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Review Delta Visual Entertainment / Painted Desert, The / Clark Gable On Film (1931)
Actors & Directors
  • Howard Higgin
  • Helen Twelvetrees
  • Clark Gable
  • William Farnum
  • William Boyd
Release date: 2001-03-26
Run time: 105 min.
RRP: £4.99
Price: £9.95

Review Painted Desert, The / Clark Gable On Film (1931) / Delta Visual Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / Wayne - The Searchers, 3 Godfathers, Rio Bravo - Video Triple Pack [1956]
Actors & Directors
  • John Ford
  • John Wayne
  • Jeffrey Hunter
  • Pedro Armendariz Jr.
  • Harry Carey Jr.
  • Vera Miles
  • Howard Hawks
Release date: 2001-06-04
Run time: 352 min.
Price: £8.99

Review Wayne - The Searchers, 3 Godfathers, Rio Bravo - Video Triple Pack [1956] / Warner Home Video:


Review Fremantle Home Entertainment / Duel In The Sun (Roadshow Edition) [1946]
Actors & Directors
  • King Vidor
  • David O. Selznick
  • Sidney Franklin
  • Josef von Sternberg
  • Joseph Cotten
  • Gregory Peck
  • Jennifer Jones
  • Lionel Barrymore
  • Herbert Marshall
  • Otto Brower
Release date: 2001-09-17
Run time: 138 min.
Creator: Ben Hecht
RRP: £9.99
Price: £21.98

Review Duel In The Sun (Roadshow Edition) [1946] / Fremantle Home Entertainment:

Before creating Duel in the Sun, legendary producer David O Selznick dreamed of making another magnum opus like his 1939 production of Gone with the Wind; he also proposed to make Jennifer Jones, his ladylove then second wife, a megastar. Thus Duel in the Sun (Lust in the Dust to some) was created as an extravagant Technicolor epic about the collision of the old West with the new, offering wide-open spaces with railroads and barbed wire, and juxtaposing character traits such as hot-blooded outlaws alongside civilised folk who are often wimpy or unwell. The film begins among giant rocks drenched in a blood-red sunset, with velvet-voiced Orson Welles intoning the legend of doomed Pearl Chavez and her demon lover; Duel in the Sun never strays far from lush romanticism, spiced with a dash of S/M. The cast is huge (a lubriciously wicked Gregory Peck, Lillian Gish, Joseph Cotton, Lionel Barrymore, Walter Huston, Harry Carey, Herbert Marshall, Charles Bickford, Butterfly McQueen) and there are unforgettable set pieces, the most notable being the lovers' final shootout among those red rocks, as orgiastic a finale as you could ask for. -Kathleen Murphy, Amazon. com.

Review Delta Visual Entertainment / Vintage Westerns - Angel And The Badman / Santa Fe Trail / Vengeance Valley [1947]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Walker
  • Sally Forrest
  • Richard Thorpe
  • Joanne Dru
  • John Ireland
  • Burt Lancaster
Release date: 1999-09-13
Run time: 309 min.
Creator: Luke Short
Price: £9.99

Review Vintage Westerns - Angel And The Badman / Santa Fe Trail / Vengeance Valley [1947] / Delta Visual Entertainment:


Review Columbia Tri-Star Home Video / The Guns Of Navarone [1961]
Actors & Directors
  • Gregory Peck
  • J. Lee Thompson
  • Anthony Quayle
  • Anthony Quinn
  • David Niven
  • Stanley Baker
  • Alexander Mackendrick
Release date: 1994-09-26
Run time: 157 min.
Creator: Alistair MacLean
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.98

Review The Guns Of Navarone [1961] / Columbia Tri-Star Home 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 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Patton [1969]
Actors & Directors
  • Stephen Young
  • Carey Loftin
  • Karl Malden
  • George C. Scott
  • Franklin J. Schaffner
  • Michael Strong
Release date: 2001-06-04
Run time: 164 min.
Creator: Omar N. Bradley
Price: £5.99

Review Patton [1969] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

One of the greatest screen biographies ever produced, Patton is a monumental film that won seven Academy Awards and gave George C Scott the greatest role of his career. It was released in 1970 when protest against the Vietnam War still raged in the States and abroad. Inevitably, many critics and filmgoers struggled to reconcile the events of the day with the film's glorification of US General George S Patton as a crazy-brave genius of World War II; how could a film so huge in scope and so fascinated by its subject be considered an anti-war film? The simple truth is that it's not-Patton is less about World War II than about the rise and fall of a man whose life was literally defined by war and who felt lost and lonely without the grand-scale pursuit of an enemy. George C Scott embodies his role so fully, so convincingly, that we can't help but be drawn to and fascinated by Patton as a man who is simultaneously bound for hell and glory. The film's opening monologue alone is a masterful display of acting and character analysis and everything that follows is sheer brilliance on the part of Scott and director Franklin J Schaffner, aided in no small part by composer Jerry Goldsmith's masterfully understated score. Filmed on an epic scale at literally dozens of European locations, Patton does not embrace war as a noble pursuit, nor does it deny the reality of war as a breeding ground for heroes. Through the awesome achievement of Scott's performance and the film's grand ambition, General Patton shows all the complexities of a man who accepted his role in life and (like Scott) played it to the hilt. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. comOn the DVD: The widescreen print of the movie (which was originally filmed using a super-wide 70mm process called "Dimension 150") is handsomely presented on the first disc, with a remastered Dolby 5. 1 soundtrack. [+]
It is accompanied by a rather dry "Audio essay on the historical Patton" read by the president and founder of the General George S. Patton Jr. historical society. The second, supplementary disc carries a new and impressive 50-minute "making-of" documentary, with significant contributions from Fox president Richard Zanuck, as well as composer Jerry Goldsmith and Oliver Stone. Director Franklin J. Schaffner (who died in 1989) and star George C. Scott are heard in interviews from 1970. In the documentary, Stone provocatively complains that Patton glorified war and that President Nixon's enthusiasm for the movie was directly responsible for his decision to invade Cambodia. Also on this disc, in a separate audio-only track, is Jerry Goldsmith's magnificent music score-one of his greatest achievements-heard complete with studio session takes for the famous "Echoplex" trumpet figures. -Mark Walker.

Review 4 Front Video / To Hell And Back [1955]
Actors & Directors
  • Charles Drake
  • Gregg Palmer
  • Jesse Hibbs
  • Jack Kelly
  • Marshall Thompson
  • Audie Murphy
Release date: 2001-05-07
Run time: 102 min.
Creator: Gil Doud
RRP: £5.99
Price: £12.81

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Review Warner Home Video / 3 Godfathers [1948]
Actors & Directors
  • Mae Marsh
  • John Wayne
  • Pedro Armendáriz
  • John Ford
  • Ward Bond
  • Harry Carey Jr.
Release date: 2000-04-03
Run time: 102 min.
Creator: Peter B. Kyne
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.96

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Review MGM Entertainment / Big Stampede [1933]
Actors & Directors
  • Tenny Wright|John Wayne|Noah Beery|Paul Hurst
Release date: 1997-04-21
Run time: 51 min.
Price: £6.99

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Review Fremantle Home Entertainment / Too Late The Hero [1969]
Actors & Directors
  • Cliff Robertson
  • Ian Bannen
  • Michael Caine
  • Ronald Fraser
  • Robert Aldrich
  • Harry Andrews
Release date: 2001-04-02
Run time: 129 min.
Creator: Robert Sherman
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.64

Review Too Late The Hero [1969] / Fremantle Home Entertainment:

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 Revelation Films / Custer Of The West [1967]
Actors & Directors
  • Ty Hardin
  • Robert Siodmak
  • Jeffrey Hunter
  • Mary Ure
  • Robert Shaw
  • Lawrence Tierney
Release date: 2001-05-21
Run time: 135 min.
Creator: Julian Zimet
Price: £9.99

Review Custer Of The West [1967] / Revelation Films:

General George Armstrong Custer has been portrayed as everything from a vain but ultimately honourable hero (Errol Flynn in They Died with Their Boots On) to an insane, pompous incompetent (Richard Mulligan in the biting Little Big Man), but few have attempted an ambitious look at the man in all his contradictions. Robert Siodmak's Custer of the West, his final American production, attempts the task with fine results, portraying the career soldier as a pragmatist, a disciplinarian with a bullying streak, a loner and ultimately an Old World romantic in the modern age. Robert Shaw gives the role a regal bearing (though his continental accent keeps drifting in) and a sense of dignity, depicting a man who ironically identifies more with the Indians than with the US Army. Jeffrey Hunter and Ty Hardin co-star as his battling junior officers and Robert Ryan is memorable in a brief appearance as a gold-mining deserter. Shooting in handsome widescreen and vivid Technicolor, Siodmak makes his outdoor settings come alive and nimbly handles the many action scenes, most notably a chase that sends an escaping soldier whooshing down a log water chute like a Disney ride. Siodmak's sweeping visuals deliver both grand images and ironic counterpoint, but ultimately Custer of the West eschews the heroism of Hollywood adventures for a portrait of the corrupt state of the American military and one man's hopeless fight against it. -Sean Axmaker, Amazon. com.

Review Panamint Cinema / Riders Of The Rockies [1937]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert N. Bradbury
  • Horace Murphy
  • Earl Dwire
  • Louise Stanley
  • Tex Ritter
  • 'Snub' Pollard
Release date: 2001-12-03
Run time: 56 min.
Creator: Robert Emmett Tansey
Price: £5.99

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Review MGM Home Entertainment / Young Billy Young (1969)
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Walker Jr.
  • Angie Dickinson
  • Jack Kelly
  • David Carradine
  • Robert Mitchum
  • Burt Kennedy
Release date: 2000-02-01
Run time: 85 min.
Creator: Heck Allen
RRP: £9.99
Price: £2.95

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Review Second Sight Films Ltd. / The Desert Trail [1935]
Actors & Directors
  • Carmen Laroux
  • John Wayne
  • Paul Fix
  • Eddy Chandler
  • Mary Kornman
  • Lewis D. Collins
Release date: 1998-03-16
Run time: 54 min.
Creator: Lindsley Parsons
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.75

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Review MGM Entertainment / Haunted Gold [1933]
Actors & Directors
  • Mack V. Wright
  • Duke
  • Sheila Terry
  • Erville Alderson
  • Harry Woods
  • John Wayne
Release date: 1997-04-21
Run time: 55 min.
Creator: Adele S. Buffington
RRP: £6.99
Price: £19.99

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Review Dd Home Entertainment / The Silent Enemy [1958]
Actors & Directors
  • Laurence Harvey
  • William Fairchild
  • Sid James
  • Dawn Addams
  • John Clements
  • Michael Craig
Release date: 2001-07-02
Run time: 107 min.
Creator: Marshall Pugh
RRP: £10.99
Price: £19.99

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Review Second Sight Films Ltd. / John Wayne - 3 On 1 - Texas Terror / The Dawn Rider / The Trail Beyond [1934]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Frazer
  • Marion Burns
  • Robert N. Bradbury
  • John Wayne
  • Iris Lancaster
  • James Marcus
Release date: 1998-12-07
Run time: 165 min.
Price: £10.99

Review John Wayne - 3 On 1 - Texas Terror / The Dawn Rider / The Trail Beyond [1934] / Second Sight Films Ltd.:


Review 4 Front Video / Fort Apache / Stagecoach [1948]
Actors & Directors
  • John Ford
  • John Wayne
  • Ward Bond
  • Pedro Armendáriz
  • Henry Fonda
  • Shirley Temple
Release date: 1995-05-22
Run time: 218 min.
Creator: James Warner Bellah
Price: £9.99

Review Fort Apache / Stagecoach [1948] / 4 Front Video:

John Ford's 1948 classic stars John Wayne as a cavalry officer used to doing things a certain way out West at Fort Apache. Along comes a rigid, new commanding officer (Henry Fonda) who insists that everything on his watch be done by the book, including dealings with local Indians. The results are mixed: greater discipline at the fort, but increased hostilities with the natives. Ford deliberately leaves judgements about the wisdom of these changes ambiguous, but he also allows plenty of room in this wonderful film for the fullness of life among the soldiers and their families-community rituals, new romances-to blossom. Fonda, in an unusual role for him, is stern and formal as the new man in charge; Wayne is heroic as the rebellious second; Victor McLaglen provides comic relief; and Ward Bond is a paragon of sturdy and sentimental masculinity. All of this is set against the magnificent, poetic topography of Monument Valley. This is easily one of the greatest of American films. -Tom Keogh, Amazon. com.

Review Warner Home Video / Battle Of The Bulge [1966]
Actors & Directors
  • Henry Fonda
  • Ken Annakin
  • George Montgomery
  • Robert Shaw
  • Dana Andrews
  • Robert Ryan
Release date: 2000-06-19
Run time: 150 min.
Creator: John Melson
RRP: £10.99
Price: £0.98

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