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• Car Wash | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £11.37   |  Saving you £-5.38 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Car Wash is an earthly irreverent but affectionate look at a typical day in Los Angeles car wash. An ensemble piece which interweaves the lives of employees customers and passers-by Car Wash stars a galaxy of gifted actors most of whom are relatively unknown to movie goers and spotlights an array of guest stars in vivid cameo roles inculding George Carlin ""Professor"" Irwin Corey The Pointer Sisters and Richard Pryor as Daddy Rich a flamboyant Reverend who preaches the

• A Raisin In The Sun | Blu Ray | (01/10/2018) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The classic film version of Lorraine Hansberry's revelatory dramastarring Sidney Poitier and Ruby Deenewly restored. LORRAINE HANSBERRY's A Raisin in the Sun was the first play by a black woman to be on Broadway and is now an immortal part of the theatrical canon. Two years after its premiere, the production came to the screen, directed by DANIEL PETRIE. The original starsincluding SIDNEY POITIER (In the Heat of the Night) and RUBY DEE (Do the Right Thing)reprise their roles as members of an African American family living in a cramped Chicago apartment, in this deeply resonant tale of dreams deferred. Following the death of their patriarch, the Youngers await a life insurance check they hope will change their circumstances, but tensions arise over how best to use the money. Vividly rendering Hansberry's intimate observations on generational conflict and housing discrimination, Petrie's film captures the high stakes, shifting currents, and varieties of experience within black life in midcentury America. Features: New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack Interview from 1961 with playwright and screenwriter Lorraine Hansberry New interview with Imani Perry, author of Looking for Lorraine, on the reallife events on which the play is based Episode of Theater Talk from 2002 featuring producer Philip Rose and actors Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis Excerpt from The Black Theatre Movement: From A Raisin in the Sun to the Present, a 1978 documentary, with a new introduction by director Woodie King Jr. New interview with film scholar Mia Mask, editor of Poitier Revisited Trailer PLUS: An essay by scholar Sarita Cannon

• Richard Pryor | DVD | (27/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A 4 disc box set featuring a quartet of the finest films starring motormouth funnyman Richard Pryor! R.I.P Ritchie... Car Wash ((Dir. Michael Schultz 1976): An earthy irreverent but affectionate look at a typical day in Los Angeles car wash! An ensemble piece which interweaves the lives of employees customers and passers-by Car Wash stars a galaxy of gifted actors most of whom are relatively unknown to movie goers and spotlights an array of guest stars in vivid cameo rol

• A Raisin In The Sun | DVD | (10/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Younger family frustrated with living in their crowded Chicago apartment sees the arrival of a $10 000 insurance check as the answer to their prayers. Matriarch Lena Younger (Claudia McNeil) promptly puts a down payment on a house in an all-white suburban neighborhood. But the family is divided when Lena entrusts the balance of the money to her mercurial son Walter Lee (Poitier) against the wishes of her daughter (Diana Sands) and daughter-in-law (Ruby Dee). It takes the streng

• Suppose They Gave A War And Nobody Came? | DVD | (15/09/2008) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-14.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Combine a Warrant Officer and two Sergeants with a bigoted town leader a fat sour sheriff and the luscious Ramona and you end up with an hilarious comedy of untold disasters.

• Hogan's Heroes: The Complete First Season | DVD | (25/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Fall in line for the hilarious escapades of a ragtag band of World War II prisoners of war in Hogan's Heroes: The Complete First Season. Actor-comedian Bob Crane stars as Colonel Robert Hogan an American officer confined to Stalag 13 a German POQ camp. Along with a motley crew of fellow prisoners and with full use of hidden tunnels confiscated supplies and secret radios Hogan's mission is not so much one of escape - but to cause as much havoc and disruption to the Nazi war effort as possible. And with inept camp commandant Colonel Wilhelm Klink (Werner Klemperer) and the bumbling Sergeant Hans Schultz (John Banner) running things at Stalag 13 the gang known as Hogan's Heroes soon discovers that their laugh-provoking efforts at sabotage surveillance and subversion have never been easier! Episode Comprise: 1. The Informer 2. Hold That Tiger 3. Kommandant Of The Year 4. The Late Inspector General 5. The Flight Of The Valkyrie 6. The Prisoner's Prisoner 7. German Bridge Is Falling Down 8. Movies Are Your Best Escape 9. Go Light On The Heavy Water 10. Top Hat White Tie And Bomb Sight 11. Happiness Is A Warm Sergeant 12. The Scientist 13. Hogan's Hofbrau 14. Oil For The Lamps Of Hogan 15. Reservations Are Required 16. Anchors Aweigh Men Of Stalag 13 17. Happy Birthday Adolf 18. The Gold Rush 19. Hello Zolle 20. It Takes A Thief Sometimes 21. The Great Impersonation 22. The Pizza Parlor 23. The 43rd A Moving Story 24. How To Cook A German Goose By Radar 25. Psychic Kommandant 26. The Prince From The Phone Company 27. The Safecracker Suite 28. I Look Better In Basic Black 29. The Assassin 30. Cupid Comes To Stalag 13 31. The Flame Grows Higher 32. Request Permission To Escape

• Nothing But A Man | DVD | (08/09/2008) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-5.59 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A landmark independent film Nothing But A Man is one of the most sincere and sensitive pictures ever made about the struggles and hardships of Black life in 1960s America. Lauded by critics at the Venice and New York Film Festivals when it first premiered in 1963 this quietly moving beautiful film remains as relevant and powerful today as it was then. Set against the stirrings of the civil rights movement and a rising wave of burgeoning Black price A landmark independent film Nothing But A Man is one of the most sincere and sensitive pictures ever made about the struggles and hardships of Black life in 1960s America. Lauded by critics at the Venice and New York Film Festivals when it first premiered in 1963 this quietly moving beautiful film remains as relevant and powerful today as it was then. Set against the stirrings of the civil rights movement and a rising wave of burgeoning Black price Nothing But A Man tells the story of Duff a railroad section hand who is forced to confront racial prejudice and self-denial when he falls in love with Josie an educated preacher's daughter. Starring Ivan Dixon (Porgy and Bess A Raisin in the Sun) and jazz great Abbey Lincoln in performances Siskel & Ebert called ""terrific "" it is ultimately an uplifting story about a man and a s woman whose love overcomes racial and class barriers. The original soundtrack features Motown stars Stevie Wonder Mary Wells Martha and the Vandellas The Miracles and The Marvelettes. From acclaimed director Michael Roemer Nothing But A Man is a devastatingly powerful film about living life without the basic necessities of dignity and respect. Watching this film we are forced to confront not only what we were but what we are how far we've come and how far we still have to go. To celebrate its 40th anniversary this groundbreaking American classic is available for the first time ever on DVD. tells the story of Duff a railroad section hand who is forced to confront racial prejudice and self-denial when he falls in love with Josie an educated preacher's daughter. Starring Ivan Dixon (Porgy and Bess A Raisin in the Sun) and jazz great Abbey Lincoln in performances Siskel & Ebert called ""terrific "" it is ultimately an uplifting story about a man and a s woman whose love overcomes racial and class barriers. The original soundtrack features Motown stars Stevie Wonder Mary Wells Martha and the Vandellas The Miracles and The Marvelettes. From acclaimed director Michael Roemer Nothing But A Man is a devastatingly powerful film about living life without the basic necessities of dignity and respect. Watching this film we are forced to confront not only what we were but what we are how far we've come and how far we still have to go. To celebrate its 40th anniversary this groundbreaking American classic is available for the first time ever on DVD.

• Suppose They Gave A War And Nobody Came? | DVD | (13/09/2002) from £19.90   |  Saving you £-13.91 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Combine a Warrant Officer and two Sergeants with a bigoted town leader a fat sour sheriff and the luscious Ramona and you end up with an hilarious comedy of untold disasters.

• Twilight Zone, The - Vol.26 | DVD | (24/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Big Tall Wish - An over-the-hill prize-fighter gets a boost from a little boy whose a big fan with a very rare gift in a disillusioned world - an unswerving belief in magic. Showdown with Rance McGrew - TV cowboy star Rance McGrew finds himself in a real Old West saloon where Jesse James challenges him to a showdown over television's negative depiction of outlaws. A Piano in the House - Fitzgerald Fortune a cynical critic uses a magical player piano to disclose his party-guests' hidden selves. He delights in the game but when the tables are turned a painful truth is revealed. Night Call - Lonely and confined to a wheelchair Elva Keene starts to get numerous mysterious phone calls. Terrified she screams the words that will doom her.