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Actors & Directors
  • Sid James
Release date: 2008-10-06
Run time: 232 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £14.94

Review Sid James Boxset [1952] / Slam Dunk:


Review Water Bearer Films / A Midsummer Night's Dream [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Jayston
  • Ian Holm
  • Derek Godfrey
  • Donald Eccles
  • Judi Dench
Release date: 2005-03-10
Run time: 124 min.
Creator: Guy Woolfenden
Price: £9.13

Review A Midsummer Night's Dream [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Water Bearer Films:


Review Alpha Video / The Smallest Show on Earth [1957]
Actors & Directors
  • Stringer Davis
  • Basil Dearden
  • Virginia McKenna
  • Sidney James
  • Francis de Wolff
  • Sam Kydd
Release date: 2007-05-29
Run time: 80 min.
Creator: William Alwyn
Price: £4.72

Review The Smallest Show on Earth [1957] / Alpha Video:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / The Matchmaker [1958]
Actors & Directors
  • Paul Ford
  • Shirley Booth
  • Anthony Perkins
  • Shirley MacLaine
Release date: 2007-09-03
Run time: 94 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.50

Review The Matchmaker [1958] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Arrow Films / Millionairess / Trial And Error With Peter Sellers [1960]
Actors & Directors
  • Anthony Asquith
  • Vittorio De Sica
  • Sophia Loren
  • Alastair Sim
  • Dennis Price
  • Peter Sellers
Release date: 2006-05-29
Run time: 165 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £3.44

Review Millionairess / Trial And Error With Peter Sellers [1960] / Arrow Films:


Review Warner Home Video / Christmas in Connecticut [1945] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Dennis Morgan
  • Don Siegel
  • Peter Godfrey
  • Reginald Gardiner
  • S.Z. Sakall
  • Barbara Stanwyck
  • Sydney Greenstreet
Release date: 2005-11-08
Run time: 101 min.
Price: £6.94

Review Christmas in Connecticut [1945] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Elstree Hill Entertainment / Road To Bali [1952]
Actors & Directors
  • Bob Hope
  • Murvyn Vye
  • Dorothy Lamour
  • Bing Crosby
  • Peter Coe (III)
  • Hal Walker
Release date: 2003-08-11
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £2.99
Price: £1.95

Review Road To Bali [1952] / Elstree Hill Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / A Big Hand for the Little Lady [1966] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Allan Collins
  • Chester Conklin
  • Jim Boles
  • Fielder Cook
  • Charles Bickford
  • Mae Clarke
Release date: 2007-11-06
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: David Raksin
Price: £7.77

Review A Big Hand for the Little Lady [1966] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Warner Home Video / Kind Hearts And Coronets [1949]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Hamer
  • Alec Guinness
  • Joan Greenwood
  • Valerie Hobson
  • Dennis Price
  • Audrey Fildes
Release date: 2004-06-21
Run time: 101 min.
RRP: £16.99
Price: £7.50

Review Kind Hearts And Coronets [1949] / Warner Home Video:

Set in Victorian England, Robert Hamer's 1949 masterpiece Kind Hearts and Coronets remains the most gracefully mordant of Ealing Comedies. Dennis Price plays Louis D'Ascoyne, the would-be Duke of Chalfont whose Mother was spurned by her noble family for marrying an Italian singer for love. Louis resolves to murder the several of his relatives ahead of him in line for the Dukedom, all of whom are played by Alec Guinness, in order to avenge his Mother-for, as Louis observes, " revenge is a dish which people of taste prefer to eat cold". He gets away with it, only to be arraigned for the one murder of which he is innocent. Guinness' virtuoso performances have been justly celebrated, ranging as they do from a youthful D'Ascoyne concealing his enthusiasm for public houses from his priggish wife ("she has views on such places") to a brace of doomed uncles and one aunt, ranging from the doddery to the peppery. Miles Malleson is a splendid doggerel-spouting hangman, while Valerie Hobson and Joan Greenwood take advantage of unusually strong female roles. But the great joy of Kind Hearts and Coronets is the way in which its appallingly black subject matter (considered beyond the pale by many critics at the time) is conveyed in such elegantly ironic turns of phrase by Dennis Price's narrator/anti-hero. Serial murder has never been conducted with such exquisite manners and discreet charm. -David Stubbs.

Review Warner Home Video / It's Always Fair Weather [1955] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • David Burns
  • Cyd Charisse
  • Phil Arnold
  • Madge Blake
  • Eugene Borden
Release date: 2006-04-25
Run time: 101 min.
Creator: Andre Previn
Price: £7.38

Review It's Always Fair Weather [1955] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Warner Home Video / Laurel And Hardy - Bonnie Scotland [1935]
Actors & Directors
  • Daphne Pollard
  • Mary Gordon
  • James Horne
  • Lionel Belmore
  • Oliver Hardy
  • Stan Laurel
Release date: 2000-06-05
Run time: 78 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £26.95

Review Laurel And Hardy - Bonnie Scotland [1935] / Warner Home Video:


Review Warner Home Video / Lassie Come Home/Son of Lassie/Courage of Lassie (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Nigel Bruce
  • Peter Lawford
  • Donald Crisp
  • Fred M. Wilcox
  • June Lockhart
  • William Severn
  • S. Sylvan Simon
Release date: 2006-11-07
Run time: 282 min.
Price: £6.19

Review Lassie Come Home/Son of Lassie/Courage of Lassie (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review C'est La Vie / Une Parisienne [1957]
Actors & Directors
  • Henri Vidal
  • Michel Boisrond
  • Charles Boyer
  • Madeleine LeBeau
  • Brigitte Bardot
  • Noël Roquevert
Release date: 2003-09-29
Run time: 86 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £6.11

Review Une Parisienne [1957] / C'est La Vie:


Review C'est La Vie / A Nous La Liberte (Freedom For Us) [1931]
Actors & Directors
  • Man Ray
  • Marcel Duchamp
  • Jean Börlin
  • Inge Frïss
  • Francis Picabia
Release date: 2003-06-30
Run time: 80 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £6.92

Review A Nous La Liberte (Freedom For Us) [1931] / C'est La Vie:


Review Image Entertainment / The Cat and the Canary [1927]
Actors & Directors
  • Paul Leni
  • Laura La Plante
  • Forrest Stanley
  • Gertrude Astor
  • Creighton Hale
  • Tully Marshall
Release date: 2005-02-01
Run time: 85 min.
Price: £8.74

Review The Cat and the Canary [1927] / Image Entertainment:


Review Paramount / The Miracle of Morgan's Creek [1944] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Betty Hutton
  • Eddie Bracken
  • William Demarest
  • Porter Hall
  • Diana Lynn
  • Preston Sturges
Release date: 2005-09-06
Run time: 98 min.
Price: £4.22

Review The Miracle of Morgan's Creek [1944] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Paramount:


Review Elstree Hill Entertainment / Laurel And Hardy Collection - Vol. 1 [1919]
Actors & Directors
  • Stan Laurel
  • Oliver Hardy
Release date: 2003-09-08
Run time: 70 min.
RRP: £2.99
Price: £1.24

Review Laurel And Hardy Collection - Vol. 1 [1919] / Elstree Hill Entertainment:


Review Warner Brothers/MGM / Murder, She Said (1961)
Actors & Directors
  • Arthur Kennedy
  • Muriel Pavlow
  • Margaret Rutherford
  • George Pollock
Run time: 82 min.
Price: £4.53

Review Murder, She Said (1961) / Warner Brothers/MGM:

Excellent British comedy based on the Agatha Christie crime book, "4. 50 From Paddington". Several changes from the book but nevertheless, an enjoyable romp with whole cast on form.

Review United Artists / If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Mildred Natwick
  • Mel Stuart
  • Suzanne Pleshette
  • Murray Hamilton
  • Ian McShane
  • Sandy Baron
Release date: 2008-05-20
Run time: 98 min.
Price: £7.21

Review If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / United Artists:


Review ITV DVD / Trouble In Store / Up In The World [1953]
Actors & Directors
  • Norman Wisdom
  • John Paddy Carstairs
  • Jerry Desmonde
  • Margaret Rutherford
  • Megs Jenkins
  • Moira Lister
Release date: 2003-05-12
Run time: 168 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.25

Review Trouble In Store / Up In The World [1953] / ITV DVD:

Norman Wisdom became an instant movie star with the release of Trouble in Store in 1953. Playing a character called Norman, he brought his familiar stage and television personality to the big screen as a young man with the ambition to become a window dresser in a major department store. Ever lovable victim of his own clumsiness, all Norman's efforts to improve himself result in chaos. That is, until he meets Sally (Lana Morris), the girl of his dreams. Then things turn disastrous. Costarring Margaret Rutherford, Trouble in Store introduced Wisdom's self-penned song which would become his theme, "Don't laugh at Me ('cause I'm a Fool)". The film became a massive box-office hit and won Wisdom a BAFTA Award. Very much of its time, admittedly, it's still highly entertaining. In 1956 the title of his latest film, Up in the World accurately described Norman Wisdom's career. This was the great British comedian's fourth hit in as many years, this time finding himself employed as window cleaner to Lady Banderville (Ambrosine Phillpotts). [+]
Apart from having hundreds of windows to polish, things would be going fine for Norman if it weren't for the endless practical jokes played by Lady Banderville's son, Sir Reginald (Michael Caridia). However, when the irritating Reggie is kidnapped, Norman has the chance to prove himself a hero, and it just might impress his beautiful costar Maureen Swanson. By now Wisdom was set on a winning formula, working with much the same team as on his three previous smashes, including Jerry Desmonde as Major Willoughby, who had starred in both Trouble in Store (1953) and Man of the Moment (1955). -Gary S Dalkin.

Models & Brands:
Sid James Boxset [1952], A Midsummer Night's Dream [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Smallest Show on Earth [1957], The Matchmaker [1958], Millionairess / Trial And Error With Peter Sellers [1960], Christmas in Connecticut [1945] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Road To Bali [1952], A Big Hand for the Little Lady [1966] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Kind Hearts And Coronets [1949], It's Always Fair Weather [1955] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Laurel And Hardy - Bonnie Scotland [1935], Lassie Come Home/Son of Lassie/Courage of Lassie (REGION 1) (NTSC), Une Parisienne [1957], A Nous La Liberte (Freedom For Us) [1931], The Cat and the Canary [1927], The Miracle of Morgan's Creek [1944] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Laurel And Hardy Collection - Vol. 1 [1919], Murder, She Said (1961), If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Trouble In Store / Up In The World [1953]

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