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• Laurel And Hardy - Way Out West | DVD | (27/12/2000) from £7.79   |  Saving you £10.20 (130.94%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Way Out West, Laurel and Hardy's sole foray into cowboy country, benefits from their rousing rendition of "The Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia" (a song which made it into the British charts a few years ago) and some inspired villainy from James Finlayson, the Scottish actor who was frequently cast as Stan and Ollie's nemesis (here, he plays villainous bartender Mickey Finn). The plot is some hokum about Stan and Ollie's attempts to deliver deeds to a gold mine to the daughter of an old pal. What matters is the clowning--most of which is inspired. --Geoffrey Macnab

• Two Came Back | DVD | (30/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Susan Clarkson sets off on an adventure she hadn't bargained for when she joins a yacht to cruise from San Diego bound for Vancouver. When a storm hits the engine cuts out so the crew abandon the vessel. Hurt hungry and adrift matters worsen....

• Brother Can You Spare A Dime | DVD | (01/09/2008) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-5.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Brother Can You Spare A Dime? is the chronicle of an unforgettable period in American history - twelve painful years from the Wall Street crash to Pearl Harbour. By juxtaposing contemporary news and documentary footage with Hollywood film classics Philippe Mora Sandy Lieberson and David Puttnam create an evocative film scrapbook of America during the Depression. Songs and images stick in the mind: whilst Bessie Smith sings Nobody loves you when you're down and out a ragged child huddles against the bleak landscape. Fortunes dwindle the small man's savings disappear men lose their jobs and the banks go bust. Two American heroes emerge: James Cagney Hollywood's little man who won't be beaten and Franklin D. Roosevelt stepping into the breach as America's new President.