Dennis Hopper plays Morgan - an 1800s Australian outlaw who is wanted at any price, dead or alive. This movie has such maniacal intensity that it will keep you on the edge of your... more...seat during this action-packed thriller.
Production Year: 1976 - Westerns - Director: Irvin Kershner - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Gale Sondergaard, Geoffrey Lewis, William Lucking, Jorge Luke, Richard Harris
Advantages: A classic movie on DVD Disadvantages: Violence may offend some
Review of Mad Max. DVD format.
The DVD
A one disc edition, this was the first in the Mad Max trilogy.
ASIN B00005MHN8 , Region 2, runtime 88 minutes, released on DVD June 2006 by Warner Home Video. Classification 18, genre Sci-fi/Action.
The DVD is not bursting with special features merely the following:-
Interactive Menus
Scene Access
Languages in Dolby Digital 1.0 : English, French, Italian
Bonus Audio : Original Australian Theatrical Audio Track
Subtitles: English, French, Italian, Dutch, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Romanian, Bulgarian
Hearing Impaired: English, Italian
The Cast and Director
Cast includes Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Steve Bisley and Tim Burns.
Directed by George Miller.
Producers Bill Miller and Byron Kennedy
The Plot
Set in an unspecified, post ...
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Advantages: Great for the family Disadvantages: the teens white find it as funny
The Shaggy Dog is a Classical, Family Comedy that is a great for the kids. The story is about a Family/ Business man who is more involved with his business than his loved ones (he's a workaholic).
He has two kids the teen daughter Carly Douglas (Zena grey) and the youngest Josh Douglas who is purposely failing in his studies, so he can get kicked off his football team and perhaps gain a spot in the school play Grease(what he really wants to do) instead of trying to impress his father Dave (Tim allen)by playing football.
Dave Douglas is about to begin trial on Carly's social studies teacher, for arson against a presumed -evil, pharmacueutical company.
Now the wolly canine takes the stage as an pratically immortal collie, who is captured in tibet and brought to Los Angles by, Grant & Strictland the componey in trial ...
Advantages: A beautiful film Disadvantages: A little long
FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD
1967
I remember going to the cinema in the 70?s to watch this film and loving it, Thomas Hardy had always been one of my favourite writers, and ?Far From the Madding Crowd? a close second favourite behind ?Tess of the D?Urbervilles?
The film was released in 1967 by MGM and directed by the same man who directed "Midnight Cowboy, John Schlesinger, another popular film at the time.
When I saw the DVD cheap on Amazon I decided to add it to my list to watch it again.
"Far from the Madding Crowd" is set around the 1860?s in the English countryside of ?Wessex? in a setting of chalk cliffs leading down to the sea, green countryside and small town manners and prejudices. The film stars Julie Christie as Bathsheba Everdene, the daughter of a poor widow, who cares for her wealthy uncle. When her ...
A young man finds no luck in the Australian gold rush, and drifts into petty crime. His life changes when he gets twelve years in an infamous prison.
Release details
DVD Region
DVD
Studio(s)
WHE EUROPE LIMITED; TOTAL HOME ENTERTAINMENT (THE)
Release date
04/08/2003
No of Discs
1
Catalogue No
GMVS 1157
Barcode
5060033471579
Languages
Main Language
English
DVD Description
Dennis Hopper plays Morgan - an 1800s Australian outlaw who is wanted at any price, dead or alive. This movie has such maniacal intensity that it will keep you on the edge of your seat during this action-packed thriller.
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