Classic Films

• Laura | DVD | (23/04/2007) from £15.54   |  Saving you £-2.55 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  One of the subtlest, most sophisticated and most invigoratingly acerbic Hollywood crime movies ever made.

• Leon Morin, Pretre | DVD | (02/03/2009) from £8.34   |  Saving you £9.65 (115.71%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Unforgettable drama set in occupied France. A beautiful but disillusioned woman becomes friends with a priest but her feelings for him soon deepen dangerously.

• Quatermass And The Pit | Blu Ray | (09/05/2016) from £21.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Brand new and sealed Steelbook Edition of the Hammer Horror film based on the original BBC TV series by Nigel Kneale starring Andrew Keir, Barbara Shelley, James Donald, Duncan Lamont and Julian Glover

• Lady Be Good | DVD | (14/11/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• They Shoot Horses Don't They? | DVD | (08/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  They Shoot Horses Don't They? is set in the dark years of the l930s, when dance marathons became popular as a way for desperate people to compete for prize money. Sometimes the events would drag on for weeks as contestants pushed themselves far beyond the point of physical, mental and emotional exhaustion, the dancers shambling around the floor in a half-dead stupor. People would then pay to sit in the bleachers, watch the event and cheer on their favourites. Taken from hard-boiled pulp writer Horace McCoy's novel of the same name, Jane Fonda plays a bitter young woman paired up with Michael Sarrazin for the ordeal. Gig Young portrays the unctuous MC of the event, bringing equal parts compassion and sleaze to his role. Many of the film's images are unforgettable, such as "the derby", a heel-and-toe race around the dance floor with bouncy, light-hearted music to accompany the miserable spectacle. It's a powerful, tragic period piece that reminds us of the privations of the Great Depression. In the largest sense, the film has existential overtones that go far beyond the story of enervated dancers staying on their feet for a month or more. This film brought home a string of Academy Award nominations for the cast and director Sydney Pollack and a win for Young. --Jerry Renshaw, Amazon.com On the DVD: The disc offers film trivia and notes on the main cast and director, along with a short slide show and original publicity notes in an attempt to furnish valuable information about the film. However the layout is visually unimpressive and the information is merely standard film trivia offering little insight into the film itself--the quotes from Jane Fonda are surely aimed at hardcore fans of the actress only. It all feels like a selection put together in a bit of a rush. --Nikki Disney

• The Peter Sellers Collection | DVD | (13/08/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Never Let Go: John Cummings (Richard Todd) is one of life's near failures. A toiletry salesman, he buys a flash car he cannot afford to insure. When it is stolen by a gang running a car theft racket, he vows to retrieve it whatever the cost - hi job, his family and his dignity. He begins to delve into a sinister criminal underworld with potentially lethal consequences. The stark British thriller features Sellers in his first dramatic role as Cummings' nemesis, a gangland villain.Soft Beds Hard Battles: Peter Sellers plays six different characters in this hilarious sexploitation comedy. A renowned Paris brothel has turned into an active centre for the French Resistance. The girls assist the Allied war effort by attracting and eliminating the enemy amongst its clientele in the bedroom...The Wrong Arm Of The Law: Sellers stars as gang-leader Pearly Gates, who has a double life as Monsieur Jules, the manager of a fashion house. The criminal world of London is being reduced to chaos by an Australian 'IPO mob', who, acting on information provided by Gates' girlfriend Valerie (Nanette Newman), impersonate police officers and take the spoils of the true criminals after the crime has been safely committed. The crimes are relatively victimless, involving jewellery thefts from the rich, or robbery from institutions such as banks and post offices. Gates is instrumental in getting a deal between organised crime and Scotland Yard.

• It's All Over Town | DVD | (01/02/2010) from £8.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (77.86%)   |  RRP £15.99

  It's All Over Town

• Out Of The Clouds | DVD | (26/01/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Out Of The Clouds

• Kings Row | DVD | (12/11/2014) from £16.97   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Yehudi Menuhin - Classic Archive | DVD | (04/11/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Contains: Beethoven Concerto with Colin Davis (1962) Mozart 3 directed by Menuhin (1967) Bruch 1 with Fricsay (1961) Beethoven Romance in F with Adrian Boult (1966)

• The Man Who Knew Too Much | Blu Ray | (23/09/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  James Stewart and Doris Day in a rare dramatic role are superb in this brilliant suspense thriller from the undisputed master. Stewart and Day play Ben and Jo MacKenna innocent Americans vacationing in Morocco with their son Hank. After a French spy dies in Ben's arms in the Marrakech market the couple discovers their son has been kidnapped and taken to England. Not knowing who they can trust the McKennas are caught up in a nightmare of international espionage assassinations and terror. Soon all of their lives hang in the balance as they draw closer to the truth and a chilling climatic moment in London's famous Royal Albert Hall. Special Features: The Making of the Man Who Knew Too Much Production Photographs Trailers

• Victoria Regina | DVD | (25/03/2019) from £9.20   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  NOTICE: Polish Release, cover may contain Polish text/markings. The disk DOES NOT have English audio and subtitles.

• All About Eve | DVD | (18/02/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Alfred Hitchcock famously observed that movies should be more than just picture postcards of people talking. Sometimes, though, dialogue is all that's needed. Joseph L. Mankiewicz's immaculately scripted All About Eve is a case in point. There are no special effects (unless one considers Marilyn Monroe's wiggle or a scene in which a car breaks down). What the movie offers instead is some of the most coruscating one-liners ever committed to celluloid. The top-name cast certainly know how to put Mankiewicz's words across. Anne Baxter is all doe-eyed charm as Eve, the ruthless aspiring actress who passes herself off as a little girl lost. George Sanders (eminent character actor and the voice of Shere Khan the tiger in The Jungle Book) shows his customary mellowness of sneer as Addison De Witt, theatre critic and professional cynic ("a venomous foot louse" as he's characterised) who helps push Eve up the greasy pole toward success, if not happiness. Best of all is Bette Davis, a soured but still resplendent stage diva, who takes Eve under her wing. ("I'll admit I've seen better days but I'm still not to be had for the price of a cocktail--like a salted peanut", she tells her lover.) The plotting and double-dealing on the screen, described in Sam Staggs' All About All About Eve: The Complete Behind-the-Scenes Story of the Bitchiest Film Ever Made, were matched by what went on behind the scenes. Davis heartily loathed fellow actress Celeste Holm who--ironically enough--plays her best friend. She fell in love with another co-star, the handsome, good-looking Gary Merrill, whom she later married. Backstage dramas are often self-indulgent and stagy affairs, but this one dazzles. --Geoffrey Macnab

• The Belle of New York | DVD | (30/01/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Pal Joey | DVD | (26/01/2009) from £6.73   |  Saving you £-0.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A cabaret entertainer lands in San Francisco determined to make it big but scores his biggest hits with a wealthy socialite and a chorus line cutie! Features a classic Rogers and Hart score including 'The Lady Is A Tramp' 'There's A Small Hotel' 'I Could Write A Book' and 'My Funny Valentine.

• The Woman in White | DVD | (08/03/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Nancy Sinatra - Sugar Town | DVD | (19/11/2007) from £6.73   |  Saving you £3.26 (48.44%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Growing up as the child of one of the greatest icons in American music can't be easy but Nancy Sinatra managed to create a sound and style for herself fully separate from that of her (very) famous father and her sexy but strong-willed persona has endured with nearly the same strength as the image of the Chairman of the Board. Between 1966 and 1967 alone Nancy charted with 13 titles in the U.S. all of which featured Billy Strange as arranger and conductor. In 1967 she paired with her father for her second number-one single ""Somethin' Stupid"". In 1968 she acted alongside Elvis Presley in the movie Speedway. At the height of her popularity (long before MTV) she starred in several television variety specials including NBC's 1967 Movin' with Nancy from which this DVD is taken. This is a fun and vibrant time capsule. It is closer in spirit to a long form music video than a television show consisting of filmed footage of Sinatra singing her songs at various outdoor locations (thus the ""movin'"" theme). ""I Gotta Get Out of This Town"" is performed while Nancy literally drives away ""Up Up and Away"" is performed - you guessed it - in a beautiful balloon while dancers cavort madly below ""Sugar Town"" is set in an idyllic forest ""Friday's Child"" is inexplicably sung at an oil field and ""See the Little Children"" and ""Who Will Buy?"" are set at an abandoned amusement park. There are also several special guest stars. Songwriter producer and frequent duet partner Lee Hazlewood shows up to sing ""Some Velvet Morning"" and ""Jackson"" with her. Sammy Davis Jr. dances around a fashion photographer shooting Nancy while she sings ""What'd I Say?"" Rarely for its time the show was recorderd in full colour & the quality is excellent. In 1968 this show won an Emmy for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Music or Variety and was nominated for 2 others. It is a fun glimpse at one of the 60's most popular singers and the styles of the era. Tracklist: 1. I Gotta Get Out Of This Town 2. Up Up And Away 3. Sugar Town 4. Some Velvet Morning 5. Jackson 6. This Town 7. Things 8. Kind Of A Woman 9. What'd I Say 10. Medley: - Wait Till You See Him (Wait Till You See Her) - Night And Day 11. Friday's Child 12. See The Little Children 13. Who Will Buy?

• The Paradine Case | DVD | (08/04/2002) from £14.40   |  Saving you £-8.41 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  This minor 1948 film by Alfred Hitchcock beats a familiar Hitchcockian drum: an attorney (Gregory Peck), in love with the client (Alida Valli) he is defending on a murder charge, implicates himself in her guilt by trying to put the blame on another man. The no-one-is-innocent theme may be consistent with Hitchcock's best films and world view, but this is one of the movies that got away from his crucial passion for the plastic side of creative directing. Stuck in a courtroom for much of the story, the film is fit to burst with possibility but is pinned down like a freshly caught butterfly in someone's airless collection. --Tom Keogh

• I Am Curious Yellow/Blue | DVD | (04/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Seized by U.S. customs and subsequently the subject of a heated court debate I am Curious: Yellow is a cinematic landmark that caused a sensation for its explicit sexual content. Its subsequent infamy saw it become the highest grossing foreign film in the U.S. for 25 years. Combining fiction and documentary techniques Vilgot Sjoman's film tells the story of Lena a radical young woman exploring the social issues of Sweden in the 60's as well as her own sexual identity. This disc also includes Sjoman's follow-up I am Curious Blue which continues Lena's journey of self-discovery.

• Road To Bali | DVD | (30/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Bob Hope Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour team up in their sixth ""Road"" picture Road To Bali which was the only film in the series to be shot in color. Hope and Crosby star as two out-of-work vaudeville performers who are on the lam. The two are hired by a South Seas prince as deep-sea divers in order to recover a buried treasure. They meet beautiful Princess Lala (Lamour) and vie for her affections. Of course the boys run into the usual perils such as cannibals a giant squid and numerous cameos from some of Hollywood's biggest stars. Director Hal Walker was no stranger to the three actors having directed the trio in Road To Utopia. The final ""Road"" picture Road To Hong Kong would be released 10 years later with Lamour only making a brief cameo appearance.