KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE (1953) - Blu-ray Release of Historical Adventure Film Starring Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner & Mel Ferrer

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Product Description: Long live King Arthur and Camelot! Yet in all of ancient England's newfound peace there is "a fraying link in Arthur's chain:" the growing passion between heroic knight Sir Lancelot and beautiful Queen Guinevere. One of history's most beloved legends is vibrantly retold in an adaptation downplaying fantasy elements and giving 6th-century England a new kind of fantasy: a dazzling Hollywood sheen bursting with the CinemaScope-sized pageantry, conflicts and imposing citadels of location-lensed 1950s spectaculars. Robert Taylor is Lancelot, sworn to serve his king (Mel Ferrer) but devoted to his queen (Ava Gardner). Richard Thorpe, who teamed with Taylor for eight films, directs this colorful epic of bravery and honor.

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SANDS OF THE KALAHARI (1965) - Blu-ray Release of British Adventure Film Starring Stuart Whitman, Stanley Baker & Susannah York

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Product Description: A chartered plane crashes in a remote African desert after colliding with a swarm of locusts. It’s not only the harsh surroundings and the vicious baboons that the survivors have to worry about…but also a crazed fellow passenger. The stellar cast includes Stuart Whitman (The Day and the Hour) as a businessman and big-game hunter, Stanley Baker (Robbery) as a chain-smoking and alcoholic mining engineer, Susannah York (The Silent Partner) as a beautiful young divorcee, Nigel Davenport (Play Dirty) as the plane’s captain, Theodore Bikel (The Defiant Ones) as a doctor, and Harry Andrews (A Dandy in Aspic) as an elderly German gentleman. This was the sixth and final teaming of Baker and his Hell Driver and Zulu director Cy Endfield.

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New on Blu-ray: HELEN OF TROY (1956) Starring Stanley Baker and Rossana Podesta

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Product Description: In an epic tale of passion, heroism, love, betrayal and war that has that has been passed from generation to generation since the dawn of civilization, one woman possesses a beauty that launches a thousand ships and sparks a war that destroys the greatest city of its age--Helen of Troy. 1100 BCE. King Priam (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) of Troy, sends his son, Paris (Jack Sernas), to Sparta to negotiate a treaty to ensure peace between the two Greek city-states. But Paris falls in love with Spartan King Menelaus' (Niall MacGinnis) wife, Helen (Rossana Podesta). Paris kidnaps the willing Helen and her servant (Brigitte Bardot), starting a war that will kill thousands of brave warriors and spell the end of the city of Troy. Homer's Iliad provides the basis for this epic from the '50s heyday of big-screen blockbusters. Robert Wise (West Side Story, The Sound Of Music) directs this lavish epic capturing more than 30,000 people on screen at a then-huge production cost of $6 million.

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DVD & Blu-ray: PERFECT FRIDAY (1970) Starring Ursula Andress and Stanley Baker

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Product Description: Lord Nicholas “Nick” Dorset (David Warner, Morgan!, Time After Time) and his beautiful wife Lady Britt Dorset (Ursula Andress, Dr. No, The 10th Victim) are a glamorous couple who live completely beyond their means. Their bank manager, Mr. Graham (Stanley Baker, Robbery, The Criminal), who envies his customers’ wealth, has devised a foolproof plan to rob his own bank of £200,000, and Nick and Britt’s desperate financial situation makes them ideal accomplices. To complicate things even further, Mr. Graham becomes involved with and falls in love with the gorgeous Lady Dorset! Peter Hall (The Homecoming) wonderfully directs this crime-comedy beautifully shot by Alan Hume (Runaway Train, Return of the Jedi) and co-starring T.P. McKenna (Straw Dogs).

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DVD & Blu-ray: ACCIDENT (1967) Starring Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker and Jacqueline Sassard

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Product Description: From Joseph Losey, the legendary director of The Prowler, The Criminal, Modesty Blaise, Secret Ceremony and Figures in a Landscape, comes this classic melodrama with a screenplay by the great Harold Pinter (The Birthday Party, The Pumpkin Eater, The Homecoming). When one of his students is killed in a car accident, an Oxford professor (Dirk Bogarde, The Mind Benders) recounts the circumstances of their meeting. But as these turbulent memories unfold, they reveal a series of shocking relationships betrayed by adultery, obsession and self-destruction in which nothing is what it seems and everything has its cost. Accident was the second of three brilliant collaborations between filmmaker Losey and playwright Pinter; the first was the 1963 masterpiece The Servant and the third, the 1971 classic The Go-Between. Stanley Baker (Robbery), Michael York (Something for Everyone), Vivien Merchant (The Maids), Jacqueline Sassard (Les Biches), Delphine Seyrig (Last Year at Marienbad), Alexander Knox (Wilson) and Freddie Jones (Juggernaut) co-star in this stunning 1967 drama that Newsweek called “like a punch in the chest.” Based on a novel by Nicholas Mosley (The Assassination of Trotsky) and beautifully shot by Gerry Fisher (Man on Fire, The Offence).

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DVD & Blu-ray: THE CRIMINAL aka THE CONCRETE JUNGLE (1960) Starring Stanley Baker

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Product Description: A hard-boiled crime classic from Joseph Losey, the legendary director of The Servant, Accident, Eva, Secret Ceremony and Figures in a Landscape! Stanley Baker (Zulu, Robbery, Perfect Friday) stars as underworld kingpin Johnny Bannion, sprung from prison by his best friend Mike Carter (Sam Wanamaker, Raw Deal, The Sell-Out) to mastermind a daring racetrack heist. But when Johnny is betrayed and sent back to prison shortly after hiding the stolen loot, he must survive an ordeal of brutality at the hands of his fellow convicts and former accomplices. Co-starring Patrick Magee (A Clockwork Orange, The Birthday Party) and Nigel Green (Tobruk, The Skull) and beautifully shot in striking black-and-white by the great Robert Krasker (The Third Man, Brief Encounter), The Criminal (also known as The Concrete Jungle) is the grim and gritty film noir that was originally advertised as “The Toughest Picture Ever Made in Britain!”

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New on Blu-ray: ROBBERY (1967) Starring Stanley Baker and Joanna Pettet

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Product Description: Based on the infamous "Great Train Robbery," this film follows Paul Clifton (Stanley Baker) as he forms a team to carry out an ambitious heist of cash from a government mail train traveling from Scotland to London. Clifton feels it necessary to add incarcerated money expert Robinson (Frank Finlay) to the group, so he organizes a jailbreak to free him as well. Although the theft succeeds, the criminals are still hounded by Scotland Yard detective Langdon (James Booth).

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