"Director: Thorold Dickinson"

• The Queen Of Spades | DVD | (18/01/2010) from £9.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (100.12%)   |  RRP £15.99

  "The Queen Of Spades" from director Thorold Dickinson will open in cinemas on Boxing Day at key London sites as well as regional art-houses across the country, in total 12 dates on site, in association with the ICO.

• The Arsenal Stadium Mystery | DVD | (18/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  During a charity soccer match between top professional side Arsenal and touring amateur side Trojans the Trojan's new star player collapses. When he dies Inspector Slade of Scotland Yard is called in and declares it was murder. It takes all his ingenuity and another death before the motive is discovered and the killer revealed...

• Ealing Studios Rarities Collection: Volume 11 | DVD | (03/03/2014) from £11.98   |  Saving you £5.00 (50.05%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A global byword for cinematic quality of a quintessentially British nature, Ealing Studios made more than 150 films over a three decade period. A cherished and significant part of British film history, only selected films from both the Ealing and Associated Talking Pictures strands have previously been made available on home video format - with some remaining unseen since their original theatrical release. The Ealing Rarities Collection redresses this imbalance - featuring new transfe...

• Gaslight (Dual Format Edition) | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £10.35   |  Saving you £9.64 (93.14%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Blu-ray / DVD premiere release for the newly remastered version of Thorold Dickinson’s dark and menacing psychological 1940 classic. Based on Patrick Hamilton's celebrated stage play Gaslight is a harrowing and claustrophobic film about domestic fear. Anton Walbrook (The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp The Red Shoes) stars as the terrifying husband who puts the sanity of his fragile and tortured wife (Diana Wynyard) under siege. The success of Gaslight on stage and film encouraged Hollywood studio MGM to buy the remake rights in the early 1940s with a clause insisting that all existing prints of Dickinson's British version be destroyed. Unseen for many decades this definitive version has been digitally restored by the BFI. Contents: First ever High Definition presentation Newly remastered by the BFI national archive Extras TBC Fully illustrated booklet with original essays

• Secret People | Blu Ray | (13/05/2019) from £20.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Hollywood icon Audrey Hepburn stars in her first significant role as an ingénue whose sister becomes ensnared in a web of intrigue and political assassination in this classic Ealing drama from Oscar-nominated director Thorold Dickinson. Co-starring noted European actors Valentina Cortese giving a sensitive, critically-acclaimed performance and Serge Reggiani, Secret People is presented here as a High Definition transfer from the original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio. Relocated due to increasing danger in their southern European homeland, sisters Maria and Nora settle in London with Maria leaving Louis, the young man she loves, to carry on the fight. In a chance meeting several years later Louis plays on Maria's love for him to involve her in a plot to bomb the man responsible for her father's death a plot that doesn't go to plan. Special Features: Image gallery PDF material

• Secret People | DVD | (18/01/2010) from £14.56   |  Saving you £1.43 (9.82%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A dark and suspenseful drama set in 1930s London. Maria Brentano and her younger sister Nora flee to London after their father is murdered by a European minister. Seven years later during a weekend trip to Paris Maria unexpectedly meets Louis her former lover who is now plotting the assassination of the same minister. Maria and Nora become involved in the plan which goes tragically wrong when the bomb they plant kills an innocent bystander. Facing the consequences of her actions and harboring dark secrets Maria escapes and assumes a new identity but later discovers that her sister is involved with Louis in a dangerous plot and decides to boldly act in order to save her...

• Gaslight (DVD) | DVD | (25/04/2016) from £7.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (125.16%)   |  RRP £17.99

  DVD release of this newly remastered version of Thorold Dickinson's dark and menacing psychological 1940 classic. Based on Patrick Hamilton's celebrated stage play, Gaslight is a harrowing and claustrophobic film about domestic fear. Anton Walbrook (The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The Red Shoes) stars as the terrifying husband who puts the sanity of his fragile and tortured wife (Diana Wynyard) under siege. The success of Gaslight on stage and film encouraged Hollywood studio MGM to buy the remake rights in the early 1940s, with a clause insisting that all existing prints of Dickinson's British version be destroyed. Unseen for many decades, this definitive version has been digitally restored by the BFI. Contents: Spanish A B C (Thorold Dickinson and Sidney Cole, 1938, 20 mins) Behind the Spanish Lines (Sidney Cole and Thorold Dickinson, 1938, 20 mins) Westward Ho! (Thorold Dickinson, 1940, 9 mins): short film to promote the evacuation of urban children to rural areas. Miss Grant Goes to the Door (Brian Desmond Hurst, 1940 7 mins): short film about a German invasion Yesterday is Over Your Shoulder (Thorold Dickinson, 1940, 9 mins): short film encouraging unskilled workers to join free, government-organised engineering training schemes. Original promotional materials and documents from the BFI National Archive (downloadable PDF)

• The High Command | DVD | (17/05/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Blackmail betrayal a deceitful web of lies crimes of passion lost love intrigue and murder are the vital ingredients that make The High Command such compelling viewing. Set amidst the backdrop of WWI The High Command is a thrilling suspenseful drama based upon a novel by Lewis Robinson adapted for the screen by Walter Meade (Scott Of The Antarctic) and expertly directed by distinguished filmmaker Thorold Dickinson (Secret People The Queen of Spades). Also featuring an early appearance from future film legend James Mason (North by Northwest The Man in Grey) and Lionel Atwill (Doctor X Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman). A high-ranking general is stationed in West Africa but when a new doctor arrives at his post he is forced to face his dark past. The doctor is an old acquaintance and holds a deadly secret about the general a secret that could destroy him forever. That is until the doctor is found murdered and the sinister world of the general begins to unravel.

• The High Command | Blu Ray | (15/02/2021) from £16.69   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Lionel Atwill, Lucie Mannheim and James Mason (in an early breakout role) star in this memorable Colonial tale of honour and betrayal between the wars. Oscar-nominated Thorold Dickinson's feature debut as a solo director, The High Command is presented here as a High Definition remaster from original film elements in its as-exhibited aspect ratio. West Africa, 1937. When a medical officer attached to a military garrison is found murdered, a fellow officer is suspected. The subsequent court martial rakes up the past, uncovering secrets best left dead and buried...

• Next Of Kin | DVD | (10/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A collection of four important wartime films. Released by the famed Ealing Studios in 1942 The Next of Kin graphically illustrated the disastrous effect of careless talk on the Home Front and how it almost wrecks a daring British commando raid. Churchill personally wanted to see it banned! The New Lot follows the adventures of raw army recruits in 1943 while 1945s Read All About It was an Army Bureau of Current Affairs film dramatising a discussion withthe ex-editor of a newspaper ab

• The High Command | DVD | (22/03/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A British commander of a garrison stationed in West Africa during World War I attempts to cover up a scandal involving his daughter.