"Director: Larry PEERCE"

• The Incident (Eureka Classics) Dual Format (Blu-ray & DVD) edition | Blu Ray | (12/08/2019) from £14.70   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Eureka Entertainment to release THE INCIDENT, the raw and intense 1967 New York thriller featuring Martin Sheen, Tony Musante and an ensemble cast, making its WORLDWIDE DEBUT on Blu-ray in a Dual Format (Blu-ray & DVD) edition as part of the Eureka Classics range from 12 August 2019. A riveting urban tension thriller, and a fantastic snapshot of 1967 New York City in all its seedy, black-and-white glory, The Incident also features an iconic 60s cast that must be seen to be believed. Martin Sheen makes his feature film debut as one of two small-time hoods the other is Tony Musante (The Bird with the Crystal Plumage) in one of his earliest roles terrorising a subway car full of trapped passengers, portrayed by an ensemble cast including Thelma Ritter (Rear Window), Beau Bridges (The Fabulous Baker Boys), Ed McMahon, Donna Mills (Play Misty for Me), Jack Gilford (Save the Tiger), Brock Peters (To Kill a Mockingbird), Ruby Dee (A Raisin in the Sun), and a host of other instantly recognisable faces from NYC films and television of the era. After mugging an old man for a few dollars, thugs Artie (Sheen) and Joe (Musante) hop a subway deep in the Bronx, and proceed to threaten and intimidate the Sunday night commuters all the way to Times Square. The terrified riders are a mixed group an elderly Jewish couple, a family trying to protect their 5-year-old daughter, an alcoholic, two teens on a date, two military Privates, a bigoted African-American man and his wife, etc. but they are united by their fear and sense of helplessness as switchblade-wielding Joe and Artie block the subway doors from opening at stops, and prevent the riders from leaving. Will any of them have the courage to confront the two maniacs? A high-velocity home invasion-styled hostage drama on rails, The Incident is a NYC transit suspense film that precedes the better-known The Taking of Pelham One Two Three by seven years. When director Larry Peerce (Goodbye, Columbus) and cinematographer Gerald Hirschfeld (Young Frankenstein) were denied permission to shoot in the NYC subways, they did it anyway, using concealed cameras for some footage, providing a gritty time capsule of the 60s Big Apple as it begins to rot.

• Two Minute Warning (Dual Format) | Blu Ray | (05/06/2017) from £18.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A psychotic sniper plans a massive killing spree at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum football stadium during a major championship game. The police, led by Captain Peter Holly (Charlton Heston Planet of the Apes) and SWAT commander Sergeant Button (John Cassavetes Rosemary s Baby), learn of the plot and rush to the scene. Still, they may be too late, as an all-star cast finds itself lined up in the sights of a madman. The gunman has his pick of the targets, the Mayor, the President or merely the innocent? Either way he has to be stopped before all hell breaks loose.

• Murder So Sweet | DVD | (31/12/2007) from £7.46   |  Saving you £-0.48 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Steve Catlin was known as a real lady-killer. But it's his new bride's mysterious death that causes his former wife Edie Ballew to question how accurate that nickname really is. With little more than a hunch and the help of an out-of-town detective Edie finds clues that reveal her cunning and smooth ex husband as a cold methodical killer. But can she warn his latest wife and can she convince the local police...

• North And South - Series 3 | DVD | (20/10/2008) from £6.90   |  Saving you £18.09 (262.17%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Season Three of the epic saga of North And South which features the trials of the South Carolina Main family and the Pennsylvanian Hazards. In the fateful year 1861 began a war which was to tear America apart and which threatened to destroy the lives of the Hazard and Main clans. Friend fights friend brother stands against brother as the two families once bound by friendship and love are now on opposite sides of the bloody conflict.

• Green Hornet | DVD | (04/08/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  A single season TV show, originally aired in 1966-7, The Green Hornet was produced by William Dozier as a stable-mate for his more popular Batman series. Originally a 1940s radio character (and the grand-nephew of the Lone Ranger), the Green Hornet was another masked crime fighter with a secret identity and a sidekick (not to mention a cool car, the Black Beauty, and a memorable theme, a jazzy riff on "Flight of the Bumblebee"). Newspaper magnate Britt Reid (Van Williams) dons a mask and slouch hat to fight corruption in the big city. In place of Robin or Tonto, GH has Kato (Bruce Lee), a martial arts expert-chauffeur whose name inspired Inspector Clouseau's assistant and who seems to blow the secret identity gaff by using his real name in both civilian life and masked adventuring. While Batman was a colourful exercise in camp, with over-the-top villains played for laugh and a pop art hipness, The Green Hornet was a mundane pulp adventure with very little humour and very little in the character and plot departments. After the superstardom and early death of Bruce Lee, 20th Century Fox decided to cobble together a couple of theatrical feature films from this property, of which this 1974 effort is the first. The bulk of the film consists of four episodes crudely spliced together. Scattered throughout are bizarrely irrelevant fight scenes from other episodes, which make the already disjointed plotting quite surreal. The television image was cropped to make a widescreen film, which means the tops of heads and hats are lopped off the frame with alarming regularity. Though an interesting curio, fans might have preferred a release of individual episodes. On the DVD: This letterboxed transfer is probably the best the film could ever be made to look, considering it was probably shot on 16mm, then blown up and cropped for widescreen release. The quality varies notably from scene to scene, suggesting that the source episodes were in wildly different shape. The extras include thorough cast notes on Williams, Lee and under-used heroine Wende Wagner, still-image and film photo galleries, a quarter-hour featurette on the Black Beauty (flawed by the fact that the current owner is one of the dullest speakers in America), some shots of the Black Hornet Corgi model (oddly available in the UK in the 1960s, though the show didn't air on British television), a solid essay on the history of the character, notes on "The Bruce and Brandon Lee Association" and a funky if incomplete trailer for Black Samurai. --Kim Newman

• Queenie | DVD | (04/03/2002) from £16.22   |  Saving you £-9.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  From humble beginnings in the slums of Calcutta to the lofty heights of Hollywood fame and fortune Queenie achieves a triumph she never imagined. But dark secrets from her past and jealous rivalries threaten to destroy her. Based on the novel by Michael Korda.

• Two Minute Warning | DVD | (06/07/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When a crazed sniper hides out in a football stadium waiting for the game and his killing spree to start Captain Peter Holly (Heston) is sent in to find and disarm him before anyone gets killed. However his mission is made harder by the arrival of a rival SWAT team who plan to rush the sniper which could result in many innocent deaths. As the two teams race to find the killer before the two minute warning rings out signalling the start of his shooting the tension mounts.

• The Incident | DVD | (12/05/2014) from £12.98   |  Saving you £0.01 (0.08%)   |  RRP £12.99

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• Queenie | DVD | (11/09/2006) from £8.09   |  Saving you £-4.10 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  This is the story of Queenie Kelly an English girl from the slums of Calcutta who is kept from full knowledge of her Indian heritage by her protective mother. She moves to London where she relentlessly pursues fame and fortune but at what price?

• Breach Of Trust | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Mark and Cassie Woodman (William Russ and Roma Downey) could be just the perfect couple. They married young and although they've had their problems there proud of their teenage son Kevin and are still as happy as they were on the day they first got married. But when Mark takes a short buisness trip Cassie and Kevin's secure family world is lost when they see a TV news report that Marks plane has crashed with loss of many lives. After an anxious wait they hear the news they've been praying for - Mark is alive although badly injured and unconscious. However Cassie is stunned to discover that Mark had a travelling companion listed as Mrs C.Whitman who didnt survive the crash. The shocks don't end there leaving her wondering if she knew her loving husband at all...

• Murder So Sweet | DVD | (02/08/2004) from £8.99   |  Saving you £-5.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Steve Catlin was known as a real lady-killer. But it's his new bride's mysterious death that causes his former wife Edie Ballew to question how accurate that nickname really is. With little more than a hunch and the help of an out-of-town detective Edie finds clues that reveal her cunning and smooth ex husband as a cold methodical killer. But can she warn his latest wife and can she convince the local police...

• The Abduction | DVD | (05/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Kate Findlay is one of those women who seem to have it all. But when she splits from her abusive police officer husband to start a new life he ends up taking the law into his own hands...

• Man Of Miracles | DVD | (16/01/2002) from £4.99   |  Saving you £1.00 (20.04%)   |  RRP £5.99

• Menu For Murder | DVD | (04/12/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Jan Marshall president of the local school board is a manipulative driven woman - no wonder her board members wish her dead. At a school fund raising luncheon Jan bites into a sandwich and drops dead on the spot. Detective Brett Malone is assigned the case and reveals that the sandwich was laced with drugs...

• Two Minute Warning | DVD | (01/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  When a crazed sniper hides out in a football stadium waiting for the game and his killing spree to start Captain Peter Holly (Heston) is sent in to find and disarm him before anyone gets killed. However his mission is made harder by the arrival of a rival SWAT team who plan to rush the sniper which could result in many innocent deaths. As the two teams race to find the killer before the two minute warning rings out signalling the start of his shooting the tension mounts.

• The Abduction | DVD | (19/11/2007) from £8.07   |  Saving you £-0.08 (-1.00%)   |  RRP £7.99

  They Were Separated By Law'. Until He Took It Into His Own Hands. Kate Findlay (Victoria Principal) is one of those women who seems to have it all - a great job two bright loving children and a terrific guy. Her only problem is an ex-husband who never quite got used to being the ""ex"". Paul (Robert Hays) has started to stalk her. He is a man slowly losing touch with sanity and he has reduced Kate to barricading doors with furniture and double-checking locks. Their relationship is painted through flashbacks featuring everything from their honeymoon night to the accident that dismissed him from the police force. This event marked the unraveling of their marriage and of Paul in general. With little help from the police Kate's life has become one of waiting' waiting for freedom and waiting for this maniac to slip up enough to warrant an arrest. The time arrives sooner than she fears as she finds herself trapped in a terrible situation with the man who has her where he wants her: with him and no one else.

• Menu For Murder | DVD | (02/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Jan Marshall president of the local school board is a manipulative driven woman - no wonder her board members wish her dead. At a school fund raising luncheon Jan bites into a sandwich and drops dead on the spot. Detective Brett Malone is assigned the case and reveals that the sandwich was laced with drugs...