Production Year: 1946 - Action/Adventure - Director: Henry Hathaway - Original Language: English - Classification: Universal - Starring:Sam Jaffe, Melville Cooper, James Cagney, Richard Conte, Frank Latimore
As the US prepares for D-Day, a secret branch of the Allied military begins its disinformation campaign. U.S. Military Intelligence does not know that a Nazi mole has infiltrated... more
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Actor(s): Frank Latimore, Richard Conte, James Cagney, Melville Cooper, Sam Jaffe
Director(s): Henry Hathaway
Genre: Action & Adventure
Classification: Universal
Production Year: 1946
Colour: Black & White
Running Time: 1 hour 35 minutes
Video Category: Feature Film
Plot: As the US prepares for D-Day, a secret branch of the Allied military begins its disinformation campaign. U.S. Military Intelligence does not know that a Nazi mole has infiltrated its ranks. Novice American spy Jeff Lassiter inadvertently tells the mole, who uses the alias Bill O'Connell, that the Americans intend to invade Normandy, not Holland, as the enemies suspect. As O'Connell travels to France, Bob Sharkey, the head of Military Intelligence, parachutes into that same country to capture a Nazi sympathiser who has the keys to an Axis rocket launcher. Unfortunately for Sharkey, however, O'Connell beats him there and demands to know the Allies' true strategy. A group of Allied agents working undercover in occupied Paris struggle to infiltrate German files in order to discover the location of a rocket launching site before the D-Day invasion. However, in their midst a traitor lurks.
Release details
DVD Region: Region 2 (Europe)
Studio(s): 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment; Deluxe Video Service - Fox
Release date: 09/05/2005
No of Discs: 1
Catalogue No: 0142201009
Barcode: 5039036020992
DVD Description
As the US prepares for D-Day, a secret branch of the Allied military begins its disinformation campaign. U.S. Military Intelligence does not know that a Nazi mole has infiltrated its ranks. Novice American spy Jeff Lassiter inadvertently tells the mole, who uses the alias Bill O'Connell, that the Americans intend to invade Normandy, not Holland, as the enemies suspect. As O'Connell travels to France, Bob Sharkey, the head of Military Intelligence, parachutes into that same country to capture a Nazi sympathiser who has the keys to an Axis rocket launcher. Unfortunately for Sharkey, however, O'Connell beats him there and demands to know the Allies' true strategy. A group of Allied agents working undercover in occupied Paris struggle to infiltrate German files in order to discover the location of a rocket launching site before the D-Day invasion. However, in their midst a traitor lurks.
Advantages: vintage Hitchcock, suspenseful, enigmatic Disadvantages: some scenes seem dated, though I don't mind
...Vertigo (1958) stars James Stewart as John Ferguson, known as Scottie to his acquaintances, a retired San Francisco detective. Scottie retired from the force after a rooftop scene in which a colleague of his died, the trauma and guilt leaving Scottie with a bad case of vertigo. A man of independent means, he spends his days doing next to nothing but chatting away the hours with his best mate and former date, Midge.
Scottie is brought out of his half-life by old friend Gavin Estler, who asks Scottie to trail his suicidal wife Madeleine, played by Kim Novak. Madeleine has been acting extremely strangely for some time, and often disappears for hours on end. Estler believes her behaviour to have a supernatural base, and is afraid she will kill herself. Scottie agrees to follow Madeleine, partly because Estler is an old friend...
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Advantages: classic childrens tv Disadvantages: none
...This is without a doubt my absolute favourite childrens tv character ever! I have fond memories of watching Bagpuss as a kid - especially because at beginning of each episode the narrator says "and Emily loved him" (mainly because I used to think it was about me!!)
The Complete Bagpuss available on DVD contains all 13 episodes ever made (not nearly enough in my opinion) The episodes are:
Ship in a bottle (my personal fav)
The owls of Athens
The frog Princess
The ballet shoe
The Hamish
The Wise Man
The elephant
The Mouse Mill
The Giant
The old Man's beard
The Fiddle
Flying
Uncle Feedle
The DVD is fantastic as it captures all of the lovely characters, including Professor Yaffle the Woodpecker, Madeleine the Rag Doll, the Magical Mouse Organ Mice and Gabriel the toad for the first time ever. It is hard to believe that this was made way...
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Advantages: Good scary fun. Vincent Price! Disadvantages: Not available in high street shops
..., even at the end. There is no vast crumbling of the house and the final scene is of some curtains burning. Even for 1960, the effects are lame. The director also made "The Pit and the Pendulum" later and that was a slightly better effort. The other problem I have with it, is that while it's atmospheric in places, at times, it seems to be in glorious Technicolor! But I suppose it serves to show how pale and sickly Vincent Price's character is. Really, Price looks nothing like himself.
I would recommend borrow this before buying or at least, get it on the cheap somehow. The video is available from Amazon second hand though and the DVD is £13....
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