DVD ??/??/???? $5.99 Academy Award - Best Picture 1929 Wings (USA 1927) Director: Lucien Hubbard Richard Arlen (David Armstrong), Clara Bow (Mary Preston), El Brendel (Herman Schwimpf), Gary Cooper (Cadet White), Hedda Hopper (Mrs. Powell), Roscoe Karns (Lieutenant Cameron), Henry B. Walthall (David's father), Arlette Marchal (Celeste), WWI flying aces fight the Bosch and fall in love. Did this get remade as Pearl Harbor? AA Best Film 1929 (the 1st). Available on DVD through non-US sources, how sad is that?

DVD 02/20/2006 £15.99 PG Aspect: 1.33:1 Runtime: 125 DVD 01/05/1999 $24.98 NR Aspect: 1.33:1 Runtime: 130 DVD 02/06/2007 $14.98 UR Aspect: 1.33:1 Runtime: 132 Academy Award - Best Picture 1930 All Quiet on the Western Front (USA 1930) Director: Lewis Milestone Louis Wolheim (Katczinsky), Lew Ayres (Paul Baumer), John Wray (Himmelstoss), Arnold Lucy (Kantorek), Ben Alexander (Kemmerick), Scott Kolk (Leer), Owen Davis (Peter), Walter Browne Rogers (Behn), William Bakewell (Albert), Russell Gleason (Mueller), Richard Alexander (Westhus), The trials and tribulations of an enthusiastic young recruit who ends up fighting in the horror that is World War I. Still as powerful and moving today as I presume it was in 1930. An absolute must have film.

DVD 02/01/2005 $19.98 NR Aspect: 1.33:1 Academy Award - Best Picture 1930 Broadway Melody (USA 1929) Director: Harry Beaumont Charles King (Eddie Kearns), Anita Page (Queenie Mahoney), Bessie Love (Hank Mahoney), Jed Prouty (Uncle Jed), Kenneth Thomson (Jock Worriner), Eddie Kane (Francis Zanfield), Sound and vision came together for this early musical that set the template for the next 30 years.

DVD 01/31/2006 $19.98 NR Aspect: 1.33:1 Academy Award - Best Picture 1931 Cimarron (USA 1931) Director: Wesley Ruggles Richard Dix (Yancey Cravat), Irene Dunne (Sabra Cravat), Estelle Taylor (Dixie Lee), Nance O'Neil (Felice Venable), William Collier (The Kid), Roscoe Ates (Jesse Rickey), George E. Stone (Sol Levy), Stanley Fields (Lon Yountis), Robert McWade (Louie Heffner), Edna May Oliver (Mrs. Tracy Wyatt), Judith Barrett (Donna Cravat), The 1889 Oklahoma Land Rush is the setting for this lavish western. AA Best Film 1931.

DVD 02/03/2004 $19.98 NR Aspect: 1.33:1 DVD 09/06/2005 $19.97 NR Academy Award - Best Picture 1932 Grand Hotel (USA 1932) Director: Edmund Goulding Greta Garbo (Grusinskaya), John Barrymore (Baron Felix von Geigern), Joan Crawford (Flaemmchen), Wallace Beery (Preysing), Lionel Barrymore (Otto Kringelein), Lewis Stone (Dr. Otternschlag), Jean Hersholt (Senf), Robert McWade (Meierheim), Purnell Pratt (Zinnowitz), Mary Carlisle (honeymooner), Frank Conroy (Rohna), Sterling Hollywood drama featuring the occupants of the titular hotel. Garbo plays a Russian ballet dancer prima donna who's jewels are coveted by her nefarious manager (John Barrymore). Dated but classic.

DVD ??/??/???? $0.99 Academy Award - Best Picture 1934 Cavalcade (USA 1933) Director: Frank Lloyd Lionel Belmore (Uncle George), Billy Bevan (), Mary Forbes (Duchess of Churt), Betty Grable (Girl on Couch), Lawrence Grant (Man at Microphone), Bonita Granville (Fanny younger), Ursula Jeans (Fanny Bridges), Frank Lawton (Joe Marryot), Margaret Lindsay (Edith Harris), Beryl Mercer (Cook), Herbert Mundin (Alfred Bridges), Noel Coward's play brought to Hollywood life. the story of two English families over a Thirty year span. 1934s Academy Award winner is also distressingly unavailable on DVD except from Asian sources. For shame, Hollywood.

DVD 05/08/2006 £5.99 U Aspect: 1.33:1 Runtime: 101 DVD 12/28/1999 $24.95 NR Aspect: 1.33:1 Runtime: 105 Academy Award - Best Picture 1935 It Happened One Night (USA 1934) Director: Frank Capra Clark Gable (Peter Warne), Claudette Colbert (Ellie Andrews), Walter Connolly (Alexander Andrews), Roscoe Karns (Mr. Shapeley), Jameson Thomas (King Westley), Alan Hale (Danker), Arthur Hoyt (Zeke), Blanche Frederici (Zeke's Wife), Charles C. Wilson (Joe Gordon), Irving Bacon (Station Attendent), Ward Bond (Bus Driver), Capra screw-ball comedy par excellance. Netted five Academy Awards; Picture, Director, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Writing.

DVD 06/01/2006 £13.99 PG Aspect: 1.33:1 Runtime: 132 DVD 02/03/2004 $19.97 NR Aspect: 1.33:1 Runtime: 132 Academy Award - Best Picture 1936 Mutiny on the Bounty (USA 1935) Director: Frank Lloyd Charles Laughton (Captain William Bligh), Clark Gable (Fletcher Christian), Franchot Tone (Byam), Herbert Mundin (Smith), Eddie Quillan (Ellison), Dudley Digges (Bacchus), Donald Crisp (Burkitt), Henry Stephenson (Sir Joseph Banks), Francis Lister (Captain Nelson), Spring Byington (Mrs Byam), Movita (Tehanni), Awesome. Endlessly mimicable classic. Laughton is just superb.

DVD 02/16/2004 £13.99 U Aspect: 1.33:1 Runtime: 177 DVD 02/03/2004 $19.98 NR Aspect: 1.33:1 Academy Award - Best Picture 1937 Great Ziegfeld (USA 1936) Director: Robert Z. Leonard William Powell (Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.), Myrna Loy (Billie Burke), Luise Rainer (Anna Held), Frank Morgan (Billings), Fanny Brice (herself), Virginia Bruce (Audrey Dane), Reginald Owen (Sampson), Ray Bolger (himself), Ernest Cossart (Sidney), Joseph Cawthorn (Dr Florenz Ziegfeld Sr.), Nat Pendleton (Sandow), The life and loves of stage show extravaganza producer, Flo Ziegfeld.

DVD 02/01/2005 $19.98 NR Aspect: 1.33:1 Runtime: 116 Academy Award - Best Picture 1938 The Life of Emile Zola (USA 1937) Director: William Dieterle Robert Barrat (Major Walsin Esterhazy), Louis Calhern (), Morris Carnovsky (), Donald Crisp (Maitre Labori), Harry Davenport (Chief of Staff), Gilbert Emery (Minister of War), Lumsden Hare (M. Richards), Holmes Herbert (Commander of Paris), Gloria Holden (Alexandrine Zola), Walter Kingsford (Colonel Sandherr), John Litel (Charpentier), Hollywood account of French author, Emile Zola, and his tangle with the Government over the Dreyfus scandal, the dubious treason trial of an army captain. 3 Oscars awarded.

DVD 02/24/2003 £12.99 U Aspect: 1.33:1 Runtime: 121 DVD 02/18/2003 $29.95 UR Aspect: 1.33:1 Runtime: 127 Academy Award - Best Picture 1939 You Can't Take It With You (USA 1938) Director: Frank Capra Jean Arthur (Alice Sycamore), Lionel Barrymore (Grandpa Martin Vanderhof), James Stewart (Tony Kirby), Edward Arnold (Anthony P. Kirby), Mischa Auer (Kolenkhov), Ann Miller (Essie Carmichael), Spring Byington (Penny Sycamore), Samuel S. Hinds (Paul Sycamore), Donald Meek (Poppins), H.B. Warner (Ramsey), Halliwell Hobbes (DePinna), Director Frank Capra hit Oscar gold again with another screwball comedy involving the rich and the poor.

DVD 06/01/2006 £13.99 PG Aspect: 1.33:1 Runtime: 224 DVD 11/06/2001 $79.98 G Aspect: 1.33:1 DVD 11/09/2004 $39.92 G Runtime: 238 DVD 10/27/1998 $24.98 G Aspect: 1.33:1 DVD 03/07/2000 $24.98 NR Aspect: 1.33:1 Runtime: 233 Academy Award - Best Picture 1940 Gone with the Wind (USA 1939) Director: Victor Fleming Clark Gable (Rhett Butler), Thomas Mitchell (Gerald O'Hara), Vivien Leigh (Scarlett O'Hara), Barbara O'Neil (Ellen O'Hara), Leslie Howard (Ashley Wilkes), Olivia de Havilland (Melanie Hamilton), Evelyn Keyes (Suellen), George Reeves (Brent Tartleton), Ann Rutherford (Carreen), Fred Crane (Brent Tarleton), Hattie McDaniel (Mammy), Colossal adaptation of Margaret Mitchell's celebrated novel. Perfectly cast, beautifully directed, gorgeous technicolor...dated romantic slush or cinematic perfection? You be the Judge! Fiddle-dee-dee. Four disc LOADED DVD!!

DVD 10/04/2004 £5.99 PG DVD 09/07/1999 $24.98 NR Aspect: 1.33:1 DVD 11/20/2001 $39.95 NR Aspect: 1.33:1 Runtime: 130 Academy Award - Best Picture 1941 Rebecca (USA 1940) Director: Alfred Hitchcock Laurence Olivier (Maxim de Winter), Joan Fontaine (Mrs. de Winter), George Sanders (Jack Favell), Judith Anderson (Mrs. Danvers), Gladys Cooper (Beatrice Lacy), Nigel Bruce (Major Giles Lacy), Reginald Denny (Frank Crawley), C. Aubrey Smith (Colonel Julyan), Melville Cooper (Coroner), Florence Bates (Mrs. Van Hopper), Leonard Carey (Ben), Hitchcock at the top of his game. Perfect mystery movie with a perfect cast and many memorable moments. A classic for those of you who dig classics.

DVD 01/14/2003 $14.98 NR Aspect: 1.33:1 DVD 03/07/2000 $24.98 NR Aspect: 1.33:1 Academy Award - Best Picture 1942 How Green Was My Valley (USA 1941) Director: John Ford Sara Allgood (Mrs. Beth Morgan), Donald Crisp (Mr. Morgan), Evans Evans (Gwilym), Barry Fitzgerald (Cyfartha), Richard Fraser (Davy), Ethel Griffies (Mrs. Nicholas), Louis Jean Heydt (Miner), Patric Knowles (Ivor), Anna Lee (Bronwyn), John Loder (Ianto), Eve March (Meillyn Lewis), Of Unions and Welsh Miners from Richard Llewellyn's novel. Hollywood stands in for Wales, but otherwise still a gem.

DVD 02/03/2004 $19.98 NR Aspect: 1.33:1 Runtime: 134 Academy Award - Best Picture 1943 Mrs. Miniver (USA 1942) Director: William Wyler Greer Garson (Kay Miniver), Walter Pidgeon (Clem Miniver), Teresa Wright (Carol Beldon), May Whitty (Lady Beldon), Reginald Owen (Foley), Henry Travers (Mr. Ballard), Richard Ney (Vin Miniver), Henry Wilcoxon (Vicar), Christopher Severn (Toby Miniver), Brenda Forbes (Gladys), Clare Sandars (Judy Miniver), Hollywood flagwaver concerning a British family dealing with normal life amidst the chaos of WWII. Propaganda, but good propaganda. Six Oscars for this one; Best Film, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Cinematography, Best Screenplay and Best Direction.

DVD 11/17/1998 $24.98 NR Aspect: 1.33:1 DVD 02/15/2000 $24.98 NR Aspect: 1.33:1 DVD 10/25/2000 $79.98 NR Aspect: 1.33:1 HD 11/14/2006 $28.99 NR Aspect: 1.33:1 Runtime: 145 Academy Award - Best Picture 1944 Casablanca (USA 1942) Director: Michael Curtiz Humphrey Bogart (Rick Blaine), Ingrid Bergman (Ilsa), Paul Henreid (Victor Laszlo), Claude Rains (Captain Louis Renault), Conrad Veidt (Major Heinrich Strasser), Sydney Greenstreet (Senor Ferrari), Peter Lorre (Ugarte), S. Z. Sakall (Carl), Madeleine Lebeau (Yvonne), Dooley Wilson (Sam), Joy Page (Annina Brandel), The ultimate Hollywood romance. Bogart and Bergman at their finest and a superb cast of villains and heroes. Come on, get the DVD and play it again. Three Academy Award winner.

DVD 02/06/2007 $14.98 NR Aspect: 1.33:1 Academy Award - Best Picture 1945 Going My Way (USA 1944) Director: Leo McCarey Bing Crosby (Father Chuck O'Malley), Barry Fitzgerald (Father Fitzgibbon), Frank McHugh (Father Timothy O'Dowd), James Brown (Ted Haines jr.), Gene Lockhart (Ted Haines Sr.), Jean Heather (Carol James), Porter Hall (Mr. Belknap), Fortunio Bonanova (Tomaso Bozanni), Stanley Clements (Tony Scaponi), William Frawley (Max), If you buy off on happy singing priests as personified by Mr Bing Crosby, then this is pleasant enough. Took Seven trophies away from the Academy Awards including one for best song, Swinging on a Star. Carry those moonbeams and the DVD, home in a jar.

DVD 02/06/2001 $29.98 NR Aspect: 1.33:1 Academy Award - Best Picture 1946 The Lost Weekend (USA 1945) Director: Billy Wilder Ray Milland (Don Birnam), Jane Wyman (Helen St. James), Phillip Terry (Wick Birnam), Howard Da Silva (Nat), Doris Dowling (Gloria), Frank Faylen (Bim), Mary Young (Mrs. Deveridge), James Millican (Nurse), Douglas Spencer (Beetle), Surprisingly raw dip into alcoholism for such an early film. Ray Milland is the fellow with the problem.

DVD 07/05/2004 £15.99 U Aspect: 1.33:1 Runtime: 163 DVD 10/28/1997 $24.98 NR Aspect: 1.33:1 Runtime: 170 DVD 07/18/2000 $19.98 NR Aspect: 1.33:1 Runtime: 168 Academy Award - Best Picture 1947 Best Years of Our Lives (USA 1946) Director: William Wyler Myrna Loy (Milly Stephenson), Fredric March (Al Stephenson), Dana Andrews (Fred Derry), Teresa Wright (Peggy Stephenson), Virginia Mayo (Marie Derry), Cathy O'Donnell (Wilma Cameron), Hoagy Carmichael (Butch Engle), Harold Russell (Homer Parrish), Gladys George (Hortense Derry), Roman Bohnen (Pat Derry), Ray Collins (Mr. Milton), Life after WWII for three returning servicemen is not all it's cracked up to be. Brilliantlly observed tale by director William Wyler. Bagged 7 Oscars plus one honorary one for Harold Russell.

DVD 03/07/2000 $24.98 NR Aspect: 1.33:1 DVD 01/14/2003 $14.98 NR Aspect: 1.33:1 Runtime: 118 Academy Award - Best Picture 1948 Gentleman's Agreement (USA 1947) Director: Elia Kazan Gregory Peck (Phil Green), Dorothy McGuire (Kathy Lacey), John Garfield (Dave Goldman), Celeste Holm (Anne Dettrey), Anne Revere (Mrs. Green), June Havoc (Miss Wales), Albert Dekker (John Minify), Jane Wyatt (Jane Lacey), Dean Stockwell (Tommy Green), Nicholas Joy (Dr Craigie), Sam Jaffe (Professor Lieberman), Newspaper editor, Peck, masquerades as Jewish to write an article on anti-semitism in New York. Powerful and provocative even today. Raided Oscar for Best Picture, Supporting Actress (Celeste Holm) and Best Director.

DVD 04/14/2003 £9.99 U Aspect: 1.33:1 Runtime: 155 DVD 09/19/2000 $29.95 NR Aspect: 1.33:1 Runtime: 155 Academy Award - Best Picture 1949 Hamlet (UK 1948) Director: Laurence Olivier Laurence Olivier (Hamlet), Eileen Herlie (Gertrude), Basil Sydney (Claudius), Jean Simmons (Ophelia), Felix Aylmer (Polonius), Norman Wooland (Horatio), Terence Morgan (Laertes), Stanley Holloway (Gravedigger), Peter Cushing (Osric), Esmond Knight (Bernardo), Anthony Quayle (Marcellus), Olivier does the Shakespeare thing, and nobody does it better.

DVD 07/09/2001 £19.99 U Aspect: 1.33:1 Runtime: 105 DVD 06/05/2001 $24.95 NR Aspect: 1.33:1 DVD 09/05/2006 $19.94 UR Aspect: 1.33:1 Runtime: 109 Academy Award - Best Picture 1950 All the King's Men (USA 1949) Director: Robert Rossen Broderick Crawford (Willie Stark), John Ireland (Jack Burden), Joanne Dru (Anne Stanton), John Derek (Tom Stark), Mercedes McCambridge (Sadie Burk), Shepperd Strudwick (Adam Stanton), Ralph Dumke (Tiny Duffy), Anne Seymour (Lucy Stark), Katharine Warren (Mrs. Burden), Raymond Greenleaf (Judge Stanton), Walter Burke (Sugar Boy), Broderick Crawford scores as the initially well-intentioned political figure who succumbs to the power-corrupts thing.

DVD 02/27/2006 £17.99 12 Aspect: 1.33:1 Runtime: 134 DVD 04/18/2005 £12.99 U Aspect: 1.33:1 Runtime: 134 DVD 10/05/1999 $24.98 NR Aspect: 1.33:1 DVD 01/14/2003 $14.98 NR Aspect: 1.33:1 Academy Award - Best Picture 1951 All About Eve (USA 1950) Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Bette Davis (Margo Channing), Anne Baxter (Eve Harrington), George Sanders (Addison De Witt (Narrator)), Celeste Holm (Karen Richards), Gary Merrill (Bill Simpson), Hugh Marlowe (Lloyd Richards), Gregory Ratoff (Max Fabian), Barbara Bates (Phoebe), Marilyn Monroe (Miss Casswell), Thelma Ritter (Birdie), Walter Hampden (Master of Ceremonies), Theatrical bitchiness abounds when rising starlet, Eve (Anne Baxter), runs into fading diva, Margot Channing (Bette Davis at her most potent). Throw in a George Sanders at his most Sandersesque and you have a film more than worthy of its 6 Oscar wins.

DVD 10/09/2006 £6.99 U Aspect: 1.33:1 Runtime: 109 DVD 06/13/2000 $19.98 NR Aspect: 1.33:1 Runtime: 114 DVD 04/27/1999 $24.98 NR Aspect: 1.33:1 Academy Award - Best Picture 1952 An American in Paris (USA 1951) Director: Vincente Minnelli Gene Kelly (Jerry Mulligan), Leslie Caron (Lise Bouvier), Oscar Levant (Adam Cook), Georges Guetary (Henri Baurel), Nina Foch (Milo Roberts), Ann Codee (Therese), George Davis (Francois), Paul Maxey (John McDowd), Noel Neill (American Girl), Hayden Rorke (Tommy Baldwin), Mary Young (Old Woman Dancer), Infectious Hollywood musical par excellance. Caron and Kelly shine, even if the plot is doesn't hold water.

DVD 02/12/2007 £9.99 U Runtime: 147 DVD 04/06/2004 $9.98 UR Aspect: 1.37:1 Runtime: 152 Academy Award - Best Picture 1953 The Greatest Show on Earth (USA 1952) Director: Cecil B. DeMille Betty Hutton (Holly), Cornel Wilde (Sebastian), Charlton Heston (Brad Braden), Dorothy Lamour (Phyllis), Gloria Grahame (Angel), Henry Wilcoxon (Gregory of the FBI), Lyle Bettger (Klaus), Lawrence Tierney (Mr. Henderson), Emmett Kelly (himself), Cucciola (himself), Lee Aaker (boy), The greatest cinema showman, Cecil B. DeMille, takes on the greatest show - the circus. Noisy, colourful entertainment with oodles of genuine circus atmosphere courtesy of Barnum and Bailey's. Carried off two Oscars: Best Picture and Best Writing.

DVD 01/14/2002 £19.99 PG Aspect: 1.33:1 Runtime: 114 DVD 10/23/2001 $14.94 NR Aspect: 1.33:1 Runtime: 118 Academy Award - Best Picture 1954 From Here to Eternity (USA 1953) Director: Fred Zinnemann Burt Lancaster (Sergeant Milton Warden), Montgomery Clift (Robert E. Lee "Prew" Prewitt), Deborah Kerr (Karen Holmes), Donna Reed (Alma), Frank Sinatra (Angelo Maggio), Philip Ober (Captain Dana Holmes), Mickey Shaughnessy (Sgt. Leva), Harry Bellaver (Mazzioli), Ernest Borgnine (Sgt. James "Fatso" Judson), Jack Warden (Corp. Buckley), John Dennis (Sgt. Ike Galovitch), Lives and loves of assorted Hawaii military folk in the run up to the Pearl Harbor attack.

DVD 05/08/2006 £9.99 15 Aspect: 1.33:1 Runtime: 103 DVD 10/23/2001 $24.95 NR Aspect: 1.33:1 Runtime: 108 Academy Award - Best Picture 1955 On the Waterfront (USA 1954) Director: Elia Kazan Marlon Brando (Terry Malloy), Karl Malden (Father Barry), Lee J. Cobb (Johnny Friendly), Rod Steiger (Charley Malloy), Pat Henning (Kayo Dugan), Leif Erickson (Glover), James Westerfield (Big Mac), Tony Galento (Truck), Tami Mauriello (Tullio), John Hamilton (Pop Doyle), John Heldabrand (Mutt), Gritty tale of corruption among the dockside unions. Film that marks a changing of the guard in Hollywood signalling rougher films to come. Oscar accepted it with 8 Oscars.

DVD 06/19/2001 $19.98 NR Aspect: 1.33:1 Academy Award - Best Picture 1956 Marty (USA 1955) Director: Delbert Mann Betsy Blair (), Ernest Borgnine (), Augusta Ciolli (Catherine), Joe De Santis (), Joe Mantell (Angie), Esther Minciotti (Mrs. Pilletti), Jerry Paris (Thomas), Karen Steele (Virginia), Frank Sutton (Ralph), Minerva Urecal (Mrs. Rosari),

DVD 07/06/2004 £19.99 U DVD 05/18/2004 $26.99 G Aspect: 2.20:1 Academy Award - Best Picture 1957 Around the World in Eighty Days (USA 1956) Director: Michael Anderson David Niven (Phileas Fogg), Cantinflas (Passepartout), Noel Coward (Hesketh-Baggott), John Gielgud (Foster (Butler)), Trevor Howard (Fallentin), Robert Morley (Ralph), Ronald Squire (Member), Basil Sydney (Member), Finlay Currie (Whist Partner), Martine Carol (Tourist), Fernandel (Coachman), Special Edition release for this completely over the top version of the Jules Verne classic. Great fun. Even more so for cameo spotters.

DVD 11/21/2000 $24.95 PG Aspect: 2.35:1 Academy Award - Best Picture 1958 Bridge on the River Kwai (UK 1957) Director: David Lean James Donald (Major Clipton), Alec Guinness (Colonel Nicholson), Jack Hawkins (Major Warden), Sessue Hayakawa (Colonel Saito), Percy Herbert (Grogan), William Holden (Shears), Geoffrey Horne (Lieutenant Joyce), Andre Morell (Colonel Green), Ann Sears (Nurse), Harold Goodwin (Baker),

DVD 04/27/1999 $24.98 G Aspect: 2.35:1 DVD 05/02/2000 $24.98 G Aspect: 2.35:1 Academy Award - Best Picture 1959 Gigi (USA 1958) Director: Vincente Minnelli John Abbott (Manuel), Jacques Bergerac (), Leslie Caron (), Maurice Chevalier (Honore Lachaille), Eva Gabor (Liane d'Exelmans), Hermione Gingold (Madame Alvarez), Isabel Jeans (Aunt Alicia), Louis Jourdan (Gaston Lachaille), Monique Van Vooren (Showgirl),

DVD 02/13/2006 £24.99 PG DVD 09/13/2005 $39.92 G Academy Award - Best Picture 1960 Ben-Hur (USA 1959) Director: William Wyler Charlton Heston (Judah Ben-Hur), Jack Hawkins (Quintas Arrius), Stephen Boyd (Messala), Haya Harareet (Esther), Hugh Griffith (Shake Ilderim), Martha Scott (Miriam), Sam Jaffe (Simonides), Cathy O'Donnell (Tirzah), Finlay Currie (Balthasar), Ferdy Mayne (Captain, Rescue ship), Robert Brown (Chief of Rowers), A nobleman has to prove himself in the Roman arena. Hollywood spectacle at its finest. The chariot race is still amazing. Ridiculously loaded four, yes four, disc set, including a terrific restoration of the 1926 silent version of same, which has to be DVD extra of the decade! Highly recommended.

DVD 12/18/2001 $19.98 NR Aspect: 2.35:1 Academy Award - Best Picture 1961 Apartment (USA 1960) Director: Billy Wilder Jack Lemmon (C. C. (Bud) Baxter), Shirley MacLaine (Fran Kubelik), Fred MacMurray (J. D. Sheldrake), Ray Walston (Joe Dobisch), Jack Kruschen (Doctor Dreyfuss), David Lewis (Al Kirkeby), Hope Holiday (Mrs Margie MacDougall), Joan Shawlee (Sylvia), Naomi Stevens (Mrs. Dreyfuss), Johnny Seven (Karl Matuschka), Joyce Jameson (The Blonde),

DVD 11/17/2003 £19.99 PG Runtime: 145 DVD 10/20/1998 $24.98 NR Aspect: 2.20:1 DVD 04/01/2003 $29.98 NR Aspect: 2.20:1 Runtime: 152 Academy Award - Best Picture 1962 West Side Story (USA 1961) Director: Robert/Robbins Wise Natalie Wood (Maria), Richard Beymer (Tony), Russ Tamblyn (Riff), Rita Moreno (Anita), George Chakiris (Bernardo), Simon Oakland (Lieutenant Schrank), Ned Glass (Doc), William Bramley (Officer Krupke), Tucker Smith (Ice), Tony Mordente (Action), David Winters (A-Rab), Though I can't stand The Sound of Music, I'm perfectly happy with this film, possibly the best Hollywood movie musical. Great songs, great choreography and dancing (particularly Russ Tamblyn), wishy-washy leads but a superb supporting cast make up for that. Highly recommended.

DVD 04/09/2001 £24.99 12 Aspect: 2.20:1 Runtime: 227 DVD 04/03/2001 $39.95 NR Aspect: 2.20:1 Academy Award - Best Picture 1963 Lawrence of Arabia (UK 1962) Director: David Lean Peter O'Toole (Lawrence), Alec Guinness (Prince Feisel), Anthony Quinn (Auda Abu Tayi), Jack Hawkins (General Allenby), Omar Sharif (Sherif Ali), Jose Ferrer (Turkish Bey), Anthony Quayle (Colonel Brighton), Claude Rains (Mr. Dryden), Arthur Kennedy (Jackson Bentley), Donald Wolfit (General Murray), I.S. Johar (Gasim), Tale of complicated military genius, T.E. Lawrence and his travails in the Middle East during WWI. Still eyepopping film-making and much worshipped by the likes of Mr Spielberg. A 7 Oscar tally.

DVD 02/03/2003 £12.99 PG Aspect: 1.66:1 Runtime: 117 DVD 09/30/1997 $24.98 NR Aspect: 1.33:1 DVD 06/19/2001 $19.98 NR Aspect: 1.66:1 Academy Award - Best Picture 1964 Tom Jones (UK 1963) Director: Tony Richardson George Devine (Squire Allworthy), Rachel Kempson (Bridget Allworthy), Angela Baddeley (Mrs Wilkins), Joyce Redman (Jenny Jones (Mrs. Waters)), Jack MacGowran (Partridge), Albert Finney (Tom Jones), Diane Cilento (Molly Seagrim), Wilfrid Lawson (Black George), John Moffatt (Square), Peter Bull (Thwackum), David Warner (Blifil), Historical drama gets a big raspberry from this irreverent tale of the life of an orphaned fellow. A breath of fresh air in its day, this now seems to have dated somewhat. A bag of 4 Oscars here.

DVD 04/05/2004 £13.99 U Aspect: 2.20:1 Runtime: 163 DVD 02/03/2004 $26.98 G Aspect: 2.20:1 Runtime: 172 Academy Award - Best Picture 1965 My Fair Lady (USA 1964) Director: George Cukor Audrey Hepburn (Eliza Doolittle), Rex Harrison (Prof. Henry Higgins), Stanley Holloway (Alfred Doolittle), Wilfrid Hyde-White (Colonel Pickering), Gladys Cooper (Mrs. Higgins), Jeremy Brett (Freddy Eynsford-Hill), Theodore Bikel (Zoltan Karpathy), Mona Washbourne (Mrs. Pearce), Isobel Elsom (Mrs. Eynsford-Hill), Marjorie Bennett (Cockney with pipe), Henry Daniell (Prince Gregor), One of those movies I love to hate. Audrey is shrill and annoying, but then she's meant to be. Harrison is a chauvenist of the finest order, perhaps they deserve eachother... Contrived to nab 8 Oscars though.

DVD 11/28/2005 £22.99 U DVD 08/13/2002 $19.98 G Aspect: 2.20:1 DVD 11/15/2005 $26.98 G Academy Award - Best Picture 1966 Sound of Music (USA 1965) Director: Robert Wise Julie Andrews (Maria), Christopher Plummer (Baron Von Trapp), Richard Haydn (Max Detweiler), Peggy Wood (Mother Abbess), Anna Lee (Sister Margaretta), Portia Nelson (Sister Berthe), Ben Wright (Herr Zeller), Daniel Truhitte (Rolfe), Norma Varden (Frau Schmidt), Marni Nixon (Sister Sophia), Gil Stuart (Franz), I had to be bound and gagged in order to sit through this, but the film does have a legion of fans, so who am I to pass judgment? I note that some of the songs are tolerable; if you've managed to go your entire life without them being played to death. I always root for the Wehrmacht.

DVD 02/12/2007 £12.99 PG Aspect: 1.78:1 Runtime: 116 DVD 01/26/1999 $27.95 G Aspect: 1.85:1 Runtime: 120 Academy Award - Best Picture 1967 A Man for All Seasons (UK 1966) Director: Fred Zinnemann Paul Scofield (Sir Thomas More), Wendy Hiller (Alice More), Leo McKern (Thomas Cromwell), Robert Shaw (Henry VIII), Orson Welles (Cardinal Wolsey), Susannah York (Margaret More), Nigel Davenport (The Duke of Norfolk), John Hurt (Richard Rich), Corin Redgrave (William Roper), Colin Blakely (Matthew), Cyril Luckham (Archbishop Cranmer), Sir Thomas More sticks to his Catholic guns in the face of a King seeking a divorce by any means. Magnificent tale of monarchs and morals that could only have one outcome. 6 Oscars.

DVD 02/03/2003 £15.99 15 Aspect: 1.78:1 Runtime: 105 DVD 01/09/2001 $19.98 NR Aspect: 1.85:1 Runtime: 109 Academy Award - Best Picture 1968 In the Heat of the Night (USA 1967) Director: Norman Jewison Sidney Poitier (Virgil Tibbs), Rod Steiger (Bill Gillespie), Warren Oates (Sam Wood), Lee Grant (Mrs. Leslie Colbert), Larry Gates (Eric Endicott), James Patterson (Mr. Purdy), William Schallert (Mayor Schubert), Beah Richards (Mama Caleba), Peter Whitney (George Courtney), Buzz Barton (Conductor), Matt Clark (Packy Harrison), Entertaining clash of prejudice in this murder mystery with top-notch performances from Poitier and Steiger. A clutch of 5 Oscars.

DVD 02/06/2006 £19.99 U Aspect: 2.35:1 Runtime: 144 DVD 08/12/1998 $19.94 G Aspect: 2.35:1 Runtime: 146 Academy Award - Best Picture 1969 Oliver! (UK 1968) Director: Carol Reed Ron Moody (Fagin), Shani Wallis (Nancy), Oliver Reed (Bill Sykes), Harry Secombe (Mr. Bumble), Mark Lester (Oliver Twist), Jack Wild (The Artful Dodger), Hugh Griffith (The Magistrate), Joseph O'Conor (Mr. Brownlow), Peggy Mount (Widow Corney), Leonard Rossiter (Mr. Sowerberry), Hylda Baker (Mrs. Sowerberry), Noisy and exhuberrant adaptation of Dickens. Annoying, but you'll find yourself singing along. 5 Oscars.

DVD 01/01/2000 $24.98 R Aspect: 1.85:1 DVD 02/21/2006 $29.95 X Academy Award - Best Picture 1970 Midnight Cowboy (USA 1969) Director: John Schlesinger Dustin Hoffman (Ratso Rizzo), Jon Voight (Joe Buck), Sylvia Miles (Cass), John McGiver (Mr. O'Daniel), Brenda Vaccaro (Shirley), Barnard Hughes (Towny), Ruth White (Sally Buck), Jennifer Salt (Crazy Annie), Gilman Rankin (Woodsy Niles), Bob Balaban (Young Student), Paul Benjamin (Bartender), Tale of two losers, although one doesn't know he's a loser, trying to make their way in an unforgiving New York. Awesome performances from the entire cast, especially Brenda Vaccaro, and a beautiful score from John Barry, highlight the sort of film they don't make anymore.

DVD 07/05/2004 £17.99 PG DVD 11/02/1999 $19.98 PG Aspect: 2.35:1 DVD 11/06/2001 $29.98 PG Aspect: 2.35:1 Academy Award - Best Picture 1971 Patton (USA 1970) Director: Franklin J. Schaffner George C. Scott (Gen. George S. Patton), Karl Malden (Gen. Omar Bradley), Stephen Young (Captain Hansen), Michael Strong (Brig. General Hobart Carver), Cary Loftin (Gen. Bradley's driver), Albert Dumortier (Moroccan Minister), Frank Latimore (Lt. Col. Henry Davenport), Morgan Paull (Capt. Richard N. Jenson), Karl Michel Vogler (Field Marshal Rommel), Peter Barkworth (Col. John Welkin), John Barrie (Air Vice-Marshal Arthur Coningham), 1971 Academy Award winner for Best film, Scott got one too, but turned it down. Astonishingly good biopic of gung-ho Patton. Malden is excellent in support too. Make up your own mind as to whether Patton or Montgomery were right in their choice of tactics. Did I mention one of Jerry Goldsmith's best ever music scores too?

DVD 03/06/2006 £9.99 18 Runtime: 99 DVD 09/25/2001 $26.09 R Aspect: 2.35:1 Academy Award - Best Picture 1972 French Connection (USA 1971) Director: William Friedkin Gene Hackman (Popeye Doyle), Fernando Rey (Alain Charnier), Roy Scheider (Buddy Russo), Marcel Bozzuffi (Pierre Nicoli), Eddie Egan (Simonson), Arlene Farber (Angie Boca), Sonny Grosso (Klein), Tony LoBianco (Sal Boca), Alan Weeks (Drug Pusher), Robert Weil (Auctioneer), Study of a boorish single-minded detective on the trail of a drug king-pin. Welcome to the 70s. Along with Dirty Harry, set the template for all cop dramas from here on in. 5 visits from Oscar.

DVD 05/11/2004 $19.99 R Aspect: 1.85:1 Academy Award - Best Picture 1973 The Godfather (USA 1971) Director: Francis Coppola Marlon Brando (Don Vito Corleone), Al Pacino (Michael Corleone), James Caan (Sonny Corleone), Richard Castellano (Clemenza), Robert Duvall (Tom Hagen), Sterling Hayden (Captain McCluskey), John Marley (Jack Woltz), Richard Conte (Barzini), Al Lettieri (Sollozzo), Diane Keaton (Kay), Abe Vigoda (Tessio), The original film strikes out on its own. One of the best films of all time. A soap opera par excellence with gore.

DVD 11/28/2005 £19.99 PG DVD 03/31/1998 $24.98 PG Aspect: 1.33:1 DVD 09/06/2005 $26.98 PG HD 01/16/2007 $29.98 Academy Award - Best Picture 1974 The Sting (USA 1973) Director: George Roy Hill Paul Newman (Henry Gondorff), Robert Redford (Johnny Hooker), Robert Shaw (Doyle Lonnegan), Charles Durning (Lieutenant William Snyder), Ray Walston (J.J. Singleton), Eileen Brennan (Billie), Harold Gould (Kid Twist), John Heffernan (Niles), Dana Elcar (F.B.I. Agent Polk), Jack Kehoe (Erie Kid), Dimitra Arliss (Loretta), Reunion for the Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid team of Redford, Newman and director, Hill, this time plopped into 1930s Chicago and planning to con an old adversary. Opulent and entertaining if not quite up to the earlier film. Awesome Scott Joplin tinkly piano bits on the soundtrack too. Highly recommended.

DVD 09/27/2004 £17.99 18 Aspect: 1.85:1 Runtime: 190 DVD 05/24/2005 $14.98 R Aspect: 1.85:1 Runtime: 200 Academy Award - Best Picture 1975 The Godfather Part 2 (USA 1974) Director: Francis Coppola Danny Aiello (Tony Rosato), John Aprea (Young Tessio), Carmen Argenziano (michaels buttonman #2), Kathleen Beller (Girl in "Senza Mamma"), William Bowers (Senate Committee Chairman), Richard Bright (Al Neri), James Caan (Sonny), Carmine Caridi (Carmine Rosato), John Cazale (Fredo), Dominic Chianese (Johnny Ola), Sofia Coppola (Child uncredited), Extension of Coppola's earlier Oscar winner is just as good, looking back on the early life of a mafia Don.

DVD 08/07/2006 £8.99 18 Runtime: 128 DVD 12/16/1997 $24.98 R Aspect: 1.85:1 DVD 09/24/2002 $26.98 R Aspect: 1.85:1 Runtime: 133 Academy Award - Best Picture 1976 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (USA 1975) Director: Milos Forman Michael Berryman (Ellis), Peter Brocco (Col. Matterson), Dean R. Brooks (Dr. Spivey), Alonzo Brown (Miller), Scatman Crothers (Turkle), Mwako Cumbuka (Warren), Danny DeVito (Martini), William Duell (Sefelt), Josip Elic (Bancini), Lan Fendors (Nurse Itsu), Louise Fletcher (Nurse Ratched), Story of a loose cannon who arrives at the local psychiatric hospital and the battle of wills involving the head nurse. Wonderfully observed version of Ken Kesey's novel. By turns, funny, sad and ultimately liberating.

DVD 07/11/2001 £19.99 12 Aspect: 1.78:1 Runtime: 114 DVD 12/05/2006 $26.98 PG Aspect: 1.85:1 Runtime: 120 DVD 11/20/1997 $24.98 PG Aspect: 1.85:1 DVD 04/24/2001 $24.98 PG Aspect: 1.85:1 Academy Award - Best Picture 1977 Rocky (USA 1976) Director: John G. Avildsen Sylvester Stallone (Rocky Balboa), Talia Shire (Adrian), Burt Young (Paulie), Carl Weathers (Apollo Creed), Burgess Meredith (Mickey), Thayer David (Jergens), Joe Spinell (Gazzo), Tony Burton (Apollo's trainer), Frank Stallone (Timekeeper), Boxing Underdog has his day. Key feel-good film of the 70s. Stallone has never been better cast.

DVD 07/05/2000 $19.98 PG Aspect: 1.85:1 Academy Award - Best Picture 1978 Annie Hall (USA 1977) Director: Woody Allen Woody Allen (Alvy Singer), Beverly D'Angelo (Actress in Rob's TV Show), Colleen Dewhurst (Mom Hall), Shelley Duvall (Pam), John Glover (Actor Boy Friend), Jeff Goldblum (Lacey Party Guest), Shelley Hack (Street Stranger), John Dennis Johnston (L.A. Policeman), Carol Kane (Allison), Diane Keaton (Annie Hall), Alan Landers (Lacey Party Guest), Annie Hall is just such a gem a perfectly flawed romance, terrific gags and even if you have nothing in common with these people you'll feel the pain.

DVD 03/31/1998 $26.98 R Aspect: 2.35:1 DVD 09/06/2005 $26.98 R Aspect: 2.35:1 HD 12/26/2006 $29.98 R Aspect: 2.35:1 Academy Award - Best Picture 1979 The Deer Hunter (USA 1978) Director: Michael Cimino Robert DeNiro (Michael), John Cazale (Stan), John Savage (Steven), Christopher Walken (Nick), Meryl Streep (Linda), George Dzundza (John), Chuck Aspegren (Axel), Shirley Stoler (Steven's Mother), Rutanya Alda (Angela), Pierre Segui (Julien Grinda), Joe Grifasi (Bandleader), The lives of a group of friends are forever changed by the Vietnam experience. Astonishing encapsulation of the effects of war on society. Cimino has directed one of the very best films on the American experience. Harrowing film boasts perfect performances. Very highly recommended.

DVD 05/08/2006 £5.99 PG Aspect: 1.85:1 DVD 08/28/2001 $24.95 PG Aspect: 1.85:1 Academy Award - Best Picture 1980 Kramer vs. Kramer (USA 1979) Director: George Benton Jane Alexander (Margaret Phelps), George Coe (Jim O'Connor), Howard Duff (John Shaunessy), Justin Henry (Billy Kramer), Dustin Hoffman (Ted Kramer), Joe Seneca (Partygoer), Meryl Streep (Joanna Kramer), JoBeth Williams (Phyllis Bernard), Howland Chamberlin (Judge Atkins), Scenes from a nasty divorce. Spectacularly played by Hoffman and Streep. Had a novelty value in 1979, but methinks such things have become too commonplace making this redundant.

DVD 08/14/2001 $29.99 R Aspect: 1.85:1 Academy Award - Best Picture 1981 Ordinary People (USA 1981) Director: Robert Redford Adam Baldwin (Stillman), Judd Hirsch (Berger), Timothy Hutton (Conrad), Dinah Manoff (Karen), Elizabeth McGovern (Jeannine), Mary Tyler Moore (Beth), Donald Sutherland (Calvin), M. Emmet Walsh (Swim Coach), Basil Hoffman (Sloan), Mariclare Costello (Audrey), Meg Mundy (Grandmother),

DVD 03/06/2006 £19.99 U Aspect: 1.85:1 DVD 08/22/1997 $24.98 PG Aspect: 1.33:1 DVD 02/01/2005 $26.99 PG Academy Award - Best Picture 1982 Chariots of Fire (UK 1981) Director: Hugh Hudson Ben Cross (Harold Abrahams), Ian Charleson (Eric Liddell), Ian Holm (Sam Mussabini), Alice Krige (Sybil), Nicholas Farrell (Aubrey Montague), Cheryl Campbell (Jennie Liddell), John Gielgud (Master of Trinity), Lindsay Anderson (Master of Caius), Nigel Havers (Lord Andrew Lindsay), Daniel