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North To Alaska

Advantages: Two big starts doing comedy
Disadvantages: Can be slow in some places

I saw the last 20 minutes of this comedy when it was on TV. I went out and bought the DVD as I have never seen this the whole way through. Glad I did. When watching this film through from start to finish you do get a sense of awe in respects of the production values and the big sets that were used in production. Scenes like the boarding of the ship, the logger contest and the town street scenes all have dozens of extras to fill the screen. Something ...
...computer as a cost saving. The plot is that Stewart Granger plays George Pratt and John Wayne plays Sam McCord with Fabian playing George's brother Billy. Grainger and Wayne are partners, totally 50/50 on everything. They own a mine in Alaska and have hit the big time with the gold rush happening around the turn of the century. As McCord is off to Seattle to source mining machinery and George asks Sam to bring back the love of his life, Jenny who ...

Timbo3107 08.01.2007 · Read full review
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Mclintock

Advantages: a must for anyones dvd collection
Disadvantages: none

...is brilliant as george wasington Mclintock and Maureen o hara as his estranged wife who returns after two years of being away.( who did most of her stunts herself) is fantastic and not forgetting the very young and lovely Stefanie Powers who plays G.W's daughter becky who is returning home from college with a banjo playing dancing admirer in tow. Of course Patrick wayne falls for becky as well and all hell breaks loose. The fight scene in the mud ...

oldblueeyes11a 19.07.2007 · Read full review
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Some say he's dead...some say he never will be

Advantages: Great acting, scenery
Disadvantages: None I can think of

...shift boat. The man is Jeremiah Johnson (played b Robert Redford) He is an ex-soldier, he has arrived in Utah to fulfil his ambition of becoming a mountain man. Jeremiah asks the local shop owner where he can go to hunt. The man gives him directions and Jeremiah sets off into the snowy mountains. Jeremiah comes across an old man who hunts bears. He teaches Jeremiah new skills. He tells Jeremiah that the territory he is heading for is indian territory. ...
...The Crows, are killers. Jeremiah again sets off. Along his route he survives treacherous weather and the fear of the indians. He comes across a house where he finds a hysterical woman. Her husband and son have been killed and scalped by the Crows. Jeremiah helps the woman bury her family. He goes into her house to find a small boy cowering in the corner. The woman insists that Jeremiah take the boy with him on his travels. The boy does not speak ...

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Dunbar, not Dumb Bear!

Advantages: Fantastic visuals, Costner
Disadvantages: Can draw it out too long in places

...most powerful films to date, Dances With Wolves is a thoughtful and emotional tale that requires a bit of concentration. Set in the aftermath of the Civil War, it features KC as a war hero who is relocated to a post near a tribe of Sioux Indians. The initial grasp of the film makes you think it's going to be one with emphasis on the conflict involving the Sioux, and for the first part of the film, this is indeed how it is shown, particularly as ...
...Mary McDonnell as a love interest for Dunbar. Dances With Wolves is available from amazon.co.uk for £6.98. It's a film I recommend watching, but you need to focus and concentrate. It's not the sort of film you can have on in the background and completely understand. Recommended. ...

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Lt Dunbar Dances With Wolves

Advantages: amazing acting and storyline, gorgeous scenery and music
Disadvantages: May be too long for some

...battle and the scary looking dances they did around their fires but this was their way of life so I had to accept it. The main Indians which we saw were Holy man and the white woman who was raised by the Indians. They gave excellent performance sand really moved me at times. The one draw back to the Indians was that they spoke in their native language and we had the subtitles turned off at first so was unable to fully understand what they were saying ...
...I thought they all played their roles genuinely and looked the part and the costumes and clothes which they wore made them look like true Sioux Indians. The storyline was great and I loved how they portrayed a soldier from the normal and did not have him attacking and hating the Indians and how they made him want to live comfortably with them and learn about their ways. I think this did show certain parts of the US army in a good light but then ...

sewbizzie 24.11.2009 · Read full review
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