"Actor: Joel McCrea"

• Life (DVD) | DVD | (31/07/2017) from £7.05   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Lifeis a terrifying sci-fi thriller about a team of scientists aboard the International Space Station whose mission of discovery turns to one of primal fear when they find a rapidly evolving life form that caused extinction on Mars, and now threatens the crew and all life on Earth. Click Images to Enlarge

• Disney's Cruella DVD | DVD | (16/08/2021) from £4.07   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Emma Stone stars as one of cinema's most notorious and stylish villains, Cruella de Vil. Determined to become a successful fashion designer, a creative young grifter named Estella (Stone) teams with a pair of mischievous thieves to survive on the London streets. But when her flair for fashion catches the eye of the legendary designer Baroness von Hellman (Emma Thompson), Estella rises to become the raucous, revenge-bent Cruella.

• Disney's Cruella UHD | Blu Ray | (16/08/2021) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Emma Stone stars as one of cinema's most notorious and stylish villains, Cruella de Vil. Determined to become a successful fashion designer, a creative young grifter named Estella (Stone) teams with a pair of mischievous thieves to survive on the London streets. But when her flair for fashion catches the eye of the legendary designer Baroness von Hellman (Emma Thompson), Estella rises to become the raucous, revenge-bent Cruella. Special Features The Two Emmas The Sidekick Angle Cruella Couture The World Of Cruella New Dogs Old Tricks Cruella 101 Deleted Scenes x 2 Bloopers

• Disney's Cruella Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (16/08/2021) from £4.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Emma Stone stars as one of cinema's most notorious and stylish villains, Cruella de Vil. Determined to become a successful fashion designer, a creative young grifter named Estella (Stone) teams with a pair of mischievous thieves to survive on the London streets. But when her flair for fashion catches the eye of the legendary designer Baroness von Hellman (Emma Thompson), Estella rises to become the raucous, revenge-bent Cruella. Special Features The Two Emmas The Sidekick Angle Cruella Couture The World Of Cruella New Dogs Old Tricks Cruella 101 Deleted Scenes x 2 Bloopers

• THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME (Masters of Cinema) Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (24/10/2022) from £14.82   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  ! Based upon the ever-popular short story by Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game remains a hugely influential masterpiece 90 years after its release. Big game hunter, Bob Rainsford (Joel McCrea), barely survives a shipwreck in shark infested waters and washes ashore on the private island of the sinister Count Zaroff (played with a delightful zeal by Leslie Banks). Zaroff fancies himself an accomplished hunter also only his preferred quarry, is man! Taking full advantage of the lavish jungle sets created for King Kong; The Most Dangerous Game was filmed at night after filming for Kong had concluded for the day, with many cast and crew pulling double duty on both productions. After 90 years, it is still a thrilling piece of filmmaking filled with stunning production designs, wonderful optical effects, andof coursethrilling action. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present The Most Dangerous Game in its UK debut on Blu-ray, from a 2K restored scan. Special Features Limited Edition O-Card Slipcase (First print-run of 2000 copies only) 1080p presentation on Blu-ray from a 2K restored scan Optional English SDH Brand new audio commentary with author Stephen Jones and author / critic Kim Newman Brand new interview with author / critic Kim Newman on the hunted human sub-genre Brand new interview with film scholar Stephen Thrower Plus: A collector's booklet featuring a new essay by Craig Ian Mann, illustrated with archival imagery *All extras subject to change

• Life (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (31/07/2017) from £4.89   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Lifeis a terrifying sci-fi thriller about a team of scientists aboard the International Space Station whose mission of discovery turns to one of primal fear when they find a rapidly evolving life form that caused extinction on Mars, and now threatens the crew and all life on Earth. Click Images to Enlarge

• Sullivan's Travels | DVD | (18/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This masterpiece by Preston Sturges is perhaps the finest movie-about-a-movie ever made. Hollywood director Joel McCrea tired of churning out lightweight comedies decides to make O Brother Where Art Thou-a serious socially responsible film about human suffering. After his producers point out that he knows nothing of hardship he hits the road as a hobo. He finds the lovely Veronica Lake; and more trouble than he ever dreamed of!

• Dead End | DVD | (12/07/2005) from £12.61   |  Saving you £0.38 (3.01%)   |  RRP £12.99

  On the mean streets of New York's Lower East Side Drina (Sylvia Sidney) hopes to save her brother from a life of crime. But notorious hoodlum Baby Face Martin (Bogart) has come back to his old haunts looking for trouble and threatening to drag the boy down with him. Drina turns to her childhood friend Dave (Joel McCrea) for help. But can he stop Martin without becoming just like him?

• The Great Western Collection - Volume 1 | DVD | (25/08/2014) from £10.35   |  Saving you £29.64 (286.38%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Six of your favourite Western Classics in one box set! Disc One - Man in the ShadowIn effect the town of Spurline is run by Virgil Renchler. When two of Renchler's men go too far and kill a ranch hand Sheriff Ben Sadler is goaded into investigating. His unlikely ally is Renchler's overprotected daughter. Will Ben survive Renchler's wrath? Disc Two - Law and OrderFed up with the residents of Tombstone for their lack of appreciation sharp-shooting marshal Frame Johnson retires to a ranch in Cottonwood with hopes of settling down. When he arrives at the Cottonwood saloon his entrance is noticed by local rancher Kurt Durling whose hand Frame shot off in a cattle rustling raid. Durling who now runs Cottonwood vows revenge. It looks like he may have to clean up Cottonwood too. But how great a sacrifice will he make for law and order? Disc Three - Ride Clear of DiabloRailroad surveyor Clay O'Mara goes after rustlers who murdered his father and brother. Along the way he first arrests then teams up with outlaw Whitey Kinkaid who helps O'Mara only to see how long the tenderfoot lasts. Outwitting several attempts on his life engineered by the crooked lawyer who set up his family O'Mara and a wounded Kinkaid face the gang. Disc Four - The Great Northfield Minnesota RaidLate in the summer of 1876 the gangs of Jesse James and Cole Younger were given amnesty by their home state of Missouri. Faced with the possibility of a quiet and peaceful future the notorious ruffians had no choice but to plan one final heist at the biggest bank west of the Mississippi in Northfield Minnesota. Together the two men executed what they thought would be a fool proof plan...until the citizens of Northfield proved them wrong. Disc Five - Border RiverJim Lake actually known as Confederate Major Clete Matson has stolen 2 million dollars in Union gold from a Colorado bank in order to buy war supplies for the South. Whilst fleeing from the police and crossing the Texas border Lake is watched by General Eduardo Calleja. He is later introduced to Baron Kurt Von Hollden who handles all of Calleja's imports. But with so much money around whom can Lake really trust? Disc Six - Horizon's WestNeil Hammond returns from the war to his life of ranching while older brother Dan returns with ambitions as outsized as the Lone Star State. When Dan loses his business seed money to gambler Cord Hardin he turns to rustling. However ill-gotten gains prove tenuous and Dan's empire begins to crumble when his brother Neil is named the new Marshall.

• PALM BEACH STORY, THE (1942) (CRITERION COLLECTION) | Blu Ray | (11/11/2019) from £21.65   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This wild tale of wacky wedlock from Preston Sturges (The Lady Eve) takes off like a rocket and never lets up. Joel McCrea (Sullivan's Travels) and Claudette Colbert (It Happened One Night) play Tom and Gerry, a married New York couple on the skids, financially and romantically. With Tom hot on her trail, Gerry takes off for Florida on a mission to solve the pair's money troubles, which she accomplishes in a highly unorthodox manner. A mix of the witty and the utterly absurd, The Palm Beach Story is a high watermark of Sturges's brand of physical comedy and verbal repartee, featuring sparkling performances from its leads as well as hilarious supporting turns from Rudy Vallee and Mary Astor as a brother and a sister ensnared in Tom and Gerry's high jinks. Blu-Ray Special Edition Features: New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack New interview with writer and film historian James Harvey about director Preston Sturges New interview with actor and com

• Criterion Collection: Foreign Correspondent | Blu Ray | (07/10/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Life (2 disc BD & 4K UHD) | 4K UHD | (31/07/2017) from £24.98   |  Saving you £-3.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Lifeis a terrifying sci-fi thriller about a team of scientists aboard the International Space Station whose mission of discovery turns to one of primal fear when they find a rapidly evolving life form that caused extinction on Mars, and now threatens the crew and all life on Earth. Bonus Features: Deleted Scenes Claustrophobic Terror: Creating A Thriller In Space featurette Life: In Zero G featurette The Art and Reality of Calvin featurette Astronaut Diaries Click Images to Enlarge

• Ramrod | Blu Ray | (05/03/2018) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  One of the classic Westerns of its era, Ramrod stars Veronica Lake as Connie Dickason, a headstrong cowgirl who's plans to marry a sheep rancher are thwarted when a powerful local cattle baron, Frank Ivey (Preston Foster), and her own father (Charles Ruggles), force her fiancé to flee town. Refusing to kowtow to these powerful men, Connie inherits her ex-fiancés land and determines to run the ranch with the help of her new ramrod, reformed alcoholic Dave Nash (Joel McCrea). But Dave's diplomatic attempts to resolve the dispute fall upon deaf ears and a bloody turf war on the open range ensues. With Ramrod, Andre DeToth (a Hungarian-American director who has earned praise from Tarantino and Scorsese) skilfully creates a dangerous world of greed, lies and murder whilst garnering superb performances from McCrea and Lake, two of the biggest Hollywood stars of the 1940s. Features: High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation transferred from original film elements Uncompressed Mono 1.0 PCM audio soundtrack Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Audio commentary by film scholar Adrian Martin Andre DeToth in Conversation with Patrick Francis, far-reaching audio-only interview conducted by the documentary filmmaker Newly-filmed appreciation by expert on American genre films, Peter Stanfield Andre DeToth Interviewed at the National Film Theatre, a career-spanning archival interview from 1994, conducted by writer and broadcaster Kevin Jackson Gallery of original promotional images Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Sean Phillips

• Sullivan's Travels | Blu Ray | (26/05/2014) from £14.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (66.71%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Writer-director Preston Sturges's third feature, 1941's Sullivan's Travels, remains the antic auteur's most ambitious screen effort. Having added the producer's stripe to his duties, Sturges combines breezy romantic comedy, arch Hollywood satire, and social essay into a single, screwball story line. The titular pilgrim is John L. Sullivan (Joel McCrea), an Ivy League grad who's enjoyed a meteoric rise as the director behind escapist movies like Ants in Your Pants of 1938, but is now determined to raise his sights toward more exalted, serious-minded cinematic art. His proposed breakthrough, portentously titled O Brother, Where Art Thou?, elicits a studio response closer to "Oh, brother," given the director's utter lack of first-hand experience on the wrong side of the tracks. Instead of capitulating, Sullivan sets off disguised as a tramp, ready to meet life's crueler lessons face-to-face--albeit followed at a discreet distance by a motor home filled with studio handlers and reporters. His ludicrous odyssey may give the boy director no real insight, but it gives Sturges the chance to inject some reliably fine gags and a romantic subplot featuring the luminous Veronica Lake. It's at this juncture that Sturges the writer's darker objective throws a jolting shift in tone. Suffice it to say that just when a comic, upbeat denouement seems imminent, Sullivan travels instead from the sunlit California of the comedy's early reels toward a darker, relentlessly downbeat world influenced more by the social realism of the movies the hero desperately wants to make. By the final reel, Sturges has flirted with real tragedy, turning his conclusion into a meditation on his own seemingly carefree, dizzily comic art. --Sam Sutherland

• Foreign Correspondent | DVD | (21/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The first of Alfred Hitchcock's World War II features, Foreign Correspondent was completed in 1940, as the European war was only beginning to erupt across national borders. Its titular hero, Johnny Jones (Joel McCrea), is an American crime reporter dispatched by his New York publisher to put a fresh spin on the drowsy dispatches emanating from overseas, his nose for a good story (and, of course, some fortuitous timing) promptly leading him to the "crime" of fascism and Nazi Germany's designs on European conquest. In attempting to learn more about a seemingly noble peace effort, Jones (who's been saddled with the dubious nom de plume Hadley Haverstock) walks into the middle of an assassination, uncovers a spy ring, and, not entirely coincidentally, falls in love--a pattern familiar to admirers of Hitchcock's espionage thrillers, of which this is a thoroughly entertaining example. McCrea's hardy Yankee charms are neatly contrasted with the droll English charm of colleague George Sanders; Herbert Marshall provides a plummy variation on the requisite, ambiguous "good-or-is-he-really-bad" guy; Laraine Day affords a lovely heroine; and Robert Benchley (who contributed to the script) pops up, albeit too briefly, for comic relief. As good as the cast is, however, it's Hitchcock's staging of key action sequences that makes Foreign Correspondent a textbook example of the director's visual energy: an assassin's escape through a rain-soaked crowd is registered by rippling umbrellas, a nest of spies is detected by the improbable direction of a windmill's spinning sails and Jones's nocturnal flight across a pitched city rooftop produces its own contextual comment when broken neon tubes convert the Hotel Europe into "Hot Europe". --Sam Sutherland

• Cattle Drive | DVD | (18/04/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Dan Mathews (Joel McCrea) is a gritty cowboy drover toughened up by what he does. When he comes across wandering rich-boy Chester Graham Jr (Dean Stockwell), the son of a wealthy railroad executive, he is forced to teach him some hard lessons about life on the road. Accidentally left behind by his father's train, the sheltered heir isn't too happy about walking alongside Dan and his drovers to get home. Chester has to work as he goes, reluctantly learning the ropes of true cowboy life. As time goes on and the road to Santa Fe doesn't get any gentler, Chester slowly starts to prove his worth. It becomes clear he isn't so soft after all An all-star cast also includes Oscar winner Chill Wills (The Alamo).

• Border River | DVD | (24/03/2014) from £7.57   |  Saving you £5.42 (71.60%)   |  RRP £12.99

  With the South facing defeat Clete Mattson an idealistic Confederate major desperately tries to save his army by stealing $2 000 000 in Union gold. He then heads to a raucous border town on the Rio Grande hoping to make a munitions deal with Mexican general Calleja. But first Mattson must contend with Calleja's double-crossing German military advisor Baron Von Holden not to mention Calleja's tempestuous sweetheart Carmelita a saloon owner who is likewise not to be trusted...

• The Lone Hand | DVD | (04/07/2016) from £11.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (30.03%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In this star-studded Western, murder, robbery and betrayal plague a small, rural town and, secretly, one desperate farmer is at the centre of the action. Zachary Hallock (Joel McCrea) is broke. The farmer has just lost his wife, and looking for a place he and his son can call home decides to move West to begin a new life. At first, things seem to be shaping up: Zack finds a new bride (Emmy award-winning Barbara Hale, Perry Mason) and starts a new farm but now more than ever, money is tight. The town spirals into chaos when the local sheriff is shot down in the streets by a gang of outlaws, who are dead-set on making dirty money and terrorising anyone who gets in their way. Soon, Zach finds himself at the wrong end of a barrel, held up at gunpoint by the outlaws, who make him an offer he can't refuse His family needs money. His life is in danger. Tangled in a web of violence, betrayal, and deceit, Zach must choose between doing what is right, and what is necessary.

• The Palm Beach Story | DVD | (05/05/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The captivating Claudette Colbert stars as the frustrated wife of struggling engineer Joel McCrea. In a seemingly amicable agreement Colbert hops a train to Palm Beach where divorces come easy. Desperate to escape a group of obnoxious millionaires on the train to Florida Colbert hides out in a sleeping car where she meets unbeknownst to her one of the world's richest men (Rudy Vallee) who is relentless in his attempt to romance her. Upon their arrival in Palm Beach Colbert is met by her husband who has come to claim her back only to find that Vallee's man-crazy sister (Mary Astor) is after him! The foursome's story unfolds through intensely humorous dialogue flirtatious situations and a splendid soundtrack.

• Life (Steelbook) | Blu Ray | (31/07/2017) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Lifeis a terrifying sci-fi thriller about a team of scientists aboard the International Space Station whose mission of discovery turns to one of primal fear when they find a rapidly evolving life form that caused extinction on Mars, and now threatens the crew and all life on Earth. Click Images to Enlarge