"Director: William A Wellman"

• WINGS (Masters of Cinema) (Dual Format Blu-ray & DVD) | Blu Ray | (27/01/2014) from £13.19   |  Saving you £1.80 (13.65%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Forever granted a place in cinematic history by winning the first ever Academy Award for Best Picture in 1927 and the only silent film to do so William Wellman's silent epic Wings is more than an Oscar winner but an epic story of friendship with the type of thrilling action only practical effects can imagine...Hometown best friends Jack (Charles Buddy Rogers) and David (Richard Arlen) compete for the affection of a gorgeous dame (Jobyna Ralston) though Jack doesn't realise that girl next door Mary Preston (Clara Bow) has eyes for him as well. But World War I is soon upon them so the boys are off to France to fight against the Germans. Meanwhile Mary follows Jack into enemy lines as a nurse. Wellman's epic drama combines the most spectacular of stunts with the most classical of melodrama along with one of Bow's greatest performances and the screen debut of Gary Cooper. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present this American classic in a beautiful new restoration on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK as part of a Dual Format (Blu-ray and DVD) edition. Special Features: Gorgeous newly restored 1080p transfer Video documentary Wings: Grandeur in the Sky Video documentary Restoring the Power and Beauty of Wings Video piece Dogfight! 40-Page Booklet Featuring: A new essay on the film by critic Gina Telaroli Excerpts from a vintage interview with Wellman A 1930 profile of stuntmen from the film A vintage piece on the production of the film Personal anecdotes from Wellman Rare archival imagery

• Battleground | DVD | (31/05/2004) from £5.56   |  Saving you £8.43 (151.62%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Director William Wellman (The Big Heat) offered up this 1949 treatment of the Battle of the Bulge, which won Oscars for best screenplay and best cinematography. The film concentrates on the camaraderie and the divisions between the troops as they prepare for the big offensive. Told in a taut narrative, the men of the 101st, led by Van Johnson, wait out the winter in the Ardennes forest to confront the German army in what would be the last major offensive of World War II. The men are demoralised and trapped, with no hope of support from the Allies as they are forced to band together and defend their position. A classically assembled war drama that nevertheless manages to be both engrossing and entertaining, Battleground is a mainstay of the genre. --Robert Lane

• James Cagney - Signature Collection Box Set (Angels with dirty faces / Public enemy / Roaring twenties / White heat) | DVD | (19/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  The Public Enemy (Dir. William A. Wellman 1931): Tom's bad way of life is constantly set up against his brother Mike's who has a job during the day and goes to night school. Mike will enroll in the Marines to fight in WWI. He will come back and will constantly try to put Tom back on the right path. White Heat (Dir. Raoul Walsh 1950): Cody Jarrett is the sadistic leader of a ruthless gang of thieves. Afflicted by terrible headaches and fiercely devoted to his 'Ma ' Cody is a volatile violent and eccentric leader. Cody's top henchman wants to lead the gang and attempts to have an 'accident' happen to Cody while he is running the gang from in jail. But Cody is saved by an undercover cop who thereby befriends him and infiltrates the gang. Finally the stage is set for Cody's ultimate betrayal and downfall during a big heist at a chemical plant. Angels With Dirty Faces (Dir Michael Curtiz 1938): Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connolly were tough kids who grew up together in the toughest part of New York - Hell's Kitchen. Early on Rocky gets sent to reform school where he learns how to be a first class criminal. Jerry who had escaped from the law goes straight and becomes a priest. As adults they reunite in the old neighborhood: Jerry works with the kids who like he and Rocky could end up on either side of the law. Rocky has returned looking for a safe place to stay till he can get back into his old racketeering organization -- something that his old partner isn't anxious to have happen. Lots of rapid fire wisecracks roughhousing and gunfire ensues. The Roaring Twenties (Dir. Raoul Walsh 1939): After the WWI Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.

• The Ox-Bow Incident Dual Format Blu-Ray + DVD | Blu Ray | (04/07/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  One of Hollywood's most prolific directors, William A. Wellman was responsible for more than 80 features and a string of masterpieces including Wings, the first film to win the Best Picture Oscar, The Public Enemy, which made a star of James Cagney, screwball classic Nothing Sacred, the original A Star is Born and this marvellous noir-inflected Western, The Ox-Bow Incident. Set in a small Nevada town where tensions are running high thanks to a spate of cattle rustling, things reach boiling point when cowboy Larry Kinkaid is murdered. With the sheriff out of town, the residents form a posse and head to Ox-Bow Canyon to find the three men they believe to be guilty including Dana Andrews and Anthony Quinn in early major roles and enact their own form of justice. A favourite of both Clint Eastwood and star Henry Fonda, who serves as the film's moral centre, The Ox-Bow Incident is a tough, complex picture whose uncompromising starkness continues to astound to this day

• Yellow Sky | Blu Ray | (25/06/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £21.99

  A band of outlaws, led by tough, gruff Stretch (Peck), find themselves knocking at death's door after becoming lost in the treacherous western Badlands - only to find their salvation in a lonesome town called Yellow Sky, where the only inhabitants are a doddering old man and his mysterious, alluring daughter. But their deliverance from danger is short-lived when the gang discovers a fateful secret hidden within the dusty, rotting walls of this ghost town - one that will turn brother against brother in a desperate battle to the death!

• The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer | DVD | (13/09/2002) from £12.23   |  Saving you £-6.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Mark Twain's Beloved Story. Live Action.

• A Star is Born | DVD | (01/01/2020) from £9.43   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Buffalo Bill | DVD | (02/07/2012) from £4.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (50.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The story of William Buffalo Bill Cody, legendary westerner, from his days as an army scout to his later activities as owner of a Wild West show.

• Across the Wide Missouri | DVD | (25/10/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Accross The Wide Missouri

• 3 Leading Ladies Of The Silver Screen - Vol. 1 - Father's Little Dividend / Nothing Sacred | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Father's Little Dividend: Reprising his role from the 1950 release 'Father Of The Bride' Spencer Tracy rejoins Joan Bennett Elizabeth Taylor and Don Taylor in a charming sequel. Tracy portrays Elizabeth Taylor's father Stanley Banks who is still recovering from the effects of giving up his ""little girl"" Kay to Buckley Dunstan played by Don Taylor. Upon hearing the news that the newlyweds are expecting Tracy opposes the new arrival feeling the stresses of middle ag

• Magic Town | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £6.47   |  Saving you £3.52 (54.40%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Rip Smith (Stewart) discovers a town statistically identical to the entire country so he and his assistants go there to run polls easily and cheaply. When he meets local civic cruader Mary Peterman (Wyman) romantic involvement follows and things start to change rapidly...

• Lady Of Burlesque | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £8.52   |  Saving you £-1.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

• A Star Is Born | DVD | (25/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Is the price of stardom a broken heart? Janet Gaynor plays smalltown girl Esther Blodgett in this marvellous drama of love versus a lifetime dream. The young Esther is determined to become a star; and her determination pays off when she takes a job as a waitress at a Hollywood party and meets falls in love with and marries her idol filmstar Norman Maine (Fredric March). With Norman's contacts she is soon being film tested and heading toward screen stardom and everything she'

• Nothing Sacred | DVD | (18/02/2002) from £15.62   |  Saving you £1.37 (8.77%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Nothing Sacred (1937) in which Carole Lombard co-stars with Frederic March is one of her most delightful movie outings and her only feature in colour. The hilarious screenplay by Ben Hecht and James H. Street has her cast as Hazel Flagg a small town girl who mistakenly believes that she is dying of radium poisoning. March plays a newspaper reporter who in the best tradition of yellow journalism talks his editor into bringing her to New York for one last fling. The faultless direc

• Barbara Stanwyck Collection | DVD | (14/04/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  The Barbara Stanwyck Collection (3 Discs)

• A Star Is Born | DVD | (21/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A classic which has been remade twice in 1954 with Judy Garland and in 1976 starring Barbara Streisand this the 1937 version is regarded by many to be the premier version of the tragic tale of a movie star declining in popularity who marries a shy girl and helps her become a star. Her fame eclipses his and tragic consequences follow. The stunning ending is based on the real life tragedy of silent film star Wallace Reid who died of a morphine overdose aged 31 in 1923.

• Nothing Sacred | DVD | (02/02/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• A Star Is Born | DVD | (22/11/2004) from £6.75   |  Saving you £-2.76 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  A classic which has been remade twice in 1954 with Judy Garland and in 1976 starring Barbara Streisand this the 1937 version is regarded by many to be the premier version of the tragic tale of a movie star declining in popularity who marries a shy girl and helps her become a star. Her fame eclipses his and tragic consequences follow. The stunning ending is based on the real life tragedy of silent film star Wallace Reid who died of a morphine overdose aged 31 in 1923.

• A Star Is Born | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £15.99   |  Saving you £-11.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Farm girl Esther dreams of making it big in Hollywood and travels to Tinseltown to be closer to her dream. She lands a waitressing job at a celebrity party and meets idol Norman Maine. Thanks to Norman's intervention she lands her big break.

• Lady Of Burlesque | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £8.07   |  Saving you £-3.08 (-61.70%)   |  RRP £4.99

  When a burlesque theatre opens Dixie Daisy is catapulted into the limelight as she becomes the star attraction. When her rivals for the top-spot are found murdered Daisy is the prime suspect and so embarks on a mission to clear her name...