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• The Ape Man | DVD | (04/01/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Conducting weird scientific experiments crazed Dr James Brewster (Bela Lugosi) aided by his colleague Dr Randall has managed to transform himself into a hairy stooped over ape man. Desperately seeking a cure Brewster believes only an injection of a recently drawn human spinal fluid will prove effective. With Randall refusing to help him it falls to Brewster and his captive gorilla to find appropriate donors - living or dead!

• The Ape | DVD | (31/12/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  In this cult horror classic Boris Karloff is mad scientist Dr. Adrian a man who becomes obsessed with curing paralysis. Desperately trying to cure a crippled young women he discovers that he needs human spinal fluid for his vaccine - but how to get it? When an ape trainer at a local circus is badly mauled the doctor allows him to die so that he can tap his spine. But then the gorilla escapes and goes on a killing spree terrorizing the small town.

• DW Griffith Collection | DVD | (20/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Avenging Conscience:Nightmarish visions of ghouls and devils highlight this D.W. Griffith silent feature based around Edgar Allen Poe's The Telltale Heart and Annabelle Lee. A young man (Henry B. Walthall) finds himself prevented from wooing the girl he loves (Blanche Sweet) due to the tyrannical edicts of his mean old uncle (Spottiswoode Aitken). The poor lad becomes haunted by a series of visions that convince him to murder this interfering relative. After the murder has been planned and executed the man finds himself haunted by still more visions this time of the fire and brimstone variety. An inquiring detective (Ralph Lewis) adds to the ever-mounting paranoia. Birth Of A Nation: The first part of the film chronicles the Civil War as experienced through the eyes of two families; the Stonemans from the North and the Camerons of the South. Lifelong friends they become divided by the Mason-Dixon line with tragic results. Large-scale battle sequences and meticulous historical details culminate with a staged re-creation of Lincoln's assassination. The second half of the film chronicles the Reconstruction as Congressman Austin Stoneman (Ralph Lewis) puts evil Silas Lynch (George Siegmann) in charge of the liberated slaves at the Cameron hometown of Piedmont. Armed with the right to vote the freed slaves cause all sorts of trouble until Ben Cameron (Henry B. Walthall) founds the Ku Klux Klan and restores order and decency to the troubled land. While The Birth Of A Nation was a major step forward in the history of filmmaking it must be noted that the film supports a racist worldview. Broken Blossoms: This strangely beautiful silent film from D.W. Griffith is also one of his more grim efforts; an indictment of child abuse and the violence of western society. An idealistic Asian (Richard Barthelemess) travels to the west in hopes of spreading the Buddha's message of peace to the round-eyed sons of turmoil and strife. Instead he winds up a disillusioned opium-smoking shopkeeper in London's squalid Limehouse District. Down the street a poor waif (Lillian Gish) suffers horrific abuse at the hands of her boxer father (Donald Crisp). When fortune delivers the battered girl into the Asian's tender care a strange and beautiful love blossoms between them a love far too fragile to survive their brutal environment. Intolerance: D.W. Griffith's biggest most ambitious spectacle uses stories from different times and places to illustrate humanity's intolerance of religious differences throughout the ages. The most visually impressive of these chronicles is the fall of Babylon for which Griffith built the largest sets in Hollywood and filled them with thousands of extras; there's also Christ's crucifixion and the massacre of the Heugenots in 15th century France. The most emotionally involving tale is the modern one about a poor girl (Mae Marsh) whose life is repeatedly ruined by the zealotry of social reformers. The image of a mother (Lillian Gish) rocking her child in a cradle links the stories. At one point angels reach down from heaven to stop soldiers in midbattle making it clear that Griffith intended this follow-up to The Birth Of A Nation as a message of global peace and love Way Down East: Innocent Anna is sent by her poverty-stricken mother to visit rich relations in Boston where she is seduced into a sham marriage by a smooth-talking scoundrel. When she becomes pregnant he abandons her; later the baby dies. Now a social outcast she changes her name and eventually finds shelter at the estate of the sternly religious Squire Bartlett. She falls in love with his handsome son but cannot divulge to him her terrible secret for fear of his father's righteous

• 12 Angry Men | Blu Ray | (03/06/2013) from £8.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Henry Fonda Lee J. Cobb Ed Begley and Jack Klugman lead the distinctive cast of jurors whose character portrayals are perfect in every detail (The Hollywood Reporter). With its star-powered cast and three Oscar Nominations including Best Picture 12 Angry Men is a powerful suspenseful and fascinatingly entertaining film (Los Angeles Examiner). Eleven jurors are convinced that the defendant is guilty of murder. The twelfth has no doubt of his innocence. How can this one man steer the others toward the same conclusion? It's a case of seemingly overwhelming evidence against a teenager accused of killing his father in one of the best pictures ever made (The Hollywood Reporter). Special Features: Audio Commentary with Film Historian Drew Casper Beyond Reasonable Doubt: Making 12 Angry Men Inside the Jury Room Original Theatrical Trailer

• Ape, The / British Intelligence | DVD | (16/05/2005) from £7.09   |  Saving you £9.90 (139.63%)   |  RRP £16.99

  This DVD bring together two films from 1940 starring horror icon Boris Karloff: Monogram Pictures' The Ape and the British Intelligence.Karloff plays one of his many mad scientists in The Ape directed by William Nigh who also helmed several of Karloff's Mr. Wong films. Curt Siodmak who wrote The Wolf Man and others for Universal gives Karloff plenty of fun dialogue. The crisp cinematography is by Harry Neumann who shot over 200 films covering everything from Buck Jones to