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Review Paramount / Fancy Pants [1950] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Lucille Ball
  • Bruce Cabot
  • Bob Hope
  • Jack Kirkwood
  • George Marshall
  • Lea Penman
Release date: 2004-06-29
Run time: 92 min.
Creator: Robert O'Brien
Price: £3.69

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Review Elstree Hill Entertainment / One Eyed Jacks [1961]
Actors & Directors
  • Karl Malden
  • Marlon Brando
  • Katy Jurado
  • Marlon Brando
  • Ben Johnson
  • Pina Pellicer
Release date: 2004-03-15
Run time: 140 min.
RRP: £2.99
Price: £2.04

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Review BCI, a Navarre Corporation Company / Wanted: Dead or Alive: Season Two (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Arthur Franz
  • Arthur Hilton
  • Gordon Polk
  • George Blair
  • Don McDougall
  • R.G. Springsteen
  • Steve McQueen
  • Owen Bush
  • Mort Mills
  • Frank McDonald
Release date: 2007-07-17
Run time: 800 min.
Creator: Charles Beaumont
Price: £16.79

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


Review New Yorker Video / Point of Order! [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Joseph N. Welch
  • Roy M. Cohn
  • Emile de Antonio
  • Joseph McCarthy
Release date: 2005-11-15
Run time: 97 min.
Creator: Henry Rosenberg
Price: £12.88

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Review Tartan Video / Battleship Potemkin [1925]
Actors & Directors
  • Ivan Bobrov
  • Mikhail Gomorov
  • Grigori Aleksandrov
  • Vladimir Barsky
  • Sergei M. Eisenstein
  • Aleksandr Antonov
Release date: 1996-06-03
Run time: 65 min.
Creator: Sergei Tretyakov
RRP: £15.99
Price: £12.99

Review Battleship Potemkin [1925] / Tartan Video:

Sergei Eisenstein's revolutionary sophomore feature has so long stood as a textbook example of montage editing that many have forgotten what an invigoratingly cinematic experience he created. A 20th-anniversary tribute to the 1905 revolution, Eisenstein portrays the revolt in microcosm with a dramatisation of the real-life mutiny aboard the battleship Potemkin. The story tells a familiar party-line message of the oppressed working class (in this case the enlisted sailors) banding together to overthrow their oppressors (the ship's officers), led by proto-revolutionary Vakulinchuk. When he dies in the shipboard struggle the crew lays his body to rest on the pier, a moody, moving scene where the citizens of Odessa slowly emerge from the fog to pay their respects. As the crowd grows Eisenstein turns the tenor from mourning a fallen comrade to celebrating the collective achievement. The government responds by sending soldiers and ships to deal with the mutinous crew and the supportive townspeople, which climaxes in the justly famous (and often imitated and parodied) Odessa Steps massacre. Eisenstein edits carefully orchestrated motions within the frame to create broad swaths of movement, shots of varying length to build the rhythm, close-ups for perspective and shock effect, and symbolic imagery for commentary, all to create one of the most cinematically exciting sequences in film history. Eisenstein's film is Marxist propaganda to be sure but the power of this masterpiece lies not in its preaching but its poetry. -Sean Axmaker.

Review Vci Video / The Royal Mounted Rides Again [1945]
Actors & Directors
  • Daun Kennedy
  • Bill Kennedy
  • George Dolenz
  • Milburn Stone
  • Ray Taylor
  • Paul E. Burns
  • Lewis D. Collins
Release date: 2007-05-29
Run time: 245 min.
Creator: Tom Gibson
Price: £7.55

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Review Passport / The Cecil B. Demille Classics Collection
Actors & Directors
  • Dustin Farnum
  • Cecil B. DeMille
  • William C. de Mille
  • Monroe Salisbury
  • Sessue Hayakawa
  • Jack Dean
  • Fannie Ward
  • Joseph Levering
  • Oscar Apfel
Release date: 2007-06-12
Run time: 1622 min.
Creator: Beulah Marie Dix
Price: £8.73

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Review Whe Europe Limited / One Eyed Jacks [1961]
Actors & Directors
  • Ben Johnson
  • Marlon Brando
  • Pina Pellicer
  • Marlon Brando
  • Katy Jurado
  • Karl Malden
Release date: 2003-09-01
Run time: 135 min.
RRP: £4.99
Price: £1.91

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Review 20th Century Fox / Ford at Fox: The Silent Epics (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • James Hall
  • Margaret Mann
  • John Ford
  • Olive Borden
  • Madge Bellamy
  • George O'Brien
Release date: 2007-12-04
Run time: 591 min.
Creator: I.A.R. Wylie
Price: £24.89

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Review MGM Entertainment / Wings of Eagles [1957]
Actors & Directors
  • John Ford|John Wayne|Dan Dailey|Maureen O'Hara
Release date: 1997-04-21
Run time: 105 min.
Price: £6.99

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Review Timeless Media / The Proud and Damned [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Chuck Connors
  • Ignacio Gomez
  • Jose Greco
  • Peter Ford
  • Aron Kincaid
Release date: 2008-01-08
Run time: 96 min.
Creator: Douglas Lackey
Price: £3.04

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Review Alpha Video / Lady From Chunking [1943]
Actors & Directors
  • Paul Bryar
  • Ted Hecht
  • William Nigh
  • Ludwig Donath
  • Harold Huber
  • Mae Clarke
Release date: 2005-05-31
Run time: 68 min.
Creator: Jr. Charles Henkle
Price: £3.39

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Review 20th Century Fox / These Thousand Hills [1959] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Patricia Owens
  • Richard Fleischer
  • Don Murray
  • Richard Egan
  • Stuart Whitman
  • Lee Remick
Release date: 2006-05-23
Run time: 96 min.
Creator: Alfred Hayes
Price: £5.82

Review These Thousand Hills [1959] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:


Review Paramount / The Lonely Man [1957] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Henry Levin
  • Anthony Perkins
  • Elisha Cook Jr.
  • Neville Brand
  • Robert Middleton
  • Jack Palance
Release date: 2003-04-22
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: Robert Smith
Price: £26.68

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Review 4 Front Video / Rio Grande [1951]
Actors & Directors
  • Ben Johnson
  • John Wayne
  • John Ford
  • Maureen O'Hara
  • Claude Jarman Jr.
  • Harry Carey Jr.
Release date: 1996-05-06
Run time: 102 min.
Creator: James Warner Bellah
RRP: £5.99
Price: £10.49

Review Rio Grande [1951] / 4 Front Video:

The last and least memorable of John Ford's famous cavalry trilogy, Rio Grande nonetheless has an interesting continuity about the gentlemanly rules of military conduct. Here the focus is on the family. While creating a heated controversy over his handling of the Apache war, John Wayne must also contend with disgruntled wife Maureen O'Hara and estranged son Claude Jarman Jr, a new recruit trying to earn his father's love and respect. Ford seems to suggest that there are two conflicting codes of honour in every cavalry officer's life, the personal as well as the professional, and that it takes an act of heroism to maintain both. It's fascinating to observe Wayne's progression throughout the trilogy, as his personal stakes intensify. Also, this is the first of five onscreen appearances between the Duke and O'Hara, each filled with a competitive spirit and stormy sexuality. -Bill Desowitz, Amazon. com.

Review Warner Home Video / The F-Troop: The Complete Second Season (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Gary Nelson
  • Melody Patterson
  • Hal March
  • Larry Storch
  • Frank DeKova
  • Gene Nelson
  • Ken Berry
  • Forrest Tucker
  • Hollingsworth Morse
  • David Alexander
Release date: 2007-05-29
Run time: 784 min.
Creator: Al Gordon
Price: £21.67

Review The F-Troop: The Complete Second Season (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Between Heaven And Hell [1956]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Keith
  • Terry Moore
  • Buddy Ebsen
  • Broderick Crawford
  • Robert Wagner
  • Richard Fleischer
Release date: 2004-05-03
Run time: 94 min.
Creator: Harry Brown
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.12

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Review United Artists / The One That Got Away [1957] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Alec McCowen
  • Terence Alexander
  • Hardy Krüger
  • Michael Goodliffe
  • Colin Gordon
  • Roy Ward Baker
Release date: 2008-05-13
Run time: 106 min.
Creator: Howard Clewes
Price: £5.91

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Review Warner Home Video / Carry On Cowboy [1966]
Actors & Directors
  • Joan Sims
  • Charles Hawtrey
  • Sid James
  • Gerald Thomas
  • Jim Dale
  • Kenneth Williams
Release date: 2001-08-27
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Talbot Rothwell
RRP: £13.99
Price: £1.43

Review Carry On Cowboy [1966] / Warner Home Video:

Made in the "classic" period of the series, 1966's Carry On Cowboy is a spoof Western set in Stodge City, about to suffer the arrival of black-hatted outlaw The Rumpo Kid, played by the less-than-youthful Sid James. Kenneth Williams is the aptly named Judge Burke, who appeals to Washington for help to combat this gunslinger and his henchmen. Assistance arrives in the form of Jim Dale's Marshall P Knutt, a drainage, sanitation and garbage expert from England, with a reference from Lady Pushing for doing a "good job on her main sludge channel", whose Christian name provokes a predictable misunderstanding. Fortunately, he's accompanied by Annie Oakley. As ever, much fun is to be had cheering/groaning along to double-entendres about "big ones", but never mind the script, feel the characters. Joan Sims does a good Mae West impression; Syd James "Ha hwa-ha-ha!"s his way through his part with his usual aplomb; the underrated Peter Butterworth is excellent as an inept Doctor; while Bernard Bresslaw adds to his impressively multi-ethnic CV, playing a Native American, with Charles Hawtrey as his incorrigible firewater-loving Chief. On the DVD: No extras, sadly, other than scene selection but Alan Hume's splendidly authentic colour lensing is suitably refurbished here. -David Stubbs.

Review Warner Home Video / The Colditz Story [1954]
Actors & Directors
  • Eric Portman
  • Bryan Forbes
  • John Mills
  • Lionel Jeffries
  • Christopher Rhodes
  • Guy Hamilton
Release date: 2005-04-18
Run time: 93 min.
Creator: William Douglas-Home
RRP: £12.99
Price: £9.99

Review The Colditz Story [1954] / Warner Home Video:

During the Second World War the Germans put many of the Allied prisoners-of-war (POWs) who had proved consistent escapees together in a maximum security fortress, the very name of which became a legend. Based on the book by Colditz escapee Major Pat Reid, The Colditz Story (1957) documents the further, sometimes successful, escape attempts of these extraordinarily brave, resourceful and indomitable men. Starring John Mills, Eric Portman, Bryan Forbes and Anton Diffring, and co-written and directed by Guy Hamilton, who later made The Battle of Britain (1969), this is a sober, even-handed account, that is gripping and informative, yet not without humour. Sterling performances from the cast of stalwart actors adds up to a British cinema classic. Such is the fascination of Colditz that in 1972-3 the BBC made a very successful drama series staring Jack Hedley, Bernard Hempton, Robert Wagner and David McCallum, while in 2000 Channel 4 offered a superb three-part documentary, Escape from Colditz. In contrast to the semi-documentary feel of The Colditz Story David Lean's classic The Bridge on the River Kwai, from the same year, is an epic and powerful account of POW life in barbaric Japanese prison camps. -Gary S. Dalkin.

Models & Brands:
Fancy Pants [1950] (REGION 1) (NTSC), One Eyed Jacks [1961], Wanted: Dead or Alive: Season Two (REGION 1) (NTSC), Point of Order! [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Battleship Potemkin [1925], The Royal Mounted Rides Again [1945], The Cecil B. Demille Classics Collection, One Eyed Jacks [1961], Ford at Fox: The Silent Epics (REGION 1) (NTSC), Wings of Eagles [1957], The Proud and Damned [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Lady From Chunking [1943], These Thousand Hills [1959] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Lonely Man [1957] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Rio Grande [1951], The F-Troop: The Complete Second Season (REGION 1) (NTSC), Between Heaven And Hell [1956], The One That Got Away [1957] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Carry On Cowboy [1966], The Colditz Story [1954]

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