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Review 20th Century Fox / To End All Wars [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Mark Strong (II)
  • Yugo Saso
  • Ciarán McMenamin
  • Robert Carlyle
  • Kiefer Sutherland
  • David L. Cunningham
Release date: 2004-06-15
Run time: 117 min.
Price: £5.11

Review To End All Wars [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:


Review Alpha Video / The Navy Way [1944] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Roscoe Karns
  • Bill Henry
  • Sharon Douglas
  • Robert Armstrong
  • Joseph Crehan
  • William Pine
Release date: 2004-12-21
Run time: 75 min.
Creator: Willy Stahl
Price: £12.43

Review The Navy Way [1944] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Alpha Video:


Review Classic War Movies / Studio Classic: Classic War Movies
Release date: 2005-10-10
Run time: 641 min.
RRP: £34.99
Price: £16.62

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Review Kino / 25 Firemans Street [1973] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • István Szabó
  • András Bálint
  • Károly Kovács
  • Margit Makay
  • Erzsi Pásztor
  • Lucyna Winnicka
Release date: 2004-08-03
Run time: 97 min.
Price: £10.98

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Review MGM / Farewell to the King [1989] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Frank McRae
  • Marilyn Tokuda
  • Nick Nolte
  • Nigel Havers
  • Gerry Lopez
  • John Milius
Release date: 2006-06-06
Run time: 114 min.
Price: £4.40

Review Farewell to the King [1989] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:


Review MGM Entertainment / BAT 21 [1987]
Actors & Directors
  • David Marshall Grant
  • Gene Hackman
  • Danny Glover
  • Jerry Reed
  • Clayton Rohner
  • Peter Markle
Release date: 2007-07-16
Run time: 100 min.
Price: £9.99

Review BAT 21 [1987] / MGM Entertainment:


Review Eros International / Deewaar [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • Akshay Khanna
  • Milan Luthria
  • Raghuvir Yadav
  • Amitabh Bachchan
  • Amrita Rao
  • Sanjay Dutt
Release date: 2004-08-23
Run time: 175 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £4.06

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Review Pegasus Entertainment / War In The Desert [2002]
Release date: 2002-10-14
Run time: 55 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £2.28

Review War In The Desert [2002] / Pegasus Entertainment:


Review New Line Home Video / Iron Eagle III: Aces [1992] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Louis Gossett Jr.
  • John Glen (II)
  • Rachel McLish
  • Horst Buchholz
  • Christopher Cazenove
  • Paul Freeman
Release date: 2004-10-05
Run time: 98 min.
Price: £3.53

Review Iron Eagle III: Aces [1992] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / New Line Home Video:


Review MGM / Submarine X-1 [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Norman Bowler
  • David Sumner
  • William A. Graham
  • Brian Grellis
  • Paul Young
  • James Caan
Release date: 2005-04-19
Run time: 90 min.
Price: £3.50

Review Submarine X-1 [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:


Review MGM Entertainment / Windtalkers [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Nicolas Cage
  • John Woo
  • Adam Beach
  • Peter Stormare
  • Noah Emmerich
  • Christian Slater
Release date: 2006-03-06
Run time: 146 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £2.92

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Review Cinema Club / The War Zone [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Tilda Swinton
  • Freddie Cunliffe
  • Ray Winstone
  • Colin Farrell
  • Lara Belmont
  • Tim Roth
Release date: 2002-05-01
Run time: 95 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £14.00

Review The War Zone [1999] / Cinema Club:

As unflinching and bleak as it is beautiful, Tim Roth's directorial debut The War Zone is remarkably accomplished filmmaking. Adapted by Alexander Stuart from his own novel, the film centres on a family that has just moved from London to the wind-swept seaside during winter. The relative isolation soon reveals an ongoing incestuous relationship between the working-class father (Ray Winstone) and his 17-year-old-daughter, Jessie. The middle-class mother (Tilda Swinton) has just given birth to their third child and desperately avoids knowing the truth, leaving Tom, the younger brother, with the horrific responsibility of exposing the family secret. Fearless in its hard-fought depiction of incest, The War Zone pulls no punches; this vivid portrayal of abuse within a family and the scathed consciousness that results is not for the faint of heart. True to his theatre background, Roth doesn't explain how or where such brutal choices were first taken, choosing rather to let the actors bear the ambiguities and anguish of a terrible knowledge in the their body language. -Fionn Meade, Amazon. com.

Review BCI, a Navarre Corporation Company / The Last Train [1973] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Maurice Biraud
  • Nike Arrighi
  • Jean-Louis Trintignant
  • Pierre Granier-Deferre
  • Paul Amiot
  • Romy Schneider
Release date: 2002-01-01
Run time: 100 min.

Review The Last Train [1973] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / BCI, a Navarre Corporation Company:


Review Image Entertainment / Tomorrow - The World [1944] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Leslie Fenton
  • Joan Carroll
  • Fredric March
  • Agnes Moorehead
  • Betty Field
  • Edit Angold
Release date: 2001-02-06
Run time: 82 min.
Price: £10.50

Review Tomorrow - The World [1944] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:


Review MGM / Hell in the Pacific [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Toshirô Mifune
  • John Boorman
  • Lee Marvin
Release date: 2004-05-25
Run time: 103 min.
Price: £3.44

Review Hell in the Pacific [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:

Hell in the Pacific is one of the most original and thoughtful war films of the 1960s. Fresh from Point Blank (1967) Lee Marvin reunited with director John Boorman for this elemental story of a US pilot and a Japanese naval officer washed ashore on an otherwise uninhabited Pacific island. Lee Marvin speaks English; Toshiro Mifune (The Seven Samurai) speaks Japanese; and the audience shares their frustrations as they attempt to communicate, as Boorman does not use subtitles. Once the men become aware of each other's presence they move from wary avoidance through conflict to an uneasy truce as they realise they will have to cooperate to survive. The naturalistic acting is key to the film's success, greatly aided by the fact that both stars served their respective countries in the Pacific theatre during the Second World War. Conrad Hall's cinematography is superb, using natural light to evoke the beauty of the island, and the wide Panavision frame to show the men's isolation and their reactions to each another. Boorman developed further his fascination with man against nature in Deliverance (1974) and The Emerald Forest (1985), and there wouldn't be another poetic war film until Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line (1999). On the DVD: The stereo sound is fine, atmospherically reproducing both the natural sounds of the island and Lalo Schfrin's imaginative score. The picture quality likewise is very good, with the image well focused with strong colours and plenty of detail. Unfortunately the 2. [+]
35:1 image has been panned and scanned to 1. 33:1 TV ratio, destroying the scale and beauty of the compositions and sometimes meaning the viewer sees only one side of the interactions between the two men. Extras are perfunctory, with production notes, biographies of the stars and a "slide show". Considering even BBC2 occasionally shows the film in near full Pavavision and with Boorman's preferred, TS Elliot inspired ending, this DVD is a lost opportunity to bring a modern classic into the digital age. -Gary S Dalkin.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The Halls Of Montezuma [1951]
Actors & Directors
  • Reginald Gardiner
  • Richard Widmark
  • Robert Wagner
  • Lewis Milestone
  • Jack Palance
  • Karl Malden
Release date: 2005-05-09
Run time: 109 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.77

Review The Halls Of Montezuma [1951] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review Alpha Video / Drums in the Deep South [1951] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Barbara Payton
  • Guy Madison
  • James Craig
  • Robert Osterloh
  • Barton MacLane
  • William Cameron Menzies
Release date: 2003-04-15
Run time: 87 min.
Price: £4.77

Review Drums in the Deep South [1951] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Alpha Video:


Review Warner Home Video / The Dirty Dozen [1967]
Actors & Directors
  • Jim Brown
  • Charles Bronson
  • John Cassavetes
  • Robert Aldrich
  • Ernest Borgnine
  • Lee Marvin
Release date: 2006-06-19
Run time: 143 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £5.98

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 Homevision / Under the Flag of the Rising Sun [1972] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Sachiko Hidari
  • Tetsuro Tamba
  • Kinji Fukasaku
  • Kanemon Nakamura
  • Noboru Mitani
  • Sanae Nakahara
Release date: 2005-06-07
Run time: 96 min.
Price: £9.00

Review Under the Flag of the Rising Sun [1972] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Homevision:


Review Image Entertainment / Alfred Hitchcock's Bon Voyage/Aventure Malgache [1944] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Paul Bonifas
  • Paul Clarus
  • Alfred Hitchcock
  • Paulette Preney (II)
  • Andre Frere
  • John Blythe
Release date: 1998-02-25
Run time: 57 min.
Price: £9.76

Review Alfred Hitchcock's Bon Voyage/Aventure Malgache [1944] (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:


Models & Brands:
To End All Wars [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Navy Way [1944] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Studio Classic: Classic War Movies, 25 Firemans Street [1973] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Farewell to the King [1989] (REGION 1) (NTSC), BAT 21 [1987], Deewaar [2004], War In The Desert [2002], Iron Eagle III: Aces [1992] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Submarine X-1 [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Windtalkers [2002], The War Zone [1999], The Last Train [1973] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Tomorrow - The World [1944] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Hell in the Pacific [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Halls Of Montezuma [1951], Drums in the Deep South [1951] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Dirty Dozen [1967], Under the Flag of the Rising Sun [1972] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Alfred Hitchcock's Bon Voyage/Aventure Malgache [1944] (NTSC)

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