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Review Network / The Man Who Knew Too Much [1934]
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Lorre
  • Alfred Hitchcock
  • Edna Best
  • Leslie Banks
  • Frank Vosper
  • Hugh Wakefield
Release date: 2008-08-18
Run time: 72 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.34

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Review Warner Home Video / Entertaining Mr Sloane [1969]
Actors & Directors
  • Beryl Reid
  • Alan Webb
  • Douglas Hickox
  • Harry Andrews
  • Peter McEnery
Release date: 1994-08-01
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £32.95

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Review MGM / Beach Red [1967] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Burr de Benning
  • Fred Galang
  • Cornel Wilde
  • Gene Blakely
  • Jan Garrison
  • Linda Albertano
Release date: 2005-04-19
Run time: 104 min.
Creator: Antonio Buenaventura
Price: £4.27

Review Beach Red [1967] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:


Review Artificial Eye / The Commissar [1967]
Actors & Directors
  • Rolan Bykov
  • Alexander Askoldov
  • Nonna Mordukova
Release date: 2007-03-26
Run time: 104 min.
RRP: £23.99
Price: £7.73

Review The Commissar [1967] / Artificial Eye:


Review Pathfinder Home Ent. / The Blue Light [1932] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Leni Riefenstahl
  • Mathias Wieman
Release date: 2006-08-22
Run time: 131 min.
Price: £6.18

Review The Blue Light [1932] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Pathfinder Home Ent.:


Review 20th Century Fox / A High Wind in Jamaica [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Lila Kedrova
  • Alexander Mackendrick
  • Dennis Price
  • Anthony Quinn
  • James Coburn
  • Nigel Davenport
Release date: 2004-04-20
Run time: 103 min.
Price: £4.82

Review A High Wind in Jamaica [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:


Review Warner Home Video / The Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly Collection (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Gene Kelly
  • Frank Sinatra
Release date: 2008-05-13
Price: £10.83

Review The Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly Collection (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Tartan Video / To Joy [1949]
Actors & Directors
  • Maj-Britt Nilsson
  • Birger Malmsten
  • Maud Hyttenberg
  • Victor Sjostrom
  • Erland Josephson
  • Ingmar Bergman
Release date: 2003-09-29
Run time: 98 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £4.43

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Review Republic Pictures / The Bells of St. Mary's [1945] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Leo McCarey
  • Ingrid Bergman
  • Henry Travers
  • William Gargan
  • Ruth Donnelly
  • Bing Crosby
Release date: 2003-09-23
Run time: 126 min.
Price: £5.09

Review The Bells of St. Mary's [1945] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Republic Pictures:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Michael Caine Collection [1964]
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Caine
Release date: 2008-10-06
Run time: 564 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £13.98

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Review Eureka Entertainment / Michael - Masters of Cinema series
Actors & Directors
  • Walter Slezak
  • Max Auzinger
  • Carl Dreyer
Release date: 2004-10-25
Run time: 86 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £10.30

Review Michael - Masters of Cinema series / Eureka Entertainment:


Review Paramount / The Rainmaker [1956] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Katharine Hepburn
  • Wendell Corey
  • Joseph Anthony (II)
  • Earl Holliman
  • Burt Lancaster
  • Lloyd Bridges
Release date: 2005-07-12
Run time: 121 min.
Price: £5.14

Review The Rainmaker [1956] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Paramount:


Review Paramount / Perry Mason: Season 3, Vol. 1 [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Anderson
  • Karl Held
  • Raymond Burr
  • Ray Collins
Release date: 2008-08-19
Run time: 624 min.
Creator: Barbara Hale
Price: £20.10

Review Perry Mason: Season 3, Vol. 1 [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Paramount:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Roman Polanski Collection [1968]
Actors & Directors
  • Jack Nicholson
  • John Huston
  • Roman Polanski
  • Mia Farrow
  • Faye Dunaway
  • Roman Polanski
Release date: 2004-08-16
RRP: £24.99
Price: £9.15

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Review Paramount Home Entertainment (UK) / A Place in the Sun - Paramount Originals (includes Limited Edition reproduction film poster) [1951]
Actors & Directors
  • Anne Revere
  • Shelley Winters
  • Raymond Burr
  • George Stevens
  • Elizabeth Taylor
  • Montgomery Clift
Release date: 2007-07-23
Run time: 117 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.99

Review A Place in the Sun - Paramount Originals (includes Limited Edition reproduction film poster) [1951] / Paramount Home Entertainment (UK):


Review MGM / I Could Go On Singing [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Judy Garland
  • Gregory Phillips
  • Jack Klugman
  • Aline MacMahon
  • Ronald Neame
  • Dirk Bogarde
Release date: 2004-05-11
Run time: 99 min.
Price: £4.44

Review I Could Go On Singing [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Jane Eyre [1943]
Actors & Directors
  • Margaret O'Brien
  • Robert Stevenson
  • Peggy Ann Garner
  • Joan Fontaine
  • John Sutton
  • Orson Welles
Release date: 1994-08-01
Run time: 96 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £29.98

Review Jane Eyre [1943] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

This 1943 version of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre was made just two years after Citizen Kane, and it certainly looks like star Orson Welles muscled his way behind the camera much of the time. (In fact, co-star Joan Fontaine-who plays the title character-has maintained that Welles methodically did just that every day on the set. ) Not that the film's official director was a hack: Robert Stevenson gets the credit, a man who later had a busy career at Disney making numerous live-action hits such as Mary Poppins. But there's no mistaking Welles' masterful hand in this film's bold and creative look, and there's no getting away from his enigmatic charisma as Rochester, the widower who takes in Jane as a governess to his daughter. An engrossing, gorgeous film, there's even a small role for Elizabeth Taylor at the beginning as Jane's unlucky, doomed friend at a cruel boarding school. -Tom Keogh, Amazon. com.

Review MGM Entertainment / Dr Zhivago [1965]
Actors & Directors
  • David Lean|Omar Sharif|Julie Christie|Geraldine Chaplin
Release date: 1993-02-22
Run time: 213 min.
Price: £12.99

Review Dr Zhivago [1965] / MGM Entertainment:

David Lean's wintry adaptation of Boris Pasternak's melodramatic Russian Revolution romance, Doctor Zhivago, is a masterpiece of epic filmmaking, but one that risks leaving the viewer cold. Though none of the film was shot in the then USSR, Lean's assured technique nevertheless illuminates the breathtaking backgrounds magnificently: from the snowy wastes of the Urals to the strife-torn streets of Moscow, Lean stages a series of wonderful set-pieces showing war, revolution and its terrible aftermath. The problem lies in the foreground. Omar Sharif's entirely passive Zhivago is, we are told, a romantic poet of great sensitivity who internalises all his emotions and expresses them in verse. The trouble is the audience never gets to see a line of his poems, not even the centrally important "Lara" cycle. Thus Zhivago at the end of the picture is as much an emotional blank to us as he was at the beginning. His affair with the idealised beauty that is Julie Christie's Lara is also taken for granted by the filmmakers rather than set up in any convincing way, their mutual attraction remaining a mystery that creates a vacuum at the core of the picture. Given that none of the central characters with the exception of Rod Steiger's fire-breathing lecher Komarovsky ever give way to strong emotions, the romantic heart of the film remains oddly frigid. Matters are not helped by composer Maurice Jarre's incessant "Lara's Theme", which many will find teeth-grindingly irritating. Still, any David Lean epic, even a flawed one, is always going to be a first-class cinematic experience, and Zhivago is assuredly that. [+]
On the DVD: A stunning anamorphic widescreen print is the ideal way to appreciate David Lean's craftsmanship and this movie's glorious, wintry cinematography. Maurice Jarre's "Lara's Theme" and the rest of his patchwork score can be heard in a music-only track, while Omar Sharif is joined by Lean's widow Sandra and Rod Steiger for an intermittent commentary. The second bonus disc contains a good hour-long making-of documentary plus 10 shorter contemporary documentaries giving various insights into the location shooting and the cast and crew. But it's the sheer beauty of the picture that will astonish and make this disc forever treasurable. -Mark Walker.

Review MGM / Beachhead [1954] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Stuart Heisler
  • Mary Murphy
  • Frank Lovejoy
  • Eduard Franz
  • Skip Homeier
  • Tony Curtis
Release date: 2005-04-19
Run time: 90 min.
Price: £5.05

Review Beachhead [1954] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:


Review Warner Home Video / Gun Crazy [1949] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • John Dall
  • Anabel Shaw
  • Berry Kroeger
  • Joseph H. Lewis
  • Morris Carnovsky
  • Peggy Cummins
Release date: 2004-07-06
Run time: 87 min.
Price: £7.44

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Models & Brands:
The Man Who Knew Too Much [1934], Entertaining Mr Sloane [1969], Beach Red [1967] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Commissar [1967], The Blue Light [1932] (REGION 1) (NTSC), A High Wind in Jamaica [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly Collection (REGION 1) (NTSC), To Joy [1949], The Bells of St. Mary's [1945] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Michael Caine Collection [1964], Michael - Masters of Cinema series, The Rainmaker [1956] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Perry Mason: Season 3, Vol. 1 [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Roman Polanski Collection [1968], A Place in the Sun - Paramount Originals (includes Limited Edition reproduction film poster) [1951], I Could Go On Singing [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Jane Eyre [1943], Dr Zhivago [1965], Beachhead [1954] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Gun Crazy [1949] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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