Classic Films

• Operation Petticoat | DVD | (04/06/2007) from £13.27   |  Saving you £-3.28 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The U.S.S. Sea Tiger is on its last legs until the dapper skipper and his ingenious (if slightly unethical) junior officer scavenge the parts and supplies needed to put the sub back into action. Forced out to sea prematurely by an enemy air attack the sub leaks and limps along its path until five stranded army nurses come aboard and take over its renovation... and the sub ends up a blushing pink! Cary Grant Tony Curtis and a star-filled supporting cast keep the laughs afloat in one of the funniest voyages ever to grace the high seas!

• Absolution (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (24/04/2023) from £11.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  At a Catholic boys' school, domineering disciplinarian Father Goddard (Richard Burton, Look Back in Anger, The Spy Who Came In from the Cold) rules over his pupils with an iron hand. When one of his teenage charges confesses to murder, the dogmatic but deeply repressed Goddard finds his faith challenged and his life spiralling dangerously out of control. Also starring Billy Connolly (in his first feature-film role), Dominic Guard (The Go-Between, Picnic at Hanging Rock), Kes star Dai Bradley, and the inimitable Brian Glover (Kes, Jabberwocky, Alien3), and written by the great Anthony Shaffer (The Wicker Man, Sleuth), Absolution is one of British cinema's most underrated chillers, not least for a towering central performance by Burton. Product Features 2K restoration Original mono audio Alternative presentations of the main feature: the original 1978 Theatrical Version and the 2018 Director's Cut Audio commentary with Kevin Lyons, editor of The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Film and Television, on the original theatrical version The Devil to Pay (2018, 12 mins): new and exclusive interview with director Anthony Page in which he reflects on the production of Absolution Them and Us (2018, 13 mins): new and exclusive interview with actor Dominic Guard Cutting the Cloth (2018, 9 mins): new and exclusive interview with costume designer Anne Gainsford Original theatrical trailer Stills and posters gallery Press materials gallery New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

• Something of Value | DVD | (06/12/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Ballad of Cable Hogue | DVD | (07/11/2017) from £15.69   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Honeymoon Killers | DVD | (02/04/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The Honeymoon Killers is based on the true story of American serial killers Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck who went on a spree of murder and mayhem in the late 1940's.Posing as brother and sister the pair befriend and ultimately murder lonely women for their savings.This chilling movie is a cult classic and features fine performances from the two leads in the roles of the real life 'lonely hearts killers'.

• His Girl Friday | DVD | (30/10/2006) from £6.48   |  Saving you £-2.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  His Girl Friday is one of the five greatest dialogue comedies ever made. Howard Hawks had his cast play it at breakneck speed, and audiences hyperventilate trying to finish with one laugh so they can do justice to the four that have accumulated in the meantime. Rosalind Russell, not Hawks' first choice to play Hildy Johnson--the ace newsperson whom demonic editor Walter Burns is trying to keep from quitting and getting married--is triumphant in the part, holding her own as "one of the guys" and creating an enduring feminist icon. Cary Grant's Walter Burns is a force of nature, giving a performance of such concentrated frenzy and diamond brilliance that you owe it to yourself to devote at least one viewing of the movie to watching him alone. But then you have to go back (lucky you) and watch it again for the sake of the press-room gang--Roscoe Karns, Porter Hall, Cliff Edwards, Regis Toomey, Frank Jenks, and others--the kind of ensemble work that gets character actors onto Parnassus. --Richard T Jameson, Amazon.com

• Take Me High | Blu Ray | (18/03/2019) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Cliff Richard, in his final film role, stars as Tim Matthews, an ambitious young financier who gets the shock of his life when he's assigned a new posting in Birmingham a far cry from the New York job he was promised! Making the most of things he lives on the canal in a converted barge, but he manages to put his foot right in it when he meets the pretty Sarah and refuses her a loan! Featuring twelve classic songs - including the Top 30-selling title track - and filmed extensively on location in Birmingham, Take Me High co-stars Debbie Watling, Hugh Griffith, George Cole and Anthony Andrews. Unavailable on home video for many years it is featured here as a new High Definition transfer from original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio. Special Features: Image gallery PDF material

• Road To Bali | DVD | (18/12/2006) from £6.89   |  Saving you £1.10 (15.97%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Hope and Crosby play George Cochran and Harold Gridley American vaudevillains on the run from some angry fathers in Australia. To avoid a dual shotgun wedding George and Harold end up on the island of Bali and sign on as deep sea divers for Prince Arok - and become smitten with the princess Lalah.

• Peeping Tom | DVD | (05/03/2001) from £6.98   |  Saving you £7.01 (100.43%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Michael Powell lays bare the cinema's dark voyeuristic underside in this disturbing 1960 psychodrama thriller. Handsome young Carl Boehm is Mark Lewis, a shy, socially clumsy young man shaped by the psychic scars of an emotionally abusive parent, in this case a psychologist father (the director in a perverse cameo) who subjected his son to nightmarish experiments in fear and recorded every interaction with a movie camera. Now Mark continues his father's work, sadistically killing young women with a phallic-like blade attached to his movie camera and filming their final, terrified moments for his definitive documentary on fear. Set in contemporary London, which Powell evokes in a lush, colourful seediness, this film presents Mark as much victim as villain and implicates the audience in his scopophilic activities as we become the spectators to his snuff film screenings. Comparisons to Hitchcock's Psycho, released the same year, are inevitable. Powell's film was reviled upon release, and it practically destroyed his career, ironic in light of the acclaim and success that greeted Psycho, but Powell's picture hit a little too close to home with its urban setting, full colour photography, documentary techniques and especially its uneasy connections between sex, violence and the cinema. We can thank Martin Scorsese for sponsoring its 1979 re-release, which presented the complete, uncut version to appreciative audiences for the first time. This powerfully perverse film was years ahead of its time and remains one of the most disturbing and psychologically complex horror films ever made. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com

• The Curse of the Fly | DVD | (05/11/2012) from £21.95   |  Saving you £-11.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The conclusion to the terrifying story of the Delambre family in which three descendants of the original teleportation scientist (the son and two grandsons) continue the experiments in an effort to perfect the machine...

• The Street With No Name | DVD | (24/09/2012) from £8.94   |  Saving you £4.04 (67.90%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A classic film noir from the 1940's.The FBI files are filled with many lurid crime stories. One case in particular baffles FBI Inspector Briggs (Lloyd Nolan). It's the murders of a housewife and a bank guard, with no connection between the victims - except the murder weapon. Determined to solve the case, Briggs sends his best agent undercover to penetrate the inner circle of a notorious gang run by up-and-coming crime boss Stiles, played by Richard Widmark in one of his most chilling performances. Everything goes according to plan, until an informant tips off Stiles...

• It's A Wonderful Life | DVD | (10/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Hollywood's best-loved star teams up with America's favourite director to create one of the world's most popular films.

• The Inspector General | DVD | (29/09/2003) from £12.96   |  Saving you £-7.97 (-159.70%)   |  RRP £4.99

  In this delightful period farce set in Russia in the 1800's Danny Kaye plays and illiterate buffoon who is mistaken by the villagers for their feared Inspector General. Hilarious situations ensue as Danny is caught up in court intrigue without having a clue of what is going on.

• The Who: Live In Texas '75 | DVD | (08/06/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Frightened City | DVD | (11/02/2008) from £9.85   |  Saving you £3.14 (31.88%)   |  RRP £12.99

  When one man goes against the mob he starts a war that blows the city apart... London 1961. It's a city where gangs control the streets and extortion thugs call the shots until a ruthless accountant organizes the major racketeers into one ruling syndicate. But when the crime ring double-crosses mob enforcer Paddy Damion (Sean Connery) the fuse is lit on a brutal war that explodes in every pub club and street corner of the West End. Now Paddy is trapped between the strong-arm of the mob and the long arm of the law a hunted man alone in The Frightened City.

• Champagne Charlie | DVD | (13/11/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The life and highly entertaining times of 19th century English music hall performer George Leybourne (aka Champagne Charlie) and his rivalry with the Great Vance (Stanley Holloway)... A thoroughly enjoyable but sadly neglected musical comedy from the Ealing Studio.

• My Fair Lady | DVD | (09/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  By George they've got it! Newly transferred from elements painstakingly restored in 1994 the film version of Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady is lavish lovely and the acclaimed recipient of eight 1964 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director (George Cukor). Best Actor Oscar winner Rex Harrison reprises his signature stage role of Henry Higgins the supremely assured phoeneticist who wagers that under his tutelage cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle can pass for a duchess at the embassy ball. In one of her best-loved roles. Audrey Hepburn plays Eliza. If ever there was a face the professor could grow accustomed to it's hers. In Hertford Hereford and Hampshire (and elsewhere) no one's fairer than My Fair lady one of the most irresistible musicals ever.

• The Graduate | Blu Ray | (13/01/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Mike Nichols directs this 1960s comedy drama starring Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft and Katharine Ross. After graduating from college, Ben Braddock (Hoffman) returns to his wealthy parents' South Californian home unsure of what he wants to do next. Feeling pressurised to get on with his life, the young Braddock escapes into an aimless affair with Mrs Robinson (Bancroft), an older, married woman and friend of the family. The pair meet regularly, with neither expecting anything serious from the...

• Blonde Venus | DVD | (04/06/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  American chemist Ned Faraday marries a German entertainer and starts a family. However he becomes poisoned with Radium and needs an expensive treatment in Germany to have any chance at being cured. Wife Helen returns to night club work to attempt to raise the money and becomes popular as the Blonde Venus. In an effort to get enough money sooner she prostitutes herself to millionaire Nick Townsend. While Ned is away in Europe she continues with Nick but when Ned returns cured he discovers her infidelity. Now Ned despises Helen but she grabs son Johnny and lives on the run just one step ahead of the Missing Persons Bureau. When they do finally catch her she loses her son to Ned. Once again she returns to entertaining this time in Paris and her fame once again brings her and Townsend together. Helen and Nick return to America engaged but she is irresistibly drawn back to her son and Ned. In which life does she truly belong?

• Now It Can Be Told | DVD | (28/07/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  NOW IT CAN BE TOLD (1946) recreates the top secret missions of British agents behind enemy lines during the Second World War. What makes the film so unusual and compelling is that the 'stars' of the film are the real life secret agents themselves, replaying their wartime roles in front of the cameras. Captain Harry Ree and Jacqueline Nearne faithfully recreate their wartime missions as agents 'Felix' and 'Cat'. Together, they help to sabotage Nazi troops in occupied France and to assist the A.