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• The Penny Pool | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £7.36   |  Saving you £5.63 (76.49%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Penny Pool features Duggie Wakefield and his Crazy Gang who come to the assistance of young lovers Tommy Bancroft and Renee Harland who have been sacked from their jobs for filling in The Penny football pools during work hours. But the Crazy Gangs assistance is not always useful! Stick Em Up: Jimmy Jewel and Ben Warriss team up again as a pair of inept private detectives who are engaged to save a young man who is charged with murder from the gallows. With detectives like this pair on his side the young man will be lucky to escape with his life!

• Aristocats/The Fox And The Hound (Disney) | DVD | (04/02/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £27.99

  Aristocats (Dir. Wolfgang Reitherman) (1970): Disney's 20th full-length animated classic The Aristocats is an unforgettable mix of wild adventure colourful characters and jazzy music your family will find absolutely irresistible! The enchanting tale begins in Paris when a kind and eccentric millionairess wills her entire estate to her family - a family of adorable high-society cats. Overhearing her plan Edgar the greedy butler catnaps Duchess the elegant soft-spoken mother and her three mischievous kittens and abandons them in the French countryside. The charming Thomas O' Malley a rough-and-tumble alley cat saunters by and offers to escort them home. Along the way they stop at Thomas' ""pad"" where Scat Cat and his band of swingin' jazz cats perform the memorable ""Ev'rybody Wants To Be A Cat"". The Fox And The Hound (Dir. Ted Berman & Richard Rich (1981): This highly acclaimed classic blends vibrant animation and breathtaking action to tell the story of two best friends who didn't know they were supposed to be enemies. The fun and adventure begin when a lonely widow adopts an orphaned fox cub named Tod. The mischievous fox soon meets up with Copper an adorable hound puppy. As the innocent pair grow up together in the forest they become inseparable friends. But the day soon arrives when their friendship is put to the test!

• Laurel And Hardy Collection - Vol 1 (Silent Comedy) | DVD | (27/08/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £23.99

  Stan Laurel in 'The Home Wrecker' Discharged from the 372nd infantry on account of a bean shortage Smithy (Laurel) seeks employment as a labourer. Given a note to take to the Foreman who upon reading it asks ""Do you know anything about building?"" ""No "" Smithy replies to which the foreman says ""Just the man we're looking for"". So starts a wonderful little comedy. Oliver Hardy in 'The Four Wheeled Terror' Hardy plays ""Dangerous Dan McGraw"" who along with his henchmen try to pr

• The Dead Pit | DVD | (08/05/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A mad doctor performs fiendish experiments on a group of mental asylum patients. In an effort to stop the slaughter a colleague eventually feels driven to kill him The corpse of the once brilliant Dr. Ramzi is sealed along with those of his victims in a pit. Twenty-one years later a beautiful young woman suffering from total amnesia is admitted. Soon after a massive earthquake hits the asylum and strange and terrifying events start to happen.

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

  Director George Stevens' legendary rendition of the archetypal Western myth earned six Academy Award nominations and made Shane one of the timeless classics of American cinema. Based on Jack Schaefer's novel the story brings Alan Ladd a drifter and retired gunfighter to the assistance of a homestead family terrorised by an ageing cattleman and his hired gun. In fighting a last decisive battle Shane sees the end of his own way of life. Mysterious moody and atmospheric th

• Denver The Last Dinosaur - Vol. 2 | DVD | (21/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Denver The Last Dinosaur has been in suspended animation for 65 million years but now he is everyone's newest friend. Filled with magic warmth and friendship Denver always finds himself in the middle of unexpected adventures. A big hit on British TV in the late 80s this volume features four more action packed adventures featuring the lovable dinosaur.

• Adam Adamant Lives | DVD | (16/02/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  He was dashing debonair and daring. He had pledged to fight evil to undertake any dangerous or delicate mission on behalf of his sovereign. He was fin de siecle gentleman Adam Adamant. Was and is - for Adam Adamant Lives! A Vintage Year for Scoundrels: Lured from an opulent ballroom to the rat-ridden streets of Edwardian Stepney Adam Adamant confronts his most deadly enemy - the Face an evil genius who condemns him to a state of suspended animation entombed in a block of ice. When he awakens sixty-four years later in the sordid swinging sixties streets of Soho the bemused and befuddled adventurer is befriended by Georgina Jones and is quickly plunged into the twilight world of gangsters and protection rackets. Death Has a Thousand Faces: Why does death lie in wait for the man with the stick of rock? What does the coded cipher hidden inside it mean? To find out Adam and Georgina drive to Blackpool where they're enmeshed in a world of drama and danger where fear lurks in every fairground and the executioner's block in the Horror Museum awaits another noble neck. As the seconds tick away it looks as if Blackpool's Golden Mile will be reduced to a pile of dust-swirling debris - can Adam prevent it from becoming a mere golden memory?

• The Twilight Zone - Complete Season One Limited Edition | DVD | (22/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow between science and superstition and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area we call...The Twilight Zone! This fantastic 6 DVD boxed set contains all 36 episodes from Rod Serling's classic groundbreaking series. Episodes comprise: 1. Where Is Everybody? 2. One For The Angels 3. Mr. Denton On Doomsday 4. Sixteen Millimeter Shrine 5. Walking Distance 6. Escape Clause 7. The Lonely 8. Time Enough At Last 9. Perchance To Dream 10. Judgment Night 11. And When The Sky Was Opened 12. What You Need 13. The Four Of Us Are Dying 14. Third From The Sun 15. I Shot An Arrow Into The Air 16. The Hitch-Hiker 17. The Fever 18. The Last Flight 19. The Purple Testament 20. Elegy 21. Mirror Image 22. The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street 23. A World Of Difference 24. Long Live Walter Jameson 25. People Are Alike All Over 26. Execution 27. The Big Tall Wish 28. A Nice Place To Visit 29. Nightmare As A Child 30. A Stop At Willoughby 31. The Chaser 32. A Passage For Trumpet 33. Mr. Bevis 34. The After Hours 35. The Mighty Casey 36. A World Of His Own

• My Brothers Keeper | DVD | (08/08/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  George Martin (Jack Warner) and Willie Stannard (George Cole) are handcuffed together and on their way to a West Country jail when they escape and go on the run. Martin is a hardened dangerous criminal but Stannard is a simple-minded youth who claims he is innocent of the crime for which he is awaiting trial. As they go on the run handcuffed together Martin steals a corporal's uniform and pretends that Stannard is a deserter in his charge. Desperate to unshackle himself from the simple-minded youth Martin finds a hacksaw in a deserted cottage but they are surprised by a huntsman. In the ensuing struggle Martin murders the huntsman and the search for escaped prisoners becomes a manhunt for a murderer...

• Whatever Happened To Aunt Alice? | DVD | (02/07/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? sees a change of direction for Robert Aldrich's unofficial trilogy which all involve "ageing actresses" in macabre thrillers (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? and Hush ... Hush, Sweet Charlotte). The busy Aldrich only produced What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?, calling in TV director Lee H Katzin (a Mission: Impossible regular) to handle the megaphone. Aldrich also opted to shoot the film in pastel colours appropriate to the unusual Arizona desert setting rather than the gothic black and white of the earlier films. The film cast the less iconic Geraldine Page as the genteelly unpleasant Mrs Clare Marrable. Left apparently penniless by her departed husband, Mrs M opts to keep up appearances by hiring a succession of timid elderly housekeepers, bossing them around with well-spoken nastiness, duping them out of their life savings and, on the pretence of getting help with a midnight tree-planting program, lures them into their own graves, batters them to death and plants lovely pines over them. Page gets her own way with the meek likes of Mildred Dunnock, until the feistier, red-wigged R!uth Gordon applies for the job and gets down to amateur sleuthing. While Bette Davis and her partners went wildly over the top in previous films, Page and Gordon play more subtly, finding odd pathetic moments in between the monstrous, irony-laced horror stuff. The supporting cast of pretty or handsome young things, mostly putty in the hands of the manipulative Page, contribute striking little cameos (Rosemary Forsyth sports a pleasing 1969 hairdo as the kindly but intimidated neighbour), but the film belongs to its leading ladies, delivering a fine line in twist-packed cat-and-mouse theatrics. The video is handsomely letterboxed, as befits a film made before widescreen films were shot with all the action in the middle of the frame to facilitate television sales. --Kim Newman

• Gulliver's Travels | DVD | (12/07/2004) from £22.68   |  Saving you £-17.69 (-354.50%)   |  RRP £4.99

  This 1939 animated film by the great Max Fleischer is based on Jonathan Swift's classic novel about a sailor stranded on an island populated by people the size of this thumb. A milestone in the art of animation this was the second animated motion picture of its magnitude ever produced after Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

• A Farewell To Arms | DVD | (01/07/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  The 1932 version of A Farewell to Arms owes as much to the shimmering house style of Paramount Pictures as it does the novel by Ernest Hemingway. If Hemingway purists can get past the romanticising of the book, however, this film offers its own glossy appeal. On the Italian front in World War I an American ambulance driver (Gary Cooper) falls in love with a nurse (Helen Hayes). Cooper was a Hemingway friend in real life, and later played the hero of Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls; his boyish simplicity is just right for director Frank Borzage's heartfelt approach. The Oscar-winning cinematography of ace cameraman Charles Lang is the kind of lush black and white that can capture the glow from a cigarette as it plays across Cooper's darkened face--a breathtaking touch. The jaded battle scenes show the influence of the hit film version of All Quiet on the Western Front, especially in a gripping montage depicting Cooper's progress alone through the war zone. Hemingway would have none of it, of course; he once disdainfully wrote that "in the first picture version Lt. Henry deserted because he didn't get any mail and then the whole Italian Army went along, it seems, to keep him company". This is first and foremost a love story, however, and as such it succeeds beautifully, right through to the remarkably intense ending. --Robert Horton, Amazon.com

• Happy Gilmore/ Billy Madison/Anger Management | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Billy Madison: He's heir to the Madison Hotel millions but the only subjects Billy has studied lately are babes and booze. For him life has been a ten-year party since he left high school: drinking bottomless daiquiris catching rays by the pool pulling moronic pranks and chasing anything in (or out of!) a skirt. (Dir. Tamra Davis 1995): But when Brian Madison informs his goofball son that he plans to turn over his Fortune 500 company to vice president and corporate weasel Eric Gordon Billy makes the bet of his life. He's going back to school - grades 1 through 12 in 24 weeks! - with hilarious results. And this time Mr Madison's cheque book won't be the source of Billy's academic advancement. Can bona fide blockhead Billy clean up his act to win his father's respect the family fortune and the love of his beautiful teacher Veronica? Hey it's worth a shot! Happy Gilmore: Adam Sandler stars in this hilarious comedy that scores a hole in one for gut-busting wit and outrageous slapstick. Happy a raucous hockey player turned golfer sends the sedate sport into overdrive after he becomes a media sensation with his outlandish antics on the links. It's par for the course entertainment co-starring Christopher McDonald Carl Weathers and Kevin Nealon. (Dir. Dennis Dugan 1996) Anger Management: Dave Buznik (Adam Sandler) is usually a mild-mannered non-confrontational guy. But after an altercation aboard an airplane he is remanded to the care of anger management therapist Dr. Buddy Rydell (Jack Nicholson) who could probably use some anger management himself. Now Dave is really mad! (Dir. Peter Segal 2003)

• The Raven | DVD | (13/10/2008) from £3.39   |  Saving you £2.60 (76.70%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A terrifying journey through the mind of terror master Edgar Allan Poe this horrifying tale pits two spirits - one good one evil - to battle over the soul of a young girl. As a child Lenore was haunted by visions of terror and read only the poems and stories of Poe. Now as the lead singer in an L.A. band Lenore is victimised by a supernatural killer who murders her friends and colleagues before her turns his evil sights on her.

• Galaxy Of Terror | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  James Cameron served as Production Manager in this classic 80's sci-fi slasher film featuring a pre-Freddy Robert Englund. The planet Morganthus graveyard for many stricken spacecraft is dominated by an evil force field emanating from an awesome pyramid. Horrific deaths follow one-by-one as a rescue team is drawn to the pyramid.

• The Texas Rangers | DVD | (06/02/2006) from £9.74   |  Saving you £0.25 (2.57%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Made with the full cooperation of the real-life Texas Rangers this sprawling historical western stars Fred MacMurray as Jim Hawkins one of three outlaws working the Lone Star State in the years following the American Civil War. Both Jim Hawkins and his partner in crime Wahoo Jones (Jack Oakie) decide to go straight but their bandit pal Sam McGee (Lloyd Nolan) has not quite seen the light as they have. Eventually Jim and Wahoo join the fledgling Texas Rangers an organization

• Mr Deeds / Big Daddy / Anger Management | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Mr Deeds (Dir. Steven Brill 2002): Small town guy Longfellow Deeds (Adam Sandler) inherits a billion fortune from his deceased uncle. He promptly moves to the big city where he meets Babe Bennett (Winona Ryder) a tabloid reporter who poses as a small town girl to uncover an expos'' on Mr Deeds. Conniving opportunists attempt to get their hands on his money while Deeds' sincere naivet'' has Babe falling in love with him. Ultimately Deeds comes to find that money truly has the power to change things but it doesn't necessarily need to change him... Big Daddy (Dir. Dennis Dugan 1999): Thirty-two-year old Sonny Koufax (Adam Sandler) has spent his whole life avoiding responsibility. But when his girlfriend dumps him for an older man he's got to find a way to prove he's ready to grow up. In a desperate last-ditch effort Sonny adopts five-year-old Julian to impress her. She's not impressed...and he can't return the kid. Uh-oh for Sonny! Anger Management (Dir. Peter Segal 2003): Dave Buznik (Adam Sandler) is usually a mild-mannered non-confrontational guy. But after an altercation aboard an airplane he is remanded to the care of anger management therapist Dr. Buddy Rydell (Jack Nicholson) who could probably use some anger management himself. Now Dave is really mad!

• Out Of Town - Vol.7-9 | DVD | (28/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  For lovers of rural England countryman Jack Hargreaves embarks on a series of delightful expeditions through the English countryside. With the countryside once again back in the news the series demonstrates country life and the importance of rural economies trades and habitats.

• The Twilight Zone - Vol. 1 | DVD | (26/05/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In 1959 screenwriter Rod Serling first opened the door to the "dimension of imagination" that is The Twilight Zone, a show quite unlike anything that had gone before, and better than much that has followed in its wake. This original and daring television series ran for a magnificent five seasons from 1959 to 1964 and still looks as fresh as ever, particularly on DVD. What distinguished the series (and still does) is the quality of the scripts, many of which were penned by Serling, but with significant contributions from veteran sci-fi authors and screenwriters such as Richard Matheson. Actors of the calibre of Robert Redford, Burgess Meredith, Lee Marvin and William Shatner gave some of their best small-screen performances, while an unforgettable main title theme by Bernard Herrmann and musical contributions from young turks such as Jerry Goldsmith underlined the show's attraction for great creative talent both behind and in front of the cameras.What's immediately apparent on watching Volume 1 is the quality of the scripts, proving that great writing is timeless. Of the three episodes on this first disc, the screenplays are by Serling himself (episode 47, "Night of the Meek"), Richard Matheson (episode 51, "The Invaders") and Zone regular George Clayton Johnson (episode 81, "Nothing in the Dark"). The acting does full justice to the writers' high standards. Art Carney as the alcoholic department store Santa Claus in "Night of the Meek" provides a theatre-sized one-man masterclass, his close-up performance conveying all the character's desperation then new-found joy. Veteran Agnes Moorehead (who made her screen debut as Charles Foster Kane's mother in Citizen Kane) faces an unusual challenge in Matheson's almost entirely wordless "The Invaders", in which she plays a frightened old woman who is attacked by tiny aliens (when the mystified Moorehead first read the script, which had no dialogue for her at all, she asked "Where's my part?"). In the claustrophobic two-hander "Nothing in the Dark", a fresh-faced Robert Redford is more than usually charming as Gladys Cooper's unwanted visitor who might or might not be Death himself.On the DVD: A neat animated menu with a winking eye guides the viewer "Inside the Twilight Zone", which consists of digests of background information on the individual episodes, as well as a general history of the show, season-by-season breakdown and a potted biography of Serling. --Mark Walker

• 20 Pack: Action (including Annihilators, Joyride, Final Assignment, Breaker Morant, Tenth Of A Second & 15 More) | DVD | (02/04/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  1. The Annihilators (Dir. Charles E. Sellier Jr. 1985) 2. Joyride (Dir. Quinton Peeples 1996) 3. Final Assignment (Dir. Paul Almond 1980) 4. Breaker Morant (Dir. Bruce Beresford 1980) 5. Tenth Of A Second (Dir. Darrell Roodt 1987) 6. The Underground (Dir. Cole S. McKay 1997) 7. Epicenter (Dir. Richard Pepin 2000) 8. Firetrap (Dir. Harris Done 2001) 9. Land Of The Free (Dir. Jerry Jameson 1997) 10. Last Man Standing (Dir. Joseph Merhi 1996) 11. Fist Of Honour (Dir. Richard Pepin 1993) 12. Kickboxer 3 (Dir. Rick King 1992) 13. Impulse (Dir. William Grefe 1974) 14. Knights Of The City (Dir. Dominic Orlando 1986) 15. Peter Gunn (Dir. Blake Edwards 1989) 16. Secret of The Andes (Dir. Alejandro Azzano 1999) 17. Bruce Lee: Immortal Dragon - Documentary 18. Manhunt (Dir. Larry Ludman 1984) 19. Street Corner Justice (Dir. Charles Bail 1996) 20. Street Of Dreams (Dir. William A. Graham 1988)