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Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Leave Her To Heaven [1946]
Release date: 2005-04-18
Run time: 105 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £1.28

Review Leave Her To Heaven [1946] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

Leave Her to Heaven is one of the most unblinkingly perverse movies ever offered up as a prestige picture by a major studio in the golden age of Hollywood. Gene Tierney, whose lambent eyes, porcelain features, and sweep of healthy-American-girl hair customarily made her a 20th Century Fox icon of purity, scored an Oscar nomination playing a demonically obsessive daughter of privilege with her own monstrous notion of love. By the time she crosses eyebeams with popular novelist Cornel Wilde on a New Mexico-bound train, her jealous manipulations have driven her parents apart and her father to his grave. Well, no, not grave: Wilde soon gets to watch her gallop a glorious palomino across a red-rock horizon as she metronomically sows Dad's ashes to the winds. Mere screen moments later, she's jettisoned rising-politico fiancé Vincent Price and accepted a marriage proposal the besotted/bewildered Wilde hasn't quite made. Can the wrecking of his and several other lives be far behind? Not to mention a murder or two. Fox gave Ben Ames Williams's bestselling novel (probably just the sort of book Wilde's character writes) the Class-A treatment. Alfred Newman's tympani-heavy music score signals both grandeur and pervasive psychosis, while spectacular, dust-jacket-worthy locations and Oscar-destined Technicolor cinematography by Leon Shamroy ensure our fixed gaze. Impeccably directed by the veteran John M. Stahl (who'd made the original Back Street, Imitation of Life, and Magnificent Obsession a decade earlier), the result is at once cuckoo and hieratic, and weirdly mesmerizing. [+]
Bet Luis Buñuel loved it. -Richard T. Jameson.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The Sicilian Clan [1965]
Actors & Directors
  • Irina Demick
  • Henri Verneuil
  • Lino Ventura
  • Amedeo Nazzari
  • Alain Delon
  • Jean Gabin
Release date: 2007-06-18
Run time: 113 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.98

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Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Hud [1962]
Actors & Directors
  • Brandon De Wilde
  • Melvyn Douglas
  • Patricia Neal
  • Martin Ritt
  • Paul Newman
Release date: 2004-06-07
Run time: 107 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £2.10

Review Hud [1962] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Breath Of Scandal, A [1960]
Actors & Directors
  • John Gavin
  • Maurice Chevalier
  • Sophia Loren
  • Michael Curtiz
Release date: 2005-08-01
Run time: 94 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £2.07

Review Breath Of Scandal, A [1960] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / Dive Bomber [1941]
Actors & Directors
  • Fred MacMurray
  • Alexis Smith
  • Michael Curtiz
  • Errol Flynn
  • Ralph Bellamy
  • Robert Armstrong
Release date: 2005-05-02
Run time: 127 min.
RRP: £13.99
Price: £1.23

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Review MGM Entertainment / Marty [1955]
Actors & Directors
  • Joe Mantell
  • Betsy Blair
  • Ernest Borgnine
  • Augusta Ciolli
  • Esther Minciotti
  • Delbert Mann
Release date: 2003-02-03
Run time: 89 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.18

Review Marty [1955] / MGM Entertainment:

Before beginning the main feature make sure you watch Burt Lancaster's endorsement of Marty in the appended theatrical trailer first. Yes, he was involved as coproducer, but his conviction clearly stems from the film itself. This screen adaptation of Paddy Chayevsky's play was a breakthrough in an American neo-realism that would sustain itself for two decades. Ernest Borgnine is in his element as the Bronx butcher in his mid-30s seemingly destined for a bachelor existence on account of past disappointments. There's a winningly natural performance from Esther Minciotti as his well-meaning, ever-interfering mother, while Betsy Blair is inspired casting as schoolteacher Clara, plain and diffident but with the proverbial good heart. The supporting cast is one of telling cameos, simply and unselfconsciously delivered. Delbert Mann conveys the energetic bustle of the Italian ex-pat community, and ensures that the intimacy of the original play is not lost. On the DVD: Marty's black-and-white print reproduces crisply in the DVD format, as does Roy Webb's score, which vividly evokes 1950s American city life. There's dubbing in four and subtitles in five European languages, together with the original trailer mentioned above. Having seen Marty, you'll surely agree that Lancaster's enthusiasm was not misplaced. [+]
-Richard Whitehouse.

Review Criterion / White Mane [1952] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Pierre Moureaux-Nery
  • Albert Lamorisse
  • Alain Emery
  • Laurent Roche
  • Pierre Bestieux
  • Charles Guillaume
Release date: 2008-04-29
Run time: 40 min.
Price: £5.25

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Review Warner Home Video / Gentleman Jim [1942] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Alan Hale
  • John Loder
  • Errol Flynn
  • Del Frazier
  • Raoul Walsh
  • Jack Carson
  • Friz Freleng
  • Alexis Smith
Release date: 2007-03-27
Run time: 104 min.
Price: £6.85

Review Gentleman Jim [1942] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Eureka Entertainment / The Holy Mountain - Masters of Cinema series [1926]
Actors & Directors
  • Arnold Fanck
  • Friedrich Schneider
  • Ernst Petersen
  • Frida Richard
  • Luis Trenker
  • Leni Riefenstahl
Release date: 2004-06-21
Run time: 286 min.
RRP: £23.99
Price: £9.93

Review The Holy Mountain - Masters of Cinema series [1926] / Eureka Entertainment:


Review 20th Century Fox / Daisy Kenyon [1947] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Joan Crawford
  • Ruth Warrick
  • Henry Fonda
  • Otto Preminger
  • Dana Andrews
  • Martha Stewart
Release date: 2008-03-11
Run time: 99 min.
Price: £3.81

Review Daisy Kenyon [1947] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Lifeboat [1944]
Actors & Directors
  • Alfred Hitchcock
  • William Bendix
  • Tullulah Bankhead
  • Walter Slezak
Release date: 2006-03-27
Run time: 96 min.
RRP: £17.99
Price: £8.98

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Review Wienerworld Ltd / I Am A Camera [1958]
Actors & Directors
  • Lea Seidl
  • Henry Cornelius
  • Laurence Harvey
  • Julie Harris
  • Shelley Winters
  • Ron Randell
Release date: 2004-07-26
Run time: 95 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £0.34

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Review Bfi Video / Woman Of The Dunes [1964]
Actors & Directors
  • Hiroshi Teshigahara
Release date: 2006-07-31
Run time: 119 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £14.98

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Review Warner Home Video / The Third Man [1949]
Actors & Directors
  • Wilfrid Hyde White
  • Orson Welles
  • Trevor Howard
  • Alida Valli
  • Joseph Cotten
  • Carol Reed
Release date: 2002-01-14
Run time: 99 min.
RRP: £18.99
Price: £6.74

Review The Third Man [1949] / Warner Home Video:

The fractured Europe post-World War II is perfectly captured in Carol Reed's masterpiece thriller, set in a Vienna still shell-shocked from battle. Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten) is an alcoholic pulp writer come to visit his old friend Harry Lime (Orson Welles). But when Cotton first arrives in Vienna, Lime's funeral is under way. From Lime's girlfriend and an occupying British officer, Martins learns of allegations of Lime's involvement in racketeering, which Martins vows to clear from his friend's reputation. As he is drawn deeper into post-war intrigue, Martins finds layer upon layer of deception, which he desperately tries to sort out. Welles' long-delayed entrance in the film has become one of the hallmarks of modern cinematography and it is just one of dozens of cockeyed camera angles that seem to mirror the off-kilter post-war society. Cotten and Welles give career-making performances and the Anton Karas zither theme will haunt you. -Anne Hurley.

Review Network / The Man In Grey [1943]
Actors & Directors
  • Margaret Lockwood
  • Stewart Granger
  • James Mason
  • Harry Scott (III)
  • Leslie Arliss
  • Phyllis Calvert
Release date: 2007-01-15
Run time: 112 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £7.96

Review The Man In Grey [1943] / Network:


Review Eureka Entertainment Ltd / Bellissima (Masters of Cinema) [1951]
Actors & Directors
  • Luchino Visconti
  • Anna Magnani; Walter Chiari
Release date: 2007-09-24
Run time: 110 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £13.74

Review Bellissima (Masters of Cinema) [1951] / Eureka Entertainment Ltd:


Review Warner Home Video / Seven Days in May [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Burt Lancaster
  • John Frankenheimer
  • Kirk Douglas
  • Edmond O'Brien
  • Ava Gardner
  • Fredric March
Release date: 2000-05-16
Run time: 118 min.
Price: £7.69

Review Seven Days in May [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Bfi Video / Bande A Part [1964]
Actors & Directors
  • Claude Brasseur
  • Jean-Luc Godard
  • Sami Frey
  • Anna Karina
Release date: 2003-04-28
Run time: 92 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £13.17

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Review Warner Home Video / Rebel Without A Cause (Special Edition) [1955]
Actors & Directors
  • Natalie Wood
  • Nicholas Ray
  • James Dean
  • Sal Mineo
  • Ann Doran
  • Jim Backus
Release date: 2005-06-06
Run time: 106 min.
RRP: £13.99
Price: £3.88

Review Rebel Without A Cause (Special Edition) [1955] / Warner Home Video:


Review Orbit Media Ltd. / The Enforcer [1951]
Actors & Directors
  • Bretaigne Windust
  • Zero Mostel
  • Humphrey Bogart
  • Ted De Corsia
  • Raoul Walsh
  • Everett Sloane
Release date: 2006-10-09
Run time: 86 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.85

Review The Enforcer [1951] / Orbit Media Ltd.:


Models & Brands:
Leave Her To Heaven [1946], The Sicilian Clan [1965], Hud [1962], Breath Of Scandal, A [1960], Dive Bomber [1941], Marty [1955], White Mane [1952] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Gentleman Jim [1942] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Holy Mountain - Masters of Cinema series [1926], Daisy Kenyon [1947] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Lifeboat [1944], I Am A Camera [1958], Woman Of The Dunes [1964], The Third Man [1949], The Man In Grey [1943], Bellissima (Masters of Cinema) [1951], Seven Days in May [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Bande A Part [1964], Rebel Without A Cause (Special Edition) [1955], The Enforcer [1951]

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