THE GENTLE GUNMAN (1952) - Blu-ray & 4K Release of British Crime Drama Starring John Mills, Dirk Bogarde and Elizabeth Sellars

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Product Description: John Mills (Town on Trial) and Dirk Bogarde (H.M.S. Defiant) star in The Gentle Gunman, a riveting wartime thriller directed by Ealing Studios regular Basil Dearden (The Rainbow Jacket).

Brothers Terry (Mills) and Matt (Bogarde) are undercover IRA foot-soldiers involved in a bombing campaign during the London Blitz. When Terry begins to question his part in the violence, Matt warns him to go into hiding. However, determined to clear his name, Terry vows to play his part in freeing a group of IRA members who have been captured by the British police.

Written by Roger MacDougall (The Man in the White Suit) and produced by Michael Relph (Saraband for Dead Lovers, Out of the Clouds), The Gentle Gunman is a tense and stylish drama from one of British cinema’s most celebrated film studios.

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New on Blu-ray: THE TRUTH ABOUT SPRING (1965) Starring Hayley Mills, John Mills & James MacArthur

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Product Description: In the Caribbean, a carefree charter skipper (John Mills) and his tomboyish daughter (Hayley Mills) make the acquaintance of a young lawyer (James MacArthur) come to visit his rich yachtsman uncle (David Tomlinson). While the old seadog fills the attorney's head with notions of sunken treasure, is he just trying to dredge up a love match for his little girl? Colorful family adventure co-stars Lionel Jefferies, Harry Andrews, Niall MacGinnis. 102 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono. Region Free

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New on Blu-ray: DANCING WITH CRIME / THE GREEN COCKATOO (1937-1947)

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Product Description: A true rarity, William Cameron Menzies' THE GREEN COCKATOO was completed in 1937, but not released until 1940. It is often cited as one of the earliest of the British Noirs and helped set the stage for the classical period of Brit Noir which flourished in the years following WWII. It's a taut little thriller based on a Graham Greene story, directed by the American William Cameron Menzies, and featuring a stellar cast and crew. After witnessing the murder of a racketeer, a young woman is pursued by both gangsters and the police. She is aided by a Soho entertainer, who is the brother of the victim.

In DANCING WITH CRIME (1947), Richard Attenborough and Sheila Sim, married in real life at the time, put themselves in harms way when they go undercover to investigate the murder of a friend with ties to black market racketeers. Watch for Dirk Bogarde and Diana Dors in uncredited roles.

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DVD & Blu-ray: ICE COLD IN ALEX (1958) Starring John Mills, Anthony Quayle and Sylvia Syms

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Product Description: A thousand square miles of blazing, pitiless desert, and a story so unusual, so gripping that it could spring only from life itself. The Mediterranean of 1942; along the barren North African coast where war has turned towns into smoking ruins, and the grim struggle surges to and fro. But that is just the background; the story is about people, not war - and it happens to be true. Bonus features include Extended Clip from A Very British War Movie Documentary, John Mills Home Video Footage, Interview with Melanie Williams, Steve Chibnall on J. Lee Thompson, and Interview with Sylvia Syms.

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DVD & Blu-ray: DUNKIRK (1958) Starring John Mills and Richard Attenborough

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Product Description: It is early May: the year 1940. In London, the civil population, lulled into an atmosphere of false security, goes about its business as usual. Even the official war communiqués merely report activity on the Front. But Charles Forman, war correspondent, knows better. As the war in France takes a turn for the worse, he signs on with the Merchant Navy and volunteers for the greatest mission ever mounted - the evacuation of Dunkirk.

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New on Blu-ray: THE CHALK GARDEN (1964) Starring Deborah Kerr and Hayley Mills

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Product Description: From Ronald Neame, the acclaimed director of The Horse’s Mouth, Tunes of Glory, Gambit, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Poseidon Adventure and Hopscotch, comes this critically acclaimed drama starring screen legend Deborah Kerr (Separate Tables), with Hayley Mills (Endless Night), John Mills (Great Expectations) and Edith Evans (The Whisperers) in an Oscar-nominated role. The peculiar antics of Laurel (Hayley Mills), an emotionally troubled young girl, are the focus of The Chalk Garden—a stately household drama set on the cliffs of the English south coast. Evans plays a matriarchal grandmother who, in raising her granddaughter, has neglected her other love—a barren chalk garden. Mayhem ensues as Laurel’s behavior frightens away a succession of governesses until an enigmatic one (Kerr) is hired in spite of her mysterious references. She skillfully sets about tending to the girl’s reckless emotions and the pitifully failed garden. John Mills (Hayley’s real-life father) plays the compassionate butler working overtime to maintain order in this unpredictable environment. Beautifully photographed by Arthur Ibbetson (Where Eagles Dare) with a screenplay by the great John Michael Hayes (Rear Window), adapted from a play by Enid Bagnold (National Velvet).

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New on Blu-ray: WHEN THE WIND BLOWS (1986) - Animation

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Product Description: "There have been enough post-holocaust nuclear winter films to constitute a genre" says Time Out, "but there has never been anything quite like this." Three decades after it first shattered audiences worldwide, Severin Kids is proud to present the animated classic about an elderly couple - voiced by Academy Award“ winners Sir John Mills and Dame Peggy Ashcroft - attempting to survive the aftermath of a nuclear war. Directed by Jimmy T. Murakami (HEAVY METAL, BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS), adapted by Raymond Briggs from his acclaimed graphic novel, and featuring an original score by Roger Waters with title song by David Bowie, experience what Rock! Shock! Pop! calls "A fascinating achievement in filmmaking, and one that remains timeless more than 30 years after its creation."

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DVD & Blu-ray: TUNES OF GLORY (1960) Starring Alec Guinness

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Product Description: In Ronald Neame’s Tunes of Glory, the incomparable Alec Guinness plays Jock Sinclair—a whiskey-drinking, up-by-the-bootstraps commanding officer of a peacetime Scottish battalion. A lifetime military man, Sinclair expects respect and loyalty from his men. But when Basil Barrow (John Mills)—an educated, by-the-book scion of a military family—enters the scene as Sinclair’s replacement, the two men engage in a fierce struggle for control of both the battalion and the hearts and minds of its men. Based on the novel by James Kennaway and featuring flawless performances by Guinness and Mills, Tunes of Glory uses the rigid stratification of military life to comment on the institutional contradictions and class hierarchies of English society, making for an unexpectedly moving drama.

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New on Blu-ray: OPERATION CROSSBOW (1965) Starring Sophia Loren and George Peppard

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Product Description: A fearsome rumor reaches Britains World War II command. The Nazis are developing rocket technology that could rain death on London and then New York. Quickly, England develops a plan to send saboteurs into the sites manufacturing the rockets. Just moments after the carefully chosen commandos parachute into the drop zone, their pilot receives an urgent message: The mission may be compromised. Abort. Operation Crossbow is the partly fact-based tale of how that team succeeded against daunting odds. Michael Anderson (The Dam Busters, Logans Run) directs, guiding a huge cast in a film that builds to a spectacular finale, yet never neglects wars unsparing personal costs. As a record of a wartime espionage incursion and as an intrigue-filled thriller, Operation Crossbow is on both counts Operation Accomplished.

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New on Blu-ray: CATS - The Musical (1998)

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Product Description: Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats changed the face of the modern musicals and remains one of the most beloved Broadway shows of all time. Since debuting in 1981 on the West End stage, Cats has smashed records and conquered the musical world with songs such as Memory, becoming an instant worldwide hit. Using the latest technology, all the excitement, thrills, romance and intimacy of this theatrical legend have been captured on screen. Breathtaking visuals and dynamic sound (that have been recorded with a seventy piece orchestra) lead you deep into the mysterious world of Cats as youve never seen it before!

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