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The Show Goes On on DVD

Sat, 25 Dec 2010 00:45:02 +0100

The Show Goes On sees Gracie Fields play Sally Field, a mill girl whose dream of singing on stage in London has ended with her busking on the sands instead. When a composer discovers her and takes her under his wing to perform his sentimental ballads, it's Sally's reinvention of them with her own un...

Released 24th January on DVD for 10.99 ukp

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Love, Life and Laughter Sing As We Go on DVD

Sat, 25 Dec 2010 00:45:02 +0100

A double-bill of Gracie Fields films - Love, Life and Laughter 1934 and Sing As We Go 1934.Born in Rochdale, Gracie Fields was a comedienne and singer who charmed English Music Hall audiences with her Northern Lass persona before becoming a top box-office draw at the cinema and Britain's hig...

Released 24th January on DVD for 10.99 ukp

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Queen of Hearts Look Up and Laugh on DVD

Sat, 25 Dec 2010 00:45:02 +0100

A pairing of films starring Gracie Fields - Queen of Hearts 1935 and Look Up and Laugh 1936.Born in Rochdale, Gracie Fields was a comedienne and singer who charmed English Music Hall audiences with her Northern Lass persona before becoming a top box-office draw at the cinema and Britain's hi...

Released 24th January on DVD for 10.99 ukp

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Sally in Our Alley Looking on the Bright Side on DVD

Sat, 25 Dec 2010 02:45:02 +0100

A pairing of Gracie Fields films - Sally in Our Alley and Looking on the Bright Side.Born in Rochdale, Gracie Fields was a comedienne and singer who charmed English Music Hall audiences with her Northern Lass persona before becoming a top box-office draw at the cinema and Britain's highest paid ...

Released 24th January on DVD for 10.99 ukp

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A Blonde in Love on DVD

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 00:45:02 +0100

Milo Forman's second full-length feature, A Blonde in Love, was a major breakthrough both for him and for Czech cinema. A commercial blockbuster at home, it garnered Forman his first Oscar nomination a decade before he made One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. But this was no cynically calculated inter...

Released 24th January on DVD for 9.99 ukp

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A Damsel in Distress on DVD

Sat, 25 Dec 2010 00:45:02 +0100

Fred Astaire plays an American dancing star who finds himself falling in love when he shares a cab with a beautiful young English woman Joan Fontaine - the daughter of an aristocrat who does not reveal her background. After their meeting, the dancer sets about tracking her down. Also stars real li...

Released 24th January on DVD for 9.99 ukp

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Late Mizoguchi Eight Films 1951-1956 on DVD

Sat, 25 Dec 2010 02:45:02 +0100

Eight films from the revered Japanese director Kenzo Mizoguchi Sansho Dayu, Gion Bayashi, Oyu-sama, Ugetsu Monogatari, Chikamatsu Monogatari, Uwasa No Onna, Akasen Chitai and Yokihi.Kenji Mizoguchi looms over the history not only of Japanese cinema but of world cinema altogether. These eight fi...

Released 24th January on DVD for 38.99 ukp

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Spartacus on Blu-ray

Sat, 25 Dec 2010 16:45:03 +0100

With the 1950s sword-and-sandal epic threatening to get bogged down in set pieces and fine speeches, Stanley Kubrick's star-studded, historical epic was a tonic. Taking over from veteran Anthony Mann, Kubrick tells the tale of the Roman slave-gladiator Spartacus Kirk Douglas, who leads the slaves ...

Released 24th January on Blu-ray for 13.99 ukp

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The Astonished Heart on DVD

Fri, 14 Jan 2011 09:45:03 +0100

Noel Coward stars in The Astonished Heart - an adaptation of his own 1935 stage play, originally written as part of the ten-part cycle 'Tonight at 830'. Middle-aged psychiatrist Dr Christian Faber Coward is happily married to Barbara Celia Johnson- but when he is introduced to her childhood fri...

Released 25th January on DVD for 9.99 ukp

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Once a Jolly Swagman on DVD

Fri, 14 Jan 2011 09:45:02 +0100

A British drama about a speedway racer, Once a Jolly Swagman stars Dirk Bogarde as Bill Fox, a factory worker in 1930s England who quits his job to become a motorbike rider. Success goes to his head, and he leaves his wife for socialite Pat, but then tragedy on the racecourse brings him back to his ...

Released 25th January on DVD for 9.99 ukp

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Pandora and the Flying Dutchman on DVD

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 06:45:02 +0100

Albert Lewin's ravishing film, Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, must be one of the most powerful depictions of passion ever committed to celluloid. James Mason stars as the legendary sailor doomed to travel the seas forever unless he can find a woman who loves him so much she is willing to die for h...

Released 31st January on DVD for 11.99 ukp

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The Black Rose on DVD

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 06:45:02 +0100

A medieval melodrama starring Tyrone Power Orson Welles and featuring a cast filled with fine British character actors, The Black Rose is a thoroughly entertaining, rousing adventure with swashbuckling, romance and rousing exoticism. Tyrone Power and Jack Hawkins play the Saxons who travel to far ...

Released 31st January on DVD for 10.99 ukp

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The Mole People on DVD

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 06:45:02 +0100

A classic fifties B-movie in which archaeologists Dr Roger Bentley John Agar and Dr Jud Belamin Hugh Beaumont stumble upon a race of Sumerian albinos living deep under the Earth where they keep mutant humanoid mole men as their slaves to harvest their food. They come to believe that Bentley and ...

Released 31st January on DVD for 11.99 ukp

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Deadfall on DVD

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 02:45:02 +0100

Michael Caine stars as cat burglar and professional conman Henry Clarke is the glossy heist thriller Deadfall. During a stay at a sanitarium for recovering alcoholics, Clarke is approached by a mysterious woman, Fe, who has a business proposition for him - her husband is planning an ingenious robber...

Released 31st January on DVD for 10.99 ukp

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Cavalcade of VarietyStars on Parade on DVD

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 02:45:02 +0100

Stars on Parade A 1936 musical film directed by Oswald Mitchell and Challis Sanderson, starring John Rorke, Debroy Somers, Pat O'Brien, Arthur Lucan and Mabel Constanduros. A rare chance to see some of the great acts from the Music Hall Years.Cavalcade of Variety Presented by Peter Brough and ...

Released 31st January on DVD for 11.99 ukp

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Decision Before Dawn on DVD

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 04:45:02 +0100

Made just six years after the end of the Second World War, Decision Before Dawn is notable as perhaps the first American film to show what life was like for the Germans during the war. As the fighting grinds on and allied troops push the enemy back to their homeland, the American military recrui...

Released 31st January on DVD for 10.99 ukp

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What a Whopper on DVD

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 04:45:02 +0100

Coming after Operation Bullshine and My Wife's Family, What A Whopper is a comedy from former documentarist Gilbert Gunn. Adam Faith stars in this tale about a struggling writer who fakes photographs of the Loch Ness monster and then heads for the Highlands to convince the locals so that they'll bac...

Released 31st January on DVD for 9.99 ukp

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Echo of DianaShadow of Fear on DVD

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 00:45:03 +0100

A pairing of 1963 suspense dramas from director Ernest Morris, Echo of Diana and Shadow of Fear.Echo of Diana - After learning that her husband Philip has been killed in an air crash in Eastern Europe, Joan Scott is disturbed to read a mysterious in memoriam' notice inserted in a newspaper unde...

Released 31st January on DVD for 11.99 ukp

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Hey There, It's Yogi Bear on DVD

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 00:45:03 +0100

Yogi Bear's first full-length movie is set in Spring in Jellystone Park where Yogi is up to his usual tricks of stealing tourists' picnic baskets - unless Ranger Smith gets there first! Then the Ranger gets a call from the San Diego Zoo asking if they have any bears going spare - and at that moment,...

Released 31st January on DVD for 6.99 ukp

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The Long Hot Summer on DVD

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 00:45:03 +0100

Why is The Long Hot Summer not better known? Its star pedigree alone should have guaranteed its immortality with Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Orson Welles, Angela Lansbury and Lee Remick in the cast. Newman won the Best Actor award at Cannes, and it was the first time he and future wife Woodward ac...

Released 31st January on DVD for 9.99 ukp

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