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Review Warner Home Video / Baby Doll [DVD] [1956] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Elia Kazan
  • Mildred Dunnock
  • Carroll Baker
  • Lonny Chapman
  • Eli Wallach
  • Karl Malden
Release date: 2006-05-02
Run time: 114 min.
Creator: Tennessee Williams
Price: £8.92

Review Baby Doll [DVD] [1956] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / Warner Home Video:


Review Image Entertainment / Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley [DVD] [1918] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Ida Waterman
  • Kate Price
  • William Scott
  • Mary Pickford
  • Marshall Neilan
  • Norman Kerry
Release date: 2000-01-25
Run time: 67 min.
Creator: Frances Marion
Price: £13.11

Review Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley [DVD] [1918] [US Import] [NTSC] / Image Entertainment:


Review MGM Entertainment / The Bridge At Remagen [VHS] [1968]
Actors & Directors
  • Bradford Dillman
  • John Guillermin
  • Robert Vaughn
  • George Segal
  • Ben Gazzara
  • E.G. Marshall
Release date: 2000-05-29
Run time: 112 min.
Creator: William Roberts
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.89

Review The Bridge At Remagen [VHS] [1968] / MGM Entertainment:

Fine casting, rugged characters and authentic military detail make The Bridge at Remagen one of the best World War II action films of the 1960s. Based on actual incidents during the final Allied advance on Germany in March 1945, the story focuses on the US Army's exhausted 27th Armoured Infantry, assigned to seize the bridge at Remagen, on the Rhine river, to prevent 50,000 German troops from retreating to safety. Lt Hartman (George Segal) leads the mission, while a Nazi major (Robert Vaughn) defies orders by attempting to hold the bridge instead of blowing it up. With strong emphasis on war's harsher realities, the film's compelling characters illustrate the camaraderie of survivors and the heroism of mavericks in the thick of battle. Segal and Ben Gazzara effectively convey a hard-won friendship, and the film's dynamic action (filmed in Czechoslovakia and Italy) never overwhelms the story's emotional impact. This is highly recommended. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com.

Review Warner Home Video / The Val Lewton Horror Collection [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Margaret Landry
  • James Bell
  • Isabel Jewell
  • Margo
  • Jean Brooks (II)
  • Val Lewton
Release date: 2005-10-04
Run time: 646 min.
Creator: Jean Brooks (II)
Price: £28.70

Review The Val Lewton Horror Collection [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / Warner Home Video:


Review Delta Visual Entertainment / The Stranger [VHS] [1946]
Actors & Directors
  • Edward G. Robinson
  • Philip Merivale
  • Loretta Young
  • Orson Welles
  • Richard Long
  • Orson Welles
Release date: 1999-09-13
Run time: 101 min.
Creator: Victor Trivas
RRP: £4.99
Price: £1.84

Review The Stranger [VHS] [1946] / Delta Visual Entertainment:

The Stranger, according to Orson Welles, "is the worst of my films. There is nothing of me in that picture. I did it to prove that I could put out a movie as well as anyone else. " True, set beside Citizen Kane, Touch of Evil, or even The Trial, The Stranger is as close to production-line stuff as the great Orson ever came. But even on autopilot Welles still leaves most filmmakers standing. The shadow of the Second World War hangs heavy over the plot. A war crimes investigator, played by Edward G Robinson, tracks down a senior Nazi, Franz Kindler, to a sleepy New England town where he's living in concealment as a respected college professor. The script, credited to Anthony Veiller but with uncredited input from Welles and John Huston, is riddled with implausibilities: we're asked to believe, for a start, that there'd be no extant photos of a top Nazi leader. The casting's badly skewed, too. Welles wanted Agnes Moorehead as the investigator and Robinson as Kindler, but his producer, Sam Spiegel, wouldn't wear it. [+]
So Welles himself plays the supposedly cautious and self-effacing fugitive-and if there was one thing Welles could never play, it was unobtrusive. What's more, Spiegel chopped out most of the two opening reels set in South America, in Welles' view, "the best stuff in the picture". Still, the film's far from a write-off. Welles' eye for stunning visuals rarely deserted him and, aided by Russell Metty's skewed, shadowy photography, The Stranger builds to a doomy grand guignol climax in a clock tower that Hitchcock must surely have recalled when he made Vertigo. And Robinson, dogged in pursuit, is as quietly excellent as ever. On the DVD: not much in the way of extras, except a waffly full-length commentary from Russell Cawthorne that tells us about the history of clock-making and where Edward G was buried, but precious little about the making of the film. Print and sound are acceptable, but though remastering is claimed, there's little evidence of it. -Philip Kemp.

Review Criterion / The Naked City [DVD] [1948] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Don Taylor
  • Barry Fitzgerald
  • Frank Conroy
  • Jules Dassin
  • Howard Duff
  • Dorothy Hart
Release date: 2007-03-20
Run time: 96 min.
Creator: Mark Hellinger
Price: £17.72

Review The Naked City [DVD] [1948] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / Criterion:


Review MGM Entertainment / The Bridge At Remagen [VHS] [1968]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Vaughn
  • Bradford Dillman
  • E.G. Marshall
  • John Guillermin
  • Ben Gazzara
  • George Segal
Release date: 2000-05-29
Run time: 112 min.
Creator: William Roberts
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.89

Review The Bridge At Remagen [VHS] [1968] / MGM Entertainment:

Fine casting, rugged characters and authentic military detail make The Bridge at Remagen one of the best World War II action films of the 1960s. Based on actual incidents during the final Allied advance on Germany in March 1945, the story focuses on the US Army's exhausted 27th Armoured Infantry, assigned to seize the bridge at Remagen, on the Rhine river, to prevent 50,000 German troops from retreating to safety. Lt Hartman (George Segal) leads the mission, while a Nazi major (Robert Vaughn) defies orders by attempting to hold the bridge instead of blowing it up. With strong emphasis on war's harsher realities, the film's compelling characters illustrate the camaraderie of survivors and the heroism of mavericks in the thick of battle. Segal and Ben Gazzara effectively convey a hard-won friendship, and the film's dynamic action (filmed in Czechoslovakia and Italy) never overwhelms the story's emotional impact. This is highly recommended. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com.

Review MGM / The Devil's Brigade [DVD] [1968] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Andrew V. McLaglen
  • William Holden
  • Jeremy Slate
  • Vince Edwards
  • Andrew Prine
  • Cliff Robertson
Release date: 2002-05-07
Run time: 130 min.
Creator: William Roberts
Price: £5.03

Review The Devil's Brigade [DVD] [1968] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / MGM:


Review Criterion / Beauty and the Beast [DVD] [1946] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Josette Day
  • Michel Auclair
  • Mila Parély
  • Jean Marais
  • Nane Germon
  • René Clément
  • Jean Cocteau
Release date: 2003-02-11
Run time: 93 min.
Creator: André Paulvé
Price: £18.58

Review Beauty and the Beast [DVD] [1946] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / Criterion:

La Belle et La Bete is one of the all-time great movie fantasies, and one of the most gorgeous pictures ever made. It was the first feature film by French director Jean Cocteau, a writer, poet and painter with ties to the surrealists. (In fact, his first film, The Blood of a Poet, was delayed after the scandal caused by L'Age D'Or, made by his fellow surrealists Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali. ) The haunting, surreal visuals (candelabra made of human hands, for example) and a sensitive performance by Jean Marais as the Beast imbue the film with an indelible, mythical power. -Jim Emerson, Amazon. com.

Review Alpha Video / Never Too Late to Mend [DVD] [1937] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • David MacDonald
  • Ian Colin
  • Jack Livesey
  • Laurence Hanray
  • Marjorie Taylor
  • Tod Slaughter
Release date: 2005-01-25
Run time: 70 min.
Creator: H.F. Maltby
Price: £2.45

Review Never Too Late to Mend [DVD] [1937] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / Alpha Video:


Review Warner Home Video / Never So Few [DVD] [1959] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Gina Lollobrigida
  • Richard Johnson
  • Frank Sinatra
  • John Sturges
  • Peter Lawford
  • Steve McQueen
Release date: 2005-05-31
Run time: 125 min.
Creator: Tom T. Chamales
Price: £7.00

Review Never So Few [DVD] [1959] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / Warner Home Video:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Guadalcanal Diary [DVD] [1943]
Actors & Directors
  • Preston Foster
  • Lewis Seiler
  • William Bendix
  • Richard Conte
  • Lloyd Nolan
  • Anthony Quinn
Release date: 2006-04-17
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Lloyd Nolan
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.71

Review Guadalcanal Diary [DVD] [1943] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review Columbia TriStar / Easy Rider [DVD] [1969] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Antonio Mendoza
  • Phil Spector
  • Jack Nicholson
  • Dennis Hopper
  • Peter Fonda
  • Dennis Hopper
Release date: 2002-06-04
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: Terry Southern
Price: £5.47

Review Easy Rider [DVD] [1969] [Region 1] [US Import] [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 Criterion / Beauty and the Beast [DVD] [1946] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Jean Cocteau
  • Michel Auclair
  • René Clément
  • Jean Marais
  • Mila Parély
  • Nane Germon
  • Josette Day
Release date: 2003-02-11
Run time: 93 min.
Creator: André Paulvé
Price: £18.58

Review Beauty and the Beast [DVD] [1946] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / Criterion:

La Belle et La Bete is one of the all-time great movie fantasies, and one of the most gorgeous pictures ever made. It was the first feature film by French director Jean Cocteau, a writer, poet and painter with ties to the surrealists. (In fact, his first film, The Blood of a Poet, was delayed after the scandal caused by L'Age D'Or, made by his fellow surrealists Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali. ) The haunting, surreal visuals (candelabra made of human hands, for example) and a sensitive performance by Jean Marais as the Beast imbue the film with an indelible, mythical power. -Jim Emerson, Amazon. com.

Review Kino / House By the River [DVD] [1950] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Lee Bowman
  • Jane Wyatt
  • Louis Hayward
  • Ann Shoemaker
  • Fritz Lang
  • Dorothy Patrick
Release date: 2005-11-22
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: Robert Peters
Price: £10.87

Review House By the River [DVD] [1950] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / Kino:


Review Paramount / Funeral in Berlin [DVD] [1966] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Caine
  • Eva Renzi
  • Paul Hubschmid
  • Guy Hamilton
  • Guy Doleman
  • Oskar Homolka
Release date: 2001-08-14
Run time: 102 min.
Creator: Paul Hubschmid
Price: £88.95

Review Funeral in Berlin [DVD] [1966] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / Paramount:

Funeral in Berlin (1967) is the sequel to 1965's The Ipcress File, again featuring Michael Caine as reluctant spy Harry Palmer. It was clearly the filmmakers' intention to make Palmer a harder-nosed James Bond, and director Guy Hamilton was brought to this project in between Goldfinger and Diamonds Are Forever for that purpose. There's espionage intrigue, easy women (Eva Renzi as Samantha Steel), and gunplay. But without the gadgetry, one-liners, or even the John Barry score of the first movie, the Bond comparison runs dry. Against the backdrop of a bombed-out industrial wasteland that was Berlin in the mid-Sixties, Palmer is sent to facilitate the defection of Col. Stock (Oscar Homolka). Numerous sub-plots weave together involving indifferent chief Ross (Guy Doleman from IPCRESS), mission aide Johnnie Volkon (Paul Hubschmid), and the untrustworthy Kreutzman (Günter Meisner, who was more memorable as Slugworth in Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory). It all comes down to revealing who's working for whom and who's really defecting in the set-piece funeral of the title. The main reason the series continued (Ken Russell's OTT Billion Dollar Brain came next) was the commanding presence of Caine. It's fun to hear him try German, and he manages a few subtle comic gems, such as when a waiter asks "Bitte mein heir?" and he replies, "No. [+]
Lager please", but the best moment of characterisation recalling the womanising Palmer of Len Deighton's novels is the put down guaranteed to win any woman: "You're useless in the kitchen. Why don't you go back to bed?" -Paul Tonks.

Review Guillotine Films / Be My Guest [DVD] [1965] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • David Healy
  • Steve Marriott
  • Monica Evans
  • Avril Angers
  • Joyce Blair
Release date: 2005-09-27
Run time: 80 min.
Creator: Malcolm Lockyer
Price: £9.41

Review Be My Guest [DVD] [1965] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / Guillotine Films:


Review Warner Home Video / Lust for Life [DVD] [1956] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Vincente Minnelli
  • Anthony Quinn
  • James Donald
  • George Cukor
  • Everett Sloane
  • Pamela Brown
  • Kirk Douglas
Release date: 2006-01-31
Run time: 122 min.
Creator: Norman Corwin
Price: £8.58

Review Lust for Life [DVD] [1956] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / Warner Home Video:


Review First Run Features / Hot Summer [DVD] [1967] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Hanns-Michael Schmidt
  • Regine Albrecht
  • Frank Schöbel
  • Madeleine Lierck
  • Joachim Hasler
  • Chris Doerk
Release date: 2001-09-18
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: Maurycy Janowski
Price: £12.73

Review Hot Summer [DVD] [1967] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / First Run Features:


Review Rank / The Rake's Progress (1945)
Actors & Directors
  • Lilli Palmer
  • Sydney Gilliat
  • Rex Harrison
Run time: 116 min.

Review The Rake's Progress (1945) / Rank:

Video Collection - Movie Greats. Harrison is great as the despicable hedonist who over the course of the film learns about love and patriotism.

Models & Brands:
Baby Doll [DVD] [1956] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley [DVD] [1918] [US Import] [NTSC], The Bridge At Remagen [VHS] [1968], The Val Lewton Horror Collection [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], The Stranger [VHS] [1946], The Naked City [DVD] [1948] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], The Bridge At Remagen [VHS] [1968], The Devil's Brigade [DVD] [1968] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], Beauty and the Beast [DVD] [1946] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], Never Too Late to Mend [DVD] [1937] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], Never So Few [DVD] [1959] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], Guadalcanal Diary [DVD] [1943], Easy Rider [DVD] [1969] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], Beauty and the Beast [DVD] [1946] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], House By the River [DVD] [1950] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], Funeral in Berlin [DVD] [1966] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], Be My Guest [DVD] [1965] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], Lust for Life [DVD] [1956] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], Hot Summer [DVD] [1967] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], The Rake's Progress (1945)

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