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• The Ipcress File | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £17.00   |  Saving you £-7.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In the spy-crazed film world of the 1960s, Len Deighton's antihero Harry Palmer burst onto the scene as an antidote to the James Bond films. Here was a British spy who had a working-class accent and horn-rimmed glasses and above all really didn't want to be a spy in the first place. As portrayed by Michael Caine, Palmer was the perfect antithesis to Sean Connery's 007. Unlike that of his globetrotting spy cousin, Palmer's beat is cold, rainy, dreary London, where he spends his days and nights in unheated flats spying on subversives. He does charm one lady, but she's no Pussy Galore, just a civil servant he works with, sent to keep an eye on him. Eventually he's assigned to get to the bottom of the kidnapping and subsequent "brain draining" of a nuclear physicist, all the while being reminded by his superiors that it's this or prison. Things begin to get pretty hairy for Harry. Produced by Harry Saltzman in his spare time between Bond movies, the film also features a haunting score by another Bond veteran, composer John Barry. --Kristian St. Clair, Amazon.com

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  The tense spy thriller by Len Deighton that turned Michael Caine into a superstar. Cynical and rebellious ex-army sergeant Harry Palmer has been blackmailed into working for Britain's security service. Hot on the trail of a kidnapped scientist Palmer finds himself enmeshed in a sinister conspiracy involving horrifying brainwashing techniques murder and treachery that reaches up to the highest levels of the security service itself. Often hailed as Len Deighton's finest spy story

• Smart Ass | DVD | (08/09/2014) from £7.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (150.19%)   |  RRP £19.99

  On the first day of term the dean of their prestigious business school tells his students: 'You are the elite... the crème de la crème. Soon the rules of a market economy will no longer be a mystery to you. Learn work and apply. Kelly Dan and Louis take him at his word. Starting from the theory that relationships between the sexes can be regulated by market principles the three sophomore classmates begin to inflate the popularity of certain students artificially by hiring beautiful off-campus women as their dates for exclusive and riotous college parties. The perfect business model their concept takes off like a rocket surpassing its founders' wildest expectations. Soon they find themselves confronting the problems of rapid growth. And then the system truly takes on its own velocity quickly escaping their control... After all they're barely more than kids... and wasn't it all just a game anyway? Funny troubling and touching a powerful Generation Z coming of age story from director Kim Chapiron (Sheitan Dog Pound).

• Divorce His, Divorce Hers | DVD | (16/08/2004) from £6.55   |  Saving you £-2.56 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton draw on their personal experiences as real-life partners going through marraige difficulties for their performances in this story of the breakup of an 18-year matrimonial union as seen from the points of view of both the husband and the wife. The movie is told in two parts - first his side of the divorce then hers

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