"Actor: Merle Oberon"

• The Scarlet Pimpernel | DVD | (15/08/2016) from £9.34   |  Saving you £2.41 (31.79%)   |  RRP £9.99

  "That damned elusive Pimpernel" finds a dashing embodiment in Leslie Howard, who has the steel to be an action hero and the wit to hide behind his alter ego: a British fop. Based on Baroness Orczy's novel, The Scarlet Pimpernel focuses on the efforts of this British dandy to aid members of the French aristocracy in escaping the guillotines of the French revolution. He also romances Merle Oberon, a beauty forgotten by recent generations and engages in a wonderfully wicked duel of wits with the humourless enforcer for the French Republicans (Raymond Massey). If somewhat short on swashbuckling, it's long on the kind of costume drama that Hollywood seems to have forgotten how to do. The film was remade in 1982 for television, in an equally engaging version starring Anthony Andrews. --Marshall Fine

• The Divorce Of Lady X | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £8.98   |  Saving you £6.00 (85.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This light-hearted society comedy from the Alexander Korda Library features three great actors early in their careers: Korda's wife-to-be Merle Oberon Laurence Olivier and Ralph Richardson. Adapted by Lajos Bir'' from the 1933 stage play Counsel's Opinion The Divorce of Lady X is a solidly produced 'screwball whimsy' in which Korda used an early threestrip Technicolor technique masterfully to give the film its particular lustre. The beautiful Leslie (Merle Oberon) a costume party guest and handsome divorce lawyer Everard Logan (Laurence Olivier) find themselves stranded by fog in an already overcrowded hotel. Leslie's solution is to commandeer Logan's bedroom relegating him to the sofa eat his breakfast and sneak off leaving only a note: 'Goodbye Lady X'. The next day she overhears Logan making disparaging remarks about women in divorce cases and decides that with the aid of her friends Lord and Lady Mere (Ralph Richardson and Binnie Barnes) and an elaborate ruse she will teach the misogynist a lesson...

• DSIRE | DVD | (10/06/2013) from £10.05   |  Saving you £-0.06 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Marlon Brando and Jean Simmons star in this semi-fictional, epic costume drama based on Annemarie Selinko's novel. D�sir�e (Jean Simmons) is young Napoleon's first true love, long before his rise to power. However, he has to decide whether to marry her and sacrifice his career or abandon her. The two lovers go their separate ways, D�sir�e eventually marrying the King of Sweden and Napoleon marrying Josephine (Merle Oberon), and only meet again when Napoleon is about to decide to go into exile.

• Wuthering Heights | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £10.53   |  Saving you £5.46 (51.85%)   |  RRP £15.99

  When Mr. Earnshaw encounters Heathcliff a ragamuffin orphan he kindly brings the boy into his home and makes him part of the family. Instantly Heathcliff falls hopelessly in love with the daughter of the house the beautiful but headstrong Catherine. When a wealthy neighbor woos her Catherine's material instincts overcome her adoration for Heathcliff and so she agrees to marry. Yet as time passes Catherine is to discover that she is unable to forget Heathcliff and not even dea

• Scarlet Pimpernel/Return Of The Scarlet Pimpernel | DVD | (30/07/2007) from £13.05   |  Saving you £-0.06 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934): Adaptation of the novel by Baroness Orczy about a dashing dandy of the English court with a dual identity trying to defend the innocent aristocrats from the violent French Republicans. Great swashbuckling entertainment for the whole family. The Return Of The Scarlet Pimpernel (1937): The French revolutionary Robespierre vows to get revenge on the Scarlet Pimpernel who has been helping the aristocracy escape from the dreaded guillotine. To do so Robespierre kidnaps the Pimpernel's wife and takes her to France. Unfortunately he is not clever enough for the roguish hero and he soon frees her. Together they return to England.

• A Song To Remember (Region 2 & 4) | DVD | (07/10/2013) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Cornel Wilde, Paul Muni and Merle Oberon: a classic line-up of ageless talent in a film that has become an evergreen to millions of music lovers. It's the true story of Frederic Chopin, towering romantic pianist and composer, frail in body but fiery in spirit. It's the story of his eternal music, of the brilliant women who inspired it, of his fight for the freedom of his beloved Poland and his tragic death in the full flower of his genius. Charles Vidor, finest of all romantic film-makers, directs.

• The Lion Has Wings | DVD | (20/07/2015) from £7.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (62.58%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Documentary-style war feature from Alexander Korda. The story compares wartime Germany, under the domination of a fanatical madman, with the dignified calm of rural England and follows Wing Commander Richardson (Ralph Richardson) as he engages in battles in the skies while his wife (Merle Oberon) waits patiently for his return.

• The Lion Has Wings | DVD | (08/02/2010) from £12.49   |  Saving you £-2.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This documentary style film starring Ralph Richardson and Merle Oberon was made to praise the RAF at the start of World War II. It focuses on the families who have connections with the RAF. The film was sponsored by the Ministry of Information and it fulfilled its aim of inspiring confidence in the hearts of its audience.

• Forever And A Day | DVD | (25/05/2015) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  1940s drama made by the collaborative efforts of seven directors and 21 writers. Gates Trimble Pomfret (Ken Smith) travels from America to England during the Blitz in order to sell his family's home in London. When he gets to the house he discovers that Leslie Trimble (Ruth Warrick) has been living there and refuses to move. As Leslie tries to persuade Gates not to sell up, she recounts the house's 140-year history hoping to appeal to his romantic side.

• Berlin Express | DVD | (20/09/2010) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-7.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Set in the immediate post-war occupied Germany a group of international passengers become entwined with a Nazi plot to assassinate a German peace campaigner Dr Bernhardt on an express train from Paris to occupied Berlin. As time runs out the five must comb the shadowy ruins of bombed-out Frankfurt to uncover a loyalist Nazi spy ring.

• Stage Door Canteen | DVD | (13/02/2006) from £7.98   |  Saving you £-2.99 (-59.90%)   |  RRP £4.99

  An all-star cast headed by Gracie Fields feature in this film about the exploits of a group of American servicemen in their last week in New York City before heading off to Europe to fight during the Second World War.

• The Broken Melody DVD | DVD | (28/03/2011) from £6.17   |  Saving you £6.82 (110.53%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Jayne Mansfield makes a departure from her usual roles to play tough girl Billy in this dark crime story. Set in London during the 1960s the film casts Mansfield as the ringleader of a band of robbers. After a failed heist her boyfriend Jim (Anthony Quayle) is captured but not before he stashes the booty in a secret hiding place. Now Billy and her crew are on a desperate hunt to find the treasure before anyone else does...

• That Uncertain Feeling | DVD | (01/02/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.20

• Comedy Noir: Beat The Devil/That Uncertain Feeling | DVD | (22/08/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.38

• Wuthering Heights - Samuel Goldwyn Presents | DVD | (13/02/2017) from £12.73   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Set on the murky, isolated moors in pre-Victorian England, this adaptation of Emily Bronte's classic novel tells the story of doomed love between a young, aristocratic woman and the young man who works in her father's stables.

• Dark Waters | DVD | (01/06/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.15