DVD: Nigel Davenport

DVD: Nigel Davenport

DVD:

Nigel Davenport

Ralph Richardson, Ian Holm

Warner Home Video, 2004

LOOK OUT FOR THAT TREE!!!
I have been on a Tarzan kick ever since I bought my 70's cartoons I grew up with TARZAN: HA-HA-HA N'KEEMA Anyway I thought I'd tell ya about this little gem GREYSTOKE THE LEGEND OF TARZAN. This is probably the best adaption of Tarzan(wait I love Johnny as well ...

A Man for All Seasons (Special Edition)

Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller

Sony Pictures, 2007

Sir Thomas for for Senate
"If a statesmen foresakes with private conscience for the sake of public office, he leads his county to a short route to chaos." Thomas More to Cardinal Wolsey regarding granting an unlaw divorce to King Henry VIII from his barren wife. How great a country would ...

Phase IV

Nigel Davenport, Michael Murphy

Legend Films, 2008

1970's sci-fi thriller
A cosmic event sets in motion the downfall of humanity and the rise of creatures who have been here for tens of millions of years: the ants. Interesting doomsday film with Nigel Davenport, Michael Murphy and Lynne Frederick. Strange finale. I like it.

Play Dirty

Michael Caine, Nigel Davenport

MGM (Video & DVD), 2007

Dirtier Than The Dozen
Here's another underated Caine winner. He's a nice-guy engineer leading a band of criminals through the desert to blow up Rommel's fuel supplies. These guys aren't the leering whackos or lovable losers of The Dirty Dozen, they're clear-eyed, ice cold [...]. The ...

Anne of the Thousand Days / Mary, Queen of Scots

Vanessa Redgrave, Glenda Jackson

Universal Studios, 2007

One more and it would have been a hat trick!
Here we have two terrific films, appropriately packaged together. You get two DVDs packaged in a single case, each individually labeled. Perhaps if the distributor would have included Cromwell (1970, Richard Harris) it would have been the ultimate CD package ever, ...

The Last Valley

Michael Caine, Omar Sharif

MGM (Video & DVD), 2004

Medieval
The setting is beautiful. The valleys are green and lush but the air is fill with feelings of bad auguries. The man in rags running away from a decimated town takes your thoughts to the days of the Black Plague in Europe. It is a slow pace movie full of intrigue and ...

Longitude

Jonathan Coy, Christopher Hodsol

A&E Home Video, 2000

Must See for all
Absolutely wonderful - first class acting and incredibly informative. My teen daughters, were as engrossed as their father and me. Top notch and recommend to all high school and up who have an interest in science, geography, history or any number of other subjects ...

A Christmas Carol

George C. Scott, Frank Finlay

20th Century Fox, 1999

A perfect version of the classic -- and very human.
Nana: My grandmother, Anne Gillis The star: George C. Scott was an icon; legendary American stage and film actor, director, and producer, perhaps best known for his Academy Award-winning portrayal of General George S. Patton Jr. in the film Patton. He was, quite ...

Without a Clue

Michael Caine, Ben Kingsley

MGM (Video & DVD), 2004

Absolutely Hilarious!
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: From the Secret Files of Harry Pennypacker Basil Rathbone: His life and his films Shadow Watcher Nobody Drowns in Mineral Lake WITHOUT A CLUE (1988) is one of the funniest movies I've ever seen. I love this movie! That said, I ...

Chariots of Fire (Two-Disc Special Edition)

Nicholas Farrell, Nigel Havers

Warner Home Video, 2005

Chariots of Fire and Wings on Their Feet
I never saw Chariots of Fire when it was in the theater in the early 80's, but I became interested in it after I saw some of the sites where it was filmed when I was in Scotland recently. It's based on the true story of the track team of Great Britain in the 1924 ...

The Third Secret

Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins

20th Century Fox, 2007

A haunting & haunted film
Here's a powerful film that was completely unknown to me, one that deserves to be much better known. It's suspenseful & unsettling, but it's also far more than that. When a noted psychiatrist dies suddenly, the official decree is suicide. But his fourteen year old ...

A High Wind in Jamaica

Anthony Quinn, James Coburn

20th Century Fox, 2004

Unique, interesting, & surprising adventure.
I recently read the novel A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes, and found the book sort of a cross between Treasure Island and Huckleberry Finn, the former because the plot concerns children in the hands of pirates; but the style is more humorous and sophisticated, ...

A Man for All Seasons

Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller

Sony Pictures, 1999

Sir Thomas for for Senate
"If a statesmen foresakes with private conscience for the sake of public office, he leads his county to a short route to chaos." Thomas More to Cardinal Wolsey regarding granting an unlaw divorce to King Henry VIII from his barren wife. How great a country would ...

Royal Hunt of the Sun

Robert Shaw; Christopher Plummer; Nigel Davenport

Trinity Entertainment, 2005

An absolutely astonishing Christopher Plummer
If you have never had the privilege to admire Christopher Plummer performing on stage, and you know him only as the extraordinarily charming blue eyed Captain Von Trapp, then this film is a must see. You will soon realize what Christopher Plummer actually is: the most ...

Dan Curtis' Dracula

Jack Palance, Simon Ward

Mpi Home Video, 2002

DAN CURTIS' DRACULA STARRING JACK PALANCE
Dan Curtis' Dracula DIRECTOR DAN CURTIS CLEARLY HAS A YEARNING TO MAKE A GREAT HORROR FILM OUT OF BRAM STOKER'S CLASSIC NOVEL. THE BRILLIANT OPENING SCENES DECLARE HIS AMBITION. MISTS RISE FROM A BLACK TRANSYLVANIAN LAKE, LIKE THE MEMORY OF SOME FADED AND FORGOTTEN ...