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• Flight Into Death - The Sinking Of The Freighter Goya | DVD | (24/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

• The Stranger | DVD | (19/05/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  The Most Deceitful Man A Woman Ever Loved! Welles stars as college professor Charles Rankin who is living a quiet life in a small Connecticut town with his lovely wife Mary. The arrival of jumpy German fellow Meineke leaves Rankin disturbed and his quiet life is destroyed as he must go to deadly measures to stop Meineke revealing his dark secret.

• The Super Ninja | DVD | (16/07/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In a world of pushers thieves and corruption the only hero is a trained killer. The incredible Alexander Lou stars in this amazing martial arts action extravaganza! Lou is a masterful modern-day Ninja who must defeat dozens of enemies ranging from killers to corrupt cops! Extremely violent and filled with over the top Rambo-like explosive action Super Ninja is super cool kung fu fighting!

• Evil Dead | Blu Ray | (20/05/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.49

  Director Sam Raimi may now be renowned for his trilogy of Spider-Man films, but for many, it’s the Evil Dead films that hold a special place in their heart. Unsurprisingly, too, for here’s a horror film that’s got no sign of Hollywood studio interference, no wish to tone things down, and instead finds a massively talented film maker stretching a small budget to impressive ends. The Evil Dead, along with its sequels, has built up a cult following since its original release, but it’s also earned a deserved respect too. For this is a film that’s jammed with energy, and genuinely bursting with ideas. Granted, in the years since its release, many have been mined by the horror genre. But there’s still so much to admire and enjoy. The film, if you’ve not had the pleasure, stars Bruce Campbell as Ash, one of a group of five friends who head to a cabin in the woods on holiday. While there, unwisely as it turns out, they play a tape that they shouldn’t, and all hell breaks loose. It also sets loose a very enjoyable half and a half of stylish, and gory horror. It comes out of its Blu-ray release surprisingly well, too. Here’s a film shot on old stock, that should be showing plenty of wear and tear. And yet the 1080p transfer here is a fine job, backed up by an always-welcome package of extras. The end result is both a fine way to enjoy the movie for the first time, or arguably the best way to revisit it. Either way, it’s very much a recommended buy. --Jon Foster

• The Stranger | DVD | (18/10/1999) from £4.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (160.32%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The legendary story that hovers over Orson Welles' The Stranger is that he wanted Agnes Moorehead to star as the dogged Nazi hunter who trails a war criminal to a sleepy New England town. The part went to Edward G. Robinson, who is marvellous, but it points out how many compromises Welles made on the film in an attempt to show Hollywood he could make a film on time, on budget and on their own terms. He accomplished all three, turning out a stylish if unambitious film noir thriller, his only Hollywood film to turn a profit on its original release. Welles stars as unreformed fascist Franz Kindler, hiding as a schoolteacher in a New England prep school for boys and newly married to the headmaster's lovely if naive daughter (Loretta Young). Welles, the director, is in fine form for the opening sequences, casting a moody tension as agents shadow a twitchy low-level Nazi official skulking through South American ports and building up to dramatic crescendo as Kindler murders this little man, the lovely woods becoming a maelstrom of swirling leaves that expose the body he furiously tries to bury. The rest of the film is a well designed but conventional cat-and-mouse game featuring an eye-rolling performance by Welles and a thrilling conclusion played out in the dark clock tower that looms over the little village. --Sean Axmaker

• The Patriot/Half Past Dead/Foreigner | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The Patriot: Dr. Wesley McClaren (Seagal) was the government's top immunologist before giving it all up for a quiet practice in a small Montana community. But the peace is abruptly shattered when a violent extremist group unleashes a rapidly spreading lethal biological agent and takes over the town! As more and more people die from a baffling illness, the edge-of-your-seat suspense only intensifies as McClaren races to outsmart the militiamen and find a cure before the insidious diseas...

• The Imperial Navy - 1919 To 1935 | DVD | (21/02/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  With the end of the First World War in 1918 and the scuttling of the German Fleet in Scapaflow in 1919 the Emperor's Fleet ceased to exist. Following the Treaty of Versailles an Imperial Fleet cam into being which was drastically limited in its potential Building on the technical achievements of the German marine engineers there followed some internationally acclaimed constructions with the building of the so-called 'pocket battleships' - the armour plated ships of the Deutsch

• Death In the Shadows | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £9.22   |  Saving you £-3.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  When brilliant surgeon Dr. Sam Sheppard (Peter Strauss) is convicted of the brutal murder of his wife their son Chip remains convinced of his fathers innocence but he is still a child. Some years later his father is eventually released leading Chip to take on a nightmare confrontation with his past.

• Highlights From Glyndebourne - Various Artists | DVD | (30/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Featuring extracts from Carmen Idomeneo La Cenerentola Orfeo ed Euridice Il Barbiere di Siviglia and L'Incoronazione di Poppea.

• Neath The Arizona Skies | DVD | (23/02/2004) from £15.98   |  Saving you £-2.99 (-23.00%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Nina the daughter of a rich Indian is due to inherit her father's oil field but needs his signature to claim the land. Several outlaws have realised her worth and abduct her....

• German Destroyers Of The Second World War - Part 3 | DVD | (20/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Part three in a three part series looking at the role of the German Destroyers during the Second World War featuring original newsreels.

• The Talented Mr. Ripley | Blu Ray | (26/09/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• German Destroyers Of The Second World War - Part 1 | DVD | (26/01/2004) from £9.94   |  Saving you £6.04 (86.91%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Armed destroyers were built for the German navy from the mid-thirties. These all purpose battle-ships developed from the torpedo boats of WWI were developed with great versatility during the war. Their area of responsibility ranged from escort duty for mine operations and for heavy naval warships through submarine chases torpedo attacks and mine operations to the extensive task of keeping the coastline safe. And they were occasionally also deployed as fast troop carriers.

• Battles On The Western Front 1942-1945 | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £5.49   |  Saving you £7.50 (57.70%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The complete story of the events after England and France had declared war on the German Empire.

• The Boat That Rocked | DVD | (11/04/2016) from £8.99   |  Saving you £7.99 (114.14%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Richard Curtis writes and directs this ensemble comedy set in the world of the pop music and pirate radio stations of 1960s Britain. Philip Seymour Hoffman stars as The Count, a larger-than-life American rock 'n' roll DJ who - along with fellow broadcasters Dave (Nick Frost), Simon (Chris O'Dowd), Midnight Mark (Tom Wisdom), Wee Small Hours Bob (Ralph Brown), Thick Kevin (Tom Brooke), On-The-Hour John (Will Adamsdale), Angus 'The Nut' Nutsford (Rhys Darby) and Gavin (Rhys Ifans) - takes the airwaves by storm via Radio Rock, a pirate radio station operating from a boat in the middle of the stormy North Sea in order to escape the confines of stuffy British law. Bill Nighy, Emma Thompson and Kenneth Branagh co-star.

• Deprivation And Sacrifice - The German People In War Time 1939-1945 | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The German civilian population had to suffer countless deprivations and personal sacrifices during the Second World War. With the continuance of the World War the situation became evermore difficult and encroached to an increasing extent upon the personal interests of the people. The sacrifice of the German civilian population is an historic fact which claimed almost ten million human lives. That too should never be forgotten.

• German Destroyers Of The Second World War - Part 2: | DVD | (01/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  From Narvik to the Baltic the build-up of weapons of destruction for the German war navy proceeded from the mid-1930s. THese general purpose battleships developed from the torpedo boats of World War I saw many uses during the following conflict.

• Death Machines | DVD | (05/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  An evil Dragon Lady injects three martial arts fighters with a serum that turns them into zombie-like killing machines and then sends them out to battle her enemies.

• The Stranger | DVD | (17/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  The Stranger, according to Orson Welles, "is the worst of my films. There is nothing of me in that picture. I did it to prove that I could put out a movie as well as anyone else." True, set beside Citizen Kane, Touch of Evil, or even The Trial, The Stranger is as close to production-line stuff as the great Orson ever came. But even on autopilot Welles still leaves most filmmakers standing. The shadow of the Second World War hangs heavy over the plot. A war crimes investigator, played by Edward G Robinson, tracks down a senior Nazi, Franz Kindler, to a sleepy New England town where he's living in concealment as a respected college professor. The script, credited to Anthony Veiller but with uncredited input from Welles and John Huston, is riddled with implausibilities: we're asked to believe, for a start, that there'd be no extant photos of a top Nazi leader. The casting's badly skewed, too. Welles wanted Agnes Moorehead as the investigator and Robinson as Kindler, but his producer, Sam Spiegel, wouldn't wear it. So Welles himself plays the supposedly cautious and self-effacing fugitive--and if there was one thing Welles could never play, it was unobtrusive. What's more, Spiegel chopped out most of the two opening reels set in South America, in Welles' view, "the best stuff in the picture". Still, the film's far from a write-off. Welles' eye for stunning visuals rarely deserted him and, aided by Russell Metty's skewed, shadowy photography, The Stranger builds to a doomy grand guignol climax in a clock tower that Hitchcock must surely have recalled when he made Vertigo. And Robinson, dogged in pursuit, is as quietly excellent as ever. On the DVD: not much in the way of extras, except a waffly full-length commentary from Russell Cawthorne that tells us about the history of clock-making and where Edward G was buried, but precious little about the making of the film. Print and sound are acceptable, but though remastering is claimed, there's little evidence of it. --Philip Kemp

• EdMcbain Ice | DVD | (02/04/2007) from £9.97   |  Saving you £-5.98 (-149.90%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Once she'd been a dancer. Now she lies on a sidewalk, her blood seeping into the snow. The detectives of the 87th precinct are learning about ice: in a mulitimillion dollar showbiz scam, in the glittering diamonds that spill out of a dead man's vest, in the veins of a small time pusher. As the detectives scramble for evidence, as the city shivers, a killer is one step ahead, and the heat is still on.