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Review 20th Century Fox / The Warlock [1959] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Anthony Quinn
  • Henry Fonda
  • Edward Dmytryk
  • Dolores Michaels
  • Dorothy Malone
  • Richard Widmark
Release date: 2005-05-24
Run time: 121 min.
Price: £4.32

Review The Warlock [1959] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:


Review Warner Home Video / Warner Home Video Western Classics Collection [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Parrish
  • Charles Walters
  • Russ Tamblyn
  • Victor McLaglen
  • Jeff Richards
  • John Sturges
  • Eleanor Parker
  • Robert Taylor
  • Roy Rowland
Release date: 2008-08-26
Run time: 619 min.
Price: £24.75

Review Warner Home Video Western Classics Collection [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Republic Pictures / Pursued [1947] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Raoul Walsh
  • Teresa Wright
  • Judith Anderson
  • Robert Mitchum
  • Dean Jagger
  • Alan Hale
Release date: 2003-01-21
Run time: 105 min.
Price: £4.89

Review Pursued [1947] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Republic Pictures:


Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / The Last Drop [2005]
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Madsen
  • Anton Rodgers
  • David Ginola
  • Colin Teague
  • Jack Dee
  • Billy Zane
Release date: 2006-07-10
Run time: 99 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £1.50

Review The Last Drop [2005] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:


Review 20th Century Fox / Decision Before Dawn [1951] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Hildegard Knef
  • Oskar Werner
  • Anatole Litvak
  • Richard Basehart
  • Gary Merrill
  • Dominique Blanchar
Release date: 2006-05-23
Run time: 119 min.
Price: £4.95

Review Decision Before Dawn [1951] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:


Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / The Professionals [Blu-ray] [1966]
Actors & Directors
  • Burt Lancaster
  • Richard Brooks
  • Claudia Cardinale
  • Robert Ryan
  • Lee Marvin
  • Ralph Bellamy
Release date: 2008-06-23
Run time: 117 min.
RRP: £17.99
Price: £12.00

Review The Professionals [Blu-ray] [1966] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:

Before The Wild Bunch, there was The Professionals, Richard Brooks's marvellous ode to friendship, loyalty, and disillusionment. It may not have the stylistic bravado or fatalistic doom of the legendary Sam Peckinpah film, but Brooks's storytelling is simple and steady and just as insightful. The difference is Brooks is a lot more optimistic. Lee Marvin and Burt Lancaster are buddies who have drifted into oblivion after fighting together in the Mexican Revolution. Marvin, the principled loyalist and munitions expert, lost his wife and his heart. Lancaster, the dynamite expert and unprincipled adventurer, keeps losing his pants. They team up with wrangler Robert Ryan and archer Woody Strode to rescue the beguiling Claudia Cardinale, who has been kidnapped by their old revolutionary buddie Jack Palance. So it's back into bloody Mexico they go on a "mission of mercy" for railroad tycoon Ralph Bellamy, who's paying handsomely for the return of his wife. But nothing is what it seems in this exciting, existential adventure, which was beautifully shot by Conrad Hall. Sarcastic quips, philosophical musings, and heart-rending reversals underlie Brooks's humanistic sentiments. [+]
These are tired, world-weary men who somehow find the strength and the will to pull together for the sake of love and commitment. Through it all, Brooks seems to be lamenting a decline in professionalism much deeper than his story. He's decrying Hollywood and society at large, anticipating Peckinpah's later strategy. -Bill Desowitz.

Review Momentum Pictures / The Veteran [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Sidney J. Furie
  • Michael Ironside
  • Ally Sheedy
  • Bobby Hosea
Release date: 2007-04-16
Run time: 89 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £2.40

Review The Veteran [2006] / Momentum Pictures:


Review Eureka Entertainment / The Fighting Sullivans [1944]
Actors & Directors
  • Anne Baxter
  • Edward Ryan
  • Trudy Marshall
  • Selena Royle
  • Thomas Mitchell
  • Lloyd Bacon
Release date: 2002-10-21
Run time: 111 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £15.99

Review The Fighting Sullivans [1944] / Eureka Entertainment:


Review Columbia TriStar / The Texican [1966] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Broderick Crawford
  • Lesley Selander
  • Diana Lorys
  • Audie Murphy
  • Aldo Sambrell
  • Antonio Casas
Release date: 2005-04-05
Run time: 88 min.
Price: £4.88

Review The Texican [1966] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:


Review Warner Home Video / 4 for Texas [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Dean Martin
  • Anita Ekberg
  • Ursula Andress
  • Charles Bronson
  • Robert Aldrich
  • Frank Sinatra
Release date: 2008-05-13
Run time: 115 min.
Price: £3.64

Review 4 for Texas [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Universal Pictures UK / The Plainsman [1936]
Actors & Directors
  • Jean Arthur
  • Helen Burgess
  • Cecil B. De Mille
  • Charles Bickford
  • Gary Cooper
  • James Ellison
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 20th Century Fox / Jesse James [1939] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Henry Fonda
  • Tyrone Power
  • Henry King
  • Irving Cummings
  • Randolph Scott
  • Henry Hull
  • Nancy Kelly
Release date: 2007-03-06
Run time: 106 min.
Price: £4.12

Review Jesse James [1939] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:


Review Eureka Entertainment / The Great Silence
Actors & Directors
  • Luigi Pistilli
  • Frank Wolff
  • Klaus Kinski
  • Sergio Corbucci
  • Vonetta McGee
  • Jean-Louis Trintignant
Release date: 2004-08-23
Run time: 105 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.99

Review The Great Silence / Eureka Entertainment:


Review MGM / Battle of Britain [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Curd Jürgens
  • Ian McShane
  • Guy Hamilton
  • Michael Caine
  • Trevor Howard
  • Harry Andrews
Release date: 2003-05-20
Run time: 132 min.
Price: £3.13

Review Battle of Britain [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:

Despite its manipulative grandiosity, this film is completely irresistible, for several reasons: it recounts the greatest air battle in history, creating the greatest aerial battle scenes in film history; it has a terrific cast (Harry Andrews, Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Curt Jurgens, Laurence Olivier, Nigel Patrick, Christopher Plummer, Michael Redgrave, Ralph Richardson, Robert Shaw, Patrick Wymark and Edward Fox); and it's technically very well made, thanks to the Bond team of producer Harry Saltzman and director Guy Hamilton and the great cinematographer Freddie Young. -Bill Desowitz.

Review Warner Home Video / Casablanca [HD DVD] [1942] [US Import]
Actors & Directors
  • Humphrey Bogart
  • Claude Rains
  • Michael Curtiz
  • Ingrid Bergman
  • Paul Henreid
  • Conrad Veidt
Release date: 2006-11-14
Run time: 102 min.
Price: £12.04

Review Casablanca [HD DVD] [1942] [US Import] / Warner Home Video:

A truly perfect movie, the 1942 Casablanca still wows viewers today, and for good reason. Its unique story of a love triangle set against terribly high stakes in the war against a monster is sophisticated instead of outlandish, intriguing instead of garish. Humphrey Bogart plays the allegedly apolitical club owner in unoccupied French territory that is nevertheless crawling with Nazis; Ingrid Bergman is the lover who mysteriously deserted him in Paris; and Paul Heinreid is her heroic, slightly bewildered husband. Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, and Conrad Veidt are among what may be the best supporting cast in the history of Hollywood films. This is certainly among the most spirited and ennobling movies ever made. -Tom Keogh This generously filled two-disc special edition presentation of Casablanca features the film itself in an impressively clean new digital transfer on the first disc, with hiss-free mono sound. It's prefaced by a rather pointless introduction from Lauren Bacall (it would surely be churlish to point out that Casablanca was made two years before Bacall met Bogart) and accompanied by two full-length and fact-packed audio commentaries, one from film critic Roger Ebert, who hardly pauses to take a breath, and the other from film historian Rudy Behlmer, who provides in-depth background detail. The second disc features a plentiful collection of sundry archival features and more from Bacall, who hosts the two documentaries: You Must Remember This: The Making of Casablanca and a retrospective of Bogie's career, Bacall on Bogart. Of minor interest are two very short deleted scenes-Laszlo and Rick at the jail, and a German officer's pratfall-which in lieu of any surviving audio track have been subtitled from the original script; there's also five minutes of silent outtakes. An audio-only sample of Max Steiner's music-scoring sessions features Dooley Wilson singing "Knock on Wood" and "As Time Goes By". [+]
There are brief reminiscences from Stephen Bogart and Pia Lindstrom (son and daughter of Bogie and Ingrid Bergman, respectively); Bugs Bunny and pals in Carrotblanca; a curious 1955 Warner Bros TV version of the movie; audio excerpts from the "Screen Guild Players Radio Production" featuring the principal cast; plus the usual static galleries and other trivia. All in all, it's a valuable two-disc set that really does provide everything you always wanted to know about one of the most famous movies ever made. -Mark Walker.

Review Criterion / Shop on Main Street [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Elmar Klos
  • Ida Kaminska
  • Adám Matejka
  • Martin Hollý
  • Ján Kadár
  • Hana Slivková
  • Jozef Króner
Release date: 2001-09-18
Run time: 125 min.
Price: £11.54

Review Shop on Main Street [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Criterion:


Review Warner Home Video / Seven Faces of Dr. Lao [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • George Pal
  • Barbara Eden
  • Tony Randall
  • Noah Beery Jr.
  • John Ericson
  • Arthur O'Connell
Release date: 2000-10-03
Run time: 100 min.
Price: £7.60

Review Seven Faces of Dr. Lao [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The Undefeated [1969]
Actors & Directors
  • Rock Hudson
  • Andrew V. McLaglen
  • John Wayne
Release date: 2005-04-18
Run time: 114 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.81

Review The Undefeated [1969] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review Universal Pictures UK / Night Passage [1957]
Actors & Directors
  • James Neilson
  • Audie Murphy
  • Elaine Stewart
  • James Stewart
  • Reiko Dan
Release date: 2007-06-04
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.96

Review Night Passage [1957] / Universal Pictures UK:

Thanks to ultracrisp Technirama photography of great mountainside and river gorge locations in Colorado, Night Passage is often terrific to look at; you can almost feel the autumn sun and brisk air. This should have been another classic Western pairing James Stewart with director Anthony Mann. But after choosing the locations, cast, and crew, and directing the precredit sequence, Mann abruptly resigned. He found Borden Chase's screenplay an "incoherent" rehash of relationships and setups from their previous films, nor was he encouraged by Stewart's determination to play the accordion and sing. Stewart's an ex-railroad cop who became a pariah by letting a prisoner-Audie Murphy's "The Utica Kid"-escape. The two cross paths again in a ghost town where Dan Duryea, doing a zany version of his loony outlaw from Winchester '73, has holed up with his gang. Replacement director James Neilson, a newcomer destined for bland Disney servitude, fosters a lot of flatfooted standing-around. -Richard T. Jameson.

Review Slam Dunk Media / One Eyed Jacks [1961]
Actors & Directors
  • Karl Malden
  • Marlon Brando
  • Marlon Brando
Release date: 2008-04-07
Run time: 141 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.99

Review One Eyed Jacks [1961] / Slam Dunk Media:


Models & Brands:
The Warlock [1959] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Warner Home Video Western Classics Collection [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Pursued [1947] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Last Drop [2005], Decision Before Dawn [1951] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Professionals [Blu-ray] [1966], The Veteran [2006], The Fighting Sullivans [1944], The Texican [1966] (REGION 1) (NTSC), 4 for Texas [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Plainsman [1936], Jesse James [1939] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Great Silence, Battle of Britain [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Casablanca [HD DVD] [1942] [US Import], Shop on Main Street [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Seven Faces of Dr. Lao [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Undefeated [1969], Night Passage [1957], One Eyed Jacks [1961]

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