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Review Boulevard Entertaiment / The Great Escape [UMD Mini for PSP] [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Steve McQueen
  • John Sturges
  • David McCallum
  • Angus Lennie
  • Gordon Jackson
  • Nigel Stock
Release date: 2007-12-19
Run time: 165 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £5.53

Review The Great Escape [UMD Mini for PSP] [1963] / Boulevard Entertaiment:


Review United Artists / The Sergeants 3 [1962] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Joey Bishop
  • Peter Lawford
  • Dean Martin
  • Frank Sinatra
  • Sammy Davis Jnr
Release date: 2008-05-13
Run time: 112 min.
Price: £5.87

Review The Sergeants 3 [1962] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / United Artists:


Review Starz Home Entertainment / The Lion Of The Desert
Release date: 2006-02-06
Run time: 156 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.17

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Review 20th Century Fox / The Man Who Never Was (REGION 1) (NTSC) [1956]
Actors & Directors
  • Gloria Grahame
  • Josephine Griffin
  • Robert Flemyng
  • Clifton Webb
  • Ronald Neame
  • Stephen Boyd
Release date: 2005-06-07
Run time: 103 min.
Creator: Nigel Balchin
Price: £6.00

Review The Man Who Never Was (REGION 1) (NTSC) [1956] / 20th Century Fox:


Release date: 2007-08-27
Run time: 121 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.50

Review Force 10 from Navarone / Uca:


Review MGM Entertainment / For A Few Dollars More [1965]
Actors & Directors
  • Gian Maria Volontè
  • Clint Eastwood
  • Sergio Leone
  • Lee Van Cleef
  • Luigi Pistilli
  • Mara Krupp
Release date: 2000-02-07
Run time: 131 min.
Creator: Sergio Donati
RRP: £15.99
Price: £1.98

Review For A Few Dollars More [1965] / MGM Entertainment:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Rules Of Engagement [2000]
Actors & Directors
  • William Friedkin
  • Bruce Greenwood
  • Tommy Lee Jones
  • Guy Pearce
  • Samuel L. Jackson
  • Ben Kingsley
Release date: 2001-03-05
Run time: 122 min.
Creator: Stephen Gaghan
RRP: £15.99
Price: £3.49

Review Rules Of Engagement [2000] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

Rules of Engagement opens strongly with a Vietnam battle sequence that sets the stage for the rest of the story. But then director William Friedkin knows a thing or two about staging harrowing action sequences, and if you don't believe that, you've never seen The French Connectionor To Live and Die in LA. Unfortunately, Friedkin can't do much about the implausible plot that follows, in which the Marine commander, played by the always-terrific Samuel L Jackson, is accused of slaughtering innocent civilians (who actually were shooting at him and his men). He must rely on an old Marine buddy-a lawyer played by Tommy Lee Jones-to get him through the jury-rigged court martial. But the central premise-that an evil presidential aide would perjure himself and destroy evidence simply to maintain good relations with US allies in the Middle East, rather than defending a highly decorated Marine colonel who risked his life-is inevitably hard to swallow. And the ending is even flimsier. -Marshall Fine, Amazon. com.

Review Starz Home Entertainment / Lion Of The Desert / The Message
Release date: 2006-02-06
Run time: 327 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.30

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Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Tigerland [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Shea Whigham
  • Matthew Davis
  • Clifton Collins Jr.
  • Tom Guiry
  • Joel Schumacher
  • Colin Farrell
Release date: 2002-04-01
Run time: 97 min.
Creator: Ross Klavan
RRP: £17.99
Price: £2.87

Review Tigerland [2001] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

Shot in the rough, 16-millimeter style of a low-budget documentary, Tigerland marked director Joel Schumacher's welcomed return to simplicity after a slew of bloated blockbusters such as Batman & Robin. In revitalising Schumacher's directorial talent, Tigerland-which is partially inspired by the Danish Dogme 95 movement of no-frills filmmaking-suggested that one solution to Hollywood's moribund "product" was to abandon excess, focus on essentials, and assemble a fine cast of unknown actors to make it all worthwhile. To that end, Tigerland also marked the deserving arrival of Irish actor Colin Farrell as Hollywood's hottest new discovery. Its story never leaves US soil, so Tigerland differs from such in-country Vietnam films as Platoon and Full Metal Jacket. Instead, it's about the anxieties and moral dilemmas that arise from the anticipation of death and killing. These roiling emotions are focused on the character of Private Bozz (Farrell), whose insubordination betrays a singular knack for leadership during infantry training at Fort Polk, Louisiana, in 1971. Part RP McMurphy and part Cool Hand Luke, Bozz is a defiant maverick, barely tolerated by his superiors, challenged or revered by his fellow grunts and ultimately honed into a soldier of remarkable promise. An intense final week in the live-ammo training ground nicknamed "Tigerland" galvanises the platoon and Bozz's place in it, and although the film (partially based on co-writer Ross Klavan's own experience) lacks the emotional impact of Platoon, it deals quite poignantly with the internal conflicts that must be waged before external warfare can be endured. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com.

Review MGM Entertainment / Cast A Giant Shadow [1966]
Actors & Directors
  • John Wayne
  • Melville Shavelson
  • Senta Berger
  • Kirk Douglas
  • Frank Sinatra
  • Angie Dickinson
Release date: 2002-05-20
Run time: 133 min.
Creator: Ted Berkman
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.89

Review Cast A Giant Shadow [1966] / MGM Entertainment:

1966's Cast a Giant Shadow is based on Ted Berkman's biography of Colonel "Mickey" Marcus, the American soldier who served as an adviser in the fight to establish the state of Israel in 1948. It stars Kirk Douglas as the likeable "stiffneck" and WWII veteran persuaded to take up the cause. Israel back then was depicted as a negligible military force under threat of extinction at the hands of its Arab neighbours, hamstrung by a UN embargo on arms supplies. It takes Douglas at his most square-jawed to see off the Egyptian military and defy a blockade to beat a path through to Jerusalem. This is not cinema verité but Hollywood. Marcus' dilemma-to settle into peacetime in America or follow his more natural, combative instincts abroad-is symbolised by a love triangle, involving wife Angie Dickinson and Santa Berger as Magda, the soldier whom he falls for in Palestine. Although lavish and spectacular, especially in the war scenes-filmed in the actual Middle Eastern locations in which they occurred-Cast a Giant Shadow is not entirely authentic (for a start, they're driving 1950s vehicles in the 40s). Moreover, in the light of later troubles in the region, not everyone will be heart warmed by this depiction of plucky little Israel coping against Arab foes who are barely depicted as human throughout the film, merely as tanks and gunfire. Still, it's an impressive enough relic of epic 1960s cinema, with cameos from Yul Brynner, John Wayne as Marcus' wartime general, and Frank Sinatra as a pilot scattering the enemy by dropping soda dispensers on them. On the DVD: Cast a Giant Shadow`s restoration here is visually immaculate. [+]
The mono sound, however, is often indistinct, with a good deal of sibilant hiss. Disappointingly, the only extra is the original trailer. -David Stubbs.

Review Warner Home Video / Tickle Me [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jack Mullaney
  • Merry Anders
  • Jocelyn Lane
  • Julie Adams
  • Elvis Presley
  • Norman Taurog
Release date: 2007-08-07
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Edward Bernds
Price: £4.58

Review Tickle Me [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review 20th Century Fox / Guns at Batasi [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • John Guillermin
  • Richard Attenborough
  • John Leyton
  • Jack Hawkins
  • Mia Farrow
  • Flora Robson
Release date: 2006-05-23
Run time: 103 min.
Creator: Robert Holles
Price: £5.74

Review Guns at Batasi [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:


Review Universal Pictures UK / Hells Angels
Actors & Directors
  • Lucien Prival
  • Jean Harlow
  • John Darrow
  • Howard Hughes
  • Ben Lyon
  • James Hall
Release date: 2005-06-13
Run time: 126 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.29

Review Hells Angels / Universal Pictures UK:

Two bright facets light up Hell's Angels, a 1930s aviation melodrama. One is the extraordinary footage re-creating World War I air battles; the other is 18-year-old Jean Harlow. Both are enough to offset the cornball story and stilted dialogue, the latter added late in production, with the advent of motion-picture sound. The movie, almost three years in the making, with a budget of nearly $4 million-very high for its day-was the obsession of eccentric millionaire director Howard Hughes. Apparently, the authenticity of the dogfight scenes was so important to Hughes that he piloted a plane himself, and ended up breaking a few bones in the process. More shocking, it's said that three pilots lost their lives making the movie. The sequence depicting an epic encounter between the British Royal Flying Corps and a German zeppelin is especially stunning, thanks to the eye-popping use of hand tinting. A bombing raid on a German munitions depot is also remarkably convincing. The movie's other bombshell, Jean Harlow, fairly jumps off the screen as an upper-class floozy who plays fast and loose with the two leading men, RFC pilots Monte and Roy Rutledge (Ben Lyon and James Hall), one a scoundrel and one a saint. Harlow glows in the film-it's immediately obvious why her appearance here put her on the fast track to Hollywood stardom. [+]
Beauty, sex appeal, vulnerability, audacity-whatever the intangible something is that makes a movie star, it's clear Harlow had it, even as a teenager. -Laura Mirsky.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / 7 Men From Now [1956]
Actors & Directors
  • Lee Marvin
  • Budd Boetticher
Release date: 2007-05-14
Run time: 75 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.96

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Review C'est La Vie / Fanfan La Tulipe [1952]
Actors & Directors
  • Christian-Jaque
  • Henri Rollan
  • Gina Lollobrigida
  • Olivier Hussenot
  • Gérard Philipe
  • Marcel Herrand
Release date: 2004-05-24
Run time: 85 min.
Creator: René Wheeler
RRP: £19.99
Price: £4.53

Review Fanfan La Tulipe [1952] / C'est La Vie:


Review Universal Pictures UK / Raid On Rommel [1971]
Actors & Directors
  • Clinton Greyn
  • Danielle De Metz
  • John Colicos
  • Richard Burton
  • Wolfgang Preiss
  • Henry Hathaway
Release date: 2003-10-06
Run time: 94 min.
Creator: Richard M. Bluel
RRP: £9.99
Price: £1.79

Review Raid On Rommel [1971] / Universal Pictures UK:


Review Prism Leisure / The Eagle Has Landed [1977]
Actors & Directors
  • Judy Geeson
  • Michael Caine
  • Maurice Roeves
  • Larry Hagman
  • Treat Williams
  • John Sturges
Release date: 2005-07-25
Run time: 118 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.44

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Review 4dvd / The Relief Of Belsen [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • Tobias Menzies
  • Corin Redgrave
  • Iain Glen
  • Justin Hardy
  • Jemma Redgrave
  • Simon Day
Release date: 2008-04-14
Run time: 100 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £7.16

Review The Relief Of Belsen [2007] / 4dvd:

The date was April 17th 1945 and the battle for Berlin raged through northern Germany. But a British ambulance unit was diverted from the frontline to handle an unfolding medical crisis. The liberation of Belsen did not bring an end to the death toll. Instead, it was the start of a humanitarian catastrophe. 40,000 prisoners were trapped in a man-made camp of indescribable squalor; deprived of food, clothing and basic medical care. In the space of one month an international team of doctors and nurses battled against logistical hurdles and administrative red tape to save thousands of lives and build the largest hospital in Europe. This powerful medical drama starring Iain Glen, Jemma Redgrave, Nigel Lindsay, Tobias Menzies and Corin Redgrave, takes us behind-the-scenes of one of the most awesome emergency rescue operations in history.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / El Dorado [1967]
Actors & Directors
  • Howard Hawks
  • John Wayne
  • Paul Fix
  • James Caan
  • Charlene Holt
  • Robert Mitchum
Release date: 2005-06-06
Run time: 121 min.
Creator: Leigh Brackett
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.38

Review El Dorado [1967] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

El Dorado doesn't quite have the scope or ambition of Howard Hawks' greatest Westerns, Red River and Rio Bravo. But this relaxed picture, made near the end of Hawks' marvellous career, still shows the steady, sure hand of a master. Hawks reunites with John Wayne, playing a hired gun mixed up in a range war; Robert Mitchum is Wayne's old pal, now a sheriff in the midst of a hopeless drunken bender. James Caan, in one of his first sizable roles, plays a kid who can't shoot straight and wears a funny hat (every character in the movie makes fun of this hat). As the plot moves along, it begins to resemble Rio Bravo rather closely ("I steal from myself all the time", Hawks was fond of admitting). But in El Dorado the heroes are a bit older, their powers a bit weaker; at the end Wayne must revert to a bit of subterfuge in order to get the drop on the steely gunslinger (ice-cold Christopher George) he needs to put down. As relaxed as the movie is, Hawks and Wayne and company are in good spirits, with plenty of broad humour and easy camaraderie on display. Hawks and Wayne would make just one more film, the disappointing Rio Lobo, before ending their fruitful partnership. -Robert Horton.

Review MGM Entertainment / Along Came Jones [1945]
Actors & Directors
  • Dan Duryea
  • Stuart Heisler
  • William Demarest
  • Gary Cooper
  • Loretta Young
  • Frank Sully
Release date: 2005-08-15
Run time: 86 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.31

Review Along Came Jones [1945] / MGM Entertainment:


Models & Brands:
The Great Escape [UMD Mini for PSP] [1963], The Sergeants 3 [1962] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Lion Of The Desert, The Man Who Never Was (REGION 1) (NTSC) [1956], Force 10 from Navarone, For A Few Dollars More [1965], Rules Of Engagement [2000], Lion Of The Desert / The Message, Tigerland [2001], Cast A Giant Shadow [1966], Tickle Me [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Guns at Batasi [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Hells Angels, 7 Men From Now [1956], Fanfan La Tulipe [1952], Raid On Rommel [1971], The Eagle Has Landed [1977], The Relief Of Belsen [2007], El Dorado [1967], Along Came Jones [1945]

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