"Actor: Robert Boon"

• The Beach | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £4.89   |  Saving you £7.10 (145.19%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Not quite ready to surrender himself to responsibility or mainstream society, a young American travels to Asia and discovers he is not alone in his feelings

• The Big Sleep | DVD | (06/11/2006) from £6.34   |  Saving you £0.65 (10.25%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Raymond Chandler's hard boiled novel is brought to the screen with sleuth Phillip Marlowe finding himself involved with murder blackmail and violence when hired to protect a General's young daughter.

• Cimarron Strip (Multi-Region DVD) | DVD | (28/05/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Robert Duvall and Beau Bridges star in the complete collection of 23 films.

• The Beach | DVD | (04/11/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Not quite ready to surrender himself to responsibility or mainstream society, a young American travels to Asia and discovers he is not alone in his feelings

• The Diary Of Anne Frank | DVD | (19/07/2004) from £8.86   |  Saving you £4.13 (46.61%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An extraordinary portrayal of humanity set during one of history's most inhumane periods 'The Diary Of Anne Frank' features Millie Perkins as the insightful 13-year-old biographer of her family's two year hiding in an Amsterdam attic. At first the strong-willed teenager embraces her fugitive lifestyle as an adventure but in time the ever-increasing fear of discovery and close quarters prove nearly unbearableifor the eight personalities in hiding which include Mr. Dussell (Ed Wynn) the abrasive Mrs. Van Daan (the Oscar-winning Shelley Winters) her husband (Lou Jacobi) and their son Peter (Richard Beymer) for whom Anne develops an impossible love...

• The Halls Of Montezuma | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Once again returning to the genre to which he was perhaps best-suited, director Lewis Milestone traces the fate of a Marine platoon during WWII. The film stars Richard Widmark as the no-nonsense Lt. Carl Anderson, an officer charged with the responibility of leading his unit on a scouting mission to capture prisoners from an experimental rocket-launching facility and bring them back for interrogation. Among his platoon are veterans Pidgeon Lane (Jack Palance), Doc (Karl Malden), and Sgt. Zelenko (Neville Brand), as well as raw recruits Coffman (Robert Wagner) and Cpl. Stuart Conroy (Richard Hylton). Anderson is skilled at subtly motivating the varied group of characters, while suffering himself from crushing headaches. The platoon attacks the island, taking losses on the heavily defended beach. When they try to take a strategic ridge, they're pinned down by rocket fire whose source is impossible to locate. In desperation, Anderson is ordered to take a hand-picked patrol behind enemy lines to bring back prisoners. After some painful losses, they finally return with prisoners. Despite occasional war movie cliches, this is a solid, exceptionally well acted effort, which gives full weight to the terrible human cost of war. The film is also notable for great performances by Malden, Palance, Widmark, Webb, and the very young Wagner.

• Cabin Fever | DVD | (15/03/2004) from £5.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (57.20%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Off-beat horror about a group of college friends who go on holiday in the forest and catch a flesh-eating virus.

• Halls Of Montezuma | Blu Ray | (31/12/2019) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Although Lewis Milestone had been American cinema's premier maker of war films for three decades, 1951's The Halls of Montezuma is one of his more marginal pictures. Milestone had already won an Academy Award for the single most honoured film about WWI, All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), and made one of the most distinctive contemporaneous films of WWII, A Walk in the Sun (1945)--a notable influence on Saving Private Ryan, by the way--but by the time of Montezuma the hallmarks of his directorial style--such as his syncopated tracking shots--were becoming mannerisms, and the screenplay's rhythms of personal crises set against the bigger picture of the military campaign are pretty mechanical. That still leaves room to accord the picture a marginal recommendation: it's well-cast, competently made, and free of "Hollywood heroics". Richard Widmark stars as a Marine platoon leader who, having brought only seven of his men through Guadalcanal, is determined to see them safely through the next island conquest. The lieutenant was a schoolteacher in civilian life--as we see in flashbacks--and one member of his command is a former student (Richard Hylton) he helped overcome fear. Other platoon members include ex-boxer Jack Palance, trigger-happy bad boy Skip Homeier, hardcase veterans Neville Brand and Bert Freed, and Karl Malden as a philosophical corpsman. However, the most arresting performance is given by Milestone discovery Richard Boone, making his screen debut as a sympathetic colonel stuck with fighting the Japanese and fighting off a miserable cold at the same time. --Richard T Jameson, Amazon.com

• Tail Sting | DVD | (05/08/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Whilst in transit between Australia and the USA a crate of genetically created scorpions are exposed to a dangerous unrefined oxygen. Their growth hormones are sent into overdrive and the mutant arachnids are on the rampage. One by one they attack the aircraft crew then the passengers and knock out the communications system crippling the aircraft. As the jet limps blindly on autopilot across the Atlantic the passengers and crew must use all their ingenuity to survive this nightmar

• The Halls Of Montezuma | DVD | (09/05/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Once again returning to the genre to which he was perhaps best-suited director Lewis Milestone traces the fate of a Marine platoon in the Pacific theater during WWII. The film stars Richard Widmark as the no-nonsense Lt. Carl Anderson an officer charged with the responibility of leading his unit on a scouting mission to capture prisoners from an experimental rocket-launching facility and bring them back for interrogation. Among his platoon are veterans Pidgeon Lane (Jack Palance) D

• Cimarron Strip - The Roarer | DVD | (19/05/2007) from £5.29   |  Saving you £0.70 (11.70%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In a truly outstanding performance Richard Boone stars as Sergeant Bill Disher a 26 year cavalry veteran driven to breaking point when his close friend Little Tom is killed in an accident. Grieving over the death of his military comrade Disher bitterly blames the modernisation and expansion of the West as being the cause of Little Tom's fate. During a drunken wake Disher burns down Cimarron's funeral parlour angering the townspeople who seek vigilantly justice. This forces the hand of Marshal Crown who must bring Disher's military career to an end... one way or another.

• The Beach - Book & DV | DVD | (08/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Not quite ready to surrender himself to responsibility or mainstream society, a young American travels to Asia and discovers he is not alone in his feelings

• Cult Action Extravaganza | DVD | (21/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Cult Action Extravaganza three-disc set offers three very different movies that have nothing in common bar residency in Siren's film archive. They are: The Most Dangerous Game (1932), Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953) and Get Christie Love! (1974). The Most Dangerous Game is a classic, one of the first talkies to get pictures moving after five very static years following the birth of sound. The plot finds resourceful hero Joel McCrea and heroine Fay Wray being hunted on the island of the insane Zaroff (Leslie Banks). One of the grandfathers of the summer blockbuster, the film's setup has been reworked many times since, notably in John Woo's Hard Target (1993). By modern standards it's technically primitive, though still gripping stuff, complete with the jungle set built as a test run for King Kong (1933) and graced by Max Steiner's prototype of all Hollywood action scores. Beneath the 12-Mile Reef is another landmark or rather watermark. The third-ever CinemaScope production, this was a prestige release with Technicolor location filming at Key West, Florida of never-before-achieved underwater cinematography and four-channel stereo recording of a superlative Bernard Herrmann score. Even a still-impressive underwater battle with an octopus pre-dates the more famous giant squid of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954). The humans aren't bad either, with a young Robert Wagner making a charismatic if ethnically unconvincing Greek lead as sponge fisherman Tony and Terry Moore playing Juliet to his Romeo with real vivacity. Starring Theresa Graves, Get Christie Love! is a tame TV movie imitation of early 1970s female blaxploitation films such Pam Grier's Coffy (1973) and Foxy Brown (1974). Running a standard TVM 73 minutes and with a low budget and content sanitised to US network standards, this is lightweight stuff about an undercover cop determined to smash a drugs ring. Nevertheless the movie was popular enough to spawn a short-lived TV show and is significant for being the first time a black woman took the title role in any American network production. Tarantino completists may be interested, as before he paid homage to Christie Love in the dialogue of Reservoir Dogs (1991). On the DVD: Cult Action Extravaganza presents the films in their original aspect ratio and sound format; The Most Dangerous Game and Get Christie Love! are 4:3, mono. The former is faded b/w with reasonably sturdy sound, though the transfer suffers from compression artefacting. No one would expect great quality from a 1974 TV movie, but Get Christie Love! suffers from both a poor print and a mediocre DVD transfer. Beneath the 12-Mile Reef is presented in the extra wide 2.55:1 of early CinemaScope and though sadly not anamorphic both the seascapes and underwater cinematography are still impressive. The four-channel stereo sound is revelatory, clear, detailed and years ahead of what we have come to expect early 1950s films to sound like. --Gary S Dalkin

• Hollywood Singing And Dancing - A Musical History - The 1930s | DVD | (06/07/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  It's been said that America has given the world two thoroughly original art forms: jazz and the movie musical. The 1930s saw the newly born genre of the Hollywood musical bloom with artistry and variety never before imagined. For many filmgoers the Hollywood musical gave them escape and hope during the troubled years of the Great Depression.

• Andy Williams | DVD | (18/06/2007) from £9.95   |  Saving you £5.04 (50.65%)   |  RRP £14.99

  An Extraordinary feature length programme released to celebrate the life and musical career of one of America's biggest stars! Throughout the programme Andy reflects on his remarkable career in a wide ranging interview. Also included are interviews with Donny Osmund and the Osmunds Robert Wagner Pat Boone plus his brothers and family members. Filled with rare archive footage including performance material and excerpts from his TV apperances from live concerts as well as featuring digitally re-mastered performances from the Andy Williams Show!

• Shirley Jones - Hollywood Singing And Dancing - A Musical History - The 1940s | DVD | (06/07/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Over 550 movie musicals were produced during the 1940s quite an accomplishment for a country caught in the turmoil of World War II. MGM emerged as the leader in musical entertainment with producers like Arthur Freed and directors like Vincente Minnelli and Stanley Donen putting a unique stamp of distinction upon their works.

• Shirley Jones - Hollywood Singing And Dancing - A Musical History - The 1950s | DVD | (06/07/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  During the 1950s musical masterpieces that have yet to be equalled were produced in Cinemascope with stereophonic sound. The DVD explores how the post-war years were alive with bold experimentation in musical film. Later in the decade. Later in the decade Rock & Roll became the musical choice of the younger generation and movie musicals followed suit.

• The Beach | DVD | (31/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Not quite ready to surrender himself to responsibility or mainstream society, a young American travels to Asia and discovers he is not alone in his feelings

• Raymond Chandler - Farewell My Lovely / The Big Sleep | DVD | (29/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99