Classic Films

• Back Room Boy | DVD | (19/02/2007) from £6.73   |  Saving you £-1.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  A Hilarious Romp with Arthur Askey

• Hardy Classics | DVD | (27/10/2008) from £19.98   |  Saving you £5.00 (29.43%)   |  RRP £21.99

• British Comedies of the 1930s volume 4 | DVD | (21/09/2015) from £5.80   |  Saving you £7.19 (123.97%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The ebullient comedy films of the 1930s brought escape and laughter to millions of British cinemagoers, enabling veteran stars of the music-hall and theatre to reach out to a wider audience - making household names of performers like Leslie Fuller, Hal Gordon, Bobby Howes, Ernest Lotinga and Gene Gerrard. Although comedy would prove to be the decade's most successful film genre, many of these classic early talkies have remained unseen since their original release. From boisterous knockabout humour to polished adaptations of popular stage farces, this ongoing collection showcases a wealth of rare features, each presented uncut, in a brand-new transfer from the best available elements in their as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. THEIR NIGHT OUT (1933) An evening of cocktails and frolicking lands a chap in hot water when he's suspected of masterminding a criminal gang! DOCTOR'S ORDERS (1934) Leslie Fuller stars as a quack whose son qualifies as a doctor in total ignorance of his father's occupation!

• Fingerpicking Guitar 1 & 2 | DVD | (18/10/2004) from £25.27   |  Saving you £4.72 (15.70%)   |  RRP £29.99

  This two DVD set is for beginner and intermediate guitarists who want to start fingerpicking. Rev. Gary Davis used to tell his students that playing the guitar was easy: He would say that a piano player has only two hands (the left keeps an alternating bass while the right plays a melody) but a guitarist has three hands! Our right hand thumb is one hand and plays the bass figures while our index finger is our second hand and plays the melody. Our third hand is our left hand which fingers chords. The results produce a full and orchestrated fingerstyle sound with a rhythmic bass played against melodic lines. This is the alternating bass technique which we sometimes jokingly refer to as 'bum-chick.' It is the most popular fingerpicking style played and has been used by legendary guitarists. Mississippi John Hurt Rev. Gary Davis Merle Travis Doc Watson Chet Atkins are but a few of the giants of this style. On these two DVDs we will explore how to master the alternating bass style. Each tune is taught phrase by phrase and then played again slowly on a split-screen so that you can carefully see what both hands are doing. A detailed 60 page tab/music booklet is included. As well you will see footage of some of the great fingerstyle players such as Rev. Gary Davis Lightnin' Hopkins Mance Lipscomb Merle Travis Brownie McGhee Elizabeth Cotten John Jackson Pink Anderson and Doc Watson.

• The Trouble With Harry | Blu Ray | (23/09/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  What happens in the New England woods of Vermont when for different reasons various native innocents find and bury the same body. Special Features: The Trouble with Harry Isn't Over The Trouble with Harry Theatrical Trailer Production Photographs Centennial Trailer

• Paris When It Sizzles | DVD | (14/09/2009) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-10.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A veteran Hollywood screenwriter goes to Paris to write the screenplay of his career--in three days. Lacking fresh ideas he turns to his gamine secretary to provide fuel for his imagination and they come up with various scenarios for his screenplay called 'The Girl Who Stole The Eiffel Tower'. William Holden and Audrey Hepburn heat up the main characters with terrific supporting help from the likes of Frank Sinatra Noel Coward Tony Curtis Fred Astaire Marlene Dietrich and the glorious city of Paris.

• Beat Street | DVD | (13/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Rapper Kenny and his break dancing brother Lee are up and coming soul artists. They only need a few good connections and one big break to make it. When they meet a beautiful college music professor who can help them expand their horizons everything starts to fall into place. Produced by Harry Belafonte and film producer David Picker Beat Street stars many of the day's hottest breakdancers and musicians including the New York City breakers.

• Flower Drum Song, the | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Rodgers and Hammerstein's Unforgettable Musical Nominated for 5 Academy Awards'' including Best Music this romantic comedy tells the story of a young Chinese girl who travels to the United States as part of an arranged marriage and discovers a new and modern world.

• The High Command | DVD | (17/05/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Blackmail betrayal a deceitful web of lies crimes of passion lost love intrigue and murder are the vital ingredients that make The High Command such compelling viewing. Set amidst the backdrop of WWI The High Command is a thrilling suspenseful drama based upon a novel by Lewis Robinson adapted for the screen by Walter Meade (Scott Of The Antarctic) and expertly directed by distinguished filmmaker Thorold Dickinson (Secret People The Queen of Spades). Also featuring an early appearance from future film legend James Mason (North by Northwest The Man in Grey) and Lionel Atwill (Doctor X Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman). A high-ranking general is stationed in West Africa but when a new doctor arrives at his post he is forced to face his dark past. The doctor is an old acquaintance and holds a deadly secret about the general a secret that could destroy him forever. That is until the doctor is found murdered and the sinister world of the general begins to unravel.

• Punk Rock Holocaust | DVD | (30/11/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

• An American In Paris | DVD | (06/10/2008) from £12.71   |  Saving you £0.28 (2.20%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Jerry Mulligan, a struggling American painter in Paris, is "discovered" by an influential heiress with an interest in more than Jerry's art.

• The Raging Moon (Digitally Restored) | Blu Ray | (23/11/2015) from £11.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (91.74%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Bruce (Malcolm McDowell, If, A Clockwork Orange) is a lively young man with an irrepressible sense of fun and a sharp eye for a pretty girl. Returning home slightly the worse for wear after a wedding, he suddenly collapses. When he wakes the next day he finds himself in hospital unable to walk and the Doctors cannot diagnose his condition. When his family is unable to house him, Bruce is forced to move to a convalescence home. Here he becomes bitter about his situation and resents the intrusion of the other inmates upon his melancholy state. After a while Bruce strikes up a friendship with fellow inmate Jill (Nanette Newman) and under her influence, he begins to enjoy life again. Falling deeply in love, Bruce and Jill decide to get married against the wishes of the home's owners. Faced with the prospect of having to move out of the home and seek work, will Bruce's and Jill's love survive? Sensitively directed by Bryan Forbes (Whistle Down the Wind, The Stepford Wives), THE RAGING MOON is a tender love story featuring strong performances from Newman and McDowell

• Brother Orchid | DVD | (27/06/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Park Plaza 605 | DVD | (24/03/2008) from £19.97   |  Saving you £-6.98 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Suave private investigator Norman Conquest (Tom Conway) intercepts a secret message and meets a beautiful but foreign blonde lady Nadina Rodin (Eva Bartok) in room 605 of the Park Plaza hotel. But when Conquest wakes up in the room the next morning he is lying next to a dead body. With the mysterious blonde nowhere to be seen Conquest soon becomes the police's number one suspect with Inspector Williams (Sid James) following his every move. In order to clear his name Conquest enlists the help of Pixie Everard (Joy Shelton) but the going gets rough when he discovers that the murder is connected to a stash of stolen diamonds. As gun-happy gangs of communists and Nazi sympathisers turn up the heat Conquest has to solve the murder whilst staying one step ahead of both the gangs and the police.

• Blackout/Bond Of Fear | DVD | (26/05/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Best of British Crime/Drama - Double Film Bill.

• Maria Callas - Toujours - Paris, 1958 | DVD | (25/03/2003) from £8.25   |  Saving you £7.74 (48.40%)   |  RRP £15.99

  La Callas... Toujours.Recorded Live At The Palais Garnier (Theatre National De I'Opera De Paris), 19 December 1958.

• Black Beauty Blu-Ray | Blu Ray | (29/11/2021) from £14.28   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This faithful adaptation of Anna Sewell˜s children˜s classic tells the adventures of a young boy and a spirited horse. Beginning life on a country estate the young colt Beauty is given away to cruel squire Sam Greene when he takes possession of the farm on which he lived. The horse then starts on an adventurous journey where he experiences the best and worst in human nature before finally being reunited with the boy who was his first friend. This is a classic and beautiful adaptation which the whole family will enjoy.

• Let's Make It Legal | DVD | (23/07/2012) from £4.75   |  Saving you £5.24 (110.32%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The nearly-final divorce of the Halsworths suddenly gets complicated when Miriam's old flame comes to town.

• Meet John Doe | DVD | (19/05/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  In protest at the corruption and hypocrisy he sees all around him an unemployed man calling himself John Doe has written to the New Bulletin newspaper pledging to throw himself from the top of City Hall on Christmas Eve. Written by a discharged journalist as a publicity stunt and as a parting shot at the paper's new editor the premise of the letter unexpectedly fires the imagination of the bulletin's readers and the wider American public. Its real author Ann Mitchell (Barbara Stanwyck) is rehired and now needs to find someone to play the part of the fictional John Doe... Meet John Doe is often held to be part of a thematic trilogy that includes Mister Deeds Goes To Town and Mister Smith Goes To Washington. It explores a recurring notion in Capra's work that of the universal everyman exploited by a corrupt and powerful establishment. The film's reflections on corporate control of both the media and of ordinary people's lives is still as resonant as ever.

• Casablanca Steelbook | Blu Ray | (28/01/2013) from £19.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Casablanca: easy to enter, but much harder to leave, especially if your name is on the Nazis' most-wanted list. Atop that list is Czech Resistance leader Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid), whose only hope is Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), a cynical American who sticks his neck out for no one... especially Victor's wife Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman), the ex-lover who broke his heart. So when Ilsa offers herself in exchange for Laszlo's safe transport out of the country, the bitter Rick must decide what's more important - his own happiness or the countless lives that hang in the balance. Winner of three Academy Awards including Best Picture, 'Casablanca' is 'America's most popular and beloved movie - and rightly so' The Motion Picture Guide. Special Features: Introduction by Lauren Bacall Commentary by Film Critic Roger Ebert Commentary by Film Historian Rudy Behlmer As Time goes By: The Children Remember Bacall on Bogart You Must Remember This: A Tribute to Casablanca Production Research (94 Stills) Additional Scenes Outtakes Television Adaptation - 1955 Who Holds Tomorrow Carrotblanca (Animated Short) Scoring Stage Sessions Screen Guild Theater Radio – 1943 Theatrical Trailer