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Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The Robe [1953]
Actors & Directors
  • Dean Jagger
  • Henry Koster
  • Jean Simmons
  • Michael Rennie
  • Victor Mature
  • Richard Burton
Release date: 2007-03-26
Run time: 128 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.98

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Review MGM Entertainment / The Misfits [1961]
Actors & Directors
  • Eli Wallach
  • Montgomery Clift
  • John Huston
  • Estelle Winwood
  • Marilyn Monroe
  • Clark Gable
Release date: 2001-11-26
Run time: 120 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £2.99

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Review Nouveaux Pictures / Vivre Sa Vie [1962]
Actors & Directors
  • Anna Karina
  • Sady Rebbot
  • Jean-Luc Godard
Release date: 2005-03-14
Run time: 85 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £6.76

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Review Bfi Video / Partie De Campagne [1936]
Actors & Directors
  • Jane Marken
  • Sylvia Bataille
  • D'Arnoux Georges
  • Jean Renoir
Release date: 2003-08-25
Run time: 39 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £7.97

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Review Universal Pictures UK / The Quiet Man [1952]
Actors & Directors
  • John Wayne
  • John Ford
  • Ward Bond
  • Maureen O'Hara
  • Barry Fitzgerald
  • Victor McLaglen
Release date: 2001-01-15
Run time: 129 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £26.95

Review The Quiet Man [1952] / Universal Pictures UK:

Blarney and bliss, mixed in equal proportions. John Wayne plays an American boxer who returns to the Emerald Isle, his native land. What he finds there is a fiery prospective spouse (Maureen O'Hara) and a country greener than any Ireland seen before or since-it's no surprise The Quiet Man won an Oscar for cinematography. It also won an Oscar for John Ford's direction, his fourth such award. The film was a deeply personal project for Ford (whose birth name was Sean Aloysius O'Fearna), and he lavished all of his affection for the Irish landscape and Irish people on this film. He also stages perhaps the greatest donnybrook in the history of movies, an epic fistfight between Wayne and the truculent Victor McLaglen-that's Ford's brother, Francis, as the elderly man on his deathbed who miraculously revives when he hears word of the dustup. Barry Fitzgerald, the original Irish elf, gets the movie's biggest laugh when he walks into the newlyweds' bedroom the morning after their wedding and spots a broken bed. The look on his face says everything. The Quiet Man isn't the real Ireland but as a delicious never-never land of Ford's imagination, it will do very nicely. -Robert Horton Blarney and bliss, mixed in equal proportions. [+]
John Wayne plays an American boxer who returns to the Emerald Isle, his native land. What he finds there is a fiery prospective spouse (Maureen O'Hara) and a country greener than any Ireland seen before or since-it's no surprise The Quiet Man won an Oscar for cinematography. It also won an Oscar for John Ford's direction, his fourth such award. The film was a deeply personal project for Ford (whose birth name was Sean Aloysius O'Fearna), and he lavished all of his affection for the Irish landscape and Irish people on this film. He also stages perhaps the greatest donnybrook in the history of movies, an epic fistfight between Wayne and the truculent Victor McLaglen-that's Ford's brother, Francis, as the elderly man on his deathbed who miraculously revives when he hears word of the dustup. Barry Fitzgerald, the original Irish elf, gets the movie's biggest laugh when he walks into the newlyweds' bedroom the morning after their wedding, and spots a broken bed. The look on his face says everything. The Quiet Man isn't the real Ireland, but as a delicious never-never land of Ford's imagination, it will do very nicely. -Robert Horton.

Review Network / Strange Report - The Complete Series [1968]
Actors & Directors
  • Charles Lloyd Pack
  • Robert Asher
  • Daniel Petrie
  • Anthony Quayle
  • Kaz Garas
  • Gerald Sim
  • Brian Smedley-Aston
  • Anneke Wills
  • Peter Medak
Release date: 2005-08-31
Run time: 800 min.
RRP: £39.99
Price: £14.98

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Review Eureka Entertainment Ltd / Diary of a Lost Girl [1929] [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • G.W. Pabst
  • Louise Brooks
Release date: 2007-05-21
Run time: 115 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £11.55

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Review Pegasus Entertainment / The Royal Hunt Of The Sun [1969]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Shaw
  • James Donald
  • Leonard Whiting
  • Nigel Davenport
  • Irving Lerner
  • Christopher Plummer
Release date: 2007-11-19
Run time: 115 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.68

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Review Paramount Home Entertainment / The Ten Commandments [1957]
Actors & Directors
  • Cecil B. De Mille
  • Martha Scott
  • Anne Baxter
  • Debra Paget
  • Cedric Hardwicke
  • Nina Foch
Release date: 2006-04-10
Run time: 220 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £2.92

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Review Optimum Home Entertainment / The Captive Heart [1946]
Actors & Directors
  • Jack Warner
  • Rachel Kempson
  • Gladys Henson
  • Jack Lambert
  • Basil Dearden
  • Guy Middleton
Release date: 2007-10-08
Run time: 95 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.98

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Review Optimum Home Entertainment / The Servant [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • James Fox
  • Joseph Losey
  • Sarah Miles
  • Wendy Craig
  • Dirk Bogarde
Release date: 2008-01-07
Run time: 111 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £7.01

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Review 2 Entertain Video / A Midsummer Night's Dream [1981]
Actors & Directors
  • Elijah Moshinsky
  • Helen Mirren
  • Peter McEnery
  • Nigel Davenport
Release date: 2004-08-23
Run time: 112 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.00

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Review Odeon Entertainment Ltd. / Home and Away [1956]
Actors & Directors
  • Thora Hird
  • Kathleen Harrison and Charles Victor
  • Jack Warner
Release date: 2008-01-28
Run time: 80 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.98

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Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Dead Reckoning [1947]
Actors & Directors
  • John Cromwell
  • William Prince
  • Lizabeth Scott
  • Charles Cane
  • Morris Carnovsky
  • Humphrey Bogart
Release date: 2003-01-27
Run time: 96 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.99

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Review Yume Pictures / The Sun's Burial [1960]
Actors & Directors
  • Nagisa Oshima
Release date: 2008-05-26
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £5.97

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Review Uca / Only Angels Have Wings [1939]
Actors & Directors
  • Jean Arthur
  • Thomas Mitchell
  • Rita Hayworth
  • Howard Hawks
  • Richard Barthelmess
  • Cary Grant
Release date: 2005-01-10
Run time: 116 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.22

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Review Bfi Video / Journey To Italy [1953]
Actors & Directors
  • Natalia Ray
  • Roberto Rossellini
  • Ingrid Bergman
  • George Sanders
  • Leslie Daniels
Release date: 2003-11-17
Run time: 80 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £7.67

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Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / In Like Flint / Our Man Flint [1966]
Actors & Directors
  • Lee J. Cobb
  • Gordon Douglas
  • Anna Lee
  • Andrew Duggan
  • James Coburn
  • Jean Hale
  • Daniel Mann
Release date: 2003-06-02
Run time: 105 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £6.98

Review In Like Flint / Our Man Flint [1966] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

There's really been only one rival to James Bond: Derek Flint in the swinging-60s action-comedies Our Man Flint (1966) and In Like Flint (1967). That's because of James Coburn's special brand of American cool. He's so cool, in fact, that he doesn't care to save the world. That is, until he's personally threatened. He's a true libertarian, with more gadgets and girls than Bond, but with none of his stress or responsibility. Our Man Flint finds our unflappable hero thwarting mad scientists who control the weather-and an island of pleasure drones. Lee J Cobb costars as Flint's flustered superior, and Edward Mulhare plays a British nemesis with snob appeal. For fans of Austin Powers, incidentally, the funny-sounding phone comes from the Flint films. However, Our Man Flint's best gadget remains the watch that enables Flint to feign death. There's a great Jerry Goldsmith score, too. [+]
There was bound to be a sequel, and In Like Flint delivers the same kind of zany fun as its predecessor. Flint is recruited once again by Lee J Cobb to be the government's top secret agent, this time to solve a mishap involving the President. It turns out, the Chief Executive has been replaced by an evil duplicate. The new plan for world domination involves feminine aggression, and Flint, with his overpowering charisma, is just the man to turn the hostile forces around. In Like Flint is still over the top, but some of the novelty has worn off, and it doesn't have quite the same edge as the original. Even Jerry Goldsmith's score is a bit more subdued. But the film still has James Coburn and that funny phone. -Bill Desowitz.

Review MGM Entertainment / Dead End [1937]
Actors & Directors
  • William Wyler
  • Humphrey Bogart
  • Joel McCrea
  • Sylvia Sidney
Release date: 2005-07-11
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.98

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Review Warner Home Video / Point Blank [1967] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Lee Marvin
  • Lloyd Bochner
  • Angie Dickinson
  • Keenan Wynn
  • John Boorman
  • Carroll O'Connor
Release date: 2005-07-05
Run time: 92 min.
Price: £7.58

Review Point Blank [1967] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:

Point Blank's hero, Walker (Lee Marvin), strides through Los Angeles with the steely stare of a stone-cold killer, or perhaps a ghost. Betrayed by his wife and his best friend, who gun him down point-blank and leave him for dead after a successful heist, Walker blasts his way up the criminal food chain in a quest for revenge. Did he survive the shooting, did he return from the grave, or is it all a dying dream? The question is left in the air in John Boorman's modern film noir, a brutal revenge thriller based on Richard Stark's novel, set in the impersonal concrete and steel canyons of Los Angeles and the eerily empty cells of Alcatraz. Walker kills without remorse, guided by shadowy "informant" Keenan Wynn, whose own agenda is carefully concealed and assisted by Angie Dickinson as he desperately searches for someone, anyone, who can just give him his money. But if Walker is an extreme incarnation of the revenge-driven noir anti-hero, the modern syndicate has been transformed into a world of paper jungles and corporate businessmen: an alienating concept for the two-fisted, gun-wielding gangster. Boorman creates a hard, austere look for the film and scatters flashes of painful memory throughout the story, grafting the New Wave onto old genres with confidence and style. Haunting and brutal, Point Blank remains one of the most distinctive crime thrillers ever made. -Sean Axmaker, Amazon. com.

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The Robe [1953], The Misfits [1961], Vivre Sa Vie [1962], Partie De Campagne [1936], The Quiet Man [1952], Strange Report - The Complete Series [1968], Diary of a Lost Girl [1929] [2007], The Royal Hunt Of The Sun [1969], The Ten Commandments [1957], The Captive Heart [1946], The Servant [1963], A Midsummer Night's Dream [1981], Home and Away [1956], Dead Reckoning [1947], The Sun's Burial [1960], Only Angels Have Wings [1939], Journey To Italy [1953], In Like Flint / Our Man Flint [1966], Dead End [1937], Point Blank [1967] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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