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Umberto Allemandi I Vetri Di Archimede Seguso: Dal 1950 Al 1959
Pages: 140, Hardcover, Umberto Allemandi
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Network Brand [1959]
Release Date: 2003-07-28, Rating Parental Guidance,
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MOMENTUM PICTURES HOME ENT Carlton-Browne Of The F.O. [1959]
A perennial afternoon telly treat, <I>Carlton-Browne of the F.O.</I> is a little less tart and smart in its assault on British diplomacy than the earlier John and Roy Boulting satires. The much-loved Terry Thomas, is the idiot son of a great ambassador, given a sinecure in the Foreign Office that becomes a hot seat when crises rock the almost-forgotten former colony of Gaillardia. Clod-hopping dance troupes of every world power dig for cobalt, a line of partition is painted across the entire island, and the young King (Ian Bannen) is undermined by his wicked uncle (John le Mesurier) and unscrupulous Prime Minister Amphibulos (Peter Sellers). <p> There's a touch of Royal romance as the King gets together with a rival princess (the winning Luciana Paoluzzi), but it's mostly mild laughs at the expense of British ineptitude, with Thorley Walters as the dim army officer who sends his men to put down a rebellion with orders that lead them to turn in a circle and capture his own command post, Miles Malleson as the gouty consul who should have come home in 1916, and a snarling Raymond Huntley as the minister appalled that the new monarch of a British ally was a member of the Labour Party at Oxford. <p> The film finds Sellers' non-specific foreign accent unusually upstaged, with Terry Thomas walking off with most of the comedy scenes, blithely inspecting a line of shabby crack troops who keep passing out at his feet. It fumbles a bit with obvious targets, especially in comparison with similar films like <I>Passport to Pimlico</I> and <I>The Mouse That Roared</I>, but you can't argue with a cast like this. Down in the ranks are: John Van Eyssen, Irene Handl, Nicholas Parsons, Kenneth Griffith, Sam Kydd and Kynaston Reeves. <p> <p> <B>On the DVD:</B> <I>Carlton-Browne of the F.O.</I> comes to disc in fullscreen, with a decent-ish quality print. The film is also available as part of the four-disc <I>Peter Sellers Collection</I>.--<I&g t;Kim Newman</I>
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Cinema Club Hell Is A City [1959]
Release Date: 2005-04-04, Rating Parental Guidance,
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT Journey To The Centre Of The Earth [1959]
Release Date: 2005-08-01, Rating Universal, suitable for all,
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Trolley Cuba Libre 1959
Pages: 112, Hardcover, Trolley
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1959
Charles Mingus
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Time Of Your Life, The - 1959
Exclusive documentary footage, containing top news and events from around the globe, coverage of leading personalities and performers and the real life stories that change the way we live. The programme is designed to provide a unique flavour of what it was like to live in 1959. The British Motor Corporation launches a new small car they hope will suit everyone, the Mini. Ben Hur is an epic in every sense. Starring Charlton Heston and with a cast of thousands, the $15m movie had over 300 sets and took 10 months to complete.
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1959
Contains CD featuring top hits from 1959 including Eddie Cochran, Gracie Fields and Nat King Cole.
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Mummy, The (1959) (DVD)
In 1895 an archaeological expedition to Egypt, led by Stephen Banning and his son John, discover the 4000 year old tomb of Princess Ananka. They are warned by an Egyptian that anyone who robs graves dies, but still they enter the tomb. While inside Stephen Banning reads an ancient scroll and promptly suffers a breakdown. They return to England where Stephen is immediately confined to a nursing home. Unknown to both the father and son the tomb of the mummy has been shipped to England...
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SONY PICTURES HOME ENT. UK Anatomy Of A Murder [1959]
<I>Anatomy of a Murder</I>, Otto Preminger's 1959 film of the novel by Robert Traver (a pen name for a Michigan Supreme Court Justice), was controversial in its day for making frank on-screen use of then-unheard words such as panties, rape and spermatogenesis--and it remains a trenchant, bitter, tough, witty dissection of the American legal system. With its striking Saul Bass title design and jazzy Duke Ellington score, <I>Anatomy of a Murder</I> takes a sophisticated approach unusual for a Hollywood film of its vintage. Most radically, it refuses to show the murder or any of the private scenes recounted in court, leaving it up to us to decide along with the jury whether the grumpy and unconcerned Lieutenant Frederick Manion (Ben Gazzara) was or was not subject to an irresistible impulse tantamount to insanity when he shot dead Barney Quill, the bear-like bar owner alleged to have raped Manion's teasing trailer-trash wife Laura (Lee Remick in unfeasibly tight trousers). James Stewart plays Paul Polly Biegler a former District Attorney keen to get back into court to clash with the political dullard who replaced him in office. Biegler is supported by the skills of his snide secretary (Eve Arden) and boozy-but-brilliant research partner (Arthur O'Connell). For the prosecution, the befuddled local DA hauls in Dancer (George C Scott), a prissy legal eagle from the local big city whose sharp-suited, sly elegance makes an interesting clash with Biegler's aw-shucks jimmy-stewartian conniving. This is simply the best trial movie ever made, with a real understanding of the way lawyers have to be not only great actors but stars, assuming personalities that exaggerate their inner selves and weighing every outburst and objection for the effect it has on the poor saps in the jury box. <p><B>On the DVD:</B> The print is letterboxed to 1.85:1, but it's a bit of a cheat since that seems to involve trimming the top and bottom of the image (losing the steps under and the clouds above the Columbia lady in the opening titles), though the film isn't seriously hurt by a tighter look at the action. Also included are: an Ellington-scored photo montage, soundtracks in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish with subtitles in ten languages, filmographies for director and principal cast, original advertising (highlighting Saul Bass' poster designs, a trailer and more trailers for more Columbia Jimmy Stewart or courtroom films. --<I>Kim Newman</I>
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MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) A Hole In The Head [1959]
Release Date: 2004-07-05, Rating Universal, suitable for all,
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT The Diary Of Anne Frank [1959]
Release Date: 2005-07-04, Rating Universal, suitable for all,
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT Return Of The Fly [1959]
Release Date: 2005-07-04, Rating Suitable for 12 years and over,
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MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) On The Beach [1959]
Release Date: 2004-05-03, Rating Parental Guidance,
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Optimum Breathless [1959]
Michel Poiccard (Jean-Paul Belmondo), an ex-airline steward turned hoodlum, steals a car and heads to Paris. Discovering a gun in the car's glove department, he uses it to shoot and kill a cop who tries to wave him down. He wants to escape to Italy with his American girlfriend Patricia (Jean Seberg), but the police are after him, and he is distracted by all the pleasures Paris has to offer.<p>Story-wise, Jean-Luc Godard's <I>A Bout De Souffle</I> (1960) (aka <I>Breathless</I>) is pretty thin, but as its director always proclaimed, you don't need much in the way of narrative to make a movie. Sometimes a girl and a gun are quite enough. The effortlessly cool and laconic Belmondo mirrors the director's mischief and flamboyance. With his fat cigarette stub perched on his bottom lip, his shades, his felt hat and white socks, he looks like a cross between a left-bank intellectual and an American gumshoe (perhaps his beloved Bogart). With her close-cropped hair and New York <I>Herald Tribune</I> T-shirt, his girlfriend (Jean Seberg) is equally stylish. A Hollywood star (she had appeared in the lead in Otto Preminger's <I>Saint Joan</I> in 1957 when she was still a teenager), the Iowa-born Seberg is turned by Godard into the lithe embodiment of European radical chic.<p>The film has a spontaneity that studio-bound offerings of the time missed by a mile. Cameraman Raoul Coutard uses natural light and real locations whenever possible. Lots of the pet tricks in the movie--jump cuts, whip pans and improvised tracking shots--have been copied relentlessly by imitators ever since. <I>A Bout De Souffle</I>, though, is unique: anarchic, liberating and hugely stylish, the best film around now, as its trailer proclaimed. It made Godard, almost overnight, into the world's most discussed, interviewed and quoted filmmaker. --<I>Geoffrey Macnab</I><p><B >On the DVD:</B> Godard's greatest movie has been lovingly transferred to disc by Optimum, and comes with several extras including trailers and production notes and an old Godard short, <I>Charlotte Et Son Jules</I>, also starring the swaggering, arrogant Belmondo. --<I>Geoffrey Macnab</I>
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WARNER HOME VIDEO The Mummy [1959]
Release Date: 2004-10-11, Rating Parental Guidance,
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Universal Pictures Video Pillow Talk [1959]
Release Date: 2006-02-06, Rating Parental Guidance,
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WARNER HOME VIDEO Rio Bravo [1959]
When it comes down to naming the best Western of all time, the list usually narrows to three completely different pictures: Howard Hawks' <I>Rio Bravo</I>, Hawks' <I>Red River</I> and John Ford's <I>The Searchers</I>. About the only thing they all have in common is that they all star John Wayne. But while <I>The Searchers</I> is an epic quest for revenge and <I>Red River</I>, a sweeping cattle-drive drama, <I>Rio Bravo</I> is a much calmer film. Basically, it comes down to Sheriff John T Chance (Wayne), his alcoholic friend Dude (Dean Martin), the hotshot new kid Colorado (Ricky Nelson), and deputy-sidekick Stumpy (Walter Brennan), sittin' around in the town jail, drinkin' black coffee, shootin' the breeze, and occasionally singin' a song. Hawks--who, like his pal Ernest Hemingway, lived by the code of grace under pressure--said he made <I>Rio Bravo</I> as a rebuke to <I>High Noon</I>, in which sheriff Gary Cooper begged for townspeople to help him. So, Hawks made Wayne's Sheriff Chance a consummate professional--he may be getting old and fat, but he knows how to do his job, and he doesn't want amateurs getting mixed up in his business; they could get hurt. If the configuration of characters sounds familiar, it should: Hawks remade <I>Rio Bravo</I> two more times--as <I>El Dorado</I> in 1967, with Wayne, Robert Mitchum, and James Caan; and as <I>Rio Lobo</I> in 1970, with Wayne, Jack Elam, and Christopher Mitchum. The film achieved additional notoriety in the 90s when Quentin Tarantino revealed that he uses it as a litmus test for prospective girlfriends. --<I>Jim Emerson, Amazon.com</I>
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Arabesque Distribution The Time Of Your Life - 1959
Release Date: 2004-11-08, Rating Exempt,
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Optimum Warlock [1959]
Release Date: 2005-02-21, Rating Universal, suitable for all,
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Ivn Entertainment Andy Williams - The Best Of Andy Williams Christmas [1959]
Release Date: 2001-10-22, Rating Exempt,
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Optimum The John Cassavetes Collection [1959]
Release Date: 2005-09-12, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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SONY PICTURES HOME ENT. UK Suddenly, Last Summer [1959]
Release Date: 2002-11-11, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) Pork Chop Hill [1959]
Release Date: 2004-04-05, Rating Parental Guidance,
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Brooklands Books Ltd Rover Road Test Book: Rover P4 1949 - 1959
Pages: 100, Paperback, Brooklands Books Ltd
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Elstree Hill Entertainment House On Haunted Hill [1959]
Release Date: 2004-10-25, Rating Suitable for 12 years and over,
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Waterfall Home Entertainment Ltd The Bat [1959]
Release Date: 2003-05-19, Rating Parental Guidance,
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Universal Pictures Video Operation Petticoat [1959]
Release Date: 2006-05-08, Rating Universal, suitable for all,
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MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) The Unforgiven [1959]
No relation to the 1992 Clint Eastwood film of almost the same name, 1959's <I>The Unforgiven</I> is based--like John Ford's <I>The Searchers</I>--on a novel by Alan LeMay. Again the story focuses on a frontier family divided by racism. But instead of the complex, endlessly resonant demonology of the Ford picture, here John Huston aims for a pat, civil-rights-era allegory of loving solidarity triumphing over societal prejudice--and, to be sure, some noble but dangerous Kiowas. Burt Lancaster and Audrey Hepburn costar as, respectively, the eldest son of a ranching family and the beloved sister who's not his sister at all, but an Indian. However, the film's dark heart belongs to Joseph Wiseman as an avenging ghost who materialises out of the wind and Lillian Gish as the matriarch who will do whatever she must to protect her clan. --<I>Richard T Jameson</I>
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Paramount Home Entertainment (UK) Last Train From Gun Hill [1959]
Release Date: 2005-06-06, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) Solomon And Sheba [1959]
Release Date: 2004-02-02, Rating Parental Guidance,
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WARNER HOME VIDEO Ben Hur - 4 Disc Special Edition [1959]
Release Date: 2006-02-13, Rating Parental Guidance,
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Paramount Home Entertainment (UK) Five Pennies, The (DVD) [1959]
Release Date: 2006-10-23, Rating To Be Announced,
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1959 Milano Sessions -Pp
Chet Baker
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Four Feathers, The/The African Queen/The 39 Steps (1959) (Boxset) (DVD)
Boxset containing three films. The Four Feathers - Resigning his commission just as his fellow officers go off to fight in the Sudan, Harry Faversham has to prove his bravery when friends and fiancee present him with the four feathers of cowardice. His mission will take him to the heart of the Mahdi's kingdom, the fever-ridden prison at Omdurman. A classic tale of heroism which stormed the box office on release in 1939. The African Queen - A hard-drinking river trader and a prim missionary spinster battle the Germans and each other as they try to escape from the African Congo during WW1. Bogart won an Oscar and Hepburn was nominated as was director John Huston. The 39 Steps - Based on the novel by John Buchan.
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F1 Legends Of The 1950's - Vol. 3 - 1958/1959
John Tate's classic film that offers a unique insight into the golden age of F1, covering 1958 - 1959, looking at drivers including Fangio, Moss, Hawthorn and Brabham.
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Farnborough - Golden Years 1949 - 1959
From the archives of the famous Imperial War Museum comes a treasured look at history in the making - Farnborough, Britain's greatest air show. Witness the show from 1949 through to 1959 recorded on newsreels shown in the cinemas of the day. What an exciting decade it was, with the accomplishment of technological genius giving birth to innovation we now take for granted. Observe the dangers - the daring test pilots, ever willing to over come the seemingly impossible, and the bravery which cost the life of John Derry at Farnborough '52. Enjoy the Black Arrows (the forerunners of the Red Arrows) as they demonstrate the very meaning of precision during their giant aerobatics display. Features a whole range of aircraft, including: Aiglet, Alpha, Brabazon, Comet, Dart, Herald, Hunter, Sea Hawk, Westminster and many others.
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Twilight Zone - Season 1 (1959 B&W) (Limited Edition) (Boxset) (DVD)
A collection of tales, ranging from the tragic to the comedic, designed to be thought-provoking and sometimes scary. Contains Series One, with the episodes: Where Is Everybody?, One For The Angels, Mr. Denton On Doomsday, The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine, Walking Distance, Escape Clause, The Lonely, Time Enough At Last, Perchance To Dream, Judgment Night, And When The Sky Was Opened, What You Need, The Four Of Us Are Dying, Third From The Sun, I Shot An Arrow Into The Air, The Hitch-Hiker, The Fever, The Last Flight, The Purple Testament, Elegy, Mirror Image, The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street, A World Of Difference, Long Live Walter Jameson, People Are Alike All Over, Execution, The Big Tall Wish, A Nice Place To Visit, Nightmare As A Child, A Stop At Willoughby, The Chaser, A Passage For Trumpet, Mr.
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House On Haunted Hill (1959)(Prism) (DVD)
The slightly unhinged millionaire Fredrick Loren (Vincent Price) along with his 4th wife Annabelle, invite five people to spend the night in a genuine haunted house. A prize of $10,000 is available for anyone who manages to remain there for the entire night. As the evening draws in, the guests soon realise that their sanity and possibly their lives could be in real danger...
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Lotus Story - Vol. 2 1959/62
All the major races and personalities of the era are featured, including Moss and Surtees at the 1960 GP de Monaco, the 1960 Le Mans 24hr race and the 1962 Goodwood Easter meeting. Throughout the programme you can also hear from major players of the era.
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Summers Lang Syne: Scotland 1930 to 1959
The Photographs of John P Munn author: ; publisher:
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Nouveau Entertainment Ltd Hiroshima Mon Amour [1959]
Release Date: 2005-02-14, Rating Parental Guidance,
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Orbit Media Ltd. Bucket Of Blood, A The Killer Shrews [1959]
Release Date: 2001-09-03, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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SONY PICTURES HOME ENT. UK They Came To Cordura [1959]
Gary Cooper's forte--the searching, lone figure beleaguered by conflicts over conscience, truth, and ethics--followed him all the way to the ambitious <I>They Came to Cordura</I>, his third-to-last feature. Cooper plays Thomas Thorn, a career officer in America's fading horse Army of the early 20th century. Thorn's alleged cowardice in battle has been papered over by superiors: He is to identify acts of bravery during an attack on Pancho Villa's troops and lead those designated heroes to a Medal of Honor ceremony in Cordura, Texas. Though Thorn tries to extract the secret behind courage from each man, he discovers a battle-hardened, bestial side to them as well. The Cordura journey becomes fraught with mutiny and near-assaults on a Yankee expatriate (Rita Hayworth). Thorn, reputation aside, redefines courage on his own terms. This widescreen drama (the DVD offers full-screen format as well) is suspenseful, morally complex, and visually rich, but Cooper's performance carries the day. <I>--Tom Keogh</I>
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Granada Ventures Ltd The Thirty Nine Steps [1959]
While it's true that this 1959 screen adaptation of <I>The 39 Steps</I> pales in comparison to Alfred Hitchcock's seminal 1935 version, it's still a thoroughly enjoyable romp that compensates for a lack of any tension whatsoever with a generous dose of genial good humour. Affable Kenneth More's Richard Hannay more closely resembles the kind of roles Cary Grant was playing for Hitch in the late 1950s; Finnish blonde Taina Elg, in the somewhat unlikely role of a prim Scottish schoolmistress, is his love interest. Although handcuffed together, More and Elg fail to radiate any sexual chemistry, even when scandalously forced to share a room and a bed. Much better are the delightful cameos: Sid James as a roguish lorry driver; Brenda De Banzie as voluptuous psychic Nellie; and Joan Hickson as a simpering teacher. As a thriller it's hardly in the same league as <I>North by Northwest</I>, but as a window on life in England and Scotland in the 1950s, this <I>39 Steps</I> has much to recommend it. --<I>Mark Walker</I>
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Granada Ventures Ltd Tiger Bay [1959]
Release Date: 2004-05-17, Rating Parental Guidance,
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. Floating Weeds [1959]
Release Date: 2004-01-26, Rating Parental Guidance,
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ODYSSEY VIDEO Battle Of The Sexes [1959]
Release Date: 2004-07-19, Rating Universal, suitable for all,
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. Pickpocket [1959]
Release Date: 2005-04-25, Rating Parental Guidance,
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Buena Vista Darby O'Gill And The Little People [1959]
Release Date: 2004-03-29, Rating Universal, suitable for all,
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WARNER HOME VIDEO North By Northwest [1959]
A strong candidate for possibly the most entertaining and enjoyable film ever made by a Hollywood studio, <I>North by Northwest</I> is positioned between the much heavier and more profoundly disturbing <I>Vertigo</I> (1958) and the stark horror of <I>Psycho</I> (1960). In the corpus of Alfred Hitchcock films it shows the director at his most effervescent in a romantic comedy-thriller that also features one of the definitive Cary Grant performances. Which is not to say that this is just Hitchcock Lite. It's a classic Hitchcock Wrong Man scenario: Grant is Roger O Thornhill (initials ROT), an advertising executive who is mistaken by enemy spies for a US undercover agent named George Kaplan. Convinced these sinister fellows (James Mason as the boss and Martin Landau as his henchman) are trying to kill him, Roger flees and meets a sexy Stranger on a Train (Eva Marie Saint), with whom he engages in one of the longest, most convolutedly choreographed kisses in screen history. And of course there are the famous set pieces: the stabbing at the United Nations, the crop-duster plane attack in the cornfield (where a pedestrian has no place to hide) and the cliffhanger finale atop the stone faces of Mount Rushmore. With its sparkling Ernest Lehman script and that pulse-quickening Bernard Herrmann score, what more could a filmgoer possibly desire? --<I>Jim Emerson, Amazon.com</I><p> <B>On the DVD</B>: This wide-screen print of the movie looks remarkably fresh, preserving the vivid depth of the original's VistaVision cinematography. The main extra feature is a new and entertaining 40-minute documentary hosted by Eva Marie Saint in which most of the surviving cast and crew give their insights into the making of the picture (we learn for example that canny Cary Grant charged 15 cents per autograph). Screenwriter Ernest Lehman provides an audio commentary and on a separate audio-only track Bernard Herrmann's masterful score can be heard in its entirety. There's also a stills gallery and trailers. --<I>Mark Walker</I>
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Granada Ventures Ltd Too Many Crooks [1959]
<I>Too Many Crooks</I> (1958) boasts an intricate plot in which Terry Thomas is being blackmailed for the hoards he's stashed away as a renowned tax dodger. Driving around in a Jaguar XK 150, a desirable sports car of the period, his intricate private life unravels as his put-upon wife, Brenda de Banzie, draws on her expertise as a wartime PT instructress to turn the tables on him by marshalling the support of a band of crooks (George Cole, Sidney James, Bernard Bresslaw and Joe Melia). Look out for the very funny court scene, where TT makes three appearances on separate charges before a bemused magistrate, John Le Mesurier. <p> <B>On the DVD:</B> <I>Too Many Crooks</I> is in 4:3 ratio and has a mono soundtrack. The only extra feature is a trailer. More TT tomfoolery can be found in the three-disc <I>Terry Thomas Collection</I>. --<I>Adrian Edwards</I>
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SONY PICTURES HOME ENT. UK The Mouse That Roared [1959]
<I>The Mouse That Roared</I>, originally released in 1959, is mostly remembered as a tour-de-force from peerless comic actor Peter Sellers, playing all three of the principal roles. It's worth seeing for that alone, but the film is also one of the most memorable satires of nuclear geopolitics produced during the Cold War and, along with another Sellers vehicle, <I>Dr Strangelove</I>, provides an unbeatable illustration of the paranoia and helplessness engendered by that period. <p> <I>The Mouse That Roared</I> tells the story of the fictional European principality of Grand Fenwick. Finding itself on the wrong end of a trade dispute with the United States, and noting America's generosity in rebuilding the countries it had fought in World War II, Grand Fenwick's rulers hit upon the idea of declaring war on the US, losing, and then reaping a Marshall Plan-style hand-out. The plan, proposed by Grand Fenwick's prime minister (played by Peter Sellers), is approved by the monarch (also played by Peter Sellers), who dispatches an invasion force of chain mail-clad archers under the command of Grand Fenwick's hapless Field Marshal (also played by Peter Sellers). Due to a series of happenstances and misunderstandings, Grand Fenwick's plan goes terribly wrong, and they inflict a surprising defeat on America, with curious consequences. <p> <B>On the DVD:</B> <I>The Mouse That Roared</I> is presented in 1.85:1 widescreen; sound is mono. Soundtracks are available in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish, and subtitles in all those as well as most other major European languages, Hebrew and Arabic. Special features include a scene selector, and three theatrical trailers: one for this film (English audiences will get a kick out of the 1950s American announcer raving about an hilarious new personality, Peter Sellers), one for Sellers' much bleaker (and much funnier) Cold War satire <I>Dr Strangelove</I>, and one for his slight horror spoof <I>Murder By Death</I>. --<I>Andrew Mueller</I>
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Eureka Video The Savage Innocents [1959]
Release Date: 2006-01-23, Rating Suitable for 12 years and over,
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Granada Ventures Ltd The Terry Thomas Movie Collection [1959]
Release Date: 2005-10-17, Rating Universal, suitable for all,
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Granada Ventures Ltd Northwest Frontier [1959]
Release Date: 2004-05-17, Rating Universal, suitable for all,
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Cinema Club Horrors Of The Black Museum [1959]
Release Date: 2004-07-19, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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Universal Pictures Video Pillow Talk [1959]
Release Date: 2005-01-10, Rating Parental Guidance,
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WARNER HOME VIDEO Peeping Tom [1959]
Michael Powell lays bare the cinema's dark voyeuristic underside in this disturbing 1960 psychodrama thriller. Handsome young Carl Boehm is Mark Lewis, a shy, socially clumsy young man shaped by the psychic scars of an emotionally abusive parent, in this case a psychologist father (the director in a perverse cameo) who subjected his son to nightmarish experiments in fear and recorded every interaction with a movie camera. Now Mark continues his father's work, sadistically killing young women with a phallic-like blade attached to his movie camera and filming their final, terrified moments for his definitive documentary on fear. Set in contemporary London, which Powell evokes in a lush, colourful seediness, this film presents Mark as much victim as villain and implicates the audience in his scopophilic activities as we become the spectators to his snuff film screenings. Comparisons to Hitchcock's <I>Psycho</I>, released the same year, are inevitable. Powell's film was reviled upon release, and it practically destroyed his career, ironic in light of the acclaim and success that greeted <I>Psycho</I>, but Powell's picture hit a little too close to home with its urban setting, full colour photography, documentary techniques and especially its uneasy connections between sex, violence and the cinema. We can thank Martin Scorsese for sponsoring its 1979 re-release, which presented the complete, uncut version to appreciative audiences for the first time. This powerfully perverse film was years ahead of its time and remains one of the most disturbing and psychologically complex horror films ever made. --<I>Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com</I>
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MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) Some Like It Hot - Special Edition [1959]
Maybe nobody's perfect, as one character in this masterpiece suggests. But some movies are perfect, and <I>Some Like It Hot</I> is one of them. In Chicago, during the Prohibition era, two skirt-chasing musicians, Joe and Jerry (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon), inadvertently witness the St Valentine's Day Massacre. In order to escape the wrath of gangland chief Spats Colombo (George Raft), the boys, in drag, join an all-woman band headed for Florida. They vie for the attention of the lead singer, Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe), a much-disappointed songbird who warbles I'm Through with Love but remains vulnerable to yet another unreliable saxophone player. (When Curtis courts her without his dress, he adopts the voice of Cary Grant--a spot-on impersonation.) The script by director Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond is beautifully measured; everything works, like a flawless clock. Aspiring screenwriters would be well advised to throw away the how-to books and simply study this film. The bulk of the slapstick is handled by an unhinged Lemmon and the razor-sharp Joe E. Brown, who plays a horny retiree smitten by Jerry's feminine charms. For all the gags, the film is also wonderfully romantic, as Wilder indulges in just the right amounts of moonlight and the lilting melody of Park Avenue Fantasy. <I>Some Like It Hot</I> is so delightfully fizzy, it's hard to believe the shooting of the film was a headache, with an unhappy Monroe on her worst behaviour. The results, however, are sublime. --<I>Robert Horton</I>
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MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) The Hound Of The Baskervilles [1959]
Sherlock Holmes gets the Gothic treatment in Hammer's <I>Hound of the Baskervilles</I>, a typical mix of mystery and supernatural horror from the famous studio. Peter Cushing is perfectly cast as the great detective, the very embodiment of science and reason (which also made him a great Van Helsing in the <I>Dracula</I> series) in a c |
