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albert 11th Apr 2019		DVD Box Set Laurel And Hardy : The Collection - Universal (2004)	Disc 20 {text cribbed from booklet} Going Bye-Bye! [1934] The boy's courtroom testimony helps to convict a criminal, who vows his revenge as soon as he can break out of prison. The boys decide to leave town. They find a woman who will join them, in order to share expenses. Unfortunately her boyfriend got locked in a trunk and the boys free him only to find out that he is in fact the criminal that they helped get convicted! A remake of the silent short Love 'Em and Weep. Do Detectives Think? [1927 silent] A judge who has just sentenced a man to death calls on two detectives, Stan and Ollie, for protection. Habeas Corpus [1929 silent] The boys are hired by a mad scientist to steel a dead body from the cemetery for an experiment. Angora Love [1929 silent] A goat follows Stan and Ollie everywhere after Stan gives it some food. They end up taking it home and trying to give it a bath because it smells so bad. Bacon Grabbers [1929 silent] The boys have a subpoena to repossess a radio from Edgar Kennedy, which they eventually get...and manage to destroy. The Midnight Patrol [1933] Officers Laurel and Hardy are sent to investigate a man breaking into a house, but unfortunately they lose the address. When they find what they think is the house they break in, in order to get their man, however the house is actually owned by their Chief. Liberty [1929 silent] Two escaped convicts, Stan and Ollie, dump their prison clothes for street clothes. Realising they have each other's pants, a change must be made. By the time they find a private place to change they are on top of an unfinished skyscraper. Wrong Again [1929 silent] The boys are working at a stable when they are told that "Blue Boy" (a painting) is missing and the millionaire owner wants it back. When they think that "Blue Boy" (a horse) is the missing possession they deliver it to the millionaire's mansion.
albert 11th Apr 2019		DVD Box Set Laurel And Hardy : The Collection - Universal (2004)	Disc 21 {text cribbed from booklet} Thundering Fleas [1926 silent] A sort of all-star Our Gang comedy, in which all sorts of Roach's regulars and mini-stars - except Stan Laurel - appear. The sole gag here is that a bunch of fleas gets loose at the gorgeous Martha Sleeper's wedding, causing all sorts of consternation. Fluttering Hearts [1927 silent] Ignoring her father's attempts to counsel her, a young woman races off to a sale at a store. Chased by a motorcycle policeman, she eventually wins him over with the help of a friendly millionaire. Meanwhile, her father desperately needs to retrieve a compromising letter that he once wrote, and he will need help to do it. Oliver Hardy & Charlie Chase star. Prudence [1927 silent] Laurel & Hardy - A Tribute To The Boys [1991] TV documentary with lots of archive footage and contributions from Blake Edwards, Walter Matthau, Johnny Carson, Steve Allen and others.
albert 10th Apr 2019		DVD Box Set Laurel And Hardy : The Collection - Universal (2004)	disc 1 A Chump At Oxford [1940] A Chump At Oxford (colourised) From Soup To Nuts [1928 silent] Another Fine Mess [1930] Another Fine Mess (colourised) disc 2 County Hospital [1932] County Hospital (colourised) Them Thar Hills [1934] Them Thar Hills (colourised) Tit For Tat [1935] Tit For Tat (colourised) Perfect Day [1929] Perfect Day (colourised) They Go Boom! [1929] Leave 'Em Laughing [1928 silent] disc 3 Way Out West [1937] Way Out West (colourised) One Good Turn [1931] One Good Turn (colourised) Thicker Than Water [1935] Thicker Than Water (colourised) disc 4 Beau Hunks [1931] Beau Hunks (colourised) Our Wife [1931] Our Wife (colourised) Helpmates [1931] Helpmates (colourised) Me And My Pal [1933] Me And My Pal (colourised)
albert 10th Apr 2019		DVD Box Set Laurel And Hardy : The Collection - Universal (2004)	disc 5 Our Relations [1936] Our Relations (colourised) Brats [1930 later version] Brats (colourised later version) Twice Two [1933] Twice Two (colourised) disc 6 The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case [1930] The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case (colourised) Noche De Duendes (Spanish combined version of The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case & Berth Marks) Berth Marks [1929] Berth Marks (colourised) Oliver The Eighth [1934] Oliver The Eighth (colourised) disc 7 Block-Heads [1938] Block-Heads (colourised) Unaccustomed As We Are [1929] Unaccustomed As We Are (colourised) With Love And Hisses [1927 silent] Should Married Men Go Home? [1928 silent]
albert 10th Apr 2019		DVD Box Set Laurel And Hardy : The Collection - Universal (2004)	disc 8 Chickens Come Home [1931] Chickens Come Home (colourised) Politiquerias (Spanish extended version of Chickens Come Home) Come Clean [1931] Love 'Em And Weep [1927 silent] Sugar Daddies [1927 silent] Early To Bed [1928 silent] disc 9 The Bohemian Girl [1936] The Bohemian Girl (colourised) On The Loose [1932] That's My Wife [1929 silent] Along Came Auntie [1926 silent] disc 10 Laughing Gravy (short version) Laughing Gravy [1931] Laughing Gravy (colourised) Les Carottiers (French combined version of Laughing Gravy and Be Big) The Fixer-Uppers [1935] The Fixer-Uppers (colourised) Slipping Wives [1927 silent] disc 11 Saps At Sea [1940] Saps At Sea (colourised) You're Darn Tootin' [1928 silent] Below Zero [1930] Below Zero (colourised) Tiembla Y Titubea (Spanish extended version of Below Zero)
albert 10th Apr 2019		DVD Box Set Laurel And Hardy : The Collection - Universal (2004)	disc 12 Scram! [1932] Scram! (colourised) Night Owls [1930] Night Owls (colourised) Ladrones (Spanish extended version of Night Owls) The Second Hundred Years [1927 silent] Call Of The Cuckoo [1927 silent] Duck Soup [1927 silent] Forty-Five Minutes From Hollywood [1926 silent] Big Business [1929 silent] disc 13 Sons Of The Desert [1933] Sons Of The Desert (colourised) We Faw Down [1928 silent] Their Purple Moment [1928 silent] On The Wrong Trek [1936] disc 14 Busy Bodies [1933] Busy Bodies (colourised) Double Whoopee [1929 silent] Hog Wild [1930] Hog Wild (colourised) Dirty Work [1933] Dirty Work (colourised) The Finishing Touch [1928 silent] The Music Box [1932] The Music Box (colourised) Hats Off (1927 - just stills gallery)
albert 10th Apr 2019		DVD Box Set Laurel And Hardy : The Collection - Universal (2004)	disc 15 Pack Up Your Troubles [1932] Pack Up Your Troubles (colourised) Their First Mistake [1932] Their First Mistake (colourised) Putting Pants On Philip [1928] disc 16 The Live Ghost [1934] Sailors Beware! [1927 silent] Two Tars [1928 silent] Men O'War [1929] Men O'War (colourised) Any Old Port! [1932] Why Girls Love Sailors [1927 silent] Towed In A Hole [1933] Towed In A Hole (colourised) disc 17 Swiss Miss [1938] Swiss Miss (colourised) The Chimp [1932] The Chimp (colourised) Flying Elephants [1927 silent] disc 18 Blotto [1930] Blotto (colourised) La Vida Nocturna (Spanish extended version of Blotto) Be Big [1931] Be Big (colourised) Los Calaveras (Spanish combined version of Laughing Gravy and Be Big)
albert 10th Apr 2019		DVD Box Set Laurel And Hardy : The Collection - Universal (2004)	disc 19 Pardon Us [1931] Pardon Us (colourised) The Hoose-Gow [1929] The Hoose-Gow (colourised) The Battle Of The Century [1928 silent] disc 20 Going Bye-Bye! [1934] Going Bye-Bye! (colourised) Do Detectives Think? [1927 silent] Habeas Corpus [1929 silent] Angora Love [1929 silent] Bacon Grabbers [1929 silent] The Midnight Patrol [1933] The Midnight Patrol (colourised) Liberty [1929 silent] Wrong Again [1929 silent] disc 21 Brats [1930 original version] Hinter Schloss Und Riegel (extracts from the German version of Pardon Us) Thundering Fleas [1926 silent, not L&H] Fluttering Hearts [1927 silent, not L&H] Prudence [1927 silent, not L&H] Laurel & Hardy - A Tribute To The Boys [1991]
albert 10th Apr 2019		Multi-Format That Sinking Feeling - BFI (2014)	This BFI issue has the correct Glaswegian dialect soundtrack, and also includes subtitles if you need them. Beware issues from other publishers that use a substitute dubbed soundtrack.
albert 4th Apr 2019		DVD Box Set The Busby Berkeley 9-Film Collection - Warner Home Video (2010)	Lots of extras on these discs including the only surviving clips from Gold Diggers of Broadway, 15 cartoons, and many featurettes. The unique Busby Berkeley disc includes sequences from films not in the collection.
albert 21st Mar 2019		DVD What Price Hollywood? - Éditions Montparnasse (2012)	Remade, allegedly, as A Star Is Born in 1937 by the same producer, ....and lawsuits were filed.
albert 8th Mar 2019		Blu-ray Don't Torture A Duckling - Arrow (2017)	More dumb picture covers. This artist like, er, literally takes inspiration from the English title, which rather unfortunately is derived from a somewhat bad translation of the Italian nickname for "Donald Duck". As far as I remember there are no real ducks in the film, neither tortured nor otherwise.
albert 12th Feb 2019		DVD The Thing [1982] - Universal (1999)	Well is it widescreen? I shudder to recall the number of times this DVD was repackaged and I was conned into buying it again. All of the DVD versions I witnessed had a widescreen image shrunk into a 4:3 frame meaning that most of what you see on your TV screen is huge black borders. Eventually I gave up, but I have now just bought the Blu-ray version hoping that it will finally be OK.
albert 12th Feb 2019		DVD The Red Queen Kills Seven Times - Arrow (2017)	The artist that Arrow commissioned to do the cover really isn't much cop, just look at that dopy cross-eyed expression.
albert 12th Feb 2019		Multi-Format The City Of The Dead - Arrow (2017)	Also includes the alternate (cut) American version of the film called Horror Hotel.
albert 12th Feb 2019		Blu-ray Cold Blooded Beast - 88 Films (2017)	This film has been released numerous times under a multitude of alternative titles, but the version by 88 Films promises to be the most 'complete' so far. The copious nudity makes you forget that this is supposed to be a slasher film, and the ladies are all meant to have issues that are not really explained but seem to involve a tendency towards lesbianism and nymphomania. Oh, I just remembered that the story is meant to take place in a hospital, a one which, rather conveniently for the killer, has wall displays of old weaponry - but who cares about the story when there are just too many other distractions, Hot Bloodied Beauties would have been a more apt title.
albert 9th Sep 2018		DVD Box Set Tom And Jerry: Volumes 1-6 - Warner Home Video (2006)	These Tom & Jerry collections, either as this 6DVD collection or as separate 3 x 2DVD collections, have unfortunately been edited to appease the P.C. brigade. Currently in USA they are re-releasing the cartoons in unedited form but it remains to be seen if they will get released here. Tom & Jerry has always been known for its cartoon slapstick violence and non-PC sight gags, some of the more OTT scenes and some 'objectionable scenes' such as characters smoking have been cut. Also regarding the black character Mammy Two-Shoes who threatened Tom with the chop whenever he couldn't catch Jerry; I don't know which versions of specific cartoons we have but her voice and legs got replaced in the 1960s when the episodes were broadcast by CBS, which is a shame because the 'black' characteristics were very funny, and the 'white' screeching replacements just didn't work at all. A list of edits can be found here on this Tom & Jerry website. Edit: This collection is missing the early short "Million Dollar Cat", which includes a scene where Tom smokes a cigar. I have added details of the Golden Collection Volume 1 (we probably wont see any more volumes).
albert 19th Jun 2018		DVD Box Set The Wicker Man - Warner Home Video (2002)	I'd agree that the additional 15 minutes doesn't seem to enrich the film that much, despite what we had been led to believe for many years, my vote is for the theatrical version. The story of how they recovered the lost film isn't that remarkable, the astonishing thing really is why it took them so long to track it down. Basically when the film was originally edited a print was sent for approval and a second print was handed over to the American distributor so they could see. The UK print didn't meet with approval and so the film was re-edited, resulting in the theatrical edit, and a very unhappy director bemoaning his ruined masterpiece (as they do). Many years passed and this 'legend of the lost masterpiece' took hold until eventually a researcher just happened to look through the paperwork and realised that a print was with the American distributor, turning up in Roger Corman's archive.
albert 6th Mar 2018		DVD Hullabaloo Volumes 1-4: A 1960s Music Flashback - MPI Home Video (2000)	Re: GEMSMFAN's comment. A similar thing happened in the UK in 1950s/1960s, not many music TV appearances have survived in their original form. One of the problems in the UK was to do with unions 'protecting the musicians interests', so regardless of whether the artists disagreed with the arrangement the unions had with the TV companies, the band's performances often got wiped after broadcast.
albert 31st Oct 2017		VHS McVicar - Spectrum	"A Sense Of Freedom" is a 1979 film about Jimmy Boyle which is a bit more ahem extreme, but often get confused with McVicar. Director John Mackenzie. It is available on DVD.
albert 2nd Oct 2017		DVD Andy Warhol's Velvet Underground And Nico - Colcophoric Pictures Inc (2011)	One for the collector or the sucker, like me. Even though I'd read plenty of warnings that the film and sound was lousy I still went ahead and bought it. Why? well its very hard to get hold of, and this particular DVD also includes the Exploding Plastic Inevitable film that got projected onto the band during their early live shows, a bonus that's hard to ignore. I will add some images taken from E.P.I. which make the whole thing look great but do note that the images pass in a blink of the eye, what you mostly see is blackness.
albert 2nd Oct 2017		DVD Andy Warhol's Velvet Underground And Nico - Colcophoric Pictures Inc (2011)	Review The footage is rare, and for good reason - its terrible. What you get is a jam session/rehearsal but it appears that the cameraman has yet to learn the fundamentals of operating the camera and seems to have difficulty trying to get the thing fixed on a stand, and then he plays around with the zoom, continuously. The sound is barely audible on much of the soundtrack even though after about 50 minutes the cops arrive and cut the session after neighbours complain, the remaining footage is just people milling around the studio. Tagged on afterwards is the short film Andy Warhols's Exploding Plastic Inevitable, which has been sourced from a video-taped copy. Images flicker sporadically on the screen and are only briefly sequenced, but you can make out the faces from the factory scene. The purpose of these films was to contribute to the light show projected onto the live band, so they are really just an element of a multi-media art experience. Many images are repeated, and the whole 22 minutes may have been looped several times, generally its fairly boring to watch without a band playing on stage. 5 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
albert 29th Aug 2017		Multi-Format Psychomania - BFI (2016)	I mean the alternative artwork DD. The naked purple man under the yellow blob and behind the big toad, and the lettering that looks like it was done by a teenager in art class.
albert 22nd Aug 2017		Multi-Format Psychomania - BFI (2016)	Do they actually pay people to design those awful alternative covers? I thought the BFI would be safe from the blight, that artwork has nothing to do with the style of the time the film was made. 'new artwork' covers just make it difficult to find the DVD when you are in a hurry looking in a shop for the title.
albert 28th Jul 2017		DVD A Fistful Of Dollars - MGM (2005)	The 'Network Prologue' in the special features on disc 2 is most amusing (sanctifying the violence in twisted moralistic way), times were certainly different then.
albert 12th Jun 2017		DVD Box Set Dirty Harry Collection - Warner Home Video (2010)	Added some pictures to show the differences between Dirty Harry remaster DVD and original DVD. Personally I think they oversaturated the colours on the remaster, some shots look like they were done on Mars. [my screen grabs were taken from the UK DVDs, which are PAL format]. Magnum Force is just as bad.
albert 29th May 2017		VHS The Ref - Touchstone (1994)	AKA Hostile Hostages
albert 17th Jan 2017		DVD Love At First Bite - MGM (2005)	Added screen-grabs from both versions of the film. When you play the full screen version you get a warning stating that the film has been modified to fit your screen. As you can see in this case the modification is actually to not apply matting to the image.
albert 18th Oct 2016		DVD Just For You - Network (2014)	Trailer [YouTube Video]
albert 5th Oct 2016		DVD Box Of The Banned 2 - Anchor Bay Entertainment (2006)	The only title that was rare was The Witch Who Came From The Sea, others had been generally available.

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