Review, buy Drama: The Roaring Twenties, Stanley Kubrick Collection[1962], El Nino y el Lobo [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Gentleman Jim [1942] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Waterloo Bridge [1940], The Three Musketeers [1948] (REGION 1) (NTSC), James Mason - The Screen Icons Collection [1943], Macbeth - Deluxe G.C.S.E. Study Guide / Stage Production, David Copperfield [1935] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Passion Of Anna [1969], In Harm's Way [1965], The Untouchables: Season Two, Vol. 2 (REGION 1) (NTSC), Jules Et Jim [1961], Piccadilly [1929], Juliet Of The Spirits [1965], Scarlet Empress [1934], The Naked Spur [1953] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Cone Of Silence [1960], Berlin Schoenhauser Corner, War and Peace [1956] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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Review Warner Home Video / The Roaring Twenties

The Roaring Twenties (Warner Home Video)

Actors & Directors

Humphrey Bogart
Raoul Walsh
Priscilla Lane
James Cagney

Run time: 102 min.
Price: £2.15

Review The Roaring Twenties / Warner Home Video:

The Speakeasy era never roared louder than in this gangland chronicle with James Cagney.

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Review Warner Home Video / Stanley Kubrick Collection[1962]

Stanley Kubrick Collection[1962] (Warner Home Video)

Actors & Directors

Sue Lyon
Shelley Winters
Stanley Kubrick
Keir Dullea
James Mason
Nicole Kidman

Release date: 2001-09-10
Run time: 999 min.
RRP: ~~£101.99~~
Price: £42.81

Review Stanley Kubrick Collection[1962] / Warner Home Video:

This superb nine-disc Stanley Kubrick Box Set contains all the late director's work from 1962's Lolita to Kubrick's final film, the highly controversial Eyes Wide Shut (1999). There's also the excellent and highly informative two-hour documentary: Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures, narrated (a little drably) by Tom Cruise. It isn't exactly a warts-and-all portrait of Stan the Man, which is not surprising, really, given that it's directed and produced by Kubrick's brother-in-law Jan Harlan, and that Kubrick's widow Christine was closely involved in the making of it. But it does give a detailed and revealing portrait of a brilliant, demanding and often infuriating man, airing rare footage that goes right back to his earliest years as a brash youngster in the Bronx, already playing to camera with a frightening degree of self-awareness. Six of the eight movies (all but Dr Strangelove and Eyes Wide Shut) have been digitally restored and remastered, and almost all (barring Strangelove again and Lolita) now boast Dolby Digital 5. 1 stereo sound remixes. For some bizarre reason, Kubrick insisted on mono sound for the 1999 set, which he approved shortly before his death. Visually the improvement over the often grainy, scratchy prints previously on offer-The Shining (1980) was notoriously messy-is immense. All the features are presented in their original ratios, which in the case of Strangelove means the changing ratios in which it was originally shot, and for 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) the full glorious 2. 21:1 expanse of the Cinerama screen. [+]

So what don't you get? Essentially, the early Kubrick-the work of the young, hungry director before he moved to England and started to gather all the controlling strings into his own hand: most notably the tough, taut thriller The Killing (1956) and the icily furious war film Paths of Glory (1957). Too bad Warners couldn't have negotiated the rights for those too. But what we have here is the culminating phase of Kubrick's filmmaking career-the final 27 years of one of the great masters of cinema. On the DVDs: Besides the visual and sonic improvements mentioned above, each of the eight features includes the original theatrical trailer and multiple-language subtitles. The DVD of Dr Strangelove also gives us filmographies of the principal players, plus theatrical posters and a photo gallery, while Eyes Wide Shut includes interviews (taped after Kubrick's death) with Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman and Steven Spielberg, plus a couple of 30-second TV spots. And with The Shining we get a fascinating 34-minute documentary made by Kubrick's then 17-year-old daughter Vivian, plus-just to add a further layer-Vivian's present-day voice-over commentary on her film. -Philip Kemp.

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Review Laguna Films / El Nino y el Lobo [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

El Nino y el Lobo [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC) (Laguna Films)

Actors & Directors

José Antonio Nieves Conde
José Bastida
Vicente Parra
Didier Haudepin
José Bódalo
Enrique Navarro

Release date: 2006-07-27
Run time: 112 min.
Price: £3.09

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

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

Actors & Directors

Alan Hale
Friz Freleng
Jack Carson
John Loder
Del Frazier
Raoul Walsh
Alexis Smith
Errol Flynn

Release date: 2007-03-27
Run time: 104 min.
Price: £7.52

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Review Castaway NW [VCP] / Waterloo Bridge [1940]

Waterloo Bridge [1940] (Castaway NW [VCP])

Actors & Directors

Mervyn LeRoy
Harry Allen
Florence Baker
Phyllis Barry
Leo G. Carroll
Jimmy Aubrey

Release date: 2007-09-18
Creator: Herbert Stothart
Price: £6.35

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Review Warner Home Video / The Three Musketeers [1948] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

The Three Musketeers [1948] (REGION 1) (NTSC) (Warner Home Video)

Actors & Directors

George Sidney (II)
June Allyson
Van Heflin
Gene Kelly
Angela Lansbury
Lana Turner

Release date: 2007-03-06
Run time: 126 min.
Price: £7.46

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Review Optimum Home Entertainment / James Mason - The Screen Icons Collection [1943]

James Mason - The Screen Icons Collection [1943] (Optimum Home Entertainment)

Actors & Directors

Kathleen Ryan
Phyllis Calvert
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Leslie Arliss
Margaret Lockwood
Carol Reed
Robert Newton
James Mason

Release date: 2007-07-23
Run time: 423 min.
RRP: ~~£34.99~~
Price: £16.18

Review James Mason - The Screen Icons Collection [1943] / Optimum Home Entertainment:

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Review Macbeth / Macbeth - Deluxe G.C.S.E. Study Guide / Stage Production

Macbeth - Deluxe G.C.S.E. Study Guide / Stage Production (Macbeth)

Release date: 2005-01-24
Run time: 335 min.
RRP: ~~£24.99~~
Price: £12.84

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Review Warner Home Video / David Copperfield [1935] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

David Copperfield [1935] (REGION 1) (NTSC) (Warner Home Video)

Actors & Directors

Edna May Oliver
Jessie Ralph
Freddie Bartholomew
Gene Burdette
Harry Beresford
Elizabeth Allan
Hugh Harman
George Cukor

Release date: 2006-10-10
Run time: 131 min.
Price: £7.48

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Review MGM Entertainment / Passion Of Anna [1969]

Passion Of Anna [1969] (MGM Entertainment)

Actors & Directors

Liv Ullmann
Ingmar Bergman
Bibi Andersson
Max Von Sydow

Release date: 2004-08-02
Run time: 96 min.
RRP: ~~£15.99~~
Price: £2.99

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Review Paramount Home Entertainment / In Harm's Way [1965]

In Harm's Way [1965] (Paramount Home Entertainment)

Actors & Directors

Kirk Douglas
Tom Tryon
Patricia Neal
John Wayne
Paula Prentiss
Otto Preminger

Release date: 2005-06-06
Run time: 160 min.
RRP: ~~£12.99~~
Price: £3.94

Review In Harm's Way [1965] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

Otto Preminger's sprawling Second World War drama, In Harm's Way, packs a lot in its 165 minutes, beginning with the attack on Pearl Harbor (which Preminger re-creates in amazing detail) and ending a couple of years later with America's return to the South Pacific in force. John Wayne and Kirk Douglas star as a career naval captain and his self-pitying commander in the peacetime navy who are thrust into battle when Pearl Harbour is bombed while they are on manoeuvres. Minutes into World War II, they are already scapegoated and demoted by the embarrassed military brass. Wayne romances a WAVE nurse (Patricia Neal) and attempts a reconciliation with his estranged, spoiled son (Brandon de Wilde) while Douglas sinks into the bottle after the death of his cheating wife until the American fleet rebuilds and calls upon Wayne to lead one of the initial invasion forces. Henry Fonda makes a brief but commanding appearance as the fleet admiral. Burgess Meredith is a former writer turned witty commander, Dana Andrews a showy but indecisive admiral, and Stanley Holloway a genial Australian scout working with the American invasion forces. Tom Tryon and Paula Prentiss play newlyweds torn apart by the war, and also appearing are Franchot Tone, Carroll O'Conner, Slim Pickens, George Kennedy, Bruce Cabot, and Larry Hagman, among many, many more. Loyal Griggs's handsome black-and-white photography is topped only by Saul Bass's impressive closing credits sequence, a rising cascade of crashing waves and rough surf reportedly paced to mirror the dramatic rhythm of the film. -Sean Axmaker.

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