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• HELLRAISER: The Iconic Horror Trilogy (3 Film Collection) | DVD | (23/10/2017) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  WE HAVE SUCH SIGHTS TO SHOW YOU! In 1987, master of horror Clive Barker unleashed Hellraiser upon unsuspecting audiences launching what has proven to be one of the genre s most enduring franchises and creating an instant horror icon in the figure of Pinhead in the process. In Barker s original Hellraiser, Kirsty Cotton (Ashley Laurence) comes head-to-head with the Cenobites demonic beings from another realm who are summoned by way of a mysterious puzzle box. Picking up immediately after the events of the original Hellraiser, Hellbound: Hellraiser II finds Kirsty detained at a psychiatric institute and under the care of Dr. Channard, a man with an unhealthy interest in the occult. Meanwhile, Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth sees Pinhead and his band of Cenobites let loose in our own world, with terrifying consequences.

• Born Yesterday | DVD | (05/08/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Born Yesterday was the box-office comedy hit of 1950 and won a Best Actress Oscar for the exceptional Judy Holliday, recreating her long-running Broadway triumph as Billie Dawn, the quintessential dumb blonde who finally gets herself some smarts. The film resonates with the sophisticated sparring in Garson Kanin's script and there are tightly controlled performances from William Holden as the cynical journalist hired to polish Billie up for Washington society and Broderick Crawford as Harry Brock, her rough, crooked and ambitious boyfriend. But Born Yesterday is Holliday's picture, as she runs the gamut from brassy insouciance to tentative, vulnerable enlightenment. She hasn't thought of her estranged father in five years: "It's nothing against him. I haven't thought of anything in five years." Her gradual awakening to the realisation that she is a stooge for Brock's corrupt business deals, and the way she sheds her chorus girl's intellect in the face of growing political awareness, are brilliantly traced. Holliday's dead-pan delivery makes the pathos of her self-discovery both hilarious and deeply touching; it's the hallmark of a comic genius, which makes the sparseness of her subsequent film appearances all the more regrettable. On the DVD: Born Yesterday is presented in full screen (1.33:1) ratio. Like the mono soundtrack, the black and white picture quality has triumphantly survived its more than half century. Extras include a gallery of vintage advertisements and an original theatrical trailer, plus filmographies and welcome, comprehensive booklet notes. --Piers Ford

• Three Stooges In Colour / Laurel & Hardy - Way Out West / Marx Bros - Duck Soup | DVD | (18/10/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The Three Stooges In Colour: Four remastered colourised comedy shorts featuring American vaudeville act The Three Stooges: Disorder in the Court (1936) Brideless Groom (1947) Sing a Song of Six Pants (1947) Malice in the Palace (1949). Way Out West: Stan and Ollie arrive in Brushwood Gulch bearing the deed to a gold mine. They are to deliver the deed to Mary Roberts but are intercepted by her employer villainous saloon-owner Mickey Finn. Finn passes off his wife Lola as the heiress but Stan and Ollie discover the truth and set about retrieving the deed. Finn has the Sheriff on his side so our heroes must resort to burglary - with the aid of ropes pulleys and their mule! Duck Soup: Groucho is Rufus T. Firefly the hilarious dictator of mythical Freedonia. Harpo and Chico are commisioned as spies by Groucho's political rival the calculating Trentino. The film contains many of the brothers' famous sequences: the lemonade stand the Paul Revere parody the We're Going To War number (a beautiful spoof of 30's musicals) the hilarious mirror scene and a final battle episode that has been copied by everyone including Woody Allen!

• The Stan And Ollie Collection - The Wizard Of Oz | DVD | (19/06/2003) from £4.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (120.24%)   |  RRP £10.99

  Oliver Hardy is the bulging farm-hand who is in love with the beautiful Dorothy. Things take a turn for the worse as a love rival appears on the scene. Far away in the land of Oz the evil prime minister Kruel and his ambassador Wikked are on the lookout for a long-lost princess. This princess who vanished without a trace when she was still a baby is the rightful ruler of Oz and a big headache for the prime minister. Back in Kansas Dorothy stumbles upon a secret letter that expl