"Actor: Jean Simmons"

• Say Hello To Yesterday | DVD | (04/04/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  One of the most underrated British films produced between the end of the swinging sixties and the beginning of the hippy seventies. Leonard Whiting (Romeo from Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet) plays a young dreamer who is trapped in a working class existence: living in a council house with a father who has no horizon higher than working in the local factory. Jean Simmons is the mature woman living in a leafy Surrey house with her stockbroker husband and two children but desperately unhappy. When the two unlikely lovers meet on a train to London Whiting ignores the come-on from Susan Penhaligon by saying 'today I am going to climb Mount Everest ' and so begins his charm offensive of the mature woman across London's 1970s landscape. Beautifully written and with expert filming by Geoffrey Unsworth Say Hello To Yesterday is one of the most insightful British films of its day.

• Kiss The Bride Goodbye | DVD | (18/11/2013) from £9.09   |  Saving you £3.90 (42.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Made in 1944 this Butchers film stars a very young Jean Simmons almost two years before she achieved stardom in Great Expectations. Trying to climb a rung on the social ladder Joan (Patricia Medina) is pressured into marrying pompous boss (Claud Allister) by her pushy mother (Ellen Pollock) - but Joan loves a soldier (Jimmy Hanley) who is away fighting. On his return he finds Joan betrothed and he storms off to Scotland Joan decides to follow and all ends happily... also stars Irene Handl.

• Divorce American Style | DVD | (18/09/2006) from £25.00   |  Saving you £-12.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  If you thought divorce was ugly try marriage! Meet Richard and Barbara Harmon. A typical American couple together for 17 years. But lately things have gotten too predictable and stale. The once loving couple spends their evenings arguing their marriage quickly unravelling. They visit a marriage counselor to no avail and when Richard pays a drunken visit to a prostitute (Lee Grant) they split up. But the Harmons find their newly-single lifestyle isn't going to be easy. Richard meets Jason Robards (All The President's Men) who plays matchmaker for his ex-wife Jean Simmons (Spartacus) figuring he won't have to pay alimony if she's re-married to Richard. Barbara falls for Big Al (Van Johnson) a car dealer with a mother fixation. but when Barbara and Richard are reunited at a nightclub one evening they come to the realization that even though they didn't have a perfect marriage it was a lot better than their divorce

• Androcles And The Lion | DVD | (20/09/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Androcles is a simple Christian who follows his religious teaching even with animals. Seeing a lion in pain Androcles removes a huge thorn from the beast's paw. However Androcles is arrested by the Romans and condemned to death by being fed to the lions in the Coliseum arena. But amongst the pack of lions is one who remembers the painful thorn...

• Howl's Moving Castle (Limited Edition Sleeve Design Exclusive to Amazon.co.uk) | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

• Black Narcissus | DVD | (26/09/2005) from £22.94   |  Saving you £-2.95 (-14.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When Bernardo Bertolucci went to the Himalayas to film Little Buddha, so the anecdote runs, he was disappointed by the scenery. Somehow, the real thing didn't quite live up to what he'd been led to expect by Powell and Pressburger's Black Narcissus. It's not hard to see why he felt let down. Their film is almost ridiculously gorgeous--a procession of saturated Technicolor, Expressionist angles, theatrical lighting and overwrought design. It has a good claim to being the high watermark of lushness in the British cinema (and, incidentally, every original foot of it was actually shot in Britain). No wonder it took the Oscar for colour cinematography (shot by Jack Cardiff) as well as for art direction and set decoration (created by Alfred Junge).Audiences loved it on its first release, but the critics were cooler: hadn't the story been upstaged by the baroque images? Well, probably, but that's not altogether a bad thing, since the plot--quite faithful to Rumer Godden's popular novel --isn't wholly free of corn. A group of five Anglican nuns, led by Sister Clodagh (Deborah Kerr) establish a school and hospital in a former harem among the Himalayan peaks. The wind blows, the drums pound, the Old Gods stir, and one by one the celibate sisters succumb to unchaste thoughts, above all Sister Ruth (Kathleen Byron, terrific in the role), so consumed by erotic yearning for the one Englishman in sight (David Farraar) she puts on crimson lipstick, wears her wimple-free tresses like an early Goth and takes a downward turn. (Black Narcissus features the greatest scene involving a nun and a high place this side of Hitchcock's Vertigo and Jacques Rivette's La Religieuse.) Silly, to be sure, but also sublime at times and as curiously entertaining as it is picturesque. --Kevin Jackson

• Black Narcissus | Blu Ray | (23/06/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Powel and Pressburger added to their run of daring stimulating and stylistic pictures with this melodrama about a group of Anglican nuns establishing a remote mission high in the Himalayas. Their physical environment - extreme temperatures illness and a young Indian Prince's perfume (Black Narcissus) - leads to psychological disturbance coupled with emotional weakness. Jealousy sexual repression and hysteria all play their part in a fantastic climax which ripped through the British stiff upper lip attitude of the time. The casting is inspired with brilliant performances from the principals and the film deservedly won Oscars for Colour Cinematography and Art Direction.

• Spartacus - Original Poster Series | Blu Ray | (26/08/2013) from £11.49   |  Saving you £3.50 (23.30%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Gladiator-rebel escapes from slavery and with an army of slaves challenges the awesome might of Imperial Rome becoming a shining symbol of freedom for all mankind. Special Features: Limited Edition packaging featuring rarely seen film posters and design artwork Image Gallery Deleted Scenes Theatrical Trailer Archival Interviews Interview with Peter Ustinov Archival Interviews: Interview with Jean Simmons Behind-the-Scenes Footage Vintage Newsreels

• Spartacus | HD DVD | (29/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This presentation of the powerful film classic features an additional five minutes of footage cut from the film's original release plus the original overture and extended soundtrack. Director Stanley Kubrick tells the tale of Spartacus (Kirk Douglas) the bold gladiator slave and Varinia (Jean Simmons) the woman who believed in his cause. Challenged by the power-hungry General Crassus (Laurence Olivier) Spartacus is forced to face his convictions and the power of the Imperial Rome at its glorious height. The inspirational true account of man's eternal struggle for freedom Spartacus combines history with spectacle to create a moving drama of love and commitment.

• Classic Epic Films Collection - 300 Spartans/Alexander The Great/The Robe/Demetrius And The Gladiators | DVD | (01/10/2007) from £25.63   |  Saving you £4.36 (17.01%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Titles Comprise: The 300 Spartans:Released just a few years before a similar British film Zulu this 1962 English gladiator film depicts the tiny army of Sparta and their efforts to stave off an attack by Persian forces which greatly outnumbered the Spartans. Led by King Leonidis (Richard Egan) the Spartans army consisted primarily of a security force who guarded the palace. This rousing gladiator epic boasts an incredible cast including Diane Baker Ralph Rich

• Gladiator/Spartacus | DVD | (14/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Gladiator: The great Roman General Maximus (Russell Crowe) has once again led the legions to victory on the battlefield. The war won Maximus dreams of home wanting only to return to his wife and son; however the dying Emperor Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris) has one more duty for the general - to assume the mantle of his power. Jealous of Maximus' favor with the emperor the heir to the throne Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix) orders his execution - and that of his family. Barely escaping death Maximus is forced into slavery and trained as a gladiator in the arena where his fame grows. Now he has come to Rome intent on avenging the murder of his wife and son by killing the new emperor; Commodus.... Spartacus: Stanley Kubrick's film tells the tale of Spartacus the bold gladiator slave and Virinia the woman who believed in his cause. Challenged by the power-hungry General Crassus Spartacus is forced to face his convictions and the power of Imperial Rome at its glorious height. A classic inspirational true account of one man's struggle for freedom Spartacus combines history with spectacle to recreate a moving drama of love and commitment.

• This Earth is Mine (Esta Tierra ES Mía) Spanish Import, Plays in English | DVD | (01/06/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Jean Simmons Collection - How To Make An American Quilt/Spartacus/Divorce American Style/A Bullet Is Waiting | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  How To Make An American Quilt (Dir. Jocelyn Moorhouse 1995): Berkeley graduate student Finn (Winona Ryder) is spending the summer at the home of her sparring grandmother and great aunt (Oscar-winners Ellen Burstyn & Anne Bancroft). Their house is a quiet haven where Finn intends to finish her latest thesis and think over a marriage proposal. But when she meets sexy smoldering Leon things begin to get complicated. As she wrestles with her decision the women in her grandmothe