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Review Critic's Choice / Rough Riders - Triple Feature #3 (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Rex Bell
  • Mona Barrie
  • Howard Bretherton
  • Buck Jones
  • Raymond Hatton
  • Robert Lowery
Release date: 2006-02-15
Run time: 180 min.
Creator: James Oliver Curwood
RRP: £7.99
Price: £33.34

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Review Stonevision Entertainment / Young Bill Hickok [1940]
Actors & Directors
  • Roy Rogers
  • Joseph Kane
  • George 'Gabby' Hayes
Release date: 2005-02-14
Run time: 54 min.
RRP: £16.99
Price: £4.12

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Review Alpha Video / Outlaw Deputy/West of Rainbow's End [1935]
Actors & Directors
  • Tim McCoy
Release date: 2006-07-25
Run time: 111 min.
Price: £2.84

Review Outlaw Deputy/West of Rainbow's End [1935] / Alpha Video:


Review Alpha Video / Outlaw Deputy/West of Rainbow's End [1935]
Actors & Directors
  • Tim McCoy
Release date: 2006-07-25
Run time: 111 min.
Price: £2.84

Review Outlaw Deputy/West of Rainbow's End [1935] / Alpha Video:


Review Columbia TriStar / Land Raiders [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Guy Rolfe
  • Janet Landgard
  • Telly Savalas
  • George Maharis
  • Nathan Juran
  • Arlene Dahl
Release date: 2005-12-06
Run time: 101 min.
Creator: Pat Silver
Price: £6.60

Review Land Raiders [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The Thin Red Line [1964]
Actors & Directors
  • Andrew Marton
  • Keir Dullea
  • Ray Daley
  • Bob Kanter
  • James Philbrook
  • Jack Warden
Release date: 1999-03-01
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: James Jones
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.50

Review The Thin Red Line [1964] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

This serious-minded but flawed effort at bringing James Jones's later World War II novel to the screen might have languished in film vaults had reclusive director Terence Malick not resurfaced with a newer version, the likely spur to this video release. This first attempt, lensed in 1964, offers glimpses of what may have attracted Malick to the project. Jones's story focuses on two American soldiers during the Guadalcanal campaign, the newlywed draftee Private Doll (Keir Dullea) and Sergeant Welch (Jack Warden), the hardened veteran. Doll is determined to survive whatever the cost, disobeying orders if it will improve his chances; Welch is dutiful yet calculating, resorting to deliberate acts of madness to toughen up his troops by showing them war's own absurdity by example. The clash between the private and the sergeant thus becomes the core to the film, focusing on the "thin red line" between sanity and insanity and depicting how that line blurs for both protagonists. As directed by veteran Andrew Marton (55 Days in Peking), The Thin Red Line is at its best during sweeping battle sequences capturing the gritty horror of hand-to-hand combat, as the Americans try to take an impregnable wall of caves held by the Japanese enemy. Less successful are portentous scenes and dialogue that underscore this evident parable with a heavy hand; there's a self-conscious art film spin that misfires. The original black-and-white Cinemascope negative shows wear and tear, and early copies betray serious problems in their optical transfers. -Sam Sutherland.

Review Alpha Video / Mohawk [1956] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Lori Nelson
  • Neville Brand
  • Kurt Neumann
  • Scott Brady
  • Rita Gam
  • Allison Hayes
Release date: 2004-05-25
Run time: 80 min.
Creator: Milton Krims
Price: £2.46

Review Mohawk [1956] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Alpha Video:


Review Walt Disney Video / Walt Disney Treasures: Davy Crockett - The Complete Televised Series (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Clem Bevans
  • Norman Foster
  • Jeff York
  • Kenneth Tobey
  • Buddy Ebsen
  • Fess Parker
Release date: 2001-12-04
Run time: 268 min.
Creator: Thomas W. Blackburn
Price: £133.48

Review Walt Disney Treasures: Davy Crockett - The Complete Televised Series (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:


Review Warner Home Video / Against The Wind [1948]
Actors & Directors
  • Charles Crichton
  • Gordon Jackson
  • Simone Signoret
  • Robert Beatty
  • Jack Warner
  • Paul Dupuis
Release date: 1999-07-12
Run time: 92 min.
Creator: T.E.B. Clarke
RRP: £9.99
Price: £7.75

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Review Alpha Video / Kermit Maynard Double Feature: His Fighting Blood/Wilderness Mail [1935]
Actors & Directors
  • Kermit Maynard
Release date: 2006-08-22
Run time: 112 min.
Price: £2.67

Review Kermit Maynard Double Feature: His Fighting Blood/Wilderness Mail [1935] / Alpha Video:


Review Image / Gene Autry: Riders in the Sky [1949] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Steven Darrell
  • Gene Autry
  • Pat Buttram
  • Kenne Duncan
  • Jon English
  • Lynton Brent
Release date: 2007-11-20
Run time: 71 min.
Creator: Henry Batista
Price: £8.17

Review Gene Autry: Riders in the Sky [1949] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Image:


Review Warner Home Video / Rio Bravo [HD DVD] [1959] [US Import]
Actors & Directors
  • Howard Hawks
  • Ricky Nelson
  • John Wayne
  • Walter Brennan
  • Dean Martin
  • Angie Dickinson
Release date: 2007-06-05
Run time: 141 min.
Creator: Jules Furthman

Review Rio Bravo [HD DVD] [1959] [US Import] / Warner Home Video:

When it comes down to naming the best Western of all time, the list usually narrows to three completely different pictures: Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo, Hawks' Red River and John Ford's The Searchers. About the only thing they all have in common is that they all star John Wayne. But while The Searchers is an epic quest for revenge and Red River, a sweeping cattle-drive drama, Rio Bravo is a much calmer film. Basically, it comes down to Sheriff John T Chance (Wayne), his alcoholic friend Dude (Dean Martin), the hotshot new kid Colorado (Ricky Nelson), and deputy-sidekick Stumpy (Walter Brennan), sittin' around in the town jail, drinkin' black coffee, shootin' the breeze, and occasionally singin' a song. Hawks-who, like his pal Ernest Hemingway, lived by the code of "grace under pressure"-said he made Rio Bravo as a rebuke to High Noon, in which sheriff Gary Cooper begged for townspeople to help him. So, Hawks made Wayne's Sheriff Chance a consummate professional-he may be getting old and fat, but he knows how to do his job, and he doesn't want amateurs getting mixed up in his business; they could get hurt. If the configuration of characters sounds familiar, it should: Hawks remade Rio Bravo two more times-as El Dorado in 1967, with Wayne, Robert Mitchum, and James Caan; and as Rio Lobo in 1970, with Wayne, Jack Elam, and Christopher Mitchum. The film achieved additional notoriety in the 90s when Quentin Tarantino revealed that he uses it as a litmus test for prospective girlfriends. -Jim Emerson, Amazon. com.

Actors & Directors
  • Errol Flynn
  • Raymond Massey
  • Michael Curtiz
  • Alan Hale
  • Olivia de Havilland
  • Ronald Reagan
Release date: 1998-05-29
Run time: 110 min.
Creator: Robert Fellows

Review Santa Fe Trail [1940] / Peter Pan:


Review Warner Home Video / Montana [1949]
Actors & Directors
  • S.Z. Sakall
  • James Brown
  • Raoul Walsh
  • Douglas Kennedy
  • Errol Flynn
  • Ray Enright
  • Alexis Smith
Release date: 2000-04-03
Run time: 73 min.
Creator: James R. Webb
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.95

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Review Dd Home Entertainment / Coastal Command [1942]
Actors & Directors
  • J.B. Holmes
Release date: 1994-06-20
Run time: 71 min.
Creator: Ian Dalrymple
RRP: £10.99
Price: £11.99

Review Coastal Command [1942] / Dd Home Entertainment:


Actors & Directors
  • Hopalong Cassidy
Release date: 2005-10-25
Run time: 59 min.
Price: £10.83

Review Partners of the Plains/Cassidy of Bar 20 [1938] / Vidtape:


Review Stonevision Entertainment / A Farewell To Arms [1932]
Actors & Directors
  • Mary Philips
  • Adolphe Menjou
  • Jack La Rue
  • Helen Hayes
  • Frank Borzage
  • Gary Cooper
Release date: 2002-02-18
Run time: 79 min.
Creator: Oliver H.P. Garrett
RRP: £16.99
Price: £0.13

Review A Farewell To Arms [1932] / Stonevision Entertainment:

The 1932 version of A Farewell to Arms owes as much to the shimmering house style of Paramount Pictures as it does the novel by Ernest Hemingway. If Hemingway purists can get past the romanticising of the book, however, this film offers its own glossy appeal. On the Italian front in World War I an American ambulance driver (Gary Cooper) falls in love with a nurse (Helen Hayes). Cooper was a Hemingway friend in real life, and later played the hero of Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls; his boyish simplicity is just right for director Frank Borzage's heartfelt approach. The Oscar-winning cinematography of ace cameraman Charles Lang is the kind of lush black and white that can capture the glow from a cigarette as it plays across Cooper's darkened face-a breathtaking touch. The jaded battle scenes show the influence of the hit film version of All Quiet on the Western Front, especially in a gripping montage depicting Cooper's progress alone through the war zone. Hemingway would have none of it, of course; he once disdainfully wrote that "in the first picture version Lt. Henry deserted because he didn't get any mail and then the whole Italian Army went along, it seems, to keep him company". This is first and foremost a love story, however, and as such it succeeds beautifully, right through to the remarkably intense ending. -Robert Horton, Amazon. [+]
com.

Review Walt Disney Video / Walt Disney Treasures: Davy Crockett - The Complete Televised Series (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Buddy Ebsen
  • Jeff York
  • Clem Bevans
  • Kenneth Tobey
  • Norman Foster
  • Fess Parker
Release date: 2001-12-04
Run time: 268 min.
Creator: Thomas W. Blackburn
Price: £133.48

Review Walt Disney Treasures: Davy Crockett - The Complete Televised Series (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:


Review Platinum Disc / The White Warrior [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Steve Reeves
  • Giorgia Moll
  • Gérard Herter
  • Riccardo Freda
  • Renato Baldini
  • Scilla Gabel
Release date: 2001-03-27
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: Ákos Tolnay
Price: £1.59

Review The White Warrior [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Platinum Disc:


Review Connoisseur Video / The Birth Of A Nation [1915]
Actors & Directors
  • Miriam Cooper
  • D.W. Griffith
  • Henry B. Walthall
  • Mary Alden
  • Lillian Gish
  • Mae Marsh
Release date: 1994-07-11
Run time: 192 min.
Creator: Thomas F. Dixon Jr.
Price: £15.99

Review The Birth Of A Nation [1915] / Connoisseur Video:


Models & Brands:
Rough Riders - Triple Feature #3 (REGION 1) (NTSC), Young Bill Hickok [1940], Outlaw Deputy/West of Rainbow's End [1935], Outlaw Deputy/West of Rainbow's End [1935], Land Raiders [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Thin Red Line [1964], Mohawk [1956] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Walt Disney Treasures: Davy Crockett - The Complete Televised Series (REGION 1) (NTSC), Against The Wind [1948], Kermit Maynard Double Feature: His Fighting Blood/Wilderness Mail [1935], Gene Autry: Riders in the Sky [1949] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Rio Bravo [HD DVD] [1959] [US Import], Santa Fe Trail [1940], Montana [1949], Coastal Command [1942], Partners of the Plains/Cassidy of Bar 20 [1938], A Farewell To Arms [1932], Walt Disney Treasures: Davy Crockett - The Complete Televised Series (REGION 1) (NTSC), The White Warrior [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Birth Of A Nation [1915]

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