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Review Warner Home Video / The Man Who Came to Dinner [1941] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Travis
  • Jimmy Durante
  • Richard L. Bare
  • Ann Sheridan
  • Jean Negulesco
  • William Keighley
  • Bette Davis
  • Monty Woolley
Release date: 2006-05-30
Run time: 113 min.
Creator: George S. Kaufman
Price: £9.57

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Review Universal Pictures UK / The Wolf Man [1941]
Actors & Directors
  • Bela Lugosi
  • Ralph Bellamy
  • George Waggner
  • Warren William
  • Patric Knowles
  • Claude Rains
Release date: 2005-11-01
Run time: 70 min.
Creator: Curt Siodmak
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.50

Review The Wolf Man [1941] / Universal Pictures UK:

Even a man who is pure in heart, And says his prayers by night, May become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms And the autumn moon is bright. If you haven't heard this piece of horror-movie doggerel before, you'll never forget it after seeing The Wolf Man for two reasons: it's a spooky piece of rhyme and nearly everybody in the picture recites it at one time or another. Set in a fog-bound studio-built Wales, The Wolf Man tells the doom-laden tale of Lawrence Talbot (Lon Chaney Jr. ), who returns to the estate of his wealthy father (Claude Rains). (Yes, Chaney's American, but the movie explains this, awkwardly. ) Bitten by a werewolf, Talbot suffers the classic fate of the victims of lycanthropy: at the full moon, he turns into a werewolf, a transformation ingeniously devised by makeup maestro Jack Pierce. Pierce was the man who turned Boris Karloff into the Frankenstein monster, and his werewolf makeup became equally famous, with its canine snout and bushy hairdo-and, of course, seriously sharp dental work. The Wolf Man was a smash hit, giving Universal Pictures a new monster for their already crowded stable, and Chaney found himself following in the footsteps (or paw prints) of his father, who had essayed a monster or two in the silent era. This is a classy horror outing, with strong atmosphere and a thoughtful script by Curt Siodmak-well, except for the stiff romantic bits between Chaney and Evelyn Ankers. It's also got Bela Lugosi (briefly) and Maria Ouspenskaya, the prunelike Russian actress who foretells doom like nobody's business. [+]
-Robert Horton.

Review Paramount / The World of Suzie Wong [1960] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Sylvia Syms
  • Jacqui Chan
  • Michael Wilding
  • William Holden
  • Richard Quine
  • Nancy Kwan
Release date: 2004-06-29
Run time: 126 min.
Price: £6.58

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Review Bfi Video / Les Dames Du Bois De Boulogne [1945]
Actors & Directors
  • Jean Marchat
  • Elina Labourdette
  • Maria Casares
  • Paul Bernard
  • Robert Bresson
Release date: 2004-08-30
Run time: 83 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £8.58

Review Les Dames Du Bois De Boulogne [1945] / Bfi Video:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The Pink Panther [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Wagner
  • Blake Edwards
  • Peter Sellers
  • David Niven
  • Claudia Cardinale
Release date: 2009-02-02
Run time: 110 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.98

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Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (40th Anniversary Edition) [1967]
Actors & Directors
  • Sidney Poitier
  • Stanley Kramer
  • Spencer Tracy
  • Katherine Hepburn
Release date: 2008-02-04
Run time: 103 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.42

Review Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (40th Anniversary Edition) [1967] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:

Spencer Tracy's last performance was in this well-meaning, handsome film by Stanley Kramer about a pair of white parents (Tracy and Katharine Hepburn) trying to make sense of their daughter's impending marriage to an African American doctor (Sidney Poitier). The film has been knocked over the years for padding conflict and stoking easy liberalism by making Poitier's character in every socio-economic sense a good catch: But what if Kramer had made this stranger a factory worker? Would the audience still find it as easy to accept a mixed-race relationship? But there's no denying the drawing power of this movie, which gets most of its integrity from the stirring performances of Tracy and Hepburn. When the former (who had been so ill that the production could not get completion insurance) gives a speech toward the end about race, love, and much else, it's impossible not to be affected by the last great moment in a great actor's life and career. -Tom Keogh.

Review Optimum Home Entertainment / Viva Maria [1965]
Actors & Directors
  • Jeanne Moreau
  • Babette Bardot
  • George Hamilton
  • Paulette Dubost
  • Claudio Brook
  • Louis Malle
Release date: 2009-01-12
Run time: 112 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £11.21

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Review 2 Entertain Video / Steptoe & Son - Series Two [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Wilfrid Brambell
  • Harry H. Corbett
Release date: 2005-08-08
Run time: 210 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.99

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Review Optimum Home Entertainment / Tickle Me [1965]
Actors & Directors
  • Julie Adams
  • Jocelyn Lane
  • Elvis Presley
  • Norman Taurog
Release date: 2009-02-23
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £11.69

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Review Bfi Video / Cluny Brown [1946]
Actors & Directors
  • Jennifer Jones
  • Una O'Connor
  • Peter Lawford
  • Helen Walker
  • Sara Allgood
  • Ernst Lubitsch
Release date: 2008-05-26
Run time: 100 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.78

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Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Oh What A Lovely War: Special Edition [1969]
Actors & Directors
  • John Gielgud
  • Vanessa Redgrave
  • Jean-Pierre Cassell
  • Richard Attenborough
  • Laurence Olivier
  • Phyllis Calvert
Release date: 2006-10-30
Run time: 138 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £17.99

Review Oh What A Lovely War: Special Edition [1969] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

It's a product of its Vietnam era just as surely as Robert Altman's M*A*S*H, and like that film Oh! What a Lovely War is ostensibly about a different war. Based on a celebrated anti-war stage piece produced by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop, the film chronicles the various madnesses of the First World War. Along with vignettes involving the members of the fictional Smith family, the movie lands its punches with a two-pronged attack: by using the songs of the war, mostly patriotic; and by using the real-life words of various figures from WWI. You can see how this would have fit a stylised stage show; in the more literal, realistic realm of film, it mostly comes across as heavy-handed pretentiousness. Richard Attenborough, who would later explore the lives of Gandhi and Chaplin, first made his way to the director's chair here, and he enlisted a staggering who's who of his fellow British actors for roles in the large ensemble: Olivier, Gielgud, and Richardson among them. John Mills plays the most bull-headed of the generals, blithely measuring out yards of territory gained by the thousands of casualties involved. The songs are a historically fascinating lot, mostly given an ironic or sinister treatment in this incarnation, as jolly patriotic tunes that mask the utter carnage at the front. Among the high points is Maggie Smith singing (well, declaiming) an ode to recruitment, promising war as a grand adventure. The blending of arch content with Attenborough's realistic staging of trench warfare just doesn't take, but what does hit home are the actual quotes and the statistics of killing; World War I set a bloody standard for sheer, blind slaughter. -Robert Horton.

Review Warner Home Video / The Law and Jake Wade [1958] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Middleton
  • Patricia Owens
  • Robert Taylor
  • Henry Silva
  • Richard Widmark
  • John Sturges
Release date: 2008-08-26
Run time: 86 min.
Creator: William Bowers
Price: £4.71

Review The Law and Jake Wade [1958] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Actors & Directors
  • Peggy Lee
  • Larry Roberts
  • Bill Thompson
  • Barbara Luddy
  • Hamilton Luske
  • Clyde Geronimi
  • Bill Baucom
  • Wilfred Jackson
Release date: 1998-08-17
Run time: 77 min.
Creator: Ralph Wright
RRP: £17.99
Price: £3.99

Review Lady And The Tramp [1955] / Walt Disney Home Video:

Disney's first animated feature in CinemaScope is now available in widescreen presentations on video, and it is definitely good to get the whole picture. One of the studio's most original and charming movies, the 1955 film tells the story of a rakish, street-smart dog named Tramp, who helps an aristocratic pooch named Lady out of some trouble and then commences a romance with her. Sweet, funny scenes abound, and the combination of innocence and sophistication would have done well in a live-action picture. Peggy Lee co-wrote the songs and provides the voice of the Siamese cats in one of the film's best-known musical sequences. This newly restored version spruces up both sonics and visuals, and a letterbox version is available. - Tom Keogh, Amazon. com.

Review ITV DVD / The Passionate Friends [1948]
Actors & Directors
  • Wilfrid Hyde White
  • Ann Todd
  • Betty Ann Davies
  • David Lean
  • Claude Rains
  • Trevor Howard
Release date: 2008-09-15
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £9.69

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Review Warner Home Video / The Hunchback of Notre Dame [1939] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Edmond O'Brien
  • Cedric Hardwicke
  • William Dieterle
  • Charles Laughton
  • Thomas Mitchell
  • Maureen O'Hara
Release date: 1998-01-06
Run time: 116 min.
Creator: Bruno Frank
Price: £10.30

Review The Hunchback of Notre Dame [1939] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Elstree Hill Entertainment / The Joe Louis Story [1953]
Actors & Directors
  • Hilda Simms
  • Coley Wallace
  • Paul Stewart
  • John Marley
  • Robert Gordon
  • James Edwards
Release date: 2004-03-15
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: £2.99
Price: £2.98

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Review Warner Home Video / King of Kings [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Viveca Lindfors
  • Nicholas Ray
  • Siobhan McKenna
  • Ron Randell
  • Hurd Hatfield
  • Jeffrey Hunter
Release date: 2003-02-25
Run time: 171 min.
Price: £5.49

Review King of Kings [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:

This 1961 version of Jesus' story gives historical context to the best-known biblical tale and features many memorable moments, such as a moving Sermon on the Mount and a vixen-like Salome dancing for her stepfather in a performance that rivals today's MTV video offerings. Orson Welles keeps the 168-minute film moving along with informative narration. Made with backgrounds that resemble Southern California more than Palestine and a European and American cast-including a blonde, blue-eyed Jesus and an Irish-accented Mary-this movie has the definite stamp of Hollywood. -Kimberly Heinrichs, Amazon. com.

Review Bfi Video / Michael Nyman's - Man with a Movie Camera [1929]
Actors & Directors
  • Dziga Vertov
Release date: 2008-06-23
Run time: 68 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £10.74

Review Michael Nyman's - Man with a Movie Camera [1929] / Bfi Video:


Review 20th Century Fox / The Long, Hot Summer [1958] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Orson Welles
  • Joanne Woodward
  • Paul Newman
  • Lee Remick
  • Anthony Franciosa
  • Martin Ritt
Release date: 2003-05-20
Run time: 115 min.
Creator: William Faulkner
Price: £6.48

Review The Long, Hot Summer [1958] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:


Review Warner Home Video / Ealing Comedy DVD Collection - The Ladykillers/Kind Hearts and Coronets/The Lavender Hill Mob/The Man in the White Suit [1955]
Actors & Directors
  • Charles Crichton
  • Dennis Price
  • Alexander Mackendrick
  • Alec Guinness
  • Peter Sellers
  • Robert Hamer
  • Valerie Hobson
  • Joan Greenwood
Release date: 2002-09-02
Run time: 346 min.
Creator: Roger MacDougall
RRP: £40.99
Price: £34.50

Review Ealing Comedy DVD Collection - The Ladykillers/Kind Hearts and Coronets/The Lavender Hill Mob/The Man in the White Suit [1955] / Warner Home Video:

Four of the British film industry's best-loved comedies in one box set makes The Ealing Comedy Collection absolutely essential for anyone who has any passion at all for movies. The set contains Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), The Man in the White Suit (1951) and The Ladykillers (1955). Ealing's greatest comedies captured the essence of post-war Britain, both in their evocation of a land once blighted by war but now rising doggedly and optimistically again from the ashes, and in their mordant yet graceful humour. They portray a country with an antiquated class system whose crumbling conventions are being undermined by a new spirit of individual opportunism. In the delightfully wicked Kind Hearts and Coronets, a serial killer politely murders his way into the peerage; in The Lavender Hill Mob a put-upon bank clerk schemes to rob his employers; The Man in the White Suit is a harshly satirical depiction of idealism crushed by the status quo; while The Ladykillers mocks both the criminals and the authorities with its unlikely octogenarian heroine Mrs "lop-sided" Wilberforce. Many factors contribute to the success of these films-including fine music scores from composers such as Benjamin Frankel (Man in the White Suit) and Tristram Cary (The Ladykillers); positively symphonic sound effects (White Suit); marvellously evocative locations (the environs of King's Cross in Ladykillers, for example); and writing that always displays Ealing's unique perspective on British social mores ("All the exuberance of Chaucer without, happily, any of the concomitant crudities of his period")-yet arguably their greatest asset is Alec Guinness, whose multifaceted performances are the keystone upon which Ealing built its biting, often macabre, yet always elegant comedy. On the DVD: The Ealing Comedy Collection presents the four discs in a fold-out package with postcards of the original poster artwork for each. Aside from theatrical trailers on each disc there are no extra features, which is a pity given the importance of these films. The Ladykillers is in muted Technicolor and presented in 1. 66:1 ratio, the three earlier films are all black and white 1. [+]
33:1. Sound is perfectly adequate mono throughout. -Mark Walker.

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The Man Who Came to Dinner [1941] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Wolf Man [1941], The World of Suzie Wong [1960] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Les Dames Du Bois De Boulogne [1945], The Pink Panther [1963], Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (40th Anniversary Edition) [1967], Viva Maria [1965], Steptoe & Son - Series Two [1963], Tickle Me [1965], Cluny Brown [1946], Oh What A Lovely War: Special Edition [1969], The Law and Jake Wade [1958] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Lady And The Tramp [1955], The Passionate Friends [1948], The Hunchback of Notre Dame [1939] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Joe Louis Story [1953], King of Kings [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Michael Nyman's - Man with a Movie Camera [1929], The Long, Hot Summer [1958] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Ealing Comedy DVD Collection - The Ladykillers/Kind Hearts and Coronets/The Lavender Hill Mob/The Man in the White Suit [1955]

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