"Actor: Otto Kruger"

• Strictly Ballroom | DVD | (28/01/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  While the plot of this Australian film may seem a bit familiar (the Ugly Duckling meets Dirty Dancing), the humourous tone and superb dance sequences will make you forget the movie's predictability. Scott (Paul Mercurio) is a champion ballroom dancer who wants to dance "his own steps". Fran is the homely, beginning dancer who convinces Scott that he should dance his own steps...with her. Complicating matters are Scott's domineering mother (Pat Thompson), a former dancer herself, who wants her son to win the Australian Pan-Pacific Championship (the same contest she lost years ago), and a conniving dance committee that is determined that "there are no new steps!" The dancing is enjoyable, yet not overwhelming, and the movie strives hard not to take itself too seriously (the beginning of the film is even styled as a pseudo-documentary). Strictly Ballroom, while not so subtly imparting its moral ("A life lived in fear is a life half-lived"), is a funny romp that's sure to be a crowd pleaser. --Jenny Brown, Amazon.com

• Cover Girl | DVD | (06/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Rita Hayworth Academy Award winner Gene Kelly Phil Silvers and Eve Arden star in this lavishly produced musical about a nightclub dancer from Brooklyn who leaves her sweetheart after winning a Cover Girl contest - only to learn that fame and fortune are no substitute for true love. Rusty Parker is a chorus girl at a nightclub run by her sweetheart Danny McGuire. Driven by ambition she enters a ""Cover Girl"" contest. When Coudair the magazine's publisher discovers that she is the

• Hitchcock Complete Boxset | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £34.95   |  Saving you £-1.29 (N/A%)   |  RRP £33.66

  From the 'Master of Suspense' this box set features many of his very best films. Titles comprise: 1. Vertigo 2. The Birds 3. Rear Window 4. Marnie 5. Frenzy 6. Topaz 7. The Trouble With Harry 8. Torn Curtain 9. Psycho: Special Edition (includes the Bonus disc the Hitchcock legacy) 10. Family Plot 11. Saboteur 12. Shadow Of A Doubt 13. The Man Who Knew Too Much 14. Rope For individual synopses please refer to the individual products.

• The Gang's All Here | DVD | (11/08/2014) from £7.22   |  Saving you £2.77 (38.37%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In one of his most popular film roles multi-talented Scottish star Jack Buchanan plays a retired insurance investigator brought back into action by an audacious heist; Googie Withers is his glamorous wife who joins him on an underworld mission to ensnare the gang responsible. A sequel to Buchanan's earlier hit Smash and Grab The Gang's All Here (a.k.a. The Amazing Mr Forrest) is a blend of exciting crime drama and brilliant comedy presented here in a brand new transfer from the original film elements. John Forrest is anticipating a quiet retirement spent penning detective fiction when he learns that a priceless collection of jewels belonging to a foreign potentate Prince Homouska has just vanished from the safekeeping of the Stamford Assurance Company. Aided by his butler his Cockney assistant and his (initially) unwilling wife Forrest sets out on the trail of the thieves. Special Features: Image Gallery Promotional Material PDFs

• Lulu Belle | DVD | (16/09/2013) from £5.98   |  Saving you £9.00 (225.56%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Lulu Belle (1948)

• High Noon | DVD | (15/01/2001) from £11.99   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  One of the greatest Westerns ever made gets the deluxe treatment on this superior disc. Written by Carl Foreman (who was later blacklisted during the anticommunist hearings of the 1950s) and superbly directed by Fred Zinnemann, this 1952 classic stars Gary Cooper as just-married lawman Will Kane, who is about to retire as a small-town sheriff and begin a new life with his bride (Grace Kelly) when he learns that gunslinger Frank Miller (Ian MacDonald) is due to arrive at high noon to settle an old score. Kane seeks assistance from deputies and townsfolk, but soon realises he will have to stand alone in his showdown with Miller and his henchmen. Innovative for its time, the suspenseful story unfolds in approximate real time (from 10:40 a.m. to high noon in an 84-minute film), and many interpreted Foreman's drama as an allegorical reflection of apathy and passive acceptance of Senator Joseph McCarthy's anticommunist campaign. Political underpinnings aside, this remains a milestone of its genre (often referred to as the first "adult" Western), and Cooper is flawless in his Oscar-winning role. The first-rate DVD gives this landmark film all the respect it deserves, beginning with a digitally remastered transfer from the original film negative. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• The Colossus of New York | Blu Ray | (05/08/2019) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After the accidental death of a brilliant scientist, his lunatic father and brother transplant the dead man s brain into the body of a giant robot. The operation is successful, but the Colossus Robot mourns for his wife and child and unwilling to be the guinea pig in his father s psychotic project, begins to demonstrate homicidal behaviours. Directed by sci-fi specialist Eugène Lourié (Gorgo), Colossus of New York also benefits from a haunting, minimalistic piano score from composer Van Cleave.

• Samuel Fuller: Storyteller Volume One (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (25/10/2021) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Journalist, screenwriter, novelist, soldier, filmmaker Samuel Fuller was one of American cinema's most prolific and multi-faceted talents. However, the films based on Fuller's early work as a screenwriter remain under appreciated. It Happened in Hollywood: Regarded by Fuller as his ˜first real Hollywood credit', the film has a now-familiar premise: the silent film star who finds they are unable to make the transition to talkies. Blending comedy, romance, action, and a playful self-reflexive streak, the film established Fuller in Hollywood. Adventure in Sahara: Fuller takes full story credit on this rip-roaring adventure yarn inspired he claimed by Victor Hugo, Beau Geste, and Mutiny on the Bounty. Power of the Press: Drawing on Fuller's own experiences as young newspaperman and journalist, this crime drama is a passionate cry for freedom of speech and expression. The film also features Fuller's first fully formed and vital female heroine in the shape of the impassioned Edwina (Gloria Dickson). Special Features: High Definition remasters of all three films Original mono audio It Happened in Hollywood (1937, 68 mins): Richard Dix and Fay Wray star as big-screen actors adapting to the coming of sound in this witty exposé of Tinseltown, directed by Harry Lachman from a screenplay co-written by Samuel Fuller Adventure in Sahara (1938, 57 mins): action-packed drama of revenge and honour, starring Paul Kelly and Lorna Gray, directed by D Ross Lederman from a story by Fuller Power of the Press (1943, 64 mins): Lew Landers directs this hard-edged drama about corruption within the newspaper industry, based on a story by Fuller and starring Guy Kibbee, Lee Tracy and Gloria Dickson All-Star Party (2018, 6 mins): who's who of the ˜stars' and their impersonators in the climactic party scene from It Happened in Hollywood Sam Fuller's Search for Truth with Tim Robbins (2009, 7 mins): the celebrated actor explores Fuller's time as a reporter Image gallery: publicity photography and promotional material for all three films New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing

• The Thin Man Collection | DVD | (19/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £45.99

  The sparkling series featured the irresistible William Powell and Myrna Loy chemistry as husband and wife sleuths who solved murders with the aid of their wire-haired terrier Asta. Set in the glamorous world of 1930s upper-class Manhattan The Thin Man and its sequels established the standard for witty comedy clever dialogue and urbane one upmanship. This fantastic collection includes 'The Thin Man' 'After the Thin Man' 'Another Thin Man' 'Shadow of the Thin Man' 'The Thin Man

• Dracula: Complete Legacy Collection (BD) | Blu Ray | (08/05/2017) from £32.49   |  Saving you £-13.68 (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.81

  ALL 6 FILMS FROM THE LEGACY OF THE ORIGINAL DRACULA Includes: Dracula (1931) -Dracula's Daughter (1936)- Son of Dracula (1943)- House of Frankenstein (1944)- House of Dracula (1945)- Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) The original Dracula is one of the silver screen's most unforgettable characters and, along with the other Universal Classic Monsters, defined the Hollywood horror genre. Dracula: Complete Legacy Collection includes all 6 films from the original legacy including the frightening classic starring Bela Lugosi and the timeless films that followed. These landmark motion pictures defined the iconic look of the famed vampire and continue to inspire countless remakes and adaptations that strengthen the legend of Dracula to this day. BONUS Dracula (1931) Spanish Version The Road To Dracula Dracula: The Restoration Lugosi: The Dark Prince Dracula Archives Abbott And Costello Meet The Monsters Feature Commentaries And More!

• Saboteur | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £8.99   |  Saving you £1.00 (11.12%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This Hitchcock thriller is mainly famous for its climax, which finds the villain (Norman Lloyd) hanging by his sleeve from the torch on the Statue of Liberty as the seam begins to unravel. Otherwise, it's not one of the director's great pictures, though it's still worth a look. Set during the initial stages of World War II, the story concerns a ring of Nazi fifth columnists who plot to weaken American military defences by blowing up a munitions factory, a dam and a battleship. In an early example of Hitchcock's celebrated "wrong man" theme, the hero Barry Kane (Robert Cummings) gets falsely accused of sabotage and becomes a fugitive, hunted from coast to coast. Eventually, he hooks up with the heroine Pat Martin (Priscilla Lane), a super-patriot who takes some convincing of his innocence and plans to turn him in--until the inevitable chemical reaction occurs. It's a highly episodic tale that may put you in mind of Hitchcock's previous The 39 Steps (1935) and his later North by Northwest (1959).The miscellaneous incidents (a shoot-out at a cinema, a bizarre encounter with the freaks in a circus troupe) are often exciting in themselves. The trouble is they just sort of lie there like so-many scattered marbles, never building into a coherent and satisfying whole. The bland dialogue supplied by novice screenwriter Peter Viertel doesn't help matters much. Neither does the casting of the two stars, square, wholesome types, entirely lacking in the perversity and eccentricity one associates with the Hitchcock universe. (It's tedious to hear Lane endlessly mouthing off about the American way, while Cummings must be counted one of the dullest leading men in Hollywood history.) Still, this half-hearted effort by the pot-bellied master of suspense would probably make the reputation of a dozen lesser directors. --Peter Matthews

• Magnificent Obsession | DVD | (05/05/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  When churlish spoiled rich man Bob Merrick foolishly wrecks his speed boat the rescue team resuscitates him with equipment that's therefore unavailable to aid a local hero Dr. Wayne Phillips who dies as a result. Phillips had helped many people and when Merrick learns Phillips' secret to give selflessly and in secret he tries it in a ham-handed way. The result further alienates Phillips' widow Helen with whom Merrick has fallen in love. Merrick's persistence causes another tragedy and he must remake his life including going back to medical school in an attempt to make amends and win her love.

• Living Dangerously | DVD | (26/10/2015) from £7.98   |  Saving you £4.00 (66.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Matinee idol Otto Kruger stars in the dramatic story of a normal, intelligent man of good principles driven to contemplate thoughts of murder. This powerful suspense drama is featured in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements, in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio.Doctor Stanley Norton is struck off the medical register following an unfounded accusation of misconduct by his corrupt former partner, Henry Pryor. Emigrating to America under a new name, Norton begins life afresh with Helen, the woman he loves, and he eventually achieves great renown as a heart specialist. Then Pryor, ruined and fixated on revenge, tracks Norton down determined to benefit from his former partner's wealth... or destroy him utterly!SPECIAL FEATURES:Image galleryMemorabilia PDF

• British Comedies Of The 1930s: Volume 11 | DVD | (23/05/2016) from £10.98   |  Saving you £1.00 (11.12%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The ebullient comedy films of the 1930s brought escape and laughter to millions of British cinemagoers, enabling veteran stars of the music-hall and theatre to reach out to a wider audience making household names of performers like Leslie Fuller, Hal Gordon, Bobby Howes, Ernest Lotinga and Gene Gerrard. Although comedy would prove to be the decade's most successful film genre, many of these classic early talkies have remained unseen since their original release. From boisterous knockabout humour to polished adaptations of popular stage farces, this ongoing collection showcases a wealth of rare features, each presented uncut, in a brand-new transfer from the best available elements in their as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. Housemaster (1938) The incoming headmaster of a venerable public school causes ructions when he unleashes a welter of red tape and puritanical 'reforms'. Black and White / 91 mins / 1.37:1 / Mono / English Me And My Pal (1939) When Dave and Hal are stopped for speeding, Dave's remonstrations are overheard by a racketeer who thinks he's just the kind of mug he could put to use... Black and White / 71 mins / 1.37:1 / Mono / English

• Dracula's Daughter | DVD | (05/05/2008) from £11.40   |  Saving you £-1.41 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Hungarian countess Marya Zaleska seeks the aid of a noted psychiatrist in hopes of freeing herself of a mysterious evil influence.

• 711 Ocean Drive (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (24/10/2022) from £8.19   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Edmund O'Brien (The Web) gets involved in the mob's bookmaking racket in 711 Ocean Drive, also starring Joanne Dru (Red River), and Otto Kruger (Escape in the Fog). Telephone operator Mal Granger uses his technical knowledge to run an illegal bookmaking operation, but when Granger falls for a mobster's wife, and with both the police and the syndicate on his tail, it's only a matter of time before his luck runs out. With a ˜ripped from the headlines' approach which required the crew to have police protection on location, 711 Ocean Drive is a riveting film noir, one made with such realism by director Joseph M Newman (Abandoned) that it was shown to a Senate investigation into organised crime. Product Features High Definition presentation Original mono audio Audio commentary with author and film critic Glenn Kenny (2021) Diary of a Sergeant (1945, 24 mins): Joseph M Newman's documentary portrait of Harold Russell, a soldier who lost his hands during World War II and would later win an Oscar for his performance in The Best Years of Our Lives Three Sappy People (1939, 18 mins): the Three Stooges play a trio of telephone repairmen who make an unexpected career switch Original theatrical trailer Image gallery: publicity and promotional material New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

• I Am The Law | DVD | (25/10/2010) from £13.95   |  Saving you £-0.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  I Am The Law

• Escape in the Fog (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (19/09/2022) from £13.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A nurse has a recurring dream about a man being murdered. When she meets that man in real life, they team up to tackle a Nazi spy ring in the fog of San Francisco. An early directorial effort from Budd Boetticher (Bullfighter and the Lady, The Tall T), Escape in the Fog is brisk film noir starring Otto Kruger (Scandal Sheet) and Nina Foch (Johnny O'Clock). Extras: Indicator Standard Edition Special Features 2K restoration Original mono audio Audio commentary with film historian Pamela Hutchinson (2020) The Fleet That Came to Stay (1945, 22 mins): World War II documentary, compiled by Budd Boetticher from original combat footage captured during the Battle of Okinawa, and released shortly after Escape in the Fog You Nazty Spy! (1940, 18 mins): World War II comedy starring the Three Stooges, in which the trio satirise the Third Reich and help publicise the Nazi threat to American audiences Image gallery: publicity and promotional material New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

• Saboteur | Blu Ray | (13/05/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Factory worker Barry Kane (Robert Cummings) finds himself branded an industrial saboteur after a fire breaks out in the workplace. The extinguisher he handed to his colleague and best friend itself burst into flame, and Kane is now on the run, determined to find the real culprit and so prove his innocence. The only person who believes his story is Patricia Martin (Priscilla Lane), who aids him in his flight from the authorities. Alfred Hitchcock's suspenseful chase film, a contribution to America's wartime propaganda, can be seen as a precursor to his later success 'North by Northwest'. Special Features: Saboteur: A Closer Look Alfred Hitchcock's Sketches Saboteur Theatrical Trailer

• Cover Girl | DVD | (18/08/2003) from £14.24   |  Saving you £-4.25 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Cover Girl was one of the big hits of Rita Hayworth's run as movie queen (and World War II pinup girl), a splashy musical geared to the talents of its redheaded star. Be warned: this is the kind of movie in which a single magazine cover turns an unknown dancer into the toast of her own Broadway show, virtually overnight. The corn runs high, but so do the spirits; plus, Eve Arden is around to toss in her trademark one-liners. Gene Kelly, as Hayworth's sulky choreographer and part-time boyfriend, stops the movie cold with his brilliant dance alongside his own reflection. The Jerome Kern-Ira Gershwin songs are middling, except for the lovely "Long Ago and Far Away". One number presents a parade of magazine cover girls come to life (great snapshot of an era). And check out the movie's hats: a parade of insane creations, perched uncertainly on many beautiful women's heads. --Robert Horton