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• The Thirty Nine Steps | DVD | (15/01/2001) from £4.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (100.20%)   |  RRP £9.99

  It's not the 1935 Hitchcock classic, but this sturdy 1978 adaptation of John Buchan's The Thirty Nine Steps is still a rollicking good adventure. In keeping with the Boys' Own derring-do of the story (set in Edwardian London and the Scottish Highlands), the movie maintains a brisk pace that's interrupted only for tea or cocktails. Robert Powell is Richard Hannay, the man who unwittingly becomes embroiled in a dastardly Prussian plot to assassinate the Greek Prime Minister. Framed for murder, Hannay must flee to Scotland and attempt to clear his name whilst outwitting the prune-faced Prussian agents. Among all the deftly choreographed action sequences and careful period settings there's a strong vein of humour in the film, and if it wasn't for the numerous murders there would be little reason for PG certification. The grand dénouement comes with the realisation that the predicted time for the assassination is linked to Big Ben; unlike the earlier movie this version climaxes memorably with Powell hanging from the clock's minute hand. It might not be Hitchcock behind the lens, but it's still jolly good fun. --Joan Byrne

• The Lineup (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (19/09/2022) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Don Siegel (Madigan) directs The Lineup, a brutal film noir loosely based on the radio and television series of the same name. Beginning as a straightforward police procedural, the film shifts into much darker territory as Julian and Dancer, two sociopathic gangsters played by Robert Keith (The Wild One) and Eli Wallach (The People Next Door), must retrieve a parcel of heroin that has ended up in the possession of unwitting tourists. With a screenplay by Stirling Silliphant (Murphy's War), The Lineup's influence stretches from Bob Dylan, who quoted its dialogue in ˜Absolutely Sweet Marie', to Quentin Tarantino, whose erudite gangsters bear a close resemblance to Julian and Dancer. Extras: Indicator Standard Edition Special Features High Definition remaster Original mono audio Audio commentary with author James Ellroy and the Film Noir Foundation's Eddie Muller (2009) Audio commentary with film historian David Del Valle and author and screenwriter C Courtney Joyner (2020) The Influence of Noir (2009, 7 mins): appreciation by filmmaker Christopher Nolan The Streets of San Francisco (2020, 7 mins): video essay guide to the locations of The Lineup Three episodes of The Lineup radio series: ˜The Candy Store Murder' (1950, 30 mins), written by Blake Edwards; ˜The Case of Frankie and Joyce' (1951, 31 mins); and ˜The Harrowing Haggada Handball Case' (1951, 26 mins), written by Edwards and Richard Quine Tricky Dicks (1953, 16 mins): comedy starring the Three Stooges, in which the trio send up the police procedural Original theatrical trailer Trailer commentary: short appreciation by A History of Violence screenwriter Josh Olson Image gallery: promotional and publicity materials New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

• Scrooge | DVD | (23/11/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Caine Mutiny | DVD | (27/09/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Humphrey Bogart is heartbreaking as the tragic Captain Queeg in this 1954 film, based on a novel by Herman Wouk, about a mutiny aboard a navy ship during World War II. Stripped of his authority by two officers under his command (played by Van Johnson and Robert Francis) during a devastating storm, Queeg becomes a crucial witness at a court martial that reveals as much about the invisible injuries of war as anything. Edward Dmytryk (Murder My Sweet, Raintree County) directs the action scenes with a sure hand and nudges his all-male cast toward some of the most well-defined characters of 1950s cinema. The courtroom scenes alone have become the basis for a stage play (and a television movie in 1988), but it is a more satisfying experience to see the entire story in context. --Tom Keogh

• Scrooge | DVD | (10/11/2008) from £14.99   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Alistair Sim's Scrooge is an all-time favourite Christmas family film and a genuine classic of British cinema. Scrooge is also the definitive big screen adaptation of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol' one of the world's best loved Christmas stories

• The Ten Commandments | DVD | (27/11/2006) from £19.16   |  Saving you £0.83 (4.20%)   |  RRP £19.99

• Objective Burma | DVD | (28/06/2013) from £4.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (401.34%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station.

• Cary Grant | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  A hapless New York advertising executive is mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and is pursued across the country while he looks for a way to survive

• 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...

• The Puppet Masters | DVD | (27/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Here's the edge-of-your-seat thriller that delivers unrelenting suspense and nonstop action! Donald Sutherland leads a team of top-level government agents who make a chilling discovery: extraterrestrial beings have landed and are quickly taking control of the residents of a small midwestern town - manipulating their bodies and minds like puppets! Faced with an escalating crisis as the creatures multiply the team must somehow eliminate the seemingly unstoppable aliens!

• Go For Broke! | DVD | (19/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Van Johnson stars as Lt. Michael Grayson in this wartime drama about a unique regiment of Japanese-American men during World War Two and their distrustful and bigoted lieutenant. Sent to fight in Italy the regiment soon have the lieutenant re-evaluating his personal opinions as his men prove their willingness to go above and beyond the call of duty and live up to their motto and Go For Broke.

• High Wall | DVD | (24/11/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Scrooge | DVD | (10/11/2008) from £39.98   |  Saving you £-19.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Digitally re-mastered Alastair Sim's Scrooge is the all time favourite Christmas family film and a genuine classic of British cinema. Scrooge is the definitive big screen adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol one of the world's best loved Christmas stories.