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Review Cinema Epoch / Spring in a Small Town [1948] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Hongmei Zhang
  • Yu Shi
  • Chaoming Cui
  • Mu Fei
  • Wei Wei
  • Wei Li
Release date: 2007-05-08
Run time: 93 min.
Creator: Tianji Li
Price: £7.19

Review Spring in a Small Town [1948] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Cinema Epoch:


Review Peter Pan / Gods of War [1964]
Actors & Directors
  • Sergio Fantoni
  • Mylène Demongeot
  • Philippe Hersent
  • Jacques Tourneur
  • Steve Reeves
  • Daniela Rocca
  • Giorgio Venturini
  • Mario Bava
Release date: 2005-04-26
Run time: 190 min.
Creator: Bruno Vailati
Price: £8.71

Review Gods of War [1964] / Peter Pan:


Review Walt Disney Video / Miracle of the White Stallions [1962] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Eddie Albert
  • Lilli Palmer
  • Robert Taylor
  • Curd Jürgens
  • James Franciscus
  • Arthur Hiller
Release date: 2004-03-02
Run time: 93 min.
Creator: Alois Podhajsky
Price: £5.17

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


Review Universal Studios / No Man Is an Island [1962] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Marshall Thompson
  • John Monks Jr.
  • Richard Goldstone
  • Paul Edwards Jr.
  • Jeffrey Hunter
  • Barbara Perez
  • Ronald Remy
Release date: 2004-05-25
Run time: 114 min.
Creator: Robert E. Lewis
Price: £5.36

Review No Man Is an Island [1962] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:


Review Warner Home Video / The Dirty Dozen [1967]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Aldrich
  • Ernest Borgnine
  • John Cassavetes
  • Jim Brown
  • Lee Marvin
  • Charles Bronson
Release date: 2006-06-19
Run time: 143 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £2.99

Review The Dirty Dozen [1967] / Warner Home Video:

A model for dozens of action films to follow, this box-office hit from 1967 refined a die-hard formula that has become overly familiar, but it's rarely been handled better than it was in this action-packed World War II thriller. Lee Marvin is perfectly cast as a down-but-not-out army major who is offered a shot at personal and professional redemption. If he can successfully train and discipline a squad of army rejects, misfits, killers, prisoners, and psychopaths into a first-rate unit of specialized soldiers, they'll earn a second chance to make up for their woeful misdeeds. Of course, there's a catch: to obtain their pardons, Marvin's band of badmen must agree to a suicide mission that will parachute them into the danger zone of Nazi-occupied France. It's a hazardous path to glory, but the men have no other choice than to accept and regain their lost honor. What makes The Dirty Dozen special is its phenomenal cast including Charles Bronson, Donald Sutherland, Telly Savalas, George Kennedy, Ernest Borgnine, John Cassavetes, Richard Jaeckel, Jim Brown, Clint Walker, Trini Lopez, Robert Ryan, and others. Cassavetes is the Oscar-nominated standout as one of Marvin's most rebellious yet heroic men, but it's the whole ensemble-combined with the hard-as-nails direction of Robert Aldrich-that makes this such a high-velocity crowd pleaser. The script by Nunnally Johnson and Lukas Heller (from the novel by E. M. Nathanson) is strong enough to support the all-star lineup with ample humor and military grit, so if you're in need of a mainline jolt of testosterone, The Dirty Dozen is the movie for you. [+]
-Jeff Shannon.

Review Alpha Video / Deadwood '76 [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Liz Renay
  • Arch Hall Sr.
  • Jack Lester
  • La Donna Cottier
  • Arch Hall Jr.
  • James Landis
Release date: 2003-11-18
Run time: 97 min.
Creator: Anthony M. Lanza
Price: £3.01

Review Deadwood '76 [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Alpha Video:


Review Eureka Entertainment / The General [1926]
Actors & Directors
  • Marion Mack
  • Frederick Vroom
  • Buster Keaton
  • Glen Cavender
  • Clyde Bruckman
  • Jim Farley
  • Buster Keaton
Release date: 2001-02-19
Run time: 120 min.
Creator: William Pittenger
RRP: £19.99
Price: £3.66

Review The General [1926] / Eureka Entertainment:

Buster Keaton's career reached its creative apex with this rousing comic adventure. Not merely one of the finest silent films, this remains one of the great film comedies of all time. The Great Stone Face stars as Southern railroad engineer Johnny Gray, a man with only two loves: the sweet Annabelle Lee (Marion Mack) and his trustworthy engine, the eponymous General. When Fort Sumner is fired upon he is one of the first to enlist, but when the war office rejects him (he's too valuable as a trained engineer) his sweetie rejects him as a coward. Johnny has the opportunity to prove his bravery when Yankee spies steal his engine and inadvertently kidnap Annabelle, and Johnny pursues with all the resources at his disposal: handcar, bicycle and finally railroad engine. Keaton's love/hate relationship with technology and machinery shines as he becomes one with his beloved locomotive and wrestles with a finicky cannon that threatens to blow his engine off the tracks; with tremendous dexterity, he nails the humour with inimitably deadpan takes. Spunky Marion Mack makes a perfect partner for Keaton, not merely a foil but a gifted comedienne in her own right. Other Keaton films contain more laughs and inspired comic stunts, but none combines romance, adventure and comedy into a solid story as seamlessly as this silent masterpiece. -Sean Axmaker, Amazon. com.

Review Alpha Video / The Riders of the Whistling Skull [1937] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Livingston
  • Max Terhune
  • Ray Corrigan
  • Roger Williams
  • Mary Russell
  • Mack V. Wright
Release date: 2003-06-24
Run time: 58 min.
Creator: William Colt MacDonald
Price: £2.95

Review The Riders of the Whistling Skull [1937] (NTSC) / Alpha Video:


Review Facets / Distant Journey [1949]
Actors & Directors
  • Alfred Radok
  • Blanka Waleska
  • Viktor Ocasek
Release date: 2005-07-26
Run time: 98 min.
Price: £12.12

Review Distant Journey [1949] / Facets:


Review Alpha Video / The Pay Off [1930] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Hugh Trevor
  • Lowell Sherman
  • William Janney
  • Lowell Sherman
  • William Berke
  • Helene Millard
  • Marian Nixon
Release date: 2004-03-23
Run time: 71 min.
Creator: Samuel Shipman
Price: £3.38

Review The Pay Off [1930] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Alpha Video:


Review Alpha Video / Mystery Ranch [1932] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Cecilia Parker
  • Charles Stevens
  • David Howard
  • Charles Middleton
  • George O'Brien
  • Forrester Harvey
Release date: 2004-11-23
Run time: 56 min.
Creator: Stewart Edward White
Price: £3.59

Review Mystery Ranch [1932] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Alpha Video:


Review MGM Entertainment / The War Collection - 633 Squadron / The Bridge At Remagen / The Great Escape
Actors & Directors
  • John Guillermin
  • Donald Pleasence
  • Charles Bronson
  • Cliff Robertson
  • John Sturges
  • Richard Attenborough
  • James Donald
  • Walter Grauman
Release date: 2005-06-06
Run time: 368 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £18.94

Review The War Collection - 633 Squadron / The Bridge At Remagen / The Great Escape / MGM Entertainment:


Review Alpha Video / The Vigilantes Are Coming: Serial [1936]
Actors & Directors
  • Ray "Crash" Corrigan
  • Ray Taylor
  • Ken Cooper
  • Steve Clemente
  • José de la Cruz
  • Stanley Blystone
Release date: 2005-10-25
Run time: 230 min.
Creator: William Nobles
Price: £3.05

Review The Vigilantes Are Coming: Serial [1936] / Alpha Video:


Review St. Clair Entertainment / Rage at Dawn [1955]
Actors & Directors
  • J. Carrol Naish
  • Forrest Tucker
  • Edgar Buchanan
  • Randolph Scott
  • Mala Powers
  • Tim Whelan
Release date: 2004-02-10
Run time: 87 min.
Creator: Horace McCoy
Price: £11.94

Review Rage at Dawn [1955] / St. Clair Entertainment:


Review Eureka Entertainment / The General [1926]
Actors & Directors
  • Buster Keaton
  • Clyde Bruckman
  • Marion Mack
  • Buster Keaton
  • Jim Farley
  • Frederick Vroom
  • Glen Cavender
Release date: 1998-04-27
Run time: 107 min.
Creator: William Pittenger
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.94

Review The General [1926] / Eureka Entertainment:

Buster Keaton's career reached its creative apex with this rousing comic adventure. Not merely one of the finest silent films, this remains one of the great film comedies of all time. The Great Stone Face stars as Southern railroad engineer Johnny Gray, a man with only two loves: the sweet Annabelle Lee (Marion Mack) and his trustworthy engine, the eponymous General. When Fort Sumner is fired upon he is one of the first to enlist, but when the war office rejects him (he's too valuable as a trained engineer) his sweetie rejects him as a coward. Johnny has the opportunity to prove his bravery when Yankee spies steal his engine and inadvertently kidnap Annabelle, and Johnny pursues with all the resources at his disposal: handcar, bicycle and finally railroad engine. Keaton's love/hate relationship with technology and machinery shines as he becomes one with his beloved locomotive and wrestles with a finicky cannon that threatens to blow his engine off the tracks; with tremendous dexterity, he nails the humour with inimitably deadpan takes. Spunky Marion Mack makes a perfect partner for Keaton, not merely a foil but a gifted comedienne in her own right. Other Keaton films contain more laughs and inspired comic stunts, but none combines romance, adventure and comedy into a solid story as seamlessly as this silent masterpiece. -Sean Axmaker, Amazon. com.

Review Alpha Video / Daniel Boone: Trail Blazer [1956]
Actors & Directors
  • Albert C. Gannaway
  • Ken Dibbs
  • Bruce Bennett
  • Jacqueline Evans
  • Jr. Lon Chaney
  • Claudio Brook
Release date: 2004-09-28
Run time: 75 min.
Creator: Raul Lavista
Price: £2.35

Review Daniel Boone: Trail Blazer [1956] / Alpha Video:


Review Fox Lorber / The Ravagers [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Parsons
  • Bronwyn FitzSimons
  • Jose Dagumboy
  • Vic Diaz
  • Eddie Romero
  • Robert Arevalo
Release date: 2001-11-13
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: Cesar Amigo
Price: £2.60

Review The Ravagers [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Fox Lorber:


Review Paramount / Have Gun - Will Travel: The Complete Third Season [1957] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Boone
  • Paul Stanley
  • Lewis Milestone
  • Andrew V. McLaglen
  • Ida Lupino
  • Gary Nelson
Release date: 2006-01-03
Run time: 848 min.
Price: £24.57

Review Have Gun - Will Travel: The Complete Third Season [1957] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Paramount:


Review Universal Studios / Rough Night in Jericho [1967] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Arnold Laven
  • Jean Simmons
  • George Peppard
  • John McIntire
  • Dean Martin
  • Slim Pickens
Release date: 1999-10-19
Run time: 104 min.
Creator: Marvin H. Albert

Review Rough Night in Jericho [1967] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:


Review Warner Home Video / Citizen Kane [1941] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Thomas Lennon
  • Michael Epstein
  • Richard Ben Cramer
  • William Alland
  • Orson Welles
  • Joseph Cotten
  • Orson Welles
  • Thomas Anderson
Release date: 2001-09-25
Run time: 119 min.
Creator: Herman J. Mankiewicz
Price: £9.47

Review Citizen Kane [1941] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:

The most acclaimed film in cinema history, Citizen Kane receives extra bolstering each time it tops a "greatest films ever" list. As a piece of filmmaking it ticks all the right boxes: a precociously talented director and lead actor in Orson Welles, Gregg Toland's innovative cinematography, a strong screenplay by Welles and Herman J Mankiewicz, rich scoring from Bernard Herrmann, and so on. For its time, it was technically groundbreaking, and laid out a blueprint for Hollywood filmmaking that's still influential. But, most importantly, as a viewing experience it's still one of the most mesmerising and beautiful films in existence. From its opening scenes-Kane's eerie Gothic mansion, his lone figure muttering the word "Rosebud" as he dies, journalists discussing the newsreel footage of his obituary-Kane lays out an enigma: who exactly was this man? Looping flashbacks build up a portrait of a contradictory figure who, despite living in the public eye, remained a mystery at heart. A testament to the corrupting influence of money, fame and the media and at its centre the tale of a man in search of love, Citizen Kane is a personal tragedy on an epic scale. Technically, it's a lesson in filmmaking in itself whose daring aesthetics nonetheless remain unobtrusive. It's doubtful that a debut director will ever be given such free reign by a studio again and even if this happened, it's doubtful that such a masterpiece would be created. On the DVD: Citizen Kane in this DVD special edition is beautifully remastered and comes with a feature illustrating the before and after of the restoration process. A 50-minute documentary, "Anatomy of a Classic", hosted by Barry Norman, delves into the making of the film as well as trying to deal with some of the myths that surround it, like the (untrue) rumour that Welles ran over both time and budget. [+]
Film historian Ken Barnes takes over for a commentary and Welles himself is featured in his controversial 1938 radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds and 1945 broadcast of The Happy Prince. A photo gallery, extensive cast and crew profiles, breakdown of all the films expenses and trailer round off this admirable package. -Laura Bushell.

Models & Brands:
Spring in a Small Town [1948] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Gods of War [1964], Miracle of the White Stallions [1962] (REGION 1) (NTSC), No Man Is an Island [1962] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Dirty Dozen [1967], Deadwood '76 [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The General [1926], The Riders of the Whistling Skull [1937] (NTSC), Distant Journey [1949], The Pay Off [1930] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Mystery Ranch [1932] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The War Collection - 633 Squadron / The Bridge At Remagen / The Great Escape, The Vigilantes Are Coming: Serial [1936], Rage at Dawn [1955], The General [1926], Daniel Boone: Trail Blazer [1956], The Ravagers [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Have Gun - Will Travel: The Complete Third Season [1957] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Rough Night in Jericho [1967] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Citizen Kane [1941] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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