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Review Frank Sinatra / The Frank Sinatra Show: Welcome Home, Elvis [1960]
Release date: 2004-02-10
Run time: 60 min.
Price: £3.35

Review The Frank Sinatra Show: Welcome Home, Elvis [1960] / Frank Sinatra:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Delicate Delinquent [1957]
Actors & Directors
  • Darren McGavin
  • Horace McMahon
  • Jerry Lewis
  • Martha Hyer
  • Don McGuire
  • Robert Ivers
Release date: 2005-09-12
Run time: 97 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £29.50

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Review MGM Entertainment / It's a Mad,Mad,Mad,Mad World [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Stanley Kramer
  • Ethel Merman
  • Buddy Hackett
  • Milton Berle
  • Spencer Tracy
  • Sid Caesar
Release date: 1996-07-29
Run time: 148 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £24.94

Review It's a Mad,Mad,Mad,Mad World [1963] / MGM Entertainment:

Stanley Kramer's 1963 It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World is a sprawling comedy about a search for buried treasure by at least a dozen people-all played by well-known entertainers of their day-is the kind of mass comedy that has recently come back to the for-front of Hollywood with the film Rat Race. After a number of strangers (including Milton Berle, Jonathan Winters, Sid Caesar, Phil Silvers and others) witness a dying stranger (Jimmy Durante) identify the location of hidden money, a conflict-ridden hunt begins, watched over carefully by a suspicious cop (Spencer Tracy). The ensuing two and a half hours of mayhem has its ups and downs-some sketches and performers are certainly funnier than others. But Kramer, who is better known for socially conscious, serious cinema (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?), is in a mood for broad comic characterization, and some of his jokes are so intentionally obvious (Durante literally kicks a bucket when he dies), they could have derived from the Airplane! reject bin. Watch for lots of cameo appearances, including Jerry Lewis. -Tom Keogh, Amazon. com.

Review Wienerworld Ltd / Bob Hope - Road To Bali/My Favourite Brunette [1952]
Actors & Directors
  • Bob Hope
Release date: 2008-03-31
Run time: 178 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.99

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Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Mary Poppins [1965]
Actors & Directors
  • Glynis Johns
  • Julie Andrews
  • Robert Stevenson
  • David Tomlinson
  • Hermione Baddeley
  • Dick Van Dyke
Release date: 1999-03-29
Run time: 133 min.
Creator: P.L. Travers
Price: £12.99

Review Mary Poppins [1965] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:

There is only one word that comes close to accurately describing the enchanting Mary Poppins, and that term was coined by the movie itself: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! Even at 2 hours and 20 minutes, Disney's pioneering mixture of live action and animation (based on the books by P. L. Travers) still holds kids spellbound. Julie Andrews won an Oscar as the world's most magically idealized nanny ("practically perfect in every way," and complete with lighter-than-air umbrella), and Dick Van Dyke is her clownishly charming beau, Bert the chimney sweep. The songs are also terrific, ranging from bright and cheery ("A Spoonful of Sugar") to dark and cheery (the Oscar-winning "Chim-Chim Cheree") to touchingly melancholy ("Feed the Birds"). Many consider Mary Poppins to be the crowning achievement of Walt Disney's career-and it was the only one of his features to be nominated for a best picture Academy Award until Beauty and the Beast in 1991. -Jim Emerson A pioneering film within Animation, Musicals and Fantasy, Walt Disney's Mary Poppins is possibly one of the warmest and dearest films ever made. Based on a story by PL Travers we find Julie Andrews on fine form in her debut lead role (for which she would win the "Best Actress" Oscar). She is practically perfectly teamed with Dick Van Dyke as the lovable chimney sweep Burt, whose cockney accent is endearingly inaccurate. Along with a fine supporting cast, where even the child actors hold their own without appearing like stage school wannabes, Poppins and her crew take you on a magical ride through chalk pictures, the roof tops of London and show you that laughter is not always the best medicine (even with a spoon full of sugar) when you can't get down. [+]
In total Mary Poppins clocked up five Academy Awards including Best Song and Best Visual Effects and has made it into the staple diet of family viewing across the world. On the DVD: Mary Poppins has certainly cleaned up a treat, restoring her to 1. 85:1 widescreen glory and 5. 1 Dolby digital sound-which is guaranteed to be music to your ears. The special features are "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" with the "Sing Along with the Movie" subtitles for all your favourite songs when they appear in the movie and the "I Love to Laugh" game offering Uncle Albert flying high in his parlour once more. "The Movie Magic of Mary Poppins" lets you look behind the scenes at how the magic was done and is fun, informative and easily understandable-pity the same cannot be said about the narrator. "Hollywood goes to a World Premiere" is a warm and amusing reminder about how premieres and stars used to be in 1964. The only disappointment is the lack of commentary-Dick Van Dyke would surely have offered a gem of a cockney voice-over! -Nikki Disney.

Review Paramount / Hello Down There [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Ricou Browning
  • Tony Randall
  • Ken Berry
  • Jim Backus
  • Janet Leigh
  • Jack Arnold
  • Roddy McDowall
Release date: 2005-02-22
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: John McGreevey
Price: £6.61

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Review Criterion / Ingmar Bergman: Four Masterworks (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Victor Sjöström
  • Bibi Andersson
  • Max von Sydow
  • Gunnar Björnstrand
  • Birgitta Valberg
  • Ingmar Bergman
Release date: 2007-12-04
Run time: 384 min.
Creator: Ulla Isaksson
Price: £50.36

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Review Warner Home Video / Dodge City [1939] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Curtiz
  • Olivia de Havilland
  • Errol Flynn
  • Tex Avery
  • Bruce Cabot
  • Frank McHugh
  • Ann Sheridan
Release date: 2005-04-19
Run time: 100 min.
Creator: Crane Wilbur
Price: £8.81

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Review Connoisseur Video / Feet First [1931]
Actors & Directors
  • Henry Hall
  • Barbara Kent
  • Lillian Leighton
  • Robert McWade
  • Harold Lloyd
  • Clyde Bruckman
Release date: 1994-04-25
Run time: 69 min.
Creator: Paul Girard Smith
RRP: £12.99
Price: £12.25

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Review Anchor Bay / The Ghost Goes Gear [1966] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Hugh Gladwish
  • Nicholas Parsons
  • Spencer Davis
  • Pete York
  • Muff Winwood
  • Stevie Winwood
Release date: 2000-04-11
Run time: 79 min.
Creator: Roger Dunton
Price: £35.31

Review The Ghost Goes Gear [1966] (NTSC) / Anchor Bay:


Actors & Directors
  • Gene Evans
  • Cary Grant
  • Joan O'Brien
  • Blake Edwards
  • Dina Merrill
  • Tony Curtis
Release date: 1998-01-12
Run time: 120 min.
Creator: Stanley Shapiro
Price: £5.99

Review Operation Petticoat [1959] / 4 Front Video:

Blake Edwards's delightful 1959 comedy, Operation Petticoat, stars Cary Grant as a World War II submarine captain whose preference for by-the-book command reluctantly yields to certain realities. Chief among those is that Grant's first officer (Tony Curtis, who impersonated Grant that same year in Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot), a shameless hustler, is better than the Navy at delivering whatever supplies the ship and crew need to keep going. But when Curtis sneaks a handful of Philippine refugees and several gorgeous nurses onto the all-male sub, the skipper not only has to cool down his crew but deal with an unexpected feminine influence on ship protocol. The film is a great deal of fun, sprinkled with the director's trademark sight gags (including one of Edwards' best, involving a torpedo and a jeep), and graced with his unmistakable lilt. Grant is in great form, his comic brilliance almost impossibly effortless. -Tom Keogh, Amazon. com.

Review MGM / The Frank Sinatra Gift Set (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Marlon Brando
  • Jean Simmons
  • Cary Grant
  • Stanley Kramer
  • John Frankenheimer
  • Frank Sinatra
  • Frank Capra
  • Delmer Daves
  • Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  • Laurence Harvey
Release date: 2007-07-24
Run time: 638 min.
Creator: Ben Hecht
Price: £21.08

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Review Passport International / Second Chorus / That's Dancing! [1940] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • H.C. Potter
  • Fred Astaire
  • Paulette Goddard
  • Charles Butterworth
  • Burgess Meredith
  • Artie Shaw
Release date: 2003-04-22
Run time: 84 min.
Creator: Johnny Mercer
Price: £3.90

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


Actors & Directors
  • Jocelyn Lane
  • Elvis Presley
  • Julie Adams
  • Jack Mullaney
  • Norman Taurog
  • Merry Anders
Release date: 1992-09-21
Run time: 86 min.
Creator: Elwood Ullman
RRP: £5.99
Price: £8.99

Review Tickle Me [1965] / 4 Front Video:


Review New Line Home Video / The Harold Lloyd Comedy Collection, Vol. 1 (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Fred C. Newmeyer
  • Hal Roach
  • Jobyna Ralston
  • Mildred Davis
  • Alfred J. Goulding
  • Norman Z. McLeod
  • Leo McCarey
  • Verree Teasdale
  • Adolphe Menjou
  • Harold Lloyd
Release date: 2005-11-15
Run time: 465 min.
Creator: Clarence Budington Kelland
Price: £22.94

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


Review Sony Wonder / Lassie (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Josh Albee
  • Christian Nyby
  • Jed Allan
  • Bonita Granville
  • Andy Clyde
  • James B. Clark
  • Sherry Boucher
  • Robert Burton
  • Robert Sparr
  • Lesley Selander
Release date: 2004-09-14
Run time: 528 min.
Creator: Leon Fromkess
Price: £14.48

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Review Respond 2 / Johnny Carson: Carson Country [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Bobby Quinn
  • Dick Carson
  • Bob Hope
  • Frederick De Cordova
  • Johnny Carson
  • David Letterman
  • Ed McMahon
  • Joan Rivers
Release date: 2006-11-07
Run time: 80 min.
Creator: Ed. Weinberger
Price: £6.27

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


Review Anchor Bay / Smashing Time [1967] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Irene Handl
  • Michael York
  • Anna Quayle
  • Desmond Davis
  • Rita Tushingham
  • Lynn Redgrave
Release date: 2000-01-11
Run time: 96 min.
Creator: George Melly
Price: £70.33

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Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Charlie Chaplin - The Kid / The Idle Class [1921]
Actors & Directors
  • Charles Chaplin
  • Mack Swain
  • Al Ernest Garcia
  • Henry Bergman
  • Charles Chaplin
  • Edna Purviance
Release date: 1992-10-12
Run time: 82 min.
Creator: Roland Totheroh
RRP: £10.99
Price: £9.79

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Review Image Entertainment / The Elusive Avengers [1966]
Actors & Directors
  • Boris Sichkin
  • Savely Kramarov
  • Edmond Keosayan
  • Lev Sverdlin
  • Inna Churikova
  • Gleb Strizhenov
Release date: 2005-07-12
Run time: 78 min.
Price: £12.60

Review The Elusive Avengers [1966] / Image Entertainment:


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The Frank Sinatra Show: Welcome Home, Elvis [1960], Delicate Delinquent [1957], It's a Mad,Mad,Mad,Mad World [1963], Bob Hope - Road To Bali/My Favourite Brunette [1952], Mary Poppins [1965], Hello Down There [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Ingmar Bergman: Four Masterworks (REGION 1) (NTSC), Dodge City [1939] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Feet First [1931], The Ghost Goes Gear [1966] (NTSC), Operation Petticoat [1959], The Frank Sinatra Gift Set (REGION 1) (NTSC), Second Chorus / That's Dancing! [1940] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Tickle Me [1965], The Harold Lloyd Comedy Collection, Vol. 1 (REGION 1) (NTSC), Lassie (REGION 1) (NTSC), Johnny Carson: Carson Country [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Smashing Time [1967] (NTSC), Charlie Chaplin - The Kid / The Idle Class [1921], The Elusive Avengers [1966]

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