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• All Creatures Great And Small - Series 1 - Part 1 | DVD | (07/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Based on James Herriot's autobiographical best sellers 'If Only They Could Talk' and 'It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet' the long running TV series 'All Creatures Great and Small' continued to satisfy the Herriot hysteria of the British public.

• Frenzy | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  By the time Alfred Hitchcock's second-to-last picture came out in 1972, the censorship restrictions under which he had laboured during his long career had eased up. Now he could give full sway to his lurid fantasies, and that may explain why Frenzy is the director's most violent movie by far--outstripping even Psycho for sheer brutality. Adapted by playwright Anthony Shaffer, the story concerns a series of rape-murders committed by suave fruit-merchant Bob Rusk (Barry Foster), who gets his kicks from throttling women with a necktie. This being a Hitchcock thriller, suspicion naturally falls on the wrong man--ill-tempered publican Richard Blaney (Jon Finch). Enter Inspector Oxford from New Scotland Yard (Alex McCowan), who thrashes out the finer points of the case with his wife (Vivian Merchant), whose tireless enthusiasm for indigestible delicacies like quail with grapes supplies a classic running gag.Frenzy was the first film Hitchcock had shot entirely in his native Britain since Jamaica Inn (1939), and many contemporary critics used that fact to account for what seemed to them a glorious return to form after a string of Hollywood duds (Marnie, Torn Curtain, Topaz). Hitchcock specialists are often less wild about it, judging the detective plot mechanical and the oh-so-English tone insufferable. But at least three sequences rank among the most skin-crawling the maestro ever put on celluloid. There is an astonishing moment when the camera backs away from a room in which a murder is occurring, down the stairs, through the front door and then across the street to join the crowd milling indifferently on the pavement. There is also the killer's nerve-wracking attempt to retrieve his tiepin from a corpse stuffed into a sack of potatoes. Finally, there is one act of strangulation so prolonged and gruesome it verges on the pornographic. Was the veteran film-maker a rampant misogynist as feminist observers have frequently charged? Sit through this appalling scene if you dare and decide for yourself. --Peter Matthews

• A Clockwork Orange Ultimate Collector's Edition | Blu Ray | (04/10/2021) from £34.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Stomping, whomping, stealing, singing, tap-dancing, violating. Derby-topped hooligan Alex (Malcolm McDowell) has a good time - at the tragic expense of others. His journey from amoral punk to brainwashed proper citizen and back again forms the dynamic arc of Stanley Kubrick's future-shock vision of Anthony Burgess' novel. Controversial when first released, A Clockwork Orange won New York Film Critics Best Picture and Director awards and earned four Oscarr* nominations, including Best Picture. Its power still entices, shocks and holds us in its grasp.This 50th Anniversary Ultimate Collector’s Edition includes:. •A Clockwork Orange on 4K Ultra HD & Blu-ray. •Blu-ray Bonus Disc featuring Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures and O Lucky Malcolm! documentaries. •32-page booklet. •Double-sided Poster. •Set of 3 Art Cards. •Behind the scenes stills. •Newspaper prop replica. Special Features:. • Commentary by Malcolm McDowell and Historian Nick Redman. • Channel Four Documentary Still Tickin’: The Return of Clockwork Orange. • New Featurette Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making A Clockwork Orange. • Career Profile O Lucky Malcolm! [in High Definition]. • Theatrical Trailer.  

• Tiara Tahiti | DVD | (14/03/2011) from £10.98   |  Saving you £4.00 (44.49%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In his first effort at directing a feature-length film William (Ted) Kotcheff best-known for movies like The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz does an excellent job in making this drama effective. He is helped in no small part by James Mason as Brett Aimsley a sophisticated at-ease former junior partner in a brokerage firm and John Mills as Lt. Col. Clifford Southey a former clerk in that same company. During the war the lieutenant carries his sense of inferiority from his peacetime job as a clerk with him. So when he has a chance to nail Brett (a junior officer now) for trying to bring some censored goods back into London he takes the chance and Brett is drummed out of service. Brett heads for Tahiti and a pretty good life in the sun until Clifford shows up on the island with big plans to build a hotel -- bringing with him the same defensive attitude.

• Anne Of Avonlea | DVD | (09/06/2008) from £13.61   |  Saving you £6.38 (46.88%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Anne of Avonlea continues the story of Anne Shirley (Kim Braden) the heroine of Anne of Green Gables as she begins her job as a schoolteacher and faces a whole new set of challenges... The acclaimed BBC mini-series and sequel to Anne of Green Gables is based on L.M. Montgomery's classic novels Anne of Avonlea and Anne of the Island. New adventures lie in store as a bright and ambitious Anne prepares to begin teaching in the local school and joins Diana Barry Gilbert Blythe Charlie Sloan Fred Wright and their other former schoolmates on the newly formed Village Improvement Society in Avonlea. Life at Green Gables takes an unexpected turn with the arrival of two new orphans and so it seems the end of Anne's dreams of attending college. Will she have to learn what she can of life and love in Avonlea or are there yet more conflicts and changes in store as she leaves her girlhood days behind? Coinciding with the centenary of the first publication of the novel Anne of Green Gables Anne of Avonlea is released on DVD for the first from 2nd June 2008 and features all 6 delightful episodes of the mini-series.

• The Lady Vanishes | DVD | (07/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A stylish remake of the Hitchcock original in which two young people are searching for an old lady who has mysteriously disappeared on the train journey back to London from Switzerland...

• Pennies From Heaven | DVD | (05/12/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Drifting along on a prayer and a song. Legendary crooner Bing Crosby sings and dances his way though this charming and delightful story of a wanderer who drifts into the lives and hearts of the residents of the small town of Middletown New Jersey. Featuring music and lyrics by Johnny Burke and Arthur Johnston including the classics ""So Do I "" ""Pennies From Heaven"" (Academy Award nominee for Best Music/Song) ""Skeleton In the Closet"" and ""Lets Call A Heart A Heart.""

• A Horseman Riding By - Vol. 1 | DVD | (12/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Invalided out of the army during the Boer War Paul Craddock accepts the invitation to become Squire of the long neglected Devonshire Estate of Shallowford. A difficult task he must use all of his charm and guile to convince the local valley inhabitants that he is up to the job. Episodes Featured Valley for Sale The Party An Outbreak of Romance A Birth and a Death The Storm

• A Horseman Riding By - Part 3 The Profiteers | DVD | (13/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The war has cast a dark shadow over the valley with men of its men killed in action and Paul worries because of the opportunism that has erupted. He is adament that his trees should not be cut down for the Army and is appalled by people making a profit from the war. Featuring Episodes The Profiteers The Bad Season The Service The Old And The New

• Criminal Mentality | DVD | (23/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99