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Review Eureka Entertainment LTD / Akasen Chitai/Yokihi [Masters Of Cinema] [1955]
Actors & Directors
  • Machiko Kyo
  • Masayuki Mori
  • Aiko Mimasu
  • Kenji Mizoguchi
Release date: 2008-05-26
Run time: 178 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £14.98

Review Akasen Chitai/Yokihi [Masters Of Cinema] [1955] / Eureka Entertainment LTD:


Review MGM Entertainment / Mosquito Squadron [1969]
Actors & Directors
  • David Dundas
  • Boris Sagal
  • David McCallum
  • Suzanne Neve
  • David Buck
  • Charles Gray
Release date: 2003-05-05
Run time: 87 min.
Creator: Joyce Perry
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.96

Review Mosquito Squadron [1969] / MGM Entertainment:

World War II aviation buffs may quibble with the details of Mosquito Squadron, but they'll love it just the same. It's an average war movie, capably directed by Boris Sagal, who thrived in television before he was tragically killed by a helicopter rotor in 1981. At the peak of his post-Man from UNCLE success, David McCallum plays a melancholy RAF ace, leading his squadron of De Havilland "Mosquito" bombers on low-altitude strikes over Nazi strongholds in Germany and France. His ground-based dilemma involves the grieving wife of his best friend, a fellow pilot presumed dead but later discovered alive with other POWs held at a French chalet where the Nazis are developing advanced V-class bombers. The RAF employs bouncing "highballs" capable of penetrating difficult targets, and the rousing climax doubles as a rescue mission and treacherous bombing run. Explosive action compensates for predictable melodrama, and Rocky Horror fans will enjoy seeing Charles ("the Criminologist") Gray as a stuffy RAF Commodore. -Jeff Shannon.

Review Eureka Entertainment Ltd / Le Silence de la mer (Masters of Cinema) [1949]
Actors & Directors
  • Nicole Stephane
  • Jean-Marie Robain
  • Jean-Pierre Melville
  • Howard Vernon
Release date: 2007-06-25
Run time: 85 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £12.00

Review Le Silence de la mer (Masters of Cinema) [1949] / Eureka Entertainment Ltd:


Review Second Sight Films Ltd. / Black Orpheus [1958]
Actors & Directors
  • Lea Garcia
  • Marcel Camus
  • Breno Mello
  • Marpessa Dawn
Release date: 2007-03-19
Run time: 103 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £5.54

Review Black Orpheus [1958] / Second Sight Films Ltd.:


Review Warner Home Video / Yankee Doodle Dandy [1942] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Friz Freleng
  • Billy Bletcher
  • Joan Leslie
  • Mel Blanc
  • Carl H. Lindahl
  • John Rust
  • Walter Huston
  • Mervyn LeRoy
  • Lewis Seiler
  • James Cagney
Release date: 2003-09-30
Run time: 125 min.
Creator: Bob Waldman
Price: £13.33

Review Yankee Doodle Dandy [1942] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:

James Cagney thrills in a rare (and limber) song-and-dance performance as composer-entertainer George M Cohan. This nostalgic biography is told in flashbacks, covering Cohan's formative years becoming Broadway's brightest star and touching upon his loves, musicals, and artistic triumphs. Director Michael Curtiz (The Adventures of Robin Hood) offers Cagney ample opportunities to invent an utterly charming performance in what is practically a one-man show. If you've never seen Cagney as a hoofer, you're in for a treat: his dancing is as dynamic as anything else he's ever done on screen. -Tom Keogh, Amazon. com.

Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who - The Two Doctors [1985] [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Colin Baker
  • Nicola Bryant
  • Frazer Hines
  • Patrick Troughton
Release date: 2003-09-08
Run time: 134 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £5.00

Review Doctor Who - The Two Doctors [1985] [1963] / 2 Entertain Video:

Doctor Who: The Two Doctors is one of those occasional adventures in which the then-current Doctor joins forces with one of his former incarnations, here Colin Baker's sixth Doctor with Patrick Troughton's second Doctor. In the epic Three Doctors (1972-3) such a team-up faced a suitably overwhelming danger; here the threat is rather less impressive. This adventure starts encouragingly enough, with Troughton and Jamie (Frazer Hines) investigating time-travel experiments on a space station, which endanger the fabric of the universe. Baker's Doctor and Peri (Nichola Bryant) arrive in the aftermath of a massacre and suspect the Timelords; but events lead them to Spain and old enemies the Sontarans. Also involved is alien schemer Chessene (Jacqueline Pearce) in a role not dissimilar to her Servalan from Blake's 7, while John Stratton as Shockeye, a food-obsessed alien "Androgum" chef is vastly entertaining. Despite location filming in Seville, the three 45-minute episodes eventually stretch the material too thinly, degenerating into some of the most farcical scenes in the history of Who. The story becomes a repetitive series of double-crosses, escapes and pursuits, featuring an unnecessary obsession with cannibalistic comedy-horror. Despite many fine moments along the way The Two Doctors ultimately leaves a Bad Taste. On the DVD: Doctor Who: The Two Doctors is offered with an as-good-as-possible 4:3 picture, which exposes the limitations of the original video footage. The sound is excellent mono and the first disc also offers an isolated track of Peter Howell's striking musical score and an engaging commentary with director Peter Moffatt, Frazer Hines and Jacqueline Pearce. [+]
A Fix with Sontarans (9 mins) is a specially made mini-adventure, with Colin Baker and Janet Fielding returning as Tegan, made for the then hugely popular Jim'll Fix It. The highlight of Disc Two is Behind the Sofa: Robert Holmes and Doctor Who a new 45-minute documentary with series luminaries Chris Boucher, Terrance Dicks, Philip Hinchcliffe, Barry Letts and Eric Saward remembering the writer. Of more specialist interest to would-be programme makers is Adventures in Time and Spain (29 mins), in which Production Manager Gary Downie charmingly recalls the problems of finding the Spanish locations. Beneath the Lights is a 27-minute compilation of studio footage centred on Baker and Bryant filming three scenes, while Beneath the Sun complies video location rushes, which at 36 minutes with poor picture quality is for completists only. Wavelength (1984) is an interesting 29-minute edition of the BBC Schools radio documentary series giving an in-depth look at the making of Doctor Who in general. Finally there's an animated, scored photo gallery. Overall this is an exhaustively comprehensive presentation that will satisfy the even the most serious Who fan. -Gary S Dalkin.

Review Network / Public Eye - The Complete 1969 Series
Actors & Directors
  • Alfred Burke
Release date: 2004-07-19
Run time: 650 min.
RRP: £39.99
Price: £9.98

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Review Network / Green For Danger
Actors & Directors
  • Sidney Gilliat
  • Sally Gray
  • Leo Genn
  • Rosamund John
  • Trevor Howard
  • Alastair Sim
Release date: 2006-04-17
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Claude Guerney
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.52

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Review Second Sight Films Ltd. / I Am Curious Yellow/Blue [1967]
Actors & Directors
  • Borje Ahlstedt
  • Vilgot Sjoman
  • Lena Nyman
  • Vilgot Sjoman
  • Peter Lindgren
Release date: 2006-09-04
Run time: 220 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £5.97

Review I Am Curious Yellow/Blue [1967] / Second Sight Films Ltd.:


Review Second Run / The Round Up [1966]
Actors & Directors
  • Miklós Jancsó
  • Andras Kozak
  • Janos Gorbe
  • Zoltan Latinovits
  • Gabor Agardi
  • Tibor Molnar
Release date: 2008-03-17
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.85

Review The Round Up [1966] / Second Run:


Review Universal Pictures UK / El Cid [1961]
Actors & Directors
  • Charlton Heston
  • John Fraser
  • Genevieve Page
  • Raf Vallone
  • Anthony Mann
  • Sophia Loren
Release date: 2005-10-31
Run time: 171 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £9.75

Review El Cid [1961] / Universal Pictures UK:


Review Walt Disney Home Video / Bambi [Disney 1942]
Actors & Directors
  • Hardie Albright
  • Stan Alexander
  • David Hand
  • Thelma Boardman
  • Bobette Audrey
  • Peter Behn
Release date: 1994-03-03
Run time: 66 min.
Creator: Perce Pearce
RRP: £15.99
Price: £4.95

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Review Warner Home Video / Bonnie & Clyde - 40th Anniversary Edition [1967]
Actors & Directors
  • Faye Dunaway
  • Warren Beatty
  • Gene Wilder
  • Gene Hackman
  • Arthur Penn
Release date: 2008-05-05
Run time: 106 min.
RRP: £16.99
Price: £5.98

Review Bonnie & Clyde - 40th Anniversary Edition [1967] / Warner Home Video:

One of the landmark films of the 1960s, Bonnie and Clyde changed the course of American cinema. Setting a milestone for screen violence that paved the way for Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, this exercise in mythologized biography should not be labelled as a bloodbath; as critic Pauline Kael wrote in her rave review, "it's the absence of sadism that throws the audience off balance". The film is more of a poetic ode to the Great Depression, starring the dream team of Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway as the titular antiheroes, who barrel across the South and Midwest robbing banks with Clyde's brother Buck (Gene Hackman), Buck's frantic wife Blanche (Estelle Parsons) and their faithful accomplice C W Moss (the inimitable Michael J. Pollard). Bonnie and Clyde is an unforgettable classic that has lost none of its power since the 1967 release. -Jeff Shannon.

Review Optimum Home Entertainment / The Servant [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Sarah Miles
  • Dirk Bogarde
  • James Fox
  • Wendy Craig
  • Joseph Losey
Release date: 2008-01-07
Run time: 111 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £4.43

Review The Servant [1963] / Optimum Home Entertainment:


Review ITV DVD / Black Narcissus [Blu-ray] [1946]
Actors & Directors
  • Flora Robson
  • Deborah Kerr
  • Emeric Pressburger
  • Michael Powell
  • Shaun Noble
  • David Farrar
  • Eddie Whaley Jr.
Release date: 2008-06-23
Run time: 113 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £12.98

Review Black Narcissus [Blu-ray] [1946] / ITV DVD:


Review Optimum Home Entertainment / Little Norse Prince
Actors & Directors
  • Isao Takahata
Release date: 2005-10-17
Run time: 82 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £5.33

Review Little Norse Prince / Optimum Home Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / East Of Eden (Two Disc Special Edition) [1955]
Actors & Directors
  • Raymond Massey
  • Julie Harris
  • Elia Kazan
  • James Dean
  • Jo Van Fleet
Release date: 2005-06-06
Run time: 112 min.
RRP: £13.99
Price: £6.62

Review East Of Eden (Two Disc Special Edition) [1955] / Warner Home Video:


Review Second Sight Films Ltd. / Orson Welles' Othello [1952]
Actors & Directors
  • Isobel Couser
  • Shelah Richards
  • Helena Hughes
  • Hilton Edwards
  • John Dunne
  • Michael Laurence
Release date: 2003-08-25
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Richard Gordon
RRP: £19.99
Price: £4.81

Review Orson Welles' Othello [1952] / Second Sight Films Ltd.:


Review Universal Pictures UK / Arabesque [1966]
Actors & Directors
  • Gregory Peck
  • Alan Badel
  • Kieron Moore
  • Stanley Donen
  • Carl Duering
  • Sophia Loren
Release date: 2008-05-05
Run time: 102 min.
Creator: Stanley Price
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.30

Review Arabesque [1966] / Universal Pictures UK:


Review Universal Pictures UK / Scarface [1932]
Actors & Directors
  • Paul Muni
  • Ann Dvorak
  • Boris Karloff
  • George Raft
  • Howard Hawks
Release date: 2005-12-26
Run time: 86 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.18

Review Scarface [1932] / Universal Pictures UK:

Howard Hawks's Scarface was one of the first "talkies" to reclaim the fluidity of the late-silent masterpieces, while also tapping into a feral new energy that came with talking smart and moving smarter on the motion picture screen. Outgunning such contemporaries as Little Caesar and The Public Enemy-in terms of both its ferocious death-dealing and dynamic style-the movie was interfered with by censors and kept out of circulation for decades thanks to its eccentric producer, Howard Hughes. It remains the gold standard among classic gangster pictures. Paul Muni's portrayal of Al Capone surrogate Tony Camonte etched a screen original: a merciless assassin who's not only reflexively criminal but pre-civilised, almost pre-evolutionary, a simian shadow ready to rub out the world if he can't have it for his own. This is still one of the greatest, darkest, most deeply exciting films American cinema has produced. Those demonically ubiquitous X's-starting with that titular scar gouged into Tony's cheek-rival "Rosebud" for resonance. -Richard T. Jameson.

Models & Brands:
Akasen Chitai/Yokihi [Masters Of Cinema] [1955], Mosquito Squadron [1969], Le Silence de la mer (Masters of Cinema) [1949], Black Orpheus [1958], Yankee Doodle Dandy [1942] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Doctor Who - The Two Doctors [1985] [1963], Public Eye - The Complete 1969 Series, Green For Danger, I Am Curious Yellow/Blue [1967], The Round Up [1966], El Cid [1961], Bambi [Disney 1942], Bonnie & Clyde - 40th Anniversary Edition [1967], The Servant [1963], Black Narcissus [Blu-ray] [1946], Little Norse Prince, East Of Eden (Two Disc Special Edition) [1955], Orson Welles' Othello [1952], Arabesque [1966], Scarface [1932]

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