CLASSIC ACTION AND ADVENTURE
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John Wayne: Complete Collection (34 Films)
Contains the following John Wayne movies: Stagecoach, The Long Voyage Home, Fort Apache, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Rio Grande, The Quiet Man, Sands of Iwo Jima, The Fighting Seabees, The Flying Tigers, Back to Bataan, Jet Pilot, The Flying Leathernecks, Dark Command, Tall in the Saddle, Angel and the Bad Man, The Fighting Kentuckian, The War Wagon Rooster Cogburn, The Spoilers Tycoon, Wake of the Red Witch, The Conqueror The Magnificent Showman, Hellfighters, Seven Sinners, Three Faces West, Lady from Louisiana, The Shepherd of the Hills, In Old California, Pittsburgh, Reap the Wild Wind, War of the Wildcats, Dakota, Flame of Barbary Coast. |
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The Indiana Jones Trilogy (4-disc set) 1989
Along the way, Indiana Jones (archaeologist) undertakes improbable adventures, featuring spiders, snakes, rats, insects and Nazis galore, rescues damsels in distress and still finds time to bond with his dad Sean Connery, in one of cinema's great cameo roles as Dr Jones Sr. |
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The Adventures of Robin Hood [1938]:
Dashing Errol Flynn is the definitive Robin in 1938's The Adventures of Robin Hood, the most gloriously swashbuckling version of the legendary story. Warner Brothers reunited Michael Curtiz, their top-action director, with the winning team of Flynn and Olivia de Havilland (Maid Marian) and perennial villain Basil Rathbone as the aristocratic Sir Guy of Gisbourne, and pulled out all stops for the production. In glowing technicolour the adventure is set to a stirring, Oscar-winning score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold. |
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Starlogic Multi-region 2.1 DVD Player
Multi-angle function. Full function remote control. Graphical user interface GUI. DVD, DVD-VIDEO and CD compatible. Plays both PAL and NTSC recorded DVDs |
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Ixos Scart to Scart 1.5M
Cable: Video / audio cable. Length: 1.5 m Left Connector(s): 21 pin SCART - male. Right Connector(s): 21 pin SCART - male. Gold-plated connector |
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Mutiny On The Bounty [1935]:
A true classic. Gorgeous photography, brought vividly to life in this impeccable transfer, a rattling good story, wonderful performances, and no expense spared on sets and locations. In terms of events it's broadly correct but of course, in keeping with a good adventure story, it presents Bligh as a sour-faced sadist rather that the complex, troubled character he really was. As such, Charles Laughton turns in a performance to relish, perhaps the greatest of his career. This is a good old adventure movie of the very best kind, and a terrific film by any standards. |
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Apollo 13 (1995):
NASA's worst nightmare turned into one of the space agency's most heroic moments in 1970, when the Apollo 13 crew was forced to return home in a disabled capsule after an explosion seriously damaged the spacecraft and stopped any possibilty of a moon landing. Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, and Bill Paxton play astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise. The Apollo 13 crew and mission control race against time to return the damaged spacecraft safely to Earth. Special effects and nail-biting tension make a fitting tribute to the Apollo 13 mission. |
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The Magnificent Seven (1960):
The beleaguered denizens of a Mexican village, weary of attacks by banditos, hire seven gunslingers to repel the invaders once and for all. The gunmen are cool and capable; Steve McQueen, James Coburn, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn. The man who brings these warriors together is Yul Brynner. The storytelling is clear and strong, and the charisma of the young guns fairly flies off the screen. |
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The Great Escape - (1963):
A stirring example of courage and the indomitable human spirit. The Great Escape is both the definitive World War II drama and prison escape movie. Set to Elmer Bernstein's admirable music, this picture is both a template for subsequent action-adventure movies and one of the last glories of Golden Age Hollywood. Steve McQueen gives a career-defining performance as the laconic Hilts, the baseball-loving, motorbike-riding "Cooler King." The rest of the all-male Anglo-American cast, Dickie Attenborough, Donald Pleasance, James Garner, Charles Bronson, David McCallum, James Coburn, and Gordon Jackson. Closely based on Paul Brickhill's book, the various escape attempts, scrounging, forging, and ferreting activities are authentically realized. The climax is given with total conviction, high action and very poignant human drama. Without trivializing the grim reality, The Great Escape thrillingly celebrates the heroism of men who never gave up the fight. |
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