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Review Warner Home Video / Objective Burma [1954]
Actors & Directors
  • Raoul Walsh|Errol Flynn|James Brown (II)|William Prince
Run time: 135 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £12.99

Review Objective Burma [1954] / Warner Home Video:

On its first release in 1945, just after VJ day, Objective Burma came under fire in the British press-much as Saving Private Ryan would do some 40 years later-for portraying the jungle war as a solely American operation. But the passage of time has allowed the movie's many merits to outshine its narrow remit. The movie's bone-chilling portrayal of pain, sacrifice and endurance is astonishing; the jungle atmosphere is so persuasive you'd swear it was shot on the actual locations; and you'll never forget the terrifying last dark night on a mountainside-or the crocodiles. A paratroop captain (Errol Flynn) sets out with a platoon to attack a Japanese outpost in the jungle. The Americans reach their target, take out the enemy with almost balletic precision, then gear up to return home. This feels like the point when a conventional war movie would have reached its action-filled climax, but the journey has only begun. Ahead lies one of the most arduous and agonising adventures any World War II film ever offered, brilliantly directed by that underrated old master Raoul Walsh and photographed with almost tactile realism by the great James Wong Howe. Franz Waxman also contributes one of his finest music scores. Flynn is excellent (he had given his best performance ever in Walsh's Gentleman Jim three years earlier), and he's backed by a solid cast including Henry Hull (as an ageing war correspondent), James Brown, William Prince, George Tobias and Stephen Richards (soon to change his name to Mark Stevens). Incidentally, two of the writers, Alvah Bessie and Lester Cole, were later blacklisted; see if you can spot any Commie propaganda. [+]
-Richard T Jameson.

Review Digital 1 Stop / The Roy Rogers Collection: 20 Movie Pack (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Release date: 2006-04-18
Run time: 1188 min.
Price: £4.42

Review The Roy Rogers Collection: 20 Movie Pack (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Digital 1 Stop:


Review Alpha Video / Wagon Trail [1935] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Harry Carey
  • Chief Thundercloud
  • Dick Botiller
  • Lew Meehan
  • Earl Dwire
  • Harry L. Fraser
Release date: 2005-09-27
Run time: 56 min.
Creator: Arthur A. Brooks
Price: £1.97

Review Wagon Trail [1935] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Alpha Video:


Review Alpha Video / The Range Rider, Vol. 4 [1952]
Actors & Directors
  • Dick Jones
  • Jock Mahoney
Release date: 2006-07-25
Run time: 100 min.
Price: £2.15

Review The Range Rider, Vol. 4 [1952] / Alpha Video:


Review Republic Pictures / King of the Pecos [1937] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jack Clifford
  • Joseph Kane
  • Cy Kendall
  • John Wayne
  • Muriel Evans
  • Arthur Aylesworth
Release date: 2001-10-23
Run time: 56 min.
Price: £3.27

Review King of the Pecos [1937] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Republic Pictures:


Review Warner Home Video / 36 Hours [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • George Seaton
  • James Garner
  • Werner Peters
  • John Banner
  • Rod Taylor
  • Eva Marie Saint
Release date: 2007-06-05
Run time: 115 min.
Price: £6.98

Review 36 Hours [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Columbia TriStar / Alvarez Kelly [1966] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Victoria Shaw
  • Edward Dmytryk
  • Richard Widmark
  • Janice Rule
  • William Holden
  • Patrick O'Neal
Release date: 1999-09-28
Run time: 110 min.
Price: £3.16

Review Alvarez Kelly [1966] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:

Alvarez Kelly (1966) doesn't really justify the description of "Western Classic" which Columbia Tristar attach to it, but it's a pleasant enough Western directed by Edward Dmytryk. The rather convoluted plot (adventurer plays one side off against the other on a cattle drive from Mexico during the Civil War) relies heavily on the charm of the two stars, William Holden and Richard Widmark, but the two prove as reliable as ever. There are some so-so action scenes, but it's the battle of wits between the two principals that supplies all the fireworks. By contrast Janice Rule is just adequate as the love interest. On the DVD: It's a good-looking DVD transfer, with a 1:2. 35 aspect ratio and Dolby Digital sound. Subtitles are available in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch and Polish with dubbing into French, German, Italian and Spanish. For extras there are trailers and some filmographies, so partial as to be not much use. -Ed Buscombe.

Review Bfi Video / The War Game [1965]
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Watkins
Release date: 2003-01-27
Run time: 84 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £89.90

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Review Warner Home Video / The Dawn Patrol [1938] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Errol Flynn
  • Donald Crisp
  • Mel Blanc
  • Edmund Goulding
  • David Niven
  • Roy Mack
  • Robert Clampett
  • Bobby Connolly
  • Basil Rathbone
Release date: 2007-03-27
Run time: 103 min.
Price: £7.01

Review The Dawn Patrol [1938] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review BCI, a Navarre Corporation Company / Wanted: Dead or Alive: Season One (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Rutger Hauer
  • Gene Simmons
  • Robert Guillaume
  • Mel Harris
  • Gary Sherman
  • William Russ
Release date: 2007-05-15
Run time: 1014 min.
Price: £12.98

Review Wanted: Dead or Alive: Season One (REGION 1) (NTSC) / BCI, a Navarre Corporation Company:


Review Image Entertainment / Paris Underground [1945] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • André Charlot
  • Gregory Ratoff
  • Maurice Cass
  • Constance Bennett
  • Charles Andre
  • Nina Borget
Release date: 2005-04-26
Run time: 97 min.
Creator: Alexander Tansman
Price: £4.80

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Review ITV DVD / Carve Her Name With Pride [1958]
Actors & Directors
  • Lewis Gilbert (II)
  • Alain Saury
  • Jack Warner
  • Paul Scofield
  • Denise Grey
  • Virginia McKenna
Release date: 2003-06-16
Run time: 110 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.95

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Review Artsmagic / The Fall of Berlin [1945]
Actors & Directors
  • Yuli Raizman
  • Elizaveta Svilova
Release date: 2005-04-26
Run time: 75 min.
Price: £4.53

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Review Alpha Video / The Three Mesquiteers: Outlaws of Sonora [1938]
Actors & Directors
  • George Sherman
  • George Cheseboro
  • Ray "Crash" Corrigan
  • Curley Dresden
  • Jim Corey
  • George Cleveland
Release date: 2006-02-28
Run time: 53 min.
Creator: Tony Martinelli
Price: £2.07

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Review Paramount Home Video / Shane [1953] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Helen Brown
  • Janice Carroll
  • Jean Arthur
  • Edgar Buchanan
  • Bill Cartledge
Release date: 2000-08-15
Run time: 117 min.
Creator: Victor Young
Price: £2.81

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 20th Century Fox / The Prisoner of Shark Island [1936] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Frank Baker
  • Warner Baxter
  • A.S. Byron
  • Whitney Bourne
  • John Ford
  • Arthur Byron
Release date: 2007-12-04
Run time: 96 min.
Creator: Louis Silvers
Price: £6.02

Review The Prisoner of Shark Island [1936] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:


Review Various / The Big Stampede/Ride Him, Cowboy/Haunted Gold [1933] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Release date: 2006-11-07
Run time: 163 min.
Price: £5.74

Review The Big Stampede/Ride Him, Cowboy/Haunted Gold [1933] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Various:


Review Universal Studios / Law and Order [1953] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Ruth Hampton
  • Dorothy Malone
  • Ronald Reagan
  • Nathan Juran
  • Alex Nicol
  • Preston Foster
Release date: 2003-05-06
Run time: 80 min.
Price: £4.14

Review Law and Order [1953] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:


Review Optimum Home Entertainment / Forty Guns [1957]
Actors & Directors
  • John Ericson
  • Barbara Stanwyck
  • Barry Sullivan
  • Gene Barry
  • Dean Jagger
  • Samuel Fuller
Release date: 2004-08-23
Run time: 77 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.79

Review Forty Guns [1957] / Optimum Home Entertainment:


Review Classic War Movies / Studio Classic: Classic War Movies
Release date: 2005-10-10
Run time: 641 min.
RRP: £34.99
Price: £16.62

Review Studio Classic: Classic War Movies / Classic War Movies:


Models & Brands:
Objective Burma [1954], The Roy Rogers Collection: 20 Movie Pack (REGION 1) (NTSC), Wagon Trail [1935] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Range Rider, Vol. 4 [1952], King of the Pecos [1937] (REGION 1) (NTSC), 36 Hours [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Alvarez Kelly [1966] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The War Game [1965], The Dawn Patrol [1938] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Wanted: Dead or Alive: Season One (REGION 1) (NTSC), Paris Underground [1945] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Carve Her Name With Pride [1958], The Fall of Berlin [1945], The Three Mesquiteers: Outlaws of Sonora [1938], Shane [1953] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Prisoner of Shark Island [1936] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Big Stampede/Ride Him, Cowboy/Haunted Gold [1933] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Law and Order [1953] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Forty Guns [1957], Studio Classic: Classic War Movies

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