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Review NoShame Films / The Desert of the Tartars [1976]
Actors & Directors
  • Jacques Perrin
  • Giuliano Gemma
  • Helmut Griem
  • Philippe Noiret
  • Valerio Zurlini
  • Vittorio Gassman
Release date: 2006-01-31
Run time: 140 min.
Creator: Jean-Louis Bertucelli
Price: £12.32

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Review Alpha Video / Drums in the Deep South [1951] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Barbara Payton
  • Robert Osterloh
  • James Craig
  • William Cameron Menzies
  • Guy Madison
  • Barton MacLane
Release date: 2003-04-15
Run time: 87 min.
Creator: Maurice King
Price: £2.40

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Review / The Grand Illusion [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Jean Gabin
  • Dita Parlo
  • Erich von Stroheim
  • Julien Carette
  • Jean Renoir
  • Pierre Fresnay
Run time: 114 min.
Creator: Charles Spaak
Price: £8.68

Review The Grand Illusion [1998]:

It's long been one of the revered classics of international cinema, but there is no fine layer of dust over La Grande Illusion. Jean Renoir's film is just as vibrant, exciting and wise as it has ever been. The story is set during World War I, mostly in a couple of German POW camps, where two very different French prisoners plot to escape: the working-class officer Maréchal (Jean Gabin, the French Spencer Tracy) and the upper-class de Boieldieu (Pierre Fresnay). The suspenseful backbone of the story is formed by these escape attempts, but Renoir is primarily concerned with the way people treat each other, and especially with how class and nationality inform human relations. Most compelling of all the film's characters is the aristocratic German officer von Rauffenstein, unforgettably incarnated by stiff-backed Erich von Stroheim; although he runs a prison camp, von Rauffenstein cannot help but strike up a friendship with de Boieldieu, a kindred spirit from the doomed nobility. There is nothing dewy or naive about Renoir's vision (and two years after the release of this antiwar film, Europe was plunged into another world war), yet La Grande Illusion is one of those movies that makes you feel good about such long-outmoded ideas as sacrifice and brotherhood. After it won a prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1937, the Nazis declared the film "Cinematographic Enemy Number One". There can be no higher praise. -Robert Horton, Amazon. com.

Review Entertainment in Video / Mother Night [1997]
Actors & Directors
  • Anna Berger
  • Nick Nolte
  • Bernard Behrens
  • Keith Gordon
  • Sheryl Lee
  • Alan Arkin
Release date: 2004-06-28
Run time: 109 min.
Creator: Robert B. Weide
RRP: £14.99
Price: £4.10

Review Mother Night [1997] / Entertainment in Video:

Mother Night is the third movie from director Keith Gordon (The Chocolate War, A Midnight Clear). The 35-year-old director who started as an actor (Christine) has turned into one of the more assured directors working today. His films are ambitious in plot and tone. With Mother Night he works with his first major star, Nick Nolte. In 1961, the fictitious Howard W Campbell Jr. , an American by birth, shares the same deserted prison with Adolph Eichmann. As he prepares to stand trial for war crimes, the former playwright scribes his memoirs. Now this is the same Howard W. Campbell Jr. who was a notorious voice on German radio during the war, tearing into American policy and spreading Nazi propaganda. [+]
Was he a wilful participant or an American spy? Campbell, who romanticises at the drop of a hat, tells his story of indifference, morality, and love. His days of notoriety in Berlin give way to anonymity back in the States. He purrs about his true love (Sheryl Lee) and tells truths with his shrewd neighbour in New York (Alan Arkin). The movie is based on Kurt Vonnegut's 1961 novel of the same name. Gordon and screenwriter Robert E. Weide have an uncommon insight into Vonnegut's material: the mesh of fact and fiction, the sweeping themes, the tragic goofiness. The movie is perfectly suited to Nolte's gruff style with a husky voice that pierces the night. The film is a cherished companion piece to Slaughterhouse Five. -Doug Thomas.

Review Vci Video / Pippin [1982] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • David Sheehan
  • Benjamin Rayson
  • Ben Vereen
  • Martha Raye
  • William Katt
  • Leslie Denniston
Release date: 2000-10-24
Run time: 112 min.
Creator: Bob Fosse
Price: £7.55

Review Pippin [1982] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Vci Video:


Review Divisa Red / Riders of the Dawn 3-DVD Set ( Los Jinetes del alba )
Actors & Directors
  • Claudia Gravy
  • Antonio Iranzo
  • Gloria Muñoz
  • Fernando Guillén
  • Graciela Borges
Release date: 2002-11-09
Creator: Vicente Aranda
RRP: £22.66
Price: £24.99

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Review Warner Home Video / Reunion in France [1943] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jules Dassin
  • Joan Crawford
  • Philip Dorn
  • Albert Bassermann
  • Reginald Owen
  • John Wayne
Release date: 2007-05-22
Run time: 104 min.
Creator: Marvin Borowsky
Price: £4.32

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Review Walt Disney Video / Walt Disney Treasures: Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Ub Iwerks
  • Walt Disney
  • Walt Disney
Release date: 2007-12-11
Run time: 234 min.
Creator: Roy O. Disney
Price: £15.31

Review Walt Disney Treasures: Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:


Review Prism Leisure / Too Late The Hero [1969]
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Caine
  • Ronald Fraser
  • Ian Bannen
  • Robert Aldrich
  • Cliff Robertson
  • Harry Andrews
Release date: 2002-04-08
Run time: 129 min.
Creator: Robert Sherman
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.59

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 Maverick Entertainment Group / Horrors of War [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Joe Lorenzo
  • John Whitney
  • Peter John Ross
  • C. Alec Rossel
  • Megan Pillar
Release date: 2007-11-06
Run time: 99 min.
Price: £6.83

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Review Columbia TriStar / Tour of Duty: The Complete First Season (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Aaron Lipstadt
  • Terence Knox
  • Stephen Caffrey
  • Charles Correll
  • Bill L. Norton
  • James L. Conway
  • Bill Duke
  • Kim Delaney
  • Steve Akahoshi
  • Joshua D. Maurer
Release date: 2004-06-08
Run time: 1003 min.
Price: £26.81

Review Tour of Duty: The Complete First Season (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:


Review Warner Home Video / James Stewart - The Signature Collection: The Spirit of St. Louis/The FBI Story/The Naked Spur/The [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • June Allyson
  • Billy Wilder
  • Anthony Mann
  • Robert Ryan
  • Dave O'Brien
  • Gene Kelly
  • James Stewart
  • Henry Fonda
  • Mervyn LeRoy
  • Janet Leigh
Release date: 2006-08-15
Run time: 683 min.
Price: £25.38

Review James Stewart - The Signature Collection: The Spirit of St. Louis/The FBI Story/The Naked Spur/The [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Warner Home Video / Cross Of Iron [1977]
Actors & Directors
  • Sam Peckinpah
  • James Mason
  • David Warner
  • James Coburn
  • Klaus Löwitsch
  • Maximilian Schell
Release date: 2005-04-18
Run time: 127 min.
Creator: Willi Heinrich
Price: £13.99

Review Cross Of Iron [1977] / Warner Home Video:

In Cross of Iron Sam Peckinpah weighs in on World War II from the German point of view. The result is as bleak, if not quite as bloody, as one expects from the director of The Wild Bunch, in part because this 1977 film was cut to ribbons by nervous studio executives. The assorted excerpts that remain don't constitute an exhilarating or even an especially thrilling battle epic. The war is grinding to a close, and veterans like James Coburn's Steiner are grimly aware that it's a lost cause. The battlefield is a death trap of sucking mud and barbed wire, and the German generals (viz. , the martinet played by James Mason) seem to pose a bigger threat to the life and limbs of Steiner's men than the inexorable enemy. Not even Peckinpah's famous sensuous exuberance when shooting violence is much in evidence; the picture is a depressive, claustrophobically overcast experience. The bloody high (or low) point isn't a shooting; it's a wince-inducing de-penis-tration during oral sex. For a fun time with the men in (Nazi) uniform, try Das Boot instead. -David Chute, Amazon. [+]
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Review Arrow Films / Mahabharat [1988]
Actors & Directors
  • B.R. Chopra
  • Puneet Issar
  • Girja Shankar
  • Mukesh Khanna
  • Ravi Chopra
  • Harish Bhimani
  • Nitish Bharadwaj
Release date: 2003-10-13
Run time: 900 min.
Creator: Vedavyas
RRP: £59.99
Price: £19.98

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Review FutureFilm / Wheels of Terror ( The Misfit Brigade )
Actors & Directors
  • Jay O. Sanders
  • D.W. Moffett
  • Keith Szarabajka
  • David Patrick Kelly
  • Gordon Hessler
  • Bruce Davison
Release date: 2002-08-16
Run time: 99 min.
Creator: Sven Hassel
RRP: £13.33
Price: £18.99

Review Wheels of Terror ( The Misfit Brigade ) / FutureFilm:


Review Battlefield Epics Triple / Battlefield Epics - The Last Samurai/Troy/Alexander
Release date: 2006-09-18
Run time: 477 min.
RRP: £17.99
Price: £12.47

Review Battlefield Epics - The Last Samurai/Troy/Alexander / Battlefield Epics Triple:


Review Paramount / Eleni
Actors & Directors
  • Ronald Pickup
  • Peter Yates
  • Oliver Cotton
  • Kate Nelligan
  • Linda Hunt
  • John Malkovich
Release date: 2004-12-02
Run time: 112 min.
Creator: Steve Tesich
RRP: £14.36
Price: £7.82

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Review 20th Century Fox / To End All Wars [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Kiefer Sutherland
  • Yugo Saso
  • Robert Carlyle
  • Mark Strong
  • David L. Cunningham
  • Ciarán McMenamin
Release date: 2004-06-15
Run time: 117 min.
Creator: Ernest Gordon
Price: £5.79

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


Review Simply Media / Death And Destruction In The Falaise Gap
Release date: 2007-06-11
Run time: 98 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £9.95

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Review Warner Home Video / Andersonville [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jayce Bartok
  • Carmen Argenziano
  • Jarrod Emick
  • Frederic Forrest
  • Ted Marcoux
  • John Frankenheimer
Release date: 2003-07-15
Run time: 167 min.
Creator: Lansing L. Smith
Price: £5.63

Review Andersonville [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Models & Brands:
The Desert of the Tartars [1976], Drums in the Deep South [1951] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Grand Illusion [1998], Mother Night [1997], Pippin [1982] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Riders of the Dawn 3-DVD Set ( Los Jinetes del alba ), Reunion in France [1943] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Walt Disney Treasures: Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (REGION 1) (NTSC), Too Late The Hero [1969], Horrors of War [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Tour of Duty: The Complete First Season (REGION 1) (NTSC), James Stewart - The Signature Collection: The Spirit of St. Louis/The FBI Story/The Naked Spur/The [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Cross Of Iron [1977], Mahabharat [1988], Wheels of Terror ( The Misfit Brigade ), Battlefield Epics - The Last Samurai/Troy/Alexander, Eleni, To End All Wars [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Death And Destruction In The Falaise Gap, Andersonville [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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