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Actors & Directors
  • Patrick Troughton
  • Morris Barry
Release date: 1992-05-05
Run time: 99 min.
Creator: Patrick Troughton
RRP: £12.99
Price: £14.99

Review Doctor Who - The Tomb Of The Cybermen [VHS] [1967] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Alpha Video / The Head [DVD] [1959] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Horst Frank
  • Helmut Schmid
  • Paul Dahlke
  • Karin Kernke
  • Victor Trivas
  • Dieter Eppler
Release date: 2003-03-18
Run time: 97 min.
Creator: Wolf C. Hartwig
Price: £1.58

Review The Head [DVD] [1959] [US Import] [NTSC] / Alpha Video:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Blue Peter Makes...A Thunderbirds Tracy Island [VHS]
Release date: 1993-02-19
Run time: 14 min.
RRP: £3.99
Price: £3.40

Review Blue Peter Makes...A Thunderbirds Tracy Island [VHS] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Image Entertainment / Hercules/Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules [DVD] [1959] [US Import]
Actors & Directors
  • Antonio Leonviola
  • Pietro Francisci
  • Steve Reeves
  • Moira Orfei
  • Paul Wynter
  • Raffaella Carrà
  • Mark Forest
Release date: 2006-05-30
Run time: 180 min.
Creator: Giuseppe Mangione
Price: £3.70

Review Hercules/Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules [DVD] [1959] [US Import] / Image Entertainment:


Review St. Clair Entertainment / The Phantom Planet [DVD] [1961] [US Import]
Actors & Directors
  • Coleen Gray
  • William Marshall (II)
  • Richard Weber
  • Anthony Dexter
  • Dean Fredericks
  • Francis X. Bushman
Release date: 2004-03-02
Run time: 82 min.
Creator: Coleen Gray
Price: £28.00

Review The Phantom Planet [DVD] [1961] [US Import] / St. Clair Entertainment:


Review www.a2zcds.com / Indestructible Man (1956) DVD   [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • Jack Pollexfen
  • Lon Chaney Jr.;Max Showalter;Marion Carr
Release date: 2007-07-01
Run time: 76 min.
Creator: Lon Chaney Jr.;Max Showalter;Marion Carr
RRP: £14.99
Price: £10.97

Review Indestructible Man (1956) DVD   [2007] / www.a2zcds.com:


Review 4 Front Video / King Kong - The Eighth Wonder Of The World [VHS] [1933]
Actors & Directors
  • Ernest B. Schoedsack
  • Merian C. Cooper
  • Frank Reicher
  • Robert Armstrong
  • Bruce Cabot
  • Sam Hardy
  • Fay Wray
Release date: 1997-01-13
Run time: 96 min.
Creator: Ruth Rose
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.45

Review King Kong - The Eighth Wonder Of The World [VHS] [1933] / 4 Front Video:

"Now you see it. You're amazed. You can't believe it. Your eyes open wider. It's horrible, but you can't look away. There's no chance for you. No escape. You're helpless, helpless. There's just one chance, if you can scream. Throw your arms across your eyes and scream, scream for your life!" And scream Fay Wray does most famously in this monster classic, one of the greatest adventure films of all time, which even in an era of computer-generated wizardry remains a marvel of stop-motion animation. [+]
Robert Armstrong stars as famed adventurer Carl Denham, who is leading a "crazy voyage" to a mysterious, uncharted island to photograph "something monstrous. neither beast nor man". Also aboard is waif Ann Darrow (Fay Wray) and Bruce Cabot as big lug John Driscoll, the ship's first mate. King Kong's first half-hour is steady going, with engagingly corny dialogue ("Some big, hard-boiled egg gets a look at a pretty face and bang, he cracks up and goes sappy") and ominous portent that sets the stage for the horror to come. Once our heroes reach Skull Island, the movie comes to roaring, chest-thumping, T-rex-slamming, snake-throttling, pterodactyl-tearing, native-stomping life. King Kong was ranked by the American Film Institute as among the 50 best films of the century. Kong making his last stand atop the Empire State Building is one of the film's most indelible and iconic images. -Donald Liebenson, Amazon. comOn the DVD: Although a little light on extras, this is happily the Director's Cut, restoring scenes that were censored after the film's original 1933 run, including Kong peeling off Fay Wray's clothes like a banana, and our hirsute hero using unfortunate natives as dental floss. The ratio of 4:3 is correct for a film of this age; the picture and (mono) sound are perfectly acceptable without being revelatory. The 25-minute "making of" documentary from 1992 is a 60th anniversary tribute to the film, which details all of Kong's many ground-breaking contributions to cinema, from Willis O'Brien's use of stop-motion and rear projection effects to Max Steiner's music score. There are contributions from film historians, modern admirers of the film including composer Jerry Goldsmith-who admits that Steiner created a template that Hollywood composers are still following-and a few surviving participants such as sound effects man Murray Spivak. Apparently, director Merian C. Cooper's original idea was to capture live gorillas, transport them to the island of Komodo and film them fighting the giant lizards! Thanks to Willis O'Brien's pioneering effects work good sense prevailed and a cinema classic was born. -Mark Walker.

Review Vci Video / Santo Contra la Invasion de los Marcianos [DVD] [1966] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • El Nazi
  • Ham Lee
  • Wolf Ruvinskis
  • Santo
  • Beny Galán
  • Alfredo B. Crevenna
Release date: 2002-02-12
Run time: 85 min.
Creator: Rafael García Travesi
Price: £3.89

Review Santo Contra la Invasion de los Marcianos [DVD] [1966] [US Import] [NTSC] / Vci Video:


Review Warner Home Video / The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms/Them! [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Edmund Gwenn
  • Eugène Lourié
  • Joan Weldon
  • James Whitmore
  • Gordon Douglas
  • James Arness
  • Paul Hubschmid
Release date: 2006-08-22
Run time: 171 min.
Creator: Ray Bradbury
Price: £5.21

Review The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms/Them! [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / Warner Home Video:


Actors & Directors
  • Richard Hurndall
  • Pennant Roberts
  • Tom Baker
  • John Nathan-Turner
  • Patrick Troughton
  • Peter Moffatt
  • Jon Pertwee
  • Peter Davison
Release date: 1995-11-06
Run time: 150 min.
Creator: Patrick Troughton
RRP: £19.99
Price: £95.00

Review Doctor Who - The Five Doctors / The King's Demons - Box Set [VHS] [1983] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who - The Three Doctors [VHS]
Actors & Directors
  • Lennie Mayne
  • Patrick Troughton
  • William Hartnell
  • Jon Pertwee
Release date: 1991-08-05
Run time: 98 min.
Creator: Patrick Troughton
Price: £10.99

Review Doctor Who - The Three Doctors [VHS] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review MGM / The Kentuckian [DVD] [1955] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Dianne Foster
  • Diana Lynn
  • John McIntire
  • Burt Lancaster
  • Una Merkel
  • Burt Lancaster
Release date: 2001-05-08
Run time: 104 min.
Creator: Felix Holt
Price: £5.70

Review The Kentuckian [DVD] [1955] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / MGM:

Burt Lancaster's one and only feature as star and director, The Kentuckian, has a bedrock American folk tale at its core, but scarcely a clue how to tell it. For all his balletic control as an actor-athlete, Lancaster shows no sense of how a film should move and breathe over an hour and a half, or how to make the characters' growth or changes of mind credible. It's the early 18th century-Monroe is president-and buckskin-clad Lancaster and his son (Donald MacDonald) are lighting out for Texas. "It ain't we don't like people-we like room more. " They plan briefly to visit Lancaster's tobacco-dealer brother (John McIntire) in the river town of Humility, and then move on. But there are complications from a long-running feud, and some nasty baiting from a whip-cracking storekeeper (Walter Matthau in his film debut); the need to replace their "Texas money" after buying freedom for a bondservant (Dianne Foster); also the matter of deciding who's prettier, her or the local schoolmarm (Diana Lynn). Lancaster aims for some quaint Americana-a sing-along to the tinkling of a pianoforte, a jaw-dropping riverside production number-and there's one nifty bit of action based on how long it took to reload a flintlock rifle. But mostly this film just lies there in overlit CinemaScope. -Richard T Jameson.

Review Image Entertainment / The Fabulous Thunderbirds: Invitation Only [DVD] [2002] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Gene Taylor
  • Kid Ramos
  • Willie Campbell
  • Kim Wilson
  • Robert Swope
  • Steven Hodges
Release date: 2003-01-21
Run time: 63 min.
Creator: Kim Wilson
Price: £7.26

Review The Fabulous Thunderbirds: Invitation Only [DVD] [2002] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / Image Entertainment:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Planet Of The Apes [VHS] [1967]
Actors & Directors
  • Roddy McDowall
  • Franklin J. Schaffner
  • Don Murray
  • Don Taylor
  • J. Lee Thompson
  • Claude Akins
  • Ted Post
  • Kim Hunter
  • James Franciscus
Release date: 1999-01-25
Run time: 457 min.
Creator: Mort Abrahams
RRP: £29.99
Price: £12.99

Review Planet Of The Apes [VHS] [1967] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review BBC Worldwide Ltd. / Doctor Who - Full Circle
Price: £9.98

Review Doctor Who - Full Circle / BBC Worldwide Ltd.:

This is the Doctor Who story "Full Circle" (with Tom Baker as the Doctor) - this was originally broadcast on BBC Television between 25th October-15th November 1980. The video (catalogue number BBCV 6230) runs to about 92 minutes.

Review Image Entertainment / The Brain from Planet Arous [DVD] [1957] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • John Agar
  • Robert Fuller
  • Nathan Juran
  • Thomas Browne Henry
  • Ken Terrell
  • Joyce Meadows
Release date: 2001-02-27
Run time: 71 min.
Creator: Joyce Meadows
Price: £4.22

Review The Brain from Planet Arous [DVD] [1957] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / Image Entertainment:


Review Passport Video / The Flash Gordon Collection [DVD] [US Import]
Actors & Directors
  • Joseph Zigman
  • Gunther von Fritsch
Release date: 2008-01-08
Run time: 565 min.
Price: £7.96

Review The Flash Gordon Collection [DVD] [US Import] / Passport Video:


Review Alpha Video / The Amazing Transparent Man [DVD] [1960] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Ivan Triesault
  • Douglas Kennedy
  • Marguerite Chapman
  • James Griffith
  • Edgar G. Ulmer
  • Boyd "Red" Morgan
Release date: 2003-09-09
Run time: 58 min.
Creator: Jack Ruggiero
Price: £2.28

Review The Amazing Transparent Man [DVD] [1960] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / Alpha Video:


Review Cornerstone Media / Brain From Planet Arous, The / Teenage Monster / Space Cadet [DVD] [1958]
Actors & Directors
  • Nathan Hertz
  • Robert Fuller
  • Jacques Marquette
  • Joyce Meadows
  • Anne Gwynne
  • Thomas B. Henry
  • John Agar
Release date: 2009-05-25
Run time: 135 min.
Creator: John Agar
RRP: £15.99
Price: £15.64

Review Brain From Planet Arous, The / Teenage Monster / Space Cadet [DVD] [1958] / Cornerstone Media:

You have to credit the folks who put this double bill together. The Brain from Planet Arous, a low-budget alien invasion 1958 film, is one of those programmes that lingers in the memory as much for its title and impressively ludicrous giant-staring-transparent-brain monster as for its poverty row dramatics, in which the usually stiff John Agar grins evilly and flashes contact lenses when possessed by the creature and a good guy brain shows up to take over his dog to thwart the renegade cerebrum's plan for world domination. For this release, Brain is teamed with its original co-feature, a movie so bad you wouldn't buy it on its own but whose presence here is a pleasing extra. Whereas Brain from Planet Arous delivers exactly what its title promises, Teenage Monster is a cheat: rather than feature a mutant 1950s delinquent in a leather jacket, it's a melodramatic Western in which prospector's widow Anne Gwynne keeps her hulking caveman-like son (who seems to be well into middle-age) hidden, only for a scheming waitress to use the goon in her murder schemes. Brain is snappily directed, even when staging disasters well beyond its budget, while Teenage Monster drags and chatters and moans until its flat finale. On the DVD: The Brain from Planet Arous/Teenage Monster double bill disc is a solid showing for such marginal items, featuring not only the trailers for these attractions but a clutch of other 1950s sci-fi pictures (Phantom from Space, Invaders from Mars, etc. ) and a bonus episode ("The Runaway Asteroid") from a studio-bound, live-broadcast juvenile space opera of the early 50s (Tom Corbett, Space Cadet) in which hysterical types in a capsule break off from the space programme to deliver ringing endorsements of gruesome-looking breakfast foods. -Kim Newman.

Review Warner Home Video / The Time Machine [DVD] [1960] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • George Pal
  • Yvette Mimieux
  • Sebastian Cabot
  • Rod Taylor
  • Tom Helmore
  • Alan Young
Release date: 2000-10-03
Run time: 103 min.
Creator: H.G. Wells
Price: £8.21

Review The Time Machine [DVD] [1960] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / Warner Home Video:

In 1960 producer-director George Pal's The Time Machine reshaped HG Wells' thoughtful, ironic novel into a two-fisted action movie, but one that still appeals to children and adults immensely and deserves its classic status. Wells' themes of biological and social evolution are played down, but there is a surprisingly melancholy thread as Rod Taylor's Time Traveller keeps stopping off at future wars to find that human stupidity still persists. In the first week of 1900 a group of fussy Victorians gather in Taylor's chintzy, overstuffed parlour to hear him tell of his expedition to the future, where the world is divided between the surface-dwelling, childish, beautiful Eloi and the hideous, underground, cannibal Morlocks. Wells intended both factions to seem degenerate, the logical final evolution of the class system, but Pal has Taylor pull a Captain Kirk and side with the Eloi and teach them to fight against their oppressors. The time travel sequence remains a tour de force, with a shop window mannequin demonstrating a parade of fashions as the years fly by in seconds and charming but still-effective stop-motion effects. The future is a wonderfully coloured landscape with properly gruesome cave-dwelling monsters and a winning Eloi heroine in Yvette Mimieux. It may not be totally Wells, but it's a treat. On the DVD: The Time Machine arrives on disc in a lovely widescreen print which makes the film seem new all over again. The featurette "Time Machine: The Journey Back" combines some mild behind-the-scenes stuff about the film (and its star prop) with a moving mini-sequel reuniting stars Rod Taylor and Alan Young in a scene that actually addresses a plot point skipped over in the original. -Kim Newman.

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