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• Lovers-the Complete Series | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The master script-writer Jack Rosenthal created this magnificent comedy series for ITV back in 1970; starring Richard Beckinsale and Paula Wilcox as a pair of bickering lovers. Beryl (Wilcox) constantly dreams of the ideal white wedding to her sneaky boyfriend Geoffrey (Beckinsale) who'd rather like to fool around in some 'extra-curricular' fun before the big day - as his life-sized cut-out of Brigitte Bardot will testify ! As the two row and make up again Beryl's ever-present m

• Mixed Blessings - The Complete Series 2 | DVD | (28/05/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Created and written by Sid Green (Morecambe and Wise: Two of a Kind, The Strange World of Gurney Slade), Mixed Blessings stars Christopher Blake (That's My Boy) and Muriel Odunton as a mixed-race couple struggling to placate their disapproving and constantly bickering families. This popular and - for its time - provocative series also stars much-loved sitcom stalwarts Carmen Munro (The Fosters), and Joan Sanderson (Please Sir!).Series Two finds the ever-obliging newlyweds continuing to be torn between two sets of in-laws, as Thomas finally lands an engineering job, and Susan announces her pregnancy. Her news meets with typically mixed responses: fathers-in-law William and Edward seem dismayed, and even Matilda and Annie, who both welcome the event, find a reason to squabble. Thomas and Susan - who'd hoped a baby might just bring the two families together - are once again driven to despair...

• Cosh Boy (DVD + Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (20/01/2020) from £18.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A gang of juvenile delinquents tear up post-war London in Lewis Gilbert's (The Spy Who Loved Me, Alfie) shocking and energetic X-rated drama. Roy (James Kenney) is a brash, chain-smoking thug who bullies his friends (including Rene, played by a young Joan Collins) into subservience. He and his gang assault and rob people on the street, but things get increasingly dangerous when their behaviour escalates to murderous consequences. Unafraid to tackle a host of taboo subjects, Cosh Boy is a penetrating portrait of 1950s Britain and its simmering social tensions. One, if not the first British film to receive an X certificate, this landmark classic is available on Blu-ray for the first time and is the 40th entry to the longstanding BFI Flipside catalogue Special features: Presented in High Definition and Standard Definition Stranger in the City (1961, 22 mins): short film by Robert Hartford-Davis **FIRST PRESSING ONLY** Fully illustrated booklet with new writing on the film and full film credits Other extras TBC

• Night Gallery - The Complete Series (10 disc box set) | DVD | (11/01/2016) from £55.75   |  Saving you £24.24 (43.48%)   |  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.

• Carry On Cowboy | Blu Ray | (02/06/2014) from £11.98   |  Saving you £13.00 (130.13%)   |  RRP £22.99

  A hilarious romp through the bars and bedrooms of the Wild West with the Carry On gang! Sid James is on top form as the Rumpo Kid an outlaw who shakes up the sleepy residents of Stodge City. Kenneth Williams is the puritanical judge and Jim Dale plays Marshall P. Knutt a hapless plumber mistakenly sent to clean up the town. This is classic Carry On with a full cast of Carry On favourites including Charles Hawtrey as the firewater-guzzling Chief Big Heap Joan Sims and Bernard Bresslaw. Special Features: Audio Commentary Trailer

• John Mills - Centenary Collection | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £24.19   |  Saving you £25.80 (106.66%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Set Comprises: Great Expectations: One of the great translations of literature into film David Lean brings Dickens' masterpiece to robust on-screen life. Pip Magwitch Miss Havisham and Estella populate Lean's magnificent miniature beautifully photographed by Guy Green and designed by John Bryan. The October Man: He was Suspect Number One...while the real killer stalked the streets. Morning Departure: While hunting German shipping the Royal Navy submarine Trojan accidentally strikes an electronically-operated mine - and the race begins to save the lives of the crew of the stricken vessel. Rocked by a tremendous explosion the Trojan plunges to the sea bed. As time - and air - starts to run out the captain gathers together the survivors. A lucky few can escape immediately through emergency hatches - but the others will have to remain trapped in the dying submarine and hope that rescuers will arrive before it is too late. Those left behind must battle with terrifying fear and claustrophobia in the stricken disintegrating hulk far beneath the sea while rescuers begin a last-ditch attempt to raise the submarine to the surface. The rescue is difficult and fraught with danger at the best of times - but a storm of unprecedented ferocity is brewing which threatens to end all hope of rescue. This nail-biting and suspenseful thriller boasts a truly distinguished cast including John Mills Richard Attenborough and Nigel Patrick. Waterloo Road: As World War Two rages Jim Colter (John Mills) finds himself called up to serve in the army - but he's soon to find himself at war on two fronts. While he's away his lovely wife Tillie (Joy Shelton) attracts the amorous attention of Ted Purvis (Stewart Granger) a vicious local spiv and self-acclaimed ladies man. When Jim's sister writes informing him of what is happening Jim decides that the Nazis can wait and that an even more insidious enemy needs to be dealt with first. He breaks out of camp goes AWOL and sets off to find his wife. With the military hot on his tail Jim must make his way through war torn London to settle things once and for all. In Which We Serve: The story of the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Torrin and those that serve in her. In the Battle of Crete she is dive-bombed while streaming at thirty knots and goes down fighting. We see through the memories of her survivors the ordeals achievements and gallantry of HMS Torrin from her commissioning until she sinks in her last battle.

• Norman Wisdom - One Good Turn | DVD | (21/10/2009) from £5.29   |  Saving you £-0.30 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  A film starring Norman Wisdom, Joan Rice, Shirley Abicair, Director John Paddy Carstairs, Writers Jon Paddy Carstairs, Maurice Cowan, Ted Willis and Dorothy Whipple. producer Maurice Cowan. Rereleased by Granada Ventures Limited

• Tales That Witness Madness | DVD | (29/02/2016) from £9.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (50.05%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Stroll down the corridors of a mental asylum, where your mind won't believe what your eyes see. In the tradition of Tales from the Crypt and Creepshow.. This anthology of pulp horror tales, helmed by the ever- reliable horror master, Freddie Francis (Dr. Terror's House of Horrors). The film features a quartet of eerie vignettes involving four patients in the care of psychiatrist Donald Pleasance (Halloween), who attempting to justify his strange theories of colleague, Jack Hawkins (Theatre of Blood). The all-star cast includes Kim Novak, Joan Collins, Peter McEnery and Suzy Kendall.

• The Reckless Moment (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (16/11/2020) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The legendary Max Ophuls (Letter from an Unknown Woman, La Ronde) directs this tense and stylish 1949 film noir melodrama. Joan Bennett (Scarlet Street, Suspiria) stars as a suburban housewife who covers up a murder to protect her teenage daughter, only to find herself blackmailed by an immoral small-time crook, played by James Mason (North by Northwest, The Deadly Affair). Extras: High Definition remaster Original mono audio Making an American Movie (2010, 44 mins): an in-depth analysis by Lutz Bacher, author of Max Ophuls in the Hollywood Studios Maternal Overdrive (2006, 23 mins): award-winning writer-director Todd Haynes discusses one of his favourite films James Mason as Homme Fatal (2018, 27 mins): illustrated lecture by academic Adrian Garvey, recorded as part of the Focus on James Mason event held at Birkbeck, University of London Focus on James Mason: Audience Discussion (2018, 40 mins): Q&A session hosted by academics Adrian Garvey and Sarah Thomas following a screening of The Reckless Moment James Mason: Watching the Violence Unfold (2018, 33 mins): illustrated lecture by academic Sarah Thomas, recorded at Birkbeck, University of London Isolated music & effects track Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing

• Please Sir!: The Complete Fenn Street Collection | DVD | (02/07/2018) from £51.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  One of television's all-time-great sitcoms, Please Sir! stars John Alderton as Bernard Hedges, a newly qualified teacher thrown in at the deep end when he is assigned to sort out an unruly class of teenagers at Fenn Street Secondary Modern School. Helped (and sometimes hindered) by his fellow teachers, he has to combat the wiles of the devious school caretaker as well as the full might of class 5C! Created by comedy giants John Esmonde and Bob Larbey, who would go on to further success with Get Some In!, The Good Life and Ever Decreasing Circles, this collection contains Features: Please Sir! all 55 episodes of the original series Please, Sir! the 1971 feature film The Fenn Street Gang all 47 episodes of the Please Sir! sequel Bowler all 13 episodes of the Fenn Street spin-off

• Death Tunnel | DVD | (29/05/2006) from £2.19   |  Saving you £17.80 (89.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Fear has no cure. Based on the true story of a Kentucky hospital where 63 000 people died Death Tunnel follows a group of college kids who have to spend a night in a haunted sanatorium. An upscale college initiation party strands five girls in the ""Scariest Place in the World"" within the five floors of an abandoned hospital built in 1910 haunted by five hosts of its tortured past. As the students one by one become victims of its tragic history they soon uncover a shockin

• 101 Dalmatians / 102 Dalmatians (Live Action) | DVD | (22/09/2008) from £11.73   |  Saving you £-4.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  This Disney 2-Pack collection will have you seeing spots as it includes Disney''s live-action 101 Dalmatians and 102 Dalmatians. 101 Dalmatians Cruella De Vil dognaps a litter of Dalmation puppies--as well as every other Dalmation pup in London--and the litter''s parents must rally all the animals to their rescue. 102 Dalmatians Cruella De Vil is released from prison and is soon plotting another fur-ocious scheme to get her ultimate dalmatian coat.

• Preston Front - Series 2 | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Hodge Eric Spock (now played by Alistair McGowan) and the gang return to DVD in the second series of the follow-up to All Quiet on the Preston Front. Written by Tim Firth (Calendar Girls Kinky Boots). Episodes Comprise: 1. Hodge's Driving Test 2. Eric's Won Ton 3. Lloyydy's Housewarming 4. Spock's Dilated Pupil 5. Polson's Mess 6. Diesel's Ostrich 7. Jeanetta's Marijuna

• Worzel Gummidge - The Golden Hind / Will The Real Aunt Sally.. / The Jumbly Sale | DVD | (01/09/2001) from £3.57   |  Saving you £2.42 (67.79%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Episodes are: 'The Golden Hind' 'Will The Real Aunt Sally...' and 'The Jumbly Sale'. First shown in 1981.

• Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story By Martin Scorsese (2019) (Criterion Collection) UK Only | Blu Ray | (25/01/2021) from £14.57   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In 1975, in an America defined by both the self-mythologizing pomp of the upcoming bicentennial and ongoing socio-political turmoil, BOB DYLAN and a band of troubadoursincluding luminaries such as JOAN BAEZ, ALLEN GINSBERG, and JONI MITCHELLembarked on a now-legendary tour known as The Rolling Thunder Revue, a freewheeling variety show that was part traveling counterculture carnival, part spiritual pilgrimage. Director MARTIN SCORSESE (The Irishman) blends behind-the-scenes archival footage, interviews, and narrative mischief, with a magician's sleight of hand, into a zeitgeist-defining cultural record that is as much a concert documentary as it is a slippery, chimerical investigation into memory, time, truth, and illusion. At the centre of it all is the magnetic Dylan, a sphinx-like philosopher-poet singing, with electrifying conviction, to the soul of an anxious nation. DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New 4K digital transfer, approved by director Martin Scorsese, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack New interviews with Scorsese, editor David Tedeschi, and writer Larry Ratso Sloman Restored footage of never-before-seen Rolling Thunder Revue performances of Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You and Romance in Durango, and of a never-before-seen cut of Tangled Up in Blue Trailer English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing PLUS: An essay by novelist Dana Spiotta and writing from the Rolling Thunder Revue tour by author Sam Shepard and poets Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman

• Please Turn Over | DVD | (21/03/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A titillating British farce partly inspired by Peyton Place Please Turn Over was based on the long-running West End play Book of the Month by Basil Thomas. The orderly suburban life of a 1950s English town is turned on its head when the teenage daughter (Julia Lockwood Heidi) of one of the residents writes a steamy bestseller featuring characters obviously based on the local population. They begin to see themselves and their neighbours in a surprising new light. As the girl's fame escalates her friends and family enter the realm of notoriety which turns out not to be so bad after all. From the Carry-On writer-director team of Norman Hudis and Gerald Thomas Leslie Phillips stands out amongst an estimable British cast including Joan Sims Charles Hawtrey and Lionel Jeffries as the wonderfully named Dr. Henry Manners.

• Tom Jones (2-disc Blu-ray set) | Blu Ray | (20/08/2018) from £20.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Winner of four Academy Awards including Best Director (Tony Richardson), Best Adapted Screenplay (John Osbourne) and Best Picture, this raucous and innovative adaptation of Henry Fielding's classic novel is directed with a real sense of adventure. John Osbourne captures the spirit of the novel in his sophisticated screenplay and Albert Finney gives a dashing Oscar® nominated performance as the much sought-after Tom Jones, enjoying marvellous support from Joan Greenwood as Lady Bellaston and Susannah York as the wellborn Sophie Western. The BFI is proud to showcase the new 4K digital restorations of not just the theatrical cut but of Tony Richardson's preferred 1989 director's cut, both of which were supervised by director of photography Walter Lassally. Special features: Features both the director's cut (1989) and theatrical versions of the film The Guardian Interview: Albert Finney (1982, 35 mins audio only) Vanessa Redgrave on Tony Richardson (2017, 10mins): Vanessa Redgrave discusses Tony Richardson's career in this short interview by the Criterion Collection USSR Today: Meeting to Mark the 200th Anniversary of Henry Fielding (1954, 1 min) George Devine Memorial Play: Luther (Peter Whitehead, 1966, 7 mins) Walter Lassally on Tom Jones (2017, 25 mins): the Oscar® winning cinematographer discusses Tom Jones Stills galleries Original trailers Fully illustrated booklet with writing on the film and full film credits

• Mysterious Island (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (18/11/2019) from £12.87   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From director Cy Endfield (Zulu) and special effects legend Ray Harryhausen (The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, Jason and the Argonauts), and starring Herbert Lom (A Shot in the Dark) as Captain Nemo, Mysterious Island is an enchanting Jules Verne adaptation, taking audiences from the top of the sky to the bottom of the sea. Extras Indicator Standard Edition Special Features: 2K restoration from the original negative Original mono audio Alternative 5.1 surround sound track Audio commentary with Ray Harryhausen and film historian Tony Dalton Audio commentary with film experts Randall William Cook, C Courtney Joyner and Steven C Smith Introduction by Ray Harryhausen (2002, 1 min) Ray Harryhausen on ˜Mysterious Island' (2002, 9 mins) Michael Craig on ˜Mysterious Island' (2017, 4 mins): the actor shares his memories of working on the film Ray Andrew on ˜Mysterious Island' (2017, 3 mins): the original clapper loader recalls his time working with Harryhausen Kim Newman on ˜Mysterious Island' (2017, 21 mins): a new appreciation by the author and genre-film expert Mysterious Magic (2017, 10 mins): renowned visual effects animator Hal Hickel discusses the influence of Harryhausen Islands of Mystery (1964, 6 mins): vintage documentary exploring the film and its connections to the history of real islands Super 8 version (19 mins): original cut-down home cinema presentation Isolated score: experience Bernard Herrmann's original soundtrack music Back to Mysterious Island: pages from the comic book inspired by the film Original trailers and TV spots Image gallery: an extensive collection of promotional stills, lobby cards and poster designs New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of-hearing

• Dark Shadows : The Original TV Series (The Barnabas Collins Episodes) | DVD | (30/04/2012) from £4.26   |  Saving you £21.99 (733.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

• His And Hers | DVD | (11/08/2014) from £5.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (66.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The incomparable Terry-Thomas heads the cast of this rare domestic farce directed by Brian Desmond Hurst – best-known for the 1951 box-office triumph Scrooge. Also starring Carry On legends Kenneth Williams Joan Sims and Kenneth Connor with early film roles for Oliver Reed and Francesca Annis His and Hers is featured here in a new transfer made from original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. Author-explorer Reggie Blake takes an unorthodox approach to his craft apparently finding inspiration in the adventures suggested by his agent Charles Lunton; it matters little that most of his experiences are wildly embellished or even entirely fictitious... Reggie's latest trip however has proved a little too authentic. Having lost his way in the desert and subsequently adopted by a remote Bedouin tribe he has experienced a deep transformation in outlook and personality – and one that drives his loyal wife Fran to despair. When his pomposity and chauvinism reach alarming new heights she decides immediate and dramatic action is called for! Special Feature: Image Gallery