Items Matching Tag 'Classic'

Touch Of Evil: Limited Edition (Masters Of Cinema) (2 Discs) (Blu-ray Details)
Touch of Evil begins with one of the most brilliant sequences in the history of cinema; and ends with one of the most brilliant final scenes ever committed to celluloid. In between unfurls a picture whose moral, sexual, racial, and aesthetic attitudes remain so radical as to cross borders established not only in 1958, but in the present age also. Yet, Touch of Evil has taken many forms. The film...

For the Love of Ada: The Complete Series 3 (DVD Details)
Irene Handl and Wilfred Pickles star as two senior citizens who fall in love in this gentle sitcom, written by Vince Powell and Harry Driver (Nearest and Dearest, Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width). Produced by Ronnie Baxter and boasting theme music by Ron Grainer, this release contains the complete third series, also featuring appearances by Mollie Sugden, Edwin Richfield and Harold Goodwin....

Morecambe and Wise: Two of a Kind - The Complete Series 1 (DVD Details)
Eric's the one with the glasses... Morecambe and Wise, described as 'the most illustrious, and the best-loved, double act that Britain has ever produced', first achieved their phenomenal television success in the early 1960s with this long-running hit series for ATV. Showcasing their mildly anarchic humour, impeccable sense of timing and keen eye for the absurd in a feast of uproarious sketches...

Quatermass and the Pit (Blu-ray Details)
The third in the trilogy of films based on Nigel Kneale's seminal Quatermass series, Quatermass & the Pit was made by Hammer Studios in 1967, directed by stalwart Roy Ward Baker and starring Andrew Keir as the titular scientist battling evil alien forces that threaten to take over the world, and also stars James Donald, Barbara Shelley and Julian Glover. Nigel Kneale's Quatermass series...

Golden Salamander (DVD Details)
An exotic British thriller adapted from the best selling novel by Victor Canning and directed by Ronald Neame (The Poseidon Adventure). Trevor Howard (Brief Encounter, The Third Man) stars as archaeologist David Redfern, a man who has been dispatched to a small North African town to recover priceless artefacts and finds himself in deep trouble when he stumbles on a sinister smuggling racket....

The Strange World of Gurney Slade - The Complete Series (DVD Details)
Both firmly of its time and spectacularly ahead of it, The Strange World of Gurney Slade is to television comedy what The Prisoner has become to television drama - brilliantly inventive, startlingly surreal and unlike anything previously seen on television. Anthony Newley stars as an actor who walks off the set of a banal sit-com and into a fantasy world of his own imagination. In this surreal...

The Lavender Hill Mob (60th Anniversary Edition) (Blu-ray Details)
Holland (Alec Guinness), is a shy retiring man who works as a bank transfer agent for the delivery of gold bullion who befriends Pendlebury (Stanley Holloway), a maker of souvenirs. The two plan to forge the gold into harmless-looking toy Eiffel Towers and smuggle the gold into France.

Rawhide: Season 3 (8 Discs) (DVD Details)
Head 'em up and move 'em out! Academy Award-winner Clint Eastwood is back in the saddle as ramrod Rowdy Yates in the third action packed series of classic TV Western, Rawhide. Hit the Sedalia Trail with Gil Favor (Eric Fleming), Rowdy and their hard-driving gang of drovers as they take on murderous outlaws, crooked ranchers and renegade soldiers in this rousing eight-disc DVD set, jam-packed...

Tom, Dick and Harry (DVD Details)
Ginger Rogers stars in this sparkling comedy about a woman who just can't say no to marriage proposals! Janie is a somewhat dizzy and dreamy telephone operator who is going steady with Tom (George Murphy) an ambitious car salesman striving to fulfil the American Dream. But whilst Tom is proposing to her, Janie is dreaming of being swept off her feet by a handsome millionaire. And despite...

The Game of Life - Classic Edition (iPhone, iPod Touch) (VideoGame Details)
LIFE IS BETTER IN 3D Navigate your animated tokens through a stunning, 3D environment of winding roads & lush landscapes! LIFE’S A BREEZE Enjoy the ease & fluidity of innovative touchscreen controls as you set out on your adventure. LET THE MUSIC PLAY Listen & control music from iTunes® while you play. THE MORE THE MERRIER Pass ‘N Play with up to 3 friends....

Rawhide: Series 1 Box Set (DVD Details)
Get rollin' rollin' rollin' with Oscar-winner Clint Eastwood in Rawhide - the trail-blazing western series that jump-started his illustrious movie career! This 6 disc set contains all 22 episodes from Series One, plus a bonus episode from Series Two, to get you back in the saddle with everybody's favourite cowhand, Rowdy Yates; his tough-minded trail boss, Gil Favor (Eric Fleming); and a whole...

Metropolis: Special Edition - Reconstructed and Restored - The Masters of Cinema Series (DVD Details)
With its dizzying depiction of a futuristic cityscape and alluring female robot, Metropolis is among the most famous of all German films and the mother of sci-fi cinema (an influence on Blade Runner and Star Wars, among countless other films). Directed by the legendary Fritz Lang (M, Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse, The Big Heat, etc.), its jaw-dropping production values, iconic imagery, and...

Here Come The Double Deckers (DVD Details)
All 17 episodes from the classic children's series. "Get on board, get on board, come and join the Double Deckers..." A song that brought joy to a whole generation of children thanks to Here Come The Double Deckers, a huge TV hit in the early '70s. This much-loved series follows the trials and tribulations of the Double Deckers; Brains, Billie, Doughnut, Sticks, Scooper, Spring and Tiger as...

R-Type (iPhone, iPod Touch) (VideoGame Details)
ESSENTIAL ‘80S ARCADE GAMEPLAY. NO TOKENS REQUIRED. Why mess with a classic? R-Type for iPhone & iPod touch stays true to its roots, re-capturing the look and feel of one of the biggest arcade game hits from back in the day. A REAL BLAST FROM THE PAST Blast off and strike the evil Bydo Empire! Pilot your futuristic fighter, the R-9a “Arrowhead,” and attack wave after wave of Bydo...

Thirty Minutes Worth - Series One (DVD Details)
Harry Worth, the master of comic confusion, welcomes you to his first ever series for ITV, the first of eight programmes in which he moves away from situation comedy and appears in a brand new format. Each entertaining sketch sees the bumbling, well-meaning Harry reduce everyone he comes into contact with, whether it be his neighbours, his doctor or the police, to a state of bewilderment and...

Sammy Going South (DVD Details)
Sammy Going South is a rugged youngster's-eye-view adventure set in South Africa. 10-year-old orphan Sammy (Fergus McClelland), who resides in Port Said, tries to locate his only relative, who lives 5000 miles away across the desert in Durban. After the death of his first guide, an erstwhile peddler, Sammy is rescued by a wealthy tourist (Constance Cummings). Not anxious to return to Port Said,...

The Great Dictator (DVD Details)
This is the story of the period between two world wars--an interim during which insanity cut loose, liberty took a nose dive, and humanity was kicked around somewhat.' With this pithy opening title, Charles Chaplin begins his first all-talking feature film, THE GREAT DICTATOR. Chaplin stars in a dual role; he plays a sweet-natured Jewish barber and a murderous Hitler-type dictator, with such...

The Kid (DVD Details)
The Tramp and an abandoned child (6 year old Jackie Coogan) triumph over lifes hard knocks in the landmark film that changed the notion of what a screen comedy could be. Charlie Chaplin's first feature is a sad comedy about a woman who abandons her child with the intention of commiting suicide. The little Tramp finds the baby and takes him under his wing. When the woman, Edna, turns out to be...

The Ladykillers: The StudioCanal Collection (Blu-ray Details)
The Ladykillers, director Alexander Mackendrick's third Ealing farce, is the final comedy produced by the famous British studio and one of its most celebrated. Like the equally applauded Kind Hearts And Coronets, the film is more sophisticated and blacker in tone than typically lighthearted Ealing fare (such as Mackendrick's Whiskey Galore!). Alec Guinness stars as the superbly shifty, toothily...

Gankutsuou - The Count of Monte Cristo Boxset (DVD Details)
Born into an aristocratic family in Paris, Albert sets out on a journey with his best friend, Franz, to escape his privileged yet dull life. They travel to Luna, which is on the surface of the moon, and meet a very wealthy man named The Count of Monte Cristo. Becoming completely fascinated with the count's mysterious charm, Albert welcomes him into Paris high society, but soon he will discover the...

Olympus Pen EP-1 Digital Camera (Hardware Details)
With its retro good looks and tactile design, the Olympus Pen is the camera to be seen with this winter. A compact and manageable design, the Olympus Pen camera is packed full of the latest technologies for crisp and sharp SLR images, perfect for capturing those frosty, beautiful, sunny days. You can also record HD quality movies, with high quality stereo sound. Based on the iconic Olympus Pen,...

Sunrise: The Masters of Cinema Series (Blu-ray Details)
This new edition of Sunrise (for the first time anywhere in the world on Blu-ray) contains two versions of the film (both in 1080p HD): the previously released Movietone version, and an alternate silent version of the film, recently discovered in the Czech Republic, of a higher visual quality than any other known source. The culmination of one of the greatest careers in film history, F. W....

Sunrise (F.W. Murnau) - The Masters of Cinema Series (DVD Details)
The culmination of one of the greatest careers in film history, F. W. Murnau's Sunrise blends a story of fable-like simplicity with unparalleled visual imagination and technical ingenuity. Invited to Hollywood by William Fox and given total artistic freedom on any project he wished, Murnau's tale of the idyllic marriage of a peasant couple (George O'Brien and Janet Gaynor) threatened by a...

L'Argent: The Masters of Cinema Series (DVD Details)
Adapted from Émile Zola's novel of the same name, Marcel L'Herbier's L'Argent is an opulent classic of late-silent era cinema. Filmed in part on location at the Paris stock exchange, it reveals a world of intrigue, greed, decadence, and ultimately corruption and scandal when business dealings and amorous deceit combine. Business tycoons Saccard and Gunderman lock horns when the former...

Rashomon (DVD Details)
A woodcutter experiences a horrific series of events - an ambush, rape and murder. In the telling of the tale however, each of the four participants give different views of what actually happened - is any of them telling the truth? Kurosawa's masterful film plays on the subjective nature of truth while unfurling a riveting tale of violence and greed. The film was the first to alert western...