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Completely unwatchable. I must be more vigilant when buying DVD's as I have been caught once before with a disc that was equally as bad as this one. I don't know who this company AG Plate are but they definitely produce some of the worst quality DVD's ever. This particular one got precisely 10 seconds before it was ejected and shredded. Complete and utter rubbish

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Although i enjoy most of Jackie's films,in this one,i didn't believe either his,or any other of the actors characters,and so,just ended up watching it for the fighting (which was alright),so,despite all the money that must have been spent here,only 5 out of 10 for me.

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From such a visually rich film the art department of Kabel Eins must have worked really hard to create box art this horrid.

And then they stick that cool photo in the middle to show you what might have been had it not been 'designed' to death!

Beautiful film - Ugly DVD!

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Fun for all the family? There is some tension in this film but really it's all about watching Marianne Faithful ride a motorbike in skin tight black leather. Nothing wrong with that of course but does it really deserve the cult following it has? I'm sure some of you will say yes but it is a no from me. The movie is easy on the eyes but there is little else in it of any substance here to keep the viewer entertained.

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This documentary highlights Elton John's historic, and groundbreaking visit to (the former) Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in May 1979.
Accompanied by percussionist Ray Cooper, they performed a series of eight shows; four in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), and four in Moscow.
The concert footage was filmed 25-28 May at the (now demolished) Rossiya Hotel Concert Hall.

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The performance took place on 13 June 1978 at the Napa State Hospital, Napa, California.
It was a free concert by the Mutants, from San Francisco, and The Cramps from New York City.
The event was arranged by former CPS (Child Protective Services) activities specialist Bart Swain, through booking agent; Howie Klein.
The band originally booked to appear on this occasion was the Readymades, a notable San Francisco based new wave/punk band, but either by divine providence or fate, The Cramps and Mutants performed the show.
Video footage of The Cramps was taped using a battery powered Sony Portapak two piece camera/recorder unit (possibly the AV-3400, with a ½" U-Matic S 20 minute cassette).
It is believed either Target Video founder/director Joe Rees, or associate Jill Hoffman-Kowal videotaped the show. It should also be noted that many still photographs were captured by photographer Ruby Ray, who can be clearly seen documenting the event throughout. Many of her images can be found on the Internet (mostly uncredited).
Mutant band vocalist Freddy Mutant (Fritz Fox), and lead guitarist Brendan Earley both contend that their performance should have been documented on video.
However, Ruby Ray did photograph them.
Excerpted quote by Target Video founder Joe Rees, from an interview conducted for the L.A. Record by Chris Ziegler, entitled "TARGET VIDEO: LIKE WATCHING SOMETHING BIBLICAL", published 30 April 2009, regarding the Napa State video: "...The same with the Napa State Mental Hospital. You think that could go on today? No way! There would be like fifteen lawyers standing outside the gate licking their chops. One of the greatest things about that event—even to this day I am so moved when I watch that video over and over. But the thing of it is—those people who were going through such a heavy experience in life and were confined to that mental institution, the freedom and the happiness that they had that day during that event was almost like a miracle! It was almost like watching something biblical—something from a Cecil B. DeMille film but in a real sense, a true sense. Nobody was acting and I have never seen anything in my life so moving and I’ve been told that a thousand times. We were at the right place at the right time but we had the right thing in our hearts. We wanted to have an experience and it all came together with magic."

footnote # 1:

This contributor first stumbled into The Cramps traveling medicine show during their first foray outside of New York City's Bowery, (as I like to refer to as) my "Baptism by Fire" on 07 April 1978, at the Atlantis Club in Washington, D.C., two months prior to their Napa event. I had heard of The Cramps in drips and drabs, in the pages of Richard, and Lisa Robinson's Rock Scene magazine, a rag devoted primarily to NYC glam rock, and the burgeoning punk rock movement.
Needless to say, The Cramps opened many doors, and left an incalculable, indelible, life long impression on me.
I was now totally corrupt, and, as I won't retrace the circumstances leading up to this moment, suffice to say, it had to do with an employee of a local record store; the Penguin Feather, seeking a gig as a DJ, and my giving him a lift to the Atlantis Club that evening, and as The Cramps lay waste...

footnote # 2:

The Atlantis Club was located at 930 F Street, NW, in the Atlantic Building, adjacent to Ford's Theatre (where U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated).
Atlantis owner Paul Parson's was quoted in the day's following The Cramps ill-fated booking with support group, The Puppets as: "...too controversial, too destructive. No club is ready for that kind of destruction. The Cramps are not healthy."
The Cramps were told 'never to return.'
Soon after, the Atlantis closed it's doors, and the building was purchased and re-christened the Nightclub 9:30 on 31 May 1980, and there, The Cramps enjoyed many a return engagement.

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This 3D version in black and white brings the 1954 film to life with sharp 3D that makes full use of the technology. Perfect for this typical Vincent Price thriller featuring magic tricks, 3D surprises, and perilous situations.

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Harlem coke dealer Youngblood Priest (Ron O'Neal) wants to cash in and enjoy an early retirement, but before he can walk away, he has to choreograph an elaborate scheme to move 30 kilos of blow to enjoy the pimp lifestyle he's become accustomed to. Add to that, an opposing mix of partners, fair-weather friends, street pushers, thugs, his girlfriends, and even the Deputy Police Commissioner, all of whom would like to see him stay put. In the film, the streets of New York never looked better; litter everywhere, grime and graffiti, overcast skies, and everyone looks cold and miserable. It's a fairly straight portrayal for it's period, and never hokey or camp. The team of Sig Shore, and Gordon Parks, Jr. created a film that quickly became an integral part of the fabric of American pop culture. Super Fly can also attribute much of it's colatteral success to Curtis Mayfield's brilliant soundtrack, just as Isaac Hayes had done for Shaft the previous year. Mayfield and his group appeared in the film, and released two singles, both of which were Top 10 hits. He also made a large number of television appearances performing the songs Freddie's Dead, and Superfly. Those songs helped extend the film's shelf life, and keep it in neighborhood theaters well past it's expiration date.

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Times Square grind house exploitation cult classic, produced by fetish magazine publisher Leonard Burton.
Slut goddess Stacey Kane is a second-rate stripper in a third-rate carnival who wants more out of life. So when she finds her junkie ex-husband lurking in her dressing room with a wad of bills, Stacey promptly steals every cent, hops on a plane for New York, and auditions for a singing job at a nightclub run by a terse, wide-eyed lesbian named Pepe who is soon trying to turn the tramp into a lady. Things get quickly complicated, however, when Stacey shacks up with the club's owner, Arnold Kenyon, while also having an affair with Arnold's son. But when her ex-hubby once again pops up in her dressing room, this time with a knife instead of cash, Stacey sends him off to commit a little murder...(Excerpted from the DVD cover)

Disc comes with a second exploitation feature The Wild and the Naked! (1962), and is stuffed with bonus extras including two short subject quickies, eight exploitation trailers, gallery of grind house art, and a host of radio ads.

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If you're not already familiar el Santo and Mexican lucha libre cinema, I would suggest doing some research. If you're seeking out a good Santo film to start off with, and need a nudge in the right direction...look no further.
As I wouldn't try and sell anyone a false bill of goods, this film has it all, and worthy of your time.
Dark shadows, atmosphere, beautiful female vampires, action, decent effects...it almost looks like a Mario Bava film. It's a comfortable fit with the best of Mexican horror films from that era. A gothic cult classic - you shouldn't pass up this DVD.

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This includes 15 complete episodes from the entire first season of 31 episodes. For example Eddy Arnold, Johnny Cash, Eydie Gormé, Jane Morgan. Many episodes are not covered, including guests Teresa Brewer, The McGuire Sisters, Maureen O'Hara.
This is a project of Donna Dean Stevens, his former wife, and is available now.
A full-scale restoration was done on the original films, which is documented at YouTube. It is taken from kinescopes, which were movie film of a studio TV monitor. TV screens being curved, there are imperfections in the shaping of some faces. These kinescopes were made from 2-inch videotape. Otherwise the picture quality looks very good.

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Border line film noir drama with Alan Ladd as a U.S. Postal Inspector investigating the murder of his partner, and a million dollar heist in Gary, Indiana. Smug crime boss (Paul Stewart) hatches a scheme to kidnap a Catholic nun who witnessed the murder of the Postal Inspector, kidnap Ladd, and pull off the robbery. Early pairing of Jack Webb, and future Dragnet partner Harry Morgan as Stewart's accomplices, give this picture a quasi-Dragnet feel. And no wonder; the film's script writer Richard L. Breen also wrote for Webb. Dragnet regular Stacy Harris turns up in a supporting role as well.
Recommended.

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Director Anthony Mann's quintessential film noir masterpiece.
Top-notch script, acting, and atmospheric photography.
Everyone loses and no happy ending.
Stellar performance by Raymond Burr (who nearly steals the picture) as the malignant, sadistic mob boss Rick Coyle. In a priceless vignette, during Coyle's birthday party, underscoring his fetish for flames, a moll accidentally spills a cocktail on Coyle's suit. Angered, and ever the gentleman, he picks up a vessel of flaming cherries jubilee and tosses it into her face. Following her blood-curdling scream, Coyle casually remarks "Take her away, she should have been more careful."
Essential viewing.

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Currently the best available print of this film.
Stay clear of all those cheap public domain, and gray market releases; I've seen 'em all and they're miserable transfers.
With this disc you get Bear Family's impressive packaging, an illustrated 16 page booklet, and a truly decent looking film.
As an added bonus, you get to see Johnny put a bullet through his girlfriend, hear him sing the title song several times to his female hostage, and the climactic ending where Johnny shoots a police officer to death while holding a young Ron Howard in the cross-fire - yea, Opie Taylor.

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A terrific film because it has all the essential elements that jell perfectly, making it one of my favorite guilty pleasures.
Rita Morley is especially endearing as the middle age actress Laura Winters; perpetually drunk, high maintenance, impatient, and mouthy. Martin Kosleck plays his part as the ex-Nazi, up-too-no-good researcher convincingly. The whole film works, and has a cool (albeit predictable) ending, and don't let me forget to mention Omar the beatnik.

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1964 terror gem directed by all-purpose film maker Ray Dennis Steckler.
Steckler plays escaped asylum inmate Mort "Mad Dog" Click, along with three other deranged co-horts. Alone, Mort kills for the thrill, including a nightclub dancer in her dimly lit apartment. This sequence is a stand-out moment; tense and extremely disturbing. The three other crazies are involved in an axe murder spree, which terminates Carolyn Brandt's role in her husband's film. Liz Reney is the added attraction as the wife of a wannabe film actor, and film maker Arch Hall, Sr. makes an inebriated cameo as himself at a pool party gone wild.
Unbelievable, unforgettable, and arguably on, or near the level of 1963's "The Sadist".

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This Monogram classic gives new meaning to the phrase nothing exceeds like excess.
Bela Lugosi juggles two personalities concurrently as Professor Brenner, and Karl Wagner.
Fast-paced with a plethora of brief, but colorful characters; "Fingers" Dolan, Frankie Mills, and the unforgettable narcotic addled Doc Brooks, who keeps a sub-basement morgue packed with reanimated corpses! Not to mention a preponderance of secret rooms, stairwells, and entrances.
Loaded with all the usual Monogram attachments and accessories, including the lovely Wanda McKay, and an appearance by Pat Costello (Lou's brother), as a Bowery tramp.
A lot of outrageousness crammed into a short running time.
This Roan Group print is (in my dismal opinion) the best anywhere.
Monster Club approved.

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Released on 21 February 1944 to an unsuspecting public; lurid and absurd, in the true Monogram Pictures tradition.
Whacked-out performances by John Carridine and George Zucco, while Wanda McKay and Louise Currie act as damage control to dignify the proceedings, and keep confusion to a minimum.
Gorgeous film print and digital transfer.
Monster Club approved.

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This has to be the worst History DVD I ever purchased. The Production is abysmal, the quality of the footage used is amongst some of the poorest I've ever seen. Clips don't run chronologically, some are with sound and some are not. If you really need to buy anything like this then buy the Pathe News series A Year To Remember which is far far superior to this drivel. Save your money and stay well away. In fact after entering this onto the database it's going in the shredder !!

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sequel to the first johnny depp film inspired by, rather than based on, one of lewis carroll's two classic fantasy/satire novels, q.v.; these tim burton and james bobbin films are strangely compellingly weird, definitely "deppraved" variations upon their originals' themes, plus others barely present, only hinted at, or deeply buried...

- yet they work really well, handling "grown-up" themes, including some that fundamentally affected the man that rev. charles dodgson - lewis carroll - was, and does so in ways that are - and remain - entertaining, whilst going into the core ideas in some depth, as it were, "under the covers".

- this sequel creates an original setting by "backstrapolating" from the wonderland-based world of the first film, to look into the fraught and more than a little mentally and spiritually abusive childhood and teenage of hatter tarrant hightopp, and invents an eccentric - of course! (?) - time-travelling, time-collecting and time-obsessed lord of time - or slave of his obsession with time - ? - whose iron, steel and clockwork (naturally) steampunk chronosyllogismobile alice has to hijack, to prevent the death - or worse - of the hatter, and the erasure of the outcome of - and even, of the reality of - the frabjous day, itself...

- this film moves much farther away from lewis carroll's originals than tim burton's first, q.v., but imnsho he, james bobin and its other makers kept faith with carroll's thematic concerns, and the story and images are - again, very weirdly - well in keeping with many of those that were his abiding concerns.


- these two deppraved productions should definitely be viewed in the order in which they were made, as hatter's problems are symptomatic of those faced by underland itself, and which could destroy it, twice over. and under.

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Having watched the original series from start to finish and thoroughly enjoyed it, I approached this new remake with some trepidation, knowing that remakes aren't always successful but this is one that bucks that trend. I really needn't have worried though because the casting is superb and the filming is amazing. I was already a big fan of Samuel West who plays Siegfried in this series and he doesn't disappoint. Nicholas Ralph as James Herriot is pretty good as well. I was disappointed that it didn't come out on blu-ray but maybe sometime in the future when they test the market with a DVD release. If you haven't seen it yet then keep an eye open for it, it doesn't disappoint

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Imagine an enchanted fantasy world of timeless characters and magical moments where nothing goes right for the clumsy toymakers Stannie Dum and Ollie Dee. When a notorious scoundrel, Barnaby, demands to marry the beautiful Little Bo Peep, guess who secretly emerges as the blushing bride? Based on the original Babes in Toyland, this movie is a dazzling spectacle of 6-foot wooden soldiers, Mother Goose characters and the beloved team of Laurel and Hardy.

Spectacularly restored and presented in color, this release boasts superb graphics that are enhanced with a stunning stereoscopic 3D transfer. See the storybook characters come to life with imagery so real you feel you could reach out and touch it. It is like seeing this family favorite for the very first time, all over again!

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Although known for it's chilling finale, Rocky Sullivan 'playing' basketball with the Dead End Kids is pure comedic Jimmy Cagney.

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Actor Neil North, who plays the First Lord of the Admiralty in this 1999 version, played Ronnie Winslow in the first film version of The Winslow Boy (1948). Nice touch of continuity. Jeremy Northam who plays Sir Robert Morton is absolutely suberb as is Nigel Hawthorne as Arthur Winslow. I feel the part of of Sir Robert Morton is I'm afraid to say head and shoulders above Robert Donats version in 1948, much more verve and vivacity to the character as oppposed to the original which is far to laid back. I did like Cedric Hardwickes version of Arthur Winslow as it seems more affective than Nigel Hawthornes version, but Hawthornes version is much more how I would imagine that character to be in reality with his obvious affection for his daughter and sons. It's hard to choose which performance is the best but I side with Hawthorne. The only thing I didn't like about the Catherine Winslow character in this movie is quite trivial, but at one point in the film she is wearing sunglasses which look totally anachronistic, they just don't look right. Gemma Jones is absolutely superb in this as she is in everything she does. The one big difference for me was the contrast between Kathleen Harrisons character (Violet) and the new version with Sarah Flinds (Violet). The two are poles apart, Kathleen Harrisons effervescent performance which seemed a tad over the top and Sarah Flinds performance which looks like she's on Valium. They went from one extreme to the other and somewhere in between would have been the way to go. Overall both movies are brilliant and hard to choose one over the other, if you get the chance to see either I Thoroughly recommend you sit down and watch, both are brilliant and worth the watch.

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This is a film that should be on everybody's "must see" movie list. It charts the oil industry from it's beginnings to the situation we find ourselves in today. The political shenanigans over who controls the oil supply just beggars belief, the wars that have been fought over the head of it, the people who have died over the head of it, and the consequences for the environment today. This is another movie that should be on the school curriculum to teach the up and coming generations just what we've done to the planet and where we should be going in the future. Oil will one day run out and leave civilization completely stranded so the development of all the other energy sources are of vital importance before that happens. Definitely a very important piece of education for us _all_

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Considering the panel and stock footage of Jon & Paul intermixed it's interesting enough!

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I had great hopes for this documentary whenever I read about it, I have to say I was bitterly disappointed with it. I had hoped it would've been in the same vein as "From Scotland With Love", "Faces Of Scotland" or "From The Sea To The Land Beyond" but it wasn't even close. I found it to be a load of pretentious nonsense, some of it was actually embarrassing. The creator makes great play of the symbiotic relationship between the music and the footage and all I can say is he hasn't watched enough documentaries such as another BFI disc I have called "Love Is All" which has a soundtrack by Richard Hawley and the aforementioned "From Scotland With Love". I was surprised to read in the booklet that this film has been deposited in the BFI. Maybe I missed something (I don't think so) but I'll maybe give it another go sometime and see if I change my mind, but after the first viewing my inclination is to deposit it in the bin

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Top notch Poverty Row thriller from start to finish. The always lovely Joan Woodbury as the exotic fortune teller.
Director Robert F. Hill later directed Gun Crazy.

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Also known as The Silent Star, and First Spaceship on Venus.
Released 26 February 1960 in East Germany, 07 March 60 in Poland.

Excellent full length presentation, beautiful print with vivid color.
Bonus materials include newsreels, bios, set design gallery, and more.

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I loved the look of the movie just like Gregs78s but.... that's as far as it went. Very little story, I didn't feel any chemistry between the two stars and as for the end.... My recommendation would be to give it a miss. It doesn't even qualify as a chick flick (my girlfriend didn't like it either).

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