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• Good Night And Good Luck/Hamburger Hill/Pierrepoint | DVD | (01/10/2007) from £32.37   |  Saving you £-12.38 (-61.90%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Set Comprises: Good Night And Good Luck (2005): Good Night And Good Luck George Clooney's second film as director takes place during the early days of broadcast journalism in 1950s America chronicling the real-life conflict between television newsman Edward R. Murrow (Strathairn) and Senator Joseph McCarthy with the House Un-American Activities Committee. With a desire to report the facts and enlighten the public Murrow and his dedicated staff - headed by his producer Fred Friendly (Clooney) and Joe Wershba (Downey Jr.) in the CBS newsroom - defy corporate and sponsorship pressures to examine the lies and scaremongering tactics perpetrated by McCarthy during his communist 'witch-hunts'. A very public feud develops when the Senator responds by accusing the anchor of being a communist. In this climate of fear and reprisal the CBS crew carries on and their tenacity will prove historic and monumental. Hamburger Hill (1987): The men of Bravo Company are facing a battle that's all uphill... up Hamburger Hill. Fourteen war-weary soldiers are battling for a mud-covered mound of earth so named because it chews up soldiers like chopped meat. They are fighting for their country their fellow soldiers and their lives. War is hell but this is worse. Hamburger Hill tells it the way it was the way it really was. It's a raw gritty and totally unrelenting dramatic depiction of one of the fiercest battles of America's bloodiest war. Dodge the gunfire. Get caught behind enemy lines. Go into battle beside the brave young men who fought and died. Feel their desperation and futility. This happened. Hamburger Hill - war at its worst men at their best. Pierrepoint (2005): Pierrepoint is the gripping and dramatic true-life story of Albert Pierrepoint Britain's most notorious hangman. Following in the footsteps of his father and uncle before him Albert joins the 'family business' in 1934. Living a secret life as a master hangman as well as a humble grocery deliveryman and loyal husband Pierrepoint's reputation as the most highly regarded executioner in the land results in him executing some of Britain's most infamous murderers including Derek Bentley and Ruth Ellis and also the Nazi war criminals convicted at the Nuremberg Trials. But the media coverage from these shatters Pierrepoint's closely guarded anonymity turning him into a minor celebrity. As his two lives collide and public opinion turns against capital punishment Pierrepoint troubled by his notoriety is ready to give it all up but fate has other plans in store for him...

• Goodnight Mister Tom/Buried Treasure | DVD | (01/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Goodnight Mr Tom: John Thaw (Inspector Morse) stars as the widowed and cantankerous Tom Oakley in this charming film adaptation of the prize-winning children's novel by Michelle Magorian. When the Second World War is declared Tom finds that his quiet life in the village of Little Weirwold is set to change when nine-year old Willie Beech (Nick Robinson) is evacuated from London and billeted on him. Willie is a quiet sad child with a deprived and disturbing past but he slowly begins to flourish under the care of 'Mister Tom' and enjoys an idyllic village life. Gradually a strong bond of friendship develops between the two. Then quite suddenly his mother (Annabelle Apsion) summons Willie back to the terrors of Blitz-torn London. Tom is left feeling lonely and wondering if he will ever see his dear friend again. Buried Treasure: John Thaw is Harry Jenkins in this brand new ITV film a gruff self-obsessed estate agent used to getting his own way. Until that is he returns from a game of golf to find the police on his doorstep with news of his estranged daughter's death and discovers for the first time that he is the grandfather of a mixed-race little girl. Saffron his spirited and strong-willed granddaughter proves to be quite a match for him and a trip to London in search of her father forces Harry to face up to a few home truths. He realises that things need to change if he is to play a part in Saffron's life. Brilliantly acted this powerful and moving drama evokes Harry's inner struggle for salvation.