"Actor: Fred"

• Holiday Inn | DVD | (01/12/2003) from £5.35   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Holiday Inn is the perennial Christmas-season favourite from 1942 that teams Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire as entertainers (and rival suitors of Marjorie Reynolds) running an inn that is only open on holidays. It's a great excuse for lots of singing and dancing, seamlessly wrapped in a catchy story, and Astaire's frequent director Mark Sandrich (Top Hat, Shall We Dance) doesn't let us down. The Irving Berlin numbers (each one connected to a different holiday) are winners, with Crosby's warm performance of "White Christmas" a movie touchstone. --Tom Keogh

• Tremors - 7 Movie Collection | Blu Ray | (24/02/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Fred Dibnah's Steam Collection | DVD | (26/12/2008) from £11.49   |  Saving you £13.50 (54.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Steam Rollers Traction Engines Showmans Engines Steam Powered Lorries and Cars Pumping Engines Mill Engines and Pithead Winding Engines. From a very early age Fred Dibnah had a love of steam powered machines and spent a large part of his life restoring them and studying their construction and history. Here he shares that passion as he unearths the best of our steam heritage and meets some of his fellow enthusiasts who devote their lives to finding restoring preserving and operating steam engines of all sorts of shapes and sizes. The Story Of The Traction Engine From the first steam powered road carriages at the beginning of the 19th century and the early development of the traction engine for work on farms to the great road locomotives showmans engines and steam lorries of the twentieth century and the birth of the preservation movement Fred tells the story of steam power on the roads. Filmed on location at some of Britain''s major traction engine collections - Thursford Strumpshaw Hollycombe - and with enthusiasts and builders of replicas of some of our earliest steam vehicles. Britain's Biggest Engines Fred travels round Britain to unearth some of Britain''s biggest and most powerful steam engines. Starting near home he takes us to see the biggest mill engine in Britain in Trencherfield Mill at Wigan Pier and goes to see groups of enthusiasts who are dedicated to preserving some of these engines at the Northern Mill Engine Society in Bolton and Ellenroad Engine House near Rochdale. He visits the biggest pit head winding engines in Britain at Astley Green Colliery Museum in Lancashire and the Scottish Mining Museum. He takes us to the biggest steel rolling mill engine at Kelham Island in Sheffield and some of the biggest pumping engines at Papplewick Pumping Station Bratch Pumping Station and Kew Bridge Steam Museum. On the way he tells us some of his stories about mill engines and disasters. On The Road With Fred The story of Fred''s epic journey round Britain on his traction engine in 2004 for the television series Made In Britain. This specially edited version covers the first half of the journey with all the teething troubles Fred and his mate Alf Molyneux had as they set off from Bolton for the first time; then we follow them on the engine to Cumbria Central Scotland the North-East and Yorkshire. For the first time you will see all the bits of Fred you never saw on the television - every stage of this first half of the journey and every stop along the way in full.

• Royal Wedding | DVD | (11/11/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Fred Astaire and Jane Powell play a brother and sister dance team who go to London during the Royal Wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phillip and find their own romances. Notable for inspiring songs and Astaires incredible dancing on the ceiling and walls. A must for dancers of all ages and to see once again the greatest dancer of all time.

• Bronx Warriors / Bronx Warriors 2 | DVD | (18/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Bronx Warriors (1982):A Heavy Metal Journey Into An Urban Hell Where Everything Was Done Wrong! When the Bronx is officially declared a high risk district the authorities give up any attempts to enforce the law. From that moment on The Riders reign - but their mortal enemies The Zombies The Tigers and The Scavengers do not go quietly into the night. For them killing is second nature and death means nothing. The acrid smell of fear and hate tears at the nostrils as

• Mad Dog And Glory | DVD | (11/09/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

• Classic Cuts Collection - Musicals | DVD | (26/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  You Were Never Lovelier (Dir. William A. Seiter): In this lavish Hollywood musical the headstrong daughter (Hayworth) of a powerful Argentine hotelier has to contend with her father's attempts to get her to marry... Cover Girl (Dir. Charles Vidor): Rita Hayworth Academy Award winner Gene Kelly Phil Silvers and Eve Arden star in this lavishly produced musical about a nightclub dancer from Brooklyn who leaves her sweetheart after winning a Cover Girl contest - only to learn that fame and fortune are no substitute for true love. Rusty Parker is a chorus girl at a nightclub run by her sweetheart Danny McGuire. Driven by ambition she enters a ""Cover Girl"" contest. When Coudair the magazine's publisher discovers that she is the granddaughter of a former Broadway belle with whom he had been in love Rusty wins the contest. Top Hat (Dir. Mark Sandrich): Following a case of mistaken identity dancer Jerry (Astaire) follows Dale (Rogers) the girl of his dreams to Europe and tries to win her heart through song and dance routines. This most lavish of musicals from Hollywood's golden era features lyrics and music by Irving Berlin. Lover Come Back (Dir. Delbert Mann): Jerry Webster (Hudson) and Carol Templeton (Day) are rival Madison Avenue advertising executives who each dislike each other's methods. After he steals a client out from under her cute little nose revenge prompts her to infiltrate his secret VIP campaign in order to persuade the mystery product's scientist to switch to her firm. Trouble is the product is phony and the scientist is Jerry who uses all his intelligence and charm to steal her heart!

• Off Limits | DVD | (18/06/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Being a cop is tough. But in Saigon 1968 being a cop is crazy. Saigon 1968: Someone - possible a high-ranking American officer - is brutally murdering Vietnamese prostitutes with children by American fathers and plainclothes military cops Sgt. Buck McGriff (Academy Award Nominee - 1987 Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Willem Dafoe Platoon) and Sgt. Albaby Perkins (Tony Nominee Gregory Hines Cotton Club) are put in the case that no one wants solved. But things are never what they seem in the ""Nam including a novice nun (Amanda Pays) a deranged Colonel (Scott Glenn) and a twisted trail of clues that takes McGriff and Perkins from back alleys to battlefields in search of a serial killer who's ready to make them the next victims. Fighting incredible odds placed in impossible situations can they solve the case before they lose their sanity or their lives? Fred Ward Keith David and David Alan Grier co-star in this explosive action thriller where everyone is a suspect anything can be covered up and no crime or place is ever ""off limits"".

• First Do No Harm | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  When Laura and Dave Reimuller's son Robbie suffers an epileptic fit it's merely the start of the nightmare. As the fits worsen Robbie becomes little more than a 'laboratory rat' for testing highly dangerous drugs - and Dave and Laura stand by helpless as their delightful little boy turns into a disruptive mentally retarded monster. Driven by despair Laura starts her own research and comes across a possible 'miracle cure' which involves neither drugs nor radical surgery. It's a special diet and much frowned on by Robbie's doctors. But to Laura it's his last chance and she's going to take on the medical establisment. Double Academy Award winner Meryl Streep gives a magnificent performance as a mother fighting for her epileptic son's rights to a miracle cure in this heart-rending but inspiring true story.

• Crooners | DVD | (08/09/2014) from £6.98   |  Saving you £8.01 (114.76%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Collection of documentaries, features and television episodes that examine the lives and careers of four of the best-loved crooners. Frank Sinatra hosts two episodes of 'The Frank Sinatra Show' (1950), a variety show featuring the talents of Stump and Stumpy, Peggy Lee, Bob Hope and Kim Novak. 'Second Chorus' (1941) is a musical comedy starring Fred Astaire and Hank Taylor as competitive trumpet players in a college band. 'Royal Wedding' (1951) sees Astaire star alongside Jane Powell as a brother and sister song and dance duo. 'Road to Hollywood' (1946) is a documentary that looks at the work of Bing Crosby. Selling over half a billion records in the first half of the 20th century, Crosby quickly became a popular influence within the music and film industries, dominating the box office throughout the 1940s. 'Reaching for the Moon' (1930) is a black and white musical featuring the vocal talents of Crosby singing Irving Berlin's famous 'Lower Than Lowdown'. Dean Martin hosts an episode of the popular American show 'The Colgate Comedy Hour' with Jerry Lewis, featuring Janis Paige, Danny Arnold and The Johnny Conrad Dancers. 'At War With the Army' (1950) is a musical comedy that sees Martin and Lewis team up again as Sergeant Puccinelli and Private Korwin, two soldiers with very different agends.

• Royal Wedding | DVD | (05/03/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Fred Astaire dances on the ceiling in this 1951 Alan Jay Lerner musical for MGM, directed by Stanley Donen (Singin' in the Rain). The appealing story finds Astaire as part of a brother-and-sister act (along with Jane Powell) that travels to London at the time of Queen Elizabeth II's wedding. Astaire and Powell each find romances that threaten to break up the act, but that's mostly fun window dressing in a movie better known for some truly creative sequences made vivid by Donen, including Astaire's famous dance with a hat rack and his duet with Powell, "How Could You Believe Me When I Said I Loved You (When You Know I've Been a Liar All My Life)?" --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Great Mysteries and Myths of the Twentieth Century - Ww2 | DVD | (10/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Mysteries And Myths - Mysteries Of World War II

• Maceo Parker - My Name Is Maceo | DVD | (21/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  This is a rare kind of music film. A portrait of a musician who made his name first as a sideman than as a star. The classic recordings of James Brown are frequently punctuated with a cry of Maceo which listeners often assumed to be some funky catchphrase of Brown's own invention. In fact it was the cue for his long serving sax man Maceo Parker to step forward and blow his horn. When Brown was incarcerated in the late '80's necessity led Maceo to become a bandleader in his own right enlisting other funk pioneers such as trombonist Fred Wesley and tenor saxophonist Pee Wee Ellis. In 1994 Maceo and his band were filmed in concert in rehearsal and on the road. Though essentially a performance film My First Name is Maceo captures both on and off stage the warm generous personality that flows through Maceo's music. Interviews with Maceo his brother Melvin and the musicians who have worked with him fill in the background that began on a North Carolina Housing Project.

• Sunset Boulevard - Paramount Originals (includes Limited Edition reproduction film poster) | DVD | (23/07/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond an ageing silent film queen and William Holden as the struggling writer who is held in thrall by her madness created two of the screen's most memorable characters in Billy Wilder's immortal Sunset Boulevard. The film was winner of three Academy Awards in 1950 - Best Story and Screenplay Black and White Art Direction and score for a Dramatic Picture. Joe Gillis is floating face down in a swimming pool as the homicide squad arrives. Six months

• Anchorman / Old School (Box Set) | DVD | (03/07/2006) from £5.93   |  Saving you £19.06 (321.42%)   |  RRP £24.99

• Fred Dibnah's Great Buildings | DVD | (26/12/2009) from £11.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (108.42%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Fred Dibnah's Great Buildings

• The Devil Came From Akasava | DVD | (08/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A new mineral is discovered which can turn metal to gold or humans into zombies. When the mineral is stolen secret agents are despatched to get it back!

• Will Hay - Good Morning Boys / Hey! Hey! USA | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £7.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (62.78%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In 1937's Good Morning Boys Will Hay plays the pompous but ill-qualified headmaster of St Michael's, Dr Benjamin Twist, who befuddles his class with meaningless mathematical equations while they set their wits to constructing booby traps for him. However, when his boys pass an inter-schools examination, having seen the French paper in advance, they're invited by the French educational authorities to Paris and become involved in a plot to steal the Mona Lisa. Although it is at times too silly plot-wise even for those with a high endurance for farce, Good Morning, Boys is another fine showcase for Hay to display his well-honed repertoire of tics, double-takes and blathering half-sense. In Hey! Hey! USA!, a 1938 comedy intended to boost Hay's stock in America, he again plays Dr Twist who becomes tutor to millionaire's son Bernie Schulz aboard an Atlantic liner. Predictably the boy knows more about all aspects of history than Hay, having to remind him that Britain lost in the War of Independence against America. "Yes, but we sent our second eleven," Hay reminds him, "And we were playing away." Further capers ensue when two rival gangs attempt to capture the precocious lad, with his parents dispatching Hay to pass on the ransom money. Hey! Hey! USA!has its moments, but despite the presence of old Laurel and Hardy sidekicks Edgar Kennedy (as a dim-witted gangster) and Charlie Hall, this was too leaky a comedic vessel to transport Hay's peculiarly British UK success across the Atlantic. On the DVD: Good Morning Boys and Hey! Hey! USA! are presented on disc well restored from their original 1930s film stock, give or take the odd crackle. There are no extras except scene index. --David Stubbs

• Off Beat | DVD | (20/04/2004) from £5.38   |  Saving you £9.61 (178.62%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The story of a wacky librarian who impersonates a New York city policeman during a dance contest. When he unexpectedly wins the competition the fast paced comedy begins.

• My Cousin Vinny/Married To The Mob/Corrina Corrina | DVD | (05/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  My Cousin Vinny (Dir. Jonathan Lynn 1992): A Comedy Of Trial And Error. In this must-see comedy hit two carefree pals traveling through Alabama are mistakenly arrested and charged with murder. Fortunately one of them has a lawyer friend in the family -- Vincent Gambini (Joe Pesci) a former auto mechanic from Brooklyn who has never been in court -- or in Alabama. When cousin Vinny arrives with his leather-clad girlfriend (Marisa Tomei in her Oscar-winning Supporting Actress performance) to handle his first case it's a real shock -- for him and the Deep South! Married To The Mob (Dir. Jonathan Demme 1988): Angela De Marco (Pfeiffer) has had enough! Her cheating husband Frank (Baldwin) is a gangster and she's sick of living on laundered money. So when Frank gets iced by mob boss Tony 'the Tiger' Russo (Stockwell) Angela is free to go straight... until Tony puts the moves on the grieving widow. Now she must make a move of her own and kiss the Long Island Mafia arrivederci. Starting over in Manhattan Angela finds a new job and a new beau (Modine) in no time. But when it comes to divorcing the first family of organised crime fuh-get-about-it! Tony's hot on her trail and he's still determined to make her his mob mistress. Angela must choose between helping the FBI take Tony by the tail or spending the rest of her life behind bars for being 'Married to the Mob'! Corrina Corrina (Dir. Jessie Nelson 1994): They needed a family. What they got was magic. Whoopi Goldberg and Ray Liotta star in this heart-warming story of a newly widowed man struggling to raise his little girl and the woman who brings magic into their lives.