"Actor: Newman"

• Paul Newman Collection Vol.2 - Silver Chalice/The Helen Morgan Story/The Outrage/Rachel Rachel/When Time Ran Out | DVD | (21/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  The Silver Chalice (1954): He looks like Marlon Brando some reviewers said of this movie's 29-year-old star but those comparisons would soon end. Soon to impress with his own intense brilliance Paul Newman made his movie debut in this Biblical saga in the mode of Quo Vadis and The Robe. Set in Rome during the early Christian era it focuses on an ill-fated sculptor sold into slavery and torn between his adoring wife (Pier Angeli) and a wily temptress (Virginia Mayo) - and threatened in his work by a power-mad sorcerer (Jack Palance) bent on overturning Christianity and becoming his own true messiah. The Silver Chalice's cast also includes Lorne Greene E.G. Marshall and a blonde Natalie Wood. But Newman is the movie's heart. This young man director Victor Saville predicted is destined for great things. The Helen Morgan Story (1957): Helen Morgan has beauty talent success. Yet they mean nothing to her without the love of Larry Maddox the bootlegger who leads Helen on and drops her so often she finally hits bottom. Set in the roaring '20s The Helen Morgan Story is also Maddox's story. In his fifth film Paul Newman plays the mobster with slick assuredness. In her final movie Ann Blyth portrays the troubled songstress (and Show Boat original cast member) with Gogi Grant performing vocals on signature Morgan tunes. Appearances by '20s icons Rudy Vallee Walter Winchell and Morgan's real-life accompanist Jimmy McHugh bring bracing authenticity to this tale of a legend whose songs could heal any heart but her own. The Outrage (1964): A notorious bandit confesses to rape and murder and justice is sure to be swift. But wait. Witnesses to the outrage come forward each offering different versions of the events. Does truth lie in the eyes of the beholder? A year after Hud star Paul Newman and director Martin Ritt teamed again and gave the Japanese classic Rashomon an Old West setting crafting a brisk and challenging drama far removed from the norm in film fare (A.H. Weiler The New York Times). Newman drawing deep into his talent reservoir portrays the brazen desperado at the center of conflicting events. Laurence Harvey Claire Bloom Edward G. Robinson and William Shatner offer luminous support in this tale of a quest for truth. And of the humanity or inhumanity behind it. Rachel Rachel (1968): New England schoolteacher Rachel Cameron's life is small and safe. Too small and too safe for a warmhearted woman who wants to do something - anything - to keep from slipping into spinsterhood. Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward joined their stellar talents on this powerfully human movie he debuting as a director and she giving one of her hallmark screen performances. Both won New York Film Critics and Golden Globe awards for their work and the film garnered four Academy Award nominations including Best Picture. The Newmans teamed afterward on other masterful films (The Glass Menagerie Mr. & Mrs. Bridge Empire Falls). But for tenderness insight and artistry none surpasses Rachel Rachel. When Time Ran Out (1980): Enough stars to light five marquees. Enough subplots of passion power and greed to fill 10 movies. Plus fiery special effects galore. A South Pacific island's dormant volcano unexpectedly erupts in fury. Among those imperiled are wildcat oil driller Paul Newman hotel baron William Holden and Jacqueline Bisset as a PR executive who must choose between them. Which familiar faces will survive when there's no such thing as safe ground? Watch - and watch out - for yourself. As the lava flows so also flows rare and rousing screen excitement!

• Super Speedway-Imax Film | DVD | (02/09/1998) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  One of the best directors of IMAX films, Stephen Low (Titanica) has always been a race fan. After obtaining permission from CART, a governing body of Indy car racing and Newman/Haas racing (a Championship team co-owned by Paul Newman), Low found his stars for Super Speedway: the racing Andrettis, father Mario and son Michael. Mounting cameras fore and aft on the Andrettis' cars, IMAX offers a better vantage point than an ESPN camera, at a superior grade of clarity. Add to that the excellent sound and you can "feel" the bumps on the asphalt as the cars zoom in and out of corners. The large format can turn a pit stop into a dramatic 12 seconds as we see the driver's eyes dart away from his cockpit for a few brief seconds. We watch Michael Andretti on oval tracks and exciting road courses going over hills and sharp turns. There's even a spin--probably staged--from an angle we've never seen before. Although true race conditions were impossible (the camera is just too bulky), Low sneakily edits his film to stretch the imagination. On race day, several Indy cars drove alongside the camera car hours before the main event, passing and drafting each other with crowds whizzing past them. When edited with footage of the race, it feels like the real thing. Low takes a few off-beat choices in setting up his story. The first image is the biggest chicken you've ever seen. The last shot is a 1950s car (lovingly restored during the film) racing through perfect golden foliage on an autumn day. It gives his movie of modern technology a wonderful sense of nostalgia. --Doug Thomas, Amazon.com

• The Cool And The Crazy | DVD | (29/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A cult 50's B-movie about a rebellious youth fresh from reform school who hooks up with the bad influence pusher who got him put away to form a local marijuana ring. They deal the demon weed to the local small town high school kids in the hope of getting them hooked. Before long these youngsters are hopelessly addicted rampaging through the town with crime insanity and death the inevitable results.

• Mick Taylor - The Tokyo Concert | DVD | (04/06/2010) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-2.24 (-12.50%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Best known as a former guitarist and contributing member of The Rolling Stones Mick Taylor has worked with many famous names over his 40 year career including Jack Bruce and Bob Dylan. The sophisticated jazz- and blues-influenced guitar licks Taylor added to such classic albums as Sticky Fingers (1970) gave the Stones an added dimension they lacked before and after him. He added his famous vibrato effect to the blues lead guitar line on Sway and handled most of the guitars on the quietly majestic Moonlight Mile. Perhaps Taylor's best-remembered Stones work was the Santana-like lead guitar in the jam break of the jazzy Can't You Hear Me Knocking.

• Ratatouille And Cars Pixar Pop-up Pack (Disney Pixar) (2 Discs) | DVD | (23/06/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ratatouille: A rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great French chef despite his family's wishes and the obvious problem of being a rat in a decidedly rodent-phobic profession. When fate places Remy in the sewers of Paris he finds himself ideally situated beneath a restaurant made famous by his culinary hero Auguste Gusteau. Despite the apparent dangers of being an unlikely - and certainly unwanted - visitor in the kitchen of a fine French restaurant Remy's passion for cooking soon sets into motion a hilarious and exciting rat race that turns the culinary world of Paris upside down. Remy finds himself torn between his calling and passion in life or returning forever to his previous existence as a rat. He learns the truth about friendship family and having no choice but to be who he really is a rat who wants to be a chef. Cars: Lightning McQueen (voiced by Owen Wilson) is a cocky rookie race car. Speeding on his way to a big race he crashes into Radiator Springs destroying lots of the inhabitants' belongings! In order to make up for what he did the raucous roadster is sentenced to community service. Though he will do anything to get away from the work McQueen must learn to respect and bond with the Radiator Springs inhabitants in order to get out of the town and back on the racetrack... After taking moviegoers magically into the realm of toys bugs monsters fish and superheroes the masterful storytellers and technical wizards at Pixar Animation Studios (The Incredibles Finding Nemo Monsters Inc.) and Academy Award-winning director John Lasseter (Toy Story A Bug's Life) hit the road with a fast-paced comedy adventure set inside the world of cars. Fuelled with plenty of humour action heartfelt drama and amazing new technical feats Cars is a high octane delight for moviegoers of all ages.

• Sirens Kiss | DVD | (19/05/2007) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-3.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Leo a successful painter with a serious creative block and a failing marriage invites two beautiful young women to spend a week at his home in an attempt to help overcome his creativity problem. Beth and Claire both agree to pose nude for the artist as both are also having personal problems and welcome the chance to escape their unhappy lives for a week. When Leo's wife Karen returns home and discovers the two young women relations with her husband become even more strained but Leo refuses to send them away. Gradually as the three women get to know each other various issues reach a resolution and it seems that Leo's and Karen's marriage might be reconciled.

• David Fathead Newman - Jazz Legends | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-3.49 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In 1952 Newman formed his longest lasting and most important musical association with Ray Charles and stayed with Charles' band from 1954-1964 before going on to play with Herbie Mann amongst others. Newman parlayed the renown he gained from his experience with Charles into a successful recording career. In the '60's and 70's he recorded a series of heavily orchestrated pop-orientated albums for Atlantic. But Newman's metier was as an ace accompanist. Throughout his career he r

• Doctor Shock's X-Ray Chiller Theatre | DVD | (10/05/2004) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-1.59 (-8.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Hosted by the wild and crazy midnight madman international Horror Host Dr Shock...so turn off the lights melt into your chairs absorb the shock-waves off the screen and roll into act one of Dr. Shock's tales of terror. Featuring: The Town That Loved Pizza The Garden Tool Murders and Demons Day

• The Sting | DVD | (20/02/2006) from £29.99   |  Saving you £-20.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  All it takes is a little Confidence. After the huge success of Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid George Roy Hill re-teamed with Hollywood stars Robert Redford and Paul Newman for this dazzlingly inventive tale about revenge in 1930s Chicago. The Sting is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed films of all time. Set in the 1930's this intricate comedy caper deals with an ambitious small time crook (Robert Redford) and a veteran con man (Paul Newman) who seeks revenge on the vicious crime lord (Robert Shaw) who murdered one of their gang. How this group of charlatans puts the sting on their enemy makes for the greatest double-crosses in movie history complete with an amazing surprise finish... The Sting was nominated for ten Oscars collecting seven on the night: Best Art Direction (Henry Bumstead James W. Payne) ; Best Costume Design (Edith Head); Best Director (George Roy Hill) ; Best Editing (William Reynolds) ; Best Score (Marvin Hamslich); Best Picture (Tony Bill Michael Phillips Julia Phillips); Best Screenplay (David S. Ward).

• Super Speedway | DVD | (29/05/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  One of the best directors of IMAX films, Stephen Low (Titanica) has always been a race fan. After obtaining permission from CART, a governing body of Indy car racing and Newman/Haas racing (a Championship team co-owned by Paul Newman), Low found his stars for Super Speedway: the racing Andrettis, father Mario and son Michael. Mounting cameras fore and aft on the Andrettis' cars, IMAX offers a better vantage point than an ESPN camera, at a superior grade of clarity. Add to that the excellent sound and you can "feel" the bumps on the asphalt as the cars zoom in and out of corners. The large format can turn a pit stop into a dramatic 12 seconds as we see the driver's eyes dart away from his cockpit for a few brief seconds. We watch Michael Andretti on oval tracks and exciting road courses going over hills and sharp turns. There's even a spin--probably staged--from an angle we've never seen before. Although true race conditions were impossible (the camera is just too bulky), Low sneakily edits his film to stretch the imagination. On race day, several Indy cars drove alongside the camera car hours before the main event, passing and drafting each other with crowds whizzing past them. When edited with footage of the race, it feels like the real thing. Low takes a few off-beat choices in setting up his story. The first image is the biggest chicken you've ever seen. The last shot is a 1950s car (lovingly restored during the film) racing through perfect golden foliage on an autumn day. It gives his movie of modern technology a wonderful sense of nostalgia. --Doug Thomas, Amazon.com

• THE WANDLEBURY ENIGMA: Earth Mysteries and Ancient Sites in Cambridgeshire and Essex - Presented by Hugh Newman | DVD | (23/11/2008) from £9.80   |  Saving you £5.19 (52.96%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Although claimed to be an 'Iron-age hill fort', Cambridgeshire's most prominent and important sacred site, the Wandlebury complex has all the traits of a major megalithic monument. Going south from the site it has a 21 mile 'Loxodrome' alignment that stretches to Hatfield Forest, marked by ancient megaliths, earth mounds and circular earthworks, that has been dated to 3,500BC. The famous 'Mary' earth energy current also goes through the site and over the Gogmagog hills and through fields wher...

• Road To Perdition/Miller's Crossing | DVD | (28/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

  Miller's Crossing: The year is 1929. The place is a gangster-ridden American city run by Leo (Albert Finney). But the real power lies with Tom (Gabriel Byrne) the power behind the man. Their friendship is severed when they both fall in love with the same woman (Marcia Gay Harden) and a bloody gang war erupts... Road To Perdition: Two-time Academy Award-winner Tom Hanks stars as Michael Sullivan a father fighting to keep his only son from traveling the Road To Perdition. Directed by Oscar-winner Sam Mendes this towering motion picture achievement has been acclaimed by audiences and critics alike as one of the year's most extraordinary films.

• Sl: Robert Redford | DVD | (01/09/2008) from £49.99   |  Saving you £-25.00 (-100.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

  More than just a pretty boy Robert Redford has consistently proven his considerable acting abilities in a number of great films over the past 5 decades. This box set features 4 of his finest hours! The Natural (Dir. Barry Levinson 1984): Nothing would stop Roy Hobbs from fulfilling his boyhood dream of baseball superstardom. Robert Redford stars in this inspiring fable that begins when 14-year-old Hobbs (Redford) fashions a powerful bat from a fallen oak tree. He soon impresses major league scouts with his ability fixing his extraordinary talent in the mind of sportswriter Max Mercy (Robert Duvall) who eventually becomes instrumental in Hobbs' career. But a meeting with a mysterious woman shatters his dreams. Years pass and an older Hobbs reappears as a rookie from the New York Knights. Overcoming physical pain and defying those who have a stake in seeing the Knights lose Hobbs with his boyhood bat has his chance to lead the Knights to the penant and to finally fufill his dream. The Way We Were (Dir. Sydney Pollack 1973): Screen legends Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford make movie magic as the captivating star-crossed lovers Katie Morosky and Hubbell Gardiner. Theirs is a classic love story sparked by the attraction of opposites played out against the backdrop of American life during times of foreign war domestic prosperity and McCarthy-era paranoia in Hollywood. Winner of two Academy Awards (Best Song 'The Way We Were' and Best Score) The Way We Were is the timeless romance that cannot be forgotten. Out of Africa (Dir. Sydney Pollack 1985): Sydney Pollack directs this sweeping romantic drama based on the memoirs of Danish writer Isak Dinesen. Meryl Streep stars as Karen Blixen the restless wife of European aristocrat and plantation owner Baron Bror Blixen (Brandauer). When Bror departs to hunt big game and chase women the running of their East African coffee plantation falls to Karen. She throws herself into this task with the same determination and spirit she brings to her passionate but sporadic affair with free-spirited British hunter Denys Finch Hatton (Robert Redford). While enduring her husband's infidelities and the eventual destruction of their beloved land she entertains Denys and befriends the workers. Hatton shares Karen's profound love for the African landscape but is unwilling to sacrifice his independence for their relationship... The Sting (Dir. George Roy Hill 1973): After the huge success of Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid George Roy Hill re-teamed with Hollywood stars Robert Redford and Paul Newman for this dazzlingly inventive tale about revenge in 1930s Chicago. The Sting is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed films of all time. Set in the 1930's this intricate comedy caper deals with an ambitious small time crook (Robert Redford) and a veteran con man (Paul Newman) who seeks revenge on the vicious crime lord (Robert Shaw) who murdered one of their gang. How this group of charlatans puts the sting on their enemy makes for the greatest double-crosses in movie history complete with an amazing surprise finish... The Sting was nominated for ten Oscars collecting seven on the night: Best Art Direction (Henry Bumstead James W. Payne) ; Best Costume Design (Edith Head); Best Director (George Roy Hill) ; Best Editing (William Reynolds) ; Best Score (Marvin Hamslich); Best Picture (Tony Bill Michael Phillips Julia Phillips); and Best Screenplay (David S. Ward).

• Double Cross | DVD | (04/08/2003) from £5.29   |  Saving you £0.70 (13.23%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Johnny and Andy are best friends. Both he and she are desparately fighting against poverty and crime in a world that denies them their dream. They dream of being artists. The only outlet they have is sprayart. At night they secretly transform their cold surroundings into a riot of colour and imagination. Johnny finds a voluptuous young woman and falls in love.... Soon he finds himself enslaved by drugs sex and violence. He is at Hell's gate immersed in hopelessness and near death. A

• The Legend Of The Sky Kingdom | DVD | (07/12/2009) from £13.57   |  Saving you £1.42 (9.50%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Animated Children's Christian full length movie.

• STONE AGE SURVIVAL: Earth Energies, Crop Circles and Secrets of the Stones - Presented by Hugh Newman | DVD | (09/04/2012) from £17.70   |  Saving you £-2.71 (-18.10%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Scientific research of crop circles has helped unlock how the ancients used earth mounds, big stones and magnetic earth energy currents to enhance seeds, promote fertility and re-mineralise their food. With dowsing, the ancients could even locate underground water, test for poisonous foods and locate magnetic and telluric lines of energy. Stone circles and dolmens acted at electrifiers to enhance seed quality and yield, and even helped keep us humans fertile, as many of the global legends sta...

• Imax - Super Speedway | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Fasten your seatbelt and get ready for the ride of your life! Super Speedway puts you in the driver's seat of an Indy-type race car tearing up asphalt at speeds of over 230 miles per hour. Follow the excitement and drama of championship auto racing with narrator and celebrated actor Paul Newman and join racing star Michael Andretti and his legendary father Mario as they craft a state-of-the-art race car. Then follow the pulsepounding action of Michael's high-speed quest for victory as he pushes the limits of the new car at the PPG CART World Series.

• MEGALITHS OF EAST ANGLIA - Presented by Hugh Newman | DVD | (15/05/2011) from £19.67   |  Saving you £-4.68 (-31.20%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Hugh explores the megalithic sites, earthworks and leys in East Anglia from his forthcoming book The Wandlebury Enigma, also looking at the Nuthampstead landscape zodiac, the 21 mile long Loxodrome and numerous newly discovered alignments. He explores newly discovered megaliths, mounds, earthworks and the Michael and Mary earth energy lines that link to Avebury and Glastonbury in the west country. Filmed by Pentos TV at the Megalithomania Conference, Glastonbury, May 2011.

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

• Billy Harper - In Concert - Live From Poland | DVD | (03/12/2007) from £21.98   |  Saving you £2.01 (8.40%)   |  RRP £23.99

  Considered one of the premier saxophonists of the post-Coltrane era Billy Harper's unique soulful approach to Jazz is on full display in this full-length concert live from Szczecin Poland. Performing at the Metropolitan Basilica Cathedral of St. Jacob known for its acoustic splendor and gothic brilliance Harper showcases everything from Jazz with his symphonic flair to the mystical reach of Gospel Music. While constantly evolving from the influential sound of previous Jazz generations Harper has been careful to carve out his own sound rather than retrace that of music's past and in the process has consciously and continuously pushed the bounds and momentum of music forward.