"Actor: Ronald Shiner"

• Operation Bullshine | DVD | (19/05/2014) from £6.39   |  Saving you £3.60 (56.34%)   |  RRP £9.99

  'Fall in for laughs' is the order for the day in this colourful wartime-set comedy feature - a box-office hit in 1959 for Girls at Sea director Gilbert Gunn and boasting a top-flight cast that includes Donald Sinden Dora Bryan and Barbara Murray with a notable role for 1956 Olympic gold-medallist Judy Grinham. Presented in a brand-new digital transfer Operation Bullshine charts the misadventures of a group of Auxiliary Territorial Service girls stationed at an anti-aircraft post on a remote stretch of the English coast - along with the handsome lieutenant in charge of the battery and his wife a fellow-ATS girl who's none too happy about her husband's latest posting... particularly when regulations force them to conceal the fact that they are married! Special Features: Original Theatrical Trailer Image Gallery Promotional Material PDFs

• Girls at Sea | DVD | (17/03/2014) from £6.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (42.92%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Guy Rolfe, Michael Hordern, Ronald Shiner and Lionel Jeffries find their sea legs in this little-known but hugely engaging nautical yarn from 1958. Also featuring legendary duettist Teddy Johnson (along with early sightings of Warren Mitchell and - in his first big-screen role - Richard Briers), Girls at Sea is presented here in brand-new transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. When HMS Scotia pays a visit to the French Riviera, the office...

• The Night We Got the Bird | DVD | (21/10/2013) from £6.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (42.92%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A host of British comedy luminaries - including veteran farceur Sir Brian Rix and, in his last film role, actor and stand-up comedian Ronald Shiner - star in this good-natured comic caper charting the misadventures of a hapless bunch of Brighton-based petty crooks dogged by disaster at every turn. The Night We Got the Bird is presented here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. It's a set-up of craft and graft. 'Chippendale Charl...

• Innocents In Paris (Vintage Classics) | DVD | (02/05/2022) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A new restoration of the classic romantic comedy directed by Gordon Parry, starring the crème de la crème of British cinema including Alistair Sim & Margaret Rutherford and featuring cameos from Kenneth Williams, Laurence Harvey & Christopher Lee, An assortment of British tourists fly away for a wild and wonderful weekend in Paris, where each character finds that the city welcomes them and changes their lives in different ways, often with hilarious results, An English diplomat (Alastair Sim) is on a working trip to obtain an agreement with his Russian counterpart; a Royal Marine bandsman (Ronald Shiner) has a night out on the tiles after winning a pool of the French currency held by all the Marines in his band; a young woman (Claire Bloom) is wined and dined by an older Parisian man (Claude Dauphin) who gives her a tour of Paris; an amateur artist (Margaret Rutherford) searches out fellow painters on the Left Bank and in the Louvre; a hearty Englishman (Jimmy Edwards) spends the entire weekend in an English-style pub; an archetypal Scotsman and Battle of Normandy veteran (James Copeland) finds love with a young French woman, Product Features A Weekend To Remember - Agnès Poirier Discusses Innocents In Paris Stills Gallery Images Preserved and Supplied by the BFI Archive

• Innocents In Paris (Vintage Classics) | Blu Ray | (02/05/2022) from £11.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A new restoration of the classic romantic comedy directed by Gordon Parry, starring the crème de la crème of British cinema including Alistair Sim & Margaret Rutherford and featuring cameos from Kenneth Williams, Laurence Harvey & Christopher Lee, An assortment of British tourists fly away for a wild and wonderful weekend in Paris, where each character finds that the city welcomes them and changes their lives in different ways, often with hilarious results, An English diplomat (Alastair Sim) is on a working trip to obtain an agreement with his Russian counterpart; a Royal Marine bandsman (Ronald Shiner) has a night out on the tiles after winning a pool of the French currency held by all the Marines in his band; a young woman (Claire Bloom) is wined and dined by an older Parisian man (Claude Dauphin) who gives her a tour of Paris; an amateur artist (Margaret Rutherford) searches out fellow painters on the Left Bank and in the Louvre; a hearty Englishman (Jimmy Edwards) spends the entire weekend in an English-style pub; an archetypal Scotsman and Battle of Normandy veteran (James Copeland) finds love with a young French woman, Product Features A Weekend To Remember - Agnès Poirier Discusses Innocents In Paris Stills Gallery Images Preserved and Supplied by the BFI Archive

• Little Big Shot | DVD | (25/05/2015) from £7.98   |  Saving you £4.00 (66.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Ronald Shiner and veteran actress Marie Lohr feature among the cast of this whimsical crime caper directed by John Paddy Carstairs best known for his work with stars such as Frankie Howerd Jimmy Edwards and Norman Wisdom. Little Big Shot is featured here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements. Harry Hawkwood is the son of 'Pa' Hawkwood one of England's greatest crooks and it's Harry's ambition to follow in father's footsteps and be as good as Dad. Alas! Harry has a kind heart and it is only out of respect for the old man that his father's gang tolerates him. When the gang decides to go for the Maddox jewels Harry is given the job of "inside man" – will his good nature get the better of him once again? Special Features: Original Theatrical Trailer Image Gallery Original Promotional Material PDF

• Top of the Form | DVD | (09/07/2018) from £9.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Hilarious 1950's comedy of an under-performing public school directed by John Paddy Carstairs and starring Ronald Shiner, Anthony Newley and Ronnie Corbett. Professor Fortescue (Ronald Shiner) is a fake Professor trying unsuccessfully to sell his system for picking racehorse winners. When by chance, he succeeds he is chased by the local bookmakers. Attempting to escape, Fortescue stumbles into Bagshot Boys College and despite his lack of formal education, accepts the role of Professor of an unruly bunch of boys. When the boys cheat in an exam and win a trip to Paris Fortescue has to maintain control as they all head to France. His task becomes more difficult when the brother of one of the boys joins the trip to steal the famous Marie Antoinette necklace, and the trip quickly descends into hilarious chaos. A superb ensemble cast includes, Richard Wattis, Alfie Bass and Harry Fowler.

• Forbidden | DVD | (21/03/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A dark and powerful post-war thriller, Forbidden features a compelling performance by MGM star Douglass Montgomery as an unhappily married scientist who finds solace in the arms of another woman with devastating consequences. Also starring Patricia Burke and future horror icon Hazel Court, Forbidden is made available here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements, in its original theatrical aspect ratio.Driven by the incessant demands of his unfaithful, luxury-addicted wife, analytical chemist Jim Harding sacrifices a brilliant but poorly paid career to sell patent medicines at a Blackpool fairground. While there he finds he has a chance at happiness until his vindictive harpy of a wife crushes it flat. At the end of his tether, Jim decides that there's only one way out his wife has to die...SPECIAL FEATURE:Image Gallery

• Excuse My Glove | DVD | (27/04/2015) from £7.98   |  Saving you £4.00 (66.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This light-hearted story of romantic heroism and sporting glory features British boxing legend Len Harvey as a young man who steps into the limelight by accident... then decides it's worth fighting to stay there! Also starring Cockney comedy star Ronald Shiner and a line-up of the cream of 1930s boxing talent Excuse My Glove is featured here in a brand-new transfer from original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. Don Carter who is more interested in stained glass than fisticuffs unwittingly accepts a challenge to fight in a boxing-booth at a fair. Recognising a potential money-spinner when he sees one the booth's proprietor appoints himself Don's manager and Don quickly finds out that the spirit of the Marquess of Queensberry does not always prevail – on either side of the ropes! Bonus Features: Image gallery

• George in Civvy Street | DVD | (24/10/2011) from £2.89   |  Saving you £7.10 (245.68%)   |  RRP £9.99

  George Formby leaves us laughing in this, his final feature film now available on DVD for the very first time. A packed troopship pulls into port. George Harper (George Formby) is back in Blighty and just itching to get on with his life. After being de-mobbed, he and his dodgy pal Fingers (Ronald Shiner) head for George's family pub, The Unicorn, in the idyllic country Village of Tumbleford. The Unicorn has seen better days. The other pub in the village, The Lion, has stolen all the trade and now an unscrupulous banker and his crony are out to get George to sell up - by far means or foul. Worse still, The Lion's landlord wants to force George out too - because he's got designs on George's childhood sweetheart Mary (Rosalyn Boulter). Can George save his beloved pub... and will it 'all turn out nice again' one last time? A firm favourite with Formby fans and featuring the legendary Alice In Wonderland dream sequence.

• Get Cracking | DVD | (24/10/2011) from £3.39   |  Saving you £6.60 (194.69%)   |  RRP £9.99

  George Formby signs up for the Home Guard in this cracking wartime musical comedy which also starts Dinah Sheridan and Ronald Shiner! Watch out Adolf! George has signed up to so his patriotic duty with the Minor Wallop village Home Guard - and he's ready for you and your goose-steppers! There's only one minor problem - the Minor Wallop Home Guard are busy waging their own private war against the unit based in Major Wallop! When the rival Home Guard units are sent on battle manoeuvres, George launches his own unique style of commando raid against Major Wallop to steal a vital Vickers machine gun. The raid fails and so George and a little evacuee girl named Irene decide to fall back on 'Plan B' - to build their very own tank! One of George Formby's most popular film for Columbia studios.

• Bees In Paradise | DVD | (19/02/2007) from £7.98   |  Saving you £-2.99 (-59.90%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Askey plays a pilot who bales out over Paradise Island not knowing that he is about to land in a bee-worshipping colony of women and that he is about to become a drone for the queen bee! When he finds out that as custom demands he is due to be sacrificed two months after the honeymoon he soon starts thinking about escape. The women of course have other ideas.

• Not Wanted on Voyage | DVD | (28/01/2008) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A rollicking comedy adventure with Brian Rix and Ronald Shiner playing two cabin stewards bound for Tangiers aboard a cruise ship. As comedy enthusiasts would expect Rix loses his trousers as the two bumbling stewards attempt to uncover the identity of a jewel thief and recover the priceless diamonds of a wealthy passenger.

• Keep It Clean | DVD | (25/02/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An all-star comedy cast with Ronald Shiner headlining in Keep it Clean and playing an advertising agency's wheeler/dealer who is attempting to sell a new invention - the Demon Cleaner - to the public. Comic chaos ensues when he has to keep debt collectors unhappy crumpet clients and a posse of women morality campaigners from the Purity League at bay!

• Second World War Collection -Dig For Victory The Ministry Of Food And The Battle To Feed Wartime Britain 1940 - 1944 | DVD | (14/06/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This DVD companion to the Imperial War Museum's Second World War Ministry Of Food Exhibition is the definitive compilation of their own film archive's holdings on every stage of the food chain; food production preparation and consumption. It affords a very detailed insight into the logistical struggle to feed the British during the dark days of war; both fighting servicemen and civilians on the home front. The Ministry Of Food had the unenviable task of keeping the public constantly aware of the shortage of food as ships containing much needed imports were a constant target for the Luftwaffe and the German Navy. It was imperative that the nation endeavored to self-sufficiency as far as was practicable and these films encourage the British public's positive adaptation to the privations of shortages and rationing with an emphasis on how to be frugal and inventive on the 'Kitchen Front' on avoiding waste on reducing imports through the promotion of 'seasonal' produce and fool-proof instructional films on how to grow one's own food. The WVS and 'Food Flying Squads' leapt into nightly action during the 'Blitz' to feed the wardens rescue teams firemen and civilians who had been bombed out of their homes. Communal dining in a chain of 'British Restaurants' helped ration coupons to go further. The Ministry of information used many star names from the theatre and variety revues of the time such as Tommy Trinder Ted Ray Ronald Shiner Arthur Haynes Charlie Chester Jimmy Handley John Slater Ralph Richardson and Hubert Gregg. The Army is commonly said to march on its stomach but feeding the forces on the frontline was fraught with challenges. The Ministry of Information commissioned short-form Public Information Films on all aspects of the war effort and the finale of this collection is a selection of the very best of these films that make reference to food helping with the harvest and the famous Food Flashes all of which were shown in the cinemas of the time. Titles Comprise: Food Convoy (1940) Food From The Empire (1940) Choose Cheese (1940) Wisdom Of The Wild (1940) Fighting Fields (1941) Piping Hot (1941) Dig For Victory (1941) How To Dig (1941) Emergency Cooking Stoves (1941) Queen's Messengers (1941) Canteen On Wheels (1941) Eating Out With Tommy Trinder (1941) Sowing And Picking (1941) Filling The Gap (1942) Making A Compost Heap (1942) The Great Harvest (1942) Twelve Days (1942) The Harvest Shall Come (1942) Willing Hands (1944) Rationing In Britain (1944)

• Dinner At The Ritz | DVD | (24/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99