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Review MGM Entertainment / Unforgiven [1959]
Actors & Directors
  • John Huston|Burt Lancaster|Audrey Hepburn|Audie Murphy
Release date: 1995-10-16
Run time: 116 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £16.99

Review Unforgiven [1959] / MGM Entertainment:

No relation to the 1992 Clint Eastwood film of almost the same name, 1959's The Unforgiven is based-like John Ford's The Searchers-on a novel by Alan LeMay. Again the story focuses on a frontier family divided by racism. But instead of the complex, endlessly resonant demonology of the Ford picture, here John Huston aims for a pat, civil-rights-era allegory of loving solidarity triumphing over societal prejudice-and, to be sure, some noble but dangerous Kiowas. Burt Lancaster and Audrey Hepburn costar as, respectively, the eldest son of a ranching family and the beloved sister who's not his sister at all, but an Indian. However, the film's dark heart belongs to Joseph Wiseman as an avenging ghost who materialises out of the wind and Lillian Gish as the matriarch who will do whatever she must to protect her clan. -Richard T Jameson.

Review Second Sight Films Ltd. / The Lucky Texan [1934]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert N. Bradbury
  • John Wayne
  • George 'Gabby' Hayes
  • Barbara Sheldon
  • Yakima Canutt
  • Lloyd Whitlock
Release date: 1998-03-16
Run time: 54 min.
Creator: Paul Malvern
Price: £5.99

Review The Lucky Texan [1934] / Second Sight Films Ltd.:


Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / The Bridge On The River Kwai [1957]
Actors & Directors
  • James Donald
  • Jack Hawkins
  • William Holden
  • Alec Guinness
  • David Lean
  • Sessue Hayakawa
Release date: 1996-10-28
Run time: 155 min.
Creator: Pierre Boulle
RRP: £14.99
Price: £10.00

Review The Bridge On The River Kwai [1957] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:

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.

Actors & Directors
  • Richard Attenborough
  • Michael Wilding
  • Bernard Lee
  • Richard Todd
  • Don Chaffey
  • Dennis Price
Release date: 1993-08-31
Run time: 97 min.
Price: £10.99

Review Danger Within [1958] / Lumiere Pictures:


Actors & Directors
  • Dana Andrews
  • Henry Fonda
  • William Wellman
Run time: 75 min.

Review The Ox-Bow Incident (1943):

A classic western with razor sharp realism about a lynch mob, convinced that three cowboys are murderers and cattle thieves, hanging the wrong men. Great performances from a sterling cast and expertly directed.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Morituri [1965]
Actors & Directors
  • Bernhard Wicki
  • Marlon Brando
  • Martin Benrath
  • Trevor Howard
  • Janet Margolin
  • Yul Brynner
Release date: 1990-06-07
Run time: 123 min.
Creator: Werner Jörg Lüddecke
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.49

Review Morituri [1965] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review 4 Front Video / Johnny Guitar [1953]
Actors & Directors
  • Scott Brady
  • Nicholas Ray
  • Sterling Hayden
  • Ward Bond
  • Joan Crawford
  • Mercedes McCambridge
Release date: 1999-01-18
Run time: 105 min.
Price: £5.99

Review Johnny Guitar [1953] / 4 Front Video:

"I've never seen a woman who was more like a man," a character observes of Vienna (Joan Crawford), who has just opened a saloon that hasn't exactly endeared itself to the local townspeople. Emma (Mercedes McCambridge), the local sexually repressed, lynch-happy harpy, is particularly displeased. Vienna is wooed both by the Dancin' Kid (Scott Brady) and by Johnny Guitar (Sterling Hayden), a peripatetic tough guy-turned-troubadour with whom she has a past. When the Kid's gang (which includes Ernest Borgnine) decides to knock over the bank before heading to California, Emma wants just about everyone in sight on the business end of a rope. Nicolas Ray's 1954 epic was considered one of the downright strangest Westerns of all time-the women were far tougher than the men (Johnny watches on laconically during the bank robbery, not bothering with heroics), and some saw in the film a bizarre allegory for the McCarthy Red scare. A half-century later, it's still a curious, intriguing piece of moral ambiguity from a time when such a thing ostensibly didn't exist. Hayden is an enigmatic presence, and Crawford's commanding star turn is what you'd expect. -David Kronke.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Broken Arrow [1950]
Actors & Directors
  • Debra Paget
  • Delmer Daves
  • Basil Ruysdael
  • James Stewart
  • Will Geer
  • Jeff Chandler
Release date: 1998-08-03
Run time: 89 min.
Creator: Michael Blankfort
RRP: £5.99
Price: £19.99

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Review Warner Home Video / Death Rides A Horse [1967]
Actors & Directors
  • John Phillip Law
  • Anthony Dawson
  • Luigi Pistilli
  • Mario Brega
  • Lee Van Cleef
  • Giulio Petroni
Release date: 1998-02-16
Run time: 110 min.
Creator: Luciano Vincenzoni
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.26

Review Death Rides A Horse [1967] / Warner Home Video:


Review MGM Entertainment / 633 Squadron [1964]
Actors & Directors
  • George Chakiris
  • Maria Perschy
  • Walter Grauman
  • Cliff Robertson
  • Harry Andrews
  • Donald Houston
Release date: 2000-05-29
Run time: 92 min.
Creator: James Clavell
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.73

Review 633 Squadron [1964] / MGM Entertainment:


Review 4 Front Video / Dakota [1945] [1946]
Actors & Directors
  • Joseph Kane|John Wayne|Vera Ralston|Walter Brennan
Release date: 1997-08-18
Run time: 82 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.99

Review Dakota [1945] [1946] / 4 Front Video:


Review Second Sight Films Ltd. / West Of The Divide [1935]
Actors & Directors
  • George 'Gabby' Hayes
  • John Wayne
  • Yakima Canutt
  • Lloyd Whitlock
  • Virginia Brown Faire
  • Robert N. Bradbury
Release date: 1998-03-16
Run time: 52 min.
Creator: Oliver Drake
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.00

Review West Of The Divide [1935] / Second Sight Films Ltd.:


Review Second Sight Films Ltd. / Riders Of Destiny [1934]
Actors & Directors
  • Forrest Taylor
  • John Wayne
  • George 'Gabby' Hayes
  • Robert N. Bradbury
  • Al St. John
  • Cecilia Parker
Release date: 1998-03-16
Run time: 49 min.
Creator: Paul Malvern
Price: £5.99

Review Riders Of Destiny [1934] / Second Sight Films Ltd.:


Review 4 Front Video / Three Faces West [1940]
Actors & Directors
  • Helen MacKellar
  • Sigrid Gurie
  • Charles Coburn
  • Bernard Vorhaus
  • Spencer Charters
  • John Wayne
Release date: 1997-08-18
Run time: 75 min.
Creator: Samuel Ornitz
RRP: £5.99
Price: £7.69

Review Three Faces West [1940] / 4 Front Video:


Review Delta Visual Entertainment / Fighting Caravans [1931]
Actors & Directors
  • David Burton
  • Lili Damita
  • Otto Brower
  • Gary Cooper
  • Tully Marshall
  • Fred Kohler
  • Ernest Torrence
Release date: 2001-05-14
Run time: 81 min.
Creator: Zane Grey
RRP: £4.99
Price: £3.99

Review Fighting Caravans [1931] / Delta Visual Entertainment:


Review 4 Front Video / Wagonmaster [1950]
Actors & Directors
  • John Ford|Ben Johnson|Joanne Dru|Harry Carey Jr.
Release date: 1999-01-18
Run time: 86 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £17.99

Review Wagonmaster [1950] / 4 Front Video:


Review Second Sight Films Ltd. / Paradise Canyon [1936]
Actors & Directors
  • Marion Burns
  • Carl Pierson
  • Reed Howes
  • Gino Corrado
  • John Wayne
  • Earle Hodgins
Release date: 1998-03-16
Run time: 54 min.
Creator: Robert Emmett Tansey
Price: £5.99

Review Paradise Canyon [1936] / Second Sight Films Ltd.:


Actors & Directors
  • Dana Andrews
  • Archie Mayo
  • Anne Baxter
  • Tyrone Power
Run time: 105 min.

Review Crash Dive (1943):

Filmed during WWII, this swift moving adventure was aimed at getting everyone in the US on-side after America joined the war. None-the-less, it is a well written action piece, acted well and thoroughly entertaining.

Review 4 Front Video / Pittsburgh [1943]
Actors & Directors
  • Frank Craven
  • Lewis Seiler
  • Louise Allbritton
  • Randolph Scott
  • Marlene Dietrich
  • John Wayne
Release date: 2000-02-07
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: Tom Reed
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.99

Review Pittsburgh [1943] / 4 Front Video:


Review Second Sight Films Ltd. / The Star Packer [1935]
Actors & Directors
  • Billy Franey
  • Yakima Canutt
  • John Wayne
  • George 'Gabby' Hayes
  • Robert N. Bradbury
  • Verna Hillie
Release date: 1998-03-16
Run time: 54 min.
Creator: Paul Malvern
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.97

Review The Star Packer [1935] / Second Sight Films Ltd.:


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