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Review MGM Entertainment / Namu, The Killer Whale [1966]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Lansing
  • Laslo Benedek
  • Robin Mattson
  • John Anderson
Release date: 2005-03-14
Run time: 89 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.97

Review Namu, The Killer Whale [1966] / MGM Entertainment:


Review United Artists / The Secret Invasion [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Henry Silva
  • Edd Byrnes
  • Raf Vallone
  • Stewart Granger
  • Mickey Rooney
  • Roger Corman
Release date: 2008-05-13
Run time: 98 min.
Price: £4.23

Review The Secret Invasion [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / United Artists:


Review TLA Releasing / The 2 Sides Of The Bed (Los 2 Lados de la Cama) [2005]
Actors & Directors
  • Guillermo Toledo
  • Maria Esteve
  • Ernesto Alterio
  • Veronica Sanchez
  • Emilio Martinez-Lazaro
  • Lucia Jimenez
Release date: 2008-09-08
Run time: 100 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.98

Review The 2 Sides Of The Bed (Los 2 Lados de la Cama) [2005] / TLA Releasing:


Review Eureka Entertainment / The Benny Goodman Story [1955]
Actors & Directors
  • Gene Krupa
  • Valentine Davies
  • Steve Allen
  • Robert F. Simon
  • Donna Reed
Release date: 2008-10-20
Run time: 116 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £12.00

Review The Benny Goodman Story [1955] / Eureka Entertainment:


Review Universal Pictures UK / State Of The Union [1948]
Actors & Directors
  • Van Johnson
  • Adolphe Menjou
  • Frank Capra
  • Spencer Tracy
  • Katharine Hepburn
  • Angela Lansbury
Release date: 2006-03-06
Run time: 118 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £1.67

Review State Of The Union [1948] / Universal Pictures UK:

State of the Union is somewhat better as a Spencer Tracy-Katharine Hepburn movie than it is as a Frank Capra picture. No doubt about it, these are two good roles for the smitten stars: Tracy is a self-made businessman reluctantly drafted into a dark-horse presidential candidacy; Hepburn is his estranged but whip-smart wife, who joins him on the campaign trail. Adding intrigue is the newspaper heiress (played with relish by baby-faced Angela Lansbury) who's the cause of their marital problems. She's also the one who convinces a longtime political horse-trader (Adolphe Menjou) to take up the campaign-which leads to a series of compromises for the candidate. The Capra flavor is here, in the paeans to liberty and the American Way, and in the crackling pacing of dialogue scenes. Capra's affection for supporting players is also evident, with standout stuff from Menjou, Van Johnson (as a cynical aide), Lewis Stone, and Raymond Walburn. But the film's roots as a hit play (by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse) are a little too evident, and the film as a whole doesn't feel as bracingly Capraesque as the director's 1930s work. Having said that, the political satire is as relevant today as it was in 1948, although the rapid-fire topical references might be puzzling to non-campaign buffs. Note for bloopers collectors: Hepburn's name is spelled "Katherine" in the opening credits. -Robert Horton.

Review Alpha Video / The Student of Prague [1913] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Grete Berger
  • Paul Wegener
  • Lyda Salmonova
  • Paul Wegener
  • Lothar Koemer
  • Stellan Rye
  • John Gottowt
Release date: 2004-05-25
Run time: 41 min.
Creator: Guido Seeber
Price: £2.21

Review The Student of Prague [1913] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Alpha Video:


Review Optimum Home Entertainment / Pepe Le Moko [1937]
Actors & Directors
  • Mireille Ballin
  • Julien Duvivier
  • Jean Gabin
  • Gabriel Gabrio
Release date: 2004-08-02
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £7.74

Review Pepe Le Moko [1937] / Optimum Home Entertainment:


Review Network / Life For Ruth
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Craig; Patrick McGoohan; Janet Munro; Paul Rogers; Malcolm Keen; Megs Jenkins
Release date: 2007-06-25
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.96

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Review Bfi Video / The Edge Of The World [1938]
Actors & Directors
  • Niall MacGinnis
  • Belle Chrystall
  • Michael Powell
  • John Laurie
  • Eric Berry
  • Finlay Currie
Release date: 2004-01-12
Run time: 74 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £11.94

Review The Edge Of The World [1938] / Bfi Video:


Review Warner Home Video / Lon Chaney Collection (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Tod Browning
  • John Bowers
  • Rick Schmidlin
  • Herbert Brenon
  • Leatrice Joy
  • Hardee Kirkland
  • Lon Chaney
  • Kevin Brownlow
  • Wallace Worsley
  • Raymond Hatton
Release date: 2003-10-28
Run time: 325 min.
Price: £16.77

Review Lon Chaney Collection (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Gentleman's Agreement [1947]
Actors & Directors
  • June Havoc
  • Elia Kazan
  • John Garfield
  • Gregory Peck
  • Dorothy McGuire
  • Celeste Holm
Release date: 2005-07-04
Run time: 112 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.59

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Review Eureka Entertainment / Asphalt - Masters of Cinema series [1929]
Actors & Directors
  • Else Heller
  • Joe May
  • Betty Amann
  • Hans Adalbert Schlettow
  • Albert Steinrück
  • Gustav Fröhlich
Release date: 2005-04-18
Run time: 94 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £15.90

Review Asphalt - Masters of Cinema series [1929] / Eureka Entertainment:

From its amazing opening sequence of human and vehicular traffic sweeping through a nighttime cityscape entirely created inside the Ufa film factory, Asphalt marks a late addition to the eye-catching, mind-bending artistry of the German Expressionist cinema of the '20s. Released in March 1929, when silents were on the way out, until recently it was just a title, and the source of a few grabby stills, in the film history books. In this most complete restoration yet, it stands as the ultimate "street film," a genre prized for bravura artifice and potent allegory. In such urban symphonies, the cinema was simultaneously defining and reimagining the essence of modernity in images both hypnotically dark and ablaze with shattered light. The story is a simple one, but told with psychological subtlety and strikingly fluid camerawork and editing. A young cop (Gustav Fröhlich, the hero of Metropolis) with rectitude in his veins apprehends a sneak thief (Betty Amann) in the act of stealing a diamond, then fails to turn her in. There's a gratifying mutuality to their seduction; although the lady's tiger-like leap upon her captor is astonishingly feral, she's soon as vulnerable and perplexed in their relationship as he is. A subplot involving her longtime lover, a master criminal (Hans Adelbert von Schlettow), eventually intersects with their love affair. Up to the very end-which somewhat anticipates Robert Bresson's Pickpocket-we can't be sure who's going to be sacrificed to save whom. Director Joe May was no auteur on the order of Fritz Lang or F. [+]
W. Murnau; it's hard to locate an artistic personality in his movie. But he and cinematographer Günther Rittau had a state-of-the-art camera dolly to play with, making the German ideal of "the unfettered camera" a freewheeling reality. Amann is beguiling as a Louise Brooks knockoff, an ambulatory white fur under a cloche hat who evolves into a dark, hieratic figure of Fate. -Richard T. Jameson.

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

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Review Pathe Distribution / Richard III [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Ian McKellen
  • Robert Downey Jr.
  • Richard Loncraine
  • Nigel Hawthorne
  • Jim Broadbent
  • Annette Bening
Release date: 2000-05-08
Run time: 100 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £49.99

Review Richard III [1996] / Pathe Distribution:

This film adaptation of a critically acclaimed stage production of Shakespeare's historical drama stars Ian McKellen in the title role. The setting is a comic-book vision of 1930s London: part art deco, part Third Reich, part industrial-age rust and rot. The play's force is turned into a synthetic high by art directors and storyboard sketchers, all of whom have a field day condensing the material into disposable pop imagery. Richard III is a fun film, more than anything, so infatuated with its own monstrous stitchery that even the most awkward casting (Annette Bening and Robert Downey Jr) seems a part of the ridiculous design. McKellen is the best thing about the movie, his mesmerising portrayal of freakish despotism and poisoned desire a thing to behold. -Tom Keogh.

Review Image Entertainment / The Cat and the Canary [1927]
Actors & Directors
  • Paul Leni
  • Gertrude Astor
  • Laura La Plante
  • Forrest Stanley
  • Tully Marshall
  • Creighton Hale
Release date: 2005-02-01
Run time: 85 min.
Price: £7.67

Review The Cat and the Canary [1927] / Image Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / Kissin' Cousins [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Elvis Presley
  • Arthur O'Connell
  • Glenda Farrell
  • Pamela Austin
  • Jack Albertson
  • Gene Nelson
Release date: 2007-08-07
Run time: 96 min.
Price: £3.59

Review Kissin' Cousins [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Video/FilmExpress 500479 / 55 Days At Peking [1963] (REGION 2) (PAL) [Dutch Import]
Actors & Directors
  • David Niven
  • Flora Robson
  • John Ireland
  • Nicholas Ray
  • Ava Gardner
  • Charlton Heston
Run time: 147 min.
Price: £9.99

Review 55 Days At Peking [1963] (REGION 2) (PAL) [Dutch Import] / Video/FilmExpress 500479:

PLOT SUMMARY: Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing factions, overwhelming odds, delayed relief and tacit support of the Boxers by the Empress of China and her generals. (written by Martin H. Booda) ABOUT THE DVD: This is a VIDEO/FILM EXPRESS release for the NETHERLANDS market (Region 2 PAL format, which is the same as in the UK, so it will play without problems on all standard DVD players in this country). The text on the rear of the packaging is in Dutch and the only subtitles on the disc are Dutch language (which can be switched off, but there are no English subtitles on the DVD). The AUDIO is the original ENGLISH language (Dolby Digital 2. 0), as are the menus. The film is presented in WIDESCREEN format (2. 35:1 ratio) and runs for a total of 147 minutes, there is a SCENE SELECTION menu.

Review Criterion / Seven Samurai [1954] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Yoshio Inaba
  • Toshirô Mifune
  • Takashi Shimura
  • Seiji Miyaguchi
  • Akira Kurosawa
  • Minoru Chiaki
Release date: 2006-09-05
Run time: 207 min.
Price: £19.58

Review Seven Samurai [1954] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Criterion:

Unanimously hailed as one of the greatest masterpieces in the history of the motion picture, Seven Samurai has inspired countless films modelled after its basic premise. But Akira Kurosawa's classic 1954 action drama has never been surpassed in terms of sheer power of emotion, kinetic energy, and dynamic character development. The story is set in the 1600s, when the residents of a small Japanese village are seeking protection against repeated attacks by a band of marauding thieves. Offering mere handfuls of rice as payment, they hire seven unemployed "ronin" (masterless samurai), including a boastful swordsman (Toshiro Mifune) who is actually a farmer's son desperately seeking glory and acceptance. The samurai get acquainted with but remain distant from the villagers, knowing that their assignment may prove to be fatal. The climactic battle with the raiding thieves remains one of the most breathtaking sequences ever filmed. It's poetry in hyperactive motion and one of Kurosawa's crowning cinematic achievements. This is not a film that can be well served by any synopsis; it must be seen to be appreciated and belongs on the short list of any definitive home-video library. -Jeff Shannon.

Review Columbia TriStar / The Forbidden Dance is Lambada [1990] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Miranda Garrison
  • Laura Harring
  • Jeff James (III)
  • Sid Haig
  • Greydon Clark
  • Barbra Brighton
Release date: 2003-09-30
Run time: 97 min.
Price: £4.18

Review The Forbidden Dance is Lambada [1990] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:


Review Warner Home Video / Billy Budd [1962] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Ustinov
  • Barry Keegan
  • Ronald Lewis
  • Cyril Luckham
  • Thomas Heathcote
  • Melvyn Douglas
Release date: 2007-03-06
Run time: 123 min.
Creator: Anthony Hopkins
Price: £7.02

Review Billy Budd [1962] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


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Namu, The Killer Whale [1966], The Secret Invasion [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The 2 Sides Of The Bed (Los 2 Lados de la Cama) [2005], The Benny Goodman Story [1955], State Of The Union [1948], The Student of Prague [1913] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Pepe Le Moko [1937], Life For Ruth, The Edge Of The World [1938], Lon Chaney Collection (REGION 1) (NTSC), Gentleman's Agreement [1947], Asphalt - Masters of Cinema series [1929], Plein Soleil [1960], Richard III [1996], The Cat and the Canary [1927], Kissin' Cousins [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC), 55 Days At Peking [1963] (REGION 2) (PAL) [Dutch Import], Seven Samurai [1954] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Forbidden Dance is Lambada [1990] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Billy Budd [1962] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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