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• Edgar Wallace Presents: The Gaunt Stranger | DVD | (21/10/2013) from £7.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (25.03%)   |  RRP £9.99

  An atmospheric adaptation of The Ringer - the play that earned global fame for English master of suspense Edgar Wallace and remains his best-known story - this classic whodunit combines taut direction and inspired characterisation, with Patrick Barr starring as a beleaguered Scotland Yard investigator, John Longdon his hawkish superior and, in an early film role as a particularly haughty secretary, Patricia Roc. Also notable as the first film produced at Ealing by Michael Balcon, The Gaunt St...

• Marnie | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £9.43   |  Saving you £0.56 (5.94%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Both visually and psychologically, Marnie is crass in comparison with Hitchcock's peak achievement in Vertigo--although it shares some of that film's characteristic obsessive themes. Sean Connery, fresh from From Russia with Love, is a Philadelphia playboy who begins to fall for Tippi Hedren's blonde ice goddess only when he realises that she's a professional thief (she's come to work in his upper-crust insurance office in order to embezzle mass quantities). His patient programme of investigation and surveillance has a creepy, voyeuristic quality that's pure Hitchcock, but all's lost when it emerges that the root of Marnie's problem is phobic sexual frigidity, induced by a childhood trauma. Luckily, Sean is up to the challenge, as it were. Not even DH Lawrence believed as fervently as Hitchcock in the curative properties of sexual release. --David Chute

• The Bandit of Sherwood Forest | DVD | (24/10/2011) from £10.99   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This is a UK Region 2 DVD released by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment in 2009.

• 3 Classic Award Winning Dramas - Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafe / Sophie's Choice / On Golden Pond | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The sunny streets of Brooklyn, just after World War II. A young would-be writer named Stingo (Peter MacNicol) shares a boarding house with beautiful Polish immigrant Sophie (Meryl Streep) and her tempestuous lover, Nathan (Kevin Kline); their friendship changes his life. This adaptation of the bestselling novel by William Styron is faithful to the point of being reverential, which is not always the right way to make a film come to life. But director Alan J. Pakula (All the President's Men) provides a steady, intelligent path into the harrowing story of Sophie, whose flashback memories of the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp form the backbone of the movie. Streep's exceptional performance--flawless Polish accent and all--won her an Oscar, and effectively raised the standard for American actresses of her generation. No less impressive is Kevin Kline, in his movie debut, capturing the mercurial moods of the dangerously attractive Nathan. The two worlds of Sophie's Choice, nostalgic Brooklyn and monstrous Europe, are beautifully captured by the gifted cinematographer Néstor Almendros, whose work was Oscar-nominated but didn't win. It should have. --Robert Horton, Amazon.com

• Judge Priest | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Classic John Ford directed Americana based on the stories of Irvin Cobb. A small town judge in the old south stirs up the place with stinging humour and common sense observations as he tackles prejudices and civil injustices in this warm affectionate and funny look at a slice of American life.

• Marnie | Blu Ray | (10/05/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Blood Of Dracula | DVD | (17/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Six weeks after her mother dies Nancy Perkins' father remarries. The stepmother then sends Nancy off to a school for girls where the innocent girl falls under the spell of evil chemistry teacher Miss Branding. Putting Nancy under hypnosis Miss Branding converts the poor damsel to vampirism causing her to commit murders and then forget about them. The villainess recieves her comeuppance when Nancy refuses to snap out of her spell transforming into a slavering vampiric beast.

• The Ape Man | DVD | (25/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  One of the areas of human knowledge which has expanded fastest over the last few decades is our awareness of the complexities of human evolution. Ape·Man is a useful summary of the current state of play dealing with such important questions as the divergence of early hominids from the other apes and the final confrontation of modern humans and their Neanderthal cousins. It is a fair-minded handling of some of the crucial debates--at what point, say, is it legitimate to talk of humans and human ancestors starting to decorate their possessions, say, and when did language and the complex innovations in hunting it makes possible start to be a factor? Inventive portrayals of the life of early humans as they wander out of the mists of time alternate with coherent and accessible accounts of fossil evidence, DNA studies and archaeology; this is both an intellectually satisfying series and an emotionally charged one. --Roz Kaveney

• Charlie Chan - On Broadway | DVD | (19/12/2005) from £16.18   |  Saving you £-2.19 (-15.70%)   |  RRP £13.99

  A New York nightclub singer plans to reveal gangsters named in her private diary. However the diary disappears and the singer is murdered. Charlie Chan is called into to investigate and finds himself in an underworld inhabited by gangsters blackmailers and murderers.

• Bikes Aloud Uncut | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The best of Granada Men and Motors most popular show arrives on DVD. Featuring racing legends like Valentino Rossi and Niall Mackenzie insane riding tips from Shane Byrne as well as fly-on-the-wall features with illegal street racers reports from bike launches around the world and more general insanity that normal people can handle.

• 3 Classic Bela Lugosi - Vol. 2 - The Corpse Vanishes / The Ape Man / Bride Of The Monster | DVD | (06/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Featuring 3 films starring the personification of Hollywood's Dracula Bela Lugosi. The Corpse Vanishes (1942): A mad scientist aided by an old hag and her two compliant sons - a malicious dwarf and a brutish moron - kills virgin brides and steals their bodies in order to extract glandular fluid which keeps his ancient wife alive and young... The Ape Man (1943): Conducting weird scientific experiments crazed Dr. James Brewster aided by his colleague Dr. Randall has

• The Ape Man | DVD | (04/01/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Conducting weird scientific experiments crazed Dr James Brewster (Bela Lugosi) aided by his colleague Dr Randall has managed to transform himself into a hairy stooped over ape man. Desperately seeking a cure Brewster believes only an injection of a recently drawn human spinal fluid will prove effective. With Randall refusing to help him it falls to Brewster and his captive gorilla to find appropriate donors - living or dead!

• The Ape | DVD | (31/12/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  In this cult horror classic Boris Karloff is mad scientist Dr. Adrian a man who becomes obsessed with curing paralysis. Desperately trying to cure a crippled young women he discovers that he needs human spinal fluid for his vaccine - but how to get it? When an ape trainer at a local circus is badly mauled the doctor allows him to die so that he can tap his spine. But then the gorilla escapes and goes on a killing spree terrorizing the small town.