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Review 2 Entertain Video / Dad's Army - Room At The Bottom/War Dance/Getting The Bird [1968]
Actors & Directors
  • Vernon Drake
  • Bob Spiers
  • Desmond Cullum-Jones
  • Frank Godfrey
  • Hugh Cecil
  • Alec Coleman
Release date: 1997-03-03
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: Jimmy Perry
RRP: £10.99
Price: £7.94

Review Dad's Army - Room At The Bottom/War Dance/Getting The Bird [1968] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review 4 Front Video / You Can't Take It With You [1938]
Actors & Directors
  • Frank Capra
  • Mischa Auer
  • Edward Arnold
  • Jean Arthur
  • Lionel Barrymore
  • James Stewart
Release date: 2002-07-01
Run time: 121 min.
Creator: Robert Riskin
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.49

Review You Can't Take It With You [1938] / 4 Front Video:

You Can't Take It With You, Frank Capra's 1938 populist spin on the George S Kaufman and Moss Hart play about a family of happy eccentrics, is a great deal of fun, though it significantly rewrites the original work and doesn't represent Capra (Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington) at his best. Jean Arthur plays a member of the blissful Vanderhof househ old who falls in love with a rich man's son (James Stewart) and brings him into her nutty home. Lionel Barrymore, who played such a bad guy eight years later in Capra's It's a Wonderful Life, is the wonderful Grandpa Vanderhof, who addresses God during the dinner prayer as "sir" and speaks plainly and beautifully of why it's good to be alive. Capra took this opportunity to rail against big business and champion the common man, but the overall tone of the film-typical for the director's comedies-is buoyant and snappy. -Tom Keogh, Amazon. com.

Review Warner Home Video / Looney Tunes: Spotlight Collection, Vol. 4 (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Chuck Jones
  • Errol Flynn
  • Mel Blanc
  • Robert McKimson
  • Bernice Hansen
  • Friz Freleng
  • Arthur Davis
  • Daws Butler
  • Stan Freberg
Release date: 2006-11-14
Run time: 196 min.
Creator: Lloyd Turner
Price: £9.02

Review Looney Tunes: Spotlight Collection, Vol. 4 (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review A&E Home Video / The Best of the Original Avengers: Ultimate Collections [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Ian Hendry
  • Linda Thorson
  • Diana Rigg
  • Patrick Macnee
  • Honor Blackman
Release date: 2001-01-02
Run time: 330 min.
Creator: Sydney Newman
Price: £11.44

Review The Best of the Original Avengers: Ultimate Collections [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / A&E Home Video:


Review Dd Home Entertainment / Laughter In Paradise [1951]
Actors & Directors
  • George Cole
  • Fay Compton
  • Guy Middleton
  • Alastair Sim
  • Mario Zampi
  • Hugh Griffith
Release date: 2001-10-22
Run time: 92 min.
Creator: Michael Pertwee
RRP: £10.99
Price: £24.99

Review Laughter In Paradise [1951] / Dd Home Entertainment:


Review 20th Century Fox / Down Argentine Way [1940] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Charlotte Greenwood
  • Don Ameche
  • J. Carrol Naish
  • Irving Cummings
  • Carmen Miranda
  • Betty Grable
Release date: 2006-06-13
Run time: 89 min.
Creator: Rian James
Price: £6.65

Review Down Argentine Way [1940] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:


Review Warner Home Video / South Sea Woman [1953] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Arthur Lubin
  • Rudolph Anders
  • Paul Bryar
  • Leon Askin
  • John Alderson
  • Paul Burke
Release date: 2007-10-23
Run time: 98 min.
Creator: David Buttolph
Price: £8.96

Review South Sea Woman [1953] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review 4 Front Video / The Italian Job [1969]
Actors & Directors
  • Benny Hill
  • Noel Coward
  • Raf Vallone
  • Michael Caine
  • Tony Beckley
  • Peter Collinson
Release date: 1994-06-20
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: Troy Kennedy-Martin
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.39

Review The Italian Job [1969] / 4 Front Video:

The greatest Brit-flick crime caper comedy of all time, 1969's The Italian Job towers mightily above its latter-day mockney imitators. After Alfie but before Get Carter Michael Caine is the hippest ex-con around, bedding the birds (several at a time) and spouting immortal one-liners ("You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!"). The inheritor of a devious plan to steal gold bullion in the traffic-choked streets of Turin, Caine recruits a misfit team of genial underworld types-including a lecherous Benny Hill and three plummy public-schoolboy rally drivers-and uses the occasion of an England-Italy football match as cover for the heist. In his final screen appearance, Noel Coward joyfully sends up his own patriotic persona, and there are small though priceless cameos from the likes of Irene Handl and John Le Mesurier. But The Italian Job's real stars are the three Mini Coopers-patriotically decorated red, white and blue-that run rings round every other vehicle in an immortal car-chase sequence, which preserves forever the British public's love affair with the little car. Quincy Jones provided the irreverent music, naturally, while the cliffhanger ending thumbs its nose at anything so un-hip as a resolution. It's all unashamedly jingoistic-ridiculously, gleefully, absurdly so-but the whole sums up the joie de vivre of the 1960s so perfectly that future historians need only look here to learn why the decade was swinging. On the DVD: The Italian Job disc contains three all-new documentaries-"The Great Idea" (conception), "The Self-Preservation Society" (casting), and "Get a Bloomin' Move On" (stunts)-which dovetail into a good 68-minute "making of" featurette. Contributors include scriptwriter Troy Kennedy Martin and Producer Michael Deeley, who also crops up on the sporadically interesting commentary track with author of The Making of The Italian Job, Matthew Field. The deleted "Blue Danube" waltz scene is also included, with optional commentary. [+]
The print is a decent anamorphic transfer of the original 2. 35:1 ratio, and the soundtrack has been remastered to Dolby 5. 1. The animated Mini Cooper menus set the tone perfectly. -Mark Walker.

Review Orbit Media Ltd. / The Three Stooges [1936]
Actors & Directors
  • The Three Stooges
Release date: 2004-02-09
RRP: £15.99
Price: £6.80

Review The Three Stooges [1936] / Orbit Media Ltd.:


Review MGM / Topkapi [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jess Hahn
  • Melina Mercouri
  • Robert Morley
  • Maximilian Schell
  • Jules Dassin
  • Peter Ustinov
Release date: 2001-12-11
Run time: 119 min.
Creator: Eric Ambler
Price: £5.72

Review Topkapi [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:


Review MGM / The Gary Cooper Gift Set (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Aldrich
  • Denise Darcel
  • David Niven
  • Gary Cooper
  • Burt Lancaster
  • Henry Hathaway
  • H.C. Potter
  • Merle Oberon
  • Henry King
Release date: 2007-05-22
Run time: 371 min.
Creator: Borden Chase
Price: £20.95

Review The Gary Cooper Gift Set (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:


Review Warner Home Video / Ocean's Eleven [1960] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Angie Dickinson
  • Dean Martin
  • Peter Lawford
  • Lewis Milestone
  • Frank Sinatra
  • Sammy Davis Jr.
Release date: 2002-01-08
Run time: 127 min.
Creator: George Clayton Johnson
Price: £16.95

Review Ocean's Eleven [1960] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:

Leave it to the Chairman of the Board to rope in a great director for the first Rat Pack movie, Ocean's Eleven. Lewis Milestone (All Quiet on the Western Front) did indeed direct this 1960 caper movie starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop; but the results now seem like more of a historical artefact than a good piece of entertainment. The tone of the film is curiously serious-much more so than Steven Soderbergh's fluffy 2002 remake-one somehow expected that the Rat Pack would have made a more buoyant first picture. But it is something to see these guys together, if only for reasons of nostalgia. -Tom Keogh, Amazon. com.

Review Dynamic Entertainment Ltd / The Over The Hill Gang [1969]
Actors & Directors
  • Chill Wills
  • Willie Nelson
  • Jean Yarbrough
Release date: 2003-10-06
Run time: 70 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.49

Review The Over The Hill Gang [1969] / Dynamic Entertainment Ltd:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Dad's Army - Round And Round Went The Great Big Wheel [1968]
Actors & Directors
  • Vernon Drake
  • Alec Coleman
  • Hugh Cecil
  • Bob Spiers
  • Desmond Cullum-Jones
  • Frank Godfrey
Release date: 1996-10-07
Run time: 87 min.
Creator: Jimmy Perry
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.98

Review Dad's Army - Round And Round Went The Great Big Wheel [1968] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Leon Errol / Leon Errol Two-Reeler Comedy Collection [1938] (NTSC)
Release date: 2003-07-29
Run time: 180 min.
Price: £29.00

Review Leon Errol Two-Reeler Comedy Collection [1938] (NTSC) / Leon Errol:


Review Warner Home Video / Petulia [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Shirley Knight
  • George C. Scott
  • Julie Christie
  • Richard Lester
  • Richard Chamberlain
  • Arthur Hill
Release date: 2006-06-20
Run time: 105 min.
Creator: Raymond Wagner
Price: £8.92

Review Petulia [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Release date: 1996-07-08
Run time: 156 min.
Creator: Dennis Spooner
Price: £10.99

Review Randall And Hopkirk: Deceased - Vol. 12 [1969] / Universal Pictures UK:


Review Alpha Video / The Doll That Took the Town [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Antonio Cifariello
  • Franco Fabrizi
  • Haya Harareet
  • Virna Lisi
  • Serge Reggiani
  • Francesco Maselli
Release date: 2007-10-30
Run time: 89 min.
Creator: Mario Serandrei
Price: £2.93

Review The Doll That Took the Town [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Alpha Video:


Review Sovereign Multimedia Ltd / Laurel And Hardy Collection - Vol. 3 - Lucky Dog / West Of Hot Dog / Enough To Do [1922]
Actors & Directors
  • Scott Pembroke
  • Jess Robbins
  • Stan Laurel
  • Jack Lloyd
  • Oliver Hardy
  • Clyde Cook
  • Stan Laurel
  • Joe Rock
  • Florence Gillet
Release date: 1999-07-19
Run time: 56 min.
Creator: H.M. Walker
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.96

Review Laurel And Hardy Collection - Vol. 3 - Lucky Dog / West Of Hot Dog / Enough To Do [1922] / Sovereign Multimedia Ltd:


Review Criterion / Playtime [1967] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Valerie Camille
  • Yves Barsacq
  • France Delahalle
  • Erika Dentzler
  • Barbara Dennek
Release date: 2006-09-05
Run time: 124 min.
Creator: James Campbell
Price: £18.23

Review Playtime [1967] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Criterion:


Models & Brands:
Dad's Army - Room At The Bottom/War Dance/Getting The Bird [1968], You Can't Take It With You [1938], Looney Tunes: Spotlight Collection, Vol. 4 (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Best of the Original Avengers: Ultimate Collections [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Laughter In Paradise [1951], Down Argentine Way [1940] (REGION 1) (NTSC), South Sea Woman [1953] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Italian Job [1969], The Three Stooges [1936], Topkapi [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Gary Cooper Gift Set (REGION 1) (NTSC), Ocean's Eleven [1960] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Over The Hill Gang [1969], Dad's Army - Round And Round Went The Great Big Wheel [1968], Leon Errol Two-Reeler Comedy Collection [1938] (NTSC), Petulia [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Randall And Hopkirk: Deceased - Vol. 12 [1969], The Doll That Took the Town [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Laurel And Hardy Collection - Vol. 3 - Lucky Dog / West Of Hot Dog / Enough To Do [1922], Playtime [1967] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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