Production Year: 1970 - Drama - Director: Rene Clement - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: Marlene Jobert, Annie Cordy, Jill Ireland, Gabriele Tinti, Jean Gaven, Charles Bronson more
Based on the mystery novel by Sebastien Japrisot, directed my French master filmmaker Rene Clement (IS PARIS BURNING?) and set in a sleepy resort in the South of France, RIDER ON... more
Rider On The Rain
In a sleepy seaside resort of the South of France, Mellie, a beautiful young woman ... more
(Marlene Jobert: To Catch a Spy) is stalked and then raped by a mysterious masked assailant. She shoots him dead soon afterwards and dumps his corpse in the sea. When the body is recovered, American military officer Dobbs (Charles Bronson: The Dirty Dozen, Death Wish) accuses Mellie of the murder -- and of stealing the U.S. Army money that the rapist had been carrying with him…This genuine nailbiter is an adaptation of a novel by acclaimed mystery writer Sébastien Japrisot.
Rider On The Rain
Directed by Rene Clement this taut suspense thriller received unanimous critical acclaim. ... more
Bronson, at the peak of his powers, plays arrogant investigator Harry Dobbs, when a woman murders a man who raped her and disposes of his body, she thinks she is safe ... or is she? Harry seems to have a special interest in this missing 'Rider On The Rain' is it the money he had in his flight bag or his connections to the underworld. The plot unravels like a fiendish puzzle as a bizarre psychological game of cat and mouse unfolds.
Production Year: 1981 - Drama - Director: Franco Zeffirelli - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Brooke Shields, Martin Hewitt, Shirley Knight, Don Murray, Richard Kiley, Penelope Milford, Beatrice Straight
Production Year: 2004 - Drama - Director: Nick Cassavetes - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over, 12 years and over - Starring: Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, Gena Rowlands
Studio(s): ORBIT MEDIA LTD.; CORNERSTONE MEDIA; TRILOGY LOGISTICS, OPTIMUM HOME ENTERTAINMENT; ELEVATION SALES; TECHNICOLOR DISTRIBUTION SERVICES
Release date: 03/04/2006
No of Discs: 1
Catalogue No: HSC 10125
Barcode: 5013037048230
Languages
Main Language: English
Subtitle Language: English
DVD Description
Based on the mystery novel by Sebastien Japrisot, directed my French master filmmaker Rene Clement (IS PARIS BURNING?) and set in a sleepy resort in the South of France, RIDER ON THE RAIN follows Mellie (Marlene Jobert – TO CATCH A SPY, a beautiful young woman who finds herself stalked by a masked assailant. When the fiend rapes Mellie the terrified woman shoots him dead in self defence but her troubles do not end there. Assigned with investigating the death of the attacker, American military officer Dobbs (Charles Bronson – DEATH WISH) accuses Mellie of murder and the theft of a large quantity of government funds he had been carrying...
Technical information
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Sound: Dolby Digital Mono, Dolby Digital
Special Features: English version, French version with English subtitles
Advantages: Great story, feel good factor, lot's of actions, light hearted, easy to follow Disadvantages: None that I can think of
.... The lowest price I have seen thisfilm for is around 3GBP and the most 14.36 GBP.
Actors include Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen, Millard Mitchell, Cyd Charisse, Douglas Fowley & Rita Moreno. It is directed by Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly. It is rated Universal Suitable for All and originally was released in 1952. It is one hour and 38 minutes in total. The special edition DVD contains the making of musicals glorious musicals the story of the Arthur Freed Unit and also contains clips from films that were first featured using the songs. There is a full length audio version so you can listen to memories of actors as they guide viewers through the film. It is worth watching the film first without audio and then listening to it with audio.
Singin In The Rain is in full colour with full screen (1.37:1). Two single...
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...Well another film review and another one with Dustin Hoffman and another one that won an academy award. Im reviewing the 1988 hit drama "Rain Man" starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise. Hoffman's role for this film won him an academy award for best actor and it certainly deserved. Like most films that were made before my time I grew up watching them at a young age, my mum worked for a film marketing company and therefore I was always given a chance to watch all the new films, and some of the old one's. My brother who has seen Rain Man in the cinema, told me that's its one of those films that is an instant classic, it's just something that you would love. I like most mid teenagers, thought it was another one of those drama films with no concept what so ever, I didn't even like it the first time round. It took me at least another 6...
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Advantages: The theme music and some decent special effects Disadvantages: The plot, script and general all round storyline
...When he finds out that his father has terminal cancer, Johnny Blaze makes a pact with the Mephistopheles (Peter Fonda) to give him his soul if he saves his father. Once he has his soul the devil saves Blaze's father temporally as per the agreement but double crosses him and kills Barton Blaze in a motorcycle accident. Many years later Johnny (Nicholas Cage) is risking his life in madder stunts every week until one week the Mephistopheles calls in his debt. If Johnny accepts the offer the devil will release him from his curse, but only if he becomes the Ghost Rider and stops his evil son Blackheart from destroying the world.
The transformation of Ghost Rider to the big screen is the latest in a long list of Marvel comics to be made into a Hollywood blockbuster. Just like the majority of those films it also finds itself added to...
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