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Review Paramount Home Video / Shane [1953] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jean Arthur
  • Bill Cartledge
  • Helen Brown
  • Edgar Buchanan
  • Janice Carroll
Release date: 2000-08-15
Run time: 117 min.
Creator: Victor Young
Price: £2.90

Review Shane [1953] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Paramount Home Video:

Consciously crafted by director George Stevens as a piece of American myth making, Shane is on nearly everyone's shortlist of great movie Westerns. A buckskin knight, Shane (Alan Ladd) rides into the middle of a range war between farmers and cattlemen, quickly siding with the "sod-busters". While helping a kindly farmer (Van Heflin), Shane falls platonically in love with the man's wife (Jean Arthur, in the last screen performance of a marvellous career). Though the showdowns are exciting, and the story simple but involving, what most people will remember about this movie is the friendship between the stoical Shane and the young son of the farmers. The kid is played by Brandon De Wilde, an amazing child performer; his parting scene with Shane is guaranteed to draw tears from even the most stony-hearted moviegoer. And speaking of stony hearts, Jack Palance made a sensational impression as the evil gunslinger sent to clean house-he has fewer lines of dialogue than he has lines in his magnificently craggy face, but he makes them count. The photography, highlighting the landscape near Jackson Hole, Wyoming, won an Oscar. -Robert Horton.

Review Walt Disney Video / Miracle of the White Stallions [1962] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • James Franciscus
  • Curd Jürgens
  • Lilli Palmer
  • Robert Taylor
  • Arthur Hiller
  • Eddie Albert
Release date: 2004-03-02
Run time: 118 min.
Price: £3.77

Review Miracle of the White Stallions [1962] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:


Review 4 Front Video / The Rare Breed [1966]
Actors & Directors
  • Brian Keith
  • Don Galloway
  • James Stewart
  • Juliet Mills
  • Maureen O'Hara
  • Andrew V. McLaglen
Release date: 2005-06-06
Run time: 93 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.14

Review The Rare Breed [1966] / 4 Front Video:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The War Collection [1949]
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Fleischer
  • Martin Sheen
  • Gregory Peck
  • Toshio Masuda
  • John Wayne
  • Henry Fonda
  • Franklin J. Schaffner
  • Richard Burton
  • Kinji Fukasaku
  • Henry King
Release date: 2005-08-08
Run time: 999 min.
RRP: £59.99
Price: £19.18

Review The War Collection [1949] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review New Yorker Video / The War Game/Culloden [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Watkins
Release date: 2006-07-25
Run time: 121 min.
Price: £11.03

Review The War Game/Culloden [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / New Yorker Video:


Review Warner Home Video / Seven Days in May [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Kirk Douglas
  • Edmond O'Brien
  • Ava Gardner
  • Burt Lancaster
  • John Frankenheimer
  • Fredric March
Release date: 2000-05-16
Run time: 118 min.
Price: £7.70

Review Seven Days in May [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Dd Home Entertainment / Next Of Kin
Release date: 2006-04-10
Run time: 187 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £10.14

Review Next Of Kin / Dd Home Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / Dunkirk [1958]
Actors & Directors
  • Meredith Edwards
  • Ray Jackson
  • Leslie Norman
  • Robert Urquhart
  • Anthony Nicholls
  • John Mills
Release date: 2000-06-19
Run time: 130 min.
Price: £9.99

Review Dunkirk [1958] / Warner Home Video:


Review Universal Pictures Video / The Fighting Kentuckian (John Wayne) [1949]
Actors & Directors
  • Marie Windsor
  • John Wayne
  • Vera Miles
  • George Waggner
  • Oliver Hardy
  • Philip Dorn
Release date: 2006-06-26
Run time: 94 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.30

Review The Fighting Kentuckian (John Wayne) [1949] / Universal Pictures Video:

Here's something you don't see every day. Then again, would you want to? Several years before the 1950s' Davy Crockett craze, John Wayne donned a coonskin cap to play a militiaman in early-19th-century Alabama. He and his fellow Kentuckians are just passing through-"marching 600 miles," as they merrily sing (and sing, and sing), because riverboat magnate John Howard has refused to haul them. Howard and all-purpose scoundrel Grant Withers are scheming to dispossess a community of French émigrés-veterans of Napoleon's Grand Army who've come seeking life, liberty, etc. in the New World. Howard's also out to marry Vera Ralston, the French general's daughter. Naturally, Wayne's just the lad to gum up both plans. Wayne himself produced The Fighting Kentuckian, but far from repeating the success of his maiden effort, Angel and the Badman, this is one of the feeblest films in his long career. Writer-director George Waggner never gets a handle on what a pre-Western should look and move like. Consequently, the cast does a lot of standing around looking silly in period costume, waiting-mostly in vain-for the script to establish their connection to one another and something resembling a plot. [+]
There is a glossier look to the proceedings than most Republic pictures achieved, thanks to Lee Garmes's pearly cinematography, but this is scant consolation. So is the almost creepy presence of Oliver Hardy, sans Laurel, doing Ollie-shtick as Wayne's jolly sidekick. No, he doesn't say, "This is another fine mess you've got me into!" But he should. -Richard T. Jameson.

Review United Artists / The Gunfight at Dodge City [1959] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Nancy Gates
  • Joseph M. Newman
  • Joel McCrea
  • John McIntire
  • Richard Anderson
  • Julie Adams
Release date: 2008-05-13
Run time: 81 min.
Price: £5.00

Review The Gunfight at Dodge City [1959] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / United Artists:


Review Warner Home Video / None But the Brave [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Brad Dexter
  • Christopher Dark
  • Roger Ewing
  • Don Dorrell
  • Phillip Crosby
Release date: 2008-05-13
Run time: 105 min.
Creator: John Williams
Price: £3.77

Review None But the Brave [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Classic Pictures / Target for Tonight [1941]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Garofalo
Release date: 2004-09-21
Run time: 150 min.
Price: £5.99

Review Target for Tonight [1941] / Classic Pictures:


Review Warner Home Video / A Big Hand for the Little Lady [1966] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Charles Bickford
  • Chester Conklin
  • Allan Collins
  • Mae Clarke
  • Fielder Cook
  • Jim Boles
Release date: 2007-11-06
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: David Raksin
Price: £7.25

Review A Big Hand for the Little Lady [1966] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review United Artists / Navajo Joe [1967] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Burt Reynolds
  • Tanya Lopert
  • Fernando Rey
  • Sergio Corbucci
  • Aldo Sambrell
  • Nicoletta Machiavelli
Release date: 2008-05-13
Run time: 92 min.
Price: £5.00

Review Navajo Joe [1967] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / United Artists:


Review Universal Pictures UK / The Bridge on the River Kwai/Das Boot/The Guns of Navarone
Actors & Directors
  • Herbert Gronemeyer
  • Jack Hawkins
  • Wolfgang Petersen
  • Jurgen Prochnow
  • William Holden
  • J. Lee Thompson
  • Alec Guinness
  • David Lean
Release date: 2006-10-02
RRP: £19.99
Price: £5.67

Review The Bridge on the River Kwai/Das Boot/The Guns of Navarone / Universal Pictures UK:


Review Universal Pictures UK / The Plainsman [1936]
Actors & Directors
  • Jean Arthur
  • James Ellison
  • Gary Cooper
  • Helen Burgess
  • Cecil B. De Mille
  • Charles Bickford
Release date: 2006-02-06
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.50

Review The Plainsman [1936] / Universal Pictures UK:

Just maybe the most shamelessly enjoyable of Cecil B. DeMille's pseudo-historical epics, this rumbustious frontier saga offers a three-for-one Western legends combo-Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill Cody, and Calamity Jane, all cutting up in the 1870s, with George Armstrong Custer and Abraham Lincoln thrown in for good measure. (Wait a minute, Lincoln was assassinated in 1865-oh, never mind. ) Truth to tell, Buffalo Bill doesn't really pull his weight, since (1) he is hopelessly distracted by virtue of having recently married and (2) he's played by James Ellison, an eternal juvenile normally relegated to second-banana duty in Paramount's Hopalong Cassidy series. However, Gary Cooper's Wild Bill and Jean Arthur's Calamity supply enough star power to light up the Dakotas and parts of Missouri. Every once in a while, DeMille and his small army of writers stumble upon an actual historical fact. Bill Cody did fight to the death with an Indian chief named Yellow Hand. George Custer and James Butler Hickok did both buy the farm in the summer of 1876. (Custer's Last Stand is handled imaginatively, if cheaply, as a vision narrated by a wandering Cheyenne warrior-none other than C. B. [+]
's son-in-law Anthony Quinn in one of his earliest screen appearances. ) Jack McCall (veteran weasel Porter Hall) did find himself in Deadwood, South Dakota, at the same time Wild Bill was drawing aces and eights in a poker game. though McCall was not necessarily affiliated with DeMille's favourite villain, Charles Bickford, in the business of running guns to the Indians. -Richard T. Jameson.

Review Warner Home Video / I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang [1932] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Mervyn LeRoy
  • Jerry Bergen
  • Helen Pickens
  • Patti Pickens
  • Novia
  • The Pickens Sisters
  • Roy Mack
Release date: 2005-05-10
Run time: 92 min.
Price: £7.04

Review I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang [1932] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review MGM Entertainment / The McKenzie Break [1970]
Actors & Directors
  • Helmut Griem
  • Jack Watson
  • Lamont Johnson
  • Ian Hendry
  • Patrick O'Connell
  • Brian Keith
Release date: 2004-04-05
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.95

Review The McKenzie Break [1970] / MGM Entertainment:


Review Universal Studios / When the Daltons Rode [1940] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • George Bancroft
  • Broderick Crawford
  • George Marshall
  • Kay Francis
  • Randolph Scott
  • Brian Donlevy
Release date: 2004-06-01
Run time: 81 min.
Price: £4.29

Review When the Daltons Rode [1940] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:


Review Universal Pictures Video / Flying Tigers (John Wayne) [1942]
Actors & Directors
  • David Miller
  • Mae Clarke
  • John Wayne
  • John Carroll
  • Paul Kelly
Release date: 2006-06-05
Run time: 98 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.96

Review Flying Tigers (John Wayne) [1942] / Universal Pictures Video:

John Wayne plays the tough commander of Flying Tigers, the famous fighter squadron that fought to save China from the Japanese. Wayne finds he is fighting a war on two fronts: he's taking on the enemy with only a handful of inexperienced men and patched-up planes while keeping a cocky new pilot from stealing his girl. The story has little in common with real history, and lots of classic post-Pearl Harbor propaganda fills the script. Regardless, the movie is all Wayne's, and Wayne fans will enjoy seeing the prototype for what would become the Duke's trademark portrayal of the military fighting man. Although the pressure of making life-and-death decisions in wartime may be more maturely explored in Twelve O'Clock High, Flying Tigers still has enough characterisation and action to keep the viewer's attention (not to mention special effects by the pioneering Howard Lydecker). -Mark Savary.

Models & Brands:
Shane [1953] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Miracle of the White Stallions [1962] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Rare Breed [1966], The War Collection [1949], The War Game/Culloden [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Seven Days in May [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Next Of Kin, Dunkirk [1958], The Fighting Kentuckian (John Wayne) [1949], The Gunfight at Dodge City [1959] (REGION 1) (NTSC), None But the Brave [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Target for Tonight [1941], A Big Hand for the Little Lady [1966] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Navajo Joe [1967] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Bridge on the River Kwai/Das Boot/The Guns of Navarone, The Plainsman [1936], I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang [1932] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The McKenzie Break [1970], When the Daltons Rode [1940] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Flying Tigers (John Wayne) [1942]

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