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Review ITV DVD  / The Laurence Olivier Collection--Hamlet, Henry V, That Hamilton Woman, 21 Days, The Boys from Brazil [1937]
Actors & Directors
  • Franklin J. Schaffner
  • James Mason
  • Alexander Korda
  • Michael Gough
  • Denholm Elliott
  • Laurence Olivier
  • Basil Dean
  • Laurence Olivier
  • Lilli Palmer
Release date: 2001-11-12
Run time: 610 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £22.50

Review The Laurence Olivier Collection--Hamlet, Henry V, That Hamilton Woman, 21 Days, The Boys from Brazil [1937] / ITV DVD:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment  / Audrey Hepburn Collection - Special Edition Box Set [1953]
Actors & Directors
  • Humphrey Bogart
  • Billy Wilder
  • Richard Quine
  • John Williams
  • Robert Flemyng
  • Blake Edwards
  • William Wyler
  • Stanley Donen
  • William Holden
  • Audrey Hepburn
Release date: 2000-11-06
Run time: 540 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £45.00

Review Audrey Hepburn Collection - Special Edition Box Set [1953] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

Roman Holiday: Maybe it doesn't quite live up to its sterling reputation, and maybe the leading man and director were slightly miscast. But who cares? Roman Holiday is the film that brought Audrey Hepburn to prominence, and the world movie audience went weak at the knees. The endlessly charming Hepburn had her first starring role in this sweet romance, playing a European princess on an official tour through Rome. Frustrated by her lack of connection to the real world, she slips away from her protective handlers and goes on a spree, aided by a tough-guy news reporter (Gregory Peck). Roman Holiday is great fun, the location shooting is irresistible and Hepburn embodies an image of chic style that would rule for the rest of the fifties. No coincidence that she won an Oscar, and so did veteran costume designer Edith Head. -Robert HortonBreakfast at Tiffany's: No film better utilises Audrey Hepburn's flighty charm and svelte beauty than this romantic adaptation of Truman Capote's novella. Hepburn's urban sophisticate Holly Golightly, an enchanting neurotic living off the gifts of gentlemen, is a bewitching figure in designer dresses and costume jewellery. George Peppard is her upstairs neighbour, a struggling writer and "kept" man financed by a steely older woman (Patricia Neal). His growing friendship with the lonely Holly soon turns to love and threatens the delicate balance of both of their compromised lives. [+]
Composer Henry Mancini earned Oscars for the hit song "Moon River" and his tastefully romantic score. Director Blake Edwards's elegant yet light touch, George Axelrod's generous screenplay and Hepburn's mix of knowing experience and naiveté combine to create one of the great screen romances and a refined slice of high-society bohemian chic. -Sean AxmakerSabrina Fair: Audrey Hepburn is the delightful, young, eponymous Sabrina, the daughter of a chauffeur who is hopelessly in love with David Larrabee (William Holden), the playboy younger son in the rich Long Island household her father works for. In order to help her forget her woes, Sabrina is shipped off to cooking school in Paris. While there, she befriends a baron who provides a bit of culture-and the encouragement to snip off her childlike ponytail. Upon her return to New York, Sabrina is transformed into a sophisticated woman, and David is entranced by her. However, his older brother Linus (Humphrey Bogart) has arranged David's marriage to Elizabeth Tyson in order to seal a business merger and thus must steer David away from Sabrina. To do this, Linus takes on the task of wooing her for himself. Full of great dialogue ("A woman happy in love, she burns the soufflé; a woman unhappy in love, she forgets to turn on the oven") and wonderful performances, this film is a romantic masterpiece. -Jenny BrownFunny Face: Fred Astaire plays a fashion photographer based on real-life cameraman Richard Avedon, in this entertaining musical directed by Stanley Donen (Singin' in the Rain). The story finds Astaire's character turning Audrey Hepburn into a chic Paris model-not a tough premise to buy, especially within this film's air of enchantment and surrounded by a great Gershwin score. Based on an unproduced play, this is one of the best films from the latter part of Astaire's career. -Tom KeoghParis When It Sizzles: Filmed on location in Paris, this belaboured comedy stars Holden as a screenwriter who enlists his secretary's help in gathering ideas for an unfinished script. Marlene Dietrich makes a cameo appearance.

Review ITV DVD  / The Boys From Brazil [1978]
Actors & Directors
  • James Mason
  • Uta Hagen
  • Gregory Peck
  • Lilli Palmer
  • Franklin J. Schaffner
  • Laurence Olivier
Release date: 2000-02-28
Run time: 118 min.
Creator: Ira Levin
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.89

Review The Boys From Brazil [1978] / ITV DVD:

Robustly entertaining and bracingly sinister, The Boys from Brazil stars Gregory Peck as the infamous Dr Josef Mengele, the former Nazi chief who intends to resurrect the Führer and create a Fourth Reich through genetic experiments that commence with the assassination of some 94 fathers. Elderly Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman (Laurence Olivier, in an Oscar-nominated performance) is tipped to the plot, but his efforts to expose Peck (fiendishly cast against type) are thwarted by a set of menacing triplets played by Jeremy Black. Back in 1978, The Boys from Brazil (adapted from Ira Levin's novel) was an incalculably tense, straight-faced entertainment whose lack of irony allowed the viewer to indulge the film's outrageous premise without moral offence. But in view of the scientific advancements made since the release of the film, it's now a cautionary tale, and all the more compelling for being so. Jerry Goldsmith's richly conceived, Oscar-nominated score-replete with echoes of Mahler and Strauss-reinforces this impression. -Kevin Mulhall.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment  / Roman Holiday [1953]
Actors & Directors
  • Harcourt Williams
  • Hartley Power
  • William Wyler
  • Audrey Hepburn
  • Eddie Albert
  • Gregory Peck
Release date: 1996-02-05
Run time: 113 min.
Creator: John Dighton
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.95

Review Roman Holiday [1953] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

The three-way combination of ingénue Audrey Hepburn, admirable Gregory Peck and the Eternal City itself guarantees that Roman Holiday (1953) still knocks the socks off any modern rom-com you might care to name. Add to this stellar triumvirate the meticulous, loving direction of William Wyler and a warm-hearted original story by Dalton Trumbo (blacklisted and uncredited at the time) and the result is assuredly one of Hollywood's timeless classics. At the leading man's own suggestion, newcomer Hepburn was generously accorded equal above-the-title billing with Peck: he knew that the film belonged to her anyway and wasn't one to stand on ceremony. As the princess who chafes at stuffy responsibility Hepburn's appealing girlishness is suffused with a will and wilfulness that rubs delightfully against Peck's more earnest mannerisms (even playing light-hearted comedy, he's still Atticus Finch at heart). The then-unusual decision to shoot entirely on location provides the movie with its glorious travelogue backdrop, and stalwart character-actor Eddie Albert is a fine foil for the two leads. Although Wyler is best known now for the grander vistas of The Big Country and Ben-Hur, none of his epics have as much heart as this. On the DVD: Roman Holiday comes to DVD in a good digitally restored print-in itself a powerful reason to acquire the movie on disc. Sound is clean Dolby mono. Extras include a brief piece on the film restoration process, and a short documentary about costume designer Edith Head, which isn't specifically about this movie. The 25-minute making-of featurette has recent and archive interviews with cast members, including Peck and Eddie Albert, as well as William Wyler's daughter, plus Hepburn's screen test footage. [+]
Still-photo galleries and trailers complete a pleasant selection. -Mark Walker.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment  / The Snows Of Kilimanjaro [1952]
Actors & Directors
  • Ava Gardner
  • Susan Hayward
  • Leo G. Carroll
  • Henry King
  • Gregory Peck
  • Hildegard Knef
Release date: 1990-03-15
Run time: 109 min.
Creator: Ernest Hemingway
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.25

Review The Snows Of Kilimanjaro [1952] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Actors & Directors
  • Gregory Peck
  • Ronald Neame
  • Jane Griffiths
Run time: 85 min.
Price: £19.99

Review The Million Pound Note (1954):

Based on the Mark Twain story

Review Warner Home Video  / How The West Was Won
Actors & Directors
  • George Marshall
  • James Stewart
  • John Wayne
  • John Ford
  • Carroll Baker
  • Richard Thorpe
  • Henry Hathaway
  • Henry Fonda
  • Gregory Peck
Release date: 2000-04-03
Run time: 157 min.
Creator: John Gay
Price: £6.99

Review How The West Was Won / Warner Home Video:


Review MGM Entertainment  / On The Beach [1959]
Actors & Directors
  • Fred Astaire
  • Ava Gardner
  • Gregory Peck
  • Donna Anderson
  • Stanley Kramer
  • Anthony Perkins
Release date: 2000-09-18
Run time: 134 min.
Creator: Nevil Shute
RRP: £9.99
Price: £14.99

Review On The Beach [1959] / MGM Entertainment:


Review ITV DVD  / The Scarlet And The Black [1983]
Actors & Directors
  • Christopher Plummer
  • Raf Vallone
  • Kenneth Colley
  • John Gielgud
  • Gregory Peck
  • Jerry London
Release date: 2000-04-10
Run time: 137 min.
Creator: J.P. Gallagher
Price: £5.99

Review The Scarlet And The Black [1983] / ITV DVD:


Review 4 Front Video  / Cape Fear [1992]
Actors & Directors
  • Juliette Lewis
  • Robert De Niro
  • Joe Don Baker
  • Jessica Lange
  • Nick Nolte
  • Martin Scorsese
Release date: 1999-07-12
Run time: 122 min.
Creator: Wesley Strick
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.39

Review Cape Fear [1992] / 4 Front Video:

Superior to Martin Scorsese's punishing 1991 remake, this 1962 thriller directed by J. Lee Thompson (The Guns of Navarone) stars Robert Mitchum as a creepy ex-con angry at the attorney (Gregory Peck) whom he believes is responsible for his incarceration. After Mitchum makes clear his plans to harm Peck's family, a fascinating game of crisscrossing ethics and morality takes place. Where the more recent version seemed trapped in its explicitness, Thompson's film accomplishes a lot with a more economical and telling use of violence. The result is a richer character study with some Hitchcockian overtones regarding the nature of guilt. -Tom Keogh.

Review MGM Entertainment  / Yearling [1946]
Actors & Directors
  • Clarence Brown|Gregory Peck|Jane Wyman|Claude Jarman Jr.
Release date: 1996-07-29
Run time: 123 min.
Price: £7.99

Review Yearling [1946] / MGM Entertainment:


Review 4 Front Video  / The Guns Of Navarone [1961]
Actors & Directors
  • Anthony Quinn
  • Alexander Mackendrick
  • J. Lee Thompson
  • Anthony Quayle
  • David Niven
  • Stanley Baker
  • Gregory Peck
Release date: 2000-06-24
Run time: 150 min.
Creator: Alistair MacLean
RRP: £5.99
Price: £9.99

Review The Guns Of Navarone [1961] / 4 Front Video:

This rousing, explosive 1961 WWII adventure, based on Alistair MacLean's thrilling novel, turns the war thriller into a deadly caper film. Gregory Peck heads a star-studded cast charged with a near impossible mission: to destroy a pair of German guns nestled in a protective cave on the strategic Mediterranean island of Navarone, from where they can control a vital sea passage. As world famous mountain climber turned British army Captain Mallory, Peck leads a guerrilla force composed of the humanistic explosives expert, Miller (David Niven), the ruthless Greek patriot with a grudge, Stavros (Anthony Quinn), veteran special forces soldier Brown (Stanley Baker) and the cool, quiet young marksman Pappadimos (James Darren). This disparate collection of classic types must overcome internal conflicts, enemy attacks, betrayal and capture to complete their mission. Director J. Lee Thompson sets a driving pace for this exciting (if familiar) military operation, a succession of close calls, pitched battles and last-minute escapes as our heroes infiltrate the garrisoned town with the help of resistance leader Maria (Irene Papas) and plot their entry into the heavily guarded mountain fort. Carl Foreman's screenplay embraces MacLean's role call of clichés and delivers them with style, creating one of the liveliest mixes of espionage, combat and good old-fashioned military derring-do put on film. In 1978, the sequel Force 10 from Navarone was released, but MacLean fans will prefer to check out the action-packed thriller Where Eagles Dare. -Sean Axmaker.

Review 4 Front Video  / To Kill A Mockingbird [1962]
Actors & Directors
  • Ruth White
  • Gregory Peck
  • Rosemary Murphy
  • Robert Mulligan
  • John Megna
  • Frank Overton
Release date: 2001-01-15
Run time: 124 min.
Creator: Horton Foote
RRP: £5.99
Price: £11.98

Review To Kill A Mockingbird [1962] / 4 Front Video:

Ranked 34 on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 Greatest American Films, To Kill a Mockingbird is quite simply one of the finest family-oriented dramas ever made. A beautiful and deeply affecting adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee, the film retains a timeless quality that transcends its historically dated subject matter (racism in the Depression-era South) and remains powerfully resonant in present-day America with its advocacy of tolerance, justice, integrity and loving, responsible parenthood. It's tempting to call this an important "message" movie that should be required viewing for children and adults alike, but this riveting courtroom drama is anything but stodgy or pedantic. As Atticus Finch, the small-town Alabama lawyer and widower father of two, Gregory Peck gives one of his finest performances with his impassioned defence of a black man (Brock Peters) wrongfully accused of the rape and assault of a young white woman. While his children, Scout (Mary Badham) and Jem (Philip Alford), learn the realities of racial prejudice and irrational hatred, they also learn to overcome their fear of the unknown as personified by their mysterious, mostly unseen neighbour Boo Radley (Robert Duvall, in his brilliant, almost completely nonverbal screen debut). What emerges from this evocative, exquisitely filmed drama is a pure distillation of the themes of Harper Lee's enduring novel, a showcase for some of the finest American acting ever assembled in one film, and a rare quality of humanitarian artistry (including Horton Foote's splendid screenplay and Elmer Bernstein's outstanding score) that seems all but lost in the chaotic morass of modern cinema. -Jeff Shannon.

Review MGM Entertainment  / The Big Country [1958]
Actors & Directors
  • Carroll Baker
  • Gregory Peck
  • Charlton Heston
  • William Wyler
  • Jean Simmons
  • Burl Ives
Release date: 2000-02-01
Run time: 160 min.
Creator: Sy Bartlett
RRP: £5.99
Price: £22.98

Review The Big Country [1958] / MGM Entertainment:

William Wyler directed this epic Western, about the clash of East and West, intellect and action. Gregory Peck stars as a sea captain who moves way out West to marry Carroll Baker and become part of the ranch owned by her father (Charles Bickford). But he discovers that daddy's top hand (Charlton Heston) carries a torch for Baker and doesn't particularly like Peck stepping into his place. Peck also finds himself caught in the midst of a power struggle between Bickford and his surly neighbour, Burl Ives (and his reprehensibly bullying son, Chuck Connors). The Big Country is a long, sprawling tale that works because its characters are played by movie stars who know how to command the big screen in a big story. -Marshall Fine.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment  / Gentleman's Agreement [1947]
Actors & Directors
  • John Garfield
  • Elia Kazan
  • Dorothy McGuire
  • Celeste Holm
  • Anne Revere
  • Gregory Peck
Release date: 1994-05-03
Run time: 112 min.
Creator: Moss Hart
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.79

Review Gentleman's Agreement [1947] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment  / The Omen Trilogy
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Donner
  • Lee Remick
  • Graham Baker
  • Gregory Peck
  • Sam Neill
  • Mike Hodges
  • Don Taylor
  • Rossano Brazzi
  • Harvey Stephens
Release date: 2001-12-31
Run time: 317 min.
Creator: Harvey Bernhard
RRP: £29.99
Price: £11.98

Review The Omen Trilogy / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

In 1976 The Omen scored a hit with critics and audiences hungry for more after The Exorcist with its mixture of Gothic horror and mystery and its plot about a young boy suspected of being the personification of the anti-Christ. Directed by Richard Donner (best known for his Superman and Lethal Weapon films), The Omen gained a lot of credibility from the casting of Gregory Peck and Lee Remick as a distinguished American couple living in England, whose young son Damien bears "the mark of the beast". At a time when graphic gore had yet to dominate the horror genre, this film used its violence discreetly and to great effect and the mood of dread and potential death is masterfully maintained. It's all a bit contrived, with a lot of biblical portent and sensational fury but few would deny it's highly entertaining. Jerry Goldsmith's Oscar-winning score works wonders to enhance the movie's creepy atmosphere. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com Damien: Omen II takes place several years after the mysterious events that claimed the life of the US Ambassador and his wife as the now teenaged and militarily enrolled Damien Thorne is slowly being made aware of his unholy heritage and horrific destiny. Woe is he (including anyone in Damien's adoptive family and his classmates) who suspects the truth or gets in his way. While not as unrelentingly frightening as its blockbuster predecessor, this more-than-competent sequel raises some interesting questions about the nature of free will (can the anti-Christ deny his birthright?) before falling into a gory series of increasingly outlandish deaths, the best of which is a terrifyingly protracted scene beneath the ice of a frozen lake. Jerry Goldsmith (who won an Oscar for his work on the first film in the series) contributes another marvellously foreboding score. [+]
-Andrew Wright, Amazon. com The series concludes with The Omen III: The Final Conflict, starring Sam Neill as the adult Damien-aka the son of Satan-in a battle with the heavens for control of mankind. The film ends up depending more heavily on effects and spectacle than on the kind of basic horrors that made the first movie in the series so unsettling but at least this one gives some closure to the seemingly endless saga. -Tom Keogh, Amazon. com On the DVDs: On the original movie disc there is an all-new 45-minute documentary, "666: The Omen Revealed", with contributions from all the major behind-the-scenes players, including director, editor, screenwriter (who confesses the movie was only set in England because he wanted a free trip to London!), producer and composer. The latter, Jerry Goldsmith, has his Oscar-winning contribution to the movie recognised with a separate feature in which he talks through four key musical scenes in the score. There's also a thought-provoking short called "Curse or Coincidence?" in which the many bizarre accidents that happened during shooting are related, including the terrible story of what happened to the girlfriend of the man responsible for designing the decapitation scene. Director Richard Donner and editor Stuart Baird provide a chatty audio commentary to the movie. The second and third films lack as many extra features, being content with audio commentaries and theatrical trailers: the commentary for Omen II is by producer Harvey Bernhard, that for Omen III by director Graham Baker. -Mark Walker.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment  / Twelve O'Clock High [1949]
Actors & Directors
  • Gregory Peck
  • Millard Mitchell
  • Henry King
  • Hugh Marlowe
  • Gary Merrill
  • Dean Jagger
Release date: 1998-02-23
Run time: 126 min.
Creator: Sy Bartlett
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.95

Review Twelve O'Clock High [1949] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

The war-time memories of surviving World War II bomber squadrons were still crystal clear when this acclaimed drama was released in 1949-one of the first post-war films out of Hollywood to treat the war on emotionally complex terms. Framed by a post-war prologue and epilogue and told as a flashback appreciation of war-time valour and teamwork, the film stars Gregory Peck in one of his finest performances as a callous general who assumes command of a bomber squadron based in England. At first, the new commander has little rapport with the 918th Bomber Group, whose loyalties still belong with their previous commander. As they continue to fly dangerous mission over Germany, however, the group and their new leader develop mutual respect and admiration, until the once-alienated commander feels that his men are part of a family-men whose bravery transcends the rigours of rigid discipline and by-the-book leadership. The film's now-classic climax, in which the general waits patiently for his squad to return to base-painfully aware that they may not return at all-is one of the most subtle yet emotionally intense scenes of any World War II drama. With Peck in the lead and Dean Jagger doing Oscar-winning work in a crucial supporting role, this was one of veteran director Henry King's proudest achievements, and it still packs a strong dramatic punch. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com.

Actors & Directors
  • Deborah Raffin
  • John McLiam
  • John Anderson
  • Joseph Bottoms
  • Charles Jarrott
  • Dabney Coleman
Release date: 1992-06-15
Run time: 100 min.
Creator: Robin Lee Graham
RRP: £5.99
Price: £249.99

Review The Dove [1974] / Braveworld Ltd. (Defunct):


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment  / Gunfighter [1950] Release date: 1998-08-03
Run time: 81 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £6.49

Review Gunfighter [1950] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review 4 Front Video  / Only The Valiant [1950]
Actors & Directors
  • Gordon Douglas|Gregory Peck|Barbara Payton|Ward Bond
Release date: 1997-04-14
Run time: 105 min.
Price: £5.99

Review Only The Valiant [1950] / 4 Front Video:


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The Laurence Olivier Collection--Hamlet, Henry V, That Hamilton Woman, 21 Days, The Boys from Brazil [1937], Audrey Hepburn Collection - Special Edition Box Set [1953], The Boys From Brazil [1978], Roman Holiday [1953], The Snows Of Kilimanjaro [1952], The Million Pound Note (1954), How The West Was Won, On The Beach [1959], The Scarlet And The Black [1983], Cape Fear [1992], Yearling [1946], The Guns Of Navarone [1961], To Kill A Mockingbird [1962], The Big Country [1958], Gentleman's Agreement [1947], The Omen Trilogy, Twelve O'Clock High [1949], The Dove [1974], Gunfighter [1950], Only The Valiant [1950]

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