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• The Planman | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Lawyer Jack Lennox (Robbie Coltrane) finds himself increasingly frustrated by the professional criminals he is called upon to defend and so stumbles upon the idea of devising the perfect crime himself... But when a plan for a theoretical bank raid is carried out to the letter Lennox finds himself drawn into an exciting and illegal sideline as a criminal mastermind. It's a dangerous double life - and the stakes are even higher than he realises. When his secret is discovered by Assistant Chief Constable Brian Richards (Neil Dudgeon) he offers Lennox a chance to win his freedom. Promising to hand over the top four criminal gangs in the UK he devises one final brilliant plan. But who can he trust and which side is he really on?

• Brond - The Complete Series | DVD | (30/07/2018) from £8.48   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Channel Fours celebrated political thriller, first broadcast in 1987, is adapted from the novel by Frederic Lindsay, voted one of the best Scottish books of all time. Stratford Johns plays the title role of Brond, the menacing mastermind behind the Scottish liberation army. John Hannah stars as Robert, a Glasgow University student drawn into the web of political intrigue. Robert is the sole witness to the murder of a small boy. That same evening he encounters the assailant, Brond, at a party hosted by his professor. Brond is introduced as an old friend by Professor Gracemont, which stops a perplexed Robert from exposing him. Margaret (Louise Beattie), a fellow student who Robert is keen on, asks him to keep a parcel safe for Brond. Despite Robert s desperate efforts to get rid of it, he and the mysterious package are taken to Brond. Brond appears to take a keen interest in him and, against his will, Robert is pulled into a succession of violent and horrifying events. A tale of evil and exploitation in the nightmarish landscape of a Glasgow where nothing is as it seems.