"Actor: Richard Stewart"

• Richard III | DVD | (17/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The third and final entry in Laurence Olivier's Shakespeare triptych, Richard III is an audacious portrait of a man determined to prove himself a villain. A pure master of the political stage, Richard deploys a barrage of odious, unscrupulous traps in an attempt to exercise complete control over his rivals. As the personification of evil impudence, Olivier portrays the Duke of Gloucester with such aplomb that he even lures the audience on to his side. This is true even as Richard engineers plots to murder his brother Clarence (John Gielgud), betray his cousin Buckingham (Ralph Richardson) and seduce his niece Lady Anne (Claire Bloom). From the play's famous opening lines ("Now is the winter of our discontent"), Olivier delivers every speech with truly Machiavellian splendour. As usual, his voice is a force of nature--a full-bodied coloratura at one moment, an earthy baritone cello a few beats later. As a director, Olivier fully realises but underplays the corners of the script that most directors would hinge their dramatisation on. But he can also play it large: Olivier's superb staging of the climactic battle rivals his work on Henry V. Though Richard is finally brought down by the whispered curses of Queen Margaret, the audience exits feeling that the journey has been both entertaining and complete. Regrettably, this would be Olivier's last Shakespeare film, as a planned adaptation of Macbeth was abandoned for financial reasons. Olivier justly received an Oscar nomination for his performance; and believe it or not, this film was the inspiration for the original Blackadder! --Kevin Mulhall

• The Big Brass Ring | DVD | (15/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

• F. Scott Fitzgerald And The Last Of The Belles | DVD | (21/06/2004) from £15.98   |  Saving you £-11.99 (-300.50%)   |  RRP £3.99

• James Stewart - In The Frame Collection | DVD | (29/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  This box set features the following films: You Can't Take It With You (Dir. Frank Capra) (1938): James Stewart Jean Arthur Lionel Barrymore and Edward Arnold star in this screwball comedy. Arthur stars as Alice Sycamore the stable family member of an offbeat clan of free spirits who falls for Stewart the down-to-earth son of a snooty wealthy family. Amidst a backdrop of confusion the two very different families rediscover the simple joys of life... Mr Smith Goes To Washington (Dir. Frank Capra) (1939): James Stewart Jean Arthur and Claude Rains star in this award-winning 1939 classic about an idealistic small-town politician who heads to Washington and suddenly finds himself single-handedly battling ruthless politicians out to destroy him. Man From Laramie (Dir. Anthony Mann) (1955): Will Lockhart comes to a small town to find the man who sold rifles to the Apaches and caused the death of his brother a cavalry officer. Beaten and nearly killed by cohorts of the arms dealer he also becomes embroiled with a ranch baron and his overwrought son. Father and son are plotted against by their treacherous foreman who wants the ranch for himself. Anatomy Of A Murder (Dir. Otto Preminger) (1959): A riveting courtroom drama of rape and premeditated murder is brought to life with an all-star cast in the suspenseful and highly-acclaimed Anatomy Of A Murder. Nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Picture (1959) the film pits a humble small-town lawyer (James Stewart) against a hard-headed big-city prosecutor (George C. Scott). Emotions flare as a jealous army lieutenant (Ben Gazzara) pleads innocent to murdering the rapist of his seductive beautiful wife (Lee Remick). Produced and directed by the renowned Otto Preminger the film features a brilliant score by Duke Ellington. Packed with drama passion and intrigue Anatomy Of A Murder is a cinematic masterpiece that will keep you on the edge of your seat! Two Rode Together (Dir. John Ford) (1961): A group of children are held captive by the Indians. A Lieutenant enlists the help of a Texas Marshall in a rescue attempt. Based on the novel by Will Cook. Bell Book And Candle (Dir. Richard Quine) (1958): James Stewart is publisher Shep Henderson sucked into the underworld of Greenwich Village by the beautiful Gillian Holroyd (Kim Novak). Their liaison kicks off when Gillian employs her skills to indulge in a bit of fun. By the time Shep gets wise and rejects the artificial premise for a relationship she has sacrificed her powers to emotional awakening and all is set for a happy ending.

• Mansion Of The Doomed | DVD | (14/04/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  An eccentric world-renowned eye surgeon Dr. Chaney has been experimenting with the possibility of transplanting eyes from one human to another. His work is now an obsession: he blames himself for the car accident that left his daughter blind and in a series of gruesome operations attempts to restore her sight. One night his daughter's fianc'' Dan visits and with the help of his assistant they drag him into unconsciousness remove both his eyes and transplant them to his daughter. Her sight is restored but only for a short time. Chaney will not give up and a series of futile operations on more unsuspecting people adds more demented blind prisoners in the dungeon below the mansion...

• Big Brass Ring | DVD | (11/09/2006) from £9.97   |  Saving you £-5.98 (-149.90%)   |  RRP £3.99

  From the pen of landmark filmmaker Orson Welles with co-writer Oja Kodar and F.X. Feeney & George Hickenlooper comes The Big Brass Ring - an explicit tale of sex and scandal on the road to the Presidency! It's a carnival atmosphere along the banks of the Mississippi as the race for Governor of Missouri runs close - but with good looks money and fierce ambition Blake Pellarin (William Hurt) possesses the edge. That is until an attractive news correspondent (Irene Jacob) sends him spinning at the mention of a name - Raymond Romero - and a discarded mentor (Nigel Hawthorne) resurfaces with an incriminating photo. The agendas of his wife (Miranda Richardson) his lover and his enemies swirling around him Pellarin must now embrace a dark past to assure a bright future in the top seat at the White House - the ultimate Big Brass Ring.

• Zulu Dawn / The Wild Geese / Ashanti | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £20.99

  A box set featuring some of the best British war films ever made... Zulu Dawn (1979 Dir. Douglas Hickox): (Dolby Digital 5.1 / WS 16:9) This dramatic and true story recounts the breathtaking defeat of British forces at the hands of a 25 000 strong and relentlessly determined Zulu army in 1879. General Lord Chelmsford (brilliantly portrayed by Peter O'Toole) is the man responsible for the fatal decision to split up the troops based on faulty information provided by the fake

• One Of Them | DVD | (13/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  When five friends discover the old Marquez Academy they have enterded a mysterious world of terror a world where the line between reality and the supernatural is blurred... In this remote setting there exists a macabre world of ancient and terrifying rituals carried out to perpetuate evil and spread it to the living. A man searching for a missing relative is their only lifeline. He stubbornly tries to uncover the mystery of the 'chosen ones'... Together they must survive and

• Strictly Sinatra | DVD | (21/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Peter Capaldi, the writer and director of the vaguely amusing and almost engaging Strictly Sinatra, seems to have had two recent strains of British film-making on his mind: the Guy Ritchie school of modern mob capers and the post-modern urban Scottish noir of Shallow Grave and Trainspotting. Indeed Kelly MacDonald, who starred in the latter, appears in Strictly Sinatra as a similar rough-around-the-edges love interest. The film revolves around what happens when hapless Glasgow lounge-singer Tony Cocozza (played by the always capable Ian Hart) crosses paths with the local Mafiosi. Their initial mutual attraction is derived from the ability of the parties to support each other's delusions: Cocozza wishes he was Sinatra, they wish they were Sinatra's dubious cronies. But Cocozza swiftly realises that he has, as the song goes, bitten off more than he can chew, and proceeds, predictably enough, from doubt to epiphany to redemption to happy ending.--Andrew Mueller

• Serial Killers - The Real Life Hannibal Lecters | DVD | (06/07/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The world's fascination with serial killers has spawned hundreds of fictional madmen in novels and feature films such as Silence of the Lambs Seven Kiss the Girls and The Bone Collector. None are more notorious than Thomas Harris' diabolical creation Dr Hannibal Lecter. However before Lecter there were a select group of real life monsters that terrorized our neighbourhoods; Albert Fish Andrei Chikatilo Jeffrey Dahmer Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy. Between them they claimed over 150 lives. Serial Killer - The Real Life Hannibal Lecters will take you into a world that is rarely shown on television such as the grotesque and macabre world that these monsters lived in. With never before seen footage including interviews with world renowned experts on serial killers and exclusive footage of these real life cannibals you will experience the holocaust these animals created. These killers were the models for Hannibal Lecter.

• Mackenna's Gold/Bend of the River/Two Rode Together | DVD | (12/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  MacKenna's Gold (1968): A U.S. Sheriff entrusted with a map of the legendary Valley of Gold is attacked by an unruly bandit gang and his own local townspeople. They are all fired by greed and gold lust but bound together by a fear of their common enemy - the Apache. Based on a novel by Will Henry with music by Quincy Jones. Bend Of The River (1952): The second of the terrific Stewart/Mann Westerns is characteristic of their pairings: adult themes played out against prairie vistas in which betrayal and violence can erupt at any time. Formerly a vicious Missouri raider Stewart now leads a wagon train through Indian raids and hijackings to the new boom town of Portland where he becomes embroiled in the conflict between wealthy miners and farmers. Two Rode Together (1961): John Ford's criminally overlooked western (the first collaboration between Ford and James Stewart) finally makes its way to DVD for the first time! A group of children are held captive by the Indians. A Lieutenant enlists the help of a Texas Marshall in a rescue attempt. Based on the novel by Will Cook. Rare Breed (1966): In the 1880s Englishwoman Martha Price (Maureen O'Hara) and her daughter Hilary (Juliet Mills) come to America to sell their prize Hereford bull at an auction. When he is purchased by Bowen a wild Scotsman (Brian Keith) the women hire a footloose cowhand named Burnett (James Stewart) to help them transport the animal to its new owner. So begins an adventure that tests the mettle of all involved as they battle killers cattle stampedes and each other. But when they reach Bowen's ranch even greater obstacles force them to summon up extraordinary courage if they and the prize bull are to survive...