Classic Films

• 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 £12.07   |  Saving you £-6.08 (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.

• Far From The Madding Crowd | DVD | (13/09/2004) from £19.87   |  Saving you £-6.88 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  John Schlesinger's solid adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel sees three rival suitors vying for the affections of the beautiful Bathsheba Everdene (Julie Christie decked out in a variety of bonnets and frilly dresses), who has just inherited a farm. The men in her life are stout, whiskered yeoman Gabriel Oak (Alan Bates), an impoverished local farmer; neurotic, repressed squire William Boldwood (Peter Finch); and handsome rascal Sgt Troy (Terrence Stamp), who dresses as if he's Flashman and breaks women's hearts for a hobby.Thanks to cameraman Nic Roeg and production designer Richard MacDonald (who also worked for Joseph Losey), 19th-century Dorset looks as pretty and as picturesque as a John Constable reproduction on top of a biscuit tin. Not that Schlesinger or screenwriter Frederic Raphael underplay the duress of rural life. We see the hardship of the farm workers' lives as the seasons turn. The film opens with a spectacular sequence in which Gabriel Oak's dog drives his flock of sheep over a cliff, thereby forcing him into penury. Whether hunger or heartbreak, every character here suffers. Bathsheba (like the model Christie plays in Darling) is a free-spirit in a society in which women's rights are severely restricted. --Geoffrey Macnab

• All That Heaven Allows | DVD | (30/01/2013) from £29.99   |  Saving you £-20.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Cary Scott (Jane Wyman) is a well-to-do widow gradually re-entering a social life amongst her mostly dull country club peers. Her only apparent enjoyment in life comes from weekend visits from her college-age children. Cary then meets a handsome younger man Ron (Rock Hudson) who owns a small landscaping business. Ron is a follower of Henry David Thoreau's Walden and ""hears a different drummer"" enjoying a life focused on nature; he is deliberately uninterested in the gossipy opinions of others. Their romance causes clashes and tensions between Cary her children and the country club folk.

• Flying Deuces | DVD | (15/06/2015) from £9.98   |  Saving you £2.00 (25.03%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This classic comedy caper sees Laurel and Hardy doing what they do best... in this case, wreaking havoc in the French Foreign Legion!Released in 1939, co-scripted by silent-era star Harry Langdon and featuring a guest appearance from long-standing Laurel and Hardy nemesis James Finlayson, The Flying Deuces is among the eternally popular duo's best-loved films. Digitally restored, the film is presented here in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio and has never looked better.Whilst holidaying in Paris, Ollie is heartbroken to learn that Georgette, the beautiful innkeeper's daughter with whom he has fallen in love, is already married. In an attempt to forget her, he decides to enlist in the Foreign Legion, persuading Stanley to join him. The hapless pair are posted to Morocco, where an unfortunate chain of events ends with them being charged with desertion and sentenced to death by firing squad!SPECIAL FEATURESGerman version: Dick und Doof in der FremdenlegionImage GalleryPromotional Material PDF

• Blind Date aka Chance Meeting | DVD | (22/03/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In this Bafta nominated motion picture Dutch painter Jan-Van Rooyer (Hardy Kr''ger) hurries to keep a rendezvous with Jacqueline Cousteau (Micheline Presle) an elegant and sophisticated French woman slightly his elder whose relationship with him had turned from art student into one of love trysts. He arrives and is confronted by Detective Police Inspector Morgan (Stanley Baker) who accuses him of having murdered Jacqueline.

• Salaam Bombay Dreams | DVD | (24/05/2004) from £2.99   |  Saving you £17.00 (85.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The documentary behind the spectacular musical sensation with exclusive behind the scenes footage. From the team that brought you Cats Joseph Phantom of the Opera Evita Jesus Christ Superstar and more... A unique fusion of talent from the worlds of stage film TV and music. Opened in West End 2002 - about to sell its millionth ticket! Opens on Broadway New York 2004. Interview with producer Andrew Lloyd Webber. 6 hit songs from the show. Over 20 mins from the show including the song Shakalaka Baby.

• The Exorcist | Blu Ray | (15/04/2013) from £16.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (17.66%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Controversial haunting and popular from the moment it opened William Friedkin's masterpiece The Exorcist in a 2-disc Edition featuring stunning Hi-Def presentations of the original 1973 Theatrical Version and the 2000 Extended Director's Cut. The horrifying and realistic tale of an innocent girl inhabited by a terrifying entity her mother's frantic resolve to save her and two priests – one doubt-ridden the other a rock of faith - joined to battle the ultimate evil always leaves viewers breathless. Winner of two Academy Awards and nominated for an additional eight including Best Picture this greatest supernatural thriller of all time still astonishes and unsettles like no other movie.

• The Teahouse of the August Moon | DVD | (20/11/2018) from £27.97   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Gigi | DVD | (09/10/2006) from £10.59   |  Saving you £2.40 (22.66%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A scruffy tomboy is transformed into a radiant high society beauty in this glorious musical from MGM. Scored by the talented team of Lerner and Lowe the movie features splendid musical numbers like ""Thank Heaven for Little Girls"" and ""I Remember It Well."" Directed by the great Vincent Minnelli (The Band Wagon) this award-winning classic is not to be missed.

• War Of The Worlds | DVD | (16/08/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Producer George Pal and director Byron Haskins' landmark adaptation of the H.G. Wells classic novel that focuses on the invasion of the earth by Martian war machines. It's a work of frightening imagination with its manta-ray spaceships armed with cobra-like probes that shoot a white-hot disintegration ray. As formations of alien ships continue to wreak destruction around the globe the military is helpless to stop this enemy while scientists race to find an effective weapon. It finally takes an unseen threat - simple Earth bacteria - to conquer the alien invaders but not before War of the Worlds has provided a dazzling display of impressive special effects. This is the kind of spectacular that inspired kids such as Steven Spielberg and still packs a punch - delivering eye-popping thrills and unrelenting edge-of-your-seat suspense. Winner of the 1953 Academy Award for Best Special Effects.

• Morning Departure | DVD | (08/02/2010) from £7.05   |  Saving you £5.94 (84.26%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This excellent submarine drama cranks up the intensity as twelve men find themselves trapped in a submarine. A great directing job from subsequent Hammer stalwart Baker.

• The Servant | DVD | (07/01/2008) from £22.93   |  Saving you £-6.94 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In this landmark drama of class struggle and moral decay a pampered playboy (James Fox) acquires an elegant townhouse complete with a dedicated man servant (Dirk Bogarde). But when the young man's fiance (Wendy Craig) becomes suspicious of the servant's intentions he and his 'sister' (Sarah Miles) thrust the household into a sinister game where seduction is corruption and power becomes the most shocking desire of all. 'The Servant' marked the first of three brilliant film collaborations between director Joseph Losey and playwright Harold Pinter and was nominated for 8 British Academy Awards including Best Actor Best Actress Best Film Best Cinematography and Best Screenplay.

• Vertigo | DVD | (20/10/2008) from £17.99   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Considered by many to be director Alfred Hitchcock's greatest achievement comes this fully restored and remastered version of the haunting film classic. This special release also contains a restoration trailer and revealing documentary footage. Set in San Francisco James Stewart portrays an acrophobic detective hired to trail a friend's suicidal wife (Novak). After he successfully rescues her from a leap into the bay he finds himself becoming obsessed with the beautifully troubled woman. One of cinema's most chillingly romantic endeavours: it's a fascinating myriad of haunting camera angles shot among some of San Francisco's renowned landmarks. This film is a must for collector's; Leonard Maltin gives Vertigo four stars and hails it as 'A genuinely great motion picture that demands multiple viewings.

• Flamingo Road | DVD | (03/03/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• James Cagney - The Signature Collection Volume 2 : West Point Story / Torrid Zone / The Fighting 69th / The Bride Came C.O.D. | DVD | (10/12/2007) from £43.65   |  Saving you £-12.66 (N/A%)   |  RRP £30.99

  The Oscar winning screen icon, James Cagney, comes to life in this DVD collection The Bride Came C.O.D., The Fighting 69th, Torrid Zone and The West Point Story. Special features on each title in the Collection include the entertaining Warner Night at the Movies short subject galleries with vintage newsreels, vault treasures and classic cartoons. The Bride Came C.O.D. Comedy comes from numerous sources in this screwball farce headlined by the ebullient pairing of James Cagney and Bette Davis, scripted by Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein (Casablanca, Arsenic and Old Lace). Whether up in the clouds, or underground in a mine, the stars (in their second and final film together) spar with harebrained zest as a pilot hired to kidnap an about-to-elope heiress, and the happy result from start to end is C.O.D. Comedy on Demand. The Fighting 69th In the seventh of their nine movies together, off-screen pals James Cagney and Pat O'Brien play soldiers of the famed, largely Irish-American World War I regiment, the Fighting 69th. O'Brien is Father Duffy, the brave chaplain whose statue stands today in Manhattan's Times Square. Cagney is Jerry Plunkett, a street-tough braggart turned yellow by the horror of No Man's Land, but inspired to redemptive heroism by Duffy's courage under fire. The Torrid Zone Off-screen pals James Cagney and Pat O'Brien team for the eighth time in this snappy action comedy set in a Central American Banana Republic. In a role widely cited as putting her on the movie fan's map, Hollywood's Oomph Girl Ann Sheridan portrays wisecracking chanteuse Lee Donley who's the lure to keep the plantation's best man (Cagney) from leaving the company. With superb support, zippy repartee, plus 950 banana trees planted over 5 backlot acres, the heat is on. The West Point Story James Cagney puts on his dancing shoes again for this merry musical comedy packed with spirited starpower and lively tunes by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn.

• Saturday Night And Sunday Morning | DVD | (14/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A key film of the British New Wave 'Saturday Night And Sunday Morning' was a great box-office success - audiences were thrilled by its anti-establishment energy the gritty realism of its setting and most of all by a working-class hero of a fresh and outspoken kind. Based on Alan Sillitoe's largely autobiographical novel the film is set in the grim industrial streets and factories of Nottingham where Arthur Seaton spends his days at a factory bench his Saturday evenings in the local pubs and his Saturday nights with Brenda (Rachel Roberts) wife of a fellow factory worker. Played by Albert Finney with an irresistable animal vitality Arthur is anti-authority (Don't let the bastards grind you down) and unashamedly amoral (What I'm out for is a good time. All the rest is propoganda). With powerful central performances cracking dialogue by Sillitoe and a superb jazz score by Johnny Dankworth 'Saturday Night And Sunday Morning' still stands as a vibrant modern classic.

• Charlie Chaplin Collection | DVD | (08/09/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Collection of classic silent films and shorts starring the all-round talent of Charlie Chaplin. Throughout his career spanning more than 75 years Charlie Chaplin wrote, produced, directed, edited, composed the music for and starred in most of his films, making a household name for himself as a screen icon. Actors who starred alongside Chaplin include Edna Purviance, John T. Dillon and Billy Armstrong. The films are: 'By the Sea' (1915), 'Work' (1915), 'A Woman' (1915), 'The Bank' (1915), 'Shanghaied' (1915), 'The Rink' (1916), 'Easy Street' (1917), 'The Cure' (1917), 'The Immigrant' (1917), 'Triple Trouble' (1918), 'Shoulder Arms' (1918) , 'The Bond' (1918), 'A Burlesque On Carmen' (1915), 'The Fireman' (1916), 'The Vagabond' (1916), 'One AM' (1916), 'The Count' (1916), 'The Pawnshop' (1916), 'Behind the Screen' (1916), 'Police' (1916), 'A Night in the Show' (1915), 'The Floorwalker' (1916), 'New Janitor' (1914), 'The Musical Tramp' (1915), 'His New Job' (1915), 'Night Out' (1915) and 'The Champion' (1915).