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• Old Mother Riley - Meets The Vampire / Headmistress | DVD | (16/01/2006) from £7.20   |  Saving you £5.79 (80.42%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Two Old Mother Riley classics on one DVD! In Old Mother Riley Meets the Vampire the old rogue from Ration Row battles 'The Vampire' an evil scientist (who's also a vampire) played by none other than Bela (Dracula) Lugosi himself!! Thanks to an unexpected inheritance from a distant relative in Ireland in Old Mother Riley Headmistress she and daughter Kitty find themselves the proud owners of St. Mildred's School for Young Ladies. Life is good - until a gang of unscrupulous crooks

• Old Mother Riley - New Adventure / Jungle Adventure | DVD | (16/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A double bill of Old Mother Riley films with Arthur Lucan in drag as the eponymous old woman.

• Headline | DVD | (29/02/2016) from £6.49   |  Saving you £3.50 (53.93%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Crime, intrigue... and a murder that was almost perfect!Appearing three years before his career-defining role in Black Narcissus, David Farrar plays a Fleet Street reporter who discovers an uncomfortable truth when he sets out to unravel a murder mystery. Anne Crawford, William Hartnell and silent-era idol John Stuart also feature among the top-line cast of this gripping and complex wartime thriller featured here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements, in its original theatrical aspect ratio.Ellington, a keen editor and newspaperman, has been neglecting his wife for his work; she, bored with her own company and irked by her husband's selfish behaviour, has been carrying on a mild flirtation with man-about-town Paul Grayson. During one of her visits to Grayson's flat, a former girlfriend appears with disastrous consequences for all concerned...

• The Old Mother Riley Collection | DVD | (20/11/2015) from £21.95   |  Saving you £8.04 (36.63%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Bridget's Night Out (1936) This was the first appearance of Lucan and McShane on film. Arthur wrote the sketch shortly before the couple's appearance at the Royal Command Performance in May 1934; it was filmed by Butchers late in 1935 and released in 1936. Old Mother Riley(1937) Previously Lost Film. The first of a series of fifteen of the most successful comedies in the history of British film. Old Mother Riley In Paris (1938) Con West's second script for Butcher's Films, produced and directed this time with far greater assurance, by Oswald Mitchell. Filming took place far from Paris, at Nettlefold Studios, Walton-on-Thames, and on location at Gatwick airport. Old Mother Riley MP (1939) "Early in 1939 the Lucans made their third and last Riley film for Butcher's, Old Mother Riley MP. The film was released in August and was a huge box-office success, with Mother Riley taking the Mother Of Parliaments"" by storm." Old Mother Riley Headmistress (1950) "Old Mother Riley Headmistress, was produced for Grand National Pictures by Harry Reynolds. John Harlow directed with John Gilling, and old faithful Con West was back on the script. Here, Mother Riley makes the transition from washerwoman to headmistress with the usual hilarious results. Old Mother Riley's Jungle Treasure (1951) The last film in which Lucan and McShane appeared together or rather appeared to" appear" together because in reality their interminable quarrels had by this time become so intolerable that George Minter decided to film all their scenes separately and edit them later, a fact that accounts for the rather strange atmosphere in many scenes in which Mother and Kitty seem to be talking not to each other but to someone just over each other's shoulder. Old Mother Riley's New Venture (1949) By 1949 it seemed clear that the series of films by music hall to cinema crossover comedians had run its course. Made by Harry Reynolds Productions and the Renown Pictures Corporation, directed by John Harlow with John Gilling. Mother Riley Meets The Vampire (1952) Mother Riley was scheduled to meet a Vampire to be played by Bela Lugosi. As Richard Anthony Baker wickedly put it, "One horrific figure was replaced by another." Bonus Feature - Documentary "Arthur And Kitty" A real treat for Old Mother Riley Fans as a collection of Lucan specialists give an insight into the lives of Arthur and Kitty in this EXCLUSIVE documentary brought to you by Talking Pictures TV

• While I Live | DVD | (19/10/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A young composer and pianist Olwen Trevelyan troubled and sleepless over her inability to finish the final notes of her composition falls to her death from the cliffs of Cornwall. As years pass Olwen's sister Julia obsessively keeps her memory alive. The young composer gains posthumous fame because of her tragic death and her haunting unfinished composition The Dream of Olwen. 25 years later still mourning the death of her composer sister Julia believes she has returned reincarnated in an amnesiac woman who chances upon her house seeking help... Contains the haunting music The Dream of Olwen composed by Charles Williams.

• Those People Next Door | DVD | (24/03/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Twiggs are a typical working-class family: Sam (Jack Warner) and Mary (Marjorie Rhodes) are trying to bring their family up in the shadow of the Blitz whilst taking everything in good humour. Their neighbours Joe (Charles Victor) and Emma (Gladys Henson) are constantly in the Twiggs' house borrowing a cup of sugar or using their Anderson shelter and between them the two working class families put the world to rights. But when their daughter falls for an upper class RAF pilot the Twiggs are asked by his mother Lady Diana Stephens to tell their daughter to call the romance off as the social gap between the families is too large. Incensed by Lady Diana's offer of money Sam Twigg throws her out of the house. But events take a sudden turn as the war enters the Twiggs' own living room. Will the two families manage to overcome their disdain for each other and let true love find its way?

• Dangerous Cargo / Dead Man's Evidence | DVD | (14/10/2013) from £13.05   |  Saving you £-0.06 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Dangerous Cargo (1954)/Dead Man's Evidence (1962)

• The Blue Parrot / Burnt Evidence | DVD | (14/10/2013) from £13.05   |  Saving you £-0.06 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Blue Parrot: Suspense and romance erupt when a nightclub becomes the scene of a murder, and its owner and her American boyfriend the prime suspects. Classic crime thriller set against the post-war backdrop of spivs, black-marketeers, pawnbrokers and raincoat detectives. Burnt Evidence: Duncan Lamont plays Jane Hylton's jealous husband. In a confrontation, Lamont accidentally shoots Hylton's lover. Convinced that he's a murderer, he heads for the hills as a ...

• Old Mother Riley | DVD | (13/11/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Arthur Lucan and Kitty McShane star in this unique collection of Old Mother Riley films! Featuring: 1. MP 2. In Paris 3. New Venture 4. Jungle Treasure 5. Meets The Vampire 6. Headmistress

• Old Mother Riley | DVD | (01/01/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Arthur Lucan and Kitty McShane star in this unique collection of Old Mother Riley films! Featuring: 1. MP 2. In Paris 3. New Venture 4. Jungle Treasure 5. Meets The Vampire 6. Headmistress