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• Thunderbirds: Volume 8 | DVD | (19/07/2004) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-5.59 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Filmed in VIDECOLOR--[explosions, drum roll, music builds to a climax]--and SUPERMARIONATION"! The opening sequence of Thunderbirds is itself a masterclass in Gerry Anderson's marionette hyperbole: who else would dare to make a virtue out of the fact that (a)the show is in colour and (b) it's got puppets in it? But everything about this series really is epic: Thunderbirds is action on the grandest scale, pre-dating such high-concept Hollywood vehicles as Armaggedon by 30 years and more (the acting is better, too), and fetishising gadgets in a way that even the most excessive Bond movies could never hope to rival. Unsurprisingly, it transpires that the visual effects are by Derek Meddings, whose later contributions to Bond movies like The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker echo his pioneering model work here. As to the characters, the clean-cut Tracey boys take second place in the audience's affections to their cool machines--the real stars of the show--while comic relief is to be found in the charming company of Lady Penelope and her pink Rolls (number plate FAB1), driven by lugubrious chauffeur Parker, whose "Yes, milady" catchphrase resonated around school playgrounds for decades. (Spare a thought for poor old John Tracey, stuck up in space on Thunderbird 5 with only the radio for company.) The puppet stunt-work is breathtakingly audacious, and every week's death-defying escapade is nail-bitingly choreographed in the very best tradition of disaster movies. First shown in 1964 and now digitally remastered, Thunderbirds is children's TV that still looks and sounds like big-budget Hollywood. On this DVD: The four episodes are: "Alias Mr. Hackenbacker", "Lord Parker's 'Oliday", "Ricochet" and "Give or Take a Million". Amazon.com

• Thunderbirds: Volume 6 | DVD | (19/07/2004) from £9.96   |  Saving you £9.02 (129.41%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Filmed in VIDECOLOR--[explosions, drum roll, music builds to a climax]--and SUPERMARIONATION"! The opening sequence of Thunderbirds is itself a masterclass in Gerry Anderson's marionette hyperbole: who else would dare to make a virtue out of the fact that (a)the show is in colour and (b) it's got puppets in it? But everything about this series really is epic: Thunderbirds is action on the grandest scale, pre-dating such high-concept Hollywood vehicles as Armaggedon by 30 years and more (the acting is better, too), and fetishising gadgets in a way that even the most excessive Bond movies could never hope to rival. Unsurprisingly, it transpires that the visual effects are by Derek Meddings, whose later contributions to Bond movies like The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker echo his pioneering model work here. As to the characters, the clean-cut Tracey boys take second place in the audience's affections to their cool machines--the real stars of the show--while comic relief is to be found in the charming company of Lady Penelope and her pink Rolls (number plate FAB1), driven by lugubrious chauffeur Parker, whose "Yes, milady" catchphrase resonated around school playgrounds for decades. (Spare a thought for poor old John Tracey, stuck up in space on Thunderbird 5 with only the radio for company.) The puppet stunt-work is breathtakingly audacious, and every week's death-defying escapade is nail-bitingly choreographed in the very best tradition of disaster movies. First shown in 1964 and now digitally remastered, Thunderbirds is children's TV that still looks and sounds like big-budget Hollywood. On this DVD: The four episodes are: "The Duchess Assignment", "Brink of Disaster", "Attack of the Alligators!" and "Martian Invasion". Amazon.com

• To Serve Them All My Days - Part 2 | DVD | (19/04/2004) from £18.17   |  Saving you £1.82 (10.02%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A man who has been invalided out of the Army takes a teaching position at the Bamfylde School during the First World War. Drama based on the novel by R.F. Delderfield.

• Thunderbirds: Volume 7 | DVD | (19/07/2004) from £12.13   |  Saving you £3.86 (31.82%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Filmed in VIDECOLOR [explosions, drum roll, music builds to a climax] and SUPERMARIONATION"! The opening sequence of Thunderbirds is itself a masterclass in Gerry Anderson's marionette hyperbole: who else would dare to make a virtue out of the fact that (a) the show is in colour and (b) it's got puppets in it? But everything about this series really is epic: Thunderbirds is action on the grandest scale, pre-dating such high-concept Hollywood vehicles as Armaggedon by 30 years and more (the acting is better, too), and fetishising gadgets in a way that even the most excessive Bond movies could never hope to rival. Unsurprisingly, it transpires that the visual effects are by Derek Meddings, whose later contributions to Bond movies like The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker echo his pioneering model work here.As to the characters, the clean-cut Tracey boys take second place in the audiences' affections to their cool machines--the real stars of the show--while comic relief is to be found in the charming company of Lady Penelope and her pink Rolls (number plate FAB1), driven by lugubrious chauffeur Parker, whose "Yes, milady" catch phrase resonated around school playgrounds for decades. (Spare a thought for poor old John Tracey, stuck up in space on Thunderbird 5 with only the radio for company.) The puppet stunt-work is breathtakingly audacious, and every week's death-defying escapade is nail-bitingly choreographed in the very best tradition of disaster movies. First shown in 1964 and now digitally remastered, Thunderbirds is children's TV that still looks and sounds like big-budget Hollywood.On this DVD: The four episodes are: "The Cham Cham", "Security Hazard", "Atlantic Inferno" and "Path of Destruction".

• Midnight | DVD | (05/09/2011) from £8.08   |  Saving you £7.91 (97.90%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Midnight... Time to Die! From John A. Russo author of Return of the Living Dead comes Midnight a sordid tale of young runaways lecherous stepfathers and inbred Satanists. Poor poor Nancy... Alone on the road trying to hitch a ride to California to start a new life away from the sleaze of her own family. Nancy hooks up with a pair of good natured petty crooks on a road trip to nowhere special. Then things take a dark turn when her friends are iced by a pair of backwoods cops. Now Nancy is in danger of being sacrificed to Satan himself by the wayward lawmen and their twisted siblings in an insane attempt to resurrect their mother's mummified corpse. A startling and shocking adventure as three kids take a strange detour to the land of the LIVING DEAD!

• Elvis Has Left The Building | DVD | (24/10/2005) from £7.94   |  Saving you £12.05 (151.76%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Harmony Jones (Kim Basinger) saw Elvis in concert when she was a child and the event had such a profound impact on her that she now communicates regularly with the youthful spirit of the King Of Rock `n' Roll. However her desire to `stay in touch' has a downside for Elvis impersonators because they have a habit of suddenly dropping dead if she's around! After being involved in a bizarre accident which leaves a car load of Elvis tribute performers dead Harmony abandons her job as a d

• Doctor Jekyll And Mr Hyde | DVD | (23/07/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In this 1920 silent version of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, John Barrymore is dignified and virtuous as Dr Henry Jekyll, and transforms into Id incarnate as the lascivious Mr. Hyde with almost no make-up beyond his gnarled, knobby fingers and greasy hair, relying almost solely on a bug-eyed grimace, a spidery body language and pure theatrical flourish. He tends to be hammy as the leering beast of a thug but brings a tortured struggle to the repressed doctor, horrified at the demon he's unleashed, guilty that he enjoys Hyde's unrestrained life of drinking and whoring and terrified that he can no longer control the transformations. Martha Mansfield co-stars as his pure and innocent sweetheart, and Nita Naldi (the vamp of Blood and Sand) has a small but memorable role as the world-weary dance-hall darling who first "wakens" Jekyll's "baser nature". --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com

• Santa Claus Conquers The Martians | DVD | (28/10/2002) from £7.49   |  Saving you £-3.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  The Martians discover Earth's Christmas festival and the much loved Santa Claus. They are so envious that they kidnap him and take him to Mars. Earth has lost Father Christmas but for how long...?

• That Certain Age | DVD | (02/05/2011) from £6.48   |  Saving you £8.50 (189.31%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Fullerton's an affluent middle class American family have the balance of their lifestyle upset when young Alice Fullerton falls in love with a talented news reporter invited to lodge in their house. Despite the efforts of her mother father boyfriend and even the reporter himself nothing can deter the girl of a certain age from her heart's desire.

• Quatermass 2 | DVD | (31/03/2003) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-4.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Quatermass is intrigued by strange images on his radar. Thinking them to be meteorites he follows them to a village which on his arrival he finds has been completely destroyed...

• Wilt | DVD | (07/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Based on the hilarious novel by Tom Sharpe and starring Grif Rhys-Jones and Mel Smith, "Wilt" is a story of a disappearance, mistaken identity and a blow-up doll.

• The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen | DVD | (07/04/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  From Terry Gilliam director of Time Bandits and Brazil comes The Adventures of Baron Munchausen a spectacular epic fantasy quite unlike any other film ever made. Just who is Baron Munchausen? Liar? Rogue? Madman? Or the greatest superhero ever to battle and triumph against unbeatable odds? Did he really ride through the air on a cannonball slay a three-headed griffin journey to the moon and all before breakfast...? Helped and hindered by a supporting cast of literally thousands including Vulcan (Oliver Reed) Bertholdt (Eric Idle) and many more the indomitable Baron (John Neville) succeeds in overcoming every obstacle to face his final greatest challenge... Death itself.

• War of the Wildcats/In Old California (John Wayne) | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £13.45   |  Saving you £-3.46 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  War Of The Wildcats (Dir. Albert S. Rogell 1943): A cowboy battles with an oil tycoon for drilling rights on Indian lands in Oklahoma during the oil boom days. In Old California (Dir. William McGann 1942): Tom Craig (John Wayne) is a recent arrival to Sacramento California where he is trying to set up his pharmacy. He unfortunately finds out that the town is owned by political boss Britt Dawson (Albert Dekker) who is getting protection money from the townspeople. The town boss meets his match when he tries to frame Craig with poisoned medicine but Craig is ready for a fight.

• MONTY PYTHON: DAS LEBEN DES BR | Blu Ray | (22/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Good, The Bad And The Ugly, The / The Magnificent Seven / The Alamo | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Good The Bad And The Ugly Director Sergio Leone substitutes for the upright puritan Protestant ethos so familiar in Hollywood westerns a seedy cynical standpoint towards death and mortality as a team of brutal bandits battle to unearth a fortune buried beneath an unmarked grave. Joining Clint clearly The Good is the irredeemably Bad Lee and the resolutely Ugly Eli Wallach. The complete plot of bloodshed and betrayal winds its way through the American Civil War filmed to resemble the French battlefields of World War One to end in the climatic Dance Of Death. The Magnificent Seven Yul Brynner stars as one of seven master gunmen who aid the helpless farmers of an isolated village pitted against an army of marauding bandits in this rousing action tale based on Akira Kurosawa's classic 'Seven Samurai'. Released in 1960 John Sturges' masterpiece garnered an Oscar nomination for Elmer Bernstein (for Best Score) and launched the film careers of Steve McQueen Charles Bronson Robert Vaughn and James Coburn. The Alamo At the Alamo a crumbling adobe mission 185 exceptional men joined together in a sacred pact: they would stand firm against an army of 7 000 and willingly give their lives for freedom. Filmed entirely in Texas only a few miles from the site of the actual battle 'The Alamo' is a visually stunning and historically accurate celebration of courage and honour. John Wayne produces directs and stars in this larger than life chronicle of one of the most remarkable events in American history.

• The Big Trees | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  A remake of 'Valley Of The Giants' 'The Big Trees' features Kirk Douglas as an ambitious lumberman who wants to make a fortune from the Redwood Forest by pushing a religious sect off their land. His many adventures include organising the religious sect to take action and leading them against their enemies as well as saving a heroine from a runaway train.

• Backs To The Land - Series 1 - Complete | DVD | (28/06/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Backs To The Land: The Complete First Series

• King Frat | DVD | (03/03/2008) from £10.99   |  Saving you £-2.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Move over 'Animal House' and 'American Pie' because no film rocks like 'King Frat'! You won't believe the riotous x-rated antics of fat funny and flatulent John DiSanti and the rest of the Pi Kappa Delta crew in the outrageous comedy!

• Wedding Bell Blues | DVD | (26/08/2002) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-14.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Turning 30 and not having been married is driving 3 friends Jasmine Tanya and Micki crazy. Will these friends end up with husbands or heartaches the love of their lives or simply a weekend they'll never forget?

• Something In The Wind | DVD | (12/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A beautiful female disc-jockey is mistaken for the girlfriend of a geriatric millionaire by the millionaire's grandson. Includes the songs: 'The Turntable Song' 'Happy-Go-Lucky and Free' 'You Gotta Keep Your Baby Lookin` Right' 'Something In The Wind' 'It's Only Love' and 'Il Miserere'.