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• Carve Her Name With Pride | DVD | (12/09/2016) from £7.79   |  Saving you £2.20 (28.24%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Virginia McKenna gives a moving, BAFTA-nominated performance as Violette Szabo, one of the Second World War's most revered heroines. The dramatic story of her resistance work, imprisonment and ultimate fate, Carve Her Name with Pride stands as a tribute to the secret agent who would be posthumously awarded the George Cross for her vital and courageous role in the fight against Nazism. Directed by the Oscar-nominated Lewis Gilbert and co-starring Paul Scofield and Jack Warner, this classic feature is presented in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio. Following her recruitment by the Special Operations Executive, Violette Szabo volunteers to be parachuted into occupied France to re-organise a shattered resistance group. Though successful in destabilising German reinforcements for the battles raging on the Normandy front, Violette knows only too well that the life expectancy of an undercover operative can usually be measured in weeks and months... SPECIAL FEATURES: Audio commentary with Virginia McKenna and John Shirley (Editor) Original Theatrical Trailer Image Gallery

• Carve Her Name With Pride | DVD | (22/01/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The moving and dramatic story of Violette Szabo (McKenna) a courageous WW2 secret agent who was captured in northern France... Carve Her Name With Pride is the inspiring true life story of Violette Szabo. During World War II Violette (Virgina McKenna) volunteers to parachute into France as a secret agent to aid a Resistance group. Her mission successful she joins the Resistance where she stays until captured by the Germans. Tortured by the Gestapo for information she refuses to betray her comrades... Directed by Lewis Gilbert Carve Her Name With Pride is a moving tale about the endurance of the human spirit in even the most adverse circumstances.

• Without A Clue | DVD | (10/12/2001) from £3.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (75.19%)   |  RRP £6.99

  The basic joke of the would-be romp Without a Clue is that Dr Watson (Ben Kingsley) is a detecting genius who has had to hide his light under a bushel by hiring an alcoholic ham actor Reginald Kincaid (Michael Caine) to pose as his imaginary alter ego Sherlock Holmes. He is now frustrated because the blundering idiot is hailed as an infallible hero while he is forever being pushed out of the picture. To really work, the film should have cast a leading man who gives the impression that he might make a good serious Holmes, but Caine is all too credible in his idiot act. In one of the best jokes Watson covers up a faux pas by complementing Holmes on his convincing disguise as a drunken lout, and so the laughs that should come in a flow only manage to trickle. The actual plot is about forged bank-notes ruining the Empire but is constructed to allow for the usual excursion by picturesque steam train to a clue-ridden holiday destination and some dirty deeds down by the docks. The leads coast through their routines but the supporting cast has an appropriately rat-like and embittered Inspector Lestrade from Jeffrey Jones, a winsomely duplicitous Victorian heroine from Lysette Anthony and a rather good goateed sadist Professor Moriarty from Paul Freeman. It can't hold a magnifying glass to Billy Wilder's The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, but as a Holmesian footnote it edges a deerstalker or so ahead of Gene Wilder's The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother. It certainly beats the Peter Cook-Dudley Moore Hound of the Baskervilles and John Cleese in The Strange Case of the End of Civilisation as We Know It.--Kim Newman

• Planet Of The Apes | DVD | (19/07/2004) from £5.19   |  Saving you £7.80 (150.29%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Director Tim Burton's eagerly awaited new take on the story of an astronaut (Mark Wahlberg) who crashlands on a strange planet, only to find a civilisation where Apes are the dominant species!

• Carve Her Name With Pride | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-10.01 (-100.20%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The moving and dramatic story of Violette Szabo (McKenna) a courageous WW2 secret agent who was captured in northern France... Carve Her Name With Pride is the inspiring true life story of Violette Szabo. During World War II Violette (Virgina McKenna) volunteers to parachute into France as a secret agent to aid a Resistance group. Her mission successful she joins the Resistance where she stays until captured by the Germans. Tortured by the Gestapo for information she refuses to betray her comrades... Directed by Lewis Gilbert Carve Her Name With Pride is a moving tale about the endurance of the human spirit in even the most adverse circumstances.

• Planet of the Apes | DVD | (16/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Director Tim Burton's eagerly awaited new take on the story of an astronaut (Mark Wahlberg) who crashlands on a strange planet, only to find a civilisation where Apes are the dominant species!

• 3 Classic Wartime Dramas - A Town Like Alice / Carve Her Name With Pride / This Happy Breed | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A Town Like Alice - Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch star in this moving story about a party of women compelled to trek through the Malayan jungle during World War II as no Japanese office will take responsibility for their care. Based on Nevil Shute's best selling novel the film tells how the women come to terms with their hardships and how they are befriended by a tough Australian prisoner of war who dreams of returning to his home town of Alice Springs... Carve Her Name With Pride - The moving and dramatic story of Violette Szabo (McKenna) a courageous WW2 secret agent who was captured in northern France... Carve Her Name With Pride is the inspiring true life story of Violette Szabo. During World War II Violette (Virgina McKenna) volunteers to parachute into France as a secret agent to aid a Resistance group. Her mission successful she joins the Resistance where she stays until captured by the Germans. Tortured by the Gestapo for information she refuses to betray her comrades... Directed by Lewis Gilbert Carve Her Name With Pride is a moving tale about the endurance of the human spirit in even the most adverse circumstances. This Happy Breed - 'This Happy Breed' is a splendidly acted classic portraying how an ordinary British family lived between the wars. Just after WWI the Gibbons family moves to a nice house in the suburbs. The inhabitants of 17 Sycamore Road are ordinary people with their irritable in-laws their just-plain-folks camaraderie and their unshakeable belief that no matter how hard the times are Mother England is forged of good stock and common sense will somehow prevail. This is a wonderful adaptation of Noel Coward's play written by Anthony Havelock-Allan and directed by David Lean who brought us the critically acclaimed classic 'Brief Encounter'.

• Tyson | DVD | (16/06/2008) from £5.49   |  Saving you £2.50 (31.30%)   |  RRP £7.99

  The Bigger they are... The harder they fall

• Blizzard | DVD | (14/11/2005) from £5.77   |  Saving you £14.22 (246.45%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When ten-year-old Jess's very best friend Bobby moves away she is inconsolable in her grief. Her eccentric Aunt Millie decides the best medicine is to tell her a story about another ten year-old girl Katie from another time and place who wanted only one thing... to ice-skate. While practicing on an outdoor rink near her home Katie is befriended by Otto Brewer a former Olympic skating champion who offers to teach her proper skating and under Otto's tutelage Katie blossoms into a magnificent skater. However Katie's father loses his job and the family is forced to move to the big city Katie is devastated. Meanwhile in the North Pole Santa and his elves are celebrating the birth of Blizzard a baby reindeer born to Blitzen and Delphi. It quickly becomes apparent that Blizzard possesses all three magical reindeer gifts: the ability to fly the power to make herself invisible and the gift of empathic navigation - being able to see with her heart. Using her empathic ability Blizzard feels Katie's sadness and flies to Katie's home to investigate. Despite the rigid rules of the North Pole Blizzard helps Katie learn that the value of true friendships is that they never truly go away. However by breaking these rules Blizzard must face the possibility of banishment at the hands of Archimedes Santa's strict head elf. Only true friendship can save her now...

• Wedding Bell Blues | DVD | (26/08/2002) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-14.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Turning 30 and not having been married is driving 3 friends Jasmine Tanya and Micki crazy. Will these friends end up with husbands or heartaches the love of their lives or simply a weekend they'll never forget?

• Don't Answer The Phone | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  As a scantily dressed nurse goes to answer the phone a huge hairy hand reaches out and grabs her by the throat. The following morning she is found strangled having been brutally sexually assaulted. The telephone murders have begun. One after another young girls throughout the city meet the same stranger and the same fate. They all have two things in common they live alone and they are clients of Dr. Lindsay Gale. Somebody has decided it is quicker to kill than cure.

• Planet Of The Apes (Special Edition) | DVD | (08/02/2006) from £39.99   |  Saving you £-30.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Director Tim Burton's eagerly awaited new take on the story of an astronaut (Mark Wahlberg) who crashlands on a strange planet, only to find a civilisation where Apes are the dominant species!