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Review Facets / The Kozintsev Collection: Hamlet/King Lear [1964]
Release date: 2007-09-25
Run time: 272 min.
Creator: Yuri Yarvet
Price: £24.21

Review The Kozintsev Collection: Hamlet/King Lear [1964] / Facets:


Review Walt Disney Home Video / The Sword In The Stone (1963) (Disney)
Actors & Directors
  • Rickie Sorensen
  • Sebastian Cabot
  • Ginny Tyler
  • Karl Swenson
  • Junius Matthews
  • Wolfgang Reitherman
Release date: 1995-05-23
Run time: 76 min.
Creator: T.H. White
Price: £14.99

Review The Sword In The Stone (1963) (Disney) / Walt Disney Home Video:

As far as Disney is concerned, The Sword in the Stone was a portent of things to come, with slapstick upstaging storytelling, and cultural in-jokes substituting for wonder. Based on TH White's beloved novel The Once and Future King, this Disney version chronicles King Arthur's boyish adventures. There's much to enjoy here as coach Merlin the magician shows the young Arthur, nicknamed Wart, the skills that will help him become the future ruler of the Britons. The transformation sequences, where the boy is turned into a fish, a bird and a squirrel are vintage Disney. The oft-repeated scene of Merlin battling it out with mean old Madame Mim still is worth a few chuckles, but it underlines the problem with most of the film-most of its scenes are only played for laughs. References by Merlin to television and other items of modern life also mar the generally innocuous landscape. Younger children will like it, while older kids will find it slower compared with recent Disney films. -Keith Simanton, Amazon. com.

Review Arrow Films / Vixen [1968]
Actors & Directors
  • Erica Gavin
  • Russ Meyer
  • Harrison Page
Release date: 2005-03-28
Run time: 71 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £2.78

Review Vixen [1968] / Arrow Films:


Review Legend Films / Villa Rides [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jill Ireland
  • Yul Brynner
  • Maria Grazia Buccella
  • Robert Carricart
  • Charles Bronson
  • Buzz Kulik
Release date: 2008-06-03
Run time: 122 min.
Creator: Maurice Jarre
Price: £6.34

Review Villa Rides [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Legend Films:


Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Hangman's Knot [1952]
Actors & Directors
  • Lee Marvin
  • Donna Reed
  • Randolph Scott
Release date: 2006-06-05
Run time: 81 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.78

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Review Prism Leisure / Expresso Bongo [1959]
Actors & Directors
  • Yolande Donlan
  • Hermione Baddeley
  • Laurence Harvey
  • Val Guest
  • Cliff Richard
  • Sylvia Syms
Release date: 2005-09-19
Run time: 101 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.23

Review Expresso Bongo [1959] / Prism Leisure:


Review Warner Home Video / The Adventures of Robin Hood [Blu-ray] [1938] [US Import]
Actors & Directors
  • Melville Cooper
  • Lionel Belmore
  • Olivia de Havilland
  • Harry Cording
  • James Baker
Release date: 2008-08-26
Run time: 102 min.
Creator: Sol Polito
Price: £14.17

Review The Adventures of Robin Hood [Blu-ray] [1938] [US Import] / Warner Home Video:

Dashing Errol Flynn is the definitive Robin Hood in the most gloriously swashbuckling version of the legendary story. Warner Brothers reunited Michael Curtiz, their top-action director, with the winning team of Flynn and Olivia de Havilland (Maid Marian) and perennial villain Basil Rathbone as the aristocratic Sir Guy of Gisbourne, and pulled out all stops for the production. It became their costliest film to date, a grandly handsome, glowing Technicolor adventure set to a stirring, Oscar-winning score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold. The decadent Prince John (a smoothly conniving Claude Rains) takes advantage of King Richard's absence to tax the country into poverty but meets his match in the medieval guerrilla rebel Robin Hood and his Merry Men of Sherwood Forest, who rise up and, to quote a cliché coined by the film, "steal from the rich and give to the poor. " Stocky Alan Hale Sr. plays Robin's loyal friend Little John (a part he played in Douglas Fairbanks's silent version), Eugene Palette plays the portly Friar Tuck and Melville Cooper is the bumbling Sheriff of Nottingham. Flynn's confidence and cocky charm makes for a perfect Robin Hood and his easygoing manner is a marvellous counterpoint to Rathbone's regal bearing and courtly diction. The film climaxes in their rousing battle-to-the-finish sword fight, a magnificently choreographed scene highlighted by Curtiz's inventive use of shadows cast upon the castle walls. -Sean Axmaker Dashing Errol Flynn is the definitive Robin in 1938's The Adventures of Robin Hood, the most gloriously swashbuckling version of the legendary story. Warner Brothers reunited Michael Curtiz, their top-action director, with the winning team of Flynn and Olivia de Havilland (Maid Marian) and perennial villain Basil Rathbone as the aristocratic Sir Guy of Gisbourne, and pulled out all stops for the production. [+]
It became their costliest film to date, a grandly handsome, glowing technicolour adventure set to a stirring, Oscar-winning score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold-music that became a template for countless later movies, notably John Williams' Star Wars and Indiana Jones scores. The decadent Prince John (a smoothly conniving Claude Rains) takes advantage of King Richard's absence to tax the country into poverty but meets his match in the medieval guerrilla rebel Robin Hood and his Merry Men of Sherwood Forest, who rise up and, to quote a cliché coined by the film, "steal from the rich and give to the poor". Stocky Alan Hale Sr plays Robin's loyal friend Little John (a part he played in Douglas Fairbanks' silent version), Eugene Palette plays the portly Friar Tuck and Melville Cooper is the bumbling Sheriff of Nottingham. Flynn's confidence and cocky charm makes for a perfect Robin and his easygoing manner is a marvellous counterpoint to Rathbone's regal bearing and courtly diction. The film climaxes in their rousing battle-to-the-finish sword fight, a magnificently choreographed scene highlighted by Curtiz's inventive use of shadows cast upon the castle walls. -Sean Axmaker.

Review Warner Home Video / Objective Burma [1945] [1954]
Actors & Directors
  • Raoul Walsh
  • James Brown
  • Errol Flynn
  • William Prince
  • George Tobias
  • Henry Hull
Release date: 2003-07-21
Run time: 135 min.
Creator: Ranald MacDougall
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.64

Review Objective Burma [1945] [1954] / Warner Home Video:

On its first release in 1945, just after VJ day, Objective Burma came under fire in the British press-much as Saving Private Ryan would do some 40 years later-for portraying the jungle war as a solely American operation. But the passage of time has allowed the movie's many merits to outshine its narrow remit. The movie's bone-chilling portrayal of pain, sacrifice and endurance is astonishing; the jungle atmosphere is so persuasive you'd swear it was shot on the actual locations; and you'll never forget the terrifying last dark night on a mountainside-or the crocodiles. A paratroop captain (Errol Flynn) sets out with a platoon to attack a Japanese outpost in the jungle. The Americans reach their target, take out the enemy with almost balletic precision, then gear up to return home. This feels like the point when a conventional war movie would have reached its action-filled climax, but the journey has only begun. Ahead lies one of the most arduous and agonising adventures any World War II film ever offered, brilliantly directed by that underrated old master Raoul Walsh and photographed with almost tactile realism by the great James Wong Howe. Franz Waxman also contributes one of his finest music scores. Flynn is excellent (he had given his best performance ever in Walsh's Gentleman Jim three years earlier), and he's backed by a solid cast including Henry Hull (as an ageing war correspondent), James Brown, William Prince, George Tobias and Stephen Richards (soon to change his name to Mark Stevens). Incidentally, two of the writers, Alvah Bessie and Lester Cole, were later blacklisted; see if you can spot any Commie propaganda. [+]
-Richard T Jameson.

Review Warner Home Video / National Velvet [1944] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Elizabeth Taylor
  • Mickey Rooney
  • Angela Lansbury
  • Anne Revere
  • Clarence Brown
  • Donald Crisp
Release date: 2000-07-11
Run time: 124 min.
Price: £2.75

Review National Velvet [1944] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Living It Up [1954]
Actors & Directors
  • Norman Taurog
  • Janet Leigh
  • Jerry Lewis
  • Dean Martin
Release date: 2007-06-04
Run time: 94 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £2.47

Review Living It Up [1954] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review MGM / Stella Dallas [1937] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • John Boles
  • Alan Hale
  • Barbara Stanwyck
  • Anne Shirley
  • Barbara O'Neil
  • King Vidor
Release date: 2005-03-08
Run time: 106 min.
Price: £5.70

Review Stella Dallas [1937] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:


Review Universal Pictures UK / Has Anybody Seen My Gal? [1952]
Actors & Directors
  • Rock Hudson
  • Douglas Sirk
  • Piper Laurie
Release date: 2008-05-05
Run time: 85 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.29

Review Has Anybody Seen My Gal? [1952] / Universal Pictures UK:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Born To Be Bad [1934]
Actors & Directors
  • Loretta Young
  • Cary Grant
  • Lowell Sherman
  • Henry Travers
  • Paul Harvey
Release date: 2005-08-01
Run time: 59 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.09

Review Born To Be Bad [1934] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / Kissin' Cousins [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Arthur O'Connell
  • Elvis Presley
  • Pamela Austin
  • Jack Albertson
  • Glenda Farrell
  • Gene Nelson
Release date: 2007-08-07
Run time: 96 min.
Price: £4.97

Review Kissin' Cousins [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Simply Media D.22840 / The Wind Cannot Read [1958]
Actors & Directors
  • Dirk Bogarde
  • Anthony Bushell
  • Ronald Lewis
  • Michael Medwin
  • Yoko Tani
  • Ralph Thomas
Release date: 2008-10-20
Run time: 109 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £15.65

Review The Wind Cannot Read [1958] / Simply Media D.22840:

Made at the height of his Box Office success, Dirk Bogarde stars as an RAF pilot caught up in a forbidden romance in this classic British film set in the Far East during the Second World War. Flight Lieutenant Michael Quinn (Dirk Bogarde) finds himself grounded in Delhi after his aircraft crashes, and posted to a special Japanese language course for interrogators of prisoners-of-war. The Brigadier (Anthony Bushell) introduces Michael and his fellow officers to their instructor, and exquisitely beautiful young Japanese girl, Susuki San (Yoko Tani). As the days pass, Michael and Susuki spend their off-duty time exploring Delhi and their love grows. But there is a shadow between them - something that Susuki refuses to talk about. Michael even nicknames her 'Sabby' - because 'sabishii' is Japanese for sad. Before Michael can uncover Susuki's tragic secret however, he is captured by the Japanese and the two lovers are parted. [+]
perhaps forever.

Review Carlton Visual Entertainment / This Happy Breed [1944]
Actors & Directors
  • Celia Johnson
  • David Lean
Run time: 105 min.
Creator: Noel Coward
Price: £17.95

Review This Happy Breed [1944] / Carlton Visual Entertainment:

The back reads: "After four years in the Great War (WW1), Frank Gibbons (Robert Newton) is demobbed and returns home to his wife (Celia Johnson) and their children. They move into a small house which , although homely, becomes the setting for much high drama. A unique portrait of a family living between two World Wars is beautifully captured with Frank and his wife battling through triumphs and tragedies with patient British resolve. ".

Review Warner Home Video / Dodge City [1939]
Actors & Directors
  • Alan Hale
  • Errol Flynn
  • Olivia De Havilland
  • Bruce Cabot
  • Ann Sheridan
  • Michael Curtiz
Run time: 100 min.
Price: £3.89

Review Dodge City [1939] / Warner Home Video:

Dodge City. A wide-open cattle town run by Jeff Surrett. Even going on a children's Sunday outing is not a safe thing to do. What the place needs is a fearless honest Marshal. A guy like Wade Hatton, who helped bring the railroad in. It may not help that he fancies Abbie Irving, who won't have anything to do with him since he had to shoot her brother. But that's the West. In 1866, Kansas, the American civil war has just finished and the armies disbanded. The building of the West begins, and in 1872, the new city of Dodge City is ruled by violence and shootings. The Irishman Wade Hatton (Errol Flynn) is a man adapted to these days and presently is conducting a group of pioneers, including Abbie Irving (Olivia de Havilland) and her reckless brother, to Dodge City. [+]
Once in the city, Wade is invited to be the local sheriff, and an incident makes him accept the position. He tries to clean up the cattle town, ruled by the powerful outlaw Jeff Surrett (Bruce Cabot) and his gang, with the support of the decent local people. Different subtitles on the dvd plus special features.

Review Odeon Entertainment / Shop At Sly Corner [1947]
Actors & Directors
  • Derek Farr
  • Muriel Pavlow
  • Diana Dors
  • George King
  • Oskar Homolka
Release date: 2008-03-24
Run time: 91 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £6.94

Review Shop At Sly Corner [1947] / Odeon Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / Ziegfeld Follies [1946] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • William Powell
  • Lucille Bremer
  • Judy Garland
  • Fred Astaire
  • Lucille Ball
  • Joseph M. Newman
  • Charles Walters
  • Joseph Barbera
  • Lemuel Ayers
  • George Sidney
Release date: 2006-04-25
Run time: 117 min.
Price: £9.20

Review Ziegfeld Follies [1946] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Universal Pictures UK / Frankenstein/Bride Of Frankenstein [1931]
Actors & Directors
  • Colin Clive
  • Elsa Lanchester
  • James Whale
  • Mae Clarke
  • Boris Karloff
  • John Boles
Release date: 2004-10-11
Run time: 139 min.
Creator: Lawrence G. Blochman
RRP: £9.99
Price: £6.14

Review Frankenstein/Bride Of Frankenstein [1931] / Universal Pictures UK:


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The Kozintsev Collection: Hamlet/King Lear [1964], The Sword In The Stone (1963) (Disney), Vixen [1968], Villa Rides [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Hangman's Knot [1952], Expresso Bongo [1959], The Adventures of Robin Hood [Blu-ray] [1938] [US Import], Objective Burma [1945] [1954], National Velvet [1944] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Living It Up [1954], Stella Dallas [1937] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Has Anybody Seen My Gal? [1952], Born To Be Bad [1934], Kissin' Cousins [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Wind Cannot Read [1958], This Happy Breed [1944], Dodge City [1939], Shop At Sly Corner [1947], Ziegfeld Follies [1946] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Frankenstein/Bride Of Frankenstein [1931]

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