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Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The Hunters [1958]
Actors & Directors
  • Dick Powell
  • Robert Wagner
  • Robert Mitchum
Release date: 2005-05-09
Run time: 103 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.89

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Review Contender Entertainment Group / 9th Company 2 Disc Collectors Edition [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • Ivan Kokorin
  • Artyom Mikhalkov
  • Aleksei Chadov
  • Fyodor Bondarchuk
  • Mikhail Yevlanov
  • Fyodor Bondarchuk
Release date: 2007-06-11
Run time: 134 min.
Creator: Yuri Korotkov
RRP: £19.99
Price: £7.50

Review 9th Company 2 Disc Collectors Edition [2007] / Contender Entertainment Group:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / North To Alaska [1960]
Actors & Directors
  • John Wayne
  • Ernie Kovacs
  • Capucine
  • Henry Hathaway
  • Stewart Granger
  • Fabian
Release date: 2005-05-09
Run time: 117 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.99

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Review MGM Entertainment / How I Won The War [1967]
Actors & Directors
  • Roy Kinnear
  • Michael Crawford
  • John Lennon
  • Jack MacGowran
  • Lee Montague
  • Richard Lester
Release date: 2005-02-07
Run time: 106 min.
Creator: Patrick Ryan
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.01

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Review Paramount Home Entertainment / The Sons Of Katie Elder [1965]
Actors & Directors
  • Martha Hyer
  • John Wayne
  • Dean Martin
  • Henry Hathaway
  • Michael Anderson Jr.
  • Earl Holliman
Release date: 2005-06-06
Run time: 116 min.
Creator: William H. Wright
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.27

Review The Sons Of Katie Elder [1965] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

John Wayne recovered from his first bout of cancer to appear in 1965's The Sons of Katie Elder as the brother of Dean Martin, Earl Holliman and Michael Anderson Jr. All four characters are wandering souls prone to trouble, but after the funeral of their frontier mother, they set out to avenge her death. Directed by Henry Hathaway (Wayne's director on True Grit), the film moves like a conventional, latter-day Western, with good performances from Wayne and Martin, who'd already costarred with the Duke in Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo. There's also nice support from Dennis Hopper (who had a legendary conflict with Hathaway on this film), Strother Martin and George Kennedy. -Tom Keogh.

Review Eureka Entertainment / Alexander Nevsky [1938]
Actors & Directors
  • Nikolai Cherkasov
  • Dmitri Orlov
  • Nikolai Okhlopkov
  • Dmitri Vasilyev
  • Vasili Novikov
  • Sergei M. Eisenstein
  • Andrei Abrikosov
Release date: 2000-04-17
Run time: 107 min.
Creator: Pyotr Pavlenko
RRP: £19.99
Price: £7.41

Review Alexander Nevsky [1938] / Eureka Entertainment:

Alexander Nevsky, Sergei Eisenstein's landmark tale of Russia thwarting the German invasion of the 13th century, was wildly popular with home-grown audiences back in 1938, quite intentionally so, given the prevailing Nazi geopolitical advancement and destruction at the time. It can still be viewed as a masterful use of imagery and music, with the "Battle on the Ice" sequence as the obvious highlight. Unfortunately, the rest of the film pales in comparison. A great score by Prokofiev was effectively integrated by the Russian filmmaker, but stands on its own merit as well. -Bill Desowitz, Amazon. com.

Review Secondrun / The Red And The White - Csillagosok, Katonak [1967]
Actors & Directors
  • Miklós Jancsó
  • József Madaras
  • Anatoli Yabbarov
  • András Kozák
  • Tibor Molnár
  • Jácint Juhász
Release date: 2006-03-27
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Valeri Karen
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.93

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Review Fremantle Home Entertainment / Since You Went Away [1944]
Actors & Directors
  • Shirley Temple
  • Jennifer Jones
  • John Cromwell
  • Claudette Colbert
  • Lionel Barrymore
  • Joseph Cotten
Release date: 2008-03-31
Run time: 170 min.
RRP: £4.99
Price: £4.09

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Review MGM Entertainment / The Devil's Brigade [1968]
Actors & Directors
  • Cliff Robertson
  • Vince Edwards
  • Jeremy Slate
  • William Holden
  • Andrew V. McLaglen
  • Andrew Prine
Release date: 2004-04-05
Run time: 130 min.
Creator: William Roberts
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.97

Review The Devil's Brigade [1968] / MGM Entertainment:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The Sand Pebbles [1966]
Actors & Directors
  • Candice Bergen
  • Richard Attenborough
  • Robert Wise
  • Richard Crenna
  • Steve McQueen
  • Marayat Andriane
Release date: 2005-04-18
Run time: 174 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.06

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Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / River Of No Return [1954]
Actors & Directors
  • Rory Calhoun
  • Marilyn Monroe
  • Robert Mitchum
  • Otto Preminger
Release date: 2006-05-22
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.28

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Review Wienerworld Ltd / The Silent Enemy [1958]
Actors & Directors
  • Ewen Solon
  • David Lodge
  • Dawn Addams
  • William Fairchild
  • Laurence Harvey
  • Brian Oulton
Release date: 2004-09-06
Run time: 107 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.81

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Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / The Man From Colorado [1949]
Actors & Directors
  • William Holden
  • Ellen Drew
  • Glenn Ford
  • Edgar Buchanan
  • Jerome Courtland
  • Henry Levin
Release date: 2006-06-05
Run time: 98 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.97

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Review Uca Catalogue / Mackenna's Gold [1969]
Actors & Directors
  • Gregory Peck
  • J. Lee Thompson
  • Telly Savalas
  • Camilla Sparv
  • Keenan Wynn
  • Omar Sharif
Release date: 2004-04-12
Run time: 128 min.
Creator: Heck Allen
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.10

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Review ITV DVD / A Town Like Alice [1956]
Actors & Directors
  • Jean Anderson
  • Peter Finch
  • Kenji Takaki
  • Jack Lee
  • Virginia McKenna
  • Tran Van Khe
Release date: 1999-10-11
Run time: 111 min.
Creator: W.P. Lipscomb
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.99

Review A Town Like Alice [1956] / ITV DVD:

Although made in 1956, A Town Like Alice has remained enduringly effective and affecting. Based on Nevil Shute's novel the story revolves around a romance set against the unlikely backdrop of a forced march through the jungles of Malaysia by British prisoners-mostly women and children-captured by the invading forces of Japan. The title is a reference to the homesick yearnings of Australian soldier Joe Harman, played by Peter Finch. He forms a bond with one of the female prisoners, Jean Paget (Virginia McKenna), and their travails are depicted with a remarkable subtlety and commendable lack of corniness. It's a minor classic. On the DVD: The black-and-white picture is presented in 4:3 format, with English subtitles if required. Extra features include a 25-minute "making of" documentary, a collection of behind-the-scenes photographs, potted biographies of the cast and crew and the original trailer. -Andrew Mueller.

Review MGM Entertainment / The Pride And The Passion [1957]
Actors & Directors
  • Stanley Kramer
  • Cary Grant
  • John Wengraf
  • Theodore Bikel
  • Frank Sinatra
  • Sophia Loren
Release date: 2004-04-05
Run time: 130 min.
Creator: Edward Anhalt
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.99

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Review DD Home Entertainment DD.20677 / Appointment In London [1952]
Actors & Directors
  • Bill Kerr
  • Ian Hunter
  • Philip Leacock
  • Bryan Forbes
  • Dirk Bogarde
  • Dinah Sheridan
Release date: 2008-10-20
Run time: 92 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £7.45

Review Appointment In London [1952] / DD Home Entertainment DD.20677:

In 1943, the RAF Bomber Offensive against Nazi Germany is at its height. Night after night, the young crews of the Lancasters of RAF Bomber Command fly some of the most dangerous missions of the entire war. Their chances of surviving their tour of duty - just one in three. Wing Commander Tim Mason (Dirk Bogarde) has flown 89 missions. He has just one more combat raid to fly before he is rotated to the safety of a desk job. But confidence in Mason is waning amongst his superior officers. They think he's no longer fit to carry on and ground him prematurely. Mason defies orders and takes off on one last dangerous raid. As he flies into the bursting shrapnel and web of searchlights over his target, Mason believes he is certain to face court martial on his return, but the outcome of his actions are very different to those he believes he faces. Often compared with 'Angels One Five' for its realism (veterans of Bomber Command were consulted during the production at every stage), this is one of the finest films ever made about wartime Bomber Command and its young crews who were asked to fly in the face of insurmountable odds.

Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Cowboy [1958]
Actors & Directors
  • Anna Kashfi
  • Delmer Daves
  • Jack Lemmon
  • Glenn Ford
  • Dick York
  • Brian Donlevy
Release date: 2002-05-27
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: Frank Harris
RRP: £19.99
Price: £3.77

Review Cowboy [1958] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:

Cowboy is both a sturdy Delmer Daves picture-his third with Glenn Ford, following Jubal and 3:10 to Yuma-and also one of the most offbeat Westerns ever. It must be the most true to form too, with Frank Harris's memoirs as the source and a picaresque screenplay by Edmund H. North and Dalton Trumbo (a blacklistee, credited only posthumously). There's a pileup of oddities and complications at the outset, with Chicago hotel clerk Harris (Jack Lemmon) already in mid-romance with a daughter of the Mexican aristocracy (Anna Kashfi-Mrs Marlon Brando at the time), and Texas cattleman Tom Reese (Ford) storming in to commandeer an entire floor of the hotel for him and his drovers so they can party 'till, well, the cows come home. Partying is curtailed when Reese loses big at cards; Harris bails him out with his savings, and Reese finds he's taken on not only an unwanted partner but a tenderfoot besides. Soon everyone is headed south. Cowboy merits its bedrock title. This is a rare Western in which the job of breaking horses, trail herding, and so on, figures as a dynamic aspect of the storytelling. The film also has a blunt and original way of looking at death, not as a genre convention but as something abrupt, ungainly, and often absurd, in both senses of the word. (This applies equally to men and cattle, by the way. [+]
) The camerawork is trim, angular, and somehow precarious, and the jagged editing hustles the very eventful proceedings to a close in barely an hour and a half. Saddle up. -Richard T. Jameson, Amazon. com.

Review MGM Entertainment / War Films Triple Pack : Mosquito Squadron / 633 Squadron / A Bridge Too Far (3 Disc Box Set)
Actors & Directors
  • Boris Sagal
  • Richard Attenborough
  • David Buck
  • Walter Grauman
  • Anthony Hopkins
  • Harry Andrews
  • Gene Hackman
  • Michael Caine
Release date: 2007-02-05
Run time: 347 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.15

Review War Films Triple Pack : Mosquito Squadron / 633 Squadron / A Bridge Too Far (3 Disc Box Set) / MGM Entertainment:


Review ITV DVD / Classic Films Triple - The Battle Of The River Plate/In Which We Serve/We Dive At Dawn [1942]
Actors & Directors
  • Emeric Pressburger
  • Kenneth More
  • John Gregson
  • John Mills
  • David Lean
  • Ian Hunter
  • Michael Powell
  • Bernard Lee
  • Noel Coward
Release date: 2008-10-06
Run time: 349 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.71

Review Classic Films Triple - The Battle Of The River Plate/In Which We Serve/We Dive At Dawn [1942] / ITV DVD:


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The Hunters [1958], 9th Company 2 Disc Collectors Edition [2007], North To Alaska [1960], How I Won The War [1967], The Sons Of Katie Elder [1965], Alexander Nevsky [1938], The Red And The White - Csillagosok, Katonak [1967], Since You Went Away [1944], The Devil's Brigade [1968], The Sand Pebbles [1966], River Of No Return [1954], The Silent Enemy [1958], The Man From Colorado [1949], Mackenna's Gold [1969], A Town Like Alice [1956], The Pride And The Passion [1957], Appointment In London [1952], Cowboy [1958], War Films Triple Pack : Mosquito Squadron / 633 Squadron / A Bridge Too Far (3 Disc Box Set), Classic Films Triple - The Battle Of The River Plate/In Which We Serve/We Dive At Dawn [1942]

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