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Review ITV DVD / Carry On - Complete
Actors & Directors
  • Hattie Jacques
  • Kenneth Connor
  • Charles Hawtrey
  • Sid James
  • Kenneth Williams
Release date: 2005-03-14
Run time: 1500 min.
RRP: £99.99
Price: £69.68

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Review Warner Home Video / A Date with Judy [1948] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Wallace Beery
  • Jane Powell
  • Richard Thorpe
  • Carmen Miranda
  • Xavier Cugat
  • William Hanna
  • Joseph Barbera
  • Elizabeth Taylor
Release date: 2008-04-22
Run time: 113 min.
Price: £7.38

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Review Universal Pictures UK / Road To Singapore [1940]
Actors & Directors
  • Dorothy Lamour
  • Judith Barrett
  • Charles Coburn
  • Victor Schertzinger
  • Bob Hope
  • Bing Crosby
Release date: 2000-09-04
Run time: 81 min.
Price: £9.99

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Review Paramount / Barbarella: Queen of the Galaxy [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • John Phillip Law
  • Marcel Marceau
  • Anita Pallenberg
  • Jane Fonda
  • Roger Vadim
  • Milo O'Shea
Release date: 1999-06-22
Run time: 98 min.
Price: £3.05

Review Barbarella: Queen of the Galaxy [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Paramount:


Review Network / Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt [1940]
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Murdoch
  • Arthur Askey
  • J.H. Roberts
  • Moore Marriott
  • Walter Forde
  • Graham Moffatt
Release date: 2007-04-23
Run time: 72 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.22

Review Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt [1940] / Network:


Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (NL) DNS 10393 / The Silencers [1966] (REGION 2) (PAL) [Dutch Import]
Actors & Directors
  • Arthur O'Connell
  • Stella Stevens
  • Phil Karlson
  • Victor Buono
  • Dean Martin
  • Daliah Lavi
Run time: 98 min.
Price: £8.00

Review The Silencers [1966] (REGION 2) (PAL) [Dutch Import] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (NL) DNS 10393:

PLOT SUMMARY: In this, the first of the series of Matt Helm films starring Rat Packer Dean Martin as the eponymous hero, the big cheese of Big O, an organization that wants to sabotage the American atomic missile system. It's up to secret agent Helm to save the day. ABOUT THE DVD: This is a NETHERLANDS release by Sony Pictures (Region 2 PAL format, same as in the UK, so will play on all standard DVD players without problems). There is some Dutch text on the rear of the packaging. Audio is in the original English language (Mono), with a German option available too. Subtitles available on the disc are English, Dutch or German. The picture is widescreen (16:9 ratio).

Review Jef Films / Marriage Italian Style [1964] (REGION 1)
Actors & Directors
  • Vincenza di Capua
  • Generoso Cortini
  • Raffaello Rossi Bussolo
  • Vincenzo Aita
  • Vittorio De Sica
  • Pia Lindström
Release date: 2005-11-08
Run time: 102 min.
Creator: Armando Trovajoli
Price: £9.12

Review Marriage Italian Style [1964] (REGION 1) / Jef Films:


Actors & Directors
  • Dick Foran
  • Harry James
  • Huntz Hall
  • Helen Forrest
  • The Andrews Sisters
  • Edward F. Cline
Release date: 2004-09-28
Run time: 76 min.
Creator: Miton Carruth
Price: £3.45

Review Private Buckaroo [1942] / Vidtape:


Review Diamond Entertainment Corp. / Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes [1938] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Catherine Lacey
  • Margaret Lockwood
  • Mary Clare
  • Emile Boreo
  • Philip Leaver
Release date: 2003-01-01
Run time: 99 min.
Creator: Louis Levy
Price: £1.12

Review Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes [1938] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Diamond Entertainment Corp.:

At first glance The Lady Vanishes appears to be a frothy, lightweight treat, a testament to Alfred Hitchcock's nimble touch. This snappy, sophisticated romantic thriller begins innocently enough, as a contingent of eccentric tourists spend the night in a picture-postcard village inn nestled in the Swiss Alps before setting off on the train the next morning. In a wonderfully Hitchcockian twist on "meeting cute" attractive young Iris (Margaret Lockwood) clashes with brash music student Gilbert (Michael Redgrave) when his nocturnal concerts give her no peace. She gets him kicked out of his room, so he barges in on hers: true love is inevitable, but not before they are both plunged into an international conspiracy. The next day on the train, kindly old Mrs Froy (Dame May Whitty) vanishes from her train car without a trace and the once quarrelsome couple unite to search the train and uncover a dastardly plot. No one is as he or she seems, but sorting out the villains from the merely mysterious is a challenge in itself, as our innocents abroad face resistance from the entire passenger list. Hitchcock effortlessly navigates this vivid thriller from light comedy to high tension and back again, creating one of his most enchanting and entertaining mysteries. Though this wasn't his final British film before departing for Hollywood (that honour goes to Jamaica Inn), many critics prefer to think of this as his fond farewell to the British Film Industry. -Sean Axmaker.

Review Whe Europe Limited / Pot O' Gold [1941]
Actors & Directors
  • Charles Winninger
  • Paulette Goddard
  • James Stewart
  • Mary Gordon
  • Horace Heidt
  • George Marshall
Release date: 2003-08-25
Run time: 94 min.
RRP: £4.99
Price: £0.48

Review Pot O' Gold [1941] / Whe Europe Limited:


Actors & Directors
  • Robert Cummings
  • Deanna Durbin
  • Nan Grey
  • Henry Koster
  • Helen Parrish
  • Charles Winninger
Release date: 2004-03-29
Run time: 83 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £10.99

Review Three Smart Girls Grow Up / Dd Home Entertainment:


Review Walt Disney Video / Charlie, the Lonesome Cougar [1967] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Lewis Sample
  • Jim Wilson (III)
  • Ron Brown
  • Brian Russell
  • Linda Wallace
  • Winston Hibler
Release date: 2004-07-06
Run time: 75 min.
Price: £7.61

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Review Universal Pictures UK / She Done Him Wrong [1933]
Actors & Directors
  • Lowell Sherman
  • Mae West
  • Cary Grant
Release date: 2008-05-05
Run time: 62 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.75

Review She Done Him Wrong [1933] / Universal Pictures UK:

In her first starring film vehicle, She Done Him Wrong, Mae West is Lady Lou, a saloon singer and "slick article" who drives every man who sees her mad with desire. She positively oozes sex, but always with sly, self-mocking humor. Lady Lou remarking on the nude painting of her hanging over the bar: "I gotta admit that is a flash, but I do wish Gus hadn't hung it over the free lunch. " West warbles several numbers in her Brooklyn-accented, sweetly nasal voice, accompanied by her famous suggestive roll of the eye and flip of the hip: "Frankie and Johnny," "Easy Rider," and "A Guy What Takes His Time. " Based on West's Broadway play Diamond Lil, the film is set in the Gay '90s, "a lusty, brawling, florid decade, when there were handlebars on lip and wheel and legs were confidential. " The corny plot involves the eternal male rivalry for Mae's favors, as well as a white slavery ring that is shipping unsuspecting girls to the Barbary Coast. But the movie's real treat is the cat-and-mouse game between West's Lady Lou and the Hawk, a detective disguised as a missionary, played by a devastatingly handsome young Cary Grant. West: "Why don't you come up some time, see me? I'm here every night. " Grant: "Yeah, but I'm busy every night. " West: "What're you tryin' to do, insult me?. [+]
You can be had. " In She Done Him Wrong, Mae West is absolutely in her prime. Her one-of-a-kind intermarriage of eroticism and humor, worldly wisdom and scalding wit are presented with perfect panache. -Laura Mirsky.

Review Twentieth Century Fox (NL) DY 01301.1 / Five Weeks In A Balloon [1962] [Dutch Import]
Actors & Directors
  • Fabian
  • Red Buttons
  • Barbara Eden
  • Irwin Allen
  • Cedric Hardwicke
  • Peter Lorre
Run time: 97 min.
Price: £10.47

Review Five Weeks In A Balloon [1962] [Dutch Import] / Twentieth Century Fox (NL) DY 01301.1:

PLOT SUMMARY: Let your spirits soar with this lighter-than-air adaptation of Jules Verne's classic tale. A ragtag crew of such unlikely associates as Fabian and Sir Cedric Hardwicke races across uncharted African territory in a unicorn-shaped balloon. Accompanied by Red Buttons as a playboy American reporter the explorers are sidetracked snared and drawn into battle with slaves sneezing sultans and sandstorms. Along the way they meet up with a beautiful missionary (Barbara Eden). And an equally lovely slave girl (Barbara Luna) whom Fabian takes under his wing. With its excellent cast and breathtaking backdrops Five Weeks In A Balloon is a buoyant blend of romance adventure and laughter that adds up to grand family entertainment. ABOUT THE DVD: This is a TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX release for the NETHERLANDS market (Region 2 PAL format, which is the same as in the UK, so it will play without problem on all standard DVD players in the UK and the rest of Europe). The text on the rear of the packaging is in Dutch. The AUDIO is the original ENGLISH (with French, Italian, German, Spanish or German options available too). There are optional SUBTITLES on the DVD in English, Dutch, Italian, German, French or Spanish language. [+]
The film is presented in COLOUR and in WIDESCREEN format (2. 35:1) and runs for a total of 97 minutes. The disc also has the film's original theatrical trailer.

Review Shout Factory/Vivendi Visual Entertainment / The Film Crew: The Giant of Marathon (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Sergio Fantoni
  • Mario Bava
  • Mylène Demongeot
  • Daniela Rocca
  • Jacques Tourneur
  • Philippe Hersent
  • Steve Reeves
Release date: 2007-10-09
Run time: 95 min.
Price: £7.48

Review The Film Crew: The Giant of Marathon (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Shout Factory/Vivendi Visual Entertainment:


Review Stonevision Entertainment / W.C. Fields - Six Classic Shorts [1915]
Actors & Directors
  • W.C. Fields
Release date: 2003-03-10
Run time: 120 min.
RRP: £23.99
Price: £4.49

Review W.C. Fields - Six Classic Shorts [1915] / Stonevision Entertainment:


Review Buster Keaton / Buster Keaton Collection (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Release date: 2004-12-07
Run time: 245 min.
Price: £16.89

Review Buster Keaton Collection (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Buster Keaton:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Breakfast At Tiffany's [1961]
Actors & Directors
  • Martin Balsam
  • Blake Edwards
  • Audrey Hepburn
  • Buddy Ebsen
  • Mickey Rooney
  • George Peppard
Release date: 2006-06-05
Run time: 109 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £9.94

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Review Gainsborough VC3532 / The Huggetts Abroad
Actors & Directors
  • Ken Annakin
  • Petula Clark
  • Susan Shaw
  • Jack Warner
  • Dinah Sheridan
  • Kathleen Harrison
Run time: 83 min.
Price: £9.99

Review The Huggetts Abroad / Gainsborough VC3532:

Things are gloomy for the Huggetts in the rainy suburbs of Strutham. Mother is queue weary, father is jobless and their eldest daughter and son-in-law are unable to get to South Africa where Jimmy has a job waiting. The Huggetts have had enough and decide to go to South Africa by car. A mechanical breakdown is not enough to put them off, neither are diamond smugglers, a broken compass in the Sahara or a spell in prison. Will they ever reach their destination?.

Review MGM / The Apartment [1960] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jack Lemmon
  • Jack Kruschen
  • Fred MacMurray
  • Shirley MacLaine
  • Billy Wilder
  • Ray Walston
Release date: 2008-02-05
Run time: 125 min.
Price: £7.15

Review The Apartment [1960] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:

Romance at its most anti-romantic-that is the Billy Wilder stamp of genius, and this Best Picture Academy Award winner from 1960 is no exception. Set in a decidedly unsavoury world of corporate climbing and philandering, the great filmmaker's trenchant, witty satire-melodrama takes the office politics of a corporation and plays them out in the apartment of lonely clerk CC Baxter (Jack Lemmon). By lending out his digs to the higher-ups for nightly extramarital flings with their secretaries, Baxter has managed to ascend the business ladder faster than even he imagined. The story turns even uglier, though, when Baxter's crush on the building's melancholy elevator operator (Shirley MacLaine) runs up against her long-standing affair with the big boss (a superbly smarmy Fred MacMurray). The situation comes to a head when she tries to commit suicide in Baxter's apartment. Not the happiest or cleanest of scenarios, and one that earned the famously caustic and cynically humoured Wilder his share of outraged responses, but looking at it now, it is a funny, startlingly clear-eyed vision of urban emptiness and is unfailingly understanding of the crazy decisions our hearts sometimes make. Lemmon and MacLaine are ideally matched and while everyone cites Wilder's Some Like It Hot closing line "Nobody's perfect" as his best, MacLaine's no-nonsense final words-"Shut up and deal"-are every bit as memorable. Wilder won three Oscars for The Apartment, for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay (cowritten with long-time collaborator I A L Diamond). -Robert Abele.

Models & Brands:
Carry On - Complete, A Date with Judy [1948] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Road To Singapore [1940], Barbarella: Queen of the Galaxy [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt [1940], The Silencers [1966] (REGION 2) (PAL) [Dutch Import], Marriage Italian Style [1964] (REGION 1), Private Buckaroo [1942], Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes [1938] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Pot O' Gold [1941], Three Smart Girls Grow Up, Charlie, the Lonesome Cougar [1967] (REGION 1) (NTSC), She Done Him Wrong [1933], Five Weeks In A Balloon [1962] [Dutch Import], The Film Crew: The Giant of Marathon (REGION 1) (NTSC), W.C. Fields - Six Classic Shorts [1915], Buster Keaton Collection (REGION 1) (NTSC), Breakfast At Tiffany's [1961], The Huggetts Abroad, The Apartment [1960] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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