"Actor: Thora Hird"

• The Magnet | DVD | (13/11/2006) from £17.13   |  Saving you £-4.14 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A classic Ealing film of half-truths whispers and wild imaginations! Centred on Johnny Brent (James Fox) a boy who fleeces a younger child out of his beloved magnet. In its place he offers an 'invisible' timepiece and there begins the chain of chaos in which the young swindler absconds from his home with the mistaken belief that he has somehow caused the young child's death. Unbeknownst to him he has become the town hero and as the unsung victor remains on the run the community are left to make sense of the goings-on from speculation and gossip...

• Further Up The Creek | DVD | (12/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Crikey! The Royal Navy has finally entered the nuclear age and is selling off its obsolete old frigates to the Arabs!

• The Quatermass Experiment | DVD | (31/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A missile is launched by Professor Quatermass and his team but when it lands back in the English countryside two of the crew members have disappeared. The third who is barely alive undergoes a quite terrifying transformation which threatens Earth...

• Diana Dors Double Bill: Miss Tulip Stays the Night / The Great Game | DVD | (05/12/2011) from £3.29   |  Saving you £12.70 (386.02%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A delicious double-dose of effervescent vintage comedy-drama starring Britain's blondest bombshell, the one-and-only Diana Dors, at her saucy best. Miss Tulip Stays the Night: Laughter and thrills mingle in as gorgeous Kate Dax (Dors) and her crime-writer husband, Andrew (Patrick Holt), investigate the murder of eccentric spinster Miss Tulip (Cicely Courtneidge) at a remote country cottage. With the help - or hindrance - of bumbling P.C. Feathers (deftly played by British comedy legend Jack Hulbert), will they ever crack their crazy case and finally figure out whodunit? The Great Game: Goals and glamour go together in a high-scoring drama of football league corruption, shot on location at Griffin Park, historic home of Brentford F.C. With fine performances from James Hayter as Burnville United's unscrupulous team chairman, Thora Hird as his long-suffering assistant, and Dors enjoying herself as man-eating secretary Lulu - not to mention a splendid eyeball-rolling turn from John Laurie - the final result is a nostalgic Saturday afternoon treat for movie buffs and football fans alike.

• In Loving Memory - Series 2 | DVD | (06/07/2009) from £8.35   |  Saving you £4.64 (55.57%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In Loving Memory: Series 2

• Next Of Kin | DVD | (10/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A collection of four important wartime films. Released by the famed Ealing Studios in 1942 The Next of Kin graphically illustrated the disastrous effect of careless talk on the Home Front and how it almost wrecks a daring British commando raid. Churchill personally wanted to see it banned! The New Lot follows the adventures of raw army recruits in 1943 while 1945s Read All About It was an Army Bureau of Current Affairs film dramatising a discussion withthe ex-editor of a newspaper ab

• The Magnet | DVD | (12/07/2004) from £6.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (100.14%)   |  RRP £13.99

  A classic Ealing film of half-truths whispers and wild imaginations! Centred on Johnny Brent (James Fox) a boy who fleeces a younger child out of his beloved magnet. In its place he offers an 'invisible' timepiece and there begins the chain of chaos in which the young swindler absconds from his home with the mistaken belief that he has somehow caused the young child's death. Unbeknownst to him he has become the town hero and as the unsung victor remains on the run the community ar

• In Loving Memory - Series 4 - Complete | DVD | (19/04/2010) from £10.78   |  Saving you £2.21 (20.50%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In Loving Memory: The Complete Fourth Series

• Lost For Words | DVD | (14/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Annie has a unique view of the world. It is as though she has a ley line running through her brain and when logic hits it it gets bent ever so slightly and goes running off at a tangent. Her condition becomes more extreme as she suffers a series of strokes robbing her of the ability to put words to things... Thora Hird gives one of her best ever performances as the scared old lady with a twinkle in her eye and Pete Postlewaite is typically brilliant in his understated portrayal of Deric.

• Hallelujah - Series 1 | DVD | (01/01/1900) from £8.84   |  Saving you £6.15 (69.57%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Dame Thora Hird stars in one of her own personal favourite roles as the balmiest woman in the Salvation Army! The Sally Army are in need of some salvation themselves - salvation that is from their own dotty Captain Emily Ridley (Thora Hird). For over forty-two years Captain Emily has been in the forefront of the Army's battle against sin and sinners in that modern Sodom and Gomorrah - Yorkshire. She's all fired up with a wild enthusiasm that regular members finda little embarrassing. Now the top brass at the Salvation Army want her to retire but Captain Emily isn't quite ready to hang up her tambourine just yet! First broadcast on Yorkshire Television in 1983 you can now enjoy the entire first series (seven hilarious episodes) of Hallelujah! in one complete collection.

• In Loving Memory: The Complete Fifth Series | DVD | (23/08/2010) from £12.93   |  Saving you £0.06 (0.50%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Oldshaw 1929: when you could enjoy a night out at the Theatre Royal a pint in the interval a hot pie on the way home - and still have change from a shilling. You could also have an argument with a brewer's dray and end up as a client of Unsworth and Co. Undertakers and Monumental Masons... and be given one of the most disastrous funerals in the long and noble history of undertaking. Thora Hird (Talking Heads Last of the Summer Wine) brings her inimitable humour to the role of Ivy Unsworth widow of funeral director Jeremiah who has been left to run Unsworth and Co. along with her accident-prone nephew Billy (Christopher Beeny - Upstairs Downstairs). A much-loved comedy series set in a fictional Lancashire mill town In Loving Memory was a huge commercial success for Yorkshire Television running for five series between 1979 and 1986; this relase contains the fifth and final series. And Auntie Came Too: It's Oldshaw's Wedding of the Year as Billy and Mary finally tie the knot. Three's a Crowd: Billy and his new bride have scarcely a minute to themselves on their honeymoon. They Shoot Undertakers Don't They?: Mary Henshaw can't help feeling jealous of Billy's past girlfriends. The Second Time Around: When Ivy gets the family photo album out Mary's in for a shock. King of the Mountains: The strenuous Northern sport of fell running is a boon for the undertaking trade... The Undertaker's Apprentice: An unfortunate accident compels Ivy to seek a proper apprentice. Up in the World: Business is booming and Billy's marriage is under strain.

• Quatermass Experiment, The / Quatermass 2 | DVD | (08/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £23.99

  The Quatermass Experiment: A missile is launched by Professor Quatermass and his team but when it lands back in the English countryside two of the crew members have disappeared. The third who is barely alive undergoes a quite terrifying transformation which threatens Earth... Quatermass 2: Quatermass is intrigued by strange images on his radar. Thinking them to be meteorites he follows them to a village which on his arrival he finds has been completely destroyed...

• Hallelujah! - Series Two | DVD | (18/05/2009) from £9.15   |  Saving you £5.84 (39.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Dame Thora Hird stars in one of her own personal favourite role as the barmiest woman in the Salvation Army!

• Flesh And Blood - Series 1 | DVD | (11/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  BAFTA award winner the late Thora Hird and Bill Fraser star in this BBC drama written by John Finch (A Family At War). Flesh And Blood follows the fortunes of a powerful northern family the Brassingtons who Ledston Cement. Like all families were money is God conflict of opinion strategic alliances divided loyalties love affairs and shattered marriages are rife.

• One Good Turn | DVD | (12/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Reunited with many of the team behind Trouble in Store (1953), his smash hit of the previous year, for his second starring role Norman Wisdom played the oldest orphan of Greenwood Children's Home. Having being raised in the home Norman has stayed on as odd-job man, a role which ideally suits his man-child persona. Not only does he have to find the money to buy one of the orphans a model car, but after a visit to Brighton he discovers Greenwood is due to be closed down by the home's own unscrupulous chairman, a property developer with plans to build a factory on the site. Also starring Thora Hird, One Good Turn was surely a film with a personal resonance for Wisdom who was himself brought-up in an orphanage after his mother died and his father was unable to raise him. As would become a tradition, he contributes a song, "Please Opportunity", and the movie, though produced by Rank, now sits easily in that classic Ealing era where the ordinary man took on the big guys and won. The innocent knockabout humour remains appealing and it is simply impossible not to like Norman Wisdom. The film's success led directly to the aptly named Man of the Moment (1955). --Gary S Dalkin

• Flesh And Blood - Part 1 | DVD | (11/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  BAFTA award winner the late Thora Hird and Bill Fraser star in this BBC drama written by John Finch (A Family At War). Flesh And Blood follows the fortunes of a powerful northern family the Brassingtons who Ledston Cement. Like all families were money is God conflict of opinion strategic alliances divided loyalties love affairs and shattered marriages are rife.

• Flesh And Blood - Part 2 | DVD | (08/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Henry Brassington is a Yorkshireman who rules his family along with the family business. Henry is given to frequent use of expletives but is chastised verbally or physically by his mother Mabel whenever these outpourings occur. Max is Henry's ambitious and frustrated son who is married to Sarah his beautiful but unhappy wife. Ross is his favourite son and Dorothy the daughter he pities. This is the story of a divided family living through a year of crisis with Henry dealing with r

• Hammer Horror - The Early Classics | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Four Sided Triangle (Dir. Terence Fisher 1953): Murray stars as Dr. Bill Leggat who along with his childhood friends Lena and Robin creates a machine that can flawlessly replicate anything be it animate or inanimate. Undermining the trio's professional relationship is the sexual tension that has been brewing for years. Both men are attracted to Lena but on the eve of the public announcement of their invention Lena declares her love for Robin. Devastated Bill decides to clone Lena and names the clone who has all of Lena's feelings and memories Helen. Confident that Helen will love him Bill takes her on a holiday. However while away Bill's relationship with Helen does not go as planned causing Bill to resort to some shady experiments on Helen that will force her to love him. Produced by Hammer studios and directed by their most celebrated director Terence Fisher Four Sided Triangle was something of a precursor to many of their most famous films The Quatermass Xperiment (Dir. Val Guest 1955): A missile is launched by Professor Quatermass and his team but when it lands back in the English countryside two of the crew members have disappeared. The third who is barely alive undergoes a quite terrifying transformation which threatens Earth's very existence... Quatermass 2 (Dir. Val Guest 1957): Quatermass is intrigued by strange images on his radar. Thinking them to be meteorites he follows them to a village which on his arrival he finds has been completely destroyed... X The Unknown (Dir. Leslie Norman 1956): Penned by master horror screenwriter Jimmy Sangster and intelligently directed by Leslie (father of film critic Barry) Norman. The story sees a mysterious gelatinous monster which feeds off radioactivity terrorising a remote Scottish village.

• Hallelujah | DVD | (19/04/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Thora Hird stars as indefatigable Salvation Army Captain Emily Ridley in this popular sitcom which reunites her with In Loving Memory creator and writer Dick Sharples. Also starring Patsy Rowlands (Carry On...) and Geoffrey Bayldon (Catweazle) with guest appearances from Thora Hird's Last of the Summer Wine co-star Michael Aldridge and Countdown legend Richard Whitely Hallelujah! ran from 1981 to 1984; this release comprises the complete first series. For over forty years Emily Ridley has fought the Devil and all his works with a vigour and sincerity second to none. Unfortunately latter-day sinners seem reluctant to respond to the old hellfire-and-brimstone brand of evangelism and Emily's superiors decide it's time for her to lay down her arms and retire from the battlefield. She's posted to the quiet little Yorkshire town of Brigthorpe which she is convinced is in urgent need of salvation...

• All At Sea | DVD | (13/11/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Carry On Admiral (aka: The Ship Was Loaded) (Dir. Val Guest 1957): A case of mistaken identity means that Tom Baker (David Tomlinson) Parliamentary Private Secretary to the First Sea Lord is piped aboard HMS Sherwood as the new Captain. Calamity rules as the 'Captain' causes a right old carry-on. Up The Creek (Dir. Val Guest 1958): The forgotten H.M.S. Berkley has been without a commanding officer for two years in which time the skeleton crew has gone into the racketeering business with the landlord of a coastal village. When the Navy appoint Humphrey Fairweather as a long overdue replacement his unhealthy obsession with missile construction and the landlord's beautiful niece threatens to upset the balance of business. Further Up The Creek (Dir. Val Guest 1958): Crikey! The Royal Navy has finally entered the nuclear age and is selling off its obsolete old frigates to the Arabs!