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Review 20th Century Fox / Irving Berlin's Alexander's Ragtime Band [1938] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Ethel Merman
  • Jack Haley
  • Tyrone Power
  • Don Ameche
  • Alice Faye
  • Henry King
Release date: 2004-09-07
Run time: 106 min.
Price: £4.90

Review Irving Berlin's Alexander's Ragtime Band [1938] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:


Review Eureka Entertainment Ltd / Dr Mabuse - The Gambler [1922]
Actors & Directors
  • Fritz Lang
  • Rudolph Klein-Rogge; Lil Dagover
Release date: 2004-05-24
Run time: 270 min.
RRP: £22.99
Price: £9.99

Review Dr Mabuse - The Gambler [1922] / Eureka Entertainment Ltd:


Review Secondrun / The Cremator [1968]
Actors & Directors
  • Milos Vognic
  • Jana Stehnová
  • Rudolf Hrusínský
  • Juraj Herz
  • Vlasta Chramostová
  • Zora Bozinová
Release date: 2006-04-10
Run time: 95 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.84

Review The Cremator [1968] / Secondrun:


Review Warner Home Video / I Remember Mama [1948] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • George Stevens
  • Philip Dorn
  • Oskar Homolka
  • Cedric Hardwicke
  • Irene Dunne
  • Barbara Bel Geddes
Release date: 2004-12-07
Run time: 134 min.
Price: £7.35

Review I Remember Mama [1948] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Optimum Home Entertainment / The Magic Box [1951]
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Attenborough
  • John Boulting
  • Margaret Johnston
  • Robert Donat
  • Maria Schell
  • Renée Asherson
Release date: 2007-06-04
Run time: 118 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.44

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Review A&E Home Video / The Avengers '68: Set 3 [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Patrick MacNee
Release date: 2002-04-30
Run time: 312 min.
Creator: Linda Thorson
Price: £7.91

Review The Avengers '68: Set 3 [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / A&E Home Video:


Review Prism Leisure Corporation / Spellbound [1945] (Alfred Hitchcock)
Actors & Directors
  • Ingrid Bergman; Gregory Peck; Rhonda Fleming; Leo G. Carroll; Wallace Ford; Donald Curtis
  • Alfred Hitchcock
Release date: 2004-10-04
Run time: 110 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £16.00

Review Spellbound [1945] (Alfred Hitchcock) / Prism Leisure Corporation:

Alfred Hitchcock takes on Sigmund Freud in this thriller in which psychologist Ingrid Bergman tries to solve a murder by unlocking the clues hidden in the mind of amnesiac suspect Gregory Peck. Among the highlights is a bizarre dream sequence seemingly designed by Salvador Dali-complete with huge eyeballs and pointy scissors. Although the film is in black and white, the original release contained one subliminal blood-red frame, appearing when a gun pointed directly at the camera goes off. Spellbound is one of Hitchcock's strangest and most atmospheric films, providing the director with plenty of opportunities to explore what he called "pure cinema"-i. e. , the power of pure visual associations. Miklós Rózsa's haunting score (which features the creepy electronic instrument, the theremin) won an Oscar, and the movie was nominated for best picture, director, supporting actor (Michael Chekhov), cinematography and special visual effects. -Jim Emerson.

Review Optimum Home Entertainment / Plein Soleil [1960]
Actors & Directors
  • Rene Clement
  • Marie LaForet
  • Maurice Ronet
  • Alain Delon
Release date: 2004-08-02
Run time: 112 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £8.44

Review Plein Soleil [1960] / Optimum Home Entertainment:


Review Starz Home Entertainment / Cul-De-Sac [1968]
Actors & Directors
  • Jack MacGowran
  • Roman Polanski
  • Jacqueline Bisset
  • Donald Pleasence
  • Lionel Stander
  • Francoise Dorleac
Release date: 2003-08-25
Run time: 111 min.
RRP: £16.99
Price: £4.99

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Review Tartan Video / The Seventh Seal [1957]
Actors & Directors
  • Bengt Ekerot
  • Nils Poppe
  • Max von Sydow
  • Ingmar Bergman
  • Bibi Andersson
  • Gunnar Björnstrand
Release date: 2001-09-24
Run time: 92 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £10.16

Review The Seventh Seal [1957] / Tartan Video:

Ingmar Bergman's 1956 film, The Seventh Seal has been parodied by everyone from Woody Allen to Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey, but it remains one of the strangest and richest classics of world cinema. Max Von Sydow plays a knight returning from the Crusades to encounter an apocalyptic scenario inspired by the Book of Genesis. He plays chess with Death (Bengt Ekerot), sees a manacled witch, watches a band of flagellants go by-all of it foretelling an inevitable end to life. Unabashedly allegorical and lyrical and existing in a world unto itself, the film is enormously mesmerising no matter what one thinks of the weighty meanings Bergman has attached to it all. -Tom Keogh Ingmar Bergman's best-known film and deservedly so, 1957's The Seventh Seal is an allegorical study of death, God and the meaning, if any, of human existence. It is a film that every human being should see, addressing as it does our deepest hopes, anxieties, curiosities and fears. Yet it's also a magical and captivating experience, close to the state of a lucid dream. Max Von Sydow plays Antonius Block, the knight who has returned, gaunt, weathered and disillusioned, from the crusades, to find his home country in the grip of the plague. He is met by Death, in the pallid, hooded form of Bengt Ekerot, whom he challenges to a game of chess. The longer he can stave off defeat, the longer he can prolong the existence of himself and his own entourage, whom Block acquires in the form of his cynical squire a young family and a band of travelling players. [+]
Block's oft-expressed doubts and fears about his mortality and what lies beyond (hence the biblical Seventh Seal, which reveals this final secret to mankind) were especially relevant in the late 1950s, when the threat of the Bomb hung over mankind as did the threat of the plague many centuries before. The concluding Dance of Death image is, like the movie as a whole, harrowing, yet strangely enchanting. On the DVD: Presented in the original academy ratio, this is an excellent restoration, emphasising the cinematic use of light to contrast the carefree young players with the austere shades used to convey Block's anxiety-ridden ruminations. Notes from Bergman's memoirs discuss how the "Dance of Death" image came from wood carvings in a country church he frequented as a child, as well as the influence of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana on the film. Critic Ronald Bergan's additional notes largely echo Bergman's own. -David Stubbs.

Review Walt Disney Video / Newsies [1992] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Christian Bale
  • David Moscow
  • Gabriel Damon
  • Max Casella
  • Luke Edwards
  • Kenny Ortega
Release date: 2002-01-15
Run time: 121 min.
Price: £6.36

Review Newsies [1992] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:


Review Secondrun / My Way Home [1965]
Actors & Directors
  • Zoltán Gera
  • Ida Siménfalvy
  • Tibor Haraszin
  • János Körmendi
  • Lajos Öze
  • Miklós Jancsó
Release date: 2007-10-01
Run time: 108 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £9.58

Review My Way Home [1965] / Secondrun:


Review DD Home Entertainment Ltd / As You Like It, BBC (UK Region 2)
Actors & Directors
  • Helen Mirren
  • Basil Coleman
Run time: 159 min.
Creator: Cedric Messina
Price: £14.95

Review As You Like It, BBC (UK Region 2) / DD Home Entertainment Ltd:

Shakespeare fills this romantic plot with humour and clever word play as banished young lovers Rosalind and Orlando escape to the Forest of Arden with their friends and servants. In this idyllic setting, they find the simple life confused by entangled love affairs, cross dressing, love poems and even a lion.

Review Elstree Hill Entertainment / Detour [1945]
Actors & Directors
  • Claudia Drake
  • Tom Neal
  • Edgar G. Ulmer
  • Edmund MacDonald
  • Tim Ryan
  • Ann Savage
Release date: 2005-10-17
Run time: 67 min.
RRP: £2.99
Price: £2.59

Review Detour [1945] / Elstree Hill Entertainment:


Review MGM Entertainment / Elmer Gantry [1960]
Actors & Directors
  • Arthur Kennedy
  • Dean Jagger
  • Richard Brooks
  • Shirley Jones
  • Burt Lancaster
  • Jean Simmons
Release date: 2003-02-03
Run time: 141 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.90

Review Elmer Gantry [1960] / MGM Entertainment:

Brothers and sisters, can we get a witness for Elmer Gantry, a woeful tale of saints and sinners? Burt Lancaster earned his only Oscar as the wide-smiling, glad-handing, soul-saving charlatan Gantry, a salesman who turns his gift for preaching into a career at the pulpit. Climbing on board the barnstorming evangelical tour of revivalist Sister Sharon Falconer (Jean Simmons), Gantry declaims, invokes, and sermonises his way to the top, until a former flame-turned-prostitute (Shirley Jones in an Oscar-winning performance) threatens to reveal his dark past as a womaniser and con man. Lancaster harnesses all his physical vigour and natural charisma for this role, literally throwing himself into his preaching with the suppleness of an acrobat and the sing-song delivery of a gospel singer-he even brays like a hound to show the Holy Spirit within him. Gantry is a showman, pure and simple, and while he doesn't fool true-believer Sister Sharon, he gives her a few object lessons in playing the crowd. Director Richard Brooks, who also took home an Oscar for his screenplay (adapted from the Sinclair Lewis novel), creates a rousing drama both on and off the pulpit, and provides fine roles for an excellent supporting cast, including Arthur Kennedy, Dean Jagger, John McIntire, and singer Patti Page. -Sean Axmaker.

Review MGM / Look Back in Anger [1958] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Burton
  • Tony Richardson
  • Gary Raymond
  • Claire Bloom
  • Edith Evans
  • Mary Ure
Release date: 2001-12-11
Run time: 100 min.
Price: £3.96

Review Look Back in Anger [1958] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:


Review R. W. Paul / R. W. Paul - The Complete Surviving Films 1895-1908
Release date: 2006-11-27
Run time: 147 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £13.41

Review R. W. Paul - The Complete Surviving Films 1895-1908 / R. W. Paul:


Review Orbit Media Ltd. / The Cat And The Canary [1939]
Actors & Directors
  • Gale Sondergaard
  • Paulette Goddard
  • John Beal
  • Elliott Nugent
  • Bob Hope
  • Douglass Montgomery
Release date: 2004-03-01
Run time: 72 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £11.97

Review The Cat And The Canary [1939] / Orbit Media Ltd.:


Review Artificial Eye / Floating Weeds [1959]
Actors & Directors
  • Ganjiro Nakamura
  • Machiko Kyô
  • Haruko Sugimura
  • Hiroshi Kawaguchi
  • Ayako Wakao
  • Yasujiro Ozu
Release date: 2004-01-26
Run time: 119 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £6.73

Review Floating Weeds [1959] / Artificial Eye:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The Sicilian Clan [1965]
Actors & Directors
  • Jean Gabin
  • Henri Verneuil
  • Irina Demick
  • Lino Ventura
  • Alain Delon
  • Amedeo Nazzari
Release date: 2007-06-18
Run time: 113 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.38

Review The Sicilian Clan [1965] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Models & Brands:
Irving Berlin's Alexander's Ragtime Band [1938] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Dr Mabuse - The Gambler [1922], The Cremator [1968], I Remember Mama [1948] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Magic Box [1951], The Avengers '68: Set 3 [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Spellbound [1945] (Alfred Hitchcock), Plein Soleil [1960], Cul-De-Sac [1968], The Seventh Seal [1957], Newsies [1992] (REGION 1) (NTSC), My Way Home [1965], As You Like It, BBC (UK Region 2), Detour [1945], Elmer Gantry [1960], Look Back in Anger [1958] (REGION 1) (NTSC), R. W. Paul - The Complete Surviving Films 1895-1908, The Cat And The Canary [1939], Floating Weeds [1959], The Sicilian Clan [1965]

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