Classic Films

• Citizen Kane | DVD | (29/05/2006) from £12.26   |  Saving you £7.73 (63.05%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In May of 1941 RKO Radio Pictures released a controversial film by a 25-year-old first-time director. That premier of Orson Welles' Citizen Kane was to have a profound and lasting effect of the art of motion pictures. It has been hailed as the best American film ever made and it's as powerful a film today as it was fifty years ago. It earned eight Academy Award nominations and won the Oscar for Best Screenplay. Through its unique jigsaw-puzzle storyline inventive cinemato

• Celebration Of Song And Dance - Guys And Dolls/Love Me Tender/West Side Story/Some Like It Hot/ Chitty Chitty Bang Bang/Hel | DVD | (06/08/2007) from £12.74   |  Saving you £47.25 (370.88%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Set Comprises: Guys And Dolls (1955): The slickest big-time New York City gamblers Sky Masterson and Nathan Detroit can't resist making or taking a bet on anything. So when a pretty missionary sets up shop in the neighbourhood Nathan stakes a grand that Sky can't seduce her. But all bets are off when Sky falls madly in love in this romantic musical spectacular that sets the Big Apple afire with excitement. Love Me Tender (1956): In his film debut singing i

• Space Patrol | DVD | (16/07/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This is Earth - the year 2100. These are the adventures of 'Space Patrol', unseen on British television since 1968, now rescued and restored to delight the many fans of this cult puppet classic.; ; The Swamps Of Jupiter:; Captain Dart and his crew are sent to investigate the loss of contact with a scientific base on Jupiter and encounter Martian fur trappers who are killing the native Loomi creatures for their heat-retaining skins.; ; The Wandering Asteroid:; The Space Patrol crew accept a da...

• Two Tickets to Broadway | HD DVD | (12/09/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• At Town Hall Party 1958 | DVD | (06/01/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  November 15, 1958 1. Town Hall Party Intro 2. Get Rhythm 3. You're The Nearest Thing To Heaven 4. I Was There When It Happened 5. Don't Take Your Guns To Town 6. Frankie's Man Johnny 7. I Walk The Line 8. The Ways Of A Woman In Love 9. Give My Love To Rose 10. It Was Jesus 11. All Over Again 12. Suppertime August 8, 1959 13. Town Party Intro 14. Guess Things Happen That Way 15. Five Feet High And Rising 16. I Got Stripes 17. The Ways.

• The Screaming Skull | DVD | (14/02/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  A newlywed couple arrives at the home of the husband's late wife where the gardens have been maintained by a gardener faithful to the dead woman's memory. Soon eerie events lead the new wife to think she is going out of her mind.

• Sorrowful Jones | DVD | (27/07/2009) from £18.88   |  Saving you £-2.89 (-18.10%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Sorrowful Jones

• The Young Savages | DVD | (04/05/2009) from £13.47   |  Saving you £5.51 (52.58%)   |  RRP £15.99

  John Frankenheimer (The Birdman Of Alcatraz The Manchurian Candidate) is one of the most innovative filmmakers of the twentieth century whose groundbreaking techniques and definitive cinematic style has rippled through the history of movies to leave an indelible mark. Renowned actor Burt Lancaster (The Sweet Smell Of Success Elmer Gantry) can only be described as a screen legend bringing to life some of the most unforgettable realistic characters in motion pictures. Together Frankenheimer and Lancaster formed a creative partnership that managed to conceive some of the most important films of the sixties. The Young Savages was their first successful collaboration. New York''s Harlem slum Hell''s Kitchen is no place for a stranger. It''s a desperate decaying ghetto throbbing with gangland tension where restless teenage rebels are willing to risk their life to protect their turf. But when members of the notorious Thunderbird gang venture into an opposing neighbourhood and stab to death a Puerto Rican boy Assistant District Attorney Hank Bell (Lancaster) is determined to undercover the real motivation behind such a cold bloodied act.

• House on Haunted Hill | DVD | (07/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  House On The Haunted Hill

• The Beggar's Opera | DVD | (28/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Peter Brook's bold adaptation of John Gay's opera - a cynical satire of eighteenth century London life. This weird and wonderful movie version of the first ever English musical to be written boasts a gloriously outlandish set and characters adorned in stunning primary colours that will dazzle and delight. A period piece that remains true to its original form it features non-stop sing-along songs spirited melodies and a real sense of embellished drama. The story follows the escapades of a jailed highwayman and stars Laurence Olivier Dorothy Tutin and Stanley Holloway.

• James Stewart - Western Box | Blu Ray | (09/12/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Charlie Chaplin Film Reel Collection | DVD | (20/10/2014) from £7.49   |  Saving you £7.50 (100.13%)   |  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), 'The Champion' (1915), 'Caught in a Cabaret' (1914), 'Knock Out' (1914), 'Laffin' Gas' (1914), 'Face On the Bar Room Floor' (1914), 'The Good for Nothing' (1914), 'The Masquerader' (1914), 'Between Showers' (1914), 'A Day's Pleasure' (1919), 'Cruel Cruel Love' (1914) and 'The Fatal Mallet' (1914).

• The Marx Bros. - Eine Nacht in Casablanca - Limited Mediabook-Edition (Blu-ray+DVD plus Booklet/digital remastered) | Blu Ray | (20/12/2024) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Vengeance Of She | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  When beautiful young Carol is taken over by the spirit of Ayesha queen of the lost city of Kuma an eccentric millionaire gives her refuge unaware that she brings the dark shadow of death to everything she touches...

• The Man With The Golden Arm | DVD | (18/12/2006) from £7.49   |  Saving you £0.50 (6.68%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Frank Sinatra stars with Kim Novak and Eleanor Parker in this riveting drama about a poker dealer/jazz musician who descends to skid row after becoming addicted to heroin. Will he make it back into the spotlight -- or even survive? Based upon the classic American novel by Nelson Algren The Man With The Golden Arm was far ahead of its time with its depiction of what drugs can do to even an ambitious person. Its cautionary tale still holds up today as heroin has come back to haunt not only the inner city but middle America as well. It contains what Frank Sinatra himself considered his best performance a role which gained him an Oscar nomination for Best Actor of 1955. Directed by the notorious Otto Preminger this hard-edged expressionistic view of the normally-depicted-as-glorious 1950s will comes as a fascinating surprise to those who have yet to discover this classic melodrama. Co-starring a young Darren McGavin in his debut film performance it also contains one of the movie score legend Elmer Bernstein's best compositions which earned one of the film's two other Oscar nominations along with one for art direction.

• One Good Turn | DVD | (12/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Reunited with many of the team behind Trouble in Store (1953), his smash hit of the previous year, for his second starring role Norman Wisdom played the oldest orphan of Greenwood Children's Home. Having being raised in the home Norman has stayed on as odd-job man, a role which ideally suits his man-child persona. Not only does he have to find the money to buy one of the orphans a model car, but after a visit to Brighton he discovers Greenwood is due to be closed down by the home's own unscrupulous chairman, a property developer with plans to build a factory on the site. Also starring Thora Hird, One Good Turn was surely a film with a personal resonance for Wisdom who was himself brought-up in an orphanage after his mother died and his father was unable to raise him. As would become a tradition, he contributes a song, "Please Opportunity", and the movie, though produced by Rank, now sits easily in that classic Ealing era where the ordinary man took on the big guys and won. The innocent knockabout humour remains appealing and it is simply impossible not to like Norman Wisdom. The film's success led directly to the aptly named Man of the Moment (1955). --Gary S Dalkin

• Royal Air Force - The Unseen Films 1954-1960 | DVD | (14/05/2007) from £9.98   |  Saving you £0.01 (0.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Royal Air Force: The Unseen Films is a unique DVD series collecting together rare or previously unseen and unavailable films from the RAF's long and distinguished history. As well as providing film records of RAF aircraft units and activities it also offers an invaluable 'behind the scenes' look at life in the RAF.

• Glenn Gould: Alchemist | DVD | (14/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

• The Great War 1914-1918 | DVD | (28/06/2004) from £9.95   |  Saving you £-7.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  This fascinating video chronicles the story of the First World War utilising original archieve footage from the Imperial War Museum. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in June 1914 lit the flames of a savage bloody conflict that engulfed Europe and eventually the World. The First World War ranged Britain and her Allies against the Central powers in a conflict so vast it became referred to as 'The Great War'. This film is composed entirely of original archive footage.

• Man Of The Moment | DVD | (12/11/2001) from £8.13   |  Saving you £1.86 (22.88%)   |  RRP £9.99

  After an uncredited cameo alongside a gallery of comedy stars in As Long As They're Happy (1955), Norman Wisdom's third hit was the appropriately titled Man of the Moment. Indeed, by 1955 Wisdom was firmly established as Britain's favourite movie comedian, his shy, helpful and good-natured "gump" character forever unintentionally causing catastrophe in the great tradition of Charlie Chaplin's "Little Tramp". However, while Chaplin ventured into politics in Modern Times (1936) for satirical purposes, when Norman's minor civil servant here accidentally becomes the UK delegate at a conference in Geneva the emphasis is on farce and pratfalls. The plot sees Norman sticking up for the rights of the fictional kingdom of Tawaki against less-than-honest government interests, while his new-found status brings the attention of the ladies, including the return of his Trouble in Store (1953) costar Lana Morris. Continuing his collaboration with veteran director John Paddy Carstairs, the film is a polished laughter machine that continues to entertain. The following year cinema audiences continued to see Norman go Up In the World, while fans of that other British comedy institution, the Carry On series, will be pleased to spot Charles Hawtrey in a supporting role. --Gary S Dalkin