"Actor: John Gielgud"

• The Tichborne Claimant | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Based on a true story. 1876. The heir to the vast Tichborne fortune Sir Roger Tichborne presumed drowned at sea in 1866 is reportedly seen in Australia. His brother Alfred and the family servant Andrew Bogle arrive from England to investigate the matter. However Alfred's demise prompts the Tichbourne's to refuse funds for Andrew's return. Andrew desperately searches for a candidate to fill in for the missing heir and settles on local butcher Thomas Castro whom he coaches to succeed in such a scam. With the family divided in their belief that he is their missing kin the impostor is soon standing trial...

• Galileo | DVD | (20/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This film is about Galileo the 17th century Italian who laid the foundations for modern science. He made one of the world's first telescopes and discovered the moons of Jupiter he also supported Copernicus' theory that the Earth revolved around the Sun and suffered persecution at the hands of the Inquisition...

• Eagle In A Cage | DVD | (26/04/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

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• Britain's Home Front At War - Words For Battle | DVD | (12/02/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This collection features stirring and inspirational films urging the nation to fight on and to preserve our British heritage and way of life. Words For Battle (1941): Laurence Olivier reads extracts from great works by the likes of Milton Blake and Kipling illustrated by inspirational film of both a timeless pastoral Britain and a modern armed Britain poised for war. Lift Your Head Comrade (1942): A powerful propaganda piece looking at German and Austrian anti-fascists who have volunteered to service with the Pioneer Corps to help Britain in its war against Germany. (Script: Arthur Koestler) The New Britain (1940): This MOI production evokes the utopia that Britain could have become in the decades following the Great War if only German fascism had not raised its head. (Script: Grahame Greene) Worker And Warfront No.8 (1943): Stanley Holloway provides the voiceover in this animated warning about a worker too tough to get his wounds checked - and who then contracts blood poisoning. (Script: E.C. Bentley) Britain At Bay (1940): J.B. Priestley provides the commentary for a film produced immediately after the fall of France celebrating British values and reminding us that in the months ahead Britain stands alone and at bay in guarding 'the future of the civilised world'. Essential Jobs (1942): A fascinating film showing how all unglamorous jobs actually contribute to the war effort. (Script: V.S. Pritchett) Albert's Savings (1940): Stanley Holloway delivers an 'Albert'-style monologue as he persuades the nation to invest in Savings Certificates for the war effort. (Script: Edgar Marriott) A Diary For Timothy (1945): Michael Redgrave John Gielgud and Myra Hess contribute to Humphrey Jennings' impressionistic portrait of a Britain finally poised to celebrate the end of the war. (Script: E.M. Forster) New Towns For Old (1942): An MOI film looking at urban regeneration in the fictional industrial town of 'Smokedale'. (Script: Dylan Thomas)

• Chariots Of Fire (Special Edition) | DVD | (08/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  'The British Are Coming!' Britain's finest athletes have begun their quest for glory in the 1924 Olympic Games. Success brings honour to their nation. For two runners, the honour at stake is personal... and their challenge one from within. Winner of four 1981 Academy Awards including Best Picture, 'Chariots Of Fire' is the inspiring, true story of Harold Abrahams, Eric Liddell and the team that brought Britain one of its greatest sports victories. Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Nigel...

• Alfred Hitchcock Presents Vol.2 | DVD | (31/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

• Drama Pack - Against The Wall / Tiger Warsaw / Split Decisions / The Whistle Blower / Darrow | DVD | (29/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Against The Wall: It was a time of protest and war. The whole world was in turmoil and nowhere more so than behind the bleak grey walls of America's toughest prison - the monument to misery and violence they called Attica. This is a terrifying story of courage and conviction amid the chaos and horror of America's bloodiest ever prison uprising directed by the acclaimed John Frankenheimer. With both guards and inmates caged like animals Attica was a timebomb just waiting to explode. In this pressure-cooker of brutality a strange bond of humanity was forged between a young rookie officer and the Black Panther leader of revolt. But their passionate belief in a human rights respect and dignity were about to be engulfed in the hatred prejudice and revenge......and the world never be the same again. Tiger Warsaw: Deeply moving story set in the steel town of Sharon Pennsylvania. Chuck Tiger Warsaw brought shame and sorrow to his family when he shot his father in a quarrel. The following 15 years he spent self-destructing dealing and taking drugs and giving his child up for adoption. Chuck returns to his hometown in a last-ditch attempt to put his shattered life back together. But his father now a semi-invalid and his sister Paula refuse to forgive him. Only his mother is glad to see him but she is torn between her love for her son and her duty as a wife. Split Decisions: The story of a fighting Irish family whose patriarch Dan has ambitious plans for his younger son Eddie to be in the Olympic Boxing Team. The Whistle Blower: Frank Jones is an ordinary law abiding businessman but his world is shattered by the arrival of the police to tell him his son is dead. The father embarks on his own investigation into his son's death and discovers that there are no limits to what the government will do to protect its secret activities. Darrow: Some people called him Lawyer for the Damned...but Clarence Darrow was simply a man who in time of justice had the courage to stand alone. The name Clarence Darrow is permanently linked to the tremendous strides in the American legal system from the late 19th century through the early decades of the twentieth century. This complex and charismatic onetime farm boy's history-making legal defences of the Pullman Rainroad Strike the Leopold/Loeb Murder Trial and the Scopes Monkey Trial have earned him the status of an authentic American hero.

• Elephant Man | HD DVD | (26/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  David Lynch creator of Twin Peaks and acclaimed director of 'Eraserhead' 'Blue Velvet' and 'Wild At Heart' directs this bizarre but true story of courage and human dignity. John Hurt gives the performance of a lifetime as John Merrick the worst freak known to Victorian medical science a man whose body is hideously distorted into a grotesque parody of an elephant. Rescued from a travelling freak show by Sir Frederick Treves Merrick gradually reveals himself to be a strangely sweet and gentle man remarkably unembittered by the degradation and torment he suffered at the circus. Beautifully shot by Freddie Francis and with an excellent supporting cast including Sir John Gielgud Anne Bancroft and Dame Wendy Hiller The Elephant Man is a compelling moving and enchanting story. The film was nominated for eight Oscars including Best Picture Best Director and Best Actor.

• Family Box Set - Gold / Call Of The Wild / Treasure Island | DVD | (27/12/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A box set featuring: 'Gold' based on the novel by Wilbur Smith and the story of a group of businessmen who decide to flood a gold mine in South Africa. 'Call Of The Wild' Jack London's classic tale of the Klondike Gold Rush as we follow the lives of the dog Buck and his master John Thornton. 'Treasure Island' Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of a young boy's search for buried treasure.

• 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

• The Whistle Blower | DVD | (25/06/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  After the death of a talented linguist at a British information-gathering centre his father sets out to discover the truth but he also uncovers sinister and covert dealings that threaten the England he has always believed in...

• Gold | DVD | (31/08/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Rod Slater is the newly appointed general manager of the Sonderditch gold mine but he stumbles across an ingenious plot to flood the mine by drilling into an underground lake so the unscrupulous owners to make a killing in the international gold market.

• The Elephant Man | DVD | (06/04/2020) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A stunning new 4K restoration of THE ELEPHANT MAN, with both picture and sound overseen by revered director David Lynch, this release is the perfect celebration of the films 40th anniversary. Starring Anthony Hopkins and John Hurt, THE ELEPHANT MAN is an extraordinary and intensely moving true story of bravery and humanity. John Merrick (John Hurt) is The Elephant Man, forced into circus sideshows and spurned by society because of the disfiguring disabilities he was born with. Rescued by a well meaning surgeon (Anthony Hopkins), he tries to escape a life of prejudice and cruelty as he tries to fit into a world ruled by Victorian sensibilities. Beautifully shot in black and white by the incomparable Freddie Francis, THE ELEPHANT MAN is an unforgettable story of human dignity and survival. A stunning new 40th anniversary restoration Extras: NEW - Interview with Frank Connor, Stills Photography NEW - BFI Q&A With Jonathan Sanger Interview With David Lynch Interview With John Hurt Mike Figgis Interviews David Lynch The Air Is On Fire: Interview With David Lynch at Cartier Foundation Joseph Merrick: The Real Elephant Man The Terrible Elephant Man Revealed

• Tea with The Dames | DVD | (01/12/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A