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• Big Jake | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £12.97   |  Saving you £6.01 (60.22%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In this action-filled Western John Wayne stars as BIG JAKE McCandles a husband who hasn't seen his wife (Maureen O'Hara) in over 18 years. But he returns home after his grandson is kidnapped by a vicious outlaw gang. While the law gives chase in rickety automobiles Jake saddles up with an Indian scout (Bruce Cabot) and a box of money - even though paying a ransom isn't how Jake plans to exact good old frontier justice. Spiced with humour and first-class gunfights this is a vivid depiction of the last days of the wild frontier.BIG JAKE was a family affair for John Wayne. His eldest son produced it and two other sons Patrick and John Ethan appear in it. The film also marks the second time Richard Boone and John Wayne worked together and the fifth time Wayne worked with Maureen O'Hara.

• Midsomer Murders - They Seek Him Here | DVD | (09/06/2008) from £3.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (325.81%)   |  RRP £16.99

  From the top-rating ITV1 detective series based on the best-selling books by Caroline Graham a brand new investigation starring John Nettles (Bergerac) and Jason Hughes (This Life) They Seek Him Here

• Mad Doctor of Blood Island | Blu Ray | (13/11/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Circus | DVD | (09/10/2003) from £5.00   |  Saving you £0.99 (19.80%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Circus is a modern crime thriller of cross, double cross and triple cross.

• Downtown '81 | DVD | (02/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A feature film starring the legendary American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) that follows him around NYC. Along the way he has encounters with Vincent Gallo Debbie Harry Melly Mel and a host of other Andy Warhol players. Downtown 81 not only captures one the most influential artists of the late twentieth century as he is poised for fame but also captures one of the most vital periods of American culture with the explosion of new wave music new painting hip hop and graffiti.

• Scared To Death | DVD | (14/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  An ex-cop now working as a hack novelist is called out of retirement to help investigate a string of deaths that appear to be the work of a serial killer but soon are revealed to be the work of an unstoppable synthesized genetic organism! Can he and his ex-partner stop the creature before it spawns to create a human holocaust?

• Midsomer Murders Series 13 : Blood on the Saddle | DVD | (04/10/2010) from £6.40   |  Saving you £10.59 (165.47%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Midsomer Murders 13: Blood On The Saddle

• Gross Anatomy | DVD | (12/04/2004) from £6.46   |  Saving you £8.53 (56.90%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Matthew Modine (ANY GIVEN SUNDAY) stars as Joe Slovak, a brilliant first-year med student whose casual, nonconforming approach to life gets tested when he enrolls in Gross Anatomy, the toughest course in med school. Joe's freewheeling, independent style creates funny moments in the classroom, but puts him at odds with his demanding professor (Christina Lahti, HIDEAWAY), who questions whether her class "rebel" has what it takes to be a doctor. On top of that, Joe falls in love with his no-nonsense lab partner (Daphne Zuniga -- THE SURE THING, TV's MELROSE PLACE), who won't let anything, especially romance, interfere with her plans. And while Joe's never done anything by the book, he proves he does have what it takes to succeed -- without changing his ways!

• Rodgers And Hammerstein | DVD | (05/11/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Released as part of the celebrations marking composer Richard Rodgers' centenary in 2002, this Rodgers and Hammerstein collection contains the film versions of State Fair (1945), Oklahoma! (1955), Carousel (1956), The King and I (1956), South Pacific (1958), and The Sound of Music (1965). By the time these pictures were made, the Broadway originals had become the standards by which all else was judged in a golden age of musical theatre. And while film versions tend to dilute the books, there are still threads of darkness for those who require a more varied texture. But it's the fabulous songs which really count. Rodgers' partnership with lyricist Oscar Hammerstein was cemented by their 1945 cinematic joint effort State Fair, rushed into production by 20th Century Fox in response to MGM's all-conquering Meet Me in St Louis and with a similarly folksy theme. Directed by Walter Lang, it's a charmingly flimsy affair with some delightful numbers. Oklahoma!, directed by Fred Zinnemann, features Agnes de Mille's renowned choreography, irresistible songs and two outstanding performances from unlikely musical actors: film noir siren Gloria Grahame playing against type as Ado Annie, the girl who can't say "no", and Rod Steiger as the menacing but tragic Jud. Carousel, the morally dubious tale of fairground barker and wife-beater Billy Bigelow (Gordon MacRae) who gets a chance to redeem himself after death, is crammed with great melodies including the tear-jerking anthem, "You'll Never Walk Alone". South Pacific, which contains perhaps the most spine-tingling songs penned by Rodgers and Hammerstein--"Some Enchanted Evening" is just one--a wartime love story which also manages to touch on racism and morality; anything but lightweight. Both The King and I and The Sound of Music, of course, have become cinematic legends in their own right, thanks in no small part to their leading ladies, Deborah Kerr and Julie Andrews. On the DVD: Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic musicals glow as freshly as if they were made yesterday in four of these DVD transfers, with the other two a disappointment in comparison. South Pacific, Carousel, The King and I and The Sound of Music are offered in widescreen, giving the full benefit of the original Cinemascope presentations. Oklahoma!'s titles are presented in widescreen, but unforgivably the film then reverts to a disappointing 4:3 format which hardly does justice to the big sky settings of the Scope original. The sound quality is also disappointingly muffled for Oklahoma! and State Fair, both of which are crying out for a good polish. --Piers Ford

• John Sayles Collection | DVD | (23/04/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Lianna: The visionary writer-director behind such films as Passion Fish Lone Star and Sunshine State Oscar nominee John Sayles has been at the forefront of independant cinema for more than twenty years. In this moving and compassionate film Sayles presents a sympathetic realistic portrait of Lianna a young wife and mother who leaves her husband for another woman and embarks on a turbulent journey of self-discovery. Lianna must face the anger and confusion of her husband as well as the raised eyebrows of her community. But when her new lover also rejects her she faces the most difficult task of all: She must learn to love herself. The Return Of The Secaucus Seven: In this his directoria debut John Sayles looks at seven friends who reunite ten years after their radical college days for a dramatic poignant and revelatory weekend. Return of the Secaucus 7 inspired the later hit film The Big Chill and heralded the arrival of a brilliant new force in independant cinema. The Brother From Another Planet: In this offbeat fantasy tale Sayles takes a look through the eyes of a black extraterrestrial (Joe Morton) who crash-lands on Earth - in Harlem - and is taken in by the regulars of a local bar. The alien changes everyone he meets on his journey through the streets of Urban America. But can his message of brotherly love resonate with the intergalactic bounty hunters trying to track him down?

• The Joan Crawford Collection (4 Disc Box Set) | DVD | (17/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Humoresque (Dir. Jean Negulesco 1946): Helen Wright a neurotic society woman sets her sights on ambitious young violinist Paul Boray who returns her love but is undeterred from his music. She becomes his patroness helping him to great success but cannot abide being of secondary importance (""second fiddle?"") in his life. Tragedy ensues. Possessed (Dir. Jean Negukesco 1947): A dazed woman walks the streets of Los Angeles looking for a man named David. After collapsing in a diner she's taken to the psychiatric ward of a nearby hospital. Flashbacks reveal her obsession for David as a result of borderline personality disorder which ultimately leads to murder. The Damned Don't Cry (Dir. Vincent Sherman 1950): The murder of gangster Nick Prenta touches off an investigation of mysterious socialite Lorna Hansen Forbes who seems to have no past and has now disappeared. In flashback we see the woman's anonymous roots; her poor working-class marriage which ends in tragedy and her determination to find ""better things."" Soon finding that sex appeal is her only salable commodity she climbs from man to man toward the center of a nationwide crime syndicate...a very perilous position. Grand Hotel (Dir. Edmund Goulding 1932): Berlin's plushest most expensive hotel is the setting where in the words of Dr. Otternschlag ""People come people go. Nothing ever happens."". The doctor is usually drunk so he missed the fact that Baron von Geigern is broke and trying to steal eccentric dancer Grusinskaya's pearls. He ends up stealing her heart instead. Powerful German businessman Preysing brow beats Kringelein one of his company's lowly bookkeepers but it is the terminally ill Kringelein who holds all the cards in the end. Meanwhile the Baron also steals the heart of Preysing's mistress Flaemmchen but she doesn't end up with either one of them in the end...

• The Land Of Promise | DVD | (28/04/2008) from £29.95   |  Saving you £5.04 (16.83%)   |  RRP £34.99

  40 films over 4 DVDs. Extensive collection is a major retrospective of the British documentary film movement during its period of greatest influence. These films many of which are made available here for the first time since their original release - capture the spirit and strength concerns and resolve of Britain and its people before during and after the Second World War. These diverse and compelling films are fascinating historical documents bearing witness to the social and industrial transformations of the rapidly changing world. Yet they are also striking in their different approach to the form. Using poetry dramatic reconstruction modernist techniques and explicit propaganda the film-makers found fresh new ways to get their message across.

• The Sweeny - Series 1-4 - Complete/The Sweeney/The Sweeney 2 | DVD | (29/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £99.99

  Jack Regan (John Thaw) is a hard edged detective in the Flying Squad of London's Metropolitan police. He pursues villains by methods which are underhand often illegal themselves frequently violent and more often than not successful.

• Scum: 2-disc Collectors Edition | DVD | (13/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Raw, violent and shocking, Scum is a compelling story set in a contemporary Borstal. It tells of life in an institution run by violence and brutality rather than reason, where the boy who can fight his way to the top of the heap and reign as 'Daddy' will gain the respect of the inmates and sadistic 'screws' alike. One of the most controversial films ever made in the UK, and one which caused a furore when it was first screened on TV, 'Scum' stars Ray Winstone as Carlin, the one man prepared t...

• Rehearsal For Murder | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £7.91   |  Saving you £-4.92 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  In classic mystery style Broadway playwright Alex Dennison invites actors and others to a 'cold reading' of his new play. But it is really his scheme to catch the killer of his actress fiancee Monica Welles who died a year previously?

• The Onedin Line - Series 1 - Part 1 | DVD | (07/04/2003) from £29.99   |  Saving you £-12.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The initial instalment of episodes from the classic TV serial.

• John Wayne - An Innocent Man | DVD | (07/09/2009) from £5.77   |  Saving you £2.22 (38.47%)   |  RRP £7.99

  John Wayne: An Innocent Man

• The Blues Brothers | Blu Ray | (22/08/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  After the release of Jake Blues (John Belushi) from prison he and brother Elwood (Dan Aykroyd) go to visit the orphanage where they were raised by nuns. They learn that the church stopped its support and will sell the place unless the tax on the property is paid within 11 days. The brothers decide to raise the money by putting their blues band back together and staging a big gig. They may be on a 'mission from God' but they're making enemies everywhere they go. Featuring performances by some of blues finest: James Brown Cab Calloway Ray Charles Aretha Franklin and co-starring John Candy Carrie Fisher Henry GIbson and Steve Lawrence.

• Silver Screams Cinema (Box Set) (Phantom Speaks / Vampire's Ghost / Return of the Ape Man / Valley of the Zombies / She Devil / Unknown Terror) Imprint Collection Blu Ray | Blu Ray | (23/07/2021) from £70.26   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Longest Day/Patton/Tora! Tora! Tora! | DVD | (16/10/2006) from £16.14   |  Saving you £3.85 (23.85%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Longest Day On June 6 1944 the Allied Invasion of France marked the beginning of the end of Nazi domination over Europe. The attack involved 3 000 000 men 11 000 planes and 4 000 ships comprising the largest armada the world has ever seen. Presented in its original black & white version 'The Longest Day' is a vivid hour-by-hour re-creation of this historic event. Featuring a stellar international cast and told from the perspectives of both sides it is a fascinatin