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Review Ferdinand Zecca / The Life and Passion of Jesus Christ/From the Manger to the Cross (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Release date: 2003-04-08
Run time: 115 min.
Price: £8.22

Review The Life and Passion of Jesus Christ/From the Manger to the Cross (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Ferdinand Zecca:


Review 20th Century Fox / What Price Glory? [1952] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Dan Dailey
  • John Ford
  • James Cagney
  • Corinne Calvet
  • Craig Hill
  • William Demarest
Release date: 2004-05-25
Run time: 109 min.
Price: £4.55

Review What Price Glory? [1952] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:


Review Image Entertainment / Broken Blossoms [1919]
Actors & Directors
  • Donald Crisp
  • D.W. Griffith
  • Lillian Gish
  • Arthur Howard
  • Edward Peil Sr.
  • Richard Barthelmess
Release date: 1999-05-11
Run time: 89 min.
Price: £12.57

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Review Alpha Video / The Shock [1923] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Virginia Valli
  • Jack Mower
  • Lambert Hillyer
  • Lon Chaney
  • William Welsh
  • Henry A. Barrows
Release date: 2003-04-15
Price: £2.12

Review The Shock [1923] (NTSC) / Alpha Video:


Review Kino / Slapstick Symposium Too: The Oliver Hardy Collection [1916] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Oliver Hardy
Release date: 2005-09-13
Run time: 184 min.
Price: £8.19

Review Slapstick Symposium Too: The Oliver Hardy Collection [1916] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Kino:


Review Criterion / Die Buchse der Pandora [1929] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Fritz Kortner
  • G.W. Pabst
  • Gustav Diessl
  • Sig Arno
  • Louise Brooks
  • Carl Götz
Release date: 2006-11-28
Run time: 133 min.
Creator: Gunther Krampf
Price: £15.60

Review Die Buchse der Pandora [1929] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Criterion:


Review Image Entertainment / South [1919] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Lieutenant J. Stenhouse
  • Frank Hurley
  • Dr. McIlroy
  • Ernest Shackleton
  • Captain L. Hussey
  • Captain F. Worsley
Release date: 2000-08-01
Run time: 81 min.
Price: £11.93

Review South [1919] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:


Review Anchor Bay / The Ealing Studios Comedy Collection [1953] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Henry Cornelius
  • Naunton Wayne
  • Charles Crichton
  • John Gregson
  • Alexander Mackendrick
  • George Relph
  • Godfrey Tearle
  • Stanley Holloway
  • Charles Frend
Release date: 2005-04-05
Run time: 428 min.
Price: £25.66

Review The Ealing Studios Comedy Collection [1953] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Anchor Bay:


Review Grandad's Forbidden Follies / Sex & Buttered Popcorn, Vol. 3: Granddad's Forbidden Follies [1934] (NTSC)
Release date: 2001-08-28
Run time: 133 min.
Price: £3.21

Review Sex & Buttered Popcorn, Vol. 3: Granddad's Forbidden Follies [1934] (NTSC) / Grandad's Forbidden Follies:


Review Alpha Video / The Bat [1926]
Actors & Directors
  • Louise Fazenda
  • Jewel Carmen
  • Emily Fitzroy
  • André de Beranger
  • Roland West
  • Tullio Carminatti
Release date: 2004-08-31
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: Arthur Edeson
Price: £1.67

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Review Alpha Video / The Hunchback of Notre Dame [1923] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Winifred Bryson
  • Kate Lester
  • Wallace Worsley
  • Patsy Ruth Miller
  • Lon Chaney
  • Norman Kerry
Release date: 2002-02-19
Run time: 110 min.
Price: £1.67

Review The Hunchback of Notre Dame [1923] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Alpha Video:

Lon Chaney, the man of a thousand faces, was best known for playing Quasimodo and the Phantom of the Opera. But the former role in The Hunchback of Notre Dame was clearly the most ambitious of his illustrious career, full of such longing and anguish. It's as though his entire being was consumed by this ugly outcast with a heart as big and beautiful as Notre Dame itself. And the makeup is still astonishing. The rest of this unrequited love story is pretty effective as well, with the re-creation of medieval Paris a standout for its lavishness. Like all great silent films, it delivers a poetry of life that is abstract and tangible at the same time. -Bill Desowitz.

Review Vci Video / The Return of Chandu [1934]
Actors & Directors
  • Ray Taylor
  • Maria Alba
  • Dean Benton
  • Wilfred Lucas
  • Lucien Prival
  • Bela Lugosi
Release date: 2004-06-29
Run time: 208 min.
Price: £5.91

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Review Charlie Chaplin / Charlie Chaplin Short Comedy Classics: The Complete Restored Essanay & Mutual Collection [2017] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Release date: 2003-07-08
Run time: 951 min.
Price: £23.00

Review Charlie Chaplin Short Comedy Classics: The Complete Restored Essanay & Mutual Collection [2017] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Charlie Chaplin:


Review Image Entertainment / La Terre [1921] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • René Alexandre
  • Jean Hervé
  • André Antoine
  • Émile Mylo
  • Armand Bour
  • Germaine Rouer
Release date: 2003-12-09
Run time: 98 min.
Price: £8.22

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Review Alpha Video / Way Down East [1920] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Emily Fitzroy
  • Creighton Hale
  • Kate Bruce
  • Richard Barthelmess
  • Lillian Gish
Release date: 2004-09-28
Run time: 126 min.
Creator: Louis Silvers
Price: £2.10

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Review Eureka Entertainment / Storm Over Asia [1928]
Actors & Directors
  • I. Dedintsev
  • Aleksandr Chistyakov
  • Viktor Tsoppi
  • Valéry Inkijinoff
  • F. Ivanov
  • Vsevolod Pudovkin
Release date: 2001-04-09
Run time: 125 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £12.26

Review Storm Over Asia [1928] / Eureka Entertainment:

The last of the three great films that VI Pudovkin directed in the 1920s, Storm Over Asia (1928) is an acknowledged classic of Soviet silent cinema. Filmed largely on location in Mongolia, the film has an authentic documentary feel, though the story is a stirring melodrama, about a young fur trapper who is mistreated by the occupying forces in the civil war and becomes a leader of the partisans. Pudovkin enjoys caricaturing the foreign (British) troops and the medieval rituals of a Buddhist temple, but it's out on the steppes that he really comes into his own, with panoramic shots of the vast landscapes. Together with The Mother (1926) and The End of St Petersburg (1927), Storm Over Asia (also known as "The Heir to Genghis Khan") entitles Pudovkin to be ranked with Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov as a master of the Soviet montage style, which he expounded in his book Film Technique (1929). On the DVD: The print, though not perfect, is of fair quality and a new score by Timothy Brock complements the images nicely. However, the so-called "Introduction" turns out to be just a few lines of text scrolling down the screen, telling you less than the information appearing on the sleeve notes. -Ed Buscombe.

Review Image Entertainment / Tumbleweeds [1925] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • T.E. Duncan
  • Barbara Bedford
  • James Gordon
  • Fred Gamble
  • Gertrude Claire
Release date: 2002-06-25
Run time: 86 min.
Price: £8.22

Review Tumbleweeds [1925] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:


Review Image Entertainment / Way Down East [1920] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Burr McIntosh
  • Lowell Sherman
  • D.W. Griffith
  • Lillian Gish
  • Richard Barthelmess
  • Kate Bruce
Release date: 1998-12-01
Run time: 146 min.
Price: £8.22

Review Way Down East [1920] (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:

Way Down East was the most successful film of the 1920s, even more so than the original versions of Ben-Hur or The Ten Commandments. That says much about tastes and values of the day, since this is no visually spectacular epic designed to wow audiences: director DW Griffith gave it the subtitle "A Simple Story of Plain People". The story follows impoverished New England country girl Anna Moore (Lillian Gish) to Boston in search of family aid. Instead she's duped into a fake marriage by playboy Lennox Sanderson (Lowell Sherman). Pregnancy forces Sanderson to abandon her to care for the child alone, which dies soon after birth. The disgrace sends her back into the countryside to work for Squire Bartlett, whose son David (Richard Barthelmess) begins to fall for her. But the dreadful secret threatens to be revealed, since the dastardly Sanderson turns out to be their neighbour. Themes of loyalty and social change come to a head for a thrilling finale. Amazing stunt work occurs on a frozen river's ice sheets that break up, dashing an unconscious Anna toward a waterfall. Populated by eccentric cameo roles, this view of 1920s' life is a far more fascinating exploration of the contemporary female than the novel or disastrous stage play that preceded it. [+]
On the DVD: Naturally a movie from 1920 is in mono and 4:3 ratio (which is effectively the old Academy standard ratio). But with subtle colour tints and using a musical score from its 1931 reissue, it still looks pretty good. Only a few reels have suffered damage (eg some heat blisters), otherwise film historian David Shepard's restoration job is commendable. The only extra is an essay on the history of the film which scrolls up the screen as an introduction. -Paul Tonks.

Review Madacy / Dr.Jekyll & Mr.Hyde [1920] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Nita Naldi
  • Cecil Clovelly
  • John Barrymore
  • John S. Robertson
  • Charles Lane (III)
  • Brandon Hurst
Release date: 2004-03-29
Run time: 83 min.
RRP: £4.99
Price: £1.68

Review Dr.Jekyll & Mr.Hyde [1920] (NTSC) / Madacy:

In this 1920 silent version of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, John Barrymore is dignified and virtuous as Dr Henry Jekyll, and transforms into Id incarnate as the lascivious Mr. Hyde with almost no make-up beyond his gnarled, knobby fingers and greasy hair, relying almost solely on a bug-eyed grimace, a spidery body language and pure theatrical flourish. He tends to be hammy as the leering beast of a thug but brings a tortured struggle to the repressed doctor, horrified at the demon he's unleashed, guilty that he enjoys Hyde's unrestrained life of drinking and whoring and terrified that he can no longer control the transformations. Martha Mansfield co-stars as his pure and innocent sweetheart, and Nita Naldi (the vamp of Blood and Sand) has a small but memorable role as the world-weary dance-hall darling who first "wakens" Jekyll's "baser nature". -Sean Axmaker, Amazon. com.

Review Lumivision / Lost World [2025] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Harry O. Hoyt
  • Wallace Beery
  • Lloyd Hughes
  • Alma Bennett
  • Lewis Stone
  • Bessie Love
Release date: 1997-08-20
Run time: 90 min.
Price: £32.38

Review Lost World [2025] (NTSC) / Lumivision:

The granddaddy of giant monster movies, The Lost World was one of the most expensive movies ever made in 1925, costing more than a million dollars, and has remained one of the most influential. Every larger-than-life creature feature since-from King Kong to Godzilla and Jurassic Park-owes a debt to this original adventure fantasy based on Arthur Conan Doyle's novel. It's the story of a maverick scientist (Wallace Beery under a bushy beard) who finds a land that time forgot on a plateau deep within the South American jungles and comes back to London with a captured brontosaurus to prove it. His expedition includes Bessie Love, the daughter of an explorer who disappeared on the previous expedition, and big game hunter Lewis Stone. The ostensible stars of the picture are all upstaged by Willis O'Brien's dinosaurs, simple models brought to life with primitive stop-motion animation (the technique was soon to be perfected by O'Brien for King Kong). Hardly realistic by any measure, these pioneering special effects are still a sight to behold, especially the lumbering brontosaurus which receives the most care from O'Brien, both foraging in his jungle and rampaging through the streets of London. With the coming of talkies, The Lost World became obsolete: all known American prints were destroyed in favour of a sound remake (which became King Kong) and the film only survived in a severely truncated form (even the original negative was lost). For this release David Shepard meticulously "rebuilt" the film using material from eight different surviving prints from all over the world, cleaning and restoring along the way. The result is 50% longer than previously extant prints, still not complete but closer than any version since its 1925 debut. The difference is not merely in restored scenes but in a rediscovered sense of grace in scenes filled out to their original detail and pace. [+]
The film moves and breathes once again like a silent film. On the DVD: From the attractive solid slipcase to the wonderful "period" menu interface, this is a delightful DVD package. The film itself looks surprisingly good-a real tribute to the restoration team's efforts-with careful tinting in the style of the period (blues for evening, reds for dawn etc. ). The disc features the choice of either an original score by The Alloy Orchestra or a classical orchestral score compiled and conducted by Robert Israel (both enjoyable and effective), 13 minutes of O'Brien's animation outtakes (including a couple of isolated frames that capture O'Brien manipulating his models) and a well-meaning but basic commentary by Arthur Conan Doyle historian Roy Pilot. There's also a text biography of Conan Doyle and a display of original postcards, posters and other promotional items. -Sean Axmaker, Amazon. com.

Models & Brands:
The Life and Passion of Jesus Christ/From the Manger to the Cross (REGION 1) (NTSC), What Price Glory? [1952] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Broken Blossoms [1919], The Shock [1923] (NTSC), Slapstick Symposium Too: The Oliver Hardy Collection [1916] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Die Buchse der Pandora [1929] (REGION 1) (NTSC), South [1919] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Ealing Studios Comedy Collection [1953] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Sex & Buttered Popcorn, Vol. 3: Granddad's Forbidden Follies [1934] (NTSC), The Bat [1926], The Hunchback of Notre Dame [1923] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Return of Chandu [1934], Charlie Chaplin Short Comedy Classics: The Complete Restored Essanay & Mutual Collection [2017] (REGION 1) (NTSC), La Terre [1921] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Way Down East [1920] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Storm Over Asia [1928], Tumbleweeds [1925] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Way Down East [1920] (NTSC), Dr.Jekyll & Mr.Hyde [1920] (NTSC), Lost World [2025] (NTSC)

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