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Review BCI, a Navarre Corporation Company / The Vigilantes, Vol. 2 [1967] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Lee Van Cleef
  • Patrick Dray
  • Boot Hill
Release date: 2006-05-23
Run time: 391 min.
Creator: Rosalba Neri
Price: £4.32

Review The Vigilantes, Vol. 2 [1967] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / BCI, a Navarre Corporation Company:


Review Vci Video / The Adventures of Red Ryder [1940] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Maude Allen
  • William Witney
  • Noah Beery
  • Don 'Red' Barry
  • Tommy Cook
  • Vivian Austin
  • John English
Release date: 2000-10-24
Run time: 205 min.
Creator: Ronald Davidson
Price: £8.64

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Review Uca / Hellcats Of The Navy [1957]
Actors & Directors
  • Nancy Davis
  • Nathan Juran
  • Arthur Franz
  • Ronald Reagan
Release date: 2005-03-07
Run time: 78 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.99

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Review Vci Video / Surrender Hell [1959]
Actors & Directors
  • Paraluman
  • Nestor de Villa
  • Susan Cabot
  • John Barnwell
  • Keith Andes
Release date: 2008-09-16
Run time: 222 min.
Creator: Hugo Grimaldi
Price: £5.74

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Review Digital 1 Stop / The Roy Rogers Collection: 20 Movie Pack (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Fred Kohler
  • Yakima Canutt
  • Joseph Kane
  • William Witney
  • John English
  • Frank McDonald
  • Roy Rogers
  • Morgan Wallace
  • Lynne Roberts
  • Smiley Burnette
Release date: 2006-04-18
Run time: 1188 min.
Creator: Earle Snell
Price: £5.83

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


Review Facets / All My Good Countrymen [1968]
Actors & Directors
  • Vaclav Babka
  • Vladimir Mensik
  • Vojtech Jasný
  • Pavel Pavlovsky
  • Radoslav Brzobohaty
  • Vlastimil Brodský
Release date: 2008-08-26
Run time: 114 min.
Creator: Miroslav Hajek
Price: £12.12

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Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / A Yank In The RAF [1941]
Actors & Directors
  • Tyrone Power
  • John Sutton
  • Betty Grable
  • Henry King
  • Reginald Gardiner
  • Donald Stuart
Release date: 2004-05-03
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.42

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Review C'est La Vie / Vengeance Trail [1971]
Actors & Directors
  • Ivan Rassimov
  • Klaus Kinski
  • Leonard Mann
  • Steffen Zacharias
  • Elizabeth Eversfield
  • Charles R. Seeling
  • Pasquale Squitieri
Release date: 2002-05-27
Run time: 97 min.
Creator: Monica Venturini
RRP: £19.99
Price: £4.45

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Review Warner Home Video / Doctor Zhivago [1965]
Actors & Directors
  • Omar Sharif
  • Geraldine Chaplin
  • Julie Christie
  • Alec Guinness
  • Rod Steiger
  • David Lean
Release date: 2000-02-14
Run time: 200 min.
Creator: Robert Bolt
RRP: £10.99
Price: £0.76

Review Doctor Zhivago [1965] / Warner Home Video:

David Lean's wintry adaptation of Boris Pasternak's melodramatic Russian Revolution romance, Doctor Zhivago, is a masterpiece of epic filmmaking, but one that risks leaving the viewer cold. Though none of the film was shot in the then USSR, Lean's assured technique nevertheless illuminates the breathtaking backgrounds magnificently: from the snowy wastes of the Urals to the strife-torn streets of Moscow, Lean stages a series of wonderful set-pieces showing war, revolution and its terrible aftermath. The problem lies in the foreground. Omar Sharif's entirely passive Zhivago is, we are told, a romantic poet of great sensitivity who internalises all his emotions and expresses them in verse. The trouble is the audience never gets to see a line of his poems, not even the centrally important "Lara" cycle. Thus Zhivago at the end of the picture is as much an emotional blank to us as he was at the beginning. His affair with the idealised beauty that is Julie Christie's Lara is also taken for granted by the filmmakers rather than set up in any convincing way, their mutual attraction remaining a mystery that creates a vacuum at the core of the picture. Given that none of the central characters with the exception of Rod Steiger's fire-breathing lecher Komarovsky ever give way to strong emotions, the romantic heart of the film remains oddly frigid. Matters are not helped by composer Maurice Jarre's incessant "Lara's Theme", which many will find teeth-grindingly irritating. Still, any David Lean epic, even a flawed one, is always going to be a first-class cinematic experience, and Zhivago is assuredly that. [+]
On the DVD: A stunning anamorphic widescreen print is the ideal way to appreciate David Lean's craftsmanship and this movie's glorious, wintry cinematography. Maurice Jarre's "Lara's Theme" and the rest of his patchwork score can be heard in a music-only track, while Omar Sharif is joined by Lean's widow Sandra and Rod Steiger for an intermittent commentary. The second bonus disc contains a good hour-long making-of documentary plus 10 shorter contemporary documentaries giving various insights into the location shooting and the cast and crew. But it's the sheer beauty of the picture that will astonish and make this disc forever treasurable. -Mark Walker.

Review Dd Home Entertainment / For Those In Peril [1944]
Actors & Directors
  • Ralph Michael
  • Robert Griffith
  • John Slater
  • David Farrar
  • Robert Wyndham
  • Charles Crichton
Release date: 2000-07-03
Run time: 64 min.
Creator: T.E.B. Clarke
Price: £10.99

Review For Those In Peril [1944] / Dd Home Entertainment:

Charles Crichton is fondly remembered for his Ealing comedies, The Lavender Hill Mob and The Titfield Thunderbolt as well as for his later swansong, A Fish Called Wanda, but long before those he directed this little-known Ealing drama in 1944. For Those in Peril belongs to that peculiar genre of wartime features that are part-fiction, part-documentary, part-propaganda (Coastal Command in 1942 was another in similar vein). In this case, the flimsy story is designed to raise awareness of a little-known branch of the RAF, the Sea Rescue Boats. Pilot Officer Rawlings (Ralph Michael) reluctantly joins the crew of a rescue boat and is introduced to nautical life by skipper Murray (David Farrar). After experiencing the mundane day-to-day routine, Rawlings learns how important their task is when they are called in to rescue the crew of a bomber shot-down in mid-channel. Not only is there thick fog and a minefield to deal with, but a German gunboat is looking for the airmen, too. And just when they seem to have accomplished the rescue, they are shelled by long-range guns from the French coast and strafed by the Luftwaffe. All in a day's work. Crichton injects some melodrama into proceedings-one of the principal characters dies at the end-but his close ups of nervous faces and effects shots of exploding ships and planes exist simply to enhance the documentary aspect of the story. Actors and dialogue take second place to the depiction of what was, at the time of filming, an important part of the war effort. [+]
"Of course, the RMLs have got that pom-pom on the foc'sle," comments Murray matter-of-factly amid a barrage of similar naval jargon. Looking back on it now, For Those in Peril should not be considered a movie as such, more a fascinating historical account of the dark days of war in the English Channel. -Mark Walker.

Review Alpha Video / A Lust to Kill [1957] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Oliver Drake
  • Don Megowan
  • Tom Hubbard
  • Allison Hayes
  • Gerald Milton
  • Jim Davis
Release date: 2005-03-29
Run time: 71 min.
Creator: Samuel Roeca
Price: £2.60

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Review MGM Entertainment / Man Of The West [1958]
Actors & Directors
  • Arthur O'Connell
  • Lee J. Cobb
  • Jack Lord
  • Anthony Mann
  • Gary Cooper
  • Julie London
Release date: 2005-03-14
Run time: 95 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £25.97

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Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Oklahoma [1955]
Actors & Directors
  • Gloria Grahame
  • Charlotte Greenwood
  • Fred Zinnemann
  • Gene Nelson
  • Gordon MacRae
  • Shirley Jones
Release date: 2000-03-13
Run time: 134 min.
Creator: William Ludwig
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.90

Review Oklahoma [1955] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

The hit Broadway musical from the 1940s gets a lavish if not always exciting workout in this 1955 film version directed by old lion Fred Zinnemann (High Noon). Gordon MacRae brings his sterling voice to the role of cowboy Curly and Shirley Jones plays Laurie, the object of his affection. The Rodgers and Hammerstein score includes "The Surrey with the Fringe on Top", "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'" and "People Will Say We're in Love", and Agnes DeMille provides the buoyant choreography. Among the supporting cast, Gloria Grahame is memorable as Ado Annie, the "girl who cain't say no", and Rod Steiger overdoes it as the villainous Jud. -Tom Keogh.

Review Slam Dunk Media / Vengeance Valley [1951]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Walker
  • Richard Thorpe
  • John Ireland
  • Sally Forrest
  • Burt Lancaster
  • Ray Collins
Release date: 2008-04-07
Run time: 82 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.47

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Review Warner Home Video / The Cruel Sea [1953]
Actors & Directors
  • Donald Sinden
  • Jack Hawkins
  • John Warner
  • Denholm Elliott
  • Charles Frend
  • John Stratton
Release date: 2000-06-19
Run time: 121 min.
Creator: Nicholas Monsarrat
RRP: £10.99
Price: £2.99

Review The Cruel Sea [1953] / Warner Home Video:

Nicholas Monsarrat's novel is an unflinching, realistic and emotionally involving account of naval life during the Second World War in which the "heroes" are the men, the "heroines" the ships and the "villain" is not so much the German U-Boats lurking below as "the cruel sea" itself. This 1953 film has become a classic of British cinema largely because it is a straightforward, no-frills adaptation of the book and retain's much of the original's compelling yet almost understated dramatic focus. On convoy duty in the North Atlantic, the crew of HMS Compass Rose face as a matter of routine the threat of destruction from U-Boats as well as a constant struggle against the elements. The convoys themselves are Britain's only lifeline and their loss would lead to certain defeat, but in the early years of the war the ships sent to protect them can do almost nothing to prevent the U-Boat attacks. Jack Hawkins gives one of his finest performances as Captain Ericson, the commander who has to balance destroying the enemy against saving the lives of the men under his care. In one unforgettable scene-a crucial turning point for all the characters-he must decide whether to depth charge a suspected submarine despite the presence of British sailors in the water. As with the book, the individual officers and their lives are carefully delineated, helped by the strength of a cast of (then) young actors (notably Donald Sinden and Denholm Elliot). Ultimately what makes The Cruel Sea such an undeniable classic is that it has neither the flag-waving jingoism nor the war-is-hell melodrama so common to most war movies: instead it relates in an almost matter-of-fact way the bitterness of the conflict at sea fought by ordinary men placed in the most extraordinary of circumstances. -Mark Walker.

Review Warner Home Video / Errol Flynn: The Signature Collection, Vol. 2 (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Friz Freleng
  • Del Frazier
  • Olivia de Havilland
  • Viveca Lindfors
  • Errol Flynn
  • B. Reeves Eason
  • Robert Douglas
  • Bobby Connolly
  • Basil Rathbone
  • Edmund Goulding
Release date: 2007-03-27
Price: £25.37

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Review Alpha Video / The Miracle Rider [1934]
Actors & Directors
  • Charles Middleton
  • Armand Schaefer
  • Tom Mix
Release date: 2007-05-29
Run time: 308 min.
Price: £4.89

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Review Universal Pictures UK / The War Wagon [1967]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Walker Jr.
  • Burt Kennedy
  • Howard Keel
  • Keenan Wynn
  • Kirk Douglas
  • John Wayne
Release date: 2006-09-18
Run time: 96 min.
Creator: Clair Huffaker
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.14

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Review Warner Home Video / Burt Lancaster: Signature Collection (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Arthur Lubin
  • Robert Douglas
  • Burt Lancaster
  • Byron Haskin
  • Jacques Tourneur
  • Aline MacMahon
  • David Miller
  • Robert Ryan
  • Virginia Mayo
  • Michael Curtiz
Release date: 2007-10-23
Creator: Donald Freed
Price: £24.93

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Review Timeless Media / Alexander the Great [1964]
Actors & Directors
  • Joseph Cotten
  • William Shatner
  • Phil Karlson
  • John Cassavetes
Release date: 2006-05-08
Run time: 90 min.
Price: £1.38

Review Alexander the Great [1964] / Timeless Media:


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The Vigilantes, Vol. 2 [1967] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Adventures of Red Ryder [1940] (NTSC), Hellcats Of The Navy [1957], Surrender Hell [1959], The Roy Rogers Collection: 20 Movie Pack (REGION 1) (NTSC), All My Good Countrymen [1968], A Yank In The RAF [1941], Vengeance Trail [1971], Doctor Zhivago [1965], For Those In Peril [1944], A Lust to Kill [1957] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Man Of The West [1958], Oklahoma [1955], Vengeance Valley [1951], The Cruel Sea [1953], Errol Flynn: The Signature Collection, Vol. 2 (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Miracle Rider [1934], The War Wagon [1967], Burt Lancaster: Signature Collection (REGION 1) (NTSC), Alexander the Great [1964]

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