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• Sabrina / Funny Face Double Pack | DVD | (22/04/2013) from £15.98   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  SabrinaAudrey Hepburn is the delightful, young, eponymous Sabrina, the daughter of a chauffeur who is hopelessly in love with David Larrabee (William Holden), the playboy younger son in the rich Long Island household her father works for. In order to help her forget her woes, Sabrina is shipped off to cooking school in Paris. While there, she befriends a baron who provides a bit of culture--and the encouragement to snip off her childlike ponytail. Upon her return to New York, Sabrina is transformed into a sophisticated woman, and David is entranced by her. However, his older brother Linus (Humphrey Bogart) has arranged David's marriage to Elizabeth Tyson in order to seal a business merger and thus must steer David away from Sabrina. To do this, Linus takes on the task of wooing her for himself. Full of great dialogue ("A woman happy in love, she burns the soufflé; a woman unhappy in love, she forgets to turn on the oven") and wonderful performances, this film is a romantic masterpiece. Also enjoyable is the 1995 remake, starring Julia Ormond and Harrison Ford. --Jenny Brown Funny FaceFred Astaire plays a fashion photographer based on real-life cameraman Richard Avedon, in this entertaining musical directed by Stanley Donen (Singin' in the Rain). The story finds Astaire's character turning Audrey Hepburn into a chic Paris model--not a tough premise to buy, especially within this film's air of enchantment and surrounded by a great Gershwin score. Based on an unproduced play, this is one of the best films from the latter part of Astaire's career. --Tom Keogh

• Hollywood Musicals Collection | DVD | (20/09/2004) from £13.94   |  Saving you £-0.95 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Box set of the decades 1940s 1950s and 1960s featuring highlights and clips of musicals - Kismet Singing In The Rain Seven Brides For Seven Brothers The Sound Of Music West Side Story Mary Poppins Oliver Funny Girl and so many more with a host of stars.

• Box Of The Banned | DVD | (26/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Video Nasties.... For the first time ever 'together' six of the most shocking depraved and corrupt movies which were banned under the Obscene Publication Act 1983/4 - Along with a feature length documentary 'Ban The Sadist Videos' which was a headline for the Daily Mail at the height of the frenzy. Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979): There is something sinister about the sailing-boat drifting slowly in Hudson Bay upon boarding the coast-guard police are confronted with a terrifying sight appearing out of the hatchway - a man covered in blood walks towards them menacingly only after being shot repeatedly does he fall overboard and disappear amid the waves. This news causes a panic in America as the sailing-boat belonged to a famous scientist who mysteriously disappeared in the Caribbean. Ann the scientist's daughter together with a famous journalist Peter West set out to look for him setting sail on a schooner belonging to Brian an American Ethnologist and Susan an underwater photographer they head for the Caribbean. Meanwhile on Mutal Island in the Antilles professor Menard is conducting strange experiments. What follows in the Caribbean and later in New York is truly terrifying - Zombie Flesh Eaters are here! (Dir. Lucio Fulci) I Spit On Your Grave (1978): Jenny (Camille Keaton) a New Yorker who goes to a secluded country retreat to finish work on her novel is one day assaulted raped and left for dead by four men. But she survives to take revenge. She seduces each of her rapists separately and personally performs their painful executions... (Dir. Meir Zarchi) Driller Killer (1979): Reno is struggling artist close to breaking point. The loud punk band in the flat next door practices for 24 hours a day. His debts are mounting. He needs to sell his new painting to pay the overdue rent on the shabby New York apartment he shares with his girlfriend and her spaced-out lesbian lover. Despite the desperate need for cash Reno will not admit that he has completed the painting. It becomes an obsession. In his troubled mind the picture triggers a violence he cannot contain... (Dir. Abel Ferrara) The Last House On The Left (1972): The terrifying story of two teenage girls Mari and Phyllis heading up to the city to celebrate Mari's 17th birthday at concert by the band Bloodlust. Prior to the show the pair are drugged beaten and kidnapped by a group of escaped convicts and taken into the woods where their horrific ordeal ends in rape and murder. When the criminals coincidentally but unknowingly take refuge at the nearby house of one of their victims the girl's parents discover the gruesome fate of their daughter and seek to exact their revenge... (Dir. Wes Craven) Nightmares In A Damaged Brain (1981): Escaped mental patient George (Baird Stafford) repeatedly suffers a graphic nightmare that depicts the axe murders of a couple making love. In Florida a prowler stalks a babysitter - when she is attacked the youngest child she is looking after just sits and laughs... George begins a journey of brutal murder death and destruction until the final moment of truth when his nightmares come to frightening life! (Dir. Romano Scavolini) The Evil Dead (1982): In the literary tradition of Stephen King and the cinematic mode of George Romero (Night of the Living Dead) The Evil Dead is a visual and aural attack on the senses which requires a strong stomach and a healthy sense of humour! Whilst holidaying in the Tennessee woodlands five innocent teenagers unwittingly unleash the spirit of the evil dead. One by one the teenagers fall victim to the frenzied flesh-eating monsters amidst a tour-de-force display of stunning special effects. (Dir. Sam Raimi)

• The World Of Henry Orient | DVD | (27/09/2004) from £9.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (60.06%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In New York City adolescent friends Gil and Val follow pianist Henry Orient (Sellers) - a clueless womanising virtuoso - all over town while he tries to seduce Stella (Prentiss) a married woman. However when Val's parents arrive for Christmas holidays the two girls are forced to grow up and test their friendship... This is an endearing and gentle comedy and combined with a classic Sellers performance it ensures that this film will be enjoyed over and over again!

• Last House On The Left | DVD | (25/09/2006) from £5.95   |  Saving you £0.04 (0.67%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Based on Ingmar Bergman's highly acclaimed The Virgin Spring Wes Craven's The Last House On The Left tells the terrifying story of two teenage girls Mari and Phyllis heading up to the city to celebrate Mari's 17th birthday at concert by the band Bloodlust. While trying to score some marijuana prior to the show the pair are drugged beaten and kidnapped by a group of escaped convicts and taken into the woods where their horrific ordeal ends in rape and murder. When the criminals coincidentally but unknowingly take refuge at the nearby house of one of their victims the girl's parents discover the gruesome fate of their daughter and seek to exact their revenge...

• Ginger In The Morning | DVD | (24/09/2001) from £4.99   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Ginger is hitch-hiking through New Mexico and is picked up by Joe who has just gone through a bitter divorce. A romantic story of opposites attracting.

• The Middle Watch | DVD | (03/11/2014) from £8.05   |  Saving you £1.94 (24.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Debonair screen veteran Jack Buchanan Norwegian beauty Greta Gynt and monocled character player Fred Emney are among the many stars of this riotous comedy adapting a play by writer and Naval officer Stephen King-Hall and noted novelist playwright and historian Ian Hay. The Middle Watch is featured here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. Through a series of unforeseen events two glamorous young ladies find that they are obliged to spend the night on board the battleship HMS Falcon where they have been attending a ‘bon voyage’ reception. At first it seems that Captain Randall will be able to keep them concealed but then the Admiral unexpectedly arrives on board and orders the ship to sea. The result is maritime mayhem! Special Features Image Gallery Original Script PDF

• Fred Dibnah's Magnificent Monuments Box Set | DVD | (11/10/2010) from £5.56   |  Saving you £7.43 (133.63%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Fred tours Britain searching out magnificent monuments from ancient earthworks through to modern day structures. He looks at how and why things were built and what sort of tools and materials were used and how buildings were adapted and altered to meet changing needs. We get to see some of Fred's favourite castles cathedrals palaces tunnels and bridges and discover the skills that were required to design build and decorate these incredible constructions. From Hadrian's Wall to St Paul's Cathedral and the Thames Barrier to the 'Pepsi Max Big One' Rollercoaster Fred reveals just what makes a monument into one of Britain's best. Box Set Comprises: Castles and Forts Houses and Palaces Places of Worship Places of Work Bridges and Tunnels and Pleasure Palaces.

• National Lampoon's Class Reunion | DVD | (08/04/2002) from £9.96   |  Saving you £-2.97 (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Incredibly, National Lampoon's Class Reunion was the project that launched John Hughes' writing career before he started directing. On some surreal level, the film's premise is actually quite ingenious. It blends together the nudie flick and stalker/slasher genres that became hugely popular in the early 1980s. The group of classmates reuniting 10 years after graduation are nothing like the idiots of Animal House: they're worse! So when they are hunted through the dilapidated halls by misunderstood psycho Walter Baylor (Blackie Dammett), you can expect lots of black humour. Running for their lives are yuppie-in-the-making Bob Spinnaker (a slimily smooth Gerrit Graham), class nobody Gary Nash, slobbish womaniser Hubert (Stephen Furst playing against his usual shy nerd), scary-looking Satanist Delores and two potheads who are oblivious to the goings-on. Hilarious cameos come from Michael Lerner as mysterious Dr Young, Chuck Berry (!) and the late, great Anne Ramsey (Momma in Throw Momma from the Train) as the world's worst school cook. There were more than a dozen theatrical "Lampoon" movies plus many more for TV and video: Class Reunion may not be subtle, and it's certainly not politically correct, but it endearingly remains one of the daftest from the series' early days . On the DVD: The picture and sound are understandably average, but some effort has been put into the menu page at least; a gallery of 20 photos are the only extra. --Paul Tonks

• Wonder Woman - Vol. 1 | DVD | (09/06/2003) from £5.45   |  Saving you £8.54 (156.70%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Taken from a long-running DC Comics strip, Wonder Woman was made into a popular television series between 1978 and 1981, starring former Miss America Lynda Carter. Capturing the hearts of TV audiences with her sexy outfit as much as her superheroine abilities, Wonder Woman quickly became a kitsch icon, battling the forces of evil with the unforgettably camp "garb of justice", including bullet-proof bangles, a golden lasso and the belt of strength built into her corset. She had an invisible plane, too. Originally Princess Diana of Paradise Island (an uncharted land of Amazon women in the Bermuda Triangle), Wonder Woman is sent as an emissary to the outside world to protect the human race from the forces of evil. And so she becomes Diana Prince, the geeky, bespectacled assistant to Steve Trevor of the Inter Agency Defense Command in Washington, whose father she assisted against the Nazis in the 1940s. In the 70-minute pilot, "The Return of Wonder Woman", our gal is sent in to prevent the nefarious Dr Solano from capturing a nuclear generating plant the Americans are flying into Latin America as a new source of energy. In "Anschluss 77", Steve and Diana are sent to investigate a former Gestapo agent now living in Latin America and have to battle a Nazi force that includes a cloned Adolf Hitler. Finally, in "The Man Who Could Move the World", Wonder Woman's adversary is a Japanese ex-intern from World War II who has developed telekinetic powers. Carter plays the role commendably straight, but just one listen to the theme tune ("in your satin tights, fighting for our rights") makes it clear this isn't meant to be taken seriously. Who else could save us from evil so stylishly? On the DVD: Wonder Woman, Volume 1 includes a gallery of memorabilia, a pretty extensive biography of Lynda Carter and the rest of the cast, and finally a short photo gallery for all you die-hard Wonder Woman fetishists. --Laura Bushell

• The Baron - The Complete Series | DVD | (04/07/2005) from £38.92   |  Saving you £21.07 (54.14%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Steve Forrest stars as John Mannering in 'The Baron' an exciting cult television classic. Antiques dealer John Mannering (known as The Baron) along with his sexy assistant Cordelia works in an informal capacity for the head od the British Diplomatic Intelligence - an informal agreement which invariably puts the jet-setting playboy in dangerous life-or-death situations. Global espionage bank robberies murder - it's all in a day's work for The Baron! Based on the best selling n

• The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle | DVD | (21/04/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The great Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers star in this fascinating biopic as the greatest ballroom dancing team of the first half of the 20th Century: Vernon and Irene Castle. This phenomenal dancing pair swept the world with their mastery of dancing and quickly became celebrities before World War I brought their fame to an end.

• STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS - SEASON ONE | DVD | (18/05/2021) from £16.97   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Just The Ticket | DVD | (12/07/2004) from £5.50   |  Saving you £0.49 (8.91%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Irresponsible. Unpredictable. Totally irresistible! Gary Starke (Garcia) can get his hands on just about anything: floor level seats at a Knick's basketball game entrance to an exclusive art gallery or first-row concert tickets. But the one thing Gary can't seem to get is the girl of his dreams... Longtime New York con man Gary is a king among scam artists but a loser in life. The only thing he has going for him is Linda (MacDowell) a stunning chef-in-the-making with a soft sp

• Oswald - Hats Off To Oswald | DVD | (19/01/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  'Ball Of Wool': When Weenie's favourite toy bounces out of the flat and starts to unravel it wreaks havoc in Big City. But there are lots of fun things you can do with a ball of wool too... 'One More Marshmallow': Oswald sets out to get Henry another marshmallow to go with his cocoa he doesn't dream he'll end up high in the sky above Big City... 'Cloud Collecting': After viewing his friends' collection of various objects Oswald feels inspired to start a collection of his own.

• Catchfire | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Previous UK releases of Catchfire have listed the pseudonymous Allan Smithee as director, but this version proudly opens with "a Dennis Hopper film". Also known as Backtrack, it offers a plot that advances by illogical leaps and bounds while whole scenes seem to go astray. With prominently billed actors getting almost nothing to do while major players go un-credited, a bland music score that might have been laid in from another film entirely and an ending that makes a lot of noise without actually resolving much, the film certainly has its bad points. However, it's also one of Hopper's more eccentric films, and more fun than Colors or The Hot Spot (which he had no trouble owning up to), partly because the director also takes a quirky lead role and his own personal interests are stirred by the modern art frills of the chase plot. The film opens with LA-based conceptual artist Jodie Foster, looking chunkily terrific just before her adult career took off, suffering a minor breakdown on the freeway and happening on a gangland execution. Pint-sized mob boss Joe Pesci sets his killers on her but the crooks ineptly murder Foster's boyfriend (Charlie Sheen, taking a very early bath). Pesci calls in Hopper, a professional hitman who immerses himself in Foster's life and art in order to track her down only to develop an obsessive crush on the woman. When he finds her, he gives her the choice between getting rubbed out or becoming his property. Hopper retains the knack for finding odd-looking byways of rural America, but is uncomfortable with helicopter chases and shoot-outs. The leads, despite great chunks of missing story, are both interesting--Foster sexily vulnerable and Hopper doing a wry New York drawl as the sax-playing hit man. Catchfire also offers an amazing supporting cast of the director's friends, including Dean Stockwell, Vincent Price, Catherine Keener (Being John Malkovich), Tony Sirico (The Sopranos), Bob Dylan (with a chainsaw), Helena Kallianotes (Five Easy Pieces), Julia Adams (The Creature from the Black Lagoon), and John Turturro.On the DVD: the film itself comes in a good-looking widescreen transfer, but the lack of special features let the disc down, with only feeble notes for three cast members (and no Smithee filmography). --Kim Newman

• Rio Grande | DVD | (28/05/2001) from £8.48   |  Saving you £1.51 (17.81%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Rio Grande was the last and least memorable of John Ford's famous cavalry trilogy (following Fort Apache and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon), but it none the less maintains an interesting continuity about the gentlemanly rules of military conduct. Here the focus is on the family. While creating a heated controversy over his handling of the Apache war, John Wayne must also contend with disgruntled wife Maureen O'Hara and estranged son Claude Jarman Jr, a new recruit trying to earn his father's love and respect. Ford suggests that there are two conflicting codes of honour in every cavalry officer's life, the personal as well as the professional, and that it takes an act of heroism to maintain both. It's fascinating to observe Wayne's progression throughout the trilogy, as his personal stakes intensify. This is the first of five onscreen appearances between the Duke and O'Hara, each filled with a competitive spirit and stormy sexuality. --Bill Desowitz, Amazon.com

• Hollywood Biographies | DVD | (21/08/2006) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A fascinating 5 disc set of half hour profiles spotlighting the personal lives and extraordinary careers of 50 legendary Hollywood leading men.Dashing Errol Flynn! Handsome Paul Newman! Versatile Jack Nicholson! are just a few of the great movie actors featured in this definitive collection.From the early classic era of John Barrymore James Cagney and Cary Grant to more contemporary heart throbs such as Warren Beatty Mel Gibson and John Travolta 'Hollywood Biographies: The Leading Men' tells their amazing stories through rare film clips television appearances photographs and interviews. Over 20 hours of footage on 5 DVD 9s all packaged in space saving slimpac boxes with an overall box width for the entire collection of just 4cms.

• Trail Of The Lonesome Pine | DVD | (30/03/2009) from £8.08   |  Saving you £7.91 (49.50%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The surging drama of love in the Kentucky hills springs to thrilling life as the first outdoor action romance filmed in colour!' Set in the mountains of Kentucky at the turn of the twentieth century this enthralling drama based on the classic novel of the same name by John Fox Jr. stars the Oscar winning Henry Fonda (Once Upon A Time In The West The Grapes Of Wrath) alongside Sylvia Sidney (Sabotage Fury) and Fred MacMurray (Double Indemnity The Apartment). A feud the origins of which can barely be remembered has been boiling for decades between two sheltered mountain families; the Tollivers and the Falins. With plans to build a railroad through both families' land and mine the coal deposits beneath it enterprising outsider Jack Hale (MacMurray) inadvertently becomes entangled in the region's politics. He soon captures the attention of the beautiful June Tolliver (Sidney) and quickly becomes involved in a love triangle with her and her cousin Dave (Fonda). Nominated for an Oscar in 1937 and winner of a special recommendation at the 1936 Venice Film Festival The Trail Of The Lonesome Pine directed by Henry Hathaway (The Sons Of Katie Elder Souls At Sea) was the first feature film shot outside of a studio in three-strip Technicolor and is available for the first time in the UK in this digitally re-mastered form.

• Black Caesar | DVD | (07/07/2003) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-7.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Fred Williamson is imposing tough and unflappable as a street kid who muscles his way into the big-time mob racket in this super-slick drama from writer/director Larry Cohen which became a smash hit of the Blaxploitaion genre and spawned a successful sequel (Hell Up In Harlem). Tommy Gibbs (Williamson) has always had it tough. Growing up on the streets without a father and trying to make his mother proud Tommy resorts to running errands for The Man. But when a crooked cop beats h