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Review Warner Home Video / The Signature Collection: Ronald Reagan [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Lloyd Bacon
  • Chuck Jones
  • Ann Sheridan
  • Robert Cummings
  • Patricia Neal
  • Jean Negulesco
  • Pat O'Brien
  • Ronald Reagan
  • Friz Freleng
  • Lewis Seiler
Release date: 2006-08-15
Run time: 513 min.
Price: £26.88

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Review Passport / The Bela Lugosi Box: 15 Frightful Films [1940]
Actors & Directors
  • Edward D. Wood Jr.
  • Madge Bellamy
  • Christy Cabanne
  • Jean Yarbrough
  • Edwin L. Marin
  • Edward D. Wood Jr.
  • George Zucco
  • Ray Taylor
  • Molly Lamont
  • Bela Lugosi
Release date: 2006-09-05
Run time: 1034 min.
Price: £9.00

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Review Secondrun / Intimate Lighting [1969] [1967]
Actors & Directors
  • Zdenek Bezusek
  • Karel Blazek
  • Ivan Passer
  • Vera Kresadlová
  • Dagmar Redinová
  • Miroslav Cvrk
Release date: 2006-01-30
Run time: 72 min.
Creator: Václav Sasek
RRP: £12.99
Price: £9.00

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Review Paramount / The Carpetbaggers [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Cummings
  • Edward Dmytryk
  • Alan Ladd
  • George Peppard
  • Martha Hyer
  • Elizabeth Ashley
Release date: 2003-04-22
Run time: 150 min.
Price: £57.95

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Review Columbia TriStar / Easy Rider [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Dennis Hopper
  • Phil Spector
  • Antonio Mendoza
  • Peter Fonda
  • Dennis Hopper
  • Jack Nicholson
Release date: 2002-06-04
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: Terry Southern
Price: £6.46

Review Easy Rider [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:

This box-office hit from 1969 is an important pioneer of the American independent cinema movement, and a generational touchstone to boot. Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper play hippie motorcyclists crossing the Southwest and encountering a crazy quilt of good and bad people. Jack Nicholson turns up in a significant role as an attorney who joins their quest for awhile and articulates society's problem with freedom as Fonda's and Hopper's characters embody it. Hopper directed, essentially bringing the no-frills filmmaking methods of legendary, drive-in movie producer Roger Corman (The Little Shop of Horrors) to a serious feature for the mainstream. The film can't help but look a bit dated now (a psychedelic sequence toward the end particularly doesn't hold up well) but it retains its original power, sense of daring and epochal impact. - Tom Keogh, Amazon. com.

Review Paramount / The Rainmaker [1956] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Burt Lancaster
  • Joseph Anthony (II)
  • Katharine Hepburn
  • Lloyd Bridges
  • Earl Holliman
  • Wendell Corey
Release date: 2005-07-12
Run time: 121 min.
Price: £6.38

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Review Instant Vision Ltd / Judge Priest [1934]
Actors & Directors
  • Will Rogers
  • Tom Brown
  • David Landau
  • John Ford
  • Henry B. Walthall
  • Anita Louise
Release date: 2004-02-02
Run time: 71 min.
Creator: Lamar Trotti
RRP: £9.99
Price: £1.90

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Review Image Entertainment / One Shocking Moment/The Abnormal Female/The Maidens of Fetish Street [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Lee Anna
  • Ted V. Mikels
  • Saul Resnick
  • George Raders
  • Maureen Gaffney
  • Phillip Brady
  • Jerry Fitzpatrick
  • Dick Bing
Release date: 2006-09-12
Run time: 193 min.
Creator: Martin Lathrop
Price: £6.94

Review One Shocking Moment/The Abnormal Female/The Maidens of Fetish Street [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte [1962]
Actors & Directors
  • Joseph Cotten
  • Bette Davis
  • Olivia De Havilland
  • Agnes Moorehead
  • Cecil Kellaway
  • Robert Aldrich
Release date: 1989-11-14
Run time: 132 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £7.00

Review Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte [1962] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Actors & Directors
  • cliff richard
  • Irene Browne
  • Percy Herbert
  • Anthony Quayle
  • Andrew Ray
Run time: 95 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £10.99

Review Serious Charge [1959] / Entertainment Today Ltd.:


Review Momentum Pictures / La Dolce Vita [1960]
Actors & Directors
  • Anouk Aimée
  • Magali Noël
  • Federico Fellini
  • Marcello Mastroianni
  • Yvonne Furneaux
  • Anita Ekberg
Release date: 2000-01-17
Run time: 167 min.
Creator: Tullio Pinelli
RRP: £15.99
Price: £4.99

Review La Dolce Vita [1960] / Momentum Pictures:

At three brief hours, Fellini's cynical, engrossing social commentary, La Dolce Vita, stands as his timeless masterpiece. A rich, detailed panorama of Rome's modern decadence and sophisticated immorality, the film is episodic in structure but held tightly in focus by the wandering protagonist through whom we witness the sordid action. Marcello Rubini is a tabloid reporter trapped in a shallow high-society existence, as extraordinarily played by Marcello Mastroianni, a man of paradoxical, emotional juxtapositions: cool but tortured, sexy but impotent. He dreams about writing something important but remains seduced by the money and prestige that accompany his shallow position. He romanticises about finding true love but acts unfazed upon finding that his girlfriend has taken an overdose of sleeping pills. Instead, he engages in a ménage à trois, then frolics in a fountain with a giggling American starlet (bombshell Anita Ekberg), and in the film's unforgettably inspired finale, attends a wild orgy that ends, symbolically with its participants finding a rotting sea animal while wandering the beach at dawn. Fellini saw his film as life affirming (thus its title, "The Sweet Life"), but it's impossible to take him seriously. While Mastroianni drifts from one worldly pleasure to another, be it sex, drink, glamorous parties or rich foods, they are presented, through his detached eyes, as merely momentary distractions. His existence, an endless series of wild evenings and lonely mornings, is ultimately soulless and facile. Because he lacks the courage to change, Mastroianni is left with no alternative but to wearily accept and enjoy this "sweet" life. [+]
-Dave McCoy, Amazon. com.

Review 20th Century Fox / The Day the Earth Stood Still [1951] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Billy Gray
  • Sam Jaffe
  • Hugh Marlowe
  • Patricia Neal
  • Michael Rennie
  • Robert Wise
Release date: 2003-03-04
Run time: 92 min.
Creator: Edmund H. North
Price: £6.72

Review The Day the Earth Stood Still [1951] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:

The very epitome of a cult SF classic, The Day the Earth Stood Still is more often referenced than seen, which is a pity since it remains even now one of the most thought-provoking examples of the genre. The title is a misnomer, a mere tease to entice 1950s audiences into the cinema in the expectation of seeing another sensationalist B-movie about murderous aliens (i. e. Communists). In fact, Robert Wise's film of Edmund North's screenplay is a thoughtful Cold War allegory about a Christ-like visitor (Michael Rennie) who comes to Earth preaching a message of salvation for mankind, only to be spurned, killed then finally resurrected (significantly, Rennie's character Klaatu adopts the pseudonym "Mr Carpenter" while on the run from the authorities). Aside from its philosophical message, the film also boasts memorable imagery-notably the giant robot Gort-a much-quoted catchphrase in "Klaatu barada nikto", and one of composer Bernard Herrmann's most admired scores, featuring the theremin and other electronic instruments that must have sounded very otherworldly back in 1951. The result is a bona fide landmark in cinema SF with a central message about "weapons of mass destruction" that's still uncannily relevant today. On the DVD: The Day the Earth Stood Still has been splendidly restored for its DVD incarnation from the original 35 mm print, and the results are demonstrated in the "Restoration Comparison" feature. Also included is a fascinating 1951 newsreel showing Klaatu receiving a certificate of merit amid stories of Communist threats, the Korean war and beauty pageants ("Pomp and pulchritude on parade in Atlantic City"). Best of all is an absorbing commentary track with director Robert Wise in conversation with Nicholas Meyer (both men have Star Trek movies on their CV). [+]
-Mark Walker.

Review Warner Home Video / The Roaring Twenties [1939] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • James Cagney
  • Raoul Walsh
  • Lloyd French
  • Priscilla Lane
  • Tex Avery
  • Humphrey Bogart
  • Jeffrey Lynn
  • Gladys George
Release date: 2005-01-25
Run time: 106 min.
Creator: Dave Monahan
Price: £9.19

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Review Warner Home Video / The FBI Story [1959] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Vera Miles
  • Mervyn LeRoy
  • Nick Adams
  • James Stewart
  • Murray Hamilton
  • Larry Pennell
Release date: 2006-08-15
Run time: 149 min.
Price: £9.53

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Review Turner Home Entertainment / Angel Face [1953] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Otto Preminger
  • Herbert Marshall
  • Leon Ames
  • Jean Simmons
  • Mona Freeman
  • Robert Mitchum
Release date: 2007-01-23
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: Oscar Millard
Price: £9.39

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Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who The Green Death [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Tom Baker
  • Jon Pertwee
  • Peter Davison
  • Patrick Troughton
  • William Hartnell
Release date: 1996-10-07
Run time: 154 min.
Creator: Sydney Newman
RRP: £16.99
Price: £6.98

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Review 20th Century Fox / The Grapes of Wrath [1940] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Charley Grapewin
  • John Carradine
  • Henry Fonda
  • Jane Darwell
  • John Ford
  • Dorris Bowdon
Release date: 2004-04-06
Run time: 128 min.
Creator: Nunnally Johnson
Price: £6.43

Review The Grapes of Wrath [1940] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:


Review Delta / Sabotage/The Lodger [1927] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Oskar Homolka
  • Robert Young
  • Alfred Hitchcock
  • John Gielgud
  • Sylvia Sidney
  • Madeleine Carroll
Release date: 1999-07-24
Run time: 165 min.
Creator: Ian Hay

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Review Image Entertainment / Combat: Season 5 - Invasion 1 (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Georg Fenady
  • Vic Morrow
  • Bernard McEveety
  • Steven Rogers
  • Pierre Jalbert
  • Boris Sagal
  • Byron Paul
  • Burt Kennedy
  • Rick Jason
  • Shecky Greene
Release date: 2005-08-30
Run time: 660 min.
Price: £17.77

Review Combat: Season 5 - Invasion 1 (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / Ziegfeld Girl [1941] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Hedy Lamarr
  • Lana Turner
  • Tony Martin
  • Robert Z. Leonard
  • James Stewart
  • Judy Garland
Release date: 2004-04-06
Run time: 132 min.
Price: £9.96

Review Ziegfeld Girl [1941] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Models & Brands:
The Signature Collection: Ronald Reagan [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Bela Lugosi Box: 15 Frightful Films [1940], Intimate Lighting [1969] [1967], The Carpetbaggers [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Easy Rider [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Rainmaker [1956] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Judge Priest [1934], One Shocking Moment/The Abnormal Female/The Maidens of Fetish Street [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte [1962], Serious Charge [1959], La Dolce Vita [1960], The Day the Earth Stood Still [1951] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Roaring Twenties [1939] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The FBI Story [1959] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Angel Face [1953] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Doctor Who The Green Death [1963], The Grapes of Wrath [1940] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Sabotage/The Lodger [1927] (NTSC), Combat: Season 5 - Invasion 1 (REGION 1) (NTSC), Ziegfeld Girl [1941] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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