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Review Universal Pictures UK / Shenandoah [1965]
Actors & Directors
  • Andrew V. McLaglen
  • Doug McClure
  • Patrick Wayne
  • Glenn Corbett
  • Rosemary Forsyth
  • James Stewart
Release date: 2004-08-23
Run time: 101 min.
Creator: James Lee Barrett
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.74

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Review Warner Home Video / Tall in the Saddle [1945] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Ward Bond
  • John Wayne
  • Ella Raines
  • Edwin L. Marin
  • George 'Gabby' Hayes
  • Audrey Long
Release date: 2005-05-03
Run time: 87 min.
Creator: Michael Hogan
Price: £4.69

Review Tall in the Saddle [1945] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Alpha Video / The Ranger Busters: Saddle Mountain Round-Up [1941]
Actors & Directors
  • Al Ferguson
  • Steve Clark
  • Willie Fung
  • George Cheseboro
  • Roy S. Luby
  • Ray "Crash" Corrigan
Release date: 2007-02-27
Run time: 60 min.
Creator: Frank Sanucci
Price: £2.62

Review The Ranger Busters: Saddle Mountain Round-Up [1941] / Alpha Video:


Review GT Media / North of the Great Divide [1950] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Trigger
  • Gordon Jones
  • Roy Barcroft
  • Roy Rogers
  • Penny Edwards
  • William Witney
Release date: 2003-06-24
Run time: 67 min.
Creator: Eric Taylor
Price: £8.16

Review North of the Great Divide [1950] (NTSC) / GT Media:


Review 20th Century Fox / Joan Collins: Superstar Collection (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Joan Collins
  • Joanne Woodward
  • Leo McCarey
  • Richard L. Breen
  • Rod Steiger
  • Edward G. Robinson
  • Richard Fleischer
  • Paul Newman
  • Henry Hathaway
  • Bob McNaught
Release date: 2007-07-10
Run time: 500 min.
Creator: George Axelrod
Price: £24.89

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Review Samuel Goldwyn Home Entertainment / The Westerner [1940]
Actors & Directors
  • Forrest Tucker
  • Dana Andrews
  • Walter Brennan
  • Gary Cooper
  • Chill Wills
  • William Wyler
Release date: 1996-12-30
Run time: 96 min.
Price: £4.99

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Review Lionsgate / An Eye for an Eye [1966] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Paul Fix
  • Michael Moore
  • Clint Howard
  • Rance Howard
  • Strother Martin
  • Robert Lansing
Release date: 2008-06-03
Run time: 92 min.
Creator: Raoul Kraushaar
Price: £6.00

Review An Eye for an Eye [1966] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Lionsgate:


Actors & Directors
  • Gordon Clifford
  • Earl Dwire
  • Gino Corrado
  • Marion Burns
  • Carl Pierson
  • Herman Hack
Release date: 2007-05-29
Run time: 52 min.
Creator: Gerald Roberts
Price: £10.98

Review John Wayne in Color: Guns Along the Trail [1935] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Legend:


Review Legend Films / John Wayne in Color: Stagecoach Run [1936] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Christian J. Frank
  • Douglas Cosgrove
  • Lane Chandler
  • Edward Cassidy
  • Sam Flint
  • Mack Wright
Release date: 2007-05-29
Run time: 54 min.
Creator: Robert Jahns
Price: £3.68

Review John Wayne in Color: Stagecoach Run [1936] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Legend Films:


Review / The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance [1962]
Actors & Directors
  • Lee Marvin
  • John Ford
  • Vera Miles
  • Edmond O'Brien
  • James Stewart
  • John Wayne
Run time: 123 min.
Creator: James Warner Bellah
Price: £5.30

Review The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance [1962]:

"When the legend becomes fact, print the legend. " That's more than the code of a newspaperman in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance; it's practically the operating credo of director John Ford, the most honoured of American filmmakers. In this late film from a long career, Ford looks at the civilising of an Old West town, Shinbone, through the sad memories of settlers looking back. In the town's wide-open youth, two-fisted Westerner John Wayne and tenderfoot newcomer James Stewart clash over a woman (Vera Miles) but ultimately unite against the notorious outlaw Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin). Ford's nostalgia for the past is tempered by his stark approach, unusual for the visual poet of Stagecoach and The Searchers. The two heavyweights, Wayne and Stewart, are good together, with Wayne the embodiment of rugged individualism and Stewart the idealistic prophet of the civilisation that will eventually tame the Wild West. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance may be the saddest Western ever made, closer to an elegy than an action movie, and as cleanly beautiful as its central symbol, the cactus rose. -Robert Horton The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is a late film from the long career of director John Ford that tells of the civilising of an Old West town, Shinbone, through the sad memories of settlers looking back. Ford's nostalgia for the past is tempered by his stark approach, unusual for the visual poet of Stagecoach and The Searchers. The two heavyweights, John Wayne and James Stewart, are good together, with Wayne the embodiment of rugged individualism and Stewart the idealistic prophet of the civilisation that will eventually tame the Wild West. [+]
This may be the saddest Western ever made, closer to an elegy than an action movie, and as cleanly beautiful as its central symbol, the cactus rose. -Robert Horton.

Review ST Clair Vision / How the West Was Fun [1944]
Actors & Directors
  • Terry Wilson
  • John Russell
Release date: 2007-04-17
Run time: 789 min.
Price: £3.83

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Review Paramount / Gunsmoke, Vol. 2 [1953] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Dabbs Greer
  • Harry Horner
  • Clyde Ware
  • James Arness
  • Gary Nelson
  • Milburn Stone
  • Antony Ellis
  • Hank Patterson
  • Tom Brown
  • John Dunkel
Release date: 2006-01-03
Run time: 601 min.
Creator: E. Jack Neuman
Price: £19.37

Review Gunsmoke, Vol. 2 [1953] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Paramount:


Review Greatest Sports Legends / Zulu (Letterbox Edition) [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Cy Endfield
  • Michael Caine
  • Ulla Jacobsson
  • Stanley Baker
  • Jack Hawkins
  • James Booth
Release date: 2001-06-06
Run time: 138 min.
Creator: John Prebble
Price: £56.95

Review Zulu (Letterbox Edition) [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Greatest Sports Legends:

One of the last of the classic-era widescreen epics, Zulu was also one of the last war movies to celebrate the virtues of the famous British stiff upper lip. At Rorke's Drift in 1879 a handful of British soldiers, hopelessly outnumbered by 4,000 Zulu warriors, fought one of the most celebrated defensive actions in military history. Zulu tells the story on an epic scale, bringing to life the heroism, courage, loyalty and sacrifice of those desperate hours. This is truly cast-of-thousands filmmaking, with vast action wonderfully captured in widescreen Technirama. John Barry, who also scored Goldfinger in the same year, provides a telling musical accompaniment. The superb cast includes Stanley Baker and Jack Hawkins, but Zulu's final claim to fame is that it made an instant international superstar of a young actor whose name is Michael Caine. A belated sequel arrived in 1979 in Zulu Dawn, which despite even more spectacular action and a great cast died at the box-office. It is nevertheless well worth seeing. On the DVD: Zulu on disc has excellent prologic stereo considering the age of the film, while the anamorphically enhanced 2. 35:1 transfer is crystal-clear, boasting rich colours, strong contrast and detail and only occasional minor print flaws. [+]
The original American trailer, also presented anamorphically enhanced at 2. 35:1, is a worthwhile addition. There is a very good new 45-minute "making of" (1. 77:1 anamorphic, in stereo), curiously split into two parts. The heart of the programme consists of interviews with survivors from the film, focusing on Stanley Baker's widow. The only let down is lack of input from Michael Caine and composer John Barry. The commentary by film historian Sheldon Hall, author of a forthcoming book on the movie, and Second Unit Director Robert Porter is serious and packed with information. -Gary S Dalkin.

Review Clavis Films / The Hopeless Ones ( Szegénylegények ) [1966]
Actors & Directors
  • János Görbe
  • Gábor Agárdi
  • András Kozák
  • Zoltán Latinovits
  • Miklós Jancsó
  • Tibor Molnár
Release date: 2006-04-15
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Gyula Hernádi
RRP: £17.99
Price: £27.99

Review The Hopeless Ones ( Szegénylegények ) [1966] / Clavis Films:


Review Alpha Video / The Oklahoma Cyclone [1930] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Charles King
  • John P. McCarthy
  • Rita Rey
  • Slim Whitaker
  • Al St. John
  • Bob Steele
Release date: 2002-11-19
Run time: 66 min.
Creator: Trem Carr
Price: £2.58

Review The Oklahoma Cyclone [1930] (NTSC) / Alpha Video:


Review Alpha Video / Frontier Doctor, Vol. 1 [1958]
Actors & Directors
  • Chubby Johnson
Release date: 2006-05-23
Run time: 103 min.
Creator: Gerald Geraghty
Price: £4.91

Review Frontier Doctor, Vol. 1 [1958] / Alpha Video:


Review MGM / The Good, The Bad and the Ugly [1966] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Eli Wallach
  • Sergio Leone
  • Luigi Pistilli
  • Aldo Giuffrè
  • Lee Van Cleef
  • Clint Eastwood
Release date: 2007-06-05
Run time: 179 min.
Price: £9.19

Review The Good, The Bad and the Ugly [1966] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:

This two-disc Special Edition presents the restored, extended English-language version of Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, now clocking in at almost three hours (actually 171 minutes on this Region 2 DVD as a result of the faster frames-per-second ratio of the PAL format). It includes some 14 minutes of previously cut scenes, with both Clint Eastwood and Eli Wallach returning to the editing suite in 2003 to add their voices to scenes that had never before been dubbed into English (Wallach's voice is noticeably that of a much older man in these additional sequences). The extra material contains nothing of vital importance, but it's good to have the movie returned to pretty much the way Leone originally wanted it. The anamorphic widescreen picture is now also accompanied by a handsome Dolby 5. 1 soundtrack, making this the most complete and satisfactory version so far released. Film historian Richard Schickel provides an authoritative and engaging commentary on Disc 1. On the second disc there are featurettes on Leone's West (20 mins), The Leone Style (24 mins), Reconstructing The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (11 mins) and a documentary about the historical background of the Sibley campaign, The Man Who Lost the Civil War (15 mins). In addition, there's a two-part appreciation of composer Ennio Morricone, Il Maestro, by film-music expert John Burlinghame. Tuco's extended torture scene can be found here, along with a reconstruction of the fragmentary "Socorro Sequence". In short, exemplary bonus features that will satisfy every Leone aficionado. [+]
-Mark Walker.

Review Second Sight Films Ltd. / John Wayne - 3 On 1 - Riders Of Destiny / West Of The Divide / Sagebrush Trail [1935]
Actors & Directors
  • Yakima Canutt
  • Lloyd Whitlock
  • George 'Gabby' Hayes
  • John Wayne
  • Robert N. Bradbury
  • Virginia Brown Faire
Release date: 2002-01-21
Run time: 165 min.
Creator: Oliver Drake
RRP: £9.99
Price: £0.66

Review John Wayne - 3 On 1 - Riders Of Destiny / West Of The Divide / Sagebrush Trail [1935] / Second Sight Films Ltd.:


Review Universal Studios / Rhythm on the Range/Rhythm on the River (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Bob Burns
  • Norman Taurog
  • Frances Farmer
  • Victor Schertzinger
  • Samuel S. Hinds
  • Martha Raye
  • Bing Crosby
Release date: 2003-05-06
Creator: Mervin J. Houser
Price: £5.36

Review Rhythm on the Range/Rhythm on the River (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:


Review Roan Group / Apache Rose [1947]
Actors & Directors
  • Dale Evans
  • Olin Howland
  • Terry Frost
  • John Laurenz
  • Donna de Mario
Release date: 2008-09-02
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Tim Spencer
Price: £3.60

Review Apache Rose [1947] / Roan Group:


Models & Brands:
Shenandoah [1965], Tall in the Saddle [1945] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Ranger Busters: Saddle Mountain Round-Up [1941], North of the Great Divide [1950] (NTSC), Joan Collins: Superstar Collection (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Westerner [1940], An Eye for an Eye [1966] (REGION 1) (NTSC), John Wayne in Color: Guns Along the Trail [1935] (REGION 1) (NTSC), John Wayne in Color: Stagecoach Run [1936] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance [1962], How the West Was Fun [1944], Gunsmoke, Vol. 2 [1953] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Zulu (Letterbox Edition) [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Hopeless Ones ( Szegénylegények ) [1966], The Oklahoma Cyclone [1930] (NTSC), Frontier Doctor, Vol. 1 [1958], The Good, The Bad and the Ugly [1966] (REGION 1) (NTSC), John Wayne - 3 On 1 - Riders Of Destiny / West Of The Divide / Sagebrush Trail [1935], Rhythm on the Range/Rhythm on the River (REGION 1) (NTSC), Apache Rose [1947]

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