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• Ballet Shoes - The Complete Series (BBC) | DVD | (09/10/2017) from £8.03   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Every Child's Dream Can Come True! Sylvia Brown is guardian to three young girls, Pauline, Petrova, and Posy Fossil. Money is tight for Sylvia, who opens her home to provide board to three others; a retired English professor, a garage owner, and a dance teacher. The later, Theo Dane, has the girls accepted into her school by the formidable Madame and the children help to raise some money through a stage show. All 6 episodes from The classic BBC series starring Angela Thorne, Jane Slaughter, Elizabeth Morgan, Sarah Prince, Barbara Lott, and Terence Skelton. Includes subtitles for the hard of hearing.

• Her Private Hell (DVD + Blu-Ray) | Blu Ray | (20/02/2012) from £9.49   |  Saving you £10.50 (110.64%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The cautionary tale of an innocent girl abroad who gets caught up in the sleazy world of modeling, Her Private Hell was the debut feature of British exploitation director Norman J Warren (Satan's Slave, Prey and Terror) and the UK's first narrative sex filmBeautiful but nave, Marisa arrives from the continent for a job as a fashion model but soon discovers she's being groomed for a different purpose. Starring Italian actress Lucia Modugno (Il Generale della Rovere, Diabolik), the film ran for over a year in London and put Britain on the map in the realm of home grown adult features.

• The Sherlock Holmes Catalogue - The Sign Of Four | DVD | (28/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Sign of Four is a 1987 feature-length version of Conan Doyle's second Sherlock Holmes novel, and is faithful to the original story except in one important detail: Dr Watson (Edward Hardwicke) does not get the girl. Otherwise, the familiar tale of the death of Bartholomew Sholto and the theft of the Agra treasure is all here, featuring a snappy performance by Jeremy Brett as Holmes doing some of the finest investigative work of his career. The famous climax, a chase on the Thames in which Holmes is almost struck dead by an exotic weapon, is handled very well. Sherlockians may have a hard time not seeing Watson's romantic pursuit of Mary Morstan (Lila Kaye), his first wife according to Doyle's book, but it would hardly have been practical in the context of the long-running Granada Television series. The rest is to be enjoyed, however. --Tom Keogh