"Actor: John Carroll"

• Secret Agent | DVD | (24/07/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.30

  One of Alfred Hitchcock's finest pre-Hollywood films, the 1936 Secret Agent stars a young John Gielgud as a British spy whose death is faked by his intelligence superiors. Reinvented with a new identity and outfitted with a wife (Madeleine Carroll), Gielgud's character is sent on assignment with a cold-blooded accomplice (Peter Lorre) to assassinate a German agent. En route, the counterfeit couple keeps company with an affable American (Robert Young), who turns out to be more than he seems after the wrong man is murdered by Gielgud and Lorre. Dense with interwoven ideas about false names and real identities, about appearances as lies and the brutality of the hidden, and about the complicity of those who watch the anarchy that others do, Secret Agent declared that Alfred Hitchcock was well along the road to mastery as a filmmaker and, more importantly, knew what it was he wanted to say for the rest of his career. --Tom Keogh

• Bulldog Drummond - Double Feature - Vol. 3 | DVD | (20/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Bulldog Drummond In Africa: Captain Hugh ""Bulldog"" Drummond will not let anything get in the way of his wedding preparations. He has his phones shut off and refuses to take orders from Scotland Yard. But when his bride Phyllis goes to pick up Drummond's friend Colonel Nielson she finds that he's been kidnapped. Drummond investigates and learns that Nielson has been spirited away to Morocco. Losing no time Drummond and his friends hop aboard his plane and fly down to North Africa to rescue Nielson. But they have to dodge bombs bullets and lions before they can complete their task. Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police: In ""Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police"" once again Captain Hugh ""Bulldog"" Drummond of Scotland yard tries to go through with his marriage to Phyllis but once again his plans are foiled. A dead body turns up and the murderer is Borjei Islanyani a man masquerading as Phyllis's butler. It seems that Islanyani is in search of a treasure buried underneath Drummond's castle. He kidnaps Phyllis and takes her into the castle's catacombs. So Drummond and his ""secret police"" - his butler Tenny his friend Algy and Colonel Nielson - embark on a search for the missing bride. But the catacombs are vast and perilous and the villain is resourceful.

• TARANTULA - MOVIE | DVD | (13/04/2006) from £8.87   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A