Take the first Pirates of the Caribbean film, add a dash of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and a lot more rum. Shake well and you'll have something resembling Dead Man's Chest, a bombastic sequel that's enjoyable as long as you don't think too hard about it. The film opens with the interrupted wedding of Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) and Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley), both of whom are arrested for aiding in the escape of Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) in the first film. Their freedom can only be obtained by getting Captain Jack's compass, which is linked to a key that's linked to a chest belonging to Davy Jones, an undead pirate with a tentacle face and in possession of a lot of people's souls. If you're already confused, don't worry--plot is definitely not the... Learn More
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After the success of 1950's Destination Moon and 1951's When Worlds Collide, visionary producer George Pal brought the classic H.G. Wells story of a Martian invasion to the big screen, and it instantly became a science fiction classic and winner of the 1953 Academy Award for Best Special Effects. It's a work of frightening imagination, with its manta-ray spaceships armed with cobra-like probes that shoot a white-hot disintegration ray. As formations of alien ships continue to wreak destruction around the globe, the military is helpless to stop this enemy while scientists race to find an effective weapon. Gene Barry and Ann Robinson play the hero and heroine roles that were de rigueur for movies like this in the '50s, and their encounter with one of the Martians is as creepy... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Gene Barry - Ann Robinson - Les Tremayne Director(s): Byron Haskin DVD Release Date: Released the 01 November 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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The poster (B. Graham etc.) who keeps asserting that this film was filmed in fullscreen ratio is all wet. I saw the original release and it was definitely widescreen. (Maybe not Cinemascope, but it impressed me by its size and color at the time.) And, no, it was not fullscreen cropped or matted to appear wide.
Paramount is out of its mind to do this supercolorful film in full screen only. (As the studios are for only issuing Sharky's Machine, Fearless, The Great Santini in fullscreen. But doing it to The Naked Jungle is the worst because of the gorgeous cinematography.) More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Eleanor Parker - Charlton Heston Director(s): Byron Haskin DVD Release Date: Released the 09 November 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Translating ones imagination effectively to the silver screen can be tricky, especially during a time when special effects were not created through the use of computers, and, in the 50s, few did it better than George Pal (Destination Moon, When Worlds Collide, The War of the Worlds). While Conquest of Space (1955) isn't necessarily his best work, there felt, to me at least, just as much effort put forth as in any of his other films, that's to say a whole lot more than most. Produced by George Pal and directed by Byron Haskin (Treasure Island, The War of the Worlds, Robinson Crusoe on Mars...I'd like to see this last one released onto DVD), the film stars Walter Brooke ("The Green Hornet", Tora! Tora! Tora!), Eric Fleming (Queen of Outer Space, "Rawhide"), and comedian turned actor Phil... More Info About This DVD Director(s): Byron Haskin DVD Release Date: Released the 19 October 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Buyer beware. Image Entertainment/Dark City has used the exact same print of this film as was used for the budget-line DVD from Alpha Video/Gotham Distribution. The picture quality is so bad, it's virtually unwatchable. Right from the start, the picture is jittery, as if it's running in a broken projector. Everything is out of focus -- this must be a fifth or sixth generation print, not even close to broadcast quality. The picture is littered with grain, specks, scratches, you name it. Several nighttime scenes are absolutely pitch-black -- you can't see anything at all on the screen. And there are so many missing frames that the movie keeps lurching forward like a bad japanese animation film.This is the first release in Image Entertainment's "Dark City" series. I hope it's also the last.... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Lizabeth Scott - Don DeFore - Dan Duryea Director(s): Byron Haskin DVD Release Date: Released the 25 May 2004 Usually ships within 24 hours
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This disc is OK if you really don't care about quality. The prints they used show alot of wear. For "HE WALKED BY NIGHT", i would suggest you buy the disc put out by MGM. The print they used here for "TOO LATE FOR TEARS" looks like the same one that Image Entertainment used. It has several splices and scratches. TOO LATE FOR TEARS was also released under the title "KILLER BAIT" which is available in a better quality print in a 6 disc set called "5 Killer Film Noir Classics". As for "KANSAS CITY CONFIDENTIAL", if i remember right the disc put out by Image is of better quality. (This review is for the "Film Noir Triple Feature Vol. 1" disc put out by Goodtimes Video") More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Lizabeth Scott - Don DeFore - Dan Duryea Director(s): Byron Haskin DVD Release Date: Released the 30 March 2004 Usually ships within 24 hours
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beware! this is not the tv series as described by the first reviewer (not the reviewer's fault). this is instead, the movie version of "return to treasure Island", and the tv version is by a different distributor. More Info About This DVD Director(s): Byron Haskin DVD Release Date: Released the 20 January 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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