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his month more than any seems to mark a change in the types of film becoming available on Blu-ray. Alongside highdefinition releases of modern films such as The Angels’ Share and The Turin Horse, in this issue you’ll also find Blurays of 1930s Universal monster movies, Hitchcock classics, the French masterpiece Les Enfants du Paradis, Cecil B. DeMIlle’s decadent Cleopatra, Fritz Lang’s The Testament of Dr Mabuse and the holy grail of high-definition, Lawrence of Arabia. We’ll see if the momentum continues. If it does, then all film lovers – no matter what their personal taste – will have reason to join in. NB. There’s

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Gay and Lesbian 13 a brief Blu-ray glossary at the bottom of page 4.

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This is a bountiful month for releases thanks to publishers storing up their films for autumn release after a long sporting summer – a perfect opportunity to stock up for the longer nights ahead!

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Silent Film The Lodger

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(Giorgi Shengelaya’s Pirosmani) Gareth is Film Curator at the Whitechapel Gallery. He recently commissioned and co-produced Patience (After Sebald), Grant Gee’s acclaimed essay film, and is creative consultant for Estate: A Reverie (estatefilm. co.uk). He edits Artesian magazine (gotogetherpress.com) and writes widely about artists’ film and world cinema. Alex Ballinger (Abel Gance’s Napoleon) wrote The Rough Guide to Film Noir and New Cinematographers

Mike McCahill (Alan Taylor’s The Emperor’s New Clothes) writes on film for The Sunday Telegraph

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Alex Davidson (Derek Jarman’s Edward II) is a BFI website producer

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David Parkinson (Gerald Thomas’s Carry on Cleo) – most recently wrote 100 Ideas that Changed Film Nick Riddle (Abel Gance’s Napoleon) is an editor at Bristol University. Julian Upton (Don Sharp’s Rasputin the Mad Monk) edited Offbeat

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1 BBC Ghost Stories: Volume 1

Contains both adaptations of MR James’s story Oh, Whistle, And I’ll Come To You, My Lad: Jonathan Miller’s 1968 adaptation starring Michael Hordern – rightly regarded as one of the greatest small-screen horrors ever made – and Andy De Emmony’s 2010 version starring John Hurt and set in the present day. Item# 68477 UK | 1968; 2010 | 95 | 12 | £19.99

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2 Faust

Alexander Sokurov’s fifteenth feature is a truly remarkable adaptation of Goethe’s Faust, which demonstrates that Sokurov is out there in a rewarding cinematic world of his own. Winner of the Golden Lion at Venice in 2011. Item# 68403 Russia | 2011 | 139 | subt | 15 | £15.99

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3 Pride and Prejudice

Robert Z Leonard’s classic adaptation of Austen’s novel. Greer Garson as Elizabeth Bennett and Laurence Olivier as Mr Darcy are the perfect embodiments of prejudice and pride. From the golden age of the Hollywood studio era, the film is filled with glamorous sets and was photographed by Karl Freund.

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4 The Angels’ Share

This uplifting whisky-heist comedy finds the director Ken Loach on fine, funny and Cannes-winning form. Escaping a prison sentence by the skin of his teeth, a disillusioned small-time criminal is given one last chance to turn his life around. Item# 68964 UK / France | 2012 | 101 | 15 | £19.99

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Reader Feedback Mr Kibble got in touch to rightly correct us about the Edgar Wallace Mysteries, two volumes of which we put into the Television section in last month’s catalogue. Even though many people will be familiar with them from their TV screenings, they were, as he points out, originally made at Merton Park Studios in the 1960s as supporting features. We have two more volumes in this issue on page 24. Unfortunately the information came too late to change the layout of this issue, but the wording of their descriptions has been updated and is now more accurate. Thank you – it’s good to get these things right, especially for titles that are proving so popular. Please email feedback@moviemail.com or send us a postcard.

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The Angels’ Share Recommended Director: Ken Loach Starring: Paul Brannigan, Roger Allam Released: 24th September Extras: Deleted Scenes; Making-of. Item# 68964 | UK / France | 2012 | E1 | 101 | Cert 15

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n 1889, Friedrich Nietzsche is said to have interceded in a violent quarrel between a cabman and his reluctant horse, which directly led to the philosopher’s mental decline and death. The tale has been frequently retold and even dramatised, but always from Nietzsche’s perspective – until almost a century later, when the Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai asked his close friend and regular creative collaborator Béla Tarr what happened to the horse. Many years after their conversation, this extraordinary film, as bleak and ferociously distilled as a late Samuel Beckett play and with barely enough spoken content to fill a postcard, is their response. Beginning with one of the greatest opening shots of 21st century cinema, a nearly five-minute track through a howling gale that reinforces the age-old image of the horse as a mute beast of burden, the film then proceeds to enact the six-day creation myth in reverse, as an elderly, partly disabled man (János Derzsi) and his devoted daughter (Erika Bók, the now grown-up urchin from Tarr’s Sátántangó) gradually lose everything that enables them to scrape together even the barest of subsistence livings. The opening aside, the camera never strays more than a few dozen yards from

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Extraordinary, apocalyptic cinema from Béla Tarr their stone farmhouse and its adjoining stable and well, but the film’s pervasive sense of impending apocalypse is stronger that of any number of lavishly-budgeted Hollywood CGI-fests. The fact that we don’t know precisely what’s happening over the brow of the hill makes it that much more terrifying and indeed Nietzschean: surely no God could have sanctioned this? If the film sounds punishingly minimalist in content, in treatment it’s anything but, with cinematographer Fred Kelemen constantly finding imaginative ways of moving the camera while demonstrating his complete mastery of the nearly forgotten art of bigscreen black-and-white cinematography, while Mihály Víg’s naggingly memorable score burrows insistently into our crania long after the woodworm have mysteriously fallen silent. Although still only in his mid-fifties, Tarr has said that this will be his last film, and indeed it’s hard to imagine where he could possibly have gone from here. Michael Brooke Page 7

World Cinema Miranda: Director’s Cut Tinto Brass

An explicit sex comedy (based on a Carlo Goldoni play) starring the voluptuous Serena Grandi as the seductive landlady of a country taverna who decides to choose a lover by trying out the men who frequent her establishment. First UK release in anamorphic widescreen. Optional English or Italian Audio. Italy | 1985 | AGT | 96 | subt | Cert 18 Item# 69227 | RRP £14.99 | 24th September

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My Way

Je-Gyu Kang

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Oedipus Rex

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Three years after his The Gospel According to Matthew, Pasolini resumed his series of classical adaptations with this highly personal take on Sophocles’ Greek tragedy, which opens in 1920s Italy, moves through a time ‘outside of history’, and ends on the streets of contemporary Bologna. Franco Citti 2 discs; Booklet. and Silvana Mangano star.

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Rien ne Va Plus Claude Chabrol

Isabelle Huppert and Michel Serrault play the small-time con artists who travel around France living off their modest swindles. Then they meet Maurice (François Cluzet), a man with a briefcase containing 5 million Swiss francs, and they soon find themselves way out of their depth. France | 1997 | ART-E | 103 | subt | Cert 15 Item# 68861 | RRP £15.99 | 24th September

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Recommended Director: Grigori Kozintsev

Starring: Vanessa Paradis, Pascal Elso, Kevin Parent, Hélène Florent, Evelyne Brochu

Starring: Nikolai Cherkasov, Yuri Tolubeyev

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Don Quixote

Director: Jean-Marc Vallée

Released: 17th September

Korean WWII action drama, based on the incredible true story of a marathon runner who was forced into the Japanese army, captured by the Soviets, survived a POW camp, defected to the Nazis and ended up unwillingly fighting for the Germans during the D-Day invasion.

Café de Flore

Superstar DJ Antoine (Kevin Parent) is one lucky fellow. He’s not only a maestro at the mixing desk, but he has just found his soul mate (the statuesque Evelyne Brochu) with whom he passionately shares his life in Montreal. The trouble is, his daughters and ex-wife Carole (Hélène Florent) feel very differently indeed. So much so, that in Carole’s case she’s suffering a mid-life crisis in which her vivid dreams are intruding on her all-too fragile daily life. And it’s in these lengthy dream sequences that a virtually unrecognizable Vanessa Paradis sears through the screen. She plays Jacqueline, a resilient single mother battling to raise a Down’s Syndrome boy (the remarkable Marin Gerrier) in a bleak 1960s Paris. It might sound preposterous on paper, but somehow Jacqueline’s plight will have unimaginable consequences for the lives of Antoine and Carole. Narrative-stretching, kaleidoscopic and with a mesmeric soundtrack to boot, Café de Flore is a feast for eye, ear and the heart. As for what the Café de Flore of the title is, that’s best left for the curious viewer to discover. AB

The first colour and widescreen adaptation of Miguel de Cervantes’ timeless classic remains one of the best: unlike Orson Welles and Terry Gilliam, Russian director Grigori Kozintsev actually completed his version, and it’s as intelligent and visually handsome as you’d expect from the future maker of Hamlet (1964) and King Lear (1971), with the Crimea making a wholly convincing stand-in for sixteenth-century Spain. Befitting the material, there’s plenty of comedy, but Kozintsev is also keenly aware of the moral dimension of the central situation, in which a desperately deluded man tries to convince the world that he’s a latterday knight errant, blithely shrugging off the copious laughter and mockery that greets everything he says and does. Sporting a shaving bowl as though it were a finely-wrought helmet, the great Nikolai Cherkasov – previously Eisenstein’s Alexander Nevsky and Ivan the Terrible – could hardly be more perfect in the stooping, wispybearded title role, though equal praise is due to the rotund comedian Yuri Tolubeyev as his notionally more rational but often equally confused sidekick Sancho Panza. MB

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Les Enfants du Paradis Recommended Director: Marcel Carné Starring: Arletty, Jean-Luis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur Released: 17th September Extras: 2 discs; Theatre, Love and War: Making Les Enfants du Paradis (55 mins); Once Upon a Time...Les Enfants du Paradis (52 mins); Restoration: Before and After. Item# 67854 | France | 1945 | 2ND | 182 | subt | B&W | Cert PG

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The Last Metro François Truffaut

Item# 32184 France | 1980 | 126 | subt | PG | £19.99

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ilmed during the Nazi Occupation and released shortly after the Liberation, this witty, thrilling and compelling evocation of 1830s Paris was an act of resistance that came to embody the spirit of France. Real-life fugitives, collaborators and resistance fighters worked alongside each other on the sets in Nice and Paris and their actor counterparts could be found in the bustle of a theatrical quarter where illusion was often as treacherous as it was enchanting. The film’s majesty is enhanced in this major new first screened at the Cannes Film Festival; its monochrome imagery shimmers with a first-seen freshness, and Joseph Kosma’s unforgettable score throbs with ardour. Jacques Prévert’s scenario is epically melodramatic, inspired as much by the crimes of thief Pierre-François Lacenaire as the artistry of actor Frédérick Lemaître and mime Baptiste Deburau (Jean-Louis Barrault) – three men enamoured of carnival performer Garance (Arletty), who is protected by the arrogant aristocratic dandy De Montray. However, such is the finesse of Marcel Carné’s direction and the authenticity of Alexandre Trauner’s studio recreation of the teeming Boulevard du Temple that this feels like a slice of poetic

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A beautiful new restoration of ‘the best French film of all time’ reality. The film was named after the common people who occupied the upper galleries of French theatres and Prévert and Carné packed the scenario with emotive incidents that would register with audiences keen to see their rowdy, subversive selves on the screen again after five years of witnessing Continental Films’s Vichy-approved caricatures. Yet everyone watching would have been aware that Pierre Renoir took the role of Jericho the snitch after quisling Robert Le Vigan had fled to Germany and that Arletty could not attend the premiere as her romance with a Luftwaffe officer had brought about her disgrace. Despite the spectacle, the picture also has an intimacy that is typified by Barrault’s heart-breaking Pierrot act, which reinforces the key notion that life and art are inextricably linked. Impeccable in every detail, this was voted the best French film of all time during the 1995 centenary of cinema and nothing has altered its status since. David Parkinson Page 9

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World Cinema The Testament of Dr Mabuse Fritz Lang

A follow-up to Lang’s Dr Mabuse: The Gambler, Testament... is one of Lang’s great films – which also seems to have prophesied the Nazi scourge. Rudolf KleinRogge once again plays the arch-criminal and now catatonic graphomane Dr Mabuse, sequestered in an asylum. But is he responsible for the violent events coursing through the city? Banned by the Nazis, this is an effective portrait of a destabilised society. It’s also a rollicking good watch that hammers along with the brio of a 2 discs; Lavish booklet. cartoon strip. Germany | 1932 | EUREK | 116 | subt | Cert 12 Item# 68517 | RRP £19.99 | 24th September

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The Tinto Brass Collection: 8 Erotic Masterpieces Tinto Brass

A collection of eight erotic films from ‘Il Maestro’, containing The Key (1983), Snack Bar Budapest (1988), Paprika (1991), All Ladies Do It (1992), Frivolous Lola (1998), Cheeky (2001), Black Angel (2002) and 8 discs. Private (2003). Italy | 1983-2003 | ARROW | 780 | Cert 18 Item# 69306 | RRP £49.99 | Out Now

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Casa de Lava Pedro Costa

An ingenious take on Tourneur’s I Walked With A Zombie from one of contemporary cinema’s most singular of talents. In it, a nurse accompanies a comatose man back to his home on the island of Cape Verde, but on arrival no-one seems to know who he is. As she waits for someone to turn up, the nurse gets increasingly involved with the mysterious community. France / Germany / Portugal | 1994 | 2RUN | 110 | subt | Cert 15 Item# 62876 | RRP £12.99 | 24th September

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The Raid Recommended

Monsieur Lazhar Recommended

Director: Gareth Evans

Director: Philippe Falardeau

Starring: Iko Uwais, Joe Taslim, Doni Alamsyah

Starring: Mohammed Fellag, Danielle Proulx

Released: 24th September

Released: 1st October

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Item# 69007 Indonesia | 2011 | MOMET | 101 | subt | 18

There aren’t many action movies made by Welshmen in Indonesia. Gareth Huw Evans forsook conventional career logic and went East to seek his fortune, finding there both a dynamic martial art (pencak silat) to document and some evidently relaxed health-and-safety legislation to set against the tautness of his narrative line. Charting the efforts of a plucky cop (Iko Uwais) to survive in a tower block after a bungled police raid, Evans has returned with console-game cinema par excellence: the further our hero ascends, the higher the stakes. This combo of fresh eyes and limbs allows the film to kick the genre about as far as it might now legally go, fostering a style of carnage that is as compellingly grungy as John Woo’s once was baroque. Uwais and his co-stars attain a weird and wonderful harmony with the bashedup sets they careen through: each floor is furnished with a new variation of limp striplights and graffiti-bruised walls, finished off with broken chairs, tables and (increasingly) necks. In every sense, it’s a riot. MM

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This acclaimed Oscar nominee joins a growing number of works, including Laurent Cantet’s The Class, that are concerned not so much with the problems encountered in the modern classroom – delinquency, disobedience, general teenage unpleasantness – but the teachers’ own inability to deal with them. Falardeau’s sensitive and rewarding film packs some unexpected punches that disorient the audience as much as the children they are watching: at the beginning, a young teacher hangs herself and the man who replaces her is clearly on the run from an ambiguous past in Algeria. Falardeau uses this unusual scenario to investigate the different kinds of violence done on young minds; from the dictates of an authoritarian teacher to the unintentional callousness of a headmistress whose ‘hands-off’ approach leaves children without comfort and warmth when they need it the most. The whole is treated with admirable matter-of-factness and Falardeau has the bravery to leave many issues unresolved at the end. Nevertheless, it remains an extraordinarily positive portrait of committed people succeeding against the odds. MBa

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Gay & Lesbian Blu-ray Circumstance

Maryam Keshavarz

Set in contemporary Iran in the unseen world of its youth culture, with underground parties, sex, drugs and defiance, Maryam Keshavarz’s film tells the story of two vivacious young girls discovering their burgeoning sexuality and struggling with their desires and the strictures of the world into which they were born. Sundance Audience Award winner.

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Four More Years

Director: Peter Lord

Tova Magnusson

Starring: Hugh Grant, David Tennant, Salma Hayek, Imelda Staunton, Brian Blessed

An understated Swedish gay romantic comedy in which a politician who suffers a shocking turnaround at the polls falls in love with a leading light of the opposition party that has left him on the sidelines. But can he keep his newly found sexuality a secret with his marriage and career on the line?

Released: 10th September Extras: Filmmakers’ Commentary; From Stop to Motion featurette; Creating the Bath Chase. Item# 69008 UK / USA | 2012 | COL-T | 88 | Cert U

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Leave It On the Floor Sheldon Larry

2 Days in New York Julie Delpy

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Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection Item# 69435 UK / USA | 18 | £129.99

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The Angels’ Share Ken Loach

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Cleopatra (MoC) Cecil B. DeMille

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Les Enfants du Paradis (Restored) Marcel Carné

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Lawrence of Arabia David Lean

Item# 69190 UK | 1962 | 217 | PG | £15.99

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The Lodger (New Score) Alfred Hitchcock

A gay African American musical about finding your true family. In the spirit of Paris Is Burning, Sheldon Larry’s raunchy and bighearted musical takes us into the world of voguing in downtown LA where hunky homeless hero Brad falls in with the artists and dancers of the ‘House of Eminence’, a troupe ruled by the ageing diva Queef Latina, who keeps loving watch over her makeshift family.

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Gareth Evans

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Moonrise Kingdom Wes Anderson

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The Pirates! Peter Lord

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The Raid

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The Turin Horse Béla Tarr

Item# 68867 Hungary / France | 2011 | 154 | subt | B&W | 15 | £19.99

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Aardman’s fifth feature delivers a broadside of well-crafted gags and outlandish set-pieces, mashing together pirates, Darwinism, Victoriana and steampunk, and strikes a slightly saltier tone than that of its predecessors. This being the Aardman universe, it’s peopled with oddball characters. Besides the quixotic Pirate Captain (Hugh Grant) and his eccentric crew, we meet an aggressively carnivorous Queen Victoria (Imelda Staunton) and a nerdy Charles Darwin (David Tennant). Gideon Defoe’s script, adapted from his own books, spins a reliably daft tale concerning Darwin’s kidnapping of the last Dodo in an attempt to win the monarch’s favour. The vocal talent is uniformly excellent, especially Grant, who is clearly having the time of his life. The film looks gorgeous, thanks to its combination of claymation and digital enhancements. It’s also packed with so many jokes and details that one viewing is nowhere near enough. NR

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Classic Movies English Language Films, 1930 - 1969

New Releases Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection

14 Hitchcock films on Blu-ray!: Saboteur (1942), Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Rope (1948), Rear Window (1954), The Trouble with Harry (1955), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), Vertigo (1958), Psycho (1960), The Birds (1963), Marnie (1964), Torn Curtain (1966), Topaz (1969), Frenzy (1972) and Family 14 discs; Numerous extras; Plot (1976). Also available: Collector’s Edition with Special packaging, book and art cards.

Beau Geste Recommended Director: William A. Wellman

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Starring: Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Broderick Crawford, Brian Donlevy, Robert Preston

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Girdle of Gold

Montgomery Tully A 1950s comedy set in a Welsh village where Evans the Milk (Esmond Knight) and Griffiths the Hearse (Meredith Edwards) search for the fortune that the drunken Griffiths has stashed in his adulterous wife’s corset. UK | 1952 | SIMP | 59 | Cert U Item# 69006 | RRP £12.99 | 10th September

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Grand National Night Bob McNaught

1950s murder mystery starring Nigel Patrick as a racehorse trainer who is suspected of the murder of his glamorous wife (Moira Lister) after she comes home drunk on the day that his horse wins the National. Can he prove his innocence? UK | 1953 | SIMP | 77 | Cert PG Item# 68966 | RRP £12.99 | 10th September

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Great British Movies: WWII Contains Theirs Is the Glory (Hurst & Young, 1946), Seven Thunders (aka The Beasts of Marseilles, Fregonese, 1957), Operation Amsterdam (McCarthy, 1959) and Conspiracy of Hearts (Thomas, 1960). 4 discs.

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Recommended Director: Cecil B. DeMille

A ruthless regiment, whose ranks are drawn from the wretched of the earth – no wonder the French Foreign Legion has inspired so many storytellers over the years. Beau Geste is the best known tale of legionary life, and this 1939 version isn’t just the best known take on PC Wren’s hardy perennial – it’s one of Hollywood’s greatest adventures. As is traditional, the new recruits are escaping personal disgrace, with the brothers Geste (Robert Preston, Ray Milland and Gary Cooper) fleeing Britain after becoming suspects in the disappearance of a valuable gem. If ever a film was a Boy’s Own adventure it’s this one. Beginning with an indelible sequence in a fort filled with dead men and building to a rousing climax, this is stirring stuff. And who better to direct than William Wellman? He excels himself, pacing things superbly, deftly juggling plot lines and never losing momentum. 1939 was tinsel town’s annus mirabilis, the year of Stagecoach, Gunga Din and Only Angels Have Wings. Beau Geste is as good as any of them. JO

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Released: 24th September Item# 69319 USA | 1934 | EUREK | 100 | B&W | Cert PG

The silver screen has had its fair share of dazzling Cleopatras: for some she’s best embodied by Theda Bara while for others it’s Vivien Leigh, Elizabeth Taylor or even Amanda Barrie. But none quite compare to Claudette Colbert’s Queen of the Nile in De Mille’s outlandish Cleopatra. Dressed in a series of revealing and increasingly outré outfits (think Art Deco with a heft of monochrome Versace) Colbert sashays around the ancient world doing her damnedest to become empress of the Roman Empire. After Julius Caesar ends up a bloodied heap on the senate steps, she resets her sights on man’s man Marc Antony. And once he has embarked onto her galley (more floating boudoir replete with leopardskinned beauties writhing over a sacred bull) he’s soon skipping military duties and heading to Alexandria. Historically accurate this isn’t, but entertaining and spectacular it certainly is. The final montage of Marc Antony’s ill-fated campaigns with their cast of thousands casts a spell that no amount of CGI could achieve: it’s simply breathtaking. AB

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The Man Who Never Was Recommended

Exclusive Director: Ronald Neame Starring: Stephen Boyd, Clifton Webb, Robert Flemyng, Michael Hordern, Cyril Cusack, Gloria Grahame, Josephine Griffin Released: Out Now Extras: Digitally restored and remastered. Item# 69251 | UK | 1956 | ODEON | 99 | Cert U

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See Also Now It Can Be Told Edward Baird

Item# 33723 UK | 1944 | 68 | PG | £12.99

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Odette

Herbert Wilcox

Item# 50630 UK | 1950 | 112 | B&W | PG | £15.99

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Saboteur

Alfred Hitchcock

Item# 24483 USA | 1942 | 104 | B&W | PG | £9.99

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orld War II: British Naval Intelligence officers Clifton Webb and Robert Flemyng hatch a plan to weaken the Germans’ North African campaign by having the body of a dead Englishman wash up on the shores of southern Spain, armed with ‘top secret’ papers detailing bogus Allied activities. The ruse meets some internal resistance but eventually gets the green light from Winston Churchill himself (voiced, reverently, by an unseen Peter Sellers). However, the first challenge for Webb is procuring a suitable dead body – a task that is harder than you might think at the height of wartime London. Second is equipping it not just with said secret papers but an entire back story, right down to a receipt for a poplin shirt from Gieves of Piccadilly and a tear-stained love letter, so heart-wrenching as to set even Nazi lower lips trembling, from a conveniently bereft Gloria Grahame. The heroic corpse, renamed Major Willie Martin, is then packed in dry ice and dispatched to the Spanish coast. The plan goes swimmingly – pun intended – until the suspicious Germans send an Irish spy (Stephen Boyd) to London to find out if the late Major Martin is really who his papers

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A superior ripping yarn – even more remarkable for being true say he is. This is a superior ripping yarn, all the more remarkable for being true. But director Ronald Neame keeps a tight and assured hold on the proceedings and ensures they are never less than deferential. Ensemble playing, a taut script and elegant CinemaScoped visuals are all at the dutiful service of the narrative. Webb is particularly effective as a no-nonsense but nobly sensitive naval officer; Grahame – nicely recovered from her encounter with Lee Marvin and a pot of boiling coffee in The Big Heat – injects some necessary femininity and emotion. But, as the IRA spy, it is Stephen Boyd who almost steals the movie; he’s so relentless in pursuit of his ‘bounty’ that he’d give No Country for Old Men’s Anton Chigurh a run for his money. The Man Who Never Was is a great example of the Boy’s Own-type British war film, and it deserves to be celebrated as a minor classic of the genre. Julian Upton Page 15

Classic Movies Hitler’s Children

Police Dog

Edward Dmytryk

Derek N. Twist

Childhood sweethearts (Bonita Granville and Tim Holt) in prewar Berlin are torn apart – Karl joins the Gestapo while Anna is faced with enforced sterilisation or breeding for the Third Reich. Her American colleague (Kent Smith) tries to get her out of Germany – but her fate depends on the boy she once loved. USA | 1943 | ODEON | 79 | Cert PG Item# 68911 | RRP £12.99 | 10th September

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All 22 Bond movies in a beautiful box set: Dr No, From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Diamonds are Forever, Live and Let Die, The Man with the Golden Gun, The Spy who Loved Me, Moonraker, For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, A View to a Kill, The Living Daylights, Licence to Kill, Goldeneye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World is Not Enough, Die Another Day, Casino 23 discs; More Royale, Quantum of Solace. than 130 hours of bonus features. UK | 1962-2008 | FOX | 2636 | Cert 15 Item# 69546 / 68849 | RRP £134.99 | 24th Sep

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Leave Her to Heaven John M. Stahl

Gloriously filmed in rich Technicolor, this classic melodrama stars Gene Tierney (Laura) as a father-fixated girl who picks a husband (Cornel Wilde) because of his resemblance to him – but is then consumed with obsessive jealousy. USA | 1946 | FOX | 107 | Cert PG Item# 68999 | RRP £9.99 | 24th September

The Mark

Guy Green Strikingly photographed by Douglas Slocombe, this 1961 drama addresses our own society’s concerns about paedophiles, and sees a man (Stuart Whitman) on the streets again three years after he abducting a young girl. But will he be allowed to rebuild his life? UK | 1961 | ODEON | 124 | Cert U Item# 68912 | RRP £12.99 | 10th September

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UK | 1955 | SIMP | 70 | Cert PG Item# 68984 | RRP £12.99 | 10th September

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As a seemingly untamable Alsatian, Rex III takes his place among the better known human actors – Joan Rice, Tim Turner, Christopher Lee, John Le Mesurier – in this police drama that sees a PC vowing to bring a killer to justice after his beat colleague is shot dead.

Bob McNaught Richard Burton and Joan Collins star in this wartime drama in which an officer (Burton), a businessman (Basil Sydney), the ship’s purser (Cy Grant) and a mysterious young woman (Collins) share a flimsy dinghy after a torpedo attack. The tensions and attractions between them grow ever stronger... Restored Image and Sound; Commentary. UK | 1957 | ODEON | 78 | Cert PG Item# 69091 | RRP £14.99 | 10th September

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Smiley

Anthony Kimmins

Loveable scamp Smiley Greevins is the most mischievous boy in the Australian outback town of Murrumbilla. He dreams of owning a bicycle – and won’t let anything stand in his way of getting it. He tries everything going to raise a few pennies – and ends up getting involved with opium smuggling! UK | 1956 | ODEON | 94 | Cert U Item# 68913 | RRP £12.99 | 10th September

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Son of the Navy William Nigh

Starring Hollywood glamour girl Jean Parker, Son of the Navy is a heartwarming comedy about a boy who absconds with his dog from an orphanage. He meets a sailor hitchhiking to his base at San Pedro. The sailor decides it will be easier to get a ride if they pretend to be father and son, but the boy has other ideas...

Where Danger Lives Recommended Director: John Farrow Starring: Robert Mitchum, Claude Rains, Faith Domergue, Maureen O’Sullivan Released: 10th September Item# 69080 USA | 1950 | ODEON | 77 | B&W | Cert PG

In this unjustly neglected 50s film noir, Jeff Cameron (Robert Mitchum), a young doctor, falls for Margo (Faith Domergue), a woman whose life he saved, but soon the couple are on the run after an argument ends in murder. The femme, needless to say, is fatale, and things go from bad to worse in true noir fashion. There’s a Hitchcockian air to some of the action, so it’s probably no coincidence that the screenplay is by Charles Bennett, who wrote several of Hitchcock’s early classics (including The 39 Steps, which this movie partly resembles). Director John Farrow (father of Mia) gives us everything we want from the genre: suspense, deception, laconic dialogue, lots of shadows, and extreme mental states. It’s interesting, if not entirely convincing, to see Mitchum cast higher up the social scale than usual, and a pleasure, as always, to have Claude Rains turn up, however fleetingly, as a wronged, waspish husband. Where Danger Lives is a cracking yarn, and bears comparison with better-known noirs from the same era. NR

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MGM Classics DVD Sale Hans Christian Anderson

In The Heat of the Night

Sweet Smell of Success

Charles Vidor

Norman Jewison

Alexander Mackendrick

Danny Kaye plays the village cobbler who is too inventive to stick to his last. Full of songs and delight, it also features a ballet performance of ‘The Little Mermaid’.

Rod Steiger won an Oscar for his portrayal of a bigoted sheriff who is reluctantly forced to accept a black detective’s help in solving a murder mystery. Sidney Poitier co-stars.

Burt Lancaster’s high-powered columnist and Tony Curtis’s sleazy press agent riff off each other as men prepared to do just about anything in 1950s New York.

Item# 21238 USA | 1952 | 108 | U | £12.99

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The Apartment

The Killing

Pocketful of Miracles

Dir: Billy Wilder. Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine star in this comedy about a timid clerk who lends his apartment to his boss for his liaisons.

Dir: Stanley Kubrick. Tough, taut, tense crime thriller in which a race track robbery is foiled by a moneyhungry, double-crossing dame.

Dir: Frank Capra. Bette Davis plays the Broadway fruit seller who tries to fool her daughter into thinking she is part of high society.

Item# 9068 USA | 1960 | 120 | B&W | PG | £15.99

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The Flight of the Phoenix

Midnight Cowboy

Red River

Dir: John Schlesinger. To Barry’s score and Nilsson’s songs, an amiable country boy heads to NY to make his living as a male prostitute.

Dir: Howard Hawks. John Wayne towers over this characteristically Hawksian tale of professionalism up against the wire. A great western.

Dir: Robert Aldrich. A tense WWII yarn, in which a plane of military personnel crashes in the Sahara.

Item# 3125 USA | 1969 | 113 | 18 | £12.99

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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Never on Sunday

Separate Tables

Dir: Jules Dassin. Melina Mercouri portrays the spirited, carefree Greek prostitute who refuses to be tamed by an American intellectual.

Dir: Delbert Mann. A mature and beautifully acted drama set in an English guest house. Niven, Kerr, Hayworth, Lancaster and Hiller star.

Item# 22869 Greece | 1960 | 97 | B&W | PG | £15.99

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On the Beach

Twelve O’Clock High

Dir: Stanley Kramer. Fred Astaire stars with Anthony Perkins and Gregory Peck in this powerful 1960s post-apocalypse anti-war drama.

Dir: Henry King. Dean Jagger and Gregory Peck star in this compelling study of men under pressure on a US bomber base in Britain in WWII.

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Judgement at Nuremberg

Paths of Glory

The Vikings

Item# 18520 USA | 1965 | 136 | PG | £12.99

Dir: Richard Lester. A bawdy comical romp through the Roman Empire. Item# 16672 USA | 1966 | 93 | PG | £12.99

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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Dir: Sergio Leone. Three desperadoes form an uneasy alliance in this last and best of the ‘Dollars’ Trilogy.

Dir: Stanley Kubrick. One of Kubrick’s greatest films – a searing indictment of French military incompetence and cover-up. Kirk Douglas stars.

Dir: Richard Fleischer. Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh star in this adventure of half-brothers who quarrel over the Northumbrian throne.

Item# 17882 USA | 1961 | 178 | B&W | PG | £12.99

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Dir: Stanley Kramer. An Oscarwinning account of the Nazi war crime trials. Stars an A-list cast.

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Sight&Sound Top 1 Vertigo Alfred Hitchcock The 50-year reign of Citizen Kane is over. Hitchcock’s wonderfully mysterious, dreamlike study of paranoia, obsession and identity has been inching up the charts for three decades and now it is in the top spot. And justifiably too – it amply rewards each new viewing. Item# 24490 USA | 1958 | 124 | PG | £9.99

Every ten years, Sight and Sound polls the world’s leading film critics to compile a list of the greatest films of all time. We present the recently unveiled 2012 list complete with a well-deserved new number 1 – that’s right, after 50 years at the top spot Citizen Kane has been toppled. To say that all the films contained come recommended is a massive understatement. There are many treasures here to enjoy – one of which might just be your new favourite of all time. So, with prices from £5.99, what better time to discover the most highly-praised films ever made?

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2 Citizen Kane

3 Tokyo Story

4 La Règle du Jeu

Orson Welles

Yasujiro Ozu

Jean Renoir

...as does Welles’ auspicious directorial debut in which he pushed the boundaries of cinema with inventive cinematography, broken narrative and creative use of sound.

Ozu’s most famous film – and one of his masterpieces – is an emotionally breathtaking, poignant study of the frailty of family ties. This profound work of refined cinema has universal appeal.

Dismissed on release but now firmly installed as an all-time great, this scathing satire of pre-WWII French aristocracy is also a study in the corruption and decay of a dying social class and society.

Item# 18338 USA | 1941 | 136 | B&W | U | £19.99

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5 Sunrise

6 2001: A Space Odyssey

7 The Searchers

Stanley Kubrick

The most majestic of westerns, this is also Ford’s darkest and most complex work, with John Wayne’s performance one of his finest. An iconic film, and an influence and inspiration for many filmmakers.

FW Murnau Named by Cahiers du Cinéma in 1967 as ‘the single greatest masterwork in the history of the cinema’, this extraordinary spectacle saw Murnau given Fox’s resources to fulfil his vision.

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A profound exploration of human consequence and inconsequence with some of the most astonishing imagery ever filmed. A monument. 2 discs. Item# 3749 USA | 1968 | 136 | U | £8.16

John Ford

Item# 28701 USA | 1956 | 119 | U | £15.99

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8 Man with a Movie Camera

9 The Passion of Joan of Arc Out 12th November

10 Fellini’s 8½

Dir: Dziga Vertov. An exhilarating montage of Moscow life – its array of cinematic techniques dazzles still.

Dir: Carl Th. Dreyer. An intensely powerful depiction of spiritual grace and suffering. An astounding film.

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Item# 69184 / 69185 Fra | 1927 | 97 | B&W | £17.99

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11 Battleship Potemkin Out 5th November

12 L’Atalante

13 Breathless

Dir: Jean Vigo. Vigo’s poetic, surreal vision of newly-weds on a barge is the centrepiece of his complete works, presented here. 2 discs.

Dir: Jean-Luc Godard. An iconic example of the nouvelle vague, mixing subversive Gallic insouciance with American B-movies.

Eisenstein’s masterpiece of Russian revolutionary cinema (here paired with John Grierson’s Drifters). 2 discs.

Dir: Federico Fellini. Perhaps the greatest of all films about the madness of moviemaking. Marcello Mastroianni plays the director. Item# 7139 Italy | 1963 | 138 | subt | B&W | 15

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14 Apocalypse Now

15 Late Spring

Dir: Francis Ford Coppola. The Vietnam war restaged as a delirious napalm-scented Wagnerian opera. An unforgettable 1970s monster.

Dir: Yasujiro Ozu. A poignant and tender examination of modernity and tradition in Japan. The first of the ‘Noriko trilogy’. 2 discs.

16 Au Hasard Balthazar Out 12th December

Item# 67130 / 65086 USA | 1979 | 148 | 15 | £15.99

Item# 60979 Japan | 1949 | 108 | subt | B&W | U | £19.99

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Item# 68450 Russia / UK | 1929 | 124 | B&W | PG | £19.99

Dir: Robert Bresson. A masterpiece which puts a donkey centre stage and through it reveals all humanity. Item# 69440 France | 1966 | 91 | subt | B&W | £15.99

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50 Films of All Time =17 Seven Samurai

=17 Persona

19 Mirror

Dir: Akira Kurosawa. Simply magnificent cinema, in which seven warriors defend a village from ferocious bandits. Toshiro Mifune stars.

Dir: Ingmar Bergman. Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullmann play the patient and the nurse whose personalities blend and blur in bizarre osmosis.

Blending past and present, dreams and memory, art and levitation, this is one of cinema’s unique statements. Part of the 7 film Tarkovsky set.

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Dir: Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly. A Singin’ Swingin’ Glorious Feelin’ Technicolor Musical! And as irresistible today as it ever was.

Dir: Michelangelo Antonioni. A landmark vision of an alienated middle class which did away with the conventions of classical storytelling.

Dir: Jean-Luc Godard. A stately, elegant tale of ideals colliding with chequebook art. Fritz Lang, Michel Piccoli and Brigitte Bardot star.

Item# 68265 USA | 1952 | 98 | U | £17.99

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Classic Movies The Third Secret Charles Crichton

The suicide of a leading London psychoanalyst prompts a former patient, Stephen Boyd’s TV news anchor, to investigate. Joining forces with the doctor’s young daughter (Pamela Franklin), he finds himself in a web of intrigue. Richly shot in black and white ‘Scope by Douglas Slocombe, this mystery thriller is a sophisticated addition to early 1960s cinema’s fascination with psychotherapy. UK | 1964 | ODEON | 99 | Cert U Item# 69229 | RRP £12.99 | 24th September

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The Treasure of San Teresa

Newly Restored Blu-ray Classics

Lawrence of Arabia (50th Anniversary Edition)

The Lodger (Nitin Sawhney Score) Recommended

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

David Lean

Starring: Ivor Novello, Marie Ault Released: 24th September

UK | 1959 | RENOWN | 80 | Cert U Item# 68927 | RRP £12.99 | 10th September

One of the most sumptuous of the postwar cycle of Hollywood epics, David Lean’s 7 Oscar-winning retelling of the legend of TE Lawrence comes fully restored to Blu-ray in its full-length director’s cut. Peter O’Toole stars as the Oxford-educated British army officer who aided the Arabs in their revolt against the Turks. Teaming up with Sherif Ali (Omar Sharif), he crosses a desert in order to join two separate Arab tribes as a single fighting force. 2 discs; Newly restored and remastered at 4K resolution; UltraViolet Copy; A Picture-in-Graphics Track; Peter O’Toole Revisits Lawrence; Making-of; A Conversation with Steven Speilberg; Featurettes.

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Item# 69190 UK | 1962 | 217 | PG | £15.99

Alvin Rakoff

‘She was Trash! She would do anything for a price!’ Eddie Constantine (Alphaville) stars as an ex-OSS operative who returns to Czechoslovakia after the war to retrieve jewels he hid for a Nazi General, an enterprise in which he is aided by the General’s daughter (Dawn Addams). Crosses, double-crosses and triple-crosses abound.

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John Dexter

A bawdy look at life in Britain’s conscript army of the 1950s, in which various raw British recruits doing their National Service in Singapore plot a dangerous military operation – an affair with the Sergeant Major’s daughter (Lynn Redgrave)! Hywel Bennett, Nigel Patrick, Nigel Davenport and Geoffrey Hughes star. UK | 1969 | SONY | 90 | Cert 15 Item# 69575 | RRP £12.99 | 12th September

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Blu-rays The Invisible Man James Whale

Item# 69463 1933 | 68 | B&W | 12 | £14.99

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To Catch a Thief Alfred Hitchcock

Item# 68621 USA | 1955 | 102 | £19.99

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Universal Classic Monsters: The Essential Collection A box set featuring eight iconic Universal horrors, digitally restored in high-definition. These are the monsters and the names – Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi – that defined a generation of horror. Contains Dracula (Browning, 1931), Frankenstein (Whale, 1931), The Mummy (Freund, 1932), The Invisible Man (Whale, 1933), The Bride of Frankenstein (Whale, 1935), The Wolf Man (Waggner, 1941), The Phantom of the Opera (Lubin, 1943) and Creature from the Black Lagoon (also included in 3D) (Arnold, 1954). Hours of bonus features, commentaries and restoration comparisons. Item# 69169 USA | 1931-54 | B&W | 15 | £49.99

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Extras: 3 discs; 2 disc soundtrack CD by Nitin Sawhney and the LSO; Booklet. Item# 68851 UK | 1927 | NWORK | 0 | B&W | Cert PG

Post-The Artist, silent cinema’s profile has peaked again. Yet this restoration of Hitchcock’s second extant feature (after The Pleasure Garden) suggests its artist-in-chief was less concerned with charming audiences than instilling a torn-fromthe-tabloids story with a rich sense of the macabre. The Lodger could be considered a bookend to the director’s penultimate work Frenzy: again set in the East End, it’s a film that uses the slayings of a Ripper-like psycho to set out Hitchcock’s core belief that nothing gets the juices flowing better than a good murder. Inventive camera and lighting choices are already apparent, along with the beginnings of a career-long fascination with wrongful arrest. And Hitchcock’s suspense stratagems are here lent renewed urgency by Nitin Sawhney’s new score, with its keening love songs and brassy nods towards The Master’s later work. Amenable to newcomers and auteurists alike, this restoration does as much as anything since the extended cut of Metropolis to revive the silents as a cracking night in. MM

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With Hitchcock’s Vertigo voted the greatest film ever made (see p16) and the BFI Southbank hosting a major celebration of his work, there is no better time than now to present this sale of films from the most influential and iconic British film director.

Box Sets & more Alfred Hitchcock: The British Years

Exactly what it says – an essential collection of Hitchcock’s very finest, containing Rear Window (1954), Vertigo (1958), Psycho (1960), and The Birds (1963). Item# 66532 USA | 1954-63 | 452 | 15 | £49.99

Early Hitchcock

10 British films: The Pleasure Garden, The Lodger, Downhill, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The 39 Steps, Secret Agent, Sabotage, Young and Innocent, The Lady Vanishes, Jamaica Inn.

10 discs.

Item# 52908 UK | 1925-39 | 810 | B&W | PG | £59.99

A box set containing nine of Hitch’s earliest films: Blackmail, Murder!, The Ring, The Farmer’s Wife, Rich and Strange, The Skin Game, The Manxman, Number Seventeen and Champagne. 9 discs. Item# 32031 UK | 1927-31 | 755 | B&W | PG | £34.99

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Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection

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Psycho

One of Hitchcock’s most underrated films joins his two rare wartime dramas – Bon Voyage and Aventure Malgache. 2 discs.

Hitch attained new heights of psychological terror and suspense as Janet Leigh’s thieving secretary happens upon the Bates motel.

Item# 67689 USA | 1944 | 96 | PG | £19.99

Item# 50660 USA | 1960 | B&W | 15 | £15.99

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Juno and the Paycock

The Pleasure Garden

Vertigo

Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. An adaptation from Sean O’Casey’s powerful play that stars members of the original theatre production. Restored.

Hitchcock’s accomplished debut already features a number of his trademark themes – blondes and voyeurism among them.

Hitchcock’s most complex, profound, and critically admired masterpiece: a wonderfully mysterious, dream-like study of obsession and identity.

Item# 63140 UK | 1930 | 91 | B&W | PG | £12.99

Item# 55647 UK / Germany | 1925 | 75 | subt | B&W | | £5.99

Item# 24490 USA | 1958 | 124 | PG | £9.99

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14 films on Blu-ray, from Saboteur (1942) to Family Plot (1976). Full details on p12. Item# 69435 UK / USA | 1942-76 | 18 | £129.99

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Pick any two of these Hitchcock films and pay just £12, or buy individually for the marked price

The 39 Steps (1935) DVD £6.99

The Birds DVD £6.99

Dial M for Murder DVD £6.99

Family Plot DVD £6.99

Foreign Correspondent £6.99

Frenzy DVD £6.99

The Lady Vanishes DVD £6.99

Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) £6.99

Marnie DVD £6.99

Mr & Mrs Smith DVD £6.99

North by Northwest DVD £6.99

Notorious DVD £6.99

Rear Window DVD £6.99

Rope DVD £6.99

Shadow of a Doubt DVD £6.99

Torn Curtain DVD £6.99

The Trouble with Harry DVD £6.99

To Catch a Thief DVD £6.99

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Alfred Hitchcock: Essential Collection

The Lodger

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New Releases Accused: Series 1

The complete first series of the drama written by Jimmy McGovern, in which various characters await a verdict on their trial and reflect on how they came to be accused. In the dock are Christopher Eccleston, Benjamin Smith, Juliet Stevenson, Andy Serkis, 2 discs. Marc Warren and Naomie Harris. UK | 2010 | ACORN | 383 | Cert 15 Item# 69361 | RRP £19.99 | 27th August

With a tour-de-force performance as an actor haunted by a broken promise, Anthony Hopkins stars opposite Kate Nelligan in David Mercer’s intense play, first screened as part of ITV’s Sunday Night Drama anthology.

UK | 1970 | 2ENT | 171 | Cert PG Item# 69077 | RRP £19.99 | 1st October

UK | 1974 | NWORK | 90 | Cert 12 Item# 67785 | RRP £12.99 | 17th September

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Our DVD Price: £9.99 The complete series of the cult 1960s fantasy adventure in which an unconventional team of detectives that includes Kronk (John Sharp) and the apt pairing of Inspector Blood (Alan Curtis) and Sergeant Hound (Maxwell) set out to foil the schemes of millionaire Syrie Van Epp (Elizabeth Shepherd).

Coup

Ed Fraiman Gabriel Byrne stars as the reluctant hero who finds himself taking on powerful vested interests and Establishment secrets in this conspiracy thriller inspired by Chris Mullin’s novel, A Very British Coup. Douglas Hodge, Gina McKee, Charles Dance and Rupert Graves co-star. UK | 2012 | 4DVD | Cert TBC Item# 69573 | RRP £19.99 | 1st October

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A classic Jon Pertwee UNIT serial which finds The Doctor on Earth, coming up against opposition within the British space programme when he attempts to investigate mysterious messages travelling to and from the returning spaceship Mars 2 discs; Remastered in full colour. Probe 7.

David Cunliffe

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USA | 1964 | SIMP | 65 | Cert U Item# 68993 | RRP £12.99 | 10th September

Michael Ferguson

The Arcata Promise

UK | 1966 | NWORK | Cert 12 Item# 69472 | RRP £12.99 | Out Now

Mystery and melodrama combine in this made-forTV pilot for a series that was never made. Joan Crawford takes the lead as Della Chappell, a wealthy recluse who lives a nocturnal life with her daughter. Then a lawyer is drawn into their life and discovers the dark secret that keeps them from the outside world.

Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death

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The Corridor People

Robert Gist

Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos (Special Edition) Ron Jones

The Doctor (Colin Baker) visits the planet Varos to obtain supplies of a rare ore vital to the functioning of the TARDIS. However, Varos was once a colony for the criminally insane and the descedants of the orginal guards still rule over the poverty-striken 2 discs; population. Commentary and Featurettes. UK | 1985 | 2ENT | 90 | Cert PG Item# 68776 | RRP £19.99 | 10th September

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Escape Into Night The complete series of the ATV children’s drama which follows the adventures of an artistic young girl who, while recuperating after a horse riding accident, discovers that she can visit the places she draws on her sketchpad in the day in her dreams at night.

UK | 1972 | NWORK | Cert 12 Item# 69494 | RRP £14.99 | 3rd September

The Hanged Man

Eight-part Yorkshire TV drama in which a successful businessman feigns his own death in order to try and discover who is plotting against him after three attempts on his life. Colin Blakely stars as the man who decides that enough is 2 discs. enough.

UK | 1975 | NWORK | Cert 12 Item# 69484 | RRP £19.99 | Out Now

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The Henry James Collection Contains three fine BBC adaptations from the novels of Henry James – Portrait of a Lady (Cellan Jones, 1967) – starring Suzanne Neve and Richard Chamberlain, The Spoils of Poynton (Sasdy, 1970) – starring Ian Ogilvy and Gemma Jones, and The Golden Bowl (Cellan Jones, 1972), starring Gayle 6 discs. Hunnicutt and Daniel Massey. UK | 1967-72 | ACORN | 720 | Cert PG Item# 69373 | RRP £59.99 | 3rd September

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Homeland: Series 1

All 12 episodes from the first season of the US drama adapted from the Israeli original, Prisoners of War (also available). In the US version, Claire Danes’ CIA officer is determined to prove that a returned Marine hero (Damian Lewis) is actually an Al-Qaeda mole – but she is out of favour with her superiors and is soon forced to break ranks to prove her theory. 4 discs; Commentaries. USA | 2011 | FOX | 651 | Cert 15 Item# 69232 / 69242 | RRP £34.99 | 10th Sep

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Inspector George Gently: Series 3 & 4

Series 3 and 4, available separately, of the 1960sset detective drama starring Martin Shaw. Series 3 contains the stories Gently Evil and Peace and Love, series 4 Gently Upside Down and Goodbye China. 2 discs each. Also available: 11 disc complete series 1-4 box set. UK | 2010 | ACORN | 176 | Cert 12 Item# Various | RRP £19.99 | Out Now

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The Hollow Crown Recommended Contains: Richard II (Rupert Goold), Henry IV parts 1 & 2 (Richard Eyre) and Henry V (Thea Sharrock) Starring: Patrick Stewart, Jeremy Irons, Simon Russell Beale, David Suchet, David Morrissey, Tom Hiddleston Ben Whishaw, Rory Kinnear Released: 1st October Extras: 4 discs Item# 69374 | UK / USA | 2012 | UPV | 520 | Cert 12

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See Also Hamlet (David Tennant) Gregory Doran

Item# 60333 UK | 2009 | 180 | 12 | £19.99

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Macbeth (Patrick Stewart) Rupert Goold

Item# 64942 UK | 2010 | 180 | 12 | £17.99

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The BBC TV Shakespeare Collection

Item# 24869 UK | 1979-85 | 12 | £199.99

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ay what you will about the BBC: when they pull the stops out, as they most assuredly have here, the results are unimpeachable. Adapted from four of Shakespeare’s history plays, directed by some of the brightest names in theatre and boasting world-class actors, The Hollow Crown is one of the peaks of the televisual year and, already, a veritable modern classic. It is a grand narrative of power, passion and patriotism, beginning with a monarch unsuited to the throne and ending with perhaps the greatest king in English history, a journey that spans Richard II to Henry V, by way of both parts of Henry IV. In the first play, Henry Bolingbroke deposes the unworthy Richard; its sequel finds Henry’s son slowly learning to set idle pleasures aside and handle the reins of power and, ultimately, winning a famous victory over the French. Shakespeare has not always been well served by television; his mastery of theatre does not always translate successfully to the small screen. The Hollow Crown shows how it should be done, honouring the plays but never intimidated by their reputations. Filmed on location and edited to emphasise dramatic clarity, these films show you don’t need to dumb down

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Four productions that set a new benchmark for Shakespeare on TV Shakespeare to make him accessible. The big draw here, of course, is the actors. Who wouldn’t want to be mesmerised by Patrick Stewart reciting John of Gaunt’s speech in Richard II (‘This blessed plot, this earth, this England’) or see gold-medal Shakespearean Simon Russell Beale make mischief as Falstaff? What’s most impressive, though, are the performances of the youngsters. Ben Whishaw (as ‘the skipping king’ Richard) and Tom Hiddleston, an outstanding Henry V, here consolidate their ‘rising star’ status while Rory Kinear (Bolingbroke) and Joe Armstrong (Hotspur) look set to join them. The BBC previously filmed these plays as part of the near-legendary staging of Shakespeare’s complete works the corporation undertook between 1975-85. As good as those productions are, The Hollow Crown establishes a new benchmark for the Bard on the Box. It’s very much to be hoped that the other 33 plays will get the same treatment. James Oliver Page 25

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All 13 films based on real life trials Q L Long unseen British thriller shorts Presented by crime writer Present Edgar Lustgarten E Q

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THE FIRST TRUE HITCHCOCK MOVIE, RESTORED AND RE-SCORED FOR THE 21st CENTURY Declared by the maestro himself in 1962 as “... the first true ‘Hitchcock movie’”, The Lodger has been restored in High Definition by the BFI National Archive, with a brand new orchestral soundtrack by acclaimed musician and composer Nitin Sawhney performed by the London Symphony Orchestra. This release breathes fresh life into one of the earliest films from one of cinema’s greatest auteurs.

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Television Inspector Montalbano: Collection 2

The Mediterranean counterpoint to Scandinavian detective series such as The Killing, Inspector Montalbano is rich in sea, sun and good food. This second collection sees Luca Zingaretti’s handsome inspector involved in six cases: Excursion to Tindari, The Artist’s Touch, The Sense of Touch, Montalbano’s Croquettes, The Scent of the Night and The Goldfinch and 3 discs. the Cat.

BBC Ghost Stories Volume 3 Recommended

BBC Ghost Stories Volume 4 Recommended

Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark

Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark / Derek Lister

Contains: Lost Hearts (1973), The Treasure of Abbott Thomas (1974), The Ash Tree (1975)

Contains: The Signalman (1976), Stigma (1977), The Ice House (1978)

A Konchalovsky

Released: 17th September

Patrick Stewart, Glenn Close and Jonathan Rhys Meyers head the cast of this mini-series adapted from James Goldman’s hit Broadway play which recounts the treacherous goings on in the court of King Henry II as his three sons vie for the throne.

Extras: Introductions by Lawrence Gordon Clark; Comprehensive illustrated booklet.

Item# 68462 UK | 1973-75 | BFI | 104 | Cert 12

Item# 68463 UK | 1976-78 | BFI | 105 | Cert 15

With Lawrence Gordon Clark’s The Stalls of Barchester (1971) and A Warning to the Curious (1972) having proved extremely popular with Christmas Eve audiences, the annual ‘A Ghost Story for Christmas’ attracted the attention of the BBC drama department, who took the productions under its wing, affording them its resources and polish. The three subsequent tales (all new to DVD and contained in this volume) were again drawn from the writings of MR James, with two of the tales, Lost Hearts and The Ash Tree, taking him – and the TV series – as close to the stylings of outright horror as they ever came. All of the tales begin with a place, invariably a country house, into which a person’s arrival provokes a crisis or awakens a curse, revealing latent forces that lie uneasily in the grounds. At the heart of all the films – each a beautifully crafted miniature – is Clark’s eye for telling detail and cameraman John McGlashan’s evocative photography of the shadowy contours of the supernatural. GH

Having set the tone for ‘A Ghost Story for Christmas’ with his adaptations from the stories of MR James, Lawrence Gordon Clark turned to Dickens for his 1976 entry, The Signalman. Essentially a twohander played out by Denholm Elliott’s forlorn railway signalman and and Bernard Lloyd’s visitor to his signal box, the tale allies ghostly premonitions to the impersonal, indifferent might and undeserving deaths of the industrial age. For his Avebury-set 1977 entry, Stigma, Clark turned to a contemporary script, which sees an ancient blood curse seep into the present after a family asks for a fallen menhir to be removed from the garden so that they can lay a lawn. The final 1970s entry in the series, The Ice House, adds a satire on wealth and the price one pays for its isolating properties to the familiar stylings of horror. John Stride plays the man who retreats to a curious, stultifyingly formal residential spa run by siblings, where his every need is met – but at what price? GH

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Lionheart

USA | 2003 | BSPK | 180 | Cert 15 Item# 69250 | RRP £19.99 | 10th September

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Murder Most Horrid: Series 1 & 2

The complete first two series of the BBC’s dark comedy that pokes satirical fun at the murder mystery genre. In each episodes, Dawn French plays a different character embroiled in murder. Steven Moffat and Ian Hislop number among the writers. Series 2 also 2 discs; Commentaries. available separately. UK | 1994 | REV | 335 | Cert 12 Item# 60113 / 62282 | RRP £24.99 | 10th Sep

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Parade’s End Susanna White

As the certainties of Edwardian England give way to destruction and chaos, an aristocrat (Benedict Cumberbatch) finds his life transformed when he meets a fearless suffragette (Adelaide Clemens). Adapted from Ford Madox Ford’s novel 2 discs. by Tom Stoppard. UK / USA | 2012 | 2ENT | Cert 12 Item# 69110 / 69179 | RRP £24.99 | 1st October

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Television New Releases Raven: Complete Series

Occult and supernatural themes are interwoven with environmental concerns in this 1970s telefantasy which follows the discoveries of a borstal boy (Phil Daniels) who is taken on an archaeology dig and makes some discoveries of his own in the underground caves where artefacts relating to the Arthurian legend are said to lurk. UK | 1977 | NWORK | 150 | Cert PG Item# 69509 | RRP £14.99 | 3rd September

All eleven episodes of the suspense anthology with a chilling Hitchcockian touch in which a character has someone, or something, to fear. The dramas feature some of Britain’s most renowned stage and TV performers, including Ronald Hines, Edward Fox, Annette Crosbie, Gemma Jones, Sheila Hancock and 3 discs. George Cole. UK | 1973 | NWORK | 525 | Cert 12 Item# 69480 | RRP £29.99 | Out Now

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Sky: Complete Series

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Regan

Shown as part of the Armchair Cinema series, TV play Regan was an immediate hit, resulting in the commissioning of the first series of The Sweeney. Filmed entirely on location in and around central London, it sets Flying Squad members Regan and Carter (John Thaw and Dennis Waterman) on the trail of underworld thugs. UK | 1974 | NWORK | 77 | Cert 15 Item# 68720 | RRP £12.99 | 10th September

1970s telefantasy from Doctor Who writers Bob Baker and Dave Martin following the adventures of a mysterious boy (Marc Harrison) who materialises on Earth at the wrong time. The planet’s immune system creates Goodchild (Robert Eddison) to get rid of him at all costs. Can Sky’s friends help him escape to the correct dimension before it is too late? UK | 1975 | NWORK | 175 | Cert PG Item# 69471 | RRP £14.99 | 3rd September

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The Sweeney: Series 1

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The Scales of Justice

Following the success of Anglo-Amalgamated’s Scotland Yard and Edgar Wallace Mysteries, the company scored another hit with The Scales of Justice (1962-67), thirteen dramas based on real-life trials dramatising events from crime to courtroom. 2 discs. Complete.

UK | 1962-67 | NWORK | 325 | Cert PG Item# 68646 | RRP £19.99 | 24th September

The entire first series of the action-packed, drywitted smash hit 70s cop show starring the classic detective double act of John Thaw’s irritable Regan and Dennis Waterman’s cheeky cockney Carter. 4 discs.

UK | 1975 | NWORK | 660 | Cert 15 Item# 68718 / 68883 | RRP £29.99 | 10th Sep

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Take the High Road: Vol 2

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Shadows of Fear: Complete

Episodes 7-12 of the Scottish soap which follows the people who live and work in the fictional village of Glendarroch. A landmark Scottish Television drama, Take the High Road was also one of the longest running shows on UK television. For over 22 years it delighted viewers all over Britain as it followed the trials and tribulations of the people who live and work on the Glendarroch estate. Shot on location in the village of Luss, on the 2 discs. banks of Loch Lomond. UK | 1980 | GO-D | 180 | Cert TBC Item# 69061 | RRP £12.99 | 24th September

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Edgar Wallace Mysteries

Edgar Wallace Mysteries: Vol 3 Crime writer, prolific novelist, co-creator of King Kong, Edgar Wallace has proved to be a rich source of material for film and television. Memorably, his stories – updated from the early part of the century to more contemporary settings – were made into feature-length supporting thrillers at Merton Park Studios between 1960-65. Consistently enjoyable, this third volume contains the films Candidate for Murder, Flat Two, The Share-Out, Number Six, Time to Remember, Solo for Sparrow and Playback. Actors include Barry Foster, Michael Gough, Bernard Lee, Jack Watling and Michael Goodliffe, while scripts were provided by Philip Mackie (The Naked Civil Servant), Robert Banks Stewart (Undermind) and Lukas Heller. Item# 68674 UK | 1962 | 420 | B&W | PG | £29.99

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Edgar Wallace Mysteries: Vol 4 Originally made for the cinema as supporting features, the Edgar Wallace Mysteries are familiar to many from their TV showings. This fourth volume of the noirtinged series, which blended classic B-movie elements with a distinctly British feel, contains seven more hour-long adventures and includes performances from Alfred Burke, Barbara Shelley, Paul Daneman, Anton Diffring and Dawn Addams. Scriptwriters for these films include Philip Mackie, Roger Marshall (The Sweeney, Public Eye) and Richard Harris (The Darling Buds of May) and the set contains Locker Sixty-Nine, Death Trap, The Set-Up, Incident at Midnight, The £20,000 Kiss, On the Run and Return to Sender. Item# 68675 UK | 1963 | 420 | B&W | PG | £29.99

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Reflect on overinternational half a century of outstanding our BBC Salefrom andessential save up Explore wonderful cinema old and new entertainment in this sale from with Optimum. Ranging 80% on DVDs & Blu-rays. From groundbreaking 1950s sci-fi and expert 1980s spycraft classics like La Grande Illusion and Au Revoir Les Enfants to modern hits like Diva, Biutiful and The to Orphanage, this selection is packed with rewardinghours cinema. are from just £5.99, so now’sfor a great today’s world-beating factual programmes, of Prices engrossing viewing are waiting you. time to pick up a film you’ve always wanted to see or discover something new. 1950s - 1970s

The Ascent of Man The complete 13 part series of Jacob Bronowski’s wide-ranging account of the intellectual and technological history of the human race from prehistoric times to the present day, made to complement Kenneth Clarke’s Civilisation. Item# 21438 UK | 1973 | 650 | E | £49.99

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Golden Years 1980s Modern Era The Singing Detective Jon Amiel Dennis Potter’s dark, twisting, noir-tinged series is simply one of the most entertaining and crucial slices of British television history ever made. 3 discs. Item# 16746 UK | 1986 | 360 | 15 | £19.99

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1990s - Present

Sherlock: Series 2 Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman star in this thrilling, funny, and fast-paced reimagining of Conan Doyle’s detective. Contains A Scandal in Belgravia, and The Reichenbach Fall and The Hounds of Baskerville.

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Item# 66868 / 66869 UK | 2012 | 266 | 12 | £20.42

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Alistair Cooke’s America

Boys from the Blackstuff

A Complete History of Britain

Cooke’s presentation of his adopted country is a landmark piece of 4 discs. personalised reporting.

The reality of unemployment strikes home in Alan Bleasdale’s angry, 3 discs. funny, politicised drama.

A captivating series in which Simon Schama brings Britain’s rich history, 6 discs. 3000BC-2000AD, to life.

Item# 19719 UK | 1970s | E | £49.99

Item# 13762 UK | 1989 | 305 | 15 | £15.99

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I, Claudius

Talking Heads

Frozen Planet

Dir: Herbert Wise. Derek Jacobi is a tour-de-force in the title role in this history of Imperial Rome, adapted from Robert Graves. 5 discs.

Alan Bennett’s brilliantly natural monologues are brought to life by some of the UK’s finest talents. Complete and essential. 3 discs.

Narrated by Sir David Attenborough, this is the ultimate portrait of the earth’s Polar regions – teeming with life and now under threat. 3 discs.

Item# 59124 UK | 1970s | 648 | 15 | £44.99

Item# 20951 UK | 1988 | 428 | 12 | £24.99

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Doctor Who: The Daemons

The Monocled Mutineer

The Genius of Photography

A Classic Jon Pertwee / UNIT episode in which The Doctor meets evil in an English village. 2 discs.

High romance, hilarious impudence and savage retribution define this story of Percy Toplis. 2 discs.

The complete BBC4 series tracking the history of the present day’s most influential art form. 2 discs.

Item# 67414 UK | 1971 | 122 | PG | £19.99

Item# 50318 UK | 1986 | 320 | 15 | £19.99

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Pennies from Heaven

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy / Smiley’s People

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Dir: Piers Haggard. The strikingly innovative musical serial that consolidated Dennis Potter as the UK’s foremost television writer. 3 discs. Item# 17879 UK | 1978 | 477 | 12 | £29.99

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The Quatermass Collection Contains BBC’s The Quatermass Experiment, Quatermass II and Quatermass and the Pit. 3 discs. Item# 20890 UK | 1953-59 | 450 | PG | £29.99

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Alec Guinness is Smiley in Le Carré’s double espionage bill. 4 discs. Item# 66167 UK | 1982 | 687 | 15 | £12.99

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Dir: Andy Wilson. Mervyn Peake’s epic books come to life in this largescale BBC production. Stars a host of familiar names. Item# 5401 | 2000 | 240 | 12 | £29.99

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The Woman in White

Shooting the Past

Dir: John Bruce. An outstanding BBC adaptation of Wilkie Collins’ Victorian mystery thriller, starring Alan Badel and Diana Quick. 2 discs.

Dir: Stephen Poliakoff. A vast photographic library is under threat from a US property developer who doesn’t recognise its value. 2 discs.

Item# 62596 UK | 1982 | 275 | PG | £17.99

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Early Years

Television

Documentaries

Village Hall: Series 2

Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present

Featuring excellent casts and outstanding scripts, this Granada anthology features seven dramas centred on the events unfolding in a typical village hall. Diverse storylines explore the lives and idiosyncrasies of locals and visitors alike, with buried tensions, secret loves and rivalry all rising to the surface in these gently humorous portraits of provincial English life. Actors include John Le Mesurier, Joan Hickson, Zoë Wanamaker, Anton Rodgers and 2 discs. Jan Francis. UK | 1975 | NWORK | 350 | Cert TBC Item# 68650 | RRP £19.99 | 24th September

Matthew Akers

A feature-length documentary portrait of the New York-based Serbian performance artist Marina Abramovic, which follows her as she prepares for a retrospective of her work at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. USA | 2012 | DOGW | 106 | Cert U Item# 68483 | RRP £14.99 | 3rd September

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Sing Your Song Susanne Rostock

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Wojtek: The Bear that Went to War Will Hood

The amazing story of Wojtek the Bear – a magnificent Syrian brown bear who was enlisted in the 22nd Artillery Supply Company of the Polish II Corps, fighting alongside them in WWII. Told by those that knew him and those that are captivated by his legend, his story is an uncommon tale of war. Brian Blessed narrates. UK / Germany / Poland | 2011 | BSPK | 90 | Cert E Item# 68760 | RRP £19.99 | 1st October

Harry Belafonte is one of the great entertainers of our time, and has also led one of the great American lives of the last century. Sing Your Song shares the struggles, tragedies and the triumphs of this icon who was passionately involved in the civil rights movement. USA | 2011 | VER | 104 | Cert 12 Item# 68895 / 68898 | RRP £15.99 | 24th Sep

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Tour de France 2012: Bradley Wiggins and the British Invasion

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Also Released... And Mother Makes Five Series 3 Item# 69322 UK | 1975 | 175 | PG | £12.99

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Arthur Haynes Show: Volume 4 Item# 68680 UK | 1963 | B&W | PG | £29.99

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Breaking Bad: Series 4 Item# 69166 USA | 2011 | 585 | 18 | £29.99

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The highlights of the 2012 Tour de France, won by its first ever British winner, Bradley Wiggins. Further UK success came with Chris Froome who was second, Manxman Mark Cavendish who won three stages and David Millar who also won one. Available in 4 hour or 12 2 discs / 6 discs.

UK / France | 2012 | GO-D | 240 | Cert E Item# 69491 | RRP £24.99 | 27th August

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Woody Allen: A Documentary Robert B. Weide

Spartacus: Vengeance

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Variety Acts on DVD

Variety Acts and Turns of the Pre-War Years: 1938-1939 The definitive record of pre-war variety and light entertainment, featuring the singers, comedians and speciality acts that enthralled a generation. The collection features the full range of variety entertainers from the period, with balancing acts, jugglers, dance bands, jazz bands, organists, circus acts, strongmen, musicians and dancers. Singers and comedians on the collection include The Peters Sisters, Leslie Henson, The Hillbillies, Douglas Byng, Issy Bonn, Lorenzi, The Four Aces, Sydney Burchall, Richard Goolden (Mr Penny), Eric Woodburn, Billie Hale, Ronald Frankau and many more. Item# 69359 UK | 1938-39 | 202 | B&W | E | £14.99

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Variety Acts and Turns of the Postwar Years: 1946-1949 A collection of over two and a half hours of variety artists and singers from the lost worlds of the music hall, theatrical revues and ENSA, featuring performances from legendary artists filmed as Pathé Pictorial supporting features or for their prestigious cinema newsreels when the much-loved stars hit the news headlines. In addition to the balancing acts, jugglers and strongmen, musical and comic turns include The Beverley Sisters, Flanagan & Allen, Gracie Fields, Tommy Trinder, The Crazy Gang, Arthur Askey, Laurel & Hardy, Bob Hope, Richard Hearne (Mr Pastry), Max Miller, Anna Neagle, Richard Murdoch, Wilfred Pickles, Vera Lynn, Danny Kaye and many more. Item# 69358 UK | 1946-49 | 164 | B&W | E | £14.99

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October 2012 MovieMail Film Catalogue

British Transport Films Sale

With a very welcome new volume out this month, we round up this cherished series

Nostalgia for the Light Recommended Director: Patricio Guzmán Released: 10th September Item# 68894 Chile | 2010 | NW | 94 | subt | Cert 12

The greatest film, for this writer, of this century, Nostalgia for the Light – Chilean documentarist Guzmán’s remarkable exploration of fundamental questions – is a profoundly moving experience. Set in Chile’s Atacama Desert, his reading of personal and collective memory, loss, grief and tentative healing weaves together many versions of place and its hidden histories. Rarely has the intention of a work joined with the location of its enquiry to such effect. Whether examining astral telescopes gazing into the deep time of stellar origins, the traces of pre-Columbian settlement, the graveyards of abandoned mining settlements or the wandering women – mothers and sisters of men disappeared by the Pinochet dictatorship – who scour the earth for relatives’ remains, Guzmán brings an empathy and luminosity of seeing that builds cumulatively to a vision of astonishing complexity and beauty. After the recent death of Chris Marker, Guzmán is perhaps the preeminent film essayist alive. Here, he has here made his masterpiece. Cinema doesn’t come more necessary than this. GE

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After the nationalisation of the railways, an in-house production unit was set up which created over 700 films documenting, celebrating and promoting travel on Britain’s railways. The films provide a peerless visual record of the changing face of 20th century Britain. These collections are a must for transport enthusiasts, social historians and anyone who enjoys expertly-crafted filmmaking.

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British Transport Films 10: London on the Move Recommended Contains: All that Mighty Heart (1951), Our Canteens (1951), Cine Gazette No. 10 (1951), Power Signal Lineman (1953), Do You Remember? (1955), Overhaul (1957), Under Night Streets (1958), One for One (1964), Automatic Fare Collection and You (1969), London on the Move (1970), The Nine Road (1975), Omnibus 150 (1979) and Moving London (1983). Released: 17th September Extras: 2 discs; Moving Millions (1947); Booklet. Item# 68435 UK | 1983 | BFI | 201 | Cert E

After a nearly four year hiatus, it’s good to see the BFI’s BTF series back on track with a tenth volume dedicated to the work of London Transport. Potted histories and evocative ‘day-in-the-life’ documentaries join instructional films, animated snippets, larky portraits of workers’ days and nights and films that take us into the workplaces of people who oil the organisation’s running – linemen, mechanics, canteen workers. The whole makes for a vision of London’s transport system that is, in Patrick Russell’s nice phrase, ‘part documentary, part daydream’. Highlights come with All That Mighty Heart – a contented ride through the hum of a busy London day – and Under Night Streets, which follows work gangs underground. It was filmed by David Watkin; few night-time thrillers of the era were better photographed. GH

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Contemporary Film English Language Films, 1970 – present

New Releases The Cabin in the Woods Drew Goddard

Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard join forces again for this horror film that turns the genre inside out. In it, five college friends arrive at a remote cabin in the woods for a weekend of partying, but soon discover that things are not at all as they seem. Sounds familiar? It’s not. USA | 2011 | LGATE | 95 | Cert 15 Item# 68836 / 68838 | RRP £19.99 | 24th Sep

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Dark Horse

Todd Solondz A bittersweet comedy drama in which Solondz tempers his trademark lacerating humour with tenderness to examine the irretrievability of youth in his portait of two unstable thirtysomethings and their plans to marry. Jordan Gelber, Selma Blair, Mia Farrow and Christopher Walken star. USA | 2011 | Axiom | 86 | Cert 15 Item# 69579 | RRP £15.99 | 24th September

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The Dictator Larry Charles

The creators of Borat show what happens when the world’s worst dictator comes to America. Stuck in New York and stripped of his power, General Admiral Aladeen (Sacha Baron Cohen) is forced to live his ultimate nightmare – the American dream. Extended cut. USA | 2012 | PARAH | 83 | | Cert 15 Item# 68996 / 68997 | RRP £19.99 | 24th Sep

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Don Juan DeMarco Jeremy Leven

A breezy romantic comedy in which Marlon Brando’s ageing psychologist gets a new lease of life when he is assigned the task of ‘curing’ a young man (Johnny Depp) who is convinced he is the legendary lover Don Juan DeMarco. USA | 1995 | WHV | 93 | Cert 15 Item# 67233 | RRP £12.99 | Out Now

2 Days in New York Recommended

Moonrise Kingdom Recommended

Director: Julie Delpy

Director: Wes Anderson

Starring: Julie Delpy, Vincent Gallo, Chris Rock

Starring: Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Bruce Willis

Released: 1st October

Extras: Q&A and Interviews.

Extras: Set Tour with Bill Murray.

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With 2007’s 2 Days in Paris, writerdirector-star Julie Delpy offered one of the spikiest romantic comedies of recent times. Its thirtysomething lovers weren’t the shiny happy people of romcom lore, but individuals bashed around by life: it gave them character, with which they sought to offset some heavy emotional baggage. This sequel develops the theme, with photographer Marion (Delpy herself) and new beau Mingus (Chris Rock) trying to staunch the chaos that ensues when the former’s unapologetically French relatives arrive en masse at the couple’s tiny Manhattan apartment. Delpy’s real-life papa Albert remains these films’ comic ace in the hole, whether making a mini-catastrophe of a plate of cheesecake, or repeatedly flubbing his pronunciation of the phrase ‘very funny’. Yet the whole ensemble excels: there’s a sexyfunny turn from Alexia Landeau as Marion’s slatternly sis, while erstwhile screen motormouth Rock is triumphantly repositioned as the film’s Zen-like voice of reason. It’s very funny, indeed. MM

Wes Anderson’s trademark take on precocious youth and disillusioned maturity has never been funnier or more touching than in this tale of pre-teen romance set on an island in mid-60s New England. Sam, an orphan sent to a scouting summer camp, meets Suzy, who lives nearby with her lawyer parents, and they run away together into the wilderness. Anderson splits the focus between idealistic children and the adults who struggle to maintain order while grappling with their own untidy hangups. Alongside Anderson regulars Bill Murray and Jason Schwartzman are Edward Norton (an earnest scoutmaster), Bruce Willis (lugubrious policeman) and Tilda Swinton (officious social worker), all of whom slot perfectly into the Anderson idiom. Romantic leads Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward are at once selfpossessed and endearingly gauche – the human counterparts to Benjamin Britten’s music, which provides most of the soundtrack. Together they help to make Moonrise Kingdom one of the sweetest indie comedies in recent memory. NR

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Great British Movies: Horror

Contains The Man Who Changed His Mind (Stevenson, 1936), starring Boris Karloff, Nothing but the Night (Sasdy, 1973), with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, and Vampire Circus (Young, 1971) starring Adrienne Corri and Thorley Walters. 3 discs.

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Joss Whedon

Superhero action thriller in which the Marvel comic characters of Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye, The Black Widow and The Hulk are assembled by the international S.H.I.E.L.D. agency after Earth comes under attack from Loki (Tom Hiddleston) and his army. USA | 2012 | BUENA | 143 | Cert 12 Item# 69332 / 69335 | RRP £19.99 | 17th Sep

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Hairspray

John Waters Waters shook up the mainstream with this funny piece of sixties nostalgia that sees all Tracy Turnblatt’s dreams come true when she becomes the star on a TV dance show. Soon she is the focus of a dirty tricks campaign by a bitchy rival – but more important is her campaign to have black friends accepted on the all-white show. USA | 1988 | WHV | 88 | Cert PG Item# 69558 | RRP £12.99 | 1st October

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The House of the Long Shadows Peter Walker

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Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Vincent Price and John Carradine star in this horror spoof that sees a writer wagered to spend the night in a musty mansion deep in the Welsh countryside. It seems a propitious setting – but his arrival coincides with the strange reunion Remastered.

Prince of Jutland

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The Devil’s Business Sean Hogan

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Heavy

James Mangold

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How I Spent My Summer Vacation

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Charles Sturridge

Matthew Rhys stars as the man manipulated into swapping lives with his doppelganger who suddenly finds himself responsible for a beautiful wife, two mistresses, a drug-abusing mother, a crumbling stately home and a bankrupt business. A complex, suspenseful film based on the story by Daphne Du Maurier.

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In the early 70s, films exploring the impact of racial prejudice and mixed-race relationships were rare – but an exception was The Landlord, a mix of social satire, urban drama and high comedy starring Beau Bridges as a landlord who is forced to interact with the tenants of his Brooklyn apartment block after they refuse to be evicted.

Nigel Cole

A tale of 6th century intrigue and passion, based on the tale that led to Shakespeare’s Hamlet. King Herdal and his son are brutally murdered by the King’s brother (Gabriel Byrne) who claims both crown and grieving queen (Helen Mirren). But the murder was witnessed by the younger brother (Christian Bale), who plots his revenge.

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Hal Ashby

All in Good Time

Gabriel Axel

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Jeff, Who Lives at Home Jay Duplass

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Titanic

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Tortoise in Love Guy Browning

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Bram Stoker’s Dracula Francis Ford Coppola

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Misery

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Moonrise Kingdom

James Oliver’s From the Cheap Seats

Boy’s Own Adventures

aving already spent a goodly number of words eulogising Beau Geste on page 12, it might seem indulgent to return to this Foreign Legion flick, especially when this month brings forth so many other magnificent movies. However, it is to Beau Geste to which we turn, and not simply because it’s quite so much fun. More than this, it offers an opportunity to talk about a type of film that is all too seldom discussed. I speak, as if there could be any doubt, of the adventure film. It’s a style that’s often overlooked, although it’s not hard to see why. Unlike most genres, it can be hard to characterise. Unlike (for instance) the western, it isn’t defined by location: adventure films can take place in jungles, in boats, in space ships or in the mythical past. Moreover, adventure films overlap with other genres: the war film, the biopic, even the historical drama. But you only need to settle down to Beau Geste (or similar) to see how true adventure can’t be mistaken for anything else. There’s a Boy’s Own story (for Beau Geste, it’s something about missing jewels and a debt of honour), an exotic setting (the desert, for instance, is oven ready for adventure) and a surfeit of peril (Dervishes! Thousands of them!) And, in a quality common to the breed from The Adventures of Robin Hood in 1937 down to its futuristic update Star Wars, made some forty years later, it is played out with a mixture of great good humour and terrific earnestness. The adventure film’s heyday was the thirties and forties (think of Gunga Din, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves). It’s rarer these days: the action film (a different beast) dominates. But unlike the western, the adventure film hasn’t

These days, alas, adventure films have largely given way to ‘action’ films quite died out. Indiana Jones explicitly drew on the serials of the 1930s, The Lord of the Rings cycle is indebted to Ray Harryhausen’s special effects extravaganzas (although it’s nowhere near as fun), while Pirates of the Caribbean steals liberally from earlier buccaneering fare. None of these, however, quite capture the tone that makes those earlier films so great. Indeed, it is that tone which is the real hallmark of adventure films. There is an innocence – or, rather, a lack of sophistication – in their telling. It’s not simply that they lack nuance, easily dividing the world into ‘good’ and ‘evil’, or that sex is largely absent (any romance is strictly of the happily-ever-after variety), it’s that there’s an absence of the cynicism that largely characterises films for grown-ups and there’s none of the irony that blights so many contemporary features. This, I think, is why their fans love them so dearly. They represent a

cheap and effective form of time travel, back to that brief span of childhood when it was possible to believe the world was a much less complicated place than it is. The heroes of these films are usually an 8 year-old boy’s vision of what a man should be – brave, resourceful, witty, not wanting to have too much to do with girls etc – and in truth, I’ve often wondered how the films might look to folks who weren’t sensitised to them at an early age. But as those who caught them when young will testify, you don’t lose the taste once it’s acquired.

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The Angels’ Share Ken Loach’s uplifting new comedy See page 5 for our full review

The Angels’ Share Ken Loach This whisky-heist comedy finds the director on fine, funny and Cannes-winning form. Escaping a prison sentence by the skin of his teeth, a disillusioned small-time criminal and new father is given one last chance to turn his life around. Together with friends he makes a trip to the Highlands where he discovers that turning to drink – in this case the finest malt whisky – might just change his life. Item# 68964 UK / France | 2012 | 101 | 15 | £19.99

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