Classic Films

• The Big Boss Limited Edition Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (13/11/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Rembrandt | DVD | (26/05/2008) from £13.95   |  Saving you £-0.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The story of the famous painter at the height of his fame. When his adorder wife dies his work takes on a dark feel that his patrons dislike. He ends up bankrupt but consolees himself in an affair with his pretty maid which brings some happiness back into his life.

• The Naked City | DVD | (13/07/2009) from £9.43   |  Saving you £10.56 (111.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Master of film noir Jules Dassin directs this influential crime thriller starring Barry Fitzgerald and Don Taylor as two detectives trying to decipher the clues of the vicious murder of the beautiful Jean Dexter. With the tabloids following the story closely the two set to work with an army of detectives and forensic professionals. On discovering Jean's shady relationship with cheating Frank Niles they begin to unravel the clues that some stolen jewelry is leading them on. However with the killer still at large the detectives are in a dangerous position; as they get ever closer to the truth they begin to realise the threat they are putting themselves in.

• An Affair To Remember | DVD | (18/02/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Get out your handkerchiefs for this four-star weepie, a 1957 remake of the 1939 Love Affair, directed by Leo McCarey, who also made the original. Grant and Kerr are strangers on an ocean liner, involved with other people, who can't resist each other for a shipboard romance. But they decide to test whether this is the real thing by agreeing to split up, then meeting in six months atop the Empire State Building. Is there anyone who can resist that set-up or the tragic romantic mishap that nearly splits them up? Can you keep dry eyes during the famous finale? Some prefer the original (with Charles Boyer); practically no one liked the underrated 1994 remake with Warren Beatty and Annette Bening. While occasionally a shade slow, this one soars on Grant's charm and Kerr's noble suffering. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.com

• Dad's Army: The Movie | DVD | (23/11/2015) from £7.05   |  Saving you £-1.06 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Five fine episodes of the evergreen Home Guard sitcom here. Dad's Army endures because it combines a healthy dollop of self-mockery with a sense of pride in Britain's lonely defiance against Hitler's might in 1940, encapsulated in the pompous and incompetent yet courageous Captain Mainwaring. Arthur Lowe is sublime in this role. Though he generally acts as a foil to his flippant platoon of funny stereotypes (Walker, Frazier, Godfrey, etc.), his subtle double-takes and apoplectic facial expressions of exasperation are endlessly hilarious. Corporal Jones' doddery recklessness can generally be relied upon to culminate in a finale involving trousers, cries of "Don't panic!" and chases across country but the masterstroke of this series was the casting against type of John Le Mesurier as the vague, aristocratic Sergeant and Lowe as his military but not social superior. These episodes include "The Day The Balloon Went Up" (a typically frantic caper involving a stray barrage balloon), "The Two And A Half Feathers" (including a wonderful Jonesy flashback to his days in the Sudan) and "The Deadly Attachment", in which Pike cheeks the captain of a captive U-Boat crew, who demands his name to add to his "list" of insolent Englanders. "Don't tell him, Pike!" urges Mainwaring. --David Stubbs

• Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders | Blu Ray | (27/01/2020) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Beguiling and decadent, Jaromil Jire Valerie and Her Week of Wonders mixes horror, fairytale, surrealism and Freudian symbolism to depict the phantasmagorical world inhabited by a young girl on the threshold of adulthood. Haunting and dreamlike, the film is a work of pure imagination, and has become a cult classic. With its stunning visuals and a remarkable, transcendent score by the great Lubo Fi er, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders casts a powerful spell and is one of the most enduring and influential fantasies ever made. Special Features: Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Valerie a týden div , 1970) presented from a brand new HD transfer of the film from original materials by the Czech National Film Archive. The Projection Booth audio commentary. Filmed introduction by film historian Michael Brooke. Interview with actor Jaroslava Schallerová. Trailer Booklet featuring writing by Peter Hames and Joseph A. Gervasi New and improved English subtitle translation. Region free Blu-ray (A/B/C) Original soundtrack in 2.0 Stereo 24-bit LPCM audio UK premiere on Blu-ray Jaromil Jire short films: Uncle (Strejda, 1959) Footprints (Stopy, 1960) The Hall of Lost Footsteps (Sál ztracených krok , 1960)

• The Young Ones | DVD | (26/02/2007) from £6.48   |  Saving you £6.51 (100.46%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Nicky & his friends find their youth club threatened by a property tycoon who intends to buy it and tear it down. Determined not to be beaten they sing and dance to raise money to save the club.

• Comedy Classics - Time Gentlemen Please | DVD | (02/04/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Long Lost Comedy Classics is a collection of films from a golden age of British Cinema remembered for timeless stars and some unique movies that have stood the test of time. So why not take a trip down memory lane and see how cinema used to be? The Prime Minister is planning a celebratory visit to the model village of Little Hayhoe where a new factory has created the utopian state of total employment. Everyone is content it seems and looking forward to the occasion. That is almost everyone. Local lay-about Dan Dance still refuses to work sleeps under the stars and is a potential cause of huge embarrassment to the local dignitaries. So without further delay Dan's shipped off to the local almshouse where he awaits an uncertain yet very funny future.

• The Ladykillers - 60th Anniversary Edition | Blu Ray | (07/09/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  THE LADYKILLERS is quintessential Ealing. Director Alexander Mackendrick’s film centres on a criminal gang planning their next job who find themselves boarding with an innocent old lady who thinks they are musicians. When the gang set out to kill Mrs. Wilberforce they run into one problem after another and get what they deserve. Mackendrick’s last film as director before his move to Hollywood THE LADYKILLERS remains one of the best British comedies ever made.

• The Comancheros | DVD | (05/11/2012) from £6.88   |  Saving you £3.11 (45.20%)   |  RRP £9.99

  John Wayne is a Texas Ranger in this rollicking, good humored western, assigned to bring an arms-running gang to justice. After Wayne arrests one of the criminals, matters are complicated when they wander into an area controlled by the Comancheros- a group of Anglos aiding the warring Comanche Indians. Director Curtiz' last film is based on the novel by Paul I. Wellman.

• Game of Death Limited Edition Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (13/11/2023) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Two Thousand Women | DVD | (08/02/2010) from £11.48   |  Saving you £-1.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Three survivors from a British bomber shot down over France bail out - and land right in the middle of a German internment camp for women. Made in 1944 and co-written by the celebrated team of Launder and Gilliat, this wartime morale-boosting film boasts a distinguished cast including Phyllis Calvert, Flora Robson, Patricia Roc and Renee Houston.

• King Lear | DVD | (21/05/2007) from £12.98   |  Saving you £4.00 (36.40%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A production of the Shakespeare tragedy which brings out the themes of family relationship youth versus age and the struggle of good over evil.

• New York, New York | Blu Ray | (07/10/2013) from £9.69   |  Saving you £3.30 (34.06%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Oscar-Winning director Martin Scorsese teams with Academy Award Winners Liza Minnelli and Robert De Niro in this musical masterpiece celebrating the glorious days of the big band era in the Big Apple! Jimmy is a joint-jumpin' saxophonist on his way to stardom. Francine is a wannabe starlet who dreams of singing in the spotlight. When they meet sparks fly - and when he plays and she sings they set New York on fire! It's the beginning of a stormy relationship as the two struggle to balance their passions for music and each other under the pressures of big-time show biz. 2006 The Departed Liza Minnelli: Actress Cabaret (1972). Robert De Niro: Actor Raging Bull (1980); Supporting Actor The Godfather Part II (1974).

• Funny Face | DVD | (14/09/2009) from £3.34   |  Saving you £6.65 (199.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

  S'Wonderful S'Marvelous! Paris the City of Light shines even brighter when Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire team up for the only time and bring their luminous starpower to this exquisite musical featuring songs by George and Ira Gershwin. This dazzling romp -- filmed on location in Paris -- garnered four Academy Award nominations. In the role of bookstore clerk transformed into a modeling sensation Hepburn showcases singing and dancing skills she had honed on the London stage performing How Long Has This Been Going On? a Basal Metabolism dance in a cool-cat bistro and more. Astaire as the fashion photographer who discovers her conjures up his inimitable magic for sequences that include his Let's Kiss And Make Up matador diversion a heavenly dance with Hepburn to He Loves And She Loves and again with Hepburn the title-tune enchantment I Love Your Funny Face. Now and forever so do we.

• Crossfire | DVD | (12/02/2007) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-3.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Hate Is Like A Loaded Gun! Years of police work have taught Detective Finlay that where there's crime there's motive. But he finds no usual motive when investigating the beating death of a man. The man was killed because he was a Jew. ""Hate "" Finlay says ""is like a gun."" Robert Young portrays Finlay Robert Mitchum is a laconic army sergeant assisting in the investigation of G.I. suspects and Robert Ryan plays a vicious bigot in a landmark film noir nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Picture. Edward Dmytryk (Murder My Sweet) directs draping the genre's stylistic backdrops and flourishes around a topic rarely before explored in films: anti-Semitism in the U.S. Here Hollywood took aim at injustice and caught bigotry in a Crossfire.

• Two for the Road (1967) Dual Format (Blu-ray & DVD) | Blu Ray | (19/01/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  One of the great films by Stanley Donen (Singin' in the Rain Charade) after the studio era had come to a close Two for the Road was a break-off with the old system one which allowed Donen to further stretch his art aided by screenwriter Frederic Raphael (Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut) in this tale of a couple voluntarily stretching themselves through the long period of their relationship. Portrayed in fragments that span the couple's time together in marriage Two for the Road runs the course of a relationship (between Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney) that finds a circumstantial come-together escalate into newlywed-status and through a series of travails into the serious situation of bearing a daughter. The disturbance of marriage and/or life is chronicled from here on. After so many studio-system smash-hits Two for the Road marked a reckoning for director Donen — which went on to influence directors like Jacques Rivette for its portrayal of a couple in interaction and its keen sense of duration across the length of their time together. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Stanley Donen's Two for the Road for the first time on Blu-ray in a Dual Format edition. Special Dual Format Edition Features: New 1080p presentation of the film (on Blu-ray) in its original aspect ratio. Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing. Feature length commentary with Stanley Donen. Interview with critic Frederic Raphael. 36-PAGE BOOKLET featuring writing on the film and more!

• It Happened One Night | Blu Ray | (18/04/2016) from £17.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (55.59%)   |  RRP £27.99

  Director Frank Capra (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington) took home every Oscar in the book (well, okay, all the major ones) for this seminal 1934 comedy starring Clark Gable as a hard-bitten reporter who stays close to a runaway heiress (Claudette Colbert) so not to lose a good story. Funny and sexy, the film is full of memorable scenes often referred to in other films, such as the "Wall of Jericho" (a mere bedcover hung on a clothesline down the middle of the room), and Colbert's famous flash of thigh to stop a speeding car in its tracks. Capra's brisk, urbane brand of wit was a perfect complement to his populist faith in the common man (in this case, Gable's character), and this inspiration makes this film a spirited entertainment and an uplifting experience. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Elvis Presley Signature Collection | DVD | (26/09/2011) from £22.99   |  Saving you £17.00 (73.95%)   |  RRP £39.99

  6-Disc 6-Film Set includes: Viva Las Vegas - Elvis Presley and vivacious Ann-Margaret sizzle in this dazzling funfest that's brimming with high-voltage musical numbers roaring race cars and glittery Vegas action. Jailhouse Rock- In one of his best-loved films Elvis Presley stars as a small-time convict who uses his time in prison to practice music then goes on to become a big-time performer. Co-stars Judy Tyler and Dean Jones. Spinout- Elvis Presley is at the wheel and headed for a romantic Spinout.

• Smokey and the Bandit | Blu Ray | (31/05/2021) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Starring Burt Reynolds, Jackie Gleason, Sally Field and Jerry Reed, Smokey and the Bandit delivers outrageous laughs in one of the biggest box-office hits of all time. Bandit (Reynolds), a fun-loving, fast-talking trucker, takes on his craziest haul yet - delivering 400 cases of beer from Texarkana to Atlanta in just 28 hours. With Sheriff Buford T. Justice (Gleason) hot on his trail and eager to teach him some respect for the law, the Bandit joins forces with good ol' boy, Cledus (Reed) and runaway bride Carrie (Field). Gear up for huge laughs, pedal-to-the-metal action, and some of the wildest car crashes ever filmed! Bonus Features Loaded Up and Truckin': Making Smokey And The Bandit Snowman, What's Your 20?: The Smokey And The Bandit CB Tutorial 100 Years of Universal: The '70s 100 Years of Universal: The Lot Theatrical Trailer