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Review Warner Home Video / The Good Earth [1937] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Leon Errol
  • Gustav Machatý
  • Sidney Franklin
  • Joe Morrison
  • The Jones Boys
  • Victor Fleming
  • Roy Rowland
  • Al Lyons Band
  • Elissa Landi
Release date: 2006-01-31
Run time: 138 min.
Price: £7.45

Review The Good Earth [1937] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Alpha Video / Myrna Loy: Vanity Fair [1932]
Actors & Directors
  • Chester M. Franklin
  • Walter Byron
  • Lionel Belmore
  • Mary Forbes
  • Herbert Bunston
  • Billy Bevan
Release date: 2006-12-22
Run time: 74 min.
Creator: Harry Neumann
Price: £2.45

Review Myrna Loy: Vanity Fair [1932] / Alpha Video:


Review Vci Video / Forgotten Noir Collector's Set, Vol. 2 [1952]
Actors & Directors
  • Sam Newfield
  • Raymond Burr
  • Peter Graham Scott
  • George Brent
  • William A. Berke
  • William Beaudine
  • Seymour Friedman
  • Audrey Totter
  • Tom Drake
  • Cesar Romero
Release date: 2007-04-24
Run time: 415 min.
Price: £10.49

Review Forgotten Noir Collector's Set, Vol. 2 [1952] / Vci Video:


Review Warner Home Video / The Bad and the Beautiful [1952] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Dick Powell
  • Kirk Douglas
  • Lana Turner
  • Vincente Minnelli
  • Barry Sullivan
  • Walter Pidgeon
Release date: 2002-02-05
Run time: 119 min.
Price: £8.01

Review The Bad and the Beautiful [1952] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Actors & Directors
  • Trevor Howard
  • Celia Johnson
  • Stanley Holloway
  • Cyril Raymond
  • Joyce Carey
  • David Lean
Release date: 2008-09-15
Run time: 82 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.98

Review Brief Encounter [1945] / ITV DVD:


Review Momentum Pictures / The Graduate [HD DVD] [1967]
Actors & Directors
  • Alice Ghostley
  • Richard Dreyfuss
  • Harry Holcombe
  • Mike Nichols
  • Elizabeth Wilson
  • Dustin Hoffman
Release date: 2007-08-13
Run time: 101 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £6.12

Review The Graduate [HD DVD] [1967] / Momentum Pictures:


Review Kino / Waxworks [1924] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Georg John
  • Conrad Veidt
  • Paul Leni
  • Emil Jannings
  • William Dieterle
  • Werner Krauss
  • Leo Birinsky
Release date: 2002-09-24
Run time: 83 min.
Price: £6.75

Review Waxworks [1924] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Kino:


Review Fremantle Home Entertainment / Sympathy For The Devil
Actors & Directors
  • Jean-Luc Godard
Release date: 2006-06-05
Run time: 146 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £6.69

Review Sympathy For The Devil / Fremantle Home Entertainment:


Review Cinema Club / Stolen Kisses (Baisers voles) [1968]
Actors & Directors
  • Claude Jade
  • Francois Truffaut
  • Jean-Pierre Leaud
  • Michael Lonsdale
Release date: 2007-02-19
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £13.57

Review Stolen Kisses (Baisers voles) [1968] / Cinema Club:


Review Warner Home Video / Old Acquaintance [1943] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Robert C. Bruce
  • Miriam Hopkins
  • Chuck Jones
  • Bette Davis
  • Vincent Sherman
  • Ralph Staub
  • Gig Young
  • John Loder
Release date: 2006-05-30
Run time: 110 min.
Price: £7.43

Review Old Acquaintance [1943] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Actors & Directors
  • Martin Ritt
  • Paul Newman
  • Orson Welles
  • Joanne Woodward
Run time: 116 min.
Price: £29.90

Review The Long, Hot Summer [1958] / CBS Fox:

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Review Universal Pictures UK / Touch Of Evil [1958]
Actors & Directors
  • Orson Welles
  • Janet Leigh
  • Akim Tamiroff
  • Charlton Heston
  • Joseph Calleia
  • Orson Welles
Release date: 2003-11-10
Run time: 105 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.95

Review Touch Of Evil [1958] / Universal Pictures UK:

Considered by many to be the greatest B movie ever made, the original-release version of Orson Welles' film noir masterpiece Touch of Evil was, ironically, never intended as a B movie at all-it merely suffered that fate after it was taken away from writer-director Welles, then reedited and released in 1958 as the second half of a double feature. Time and critical acclaim would eventually elevate the film to classic status (and Welles' original vision was meticulously followed for the film's 1998 restoration), but for four decades this original version stood as a testament to Welles' directorial genius. From its astonishing, miraculously choreographed opening shot (lasting over three minutes) to Marlene Dietrich's classic final line of dialogue, this sordid tale of murder and police corruption is like a valentine for the cinematic medium, with Welles as its love-struck suitor. As the corpulent cop who may be involved in a border-town murder, Welles faces opposition from a narcotics officer (Charlton Heston) whose wife (Janet Leigh) is abducted and held as the pawn in a struggle between Heston's quest for truth and Welles' control of carefully hidden secrets. The twisting plot is wildly entertaining (even though it's harder to follow in this original version), but even greater pleasure is found in the pulpy dialogue and the sheer exuberance of the dazzling directorial style. -Jeff Shannon.

Review Artificial Eye / The Lady Of Musashino [1951]
Actors & Directors
  • Kenji Mizoguchi
  • Masayuki Mori
  • Yukiko Todoroki
  • So Yamamura
Release date: 2004-04-26
Run time: 95 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £6.56

Review The Lady Of Musashino [1951] / Artificial Eye:


Review Naxos / The Full Monteverdi (NTSC) [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • I Fagiolini
  • Claudio Monteverdi
  • John La Bouchardiere
Release date: 2007-10-29
Run time: 60 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.89

Review The Full Monteverdi (NTSC) [2007] / Naxos:


Review Bfi Video / Cry Of The City [1948]
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Conte
  • Victor Mature
  • Robert Siodmak
  • Shelley Winters
Release date: 2007-10-15
Run time: 91 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £11.95

Review Cry Of The City [1948] / Bfi Video:


Review Whe Europe Limited / Pepe Le Moko [1936]
Actors & Directors
  • Julien Duvivier
  • Mireille Ballin
  • Gabriel Gabrio
  • Jean Gabin
Release date: 2004-02-23
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £0.28

Review Pepe Le Moko [1936] / Whe Europe Limited:


Review MGM Entertainment / Marty [1955]
Actors & Directors
  • Betsy Blair
  • Ernest Borgnine
  • Joe Mantell
  • Augusta Ciolli
  • Delbert Mann
  • Esther Minciotti
Release date: 2003-02-03
Run time: 89 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.17

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 Lionsgate / Monsieur Vincent [1947] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Germaine Dermoz
  • Aimé Clariond
  • Jean Debucourt
  • Pierre Fresnay
  • Maurice Cloche
  • Lise Delamare
Release date: 2008-07-15
Run time: 114 min.
Price: £7.46

Review Monsieur Vincent [1947] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Lionsgate:


Review Facets / Daisies [1967] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jirina Myskova
  • Marcela Brezinova
  • Jitka Cerhová
  • Vera Chytilová
  • Ivana Karbanová
  • Marie Cesková
Release date: 2002-03-26
Run time: 74 min.
Price: £11.03

Review Daisies [1967] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Facets:


Review Warner Home Video / Far From The Madding Crowd [1967]
Actors & Directors
  • Julie Christie
  • Alan Bates
  • Terence Stamp
  • Fiona Walker
  • Peter Finch
  • John Schlesinger
Release date: 2000-07-10
Run time: 155 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £22.50

Review Far From The Madding Crowd [1967] / Warner Home Video:

John Schlesinger's solid adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel sees three rival suitors vying for the affections of the beautiful Bathsheba Everdene (Julie Christie decked out in a variety of bonnets and frilly dresses), who has just inherited a farm. The men in her life are stout, whiskered yeoman Gabriel Oak (Alan Bates), an impoverished local farmer; neurotic, repressed squire William Boldwood (Peter Finch); and handsome rascal Sgt Troy (Terrence Stamp), who dresses as if he's Flashman and breaks women's hearts for a hobby. Thanks to cameraman Nic Roeg and production designer Richard MacDonald (who also worked for Joseph Losey), 19th-century Dorset looks as pretty and as picturesque as a John Constable reproduction on top of a biscuit tin. Not that Schlesinger or screenwriter Frederic Raphael underplay the duress of rural life. We see the hardship of the farm workers' lives as the seasons turn. The film opens with a spectacular sequence in which Gabriel Oak's dog drives his flock of sheep over a cliff, thereby forcing him into penury. Whether hunger or heartbreak, every character here suffers. Bathsheba (like the model Christie plays in Darling) is a free-spirit in a society in which women's rights are severely restricted. -Geoffrey Macnab.

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The Good Earth [1937] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Myrna Loy: Vanity Fair [1932], Forgotten Noir Collector's Set, Vol. 2 [1952], The Bad and the Beautiful [1952] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Brief Encounter [1945], The Graduate [HD DVD] [1967], Waxworks [1924] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Sympathy For The Devil, Stolen Kisses (Baisers voles) [1968], Old Acquaintance [1943] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Long, Hot Summer [1958], Touch Of Evil [1958], The Lady Of Musashino [1951], The Full Monteverdi (NTSC) [2007], Cry Of The City [1948], Pepe Le Moko [1936], Marty [1955], Monsieur Vincent [1947] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Daisies [1967] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Far From The Madding Crowd [1967]

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