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• The Magic Box | DVD | (04/06/2007) from £7.94   |  Saving you £5.05 (63.60%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The story of one of the men responsible for the invention of motion pictures. It depicts his life and the effect of his concentrated passion for photography on it.

• Harnessing Peacocks | DVD | (04/07/2011) from £8.64   |  Saving you £4.35 (50.35%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Sir John Mills Peter Davison and Serena Scott Thomas star in this warm funny and romantic story of a woman forced to make a new life for herself in a Cornish seaside town. Based on Mary Wesley's bestselling novel Harnessing Peacocks is adapted by the multi-award-winning Andrew Davies (The Way We Live Now Bridget Jones' Diary). As a teenager the beautiful Hebe was disowned by her family after becoming pregnant by a masked stranger during a fiesta in the Italian town of Lucca. Twelve years on she has established herself in an unattractive terraced street in Penzance. Her official profession is part-time cook catering to rich old ladies who value her personal attention. But Hebe has another source of income: she is a prostitute with a very limited set of wealthy male clients - her peacocks. The income from her dual role enables her to send her illegitimate son Silas to boarding school. Then a mysterious figure enters the network of discreetly intersecting relationships that exists between Hebe her clients and their families. And he is certain that he recognises her...

• The London Box Set | DVD | (15/06/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £30.00

  Boxset Contains: 1. Pool Of London 2. The Small World Of Sammy Lee 3. The Yellow Balloon 4. The London Nobody Knows / Les Bicyclettes De Bellsize

• The Way To The Stars | DVD | (20/08/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In 1940 a deserted airfield somewhere in the heart of England becomes a bustling bomber command station. In 1942 advance units of the American Air Force arrive to join The Royal Air Force and help turn the tide of World War II. So unfolds the story of a group of flyers and their 'missions'. Peter Penrose (John Mills) a young RAF pilot is sent to Halfpenny Field close to the small town of Shepley. His Squadron Leader Flight Lieutenant David Archdale (Michael Redgrave) gives him

• Grey Owl | DVD | (13/10/2014) from £10.35   |  Saving you £-0.36 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  James Bond star Pierce Brosnan is Grey Owl in Richard Attenborough's true story of a 1930s Ojibwa Indian from the Canadian wilderness. Owl became infamous for his adventures where he used to exploit the wilderness for his own profit, including raping the forests using high-explosives. However, when he meets and falls in love with a native Mowhawk-Indian, Pony (Annie Galipeau) his whole perspective on life changes and begins to understand the true meaning of his and Pony's lives and the damage.

• Drama Collection - 1492 - Conquest Of Paradise/Grey Owl/Flight Of The Phoenix | DVD | (28/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  1492 - Conquest Of Paradise (Dir. Ridley Scott 1992): Gerard Depardieu plays Christopher Columbus in Ridley Scotts film about the humble explorer who chanced upon a new world while searching for an ocean route to Asia. Columbus faced much hardship on his daunting nautical voyage and once the fanfare of his discovery died down he was left to die in obscurity. This was one of three films about Columbus to hit the screens in 1992 the 500th anniversary of the original voyage. Grey Owl (Dir. Richard Attenborough 1999): In the 1930s the Ojibwa Indian Archie Grey Fox (Pierce Brosnan) takes to the Canadian wilderness. A trapper and adventurer keen to exploit the wilderness for his own profit Grey Owl uses everything in his power in cold-blooded rape of the forests - including dynamite and high-explosive. But Grey Owl comes across a native Mohawk-Indian Pony (Annie Galipeau) and falls in love. Slowly through her he comes to a new awareness of life - a decision that has far-reaching consequences. Instead of just trapping and hunting he begins to understand the fragile balance of their habitat. He now finds that he has a mission and begins to write books and give lectures predicting the destruction of the natural world. He visits the great cities of North America and England creating a sensation among the public. Nothing can stop the ""wild nobleman"" until a reporter discovers a dark secret of Grey's past... Flight Of The Phoenix (Dir. John Moore 2004): A group of air crash survivors are stranded in the Mongolian desert with no chance of rescue. Facing a brutal environment dwindling resources and an attack by desert smugglers they realize their only hope is doing the impossible; building a new plane from the wreckage of the old one...

• Pool Of London | Blu Ray | (24/10/2016) from £11.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Directed by Basil Dearden, 1951 Ealing classic Pool of London has been stunningly restored. Filmed on location in the City of London itself, on the River Thames and its wharves, on London Bridge and in the blitzed streets around St. Paul's, this is an authentic and unmissable slice of film history. Everything changes for two sailors on shore leave when they inadvertently become caught up in a crime as murky as the great river itself. For one of them, Johnny, life is further complicated when he falls in love with Pat, a local ticket seller, forming one of the first inter-racial relationships in British film. EXTRAS: Locations Featurette With Richard Dacre New Interview With Earl Cameron Stills Gallery

• Pool Of London | DVD | (24/10/2016) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Directed by Basil Dearden, 1951 Ealing classic Pool of London has been stunningly restored. Filmed on location in the City of London itself, on the River Thames and its wharves, on London Bridge and in the blitzed streets around St. Paul's, this is an authentic and unmissable slice of film history. Everything changes for two sailors on shore leave when they inadvertently become caught up in a crime as murky as the great river itself. For one of them, Johnny, life is further complicated when he falls in love with Pat, a local ticket seller, forming one of the first inter-racial relationships in British film. EXTRAS: Locations Featurette With Richard Dacre New Interview With Earl Cameron Stills Gallery

• Rasputin, The Mad Monk | DVD | (23/10/2006) from £8.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (44.49%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In early 20th century Tsarist Russia Rasputin (Christopher Lee) a wild-eyed peasant monk mysteriously demonstrates his healing powers by saving a woman's life and asking only for wine and Bacchanalian celebration in return. Soon Rasputin uses his evil charm to become increasingly manipulative and violent. Ferocious devious sensuous and other-worldly this uncouth peasant ingratiates himself into the lives of the sophisticated royal class...

• Tenko - Series Three | DVD | (08/08/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Based on real life experiences this is the powerful story of a disparate group of women whose lives are changed forever during their capture by the Japanese after the fall of Singapore in 1941. The year is 1945 and many of the women have succumbed to illness and died; morale is low. Yamaouchi calls a surprise Tenko where the women learn that the war is over and that Japan has been defeated. However freedom remains elusive as the allies fail to materialise. This four disc set contains all ten episodes from Series Three plus the feature length Reunion Special of the classic BBC series

• Pool Of London | DVD | (17/08/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Pool Of London

• Armchair Thriller Vol.10 - Quiet As A Nun | DVD | (03/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  With memorable and unsettling opening credits and exceptional performances and direction Armchair Thriller became a massive hit for Thames Television in the late 1970s and early 1980s. With its trademark ghoulish razor-sharp cliff hangers and iconic theme tune (by Roxy Music's Andy Mackay) this haunting anthology series was an immediate success its eerie disturbing and downright scary tales regularly attracting over 15 million viewers. Each of its ten stories is a gripping exercise in compelling television showing ordinary people plunged into extraordinary situations. For many this series remains a high-watermark of dramatic television and its many frightening and spooky moments are remembered by viewers nearly thirty years after its original transmission. Quiet As A Nun: A nun dies of starvation after locking herself in a convent tower. Jemima Shore a former pupil at the convent school and now a television interviewer is asked to investigate. Jemima is surprised to discover that the death of the nun is connected with her own television programme.

• Miss Nightingale | DVD | (16/06/2014) from £5.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The definitive 1974 tv adaptation of the critically renowned stage play 'Florence Nightingale' is an inventive character study of the founder of modern nursing, featuring a highly acclaimed lead performance from Janet Suzman, and a supporting cast that includes Robert Flemyng, Joss Ackland, Charles Kay, Geoffrey Bayldon and Nigel Hawthorne. The name Florence Nightingale calls to mind 'The Lady with the Lamp', the saintly, dedicated spinster who devoted her life to selflessly nursing the sick.

• Rasputin The Mad Monk | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In early 20th century Tsarist Russia Rasputin (Christopher Lee) a wild-eyed peasant monk mysteriously demonstrates his healing powers by saving a woman's life and asking only for wine and Bacchanalian celebration in return. Soon Rasputin uses his evil charm to become increasingly manipulative and violent. Ferocious devious sensuous and other-worldly this uncouth peasant ingratiates himself into the lives of the sophisticated royal class...

• School for Unclaimed Girls | DVD | (11/02/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Richard struggles to reach his nine year old daughter Nicki (Madeline Hinde) screaming on a merry-go-round and in the process he gets crushed. Nicki sees her father die. Seven years later beautiful teenager Nicki still bears the scars of her father's death. She believes she killed him. Nicki's mother gets into an affair with Harry (Patrick Mower) who is only after her for her money. Nicki detests Harry and gets into a horrific argument with him. In the struggle Nicki stabs him. Nicki is sent to a remand home where she is persecuted by the other inmates. Eventually she manages to escape and heads to Oxford to stay with her boyfriend Peter (Dennis Waterman). She soon learns that even he cannot be trusted. Nicki realises that she must turn and face up to her past. Even then tragedy is close to hand...