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  • One Exciting Night [DVD] [1944]One Exciting Night | DVD | (24/10/2011) from £2.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (70.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

    The third and final film in Vera Lynn's delightful wartime musical trilogy. ONE EXCITING EVENING is a splendid British musical where the songs just keep on coming! While trying to do a good ded and return a stolen wallet, amateur singer Vera Baker (Vera Lynn) gets mistaken for the new girlfriend of famous composer Michael Thorne (Donald Stewart). Now she's invited to sing at a top variety show for charity. It seems like a dream come true - but there's trouble ahead. Michael has a valuable Rembrandt painting in his possesion and a criminal gang is determined to steal it from him. Can Vera wow the audience and save Michael and his painting? Also known as 'You Can't Do Without Love', this musical comedy has been digitally transferred from a high quality original 35mm print and is available on DVD for the first time. The film includes no less than six musical numbers from Vera Lynn - 'It's Like Old Times', 'There's A New World Over The Skyline', 'One Love', My Prayer', 'You Can't Do Without Love' and 'It's So Easy To Say Good Morning' with dance band legend Bert Ambrose. There's also a rare opportunity to enjoy the RAF Dance Orchestra with Jimmy Miller. ABOUT THE DVD: The film is presented in BLACK & WHITE and FULL SCREEN format (4:3 Aspect Ratio) and runs for 80 minutes - the AUDIO is the original ENGLISH language and MONO - SUBTITLES are English (Hard of Hearing) only.

  • They Met In The Dark [DVD]They Met In The Dark | DVD | (06/06/2011) from £8.94   |  Saving you £4.05 (45.30%)   |  RRP £12.99

    A thrilling wartime espionage drama in which the respected naval commander Richard Heritage (James Mason) is duped by Mary an attractive enemy agent who plants false naval movement orders on him. As a consequence of these false plans a merchant ship is lost to enemy submarines and Heritage is court-martialled for disobeying orders before being found guilty and summarily dismissed from the Navy. Following his return to civilian life Heritage endeavours to prove his innocence by tracking down the beautiful agent who double crossed him. Working on a tip-off that she is at a remote house on the coast called Orchard Cottage Heritage visits the house during a stormy night only to discover Mary's dead body in one of the bedrooms. When Laura Verity (Joyce Howard) enters the house a few moments later she presumes that Heritage is the murderer and flees to call the police. But when the dead body disappears Laura and Heritage begin to realise that they are just pawns in a dangerous chess game played by Christopher Child (Tom Walls) the head of a Nazi spy ring.

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