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Review MPI Home Video / The Beverly Hillbillies/Petticoat Junction: Ultimate Christmas Collection [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Dennis Fimple
  • Peter Baldwin
  • Walter Baldwin
  • Stanley Z. Cherry
  • Paul De Rolf
  • Donna Douglas
  • Richard L. Bare
  • James Sheldon
  • Buddy Ebsen
Release date: 2005-10-25
Run time: 120 min.
Creator: Myron Shenova
Price: £6.98

Review The Beverly Hillbillies/Petticoat Junction: Ultimate Christmas Collection [1963] / MPI Home Video:


Review Vision Video Ltd. / Laurel And Hardy - Helpmates / Towed In A Hole / Busy Bodies [1933]
Actors & Directors
  • Lloyd French
  • Charlie Hall
  • Jack Hill
  • James Parrott
  • Dick Gilbert
  • George Marshall
  • Oliver Hardy
  • Stan Laurel
Release date: 1998-09-07
Run time: 61 min.
Creator: H.M. Walker
Price: £10.99

Review Laurel And Hardy - Helpmates / Towed In A Hole / Busy Bodies [1933] / Vision Video Ltd.:


Review Alpha Video / The Gorilla [1939] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jimmy Ritz
  • Patsy Kelly
  • Anita Louise
  • Al Ritz
  • Harry Ritz
  • Allan Dwan
Release date: 2002-08-27
Run time: 66 min.
Creator: Sid Silvers
Price: £2.58

Review The Gorilla [1939] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Alpha Video:


Review Warner Home Video / Torrid Zone [1940] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • James Cagney
  • Helen Vinson
  • Pat O'Brien
  • Ann Sheridan
  • William Keighley
  • Andy Devine
Release date: 2007-04-24
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: Mark Hellinger
Price: £9.00

Review Torrid Zone [1940] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Republic Pictures / The Quiet Man [1952] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Victor McLaglen
  • Barry Fitzgerald
  • Ward Bond
  • Maureen O'Hara
  • John Wayne
  • John Ford
Release date: 2002-10-22
Run time: 129 min.
Creator: Frank S. Nugent
Price: £6.05

Review The Quiet Man [1952] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Republic Pictures:

Blarney and bliss, mixed in equal proportions. John Wayne plays an American boxer who returns to the Emerald Isle, his native land. What he finds there is a fiery prospective spouse (Maureen O'Hara) and a country greener than any Ireland seen before or since-it's no surprise The Quiet Man won an Oscar for cinematography. It also won an Oscar for John Ford's direction, his fourth such award. The film was a deeply personal project for Ford (whose birth name was Sean Aloysius O'Fearna), and he lavished all of his affection for the Irish landscape and Irish people on this film. He also stages perhaps the greatest donnybrook in the history of movies, an epic fistfight between Wayne and the truculent Victor McLaglen-that's Ford's brother, Francis, as the elderly man on his deathbed who miraculously revives when he hears word of the dustup. Barry Fitzgerald, the original Irish elf, gets the movie's biggest laugh when he walks into the newlyweds' bedroom the morning after their wedding and spots a broken bed. The look on his face says everything. The Quiet Man isn't the real Ireland but as a delicious never-never land of Ford's imagination, it will do very nicely. -Robert Horton Blarney and bliss, mixed in equal proportions. [+]
John Wayne plays an American boxer who returns to the Emerald Isle, his native land. What he finds there is a fiery prospective spouse (Maureen O'Hara) and a country greener than any Ireland seen before or since-it's no surprise The Quiet Man won an Oscar for cinematography. It also won an Oscar for John Ford's direction, his fourth such award. The film was a deeply personal project for Ford (whose birth name was Sean Aloysius O'Fearna), and he lavished all of his affection for the Irish landscape and Irish people on this film. He also stages perhaps the greatest donnybrook in the history of movies, an epic fistfight between Wayne and the truculent Victor McLaglen-that's Ford's brother, Francis, as the elderly man on his deathbed who miraculously revives when he hears word of the dustup. Barry Fitzgerald, the original Irish elf, gets the movie's biggest laugh when he walks into the newlyweds' bedroom the morning after their wedding, and spots a broken bed. The look on his face says everything. The Quiet Man isn't the real Ireland, but as a delicious never-never land of Ford's imagination, it will do very nicely. -Robert Horton.

Review Lionsgate / Don't Drink the Water [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Howard Morris
  • Jackie Gleason
  • Estelle Parsons
  • Michael Constantine
  • Ted Bessell
  • Joan Delaney
Release date: 2008-03-18
Run time: 100 min.
Creator: Woody Allen
Price: £6.11

Review Don't Drink the Water [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Lionsgate:


Review Warner Home Video / The Astaire & Rogers Collection, Volume 2 (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • H.C. Potter
  • Lew Fields
  • Mark Sandrich
  • Thornton Freeland
  • William A. Seiter
  • Ginger Rogers
  • Edna May Oliver
  • Walter Brennan
  • Fred Astaire
Release date: 2006-10-24
Price: £30.29

Review The Astaire & Rogers Collection, Volume 2 (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Cinema Club / On The Buses - The Best Of Series 3 And 4 - Vol. 2 [1969]
Release date: 2003-08-11
Run time: 100 min.
Creator: Ronald Wolfe
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.35

Review On The Buses - The Best Of Series 3 And 4 - Vol. 2 [1969] / Cinema Club:


Review Alpha Video / The Admiral Was a Lady [1950]
Actors & Directors
  • Wanda Hendrix
  • Edmond O'Brien
  • Steve Brodie
  • Fred Essler
  • Hillary Brooke
Release date: 2006-03-28
Run time: 86 min.
Creator: Edward Kay
Price: £2.70

Review The Admiral Was a Lady [1950] / Alpha Video:


Review Kino / La Revue des Revues [1927] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Hélène Hallier
  • Josephine Baker
  • Pépa Bonafé
  • André Luguet
  • Erna Carise
  • Joe Francis
Release date: 2007-05-15
Run time: 103 min.
Creator: Clément Vautel
Price: £9.88

Review La Revue des Revues [1927] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Kino:


Review Cinema Club / On The Buses - The Best Of Series 3 And 4 - Vol. 4 [1969]
Release date: 2003-08-11
Run time: 100 min.
Creator: Ronald Wolfe
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.50

Review On The Buses - The Best Of Series 3 And 4 - Vol. 4 [1969] / Cinema Club:


Review A&E Home Video / Monty Python's Flying Circus: Michael Palin's Personal Best [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • John Cleese
  • Terry Gilliam
  • Eric Idle
  • Graham Chapman
  • Terry Jones
Release date: 2005-08-30
Run time: 55 min.
Creator: John Howard Davies
Price: £2.40

Review Monty Python's Flying Circus: Michael Palin's Personal Best [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / A&E Home Video:


Review Arrow Films / Plucking The Daisy [1956]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Hirsch
  • Daniel Gélin
  • Jacques Dumesnil
  • Brigitte Bardot
  • Marc Allégret
  • Jacques Bouillaud
Release date: 1995-10-23
Run time: 97 min.
Creator: William Benjamin
RRP: £15.99
Price: £9.80

Review Plucking The Daisy [1956] / Arrow Films:


Review Critic's Choice / Rock Rock Rock [1956]
Actors & Directors
  • Valerie Harper
  • Will Price
  • Bert Conway
  • Connie Francis
  • Alan Freed
  • Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers
Release date: 2005-10-29
Run time: 111 min.
Creator: Blandine Hafela
RRP: £7.99
Price: £19.88

Review Rock Rock Rock [1956] / Critic's Choice:


Review Koch Vision / Too Hot to Handle [1960]
Actors & Directors
  • Leo Genn
  • Danik Patisson
  • Karlheinz Böhm
  • Terence Young
  • Christopher Lee
  • Jayne Mansfield
Release date: 2004-08-10
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Herbert Kretzmer
Price: £3.98

Review Too Hot to Handle [1960] / Koch Vision:


Review 4 Front Video / Bringing Up Baby [1938]
Actors & Directors
  • Charles Ruggles
  • Barry Fitzgerald
  • Howard Hawks
  • Walter Catlett
  • Katharine Hepburn
  • Cary Grant
Release date: 1998-01-12
Run time: 102 min.
Creator: Hagar Wilde
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.70

Review Bringing Up Baby [1938] / 4 Front Video:

"The love impulse in man", says a psychiatrist in Bringing Up Baby, "frequently reveals itself in terms of conflict. " That's for sure. For a primer on the rules and regulations of the classic screwball comedy, which throws love and conflict into close proximity, look no further. A straight-laced paleontologist (Cary Grant) loses a dinosaur bone to a dog belonging to free-spirited heiress Katharine Hepburn. In trying to retrieve said bone, Grant is drawn into the vortex surrounding the delicious Hepburn, which becomes a flirtatious pas de deux that will transform both of them. Director Howard Hawks plays the complications as a breathless escalation of their "love impulse" yet the movie is nonetheless romantic for all its speed. (Hawks's His Girl Friday, also with Grant, goes even faster. ) Grant and Hepburn are a match made in movie heaven, in sync with each other throughout. Not a great box-office success when first released, Bringing Up Baby has since taken its place as a high-water mark of the screwball form and it was used as a model for Peter Bogdanovich's What's Up, Doc? -Robert Horton.

Review MGM Entertainment / Lilies Of The Field [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Lilia Skala
  • Ralph Nelson
  • Isa Crino
  • Lisa Mann
  • Sidney Poitier
  • Francesca Jarvis
Release date: 2000-09-18
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: William E. Barrett
RRP: £9.99
Price: £2.74

Review Lilies Of The Field [1963] / MGM Entertainment:


Review Kino / Que Viva Mexico [1932] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Grigori Aleksandrov
  • Grigori Aleksandrov
  • Mara Griy
  • Sergei Bondarchuk
  • Sergei M. Eisenstein
Release date: 2001-04-03
Run time: 85 min.
Creator: Upton Sinclair
Price: £12.04

Review Que Viva Mexico [1932] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Kino:


Review A&E Home Video / Monty Python's Flying Circus: Graham Chapman's Personal Best [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • John Cleese
  • Terry Jones
  • Graham Chapman
  • Terry Gilliam
  • Eric Idle
Release date: 2006-02-28
Run time: 55 min.
Creator: John Howard Davies
Price: £2.87

Review Monty Python's Flying Circus: Graham Chapman's Personal Best [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / A&E Home Video:


Review Fremantle Home Entertainment / For Love Of Ivy [1968]
Actors & Directors
  • Nan Martin
  • Abbey Lincoln
  • Sidney Poitier
  • Beau Bridges
  • Lauri Peters
  • Daniel Mann
Release date: 2001-06-04
Run time: 97 min.
Creator: Robert Alan Aurthur
RRP: £5.99
Price: £10.00

Review For Love Of Ivy [1968] / Fremantle Home Entertainment:

A 1950s romantic comedy transported into the end of the swinging 60s, For Love Of Ivy, is an intriguing snapshot of a Hollywood coming to terms with a changing world. Made in 1968, the movie fizzes with the colours of a Day-Glo world and the stark contrast between urban and suburban life at the turn of the decade. The Ivy of the title is a house maid (Abbey Lincoln) who longs to head for those bright lights and give her life more of a purpose, much to the chagrin of the dysfunctional white family that she works for, who set about matchmaking her with suave businessman Jack Parks (Poitier) in an effort to dissuade her. Although initially appearing to play to type, Poitier's character develops both darker and lighter sides as the movie (based on his own story) develops and the film becomes far more interesting when it leaves the semi-comedic scheming behind and focuses on the burgeoning relationship between the two protagonists. To be honest, much on offer here has dated-especially the dialogue-and there are a few sexual and racial howlers, but the film has a sweet heart. On the DVD : Very, very little-scene selection and biographies of Poitier, Beau Bridges and musical director Quincy Jones. Lincoln-arguably the films true star-is totally ignored. The colours and beauty of the film however are given added impact by the crispness of DVD. -Phil Udell.

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The Beverly Hillbillies/Petticoat Junction: Ultimate Christmas Collection [1963], Laurel And Hardy - Helpmates / Towed In A Hole / Busy Bodies [1933], The Gorilla [1939] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Torrid Zone [1940] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Quiet Man [1952] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Don't Drink the Water [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Astaire & Rogers Collection, Volume 2 (REGION 1) (NTSC), On The Buses - The Best Of Series 3 And 4 - Vol. 2 [1969], The Admiral Was a Lady [1950], La Revue des Revues [1927] (REGION 1) (NTSC), On The Buses - The Best Of Series 3 And 4 - Vol. 4 [1969], Monty Python's Flying Circus: Michael Palin's Personal Best [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Plucking The Daisy [1956], Rock Rock Rock [1956], Too Hot to Handle [1960], Bringing Up Baby [1938], Lilies Of The Field [1963], Que Viva Mexico [1932] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Monty Python's Flying Circus: Graham Chapman's Personal Best [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC), For Love Of Ivy [1968]

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