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• The Paradine Case | DVD | (08/04/2002) from £14.40   |  Saving you £-8.41 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  This minor 1948 film by Alfred Hitchcock beats a familiar Hitchcockian drum: an attorney (Gregory Peck), in love with the client (Alida Valli) he is defending on a murder charge, implicates himself in her guilt by trying to put the blame on another man. The no-one-is-innocent theme may be consistent with Hitchcock's best films and world view, but this is one of the movies that got away from his crucial passion for the plastic side of creative directing. Stuck in a courtroom for much of the story, the film is fit to burst with possibility but is pinned down like a freshly caught butterfly in someone's airless collection. --Tom Keogh

• Too Young To Love | DVD | (29/07/2015) from £9.29   |  Saving you £5.70 (38.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Too Young To Love: Based on the American play Pickup Girl by Elsa Shelley and Filmed at Beaconsfield Studios this highly moral and controversial film tells the story of a young girls slide into the world of prostitution disease and abortion and her fight to redeem her life. Originally X rated it caused an outcry for support of teenage children in Britain at the time. Frail Women: Maurice Elvey directed this 1931 Twickenham production produced by the prolific Jules Hagen. Lillian (Mary Newcomb) has an illegitimate war baby. The father a soldier unaware of the situation goes off to war. Years later the soldier now a Colonel learns of his child and offers to marry Lillian to give his daughter a name and avoid the social stigma’s of that time. Stars: Mary Newcomb Owen Nares Edmund Gwenn.

• Sabrina The Teenage Witch | DVD | (02/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  She's young pretty athletic and turning sweet sixteen. It's on her 16th birthday that Sabrina (Melissa Joan Hart) will discover that she's been given the gift of magic! Discover Sabrina The Teenage Witch in the delightful movie that launched the successful TV series!

• Hollywood Biographies-Ladies | DVD | (04/09/2006) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-0.24 (-1.20%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A fascinating 5 disc set of half hour profiles spotlighting the personal lives and extraordinary careers of fifty legendary Hollywood leading ladies. Exotic Greta Garbo! Feisty Bette Davis! Sultry Marilyn Monroe! Brilliant Jodie Foster! Just a few of the great movie actresses featured in this definitive collection. From the early classic era of Gloria Swanson Marlene Dietrich and Joan Crawford to more contemporary cinema queens such as Faye Dunaway Jane Fonda and Kim Basinger 'Hollywood Biographies: The Leading Ladies' tells their amazing stories through rare film clips television appearances photographs and interviews.

• Repeat Performance | Blu Ray | (18/02/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Mozart - Mitridate (Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien) | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

• World War II Classics 2 - We Dive At Dawn / Reach For The Sky | DVD | (12/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Two examples of British Second World War films, We Dive at Dawn (1943) and Reach for the Sky (1956), are here stylishly packaged as a World War II Classics pack. We Dive at Dawn tells of the encounter between a British submarine and a German warship in the Baltic Sea. John Mills gives a dependable performance as the submarine commander, with Eric Portman the pick of a strong supporting cast. Director Anthony Asquith finds the balance between action sequences and "in situ" dialogue, and there's an evocative score from Louis Levy. The movie was an underrated film that deserves reappraisal, whereas Reach for the Sky (1956) was a box-office hit and remains a fondly regarded classic. Kenneth More is ideally cast as Douglas Bader, the gifted pilot who loses both legs in a pre-war air crash, only to play a major role in the Battle of Britain, rise to the rank of Group Captain and become a war hero. Based on Paul Brickhill's biography, this is an "official" history maybe, but Lewis Gilbert's screenplay and direction are historically accurate and informed by that very British humour of which More was a natural. The film is graced by a decent supporting cast, and a typically "widescreen" score from John Addison. On the DVD: The black and white prints look and sound excellent. Whereas We Dive at Dawn has 4:3 video aspect ratio, 15 chapter points and no subtitles, the later Reach for the Sky has vivid 16:9 anamorphic reproduction, 20 chapter points, subtitles and detailed biographies of More, Gilbert and Barder. The original theatrical trailer is included, but it would also have made sense to include an interview or documentary footage of Bader himself. Even so, this is an excellent starting-point for investigating a key area of British cinema.--Richard Whitehouse

• Flamingo Road | DVD | (03/03/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• No Holds Barred | Blu Ray | (07/10/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Get ready for the battle no ropes can hold! For the first time ever on DVD and Blu-ray comes the 1989 cult classic featuring Hulk Hogan in his first starring role as Rip a larger-than-life wrestling champ who's been flooring some of the biggest bad guys ever to rock'em and sock 'em in the ring. But when Rip's unstoppable success catches the eye of unscrupulous television executive Tom Brell (Kurt Fuller Wayne's World) he finds himself at the center of a plan to boost the network's sinking ratings by pitting him against a vicious monster named Zeus (Tommy 'Tiny' Lister Friday). Joan Severance (See No Evil Hear No Evil) co-stars in this exciting action drama that shows that anything goes when there are No Holds Barred.

• Dagon | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  With Dagon, director Stuart (Re-Animator) Gordon returns once more to author HP Lovecraft, this time for an adaptation of the novella The Shadow Over Innsmouth, with the setting switched from the coast of New England to the creepy Spanish fishing village of Inboca. After a sudden storm and a yacht-wreck, a bespectacled and bewildered Paul Marsh (Ezra Gooden) finds himself stranded in the literally fishy town, which has thrown over Catholicism to devote itself to the worship of the Philistine sea-god Dagon. His influence means that the inhabitants are transforming into pop-eyed, tentacled and gilled creatures. Though Gooden perhaps strikes too strident a note to convince as an everyday guy, director Gordon orchestrates the rising terrors well. These range from a supremely damp and uncomfortable hotel room through an impressive flashback about the rise of the Esoteric Order of Dagon to some sinister business with a mad-eyed mermaid (Macarena Gomez), human sacrifice and nasty surprises all round. Unfortunately, Gordon still can't quite distinguish between acceptably gruesome and downright nasty, especially when it comes to disposing of secondary female characters. On the plus side, Dagon boasts an excellent score, which even tries to set to music some of Lovecraft's invented language ("Ia Ia Cthulhu fh'tagn"). --Kim Newman

• Brimstone And Treacle | DVD | (25/10/1999) from £10.95   |  Saving you £-0.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In Dennis Potter's Brimstone And Treacle Sting delivers one of his finest performances as Martin Taylor a mysterious stranger who arrives on the doorstep of the Bates household and soon worms his way into their lives. Mr and Mrs Bates (Denholm Elliott and Joan Plowright) soon grow to trust Martin but his intentions are less than honourable when it soon becomes clear that he is lusting after their comatose daughter...

• Sudden Fear | DVD | (26/07/2010) from £16.18   |  Saving you £-3.19 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A wealthy lady playwright is wooed by and ultimately marries a younger actor/con artist she once fired.

• Sutherland / Pavarotti / Bonynge Gala Concert | DVD | (02/05/2006) from £28.60   |  Saving you £-13.61 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Live From Sydney Opera House (Joan Sutherland / Luciano Pavarotti)

• Joan Sutherland - Bel Canto Showcase - Voice Of Firestone | DVD | (07/07/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

• Fantastic Voyage/Voyage to Bottom of the Sea | DVD | (02/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Irwin Allen's visually impressive but scientifically silly Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea updates 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea as the world's most advanced experimental submarine manoeuvres under the North Pole while the Van Allen radiation belt catches fire, giving the concept "global warming" an entirely new dimension. As the Earth broils in temperatures approaching 170 degrees F, Walter Pidgeon's maniacally driven Admiral Nelson hijacks the Seaview sub and plays tag with the world's combined naval forces on a race to the South Pacific, where he plans to extinguish the interstellar fire with a well-placed nuclear missile. But first he has to fight a mutinous crew, an alarmingly effective saboteur, not one but two giant squid attacks and a host of design flaws that nearly cripple the mission (note to Nelson: think backup generators). Barbara Eden shimmies to Frankie Avalon's trumpet solos in the most form-fitting naval uniform you've ever seen; fish-loving Peter Lorre plays in the shark tank; gloomy religious fanatic Michael Ansara preaches Armageddon; and Joan Fontaine looks very uncomfortable playing an armchair psychoanalyst. It's all pretty absurd, but Allen pumps it up with larger-than-life spectacle and lovely miniature work. Fantastic Voyage is the original psychedelic inner-space adventure. When a brilliant scientist falls into a coma with an inoperable blood clot in the brain, a surgical team embarks on a top-secret journey to the centre of the mind in a high-tech military submarine shrunk to microbial dimensions. Stephen Boyd stars as a colourless commander sent to keep an eye on things (though his eyes stay mostly on shapely medical assistant Raquel Welch), while Donald Pleasence is suitably twitchy as the claustrophobic medical consultant. The science is shaky at best, but the imaginative spectacle is marvellous: scuba-diving surgeons battle white blood cells, tap the lungs to replenish the oxygen supply and shoot the aorta like daredevil surfers. The film took home a well-deserved Oscar for Best Visual Effects. Director Richard Fleischer, who had previously turned Disney's 1954 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea into one of the most riveting submarine adventures of all time, creates a picture so taut with cold-war tensions and cloak-and-dagger secrecy that niggling scientific contradictions (such as, how do miniaturised humans breathe full-sized air molecules?) seem moot. --Sean Axmaker

• Knots Landing: The Complete Second Season | DVD | (11/01/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Stan Lee's Mutants, Monsters And Marvels | DVD | (17/06/2002) from £6.73   |  Saving you £6.26 (48.20%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In 1961 Stan Lee teamed up with artist Jack Kirby to create the humanly flawed super-hero team The Fantastic Four changing the face of comic books forever. Stan and Jack followed up by going on a creative rampage introducing mega franchise characters like: The Incredible Hulk The Mighty Thor and The Uncanny X-Men. Then in 1964 Stan teamed with artist Steve Ditko to create a teenage super hero who had real teenager problems- a hero who would lose as much as he would win. The

• Murder Without Crime | DVD | (26/08/2013) from £11.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A Hitchcockian psychological thriller, Murder without Crime marked the directing debut of J. Lee Thompson, who would go on to score numerous box-office successes over four decades with a series of iconic films that made him a top-ranking director both in Britain and the US. Adapted from Thompson's own West End play Double Error, Murder without Crime is presented here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements. When author Stephen and his wife Jan have a violent quarrel, both sto...

• The Sky's The Limit | DVD | (04/10/2010) from £18.23   |  Saving you £-5.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  One of Fred Astaire's least known but double Oscar nominated dance movies features Fred performing his legendary breaking glass dance routine. Fred Atwell (Fred Astaire) is a decorated Air Force pilot home on leave and expected to act as a cardboard hero for a morale-boosting tour of his Flying Tiger squadron. Bored by the whole affair however Fred takes off his uniform and goes incognito in New York for a few days bumping into Joan Mannion (Joan Leslie) a bright-eyed photographer who sings and dances. Determined to win over the girl for what he is and not his reputation Fred allows Joan to think he's a waster who doesn't want to serve his country. Naturally Joan wants nothing to do with this shirker but then she sees him dance...

• Death Of A Salesman | DVD | (07/10/2002) from £12.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (46.19%)   |  RRP £18.99

  A star-studded stage adaptation of Arthur Miller's classic play about hope failure family and ambition.