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Review Pickwick / Bogus Bandits [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • Oliver Hardy
  • Dennis King
  • Thelma Todd
  • James Finlayson
  • Hal Roach
  • Charles Rogers
  • Stan Laurel
Release date: 2007-10-22
Run time: 89 min.
RRP: £7.99
Price: £5.90

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Review Stonevision Entertainment / Buster Keaton - Vol. 7 [1924]
Actors & Directors
  • Buster Keaton
Release date: 2005-04-25
Run time: 110 min.
RRP: £23.99
Price: £4.25

Review Buster Keaton - Vol. 7 [1924] / Stonevision Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / Tom And Jerry - Vol. 1
Actors & Directors
  • Daws Butler
  • Joseph Barbera
  • Red Coffee
  • Michael Lah
  • Tex Avery
  • William Hanna
  • Billy Bletcher
  • Tex Avery
  • Joseph Barbera
Release date: 2002-02-11
Run time: 30 min.
Creator: Rich Hogan
RRP: £10.99
Price: £15.99

Review Tom And Jerry - Vol. 1 / Warner Home Video:


Review MGM / Guys and Dolls [1955] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  • Robert Keith
  • Jean Simmons
  • Vivian Blaine
  • Marlon Brando
  • Frank Sinatra
Release date: 2000-04-18
Run time: 150 min.
Creator: Ben Hecht
Price: £5.46

Review Guys and Dolls [1955] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:

This CinemaScope treatment of Frank Loesser's hit Broadway musical Guys and Dolls is a deeply rewarding visual and musical experience. Frank Sinatra turns in one of his best screen performances running a close second to Marlon Brando and Jean Simmons, looking adorable and singing sweetly. In essence this is a piece of photographed theatre mounted on a handsome scale. The striking set designs and a brilliantly executed soundtrack are courtesy of two Broadway craftsmen Oliver Smith and conductor Jay Blackton. Photographer Harry Stradling brings a meticulous eye for detail when his camera stationed on the auditorium side of the frame, peers into Miss Adelaide's bathroom cupboard as she views the lines of medicine bottles in her celebrated "lament". Sinatra, in his vocal prime, sings a new number to Adelaide (Vivian Blaine)-arranged by Nelson Riddle-and Brando and Simmons strike chords in all their scenes from their opening duet "I'll Know" through to their evening out at a Havana bistro where she gets pie-eyed on a Bacardi milk-shake, tipsily wondering "If I were a Bell". Stubby Kaye also from the Broadway cast recreates the show-stopping "Sit Down You're Rockin' the Boat". Michael Kidd's choreography for "Luck Be a Lady" is razor-sharp and superbly captured in the CinemaScope format, though the formalised staging of the opening ought to have been rethought for this medium. The biggest pity is that Loesser amended some of his lyrics and replaced several tunes from his original score with inferior material. On the DVD: The DVD trailer hosted by Ed Sullivan makes much of the $1,000,000 cheque producer Samuel Goldwyn paid for the rights and the previews of the picture he obtained for his weekly television show. [+]
There's no denying that the remastered stereophonic soundtrack captures the Broadway sound to thrilling effect without it being overglamorised. The picture looks splendid too-never settle for the compromise version we've endured all these years on television! -Adrian Edwards.

Review New Line Home Video / The Harold Lloyd Comedy Collection, Vol. 1 (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Adolphe Menjou
  • Jobyna Ralston
  • Alfred J. Goulding
  • Hal Roach
  • Norman Z. McLeod
  • Fred C. Newmeyer
  • Harold Lloyd
  • Verree Teasdale
  • Leo McCarey
  • Mildred Davis
Release date: 2005-11-15
Run time: 465 min.
Creator: Clarence Budington Kelland
Price: £22.44

Review The Harold Lloyd Comedy Collection, Vol. 1 (REGION 1) (NTSC) / New Line Home Video:


Review MGM / Lord Love a Duck [1967] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Lola Albright
  • Martin West
  • Ruth Gordon
  • George Axelrod
  • Tuesday Weld
  • Roddy McDowall
Release date: 2003-12-02
Run time: 105 min.
Creator: Larry H. Johnson
Price: £6.02

Review Lord Love a Duck [1967] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:


Review delta home entertainment / Gary Cooper- Meet John Doe [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • Edward Arnold
  • Spring Byington
  • Gary Cooper
  • Barbara Stanwyck
  • Frank Capra
  • Walter Brennan
Release date: 2004-04-19
Run time: 83 min.
RRP: £3.99
Price: £1.49

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Review Warner Home Video / The Stratton Story [1949] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Bill Williams
  • Tex Avery
  • Agnes Moorehead
  • James Stewart
  • Sam Wood
  • Frank Morgan
  • June Allyson
Release date: 2006-08-15
Run time: 102 min.
Creator: Jack Cummings
Price: £8.29

Review The Stratton Story [1949] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Orbit Media Ltd. /
Actors & Directors
  • Anthony Perkins
  • Brigitte Bardot
Release date: 2005-04-25
RRP: £13.99
Price: £6.00

Review "Ravishing Idiot, A (DVD) " [1964] / Orbit Media Ltd.:


Actors & Directors
  • Sid James
  • Joan Sims
  • Kenneth Williams
  • Hattie Jacques
  • Charles Hawtrey
  • Gerald Thomas
Release date: 2003-07-07
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Talbot Rothwell
Price: £4.99

Review Carry On At Your Convenience [1971] / Carlton:

In 1971 when Carry On at Your Convenience hit the screen, the series had long since become part of the fabric of British popular entertainment. Never mind the situation, the characters were essentially the same, film after film. The jokes were all as old as the hills, but nobody cared, they were still funny. But it's just too easy to treat them as a job lot of postcard humour and music hall innuendo. This tale of revolt at a sanitary ware factory-Boggs and Son, what else?-certainly chimed in with the state of the nation in the early 1970s when strikes were called at the drop of a hat. Here, tea urns, demarcation and the company's decision to branch out into bidets all wreak havoc. Kenneth Williams as the company's besieged managing director, Sidney James and Joan Sims give their all as usual, but it's the lesser roles that really add some lustre. Hattie Jacques as Sid's budgerigar-obsessed, sluggish put-upon wife and Renee Houston as a superbly domineering battleaxe with a penchant for strip poker remind us that in the hands of fine actors, even the laziest of caricatures becomes a real human being. On the DVD: Presented in 4:3 format with a good clean print and standard mono soundtrack, Carry On at Your Convenience feels as comfortable as an old pair of shoes. But where's the context? The lack of extras leaves the viewer wanting biographies and some documentary sense of the film's position in the series. [+]
The scene index is often arbitrary and the budget packaging means that we don't even get a full cast list. -Piers Ford.

Review Imc Vision / Cinderfella [1960]
Actors & Directors
  • Ed Wynn
  • Jerry Lewis
  • Judith Anderson
  • Henry Silva
  • Robert Hutton
  • Frank Tashlin
Release date: 1997-06-23
Run time: 84 min.
Creator: Joe Besser
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.75

Review Cinderfella [1960] / Imc Vision:


Review MGM / The Producers [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Mel Brooks
  • Gene Wilder
  • Kenneth Mars
  • Dick Shawn
  • Lee Meredith
  • Zero Mostel
Release date: 2005-12-13
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: Joseph E. Levine
Price: £9.50

Review The Producers [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:

Mel Brooks' directorial debut remains both a career high point and a classic show-business farce. Hinging on a crafty plot premise, which in turn unleashes a joyously insane onstage spoof, The Producers is powered by a clutch of over-the-top performances, capped by the odd couple pairing of the late Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder, making his screen debut. Mostel is Max Bialystock, a gone-to-seed Broadway producer who spends his days wheedling cheques from his "investors", elderly women for whom Bialystock is only too willing to provide company. When wide-eyed auditor Leo Bloom (Wilder) comes to check the books, he unwittingly inspires the wild-eyed Max to hatch a sure-fire plan: sell 25,000 per cent of his next show, produce a deliberate flop, then abscond with the proceeds. Unfortunately for the producers (but fortunately for us), their candidate for failure is Springtime for Hitler, a Brooksian conceit that envisions what Goebbels might have accomplished with a little help from Busby Berkeley. Truly startling during its original 1968 release, The Producers does show signs of age in some peripheral scenes that make merry at the expense of gays and women. But the show's nifty cast (notably including the late Dick Shawn as LSD, the space cadet that snags the musical's title role, and Kenneth Mars as the helmeted playwright) clicks throughout, and the sight of Mostel fleecing his marks is irresistibly funny. Add Wilder's literally hysterical Bloom, and it's easy to understand the film's exalted status among late-60s comedies. -Sam Sutherland, Amazon. com.

Review Respond 2 / Johnny Carson: Carson Country [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Milton Delugg
  • Skitch Henderson
  • Dick Carson
  • Ed McMahon
  • Bobby Quinn
  • Doc Severinsen
  • Johnny Carson
  • Frederick De Cordova
Release date: 2006-11-07
Run time: 80 min.
Creator: Gary Murphy
Price: £5.91

Review Johnny Carson: Carson Country [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Respond 2:


Review 20th Century Fox / On the Avenue [1937] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Roy Del Ruth
  • Madeleine Carroll
  • Dick Powell
  • Alice Faye
  • Harry Ritz
  • Al Ritz
Release date: 2008-10-07
Run time: 89 min.
Creator: Samuel Pokrass
Price: £6.14

Review On the Avenue [1937] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:


Review BCI, a Navarre Corporation Company / The Great Lover [1949] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Roland Culver
  • Roland Young
  • Bob Hope
  • Alexander Hall
  • Richard Lyon
  • Rhonda Fleming
Release date: 2000-11-21
Run time: 80 min.
Creator: Melville Shavelson
Price: £3.93

Review The Great Lover [1949] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / BCI, a Navarre Corporation Company:


Review 20th Century Fox / What a Way to Go! [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Paul Newman
  • Shirley MacLaine
  • J. Lee Thompson
  • Robert Mitchum
  • Dean Martin
  • Gene Kelly
Release date: 2005-01-11
Run time: 111 min.
Creator: Gwen Davis
Price: £3.64

Review What a Way to Go! [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:


Review A&E Home Video / The Avengers '68: Set 1 [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Patrick Macnee
  • Diana Rigg
Release date: 2001-10-30
Run time: 312 min.
Creator: Sydney Newman

Review The Avengers '68: Set 1 [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / A&E Home Video:


Review Passport International / Second Chorus / That's Dancing! [1940] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Paulette Goddard
  • H.C. Potter
  • Artie Shaw
  • Charles Butterworth
  • Burgess Meredith
  • Fred Astaire
Release date: 2003-04-22
Run time: 84 min.
Creator: Johnny Mercer
Price: £3.66

Review Second Chorus / That's Dancing! [1940] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Passport International:


Review Paramount / I Love Lucy: The Complete Seventh, Eighth, And Nineth Season (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Desi Arnaz
  • Lucille Ball
Release date: 2007-03-13
Run time: 662 min.
Creator: Everett Freeman
Price: £19.62

Review I Love Lucy: The Complete Seventh, Eighth, And Nineth Season (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Paramount:


Review Tango Entertainment / Do Not Adjust Your Set [1967] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Release date: 2005-07-26
Run time: 280 min.
Creator: Terry Gilliam
Price: £5.68

Review Do Not Adjust Your Set [1967] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Tango Entertainment:


Models & Brands:
Bogus Bandits [2007], Buster Keaton - Vol. 7 [1924], Tom And Jerry - Vol. 1, Guys and Dolls [1955] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Harold Lloyd Comedy Collection, Vol. 1 (REGION 1) (NTSC), Lord Love a Duck [1967] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Gary Cooper- Meet John Doe [2004], The Stratton Story [1949] (REGION 1) (NTSC), "Ravishing Idiot, A (DVD) " [1964], Carry On At Your Convenience [1971], Cinderfella [1960], The Producers [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Johnny Carson: Carson Country [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC), On the Avenue [1937] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Great Lover [1949] (REGION 1) (NTSC), What a Way to Go! [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Avengers '68: Set 1 [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Second Chorus / That's Dancing! [1940] (REGION 1) (NTSC), I Love Lucy: The Complete Seventh, Eighth, And Nineth Season (REGION 1) (NTSC), Do Not Adjust Your Set [1967] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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