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Review Warner Home Video / To Be or Not to Be [1942] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Carole Lombard
  • Lionel Atwill
  • Jack Benny
  • J.C. Nugent
  • Felix Bressart
  • Robert Stack
  • Ernst Lubitsch
Release date: 2005-03-01
Run time: 99 min.
Price: £7.44

Review To Be or Not to Be [1942] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review MGM / Stella Dallas [1937] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Barbara Stanwyck
  • Alan Hale
  • Barbara O'Neil
  • Anne Shirley
  • King Vidor
  • John Boles
Release date: 2005-03-08
Run time: 106 min.
Price: £5.05

Review Stella Dallas [1937] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:


Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / The Bedford Incident [1965]
Actors & Directors
  • Wally Cox
  • Sidney Poitier
  • James MacArthur
  • Richard Widmark
  • James B. Harris
  • Martin Balsam
Release date: 2004-12-06
Run time: 98 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.28

Review The Bedford Incident [1965] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:


Review Artificial Eye / The End Of Summer [1961]
Actors & Directors
  • Michiyo Aratama
  • Yôko Tsukasa
  • Yasujiro Ozu
  • Ganjiro Nakamura
  • Setsuko Hara
  • Keiju Kobayashi
Release date: 2004-01-26
Run time: 103 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £6.40

Review The End Of Summer [1961] / Artificial Eye:


Review Vci Video / Chu Chin Chow [1934]
Actors & Directors
  • John Garrick
  • Fritz Kortner
  • Pearl Argyle
  • Karl Grune
  • Walter Forde
  • George Robey
  • Anna May Wong
Release date: 2005-06-21
Run time: 102 min.
Price: £10.95

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Review A&E Home Video / The Avengers '68: Set 4 [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Patrick MacNee
Release date: 2002-04-30
Run time: 364 min.
Creator: Linda Thorson
Price: £7.75

Review The Avengers '68: Set 4 [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / A&E Home Video:


Review Castaway NW [VCP] / Waterloo Bridge [1940]
Actors & Directors
  • Phyllis Barry
  • Mervyn LeRoy
  • Jimmy Aubrey
  • Leo G. Carroll
  • Harry Allen
  • Florence Baker
Release date: 2007-09-18
Creator: Herbert Stothart
Price: £6.61

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


Review Warner Home Video / Errol Flynn Western Collection [1945]
Actors & Directors
  • Errol Flynn
Release date: 2008-09-29
Run time: 257 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £9.98

Review Errol Flynn Western Collection [1945] / Warner Home Video:


Review Pathe Distribution / Richard III [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Nigel Hawthorne
  • Robert Downey Jr.
  • Ian McKellen
  • Jim Broadbent
  • Richard Loncraine
  • Annette Bening
Release date: 2000-05-08
Run time: 100 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £43.98

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 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Heaven Knows Mr Alison [1957]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Mitchum
  • John Huston
  • Deborah Kerr
Release date: 2005-04-18
Run time: 102 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.80

Review Heaven Knows Mr Alison [1957] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review Eureka Entertainment / Abhijan - Masters of Cinema series [1962]
Actors & Directors
  • Waheeda Rehman
  • Charuprakash Ghosh
  • Satyajit Ray
  • Gyanesh Mukherjee
  • Soumitra Chatterjee
  • Ruma Guha Thakurta
Release date: 2006-05-29
Run time: 145 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £9.39

Review Abhijan - Masters of Cinema series [1962] / Eureka Entertainment:


Review Tartan Video / The Devil's Eye (Bergman 1960) [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • Gunnar Bjornstrand
  • Ingmar Bergman
  • Bibi Andersson
  • Jarl Kulle
  • Stig Jarrell
Release date: 2007-06-11
Run time: 84 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £8.79

Review The Devil's Eye (Bergman 1960) [2007] / Tartan Video:


Review Bfi Video / Journey To Italy [1953]
Actors & Directors
  • George Sanders
  • Ingrid Bergman
  • Roberto Rossellini
  • Natalia Ray
  • Leslie Daniels
Release date: 2003-11-17
Run time: 80 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £13.44

Review Journey To Italy [1953] / Bfi Video:


Review MGM Entertainment / Witness For The Prosecution (DVD) [1957]
Actors & Directors
  • Billy Wilder
  • Charles Laughton
  • John Williams (II)
  • Marlene Dietrich
  • Elsa Lanchester
  • Tyrone Power
Release date: 2004-06-07
Run time: 113 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £15.99

Review Witness For The Prosecution (DVD) [1957] / MGM Entertainment:


Review Optimum Home Entertainment / Paris Blues [1961]
Actors & Directors
  • Louis Armstrong
  • Paul Newman
  • Diahann Carroll
  • Sidney Poitier
  • Joanne Woodward
  • Martin Ritt
Release date: 2008-10-20
Run time: 94 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £12.00

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Review Criterion / High and Low [1967] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Isao Kimura
  • Tatsuya Nakadai
  • Kyôko Kagawa
  • Toshirô Mifune
  • Akira Kurosawa
  • Tatsuya Mihashi
Release date: 2008-07-22
Run time: 143 min.
Price: £16.46

Review High and Low [1967] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Criterion:

Although best known for his samurai classics, Japanese master filmmaker Akira Kurosawa proved himself equally adept at contemporary dramas and thrillers, and 1962's High and Low offers a powerful showcase for Kurosawa's versatile skill. The great Toshiro Mifune stars as a wealthy industrialist who has just raised a large sum of money to execute his planned take-over of a successful shoe manufacturer. Fate intervenes when he receives a phone call informing him that his son has been kidnapped, and by unfortunate coincidence the ransom demand is nearly equivalent to the amount Mifune has raised for his corporate coup. A philosophical dilemma emerges when it is revealed that the executive's son is safe, and that it is actually his chauffeur's son who has been taken. What follows is both a tense detective thriller, as the police attempt to track down the kidnapper, and a compelling illustration of class division in Japan-the "high and low" of the title. Far be it from Kurosawa to make a mere thriller, however; this loose adaptation of the Ed McBain novel King's Ransom provides the director with ample opportunity to develop a visual strategy that perfectly enhances the story's sociological themes. -Jeff Shannon.

Review Warner Home Video / Humphrey Bogart Classics: Vol 1 - Casablanca / High Sierra / Dark Passage
Actors & Directors
  • Humphrey Bogart
  • Agnes Moorehead
  • Lauren Bacall
  • Raoul Walsh
  • Tom D'Andrea
  • Delmer Daves
  • Bruce Bennett
Release date: 2004-02-09
Run time: 296 min.
RRP: £34.99
Price: £17.76

Review Humphrey Bogart Classics: Vol 1 - Casablanca / High Sierra / Dark Passage / Warner Home Video:


Review Tartan Video / Summer Interlude [1950]
Actors & Directors
  • Georg Funkquist
  • Ingmar Bergman
  • Annalisa Ericson
  • Maj-Britt Nilsson
  • Birger Malmsten
  • Alf Kjellin
Release date: 2004-03-29
Run time: 91 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £6.99

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Review 20th Century Fox / Blood and Sand [1941] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Tyrone Power
  • Anthony Quinn
  • Rita Hayworth
  • Rouben Mamoulian
  • Alla Nazimova
  • Linda Darnell
Release date: 2007-05-01
Run time: 125 min.
Price: £7.11

Review Blood and Sand [1941] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:


Review Columbia Tri-Star Home Video / In Cold Blood [1967]
Actors & Directors
  • Paul Stewart
  • Scott Wilson
  • Richard Brooks
  • John Forsythe
  • Gerald S. O'Loughlin
  • Robert Blake
Release date: 2006-02-20
Run time: 129 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £1.87

Review In Cold Blood [1967] / Columbia Tri-Star Home Video:

Richard Brooks's In Cold Blood is a faithful 1967 screen adaptation of Truman Capote's extraordinary non-fiction book about the course of two killers in this world-their lives, their senseless slaughter of an entire family, and their executions. Robert Blake and Scott Wilson are remarkable as the murderers, but what has kept this film special over the decades is Brooks's blunt, clearheaded, and non-sensational approach to the story. (The term "semi-documentary" has been applied to Brooks's style on this film, and it's an entirely fair description. ) The experience of watching In Cold Blood is naturally unsettling, but the director-as with Capote-leaves final judgments about justice to the beholder. -Tom Keogh.

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To Be or Not to Be [1942] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Stella Dallas [1937] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Bedford Incident [1965], The End Of Summer [1961], Chu Chin Chow [1934], The Avengers '68: Set 4 [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Waterloo Bridge [1940], Errol Flynn Western Collection [1945], Richard III [1996], Heaven Knows Mr Alison [1957], Abhijan - Masters of Cinema series [1962], The Devil's Eye (Bergman 1960) [2007], Journey To Italy [1953], Witness For The Prosecution (DVD) [1957], Paris Blues [1961], High and Low [1967] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Humphrey Bogart Classics: Vol 1 - Casablanca / High Sierra / Dark Passage, Summer Interlude [1950], Blood and Sand [1941] (REGION 1) (NTSC), In Cold Blood [1967]

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