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• Leave Her To Heaven | DVD | (18/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Leave Her to Heaven is one of the most unblinkingly perverse movies ever offered up as a prestige picture by a major studio in the golden age of Hollywood. Gene Tierney, whose lambent eyes, porcelain features, and sweep of healthy-American-girl hair customarily made her a 20th Century Fox icon of purity, scored an Oscar nomination playing a demonically obsessive daughter of privilege with her own monstrous notion of love. By the time she crosses eyebeams with popular novelist Cornel Wilde on a New Mexico-bound train, her jealous manipulations have driven her parents apart and her father to his grave. Well, no, not grave: Wilde soon gets to watch her gallop a glorious palomino across a red-rock horizon as she metronomically sows Dad's ashes to the winds. Mere screen moments later, she's jettisoned rising-politico fiancé Vincent Price and accepted a marriage proposal the besotted/bewildered Wilde hasn't quite made. Can the wrecking of his and several other lives be far behind? Not to mention a murder or two. Fox gave Ben Ames Williams's bestselling novel (probably just the sort of book Wilde's character writes) the Class-A treatment. Alfred Newman's tympani-heavy music score signals both grandeur and pervasive psychosis, while spectacular, dust-jacket-worthy locations and Oscar-destined Technicolor cinematography by Leon Shamroy ensure our fixed gaze. Impeccably directed by the veteran John M. Stahl (who'd made the original Back Street, Imitation of Life, and Magnificent Obsession a decade earlier), the result is at once cuckoo and hieratic, and weirdly mesmerizing. Bet Luis Buñuel loved it. --Richard T. Jameson

• Meet Me In St. Louis | DVD | (09/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The wonderful Judy Garland stars in this charming musical as Esther Smith whose father comes home and announces he is going to uproot his whole family to New York on the very eve of the 1903 St. Louis World Fair. Brilliantly directed by Vincente Minnelli and full of wonderful songs - 'Trolley Song' 'Have yourself A Merry Little Christmas'.

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  The manipulative Ellen (Tierney) lures the handsome Richard (Wilde) into marriage despite knowing him just a few days and while she is engaged to a politician. Richard soon learns that Ellen's selfish possessive love has previously ruined other people's lives so when his brother drowns while in Ellen's care Richard grows increasingly suspicious of her insatiable devotion...

• The Sore Losers | DVD | (19/06/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Set in present day Memphis and Mississippi alien Blackie returns to earth after 42 years to complete his original mission to kill 12 chosen victims (lowlife scum such as hillbillies hippies chartered accountants etc...). He soon hooks up with his old friend - Mike who has been locked in a Memphis time warp asylum for the last 42 years and the memorable Kerine - a young lady straight out of the big house with a penchant for black leather 45 magnums AMC Pacers and killing hippies. On a visit to her folks Kerine blows away her mother and father - unfortunately these kills exceed the quota of 12 stranding Blackie and Mike on Earth. The they have to drag Kerine's dead mother around with them until they figure out how to re-animate her and replace her with a victim of the supreme elders choosing. The replacement victim turns out to be the delectable D'Lana who unfortunately has mistakenly been captured by the FBI from outer space and sentenced to death for the murders committed by the gang. She can only die by Blackie's hand in order that they can return home winners and not get stuck on earth as sore losers!