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• Jazz On A Summer's Day | DVD | (10/09/2001) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-4.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The 1959 Newport Jazz Festival was a true musical watershed, as Jazz on a Summers Day reveals. This 75-minute film captures an event poised on the cusp of a new era, as the cool jazz of Jimmy Guiffre and the effortless scat of Anita ODay intermingle with the hard bop of the Gerry Mulligan Quartet and the smouldering fusion overtones of the Chico Hamilton Quintet. Theres a crisp contribution from Chuck Berry, a typically feel-good set from Louis Armstrong--including a hilarious duo with Jack Teagarden--and, as evening shades into night, a heartfelt performance from Mahalia Jackson, closing with a melting rendition of "The Lords Prayer". Bert Stern has assembled all these and more into a satisfying sequence, complete with footage of an enthusiastic and informal audience. Shots of the yachting line-up from the Americas Cup round out a blissful and what now seems blissfully naïve occasion. On the DVD: Colour picture quality has worn well, whereas sound has deteriorated notably at times: Thelonius Monks quarter-tones could easily be a semitone flat! Even so, its worth putting up with this to enjoy a tour through music-making whose relaxed spontaneity would be impossible to emulate today. --Richard Whitehouse

• Le Corbeau | Blu Ray | (05/03/2018) from £14.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A veritable masterpiece of French cinema, Henri-Georges Clouzot's (The Wages of Fear, Les Diaboliques) Le Corbeau is a dark and subversive study of human nature starring Pierre Fresnay and Ginette Leclerc. A wave of hysteria sweeps the small provincial town of St. Robin when a series of poison-pen letters signed Le Corbeau (The Raven) appear, denouncing several prominent members of society. Starting with the village doctor, the slow trickle of sinister letters soon becomes a flood and no one is safe from their mysterious accusations. Condemned by the political left and right and the church upon its release in 1943, Clouzot was banned from filmmaking for two years after making the film. This Classic noir is essential viewing from the director often dubbed the French Hitchcock. Features: The Cursed MasterPiece Of Henri Georges Clouzot

• Toy Soldiers | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £6.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (85.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Regis High School an exclusive prep school for delinquent teenage boys becomes the target of a terrorist attack in this action-adventure. Columbian drug lord and terrorist Louis Cali has travelled to the US to free his drug kingpin father. With a team of ruthless mercenaries Cali invades Regis High School in an attempt to capture the son of the federal judge presiding over his father’s trial. As Cali takes the students hostage the FBI and US Army remain helpless. Within the school however is a group of rebellious and mischievous students led by Billy Tepper and Joey Trotta who decide to put their expertise in avoiding authority to good use. Now years of bad behavior are about to pay off…

• Silver Bears | DVD | (25/06/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  They were after silver and they struck gold. Financial wizard ""Doc"" Fletcher (Michael Caine) is sent by crime boss Joe Fiore (Martin Balsam) to buy a bank in Switzerland in order to more easily launder their profits. When he arrives Fletcher finds that the bank acquired by his associate Prince di Siracusa (Louis Jourdan) consists of some shabby offices above a restaurant.

• Layer Cake | DVD | (26/02/2007) from £4.96   |  Saving you £8.03 (161.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Just as he's about to get out of the game entirely, a drug dealer gets drawn back in to the doublecrossing world of the London mafia in this refreshing British thriller.

• Classic Films Triple - The Battle Of The River Plate/In Which We Serve/We Dive At Dawn | DVD | (06/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Battle Of River Plate - Ten days before World War II Germany's crack battleship Admiral Graf Spee sails with orders to carry out action against Allied merchant shipping in the South Atlantic. Captained by Hans Langsdorff (Peter Finch) Graf Spee with her superior speed sinks ship after ship. Meanwhile the net is tightening round the German Killer. Outwitted by British Intelligence the Germans are convinced Graf Spee is trapped by a massive naval force. The captain evacuates his men and as a succession of explosions light the night Graf Spee becomes a burning inferno Langsdorff has scuttled the pride of the German fleet in the belief that he was facing impossible odds. The killer of the Atlantic would strike no more. In Which We Serve - The story of the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Torrin and those that serve in her. In the Battle of Crete she is dive-bombed while streaming at thirty knots and goes down fighting. We see through the memories of her survivors the ordeals achievements and gallantry of HMS Torrin from her commissioning until she sinks in her last battle. We Dive At Dawn - When all leave is cancelled for the crew of the British submarine Sea Tiger the men know they are in for an important mission. Their target: the German warship Brandenburg located in the Baltic and surrounded by mines and escorting destroyers. Picking up three German airmen who have been shot down they learn the exact position of the Brandenburg and head for it. Now they must face the mines the destroyers and perhaps the biggest threat of all - the Brandenburg's own deadly torpedoes!

• Last Exit To Brooklyn | DVD | (04/06/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In April 1994 the airplane of the Hutu President of Rwanda crashes and the Hutu militias slaughter the Tutsi population. In the Ecole Technique Officielle the Catholic priest Christopher and the idealistic English teacher Joe Connor lodge two thousand and five hundred Rwandans survivors in the school under the protection of the UN Belgian force and under siege of the Hutu militia.

• We Dive At Dawn | DVD | (08/02/2010) from £6.49   |  Saving you £0.50 (7.20%)   |  RRP £6.99

  We Dive at Dawn (1943) tells of the encounter between a British submarine and a German warship in the Baltic Sea. John Mills gives a dependable performance as the submarine commander, with Eric Portman the pick of a strong supporting cast. Director Anthony Asquith finds the balance between action sequences and "in situ" dialogue, and there's an evocative score from Louis Levy. The film has long been underrated and deserves reappraisal.--Richard Whitehouse

• The Asphalt Jungle | DVD | (01/06/2006) from £31.99   |  Saving you £-18.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  A major heist goes off as planned, until bad luck and double crosses cause everything to unravel.

• Veep - Season 2 | Blu Ray | (02/06/2014) from £18.59   |  Saving you £11.40 (61.32%)   |  RRP £29.99

  With midterm elections looming Vice President Selina Meyer is scoring higher ratings than the president in several popularity polls which she hopes will boost her influence and help her curry favour with the chief executive. But as she knows all too well even the most banal action can set off a ripple effect that has unexpected far-reaching and often disastrous - consequences. Episodes Comprise: Midterms Signals Hostages The Vic Allen Dinner Helsinki Andrew Shutdown First Response Running D.C.

• Bond Remastered - Octopussy (1-disc) | DVD | (12/03/2007) from £10.98   |  Saving you £2.00 (25.03%)   |  RRP £9.99

  James Bond (Roger Moore) may have met his match in Octopussy (Maud Adams) an entrancing beauty involved in a devastating military plot to destroy detente. From the palaces of India to a speeding circus train in Germany and a mid-air battle on the wing of a high-flying jet only Agent 007 can stop the nightmarish scheme!

• Those Who Love Me Can Take The Train | DVD | (22/01/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In this French drama a group of mourners travel from Paris to Limoges to attend the funeral of a tyrannical painter they all knew.

• Last Exorcism, The Single Disc (BLU-RAY) | Blu Ray | (16/05/2011) from £7.05   |  Saving you £15.94 (226.10%)   |  RRP £22.99

  When he arrives on the rural Louisiana farm of Louis Sweetzer, the Reverend Cotton Marcus expects to perform just another routine "exorcism" on a disturbed religious fanatic.

• Louis Theroux | DVD | (19/01/2009) from £10.59   |  Saving you £14.40 (135.98%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Through his many fascinating and compelling documentaries Louis Theroux has made the off beat the unsavoury and the less visited aspects of life his own domain. Through his unique intimate un confrontational interviewing style Louis is able to present intense and surprisingly revealing portraits of the most disparate of subjects. Louis and Gambling: Louis heads for Vegas to reveals the world behind the myths of casino culture - the slot slaves high rollers and casino men who keep this town in the middle of the desert green with money. Louis and the Most Hated Family in America: Louis gets to know the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka Kansas - whose members are nearly all from one family and are infamous for picketing funerals for fallen soldiers... Louis Under the Knife: In California where you can be whatever and whomever you want at the flick of knife and a few thousand dollars Louis attempts to get under the skin of extreme plastic surgery. Louis Behind Bars: Louis goes inside California's San Quentin - one of America's most notorious prisons - to meet serial murderers gang members at risk inmates and guards. Louis' African Hunting Holiday: Louis Theroux journeys to Limpopo Province in South Africa to join the holidaymakers who flock there to hunt big game.

• Walk a Crooked Mile (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (25/03/2024) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The FBI team up with Scotland Yard to crack an espionage ring in Walk a Crooked Mile, starring Louis Hayward (House by the River), Dennis O'Keefe (Chicago Syndicate), and Raymond Burr (Abandoned). When a government agent is killed investigating communist spies who have infiltrated a top-secret nuclear laboratory, FBI agent Dan O'Hara (O'Keefe) must team up with British detective Scotty Grayson (Hayward) to track down the culprits. Directed by Gordon Douglas (Between Midnight and Dawn), Walk a Crooked Mile is a tense and timely Cold War film noir. Product Features High Definition remaster Original mono audio Routine Job: A Story of Scotland Yard (1946, 23 mins): short film following the day-to-day work of a Scotland Yard detective in the pursuit of a case The March of Time: 'Policeman's Holiday' (1949, 20 mins): dramatised instalment of the famed newsreel series, featuring an American detective who assists Scotland Yard while in the UK, echoing but reversing the plot of Walk a Crooked Mile Dunked in the Deep (1949, 17 mins): the Three Stooges inadvertently find themselves mixed-up with a foreign spy ring and smuggling top-secret material out of the country Image gallery: publicity and promotional material New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

• Veep - Complete HBO Season 1 | Blu Ray | (03/06/2013) from £16.65   |  Saving you £13.34 (80.12%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Former Senator Selina Meyer was a charismatic leader and rising star in her party with her eye on the White House - then she became Vice President. Emmy Award winner Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Seinfeld) stars in Veep, the new HBO comedy series created by Oscar nominee Armando Iannucci (In the Loop). Veep follows the whirlwind day-to-day existence of Vice President Meyer as she puts out political fires, juggles a busy public schedule and demanding private life, and defends the president's interests, even as she tries to improve her dysfunctional relationship with the chief executive.

• Seinfeld - Season 6 (4 discs) | DVD | (28/11/2005) from £14.95   |  Saving you £20.04 (134.05%)   |  RRP £34.99

  The complete sixth series of the Emmy award winning smash hit US comedy. Episodes comprise: 1. The Chaperone 2. The Big Salad 3. The Pledge Drive 4. The Chinese Woman 5. The Couch 6. The Gymnast 7. The Soup 8. The Mom & Pop Store 9. The Secretary 10. The Race 11. The Switch 12. The Label Maker 13. The Scofflaw 14. Highlights Of A Hundred (Part 1) 15. Highlights Of A Hundred (Part 2) 16. The Beard 17. The Kiss Hello 18. The Doorman 19. The Jimmy 20. The Doodle 21. The Fusilli

• Seinfeld - Complete Season 1-9 | DVD | (03/11/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £120.99

  The Complete Series 1 to 9 Box Set contains all nine seasons of the hugely popular US comedy series that's famously about nothing! Following the events of a group of friends: Jerry Seinfeld a stand-up comedian who questions every bizarre tid-bit about life; Elaine Benes (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) a flashy woman and book editor who is not afraid to speak her mind; Cosmo Kramer (Michael Richards) an extremely eccentric lanky goofball and George Costanza (Jason Alexander) a hard-luck member of the New York Yankees organisation; this critics favourite and cultural phenomenon is a must have for all fans.

• The World At War - Vol. 5 | DVD | (09/10/2000) from £11.52   |  Saving you £13.47 (116.93%)   |  RRP £24.99

  When this epic series was first broadcast in 1973 it redefined the gold standard for television documentary; it remains the benchmark by which all factual programming must judge itself. Originally shown as 26 one-hour programmes, The World at War set out to tell the story of the Second World War through the testimony of key participants. The result is a unique and unrepeatable event, since many of the eyewitnesses captured on film did not have long left to live. Each hour-long programme is carefully structured to focus on a key theme or campaign, from the rise of Nazi Germany to Hitler's downfall and the onset of the Cold War. There are no academic "talking heads" here to spell out an official version of history; the narration, delivered with wonderful gravitas by Sir Laurence Olivier, is kept to a minimum. The show's great coup was to allow the participants to speak for themselves. Painstaking research in the archives of the Imperial War Museum also unearthed a vast quantity of newsreel footage, including on occasion the cameraman's original raw rushes which present an unvarnished and never-before-seen picture of important events. Carl Davis' portentous main title theme and score underlines the grand scale of the enterprise. The original 26 episodes were supplemented three years later by six special programmes (narrated by Eric Porter), bringing the total running-time to a truly epic 32 hours. Now digitally remastered The World at War looks even more of an impressive achievement on DVD. Available in five volumes, each handsomely packaged double-disc set comes with a detailed menu that places the individual programmes along a chronological timeline. Better yet, chapter access is laid out to allow you to select key speeches or maps or newsreel footage. The World at War was a landmark television event; its DVD incarnation underlines its importance as an historical document. --Mark Walker

• The Man in the Iron Mask | Blu Ray | (09/03/2020) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Following the success of The Count of Monte-Cristo, Richard Chamberlain once again stars in a thrilling adaptation of another classic tale from Alexandre Dumas. Directed by Mike Newell and showcasing a memorable performance from co-star Patrick McGoohan, The Man in the Iron Mask also features Louis Jourdan, Jenny Agutter, Ian Holm and Ralph Richardson. It is presented here as a brand-new High Definition transfer from the original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio. Abducted and imprisoned, Phillipe is unaware that he's the rightful heir to the throne of France. While Phillipe was spirited away at birth by the treacherous and manipulative Fouquet, his twin brother Louis has grown into an easily manipulated spendthrift who is unconcerned for the welfare of the country. Phillipe's freedom now depends on the skill and bravery of the Captain of Musketeers the legendary D'Artagnan! Special Features Theatrical trailer Image gallery