Classic Films

• The Loves of Carmen | DVD | (05/09/2011) from £6.97   |  Saving you £3.02 (43.33%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Don Jose (Glen Ford), a handsome young Dragoon, is newly arrived in the Spanish city of Seville. Exploring its streets, he comes across the beautiful Carmen (Rita Hayworth), a fiery gypsy girl. Within moments she has picked his pockets - and stolen his heart. Others in the regiment are quick to warn him of Carmen's wayward spirit - but Don Jose is already completely enchanted. In Desperate pursuit of the gypsy temptress, Don Jose finds himself on the road to ruin... and murder. The Loves Of Carmen reunited the director and stars of Gilda and is presented here in a beautifully restored digital transfer that does full justice to the film's breathtaking Oscar - nominated Technicolor cinematography.

• One Wild Oat | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Humphrey Proudfoot (Robertson Hare) is a class-conscious solicitor whose daughter falls in love with the son of a disreputable greyhound owner Alfred Gilbey (Stanley Holloway). After Humphrey fails to convince his daughter not to marry the young Gilbey he employs a private investigator in order to dig up some dirt on the womanising gambler. But his sneaky shenanigans backfire when Gilbey discovers Proudfoot's first love Emily (Irene Handl). When Emily turns up at the same time as Gilbey's mistress Gloria the two men suddenly find themselves on the same side as they struggle to keep their two women away from their wives in this classic farce!

• DERRICK (3DVD-BOX) VOL.01 - MO | DVD | (01/07/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Mummy | DVD | (21/07/2008) from £9.43   |  Saving you £0.56 (5.60%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Boris Karloff's legendary performance has become a landmark in the annals of screen history. As the mummy Im-Ho-Tep he is accidentally revived after 3 700 years by a team of British archaeologists. It is revealed in a flashback that he was a high priest embalmed alive for trying to revive the vestal virgin whom he loved after she had been sacrificed. Alive again he sets out to find his lost love.

• Moskito-Bomber greifen an (Mosquito Squadron) 1970 | Blu Ray | (26/08/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Best Foot Forward | DVD | (28/01/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Star Spangled Rhythm | DVD | (08/03/2010) from £6.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (128.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A security guard at Paramount convinces his son that he is actually the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood he has to go to extreme lengths to maintain the charade culminating in his agreement to arrange a show for his son's navy buddies that includes a host of Paramount's top contract players.

• Berlioz/Debussy/Ravel - Symphonie Fantastique/La Mer | DVD | (04/07/2005) from £21.68   |  Saving you £1.31 (5.70%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Berlioz/Debussy/Ravel - Symphonie Fantastique/La Mer

• Second Chorus | DVD | (02/02/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  A marvelously delightful 1930's style song and dance spectacular the likes of which would be wiped away by the December bombing of Pearl Harbor Second Chorus finds Fred Astaire as a struggling bandleader chased by a collection agent - Paulette. She serves the papers he chases her. She wangles him an audition with Artie Shaw which Burgess Meredith hilariously sabotages. A rich sugar daddy (the marvelous Charles Butterworth) smoothes things over with Artie and through it all Fred and Paulette dance and sing. For what more could you ask?

• An American In Paris | Blu Ray | (18/03/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Three friends struggle to find work in Paris. However, things become more complicated when two of them fall in love with the same woman.

• Don't Look Back | Blu Ray | (25/04/2011) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-2.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  Both a classic documentary and a vital pop-cultural artefact, DA Pennebaker's portrait of Bob Dylan in Don't Look Back captures the seminal singer-songwriter on the cusp of his transformation from folk prophet to rock trendsetter. Shot during Dylan's 1965 British concert tour, Don't Look Back employs an edgy vérité style that was, and is, a snug fit with the artist's own consciously rough-hewn persona. Its handheld black-and-white images and often-gritty London backdrops suggest cinematic extensions of the archetypal monochrome portraits that graced Dylan's career-making, early-60s album jackets. Pennebaker's access to the famously private troubadour lets us witness Dylan's shifting moods as he performs, relaxes with his entourage (including then lover Joan Baez, road manager Bob Neuwirth and poker-faced manager Albert Grossman) and jousts with other musicians (notably Animals alumnus Alan Price and Scottish folksinger Donovan), fans and press. It's a measure of the filmmaker's acuity that the conversations are often as gripping as Dylan's solo performances. Grossman's machinations with British promoters, Baez's hip serenity, a grizzled British journalist's surrender to the fact of Dylan's artistry and the artist's own taunting dismissal of a clueless sycophant are all absorbing. With the exception of the studio recording of "Subterranean Homesick Blues", the live performances are constrained by crude audio gear. Their urgency, however, is timeless, as is Pennebaker's film, a legitimate cornerstone for any serious rock video collection. --Sam Sutherland

• The Man Who Knew Too Much | DVD | (04/06/2007) from £10.12   |  Saving you £-0.13 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  James Stewart and Doris Day in a rare dramatic role are superb in this brilliant suspense thriller from the undisputed master Alfred Hitchcock. Stewart and Day play Ben and Jo McKenna 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.

• CIRCUS OF FEAR / FIVE GOLDEN DRAGONS - CIRCUS OF FEAR / FIVE GOLDEN DRAGONS (1 Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (01/07/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Bees In Paradise | DVD | (19/02/2007) from £7.98   |  Saving you £-2.99 (-59.90%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Askey plays a pilot who bales out over Paradise Island not knowing that he is about to land in a bee-worshipping colony of women and that he is about to become a drone for the queen bee! When he finds out that as custom demands he is due to be sacrificed two months after the honeymoon he soon starts thinking about escape. The women of course have other ideas.

• Rocco And His Brothers | DVD | (22/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £23.99

  ""Brilliant and overwhelming... Among the classics of the screen."" -The New York Times In sweeping epic style the award-winning Rocco & His Brothers tells the story of four poor Italian brothers and their mother who leave their country home and move to bustling Milan with hopes of improving their bitter fortune. The family is thrown into chaos when two of the brothers are torn apart by their love for the same woman and their struggles to succeed in a viciously competitive world. Fr

• Abbott & Costello Collection | DVD | (14/04/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  The Abbott And Costello Collection (3 Discs)

• Faust | DVD | (21/01/2002) from £27.99   |  Saving you £-8.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Shot in the UFA studios with a big movie star in the lead and all the special effects and production design resources any blockbuster of its time could wish for, FW Murnau's 1926 Faust represents a step up from his better-known Nosferatu. Oddly, Faust is a less familiar film than the vampire quickie and this release affords fans a chance to see what Murnau can do with an equally major fantasy story. Adapted neither from Marlowe's play Dr Faustus nor Goethe's verse drama, the script scrambles various elements of the legend and presents a Faust (Gosta Ekman) driven to summon the Devil by despair as a plague rages through the town, desperate to gain enough learning to help his neighbours. When this deal doesn't quite work out, because he is stoned by townsfolk who notice his sudden fear of the cross, Mephisto (Emil Jannings) offers Faust instead renewed youth and an opportunity to seduce a famously beautiful Italian noblewoman and then to return to his home village and get involved with the pure Gretchen (Camilla Horn). Like most versions of the story, it's episodic and some sections are stronger than others: the great stuff comes in the plague and initial deal sequences, though it picks up again for the tragic climax as Gretchen becomes the central figure and suffers horribly, freezing in the snows and burning at the stake. Jannings' devil, a gruesomely humorous slice of ham, is one of the great silent monster performances, reducing everyone else to a stick figure, and Murnau faces the challenge of topping his Nosferatu imagery by deploying a battalion of effects techniques to depict the many magical journeys, sudden appearances and transformations. On the DVD: Often seen in ragged, incomplete prints projected at the wrong speed, this is a decently restored version, running a full 115 minutes with a complete orchestral score. The original materials show some of the damage to be expected in a film of its vintage, but the transfer is excellent, displaying the imaginative art direction and camerawork to superb advantage. Aside from a nicely eerie menu, the sole extra is a full-length commentary originating in Australia: written by historian Peter Spooner but read by narrator Russell Cawthorne (who mispronounces the odd name). This provides an interesting wealth of background detail, such as Murnau's attempt to cast Hollywood's Lillian Gish as Gretchen, and delivers a balanced assessment of the film itself. --Kim Newman

• David And Bathsheba | DVD | (28/02/2007) from £15.71   |  Saving you £-2.72 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A Biblical tale of love tragedy loss and redemption. Gregory Peck stars in this gripping retelling of the beloved Old Testament story. Although he has killed Goliath and prevailed in countless battles there is one force that Israel's King David (Peck) cannot vanquish: love. Smitten with the beautiful Bathsheba (Susan Hayward) David sends her soldier husband Uriah (Kieron Moore) into a hopeless battle setting into motion his own downward spiral. Neglecting kingdom and faith David incurs the wrath of God the destruction of his country and the ill will of his people who expect Bathsheba to pay the ultimate price for adultery. Gorgeously filmed rapturously acted and deeply moving David And Bathsheba's tale of romantic obsession is as beautiful as it is timeless.

• Van Cliburn - Van Cliburn In Moscow Vol.1 | DVD | (04/11/2008) from £19.92   |  Saving you £2.06 (12.17%)   |  RRP £18.99

• England V Scotland 1967 | DVD | (12/03/2007) from £11.98   |  Saving you £4.01 (33.47%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Just nine months after England's World Cup triumph a Scotland side buoyed by success in earlier home nation matches travelled to Wembley to meet the apparently all conquering English in a European Championship qualifying round. Still with home advantage following the World Cup the English were the firm favourites to triumph over the much un-fancied Scottish side.