"Actor: Joan Crawford"

• Freaks/The Unknown/The Mystic: Tod Browning's Sideshow Shockers (Criterion Collection) - UK Only | Blu Ray | (23/10/2023) from £39.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The world is a carnival of criminality, corruption, and psychosexual strangeness in the twisted pre-Code shockers of Tod Browning. Early Hollywood's edgiest auteur, Browning drew on his experiences as a circus performer to create subversive pulp entertainments set amid the world of traveling sideshows, which, with their air of the exotic and the disreputable, provided a pungent backdrop for his sordid tales of outcasts, cons, villains, and vagabonds. Bringing together two of his defining works (The Unknown and Freaks) and a long-unavailable rarity (The Mystic), this cabinet of pre-Code curiosities reveals a master of the morbid whose ability to unsettle is matched only by his daring compassion for society's most downtrodden.

• Mildred Pierce | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £6.98   |  Saving you £10.01 (143.41%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Joan Crawford delivers a critically acclaimed performance as Mildred Pierce a woman clawing her way to success to provide her daughter with everything she lacks. No sacrifice is too much - ending her middle class marriage climbing to the top of a male-dominated business world and marrying a man she doesn't love - but is murder a step too far? Based on a novel by James M. Cain (The Postman Always Rings Twice Double Indemnity) Mildred Pierce is a stylish film noir which rejuvenated screen icon Joan Crawford's career and earned her an Academy Award for Best Actress.

• Harriet Craig (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (17/02/2025) from £16.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From director Vincent Sherman (Affair in Trinidad) comes the classic drama Harriet Craig, starring Joan Crawford (Strait-Jacket) and Wendell Corey (Rear Window). Manipulative and possessive Harriet (Crawford) controls every aspect of the lives of her husband Walter (Corey) and cousin Clare (K T Stevens, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice), and schemes to destroy their chances of happiness. However, when they become aware of her treachery, her world begins to fall apart... Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Craig's Wife by George Kelly (The Show-Off), Harriet Craig boasts one of Joan Crawford's most devastating performances.

• Queen Bee (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (17/02/2025) from £16.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Joan Crawford (Berserk) and Barry Sullivan (Framed) lead the cast of the atmospheric melodrama Queen Bee. Domineering socialite Eva (Crawford) and her alcoholic husband Avery (Sullivan) are trapped in a hostile and loveless marriage. When Eva's cousin Jennifer (Lucy Marlow, A Star Is Born) comes to stay, she is sucked into a dangerous whirlwind of lies and vengeance... Reuniting Crawford with Mildred Pierce screenwriter Ranald MacDougall, and featuring cinematography by the great Charles Lang (The Shepherd of the Hills), Queen Bee is a riveting slice of Southern Gothic.

• Mildred Pierce | Blu Ray | (27/02/2017) from £23.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Melodrama casts noirish shadows in this portrait of maternal sacrifice from the Hollywood master Michael Curtiz. Its iconic performance by JOAN CRAWFORD (Johnny Guitar) as Mildred, a single mother hell-bent on freeing her children from the stigma of economic hardship, solidified Crawford's career comeback and gave the actor her only Oscar. But as Mildred pulls herself up by the bootstraps, first as an unflappable waitress and eventually as the well-heeled owner of a successful restaurant chain, the ingratitude of her materialistic firstborn (a diabolical ANN BLYTH) becomes a venomous serpent's tooth, setting in motion an endless cycle of desperate overtures and heartless recriminations. Recasting JAMES M. CAIN's rich psychological novel as a murder mystery, this bitter cocktail of blind parental love and all-American ambition is both unremittingly hard-boiled and sumptuously emotional. Special Features: New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack New conversation about Mildred Pierce with critics Molly Haskell and Robert Polito Excerpt from a 1970 episode of The David Frost Show featuring actor Joan Crawford Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star, a 2002 feature-length documentary on Crawford's life and career Q&A with actor Ann Blyth from 2002, conducted by film historian Eddie Muller Segment from a 1969 episode of the Today show featuring novelist James M. Cain Trailer PLUS: An essay by critic Imogen Sara Smith Click Images to Enlarge

• Ealing Studios Boxset 3 | DVD | (16/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  A box set of classic film gems from Ealing studios Includes: 1. The Ladykillers (Dir. Alexander Mackendrick 1955) 2. The Man in The White Suit (Dir. Alexander Mackendrick 1951) 3. The Magnet (Dir. Charles Frend 1950) 4. Scott of The Antarctic (Dir. Charles Frend 1948)

• Night Gallery - The Complete Series (10 disc box set) | DVD | (11/01/2016) from £49.97   |  Saving you £30.02 (60.08%)   |  RRP £79.99

  SEASON ONE Prepare for the chill of a lifetime as the master of suspense, Rod Serling, hosts 17 episodes of terror in this classic series, featuring the original pilot movie and every spine-tingling episode from the complete First Season of Night Gallery. Be thrilled by stories adapted from short stories by such legendary writers as H.P.Lovecraft and Conrad Aiken. Featuring Hollywood greats including Diane Keaton, Joan Crawford and Roddy McDowall, and directed by cinematic masters like Steven Spielberg in this unforgettable series. SEASON TWO Prepare for the unexpected in Season Two of The Night Gallery! Containing all 67 stories from the series and created and hosted by the master of mystery : The Twilight Zone's Rod Serling. Featuring guest performances from a host of legends that reads like a Who's Who of Hollywood, you'll be sure to see sights to amaze! Featuring audio commentaries, behind the scenes featurettes and a gallery presentation of the paintings from the series, this collector's set is the classic anthology of timeless, spine- tingling entertainment you don't dare to miss! SEASON THREE Join the master of mystery Rod Serling as he invites you into the transfixing world of fantasy, horror and science fiction of the Night Gallery. In this complete Third and final season, Serling once again presents stories that still leave an undeniable chill, filled with restless spirits, murderous spouses and unidentified terrors that go bump in the night! Featuring a sensational roster of acting legends including Vincent Price, Mickey Rooney, Sally Field, Sandra Dee, Bill Bixby and Leonard Nimoy, you'll want to be there as the final portrait of suspense is hung in the Night Gallery.....Forever.

• Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? | Blu Ray | (04/11/2013) from £6.79   |  Saving you £11.20 (164.95%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Blackly comic psychodrama from director Robert Altman starring screen legends Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. Jane Hudson (Davis) found fame as child star 'Baby Jane', only to be eclipsed by her sister Blanche (Crawford) when the latter became a Hollywood glamour girl in the 1930s. Blanche's career was brought to an abrupt end by an accident for which Jane was seemingly responsible. Now the two ageing sisters live together in their Hollywood mansion, attended by their maid, Elvira (Maidie Norm...

• Johnny Guitar (Masters of Cinema) Standard Edition Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (11/04/2022) from £13.40   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Joan Crawford (Mildred Pierce) plays Vienna, a saloon owner with a sordid past. Persecuted by the townspeople, Vienna must protect her life and her property when a lynch mob led by her sexually repressed rival, Emma Small (Mercedes McCambridge; All The King's Men), attempts to frame her for a string of robberies she did not commit. Enter Johnny Guitar (Sterling Hayden; Dr. Strangelove: or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb), a guitar-strumming ex-gunfighter who has a history with Vienna. Mis-understood by US audiences upon release, the film was embraced by European cineastes and is now regarded as one of the greatest western pictures of all time. An intensely stylised masterpiece from director Nicholas Ray, Johnny Guitar is re-issued on Blu-ray as part of the Masters of Cinema series. Product Features 1080p presentation on Blu-ray from a 4K restoration of the original film elements, framed in the film's originally intended aspect ratio of 1.66:1 New audio commentary by film scholar Adrian Martin New introduction by critic Geoff Andrew, author of The Films of Nicholas Ray: The Poet of Nightfall New video piece by Tony Rayns Never is a Long Time A new video essay by David Cairns New interview with Susan Ray Archival introduction to Johnny Guitar by Martin Scorsese Trailer PLUS: A 28-page collector's booklet featuring an essay by author Howard Hughes, and an archival interview with director Nicholas Ray

• The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - Series 1 | DVD | (09/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  All five feature-length spinoffs from the classic 1960s spy series 'The Man from U.N.C.L.E'. With weapons in hand - and tongues in cheek - agents Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) and Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum) carry out the bidding of U.N.C.L.E. chief Alexander Waverly (Leo G. Carroll). Guest stars include Joan Crawford, Rip Torn, Herbert Lom, Telly Savalas, Terry-Thomas, John Carradine and Leslie Nielson. Films are: 'The Spy With No Face', 'One Spy Too Many', 'Karate Killers', 'Helicopter ...

• Sudden Fear (Digitally Remastered) | DVD | (07/11/2016) from £9.45   |  Saving you £3.54 (37.46%)   |  RRP £12.99

• William Castle Box Set Volume Two - Limited Edition | Blu Ray | (10/12/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Renowned for his imaginative and eccentric marketing ploys, William Castle became synonymous with delivering lurid horror films backed-up by his trademark publicity gimmicks (˜Illusion-O'; ˜Percepto'; the ˜Punishment Poll'; ˜Fright Breaks', etc.). WILLIAM CASTLE AT COLUMBIA VOLUME TWO features four more weird and wonderful films from the outrageous showman's illustrious career with Columbia Pictures, all presented on Blu-ray for the very first time in the UK. Containing a wealth of new and archival extras this stunning Limited Edition Blu-ray Box Set from Indicator is strictly limited to 6,000 units. INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY BOX SET SPECIAL FEATURES: High Definition remasters of all four films Original mono audio Alternative presentations of The Old Dark House the black and white 1963 US theatrical presentation (87 mins); the cut-down A-certificate 1966 UK presentation (77 mins); and the complete uncut colour presentation (87 mins) Zotz! audio commentary by Diabolique Magazine's editor-in-chief Kat Ellinger 13 Frightened Girls audio commentary by Daughters of Darkness' Samm Deighan The Old Dark House audio commentary by celebrated horror and fantasy authors Kim Newman and Stephen Jones Strait-Jacket audio commentary film historians Lee Gambin and Emma Westwood Stephen Laws Introduces ˜Zotz!' (2018): an appreciation by the acclaimed horror author Kim Newman on Ray Russell (2018): an appreciation of novelist and writer of Zotz! by the critic and author of Nightmare Movies 13 Frightened Girls: William Castle's original 'The Candy Web' opening / closing 'Danger Card' messages 13 Frightened Girls: four alternativee opening sequences created for international release versions Jonathan Rigby on ˜The Old Dark House' and ˜Strait-Jacket' (2018): new appreciations by the author of American Gothic: Six Decades of Classic Horror Cinema ˜The Old Dark House' in Eastmancolor (2018): Paul Frith, Senior Research Associate, School of Art, Media and American Studies at UEA discusses the film's cinematography Joan Had Me Fired! (2018): an interview with actor Anne Helm On the Road with Joan Crawford (2018): an interview with publicist Richard Kahn Battle-Axe: The Making of 'Strait-Jacket' (2007, 15 mins) Joan Crawford Wardrobe Tests (1964, 4 mins) Joan Crawford - Axe Test (1964, 1 min) How to Plan a Movie Murder (1964, 5 mins): star Joan Crawford, director William Castle and author Robert Bloch discuss making Strait-Jacket in this vintage piece Super 8 version of Strait-Jacket Isolated music & effects track on all four films Original theatrical trailers Strait-Jacket trailer commentary with David DeCoteau 13 Frightened Girls original UK trailer introduction Alternative 13 Frightened Girls 'The Candy Web' trailer Promotional and on-set photography, poster art and archive materials New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing Limited Edition box set exclusive booklets for each film with new essays by Joe Jordan, Rachael Nisbet, James Oliver and John Oliver, archival interview materials, contemporary reviews and film credits World and UK premieres on Blu-ray Limited Edition box set of 6,000 numbered units All extras subject to change

• Mildred Pierce | Blu Ray | (09/09/2024) from £29.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Melodrama casts noirish shadows in this portrait of maternal sacrifice from Hollywood master Michael Curtiz. Joan Crawford's iconic performance as Mildred, a single mother hell-bent on freeing her children from the stigma of economic hardship, solidified Crawford's career comeback and gave the actor her only Oscar. But as Mildred pulls herself up by her bootstraps, first as an unflappable waitress and eventually as the well-heeled owner of a successful restaurant chain, the ingratitude of her materialistic firstborn (a diabolical Ann Blyth) becomes a venomous serpent's tooth, setting in motion an endless cycle of desperate overtures and heartless recriminations. Recasting James M. Cain's rich psychological novel as a murder mystery, this bitter cocktail of blind parental love and all-American ambition is both unremittingly hard-boiled and sumptuously emotional. FILM INFO- United States- 1945- 111 minutes- Black & White- 1.37:1- English 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES- 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack- One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features- Conversation with critics Molly Haskell and Robert Polito- Excerpt from a 1970 episode of The David Frost Show featuring actor Joan Crawford- Joan Craw¬ford: The Ultimate Movie Star, a 2002 feature-length documentary- Q&A with actor Ann Blyth from 2006, presented by filmmaker Marc Huestis and conducted by film historian Eddie Muller- Segment from a 1969 episode of the Today show featuring Mildred Pierce novelist James M. Cain- Trailer- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing- PLUS: An essay by critic Imogen Sara Smith- Cover by Sean Phillips

• Berserk (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (21/03/2022) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After the huge success of Robert Aldrich's What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), Hollywood legend Joan Crawford found herself taking the lead in a series of lurid and sensational horror pictures in her later years and Berserk was one of the best and most successful. Crawford stars as a ruthless circus owner who exploits a series of gruesome murders for her own ends... until the killer targets her. Directed by Jim O'Connolly (Valley of Gwangi, Tower of Evil) and co-starring Diana Dors (Yield to the Night, Deep End), Michael Gough (Horror Hospital, Batman) and Judy Geeson (10 Rillington Place, Inseminoid), Berserk is a deranged slice of Great British Grand (Dame) Guignol a bloody exploitation classic! Extras High Definition remaster Original mono audio The NFT Interview with Joan Crawford (1956, 14 mins): archival interview with the celebrated actor, recorded at London's National Film Theatre Audio commentary with film historians Lee Gambin and Eloise Ross The Shopgirl's Delight (2018, 15 mins): career-spanning appreciation of Joan Crawford by film critic Pamela Hutchinson Circus of Blood (2018, 34 mins): Jonathan Rigby, author of English Gothic: Classic Horror Cinema 18972015, provides a wide-ranging production history of Berserk Didier Chatelain on Herman Cohen (2018, 14 mins): Herman Cohen's assistant and business partner remembers the famed producer Tom Baker's Beyond Belief! (1997, 5 mins): introduction by the much-loved actor, recorded for Berserk's UK VHS release Tom Baker's Beyond Belief! Outtakes (1997, 22 mins) Original theatrical trailer Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

• Berserk! - Limited Edition | Blu Ray | (10/12/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After the huge success of Robert Aldrich's What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), Hollywood legend Joan Crawford found herself taking the lead in a series of lurid and sensational horror pictures in her later years and Berserk was one of the best and most successful. Crawford stars as a ruthless circus owner who exploits a series of gruesome murders for her own ends... until the killer targets her. Directed by Jim O Connolly (Valley of Gwangi, Tower of Evil) and co-starring Diana Dors (Yield to the Night, Deep End), Michael Gough (Horror Hospital, Batman) and Judy Geeson (10 Rillington Place, Inseminoid), Berserk is a deranged slice of Great British Grand(Dame) Guignol a bloody exploitation classic! INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES: High Definition remaster Original mono audio The BFI interview with Joan Crawford (1956) Audio commentary with film historians Lee Gambin and Eloise Ross Pamela Hutchinson on Joan Crawford (2018) Jonathan Rigby on 'Berserk' (2018): a new appreciation by the author of American Gothic: Six Decades of Classic Horror Cinema Didier Chatelain on Herman Cohen (2018): an interview with producer Cohen's assistant and business partner Tom Baker's Beyond Belief! VHS Introduction (1997) Tom Baker's Beyond Belief! Outtakes (1997) Original theatrical trailer Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing Limited Edition exclusive booklet containing a new essay by Josephine Botting, archival interviews, historic articles, an overview of contemporary critical responses and full film credits UK premiere on Blu-ray Limited Edition of 3,000 copies All extras subject to change

• The Joan Crawford Collection | DVD | (17/09/2012) from £29.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Mildred PierceA classic American novel published to tie-in with a major new SKY series starring Kate Winslet.Whatever Happened to Baby JanePossessed

• Johnny Guitar (Masters of Cinema) Limited-Edition Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (20/09/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Joan Crawford (Mildred Pierce) plays Vienna, a saloon owner with a sordid past. Persecuted by the townspeople, Vienna must protect her life and her property when a lynch mob led by her sexually repressed rival, Emma Small (Mercedes McCambridge; All The King's Men), attempts to frame her for a string of robberies she did not commit. Enter Johnny Guitar (Sterling Hayden; Dr. Strangelove: or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb), a guitar-strumming ex-gunfighter who has a history with Vienna. Mis-understood by US audiences upon release, the film was embraced by European cineastes and is now regarded as one of the greatest western pictures of all time. An intensely stylised masterpiece from director Nicholas Ray, Johnny Guitar makes its UK debut on Blu-ray as part of the Masters of Cinema series. Special Features Hardbound Slipcase 1080p presentation on Blu-ray from a 4K restoration of the original film elements, framed in the film's originally intended aspect ratio of 1.66:1 Brand new commentary by critic Geoff Andrew, author of The Films of Nicholas Ray: The Poet of Nightfall, newly recorded for this release Brand new video piece by Tony Rayns Brand new video essay by David Cairns Brand new interview with Susan Ray Archival introduction to Johnny Guitar by Martin Scorsese Trailer PLUS: 60-page collector's book featuring new essays on the making of Johnny Guitar and on female gunslingers in the western genre, both by western expert Howard Hughes; an essay by Jonathan Rosenbaum; and archival writing and ephemera *All extras subject to change

• Johnny Guitar | DVD | (04/04/2005) from £10.80   |  Saving you £5.19 (48.06%)   |  RRP £15.99

  One of the stranger westerns to come out of Hollywood the title character is played by the imposing Sterling Hayden. Johnny Guitar is the former lover of Arizona saloon owner Vienna (Joan Crawford). Although her bar isn't bringing in any money Vienna knows that when the railroad is complete customers won't be a problem anymore. Righteous local Emma Small is most unhappy about Vienna's bar and the prospect of more settlers. Emma will do almost anything to purge the town of Vien

• The Man In The White Suit | DVD | (21/06/2004) from £6.47   |  Saving you £7.52 (116.23%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Ealing Comedy--cosy, gentle and whimsical, right? In this case, think again. Alexander Mackendrick was always the most politically aware of the Ealing directors, and in The Man in the White Suit he takes the studio's favourite theme of the little man up against the system and gives it a sharp satirical twist. Sidney Stratton (Alec Guinness at his most unworldly), a maverick scientist working in a Northern textile mill, invents a fabric that never gets dirty and never wears out. He's hailed as a genius--until management and unions alike realise what his brainwave implies. Mackendrick's humour is exact and pointed, and the satire turns savage as a lynch mob of bosses and workers hunt Sidney down through dark narrow streets. Mackendrick's disenchanted view of hidebound, class-ridden British society still rings horribly true, and he draws note-perfect performances from the cream of British character actors: Cecil Parker as the liberal mill-owner (based it's said, on Ealing boss Michael Balcon); Ernest Thesiger as the evil old godfather of the industry; and, wittily sensual as Sidney's confidante, the ever-wonderful Joan Greenwood. Plus, listen out for the "voice" of Sidney's bizarre apparatus, the funniest and most unforgettable sound effect ever devised. --Philip Kemp

• Grand Hotel | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Oscar-winning drama with an all-star cast exploring the interwoven relationships of the residents of a plush Berlin hotel...