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Review 2 Entertain Video / Steptoe And Son - Series 5 [1962]
Actors & Directors
  • Harry H. Corbett
  • Wilfrid Brambell
Release date: 2006-07-24
Run time: 210 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £4.00

Review Steptoe And Son - Series 5 [1962] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review 20th Century Fox / The Ultimate Flint Collection [1966] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jean Hale
  • Lee J. Cobb
  • Anna Lee
  • Gordon Douglas
  • James Coburn
  • Daniel Mann
  • Andrew Duggan
Release date: 2006-11-07
Run time: 222 min.
Price: £7.73

Review The Ultimate Flint Collection [1966] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Living It Up [1954]
Actors & Directors
  • Janet Leigh
  • Dean Martin
  • Jerry Lewis
  • Norman Taurog
Release date: 2007-06-04
Run time: 94 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.96

Review Living It Up [1954] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / Carry On Cruising [1962]
Actors & Directors
  • Liz Fraser
  • Kenneth Williams
  • Sid James
  • Kenneth Connor
  • Gerald Thomas
  • Ralph Thomas
  • Dilys Laye
Release date: 2001-08-27
Run time: 86 min.
RRP: £13.99
Price: £4.98

Review Carry On Cruising [1962] / Warner Home Video:

Well, the gang's all here, but Carry On Cruising isn't one of the classics of the series. This may be partly due to the film's well-intentioned stab at some sort of authenticity, being set as it is on a genuine cruise liner rather than in a studio full of cheap sets. It swiftly becomes apparent that the cramped environment isn't well suited to the kind of slapstick which is usually a key ingredient in any Carry On film. Veteran couch spuds will recall that the TV series Triangle was similarly disadvantaged, except that it wasn't supposed to be funny. As ever, though, the brilliant cast-in-residence manage to make the most of the situation. The plot, such as it is, deals with the tribulations which beset a world-weary captain (James) when he realises he's been saddled with a crew of misfits and incompetents (practically everybody else) on a cruise which is of course supposed to offer its passengers every comfort and convenience. If there's a single outstanding performance it has to be that of Lance Percival's chef, whose cheeriness as he presides over his various culinary experiments is extremely funny in a menacing sort of way. On the DVD: The DVD issue has no additional features. -Roger Thomas.

Review Universal Pictures UK / Laurel & Hardy Volume 10 - Snow!/Classic Shorts [1931]
Actors & Directors
  • Stan Laurel
  • Charles Hall
  • Baldwin Cooke
  • Isabelle Keith
  • Oliver Hardy
  • James Horne
  • James Parrott
Release date: 2004-05-03
Run time: 58 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £4.73

Review Laurel & Hardy Volume 10 - Snow!/Classic Shorts [1931] / Universal Pictures UK:


Review Elstree Hill Entertainment / His Girl Friday [1940]
Actors & Directors
  • Gene Lockhart
  • Rosalind Russell
  • Howard Hawks
  • Ralph Bellamy
  • Cary Grant
  • Porter Hall
Release date: 2004-03-15
Run time: 92 min.
RRP: £2.99
Price: £1.91

Review His Girl Friday [1940] / Elstree Hill Entertainment:

His Girl Friday is one of the five greatest dialogue comedies ever made. Howard Hawks had his cast play it at breakneck speed, and audiences hyperventilate trying to finish with one laugh so they can do justice to the four that have accumulated in the meantime. Rosalind Russell, not Hawks' first choice to play Hildy Johnson-the ace newsperson whom demonic editor Walter Burns is trying to keep from quitting and getting married-is triumphant in the part, holding her own as "one of the guys" and creating an enduring feminist icon. Cary Grant's Walter Burns is a force of nature, giving a performance of such concentrated frenzy and diamond brilliance that you owe it to yourself to devote at least one viewing of the movie to watching him alone. But then you have to go back (lucky you) and watch it again for the sake of the press-room gang-Roscoe Karns, Porter Hall, Cliff Edwards, Regis Toomey, Frank Jenks, and others-the kind of ensemble work that gets character actors onto Parnassus. -Richard T Jameson, Amazon. com.

Review MGM Entertainment / Kiss Me, Stupid [1964]
Actors & Directors
  • Dean Martin
  • Cliff Osmond
  • Kim Novak
  • Billy Wilder
  • Ray Walston
  • Felicia Farr
Release date: 2004-06-07
Run time: 121 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.25

Review Kiss Me, Stupid [1964] / MGM Entertainment:


Review Starz Home Entertainment / Hatchet For A Honeymoon [1969]
Actors & Directors
  • Mario Bava
  • Laura Betti
  • Stephen Forsyth
  • Dagmar Lassando
  • Jesus Puente
Release date: 2004-07-26
RRP: £14.99
Price: £1.98

Review Hatchet For A Honeymoon [1969] / Starz Home Entertainment:


Review MGM / The Mouse on the Moon [1963] (REGION 1)
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Lester
  • Bernard Cribbins
  • Ron Moody
  • David Kossoff
  • Terry-Thomas
  • Margaret Rutherford
Release date: 2000-12-19
Run time: 85 min.
Price: £5.02

Review The Mouse on the Moon [1963] (REGION 1) / MGM:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Desk Set [1957]
Actors & Directors
  • Gig Young
  • Dina Merrill
  • Katharine Hepburn
  • Walter Lang
  • Joan Blondell
  • Spencer Tracy
Release date: 2005-08-01
Run time: 99 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.77

Review Desk Set [1957] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / Les Girls [1957] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Tex Avery
  • Jacques Bergerac
  • Kay Kendall
  • Taina Elg
  • George Cukor
  • Gene Kelly
  • Mitzi Gaynor
Release date: 2003-04-22
Run time: 114 min.
Price: £7.89

Review Les Girls [1957] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Columbia TriStar / Bye Bye Birdie [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Ann-Margret
  • Maureen Stapleton
  • George Sidney (II)
  • Janet Leigh
  • Bobby Rydell
  • Dick Van Dyke
Release date: 1999-07-27
Run time: 112 min.
Price: £5.24

Review Bye Bye Birdie [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:


Review Odeon Entertainment / Over The Garden Wall [1950]
Actors & Directors
  • John E. Blakeley
  • Jimmy James; Norman Evans
Release date: 2007-03-26
Run time: 94 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £6.48

Review Over The Garden Wall [1950] / Odeon Entertainment:


Review Odeon Entertainment / Holidays With Pay [1948]
Actors & Directors
  • John E. Blakley
  • Frank Randle; Tessie O'Shea
Release date: 2007-03-26
Run time: 95 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £6.59

Review Holidays With Pay [1948] / Odeon Entertainment:


Review ITV DVD / Doctor In Distress [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Dirk Bogarde
  • Samantha Eggar
  • James Robertson Justice
  • Ralph Thomas
  • Donald Houston
  • Mylène Demongeot
Release date: 2003-04-14
Run time: 98 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.98

Review Doctor In Distress [1963] / ITV DVD:


Review Whe Europe Limited / The Pajama Game [1957]
Actors & Directors
  • John Raitt
  • Doris Day
  • Carol Haney
  • Eddie Foy Jr.
  • Stanley Donen
  • George Abbott
  • Reta Shaw
Release date: 2004-07-12
Run time: 101 min.
RRP: £4.99
Price: £1.21

Review The Pajama Game [1957] / Whe Europe Limited:


Review Network / Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) [1969]
Actors & Directors
  • Mike Pratt; Kenneth Cope
Release date: 2007-06-25
Run time: 1300 min.
RRP: £59.99
Price: £43.93

Review Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) [1969] / Network:


Review Elstree Hill Entertainment / My Man Godfrey [1936]
Actors & Directors
  • Gregory La Cava
  • Carole Lombard
  • William Powell
Release date: 2004-03-15
Run time: 89 min.
RRP: £2.99
Price: £2.87

Review My Man Godfrey [1936] / Elstree Hill Entertainment:


Review Universal Pictures UK / Laurel And Hardy - No. 19 - Pardon Us And Related Shorts [1931]
Actors & Directors
  • Stan Laurel
  • James Parrott
  • Walter Long
  • Oliver Hardy
  • Wilfred Lucas
  • June Marlow
Release date: 2004-05-03
Run time: 183 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £1.50

Review Laurel And Hardy - No. 19 - Pardon Us And Related Shorts [1931] / Universal Pictures UK:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment (UK) / The Brady Bunch - Season 1 [1969]
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Lookinland
  • Barry Williams
  • Robert Reed
  • Eve Plumb
  • Susan Olsen
Release date: 2007-08-27
Run time: 610 min.
RRP: £29.99
Price: £11.06

Review The Brady Bunch - Season 1 [1969] / Paramount Home Entertainment (UK):

Because of Gilligan's Island and The Brady Bunch, writer-producer Sherwood Schwartz will forever be a TV hall-of-famer. They were his only real hits, but they were both grand slams in their prime times and have remained syndicated favourites ever since. Following closely on the Gilligan's Island season 2 release, The Brady Bunch is ready for home theaters with a nicely designed, 4-disc set of 25 first-season episodes. The pilot episode, "The Honeymoon" sets up the story we all know from the theme song (lyrics by Schwartz) by giving us the marriage of Mike and Carol and the coming together of the six kids. Schwartz provides commentary for just this first show, but he fondly recalls his intention of sweet, subdued, and often corny gags the pre-fab family encountered as a precise format each week. Two other episodes include commentary by Barry Williams (Greg), Christopher Knight (Peter), and Susan Olson (Cindy), and their reminiscences are equally affectionate about time on the show and everyone's surprise at its enormous success. Every Brady episode is a classic in some sense, and this first of five seasons (those kids did grow up fast) includes some real charmers when the six Brady kids still seemed impossibly young. It's hard to say the show was ever hip, even though it became slightly more attuned to a pop sensibility as the Bradys moved into the '70s. But man, is this 1969 everyfamily ever square. Even so, it's hard to resist the way each one gets their own screen time with shows devoted to simple childhood joys and traumas-Jan's missing locket, Cindy's missing baby doll, Greg's crush on his math teacher, Peter's swelled head when he gets his picture in the paper, etc. [+]
As it was during its TV run, The Brady Bunch on DVD is clearly meant for a specific generation-yours. -Ted Fry.

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Steptoe And Son - Series 5 [1962], The Ultimate Flint Collection [1966] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Living It Up [1954], Carry On Cruising [1962], Laurel & Hardy Volume 10 - Snow!/Classic Shorts [1931], His Girl Friday [1940], Kiss Me, Stupid [1964], Hatchet For A Honeymoon [1969], The Mouse on the Moon [1963] (REGION 1), Desk Set [1957], Les Girls [1957] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Bye Bye Birdie [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Over The Garden Wall [1950], Holidays With Pay [1948], Doctor In Distress [1963], The Pajama Game [1957], Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) [1969], My Man Godfrey [1936], Laurel And Hardy - No. 19 - Pardon Us And Related Shorts [1931], The Brady Bunch - Season 1 [1969]

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