Drama > Peck, Gregory Drama

Quickly, Professor, you are running out of time..!!

Advantages: Excellent and engaging story-line, superb performance by lead characters.
Disadvantages: None really.

...highly entertaining thriller movies like Arabesque and Charade. TITLE CHARACTERS # Gregory Peck plays the role of Professor David Pollock (An exchange American Professor in Oxford University who is also expert in ancient hieroglyphics) # Sophia Loren plays the role of Yasmin Azir(A beautiful mysterious Arabian girl, who also tries to decipher the code.) # Alan Badel plays the role Nejim Beshraavi(A rich and powerful Arabian Businessman, who is ...
...MY PERSONAL THOUGHT Arabesque is a highly entertaining thriller movie, packed with comedy, intense fighting sequences and brilliant acting. Director Stanley Donen is mostly famous for his musical movies and earned many prestigious awards for his superb works. He gave a lot of effort and time directing this thriller movie. Legendary Alfred Hitchcock was widely famous for his brilliant thriller and suspense movies during that time, and it was not ...

Gladiator007 14.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Arabesque (DVD)

The first of many beautiful Hepburn movies

Advantages: classic example of old Hollywood romance
Disadvantages: soundtrack could be more memorable and enhance the imagery of the film more.

...I love this film! In Roman Holiday my favourite actress, Audrey Hepburn, is the beatuiful protagonist and the epitome of poise and elegance as royalty on a tour of Europe. Her immaculate facade diminishes however when she is alone, leading her lonely and unhappy life which has always been concentrated on pre-organised engagements such a galas and garden parties. Yet, upon visiting Rome, the princess created her very own holiday and within just twenty ...
...Beyond the claustrophobic confines of her royal position she leaves the Palace grounds. She falls asleep on the park wall and is found by street-smart American newspaperman Joe Bradley (Gregory Peck). He scoops her up and flags down a taxi, refusing to take the stray girl back to the Colessium which she is so sure in her drunken slumber is her home. The next day Peck finds out from his boss that the girl sleeping on his sofa is actually the princess, ...

Chloe171991 26.05.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Roman Holiday (DVD)

Why I, I, I do believe I'm having a flashback, darling!

Advantages: Excellent characters and psychoanalysis
Disadvantages: Drags at parts

...the cinematic exploration of psychoanalysis. Spellbound is described by Hitchcock as being 'just another manhunt story wrapped in pseudo-psychology' but it is so much more than that. Don't let the opening fool you, as it did me, with the first minute or so given away to a brief explanation of exploring psychoanalysis, highlighting this virtues in curing mental illness and reverting the disturbed human mind to reason. I groaned, wondering what I was ...
...However, this means there are no DVD extras to comment upon, nor was there a price, as it was 'free' unless you count the cost of the paper itself! If this piques your interest, then Spellbound is available from amazon.co.uk for £5.48, or slightly cheaper for a second hand copy. ...

pmcds 02.04.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Spellbound (DVD)

Take a Roman Holiday

Advantages: Good film, nice plot, good dialogue, extra features on the DVD
Disadvantages: None

Roman Holiday is a deliciously quirky romantic film, first realeased in 1953. It was directed by William Wyler and won several Oscar awards. The story is based around the fictional Princess Ann (played by Audrey Hepburn) who is visiting Rome, and feels the need (while under the influence of tranquilisers!) to break free of her confines. She meets American journalist Joe Bradley (portrayed by Gregory Peck) who, along with photographer Irving Radovish ...
...few short features related to Roman Holiday and photo galleries. It also has subtitles in English, Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, French, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Romanian, Slovenian, Swedish, Arabic, Croat, Danish, French, German, Hebrew, Icelandic, Norwegian, Portugese, Serbian, Spanish and Turkish. While this film isn't Audrey Hepburn's finest, it's a lovely, entertaining film, and I'd definitely recommend it! ...

sparkly-pink-stars 23.07.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Roman Holiday (DVD)

Boring war film?? Never

Advantages: Shows the trouble Jews went through, and how they got through it.
Disadvantages: Daniel craig and his stupid accent!!!

Another boring war film? Not a chance! The basic storyline follows the family of the Belowilski’s, a family of Belo-Russian Jews during the holocaust, who create a 1200 strong community in the forest and fight multiple battles with the German army, of which the won. At the start, the only weapon they have is a .357 magnum with 4 rounds, however at the end, all of the residents have been trained in the use of a firearm, and use one. Tuvia Belowilski, ...
...begin on their journey, sabotaging German vehicles and relieving them of their weapons and anything else that is of use to the want-to-be partisans (A group of rebellious Russian Fighters). However, when a disagreement turns into a full on fist fight between Tuvia and his brother Zus, Zus and many others leave the camp to go and join the Partisans. With many people left and Tuvia seriously ill, other people take over control of the camp and disregard ...

lukeblackburn 06.11.2009 · Read full review
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