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• Leonard Bernstein: Trouble In Tahiti | DVD | (20/01/2003) from £23.05   |  Saving you £-3.06 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This new film of Leonard Bernstein's music-theatre piece Trouble in Tahiti, produced by BBC Wales and Opus Arte and directed by Tom Cairns, makes a strong case for a neglected work. Bernstein wrote his satire on American materialism in 1952, drawing on elements of opera, revue and musical comedy to tell a story of a marriage that's turned sour amid the trappings of suburban prosperity. The brevity of the piece, which flashes by in 39 minutes, perhaps accounts for its rare appearances, making this version specially welcome. Tom Cairns directs with style and panache, moving the camera effortlessly to and fro between the seven scenes. Amir Hosseinpour's choreography recalls with affection the heyday of the MGM musical then at its zenith. The film opens with a Greek-style chorus singing in scat jazz fashion to a montage of 1950s imagery: flickering television adverts, manicured lawns and white picket fences. Characters within the narrative appear in flash-back in home video footage. This is all highly diverting and possibly a ruse to mask some dramatic weakness in the story written by Bernstein himself. The wife never offers an explanation for her visit to the cinema to see Trouble in Tahiti instead of attending her son's school play, nor do we see the boy again after witnessing his parents having a tiff. The two principals, Karl Daymond as Sam and Stephanie Novacek as Dinah, are well cast and sing in a natural and pleasing manner with clear diction. The scat vocal trio is well matched and the City of London Sinfonia under Paul Daniel catch the spirit of the jazz inflected score as if it were second nature. On the DVD: Trouble in Tahiti is shot in wide-screen, appropriate for the era that gave us CinemaScope. There are subtitles in German, Spanish and French. A full translation in English is printed in the booklet. The extras include an introduction that partly overlaps with "A Very Testing Piece", in which Paul Daniel touches on the parallel with Bernstein's own unhappy childhood. Humphrey Burton in "Not Particularly Romantic" elaborates on this theme and goes on to offer a further fascinating commentary on Bernstein, whom he knew well. --Adrian Edwards

• Zombie Flesh Eaters | Blu Ray | (03/12/2012) from £31.98   |  Saving you £-1.99 (-6.60%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Strangers looking for a woman's father arrive at a tropical island where a doctor desperately searches for the cause and cure of a recent epidemic of the undead.

• Pranks | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

• Night Train Murders | Blu Ray | (10/11/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Halloween Haunting | DVD | (13/10/2014) from £7.89   |  Saving you £10.09 (205.92%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Steven Summers returns home to southern Alabama from college with his girlfriend Amanda to attend his uncle's annual Halloween hayride. Unaware that an escaped killer is on the loose, Steven will soon face the real life embodiment of Pitchfork, a character his uncle created for the Hayride and Steven's childhood tormentor. Steven will soon realize that not all childhood fears are imagined when the legend of Pitchfork suddenly becomes dangerously real.

• Children Of The Corn 4 - The Gathering | DVD | (18/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The horror returns when the children of a small midwestern town are haunted by an unspeakable evil that lurks somewhere out behind the corn fields. A bright young medical student must solve the frightening mystery that plagues the children before a sinister stranger can claim their souls for his own! It's a pulse-pounding race against time and terror that will leave even the most die-hard suspense fans on the edge of their seats!

• Mandragora | DVD | (10/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A 16-year-old boy with an angelic face and a freshly stolen jacket arrives at the main train station in Prague. He's immediately spotted by a man named Honza who asks him if he wants to earn some quick cash. The boy is too nave to realise that he's being set up as a prostitute. Honza drugs him and delivers him to his first trick. The boy wakes in the room of a homosexual client who has just had sex with him. Shaken he takes his payment from the man and returns to the train station

• Great Caruso, The | Blu Ray | (09/03/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Grey Fox (Special Edition) | DVD | (08/09/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Tales Of The Unexpected - Vol. 4 | DVD | (31/01/2006) from £7.50   |  Saving you £12.49 (166.53%)   |  RRP £19.99

• Pusher | Blu Ray | (11/02/2013) from £10.89   |  Saving you £4.10 (37.65%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Frank is a big time drug dealer in London who lives a life of freedom and excess. However, Frank's rollercoaster lifestyle soon derails when he amounts a massive debt with the most dangerous drug lord in the city.

• What Happened Then? | DVD | (06/02/2017) from £5.45   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Actor-director Richard Bird, horror stalwart George Zucco and charismatic stage and screen star Francis L. Sullivan feature in the cast of this thriller in which love and money troubles threaten to lead an innocent young sculptor to the scaffold. Based on a play by Broadway director Lillian Trimble Bradley, What Happened Then? is featured in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements, in its original aspect ratio. Raymond Rudford is on trial for the murder of the wealthy uncle who adopted him as a boy following the death of his parents. The prosecution produces seemingly damning evidence including Raymond's own fingerprints on the blade that killed his uncle and a powerful motive: the fear that he would be disinherited if he should marry Alicia, his fiancee. She knows that Raymond is innocent; but how can she prove it? SPECIAL FEATURES: Image gallery

• The Best Of British B Movies - The Corsair Collection: Volume 2 | DVD | (08/07/2013) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-5.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Meet Mr Malcolm (1954)Celebrated crime writer Colin Knowles (Richard Knowles) finds himself at the centre of a baffling real-life mystery when his estranged wife Louie (Sarah Lawson) asks for his help. Her new boss has gone missing at his grand country home - and when his body is found the hunt is on for a devious and twisted murderer. Sinister letters from London refer to a 'double crime'. Who will be the killer's next victim? Directed by Daniel Birt (The Interrupted Journey She Shall Have Murder) at Viking Studios and featuring a delightful guest appearance by renowned stage and radio comedy star Claude Dampier Meet Mr. Malcolm is a gripping Agatha Christie-style country house whodunnit with a fiendish twist! I'm A Stranger (1952)George Westcott (Patrick Doonan) arrives in London from India to claim a sizeable inheritance only to discover his grandfather's will is missing. A film star (Greta Gynt) a window cleaner (James Hayter) and a police inspector (Hector Ross) help him defeat the disinherited branch of the family and find the will but is George all he seems...

• The In-Laws | DVD | (26/01/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  In preparation for his daughter's wedding dentist Sheldon Kornpett meets Vince Ricardo the groom's father. Vince a manic fellow who claims to be a government agent then proceeds to drag Sheldon into a series of chases and misadventures from New York to Central America!

• The Final Days | DVD | (01/05/2006) from £34.99   |  Saving you £-31.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  How could a U.S. President recognised as one of the most accomplished international statesmen in world history allow the presidency to be bought to it's knees by such a seemingly insignificant incident. In 1974 President Richard Nixon pressured by public scrutiny ordered a federal investigation of the Watergate scandal. The ordeal blew open a covert operation and cover-up which eventually led to charges bought against members of the Nixon administration for obstructing justice including allegations against the President.This compelling drama traces the activities of Nixon's final days in the office as he and his aids try desperately to repair the damages and clear up all allegations charged. But due to congress' successful investigation which directly implicated Nixon in the cover-up the feat of impeachment forces him to resign. On the night before his resignation the fallen president asks a stunned Henry Kissinger his secretary of state to kneel down beside him and pray. Struggling with mental anguish and helplessness he knew there was no chance to escape his ultimate fate.

• The Bionic Woman: Series 1 | DVD | (25/02/2013) from £22.39   |  Saving you £17.60 (78.61%)   |  RRP £39.99

• Garbo Talks | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £12.89   |  Saving you £-6.90 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  As a middle aged protestor faces a terminal illness her one desire is to meet Greta Garbo. The search for this reclusive star proves to be an hilarious quest.

• Eye Of God | DVD | (10/03/2003) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-14.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Martha Plimpton stars as an Oklahoma diner waitress who weds the born-again prison inmate (Kevin Anderson) with whom she's been corresponding but she soon finds that his ostensible piety masks a cruel domineering nature that leads inevitably to horrific violence.

• The Scarlet Pimpernel - Series 2 | DVD | (21/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The Pimpernel makes yet another daring rescue from under the noses of the French this time saving Annette De Martignac but has to leave her aging parents behind. Phillipe Lispard a young official at the French Embassy is very taken with her and she sees that he could be very useful to her in her attempts to get her parents free...

• Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - The Dead Man's Mirror / Jewel Robbery At The Grand Metropolitan | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £17.91   |  Saving you £-7.92 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  More intriguing investigations for Agatha Christie's famed Belgian detective... The Dead Man's Mirror: Art dealer Gervase Chevenix is not a popular man. So when he dies in mysterious circumstances Poirot has no shortage of suspects to choose from. The Jewel Robbery At The Grand Metropolitan: A holiday for Poirot on the South Coast turns into one of the most absorbing cases ever encountered. The pearls of the Tsar are missing and a man's life is at stake.