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Review Image Entertainment / The White Sun of the Desert [1970]
Actors & Directors
  • Raisa Kurkina
  • Pavel Luspekayev
  • Spartak Mishulin
  • Kakhi Kavsadze
  • Vladimir Motyl
  • Anatoli Kuznetsov (II)
Release date: 2004-01-06
Run time: 85 min.
Price: £11.99

Review The White Sun of the Desert [1970] / Image Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / Classic War Film Triple pack : Where Eagles Dare / Kelly's Heroes / Dirty Dozen
Actors & Directors
  • John Cassavetes
  • Clint Eastwood
  • Richard Burton
  • Donald Sutherland
  • Charles Bronson
Release date: 2006-09-18
Run time: 428 min.
RRP: £18.99
Price: £14.92

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Review Image Entertainment / The White Sun of the Desert [1970]
Actors & Directors
  • Spartak Mishulin
  • Vladimir Motyl
  • Raisa Kurkina
  • Anatoli Kuznetsov (II)
  • Pavel Luspekayev
  • Kakhi Kavsadze
Release date: 2004-01-06
Run time: 85 min.
Price: £11.99

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Review MGM / Operation Amsterdam [1959] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Michael McCarthy
  • Alexander Knox
  • Eva Bartok
  • Tony Britton
  • Peter Finch
  • Malcolm Keen
Release date: 2003-05-20
Run time: 105 min.
Price: £3.38

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Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Gallipoli - Sce [1982]
Actors & Directors
  • Bill Hunter
  • Peter Weir
  • Mark Lee
  • Mel Gibson
Release date: 2006-04-03
Run time: 107 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £5.98

Review Gallipoli - Sce [1982] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / Never So Few [1959] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • John Sturges
  • Steve McQueen
  • Frank Sinatra
  • Peter Lawford
  • Gina Lollobrigida
  • Richard Johnson
Release date: 2008-05-13
Run time: 124 min.
Price: £3.79

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Review Warner Home Video / Battleground [1949]
Actors & Directors
  • Van Johnson
  • Ricardo Montalban
  • William A. Wellman
  • John Hodiak
  • George Murphy
  • Marshall Thompson
Release date: 2005-04-18
Run time: 114 min.
RRP: £13.99
Price: £4.37

Review Battleground [1949] / Warner Home Video:

Director William Wellman (The Big Heat) offered up this 1949 treatment of the Battle of the Bulge, which won Oscars for best screenplay and best cinematography. The film concentrates on the camaraderie and the divisions between the troops as they prepare for the big offensive. Told in a taut narrative, the men of the 101st, led by Van Johnson, wait out the winter in the Ardennes forest to confront the German army in what would be the last major offensive of World War II. The men are demoralised and trapped, with no hope of support from the Allies as they are forced to band together and defend their position. A classically assembled war drama that nevertheless manages to be both engrossing and entertaining, Battleground is a mainstay of the genre. -Robert Lane.

Review Warner Home Video / Never So Few [1959] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Gina Lollobrigida
  • Frank Sinatra
  • John Sturges
  • Richard Johnson
  • Peter Lawford
  • Steve McQueen
Release date: 2008-05-13
Run time: 124 min.
Price: £3.79

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Review Warner Home Video / Battleground [1949]
Actors & Directors
  • William A. Wellman
  • John Hodiak
  • Marshall Thompson
  • Van Johnson
  • George Murphy
  • Ricardo Montalban
Release date: 2005-04-18
Run time: 114 min.
RRP: £13.99
Price: £4.37

Review Battleground [1949] / Warner Home Video:

Director William Wellman (The Big Heat) offered up this 1949 treatment of the Battle of the Bulge, which won Oscars for best screenplay and best cinematography. The film concentrates on the camaraderie and the divisions between the troops as they prepare for the big offensive. Told in a taut narrative, the men of the 101st, led by Van Johnson, wait out the winter in the Ardennes forest to confront the German army in what would be the last major offensive of World War II. The men are demoralised and trapped, with no hope of support from the Allies as they are forced to band together and defend their position. A classically assembled war drama that nevertheless manages to be both engrossing and entertaining, Battleground is a mainstay of the genre. -Robert Lane.

Review Argent Films Ltd / The Battle Of Algiers [1965]
Actors & Directors
  • Yacef Saadi
  • Brahim Hadjadj
  • Ugo Paletti
  • Jean Martin
  • Gillo Pontecorvo
  • Samia Kerbash
Release date: 2003-12-01
Run time: 116 min.
Price: £19.99

Review The Battle Of Algiers [1965] / Argent Films Ltd:

Director Gillo Pontecorvo's 1966 movie The Battle of Algiers concerns the violent struggle in the late 1950s for Algerian independence from France, where the film was banned on its release for fear of creating civil disturbances. Certainly, the heady, insurrectionary mood of the film, enhanced by a relentlessly pulsating Ennio Morricone soundtrack, makes for an emotionally high temperature throughout. With the advent of the "war against terror" in recent years, the film's relevance has only intensified. Shot in a gripping, quasi-documentary style, The Battle of Algiers uses a cast of untrained actors coupled with a stern voiceover. Initially, the film focuses on the conversion of young hoodlum Ali La Pointe (Brahim Haggiag) to FLN (the Algerian Liberation Front. ) However, as a sequence of outrages and violent counter-terrorist measures ensue, it becomes clear that, as in Eisenstein's October, it is the Revolution itself that is the true star of the film. Pontecorvo balances cinematic tension with grimly acute political insight. He also manages an even-handedness in depicting the adversaries. He doesn't flinch from demonstrating the civilian consequences of the FLN's bombings, while Colonel Mathieu, the French office brought in to quell the nationalists, is played by Jean Martin as determined, shrewd and, in his own way, honourable man. However, the closing scenes of the movie-a welter of smoke, teeming street demonstrations and the pealing white noise of ululations-leaves the viewer both intellectually and emotionally convinced of the rightfulness of the liberation struggle. [+]
This is surely among a fistful of the finest movies ever made. -David Stubbs.

Review Warner Home Video / Classic War Film Triple pack : Where Eagles Dare / Kelly's Heroes / Dirty Dozen
Actors & Directors
  • Clint Eastwood
  • Donald Sutherland
  • Charles Bronson
  • Richard Burton
  • John Cassavetes
Release date: 2006-09-18
Run time: 428 min.
RRP: £18.99
Price: £14.92

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Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The Desert Fox [1951]
Actors & Directors
  • Luther Adler
  • James Mason
  • Everett Sloane
  • Jessica Tandy
  • Cedric Hardwicke
  • Henry Hathaway
Release date: 2005-08-01
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.27

Review The Desert Fox [1951] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The Desert Fox [1951]
Actors & Directors
  • Cedric Hardwicke
  • Luther Adler
  • Everett Sloane
  • James Mason
  • Jessica Tandy
  • Henry Hathaway
Release date: 2005-08-01
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.27

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Review Prism Leisure / Too Late The Hero [1969]
Actors & Directors
  • Ian Bannen
  • Cliff Robertson
  • Harry Andrews
  • Robert Aldrich
  • Ronald Fraser
  • Michael Caine
Release date: 2002-04-08
Run time: 129 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.98

Review Too Late The Hero [1969] / Prism Leisure:

Set on a Pacific island in 1942, Too Late the Hero is a hard-as-nails "men on a mission" war movie: a group of British soldiers have to traverse the New Hebrides to destroy a Japanese radio transmitter, then get back to safety while being hunted all the way. Inevitably everything goes wrong, but director Robert (The Dirty Dozen) Aldrich turns the book of WWII movie clichés on its head and springs some unnerving surprises. Even the token American star, Cliff Robertson-echoing William Holden's grafted-on role in The Bridge on the River Kwai-proves less than obviously heroic, while an outstanding Michael Caine brings considerable depth to his usual cynical cockney. Henry Fonda gets heavily billed for a brief guest appearance, but there are star performances such fine British character actors as Denholm Elliot, Ian Bannen, Ronald Fraser and Lance Percival. This portrait of battle-worn men offers greater complexity than Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, while the jungle trek was more recently paralleled in Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line. Only the attitudes-more 1970 than 1942-detract from Aldrich's tellingly realistic vision, which with a thoughtfully ironic script and a succession of tense set pieces and brutal firefights, builds to a harrowing climax. On the DVD: The picture is presented at approximately 1. 7:1, reformatted from the original 2. 2:1 70mm theatrical presentation. Despite approximately 25 per cent of the original image being missing, this loss is only really noticeable in a few scenes. [+]
Apart from the occasional fleck, the print is in superb condition, and despite the lack of anamorphic enhancement the picture is sharp, detailed and has excellent colour. The surround sound (not mono as listed on the packaging) is highly effective, with the tension being increased by a considerable amount of the music coming from the rear speakers. The special features are simply a few static pages of biographical and production notes. -Gary S. Dalkin.

Review Scanbox Entertainment / The Forgotten [2003]
Release date: 2007-10-15
Run time: 108 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.21

Review The Forgotten [2003] / Scanbox Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / The Clock [1945] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • James Gleason
  • Robert Walker
  • Tex Avery
  • Vincente Minnelli
  • Judy Garland
  • Marshall Thompson
  • Keenan Wynn
Release date: 2007-02-06
Run time: 90 min.
Price: £7.42

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Review MGM / Operation Amsterdam [1959] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Malcolm Keen
  • Tony Britton
  • Michael McCarthy
  • Peter Finch
  • Eva Bartok
  • Alexander Knox
Release date: 2003-05-20
Run time: 105 min.
Price: £3.38

Review Operation Amsterdam [1959] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:


Review Prism Leisure / Too Late The Hero [1969]
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Caine
  • Ronald Fraser
  • Ian Bannen
  • Cliff Robertson
  • Robert Aldrich
  • Harry Andrews
Release date: 2002-04-08
Run time: 129 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.98

Review Too Late The Hero [1969] / Prism Leisure:

Set on a Pacific island in 1942, Too Late the Hero is a hard-as-nails "men on a mission" war movie: a group of British soldiers have to traverse the New Hebrides to destroy a Japanese radio transmitter, then get back to safety while being hunted all the way. Inevitably everything goes wrong, but director Robert (The Dirty Dozen) Aldrich turns the book of WWII movie clichés on its head and springs some unnerving surprises. Even the token American star, Cliff Robertson-echoing William Holden's grafted-on role in The Bridge on the River Kwai-proves less than obviously heroic, while an outstanding Michael Caine brings considerable depth to his usual cynical cockney. Henry Fonda gets heavily billed for a brief guest appearance, but there are star performances such fine British character actors as Denholm Elliot, Ian Bannen, Ronald Fraser and Lance Percival. This portrait of battle-worn men offers greater complexity than Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, while the jungle trek was more recently paralleled in Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line. Only the attitudes-more 1970 than 1942-detract from Aldrich's tellingly realistic vision, which with a thoughtfully ironic script and a succession of tense set pieces and brutal firefights, builds to a harrowing climax. On the DVD: The picture is presented at approximately 1. 7:1, reformatted from the original 2. 2:1 70mm theatrical presentation. Despite approximately 25 per cent of the original image being missing, this loss is only really noticeable in a few scenes. [+]
Apart from the occasional fleck, the print is in superb condition, and despite the lack of anamorphic enhancement the picture is sharp, detailed and has excellent colour. The surround sound (not mono as listed on the packaging) is highly effective, with the tension being increased by a considerable amount of the music coming from the rear speakers. The special features are simply a few static pages of biographical and production notes. -Gary S. Dalkin.

Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Black Hawk Down [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Hugh Dancy
  • Kim Coates
  • Gabriel Casseus
  • Ridley Scott
  • Richard Tyson
  • Ewan McGregor
Release date: 2004-10-25
Run time: 138 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.95

Review Black Hawk Down [2001] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:


Review MGM / The Devil's Brigade [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • William Holden
  • Jeremy Slate
  • Andrew V. McLaglen
  • Cliff Robertson
  • Vince Edwards
  • Andrew Prine
Release date: 2002-05-07
Run time: 131 min.
Price: £4.29

Review The Devil's Brigade [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:


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The White Sun of the Desert [1970], Classic War Film Triple pack : Where Eagles Dare / Kelly's Heroes / Dirty Dozen, The White Sun of the Desert [1970], Operation Amsterdam [1959] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Gallipoli - Sce [1982], Never So Few [1959] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Battleground [1949], Never So Few [1959] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Battleground [1949], The Battle Of Algiers [1965], Classic War Film Triple pack : Where Eagles Dare / Kelly's Heroes / Dirty Dozen, The Desert Fox [1951], The Desert Fox [1951], Too Late The Hero [1969], The Forgotten [2003], The Clock [1945] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Operation Amsterdam [1959] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Too Late The Hero [1969], Black Hawk Down [2001], The Devil's Brigade [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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