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Review Alpha Video / Go For Broke! [1951]
Actors & Directors
  • Warner Anderson
  • Gianna Maria Canale
  • Akira Fukunaga
  • Don Haggerty
  • Hugh Beaumont
Release date: 2005-03-29
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Alberto Colombo
Price: £2.96

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Review Kino / The Ninth Day [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Germain Wagner
  • August Diehl
  • Volker Schlöndorff
  • Hilmar Thate
  • Bibiana Beglau
  • Ulrich Matthes
Release date: 2005-12-06
Run time: 98 min.
Creator: Jean Bernard
Price: £6.99

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Review Monarch Video / The Good War [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Luca Zingaretti
  • Vincent Riotta
  • Robert Farrior
  • Sue Cremin
  • Roy Scheider
  • Giorgio Serafini
Release date: 2004-11-30
Run time: 96 min.
Creator: Philippe Martinez
Price: £4.26

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Review ITV DVD / The Eagle Has Landed [1977]
Actors & Directors
  • John Sturges
  • Jenny Agutter
  • Robert Duvall
  • Michael Caine
  • Donald Pleasence
  • Donald Sutherland
Release date: 2004-06-07
Run time: 276 min.
Creator: Tom Mankiewicz
RRP: £12.99
Price: £1.44

Review The Eagle Has Landed [1977] / ITV DVD:

This 1976 adventure story set in World War II concerns a Nazi plot to kidnap Churchill from his retreat-or murder him if need be. The Eagle Has Landed has a large, great cast and a director, John Sturges, who's been down this road of ensemble action before (The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape) make this project exciting if not as memorable as Sturges's more famous works. The weak ending doesn't help. - Tom Keogh This 1976 adventure story set in World War II concerns a Nazi plot to kidnap Churchill from his retreat-or murder him if need be. The large, great cast and a director, John Sturges, who's been down this road of ensemble action before (The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape) make this project exciting if not as memorable as Sturges' more famous works. The weak ending doesn't help. -Tom Keogh, Amazon. com.

Review Warner Home Video / British War DVD Collection [1958]
Actors & Directors
  • Charles Frend
  • Moira Lister
  • Guy Hamilton
  • J. Lee Thompson
  • John Mills
  • Sylvia Syms
  • Michael Anderson
  • Denholm Elliott
  • Stanley Baker
Release date: 2002-05-27
Run time: 466 min.
RRP: £40.99
Price: £64.24

Review British War DVD Collection [1958] / Warner Home Video:

The four films presented in The British War Collection unapologetically embody the dogged spirit and pluck of an embattled nation during its greatest crisis; that they also represent the zenith of post-war British cinema is a testament to both their quality and veracity. First in chronological order is The Cruel Sea (1953), a rivetingly faithful adaptation of Nicholas Monsarrat's gripping novel (itself semi-autobiographical) in which Jack Hawkins is the epitome of determined professionalism in the face of ever-present disaster. Moving from sea to air, The Dam Busters (1954) uses the same documentary-style approach to storytelling, though combined here with the more overt patriotic appeal of Eric Coates' famous march theme. A similar never-say-die spirit pervades both The Colditz Story (1955)-an authentic retelling of PR Reid's narrative-and Ice Cold in Alex (1958). Coincidentally or not, both films star the always indomitable John Mills. In Colditz, Mills heads a distinguished ensemble of British thespians as they attempt to escape from the infamous fortress, while in Alex he and his marvellously tight-knit cast journey painstakingly towards what is probably the most famous glass of lager in the world. On the DVDs: The British War Collection comes in a neat fold-out package with postcard-style cards for each movie. All four discs are presented in their original aspect ratios (Cruel Sea and Dam Busters, 1. 33:1; Alex and Colditz, 1. 66:1). [+]
The black and white prints are in pretty good condition, and are accompanied by reasonably clean mono soundtracks. Other than the original theatrical trailers there are no extras. -Mark Walker.

Review 20th Century Fox / Warriors (Guerreros) [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Rubén Ochandiano
  • Carla Pérez
  • Jordi Vilches
  • Daniel Calparsoro
  • Eduardo Noriega
  • Eloy Azorín
Release date: 2004-06-01
Run time: 96 min.
Creator: Juan Cavestany
Price: £6.83

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Review Madacy / Bonanza (NTSC)
Release date: 1999-03-16
Run time: 300 min.
Creator: Fred Hamilton
Price: £58.55

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Review Universal Studios / Clint Eastwood: Western Icon Collection (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Clint Eastwood
  • Shirley MacLaine
  • Clint Eastwood
  • John Sturges
  • Robert Duvall
  • Don Siegel
  • Verna Bloom
  • Marianna Hill
Release date: 2007-05-01
Run time: 307 min.
Creator: Ernest Tidyman
Price: £8.75

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Review Tartan Video / A Time For Drunken Horses [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Ayoub Ahmadi
  • Madi Ekhtiar-dini
  • Rojin Younessi
  • Amaneh Ekhtiar-dini
  • Bahman Ghobadi
  • Kolsolum Ekhtiar-dini
Release date: 2003-01-27
Run time: 75 min.
Creator: Samad Tavazoee
RRP: £19.99
Price: £43.99

Review A Time For Drunken Horses [2001] / Tartan Video:

Bahman Gobadi's intense quasi-documentary A Time for Drunken Horses deals with the lives of a young family of Kurds on the Iran/Iraq border. Their father has died in a landmine incident while smuggling and young Ayoub leaves school in an attempt to feed his siblings and find money for surgery on his crippled brother Madi. Things go from bad to worse: a marriage contract is reneged upon and we last see Ayoub and Madi trudging with a mule drugged against the cold with liquor through the snows of the high border hills as wolves howl in the distance. A few scenes remind us that this poverty is not an accident, but part of a system of actual and cultural oppression: soldiers frisk a group of children and confiscate exercise books; Ayoub spends money on a picture of a Western body-builder for Madi; they and their sisters spend evenings listening to a crackling transistor radio. There is a bracing purity to some of these images of stark suffering which shames much mo! re obviously artistic or popular film-making. On the DVD: A Time for Drunken Horses has trailers but no more elaborate special features. The DVD is presented in 1. 85:1 anamorphic widescreen and has simple but effective Dolby Stereo sound. -Roz Kaveney.

Review / Vengeance One by One
Actors & Directors
  • Philippe Noiret
  • Michel Piccoli
  • Romy Schneider
  • Robert Enrico
  • Andrzej Zulawski
  • Jacques Dutronc
  • Fabio Testi
  • Francis Girod
Creator: Jacques Rouffio
Price: £10.79

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Review BBC Warner / Allo 'Allo!: The Complete Collection [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Moira Foot
Release date: 2008-10-07
Run time: 2400 min.
Creator: Jeremy Lloyd
Price: £177.10

Review Allo 'Allo!: The Complete Collection [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / BBC Warner:


Review Pegasus Entertainment / War Dog [1986]
Actors & Directors
  • Iréne Grönwall
  • David Gillies
  • Bengt Fridh
  • Björn Carlström
  • Daniel Hübenbecher
  • Gunnar Ernblad
  • Timothy Earle
Release date: 2004-02-16
Run time: 9 min.
Creator: Thomas Wredler
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.19

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Review Criterion / Shop on Main Street [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Martin Hollý
  • Hana Slivková
  • Adám Matejka
  • Ján Kadár
  • Jozef Króner
  • Elmar Klos
  • Ida Kaminska
Release date: 2001-09-18
Run time: 128 min.
Creator: Milos Broz
Price: £13.17

Review Shop on Main Street [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Criterion:


Review MGM Entertainment / MGM War Collection
Actors & Directors
  • Walter Grauman
  • Dirk Bogarde
  • Robert Aldrich
  • John Woo
  • Sean Connery
  • John Guillermin
  • Roger Spottiswoode
  • George Chakiris
  • Michael Caine
  • James Caan
Release date: 2005-06-06
Run time: 999 min.
RRP: £49.99
Price: £98.27

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Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Lawrence Of Arabia [1962]
Actors & Directors
  • Alec Guinness
  • David Lean
  • Peter O'Toole
  • Anthony Quinn
  • Jack Hawkins
  • Omar Sharif
Release date: 2003-09-08
Run time: 227 min.
Creator: T.E. Lawrence
Price: £12.99

Review Lawrence Of Arabia [1962] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:

In 1962 Lawrence of Arabia scooped another seven Oscars for David Lean and crew after his previous epic, The Bridge on the River Kwai, had performed exactly the same feat a few years earlier. Supported in this Great War desert adventure by a superb cast including Alex Guinness, Jack Hawkins and Omar Sharif, Peter O'Toole gives a complex, star-making performance as the enigmatic TE Lawrence. The magnificent action and vast desert panoramas were captured in luminous 70mm by Cinematographer Freddie Young, here beginning a partnership with Lean that continued through Dr Zhivago (1965) and Ryan's Daughter (1970). Yet what made the film truly outstanding was Robert (A Man For All Seasons) Bolt's literate screenplay, marking the beginning of yet another ongoing collaboration with Lean. The final partnership established was between director and French composer Maurice Jarre, who won one of the Oscars and scored all Lean's remaining films, up to and including A Passage to India in 1984. Fully restored in 1989, this complete version of Lean's masterpiece remains one of cinema's all-time classic visions. -Gary S Dalkin On the DVD: This vast movie is spread leisurely across two discs, with Maurice Jarre's overture standing in as intermission music for the first track of disc two. But the clarity of the anamorphic widescreen picture and Dolby 5. 1 soundtrack justify the decision not to cram the whole thing onto one side of a disc. The movie has never looked nor sounded better than here: the desert landscapes are incredibly detailed, with the tiny nomadic figures in the far distance clearly visible on the small screen; the remastered soundtrack, too, is a joy. [+]
Thanks are due to Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg who supervised (and financed) the restoration of the picture in 1989; on disc two Spielberg chats about why David Lean is his favourite director, and why Lawrence had such a profound influence on him both as a child and as a filmmaker (he regularly re-watches the movie before starting any new project). Other features include an excellent and exhaustive "making-of" documentary with contributions from surviving cast and crew (an avuncular Omar Sharif is particularly entertaining as he reminisces about meeting the hawk-like Lean for the first time), some contemporary featurettes designed to promote the movie and a DVD-ROM facility. The extra features are good-especially the documentary-but the breathtaking quality of both anamorphic picture and digital sound are what make this DVD package a triumph. -Mark Walker.

Review Koch Lorber Films / Flanders [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Henri Cretel
  • Samuel Boidin
  • David Poulain
  • Adélaïde Leroux
  • Bruno Dumont
  • Jean-Marie Bruveart
Release date: 2007-11-06
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: Rachid Bouchareb
Price: £9.80

Review Flanders [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Koch Lorber Films:


Review Warner Home Video / Hell to Eternity [1960] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Patricia Owens
  • Richard Eyer
  • Phil Karlson
  • Jeffrey Hunter
  • Vic Damone
  • David Janssen
Release date: 2007-06-05
Run time: 131 min.
Creator: Walter Roeber Schmidt
Price: £8.72

Review Hell to Eternity [1960] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Velocity / Thinkfilm / American Soldiers [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Rachael Ancheril
  • Zan Calabretta
  • Jordan Brown
  • Eddie Della Siepe
  • Curtis Morgan
  • Sidney J. Furie
Release date: 2006-05-16
Run time: 103 min.
Creator: Greg Mellott
Price: £2.99

Review American Soldiers [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Velocity / Thinkfilm:


Review Diamond Entertainment Corp. / At War With the Army [1950] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Dick Stabile
  • Mike Kellin
  • Dean Martin
  • Hal Walker
  • Jerry Lewis
  • Jimmie Dundee
Release date: 2003-01-01
Run time: 93 min.
Creator: Jerome E. Rosenfeld
Price: £1.71

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Review Moonstone Pictures / Combat Zone [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Urich
  • J. Winston Carroll
  • Dave Nichols
  • Paul Lynch
  • Avery Brooks
  • Andrew Wild
  • Tanya Allen
Release date: 2002-01-28
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Robert B. Parker
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.45

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Models & Brands:
Go For Broke! [1951], The Ninth Day [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Good War [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Eagle Has Landed [1977], British War DVD Collection [1958], Warriors (Guerreros) [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Bonanza (NTSC), Clint Eastwood: Western Icon Collection (REGION 1) (NTSC), A Time For Drunken Horses [2001], Vengeance One by One, Allo 'Allo!: The Complete Collection [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC), War Dog [1986], Shop on Main Street [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC), MGM War Collection, Lawrence Of Arabia [1962], Flanders [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Hell to Eternity [1960] (REGION 1) (NTSC), American Soldiers [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC), At War With the Army [1950] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Combat Zone [2001]

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