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Review Universal Studios / Flower Drum Song [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Benson Fong
  • Jack Soo
  • Juanita Hall
  • James Shigeta
  • Nancy Kwan
  • Henry Koster
Release date: 2006-11-07
Run time: 133 min.
Creator: Oscar Hammerstein II
Price: £5.37

Review Flower Drum Song [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:


Review Warner Home Video / Harum Scarum [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Ansara
  • Elvis Presley
  • Gene Nelson
  • Fran Jeffries
  • Mary Ann Mobley
  • Jay Novello
Release date: 2007-08-07
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: Gerald Drayson Adams
Price: £4.54

Review Harum Scarum [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Elstree Hill Entertainment / Pot O' Gold [1941]
Actors & Directors
  • James Stewart
  • Mary Gordon
  • George Marshall
  • Horace Heidt
  • Charles Winninger
  • Paulette Goddard
Release date: 2003-11-10
Run time: 85 min.
RRP: £2.99
Price: £2.28

Review Pot O' Gold [1941] / Elstree Hill Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / Charlie Chaplin - The Kid [1921]
Actors & Directors
  • Charlie Chaplin
  • Edna Purviance
  • Charlie Chaplin
  • Jackie Coogan
Release date: 2003-09-22
Run time: 82 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.50

Review Charlie Chaplin - The Kid [1921] / Warner Home Video:


Review ITV DVD / Carry On Collection [1966]
Actors & Directors
  • Cardew Robinson
  • Patsy Rowlands
  • Anita Harris
  • Pat Coombs
  • Jack Douglas
Release date: 2003-09-01
Run time: 999 min.
RRP: £179.99
Price: £39.94

Review Carry On Collection [1966] / ITV DVD:

The Carry On Collection DVD box set contains the following 17 films in Special Edition versions, complete with a selection of commentaries, documentaries or other features on each disc, plus That's Carry On, a celebration of 20 years of the series hosted by Kenneth Williams and Barbara Windsor. The individual films are: Don't Lose Your Head; Follow That Camel; Doctor; Up the Khyber; Camping; Again Doctor; Up the Jungle; Loving; Henry; At Your Convenience; Matron; Abroad; Girls; Dick; Behind; England; Emmanuelle and That's Carry On.

Review 4 Front Video / Swing Time [1936]
Actors & Directors
  • Fred Astaire
  • Ginger Rogers
  • Eric Blore
  • Helen Broderick
  • George Stevens
  • Victor Moore
Release date: 1998-02-09
Run time: 103 min.
Creator: Rian James
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.98

Review Swing Time [1936] / 4 Front Video:


Review Universal Studios / Flower Drum Song [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • James Shigeta
  • Juanita Hall
  • Henry Koster
  • Nancy Kwan
  • Jack Soo
  • Benson Fong
Release date: 2006-11-07
Run time: 133 min.
Creator: Oscar Hammerstein II
Price: £5.37

Review Flower Drum Song [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:


Actors & Directors
  • Stanley Donen
  • Gwen Verdon
  • George Abbott
  • Russ Brown
  • Shannon Bolin
  • Ray Walston
  • Tab Hunter
Run time: 106 min.
Creator: Douglass Wallop
Price: £10.99

Review Damn Yankees [1958] / Warner Home Video:


Review St. Clair Entertainment / The Over-the-Hill Gang [1969]
Actors & Directors
  • Walter Brennan
  • Jack Elam
  • Andy Devine
  • Jean Yarbrough
  • Gypsy Rose Lee
  • Edgar Buchanan
Release date: 2004-02-10
Run time: 75 min.
Creator: Leonard Goldberg
Price: £3.99

Review The Over-the-Hill Gang [1969] / St. Clair Entertainment:


Review Republic Pictures / The Grass Is Greener [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Stanley Donen
  • Robert Mitchum
  • Moray Watson
  • Deborah Kerr
  • Jean Simmons
  • Cary Grant
Release date: 2001-09-18
Run time: 104 min.
Creator: Margaret Vyner
Price: £5.89

Review The Grass Is Greener [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Republic Pictures:

Cary Grant is the befuddled English Earl in The Grass is Greener, casually puttering around his tourist attraction of a grand old English estate in casual dress while a bull of an American millionaire (Robert Mitchum) crashes into his life and seduces Grant's sophisticated lady (Deborah Kerr). It's pure fantasy, of course, with its cool, cultured lovers swapping witty banter with the same calm they swap gunshots in an old-fashioned duel. Has adultery and jealousy ever been so civilised? Stanley Donen never shakes this very British drawing room comedy of manners free of its talky, stage-bound source or its deliberate snail's pace, but he does manages to bring a lightness that softens the wit with an American lilt. Ultimately, though, it's all about a crack cast in fine form: Mitchum's sleepy-eyed insolence, Kerr's easy elegance, Jean Simmons' flighty outrageousness, and especially the charm and measured grace that is Cary Grant. -Sean Axmaker, Amazon. com.

Review Kino / Waxworks [1924] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Werner Krauss
  • Paul Leni
  • Leo Birinsky
  • Olga Belajeff
  • Conrad Veidt
  • William Dieterle
  • Emil Jannings
Release date: 2002-09-24
Run time: 83 min.
Creator: Henrik Galeen
Price: £7.65

Review Waxworks [1924] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Kino:


Review 4 Front Video / Carefree [1938]
Actors & Directors
  • Mark Sandrich
  • Ralph Bellamy
  • Luella Gear
  • Fred Astaire
  • Ginger Rogers
  • Jack Carson
Release date: 1998-02-09
Run time: 79 min.
Creator: Marian Ainslee
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.50

Review Carefree [1938] / 4 Front Video:

Perhaps because it was Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers's penultimate picture together for RKO, or perhaps because it is more romantic comedy than musical, Carefree tends to be a neglected entry in the series. This is unfortunate, because it retains many of the elements that made the duo so popular while also breaking new ground. Fred plays Tony Flagg, a psychoanalyst who is asked by his friend Steve (Ralph Bellamy) to try to figure out why his fiancée, Amanda Cooper (Ginger), keeps breaking off their engagement. During the course of treatment, and in a reversal of the usual pattern, Ginger falls for Fred and begins to pursue him. The emotionally repressed doctor resists, leading to a number of comic encounters, as well as a moment of genuine heartbreak. Other innovations include Fred's dance on a driving range, a slow-motion dream sequence (which was going to be shot in color until budget concerns won out), Fred and Ginger's first screen kiss, and some of Ginger's best turns as a comic actress. More familiar elements include Ginger fronting the band at the start of a large company dance number ("The Yam," which failed to catch on as a dance craze), an expert if skimpy Irving Berlin score including the lovely ballad "Change Partners," and of course fabulous, high-flying dancing. Fred and Ginger fans can't afford to miss Carefree. -David Horiuchi.

Review Bfi Video / Charlie Chaplin - The Essanay Films - Vol. 1 [1915]
Actors & Directors
  • Premkumar
  • P.K. Radhakrishnan
  • Harisree Asokan
  • Sindhuja
  • Kalpana
  • Jagathi Sreekumar
Release date: 2003-08-25
Run time: 204 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £13.72

Review Charlie Chaplin - The Essanay Films - Vol. 1 [1915] / Bfi Video:


Review Fastforward / Vintage Comedy Vol.1 [1914]
Actors & Directors
  • Charlie Chaplin
  • W.C. Fields
  • Harold Lloyd
Release date: 2008-06-02
Run time: 299 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £9.94

Review Vintage Comedy Vol.1 [1914] / Fastforward:


Review Kino / St. Martin's Lane/Wings of the Morning [1937] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Vivien Leigh
  • Rex Harrison
  • Harold D. Schuster
  • Tim Whelan
  • Tyrone Guthrie
  • Charles Laughton
  • Larry Adler
Release date: 2003-07-22
Run time: 174 min.
Creator: Thomas J. Geraghty
Price: £12.11

Review St. Martin's Lane/Wings of the Morning [1937] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Kino:


Review Paramount Home Video / I Love Lucy: The Complete Series (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Desi Arnaz
  • Ralph Levy
  • William Asher
  • Vivian Vance
  • Norma Varden
  • Lucille Ball
  • William Frawley
  • James V. Kern
  • Marc Daniels
Release date: 2007-10-23
Run time: 5394 min.
Creator: Jess Oppenheimer
Price: £109.73

Review I Love Lucy: The Complete Series (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Paramount Home Video:


Review Elstree Hill Entertainment / Angel On My Shoulder [1946]
Actors & Directors
  • George Cleveland
  • Paul Muni
  • Claude Rains
  • Archie Mayo
  • Anne Baxter
  • Onslow Stevens
Release date: 2005-06-06
Run time: 101 min.
RRP: £2.99
Price: £2.82

Review Angel On My Shoulder [1946] / Elstree Hill Entertainment:


Review 2 Entertain Video / You'll Never Get Rich [1941]
Actors & Directors
  • Sidney Lanfield
  • John Hubbard
  • Fred Astaire
  • Robert Benchley
  • Rita Hayworth
  • Osa Massen
Release date: 1998-08-03
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: Michael Fessier
RRP: £4.99
Price: £6.70

Review You'll Never Get Rich [1941] / 2 Entertain Video:

They don't make the most obvious screen couple-if you squint, you might think Stan Laurel had gotten together with Lauren Bacall-but their differences only serve to make this effervescent musical all the more entertaining. You'll Never Get Rich is the first of two that Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth made together (followed by You Were Never Lovelier). Astaire, who stars as choreographer-turned-soldier Robert Curtis, has rarely been looser, and Hayworth, as dancer Sheila Winthrop, has rarely been more graceful. As in Royal Wedding, Astaire also engages in some fancy solo footwork. Robert Benchley and Frieda Inescort provide priceless support as Robert's philandering boss and his clever wife, and Cole Porter composed the music, including "So Near and Yet So Far," "Dream Dancing," and the Oscar®-nominated "Since I Kissed My Baby Goodbye. " You'll Never Get Rich is timeless, escapist fun that also serves to prove that sometimes opposites don't just attract-they can make beautiful music together. -Kathleen C. Fennessy.

Review Pickwick / March Of The Wooden Soldiers [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • Charley Rogers
  • Oliver Hardy
  • Gus Meins
  • Stan Laurel
Release date: 2007-10-22
Run time: 78 min.
RRP: £7.99
Price: £5.90

Review March Of The Wooden Soldiers [2007] / Pickwick:


Review Cult Epics / Goto, Island of Love [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Ligia Branice
  • Fernand Bercher
  • Jean-Pierre Andréani
  • Ginette Leclerc
  • Pierre Brasseur
  • Walerian Borowczyk
Release date: 2006-02-28
Run time: 93 min.
Creator: René Thévenet
Price: £9.29

Review Goto, Island of Love [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Cult Epics:


Models & Brands:
Flower Drum Song [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Harum Scarum [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Pot O' Gold [1941], Charlie Chaplin - The Kid [1921], Carry On Collection [1966], Swing Time [1936], Flower Drum Song [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Damn Yankees [1958], The Over-the-Hill Gang [1969], The Grass Is Greener [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Waxworks [1924] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Carefree [1938], Charlie Chaplin - The Essanay Films - Vol. 1 [1915], Vintage Comedy Vol.1 [1914], St. Martin's Lane/Wings of the Morning [1937] (REGION 1) (NTSC), I Love Lucy: The Complete Series (REGION 1) (NTSC), Angel On My Shoulder [1946], You'll Never Get Rich [1941], March Of The Wooden Soldiers [2007], Goto, Island of Love [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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