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Actors & Directors
  • Andrew V. McLaglen
  • John Wayne
  • Stefanie Powers
  • Jack Kruschen
  • Maureen O'Hara
  • Patrick Wayne
Release date: 2004-06-21
Run time: 124 min.
Creator: James Edward Grant
RRP: £4.99
Price: £16.42

Review McLintock [1964] / Delta Visual Entertainment:


Review MPI Home Video / The Rifleman, Vol. 1 [1958] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Edgar Buchanan
  • Otto Lang
  • John Harmon
Release date: 2001-06-26
Run time: 140 min.
Creator: John Wilder
Price: £12.95

Review The Rifleman, Vol. 1 [1958] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MPI Home Video:


Review Warner Home Video / Carry On Sergeant [1958]
Actors & Directors
  • Charles Hawtrey
  • William Hartnell
  • Eric Barker
  • Gerald Thomas
  • Kenneth Williams
  • Shirley Eaton
Release date: 1997-08-18
Run time: 81 min.
Creator: R.F. Delderfield
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.95

Review Carry On Sergeant [1958] / Warner Home Video:

The first of the Carry On movies, 1958's Sergeant is rather different from its successors, much more a film of its time (the latter days of National Service) and rather less a bawdy picture postcard. Sergeant Grimshaw (William Hartnell long before Doctor Who) is about to retire and hopes that he can get his last platoon into shape as Champion Platoon of its intake. Unfortunately, the new recruits include the clumsy Golightly (Charles Hawtrey), the barrack-room lawyer Bailey (Kenneth Williams) and the hypochondriac Horace Strong (Kenneth Connor). Love interest is provided by Bob Monkhouse and Shirley Eaton-newlyweds separated by the call-up and reunited by her taking a job in the canteen-and by the pursuit of Horace by Dora Bryan's Nora. The film relies heavily on a mixture of slapstick and paradoxical revelations of character complexity-the obnoxious Bailey nonetheless takes the trouble to coach the incorrigibly dense Herbert (Norman Rossington); the series' later obsession with low comedy only really emerges in the scenes between Horace and the medic Captain Clark (Hattie Jacques). The platoon's eventual coming together as other than total incompetents is predictable, but likable. On the DVD: The DVD has no frills whatever except for a widescreen picture and chapter selections; it has been cleaned up however so that we get a remarkably crisp mono picture and mono sound, which brings out the quality of the military-band score by Bruce Montgomery, who was also the writer Edmund Crispin. -Roz Kaveney.

Review delta home entertainment / John Wayne - Star Packer/Blue Steel [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • John Wayne;George 'Gabby' Hayes;Eleanor Hunt;Yakima Canutt;Verna Hillie
  • Robert N. Bradbury
Release date: 2002-03-25
Run time: 105 min.
RRP: £3.99
Price: £0.48

Review John Wayne - Star Packer/Blue Steel [2002] / delta home entertainment:


Review 20th Century Fox / Von Ryan's Express [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Brad Dexter
  • Frank Sinatra
  • Trevor Howard
  • Sergio Fantoni
  • Mark Robson
  • Raffaella Carrà
Release date: 2007-06-05
Run time: 117 min.
Creator: Joseph Landon
Price: £9.36

Review Von Ryan's Express [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:


Actors & Directors
  • Albert H. Kelley
  • John Litel
  • Eric Blore
  • Alan Baxter
  • George Flaherty
  • Georges Metaxa
Release date: 2004-03-23
Run time: 65 min.
Creator: George M. Merrick
Price: £2.92

Review Submarine Base [1943] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Alpha Video:


Review Dd Home Entertainment / Desert Victory - The Battle Of El Alamein
Actors & Directors
  • Bernard L. Montgomery
  • Roy Boulting
  • David MacDonald
  • Erwin Rommel
  • Adolf Hitler
  • Winston Churchill
  • Harold Alexander
Release date: 1992-11-16
Run time: 60 min.
Creator: Richard Best
Price: £10.99

Review Desert Victory - The Battle Of El Alamein / Dd Home Entertainment:


Review Sony Pictures / The Violent Men (Region 2) (import)
Actors & Directors
  • Brian Keith
  • Glenn Ford
  • Rudolph Maté
  • Edward G. Robinson
  • Dianne Foster
  • Barbara Stanwyck
Price: £19.99

Review The Violent Men (Region 2) (import) / Sony Pictures:

REGION 2 DVD - SPAIN IMPORT - OFFICIAL SONY PICTURES RELEASE.

Review Nouveaux Pictures / Hiroshima Mon Amour [1959]
Actors & Directors
  • Alain Resnais
  • Stella Dassas
  • Bernard Fresson
  • Pierre Barbaud
  • Eiji Okada
  • Emmanuelle Riva
Release date: 1997-10-13
Run time: 86 min.
Creator: Marguerite Duras
RRP: £15.99
Price: £22.99

Review Hiroshima Mon Amour [1959] / Nouveaux Pictures:

An extraordinary and deeply moving film that retains much of its power since its original release in 1959, Alain Resnais's Hiroshima, Mon Amour is the story of a French woman (Emmanuelle Riva) and a Japanese man (Eiji Okada) who become lovers in the city of Hiroshima, where the US dropped a nuclear bomb to end World War Two in the Pacific. Written by Marguerite Duras and juggled, as if by wandering thoughts, in chronology and setting by Resnais, the film reveals the miserable and mortifying experiences of each character during the war and suggests the obvious healing properties of their relationship in the present. An emotional allusion or two can certainly be made with the more recent The English Patient, but nothing can quite prepare one for Resnais's extreme yet intuitively accessible experiments in fusing the past, present and future into great sweeps of subjectively experienced memory. Yet audiences have never had trouble relating to this bold milestone of the French New Wave, largely because at its heart is a genuinely affecting, soulful love story. -Tom Keogh, Amazon. com.

Review Stonevision Entertainment / Blood On The Sun [1945]
Actors & Directors
  • Porter Hall
  • Frank Lloyd
  • John Emery
  • Sylvia Sidney
  • James Cagney
  • Robert Armstrong
Release date: 2003-12-01
Run time: 94 min.
Creator: Nathaniel Curtis
RRP: £16.99
Price: £0.65

Review Blood On The Sun [1945] / Stonevision Entertainment:


Review Diamond Entertainment Corp. / Santa Fe Trail [1940] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Errol Flynn
  • Ronald Reagan
  • Olivia de Havilland
  • Michael Curtiz
  • Raymond Massey
  • Alan Hale
Release date: 2003-01-01
Run time: 110 min.
Creator: Robert Fellows
Price: £1.77

Review Santa Fe Trail [1940] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Diamond Entertainment Corp.:


Review 4 Front Video / Fort Apache [1948]
Actors & Directors
  • John Ford
  • John Wayne
  • Shirley Temple
  • Henry Fonda
  • Pedro Armendáriz
  • Ward Bond
Release date: 1997-08-18
Run time: 127 min.
Creator: James Warner Bellah
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.49

Review Fort Apache [1948] / 4 Front Video:

John Ford's 1948 classic stars John Wayne as a cavalry officer used to doing things a certain way out West at Fort Apache. Along comes a rigid, new commanding officer (Henry Fonda) who insists that everything on his watch be done by the book, including dealings with local Indians. The results are mixed: greater discipline at the fort, but increased hostilities with the natives. Ford deliberately leaves judgements about the wisdom of these changes ambiguous, but he also allows plenty of room in this wonderful film for the fullness of life among the soldiers and their families-community rituals, new romances-to blossom. Fonda, in an unusual role for him, is stern and formal as the new man in charge; Wayne is heroic as the rebellious second; Victor McLaglen provides comic relief; and Ward Bond is a paragon of sturdy and sentimental masculinity. All of this is set against the magnificent, poetic topography of Monument Valley. This is easily one of the greatest of American films. -Tom Keogh, Amazon. com.

Review Image Entertainment / Gene Autry Collection, Vol. 1: Cow Town/Whirlwind/The Old West/Sons of New Mexico [1950] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Gene Autry
  • Champion
  • Gail Davis
  • John English
  • Jock Mahoney
  • George Archainbaud
  • Harry Shannon
Release date: 2006-09-26
Run time: 275 min.
Creator: Paul Gangelin
Price: £16.39

Review Gene Autry Collection, Vol. 1: Cow Town/Whirlwind/The Old West/Sons of New Mexico [1950] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:


Review Pegasus Entertainemnt / Children of Rage [1975]
Actors & Directors
  • HELMUT GRIEM; OLGA GEORGES-PICOT; RICHARD ALFIERI; CYRIL CUSACK; SIMON WARD
  • Arthur Allan Seidelman
Release date: 2007-07-23
Run time: 100 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.29

Review Children of Rage [1975] / Pegasus Entertainemnt:


Review Facets / Lemonade Joe [1966]
Actors & Directors
  • Milos Kopecký
  • Rudolf Deyl
  • Karel Fiala
  • Kveta Fialová
  • Olga Schoberová
  • Oldrich Lipský
Release date: 2006-04-25
Run time: 99 min.
Creator: Jirí Brdecka
Price: £13.83

Review Lemonade Joe [1966] / Facets:


Review Alpha Video / Billy the Kid's Gun Justice [1940]
Actors & Directors
  • Bob Steele
  • Jim Davis
Release date: 2006-03-28
Run time: 61 min.
Price: £2.70

Review Billy the Kid's Gun Justice [1940] / Alpha Video:


Review Columbia TriStar / King Rat [1966] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Bryan Forbes
  • George Segal
  • Denholm Elliott
  • James Fox
  • Tom Courtenay
  • Patrick O'Neal
Release date: 2003-05-06
Run time: 134 min.
Creator: James Clavell
Price: £6.03

Review King Rat [1966] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid [1969]
Actors & Directors
  • George Roy Hill
  • Katharine Ross
  • Paul Newman
  • Henry Jones
  • Robert Redford
  • Strother Martin
Release date: 2001-08-27
Run time: 106 min.
Creator: William Goldman
RRP: £5.99
Price: £5.50

Review Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid [1969] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

Dating from 1969, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid has never lost its popularity or its unusual appeal as a star-driven Western that tinkers with the genre's conventions and comes up with something both terrifically entertaining and-typical of its period-a tad paranoid. Paul Newman plays the legendary outlaw Butch Cassidy as an eternal optimist and self-styled visionary, conjuring dreams of banks just ripe for the picking all over the world. Robert Redford is his more level-headed partner, the sharp-shooting Sundance Kid. The film, written by William Goldman (The Princess Bride) and directed by George Roy Hill (The Sting), basically begins as a freewheeling story about robbing trains but soon becomes a chase as a relentless posse-always seen at a great distance like some remote authority-forces Butch and Sundance into the hills and, finally, Bolivia. Weakened a little by feel-good inclinations (a scene involving bicycle tricks and the song "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" is sort of Hollywood flower power), the film maintains an interesting tautness, and the chemistry between Redford and Newman is rare. (A factoid: Newman first offered the Sundance part to Jack Lemmon. ) -Tom Keogh, Amazon. com On the DVD: This anamorphic widescreen print of the 2. 35:1 Panavision original looks marvellously crisp, highlighting the sepia tinting and washed-out, over-exposed look of the film nicely and making the best of the deep focus cinematography. The mono soundtrack sounds clean and clear in Dolby 2. [+]
0. The commentary track is hosted by documentary-maker Robert Crawford with contributions from George Roy Hill, cinematographer Conrad Hall, and lyricist Hal David (who chips in during the "Raindrops" sequence). The 40-minute documentary dates from 1968 and is narrated by director Hill, who talks in detail about the making-of process, comments on his relationship with the three principals (Katharine Ross was the difficult one apparently), and adds little nuggets such as how they sprayed the bull's testicles to make him charge at the end of the bicycle scene. Also included are a series of absorbing 1994 interviews with all the main players: Newman, Redford, Ross, writer William Goldman, and composer Burt Bacharach. Trailers, Production Notes and an Alternate Credit Roll complete an attractive package. -Mark Walker.

Review Cinema Club / Sagebrush Trail [1935]
Actors & Directors
  • Lane Chandler
  • Armand Schaefer
  • John Wayne
  • Yakima Canutt
  • Nancy Shubert
  • Henry Hall
Release date: 2003-08-11
Run time: 54 min.
Creator: Will Beale
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.98

Review Sagebrush Trail [1935] / Cinema Club:


Review Columbia TriStar / Blazing Across the Pecos [1948] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Charles C. Wilson
  • Ray Nazarro
  • Charles Starrett
  • Patricia Barry
  • Thomas E. Jackson
  • Paul Campbell
Release date: 2004-09-14
Run time: 55 min.
Creator: Norman S. Hall
Price: £6.03

Review Blazing Across the Pecos [1948] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:


Models & Brands:
McLintock [1964], The Rifleman, Vol. 1 [1958] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Carry On Sergeant [1958], John Wayne - Star Packer/Blue Steel [2002], Von Ryan's Express [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Submarine Base [1943] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Desert Victory - The Battle Of El Alamein, The Violent Men (Region 2) (import), Hiroshima Mon Amour [1959], Blood On The Sun [1945], Santa Fe Trail [1940] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Fort Apache [1948], Gene Autry Collection, Vol. 1: Cow Town/Whirlwind/The Old West/Sons of New Mexico [1950] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Children of Rage [1975], Lemonade Joe [1966], Billy the Kid's Gun Justice [1940], King Rat [1966] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid [1969], Sagebrush Trail [1935], Blazing Across the Pecos [1948] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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