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Review UNIVERSAL / The Andromeda Strain (1971) [VHS]
Actors & Directors
  • Kate Reid
  • Paula Kelly
  • James Olson
  • Arthur Hill
  • Robert Wise
  • David Wayne
Release date: 2000-03-06
Run time: 123 min.
Creator: Nelson Gidding
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.88

Review The Andromeda Strain (1971) [VHS] / UNIVERSAL:


Review Warner Home Video / East Of Eden / Rebel Without A Cause [1954/1955] [VHS]
Actors & Directors
  • Natalie Wood
  • Burl Ives
  • Elia Kazan
  • James Dean
  • Nicholas Ray
  • Raymond Massey
  • Julie Harris
Release date: 1992-06-29
Run time: 216 min.
Creator: Stewart Stern
RRP: £9.99
Price: £2.95

Review East Of Eden / Rebel Without A Cause [1954/1955] [VHS] / Warner Home Video:


Review Vision Video Ltd. / Laurel And Hardy - Block-Heads [VHS] [1938]
Actors & Directors
  • Minna Gombell
  • Oliver Hardy
  • Billy Gilbert
  • Stan Laurel
  • John G. Blystone
  • Patricia Ellis
Release date: 1999-04-05
Run time: 57 min.
Creator: Stan Laurel
RRP: £10.99
Price: £6.00

Review Laurel And Hardy - Block-Heads [VHS] [1938] / Vision Video Ltd.:


Review Warner Home Video / Chisum [VHS] [1970]
Actors & Directors
  • Ben Johnson
  • John Wayne
  • Andrew V. McLaglen
  • Glenn Corbett
  • Forrest Tucker
  • Christopher George
Release date: 1998-04-27
Run time: 107 min.
Creator: Michael Wayne
RRP: £5.99
Price: £9.90

Review Chisum [VHS] [1970] / Warner Home Video:


Actors & Directors
  • Hume Cronyn
  • Robert Milli
  • Linda Marsh
  • Alfred Drake
  • Richard Burton
  • John Gielgud
Release date: 1996-09-28
Creator: Alfred Drake
Price: £16.99

Review Richard Burton's Hamlet [VHS] / Bmg Video:


Review 2 Entertain Video / All Creatures Great And Small - Series 1 - Vol. 2 - It Takes All Kinds / Calf Love [VHS] [1978]
Actors & Directors
  • Christopher Timothy
  • Lynda Bellingham
  • Peter Davison
  • Mary Hignett
  • Robert Hardy
  • Peter Grimwade
Release date: 1996-06-03
Run time: 97 min.
Creator: Robert Hardy
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.99

Review All Creatures Great And Small - Series 1 - Vol. 2 - It Takes All Kinds / Calf Love [VHS] [1978] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review MGM Entertainment / That's Dancing [VHS] [1985]
Actors & Directors
  • Gene Kelly
  • Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • Sammy Davis Jr.
  • Jack Haley Jr.
  • Ray Bolger
  • Liza Minnelli
Release date: 1995-03-13
Run time: 103 min.
Creator: David Niven Jr.
Price: £10.99

Review That's Dancing [VHS] [1985] / MGM Entertainment:


Review Uca / The Bridge On The River Kwai [VHS] [1957]
Actors & Directors
  • William Holden
  • Jack Hawkins
  • James Donald
  • Alec Guinness
  • Sessue Hayakawa
  • David Lean
Release date: 2003-04-07
Run time: 155 min.
Creator: Pierre Boulle
RRP: £14.99
Price: £3.00

Review The Bridge On The River Kwai [VHS] [1957] / Uca:

Based on the true story of the building of a bridge on the Burma railway by British prisoners-of-war held under a savage Japanese regime in World War II, The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) is one of the greatest war films ever made. The film received seven Oscars, including Best Picture, Director, Performance (Alex Guinness), for Sir Malcolm Arnold's superb music, and for the screenplay from the novel by Pierre Boulle (who also wrote Monkey Planet, the inspiration for Planet of the Apes). The story does take considerable liberties with history, including the addition of an American saboteur played by William Holden, and an entirely fictitious but superbly constructed and thrilling finale. Made on a vast scale, the film reinvented the war movie as something truly epic, establishing the cinematic beachhead for The Longest Day (1962), Patton (1970) and A Bridge Too Far (1977). It also proved a turning-point in director David Lean's career. Before he made such classic but conventionally scaled films as In Which We Serve (1942) and Hobson's Choice (1953). Afterwards there would only be four more films, but their names are Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Dr Zhivago (1965), Ryan's Daughter (1970) and A Passage to India (1984). On the DVD: Too often the best extras come attached to films that don't really warrant them. Not so here, where a truly great film has been given the attention it deserves. The first disc presents the film in the original extra-wide CinemaScope ratio of 2. [+]
55:1, in an anamorphically enhanced transfer which does maximum justice to the film's superb cinematography. The sound has been transferred from the original six-track magnetic elements into 5. 1 Dolby Digital and far surpasses what many would expect from a 1950s' feature. The main bonus on the first disc is an isolated presentation of Malcolm Arnold's great Oscar-winning music score, in addition to which there is a trivia game, and maps and historical information linked to appropriate clips. The second disc contains a new, specially produced 53-minute "making of" documentary featuring many of those involved in the production of the movie. This gives a rich insight into the physical problems of making such a complex epic on location in Ceylon. Also included are the original trailer and two short promotional films from the time of release, one of which is narrated by star William Holden. Finally there is an "appreciation" by director John Milius, an extensive archive of movie posters and artwork, and a booklet that reproduces the text of the film's original 1957 brochure. -Gary S Dalkin.

Review MGM Entertainment / Legend of the Lost [VHS] [1958]
Actors & Directors
  • Sophia Loren
  • John Wayne
  • Kurt Kasznar
  • Henry Hathaway
  • Sonia Moser
  • Rossano Brazzi
Release date: 1995-06-12
Run time: 104 min.
Creator: Robert Presnell Jr.
Price: £12.99

Review Legend of the Lost [VHS] [1958] / MGM Entertainment:


Review 4 Front Video / Flame Of The Barbary Coast [1945] [VHS]
Actors & Directors
  • Joseph Kane|John Wayne|Ann Dvorak
Release date: 1996-05-06
Run time: 87 min.
Creator: Joseph Kane|John Wayne|Ann Dvorak
RRP: £5.99
Price: £9.10

Review Flame Of The Barbary Coast [1945] [VHS] / 4 Front Video:


Review 4 Front Video / Mandingo [VHS] [1975]
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Fleischer
  • Richard Ward
  • Perry King
  • Susan George
  • James Mason
  • Brenda Sykes
Release date: 1994-05-23
Run time: 120 min.
Creator: Norman Wexler
RRP: £6.99
Price: £19.99

Review Mandingo [VHS] [1975] / 4 Front Video:


Actors & Directors
  • Rufus Sewell
  • Patsy Kensit
  • Patrick Ryecart
  • Jack Shepherd
  • Don Boyd
  • Maynard Eziashi
Release date: 1993-01-26
Run time: 97 min.
Creator: Zoe Heller
RRP: £5.99
Price: £14.99

Review Twenty One [VHS] [1991] / Entertainment in Video:


Actors & Directors
  • Jane Bryan
  • Bette Davis
  • Wayne Morris
  • Michael Curtiz
  • Humphrey Bogart
  • Edward G.Robinson
Creator: Bette Davis
RRP: £10.99
Price: £16.95

Review Kid Galahad (1937) [VHS] / Warner Home Video:


Review Dd Home Entertainment / Cold War - Vol. 1 - Iron Curtain [VHS]
Actors & Directors
  • Clark Clifford
  • Lucius Battle
  • Sergo Beria
  • Kenneth Branagh
  • Vladimir Yerofeyev
  • Tessa Coombs
Release date: 1998-10-05
Run time: 180 min.
Creator: Lawrence Freedman
RRP: £19.99
Price: £44.99

Review Cold War - Vol. 1 - Iron Curtain [VHS] / Dd Home Entertainment:


Review MGM Entertainment / Dr. No (plus trailer) (1962) [VHS]
Actors & Directors
  • Terence Young
  • Sean Connery
  • Joseph Wiseman
  • Ursula Andress
  • Jack Lord
  • Bernard Lee
Release date: 2003-11-03
Run time: 105 min.
Creator: Richard Maibaum
RRP: £9.99
Price: £0.94

Review Dr. No (plus trailer) (1962) [VHS] / MGM Entertainment:

Released in 1962, this first James Bond movie remains one of the best and serves as an entertaining reminder that the Bond series began (in keeping with Ian Fleming's novels) with a surprising lack of gadgetry and big-budget fireworks. Sean Connery was just 32 years old when he won the role of Agent 007. In his first adventure James Bond is called to Jamaica where a colleague and secretary have been mysteriously killed. With an American CIA agent (Jack Lord, pre-Hawaii Five-O), they discover that the nefarious Dr No (Joseph Wiseman) is scheming to blackmail the US government with a device capable of deflecting and destroying US rockets launched from Cape Canaveral. Of course, Bond takes time off from his exploits to enjoy the company of a few gorgeous women, including the bikini-clad Ursula Andress. She gloriously kicks off the long-standing tradition of Bond women who know how to please their favourite secret agent. A sexist anachronism? Maybe, but this is Bond at his purest, kicking off a series of movies that shows no sign of slowing down. -Jeff Shannon.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Edward Scissorhands [VHS] [1991]
Actors & Directors
  • Dianne Wiest
  • Winona Ryder
  • Anthony Michael Hall
  • Tim Burton
  • Kathy Baker
  • Johnny Depp
Release date: 2000-11-20
Run time: 100 min.
Creator: Richard Hashimoto
RRP: £5.99
Price: £12.99

Review Edward Scissorhands [VHS] [1991] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

Edward Scissorhands achieves the nearly impossible feat of capturing the delicate flavour of a fable or fairy tale in a live-action movie. The story follows a young man named Edward (Johnny Depp), who was created by an inventor (Vincent Price, in one of his last roles) who died before he could give the poor creature a pair of human hands. Edward lives alone in a ruined Gothic castle that just happens to be perched above a pastel-coloured suburb inhabited by breadwinning husbands and frustrated housewives straight out of the 1950s. One day, Peg (Dianne Wiest), the local Avon lady, comes calling. Finding Edward alone, she kindly invites him to come home with her, where she hopes to help him with his pasty complexion and those nasty nicks he's given himself with his razor-sharp fingers. Soon Edward's skill with topiary sculpture and hair design make him popular in the neighbourhood-but the mood turns just as swiftly against the outsider when he starts to feel his own desires, particularly for Peg's daughter Kim (Winona Ryder). Most of director Tim Burton's movies (such as Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Beetlejuice and Batman) are visual spectacles with elements of fantasy but Edward Scissorhands is more tender and personal than the others. Edward's wild black hair is much like Burton's, suggesting that the character represents the director's own feelings of estrangement and co-option. Johnny Depp, making his first successful leap from TV to film, captures Edward's child-like vulnerability even while his physical posture evokes horror icons like the vampire in Nosferatu and the sleepwalker in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. [+]
Classic horror films, at their heart, feel a deep sympathy for the monsters they portray; simply and affectingly, Edward Scissorhands lays that heart bare. -Bret Fetzer On the DVD: Tim Burton is famed for his visual style not his ability as a raconteur, so it's no surprise to find that his directorial commentary is a little sparse. When he does open up it is to confirm that Edward Scissorhands remains his most personal and deeply felt project. The second audio commentary is by composer and regular Burton collaborator Danny Elfman, whose enchanting, balletic score gets an isolated music track all to itself with his remarks in-between cues. Again, for Elfman this movie remains one of his most cherished works, and it is a real musical treat to hear the entire score uninterrupted by dialogue and sound effects but illuminated by Elfman's lucid interstitial remarks. Also on the disc are some brief interview clips, a "making of" featurette and a gallery of conceptual artwork. The anamorphic widescreen print looks simply gorgeous. -Mark Walker.

Review 2 Entertain Video / The Man In Grey [VHS] [1943]
Actors & Directors
  • Stewart Granger
  • James Mason
  • Harry Scott
  • Margaret Lockwood
  • Phyllis Calvert
  • Leslie Arliss
Release date: 1996-07-22
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: Margaret Kennedy
RRP: £9.99
Price: £9.73

Review The Man In Grey [VHS] [1943] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Warner Home Video / Ben Hur [VHS] [1959]
Actors & Directors
  • Hugh Griffith
  • Haya Harareet
  • Jack Hawkins
  • Charlton Heston
  • Stephen Boyd
  • William Wyler
Release date: 2000-03-20
Run time: 213 min.
Creator: Maxwell Anderson
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.47

Review Ben Hur [VHS] [1959] / Warner Home Video:

The biggest (and arguably the best) from Hollywood's Golden Age of Epic, Ben-Hur cost a staggering 15 million dollars in 1959 and was one of the largest film productions ever undertaken: the Circus Maximus set alone, constructed for the climactic chariot race, covered 18 acres and was filled with 40,000 tons of Mediterranean sand. Fittingly the movie scooped an unprecedented 11 Academy Awards that year, an achievement only equalled three decades later by Titanic, another bloated, wildly costly epic, albeit one with a distinctly less literate script (Gore Vidal provided uncredited script-doctoring for Ben-Hur). Director William Wyler, who had been an assistant on MGM's original silent version back in 1925, never sacrifices the human focus of the story in favour of spectacle (he had the good sense to leave the great chariot racing scene to second-unit director and experienced stuntman Yakima Canutt). Charlton Heston as Judah Ben-Hur dominates an appropriately vast ensemble cast, while Miklos Rozsa's majestic musical score adds immeasurably to the sense of occasion. The Christian theme, the very crux of Lew Wallace's original novel, is handled sensitively, focusing on the central character's love and compassion for his family (evoked by the discovery of their leprosy), and heavy-handed sermonising is thankfully avoided (the figure of Christ is seen but never heard-his presence signalled by a serene musical motif instead). On the debit side, at four hours it's a long haul especially given some of the portentous dialogue-"You can break a man's skull. You can arrest him. You can throw him into a dungeon. But how do you fight an idea?"-but worst of all is having to watch it on a tiny TV screen (and any TV screen is too tiny for this movie). The movie's theatrical aspect ratio is 2. [+]
76:1, so the widescreen version plays out in a little horizontal band framed by two huge black borders; while the pan & scan version sacrifices great swathes of the original frame, making this vast epic look like a tame TV mini-series. All in all, a great movie but one best seen on the biggest screen possible. -Mark Walker.

Actors & Directors
  • Royal Dano
  • J.J. Anderson
  • Patrick Read Johnson
  • Gregg Berger
  • Ariana Richards
  • Douglas Barr
Release date: 1992-04-13
Run time: 96 min.
Creator: Scott Lawrence Alexander
Price: £10.99

Review Spaced Invaders [VHS] [1990] / Medusa Comms. and Mktg. Ltd.:


Actors & Directors
  • Peter Hammond
  • Hannah Gordon
  • Susan George
  • Rodney Bewes
  • Diana Coupland
  • James Mason
Release date: 1992-02-24
Run time: 97 min.
Creator: Bill Naughton
RRP: £5.99
Price: £38.99

Review Spring And Port Wine [VHS] [1970] / Braveworld Ltd. (Defunct):


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The Andromeda Strain (1971) [VHS], East Of Eden / Rebel Without A Cause [1954/1955] [VHS], Laurel And Hardy - Block-Heads [VHS] [1938], Chisum [VHS] [1970], Richard Burton's Hamlet [VHS], All Creatures Great And Small - Series 1 - Vol. 2 - It Takes All Kinds / Calf Love [VHS] [1978], That's Dancing [VHS] [1985], The Bridge On The River Kwai [VHS] [1957], Legend of the Lost [VHS] [1958], Flame Of The Barbary Coast [1945] [VHS], Mandingo [VHS] [1975], Twenty One [VHS] [1991], Kid Galahad (1937) [VHS], Cold War - Vol. 1 - Iron Curtain [VHS], Dr. No (plus trailer) (1962) [VHS], Edward Scissorhands [VHS] [1991], The Man In Grey [VHS] [1943], Ben Hur [VHS] [1959], Spaced Invaders [VHS] [1990], Spring And Port Wine [VHS] [1970]

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