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Review Warner Home Video / The Law and Jake Wade [1958] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Henry Silva
  • Robert Middleton
  • John Sturges
  • Robert Taylor
  • Patricia Owens
  • Richard Widmark
Release date: 2008-08-26
Run time: 86 min.
Price: £3.90

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Review Optimum Home Entertainment / Paris Blues [1961]
Actors & Directors
  • Paul Newman
  • Diahann Carroll
  • Martin Ritt
  • Louis Armstrong
  • Joanne Woodward
  • Sidney Poitier
Release date: 2008-10-20
Run time: 95 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £9.48

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Review Warner Home Video / The Searchers [1956]
Actors & Directors
  • Jeffrey Hunter
  • Vera Miles
  • John Wayne
  • John Ford
  • Ward Bond
  • Natalie Wood
Release date: 2006-06-01
Run time: 114 min.
RRP: £13.99
Price: £2.97

Review The Searchers [1956] / Warner Home Video:

A favourite film of some of the world's greatest filmmakers, including Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg, John Ford's The Searchers has earned its place in the legacy of great American films for a variety of reasons. Perhaps most notably, it's the definitive role for John Wayne as an icon of the classic Western-the hero (or antihero) who must stand alone according to the unwritten code of The West. The story takes place in Texas in 1868; Wayne plays Ethan Edwards, a Confederate veteran who visits his brother and sister-in-law at their ranch and is horrified when they are killed by marauding Comanches. Ethan's search for a surviving niece (played by young Natalie Wood) becomes an all-consuming obsession. With the help of a family friend (Jeffrey Hunter) who is himself part-Cherokee, Ethan hits the trail on a five-year quest for revenge. At the peak of his masterful talent, director Ford crafts this classic tale as an embittered examination of racism and blind hatred, provoking Wayne to give one of the best performances of his career. As with many of Ford's classic Westerns, The Searchers must contend with revisionism in its stereotypical treatment of "savage" Native Americans, and the film's visual beauty (the final shot is one of the great images in all of Western culture) is compromised by some uneven performances and stilted dialogue. Still, this is undeniably one of the greatest Westerns ever made. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com.

Review Second Sight Films Ltd. / The Black Cat [1934]
Actors & Directors
  • Boris Karloff
  • Edgar G. Ulmer
  • Julie Bishop
  • Bela Lugosi
  • David Manners
Release date: 2007-10-29
Run time: 63 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £4.98

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Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Darling Lili [1970]
Actors & Directors
  • Julie Andrews
  • Blake Edwards
  • Rock Hudson
Release date: 2007-03-12
Run time: 137 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £2.97

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Review / The Battle For Algiers (Criterion Collection #249) 3 disc Director Approved s.e.
Price: £19.35

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Review ITV DVD / Stingray - Complete Series [1964]
Actors & Directors
  • Ray Barrett
  • David Graham (II)
  • Don Mason
  • Lois Maxwell
  • Robert Easton
Release date: 2001-04-02
Run time: 999 min.
RRP: £59.99
Price: £23.49

Review Stingray - Complete Series [1964] / ITV DVD:

Drums pound, building excitement; the music bursts into life with a cry of "Stingray! Stingray!" Who can resist? Especially when a dramatic voice announces, "Anything can happen in the next half hour!". Stingray (1964) was the show Gerry Anderson made just before he really hit the big time with Thunderbirds (1965), producing 39 episodes of the 21st-century adventures of Troy Tempest-tall, dark and handsome (his voice was based on James Garner) captain of the titular submarine. His mission: to protect the seas on behalf of WASP (World Aquanaut Security Patrol). With complex underwater model and puppet effects, this was ground-breaking television, especially as it was the first UK series to be made in colour, though for years it was only seen in black and white. Special effects director Derek Meddings later graduated to the James Bond movies, while Moneypenny herself (actress Lois Maxwell) voiced Atlanta Shore. Here, just as in the Bond movies, she played second fiddle in our hero's affections, the mute Marina becoming Stingray's sex-goddess. The end-credits even featured a song in her honour, "Aqua Maria", which became an international hit. As for the bad guys: half-man, half-fish Titan and his Terror Fish wage dastardly war against humanity and the peaceful underwater citizens of Pacifica. Four decades on the model and underwater sequences still impress, and surely much of the inspiration for the underwater city in The Phantom Menace came from locations in Stingray. Whether as bizarre 60s nostalgia, or winning a new generation of fans, Stingray remains eccentric cult family entertainment. [+]
-Gary S Dalkin.

Review Optimum Home Entertainment / Carry On Sergeant [1958]
Actors & Directors
  • William Hartnell
  • Dora Bryan
  • Bob Monkhouse
  • Bill Owen
  • Eric Barker
  • Gerald Thomas
Release date: 2007-01-29
Run time: 81 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.46

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Review Uca / Mr Deeds Goes To Town [1936]
Actors & Directors
  • Frank Capra
  • Gary Cooper
  • George Bancroft
  • Jean Arthur
  • Lionel Stander
Release date: 2005-04-04
Run time: 111 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.23

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Review Paramount Home Entertainment / King Creole [1958]
Actors & Directors
  • Dolores Hart
  • Michael Curtiz
  • Elvis Presley
  • Carolyn Jones
  • Dean Jagger
  • Walter Matthau
Release date: 2002-03-18
Run time: 111 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £1.91

Review King Creole [1958] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

Before his handlers persuaded him to settle for the safety of a screen franchise, the young Elvis Presley had weightier ambitions as an actor. The 1958 King Creole, his fourth feature outing, hints at the underlying seriousness of his goals. Presley plays Danny Fisher, a New Orleans teenager struggling to graduate from high school while working in a sleazy French Quarter club to support his family. He's also characterised as a troubled youth with a dangerous temper and feelings of shame and resentment toward his meek, unemployed father (Dean Jagger). When Danny's gift for singing provides him with a potential career break (and the requisite excuse for Elvis's production numbers), his involvement with a ruthless gangster (Walter Matthau) and his sultry, alcoholic moll (Carolyn Jones) threatens both his future and his family. King Creole boasts an impressive production pedigree (including producer Hal Wallis and director Michael Curtiz, the team behind Casablanca) and the supporting cast helps elicit one of Presley's most emotional performances. Jones in particular overrides the inherent clichés of her role: her self-loathing and sexuality are both palpable. Presley-still a few years away from the more sanitised image that would be integral to those franchise features-is young enough to be a credible teen, but more crucially he makes his rage and yearning largely convincing. -Sam Sutherland.

Review Metrodome / The Man Who Watched Trains Go By [1953]
Actors & Directors
  • Claude Rains
Release date: 2008-06-02
Run time: 77 min.
RRP: £17.99
Price: £5.38

Review The Man Who Watched Trains Go By [1953] / Metrodome:


Review Metrodome Distribution / King Lear
Actors & Directors
  • Amanda Redman
  • Richard Eyre
  • Barbara Flynn
  • Timothy West
  • Ian Holm
  • Victoria Hamilton
Release date: 2006-03-20
Run time: 138 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £6.43

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Review Second Run / The Round Up [1966]
Actors & Directors
  • Andras Kozak
  • Janos Gorbe
  • Gabor Agardi
  • Miklós Jancsó
  • Tibor Molnar
  • Zoltan Latinovits
Release date: 2008-03-17
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.99

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Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / The Swimmer [1968]
Actors & Directors
  • Janet Landgard
  • Tony Bickley
  • Frank Perry
  • Burt Lancaster
  • Sydney Pollack
  • Janice Rule
  • Marge Champion
Release date: 2003-05-26
Run time: 91 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.44

Review The Swimmer [1968] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:

Burt Lancaster gives one of his most daringly complex performances in The Swimmer, a fascinating adaptation of John Cheever's celebrated short story. At first it seems that middle-aged businessman Ned Merrill (Lancaster) is merely enjoying a spontaneous adventure, swimming from pool to pool among the well-tended estates of his affluent Connecticut neighbourhood. But as Ned encounters a variety of neighbours, we see from their reactions that he's on an entirely different kind of journey, balanced on the edge of some mysterious psychosis that we can't fully understand until the film's final, devastating image. A compelling portrait of loss, refracted memories, and deep-rooted emotional denial, The Swimmer sprung from the same late-60s soil that yielded similarly ground-breaking literary films such as The Graduate and Goodbye, Columbus. It's an egotistical showcase for the physical prowess of its 55-year-old star, but Lancaster turns it into something deeper, more disturbing, and completely unforgettable. -Jeff Shannon.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Desperate Hours, The
Actors & Directors
  • Arthur Kennedy
  • Humphrey Bogart
  • Fredric March
  • William Wyler
  • Dewey Martin
  • Martha Scott
Release date: 2003-10-06
Run time: 108 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £3.79

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Review Digital Classics DVD / The Video Dictionary Of Classical Ballet [1988]
Actors & Directors
  • Georgina Parkinson
  • Denise Jackson
  • Kevin McKenzie (II)
  • Merrill Ashley
Release date: 2007-03-05
Run time: 270 min.
RRP: £22.99
Price: £13.47

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Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The Blue Max [1966]
Actors & Directors
  • Ursula Andress
  • Anton Diffring
  • John Guillermin
  • Jeremy Kemp
  • George Peppard
  • James Mason
Release date: 2005-07-04
Run time: 149 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.78

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Review Paramount Home Entertainment / The Italian Job Collection
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Caine
  • Edward Norton
  • Mark Wahlberg
  • Jason Statham
  • F. Gary Gray
  • Peter Collinson
  • Charlize Theron
Release date: 2004-03-08
RRP: £27.99
Price: £5.49

Review The Italian Job Collection / Paramount Home Entertainment:

This box set contains both versions of The Italian Job-the original 60s classic starring Michael Caine and the 2003 remake, featuring Mark Wahlberg.

Review Eureka Entertainment / L'Argent [1928] [Masters of Cinema]
Actors & Directors
  • Marcel L'Herbier
  • Yvette Guilbert
  • Pierre Alcover
  • Brigitte Helm
  • Alfred Abel
Release date: 2008-11-24
Run time: 164 min.
RRP: £22.99
Price: £15.98

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Review Fremantle Home Entertainment / Gone To Earth [1950]
Actors & Directors
  • Emeric Pressburger
  • Cyril Cusack
  • Michael Powell
  • Sybil Thorndike
  • Edward Chapman
  • David Farrar
  • Jennifer Jones
Release date: 2001-08-27
Run time: 110 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.99

Review Gone To Earth [1950] / Fremantle Home Entertainment:


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The Law and Jake Wade [1958] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Paris Blues [1961], The Searchers [1956], The Black Cat [1934], Darling Lili [1970], The Battle For Algiers (Criterion Collection #249) 3 disc Director Approved s.e., Stingray - Complete Series [1964], Carry On Sergeant [1958], Mr Deeds Goes To Town [1936], King Creole [1958], The Man Who Watched Trains Go By [1953], King Lear, The Round Up [1966], The Swimmer [1968], Desperate Hours, The, The Video Dictionary Of Classical Ballet [1988], The Blue Max [1966], The Italian Job Collection, L'Argent [1928] [Masters of Cinema], Gone To Earth [1950]

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