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Review Paramount / Hogan's Heroes: The Complete Fifth Season [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Bob Sweeney
  • Edward H. Feldman
  • Richard Kinon
  • Jerry London
  • Marc Daniels
Release date: 2006-12-19
Run time: 661 min.
Price: £11.54

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Review Dynamic Entertainment Ltd / The Lady Says No
Actors & Directors
  • Frank Ross
  • Joan Caulfield
  • James Robertson Justice
  • Frances Bavier
  • Lenore Lonergan
  • David Niven
Release date: 2003-10-06
Run time: 83 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.16

Review The Lady Says No / Dynamic Entertainment Ltd:


Review Koch Lorber Films / Don Camillo and the Return of Don Camillo [1952] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Release date: 2008-07-22
Run time: 217 min.
Creator: Gino Cervi
Price: £11.35

Review Don Camillo and the Return of Don Camillo [1952] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Koch Lorber Films:


Review Elstree Hill Entertainment / At War With The Army [1951]
Actors & Directors
  • Dean Martin
  • Jimmie Dundee
  • Mike Kellin
  • Dick Stabile
  • Hal Walker
  • Jerry Lewis
Release date: 2003-08-11
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £2.99
Price: £2.44

Review At War With The Army [1951] / Elstree Hill Entertainment:


Review Optimum Home Entertainment / Pure Hell Of St Trinians [1960]
Actors & Directors
  • Cecil Parker
  • George Cole
  • Joyce Grenfell
  • Eric Barker
  • Thorley Walters
  • Frank Launder
Release date: 2007-01-01
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.26

Review Pure Hell Of St Trinians [1960] / Optimum Home Entertainment:


Review Video International / The World Of Henry Orient [1964]
Actors & Directors
  • Paula Prentiss
  • Peter Sellers
  • Phyllis Thaxter
  • Angela Lansbury
  • George Roy Hill
  • Tom Bosley
Release date: 2008-07-28
Run time: 106 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.98

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Review Walt Disney Video / The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Buddy Ebsen
  • Lesley Ann Warren
  • John Davidson (II)
  • Walter Brennan
  • Michael O'Herlihy
  • Janet Blair
Release date: 2004-07-06
Run time: 110 min.
Price: £6.39

Review The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:


Review Wienerworld Ltd / Bob Hope - Road To Bali/My Favourite Brunette [1952]
Actors & Directors
  • Bob Hope
Release date: 2008-03-31
Run time: 178 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.73

Review Bob Hope - Road To Bali/My Favourite Brunette [1952] / Wienerworld Ltd:


Review Universal Studios / Shirley Temple: Little Darling Pack (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Adolphe Menjou
  • Henry Hathaway
  • Shirley Temple
  • Dorothy Dell
  • Ray Nazarro
  • Alexander Hall
  • Charles Bickford
  • Lynne Overman
Release date: 2005-04-19
Run time: 143 min.
Price: £4.09

Review Shirley Temple: Little Darling Pack (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:


Review Dreamworks Video / Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Alan Rickman
  • Helena Bonham Carter
  • Tim Burton
  • Johnny Depp
  • Edward Sanders
  • Timothy Spall
Release date: 2008-04-01
Run time: 116 min.
Creator: Stephen Sondheim
Price: £13.20

Review Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Dreamworks Video:


Review Paramount / Hogan's Heroes: The Complete Fourth Season [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Kinon
  • Marc Daniels
  • Bob Sweeney
  • Jerry London
  • Edward H. Feldman
Release date: 2006-08-15
Run time: 672 min.
Price: £11.54

Review Hogan's Heroes: The Complete Fourth Season [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Paramount:


Review Paramount / Oh! What a Lovely War [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Colin Farrell (II)
  • Richard Attenborough
  • Malcolm McFee
  • Wendy Alnutt
  • John Rae (II)
  • Corin Redgrave
Release date: 2006-11-07
Run time: 144 min.
Price: £4.94

Review Oh! What a Lovely War [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Paramount:


Review Cinema Club / Carry On Loving [1970]
Actors & Directors
  • Kenneth Williams
  • Charles Hawtrey
  • Gerald Thomas
  • Sid James
  • Hattie Jacques
  • Joan Sims
Release date: 2001-08-27
Run time: 86 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £14.45

Review Carry On Loving [1970] / Cinema Club:

Setting a Carry On film in a marriage bureau has a certain self-serving obviousness, so it's hardly surprising that Carry On Loving milks the idea for all it's worth. The Wedded Bliss Agency is of course a pretty dubious outfit, being run by Sid (James) and Sophie Bliss (Hattie Jacques), who together are the worst possible argument both for marriage and for their own profession: they constantly snipe at each other, they aren't actually married and their sophisticated computer matching system is in fact a complete fake. The remainder of the team are mostly cast as hapless clients, with predictable but often very funny situations arising from the various mismatches engineered by the agency, such as the inevitable misunderstanding over one client's interest in modelling. Yes, the humour is about as subtle as a flatulent elephant, but you can't help entering into the spirit of the thing. If there's an outstanding performance it has to be that of Imogen Hassall, who handles her transformation from round-shouldered frump to well-bred love goddess with considerable expertise and a genuine sense of fun. On the DVD: The picture ratio is 4:3, and as is usual for this series the disc has no added features, which always seems like a terribly missed opportunity. -Roger Thomas.

Review Fabulous Films Ltd. / The Girl On The Boat [1962] [1961]
Actors & Directors
  • Norman Wisdom
  • Richard Briers
  • Philip Locke
  • Henry Kaplan
  • Sheila Hancock
  • Millicent Martin
Release date: 2004-01-26
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.00

Review The Girl On The Boat [1962] [1961] / Fabulous Films Ltd.:


Review MPI Home Video / The Beverly Hillbillies, Vol. 1: Ultimate Collection [1963] (Region 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Guy Scarpitta
  • Robert M. Leeds
  • Ralph Levy
Release date: 2005-09-27
Run time: 765 min.
Price: £9.94

Review The Beverly Hillbillies, Vol. 1: Ultimate Collection [1963] (Region 1) (NTSC) / MPI Home Video:


Review Warner Home Video / Carry On Sergeant [1958]
Actors & Directors
  • Dora Bryan
  • William Hartnell
  • Gerald Thomas
  • Shirley Eaton
  • Eric Barker
  • Bill Owen
Release date: 1997-08-18
Run time: 81 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.99

Review Carry On Sergeant [1958] / Warner Home Video:

The first of the Carry On movies, 1958's Sergeant is rather different from its successors, much more a film of its time (the latter days of National Service) and rather less a bawdy picture postcard. Sergeant Grimshaw (William Hartnell long before Doctor Who) is about to retire and hopes that he can get his last platoon into shape as Champion Platoon of its intake. Unfortunately, the new recruits include the clumsy Golightly (Charles Hawtrey), the barrack-room lawyer Bailey (Kenneth Williams) and the hypochondriac Horace Strong (Kenneth Connor). Love interest is provided by Bob Monkhouse and Shirley Eaton-newlyweds separated by the call-up and reunited by her taking a job in the canteen-and by the pursuit of Horace by Dora Bryan's Nora. The film relies heavily on a mixture of slapstick and paradoxical revelations of character complexity-the obnoxious Bailey nonetheless takes the trouble to coach the incorrigibly dense Herbert (Norman Rossington); the series' later obsession with low comedy only really emerges in the scenes between Horace and the medic Captain Clark (Hattie Jacques). The platoon's eventual coming together as other than total incompetents is predictable, but likable. On the DVD: The DVD has no frills whatever except for a widescreen picture and chapter selections; it has been cleaned up however so that we get a remarkably crisp mono picture and mono sound, which brings out the quality of the military-band score by Bruce Montgomery, who was also the writer Edmund Crispin. -Roz Kaveney.

Review Warner Home Video / Mr. & Mrs. Smith [1941] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Georgia Carroll
  • Ernie Alexander
  • Pamela Blake
  • Murray Alper
  • Ralph Brooks
Release date: 2004-09-07
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: Roy Webb
Price: £7.05

Review Mr. & Mrs. Smith [1941] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:

Before Hollywood had entirely typecast Alfred Hitchcock as the master of suspense, with Mr & Mrs Smith he was allowed to fashion an elegant romantic trifle starring Robert Montgomery and Carole Lombard. It probably won't replace Rear Window or Psycho in your affections, but the film is more than a curious footnote to the director's career. The two leads play David and Ann Smith, a devoted but endlessly squabbling couple who discover their three-year marriage isn't legal. When he unexpectedly hesitates to arrange a second wedding, she storms out in a huff and soon begins dating his solid, dependable business partner Jeff (Gene Raymond). The rest follows the formula laid down by such previous screwball comedies as The Awful Truth (1937) and Bringing Up Baby (1938): David employs fair means or foul to win back Ann's heart, causes all sorts of complicated mischief, then. well, three guesses what happens in the end. The intriguing thing about the movie is how Hitchcock takes Norman Krasna's paper-thin script and adds sly undercurrents of menace. You may note, for instance, that the ostensibly happy Smiths treat each other with subtle sadism right from the start, and that David's tactical pursuit of his ex-wife (spying on her and deliberately offending Jeff's parents) involves them both in humiliations that are really quite sinister and ugly. [+]
Violence seems about to erupt in the recurring scenes where Ann shaves her husband (suggestively holding a razor up to his throat)-and make what you will of our hero's symbolic nosebleeds. There's a touch of Vertigo in one scary moment when a jammed amusement park ride leaves two characters dangling helplessly high above the ground-and a touch of shall we say relief for Hitchcock's well-known love of toilet humour in another oddball sequence. Montgomery and Lombard keep the mood acceptably frivolous, while indicating the flawed nature of the marital relationship. From the evidence of this one-off, Hitchcock might have been among the best comedy directors in the business, had he so wished. -Peter Matthews.

Review Universal Studios / Man's Favorite Sport [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Howard Hawks
  • John McGiver
  • Rock Hudson
  • Maria Perschy
  • Charlene Holt
  • Paula Prentiss
Release date: 2003-07-01
Run time: 121 min.
Price: £4.26

Review Man's Favorite Sport [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:


Review Vision Video Ltd. / Laurel And Hardy - Be Big / Laughing Gravy [1931]
Actors & Directors
  • Harry Bernard
  • James W. Horne
  • Charlie Hall
  • Oliver Hardy
  • Stan Laurel
  • Laughing Gravy
Release date: 2000-04-17
Run time: 250 min.
RRP: £17.99
Price: £18.49

Review Laurel And Hardy - Be Big / Laughing Gravy [1931] / Vision Video Ltd.:


Review Image Entertainment / The Mikado [1939] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Sydney Granville
  • Jean Colin
  • Gregory Stroud
  • Martyn Green
  • Kenny Baker (II)
  • Victor Schertzinger
Release date: 1998-12-22
Run time: 87 min.
Price: £8.11

Review The Mikado [1939] (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:


Models & Brands:
Hogan's Heroes: The Complete Fifth Season [2006], The Lady Says No, Don Camillo and the Return of Don Camillo [1952] (REGION 1) (NTSC), At War With The Army [1951], Pure Hell Of St Trinians [1960], The World Of Henry Orient [1964], The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Bob Hope - Road To Bali/My Favourite Brunette [1952], Shirley Temple: Little Darling Pack (REGION 1) (NTSC), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Hogan's Heroes: The Complete Fourth Season [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Oh! What a Lovely War [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Carry On Loving [1970], The Girl On The Boat [1962] [1961], The Beverly Hillbillies, Vol. 1: Ultimate Collection [1963] (Region 1) (NTSC), Carry On Sergeant [1958], Mr. & Mrs. Smith [1941] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Man's Favorite Sport [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Laurel And Hardy - Be Big / Laughing Gravy [1931], The Mikado [1939] (NTSC)

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