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Review Kino / Glamour Girls (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Rosa Valetti
  • Rouben Mamoulian
  • Albert Lewin
  • Josef von Sternberg
  • Marlene Dietrich
  • William Wyler
  • Kurt Gerron
  • Emil Jannings
  • Douglas Sirk
  • Hans Albers
Release date: 2006-11-21
Creator: Ernest Neuville
Price: £22.16

Review Glamour Girls (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Kino:


Review 2 Entertain Video / You'll Never Get Rich [1941]
Actors & Directors
  • John Hubbard
  • Robert Benchley
  • Osa Massen
  • Fred Astaire
  • Rita Hayworth
  • Sidney Lanfield
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 Fastforward / Vintage Comedy Vol.1 [1914]
Actors & Directors
  • W.C. Fields
  • Charlie Chaplin
  • Harold Lloyd
Release date: 2008-06-02
Run time: 299 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £9.94

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Review Warner Home Video / The Kissing Bandit [1948] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • J. Carrol Naish
  • Frank Sinatra
  • Mildred Natwick
  • Kathryn Grayson
  • Laslo Benedek
  • Mikhail Rasumny
Release date: 2008-05-13
Run time: 100 min.
Creator: John Briard Harding
Price: £4.83

Review The Kissing Bandit [1948] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Universal Studios / The Truth About Charlie [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Audrey Hepburn
  • Thandie Newton
  • Mark Wahlberg
  • Stanley Donen
  • Tim Robbins
  • Cary Grant
  • Mark Woollen
  • Jonathan Demme
Release date: 2003-04-01
Run time: 105 min.
Creator: Steve Schmidt
Price: £3.38

Review The Truth About Charlie [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:

It seems blasphemous to remake Stanley Donen's classic romantic thriller Charade, but The Truth About Charlie achieves its own unique identity. Rather than mimic the inimitable chemistry of the original, director Jonathan Demme takes a vividly contemporary approach, with Mark Wahlberg and Thandie Newton well cast in roles originated by Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn. The plot's essentially the same, kicking into high gear when Newton-the unwitting courier of a priceless treasure-is chased around Paris by her murdered husband's military cohorts, an avuncular embassy official (Tim Robbins), and a suave stranger (Wahlberg) whose true identity remains elusive. In a film filled with twists and turns, Demme fails to find a consistent tone of humor, romance, and danger. But he's crafted a peculiar Parisian valentine, seasoned with Gallic cameos (singer Charles Aznavour, Anna Karina, director Agnès Varda) and vibrantly alive with music, style, and forward momentum. Charade it's not, but that's not necessarily a complaint. -Jeff Shannon.

Review Elstree Hill Entertainment / Pot O' Gold [1941]
Actors & Directors
  • Charles Winninger
  • Mary Gordon
  • James Stewart
  • George Marshall
  • Paulette Goddard
  • Horace Heidt
Release date: 2003-11-10
Run time: 85 min.
RRP: £2.99
Price: £1.17

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


Review Dd Home Entertainment / A Fire Has Been Arranged [1935]
Actors & Directors
  • Bud Flanagan
  • Alastair Sim
  • Harold French
  • Chesney Allen
  • Leslie S. Hiscott
  • Mary Lawson
Release date: 2004-06-14
Run time: 67 min.
Creator: Michael Barringer
RRP: £9.99
Price: £23.95

Review A Fire Has Been Arranged [1935] / Dd Home Entertainment:


Review Alpha Video / Life with Father [1947] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • William Powell
  • Zasu Pitts
  • Edmund Gwenn
  • Elizabeth Taylor
  • Irene Dunne
  • Michael Curtiz
Release date: 2002-06-04
Run time: 118 min.
Price: £12.43

Review Life with Father [1947] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Alpha Video:


Review MGM / Beach Party/Bikini Beach [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Cummings
  • Annette Funicello
  • Dorothy Malone
  • Frankie Avalon
  • William Asher
  • Morey Amsterdam
Release date: 2005-02-15
Run time: 198 min.
Creator: Robert Dillon
Price: £6.23

Review Beach Party/Bikini Beach [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:


Review Warner Home Video / Charlie Chaplin - The Kid [1921]
Actors & Directors
  • Charlie Chaplin
  • Charlie Chaplin
  • Edna Purviance
  • Jackie Coogan
Release date: 2003-09-22
Run time: 82 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.50

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


Review Odyssey Video / Cul-De-Sac [1966]
Actors & Directors
  • Roman Polanski
  • Françoise Dorléac
  • Lionel Stander
  • Iain Quarrier
  • Jack MacGowran
  • Donald Pleasence
Release date: 1999-10-01
Run time: 100 min.
Creator: Gérard Brach
RRP: £10.99
Price: £11.95

Review Cul-De-Sac [1966] / Odyssey Video:


Review Republic Pictures / The Grass Is Greener [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jean Simmons
  • Moray Watson
  • Cary Grant
  • Stanley Donen
  • Deborah Kerr
  • Robert Mitchum
Release date: 2001-09-18
Run time: 104 min.
Creator: Margaret Vyner
Price: £6.19

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 Madacy / Laurel and Hardy - The Flying Deuces/Utopia [1938/1953]]
Actors & Directors
  • Suzy Delair
  • Charles Middleton
  • James Finlayson
  • Stan Laurel
  • Oliver Hardy
Release date: 1999-11-09
Run time: 153 min.
Price: £27.99

Review Laurel and Hardy - The Flying Deuces/Utopia [1938/1953]] / Madacy:


Review Kino / St. Martin's Lane/Wings of the Morning [1937] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Charles Laughton
  • Vivien Leigh
  • Rex Harrison
  • Larry Adler
  • Harold D. Schuster
  • Tim Whelan
  • Tyrone Guthrie
Release date: 2003-07-22
Run time: 174 min.
Creator: Thomas J. Geraghty
Price: £12.85

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


Review Warner Home Video / Harum Scarum [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Ansara
  • Mary Ann Mobley
  • Fran Jeffries
  • Jay Novello
  • Gene Nelson
  • Elvis Presley
Release date: 2007-08-07
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: Gerald Drayson Adams
Price: £4.50

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


Actors & Directors
  • June Thorburn
  • Roland Culver
  • Margaret Johnston
  • Michael Truman
  • Jack Hawkins
  • John Fraser
Release date: 1992-05-18
Run time: 81 min.
Creator: William Rose
RRP: £5.99
Price: £26.99

Review Touch And Go [1955] / Braveworld Ltd. (Defunct):


Review ITV DVD / Randall And Hopkirk Deceased - Vol. 3 - Murder Ain't / Who Ever Heard / House On Haunted Hill [1969]
Release date: 2001-05-14
Run time: 137 min.
Creator: Dennis Spooner
RRP: £15.99
Price: £5.99

Review Randall And Hopkirk Deceased - Vol. 3 - Murder Ain't / Who Ever Heard / House On Haunted Hill [1969] / ITV DVD:


Review Image Entertainment / Winsor McCay: The Master Edition
Actors & Directors
  • John Bunny
  • Winsor McCay
  • George McManus
  • Thomas A. 'Tad' Dorgan
  • Winsor McCay
  • Roy L. McCardell
  • J. Stuart Blackton
Release date: 2004-06-01
Run time: 105 min.
Creator: Walter Arthur
Price: £14.99

Review Winsor McCay: The Master Edition / Image Entertainment:


Review Kino / Masterworks of Silent Cinema: Erotikon [1920] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Mauritz Stiller
  • Vilhelm Bryde
  • Vilhelm Berndtson
  • Carina Ari
  • Gucken Cederborg
  • Stina Berg
Release date: 2006-06-06
Run time: 97 min.
Creator: Gustaf Molander
Price: £12.03

Review Masterworks of Silent Cinema: Erotikon [1920] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Kino:


Review Jef Films / Banana Peel [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Paulette Dubost
  • Jean-Pierre Marielle
  • Claude Brasseur
  • Marcel Ophüls
  • Alain Cuny
  • Gert Fröbe
Release date: 2008-02-12
Run time: 98 min.
Creator: Ward Swingle
Price: £11.61

Review Banana Peel [1963] / Jef Films:


Models & Brands:
Glamour Girls (REGION 1) (NTSC), You'll Never Get Rich [1941], Vintage Comedy Vol.1 [1914], The Kissing Bandit [1948] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Truth About Charlie [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Pot O' Gold [1941], A Fire Has Been Arranged [1935], Life with Father [1947] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Beach Party/Bikini Beach [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Charlie Chaplin - The Kid [1921], Cul-De-Sac [1966], The Grass Is Greener [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Laurel and Hardy - The Flying Deuces/Utopia [1938/1953]], St. Martin's Lane/Wings of the Morning [1937] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Harum Scarum [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Touch And Go [1955], Randall And Hopkirk Deceased - Vol. 3 - Murder Ain't / Who Ever Heard / House On Haunted Hill [1969], Winsor McCay: The Master Edition, Masterworks of Silent Cinema: Erotikon [1920] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Banana Peel [1963]

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