a deaf mute to discourage temptation - soon leads to a frenzy of hormones, substance abuse, and wicked revelry. Bonus Features: Interviews Gag Reel

• Fred Dibnah's Industrial Heritage | DVD | (11/05/2009) from £13.95   |  Saving you £11.04 (79.14%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Mills and factories; mines and quarries; iron foundries and steel works. Fred had a passion for Britain''s industrial past and he never tired of reminding us of the industrial genius that made Britain the 'workshop of the world.'' Here he tells us the stories of Britain''s biggest industries as he takes us on a tour of his favourite industrial heritage sites. The Industrial Landscape: Fred was born in Bolton Lancashire in 1938 and as a boy he fell in love with the decaying industrial landscape around him. It was a love that was to stay with him for the rest of his life. Fred paints a vivid picture of the Lancashire he grew up in before embarking on a journey around the industrial Britain of yesterday taking in Armley Mills in Leeds North of England Open Air Museum at Beamish Coldharbour Mill in Devon Etruria Industrial Museum Helmshore Textile Museum Hook Norton Brewery Quarry Bank Mill Queen Street Mill in Burnley Tees Cottage Pumping Station Wetheriggs Country Pottery and Wigan Pier. Riches Beneath The Earth: When Fred was a lad coal was king and Britain still had a flourishing mining industry. Mining and all the engineering that was involved always fascinated Fred - not just coal but lead tin iron ore and all the riches from beneath the earth that provided the raw materials for our industrial society. Filmed on location at Big Pit National Mining Museum Geevor Tin Mine Llechwedd Slate Caverns National Coal Mining Museum North of England Lead Mining Museum Scottish Mining Museum Welsh Slate Museum and Wet Earth Colliery Fred gives us his own unique and highly personal history of mining in Britain. Iron And Steel: From Ironbridge Gorge in Shropshire often described as the cradle of the Industrial Revolution to a modern forge in Sheffield Fred takes us around the country to tell us about the history of iron and steel making and to have a look at some of the processes. Share Fred''s excitement and watch the sparks fly with him as he visits Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet Independent Forgings and Kelham Island Museum in Sheffield Black Country Living Museum in Dudley Finch Foundry in Devon Ironbridge Gorge Museums and Workington Steel Works.

• Last House On The Left | DVD | (05/01/2010) from £9.77   |  Saving you £-0.79 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Bold powerful and starkly realistic this chilling cinematic debut of horror master Wes Craven (Scream) is a shocking journey into the heart of evil. Written and directed with almost unbearable dramatic tension (Chicago Sun Times) The Last House on the Left will make you deadbolt your doors and frantically mutter: It's only a movie... it's only a movie... it's only a movie.! Easy going Mari Collingwood and her fun loving friend Phyllis are on their way to a Bloodlust concert to celebrate Mari's 17th birthday when three escaped convicts kidnap and torture them. But Mari and Phyllis are fighters and although they are drugged and beaten into unconsciousness stuffed in a car trunk and driven into the woods for even more brutality they are still alive.... But for how long?

• Ronnie Barker - A Home Of Your Own | DVD | (07/08/2006) from £4.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (100.20%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A groundbreaking comedy and a subtle satire of the UK building industry in the 1960s (which is still frighteningly relevant today!) an excellent cast of comedians in their early days (Ronnie Barker Richard Briers Peter Butterworth Bernard Cribbins) will have you rolling in the aisles!

• Son Of Flubber | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £5.38   |  Saving you £9.61 (178.62%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The story of an inventor who makes a rain-making machine. Needless to say - it goes wrong...

• Portlandia: Season 3 | DVD | (29/07/2013) from £10.49   |  Saving you £9.50 (90.56%)   |  RRP £19.99

  PORTLANDIA is the hit sketch comedy series created,written by,and starring Fred Armisen (SNL) and Carrie Brownstein (WILD FLAG, Sleater-Kinney vocalist/guitarist). The show is driven by a series of hilarious character-based shorts all of which take place in 'Portlandia', the creators' dreamy and absurd hipster rendering of Portland, Oregon where 90's culture reigns supreme and political correctness is all the rage. Armisen and Brownstein play an array of colourful and unique characters with...

• The Player | DVD | (04/02/2008) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-10.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  When callous movie studio executive Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins) starts receiving anonymous death threats from a rejected screenwriter his already shaky career begins to crumble. Finally his desperation drives him to kill...but did he rub out the wrong writer? Relentlessly hounded by a street-wise detective (Whoopi Goldberg) Griffin falls in love with the dead man's girlfriend (Greta Scacchi). Then the mysterious threats begin again - and Griffin is plunged into a plot more outrageous than any movie.

• Uncommon Valour | DVD | (23/09/2002) from £15.15   |  Saving you £-2.16 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  For over ten years Rhodes has been living a nightmare searching for his son who is listed as ""missing in action"" in Vietnam. After useless appeals to the government for information Rhodes takes matters into his own hands. With the financial backing of a Texas oil tycoon (Robert Stack) and the help of his son's five Marine buddies Rhodes prepares to carry out a daring mission. After weeks of grueling training the courageous veterans leave for Laos. The final battle of the Vietnam c

• Spiral - Series 1 and 2 | DVD | (09/08/2010) from £9.88   |  Saving you £25.11 (254.15%)   |  RRP £34.99

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• Tremors 2 - Aftershocks | DVD | (05/10/2009) from £4.00   |  Saving you £5.99 (149.75%)   |  RRP £9.99

  When a remote Mexican oilfield comes down with a nasty case of Graboids (for the uninitiated: giant carnivorous worms with tunnelling abilities that put Bugs Bunny to shame), it is up to those veteran monster exterminators Burt and Earl to save the day--and accumulate some much-needed payola in the process. But this time, the slimy critters may have a few new tricks up their ... um, sleeves. Although denied a chance to appear in the cinema, this unjustly neglected direct-to-video sequel delivers the same winning mixture of cornpone and gore that made the original Tremors a cult classic. Although Kevin Bacon is missing, Michael Gross and the wonderful Fred Ward reprise their roles from the first film. A hoot-and-a-half for horror and SF fans, Tremors 2 has some genuine scares and a welcome sense of humour. The DVD, presented in 1.85:1 widescreen format, has trailers for both movies but no other extra features. --Andrew Wright

• Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult | Blu Ray | (10/09/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Oscar night. Who will win? Who will lose? And will someone please kick that numbskull off stage? Wait! That's no ordinary numbskull. That's Lt. Frank Drebin, crashing the ceremonies to stop a terrorist plot that could mean curtains for him - or will a simple window shade be enough? Yes, back for a hilarious threepeat and a state-of-the-art advance in sequel numbering are the filmmakers you love, the returning stars you adore, plus others getting Naked for the first time: Fred Ward, Anna Nicol...

• The Player | DVD | (30/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Robert Altman's a biting satire on the Hollywood industry, The Player, has always been acknowledged by insiders as too close to the truth for comfort. Opening with a self-referential nine-minute tracking shot around the studio lot where producer Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins) works, the story's intrigue begins with the first of several postcard death threats from a writer he's angered. After accidentally killing the wrong man, Mill moves from one star-studded lunch table to another. All the while he's hounded by the real writer and an obsession with "Ice Queen" artist June Gudmundsdotter (Greta Scacchi) who'd been the deceased's girlfriend. Altman's tradition of improvised dialogue makes each of the dozens of cameos a fascinating treat for movie fans. Blink and you'll miss Angelica Houston, John Cusack, Rod Steiger, or Bruce Willis and Julia Roberts who appear in the hilarious movie-within-a-movie finale. There's an endless list of terrific support from the likes of dry-witted Fred Ward, fly-swatting Lyle Lovett, or tampon-twirling Whoopi Goldberg. Aside from the star-spotting and a script that crackles with sharp dialogue, this also warrants acknowledgement for being the movie to set off an explosion of independent film in the Nineties. On the DVD: there's a commentary track (which leaves the film's soundtrack playing a little too loud) from director Altman who talks at length about the poor state of today's industry, and writer Michael Tolkin who contributes about ten minutes of veiled displeasure about the treatment of a writer's work. There are five grainy deleted scenes featuring lost cameos from Tim Curry, Jeff Daniels, and Patrick Swayze. Then in a 16-minute featurette a lot of the deleted footage is repeated around an interview with Altman. A trailer rounds out the package. --Paul Tonks

• Joe Butterfly | DVD | (06/06/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In this war-era comedy, a ragtag band of journalists working for a military magazine have three days to put together an issue and, faced with too few stories and too little time, the gang turns to a shady character for help. At the end of the Second World War, the editor of the famed army weekly Yank magazine (Golden Globe-winner George Nader, Four Guns to the Border) flies across the Pacific with his staff to document life in post-war Japan. Handed an impossibly tight deadline, they head to Tokyo's black market to search for story ideas, where they stumble upon underworld con-artist Joe Butterfly (Oscar-nominee Burgess Meredith, Rocky). Butterfly offers the Yank staff an alternative to their run-down offices, setting them up in a plush, private mansion but the new headquarters, frequented by a few local ladies, are seriously against regulations. As the Yank staffers one played by war hero and Hollywood legend Audie Murphy (To Hell and Back), among others scramble to put together an issue, the sticky situation they find themselves in grows increasingly absurd, and laughs abound.

• Butcher's Crossing | Blu Ray | (17/06/2024) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Shaggy Dog | DVD | (17/07/2006) from £28.00   |  Saving you £-10.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The first live action movie ever produced by Walt Disney. Fred MacMurray heads an all-star cast that includes Jean Hagen Tim Considine Kevin Corcoran and Annette Funicello in her big screen debut. After years of on-the-job clashes with cranky canines mail carrier Wilson Daniels (MacMurray) sees man's best friend as his worst enemy. This makes for one hairy situation when a magical ring accidentally transforms his teenage son Wilby (Kirk) into a lumbering sheepdog! Can Wilby break

• A Serious Man | Blu Ray | (29/03/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Academy Award winning filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen bring their famously wicked sense of humour to this every day tale about a moral man who sees the world inexplicably turn against him in this darkest of comedies.

• Heritage - Fred Dibnah - Getting Steamed Up | DVD | (13/11/2006) from £4.03   |  Saving you £-0.04 (-1.00%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Bolton Steeplejack Fred Dibnah has scaled great heights in his career. And in this fascinating documentary you'll get to see him climb a 100-foot chimney that he's preparing for steam-powered demolition. further steamy exploits see Fred behind the wheel of a road roller and fixing a steam engine: part of the average day of an extraordinary man.

• 3 Classic Bela Lugosi Films Of The Silver Screen - Invisible Ghost / Scared To Death / White Zombie | DVD | (10/01/2005) from £12.87   |  Saving you £-7.88 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Invisible Ghost: Actor Bela Lugosi born in Lugas Hungary on October 20 1882 was the screens most notorious personification of evil - at the peak of his career in the early 30's he helped usher in an era of new popularity for the horror genre. In this film a man carries out a series of grisly stranglings whilst under hypnosis by his insane and domineering wife... Scared To Death: The pieces of a puzzling murder are revealed to us one by one in this frightening story

• Chain Reaction | Blu Ray | (11/06/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.98

  A student machinist (Keanu Reeves) finds himself caught in a maze of secret government cover-ups high tech espionage and murders after working on a groundbreaking scientific experiment. Eddie Kasalivich (Reeves) and Lily Sinclair (Rachel Weisz) are part of a team of scientists who have developed a revolutionary new source of energy. But no sooner have they finishes celebrating their triumph than their lab is destroyed and the head of their team killed. Named as the main suspects Eddie and Lily quickly realise their only hope lies with a powerful and mysterious bureaucrat (Morgan Freeman) who may or may not be on their side.