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Review Walt Disney Home Video / Fun And Fancy Free [1948]
Actors & Directors
  • Charlie McCarthy
  • Hamilton Luske
  • William Morgan
  • Luana Patten
  • Jack Kinney
  • Dinah Shore
  • Edgar Bergen
  • Mortimer Snerd
  • Bill Roberts
Release date: 2002-08-12
Run time: 70 min.
Creator: Lance Nolley
RRP: £17.99
Price: £5.93

Review Fun And Fancy Free [1948] / Walt Disney Home Video:


Review Universal Pictures UK / Written On The Wind [1956]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Stack
  • Douglas Sirk
  • Dorothy Malone
  • Lauren Bacall
  • Robert Keith
  • Rock Hudson
Release date: 2005-02-21
Run time: 95 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £2.50

Review Written On The Wind [1956] / Universal Pictures UK:

Douglas Sirk puts the opera back into soap opera in this exquisitely baroque melodrama, the epitome of Technicolor gloss. Rock Hudson (as wonderfully wooden as ever) and Lauren Bacall play stalwart examples of altruism, clean living, and good old American ambition, but Robert Stack and Dorothy Malone steal the film as white trash millionaire siblings stewing in self-pity. The plot reads like an episode of Dallas: Texas oil-baron playboy Stack steals good girl Bacall from best friend Hudson while Stack's sister Malone puts her slinky moves on Hudson, the strapping poor boy made good. Toss in impotence, jealousy, alcoholic binges, emotional blackmail, and backstabbing nastiness, mix vigorously with high style and expressionist flourishes, and you've got the most potent melodrama cocktail of the 1950s. Stack twists his arch delivery into the practiced bravado of a boozing womanizer nursing an inferiority complex while Malone sashays and flirts her way through an Oscar-winning performance as a slutty, sassy good-time girl. It's so over the top that it might seem kitschy at first glance, but former theater director Sirk subtly shades his vision in the shadows of film noir and uses the portentous angles and gaudy color to create a vivid, vivacious world of glossy surfaces and social masks cracking under the pressure of responsibility and the pain of lost love. -Sean Axmaker.

Review Optimum Home Entertainment / The Reptile [1966]
Actors & Directors
  • John Gilling
  • Ray Barrett
  • Noel Willman
Release date: 2007-01-29
Run time: 86 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.98

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Review MGM Entertainment / Dead End [1937]
Actors & Directors
  • William Wyler
  • Sylvia Sidney
  • Humphrey Bogart
  • Joel McCrea
Release date: 2005-07-11
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.31

Review Dead End [1937] / MGM Entertainment:


Review MGM / The Masque of the Red Death/The Premature Burial [1962] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • David Weston
  • Jane Asher
  • Vincent Price
  • Ray Milland
  • Hazel Court
  • Roger Corman
Release date: 2002-08-27
Run time: 169 min.
Creator: Ray Russell
Price: £3.72

Review The Masque of the Red Death/The Premature Burial [1962] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:


Review Optimum Home Entertainment / Pink String And Sealing Wax [1945]
Actors & Directors
  • Gordon Jackson
  • Googie Withers
  • Jean Ireland
  • Mervyn Johns
  • Robert Hamer
  • Sally Ann Howes
Release date: 2008-05-12
Run time: 86 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.07

Review Pink String And Sealing Wax [1945] / Optimum Home Entertainment:


Review Criterion / Le Samourai [1971] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jacques Leroy
  • Nathalie Delon
  • Jean-Pierre Melville
  • Alain Delon
  • Cathy Rosier
  • François Périer
Release date: 2005-10-25
Run time: 101 min.
Creator: Raymond Borderie
Price: £13.17

Review Le Samourai [1971] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Criterion:


Review Warner Home Video / The Clint Eastwood Collection Volume 1 : Where Eagles Dare / City Heat / Heartbreak Ridge / Pink Cadillac / White Hunter, Black Heart (5 Disc Box Set) [1969]
Actors & Directors
  • Clint Eastwood
  • Richard Burton
  • Burt Reynolds
  • Bernadette Peters
Release date: 2003-11-24
RRP: £49.99
Price: £8.19

Review The Clint Eastwood Collection Volume 1 : Where Eagles Dare / City Heat / Heartbreak Ridge / Pink Cadillac / White Hunter, Black Heart (5 Disc Box Set) [1969] / Warner Home Video:


Review ITV DVD / The Morecambe And Wise Movie Collection [1965]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Asher
  • Ernie Wise
  • Eric Morecambe
  • Virgilio Texera
  • Cliff Owen
  • Isobel Black
  • William Franklyn
Release date: 2002-05-20
Run time: 284 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £11.99

Review The Morecambe And Wise Movie Collection [1965] / ITV DVD:

The Morecambe & Wise Collection brings together the total cinematic oeuvre of Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise: The Intelligence Men (1965), That Riviera Touch (1966) and The Magnificent Two (1967). Though intermittently amusing, they serve mostly to confirm that Morecambe & Wise did the smart thing in devoting the majority of their career to television sketch show. Their comedy was most potent in small doses. The Intelligence Men is an obvious but likeable parody of the early Bond films and sets the pattern for all three films: Eric and Ernie as two well-meaning blunderers cast into an unfamiliar milieu (in this case, international espionage) and forced to survive armed with little more than a repertoire of wince-inducing puns. That Riviera Touch is an obvious but likeable parody of the heist genre. Again, Eric and Ernie are cast as hapless ingénues, in this case a pair of traffic wardens whose holiday in France intersects with the plottings of a gang of jewel thieves. If anything, it's even more contrived than that sounds, but the scenes in which Eric cleans out the casino by accident are wonderfully understated, and a reminder of a peerless comic actor. The Magnificent Two, the final and by some distance the least funny of the three, is an updated though rather laboured subversion of the Spaghetti Western, relying rather too much on the notion that anything and everything to do with foreigners is inherently hilarious. On the DVD: The Morecambe & Wise Collection has English subtitles for all three discs and all include the original cinematic trailer. That Riviera Touch is presented in 4:3 format, the remaining two in 16:9. [+]
As special features go, these are annoyingly desultory for a release that will certainly only be purchased by die-hard fans. It wouldn't have killed the producers to commission some liner notes at the very least. -Andrew Mueller.

Review MGM / Look Back in Anger [1958] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Burton
  • Tony Richardson
  • Gary Raymond
  • Claire Bloom
  • Edith Evans
  • Mary Ure
Release date: 2001-12-11
Run time: 98 min.
Creator: Harry Saltzman
Price: £3.63

Review Look Back in Anger [1958] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:


Review Cinema Club / Night Of The Living Dead (Special Edition)(DVD)[1968]
Actors & Directors
  • George A. Romero
  • Judith O'Dea
  • Duane Jones
Release date: 2006-10-16
Run time: 96 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.33

Review Night Of The Living Dead (Special Edition)(DVD)[1968] / Cinema Club:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Nevada Smith Dvd [1965]
Actors & Directors
  • Karl Malden
  • Suzanne Pleshette
  • Brian Keith
  • Steve McQueen
  • Henry Hathaway
  • Arthur Kennedy
Release date: 2004-06-07
Run time: 125 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £3.74

Review Nevada Smith Dvd [1965] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review ITV DVD / Madeleine [1949]
Actors & Directors
  • David Lean
Release date: 2008-09-15
Run time: 110 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.98

Review Madeleine [1949] / ITV DVD:


Review C'est La Vie / Fanfan La Tulipe [1952]
Actors & Directors
  • Henri Rollan
  • Marcel Herrand
  • Gina Lollobrigida
  • Olivier Hussenot
  • Gérard Philipe
  • Christian-Jaque
Release date: 2004-05-24
Run time: 85 min.
Creator: René Wheeler
RRP: £19.99
Price: £4.53

Review Fanfan La Tulipe [1952] / C'est La Vie:


Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / The Bedford Incident [1965]
Actors & Directors
  • James MacArthur
  • Martin Balsam
  • James B. Harris
  • Richard Widmark
  • Sidney Poitier
  • Wally Cox
Release date: 2004-12-06
Run time: 98 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.74

Review The Bedford Incident [1965] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:


Review Simply Media DD.21883 / That Hamilton Woman [1941]
Actors & Directors
  • Alexander Korda
  • Laurence Olivier
  • Gladys Cooper
  • Alan Mowbray
  • Henry Wilcoxon
  • Vivien Leigh
Release date: 2008-10-20
Run time: 120 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £14.95

Review That Hamilton Woman [1941] / Simply Media DD.21883:

Two of Hollywood's biggest legends and off screen lovers VIVIEN LEIGH (Emma Hamilton) and LAURENCE OLIVIER (Nelson) star in this Academy award-winning story based on one of history's most ill-fated love affairs. However, the film left no-one in any doubt that Nelson's warning of the dangers of appeasing Napoleon was an obvious parallel to the threat Hitler posed to Europe at the time. Shot in just six weeks in Los Angeles, Korda's first directorial effort since 'Rembrandt' is an appealing mix of high drama and romance, which succeeded with the critics and audiences alike. Politically the film also made an impact on both sides of the Atlantic. In the UK, Churchill decided it was his favourite film, while the American Senate decided it was mere propaganda and subpoenaed Korda to appear before them, along with Chaplin and Hitchcock, on the suspicion of being British agents. Also, the film created a stir with the American film censor whose concern with the morals of the picture forced new dialogue to be included to reflect the couple's suffering by commtting adultery. The New York Times critic dwelt on neither the politics or the drama, but complained that such is Leigh's beauty in the film that when she is on screen it is immpossible to concentrate on anything beyond her stunning looks.

Review MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) / You Only Live Twice [1967]
Actors & Directors
  • Mie Hama
  • Akiko Wakabayashi
  • Lewis Gilbert
  • Sean Connery
  • Teru Shimada
  • Tetsuro Tamba
Release date: 2003-11-03
Run time: 112 min.
Creator: Roald Dahl
RRP: £19.99
Price: £5.99

Review You Only Live Twice [1967] / MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer):

The film boasts the best of the Bond title songs (this one sung on a dreamy track by Nancy Sinatra), but the movie itself is one of the weaker ones of the Sean Connery phase of the 007 franchise. The story concerns an effort by the evil organisation SPECTRE to start a world war, but the not-so-super villain behind the plot is the awfully civilised Donald Pleasence. The thin script is by Roald Dahl (shouldn't we have expected a better Bond nemesis from the creator of mad genius Willy Wonka?), and direction is by British veteran Lewis Gilbert (Alfie). But the movie can't hold a candle to Dr. No, From Russia with Love, or Goldfinger. -Tom Keogh, Amazon. comOn the DVD: This was another troubled production according to the insightful "making of" documentary: director and producers luckily avoided boarding a plane out of Tokyo that crashed and killed everyone on board; the Japanese actresses couldn't speak English and one threatened suicide if she was dropped from the part; and the aerial cameraman filming the helicopter fight had his leg sliced off by a rotor blade. Maurice Binder's evocative main title designs are the subject of the second documentary, "Silhouettes", in which his colleagues voiceboth their admiration of his art and frustration at his chaotic working practices. The commentary is another edited selection of interviews with principal cast and crew. An animated storyboard sequence, trailers, radio spots and a handsome booklet add up to another winning entry in this series. [+]
-Mark Walker.

Review Warner Home Video / Strangers On A Train (1951)
Actors & Directors
  • Leo G. Carroll
  • Ruth Roman
  • Farley Granger
  • Robert Walker
  • Alfred Hitchcock
  • Patricia Hitchcock
Release date: 2001-04-09
Run time: 96 min.
Creator: Whitfield Cook
RRP: £13.99
Price: £4.02

Review Strangers On A Train (1951) / Warner Home Video:

From its cleverly choreographed opening sequence to its heart-stopping climax on a rampant carousel, this 1951 Hitchcock classic readily earns its reputation as one of the director's finest examples of timeless cinematic suspense. It's not just a ripping-good thriller but a film student's delight and a perversely enjoyable battle of wits between tennis pro Guy (Farley Granger) and his mysterious, sycophantic admirer, Bruno (Robert Walker), who proposes a "criss-cross" scheme of traded murders. Bruno agrees to kill Guy's unfaithful wife, in return for which Guy will (or so it seems) kill Bruno's spiteful father. With an emphasis on narrative and visual strategy, Hitchcock controls the escalating tension with a master's flair for cinematic design, and the plot (coscripted by Raymond Chandler) is so tightly constructed that you'll be white-knuckled even after multiple viewings. Strangers on a Train remains one of Hitchcock's crowning achievements and a suspenseful classic that never loses its capacity to thrill and delight. -Jeff Shannon.

Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Here Comes Mr Jordan [1941]
Actors & Directors
  • Edward Everett Horton
  • Alexander Hall
  • Robert Montgomery
  • Evelyn Keyes
  • Claude Rains
  • James Gleason
Release date: 2007-02-05
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.77

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Review United Artists / The Secret of Santa Vittoria [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Hardy Krüger
  • Anna Magnani
  • Sergio Franchi
  • Stanley Kramer
  • Anthony Quinn
  • Virna Lisi
Release date: 2008-05-13
Run time: 139 min.
Creator: Ben Maddow
Price: £5.91

Review The Secret of Santa Vittoria [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / United Artists:


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Fun And Fancy Free [1948], Written On The Wind [1956], The Reptile [1966], Dead End [1937], The Masque of the Red Death/The Premature Burial [1962] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Pink String And Sealing Wax [1945], Le Samourai [1971] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Clint Eastwood Collection Volume 1 : Where Eagles Dare / City Heat / Heartbreak Ridge / Pink Cadillac / White Hunter, Black Heart (5 Disc Box Set) [1969], The Morecambe And Wise Movie Collection [1965], Look Back in Anger [1958] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Night Of The Living Dead (Special Edition)(DVD)[1968], Nevada Smith Dvd [1965], Madeleine [1949], Fanfan La Tulipe [1952], The Bedford Incident [1965], That Hamilton Woman [1941], You Only Live Twice [1967], Strangers On A Train (1951), Here Comes Mr Jordan [1941], The Secret of Santa Vittoria [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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