"Actor: Will Fyffe"

• Elstree Calling | DVD | (28/04/2014) from £6.79   |  Saving you £3.20 (47.13%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Released in 1930 by British International Pictures in response to the lavish revues being produced by the major Hollywood studios Elstree Calling was Britain's first musical film. This all-star vaudeville show features performers drawn from some of the era's most popular London productions including Cicely Courtneidge Anna May Wong John Longden and music-hall veterans Will Fyffe and Lily Morris. Compèred by Tommy Handley the film presents nineteen comedy and musical sketches in the guise of a 'live' television broadcast; Alfred Hitchcock - then under contract to BIP - was responsible for creating the sketches and linking material. A fascinating snapshot of the earliest years of the British musical film and rarely seen since its original release Elstree Calling is made available here in a brand-new transfer from the original elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. Several sequences in the film were originally artificially coloured using the Pathécolor system and those colour sequences are intact here. Special Features: Image Gallery Includes full opening overture (fades up from black)

• British Comedies of the 1930s Volume 12 | DVD | (08/07/2019) from £5.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The ebullient comedy films of the 1930s brought escape and laughter to millions of British cinemagoers, enabling veteran stars of the music-hall and theatre to reach out to a wider audience making household names of performers like Leslie Fuller, Hal Gordon, Bobby Howes, Ernest Lotinga and Gene Gerrard. Although comedy would prove to be the decade's most successful film genre, many of these classic early talkies have remained unseen since their original release. From boisterous knockabout humour to polished adaptations of popular stage farces, this ongoing collection showcases a wealth of rare features, each presented uncut, in a brand-new transfer from the best available elements in their as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. ONE GOOD TURN (1936) Leslie Fuller stars as a stall keeper who - along with his assistant and his horse - tries to save a musical show when it gets into trouble. Black and White / 69 mins / 1.37:1 / Mono / English SPRING HANDICAP (1937) Will Fyffe plays a compulsive gambler and born loser who feels sure some money he's inherited will turn his luck to the better! Black and White / 65 mins / 1.37:1 / Mono / English

• The Brothers | DVD | (06/06/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Brothers is a classic drama from 1947 filmed on the scenic Isle of Skye. A young orphan girl named Mary arrives on a remote Scottish island to become a servant to the Macraes a family clan who are arch rivals with another family on the island the McFarishes. Her arrival provokes competition between the young men of the two households and eventually turns to jealousy within the Macrae family itself. Both Fergus and John Macrae are determined to wed her but their chase may have chilling consequences for all. This DVD edition features a restored version of the film.

• Cotton Queen | DVD | (24/06/2013) from £9.35   |  Saving you £3.64 (38.93%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Directed by Bernard Vorhaus and produced by the prolific Joe Rock at Rock Studios. Joe produced 123 tiles acted in 96 films and wrote 36. Cotton Queen is a story of two feuding Lancashire mill owners Sam (Stanley Holloway) and Bill (Will Fyffe). They find if they work together they can secure a major American contract. Further trouble ensues when Bills' niece (Mary Lawson) has a romance with Sams' son (Jimmy Hanley) - but all is sorted out at the annual Cotton Queen festival. Cotton Queen was the final film Vorhaus made in Britain. Following the collapse of Julius Hagen’s Twickenham Studios where he had directed most of his films during the previous few years. He then returned to the United States. Watch out for Gibson Gowland who played McTeague in Erich Von Stroheim's silent masterpiece Greed.

• For Freedom | DVD | (08/02/2010) from £3.98   |  Saving you £6.01 (151.01%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In pre-war Britain newsreel Chief Will Ferguson and his son Steve plan to make a documentary celebrating human achievement - but the events in Europe sour their plans. Hitler's Third Reich is on the march and has just invaded Czechoslovakia. Europe is in flames and instead they make a documentary fiercely condemning the rise of Fascism. Steve leaves for South America - but as World War Two erupts in all its fury he soon finds that the war has followed him. The Giant German battleship Graf Spee has fled into Montevideo Harbour after a punishing encounter with the British Warships Exeter and Ajax. As events unfold in a very unexpected way Steve is there with his newsreel camera to capture the dramatic end to the encounter. Made in 1940 and starring Will Fyffe this stirringly patriotic film boosted morale in the nation's cinemas cleverly combining new scenes with genuine newsreel footage to show one of Britain's great naval triumphs in the early months of the war.

• Owd Bob | DVD | (16/05/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Starring some of Britain's best-loved actors (and some brilliant canine performers) Owd Bob is a delightful tale of love and rivalry on the Cumbrian hills. When farmer David Moore (John Loder) settles in Cumbria he receives a warm welcome from all his neighbours but one; Adam McAdam (Will Fyffe) is a cantankerous old grump. David wants to make peace especially when he falls in love with McAdam's daughter Jeannie (Margaret Lockwood) but the old man has other things on his mind. McAdam's pride and joy his dog Black Wull has been accused of killing sheep not that McAdam cares: he's only bothered about winning the sheepdog trials he's won for two years running. But David has also entered the competition. What's more his dog Owd Bob is strongly favoured...

• For Freedom | DVD | (07/09/2015) from £5.85   |  Saving you £7.14 (122.05%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Made in 1940, this stirringly patriotic film cleverly combined new scenes with genuine newsreel footage. A newsreel journalist is on hand when the Giant German battleship Graf Spee flees into Montevideo Harbour after a punishing encounter with the British warships Exeter and Ajax. As events unfold in a very unexpected way, he is there with his camera to capture the dramatic end to the encounter.