Some Decent Packaging Please.

As part of our research into online dvd retailing, postage and packaging was an area that we became interested in, mainly at first for our pricing. We bought a selection of products from all the major online dvd retailers. To say we were shocked is an understatement.

Why would they send a £100 1-2kg dvd box set, the outer case made of cardboard, in a PAPER JIFFY BAG! We recieved damaged goods sent in paper bags from Amazon.co.uk, Sendit.com, Thehut.com, Asda. When we contacted them, they said they could send replacements but wait for it... they would be sent in paper jiffy bags again! (do they think we have time to pack damaged goods up to send back to them!).

There was one retailer which to be fair and unbiased was head and shoulders above the rest.. HMV sent us products in card boxes, which all arrived undamaged. The result - ClassicMovieStore.co.uk will send you all expensive and heavy box sets from 1kg upwards in cardboard boxes.

World War 2 DVD Boxset

Just in stock now we have our latest World War 2 DVD Boxset. 8 DVD's covering US Goverment documentaries on the war. The DVD's in this set are as follows. Prelude to War. Pearl Harbour, a look at 1941 December 7th and the attack on Pearl Harbour. The Memphis Bell became a legendary aircraft, and is looked at on DVD 3. Tunisian Victory, tells the story of how the allies took North Africa from the Nazis. Desert Victory, tells the story of the War in North Africa. Battle for China looks at the war in the far east. The Battle of San Peitro, tells the stories of the Battles of San Pietro. Attack in the Pacific looks at the war in the Pacific. This boxset with all 8 dvd's is just £9.97, so is the best value set around.

Welcome to the ClassicMovieStore.co.uk official blog. We will be posting here news on the site, new releases we have coming to the store and other reviews. If you are one of our customers please feel free to write a review of our service here. We have just recently started to stock 50s music cds, and have 10 cd box sets with 233 50's tracks for just £16.97 so check the link to take a look.

In the 40s, 50s, and 60s, it was considered very strange for a movie star to appear on TV. The truly big Hollywood legends would never think of doing a small TV series. Picture Elizabeth Taylor and Cary Grant as the Beaver's parents. I dont think so!

But in the early days of television, established movie actors and actresses began making the switch to TV and stayed there. TV was a new medium, and needed talent. With a few exceptions, though, it was pretty much a single minded street.

While there were many, many stars who had careers in both TV and film, this article focuses on a very special 15 people who had either great success, or at least long careers, in both mediums.

We begin with one of those exceptions to the rule -- a big TV star who quit the small screen and turned in some exceptional performances on film. Here we start with Lucille Ball.

Lucille Ball

The star of I Love Lucy. who was unquestionably the biggest female TV star of the time, had a long movie career even before that happened, appearing in about 75 films from 1929 to 1949. She was a Ziegfeld Girl and a Goldwyn Girl, but rose from the crowd of leggy starlets to become the first woman to own a film studio. Some of her more memorable films included Top Hat (1935), Stage Door (1937) -- in which she held her own with Kate Hepburn and Ginger Rogers -- and The Long, Long Trailer, made during her "I Love Lucy" days. Her last screen appearance was in a movie version of Mame in 1974, but it was unfortunately a terrible failure.

Try classicmoviestore.co.uk for I love Lucy DVD