"Actor: Mills"

• Charles Dickens Collection | DVD | (24/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £99.99

  Martin Chuzzlewit (Dir. Pedr James 1994): Martin Chuzzlewit is a wealthy old man. But who will inherit his riches? He has disinherited his grandson young Martin suspecting the motives of the young man's love for Mary Chuzzlewit's nurse and companion. With such a prize to play for the rest of his family - including the snivelling hypocrite Pecksniff and the fabulously evil Jonas - bring forth all of their cunning greed and selfishness. With his grandson floundering in Amer

• The Big Sleep | DVD | (06/11/2006) from £6.34   |  Saving you £0.65 (10.25%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Raymond Chandler's hard boiled novel is brought to the screen with sleuth Phillip Marlowe finding himself involved with murder blackmail and violence when hired to protect a General's young daughter.

• Dulcima | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £12.98   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This acclaimed drama feature casts Cathy Come Home star Carol White as a young woman whose determined efforts to escape a life of rural poverty lead to complications and worse; Oscar winner John Mills is the lonely ageing farmer with whom she finds work accommodation and the promise of easy money. An earthy sympathetic adaptation of H.E. Bates' novel Dulcima earned director Frank Nesbitt a Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in 1971. This rare much sought-after film is now presented in a brand-new transfer from the original elements. Dulcima a pretty girl treated as a drudge by her family lifts herself from her environment by becoming housekeeper to Parker a curmudgeonly widower living in drunken disarray on a neighbouring farm. When she sees the amount of money he has stashed around the place Dulcima is happy enough to indulge his growing desire for her and a strange yet mutually beneficial relationship develops. But a handsome young gamekeeper newly arrived on a nearby estate also catches Dulcima's eye... SPECIAL FEATURES: [] Original Theatrical Trailers [] Image Gallery [] Original Pressbook PDF

• Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell | DVD | (02/10/2000) from £49.99   |  Saving you £-30.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Peter O'Toole is dazzling as Jeffrey Bernard: Spectator columnist raconteur hopeful lover hopeless husband heroic drinker and funniest man you are ever likely to meet. Recorded live at the Old Vic Theatre in London this video of Keith Waterhouse's brilliant play immortalises a host of insanely hilarious characters from the bitingly critical stagehand at the Royal Opera House to the mad genius who invented cat racing.

• Tunes Of Glory | DVD | (18/05/2009) from £9.01   |  Saving you £-3.02 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Major Jock Sinclair has been in this Highland regiment since he joined as a boy piper. During the Second World War as Second-in-Command he was made acting Commanding Officer. Now the regiment has returned to Scotland and a new commanding officer is to be appointed. Jock's own cleverness is pitted against his new CO his daughter his girlfriend and the other officers in the Mess.

• Ice Cold In Alex | Blu Ray | (13/06/2011) from £59.99   |  Saving you £-40.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The title Ice Cold in Alex refers to the beer the heroes of this 1958 British World War Two classic plan to drink in Alexandria, once they have escaped from the Germans, negotiated minefields and survived both mechanical failure and the killing heat of the North African sands. The setting is Libya in 1942, at the height of the campaigns featured in The Desert Fox (1951) and The Desert Rats (1953), and a disparate group in a military ambulance--which include a Nazi agent to add tension of one kind and a beautiful nurse to add tension of another--must make an epic journey to safety. Staring John Mills, Sylvia Sims, Anthony Quayle and Harry Andrews the terror and poignancy comes from our certainty that not everyone will survive, such that the suspense sometimes reaches near unbearable levels. Director J Lee-Thomson was clearly inspired by the then recent French masterpiece, The Wages of Fear (1952) and handles both the character drama and set-pieces with great skill. He would go on to make another great war adventure, The Guns of Navarone (1961), also starring Anthony Quayle, who then returned to the desert for the ultimate British war classic, Lawrence of Arabia (1962). --Gary S. Dalkin

• The Colditz Story | DVD | (18/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  During the Second World War the Germans put many of the Allied prisoners-of-war (POWs) who had proved consistent escapees together in a maximum security fortress, the very name of which became a legend. Based on the book by Colditz escapee Major Pat Reid, The Colditz Story (1957) documents the further, sometimes successful, escape attempts of these extraordinarily brave, resourceful and indomitable men. Starring John Mills, Eric Portman, Bryan Forbes and Anton Diffring, and co-written and directed by Guy Hamilton, who later made The Battle of Britain (1969), this is a sober, even-handed account, that is gripping and informative, yet not without humour. Sterling performances from the cast of stalwart actors adds up to a British cinema classic. Such is the fascination of Colditz that in 1972-3 the BBC made a very successful drama series staring Jack Hedley, Bernard Hempton, Robert Wagner and David McCallum, while in 2000 Channel 4 offered a superb three-part documentary, Escape from Colditz. In contrast to the semi-documentary feel of The Colditz Story David Lean's classic The Bridge on the River Kwai, from the same year, is an epic and powerful account of POW life in barbaric Japanese prison camps. --Gary S. Dalkin

• Twice Around The Daffodils | DVD | (30/04/2012) from £8.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (77.86%)   |  RRP £15.99

  From the team behind the Carry On films Twice Around The Daffodils focuses on the nurses and patients of a British TB ward.

• The Rare Breed | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £5.38   |  Saving you £0.61 (11.34%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In the 1880s Englishwoman Martha Price (Maureen O'Hara) and her daughter Hilary (Juliet Mills) come to America to sell their prize Hereford bull at an auction. When he is purchased by Bowen a wild Scotsman (Brian Keith) the women hire a footloose cowhand named Burnett (James Stewart) to help them transport the animal to its new owner. So begins an adventure that tests the mettle of all involved as they battle killers cattle stampedes and each other. But when they reach Bowen's ran

• Mary Wesley's Harnessing Peacocks | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £4.98   |  Saving you £2.01 (40.36%)   |  RRP £6.99

  She is the mistress of several eligible men; he is the lover from her past... Based on the novel by Mary Wesley.

• Mr Denning Drives North | DVD | (22/06/2015) from £5.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (66.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

  John Mills heads an outstanding cast as a father whose attempt to prevent his daughter's potentially disastrous marriage has unforeseen and terrifying consequences. Featuring a screenplay adapted from his own novel by Alec Coppel – Oscar-nominated writer of Hitchcock's Vertigo – Mr. Denning Drives North is a gripping psychological thriller presented here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements. Tom Denning one of the most successful aircraft manufacturers in the country has a perfect family life with his wife and daughter. But then it happens: in a flash this successful highly respected man becomes a tormented figure driven close to the edge of sanity by the desperate need to maintain a terrible secret... Special Features: Image gallery Promotional material PDF

• The Chalk Garden | DVD | (01/09/2014) from £9.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (30.03%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Laurel (Hayley Mills) is a troubled young girl who has frightened away every governess until the enigmatic Miss Madrigal (Deborah Kerr) is hired - despite her mysterious references. Madrigal sets about tending to the girl's reckless emotions and the pitifully neglected chalk garden under the watchful eye of the butler (John Mills).

• The Family Way | Blu Ray | (04/05/2020) from £10.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Based on Bill Naughton's warm-hearted play, The Family Way, directed by Roy Boulting is a thought-provoking exploration of the emotional impact of the Sixties sexual revolution. Featuring a soundtrack by Paul McCartney and starring Hayley Mills (Whistle Down the Wind) and Hywel Bennett (Loot) as two sensitive youngsters who fail to consummate their marriage, following the vulgar ribaldry of their typically working-class Lancashire wedding. The Family Way, considered controversial at the time, remains a warm, gentle comedy of manners, morals and manhood. Extras: NEW: The McCartney Way: Composing The Soundtrack - Interview with Chip Madinger Armchair Theatre: Honeymoon Postponed (1961) Original Trailer Stills Gallery

• Top Hat | DVD | (10/01/2005) from £6.83   |  Saving you £9.16 (134.11%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Following a case of mistaken identity dancer Jerry (Astaire) follows Dale (Rogers) the girl of his dreams to Europe and tries to win her heart through song and dance routines... This most lavish of musicals from Hollywood's golden era features lyrics and music by Irving Berlin.

• Cottage To Let | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £8.85   |  Saving you £1.14 (12.88%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A wartime cottage on a Scottish estate becomes a focus of attention when not only the new tenant but a London evacuee and a downed fighter pilot all move in. The interest may not be unconnected with the fact that the landowner is also a key British military inventor. For a start the butler is obviously a Scotland Yard flatfoot.

• The Way To The Stars | DVD | (20/08/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In 1940 a deserted airfield somewhere in the heart of England becomes a bustling bomber command station. In 1942 advance units of the American Air Force arrive to join The Royal Air Force and help turn the tide of World War II. So unfolds the story of a group of flyers and their 'missions'. Peter Penrose (John Mills) a young RAF pilot is sent to Halfpenny Field close to the small town of Shepley. His Squadron Leader Flight Lieutenant David Archdale (Michael Redgrave) gives him

• This Happy Breed | DVD | (26/01/2009) from £17.85   |  Saving you £-1.86 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This Happy Breed (2 Discs)

• War Box Set 2 | DVD | (06/11/2006) from £34.90   |  Saving you £-14.91 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Films comprise: 1. I Was Monty's Double (Dir. John Guillermin 1958) 2. Ice Cold In Alex (Dir. J. Lee Thompson 1958) 3. Went The Day Well? (Dir. Alberto Cavalcanti 1942)

• Cottage to Let | Blu Ray | (16/03/2020) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Leslie Banks stars alongside Alastair Sim, John Mills and a very young George Cole in this thrilling wartime espionage drama from award-winning director Anthony Asquith. Adapted from Geoffrey Kerr's smash West End play (which also starred Banks, Sim and Cole), Cottage to Let is presented here as a brand-new High Definition transfer from original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio. Working in secret for the Air Ministry at his remote country house laboratory, John Barrington is key to the ongoing war effort against the Nazis. Barrington's household, however, has been infiltrated by enemy agents - who plan to take him back to Berlin as prisoner. Special Features: Image gallery

• When the Wind Blows (DVD + Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (22/01/2018) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Jim and Hilda Bloggs (Sir John Mills and Dame Peggy Ashcroft) are a middle-aged couple, who believe that the British government is in control as they prepare for Nuclear War. When the countdown begins they roll up their shirtsleeves and follow government guidelines that were actually distributed to households around Britain in the 1970s. They paint their windows white, build a fortress of doors and pillows, take the washing in and put away two packets of ginger nuts, one tin of pineapple chunks and a good supply of tea. This cautionary tale is both humorous and macabre in its consideration of one of the most horrific possibilities of modern life. When the Wind Blows is a story about love, tenderness, humanity and hope. Adapted by Raymond Briggs (The Snowman) from his best-selling book, When the Wind Blows features an original soundtrack by Roger Waters, and a title song by David Bowie. Extras: Presented in High Definition and Standard Definition Audio commentary with first assistant editor Joe Fordham and film historian Nick Redman Jimmy Murakami: Non-Alien (2010, 73 mins): feature-length documentary about the film's director Interview with Raymond Briggs (2005, 14 mins) The Wind and the Bomb (1986, 20 mins): the making-of When the Wind Blows Protect and Survive (1975, 51 mins): public information film about how to survive in the event of a nuclear attack Isolated music and effects track Fully illustrated booklet with a new introduction by Raymond Briggs, essays by Jez Stewart, Clare Kitson and Bella Todd and full film credits