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Actors & Directors
  • Jonathan Bliss
  • Maria Lease
  • Lee Frost
  • Michael Dikova
Run time: 85 min.

Review THE SCAVENGERS (1969) - Jonathan Bliss / Derann FDV 314:

The Scavengers Were Rotten to the Core - Thoroughly Disgusting, And Had a Serious Freudian Problem. You'll Probably Love Them.

Review MGM Entertainment / The Kentuckian [1955]
Actors & Directors
  • Burt Lancaster
  • Diana Lynn
  • Burt Lancaster
  • Walter Matthau
Release date: 2000-11-13
Run time: 99 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £1.98

Review The Kentuckian [1955] / MGM Entertainment:

Burt Lancaster's one and only feature as star and director, The Kentuckian, has a bedrock American folk tale at its core, but scarcely a clue how to tell it. For all his balletic control as an actor-athlete, Lancaster shows no sense of how a film should move and breathe over an hour and a half, or how to make the characters' growth or changes of mind credible. It's the early 18th century-Monroe is president-and buckskin-clad Lancaster and his son (Donald MacDonald) are lighting out for Texas. "It ain't we don't like people-we like room more. " They plan briefly to visit Lancaster's tobacco-dealer brother (John McIntire) in the river town of Humility, and then move on. But there are complications from a long-running feud, and some nasty baiting from a whip-cracking storekeeper (Walter Matthau in his film debut); the need to replace their "Texas money" after buying freedom for a bondservant (Dianne Foster); also the matter of deciding who's prettier, her or the local schoolmarm (Diana Lynn). Lancaster aims for some quaint Americana-a sing-along to the tinkling of a pianoforte, a jaw-dropping riverside production number-and there's one nifty bit of action based on how long it took to reload a flintlock rifle. But mostly this film just lies there in overlit CinemaScope. -Richard T Jameson.

Actors & Directors
  • Roberta Haynes
  • Donna Reed
  • Rock Hudson
  • Raoul Walsh
  • Leo Gordon
  • Philip Carey
Release date: 1997-06-02
Run time: 79 min.
RRP: £4.99
Price: £1.95

Review Gun Fury [1953] / 2 Entertain Video:


Actors & Directors
  • Gary Cooper
  • Thomas Mitchell
  • Grace Kelly
  • Fred Zinnemann
  • Glenn Ford
  • William Castle
  • Frank Lovejoy
Run time: 162 min.

Review High Noon / The Americano (1952/1955) / The Video Collection DB0001:

Double-Bill of 2 great westerns from the 1950's. HIGH NOON is one of the all-time classic westerns. Retired marshall Will Kane (Gary Cooper, - Beau Geste, Sergeant York) is just about to marry his fiancee (Grace Kelly, - Dial M For Murder, To Catch A Thief ), when news comes that three killers are on the noon train to town seeking revenge. As the townspeople desert him he must decide whether to stand and fight or leave before the men arrive. THE AMERICANO, is a less well-known , though still very excellent western starring one of Hollywood's greatest 'unsung' stars, Glenn Ford (Gilda, 3:10 To Yuma, Day Of The Evil Gun). Here he plays a rancher transporting his 3 prize bulls to their new owner in Brazil, and facing everything from piranha-infested rivers to bandits along the way.

Review Delta Visual Entertainment / The Outlaw [1943]
Actors & Directors
  • Thomas Mitchell
  • Walter Huston
  • Howard Hawks
  • Jack Buetel
  • Howard Hughes
  • Mimi Aguglia
  • Jane Russell
Release date: 2000-06-26
Run time: 121 min.
RRP: £4.99
Price: £2.44

Review The Outlaw [1943] / Delta Visual Entertainment:


Actors & Directors
  • John Wayne
  • Yakima Canutt
  • Marion Burns
  • Robert N. Bradbury
  • Reed Howes
Run time: 53 min.
Price: £7.99

Review Dawn Rider, The NOW PART OF PARADISE CANYON TWO FILMS ON ONE TAPE - E-UK 4/92 [1935] / Castle Pictures (Defunct Label):


Review Oracle Home Entertainment Limited / Wanderer Of The Wasteland [1945]
Actors & Directors
  • Edward Killy
  • Robert Clarke
  • Robert Barrat
  • James Warren
  • Richard Martin (II)
  • Wallace Grissell
  • Audrey Long
Release date: 2002-09-23
Run time: 67 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.75

Review Wanderer Of The Wasteland [1945] / Oracle Home Entertainment Limited:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Hondo [1954]
Actors & Directors
  • Geraldine Page
  • John Farrow
  • James Arness
  • Michael Pate
  • Ward Bond
  • John Wayne
Release date: 1998-07-06
Run time: 79 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £9.98

Review Hondo [1954] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Laguna Films / Los Dos Rivales [1966] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Javiar Lopez
  • Carlos Agosti
  • Antonio Aguilar
  • Maria Teresa Rivas
  • Chabelo
  • Miguel Zacarias
Release date: 2006-07-27
Run time: 90 min.
Price: £2.82

Review Los Dos Rivales [1966] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Laguna Films:


Review Second Sight Films Ltd. / The Lawless Frontier [1935]
Actors & Directors
  • Jay Wilsey
  • Robert N. Bradbury
  • George 'Gabby' Hayes
  • Sheila Terry
  • John Wayne
  • Jack Rockwell
Release date: 1998-03-16
Run time: 48 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.19

Review The Lawless Frontier [1935] / Second Sight Films Ltd.:


Review Warner Home Video / The Secret Invasion [1964]
Actors & Directors
  • Roger Corman|Stewart Granger|Raf Vallone|Mickey Rooney
Release date: 1998-09-21
Run time: 94 min.
Price: £5.99

Review The Secret Invasion [1964] / Warner Home Video:


Review Warner Home Video / The Dirty Dozen [1967]
Actors & Directors
  • Jim Brown
  • Ernest Borgnine
  • Lee Marvin
  • John Cassavetes
  • Robert Aldrich
  • Charles Bronson
Release date: 2000-06-19
Run time: 143 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £0.49

Review The Dirty Dozen [1967] / Warner Home Video:

A model for dozens of action films to follow, this box-office hit from 1967 refined a die-hard formula that has become overly familiar, but it's rarely been handled better than it was in this action-packed World War II thriller. Lee Marvin is perfectly cast as a down-but-not-out army major who is offered a shot at personal and professional redemption. If he can successfully train and discipline a squad of army rejects, misfits, killers, prisoners, and psychopaths into a first-rate unit of specialised soldiers, they'll earn a second chance to make up for their woeful misdeeds. Of course, there's a catch: to obtain their pardons, Marvin's band of badmen must agree to a suicide mission that will parachute them into the danger zone of Nazi-occupied France. It's a hazardous path to glory, but the men have no other choice than to accept and regain their lost honor. What makes The Dirty Dozen special is its phenomenal cast including Charles Bronson, Donald Sutherland, Telly Savalas, George Kennedy, Ernest Borgnine, John Cassavetes, Richard Jaeckel, Jim Brown, Clint Walker, Trini Lopez, Robert Ryan, and others. Cassavetes is the Oscar-nominated standout as one of Marvin's most rebellious yet heroic men, but it's the whole ensemble-combined with the hard-as-nails direction of Robert Aldrich-that makes this such a high-velocity crowd pleaser. The script by Nunnally Johnson and Lukas Heller (from the novel by E. M. Nathanson) is strong enough to support the all-star lineup with ample humour and military grit, so if you're in need of a mainline jolt of testosterone, The Dirty Dozen is the movie for you. [+]
-Jeff Shannon.

Review Cinema Club / The Guns Of Navarone [1961]
Actors & Directors
  • Anthony Quinn
  • Alexander Mackendrick
  • Anthony Quayle
  • J. Lee Thompson
  • David Niven
  • Gregory Peck
  • Stanley Baker
Release date: 2000-07-24
Run time: 150 min.
Price: £5.99

Review The Guns Of Navarone [1961] / Cinema Club:

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.

Actors & Directors
  • Leon Klimovsky
  • Jack Palance
Run time: 91 min.

Review A BULLET FOR ROMMEL (1969) (aka: The Fall of the Giants) - Jack Palance / Inter-Ocean IOV 023:

During World War II, a tough officer organizes a commando raid into Germany

Review Delta Visual Entertainment / Painted Desert, The / Clark Gable On Film (1931)
Actors & Directors
  • William Boyd
  • Helen Twelvetrees
  • William Farnum
  • Clark Gable
  • Howard Higgin
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:


Actors & Directors
  • Katherine Squire
  • Monte Hellman
  • George Mitchell (II)
  • Jack Nicholson
  • Cameron Mitchell
  • Millie Perkins
Run time: 148 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £14.99

Review The Jack Nicholson Westerns - The Shooting / Ride In The Whirlwind [1966] / Creative Media Marketing:


Review 4 Front Video / In Old California [1943]
Actors & Directors
  • Patsy Kelly
  • Albert Dekker
  • John Wayne
  • William C. McGann
  • Binnie Barnes
  • Helen Parrish
Release date: 1996-05-06
Run time: 89 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.00

Review In Old California [1943] / 4 Front Video:


Review Digital Video Distribution / Hurricane Express [1932]
Actors & Directors
  • John Wayne
  • Conway Tearle
  • Edmund Breese
  • Tully Marshall
  • J.P. McGowan
  • Shirley Grey
  • Armand Schaefer
Release date: 1996-08-12
Run time: 77 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £5.99

Review Hurricane Express [1932] / Digital Video Distribution:


Review Warner Home Video / The Searchers [1956]
Actors & Directors
  • Natalie Wood
  • John Ford
  • Jeffrey Hunter
  • Ward Bond
  • Vera Miles
  • John Wayne
Release date: 1999-04-19
RRP: £9.99
Price: £13.99

Review The Searchers [1956] / Warner Home Video:

A favourite film of some of the world's greatest filmmakers, including Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg, John Ford's The Searchers has earned its place in the legacy of great American films for a variety of reasons. Perhaps most notably, it's the definitive role for John Wayne as an icon of the classic Western-the hero (or antihero) who must stand alone according to the unwritten code of The West. The story takes place in Texas in 1868; Wayne plays Ethan Edwards, a Confederate veteran who visits his brother and sister-in-law at their ranch and is horrified when they are killed by marauding Comanches. Ethan's search for a surviving niece (played by young Natalie Wood) becomes an all-consuming obsession. With the help of a family friend (Jeffrey Hunter) who is himself part-Cherokee, Ethan hits the trail on a five-year quest for revenge. At the peak of his masterful talent, director Ford crafts this classic tale as an embittered examination of racism and blind hatred, provoking Wayne to give one of the best performances of his career. As with many of Ford's classic Westerns, The Searchers must contend with revisionism in its stereotypical treatment of "savage" Native Americans, and the film's visual beauty (the final shot is one of the great images in all of Western culture) is compromised by some uneven performances and stilted dialogue. Still, this is undeniably one of the greatest Westerns ever made. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com.

Review Delta Visual Entertainment / Star Packer / Blue Steel [1934]
Actors & Directors
  • George 'Gabby' Hayes
  • John Wayne
  • Eleanor Hunt
  • Robert N. Bradbury
Release date: 2002-04-01
Run time: 99 min.
Price: £4.99

Review Star Packer / Blue Steel [1934] / Delta Visual Entertainment:


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THE SCAVENGERS (1969) - Jonathan Bliss, The Kentuckian [1955], Gun Fury [1953], High Noon / The Americano (1952/1955), The Outlaw [1943], Dawn Rider, The NOW PART OF PARADISE CANYON TWO FILMS ON ONE TAPE - E-UK 4/92 [1935], Wanderer Of The Wasteland [1945], Hondo [1954], Los Dos Rivales [1966] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Lawless Frontier [1935], The Secret Invasion [1964], The Dirty Dozen [1967], The Guns Of Navarone [1961], A BULLET FOR ROMMEL (1969) (aka: The Fall of the Giants) - Jack Palance, Painted Desert, The / Clark Gable On Film (1931), The Jack Nicholson Westerns - The Shooting / Ride In The Whirlwind [1966], In Old California [1943], Hurricane Express [1932], The Searchers [1956], Star Packer / Blue Steel [1934]

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