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Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The Young Lions [1958]
Actors & Directors
  • Barbara Rush
  • Hope Lange
  • Montgomery Clift
  • Edward Dmytryk
  • Dean Martin
  • Marlon Brando
Release date: 2005-04-18
Run time: 162 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.97

Review The Young Lions [1958] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review Universal Pictures Video / Psycho (1960)
Actors & Directors
  • John Gavin
  • Alfred Hitchcock
  • Janet Leigh
  • Vera Miles
  • Anthony Perkins
  • Martin Balsam
Release date: 2003-04-21
Run time: 109 min.
Creator: Robert Bloch
RRP: £19.99
Price: £4.99

Review Psycho (1960) / Universal Pictures Video:

For all the slasher pictures that have ripped off Psycho (and particularly its classic set piece, the "shower scene"), nothing has ever matched the impact of the real thing. More than just a first-rate shocker full of thrills and suspense, Psycho is also an engrossing character study in which director Alfred Hitchcock skilfully seduces you into identifying with the main characters-then pulls the rug (or the bathmat) out from under you. Anthony Perkins is unforgettable as Norman Bates, the mama's boy proprietor of the Bates Motel; and so is Janet Leigh as Marion Crane, who makes an impulsive decision and becomes a fugitive from the law, hiding out at Norman's roadside inn for one fateful night. -Jim Emerson.

Review Metrodome Distribution / Call Northside 777 [1948]
Actors & Directors
  • James Stewart
  • Henry Hathaway
  • Helen Walker
  • Richard Conte
  • Lee J. Cobb
Release date: 2006-01-30
Run time: 120 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £6.97

Review Call Northside 777 [1948] / Metrodome Distribution:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / M*A*S*H (Single Disc Edition) [1969]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Altman
  • Robert Duvall
  • Tom Skerritt
  • Donald Sutherland
  • Elliott Gould
  • Sally Kellerman
Release date: 2003-10-13
Run time: 111 min.
Creator: Ring Lardner Jr.
RRP: £17.99
Price: £1.40

Review M*A*S*H (Single Disc Edition) [1969] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

It's set during the Korean War, in a mobile army surgical hospital. But no one seeing MASH in 1970 confused the film for anything but a caustic comment on the Vietnam War; this is one of the counterculture movies that exploded into the mainstream at the end of the 1960s. Director Robert Altman had laboured for years in television and sporadic feature work when this smash-hit comedy made his name (and allowed him to create an astonishing string of offbeat pictures, culminating in the masterpiece Nashville). Altman's style of cruel humour, overlapping dialogue, and densely textured visuals brought the material to life in an all-new kind of war movie (or, more precisely, antiwar movie). Audiences had never seen anything like it: vaudeville routines played against spurting blood, fuelled with open ridicule of authority. The cast is led by Elliott Gould and Donald Sutherland, as the outrageous surgeons Hawkeye Pierce and Trapper John McIntyre, with Robert Duvall as the uptight Major Burns and Sally Kellerman in an Oscar-nominated role as nurse "Hot Lips" Houlihan. The film's huge success spawned the long-running TV series, a considerably softer take on the material; of the film's cast, only Gary Burghoff repeated his role on the small screen, as the slightly clairvoyant Radar O'Reilly. -Robert Horton MASH-a 1970 comedy-drama set among surgeons drafted into the Korean war-was a breakthrough not just for director Robert Altman but for movie-making in general. Although set in the 50s, there are few who did not realise that the film's anti-war messages were directed at the US involvement in Vietnam. Indeed, the Pentagon banned US servicemen from seeing the film. [+]
Starring Donald Sutherland as Hawkeye Pierce and Elliot Gould as Trapper John McIntyre, two hip young surgeons drafted against their will. Their general attitude-while never corroding either their humanity or their professionalism as surgeons-is one of insolence towards military authority and the arbitrary structures and regulations continually droning from the tannoy system. The film, too, thrives on a lack of attention to conventional order, with its cross-dialogue and random, episodic style reflecting the vivacious and unbuttoned feel of the content. However, MASH has dated and much of what seemed like "liberating" high jinks, today smacks of sexist, frathouse boorishness and harassment, especially at the expense of Major "Hotlips" Hoolihan (Sally Kellerman), while the episode in which "Painless" plans a suicide out of a fear of being gay reflects the persistence of homophobia even in 60s counterculture. Despite this MASH feels ahead of its time and certainly sharper and blacker than the too-cute sitcom it spawned. On the DVD: this is an excellent restoration, overseen by Altman himself, in which any obfuscation from the original have been cleaned up, especially the sound quality. As well as a commentary from Altman, there are three separate documentaries, featuring interviews with Altman, the cast and screenwriter Ring Lardner Jr, who had been blacklisted during the anti-Communist witch-hunt which swept through Hollywood in the 1950s. We learn he was initially appalled at how little of his script Altman actually used but was mollified by the Academy Award he received. Altman is candid about the making of the movie ("It wasn't released by Fox, it escaped from Fox"). There's an abundance of similarly rich, anecdotal material here. -David Stubbs.

Review Plastic Head / Tony Palmer - All My Loving [1968]
Actors & Directors
  • Anthony Burgess
  • The Beatles
  • Donovan Leitch
  • Tony Palmer
  • Cream (IV)
  • George Martin
Release date: 2007-09-10
Run time: 52 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.14

Review Tony Palmer - All My Loving [1968] / Plastic Head:


Review 20th Century Fox / Time Tunnel, Vol. 1 [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • James Darren
  • John Zaremba
  • Whit Bissell
  • Robert Colbert
  • Lee Meriwether
Release date: 2006-01-24
Run time: 765 min.
Creator: Irwin Allen
Price: £16.53

Review Time Tunnel, Vol. 1 [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The Comancheros [1961]
Actors & Directors
  • John Wayne
  • Stuart Whitman
  • Lee Marvin
  • Michael Curtiz
Release date: 2005-04-18
Run time: 103 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.77

Review The Comancheros [1961] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / It's Always Fair Weather [1955] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Bill Thompson
  • Dolores Gray
  • Tex Avery
  • Michael Lah
  • Dan Dailey
  • Joseph Barbera
  • Gene Kelly
  • Stanley Donen
  • Gene Kelly
  • Cyd Charisse
Release date: 2006-04-25
Run time: 101 min.
Price: £9.49

Review It's Always Fair Weather [1955] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Optimum Home Entertainment / Legend Of The Lost [1957]
Actors & Directors
  • Henry Hathaway
  • John Wayne
  • Rossano Brazzi
  • Sophia Loren
Release date: 2008-09-08
Run time: 104 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.07

Review Legend Of The Lost [1957] / Optimum Home Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / Meet Me In St. Louis [1945]
Actors & Directors
  • Mary Astor
  • Leon Ames
  • Margaret O'Brien
  • Judy Garland
  • Vincente Minnelli
  • Lucille Bremer
Release date: 2004-05-24
Run time: 110 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.85

Review Meet Me In St. Louis [1945] / Warner Home Video:

One of the finest American musicals, this 1944 film by Vincente Minnelli is an intentionally self-contained story set in 1903, in which a happy St Louis family is shaken to their roots by the prospect of moving to New York, where the father has a better job pending. Judy Garland heads the cast of Meet Me in St Louis in what amounts to a splendid, end-of-an-era story that nicely rhymes with the onset of the 20th century. The film is extraordinarily alive, the characters strong, and the musical numbers are so splendidly part of the storytelling that you don't feel the film has stopped for an interlude. -Tom Keogh.

Review Twilight Zone / Twilight Zone - Colour Episodes Season 1
Release date: 2005-09-12
Run time: 880 min.
RRP: £59.99
Price: £22.99

Review Twilight Zone - Colour Episodes Season 1 / Twilight Zone:


Review Warner Home Video / Ivanhoe [1952] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Thorpe
  • Robert Taylor
  • George Sanders
  • Joan Fontaine
  • Emlyn Williams
  • Joseph Barbera
  • Elizabeth Taylor
  • William Hanna
Release date: 2005-01-11
Run time: 107 min.
Creator: Marguerite Roberts
Price: £9.48

Review Ivanhoe [1952] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Prism Leisure / The Millionairess [1960]
Actors & Directors
  • Alastair Sim
  • Dennis Price
  • Anthony Asquith
  • Vittorio De Sica
  • Peter Sellers
  • Sophia Loren
Release date: 2001-09-01
Run time: 85 min.
Creator: Wolf Mankowitz
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.99

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Review MGM Entertainment / Elmer Gantry [1960]
Actors & Directors
  • Dean Jagger
  • Richard Brooks
  • Arthur Kennedy
  • Jean Simmons
  • Shirley Jones
  • Burt Lancaster
Release date: 2003-02-03
Run time: 141 min.
Creator: Sinclair Lewis
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.94

Review Elmer Gantry [1960] / MGM Entertainment:

Brothers and sisters, can we get a witness for Elmer Gantry, a woeful tale of saints and sinners? Burt Lancaster earned his only Oscar as the wide-smiling, glad-handing, soul-saving charlatan Gantry, a salesman who turns his gift for preaching into a career at the pulpit. Climbing on board the barnstorming evangelical tour of revivalist Sister Sharon Falconer (Jean Simmons), Gantry declaims, invokes, and sermonises his way to the top, until a former flame-turned-prostitute (Shirley Jones in an Oscar-winning performance) threatens to reveal his dark past as a womaniser and con man. Lancaster harnesses all his physical vigour and natural charisma for this role, literally throwing himself into his preaching with the suppleness of an acrobat and the sing-song delivery of a gospel singer-he even brays like a hound to show the Holy Spirit within him. Gantry is a showman, pure and simple, and while he doesn't fool true-believer Sister Sharon, he gives her a few object lessons in playing the crowd. Director Richard Brooks, who also took home an Oscar for his screenplay (adapted from the Sinclair Lewis novel), creates a rousing drama both on and off the pulpit, and provides fine roles for an excellent supporting cast, including Arthur Kennedy, Dean Jagger, John McIntire, and singer Patti Page. -Sean Axmaker.

Review C'est La Vie / A Nous La Liberte (Freedom For Us) [1931]
Actors & Directors
  • Jean Börlin
  • Francis Picabia
  • Man Ray
  • Inge Frïss
  • Marcel Duchamp
Release date: 2003-06-30
Run time: 80 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £5.92

Review A Nous La Liberte (Freedom For Us) [1931] / C'est La Vie:


Review Yume Pictures / Tokyo Drifter [1966]
Actors & Directors
  • Chieko Matsubara
  • Seijun Suzuki
  • Nitani Hideaki
  • Tetsuya Watari
Release date: 2007-01-29
Run time: 84 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £5.97

Review Tokyo Drifter [1966] / Yume Pictures:


Review MGM Entertainment / War Films Triple Pack : Mosquito Squadron / 633 Squadron / A Bridge Too Far (3 Disc Box Set)
Actors & Directors
  • Walter Grauman
  • Anthony Hopkins
  • Richard Attenborough
  • Michael Caine
  • Boris Sagal
  • David Buck
  • Gene Hackman
  • Harry Andrews
Release date: 2007-02-05
Run time: 347 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.10

Review War Films Triple Pack : Mosquito Squadron / 633 Squadron / A Bridge Too Far (3 Disc Box Set) / MGM Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / Gun Crazy [1949] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • John Dall
  • Peggy Cummins
  • Anabel Shaw
  • Joseph H. Lewis
  • Morris Carnovsky
  • Berry Kroeger
Release date: 2004-07-06
Run time: 86 min.
Creator: Maurice King
Price: £9.35

Review Gun Crazy [1949] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Universal Pictures Video / Psycho (1960)
Actors & Directors
  • Anthony Perkins
  • Martin Balsam
  • Janet Leigh
  • John Gavin
  • Alfred Hitchcock
  • Vera Miles
Release date: 2003-04-21
Run time: 109 min.
Creator: Robert Bloch
RRP: £19.99
Price: £4.99

Review Psycho (1960) / Universal Pictures Video:

For all the slasher pictures that have ripped off Psycho (and particularly its classic set piece, the "shower scene"), nothing has ever matched the impact of the real thing. More than just a first-rate shocker full of thrills and suspense, Psycho is also an engrossing character study in which director Alfred Hitchcock skilfully seduces you into identifying with the main characters-then pulls the rug (or the bathmat) out from under you. Anthony Perkins is unforgettable as Norman Bates, the mama's boy proprietor of the Bates Motel; and so is Janet Leigh as Marion Crane, who makes an impulsive decision and becomes a fugitive from the law, hiding out at Norman's roadside inn for one fateful night. -Jim Emerson.

Review Elstree Hill Entertainment / Life With Father [1947]
Actors & Directors
  • Zasu Pitts
  • Irene Dunne
  • Michael Curtiz
  • Elizabeth Taylor
  • Edmund Gwenn
  • William Powell
Release date: 2005-03-07
Run time: 118 min.
RRP: £2.99
Price: £3.90

Review Life With Father [1947] / Elstree Hill Entertainment:


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The Young Lions [1958], Psycho (1960), Call Northside 777 [1948], M*A*S*H (Single Disc Edition) [1969], Tony Palmer - All My Loving [1968], Time Tunnel, Vol. 1 [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Comancheros [1961], It's Always Fair Weather [1955] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Legend Of The Lost [1957], Meet Me In St. Louis [1945], Twilight Zone - Colour Episodes Season 1, Ivanhoe [1952] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Millionairess [1960], Elmer Gantry [1960], A Nous La Liberte (Freedom For Us) [1931], Tokyo Drifter [1966], War Films Triple Pack : Mosquito Squadron / 633 Squadron / A Bridge Too Far (3 Disc Box Set), Gun Crazy [1949] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Psycho (1960), Life With Father [1947]

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