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Review Alpha Video / The Man From Beyond [1922]
Actors & Directors
  • Luis Alberni
  • Nita Naldi
  • Erwin Connelly
  • Frank Montgomery
  • Harry Houdini
Release date: 2006-08-22
Run time: 61 min.
Creator: Alexander G. Penrod
Price: £2.71

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Review Image Entertainment / Tol'able David [1921]
Actors & Directors
  • Henry King
  • Ralph Yearsley
  • Ernest Torrence
  • Gladys Hulette
  • Richard Barthelmess
  • Walter P. Lewis
Release date: 1999-03-23
Run time: 94 min.
Price: £11.60

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Review Kino / A Fool There Was [1915] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • May Allison
  • Clifford Bruce
  • Mabel Frenyear
  • Edward José
  • Runa Hodges
  • Frank Powell
Release date: 2002-04-02
Run time: 67 min.
Creator: Rudyard Kipling
Price: £12.01

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Review Alpha Video / Midnight Faces [1926]
Actors & Directors
  • Kathryn McGuire
  • Kathrun McGuire
  • Francis X. Bushman
  • Jack Perrin
  • Rocky Aoki
Release date: 2005-03-29
Run time: 53 min.
Price: £2.73

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Review Image Entertainment / Hindle Wakes [1927] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Humberston Wright
  • Estelle Brody
  • Marie Ault
  • John Stuart
  • Norman McKinnel
  • Maurice Elvey
Release date: 2005-04-12
Run time: 117 min.
Creator: Stanley Houghton
Price: £13.83

Review Hindle Wakes [1927] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:

Hitchcock apart, British silent movies have a pretty dire reputation. But amid the dross there were a few good ones, and 1927's Hindle Wakes is a fine example-stylish, well written and attractively shot under the capable direction of Maurice Elvey. It's based on a play (thought shocking in its day) by Manchester playwright Stanley Houghton, that dared suggest a young working-class woman could regard a brief holiday fling with the boss' son in just the same way that he did-as a bit of transient fun with no obligations on either side. The play has been filmed no less than four times-twice silent, in 1918 and 1927 (both times directed by Elvey), and twice again as a talkie, in 1931 and 1952. But this, Elvey's second shot at the material, is the best of the four by a long way. By this stage in his career Elvey, one of the most prolific of all British filmmakers, was well practised in the language of silent cinema. The narrative flows smoothly, without an excess of inter-titles, and there's none of that heavy mugging that so often plagues movies of the period. Estelle Morris is a delight as the feisty heroine, down-to-earth and unaffectedly sensual in her love scenes. The street scenes may be blatant studio mock-ups but Elvey, who loved location shooting, comes into his own once the action moves to Blackpool. In the funfair sequence his camera swoops and hurtles, exuberantly joining in the holidaymakers' fun, and the illuminations are shot night-for-night, a rarity at the time. [+]
The print, from the BFI's archives, is in excellent nick, and there's a lively new score specially commissioned for this release from Sheffield-based group In The Nursery. -Philip Kemp.

Review Kino / Thief of Baghdad [1925] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Douglas Fairbanks
  • Julanne Johnston
  • Charles Belcher
  • Raoul Walsh
  • Snitz Edwards
  • Sojin
Release date: 2004-02-03
Run time: 155 min.
Creator: James T. O'Donohoe
Price: £12.02

Review Thief of Baghdad [1925] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Kino:

Call it a pseudo-documentary, an outrageous piece of propaganda, perhaps even a paranoid fantasy, but one description that definitely does not apply to Punishment Park is "light entertainment. " Brit director Peter Watkins offers a chilling scenario, set in the early '70s, in which, according to an edict called the McCarran Act (which did exist, albeit in different form), the U. S. government has the right to detain (without bail, evidence, or anything resembling a fair trial) anyone who "probably will engage in certain future acts of sabotage. " The detainees, most of them '60s radicals, are offered a choice between long prison sentences or three days in "Punishment Park," a scorching stretch of the Southern California desert; should they choose the latter, they will be released upon reaching an American flag planted many miles away, all the while avoiding capture (or, more likely, death) at the hands of a bunch of gung-ho cops, National Guardsmen, and other law enforcement types. The film alternates between the "tribunals" where the radicals' fates are decided (and where the shrill hectoring and sloganeering-on both sides-come fast and furious) and the grim scenes in the desert. And although Watkins clearly takes the side of the prisoners (as does the fictional film crew on hand to document the proceedings), no one emerges entirely unscathed: the politicians, "average" Americans, and others holding forth at the tribunals are all right-wing blockheads ("more spank and less Spock" would have taught those whippersnappers a lesson, says one), the cops and guardsmen are all trigger-happy jerks, and the young radicals are mostly callow, rhetoric-spouting stereotypes. Violent, provocative, and convincingly shot in cinema verite style, Punishment Park will leave many viewers muttering that it can't happen here. Opponents of the Patriot Act and its perceived attack on civil liberties, however, will likely take another view. -Sam Graham, Amazon. [+]
com.

Review Image Entertainment / The Marriage Circle [1924] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Marie Prevost
  • Monte Blue
  • Creighton Hale
  • Florence Vidor
  • Adolphe Menjou
  • Ernst Lubitsch
Release date: 2000-09-26
Run time: 85 min.
Creator: Paul Bern
Price: £14.83

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Review ST Clair Vision / The Wizard of Oz [1925]
Actors & Directors
  • Oliver Hardy
  • Frank Alexander
  • G. Howe Black
  • Mary Carr
  • Dorothy Dwan
Release date: 2008-04-15
Run time: 243 min.
Creator: Leonard Smith
Price: £6.28

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Review Image Entertainment / Charlie Chaplin Short Comedy Classics: The Complete Restored Essanay & Mutual Collection [2017] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Charles Chaplin
  • Paddy McGuire
  • Kevin Macdonald
  • Charles Chaplin
  • Ernest Van Pelt
  • Leo White
  • Edna Purviance
  • Lloyd Bacon
Release date: 2003-07-08
Run time: 951 min.
Creator: Maverick Terrell
Price: £35.82

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


Review Rsk Entertainment / The Fabulous Dorsey's [1947]
Actors & Directors
  • Edward Clark
  • Janet Blair
  • William Bakewell
  • Sara Allgood
  • Ann Carter
  • Alfred E. Green
Release date: 2006-05-08
Run time: 117 min.
Creator: George Arthur
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.42

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Review Delta / Orphans of the Storm [1922]
Actors & Directors
  • Frank Losee
  • Dorothy Gish
  • Joseph Schildkraut
  • D.W. Griffith
  • Katherine Emmet
  • Lillian Gish
Release date: 2004-02-24
Run time: 150 min.
Creator: Eugène Cormon
Price: £14.95

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Review Image Entertainment / Sparrows [1926] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Mary Louise Miller
  • Mary Pickford
  • Roy Stewart
  • Tom McNamara
  • Gustav von Seyffertitz
  • Charlotte Mineau
  • William Beaudine
Release date: 1999-09-21
Run time: 84 min.
Creator: Winifred Dunn
Price: £13.82

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Review Image Entertainment / The Show Off/The Plastic Age [2025] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Louise Brooks
  • Gilbert Roland
  • Henry B. Walthall
  • Mary Alden
  • Clara Bow
Release date: 2001-08-07
Run time: 155 min.
Price: £12.01

Review The Show Off/The Plastic Age [2025] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:


Review Image Entertainment / The Indian Tomb [1921] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Conrad Veidt
  • Olaf Fønss
  • Bernhard Goetzke
  • Joe May
  • Erna Morena
  • Mia May
Release date: 2000-07-18
Run time: 212 min.
Creator: Thea von Harbou
Price: £31.16

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Review Alpha Video / The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari [1919] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Conrad Veidt
  • Werner Krauss
  • Friedrich Feher
  • Robert Wiene
  • Lil Dagover
  • Hans Heinrich von Twardowski
Release date: 2002-06-04
Run time: 82 min.
Price: £2.52

Review The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari [1919] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Alpha Video:

A milestone of the silent film era and one of the first "art films" to gain international acclaim, this eerie German classic from 1919 remains the most prominent example of German expressionism in the emerging art of the cinema. Stylistically, the look of the film's painted sets-distorted perspectives, sharp angles, twisted architecture-was designed to reflect (or express) the splintered psychology of its title character, a sinister figure who uses a lanky somnambulist (Conrad Veidt) as a circus attraction. But when Caligari and his sleepwalker are suspected of murder, their novelty act is surrounded by more supernatural implications. With its mad-doctor scenario, striking visuals, and a haunting, zombie-like character at its centre, Caligari was one of the first horror films to reach an international audience, sending shock waves through artistic circles and serving as a strong influence on the classic horror films of the 1920s, 30s, and beyond. It's a museum piece today, of interest more for its historical importance, but The Cabinet of Dr Caligari still casts a considerable spell. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com.

Review Image Entertainment / The Life and Passion of Jesus Christ/From the Manger to the Cross (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Alice Hollister
  • Robert Henderson-Bland
  • Ferdinand Zecca
  • Percy Dyer
  • Gene Gauntier
  • Sidney Olcott
  • Sidney Olcott
  • Lucien Nonguet
Release date: 2003-04-08
Run time: 115 min.
Creator: Frank Marion
Price: £12.72

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Review Stonevision Entertainment / Sally Of The Sawdust [1925]
Actors & Directors
  • W.C. Fields
  • Erville Alderson
  • Carol Dempster
  • Effie Shannon
  • Alfred Lunt
  • D.W. Griffith
Release date: 2002-01-28
Run time: 113 min.
Creator: Forrest Halsey
RRP: £16.99
Price: £3.80

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Review Delta / The Beloved Rogue [1927]
Actors & Directors
  • Alan Crosland
  • John Barrymore
  • Nigel de Brulier
  • Lucy Beaumont
  • Rose Dione
  • Marceline Day
Release date: 2004-02-24
Run time: 98 min.
Creator: Hal Kern
Price: £15.95

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Review Alpha Video / Shadows [1922] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Walter Long
  • Lon Chaney
  • Priscilla Bonner
  • Tom Forman
  • Marguerite de la Motte
  • Frances Raymond
Release date: 2003-01-21
Run time: 70 min.
Creator: Harry Perry
Price: £2.33

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Review Image Entertainment / Captain Fracasse [1929] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Alberto Cavalcanti
  • Pierre Blanchar
  • Henry Wulschleger
  • Léon Courtois
  • Georges Benoît
  • René Bergeron
  • Charles Boyer
Release date: 2002-11-26
Run time: 92 min.
Creator: Théophile Gautier
Price: £12.27

Review Captain Fracasse [1929] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:


Models & Brands:
The Man From Beyond [1922], Tol'able David [1921], A Fool There Was [1915] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Midnight Faces [1926], Hindle Wakes [1927] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Thief of Baghdad [1925] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Marriage Circle [1924] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Wizard of Oz [1925], Charlie Chaplin Short Comedy Classics: The Complete Restored Essanay & Mutual Collection [2017] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Fabulous Dorsey's [1947], Orphans of the Storm [1922], Sparrows [1926] (NTSC), The Show Off/The Plastic Age [2025] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Indian Tomb [1921] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari [1919] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Life and Passion of Jesus Christ/From the Manger to the Cross (REGION 1) (NTSC), Sally Of The Sawdust [1925], The Beloved Rogue [1927], Shadows [1922] (NTSC), Captain Fracasse [1929] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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