Review, buy Drama: Astaire & Rogers Collection, Volume 1 (REGION 1) (NTSC), Daniella by Night [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC), A Streetcar Named Desire [1951] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Manxman [1929] (NTSC), My Darling Clementine [1946] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Scared To Death [1947], Thunder Rock [1943], Third Man on the Mountain [1959] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Sunset Boulevard [1950] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Dr. Sex/Wanda the Sadistic Hynotist (REGION 1) (NTSC), If... [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Party Girl [1930], The Singer, Not The Song, Marriage Italian Style [1964] (REGION 1), Open Secret [1948], A&E: Secret Agent aka Danger Man - The Complete Collection [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC), On Christmas Eve - A Magical Christmas Story [1992], Sweet Ecstasy [1962] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Corpse Vanishes [1942], Margin for Error & A Royal Scandal [1943]

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Review Warner Home Video / Astaire & Rogers Collection, Volume 1 (REGION 1) (NTSC)

Astaire & Rogers Collection, Volume 1 (REGION 1) (NTSC) (Warner Home Video)

Actors & Directors

Bill Thompson
Ginger Rogers
Charles Walters
Erik Rhodes
Fred Astaire
Edward Everett Horton
George Stevens
Friz Freleng
Joseph Henabery
Edward L. Cahn

Release date: 2005-08-16
Run time: 532 min.
Price: £32.21

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Review First Run Features / Daniella by Night [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

Daniella by Night [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC) (First Run Features)

Actors & Directors

Max Pécas
Danik Patisson
Ivan Desny
Helmut Schmid
Elke Sommer
Käthe Haack

Release date: 2000-03-14
Run time: 83 min.
Creator: Grisha Dabat
Price: £13.43

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Review Warner Home Video / A Streetcar Named Desire [1951] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

A Streetcar Named Desire [1951] (REGION 1) (NTSC) (Warner Home Video)

Actors & Directors

Rudy Bond
Elia Kazan
Kim Hunter
Marlon Brando
Karl Malden
Vivien Leigh

Release date: 1997-03-26
Run time: 122 min.
Creator: Oscar Saul

Review A Streetcar Named Desire [1951] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:

Looking for a benchmark in movie acting? Breakthrough performances don't come much more electrifying than Marlon Brando's animalistic turn as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire. Sweaty, brutish, mumbling, yet with the balanced grace of a prize-fighter, Brando storms through the role-a role he had originated in the Broadway production of Tennessee Williams's celebrated play. Stanley and his wife, Stella (as in Brando's oft-mimicked line, "Hey, Stellaaaaaa!"), are the earthy couple in New Orleans's French Quarter whose lives are upended by the arrival of Stella's sister, Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh). Blanche, a disturbed, lyrical, faded Southern belle, is immediately drawn into a battle of wills with Stanley, beautifully captured in the differing styles of the two actors. This extraordinarily fine adaptation won acting Oscars for Leigh, Kim Hunter (as Stella) and Karl Malden (as Blanche's clueless suitor), but not for Brando. Although it had already been considerably cleaned up from the daringly adult stage play, director Elia Kazan was forced to trim a few of the franker scenes he had shot. In 1993, Streetcar was re-released in a "director's cut" that restored these moments, deepening a film that had already secured its place as an essential American work. -Robert Horton.

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Review Delta / The Manxman [1929] (NTSC)

The Manxman [1929] (NTSC) (Delta)

Actors & Directors

Carl Brisson
Alfred Hitchcock
Randle Ayrton
Malcolm Keen
Anny Ondra
Clare Greet

Release date: 1999-07-24
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Hall Caine
Price: £12.95

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Review 20th Century Fox / My Darling Clementine [1946] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

My Darling Clementine [1946] (REGION 1) (NTSC) (20th Century Fox)

Actors & Directors

Linda Darnell
Victor Mature
Walter Brennan
Henry Fonda
Cathy Downs
John Ford

Release date: 2004-01-06
Run time: 97 min.
Creator: Sam Hellman
Price: £6.78

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Scared To Death [1947] (Network)

Actors & Directors

George Zucco
Christy Cabanne
Nat Pendleton
Molly Lamont
Bela Lugosi
Angelo Rossitto

Release date: 2009-01-19
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: ~~£3.99~~
Price: £2.98

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Review 2 Entertain Video / Thunder Rock [1943]

Thunder Rock [1943] (2 Entertain Video)

Actors & Directors

James Mason
Lilli Palmer
Roy Boulting
Finlay Currie
Michael Redgrave
Barbara Mullen

Release date: 2003-06-30
Run time: 110 min.
RRP: ~~£9.99~~
Price: £23.99

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Review Walt Disney Video / Third Man on the Mountain [1959] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

Third Man on the Mountain [1959] (REGION 1) (NTSC) (Walt Disney Video)

Actors & Directors

Herbert Lom
James MacArthur
Ken Annakin
James Donald
Michael Rennie
Janet Munro

Release date: 2004-09-07
Run time: 105 min.
Creator: Walt Disney
Price: £7.12

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Review Paramount / Sunset Boulevard [1950] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

Sunset Boulevard [1950] (REGION 1) (NTSC) (Paramount)

Actors & Directors

Billy Wilder
William Holden
Gloria Swanson
Nancy Olson
Erich von Stroheim
Fred Clark

Release date: 2008-11-11
Run time: 110 min.
Creator: D.M. Marshman Jr.
Price: £11.97

Review Sunset Boulevard [1950] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Paramount:

More than half a century after its release in 1950, Sunset Boulevard is still the most pungently unflattering portrait of Hollywood ever committed to celluloid. Billy Wilder, unequalled at combining a literate, sulphurous script with taut direction, hits his target relentlessly. The humour-and the film is rich in this, Wilder's most abundant commodity-is black indeed. Sunset Boulevard is viciously and endlessly clever. William Holden's opportunistic scriptwriter Joe Gillis, whose sellout proves fatal, is from the top drawer of film noir. Gloria Swanson's monstrously deluded Norma Desmond, the benchmark for washed-up divas, transcends parody. And her literal descent down the staircase to madness is one of the all-time great silver-screen moments. Sunset Boulevard isn't without pathos, most notably in Erich von Stroheim's protective butler who wants only to shield his mistress from the stark truths that are massing against her. But its view of human beings at work in a ruthlessly cannibalistic industry is bleak indeed. Nobody, not even Nancy Olson's sparkily ambitious writer Betty Schaefer, is untainted. [+]

And neither are we, "those wonderful people out there in the dark". Norma might be ready for her close-up, but it's really Hollywood that's in the frame. No wonder Wilder incurred the charge of treachery from his peers. It's cinematic perfection. On the DVD: Sunset Boulevard lends itself effortlessly to a collector's edition of this quality. The film itself is presented in full-frame aspect ratio from an excellent print and the quality of the mono soundtrack is faultless: the silver screen comes to life in your living room. The extras are superb, including a commentary from film historian Ed Sikov and a making-of documentary which includes the memories of Nancy Olson. Interactive features such as the Hollywood location map add to the fun. -Piers Ford.

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