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• Above Us The Waves | DVD | (19/06/2007) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Directed by Ralph Thomas, Above Us the Waves (1955) tells of a Royal Navy mission to sink the "invincible" German battleship Tirpitz, off the Norwegian coast. John Mills is calm and confident as the mission commander, with strong support from John Gregson and Donald Sinden--all treated by the German personnel as fellow gentlemen when captured. Despite stirring music from Arthur Benjamin, the action sequences are visually no more than adequate, and the film is only a partial success.--Richard Whitehouse

• The Big Lift | DVD | (04/04/2005) from £7.03   |  Saving you £-2.04 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  It's 1948. It's Berlin and the city is in a state of devastation. Although in the hands of Allied troops the Soviet Union as a member state blockades all Allied sectors in an attempt to take sole control of the fallen German capital. The result is the Berlin Airlift and the story follows the lives of two US Airmen Sgt. Danny MacCullough and Sgt. Hank Kowalski who are there to help the civilians but have very different views of the German people. The arrogant Kowalski cannot forgive them for WWII and will not be dissuaded from holding every German accountable but MacCullough grasps the beleaguered city with both hands and opens his heart to an attractive German widow... in return she opens Danny's eyes to the twilight world of occupied Berlin. Shot on location in bomb blasted Berlin this movie shows some truely harrowing scenes of a post war capital city in ruins.

• Les Espions | DVD | (27/10/2003) from £16.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (17.66%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Clouzot's most ambitious movie remains one of his most modern with an elaborate screenplay giving his grand European cast a full chance to shine in this tale of a doctor who takes on a Faustian pact in order to save his failing practice...