"Actor: Larry Fischer"

• Escape From Alcatraz | DVD | (07/05/2001) from £6.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (85.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  One of Clint Eastwood's two most important filmmaking mentors was Don Siegel (the other was Sergio Leone), who directed Eastwood in Dirty Harry, Coogan's Bluff, Two Mules for Sister Sara and this enigmatic, 1979 drama based on a true story about an escape from the island prison of Alcatraz. Eastwood plays a new convict who enters into a kind of mind game with the chilly warden (Patrick McGoohan) and organises a break leading into the treacherous waters off San Francisco. As jailbird movies go, this isn't just a grotty, unpleasant experience but a character-driven work with some haunting twists. --Tom Keogh

• Derailroaded - Inside The Mind Of Larry Wildman Fischer | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £29.14   |  Saving you £-11.15 (-62.00%)   |  RRP £17.99

  My name is Larry. Manic Depressive. Paranoid Schizophrenic. Rock legend. Larry ""Wild Man"" Fischer was a wildly eccentric singer who in 1968 was discovered on the streets of Hollywood by Frank Zappa who was intrigued by Fischer's offer to write and perform original songs for passers-by for a mere ten cents each. After hearing a few dollars' worth Zappa offered Fischer - who had been wandering the edges of the music business for several years with no success - a recording con