Comedy

• The Little Waster | DVD | (28/02/2005) from £10.00   |  Saving you £5.99 (59.90%)   |  RRP £15.99

• Heartbreak Kid/Meet The Parents/Zoolander | DVD | (06/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

• Laurel & Hardy - Original Brats & More Hal Roach Classics | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £20.98   |  Saving you £-4.99 (-31.20%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This special volume of Universal's Laurel & Hardy Collection includes the rare original version of 'Brats' unseen since it was amended for reissue in the late 1930s. Alongside are three related Hal Roach comedies starring Charley Chase Max Davidson and 'Our Gang' - also known as 'The Little Rascals' - as examples of the studio's remarkable output. There is also a documentary tribute to the Laurel & Hardy team 'A Tribute To The Boys' including extracts from many of their films plus comments from celebrity interviewee's.'Brats' - original 1930 version'Hinter Schloss Und Riegel' - Extracts from German version of 'Pardon Us''Thundering Fleas' - b&w silent with music'Fluttering Hearts' - b&w silent with music'Prudence' - b&w silent with music'Laurel & Hardy - A Tribute To The Boys' - Colour b&w documentary

• Jerry Lewis Collection | DVD | (06/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Set Comprises: The Bell Boy: Jerry Lewis is 'The Bellboy' in this wacky series of comedy sketches. Stanley is one of a select group of bellboys who work at the Fontainebleau in Miami Beach but whenever he performs one of his duties the results are disastrous but hilarious! The harder he tries the worse it gets... It's one outrageous mishap after another as Stanley tries to accommodate sexy models gangsters golfers and even celebrities like Milton Berle and Jerry Lewis (playing himself as well as Stanley)! Geisha Boy: Gilbert Wooley is a second-rate magician who is sent to entertain the troops in the pacific. During his time in Japan he becomes attached to a little orphan boy... Delicate Delinquent: Wanting to prove a point good-hearted cop Mike Damon (McGavin) enrolls bumbling delinquent Sidney L. Pythias (Lewis) in the police academy where he distinguishes himself with ineptitude and not a little heart... Cinderfella: When his father dies poor Fella (Lewis) is left at the mercy of his snobbish stepmother (Judith Anderson) and her two no-good sons Maximilian (Henry Silva) and Rupert (Robert Hutton). As he slaves away for his nasty step-family Maximilian and Rupert attempt to find a treasure Fella's father has supposedly hidden on the estate. Meanwhile hoping to restore her dwindling fortunes the stepmother plans a fancy ball in honor of the visiting Princess Charmein (Anna Maria Alberghetti) whom she hopes will marry Rupert. Eventually Fella's Fairy Godfather (Ed Wynn) shows up to convince him that he has a shot at winning the Princess himself! Family Jewels: Nine-year-old Donna Peyton is orphaned when her father dies and leaves her with a million fortune. Her late father's attorney John Wyman explains that she must visit each of her six uncles (all played by Jerry Lewis) and decide which of them will become her new father. The Patsy: When a star comedian dies his comedy team decides to train a nobody to fill the shoes of the Star in a big TV show (a Patsy). But the man they choose bellboy Stanley Belt cant do anything right. The big TV show is getting closer and Stanley gets worse all the time. Ladies Man: After his girlfriend leaves him Herbert Heebert played by the irrepressible Jerry Lewis finds work as a housekeeper in a huge boarding house inhabited totally by women. Rockabye Baby: A Movie star has triplets but does not want her beloved public to find out. Has she made a mistake in hiring Jerry Lewis as the babysitter ? Living It Up: Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis light up the screen in this classic comedy thought by many to be their finest team-up.

• Billy Connolly - Live In New York | DVD | (14/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

• Born And Bred - Series 2 - Complete | DVD | (29/08/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

• Godfrey - Godspeed | DVD | (10/03/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

• Best Of Friends - The One With The Birthdays | DVD | (31/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

• My School Mate, the Barbarian | DVD | (21/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

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• Mrs. Doubtfire | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  How far would an ordinary father go to spend more time with his children?Daniel Hillard (ROBIN WILLIAMS) is no ordinary father so when he learns his ex-wife (SALLY FIELD) needs a housekeeper he applies for the job.With the perfect wig a little makeup and a dress for all occasions he becomes Mrs. Doubtfire a devoted British housekeeper who is hired on the spot.Free to be the 'woman' he never knew he could be the disguised Daniel creates a whole new life with his entire family.Outrageous hilarious and often touching Robin Williams makes this box-office hit a film to be watched again and again.

• Lum and Abner - Double Feature #2 | DVD | (15/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

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• Charlie Chaplin - Gold Rush | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Chaplin's personal favourite among his own films, The Gold Rush embodies all the trademarks of his mix of slapstick, satire, social commentary and sentiment--a perfect showcase for his ever-popular Little Tramp. Set during the Klondike Gold Rush in 1898, the film features a comic reworking of the gruesome Donner Party story, where a group of snowbound immigrants resorted to eating their clothes and then each other to stay alive. It opens with a grand shot of gold prospectors snaking up the side of a mountain. We then see the Tramp, typically estranged from the rest of the group, making his own way across the snow. Seeking shelter in a blizzard, he finds the cabin of the dangerous criminal Black Larson (Tom Murray) and when another prospector, Big Jim McKay (Mack Swain), comes along, the two of them take charge of the cabin and eventually drive him out. Starving on Thanksgiving, the pair decide to dine in style when the Tramp cooks one of his shoes, famously acting as if he's cooking a fine piece of meat; twirling the laces up like spaghetti and savouring every last nibble. When he finally escapes, the Tramp ends up in a local town and falls in love, only to be rebuffed on New Year's Eve. When a chance meeting reunites him with Big Jim, the two go back in search of gold hidden near the cabin. Despite its unlikely origins, the story is shaped into a classic comedy containing many famous set-pieces, including the cabin teetering on the edge of a cliff and the Tramp morphing into a chicken before the starving Big Jim. Ultimately it's Chaplin's endearing and amusing persona that makes this material genuinely enduring. On the DVD The Gold Rush comes to DVD in a decent transfer with good mono sound and the option of Dolby Digital 5.1. The second disc of bonus features opens with an introduction by David Robinson, who chronicles Chaplin's work on the film, which was interrupted when his clandestine affair with his 15-year-old leading lady meant that, due to her becoming pregnant, the filming had to close for a few months while a new female lead was found. The original 1925 version of the film, before Chaplin updated it with the addition of sound in 1942, appears in full. The Chaplin Today documentary illustrates the influence of the film on director Idrissa Ouedraogo from Burkina Faso, whose own work follows similar themes, as well as going behind the scenes on the original production. Trailers, posters and stills round off this worthy addition to the Chaplin Collection. --Laura Bushell

• Charlie Chaplin - Modern Times | DVD | (01/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Modern Times marks the last proper appearance of Charles Chaplin's iconic Little Tramp, and finds our hero struggling to make ends meet in the Depression of the 1930s. Along the way he takes up with a juvenile delinquent (actually 24-year-old Paulette Goddard) and plays a prison incident with "nose powder" for drug-induced laughs--both plot elements seeming quite innocent here, though both would provoke controversy today. Modern Times' most famous sequences portray the dehumanisation of factory labour to fine comic effect, balancing satire with slapstick to perfection in several superbly executed set-pieces. While the film has sound-effects and musical score, speech is only presented through mechanical means, via a gramophone, or through wall-sized TVs far more futuristic than in those in HG Wells' Things to Come (also 1936)--it's an interesting footnote that the comic and the SF visionary were friends. Chaplin famously not being a fan of sound cinema acknowledges the need to move with the times, yet hilariously spoofs the exploitation of man and machine while doing so. Amid some great laughs, the political message comes though clearly: the boss is making a fortune while doing jigsaw puzzles in his luxury office, the workers are toiling ever harder on the production line for their pittance. On the DVD: Modern Times is offered in the original 4:3 black and white with good mono sound evidencing just a little distortion and a very clean, clear picture with minimal grain to give away its age. Also included are French and Italian dubbed versions and a pointless and ineffective English Dolby Digital 5.1 version of the soundtrack. The disc features multiple subtitle options, including English for hard of hearing. Disc Two begins with a six-minute introduction by David Robinson. Next comes a very worthwhile 26-minute documentary by Philippe Truffault, Chaplin Today, centred around a perceptive subtitled discussion between French filmmakers Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne. There are three trailers, beautifully reproduced posters, an eight-part photo gallery and one entertaining deleted scene, as well as Chaplin's "nonsense song" from the film in isolated form and in a "Karaoke" version. The Documents section begins with a silent 42-minute 1931 documentary/propaganda film, In the Machine Age made by the US Dept of Labor. Along similar but more entertaining lines is Symphony in F a 1940 colour film combining music, manufacturing footage and animation celebrating the Ford motor company, while also included is a sequence from the Liberace Show (1956) with the star performing the vocal version of "Smile", the theme from Modern Times. Demonstrating the truly universal appeal of Chaplin is a 1967 short For the First Time, documenting what happens when the people of the remote Baracoa mountains in Cuba see their first ever movie, Modern Times. This is a remarkable collection which does a great film justice. --Gary S Dalkin

• Bean Christmas Collection - Mr Bean's Holiday / Bean - The Ultimate Disaster Movie / Mr Bean Vol. 5 | DVD | (12/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Mr. Bean's Holiday: Mr. Bean is heading to the South of France for a simple holiday in the sun. His voyage from London to the Riviera soon transcends into one of mischief and mayhem! Mr. Bean inadvertently creates havoc wherever he goes. This culminates in an unscheduled and riotous screening of his own video diary at the Cannes Film Festival. Bean The Ultimate Disaster Movie: When the Royal National Gallery of London is asked to send their finest scholar to oversee the unveiling of Whistler's Mother in California they send their most inept and detested employee in a desperate attempt to get him out of their lives. That employee is Mr. Bean - the master of disaster! Within days of his arrival Mr. Bean destroy's virtually everything he comes into contact with be it the career and marriage of his host or America's greatest painting. Forget volcanoes and alien invasions - horror now has a human face. Merry Christmas Mr. Bean: It is Christmas and an excited Mr. Bean creates his usual havoc across the festive season. He brings new meaning to dressing the turkey whilst his girlfriend Irma looks forward to a very special Christmas present... Good Night Mr. Bean: At the hospital Mr. Bean runs out of patience in the Out Patients but has a marvellous time at Windsor Castle with a sentry belonging to Her Majesty. Later he suffers from a bit of insomnia but it brings out one of his best animal impersonations.

• Secret Policeman's Ball - 30th Anniversary Edition | DVD | (16/11/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A collection of musical and comedy performances from the Secret Policeman's Balls....

• The General | DVD | (12/01/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  A train engineer is turned down when he tries to join the confederate army during the civil war because his job is deemed too important. But when his train is stolen by union soldiers he finds himself in the war after all...

• My Man Godfrey | DVD | (15/03/2004) from £6.73   |  Saving you £-1.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  One of the top screwball comedies of all time My Man Godfrey is a story of a wealthy New York family in the 1930s that brings in Godfrey a destitute and ""Forgotten Man "" as its butler. William Powell plays the leading role brilliantly as Godfrey giving the family a madcap ride they will never forget. The first film to receive Oscar nominations in all four acting categories My Man Godfrey features stunning performances by William Powell and Carole Lo

• Charlie Chaplin Collection - Vol. 4 | DVD | (12/01/2004) from £6.73   |  Saving you £-1.74 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £4.99

  A collection of four Charlie Chaplin shorts. A Woman (1915): A family outing in a park leads to both mother and daughter falling for Charlie. The Bank (1915): Charlie the janitor mistakenly opens a birthday present intended for a cashier from his fiancee Edna. One AM (1916): A drunken Charlie arrives home late and has considerable trouble getting into his home. The Adventurer (1917): Escaped convict Charlie becomes a hero when he rescues two drowing wo