Review, buy Classics: Sorry, Wrong Number [1948] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Cape Fear Box Set [1961 and 1991], I'm No Angel [1933], The Avengers : The Definitive Dossier 1967 (Box Set 4), As You Like It [1936], Sherlock Holmes - The Hound Of The Baskervilles [1939] / The Voice Of Terror [1942], Jazz Icons - Count Basie Live In '62 [1964], Road To Morocco [1943], That Midnight Kiss/The Toast of New Orleans (REGION 1) (NTSC), Peanuts - A Charlie Brown Celebration, At The Circus [1939], They Who Dare [1953], Cheyenne Autumn [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC), A Countess From Hong Kong [1967], Move Over, Darling [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Last Voyage [1960] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Bedford Incident [1965], To Hell and Back [1955] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Colditz [1955], Follow That Dream [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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Review Paramount / Sorry, Wrong Number [1948] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

Sorry, Wrong Number [1948] (REGION 1) (NTSC) (Paramount)

Actors & Directors

Anatole Litvak
Harold Vermilyea
Wendell Corey
Barbara Stanwyck
Burt Lancaster
Ann Richards

Release date: 2002-05-28
Run time: 88 min.
Price: £6.69

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Review Universal Pictures UK / Cape Fear Box Set [1961 and 1991]

Cape Fear Box Set [1961 and 1991] (Universal Pictures UK)

Actors & Directors

Robert Mitchum
Martin Balsam
Gregory Peck
Martin Scorsese
Robert De Niro
Polly Bergen
J. Lee Thompson

Release date: 2003-08-11
Run time: 223 min.
RRP: ~~£19.99~~
Price: £5.79

Review Cape Fear Box Set [1961 and 1991] / Universal Pictures UK:

Cape Fear (1962) Superior to Martin Scorsese's punishing 1991 remake, this 1962 thriller directed by J. Lee Thompson (The Guns of Navarone) stars Robert Mitchum as a creepy ex-con angry at the attorney (Gregory Peck) whom he believes is responsible for his incarceration. After Mitchum makes clear his plans to harm Peck's family, a fascinating game of crisscrossing ethics and morality takes place. Where the more recent version seemed trapped in its explicitness, Thompson's film accomplishes a lot with a more economical and telling use of violence. The result is a richer character study with some Hitchcockian overtones regarding the nature of guilt. -Tom Keogh Cape Fear (1991) Martin Scorsese's 1991 remake of J. Lee Thompson's 1962 thriller dabbles a bit in some fascinating psychological crosscurrents between its characters, but it finally trades in all that rich material for extensive and gratuitous violence. Robert De Niro plays a serial rapist released from prison after 14 years. Angry because his appalled attorney (Nick Nolte) made it easy for him to be convicted, this monster is out to hurt Nolte's character through his wife (Jessica Lange) and daughter (Juliette Lewis). The themes of interlocking guilt and anger between these people suggests a smart film in the making. [+]

But the final act, set on a boat with De Niro's vengeful pervert attacking Nolte and the two women, takes a more unfortunate direction. Stick with the original (which starred Robert Mitchum and Gregory Peck, each of whom make a cameo appearance in this film). -Tom Keogh.

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Review Universal Pictures UK / I'm No Angel [1933]

I'm No Angel [1933] (Universal Pictures UK)

Actors & Directors

Cary Grant
Wesley Ruggles
Kent Taylor
Edward Arnold
Dorothy Peterson
Mae West

Release date: 2006-03-06
Run time: 84 min.
RRP: ~~£9.99~~
Price: £1.79

Review I'm No Angel [1933] / Universal Pictures UK:

In I'm No Angel, Mae West second star vehicle, she's sideshow attraction Tira, "the girl who discovered you don't have to have feet to be a dancer. " As usual, West wrote all her own dialogue for the film, and it's full of priceless wisecracks. A crowd of men ogles her as she tosses off a saucy little number, "They Call Me Sister Honky Tonk," swinging her hips phlegmatically. Then she slithers offstage, muttering "Suckers. " Bored with life, Tira consults a fortuneteller. "I see a man in your future," he drones. "What, only one?" quips Mae. Tira wants to quit the carnival, so her boss (an unctuous Edward Arnold) makes her a proposition. If she'll become the show's lion tamer, she can meet "the swells. " Just one little thing: she's got to put her head in the lion's mouth. [+]

(West insisted on performing this stunt herself, to the horror of Paramount Pictures' executives. ) Enter Cary Grant as Jack Clayton, an aristocrat who falls for this floozie from the wrong side of the tracks. Some of the film's merriest scenes show Tira and her five black maids having a ball dancing and singing as she prepares for her dates with Jack. (West made it her business to keep as many of her black girlfriends working in movies as possible. ) Tira's head maid, Beulah, played by Gertrude Michael, is the object of that momentous line "Oh, Beulah, peel me a grape. " Mae slays 'em all in this picture, dressed, as always, in fabulously flamboyant finery. -Laura Mirsky.

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Review Contender Entertainment Group / The Avengers : The Definitive Dossier 1967 (Box Set 4)

The Avengers : The Definitive Dossier 1967 (Box Set 4) (Contender Entertainment Group)

Actors & Directors

Robert Day
James Hill
Robert Asher
Diana Rigg
Patrick Macnee
Sidney Hayers
Linda Thorson

Release date: 2002-02-25
Run time: 282 min.
RRP: ~~£24.99~~
Price: £22.00

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Review Simply Media / As You Like It [1936]

As You Like It [1936] (Simply Media)

Actors & Directors

Paul Czinner
Laurence Olivier
Felix Aylmer
Elizabeth Bergner
John Laurie
Sophie Stewart

Release date: 2007-02-12
Run time: 150 min.
RRP: ~~£9.99~~
Price: £3.24

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Review Optimum Home Entertainment OPTD0888 / Sherlock Holmes - The Hound Of The Baskervilles [1939] / The Voice Of Terror [1942]

Sherlock Holmes - The Hound Of The Baskervilles [1939] / The Voice Of Terror [1942] (Optimum Home Entertainment OPTD0888)

Price: £2.66

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Review Count Basie / Jazz Icons - Count Basie Live In '62 [1964]

Jazz Icons - Count Basie Live In '62 [1964] (Count Basie)

Release date: 2006-08-28
Run time: 56 min.
RRP: ~~£19.99~~
Price: £10.92

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Review Universal Pictures UK / Road To Morocco [1943]

Road To Morocco [1943] (Universal Pictures UK)

Actors & Directors

David Butler
Bob Hope
Bing Crosby
Dorothy Lamour

Release date: 2006-10-02
Run time: 78 min.
RRP: ~~£9.99~~
Price: £4.21

Review Road To Morocco [1943] / Universal Pictures UK:

Road to Morocco, number three in the series of breezy comedies teaming Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, may be the funniest of the bunch. Bing and Bob find themselves Morocco-bound ("like Webster's dictionary"), caught in an elaborately faked-up world of harems, palm trees, and other Arabian Nights bric-a-brac. Naturally, Dorothy Lamour is also there, as she was the customary target of male rivalry in the Road scenarios. There is something so loose and ingratiating about the patter between Hope and Crosby that it doesn't ultimately matter if half the jokes don't land; these guys had their own comfortable rhythm, fueled by cheerful one-upmanship. Their sense of spontaneity broke the fourth wall between movie and audience in a way only the Marx Brothers had really accomplished before, and audiences-feeling in on the joke-ate it up. Songs (including "Moonlight Becomes You"), topical references, and ancient vaudeville routines fill out the program. -Robert Horton.

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Review Warner Home Video / That Midnight Kiss/The Toast of New Orleans (REGION 1) (NTSC)

That Midnight Kiss/The Toast of New Orleans (REGION 1) (NTSC) (Warner Home Video)

Actors & Directors

J. Carrol Naish
Mario Lanza
Kathryn Grayson
David Niven
Norman Taurog
James Mitchell

Release date: 2007-07-24
Run time: 195 min.
Creator: Tamara Hovey
Price: £12.59

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Review Firefly Entertainment / Peanuts - A Charlie Brown Celebration

Peanuts - A Charlie Brown Celebration (Firefly Entertainment)

Actors & Directors

Charlie Brown

Release date: 2007-12-24
Run time: 60 min.
RRP: ~~£7.99~~
Price: £13.99

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Review Warner Home Video. Z1 66965 / At The Circus [1939]

At The Circus [1939] (Warner Home Video. Z1 66965)

Actors & Directors

Edward Buzzell
Harpo Marx
Chico Marx
Florence Rice
Kenny Baker
Groucho Marx

Run time: 83 min.
Price: £1.20

Review At The Circus [1939] / Warner Home Video. Z1 66965:

REGION 2 UK DVD - INCLUDES TRAILER, SHORT & CARTOON.

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Review Optimum Home Entertainment / They Who Dare [1953]

They Who Dare [1953] (Optimum Home Entertainment)

Actors & Directors

Denholm Elliott
Gerard Oury
Lewis Milestone
Dirk Bogarde
Akim Tamiroff
Eric Pohlmann

Release date: 2007-01-29
Run time: 104 min.
RRP: ~~£12.99~~
Price: £4.48

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Review Warner Home Video / Cheyenne Autumn [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

Cheyenne Autumn [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC) (Warner Home Video)

Actors & Directors

Sal Mineo
Carroll Baker
John Ford
Richard Widmark
Karl Malden
Dolores del Rio

Release date: 2007-02-13
Run time: 156 min.
Price: £9.20

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Review Universal Pictures UK / A Countess From Hong Kong [1967]

A Countess From Hong Kong [1967] (Universal Pictures UK)

Actors & Directors

Tippi Hedren
Charlie Chaplin
Sydney Chaplin
Marlon Brando
Sophia Loren

Release date: 2005-03-07
Run time: 103 min.
RRP: ~~£15.99~~
Price: £0.89

Review A Countess From Hong Kong [1967] / Universal Pictures UK:

Charlie Chaplin's last film is the cinematic equivalent of Willie Mays staying too long in baseball-a sad farewell from someone who has clearly lost his touch. Marlon Brando (who famously did not get along with Chaplin and initiated, with this film, his curious habit of undermining his directors' best intentions) plays an American millionaire leaving Hong Kong to assume an ambassadorship. He discovers Sophia Loren-playing a daughter of Russian aristocrats and a former gangster moll-concealed in his closet onboard the outbound ship, hoping to gain passage to the States. Brando, looking none too pleased, agrees to help her, with not terribly comic or romantic results. Chaplin's one modestly clever touch is to have the camera rock gently and slowly back and forth, ostensibly emulating the movement of the luxury liner. The humour falls flat, Brando and Loren have no chemistry, and the story isn't terribly engaging. The former Little Tramp appears, mercifully briefly, as a seasick steward who opens and closes a door, swooning in between. Appropriately enough, in silence. -David Kronke.

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