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• Naked Gun Trilogy | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Naked Gun (Dir. David Zucker 1988): Those screw-loose Airplane! creators have done it again! Leslie Nielsen stars as Police Squad's own granite-jawed rock-brained cop Frank Drebin who bumbles across a mind-control scheme to assassinate Queen Elizabeth. Priscilla Presley O.J. Simpson a stuffed beaver two baseball teams and an odd assortment of others join the wacko goings-on and blow the laugh-o-meter to smithereens. The Naked Gun 2 1/2 - The Smell O

• The Patsy | DVD | (08/11/2004) from £10.56   |  Saving you £8.42 (111.23%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Reprising his role as Stanley the bellboy Jerry Lewis returns in The Patsy. When a star comedian dies unexpectedly the team behind the man decide to train an unknown to fill the shoes of the late comedian for a TV show. Undeniably absurd but extremely funny the film centres on the disastrous attempts by Stanley to fulfil the requirements to pass himself off as the comedian. As Stanley's big debut approaches his abilities deteriorate rapidly into a melting-pot of mayhem and slap

• The Complete Naked Gun Collection | DVD | (05/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Naked Gun series must be the only successful big-screen franchise to have been a spin-off from a spectacularly unsuccessful TV series. Although Police Squad went on to become a cult favourite, at the time the American TV network was so unimpressed they only showed four of the six episodes before cancelling it. But Leslie Nielsen's bumbling Lt Frank Drebin just wouldn't go away. Supported in masterly deadpan style by George Kennedy and Priscilla Presley, Nielsen cemented his reputation as a gifted comic actor with The Naked Gun decades after he had first become known as a minor Hollywood leading man (in 1955's Forbidden Planet for example). The first movie appeared in 1988 and spawned two sequels that replayed exactly the same routines: in The Naked Gun series sight gags (some of which are worthy of the Marx Brothers, some not) combine with excruciating puns and lots of toilet humour to follow the same hit formula as the creators' earlier slapstick masterpiece, Airplane. By the third film the formula may have become more than a little overworked, and few including the filmmakers cared much about the increasingly creaky scenarios, but Nielsen's easygoing idiotic charm goes a long way towards saving the day. There are still a lot of laughs to be found in all three Naked Gun movies, even if some of them are the unintentional result of seeing OJ Simpson before notoriety overtook his budding film career. On the DVDs: All three features are anamorphically enhanced 1.78:1 widescreen ratios, with Dolby Digital 5.1 sound. Each disc also has a jovial ensemble commentary featuring co-creator David Zucker with other producers and writers, which is only intermittently informative but is at least intermittently funny, too. --Mark Walker

• The Swing Years - Lullaby Of Broadway | DVD | (22/11/2004) from £21.02   |  Saving you £-4.03 (-23.70%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Track List: 1. Click! Click! Another Drink 2. Do I Love You 3. Dixie 4. Honeysuckle Rose 5. Isn't That Just Like Love 6. Fantasia 7. Hot In The Groove 8. I Don't Walk Without You 9. The Boogie Woogie Man 10. Love Turns Winter To Spring 11. Dancing On Air 12. On To Victory (Notre Dame Flight Song) 13. My Lost Horizon 14. Sleepy Time Gal 15. My Gal Sal 16. This Love Of Mine 17. Let's Get Lost 18. Singing Hills 19. Doin' The Hot Foot 20. T

• Judy Garland - Judy Duets | DVD | (11/06/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Featuring the incomparable Judy Garland performing great songs with legendary singers and musicians including: Count Basie: I Hear Music The Sweetest Sounds Strike Up the Band Mel Torme: The Trolley Son Bobby Darin: Goin' Home Medley Lena Horne: Day In Day Out Barbra Streisand: Hooray For Love Medley Get Happy Happy Days Are Here Again Ethel Merman: Friendship Medley Tony Bennett: I Left My Heart In San Francisco Jack Jones: Nelson Eddy-Jeannette McDonald Medley Frank Sinatra & Dean Martin: Let There Be Love You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You Mickey Rooney: You're So Right For Me Peggy Lee: I Like Men Medley Vic Damone: West Side Story Medley Liza Minelli: We Could Make Such Beautiful Music Together The Best is Yet To Come

• George Shearing - the Swing Era | DVD | (03/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

  The leader of one of the most popular combos in jazz during the Fifties and early Sixties the blind George Shearing (b.1919) was reputed for his mastery at the piano an instrument he played in a sophisticated style he termed 'locked hands'. Shearing was also known for the unique sound of his quintet which featured an unusual lineup with the vibraphone and guitar tripling the melody. Shearing's very special sound proved fruitful during his heyday when he was one of the best-selling jazzmen around. A notable composer the blind pianist wrote numbers which have become classics: 'Lullaby of Birdland' 'Conception' 'Consternation' ... Among Shearing's other contributions is his pioneering interest in small-group Afro-Cuban sounds during the Fifties a period when he employed Latin-oriented sidemen such as Mongo Santamaria Willie Bobo or Cal Tjader. A much-respected artist he has performed alongside jazz greats such as Oscar Pettiford Peggy Lee Wes Montgomery Mel Torme or Jim Hall.GEORGE SHEARINGMoveI'll Be AroundconceptionI'll Never Smile AgainSwedish PastryMEL TORMEBlue RoomApril ShowersYou're Driving Me CrazyYou Ought To Be In PicturesSLAM STEWART TRIO:Oh Me Oh My Oh JoshSLIM GAILLARD:O'Ronney's OvertureDynamith O'RooneySpanish Melody And SwingChile And Beans O'VouteeDunkin' BagelLagunaTHE BOB CATS:Muskrat RambleBig Noise From WinnetkaMarch of the BobcatsSavoy BluesWho's Sorry NowComplainin'Love's Got Me In A Lazy MoodPanama BluesRALPH FLANAGAN AND HIS ORCHESTRA:Stars and Stripes ForeverJoshuaGiannina MiaDixie JumpTONY PASTOR AND HIS ORCHESTRAYour Red WagonMargieCome On-A My HouseLife Is So PeculiarBrother BillOh Marie