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(PG) 95min collaboration with Scoundrels. Having (Eureka) m.“ director Anderson and contributed a segment - writer David Sherwin, of the anthology horror lHt the same team behind film Dead of Night, n g 1968's revolutionary Ealing Studios gave
If. . . . Hamer his first long- ' ‘- - i form assignment, an adaptation of Roland i “a, Pertwee's play about a
C) Lu K7 MAN Brighton pharmacist (stern Mervyn Johns) whose son (wet Gordon Jackson) is blackmailed by a drunken publican’s adulterous wife (sultry Googie Withers).
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Having failed to turn a profit on either Citizen Kane or its follow-up
The Magnificent I: t t . and a liberal message Not only does Land of Promise: The British Documentary Amoersonst Orson “' that says eons Shooio Movement 1930-1950 (BR) 0000' provide fascinating insights into a Weiiee directed thiS inspired by Voitaite»S iisten to their tathers and bygone age. this four-disc collection of 40 films totalling 13 hours of viewing relatively conventional Candide, the result is a fathers shouldn’t stifle 3'50 Showcases the groundbreak'w ta'em 0f the Wation’s fines‘ film noir tor RKO in iamoiino' oicaieeooe their otteonnoe otowth documentarians, Robert Flaher‘ty, Humphrey Jennings and Paul Rotha among 1946. in the process, he and coneietentiy (otherwise they.” take to them. Life before, during and after wartime is captured using every technique proved to the studio that entertaining account of booze and bad women). from Dropéganda to 909W EXtraS inC'Ude 3” accompanying b00k'et and had butchered one British life, with Sour and sweet in tone, fi'mmaker 'mew'ews' ‘ Amoersons in the Arthur Lowe, Raioh pink String oieoiaye You don’t have to be a trainspotter to enjoy The Age of the Train: The editing suit that he was Richardson, Rachel none of the wicked wit Bm’!‘ "808?“ mm“ c°"°§“°" “mm” 7 (EH). m." - a'though caoaoie oi comoietino a Roberts and a yoothtoi ano oiack homour oi enthusnasts are in for an. extra specnal treat wrth this beautifully designed picture on time and Helen Mitten oiayino Hamer'e iater films. Bot double-disc pack containing over four hours of documentaries and public ooooet that wooio make reconino roiee as they it.S a niceiy oenotmeo service films made between 1962 and 1982 during the ‘corporate blue‘ era of money_ Shot ieao Mike Travis and channino iittie tiim British Rail. Short films such as Right Time Means Right Time and Inter-City iinineoiateiy after WW” (McDoweii) throooh an that Speaks to, the 125 make one wistful about the good old ore—privatisation days of train travel. — and featuring the first episodic set of scenes importance of family in NOW that's Famer'train‘men" t footage of the German dealing with sex, racism, the immediate post-war The five'd'SC scm" '“n’: 9"” "m" (Opt'mum) m CO'IeCtS 3“ concentration camps oenetic enoineenno’ period No extras. assortment of the debonair British actor’s lesser-known films. The exception is used in an Amencan tiim Sociai Satite and suicide. (Mites Fieioen the oft-seen and still enjoyable 1948 historical romp Bonnie Prince Charlie, which _ The Strange, i8 3 cat comoiete with too notch casts the quintessential Englishman as the rebellious 18th century Scottish and mouse thniier in musicai interiooeS by TRUE CRIME nobleman. Elsewhere, Niven turns up in Edinburgh as a greetings card millionaire which Edward G Aian price. Extras OUT OF THE who falls for a chorus girl in the 1951 musical rom-com Happy Go Love/y, on Robinson.S FBi inciooe a commentary 3325mm stage as an elusive lover and magician in 1939's Eternal/y Yours, as a scheming investigator tracks from McDoweii' Sherwin (Meirodome) We: cad abroad in Ireland in 1954's Happy Ever After, and, most interestingly, as a Weiiesv Nazi war and pnce ano teatoie_ British movie star in Charles Crichton’s 1954 satire The Love Lottery (pictured). cnminai to a Sieeoy ienoth documentary 0 No extras, but the films are restored and make their DVD debut. Connecticut town. Lucio, Malcolm. A A definitive Laurel and Hardy collection has already been released on DVD, Aithouon it was the biography of Malcolm but the tour boxed sets in Laurel and Hardy: The Collection (Universal)
ooo -‘ are a welcome reminder of Stan and Ollie’s comic prowess. Much-
great filmmaker's least McDowell. But 0 Lucky loved classics such as Sons of the Desert and Way Out West are mixed with
favourite film, it's a solid Man! is Anderson's film,
picture that boasts a oeeo’ dark and similarly themed shorts, but there’s not much in the way of extras aside from some fine Wellesian blindingly brilliant attack dreadfu' CO'OU’ised VerSions- “"93 Fie'der)
flourishes (despite on society’s mores,
producer Sam Spiegel’s made with a passion
re-cuts). Victor Trivas and scope rarely As a police siege ends environment, a received an Oscar matched in British in more fatalities, the disturbed GI visits three
nomination for his script cinema. (Eddie Harrison) (upon which an
sense of ordinary lives disrupted and destroyed
young soldiers with specialised skills.
uncredited Welles and STRING Robert Scarf/es Sarkies’ is the source of the film's Tensions escalate from John Huston also AND SEALING drama based on a real power. Sunderland’s mild japery to homicidal worked) and Welles WAX life massacre that performance is chillingly rage as their time to go himself received a (pg) 36min occurred in a small New observed. while there's : to war draws nearer, Golden Lion nomination (Optimum) ms.» r Zealand seaside village, no shortage of pathos in i and attitudes to for his directing at the begins with a Lois Lawn's little old lady i sexuality and race Venice Film Festival. No This is the debut feature deceptiver gentle and hiding in her kitchen as i i become the focal point extras. (Miles Fielder) from Robert Hamer, the elegiac portrayal of the killer stalks around ' for violence. Altman's COMEDY/SHIRE talented but troubled (by small town life, before its the village randomly ! production starring a LUCKY MAN! the bottle) filmmaker explosion of shocking murdering all about him. Altman to film David Matthew Modine and (15) toomin who went on to make violence. This quiet. There's nothing in the Rabe’s noted mid-703 i Michael Wright is always (Werner Home Video) the superb Kind Hearts rather sweet-natured way of extras. American drama takes a i interesting, but the .0... opening is the secret of (Steve Cramer) direct approach. The , deliberate staginess of the film‘s astonishing piece takes place in the i the piece eventually Lindsay Anderson’s effect later on. 'ON early days of the Vietnam 3 becomes wearing; the 1973 masterpiece is In it we meet David (1 5) 104mm conflict, on an American ! fact Streamers was long overdue a proper Gray (Matthew (Metrodome) o” army base, where the originally a studio DVD release. particularly Sunderland), a ——--—- ~—- ~- -- —— —- squaddies await 1 theatre piece gives the since it's rarely shown disaffected outsider The vexed issue of how transportation to Nam. : original too much on our television or dwelling in a beachside to turn stage plays into Altman allows the advantage over the film cinema screens. In 0 shack with his high- cinema has haunted the play's claustrophobia to i in creating a stifling LUCky M801. C/OCkWork powered guns, whose movies for as long as the speak for itself, shooting I atmosphere for the film orange star Malcolm sudden shift to an arson technology to make film entirely on one barrack ; to fully compete. Not McDowell draws heavily and killing spree is both has existed. This 1983 room set in long takes. i much in the way of on his own formative gradual and ominous. attempt by Robert In this closed i extras. (Steve Cramer)
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