It has been quite a while since I bought a daily newspaper on a regular basis, I still get the local weekly paper to keep up to date with what is going on in and around the town. I do however try to keep a look out for any special offers that the national press have running such as freebies with the papers. So last Sunday when I discovered that The Sunday Times was giving away a copy of The 39 Steps I got the paper, knowing that the film was on my list over on 1001 would justify paying £2 cost for a paper. The film itself was okay but I don't think I could go as far as to say it was a classic. The paper has been giving away other Alfred Hitchcock film this week but to get these films you had to go to a particular shop which is just too much effort for me these days. However yesterday they had a second film, The Lady Vanishes again on my list so paying £1.50 was within reason and have to say I watched the film last night and it was really good (but predictable)

Both DVD's have no extra features and no fancy boxes but for the price that I ended up paying for them I still think it was good value. I just wondered what others thought of these sorts of offers are they good value for money or should newspapers stick to writing about the news?

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