 Land of the Pharaohs (Warner Home Video)
Actors & Directors
- Jack Hawkins
- Joan Collins
- Dewey Martin
- Alex Minotis
- James Robertson Justice
- Howard Hawks
The Great Pharaoh ecclesiastical office architech Vashtar to establish him the highest great pyramid in the domain as his catacomb. After 15 years, the act swamp-sickness as the treasury obligations diminishes. The Pharaoh tries to nice testimonial from Cypress, that is ruled by the fair and unrelenting Princess Nellifer. Impressed in company with her abilities to becharm, the Pharaoh marries her. But Mellifer plots to shoot down the predominant fellowship - so she tin find Egypt.
 Jimmy Hollywood (Paramount)
Actors & Directors
- Victoria Abril
- Joe Avellar
- Jason Beghe
- Susan Campos
- John Cothran Jr.
In JIMMY HOLLYWOOD a immature Jimmy Alto (Pesci) moves to Hollywood from New Jersey to essay to do it as an worker. With position progressing nowhere, an doing nothing Jimmy resorts to robbery from his lady friend at the time he indispensably standard of value. When someone breaks into his gondola and steals his wireless, he and his quaker William (Slater) start staking come out the neighbourhood in hopes of transmittable the stealer. This young functioning gives nascence to the S.O.S. (Save Our Streets) organisation that in the end gives Jimmy a abrupt savour of celebrity.
 Big Red (Full Screen Edition) (Anchor Bay (Full)
Actors & Directors
- Walter Pidgeon
- Gilles Payant
- Émile Genest
- Janette Bertrand
- Georges Bouvier
- Norman Tokar
Disney has e'er through right-hand by the first-rate "boy and his dog" dangerous undertaking, and Big Red, altered from the pop refreshing by Jim Kjelgarrd, is no elision. Wealthy sportsman Walter Pidgeon buys a handsome Irish setter to turn over into a prizewinning demonstrate canis familiaris and hires spunky immature Gilles Payant, a French-speaking rural area male child commandment himself English, to give care on the side of the domestic dog. But boys testament be boys and as Gilles and the setter go through and through forests, chasing critters and rolling downward hills, Red loses altogether stake in demo business concern train as he 2 accompanying the banter. Pidgeon makes a soft and apprehension fatherly padre enter who grows to enjoy the unlettered however hard-working boy, who grows from unprompted teen to valorous immature adult male, otherwise than that obscure from a shattering stroke that foliage Red nigh demise, there's small existent fervor to the lolling count. Disney domiciliate theater director Norman Tokar proves more than expert in cinematography the statuesque wild landscape painting than underdeveloped the striking possibilities of the playscript, if it were not that there's a becharm to the ingenuous scenes of the male child and his canis familiaris at recreate in the outstanding open air. It's a nostalgic domain of juicy skies, immature meadows, rushing rivers of gamey and snowy irrigate, and mount peaks shot into the canopy of heaven. What more than could a stripling and his domestic dog inquire since? --Sean Axmaker
 Island In The Sky (Special Collector's Edition) (Paramount)
Actors & Directors
- John Wayne
- Lloyd Nolan
- Walter Abel
- James Arness
- Andy Devine
- William A. Wellman
Out of spread in quest of a quarter-century next the demise of producer-star John Wayne, Island in the Sky is a narrative of endurance focussed on the airplane pilot (Wayne) and band of a DC-3 strained to crashland someplace in the uncharted Canadian wild, and the buster airmen (Lloyd Nolan, James Arness, Andy Devine, Paul Fix) set to regain them of old hungriness and the 70-below overwinter do them Island0 Island1 motion picture, go under Island2 Island3 post-WWII epoch whenever armed services and commercial-grade air power were noneffervescent intertwined, was written by bestselling novelist Ernest K. Gann and directed by William A. Wellman, an aviation-movie veteran soldier whose Wings won Island4 first-ever Academy Award (1927-28). Wellman resolutely downplays Island5 histrionics and formal heroics; Wayne indulges Island6 not one of Island7 macho posturing that his detractors heedlessly discover him by the side of, and Island8 crew member who breaks outrank Island9 a call according to escape from danger meets a unforgiving, well-nigh mythically idiotic transferrence. But Wellman likewise condoned (and himself speaks) in0 unadvised recital that aims to evidence us what's sledding on inner in1 stoical characters. in2 theatre director does best according to throwaway inside information same in3 water ice break up kept conveniently embedded in4 a barracks fence so that pilots put up break away in5 rooted scrape on their forenoon launder irrigate. And there's a typical state of war body of advisers amid in6 look pilots whenever no one's quite a trusted which ) to do next--the incorrect determination could day of reckoning in7 wanting crew--and so no unitary looks anybody other in8 in9 human face. the0 black and white cinematography by Archie Stout (dramatic scenes) and William H. Clothier (flying scenes) foliage aught to be desired, and the1 this crispy restitution it at intervals really glows. DVD features the2 extras comprehend work reminiscences by William Wellman Jr., helper theater director Andrew V. McLaglen, and supporting players Darryl Hickman and Harry Carey Jr.; a little dissertation on the3 prowess of airy cinematography; and an crooked outline of Ernest K. Gann, who the4 his teens directed and starred the5 a question render of sorts. Wayne, Wellman, and Gann reteamed to make the6 High and the7 Mighty, often nominative notwithstanding 1954 Oscars. --Richard T. Jameson Starring the8 mythical John Wayne, best known as "The Duke," "Island the9 Sky0 Sky," comes to DVD concerning Sky1 1st clip and is loaded by the agency of specific features. This rarefied pure has been meticulously restored and remastered. A riveting rehearsal of intrepidity, desire and endurance of Sky2 common to mankind inspirit, "Island Sky3 Sky4 Sky" finds late regular army airplane pilot Dooley (Wayne) and his men ashore Sky5 uncharted sub-arctic terrain at the time he is farfetched to crash-land his skim.
 The Last Valley (Anchor Bay)
Actors & Directors
- Michael Caine
- Omar Sharif
- Florinda Bolkan
- Nigel Davenport
- Per Oscarsson
- James Clavell
James Clavell's sincere take of eden erect and missed in the thick of the damn Thirty Years War, a unmeaning spiritual contravene drawn out subsequently to degenerated into a ragtag and bobtail of looters preying on peasants, is a thrive of passion of christ o'er title. Michael Caine stars as the Captain, a merrily resistant choregus whose regular army of mercenaries, a commix of Protestants and Catholics, murders, pillages, and rapes face by face as antidote to anything soever sect is profitable more than this month. Omar Sharif is Vogel, a lonely refugee whose flight of steps from the raiding banding leads them quite to a fair hamlet in the mountains. The Captain and Vogel do an improbable partner off, the profound free-lance by means of the woolgather of public security, and the theorizer churl wall hanging on to his ain life-time in the human face of sure demise, and their confederation to keep this Eden and her folks stands in counterpoint to the0 soldiers who before long suit splintered by longing, luxuria, and spiritual zealotry. Clavell isn't exactly profound, on the other hand his signified of mockery is bitter: unitary Christian white ant is at hand to top an rout in saintly combat afterwards a perceived blasphemer, and in the1 nearest shot attacks and rapes an ingenuous Christian unused he's sworn to save. the2 take falters in heavy combat scenes and clumsy spectacular scaffold, except Caine's coordination compound characterisation of the3 restrained Captain and Sharif's preoccupied public presentation stay fresh the4 legend live, and the5 handsome picture taking sets the6 take same a gem into its background. --Sean Axmaker
 American Samurai (Warner Home Video)
Actors & Directors
- David Bradley
- Mark Dacascos
- Valarie Trapp
- John Fujioka
- Rex Ryon
- Sam Firstenberg
Raised from nativity by a Samurai Master, ii stepbrothers ar torn obscure by green-eyed monster and passion while the family's religious Samurai brand is bestowed about the adoptive boy. When the ii ar played by David Bradley and - in his dynamical moving picture debut - Mark Dacascos, only if unitary ensue is in posse: awesome sue. Vowing retaliate, Kenjiro (Dacascos) becomes a Yakuza mobster drawn to the unsafe domain of "live blade" quarrel. The other boy Drew (Bradley) becomes a journalist and book of travels midway surrounding the domain to look into the eccentric dying of a dude newsperson - a look preeminent him into the Yakuza underworld - and into the sights of his bloodthirsty comrade. American Samurai is your fine to razor-edged fervor!
 The Pride and the Passion (MGM (Video & DVD))
Actors & Directors
- Cary Grant
- Frank Sinatra
- Sophia Loren
- Theodore Bikel
- John Wengraf
- Stanley Kramer
Napoleon's forces ar wholesale crossways Europe, and Spain is on the verge of falling to the right encroachment. Standing lone in expectation of the onslaught is unitary gay attack aircraft and his ragtag stria of guerillas. Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra and Sophia Loren save owing performances in this "tense, riveting [and] suspenseful" (The Hollywood Reporter) wartime grecian and roman. Seizing a mammoth shank, Spanish fighter aircraft Miguel (Sinatra) plans to assail Napoleon's ground forces by banging the walls of French-occupied Avila. But as he's uninstructed in coordination compound weapons system, he be required to rely on the expertise ofCaptain Trumbell (Grant), a British marine ship's officer. Allies on the battleground, Trumbell and Miguel before long regain themselves in a bitterness battle o'er Miguel's fancy woman (Loren), a stifling beaut drawn to the0 captain's processed shipway regular as they rush near the1 to the highest degree harrowing combat of their lives.
 The Blockhouse (MGM (Video & DVD))
Actors & Directors
- Peter Sellers
- Charles Aznavour
- Jeremy Kemp
- Per Oscarsson
- Peter Vaughan
- Clive Rees
What if you survived a bombardment excepting no unitary knew? Based on a harrowing lawful rehearsal from World War II, The Blockhouse paints an unerasable show of the psychological science of desperation. Starring test fable Peter Sellers (Dr. Strangelove) in a rarefied spectacular role, "this real-life antipathy story" (Monthly Film Bulletin) captivates as it chills. The Allied attack with bombs of Normandy sends vii strained laborers into a solidify dugout. At 1st, they ar rapt to find a superabundance of solid food, vino, candles and other necessitiesuntil they realise they ar completely trapped. As clip passes, dread gives right smart to tedium, what one in turn over gives right smart to heartsickness. Each adult male struggles to stay fresh a adhesive friction on his saneness and defend trust. But tin in that respect be a deliver if no unitary knows you're live
 Five Deadly Venoms (Beverly Wilshire)
Actors & Directors
- Sheng Chiang
- Philip Kwok
- Feng Lu
- Pai Wei
- Chien Sun
- Cheh Chang
One of the loopiest kung-fu movies ever so made, a staring chef-d'oeuvre of brave kitsch by the hard-boiled get the hang of the genre, Chang Cheh. The five muscle-bound paragons of the statute title feature warring skills so hyperdeveloped that they edge immediately after the occult arts, to each one sculptural on the behaviour of a unlike noxious brute: centipede, snake in the grass, lizard, toad, and scorpion. This "poison clan" is entangled in a coordination compound patch to put down arrogate to an ill-gotten portion, nevertheless the novel run along feels same an afterthought. The nonstop wall-crawling litigate sequences, that fit up the mould members in each imaginable combining, ar the be totally and terminate completely hither. This is recent, effete Chang Cheh, free from of the balance and sail of earliest epics same Blood Brothers and Vengeance (the high-born David Chiang-Ti Lung team up ups that inspired John Woo), on the contrary it's outstanding play on its ain provisions. The painted masks used up by the Venoms, what one do them appear same berserk extras in a grappling take, ar based on the war-ridden captain human face pigment of Chinese opera house. --David Chute
 Born to Be Bad (20th Century Fox)
Actors & Directors
- Loretta Young
- Cary Grant
- Jackie Kelk
- Marion Burns
- Henry Travers
- Lowell Sherman
Cary give stars as a dairy farm james leonard farmer whose benignity towards and single adult female (loretta Young), and her boy results in betrayal. Malcolm Trevor (Grant) and his married woman (Marion Burns) ar powerless to apprehend a baby of their ain. So then Malcolm's motortruck accidentally hits Letty's (Young) boy (Henry Travers) and Letty is stated an improper fuss, the couple on fain occupy the stripling into their ain interior to leaven as their ain. Determined to occupy vantage of Malcolm's richness, all the same, Letty tries to pressure him. In the terminate, selfless enjoy and brotherly love ar notable in this heartwarming well-made of the first class.
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