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Review Eureka Entertainment / Intolerance [1916]
Actors & Directors
  • F.A. Turner
  • Robert Harron
  • Mae Marsh
  • D.W. Griffith
  • Lillian Gish
  • Douglas Fairbanks
Release date: 2000-12-27
Run time: 177 min.
Creator: Walt Whitman
RRP: £19.99
Price: £11.99

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Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Fly, The / Return Of The Fly [1958]
Actors & Directors
  • Kurt Neumann
  • Patricia Owens
  • David Hedison
  • Vincent Price
  • Edward Bernds
  • Kathleen Freeman
  • Herbert Marshall
Release date: 2001-10-22
Run time: 166 min.
Creator: James Clavell
RRP: £14.99
Price: £5.17

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Review Universal Pictures UK / Shenandoah [1965]
Actors & Directors
  • Glenn Corbett
  • Katharine Ross
  • Rosemary Forsyth
  • James Stewart
  • Andrew V. McLaglen
  • Doug McClure
Release date: 2007-06-04
Run time: 101 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.29

Review Shenandoah [1965] / Universal Pictures UK:

Shenandoah, a film well-liked in its day, recalls Friendly Persuasion and foreshadows The Patriot as it tells of an American clan traumatised by war on native soil. Virginia farmer James Stewart has never owned slaves, owes allegiance to no one beyond his own kin, and adamantly disregards the North-South strife rumbling just over the hill: "This war is not mine and I take no note of it. " That changes when youngest son Philip Alford (To Kill a Mockingbird's Jem) is carried off by Yankees, and the family must ride out to reclaim him. Shenandoah has several affecting moments-notably a homefront atrocity-but much of it is lit and played like a television show. Script and direction are formulaic, Stewart falls back on cozy shtick, and the supporting cast is a collection of bland studio contract players. As the closing credit says: "filmed entirely at Universal City. " -Richard T. Jameson.

Review Moonstone Pictures / Combat Zone [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Avery Brooks
  • J. Winston Carroll
  • Tanya Allen
  • Dave Nichols
  • Paul Lynch
  • Robert Urich
  • Andrew Wild
Release date: 2002-01-28
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Robert B. Parker
RRP: £9.99
Price: £2.45

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Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Davy Crockett - King Of The Wild Frontier [1955]
Actors & Directors
  • Buddy Ebsen
  • Fess Parker
  • Norman Foster
Release date: 2005-01-17
Run time: 86 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £3.12

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Review 20th Century Fox / On the Riviera [1951] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Danny Kaye
  • Marcel Dalio
  • Jean Murat
  • Corinne Calvet
  • Walter Lang
  • Gene Tierney
Release date: 2007-05-22
Run time: 89 min.
Creator: Valentine Davies
Price: £9.96

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Review Optimum Home Entertainment / Blood Of Fu Manchu / Castle Of Fu Manchu [1965]
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Greene
  • Jess Franco
  • Shirley Eaton
  • Howard M. Crawford
  • Maria Perschy
  • Christopher Lee
Release date: 2007-04-30
Run time: 182 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.96

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Review Warner Home Video / Father of the Bride [1950]
Actors & Directors
  • Elizabeth Taylor
  • Joan Bennett
  • Spencer Tracy
  • Don Taylor
  • Billie Burke
  • Vincente Minnelli
Run time: 89 min.
Price: £8.95

Review Father of the Bride [1950] / Warner Home Video:

"I would like to say a few words about weddings," a weary man says from the middle of a muddle of rice and scattered bottles. What follows is a warm, witty look at what it means to be Father of the Bride. Spencer Tracy is the father and Elizabeth Taylor is the bride in this lively Vincente Minnelli-directed classic. Taylor is glowingly showcased- and reflected in three mirrors when first seen in the wedding gown. Tracy's performance captures every loving father's exasperations and joys as the day approaches. It also captured the fourth of his nine Best Actor Academy Award nominations. The film also earned nominations for the Best Picture and Screenplay. Her comes the bride, there goes dad's wallet. [+]
and everyone's heart. What sparkling fun!.

Review Bfi Video / Mikio Naruse Collection [1955]
Actors & Directors
  • Mikio Naruse
  • Haruko Sugimura
  • Hideko Takamine
  • Mariko Okada
  • Ken Uehara
  • Masayuki Mori
Release date: 2007-11-26
Run time: 321 min.
RRP: £44.99
Price: £29.26

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Review Optimum Home Entertainment / What Did You Do In The War Daddy? [1966]
Actors & Directors
  • Sergio Fantoni
  • Aldo Ray
  • Dick Shawn
  • Blake Edwards
  • James Coburn Jr.
Release date: 2008-09-01
Run time: 111 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £10.09

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Review Warner Home Video / Stanley Kubrick Collection[1962]
Actors & Directors
  • Shelley Winters
  • Keir Dullea
  • Nicole Kidman
  • James Mason
  • Stanley Kubrick
  • Sue Lyon
Release date: 2001-09-10
Run time: 999 min.
RRP: £99.99
Price: £37.49

Review Stanley Kubrick Collection[1962] / Warner Home Video:

This superb nine-disc Stanley Kubrick Box Set contains all the late director's work from 1962's Lolita to Kubrick's final film, the highly controversial Eyes Wide Shut (1999). There's also the excellent and highly informative two-hour documentary: Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures, narrated (a little drably) by Tom Cruise. It isn't exactly a warts-and-all portrait of Stan the Man, which is not surprising, really, given that it's directed and produced by Kubrick's brother-in-law Jan Harlan, and that Kubrick's widow Christine was closely involved in the making of it. But it does give a detailed and revealing portrait of a brilliant, demanding and often infuriating man, airing rare footage that goes right back to his earliest years as a brash youngster in the Bronx, already playing to camera with a frightening degree of self-awareness. Six of the eight movies (all but Dr Strangelove and Eyes Wide Shut) have been digitally restored and remastered, and almost all (barring Strangelove again and Lolita) now boast Dolby Digital 5. 1 stereo sound remixes. For some bizarre reason, Kubrick insisted on mono sound for the 1999 set, which he approved shortly before his death. Visually the improvement over the often grainy, scratchy prints previously on offer-The Shining (1980) was notoriously messy-is immense. All the features are presented in their original ratios, which in the case of Strangelove means the changing ratios in which it was originally shot, and for 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) the full glorious 2. 21:1 expanse of the Cinerama screen. [+]
So what don't you get? Essentially, the early Kubrick-the work of the young, hungry director before he moved to England and started to gather all the controlling strings into his own hand: most notably the tough, taut thriller The Killing (1956) and the icily furious war film Paths of Glory (1957). Too bad Warners couldn't have negotiated the rights for those too. But what we have here is the culminating phase of Kubrick's filmmaking career-the final 27 years of one of the great masters of cinema. On the DVDs: Besides the visual and sonic improvements mentioned above, each of the eight features includes the original theatrical trailer and multiple-language subtitles. The DVD of Dr Strangelove also gives us filmographies of the principal players, plus theatrical posters and a photo gallery, while Eyes Wide Shut includes interviews (taped after Kubrick's death) with Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman and Steven Spielberg, plus a couple of 30-second TV spots. And with The Shining we get a fascinating 34-minute documentary made by Kubrick's then 17-year-old daughter Vivian, plus-just to add a further layer-Vivian's present-day voice-over commentary on her film. -Philip Kemp.

Review 4 Front Video / Flying Down To Rio [1933]
Actors & Directors
  • Dolores del Rio
  • Gene Raymond
  • Raul Roulien
  • Ginger Rogers
  • Fred Astaire
  • Thornton Freeland
Release date: 1998-02-09
Run time: 85 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £5.96

Review Flying Down To Rio [1933] / 4 Front Video:

In 1933, RKO Pictures had the bright idea of pairing Dolores Del Rio and Gene Raymond for their new musical blockbuster, Flying Down to Rio. The film was a smash, but not for the reasons anyone expected. The fourth and fifth-billed stars were an RKO bit player and a Broadway man breaking into Hollywood. Their names were Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, and their pairing in this and eight subsequent RKO films would help to rewrite cinematic history. Most of Rio's screen time is spent on a humdrum romantic triangle involving Del Rio, Raymond and Raul Roulien, but Fred (as Fred Ayres) and Ginger (as Honey Hayes) are still able to establish many of the trademarks of their later films. Ginger fronts the band (with Fred on accordion) in the saucy "Music Makes Me", and Fred does some solo tap then sings and leads the band for the spectacular airborne finale featuring chorus girls perched on the wings of biplanes. The heart of the film is "The Carioca", a company dance extravaganza that would be imitated by "The Continental" and "The Piccolino" in later films. Here Fred and Ginger take the floor together for the first time; their eyes meet and their foreheads touch. Their dance lasts only a few minutes, but it was the highlight of the film and audiences wanted more. A prophetic moment occurs toward the beginning of the dance, when, after watching for a while, Fred grabs Ginger and tells her, "I want to try this. [+]
Come on, Honey". She declares, "We'll show 'em a thing or three". They did indeed. It was magic, and it was only the beginning. -David Horiuchi, Amazon. com.

Review Criterion / Spy Who Came from the Cold [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Martin Ritt
  • Sam Wanamaker
  • Richard Burton
  • Oskar Werner
  • Claire Bloom
  • George Voskovec
Release date: 2008-11-25
Run time: 112 min.
Creator: John le Carré
Price: £20.88

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Review Metrodome Distribution / The Naked Kiss/Shock Corridor [1964]
Actors & Directors
  • Gene Evans
  • Samuel Fuller
  • James Best
  • Hari Rhodes
  • Peter Breck
  • Constance Towers
Release date: 2003-11-17
Run time: 185 min.
Creator: Sam Firks
RRP: £19.99
Price: £19.95

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Review Whe Europe Limited / Wages Of Fear [1952]
Actors & Directors
  • Henri-Georges Clouzot
  • Vera Clouzot
  • Charles Vanel
  • Yves Montand
  • Folco Lulli
  • Peter Van Eyck
Release date: 2004-03-22
Run time: 147 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £2.90

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Review 4 Front Video / Barbara Stanwyck - Screen Goddess Boxset
Actors & Directors
  • Rouben Mamoulian
  • Fred MacMurray
  • Billy Wilder
  • Nils Asther
  • Preston Sturges
  • Edward G. Robinson
  • Douglas Sirk
  • Barbara Stanwyck
  • Henry Fonda
  • Frank Capra
Release date: 2005-10-17
Creator: Clifford Odets
RRP: £49.99
Price: £14.99

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Review Eureka Entertainment / Pitfall - Masters of Cinema series
Actors & Directors
  • Kunie Tanaka
  • Hisashi Igawa
  • Hiroshi Teshigahara
  • Hideo Kanze
Release date: 2005-03-21
Run time: 97 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £9.96

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Review Naxos / Jazz Icons - Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Live In '63 And '67 [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Release date: 2008-09-29
Run time: 80 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £10.96

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Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Plunder Of The Sun [1953]
Actors & Directors
  • Francis Sullivan
  • Patricia Medina
  • Sean McClory
  • Diana Lynn
  • John Farrow
  • Glenn Ford
Release date: 2007-05-14
Run time: 79 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £2.59

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Review Fastforward / Jungle Book [1942]
Actors & Directors
  • Sabu
  • John Qualen
  • Frank Puglia
  • Joseph Calleia
  • Zoltan Korda
  • Rosemary De Camp
Release date: 2006-12-18
Run time: 108 min.
RRP: £4.99
Price: £2.30

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Intolerance [1916], Fly, The / Return Of The Fly [1958], Shenandoah [1965], Combat Zone [2001], Davy Crockett - King Of The Wild Frontier [1955], On the Riviera [1951] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Blood Of Fu Manchu / Castle Of Fu Manchu [1965], Father of the Bride [1950], Mikio Naruse Collection [1955], What Did You Do In The War Daddy? [1966], Stanley Kubrick Collection[1962], Flying Down To Rio [1933], Spy Who Came from the Cold [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Naked Kiss/Shock Corridor [1964], Wages Of Fear [1952], Barbara Stanwyck - Screen Goddess Boxset, Pitfall - Masters of Cinema series, Jazz Icons - Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Live In '63 And '67 [1963], Plunder Of The Sun [1953], Jungle Book [1942]

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