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Advantages: Best sci-fi prog preserved for history
Disadvantages: Not everyones cup of tea!

...motorway. It can only be The Prisoner. Made before my time but probably the best thing to come out of the sixties. You may be thinking,"If it was before his time, how come he knows about it?" Good question. It was shown on Channel 4 in 1992 for the 25th anniversary and I have been hooked since. Not to give too much away on the plot, Patrick McGoohan's character, known only as Number Six, resigns from his job and prepares to go on holiday. Sleeping ...
...weird location known only as The Village. Through the various episodes, different heads of the village, known as the New Number Two (Getting the hang of this yet?) try to find out why he resigned. Number Six resists all attempts and continues his quest to escape. Thanks to escalating costs and lack of faith, a second series was not commissioned so Patrick set to work on weekend on a finale. The result was the surreal two part ending. Number one turned ...

Littleswamp1 03.11.2004 · Read full review
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Review of The Prisoner (DVD)

If you haven't seen this yet, go get it

Advantages: Acting - Storyline - Well directed
Disadvantages: Not a happy ending

Warner Bros Rebel Without a Cause is a movie you will have heard of through the legend of James Dean, however many people will not have had the chance to see it. Rebel is one of the greatest teen movies ever made, and the first to really portray the anger, frustration and loneliness that many teenagers feel. This movie was original in its day due to the plot and also the fact that Nicholas Ray made the movie in colour. James Dean plays Jim Stark, ...
...leading to speculation about the Rebel Curse. Interestingly, the film also stars a young Dennis Hopper (who looks exactly the same so you'll recognise him and think 'I didn't realise he was that old!'). The story revolves around Jim arriving in the new town/new school, and his relationship with peers/family. Natalie Wood's character Judy is the love interest who already has a gang of friends who take a dislike to Jim. They challenge him to a race ...

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Review of Rebel Without A Cause (DVD)

Third of the Graham Greene "Catholic Trilogy"

Advantages: Good film at a great price
Disadvantages: None

The End of the Affair is the third of Graham Greene's "Catholic Novels" to be adapted for the silver screen following "Brighton Rock" and "The Power and the Glory". Edward Dmytryk had made several excellent film noirs in the 1940s (Crossfire; Farewell, My Lovely) before running into trouble with HUAC. For a period in the 1950s he moved to England where he directed several films, one of them being this film. It's his experience in directing those ...
...would say give many of the scenes a strange macabre tone. I've always been a little disappointed by several of Deborah Kerr's films except in films where she playing slightly neurotic characters like in Black Narcisuss or The Innocents and The End of the Affair is another of those roles where she really excels. Van Johnson is an actor I feel like I know but in reality I don't which may have something to with fact that this probably the first film ...

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Review of The End Of The Affair (DVD)

Widow Waster

Advantages: grim thriller, brilliant actors
Disadvantages: none

...of them, I can‘t kill the world.“ A man, Ben Harper, (Peter Graves) comes running to his house clutching 10.000 $ in his hand, he‘s just robbed a bank, killed two people and must hide the money before the police come. He stuffs it into his daughter‘s doll and makes the children swear not to tell anyone, not even their mother. “I got tired of seein' children roamin' the woodlands without food, children roamin' the highways in this here Depression, ...
...myself that I'd never see the day when my young-uns had want.“ This unusual way of providing for the children’s future takes him straight to the gallows, of course, during his last days he shares a cell with the preacher who’s been condemned to 40 days in prison for car theft. The latter finds out that the money is still hidden and he decides to do what he’s good at once he‘s out of prison and his cell mate has been hanged. He sucks his way into ...

MALU 12.08.2007 · Read full review
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Review of The Night Of The Hunter (DVD)

James Dean DVD Collection Review

Advantages: Great dvds, lots of special featuers, nice box art
Disadvantages: none

...set comes with 2 movies, East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause, and Giant. Each movie is a 2 disc dvd loaded with special features like interviews, behind the scenes, home movies, screen tests, and audio commentary. All of the audio commentaries are really great, and you get to learn a lot about the different actors, and the backgrounds of the movies. Each movie has a all star cast, including stars such as Elizabeth Taylor, Sal Menio, Rock Hudson, ...

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Review of East Of Eden / Rebel Without A Cause / Giant (James Dean Box Set) (Special Edition) (DVD)