"Director: Nicholas Ray"

• In A Lonely Place | DVD | (27/01/2003) from £79.99   |  Saving you £-67.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  One of the classics of the noir psychological thriller, In a Lonely Place is one of Humphrey Bogart's finest performances. He is almost unbearably intense as Dixon Steele, a screenwriter with high standards and a nasty temper who finds himself under suspicion when Mildred, a hat-check girl he knows, is found murdered. Immediately he gets an alibi from a neighbour, Laurel, and equally quickly, he recognises that this is a woman who meets his standards: the question is, as suspicion of his involvement in Mildred's death continues, can he make himself meet hers? This is a wonderful study in trust and suspicion and the limits of love; Bogart's performance is impressive simply because he is prepared to go well over the limits of our sympathy in the name of emotional truth. The scene where he explains imaginatively to a cop and his wife how the murder might have happened is a spine-chilling, creepy portrait of amoral artistic brilliance. Gloria Grahame is equally fine as the woman who lets herself love him, for a while. On the DVD: In a Lonely Place comes with an excellent documentary in which Curtis Hanson (LA Confidential) explains the importance of the film to him and discusses its place in the work of Bogart and the director Nicholas Ray; there is also a quick interesting documentary about the restoration and digitisation of classic films. The film is presented with a visual aspect ratio of 1.33:1 and with restored Dolby Surround sound that does full justice to the film's snappy dialogue and the moody George Antheil score. --Roz Kaveney

• 55 Days at Peking (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (03/07/2018) from £10.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion in China. The disparate interests unite for survival by the Chinese Empress and her generals.

• 55 Days at Peking | DVD | (03/07/2018) from £9.45   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion in China. The disparate interests unite for survival by the Chinese Empress and her generals.

• Rebel Without A Cause | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £7.19   |  Saving you £11.80 (164.12%)   |  RRP £18.99

  When people think of James Dean, they probably think first of the troubled teen from Rebel Without a Cause: nervous, volatile, soulful, a kid lost in a world that does not understand him. Made between his only other starring roles, in East of Eden and Giant, Rebel sums up the jangly, alienated image of Dean, but also happens to be one of the key films of the 1950s. Director Nicholas Ray takes a strikingly sympathetic look at the teenagers standing outside the white-picket-fence 50s dream of America: juvenile delinquent (that's what they called them then) Jim Stark (Dean), fast-girl Judy (Natalie Wood), lost-boy Plato (Sal Mineo), slick hot-rodder Buzz (Corey Allen). At the time, it was unusual for a movie to endorse the point of view of teenagers, but Ray and screenwriter Stewart Stern captured the youthful angst that was erupting at the same time in rock 'n' roll. Dean is heartbreaking, following the method-acting style of Marlon Brando but staking out a nakedly emotional honesty of his own. Going too fast, in every way, he was killed in a car crash on September 30, 1955, a month before Rebel opened. He was no longer an actor, but an icon, and Rebel is a lasting monument. --Robert Horton, Amazon.com

• East Of Eden / Rebel Without A Cause / Giant | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £41.95   |  Saving you £-0.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £40.99

  Giant (1956): George Stevens' sweeping Oscar-winning epic about the cataclysmic effect the discovery of oil in Texas has on the lifestyle of the former cattle barons. Dean is Jett Rink a sullen-farm hand who becomes a millionaire overnight. Tough always angry restless bewildered and reckless Rink's animal charm and tycoon's magnetism means he always gets his way. But when he fails in love with Leslie he loses his way with an equal violence... East Of Eden (1955): J

• In a Lonely Place | Blu Ray | (16/05/2016) from £17.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (55.59%)   |  RRP £27.99

  One of the classics of the noir psychological thriller, In a Lonely Place is one of Humphrey Bogart's finest performances. He is almost unbearably intense as Dixon Steele, a screenwriter with high standards and a nasty temper who finds himself under suspicion when Mildred, a hat-check girl he knows, is found murdered. Immediately he gets an alibi from a neighbour, Laurel, and equally quickly, he recognises that this is a woman who meets his standards: the question is, as suspicion of his involvement in Mildred's death continues, can he make himself meet hers? This is a wonderful study in trust and suspicion and the limits of love; Bogart's performance is impressive simply because he is prepared to go well over the limits of our sympathy in the name of emotional truth. The scene where he explains imaginatively to a cop and his wife how the murder might have happened is a spine-chilling, creepy portrait of amoral artistic brilliance. Gloria Grahame is equally fine as the woman who lets herself love him, for a while. On the DVD: In a Lonely Place comes with an excellent documentary in which Curtis Hanson (LA Confidential) explains the importance of the film to him and discusses its place in the work of Bogart and the director Nicholas Ray; there is also a quick interesting documentary about the restoration and digitisation of classic films. The film is presented with a visual aspect ratio of 1.33:1 and with restored Dolby Surround sound that does full justice to the film's snappy dialogue and the moody George Antheil score. --Roz Kaveney

• James Dean Collection | Blu Ray | (14/08/2017) from £12.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Collection of three classic James Dean films. In 'East of Eden' (1955) two brothers compete for the love of their stern, overbearing, widowed father. However, when Cal (Dean), the rejected 'rebel' son, discovers that his mother is not dead but running a nearby brothel he tells his brother Aron (Richard Davalos). This leads to the destruction of not only his relationship with Aron but also his father. 'Giant' (1956) is an epic saga which begins when Texas cattle baron Bick Benedict (Rock Hudson) takes a non-Texan wife, Leslie (Elizabeth Taylor). The story then traces two generations of his family, alongside the life of disreputable ranch-hand Jett Rink (Dean), who strikes it rich on an oil well and falls in love with Leslie. Director George Stevens won an Oscar for his work and the film garnered nine more nominations, including one for Dean, who was killed soon after filming. Finally, 'Rebel Without a Cause' (1955) takes place over a 24-hour period and follows Jim Stark (Dean), a restless teenager who is always in trouble with the law. When Jim is picked up for being drunk and disorderly he notices Judy (Natalie Wood) at the police station and determines to ask her on a date at high school the next day, which leads him into conflict with her boyfriend Buzz (Corey Allen).

• They Live By Night (1948) (CRITERION COLLECTION) UK Only | Blu Ray | (20/04/2020) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Legendary director NICHOLAS RAY (In a Lonely Place, Rebel Without a Cause) began his career with this lyrical film noir, the first in a series of existential genre films overflowing with sympathy for America's outcasts and underdogs. When the wide-eyed fugitive Bowie (Rope's FARLEY GRANGER), having broken out of prison with some bank robbers, meets the innocent Keechie (Ben-Hur's CATHY O'DONNELL), each recognizes something in the other that no one else ever has. The young lovers envision a new, decent life together, but as they flee the cops and contend with Bowie's fellow outlaws, who aren't about to let him go straight, they realize there's nowhere left to run. Ray brought an outsider's sensibility honed in the theatre to this debut, using revolutionary camera techniques and naturalistic performances to craft a profoundly romantic crime drama that paved the way for decades of lovers-on-the-run thrillers to come. Special Features New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray Audio commentary featuring film historian Eddie Muller and actor Farley Granger New video interview with film critic Imogen Sara Smith Short piece from 2007 with film critic Molly Haskell, filmmakers Christopher Coppola and Oliver Stone, and film noir specialists Alain Silver and James Ursini Illustrated audio interview excerpts from 1956 with producer John Houseman PLUS: A new essay by film scholar Bernard Eisenschitz

• Johnny Guitar | DVD | (04/04/2005) from £10.80   |  Saving you £5.19 (48.06%)   |  RRP £15.99

  One of the stranger westerns to come out of Hollywood the title character is played by the imposing Sterling Hayden. Johnny Guitar is the former lover of Arizona saloon owner Vienna (Joan Crawford). Although her bar isn't bringing in any money Vienna knows that when the railroad is complete customers won't be a problem anymore. Righteous local Emma Small is most unhappy about Vienna's bar and the prospect of more settlers. Emma will do almost anything to purge the town of Vien

• John Fogerty /Live In Texas | DVD | (03/10/2011) from £16.18   |  Saving you £-4.19 (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  John Cameron Fogerty is one of the greatest singer-songwriters and guitarists in American rock music history. This enigmatic and extremely talented performer rose to fame as the founder/leader of the iconic swamp rock outfit, Creedence Clearwater Revival. But also went on to pen multiple #1 hits as a solo artist, and under the The Blue Ridge Rangers moniker as well. Here he is captured during his second major comeback post CCR. Filmed at KLRU Studios, Austin, Texas circa August 10, 2004, Fogerty and band perform C.C.R. classics such as Fortunate Son, Born on the Bayou or Down on the Corner, as well as samplings songs from his solo career. A solid 15 song set with not a weak track to be found! If you are fan of roots rock the way C.C.R. and the genius of their founder, J. Fogerty can deliver it... you will love this DVD!Track Listing: 01. Born On The Bayou02. Green River03. Cotton Fields04. Sugar-Sugar (In My Life)05. I Will Walk With You06. Rhubarb Pie07. Down On The Corner08. Deja Vu (All Over Again)09. A Hundred And Ten Degrees In The Shade10. Hot Rod Heart11. The Old Man Down The Road12. Travellin Band13. Bad Moon Rising 14. Fortunate Son15. Proud Mary

• Flying Leathernecks | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £7.89   |  Saving you £2.10 (26.62%)   |  RRP £9.99

  John Wayne portrays a rugged Marine flying officer whose determination is hated by his men as well as the enemy. A classic drama of men under stress.

• Affair To Remember, An / Kiss Them For Me / People Will Talk / Born To Be Bad | DVD | (31/05/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  This box set features four classic Cary Grant films. An Affair To Remember: In this poignant and humorous love story nominated for four Academy Awards Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr meet on an ocean liner and fall deeply in love. Though each is engaged to someone else they agree to meet six months later at the Empire State Building if they still feel the same way about each other. But a tragic accident prevents their rendezvous and the lovers' future takes an emotional and unce

• Rebel Without A Cause | Blu Ray | (02/11/2015) from £9.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• 55 Days At Peking | Blu Ray | (07/04/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Diplomats soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion in China. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing factions overwhelming odds delayed relief and the support of the Boxers by the Chinese Empress and her generals.

• Bitter Victory | DVD | (04/06/2007) from £3.00   |  Saving you £9.99 (76.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Desert Commando Raid They Wiped Off the Record Books! A Word War II drama starring Richard Burton (Academy Award nominee for Best Actor Equus 1977 and Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf? 1966) and Curt Jurgens (The Spy Who Love Me) as Captain Leith and Major Brand a pair of British Army officers assigned to execute a daring commando raid on the Libyan stronghold of General Rommel. Even before the mission begins the tension between the two is evident.

• James Dean - The Complete Collection | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Giant (1956): George Stevens' sweeping Oscar-winning epic about the cataclysmic effect the discovery of oil in Texas has on the lifestyle of the former cattle barons. Dean is Jett Rink a sullen-farm hand who becomes a millionaire overnight. Tough always angry restless bewildered and reckless Rink's animal charm and tycoon's magnetism means he always gets his way. But when he fails in love with Leslie he loses his way with an equal violence... East Of Eden (1955): James Dean plays Cal a wayward Salinas Valley youth who vies for the affection of his hardened father (Raymond Massey) with his favored brother Aron (Richard Davalos). Playing off the haunting sensitivity of Julie Harris Dean's performance earned one of the film's four Academy Award nominations. Among the movie's stellar performers Jo Van Fleet won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. Rebel Without A Cause (1955): In one of cinemas most influential and gripping roles James Dean plays Jim Stark the new kid in town whose loneliness frustration and anger mirrored those of most postwar teens - and reverberates more than 40 years later. Natalie Wood (as Jim's girlfriend Judy) and Sal Mineo (in his screen debut as Jim's tag-along pal Plato) were Academy Award nominees for their achingly true performances. Director Nicholas Ray was also an Oscar nominee for this landmark film chosen as one of the Top-100 American Films by the American Film Institute.

• Hot Blood | DVD | (26/03/2007) from £6.86   |  Saving you £6.13 (89.36%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Dramatic musical directed by Nicholas Ray and starring Russell and Wilde as a gypsy couple whose marriage was prearranged by their relatives. Gypsy girl who lives by decamping with marriage settlements from wealthy men meets her match in the handsome younger brother of a gypsy king.

• Bigger Than Life | DVD | (30/07/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Schoolteacher and family man Ed Avery who's been suffering bouts of severe pain and even blackouts is hospitalized with what's diagnosed as a rare inflammation of the arteries. Told by doctors that he probably has only months to live Ed agrees to an experimental treatment: doses of the hormone cortisone. Ed makes a remarkable recovery and returns home to his wife Lou and their son Richie. He must keep taking cortisone tablets regularly to prevent a recurrence of his illness. But the miracle cure turns into its own nightmare as Ed starts to abuse the tablets causing him to experience increasingly wild mood swings...

• James Dean - Ultimate Collector's Edition | Blu Ray | (28/10/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  This ultimate collector's edition includes three of James Dean's landmark films. This box set includes Giant East of Eden and Rebel Without a Cause. GiantTexan rancher Bick Benedict visits a Maryland farm to buy a prize horse. Whilst there he meets and falls in love with the owner's daughter Leslie. They are married immediately and return to his ranch. The story of their family and its rivalry with cowboy and (later oil tycoon) Jett Rinkunfolds across two generations. Special Features: Introduction by George Stevens Jr. Commentary by George Stevens Jr. Ivan Moffat and Stephen Farber George Stevens: Filmmakers Who Knew Him Rebel Without a CauseDean stars as the ultimate juvenile delinquent. A lonely misunderstood bad boy from a good family who will do anything to get his parents' attention even if it ends in tragedy. Special Features: Commentary by Douglas L. Rathgeb James Dean Rembered featurette Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents Dennis Hopper: Memories from the Warner lot Screen tests Wardrobe tests 16 deleted scenes Behind the cameras: Natalie Wood Behind the cameras: Jim Backus Behind the cameras: James Dean Theatrical trailer East of EdenTwo brothers rival for the love of their stern over-bearing widowed father. However when Cal (James Dean) the rejected 'rebel' son discovers that his mother is not dead but running a nearby brothel he decides to tell his brother. This spiteful decision soon leads to the destruction of his relationship with his brother who in a drunken frenzy runs off to enlist in an army unit being shipped overseas to the battlefields of France. Special Features: Commentary by Richards Schickel Forever James Dean (1987 Documentary) East of Eden: Art in Search of Life Screen tests 4 Wardrobe testsDeleted scenes 3/9/1955 NYC premiere Theatrical trailer Collector's Edition Includes: 6-disc Digipack Blu-ray collection featuring all 3 of James Dean's iconic movies: East of Eden Giant and Rebel Without A Cause 3 movie posters 10 photo cards 6 memos 48-page booklet

• Knock on Any Door | DVD | (29/03/2010) from £13.95   |  Saving you £-0.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Knock On Any Door