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Review MGM / The Outer Limits, Vol. 3: Original Series (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Ben Wright
  • Robert Duvall
  • Bob Johnson
  • John Hoyt
  • Vic Perrin
Release date: 2007-10-30
Run time: 60 min.
Price: £15.67

Review The Outer Limits, Vol. 3: Original Series (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:


Review Kino / The Masterworks of Silent Cinema: The Saga of Gosta Berling [1924] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Lars Hanson
  • Ellen Hartman-Cederström
  • Torsten Hammarén
  • Sven Scholander
  • Mona Mårtenson
  • Mauritz Stiller
Release date: 2006-06-06
Run time: 184 min.
Price: £11.97

Review The Masterworks of Silent Cinema: The Saga of Gosta Berling [1924] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Kino:


Review Fox / Curse of the Fly [1966]
Actors & Directors
  • Brian Donlevy
  • Burt Kwouk
  • Carole Gray
  • Yvette Rees
  • George Baker
  • Don Sharp
Release date: 2006-03-15
Run time: 82 min.
Creator: Harry Spalding
RRP: £17.99
Price: £23.99

Review Curse of the Fly [1966] / Fox:


Review New Concorde / Velocity [1960] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Carol Bigby
  • Harvey Berman
  • Georgianna Carter
  • Jack Nicholson
  • John Bologni
  • Robert Bean
Release date: 2000-09-26
Run time: 59 min.
Creator: Ann Porter
Price: £7.36

Review Velocity [1960] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / New Concorde:


Review Kino / 'It' Plus Clara Bow: Discovering the
Actors & Directors
  • Jacqueline Gadsden
  • Josef von Sternberg
  • Priscilla Bonner
  • Clara Bow
  • Hugh Munro Neely
  • Clarence G. Badger
  • William Austin
  • Antonio Moreno
Release date: 2002-08-06
Run time: 137 min.
Creator: Frederica Sagor
Price: £12.03

Review 'It' Plus Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl [1927] (NTSC) / Kino:


Review Walt Disney Video / Greyfriars Bobby [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Laurence Naismith
  • Alex Mackenzie
  • Gordon Jackson
  • Donald Crisp
  • Don Chaffey
  • Duncan Macrae
Release date: 2004-07-06
Run time: 87 min.
Creator: Robert Westerby
Price: £4.03

Review Greyfriars Bobby [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:

Greyfriars Bobby was released in 1961, the same year as The Absent-Minded Professor and The Parent Trap. Greyfriars Bobby epitomises the heart-on-its-sleeve sentimentality that was the special preserve of the Disney Studio. Based on a true story, the film follows the adventures of a wee Skye terrier who refuses to be separated from his master, even in death. Bobby sleeps on the old man's grave in the cemetery of Greyfriars church; he won't be driven away by Mr Brown, the groundskeeper (Donald Crisp), or adopted by Mr Trail (Laurence Naismith), the kindly restaurant owner. Bobby wins over both men, as well as the children in the neighbourhood tenements. When a priggish policeman charges Mr Trail with harbouring an unlicensed stray, the case becomes a tempest in a dog dish. Greyfriars Bobby offers handsome vistas of Edinburgh; however, even at 91 minutes the pace is meandering. Crisp and Naismith offer engaging performances as the reluctant friends (and rivals for Bobby's affection). Suitable for all ages. -Charles Solomon, Amazon. [+]
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Review Yume Pictures / The Silent Duel [1949]
Actors & Directors
  • Toshiro Mifune
  • Akira Kurosawa
Release date: 2007-10-22
Run time: 91 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £8.79

Review The Silent Duel [1949] / Yume Pictures:


Review Warner Home Video / Dillinger [1945] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Max Nosseck
  • Marc Lawrence
  • Elisha Cook Jr.
  • Anne Jeffreys
  • Eduardo Ciannelli
  • Edmund Lowe
Release date: 2005-07-05
Run time: 70 min.
Price: £9.18

Review Dillinger [1945] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who The Monster of Peladon [1974]
Actors & Directors
  • Patrick Troughton
  • Tom Baker
  • William Hartnell
  • Jon Pertwee
  • Peter Davison
Release date: 1995-12-27
Run time: 146 min.
Creator: Sydney Newman
RRP: £16.99
Price: £39.99

Review Doctor Who The Monster of Peladon [1974] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review MGM Entertainment / Judgment At Nuremberg [1961]
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Widmark
  • Stanley Kramer
  • Maximilian Schell
  • Burt Lancaster
  • Spencer Tracy
  • Marlene Dietrich
Release date: 2000-09-11
Run time: 178 min.
Creator: Abby Mann
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.49

Review Judgment At Nuremberg [1961] / MGM Entertainment:


Review MGM / Burn! [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Evaristo Márquez
  • Marlon Brando
  • Norman Hill
  • Gillo Pontecorvo
  • Dana Ghia
  • Renato Salvatori
Release date: 2005-11-08
Run time: 112 min.
Creator: Giorgio Arlorio
Price: £5.74

Review Burn! [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:


Review Walt Disney Home Video / 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (1954) (Disney)
Actors & Directors
  • Paul Lukas
  • Kirk Douglas
  • James Mason
  • Robert J. Wilke
  • Richard Fleischer
  • Peter Lorre
Release date: 2004-03-29
Run time: 118 min.
Creator: Jules Verne
RRP: £10.99
Price: £10.95

Review 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (1954) (Disney) / Walt Disney Home Video:

The swashbuckler genre bumped into science fiction in 1954 for one of Hollywood's great entertainments. The Jules Verne story of adventure under the sea was Walt Disney's magnificent debut into live-action films. A professor (Paul Lukas) seeks the truth about a legendary sea monster in the years just after the Civil War. When his ship is sunk, he, his aide (Peter Lorre), and a harpoon master (Kirk Douglas) survive to discover that the monster is actually a metal submarine run by Captain Nemo (James Mason). Along with the rollicking adventure, it's fun to see the future technology that Verne dreamed up in his novel, including diving equipment and sea farming. The film's physical prowess is anchored by the Nautilus, an impressive full-scale gothic submarine complete with red carpet and pipe organ. In the era of big sets, 20,000 Leagues set a precedent for films shot on the water and deservedly won Oscars for art direction and special effects. Lost in the inventiveness of the film and great set pieces including a giant squid attack are two great performances. Mason is the perfect Nemo, taut and private, clothed in dark fabric that counters the Technicolor dreamboat that is the beaming red-and-white-stripe-shirted Kirk Douglas as the heroic Ned Land. The film works as peerless family adventure nearly half a century later. [+]
-Doug Thomas The swashbuckler genre bumped into science fiction in 1954 for one of Hollywood's great entertainments, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. The Jules Verne story of adventure under the sea was Walt Disney's magnificent debut into live-action films. A professor (Paul Lukas) seeks the truth about a legendary sea monster in the years just after the Civil War. When his ship is sunk, he, his aide (Peter Lorre), and a harpoon master (Kirk Douglas) survive to discover that the monster is actually a metal submarine run by Captain Nemo (James Mason). Along with the rollicking adventure, it's fun to see the future technology that Verne dreamed up in his novel, including diving equipment and sea farming. The film's physical prowess is anchored by the Nautilus, an impressive full-scale gothic submarine complete with red carpet and pipe organ. In the era of big sets, 20,000 Leagues set a precedent for films shot on the water and deservedly won Oscars for art direction and special effects. Lost in the inventiveness of the film and great set pieces including a giant squid attack are two great performances. Mason is the perfect Nemo, taut and private, clothed in dark fabric that counters the Technicolor dreamboat that is the beaming red-and-white-stripe-shirted Kirk Douglas as the heroic Ned Land. The film works as peerless family adventure nearly half a century later. -Doug Thomas.

Review Alpha Video / The Wild Ride [1960] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jack Nicholson
  • Robert Bean
  • Georgianna Carter
  • Harvey Berman
Release date: 2005-02-22
Run time: 60 min.
Creator: Monte Hellman
Price: £4.89

Review The Wild Ride [1960] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Alpha Video:


Review Jigsaw Entertainment / Captain Kidd [1945]
Actors & Directors
  • Randolph Scott
  • Gilbert Roland
  • Barbara Britton
  • Rowland V. Lee
  • Charles Laughton
  • John Carradine
Release date: 2003-08-25
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Robert N. Lee
RRP: £4.99
Price: £0.69

Review Captain Kidd [1945] / Jigsaw Entertainment:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Patton [1969]
Actors & Directors
  • George C. Scott
  • Karl Malden
  • Stephen Young
  • Franklin J. Schaffner
  • Carey Loftin
  • Michael Strong
Release date: 1998-02-23
Run time: 162 min.
Creator: Omar N. Bradley
RRP: £9.99
Price: £7.75

Review Patton [1969] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

One of the greatest screen biographies ever produced, Patton is a monumental film that won seven Academy Awards and gave George C Scott the greatest role of his career. It was released in 1970 when protest against the Vietnam War still raged in the States and abroad. Inevitably, many critics and filmgoers struggled to reconcile the events of the day with the film's glorification of US General George S Patton as a crazy-brave genius of World War II; how could a film so huge in scope and so fascinated by its subject be considered an anti-war film? The simple truth is that it's not-Patton is less about World War II than about the rise and fall of a man whose life was literally defined by war and who felt lost and lonely without the grand-scale pursuit of an enemy. George C Scott embodies his role so fully, so convincingly, that we can't help but be drawn to and fascinated by Patton as a man who is simultaneously bound for hell and glory. The film's opening monologue alone is a masterful display of acting and character analysis and everything that follows is sheer brilliance on the part of Scott and director Franklin J Schaffner, aided in no small part by composer Jerry Goldsmith's masterfully understated score. Filmed on an epic scale at literally dozens of European locations, Patton does not embrace war as a noble pursuit, nor does it deny the reality of war as a breeding ground for heroes. Through the awesome achievement of Scott's performance and the film's grand ambition, General Patton shows all the complexities of a man who accepted his role in life and (like Scott) played it to the hilt. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. comOn the DVD: The widescreen print of the movie (which was originally filmed using a super-wide 70mm process called "Dimension 150") is handsomely presented on the first disc, with a remastered Dolby 5. 1 soundtrack. [+]
It is accompanied by a rather dry "Audio essay on the historical Patton" read by the president and founder of the General George S. Patton Jr. historical society. The second, supplementary disc carries a new and impressive 50-minute "making-of" documentary, with significant contributions from Fox president Richard Zanuck, as well as composer Jerry Goldsmith and Oliver Stone. Director Franklin J. Schaffner (who died in 1989) and star George C. Scott are heard in interviews from 1970. In the documentary, Stone provocatively complains that Patton glorified war and that President Nixon's enthusiasm for the movie was directly responsible for his decision to invade Cambodia. Also on this disc, in a separate audio-only track, is Jerry Goldsmith's magnificent music score-one of his greatest achievements-heard complete with studio session takes for the famous "Echoplex" trumpet figures. -Mark Walker.

Review Momentum Pictures / The Angry Silence [1960]
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Craig
  • Richard Attenborough
  • Alfred Burke
  • Guy Green
  • Bernard Lee
  • Pier Angeli
Release date: 2001-06-25
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Richard Gregson
RRP: £9.99
Price: £10.79

Review The Angry Silence [1960] / Momentum Pictures:


Review Image Entertainment / Germany Year Zero [1947] (REGION 1) (NTSC) [1949]
Actors & Directors
  • Barbara Hintz
  • Ernst Pittschau
  • Ingetraud Hinze
  • Edmund Moeschke
  • Franz-Otto Krüger
  • Erich Gühne
Release date: 2002-10-08
Run time: 78 min.
Price: £8.41

Review Germany Year Zero [1947] (REGION 1) (NTSC) [1949] / Image Entertainment:


Review Paramount / Gunsmoke: The Complete First Season (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Gary Nelson
  • Hank Patterson
  • Charles Marquis Warren
  • Tom Brown
  • James Arness
  • Milburn Stone
  • Antony Ellis
  • Harry Horner
  • Clyde Ware
  • Dabbs Greer
Release date: 2007-07-17
Run time: 1051 min.
Price: £20.66

Review Gunsmoke: The Complete First Season (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Paramount:


Review Connoisseur Video / The Immortal Story [1968]
Actors & Directors
  • Roger Coggio
  • Fernando Rey
  • Jeanne Moreau
  • Orson Welles
  • Orson Welles
  • Norman Eshley
Release date: 1996-03-18
Run time: 55 min.
Creator: Louise de Vilmorin
Price: £12.99

Review The Immortal Story [1968] / Connoisseur Video:


Review Criterion / Young Mr. Lincoln [1939] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • John Ford
  • Alice Brady
  • Arleen Whelan
  • Eddie Collins
  • Henry Fonda
  • Marjorie Weaver
Release date: 2006-02-14
Run time: 100 min.
Creator: Lamar Trotti
Price: £17.55

Review Young Mr. Lincoln [1939] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Criterion:


Models & Brands:
The Outer Limits, Vol. 3: Original Series (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Masterworks of Silent Cinema: The Saga of Gosta Berling [1924] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Curse of the Fly [1966], Velocity [1960] (REGION 1) (NTSC), 'It' Plus Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl [1927] (NTSC), Greyfriars Bobby [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Silent Duel [1949], Dillinger [1945] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Doctor Who The Monster of Peladon [1974], Judgment At Nuremberg [1961], Burn! [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC), 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (1954) (Disney), The Wild Ride [1960] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Captain Kidd [1945], Patton [1969], The Angry Silence [1960], Germany Year Zero [1947] (REGION 1) (NTSC) [1949], Gunsmoke: The Complete First Season (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Immortal Story [1968], Young Mr. Lincoln [1939] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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