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Review Paramount / The Red Tent [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Finch
  • Claudia Cardinale
  • Sean Connery
  • Massimo Girotti
  • Hardy Krüger
  • Mikhail Kalatozov
Release date: 2005-08-23
Run time: 158 min.
Creator: Robert Bolt

Review The Red Tent [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Paramount:


Review Warner Home Video / 36 Hours [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Rod Taylor
  • Werner Peters
  • John Banner
  • Eva Marie Saint
  • George Seaton
  • James Garner
Release date: 2007-06-05
Run time: 115 min.
Price: £9.47

Review 36 Hours [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Whe Europe Limited / The Big Lift [1950]
Actors & Directors
  • Bruni Löbel
  • George Seaton
  • O.E. Hasse
  • Montgomery Clift
  • Cornell Borchers
  • Paul Douglas
Release date: 2004-03-22
Run time: 119 min.
Creator: William Perlberg
RRP: £4.99
Price: £4.89

Review The Big Lift [1950] / Whe Europe Limited:


Review Criterion / Salvatore Giuliano [1962] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Bruno Ukmar
  • Francesco Rosi
  • Salvo Randone
  • Ugo Torrente
  • Frank Wolff
  • Pietro Cammarata
Release date: 2004-02-24
Run time: 123 min.
Price: £18.14

Review Salvatore Giuliano [1962] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Criterion:


Review Eclectic DVD Dist. / The Committee [1968]
Actors & Directors
  • Tom Kempinski
  • Paul Jones
  • Robert Langdon Lloyd
  • Arthur Brown
  • Jimmy Gardner
  • Peter Sykes
Release date: 2005-09-13
Run time: 58 min.
Creator: Max Steuer
Price: £20.09

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Review MGM / Beach Party/Bikini Beach [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Martha Hyer
  • Annette Funicello
  • Don Rickles
  • William Asher
  • Harvey Lembeck
  • Frankie Avalon
Release date: 2005-02-15
Run time: 198 min.
Creator: Robert Dillon
Price: £6.79

Review Beach Party/Bikini Beach [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:


Review Alpha Video / The Student of Prague [1927] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Ferdinand von Alten
  • Conrad Veidt
  • Elizza La Porta
  • Fritz Alberti
  • Henrik Galeen
  • Agnes Esterhazy
Release date: 2004-09-28
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: Hanns Heinz Ewers
Price: £3.06

Review The Student of Prague [1927] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Alpha Video:


Review Republic Pictures / Father Goose [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jack Good
  • Leslie Caron
  • Ralph Nelson
  • Trevor Howard
  • Sharyl Locke
  • Cary Grant
Release date: 2001-09-18
Run time: 118 min.
Creator: Frank Tarloff
Price: £6.33

Review Father Goose [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Republic Pictures:


Review MGM Entertainment / The Apartment [1960]
Actors & Directors
  • Jack Kruschen
  • Billy Wilder
  • Shirley MacLaine
  • Ray Walston
  • Fred MacMurray
  • Jack Lemmon
Release date: 2000-06-19
Run time: 125 min.
Creator: I.A.L. Diamond
RRP: £9.99
Price: £7.45

Review The Apartment [1960] / MGM Entertainment:

Romance at its most anti-romantic-that is the Billy Wilder stamp of genius, and this Best Picture Academy Award winner from 1960 is no exception. Set in a decidedly unsavoury world of corporate climbing and philandering, the great filmmaker's trenchant, witty satire-melodrama takes the office politics of a corporation and plays them out in the apartment of lonely clerk CC Baxter (Jack Lemmon). By lending out his digs to the higher-ups for nightly extramarital flings with their secretaries, Baxter has managed to ascend the business ladder faster than even he imagined. The story turns even uglier, though, when Baxter's crush on the building's melancholy elevator operator (Shirley MacLaine) runs up against her long-standing affair with the big boss (a superbly smarmy Fred MacMurray). The situation comes to a head when she tries to commit suicide in Baxter's apartment. Not the happiest or cleanest of scenarios, and one that earned the famously caustic and cynically humoured Wilder his share of outraged responses, but looking at it now, it is a funny, startlingly clear-eyed vision of urban emptiness and is unfailingly understanding of the crazy decisions our hearts sometimes make. Lemmon and MacLaine are ideally matched and while everyone cites Wilder's Some Like It Hot closing line "Nobody's perfect" as his best, MacLaine's no-nonsense final words-"Shut up and deal"-are every bit as memorable. Wilder won three Oscars for The Apartment, for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay (cowritten with long-time collaborator I A L Diamond). -Robert Abele.

Review 2 Entertain Video / The Stars Look Down [1939]
Actors & Directors
  • Nancy Price
  • Michael Redgrave
  • Carol Reed
  • Edward Rigby
  • Emlyn Williams
  • Margaret Lockwood
Release date: 2003-06-30
Run time: 94 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £27.99

Review The Stars Look Down [1939] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Warner Home Video / Cimarron [1930] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Irene Dunne
  • Estelle Taylor
  • Rudolf Ising
  • Wesley Ruggles
  • Nick Grinde
  • William Collier Jr.
  • Nance O'Neil
  • Richard Dix
Release date: 2006-01-31
Run time: 123 min.
Creator: A.B. MacDonald
Price: £5.99

Review Cimarron [1930] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Warner Home Video / Kitty Foyle [1940] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Ginger Rogers
  • William Hanna
  • Ernest Cossart
  • Joseph Barbera
  • Eduardo Ciannelli
  • Tex Avery
  • Dennis Morgan
  • James Craig
  • Sam Wood
Release date: 2006-01-31
Run time: 108 min.
Creator: Christopher Morley
Price: £5.99

Review Kitty Foyle [1940] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Image Entertainment / The Defilers/Scum of the Earth [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Byron Mabe
  • Jerome Eden
  • Herschell Gordon Lewis
  • David F. Friedman
  • Linda Cochran
  • Mai Jansson
  • Lee Frost
  • Carol Dark
Release date: 2001-02-20
Run time: 142 min.
Creator: Lee Frost
Price: £13.08

Review The Defilers/Scum of the Earth [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:


Review Walt Disney Video / The Gnome-Mobile [1967] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Deacon
  • Karen Dotrice
  • Robert Stevenson
  • Walter Brennan
  • Matthew Garber
  • Tom Lowell
Release date: 2004-03-02
Run time: 84 min.
Creator: Ellis Kadison
Price: £3.93

Review The Gnome-Mobile [1967] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:


Review Elstree Hill Entertainment / Dragnet 8 DVD Set [1951]
Actors & Directors
  • Jack Webb
  • Ben Alexander
  • Jack Webb
Release date: 2008-02-11
Run time: 448 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £15.85

Review Dragnet 8 DVD Set [1951] / Elstree Hill Entertainment:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The Longest Day [1962]
Actors & Directors
  • Andrew Marton
  • Bernhard Wicki
  • John Wayne
  • Darryl F. Zanuck
  • Robert Ryan
  • Robert Mitchum
  • Ken Annakin
  • Henry Fonda
  • Richard Burton
Release date: 1998-02-23
Run time: 168 min.
Creator: James Jones
RRP: £9.99
Price: £9.54

Review The Longest Day [1962] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

After seeing Saving Private Ryan, this epic tale about the Normandy invasion will look sanitised. But in The Longest Day's re-creation of events leading to the epochal battle, the film is captivating and grand, and the parade of famous actors who cross the screen naturally give the already charged action even more of a boost. Three directors worked on it: Ken Annakin (Battle of the Bulge), Andrew Marton (Crack in the World) and Bernhard Wicki (this film being his only credit). -Tom Keogh The Longest Day is Hollywood's definitive D-day movie. More modern accounts such as Saving Private Ryan are more vividly realistic, but producer Darryl F Zanuck's epic 1962 account is the only one to attempt the daunting task of covering that fateful day from all perspectives. From the German high command and front-line officers to the French Resistance and all the key Allied participants, the screenplay by Cornelius Ryan, based on his own authoritative book, is as factually accurate as possible. The endless parade of stars (John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum, Sean Connery, and Richard Burton, to name a few) makes for an uneasy mix of verisimilitude and Hollywood star-power, however, and the film falls a little flat for too much of its three-hour running time. But the set-piece battles are still spectacular, and if the landings on Omaha Beach lack the graphic gore of Private Ryan they nonetheless show the sheer scale and audacity of the invasion. -Mark Walker.

Review Warner Home Video / White Heat [1949] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Steve Cochran
  • Margaret Wycherly
  • Edmond O'Brien
  • James Cagney
  • Virginia Mayo
  • Raoul Walsh
Release date: 2005-01-25
Run time: 114 min.
Creator: Ben Roberts
Price: £4.13

Review White Heat [1949] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review 4 Front Video / Born Free [1966]
Actors & Directors
  • James Hill
  • Omar Chambati
  • Bill Travers
  • Geoffrey Keen
  • Peter Lukoye
  • Tom McGowan
  • Virginia McKenna
Release date: 2003-02-03
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: Lester Cole
RRP: £5.99
Price: £24.95

Review Born Free [1966] / 4 Front Video:


Review Warner Home Video / Boys Town [1938] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Gene Reynolds
  • Henry Hull
  • Leslie Fenton
  • Norman Taurog
  • Mickey Rooney
  • Spencer Tracy
Release date: 2005-11-08
Run time: 199 min.
Creator: John Meehan
Price: £8.41

Review Boys Town [1938] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Odeon Entertainment / The Final Test [1953]
Actors & Directors
  • Jack Warner; Robert Morley; George Relph; Brenda Bruce; Richard Wattis
Release date: 2007-08-06
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.50

Review The Final Test [1953] / Odeon Entertainment:


Models & Brands:
The Red Tent [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC), 36 Hours [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Big Lift [1950], Salvatore Giuliano [1962] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Committee [1968], Beach Party/Bikini Beach [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Student of Prague [1927] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Father Goose [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Apartment [1960], The Stars Look Down [1939], Cimarron [1930] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Kitty Foyle [1940] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Defilers/Scum of the Earth [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Gnome-Mobile [1967] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Dragnet 8 DVD Set [1951], The Longest Day [1962], White Heat [1949] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Born Free [1966], Boys Town [1938] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Final Test [1953]

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