Classic British Comedy (Boxset) DVD
(starring Kenneth More, Dinah Sheridan, John Gregson, Kay Kendall, Rex Harrison, Kay Hammond, Margaret Rutherford, Joyce Carey, Constance Cummings, Hugh Wakefield, Jacqueline Clarke, Margaret Rutherford, Edith Evans, Dorothy Tutin, Michael Redgrave and Joan Greenwood) (directed by Henry Cornelius, David Lean and Anthony Asquith) Boxset containing three classic British comedies. Genevieve - Winner of a Bafta for Best Film. A delightful and enduring popular British film showing the rivalry between veteran car enthusiasts in a London-to-Brighton run. Features a cracking harmonica score by Larry Adler and a joyful cast in great form. Blithe Spirit - A newly-married man is haunted by the ghost of his late wife who isn't too happy that another woman has taken her place. Sparkling adaptation of Noel Coward's witty play with Oscar-winning special effects and a gem of a performance from Rutherford as the meddling medium, Madame Arcati. The Imporatnce Of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde's sparkling comedy of manners is given the royal treatment by England's finest talent. Mr Worthing's search for an aristocratic bride in 1890's London seems doomed to failure when his prospective mother-in-law finds out about his socially-unacceptable origins - he was found in 'a handbag'.

Importance Of Being Earnest, The (Special Edition) DVD
(starring Margaret Rutherford, Edith Evans, Dorothy Tutin, Michael Redgrave and Joan Greenwood) (directed by Anthony Asquith) Oscar Wilde's sparkling comedy of manners is given the royal treatment by England's finest talent. Mr Worthing's search for an aristocratic bride in 1890's London seems doomed to failure when his prospective mother-in-law finds out about his socially-unacceptable origins - he was found in 'a handbag'.

Classic Hitchcock (Boxset) DVD
(starring Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Peggy Ashcroft, Godfrey Tearle, Lucie Mannheim, Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave) (directed by Alfred Hitchcock) Boxset containing three classic Hitchcock films. Includes The 39 Steps - Original screen version of John Buchan's classic story, marvellously witty and inventive, with Donat starring as Richard Hannay, an innocent man embroiled in a spy ring, on the run from both the police and enemy agents. The Lady Vanishes - One of Alfred Hitchcock's finest films which manages to combine humour with a sense of menace. Iris strikes up a friendship with a middle-aged English governess, Miss Froy, who mysteriously disappears during the journey on board a Trans-Continental Express. Iris, seeking an explanation for the disappearance is nearly convinced that the woman never existed. But further enquiries among the passengers reveal the curious behaviour of a group of foreign government agents... Secret Agent - Alfred Hitchcock's brilliant interpretation of Somerset Maugham's First World War spy story about Edgar Brodie, a novelist whose death is faked by British Intelligence. Brodie is sent undercover into Switzerland with the beautiful Elsa Carrington posing as his wife and The General, an insane professional killer. But it isn't long before Brodie finds himself embroiled in murder...

Ealing Classics- Went The Day Well/Dead Of Night/Nicholas Nickleby/Scott Of The Antartic (Boxset) DVD
(starring Leslie Banks, Mervyn Johns, Marie Lohr, Frank Lawton, Edward Rigby, Basil Sydney, Michael Redgrave, Googie Withers, Basil Radford, Roland Culver, Cedric Hardwicke, Stanley Holloway, Sybil Thorndike, Bernard Miles, Hattie Jacques, John Mills, Derek Bond, Kenneth More and James Robertson Justice) (directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearsen, Robert Hamer and Charles Frend) Four Ealing Classics. Went The Day Well? - Based on a Graham Greene story, this wartime movie from Ealing Studios looks at 72 hours in the life of a tiny English hamlet which becomes embroiled in an attempted airborne invasion by the Germans. Dead Of Night - Walter Craig is summoned to Pilgrim's Farm. Once there everyone seems familiar to him but he knows they are really strangers. Then slowly he realises that the people are characters out of his horrendous recurring nightmare which ends in unspeakable horror. Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens' classic work about an impoverished family who rely on their wealthy but villainous uncle. Nicholas is an apprentice at a school for boys and when he and another boy run away they take us on a series of enjoyable adventures. Along the way we meet a whole host of memorable characters, the Crummles, Miss Petoker, the Lilyvicks, Mantolinis and Wackford Squeers. Scott Of The Antarctic - A fascinating account of the dangerous expedition to conquer the South Pole when, against all odds, the team reached their goal only to find Amundsen had got there first. Most of the incidents and dialogue are taken from Scott's diaries and documented experiences of his colleagues, resulting in an inspiring record of one of man's greatest triumphs and noblest failures.

Lady Vanishes, The (Hitchcock) DVD
(starring Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, Googie Withers and Cecil Parker) (directed by Alfred Hitchcock) One of Alfred Hitchcock's finest films which manages to combine humour with a sense of menace. Iris strikes up a friendship with a middle-aged English governess, Miss Froy, who mysteriously disappears during the journey on board a Trans-Continental Express. Iris, seeking an explanation for the disappearance is nearly convinced that the woman never existed. But further enquiries among the passengers reveal the curious behaviour of a group of foreign government agents...

Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner DVD
(starring Tom Courtenay, Michael Redgrave, James Bolam, John Thaw, Alec Mccowen, Julia Foster and Joe Robinson) (directed by Tony Richardson) One of the best of British 'angry young man' films, starring Tom Courtenay as an ill-educated youth sentenced to borstal after robbing a bakery. Courtenay is encouraged to develop his talent for distance running by the Governor, yet shocks his benefactor by an act of defiance when he wins a local race. A poignant and thought-provoking film.

Nicholas And Alexandra (Widescreen) DVD
(starring Laurence Olivier, Michael Joyston, Janet Suzman, Tom Baker, Harry Andrews, Michael Bryant, Maurice Denham, Jack Hawkins, Ian Holm, John Mcenery, Curt Jurgens, Eric Porter, Michael Redgrave and Alan Webb) (directed by Franklin J. Schaffner) A lavish chronicle of the downfall of the last Russian Tsar, Nicholas, his wife and family. Totally preoccupied with finding a cure for their sickly son - the heir to the throne - even to the lengths of consulting the evil monk, Rasputin, their neglect of state affairs paved the way for the bloody revolution of 1917.

Stars Look Down, The DVD
(starring Michael Redgrave, Margaret Lockwood, Emlyn Williams, Nancy Price, Allan Jeayes, Edward Rigby, Linden Travers, Cecil Parker, Milton Rosmer, George Carney and Ivor Barnard) (directed by Carol Reed) One of the most popular and influential films of British cinema stars Michael Redgrave as an idealistic miner's son who is lucky enough to go to university, but returns home to support his father in a strike, with tragic consequences. Masterly direction and acting made this a box office smash on both sides of the Atlantic and influenced John Ford's making of HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY. Based on the novel by A.J. Cronin.

Thunder Rock DVD
(starring Michael Redgrave, Barbara Mullen, James Mason, Lille Palmer, Finlay Currie, Frederick Valk and Frederick Cooper) (directed by Roy Boulting) Michael Redgrave stars as a disillusioned war correspondent, who shuts himself away from society by taking up residence in a Lake Michigan lighthouse. During one particularly stormy evening, Redgrave's solitude is invaded by several strangers, all dressed in 19th century costume. It develops that these strangers are the ghosts of immigrants whose ship went down some 100 years earlier...

Uncle Vanya DVD
(starring Laurence Olivier, Sybil Thorndike, Michael Redgrave, Max Adrian, Joan Plowright and Robert Lang) (directed by Stuart Burge) Laurence Olivier's production of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, recorded at the Chichester Festival Theatre with Sybil Thorndike as Marina and Michael Redgrave as Voynitsky. Based in 19th century Russia, in a remote farm in the Ukraine, it follows the story of two obsessive love affairs that lead nowhere, and another relationship which ends in disaster.

Confidential Report DVD
(starring Michael Redgrave, Robert Arden, Paola Mori, Mischa Auer, Akim Tamiroff and Orson Welles) (directed by Orson Welles) Orson Welles directs and stars as Mr Arkadin, a famous business tycoon with a shady past who becomes the target for blackmail by his daughter's boyfriend when people from his past begin to turn up dead ....

Lady Vanishes, The (1938) DVD
(starring Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, May Whitty, Cecil Parker, Linden Travers, Naunton Wayne, Basil Radford, Mary Clare and Emile Boreo) (directed by Alfred Hitchcock) One of Alfred Hitchcock's finest films which manages to combine humour with a sense of menace. Iris strikes up a friendship with a middle-aged English governess, Miss Froy, who mysteriously disappears during the journey on board a Trans-Continental Express. Iris, seeking an explanation for the disappearance is nearly convinced that the woman never existed. But further enquiries among the passengers reveal the curious behaviour of a group of foreign government agents...

Mr Arkadin DVD
(starring Orson Welles, Robert Arden, Paola Mori, Michael Redgrave and Patricia Medina) (directed by Orson Welles) Based on the novel written by Orson Welles, this is the story of Mr. Arkadin, a wealthy and mysterious man with a past. Gus Van Stratten, a smuggler, decides to try and contact Arkadin and squeeze some money out of him. He starts a quest to discover the truth about Arkadin and in time Gus's true purpose gradually becomes clear...

Battle Of Britain (Special Edition) DVD
(starring Miahael Caine, Trevor Howard, Laurence Olivier, Christopher Plummer, Michael Redgrave, Robert Shaw and Susannh York) (directed by Guy Hamilton) A magnificent war epic about the greatest air battle in history, when the outnumbered RAF fought off an invasion by the powerful German Luftwaffe. Packed with vivid and exciting action which used over 100 vintage aircraft in filming and boasting an all-star cast headed by Laurence Olivier.

British War (Limited Edition) (Boxset) DVD
(starring John Mills, Richard Todd, Jack Hawkins, Anthony Quayle, Michael Redgrave, Ursula Jeans, Eric Portman, Lionel Jeffries, Stanley Baker, Denholm Elliott and Moira Lister) (directed by J. Lee Thompson, Michael Anderson, Guy Hamilton and Charles Frend) Features four films. Ice Cold In Alex - Under the hot African sun, a British ambulance officer tries to get his charges to safety in the 1942 Libyan war zone. But one of his passengers is a German spy, determined to undermine their courage and heroism on the dangerous journey through the desert minefields. Dambusters - The R.A.F's heroic assault on Germany's Ruhr Dams was one of the most daring feats of WW2 and it's success was due to the revolutionary 'bouncing bomb' invented by Dr Barnes Wallis. With actual newsreel footage of the legendary raid, this exciting true-life drama contains stirring performances and an instantly memorable theme tune. Colditz - Colditz Castle in Saxony was the most infamous maximum security prison of WW2, considered escape proof by even the toughest POWs. But a courageous group of British servicemen were determined to brave dangerous, even tragic, odds to break this grim Nazi war record. Cruel Sea - An authentic reconstruction of the battle of the Atlantic based on Nicholas Monsarrat's best seller This intense drama stars Jack Hawkins as the authoritative captain who is the only experienced officer on board. His crew are a bunch of wartime recruits from civilian life who encounter enemy activity in the form of U-boats, and the waves themselves.

Dam Busters, The DVD
(starring Richard Todd, Michael Redgrave, Ursula Jeans, Basil Sydney, Patrick Barr, Ernest Clark, Derek Farr and George Baker) (directed by Michael Anderson) The R.A.F's heroic assault on Germany's Ruhr Dams was one of the most daring feats of WW2 and it's success was due to the revolutionary 'bouncing bomb' invented by Dr Barnes Wallis. With actual newsreel footage of the legendary raid, this exciting true-life drama contains stirring performances and an instantly memorable theme tune.

Heroes Of Telemark (Special Edition) DVD
(starring Kirk Douglas, Michael Redgrave, Anton Diffring and Roy Dotrice) (directed by Anthony Mann) A good realistic account of Norwegian resistance to the German occupation in WW2, showing how the resistance fighters destroyed a water plant which was being used to develop an atomic bomb.

Way To The Stars DVD
(starring Michael Redgrave, John Mills, Rosamund John, Renee Asherson, Bill Owen, Felix Aylmer, Basil Radford, Bonar Colleano, Trevor Howard, Joyce Carey, Jean Simmons, Anthony Dawson, Tryon Nichol and Grant Miller) (directed by Anthony Asquith) An outstanding film which reeks of character and atmosphere, this wartime classic is memorable for both it's beginning as the camera wanders through an abandoned air base peering in at the details of everyday life and the camera technique which remains almost uniquely on terra firma. Perfect performances all round and Rattigan's script scores a direct hit by showing the comic differences and common humanity between the Brits and US airmen. Unmissable.

Alice In Wonderland (Jonathan Miller) DVD
(starring John Gielgud, Peter Cook, Alan Bennett, Anne-Marie Mallik, Leo McKern, Michael Redgrave and Peter Sellers) (directed by Jonathan Miller) Lewis Carroll's masterpiece of fantasy. Sitting by a tree Alice is intrigued by a rabbit she sees run by, who just happens to be wearing a watch. Alice's curiosity is aroused and as she follows the rabbit down a rabbit-hole she finds herself falling a long, long way. Suddenly she is in a strange world where she meets the Mad Hatter and the March Hare, the Duchess, the Cheshire Cat and the Mock Turtle and has the most extraordinary adventures.

Great War, The (Boxset) DVD
(starring Michael Redgrave) An outstanding production made by the BBC in the early 1960s. The definitive history of the First World War features twenty-six 40 minute episodes in five volumes narrated by Sir Michael Redgrave. The series includes authentic archive footage and stunning photographic images allegedly gathered from 37 sources around the world. It features many interviews with many veterans of the war as well as almost 150 extracts from diaries, letters and reports from the war. Also includes a bonus disc entitles Voices Of The Western Front.