Classic Films

• Films That Define A Decade: '60s | DVD | (22/08/2016) from £5.99   |  Saving you £4.01 (66.94%)   |  RRP £10.00

  There has never been a decade quite like the ˜60s! An era of change, conflict and hope, it will be fondly remembered for its revolutionary thinking, the fight for freedom of expression and its definitive slogan to ˜Make Love Not War'. Here we celebrate the ˜60s by bringing together four of the greatest films of the decade; Alfred Hitchcock's iconic thriller The Birds; the historic epic Spartacus; literary classic To Kill a Mockingbird; and timeless Western The War Wagon starring the legendary John Wayne.

• Wie heiratet man einen König - HD-Remastered | DVD | (07/11/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Comedy Classics Collection Vol.2 | DVD | (26/05/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Long Lost Comedy Classics is a collection of films from a golden age of British Cinema remembered for timeless stars and some unique movies that have stood the test of time. So why not take a trip down memory lane and see how cinema used to be? Long Lost Comedy Classics is a collection of films from a golden age of British Cinema remembered for timeless stars and some unique movies that have stood the test of time. So why not take a trip down memory lane and see how cinema used to be? Miss Robin Hood: A newspaper columnist conspires with an elderly fan to steal a secret whiskey formula from a wealthy distiller. However it's not long before Scotland Yard is on the case! You're Only Young Twice: A young girl Ada Shore arrives at Skerryvore University in Scotland in search of her long lost uncle who was once a subversive Irish poet but is now working under another name as the University Gate Keeper... Brandy For The Parson: A young couple on a yachting holiday become involved with Tony Rackham who is smuggling brandy from France. Through various mishaps they find themselves personally responsible for transporting the brandy kegs to London whilst being pursued by Customs officials... Time Gentlemen Please: The PM is planning a celebration visit to the model village of Little Hayhoe. However local lay-about Dan Dance refuses to work so he's shipped off to the local almshouse where he awaits an uncertain yet very funny future.

• Whatever Happened To Aunt Alice? | DVD | (02/07/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? sees a change of direction for Robert Aldrich's unofficial trilogy which all involve "ageing actresses" in macabre thrillers (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? and Hush ... Hush, Sweet Charlotte). The busy Aldrich only produced What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?, calling in TV director Lee H Katzin (a Mission: Impossible regular) to handle the megaphone. Aldrich also opted to shoot the film in pastel colours appropriate to the unusual Arizona desert setting rather than the gothic black and white of the earlier films. The film cast the less iconic Geraldine Page as the genteelly unpleasant Mrs Clare Marrable. Left apparently penniless by her departed husband, Mrs M opts to keep up appearances by hiring a succession of timid elderly housekeepers, bossing them around with well-spoken nastiness, duping them out of their life savings and, on the pretence of getting help with a midnight tree-planting program, lures them into their own graves, batters them to death and plants lovely pines over them. Page gets her own way with the meek likes of Mildred Dunnock, until the feistier, red-wigged R!uth Gordon applies for the job and gets down to amateur sleuthing. While Bette Davis and her partners went wildly over the top in previous films, Page and Gordon play more subtly, finding odd pathetic moments in between the monstrous, irony-laced horror stuff. The supporting cast of pretty or handsome young things, mostly putty in the hands of the manipulative Page, contribute striking little cameos (Rosemary Forsyth sports a pleasing 1969 hairdo as the kindly but intimidated neighbour), but the film belongs to its leading ladies, delivering a fine line in twist-packed cat-and-mouse theatrics. The video is handsomely letterboxed, as befits a film made before widescreen films were shot with all the action in the middle of the frame to facilitate television sales. --Kim Newman

• Nothing But A Man | DVD | (08/09/2008) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-5.59 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A landmark independent film Nothing But A Man is one of the most sincere and sensitive pictures ever made about the struggles and hardships of Black life in 1960s America. Lauded by critics at the Venice and New York Film Festivals when it first premiered in 1963 this quietly moving beautiful film remains as relevant and powerful today as it was then. Set against the stirrings of the civil rights movement and a rising wave of burgeoning Black price A landmark independent film Nothing But A Man is one of the most sincere and sensitive pictures ever made about the struggles and hardships of Black life in 1960s America. Lauded by critics at the Venice and New York Film Festivals when it first premiered in 1963 this quietly moving beautiful film remains as relevant and powerful today as it was then. Set against the stirrings of the civil rights movement and a rising wave of burgeoning Black price Nothing But A Man tells the story of Duff a railroad section hand who is forced to confront racial prejudice and self-denial when he falls in love with Josie an educated preacher's daughter. Starring Ivan Dixon (Porgy and Bess A Raisin in the Sun) and jazz great Abbey Lincoln in performances Siskel & Ebert called ""terrific "" it is ultimately an uplifting story about a man and a s woman whose love overcomes racial and class barriers. The original soundtrack features Motown stars Stevie Wonder Mary Wells Martha and the Vandellas The Miracles and The Marvelettes. From acclaimed director Michael Roemer Nothing But A Man is a devastatingly powerful film about living life without the basic necessities of dignity and respect. Watching this film we are forced to confront not only what we were but what we are how far we've come and how far we still have to go. To celebrate its 40th anniversary this groundbreaking American classic is available for the first time ever on DVD. tells the story of Duff a railroad section hand who is forced to confront racial prejudice and self-denial when he falls in love with Josie an educated preacher's daughter. Starring Ivan Dixon (Porgy and Bess A Raisin in the Sun) and jazz great Abbey Lincoln in performances Siskel & Ebert called ""terrific "" it is ultimately an uplifting story about a man and a s woman whose love overcomes racial and class barriers. The original soundtrack features Motown stars Stevie Wonder Mary Wells Martha and the Vandellas The Miracles and The Marvelettes. From acclaimed director Michael Roemer Nothing But A Man is a devastatingly powerful film about living life without the basic necessities of dignity and respect. Watching this film we are forced to confront not only what we were but what we are how far we've come and how far we still have to go. To celebrate its 40th anniversary this groundbreaking American classic is available for the first time ever on DVD.

• Constantine And The Cross | DVD | (20/10/2008) from £9.98   |  Saving you £-4.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Constantine And The Cross (aka Costantino Il Grande)

• A Farewell To Arms | DVD | (01/07/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  The 1932 version of A Farewell to Arms owes as much to the shimmering house style of Paramount Pictures as it does the novel by Ernest Hemingway. If Hemingway purists can get past the romanticising of the book, however, this film offers its own glossy appeal. On the Italian front in World War I an American ambulance driver (Gary Cooper) falls in love with a nurse (Helen Hayes). Cooper was a Hemingway friend in real life, and later played the hero of Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls; his boyish simplicity is just right for director Frank Borzage's heartfelt approach. The Oscar-winning cinematography of ace cameraman Charles Lang is the kind of lush black and white that can capture the glow from a cigarette as it plays across Cooper's darkened face--a breathtaking touch. The jaded battle scenes show the influence of the hit film version of All Quiet on the Western Front, especially in a gripping montage depicting Cooper's progress alone through the war zone. Hemingway would have none of it, of course; he once disdainfully wrote that "in the first picture version Lt. Henry deserted because he didn't get any mail and then the whole Italian Army went along, it seems, to keep him company". This is first and foremost a love story, however, and as such it succeeds beautifully, right through to the remarkably intense ending. --Robert Horton, Amazon.com

• Blue Valley Songbird | DVD | (19/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  She is a small-town girl with a big voice and an even bigger dream... This thoroughly enjoyable feature film specially made for television is based upon country superstar Dolly Parton's fictional story song ""Blue Valley Songbird"". Dolly's musical and acting abilities both shine on this release where her key role as a saloon singer with suppressed ambitions makes for a perfect fit. The film features Dolly singing many of her all-time favourite hits including ""Blue Valley Songbird Wildflowers I Hope You Are Never Happy and Runaway Feelin. In addition the film features two songs never included by Dolly on her albums : Angel Band and We Might Be in Love. Having been out of print for a long time Blue Valley Songbird is now re-released in new deluxe packaging which makes it a must for every Dolly fan !

• He Ran All The Way Home | DVD | (04/05/2009) from £14.83   |  Saving you £1.16 (7.30%)   |  RRP £15.99

  John Garfield (The Postman Always Rings Twice) plays Nick Robey a corrupt but somewhat sympathetic criminal who leads an abysmal life with his alcoholic mother. His friend pushes him into participating in a robbery but the whole affair is botched. As a result a cop is critically wounded and Nick just barely gets away. He tries to avoid suspicion by hiding out at a local indoor pool. There he goes for a swim and meets up with the meek and respectable Peggy Dobbs (Shelley Winters; Lolita The Night of the Hunter). Nick teaches her how to swim and he walks her home where she lives with her parents and younger brother Tommy... Nick ends up using the whole family as hostages... Garfield's magnificently edgy performance was his last as he died shortly after the film was completed in 1951 after being blacklisted by the McCarthy witch hunt. Directed by John Berry (Tension) He Ran All the Way is a classic film noir.

• Raw Deal | DVD | (30/04/2007) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-3.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Joe Sullivan is itching to get out of prison. He's taken the rap for Rick who owes him $50 Grand. Rick sets up an escape for Joe knowing that Joe will be caught escaping and be shot or locked away forever. But with the help of his love-struck girl Pat and his sympathetic legal caseworker Ann Joe gets further than he's supposed to and we are posed with two very important questions: Is Joe really the cold and heartless criminal he appears to be or is there a heart of gold under that gritty exterior? And does Joe belong with the tough street-wise Pat or with the prim moralizing Ann?

• Animal Farm | DVD | (18/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

• Carrie | DVD | (07/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A Stephen King horror story about a high school girl with telekinetic powers who is pushed into a no-return path of bloody vengeance when she becomes the victim of cruel classmates.

• On the Avenue | DVD | (24/09/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A new Broadway show starring Gary Blake shamelessly lampoons the rich Carraway family. To get her own back, daughter Mimi sets out to ensnare Blake, but the courtship is soon for real, to the annoyance of his co-star, hoofing chanteuese Mona Merrick.

• Much Ado About Nothing | DVD | (12/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Set in America at the start of the 20th century soldiers are returning home while the battle of the sexes goes merrily on. Joseph Papp's 1972 CBS-TV television production of The New York Shakespeare Festival's Broadway staging of Shakespear's rollicking comedy is brassy bouncy and all-together entertaining.Featuring Sam Waterston and the Ton nominated performances of Kathleen Widdoes and Barnard Hughes Papp's turn-of-the-century version has Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders returning from the Spanish-American war bicycle-riding women suffragettes and police who behave like the Keystone Cops but remains faithful to the classic tale. Beatrice and Benedick are still sparring partners fighting their merry war of words; the evil Don John continues conspiring to break up the wedding of Hero and Claudio; and it's once again up to Dogberry to save the day.Critically acclaimed and enormously popular with audience Much Ado About Nothing originated at the open-air theatre in Central Park was transferred to Broadway and was perceived as the first successful Shakespeare to play without a major star in Broadway history. The CBS broadcast was seen by twenty million people.

• The Square Peg | DVD | (05/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Square Peg marks a slight departure for Norman Wisdom, being his first comedy to be set, however recently, in the past. He plays one of a pair of council workmen, who while repairing the road outside an army base come to illustrate the oxymoronic nature of the phrase "military intelligence". Finding themselves drafted, the workmen are sent to repair the roads ahead of the Allied advance through war-torn Europe by the sergeant they previously embarrassed. Norman finds himself behind the German lines, joins-up with French Resistance, gets captured then sets out to rescue British prisoners from a German military HQ by impersonating General Schreiber. Of course Wisdom plays Schreiber too, offering the sort of comedy stereotyping which Basil Fawlty in best "Don't mention the war" mode would appreciate. The Square Peg is the film which introduced Norman Wisdom's famous catch-phrase, "Mr. Grimsdale!" for whenever disaster struck. The long suffering Mr Grimsdale is played by Edward Chapman, who would reprise the role in Wisdom's A Stitch in Time (1963) and The Early Bird (1965), as well as playing Mr Philpots in The Bulldog Breed (1960). Hattie Jacques gets to sing a remarkable duet with Wisdom, and a pre-Goldfinger (1964) Honor Blackman provides the love interest.--Gary S. Dalkin

• The Hollywood Collection - Charlton Heston | DVD | (07/04/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  He has been king and slave hero and villain renowned throughout the movie-going world for the heroic figures he played during his early years in Hollywood: Moses Ben-Hur El Cid and Michaelangelo. In a wide range of roles from classical to futuristic he has shown himself a consummate actor. But Charlton Heston has always been more than a star. Although he is a private man he has often appeared to be a very public one willing to speak up on issues he believes in -however controversial they may be. Here in his own words is Heston's life as well as highlights of a career that resulted in over 60 motion pictures. Including scenes from The Greatest Show On Earth The Ten Commandments The Big Country Ben-Hur Will Penny Soylent Green Planet of the Apes.

• Cinerama: Search for Paradise | Blu Ray | (18/11/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Verdi: Il Trovatore (Live Recording From The Vienna State Opera 1978) | DVD | (18/01/2010) from £22.89   |  Saving you £2.10 (9.17%)   |  RRP £24.99

  ARTH 107117; ARTHAUS MUSIK - Germania; Classica Lirica

• DERRICK (3DVD-BOX) VOL.02 - MO | DVD | (01/07/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Those Calloways | DVD | (21/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Based on the novel by Paul Annixter Those Calloways tells the story of Cam Calloway (Brian Keith) a New England preservationist and fur trapper. Along with his son Cam dreams of buying a nearby lake to turn into a refuge for migrating geese. He finds however that making the dream come true requires much more money than he has and even greater ingenuity in getting around the real estate developers. The situation turns violent when Cam and his son move into a cabin on the property and an attempt is made on his life. Can Cam stop the development of this pristine area and carry out his lifelong wish to help the environment... Available for the first time on DVD!