Classic Films

• Orchestra Wives | DVD | (09/04/2012) from £5.81   |  Saving you £4.18 (71.94%)   |  RRP £9.99

  While Gene Morrison's band (the Glenn Miller Band) is on tour, trumpet player Bill Abbot (George Montgomery) falls for a girl in the audience, Connie Ward (Ann Rutherford). When they elope, no one's more surprised than Abbot's girlfriend, Jaynie Stevens (Lynn Bari). As the musicians blow hot on the bandstand, their wives are engulfed in enough flammable jealousy and dirty tricks to break up the band. Now, Connie must prove her love for Bill, as well as try to get the band back together.o

• Carry On Collection | DVD | (27/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £99.99

  The Carry On Collection DVD box set contains the following 17 films in Special Edition versions, complete with a selection of commentaries, documentaries or other features on each disc, plus That's Carry On, a celebration of 20 years of the series hosted by Kenneth Williams and Barbara Windsor. The individual films are: Don't Lose Your Head; Follow That Camel; Doctor; Up the Khyber; Camping; Again Doctor; Up the Jungle; Loving; Henry; At Your Convenience; Matron; Abroad; Girls; Dick; Behind; England; Emmanuelle and That's Carry On.

• British Musicals of the 1930s 4 | DVD | (07/09/2015) from £6.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (114.45%)   |  RRP £14.99

  From playful romantic comedies to variety extravaganzas, the pre-war British musical films offered audiences a source of much-needed escapism throughout the decade haunted by the Great Depression and the growing menace of war. Often adapting much-loved hits of the music hall as well as serving as vehicles for the era's composers, performers and band leaders, they showcased home-grown talent alongside some of Hollywood's most bankable stars. This ongoing, multi-volume collection makes available a wealth of rare gems from the very earliest days of the British talkies, many of which have remained unseen since their original release; each film is presented uncut, in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. DANCE BAND (1935) Life gets complicated for bandleader Buddy when he falls for his greatest rival the leader of an all-girl dance band! KATHLEEN MAVOURNEEN (1937) A hugely popular, much-adapted comedy in which a Liverpool lass visits family in rural Ireland and finds she has several rivals for her affections. HOLD MY HAND (1938)Eddie Marston is wealthy and kind, but his affairs are rapidly descending into chaos. Who can help him? YES, MADAM? (1938) The hilarious tale of two cousins who must complete a period in domestic service in order to receive an inheritance.

• Trouble Brewing | DVD | (27/04/2009) from £12.98   |  Saving you £6.00 (60.06%)   |  RRP £15.99

  George Formby plays a newspaper compositor with dreams of becoming a detective. He unmasks a gang of counterfeiters after a big win on the horses unfortunately he is paid off in counterfeit bills. To avoid the long arm of the law Formby sets about collaring the crooks himself whose leader also happens to be the newspapers editor.

• McLintock | DVD | (02/07/2007) from £5.98   |  Saving you £-2.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  He Tamed The West But Could He Tame Her? Cattle baron banker and model citizen George McLintock has the world in his hands. The only thing missing is his wife Katherine who left him two years earlier suspecting him of adultery. In an effort to get on with his life McLintock saves a beautiful but impoverished widow from resettlement and hires her as his cook welcoming both her and her two children into his home. Sparks begin to fly and McLintock's simple and serene lifestyle comes to a crashing halt as an unexpected turn of events results in brawls gunfire an Indian attack the engagement of his only daughter and the return of Mrs. McLintock!

• Virginia City | DVD | (15/11/2016) from £18.23   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (26/02/2024) from £12.26   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  An all-star cast including Paul Newman, Burt Lancaster, Geraldine Chaplin, Joel Grey, Harvey Keitel, and Shelley Duvall assembles for Robert Altmans follow-up to his 1975 critical success, Nashville. Swapping the country-and-western scene for Buffalo Bills Wild West shows of the late nineteenth century, the film is another of Altmans pitch-perfect satires, offering a sidelong glance at the myths of America.

• Hooper | DVD | (10/07/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Pink Panther | DVD | (02/02/2009) from £6.73   |  Saving you £-0.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When the famous Pink Panther diamond goes missing the bumbling Inspector Clouseau goes on the trail of notorious jewel thief The Phantom but looks everywhere except in the right place!

• Jean Cocteau - Le Sang D'Un Poete | DVD | (05/08/2019) from £11.89   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In an artist's studio, an unfinished statue comes to life. The lips of its androgynous face move, pressing a kiss to the artist's hand. At the statue's demand, he plunges it into a mirror.

• A Song To Remember (Region 2 & 4) | DVD | (07/10/2013) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Cornel Wilde, Paul Muni and Merle Oberon: a classic line-up of ageless talent in a film that has become an evergreen to millions of music lovers. It's the true story of Frederic Chopin, towering romantic pianist and composer, frail in body but fiery in spirit. It's the story of his eternal music, of the brilliant women who inspired it, of his fight for the freedom of his beloved Poland and his tragic death in the full flower of his genius. Charles Vidor, finest of all romantic film-makers, directs.

• Lola Montes | DVD | (06/07/2009) from £17.92   |  Saving you £2.07 (11.55%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Lola Montes tells the highly controversial yet disturbing true story of the infamous dancer-courtesan. Set at a 19th century circus in Vienna Lola is forced by the merciless ring master to tell the story of her life. Through the flashbacks the crowd learns everything of her exotic past including her stints as mistress to both the Bavarian King and Franz Liszt.

• Big Time Gambling Boss | Blu Ray | (20/03/2023) from £15.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Tokyo, 1934. Gang boss Arakawa is too ill and a successor must be named. The choice falls on Nakai, but being an outsider he refuses and suggests senior clansman Matsuda instead. But Matsuda is in jail and the elders won't wait for his release, so they appoint the younger and more malleable Ishido to take the reins. Clan honour and loyalties are severely tested when Matsuda is released, resulting in an increasingly violent internal strife.An atmospheric tale of gangland intrigue written by Kazuo Kasahara (Battles Without Honour and Humanity) and starring Tomisaburo Wakayama, (Lone Wolf and Cub, The Bounty Hunter Trilogy) and genre legend Koji Tsuruta, Big Time Gambling Boss is one of the all-time classics of the yakuza genre. Paul Schrader called it the richest and most complex film of its type, while novelist Yukio Mishima hailed it as a masterpiece. Radiance Films is proud to present this crucial re-discovery for the first time ever on Blu-ray.Product FeaturesHigh Definition digital transfer of the filmUncompressed mono PCM audioVisual essay by genre expert Chris D on the film and its place within the period and genre (2022)Ninkyo 101: A masterclass with Mark Schilling, author of The Yakuza Movie Book (2022)Trailer

• The Virgin Soldiers | DVD | (07/10/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Virgin Soldiers is a bawdy look at life in Britain's conscript army of the 50s, and how their 'virgin soldiers' spent two years defending King and country. Take Private Brigg (Hywel Bennett), for example, when he's not filling in forms or engaging the Malaysian bandits, he's out on manoeuvers with a Chinese dance-hall girl named Juicy Lucy (Tsai Chin). She is supposed to be a lady of easy virtue but, to Brigg's delight, she proves to be a lady of no virtue at all. Brigg also sets out on t...

• Titans of Cult: 2001: A Space Odyssey Steelbook | Blu Ray | (31/08/2020) from £29.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Stanley Kubrick's dazzling, Academy Award®-winning* achievement is a compelling drama of man vs. machine, a stunning meld of music and motion. Kubrick (who co-wrote the screenplay with Arthur C. Clarke) first visits our prehistoric ape-ancestry past, then leaps millennia (via one of the most mind-blowing jump cuts ever) into colonised space, and ultimately whisks astronaut Bowman (Keir Dullea) into uncharted space, perhaps even into immortality. Open the pod bay doors, HAL. Let an awesome journey unlike any other begin. This Limited Edition Set Includes: 2001: A Space Odyssey in 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray feature and bonus discs Limited Edition SteelBook Case Exclusive Enamel Pin Exclusive Embroidered Patch Special Features: Commentary by Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood Channel Four Documentary200 1: The Making of a Myth4 Insightful Featurettes:Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001 Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001 2001: A Space Odyssey A Look Behind the Future What Is Out There? 2001: FX and Early Conceptual ArtworkLook: Stanley Kubrick! Audio-Only Bonus:1966 Kubrick Interview Conducted by Jeremy Bernstein Theatrical Trailer

• Woman Of The Dunes | DVD | (31/07/2006) from £6.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (185.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Hiroshi Teshigahara's powerful masterpiece based on the novel by Kobo Abe follows an amateur biologist who escapes the bustle of the city by studying beetles in remote sand dunes. After missing the last bus he accepts a villager's offer to spend the night in a widow's shack at the bottom of a deep sand pit. In the morning he finds he is trapped. At first enraged the man's hatred for the woman soon turns to searing erotic lust.

• Kim | DVD | (26/05/2008) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  An epic magnificent adventure set in Victorian India the story of KIM (Dean Stockwell) who is recruited to train as a spy for the Raj. Written by the author of The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling starring Errol Flynn (Robin Hood Captain Blood) at his very best as Mahbub Ali mentor to the young boy Paul Lukas plays the mysterious Lama from Old Tibet a host of Hollywood's greatest character actors Richard Hale Reginald Owen Douglas Creighton provide support for this screen panorama a joy for the whole family filmed in brilliant Technicolor.

• Gilda | Blu Ray | (27/06/2016) from £17.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (55.59%)   |  RRP £27.99

  Gilda, are you decent? RITA HAYWORTH (The Lady from Shanghai) tosses her hair back and slyly responds, Me? in one of the great star entrances in movie history. Gilda, directed by CHARLES VIDOR (Cover Girl), features a sultry Hayworth in her most iconic role, as the much-lusted-after wife of a criminal kingpin (Paths of Glory's GEORGE MACREADY), as well as the former flame of his bitter henchman (3:10 to Yuma's GLENN FORD), and she drives them both mad with desire and jealousy. An ever-shifting battle of the sexes set on a Buenos Aires casino's glittering floor and in its shadowy back rooms, Gilda is among the most sensual of all Hollywood noirs. Special Features: New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack Audio commentary from 2010 by film critic Richard Schickel New interview with film noir historian Eddie Muller Appreciation of Gilda from 2010 featuring filmmakers Martin Scorsese and Baz Luhrmann Rita Hayworth: The Columbia Lady, a 2000 featurette on Hayworth's career as an actor and dancer Trailer PLUS: An essay by critic Sheila O'Malley Click Images to Enlarge

• Meet Me in St. Louis | Blu Ray | (29/10/2012) from £13.79   |  Saving you £4.20 (30.46%)   |  RRP £17.99

  St. Louis 1903. The well-off Smith family has four beautiful daughters, including Esther and little Tootie. Seventeen-year old Esther has fallen in love with the boy next door who has just moved in, John. He, however, barely notices her at first. The family is shocked when Mr. Smith reveals that he has been transfered to a nice position in New York, which means that the family has to leave St. Louis and the St. Louis Fair.

• Italian Job 50th Anniversary - Deluxe Edition (Double pack) | Blu Ray | (11/11/2019) from £54.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Italian Job 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition ˜This is the Self-Preservation Society!' Celebrate 50 years of iconic cult classic The Italian Job with the 50th Anniversary Limited Edition box set. Presented in a deluxe black and gold rigid gift box, this product includes: The Italian Job on both DVD and Blu-ray Exclusive landscape collector's booklet with a new bespoke 50th Anniversary text written by Matthew Field, the leading authority on The Italian Job, and behind-the-scenes photos Individually-numbered collector's certificate Complete script Customisable replica 1960s driving licence 50th Anniversary A3 poster 6 artcards with vintage and international film poster art The quintessential British caper film of the 1960s, The Italian Job is a flashy, fast romp that chases a team of career criminals throughout one of the biggest international gold heists in history. Michael Caine is Charlie Croker, a stylish robber and skirt-chaser just out of British prison.