Star Knight (El Caballero del DragÃ³n)

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"What happens if a car comes?" "We die."
Awesome
The Notebook
My favorite movie!
Unforgettable Summer Romance

The Notebook (New Line Platinum Series)
Starring: Tim Ivey , Gena Rowlands , Starletta DuPois , James Garner , and Anthony-Michael Q. Thomas
Director: Nick Cassavetes
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ASIN: B000683VI4
Release Date: 2005-02-08

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When you consider that old-fashioned tearjerkers are an endangered species in Hollywood, a movie like The Notebook can be embraced without apology. Yes, it's syrupy sweet and clogged with clichés, and one can only marvel at the irony of Nick Cassavetes directing a weeper that his late father John--whose own films were devoid of saccharine sentiment--would have sneered at. Still, this touchingly impassioned and great-looking adaptation of the popular Nicholas Sparks novel has much to recommend, including appealing young costars (Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams) and appealing old costars (James Garner and Gena Rowlands, the director's mother) playing the same loving couple in (respectively) early 1940s and present-day North Carolina. He was poor, she was rich, and you can guess the rest; decades later, he's unabashedly devoted, and she's drifting into the memory-loss of senile dementia. How their love endured is the story preserved in the titular notebook that he reads to her in their twilight years. The movie's open to ridicule, but as a delicate tearjerker it works just fine. Message in a Bottle and A Walk to Remember were also based on Sparks novels, suggesting a triple-feature that hopeless romantics will cherish. --Jeff Shannon

Description

Behind every great love is a great story. Two teenagers from opposite sides of the tracks fall in love during one summer together, but are tragically forced apart. When they reunite 7 years later, their passionate romance is rekindled, forcing one of them to choose between true love and class order.

DVD Features:
Audio Commentary:2 Commentaries --Director Nick Cassavettes --Novelist Nicholas Sparks
DVD ROM Features
Deleted Scenes:12 Deleted Scenes
Documentaries:Nick Cassavetes Profile Featurette Author Nicholas Sparks Featurette Locating "The Notebook" Featurette Casting Noah and Allie featurette
Other:Widescreen & Fullscreen versions on one disc Rachel McAdams Screen Test
Theatrical Trailer

Customer Reviews:

"What happens if a car comes?" "We die.".......2007-07-02

A must have! This is by far one of the best movies I've ever watched. After witnessing a few scenes from this movie I just had to go out and buy it and I don't regret it!

"The Notebook" breaks away from the typical kind of chick flick and adds a touch of humor. The movie adds more focus to the character's first Summer together, unlike the book which I found to be quite a snoozer. Also, the character's personalities seems more realistic and have more depth to them as you will discover during their heated arguements. Noah's personality is so dreamy and you can't help but fall in love with him over and over again.

I found many differences between the book and movie, but I won't spoil it for you if you haven't seen either. :3 This movie definately allows you to take a step back and appreciate the relationship you have with your loved one.

Awesome.......2007-06-27

Excellent movie ! A wonderful story about soul mates, soul mates for life. It will bring tears of happiness and sadness. Definitely a feel good movie.

The Notebook.......2007-06-27

I rented this and decided it was one I could enjoy again and again
I figured the story right away which was good as it made it more enjoyable

My favorite movie!.......2007-06-22

I'm glad I finally got to buy this movie, it is one of my favorites. If you want to know what love could do to somebody and how powerful can be just watch this movie and you'll see what love is all about...

Just to let you know make sure you have a box of tissue handy, or maybe two haha!

Unforgettable Summer Romance.......2007-05-31

`The Notebook' is a sweet romance with a compelling story. The appeal easily develops with freewheeling dating scenes and revelations which unfold lovers sorting out priorities that hit so close to home. A bitter-sweet romance, the film is a beautiful tale of two sweethearts who come from completely different backgrounds but live in the same Southern town during the early forties.

Noah (Ryan Gosling) is from a dirt poor family and works as a logger for forty cents an hour. Allie (Rachel McAdams) belongs to the Southern aristocracy. She has private tutors for every class and most of her whims satisfied. It is love at first sight for Noah who spots Allie at a carnival and jumps between her and her chosen date from the platform of a Ferris wheel. Once he has her attention, he threatens to let go and fall to the pavement if she won't agree to date him. From there his colorful presence challenges every route she's ever known. They each bring a measure of deep beauty to each other: He recites poetry, and she creates paintings. All the oddball adventure he presents from lying down in the middle of a street to dare the traffic, letting go in a torrential rainstorm, to dancing in the street provide those defining moments that demonstrate how strangely people act when they are in love. As the summer ends their lives are disrupted: She is forced to go to Sarah Lawrence College in New York, and soon later he is drafted to fight in Europe during World War II. They split ways and find different lovers, but their relationship is truncated, especially when Allie's manipulative mother (Joan Allen) intercepts Noah's letters that are meant for her.

`The Notebook' is told from the point-of-view of "Duke" (James Garner) who reads the story of Noah and Allie to a beloved nursing home resident (Gena Rowlands) suffering from dementia. I kept thinking as they sit on a park bench in one scene that the story is retold in a manner not entirely different from 'Forrest Gump'. Duke narrates the story, and we come back to him and the woman until the two stories meet and have meaning.

Besides solid, absorbing performances by Gosling and McAdams, Garner softens the edge of the story as narrator, and Allen and Rowlands are easily captivating as Allie's complex and emotional mother and the elderly dementia patient. 'The Notebook' is a pleasing old-fashioned movie that easily plays on our heartstrings and provides a very satisfying viewing experience. (Based on a novel by Nicholas Sparks)

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The Red Shoes
dance dance dance little lady -- leave tomorrow behind ...
Boris Lermontov: "A dancer who relies upon the doubtful comforts of human love can never be a great dancer. Never."
"Why do you want to dance?" "Why do you want to live?"
The Red Shoes

The Red Shoes - Criterion Collection
Starring: Albert Bassermann , Eric Berry , Irene Browne , Derek Elphinstone , and Marius Goring
Director: Emeric Pressburger
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ASIN: B00000IPHT
Release Date: 1999-05-18

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It's been said that this 1948 classic has been responsible for the ballet lessons of more young girls than any other film. It's not hard to understand why: Michael Powell and Emerich Pressburger's dark fairy tale presents the ballet as an exquisite, magical work of art; but under the theatrics and glory is an all-consuming lifestyle with the power to destroy those who love it perhaps too much. Moira Shearer practically glows as Victoria "Vicky" Page, a young woman consumed by a will to dance who is accepted into the highly prestigious ballet company run by perfectionist Boris Lermontov (Anton Walbrook). Meanwhile, a gifted young composer, Julian Craster (Marius Goring), is brought on board as an orchestra coach, and later conductor and composer of the ballet that will make Vicky's name: The Red Shoes, one of the most beautiful and dramatic dances ever captured on film. Professional and personal jealousies soon pull this creative team apart, however, and Vicky is torn between her love of Julian, her responsibility to Boris, and her need to dance. Powell and Pressburger recast Hans Christian Andersen's sad story as a modern romantic melodrama, highlighted by beautiful dances and shot, not as stage ballets, but rather as expressionist cinematic dramas on impossibly grand sets awash with bold color and beautifully captured in glorious Technicolor by cinematographer Jack Cardiff. It's a brilliant melding of dance and drama as Vicky's real life mirror's the tragic story she danced in the Red Shoes ballet. --Sean Axmaker

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A glorious Technicolor epic that influenced generations of filmmakers, artists, and aspiring ballerinas, The Red Shoes intricately weaves backstage life with the thrill of performance. A young ballerina (Moira Shearer) is torn between two forces: the composer who loves her (Marius Goring), and the impresario determined to fashion her into a great dancer (Anton Walbrook). Criterion is proud to present The Red Shoes in its DVD premiere.

Customer Reviews:

The Red Shoes.......2007-06-25

Close to sixty years after its initial release, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's best-remembered classic remains one of the most sumptuous Technicolor films ever made. The ballet sequences (choreographed by Robert Helpmann) are breathtaking, but never eclipse the human drama, with Walbrook powerful as the icy Lermontov, and Shearer a red-haired vision, whether still or in motion. One of the great achievements in film, and a must for family viewing, particularly for those with daughters.

dance dance dance little lady -- leave tomorrow behind ..........2007-05-12

this backstage fantasia is the antithesis of baz luhrmanns overwrought "moulin rouge". co-directed by michael powell and emeric pressburger, it ranks as among the most sumptuous feasts for the eye you can ever see. moira shearer made a stunning debut as the debuting ballerina whose real life is a parallel to the starring role in her new ballet, caught in the maelstrom of a satanic impresario who can give her what she wants but only at the cost of her soul (& eventually her life). while it is not QUITE on the par with their other ballet masterpiece "tales of hoffman" (and the musical score is a primary culprit there), it is still a must-see.

Boris Lermontov: "A dancer who relies upon the doubtful comforts of human love can never be a great dancer. Never.".......2007-05-03

"The Red Shoes" (1948) is a fantasy/musical/romance/drama set in the world of ballet and it could be possibly the best or one of the best ballet movies ever filmed. The red shoes of the title are from Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale about a girl who tried the shoes on and possessed by their spell, dances to her death. The shoes gave her dance unearthly ethereal lightness and elegance and she paid with her own life for them. Andersen's fairy tale was transformed into a ballet in Michael Powell's and Emeric Pressburger's glorious film. 21-year-old Moira Shearer, the real life ballerina gave a heartbreaking and awe-inspiring performance as a ballet dancer Vicky Page for whom to dance meant to live and to live meant to dance. She never included love in the equation and one day she found herself trapped in the red shoes forever just like the girl from the ballet "The Red Shoes" that was written by a young composer with whom Vicky fell in love. The ballet was produced for the stage by a powerful talented world famous impresario Boris Lermontov (based on Sergey Diaghilev, the head of the celebrated Russian Seasons, as brilliant as he was tyrannical, played to perfection by Anton Walbrook). The short ballet is included in the movie and it is 15 minutes of unbearable perfection where colors, music and dance blend into unforgettable delight. When you watch dancing Shearer with her glowing red hair of rare shade that matches the color of the magic shoes you would want to capture the moment of beauty and keep it forever in the vaults of your memory.

4.5/5

"Why do you want to dance?" "Why do you want to live?".......2007-04-07

If you can hear this melodramatic dialogue exchange without smirking a tad, then you'll dig the whole movie and find no melodrama in it whatsoever. Even if you find it a tad overwrought, however, you'll encounter lots to enjoy, and you'll find yourself involved in the story of the ballerina torn between a personal life and love, and the demanding dictates of her profession and her boss.

The twenty minute ballet in the middle of the film is very appealing, though it's supposed to be on a stage in front of a live audience and many of the things that take place in it could only happen in film. Still, it's captivating.

The performances are excellent all around and (though R. Baker's rule of thumb that everything is 20% too long applies here) the story keeps your attention most of the time, all the way up to the suspenseful, heart-wrenching--and, to me--unexpected ending.

The Red Shoes.......2007-03-15

I used to watch this on Public t.v. over and over when I was 13, so now that I have it in my posession I am very happy. It's a beautiful story, full of beautiful music and wonderful dancing. It still takes my breath away.

Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins

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NIce show, but a little much for younger toddlers
were they too lazy to do this one with computers?

Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins
Starring: Diedrich Bader , Stephen Furst , Wayne Knight , Larry Miller , and Patrick Warburton
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ASIN: B00004T2SJ
Release Date: 2000-08-08

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This direct-to-video feature, which serves as a lead-in to the upcoming Disney animated TV series, continues the adventures of Buzz Lightyear from the Toy Story films--and introduces the new supporting cast. Buzz battles the evil Emperor Zurg, who steals the "Unimind," a device that enables three-eyed aliens to function as a single intellect. The aliens, referred to as "LGMs" (little green men), form the support crew that keep Star Command running, but as individual thinkers, they're inept. During the course of this tongue-in-cheek adventure, Buzz acquires the sidekicks who form Team Lightyear: Booster, an oversized, overeager alien; XR (short for "Experimental Ranger"), one of the aliens' less successful robot inventions; and the inevitable spunky girl, Princess Mira Nova of the planet Tangeah. The two-dimensional, hand-drawn figure of the three-dimensional, computer-generated Buzz recalls the animated versions of live performers who populated Saturday morning TV during the 1980s. This adventure is typical of current kidvid: it has more special effects and sight gags than the cartoons of 20 years ago did, but the violence-free battles feel very tame. Buzz Lightyear may engage kids who play with the toys, but it won't appeal to the adults who flocked to the brilliant Toy Story features. --Charles Solomon

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Discover the story behind the ultimate space hero as he stars in his very own cartoon adventure! Woody made it big as the star of his very own TV show and you can bet Buzz Lightyear had an even bigger beginning! In an unforgettable action-packed saga, Buzz takes on the evil Emperor Zurg in intergalactic combat. Together with those hilarious Little Green Men and a whole new cast of exciting characters, Buzz Lightyear takes adventure and heroism to infinity and beyond!

Customer Reviews:

Reporting for Duty.......2007-06-04

I've found that it's often dangerous to over-analyze the simple joys of childhood -- ice cream, running in the park, Saturday morning cartoons. And yet here on Amazon, Buzz Lightyear has somehow morphed into a polarizing figure, on par with the likes of Barry Bonds and Ronald Reagan.

Both of my boys were fully hooked by the dazzling "Toy Story" movies -- and, to be fair, most of us parents were big fans as well. So what can we make of "Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins"?

If your kids are Buzz devotees -- my sons have all but pushed for matching Star Command tattoos -- this movie is a good bit of fun. The stunning computer animation of the previous movies are missing, save for an early intro scene. Buzz's beloved three-dimensional movie pals are gone; what we have here is Buzz the cartoon hero.

Brace yourself for plenty of laser blasts, spaceship chases and, well, cartoonish showdowns between Buzz, Emperor Zurg and cast of new Buzz buddies. The movie went over well with the boys, who at 3 and 1 can somehow cope without the Woody and all of the computer animations. The question is -- can we?

Bad Reviewers miss the point.......2006-07-25

This is supposed to be the cartoon that the Action Figure in the movie is derived from. These complaints about "No Computer Animation" and no "Depth" is missing the point of the show. It is a fun show for kids and adults. I am a huge fan of Pixar and the Toy Story series, even more so, of Buzz Lightyear himself. I Love this movie and I Love the animated series (with great voice acting, including the always hilarious Patrick Warburton). Highly recommended from this Amazonian.

terrible.......2006-01-05

I bought this for my three-year-old son because he loves Buzz Lightyear in the Toy Story movies. What a mistake. This movie is completely lacking in the charm and wit that made Toy Story so great. It is totally unoriginal and pointless. The violence was to be expected, but I guess I wanted it to be backed up with some depth, which it is not. If I can, I'm taking this movie back.

NIce show, but a little much for younger toddlers.......2005-02-24

That said, this is something that is a great continuation from the Toy Story movies. It is a cartoon and not computer animation like the Toy Story movies, in case you're wondering. It's interesting - how they kill off Buzz's sidekick and gives him a new one. But it really is a bit much for the younger toddler set. I guess I wouldn't recommend this much before age 6. It really involves a plot that is quite long and gets a little boring. I'm not sure that I'd watch it again and my little guy actually wanted to watch something else. He LOVES Buzz but this movie just wasn't up to par. The story basically served as an introduction to a series, but still, it could have been better and more appealing to the younger crowd as well. Again, I wouldn't get this for a toddler. It's just a bit much and too boring for them.

were they too lazy to do this one with computers?.......2004-09-11

buzz is the same cocky,thunder stealing jerk from toy story.buzz must defeat zurg,the evil emporer in this one.this is up in space and nobody from toy story except those 2 and the green aliens from pizzaplanet are in it.the kids will watch it but will probably prefer toy story and toy story 2.those too are so far superior even the kids recognize it.theres really not much to say except i hope they dont make anymore.

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Total Disappointment
Who Wants an Adult Movie with no Adult Content?
No me gusto para nada
Inane fun for grownups
Perfect for those too shy for pornos

Pirates (R-Rated Version)
Starring: Jesse Jane , Carmen Luvana , Janine Lindemulder , Devon (II) , and Teagan
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ASIN: B000FMGTNU
Release Date: 2006-07-11

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Total Disappointment.......2007-04-11

The FX are brilliant - definately not expected from an adult movie, however the R rating is so mild that the R rated content shown on main line TV channels is more explicit.

This is Ultra soft adult.

Who Wants an Adult Movie with no Adult Content?.......2007-02-22

The R-rated version of an adult film is a terrific waste of time. Most adult films have so little plot to hang the story onto, they barely deserve the description of being "movies". In cutting this film to an R-rating, the producers have gutted the film (nay, movie) into a set of disjointed scenes that jump-cut past what was obviously the most important activity in the movie in the first place: the sex. The effect is jarring, like being Billy Pilgrim (from Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five"), constantly jumping ahead in time and always "just when things were getting interesting".

If you want to see this movie, get the unrated or adult version. Leave the R-rated on the shelf, for the seventeen year-olds.

No me gusto para nada.......2006-12-23

Es una buena película en cuanto a producción, pero esta versión es malísima, me arrepiento de haberla comprado, gracias

Inane fun for grownups.......2006-10-15

There's exceptional material here: wood, lead, brass, and silicon. I mean, wooden acting, leaden dialog, brazen synthesexual encounters, and siliceous implants for `most all the ladies. The many anachronisms are just goofy, down to the BoDerek braids, lip-glossed troutpout, and "potassium nitrate" for the gunpowder, rather than nitre or saltpeter.

But this isn't a historical drama. It's scarcely even a costume drama, when you think about how often the costumes come off. It's goofy, gaudy, and vulgar. If you want softcore comedy so soft that it's flaccid, you came to the right place.

Abandon all hope of decency, logic, artistic value, and common sense, ye who enter herein. (But then, they're pretty over-rated, aren't they?)

//wiredweird

PS: There's a collection of bloopers among the extras on this disk. It says a lot about how over-the-top bad this movie is, when you can barely tell the difference between the bloopers and the real acting (or so they call it).

Perfect for those too shy for pornos.......2006-08-17

I was glad to see they've released an R-Rated version of Pirates. While the real thing is best, if you're too reserved to watch it, than you simply must check it out in its edited form. I mean, think about it. They edited out the hard-core scenes and there is still a 1 hour and 25 minute long movie left. This is not your typical porno. On top of hot girls like Jesse Jane and Carmen Luvana and Janine, you get a wonderfully cheesy plot, some decent costume and set design, absolutely absurd CGI effects, and some hysterical B-rated dialog (delivered impeccably by Evan Stone, who we've affectionately dubbed "The Bruce Campbell of Porn"). All it needs is some gushing fake blood in the swashbuckling scenes and it would be Troma-worthy.

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batcall
Very Good Movie!
An absolutely fantastic film
A Modern Classic
Suicide Is Painless; It Brings On Many Changes

M*A*S*H (Five Star Collection)
Starring: René Auberjonois , David Arkin , Indus Arthur , Kim Atwood , and Roger Bowen
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ASIN: B00003CXB7
Release Date: 2002-01-08

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It's set during the Korean War, in a mobile army surgical hospital. But no one seeing M*A*S*H in 1970 confused the film for anything but a caustic comment on the Vietnam War; this is one of the counterculture movies that exploded into the mainstream at the end of the '60s. Director Robert Altman had labored for years in television and sporadic feature work when this smash-hit comedy made his name (and allowed him to create an astonishing string of offbeat pictures, culminating in the masterpiece Nashville). Altman's style of cruel humor, overlapping dialogue, and densely textured visuals brought the material to life in an all-new kind of war movie (or, more precisely, antiwar movie). Audiences had never seen anything like it: vaudeville routines played against spurting blood, fueled with open ridicule of authority. The cast is led by Elliott Gould and Donald Sutherland, as the outrageous surgeons Hawkeye Pierce and Trapper John McIntyre, with Robert Duvall as the uptight Major Burns and Sally Kellerman in an Oscar-nominated role as nurse "Hot Lips" Houlihan. The film's huge success spawned the long-running TV series, a considerably softer take on the material; of the film's cast, only Gary Burghoff repeated his role on the small screen, as the slightly clairvoyant Radar O'Reilly. --Robert Horton

Customer Reviews:

batcall.......2007-06-28

One of the first and best anti-war, tell it like it is, movies. Started a great tv series.

Very Good Movie!.......2007-06-26

The movie is wonderful, but what I appreciate most about this film is that it inspired the TV series, which is my favorite series of all-time. I watch the episodes over and over again and never get bored with them!

An absolutely fantastic film.......2007-05-09

I just love, love, love this film. It's been one of my favorites since the early 1990's when I snagged it off cable on video tape. This 5 start DVD collection is tops in that not only is the transfer of the film fantastic, but the special features within are fantastic too. I thoroughly enjoyed the documentary on the making of MASH and how they had to go to great lengths to keep their vision of the movie intact and they succeeded handsomely IMO.

One of my favorite scenes is when they raise the walls of the showers while Major Hot Lips Hoolihan was inside and she falls and her outburst afterwords is just priceless, also the scene before that where she makes out to Major Burns and it gets broadcast all over the camp, also a priceless scene.

True, the film is based on the book of the same name, but about the Korean War and MASH the movie, is as much about Vietnam as it was about Korea as far as the war is concerned. I love the grittiness of the film, the overlapping dialogue and such, all ground breaking stuff back in 1969-1970.

Overall, this deluxe DVD package is well worth the price for what it contains.

A Modern Classic.......2007-04-21

An All-Star cast that surpasses all expectations from some of the most well known actors to this day . Visually impressive and the wittyist film of all time .

Suicide Is Painless; It Brings On Many Changes.......2007-04-20

In the opening moments of this joyously, soberly brilliant film, an instantly engaging balladeer serendades and assaults us with these outrageous lyrics, while we watch helicopters ferry their grim burdens of wounded men back to a medical unit behind the lines in Korea. This comic and absurdist film captured and helped form the blithe irreverence of the 60's counterculture. Along with Oliver Stone's Born on the Fourth of July, which is of course anything but a comedy, MASH is the truest reflection of that period of American history on film. Its spirit is caught perfectly in one short take. A player on the bench of the football team whose coach, an Army colonel, is much too serious about everything, takes a hit on a joint with a bland expression of carelessness and amusement. He's not taking anything too seriously, and we know he's right. Ah! If only everything had worked out that simply! Thank you, Robert Altman, for showing us how to laugh at the merchants of death.

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I'll never pick up my knitting needles again without remembering this movie
Three Blind Mice
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The one-eyed man is king in the land of the blind
Mark Peploe's Afraid of the Dark

Afraid of the Dark
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ASIN: B000AYEIJU
Release Date: 2005-10-25

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Academy Award-winner Mark Peploe delivers a terrifying and haunting psychological tale inw hich all of the frightening circumstances of childhood, both real and imagined, are heightened to extremes. A madman is attacking blind people in their homes, and a small boy with disintegrating eyesight begins his own secret investigation into the brutal assaults. When he finally identifies the monster responsible for the chilling crimes, he finds himself face to face with something that everybody understands... the fear of the unknown. - Starring James Fox (CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, PERFORMANCE), Fanny Ardant (CALLAS FOREVER, 8 WOMEN), Paul McGann (TV''s "Horatio Hornblower" and "Doctor Who"), David Thewlis (NAKED, HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN), Catriona MacColl (THE BEYOND, CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD) - "Chilling!" -Janet Maslin, New York Times - "One of the nastiest little psychothrillers around." -Mirabella - "Genuine terror... Gripping!" -John Anderson, Newsday

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I'll never pick up my knitting needles again without remembering this movie.......2006-03-05

This movie was a surprise from start to finish. It definitely kept me off balance and was unpredictable, if not pretty disturbing. I will never pick up my knitting needles again without thinking of this movie. Strange how familiar objects and sounds take on an entirely different meaning in this boy's world.

Three Blind Mice.......2005-11-19

This was a film with a great premise with a first half that showed amazing promise.
Immediately we're told a slasher is targeting the blind and introduced to a strange boy and his sightless mother and rigid policeman father. Though uncertain who the criminal is we get the impression a young repairman working at a blind institute whistling ironic songs can't have good intentions. The parallel between killer and young protagonist is made early on with the boy covering alot of stalker ground: following a target home, toying with them, peeping on them, then breaking & entering.
Right at about this point the movie begins to devolve. The rationality takes that of a nightmare and though mildly frightening it makes very little sense in the long run. Great lines about villians being "all the same" are lost in a plotless story. We're treated to truly great set-ups, the stand-out being a train station attack, and it's ultimately all in vain.
But really it's not surprising. This seems more akin to Italian giallo than any other kind of thriller and those films, despite their ingenuity and ambition, are always incomplete.

Go away, son, you bother me!.......2004-11-11

Uneven British voyage into bizarre murders--and a
kid who makes viewer want to yank him from the screen and personally introduce him to Jeffrey Dahmer. Nice touch: beautiful blind woman has no clue how incredibly sexy she is.

The one-eyed man is king in the land of the blind.......2003-05-30

I know that this is meant to be a drama of great power with startling insights into the human condition, man's inhumanity to man's, the lives of quiet despair we all face, or some other pretentious nonsense. I just found it confusing as well!

The basic plot centers on young Frank. Just starting his school holidays, Frank offers to help his blind mother down to walk to the local center for the blind. There he meets her blind friends, listens to the gossip about the local serial killer (who attacks blind people), and then goes about his merry day stalking some of the blind residents who live near the center. Unseen he pries into their lives and, is actually able save one the victims from the serial killer.

Reality check ! It was all in the kid's mind ..

Young Frank has imagined a world in which he is the hero and saves the day. In reality the little boy is the one going blind and his fear has caused an imaginary world in which he is the sighted hero.

The boy's behavior becomes increasingly erratic and dangerous as the movie progresses. Because the adults have so many other things going on it takes a long time before anyone realizes how dangerous Frank has become. By the time they do clue in, it might be too late.

This was confusing and often times dark movie. I like the first part in the boy's fantasy where he silently prowls the neighborhood. I even enjoyed the first part of the 'real' section where half the fun was spotting the people and places from the child's imagination. But every time you get used to something in the film they ratchet it up to a new level of cruelty. That was a little overdone.

Mark Peploe's Afraid of the Dark.......2002-06-05

Mark Peploe, one of the Oscar winning screenwriters behind "The Last Emperor," comes up with his own tale of a little boy overwhelmed by his situation, and in the process scares the living daylights out of the viewer.

Ben Keyworth is young Lucas, a morose little boy whose blind mother Miriam (Fanny Ardant) dotes on him. His father, Frank (James Fox), is a cop and Lucas' hero. A madman is running around London slashing the faces of blind women, and the blind community is in a panic. Lucas is a little boy, hardly noticeable, and begins observing prime suspects. The ice cream man, the window washer, the photographer, even the overly helpful locksmith (played by a young David Thewlis), are all under the boy's suspicion. A neighborhood golden retriever is Lucas' only friend and confidant, and eventually Lucas has a showdown with the slasher, stabbing him in the eye with his trusty knitting needle...and then the film does a complete 180!

We find out Lucas was only imagining the first half of the film. The characters from the first half were not blind at all. Instead, it was Lucas who is slowly losing his sight. The day of his older half-sister's wedding, he is shunted aside. His mother goes into labor at the reception, and everyone forgets the poor little boy. Lucas still has the trusty dog Toby along, but his imagination gets the best of him. Toby is killed, and Lucas sets his next target as his new baby sister with the pretty blue eyes everyone comments on.

Ben Keyworth, as Lucas, is incredible. Some might see his delivery as flat and monotonal, but I thought his cold exterior was perfect. You will feel sorry for him, even in the throes of the madness that grips him in the latter part of the film. The beautiful French actress Fanny Ardant is great as his mother, and James Fox is always reliable as the dad.

Peploe's direction is so creepy it becomes uncomfortable often. The graveyard scenes are chilling, as is Lucas' hallucinations. Peploe also co-wrote the screenplay (with Frederick Seidel), so he knows these characters better than anyone. None of them are stupid, or do horror film-stupid things, and this adds to the squirm level. Plus, if you have any sort of phobia about things getting too close to your eyes (like I do), this may not be for you.

The pace is slow, as Peploe builds his characters, and this is actually a relief. The entire cast is good, and Peploe should direct more. All in all, "Afraid of the Dark" is one of those films that you will find bothering you days after you see it. I highly recommend it.

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The legendary Sherlock Holmes plunges us into this thrill ride of a murder mystery set on a speeding passenger train. Holmes has been entrusted to guard the transport of the 400-carat diamond, Star of Rhodesia, but when the gem is stolen, the murders start to mount. Only the masterful Holmes can deduce which of the eccentric and suspicious passengers is the true criminal.

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Sherlock and the Diamond.......2006-01-26

The Basil Rathbone - Nigel Bruce Sherlock Holmes films were moved from Victorian England to current England (1946). Also, like the James Bond films, the only thing similar to the books is the title. If you are looking for faithful adaptation of the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle books then get the Jeremy Brett Mystery series. If you are looking for some great acting and good period mysteries, the Rathbone - Bruce series is great.

Lady Carstairs is taking the train from London to Edinburgh with The Star of Rhodesia. Holmes and Watson are hired to protect it from master jewel thief Colonel Moran, who also happens to be a master of disguise. To make things more intriguing, Lady Carstairs son, Roland, is murdered on the train. This is probably one of the more typical plots but is set entirely on a train.

The transfer quality is fairly poor but not awful. These are the kind of films that are not usually subject to restoration and the deteriorated status is that of wear and age. I have seen a new collection but they are quite expensive. So if you just want to have a copy of the films just to enjoy these mysteries, these are fine.

Of course, for most Basil was Sherlock Holmes, this was probably the first films that he had a chance to a role that he could use his substantial talent. Before these, he was usually the bad guy or a minor supporting player. He was an accomplished swordsman and the joke was he constantly had to lose to actors that he could beat blindfolded. So Basil made these quickie films much more depth than they would otherwise have.

SUSPENSEFUL!!!.......2005-09-30

What makes this a masterpiece "who done it" is that everyone acts suspicious.
Holmes is hired by Roland Carstairs to guard the Star of Rhodesia, a magnificent diamond being transported from London to Edinburgh. Holmes replaces the diamond with a fake that ends up being stolen and Carstairs is murdered. Now, the question is who stole the fake one and killed Carstairs. But Carstairs is not the only one to get murdered. There WILL be others, and for some of you who are trying to figure out who the fiend is, you might just be surprised when the very one you thought done the killing, ends up being killed themselves. Black and White with no curse words or sexual situations and no bloody gore. Just a superb plot with a fairly good directed movie.
I say fairly good because the way the train was shown speeding down the track was obviously done by fast forwarding the film. If a real train was to cut a corner like that one did in the movie, it'd flip off the track. But overall this is a movie worth watching, with great action and suspense(one scene in particular that comes to mind is where Holmes fights desperately to keep from being literally thrown off the train), also, there is drama, intrique, and horror. This is one you can enjoy watching alone to figure out who done it, or share with a friend, family members, or mate.
Get something to eat, preferably buttered popcorn and a Coke (or as I like to eat, Banner chocolate covered almonds and a Coke), turn out the lights, and by all means, make sure you put your sofa or chair against the wall as you enjoy this entertaining film. If you like a good mystery, you'll want to order this one.

TEDIUM ON A TRAIN.......2005-04-10

Tedious Sherlock Holmes entry that can't be salvaged even with the casting of the best theatrical Holmes and Watson; Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. The speeding train makes for a limited cinematic experience, and Bruce's Watson comes off more imbesole than sidekick. The bigger mystery is where the title comes from; although the train travels at night, 'terror' is not the word that comes to mind.

A train caper featuring a high-stakes jewel heist .......2004-10-04

Terror By Night offers a nice change of pace in the old Sherlock Holmes series of films starring Basil Rathbone as the great detective. The action takes place completely outside the confines of London and 221B Baker Street, centering on a train ride from London to Edinburgh. Holmes has been hired to safeguard an ill-fated diamond called the Star of Rhodesia on Lady Margaret Carstairs' trip home, but he's not alone. Good old Inspector Lestrade is also onboard, posing as a fisherman on holiday. Despite the presence of Holmes, Watson, and Lestrade, though, Lady Margaret's son is murdered and the jewel stolen. The jewel must be in one of the compartments onboard the train, and Lestrade quickly takes over the questioning and searching of the passengers. Dr. Watson - God bless him - also attempts his own investigation, which bears only ignominious - and comical - results.

There are a number of real characters onboard the train, each one of them suspicious in some way or other. There's a rather impertinent young lady accompanying her mother's coffin, a most disagreeable professor, an older couple concerned about the police presence around them, Watson's old friend Major Duncan-Bleek, as well as several train employees. The fact that we the viewers are kept unaware of the culprit's identity until the end is a definite plus - as is the fact that the guilty party turns out to be a jewel thief of much renown. There's as much light comedy as there is drama until the endgame is set in motion, and the ending offers a surprise or two that rescues the film from the realm of the merely average. Terror By Night is not the best of the Rathbone Sherlock Holmes films, but it's certainly an entertaining, reasonably compelling entry in the series.

A ticket to mystery.......2004-06-30

This is not the best of the Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce pairings but nonetheless this is an enjoyable outing.
Terror by Night is one of those I put on late at night to watch curled up on the sofa with a cat by my side. The rhythm of the train and the steadfast bond between Holmes, Watson and Lestrade creates one of the most relaxing murder mysteries ever put on film. The deliberate pace may not please all, but to those with a taste for it this is the mystery equivalent of a good house wine.

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Johnny Mack Brown Double Feature, Vol. 1

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JOHNNY MACK BROWN - All action B-Western Double Feature. Plus Extras
"Exciting adventures from the early '40s from VCI ~ Johnny Mack Brown"
Two fine Johnny Mack Brown movies on DVD
A Must for B Western Fanatics

Johnny Mack Brown Double Feature, Vol. 1
Starring: Johnny Mack Brown , Bob Baker , Fuzzy Knight , Anne Gwynne , and Bill Cody Jr.
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Release Date: 2003-01-28

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Former All-American halfback, Johnny Mack Brown, was consistently one of Hollywood's Top 10 big-screen cowboys. During his film career, which ran from 1930 until he retired in 1953, he starred in over 200 B-Westerns and became a hero to millions of admiring fans. In the first film of this rip roarin' double feature, Bad Man From Red Butte (1940), Johnny Mack plays a dual role. He rides into town with his two sidekicks (Bob Baker and Fuzzy Knight) to offer aid to an old friend who is about to lose his ranch to a couple of conniving outlaws. In Rawhide Rangers (1941) Johnny Mack Brown is a Ranger who goes undercover to route out the man responsible for extorting money from the local ranchers and discovers that this is the same person that killed his brother. A satisfying blend of western action, music and comedy relief! Bonus Features: Bonus - Chapter #1 of Johnny Mack's Universal serial "Wild West Days" (1937)| Previews of other VCI Western Classics| Scene Selection| Bios. Specs: DVD9; Dolby Digital Mono; 114 minutes; B&W; 1.33:1 Aspect Ratio; MPAA - NR; Year - 1943-1941; SRP - $19.99.

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JOHNNY MACK BROWN - All action B-Western Double Feature. Plus Extras.......2006-05-11

Born in 1904 Johnny Mack Brown was an All-American college footballer, he turned down professional football offers and instead headed for Hollywood. In 1927 he signed a contract with MGM and played the lead in many top-budget films. In 1930 he enjoyed great success in the title role of King Vidor's BILLY THE KID from then on for the next twenty odd-years it was B-Westerns all the way! This double feature DVD from VCI Entertainment (Dolby Digitally Remastered) is a perfect introduction to Johnny Mack Brown westerns. In 1940 he was ranked at number 6 out of the 10 highest Money-making B-Western Stars, top places at that time going to Gene Autry, William Boyd and Roy Rogers. A bonus with this DVD is Chapter1 of "Wild West Days (1937) and among the first-class color previews look out for the two top-notch "Lone Ranger" trailers. Excellent, B-Western-fare for all cowboy aficionados.

BAD MAN FROM RED BUTTE (1940 Universal - 58 Minutes)
Johnny Mack Brown plays the dual-role of the good and bad twin-brothers. Buck Halliday (Goodie) rides into town with his two sidekicks frontier lawyer Gabriel Hornsby (Bob Baker) and snake oil Peddler Spud Jenkins (Fuzzy Knight). Brady is mistakenly arrested for crimes committed by his twin brother who calls himself Gils Brady (Baddie). The love interest is the new schoolmarm (Anne Gwynne) Bob Baker and others sing a song or two with Fuzzy Knight providing the comedy

RAWHIDE RANGERS (1941 Universal - 56 Minutes)
Texas Ranger Brand Calhoun (Johnny Mack Brown) is sent on mission to find the boss of a local gang of outlaws. In a gunfight was the gang Calhoun's brother Steve (Roy Harris) is killed. Calhoun hands in his badge and goes under cover to infiltrate the gang and route out their leader. The love interest here is the daughter of a local rancher Joanne (Kathryn Adams) Once again Fuzzy Knight provides the comedy and the "Texas Rangers" singing group provides the songs.

"Exciting adventures from the early '40s from VCI ~ Johnny Mack Brown".......2005-09-14

VCI Entertainment and Universal Pictures present "Bad Man from Red Butte" (1940) (digitally remastered), long running Johnny Mack Brown series turned out in the early '40s...the storyline is excellent with outstanding productions...Johnny Mack plays a dual role of a gunman Gils Brady and our hero and good guy Buck Halliday...when a shootout starts Benson and his henchman try to pin a murder on Buck who they believe is Brady the gunmen...when a lynch mob is out for blood, can Buck be saved by his friends Gabe and Spud...will the trio be able to prove Benson is the guilty party...well it's not over yet so stay in the saddle and see the final chapter of this exciting story.

Under director Ray Taylor with screenplay by Sam Robins...the cast include a very young Johnny Mack Brown (Gil Brady/Buck Halliday), Bob Baker (Gabriel 'Gabe' Hornsby), Fuzzy Knight ('Spud' Jenkins), Anne Gwynne (Tibby Mason), Bill Cody Jr (Skip Toddhunter), Norman Willis (Hal Benson), Earle Hodgkins (Hiram T. Cochran), Roy Barcroft (Hank - Henchman), Lafe McKee (Dan Toddhunter), Lloyd Ingraham (Turner), Buck Moulton (Jitters - Henchman)...another great Johnny Mack B-Western provided by Universal Pictures during their heyday of the early '40s.

CHAPTERS
1. Unlawful
2. Mistaken Identity
3. Survey Plans
4. Wrongfully Accused
5. Politics
6. Justice

The second feature on the bill from VCI Entertainment and Universal Pictures present "Rawhide Rangers" (1941) (digitally remastered), long running Johnny Mack Brown series turned out in the early '40s...the badmen running the territory is a gang of outlaws lead by Blackie...Ranger Brand Calhoun and his brother stumble onto a stage holdup the brother is killed...shortly after that Brand quits the Rangers and becomes an outlaw...Brand is taking all the loot and Blackie's gang capture him and make him one of their gang....can Brand alert his fellow Rangers of the next planned robbery...will he discover who the real brains is behind the outlaws...will Sing Lo the cook catch Fuzzy stealing his pies once again...or does Sing Lo have other plans for Fuzzy...don't leave the theater because things are just about to break loose.

Under director Ray Taylor with screenplay by Ed Earl Repp...the cast include a very young Johnny Mack Brown (Brand Calhoun), Fuzzy Knight (Porky), Kathryn Adams (Jo Ann Rawlings), Nell O'Day (Patti McDowell), Riley Hill (Steve Calhoun), Harry Cording (Blackie), Al Bridge (Rawlings), Ed Cassidy (Alec Martin), Frank Shannon (Ranger Captain McDowell), Bob Kortman (Dirk - Henchman), Chester Gan (Sing Lo, the cook)...Johnny Mack Brown's films were a step above other B-Western...he was a better actor than many of his contemporaries...Brown had a long and prosperous career as a B-Western star well into the 1950s.

CHAPTERS
1. Assignment
2. Hijack
3. Ranger to Outlaw
4. Joining the Gang
5. The Plan
6. Shootout

SPECIAL FEATURES:
BIOS:
Johnny Mack Brown
Fuzzy Knight
Anne Gwynne
Nell O'Day
Ray Taylor (Director)

VCI TRAILERS:
Cattle Queen of Montana (Ronald Reagan & Barbara Stanwyck - in color)
Tennessee's Partner (Ronald Reagan & John Payne - in color)
The Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore & Jay Silverheels - in color)
The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold (same cast - in color)

BONUS:
"Wild West Days" (featuring Johnny Mack Brown) (Chapter One) (1937)

Own them now on DVD....if you crave action, drama and plenty of adventure enjoyed this serial check out other western double features by Johnny Mack Brown:

JOHNNY MACK BROWN WESTERN DOUBLE FEATURES:
1. Raiders of San Joaquin/Law of the Range (VCI #7226)
2. Pony Post/Ragtime Cowboy Joe (VCI #7238)
3. Brand A Coward/Rogue of the Range (VCI #7244)
4. Guns in the Dark/Partner of the Trail (VCI $7260)
5. Bar Z Bad Men/Between Men (VCI #7282)

Ask Amazon.Com to carry the above five titles as they are not available on Amazon as of yet...you can order and pick up your copy now from VCI Entertainment...if you enjoyed "Bad Man from Red Butte" and "Rawhide Ranger" why not pick up other copies of Johnny Mack Brown Double Features...also the latest Bobby J. Copeland's book on "Johnny Mack Brown: Up Close & Personal" is chuck full of answers to all the questions his fans had from early on, published by Empire Publishing and available on Amazon.

Great job by VCI Entertainment for releasing the digital transfere with a clean, clear and crisp print...looking forward to more of the same from the '40s vintage...order your copy now from Amazon or VCI Entertainment, stay tuned once again with a top notch B-Western from VCI...just the way we like 'em!

Total Time: 225 mins on DVD ~ VCI Entertainment 8419 ~ (6/21/2005)

Two fine Johnny Mack Brown movies on DVD.......2003-11-15

VCI Entertainment has given us two classic Johnny Mack Brown B-western, beautifully and cleanly transferred. Brown was never at the level of Gene Autry or Roy Rogers, but his long career at Universal and later Monogram, give proof to his popularity. Bad Man from Red Butte and Rawhide Ranger are two of his better Universals Westerns. Production values are high in these Universal releases, and sidekick Fuzzy Knight and other stock Brown B-Western cast members help make this two offerings very enjoyable. VCI should be encouraged to release more of these. Highly recommended.

A Must for B Western Fanatics.......2003-06-02

This presenation by VCI of Johnny Mack Brown's B westerns is magnificent. This release has been described as the first in the series and we can expect many more. After all, Johnny Mack Brown appeared in a LOT of westerns.

The Bad Man from Red Butte has very good production values. There's a lot of horse riding, shooting, fisticuffs and the other stuff that makess B westerns exciting. Unlike others of the genre, this particular film stands out because Universal did not apply Poverty Row techniques. There is hardly use of stock film, so common in other B westerns. There are so many hired extras and people appearing in this feature that this has the feel of an A western. Universal is definitely not Lone Star Productions or any of those [other] companies of that time. This is recommended viewing for fans of the genre.

Rawhide Ranger was produced by Commonwealth Films but still under Universal. So, despite the use of more stock film, the production values are still high and would be considered among the better B westerns produced.

The quality for both features is good. Picture clarity and contrast and sound are excellent. You hardly notice any film deterioration and VCI must have obtained well preserved copies of these two films, though some scratches were very noticeable in the first feature.

A notable extra to this package is the more than 15 minute Chapter One of a Johnny Mack Brown western serial.

Another plus are the trailers. When I saw the Lone Ranger trailer, I decided to buy a copy for my collection for the picture quality is pristine.

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Move over Plan 9.......2005-12-19

Well, it's finally happened. I found a movie that is even worse than Plan 9 From Outer Space. This has got to be the worst movie ever made, hands down. I recommend it for those nights when you just can't seem to get to sleep. Put this on the VCR or DVD and it is almost guaranteed you won't be awake to see the middle of it much less the ending. The perfect sleeping aid for all you insomniacs out there.

Star Knight Star Bright.......2004-05-23

A nifty little movie with a flying saucer visiting the world of knights & wizards in old Europe. Good actors, Okay movie. Unfortunately there is a flaw, and it is a huge one. The producer's of this DVD should have spent a little more time on it. The audio and video don't track together, with the audio being about one second ahead of the visual. This renders the entire movie into bad comedic farce. Unfortunately the effect is not entertaining, but rather is a headache. I would have to recomend that you avoid this film, at least until some other company creates a viewable version.

Weird. Just plain weird........2003-08-26

Most people with anything to compare Star Knight to would probably give it the lowest rating possible, not only for its B-quality, but also for being so undecided in what it's trying to be. The film is medieval fantasy juxtaposed with science fiction. That's fine. But stuffed into the script are elements of a special-FX flick, a slapstick comedy, a martial arts movie, a fairy tale, and a sci-fi drama, but none of the above being particularly good. This mish-mash is primo material for Mystery Science 3000.

Thinking that Star Knight is just odd enough to have a cult following, I checked online for evidence and found only a few mentions, including two rather glowing reviews. One even praised the special effects, done in 1992, though they looked to me to be the same vintage as Zardoz (1974). But while Star Knight is a totally negligible film on its own terms, it does have some potentially interesting aspects for strange-film buffs.

The story opens on medieval times: peasants in idyllic surroundings pay taxes to the king's taxman, played by Harvey Keitel, if you can believe that. In the king's basement dwells the alchemist, Bothus, played by Klaus Kinski, still more unbelievably. Then there's the king's daughter Alba, played by some actress. She is old enough to desire romance. Then there's the priest, who has a deep distrust for science.

The order of things is quickly thrown into chaos by the appearance of a spaceship. The peasants believe it to be a dragon and demand that the king and Keitel defend them from it before they pay any more taxes. Meanwhile, Alba goes riding in the forest with her governess. In spite of the latter's nagging, she goes skinny dipping in the river, swimming toward mysterious bubbles coming from below. In a montage of underwater nudity and the facile effect of running film backwards, Alba is sucked below the surface and is gone.

She reappears a little later in a trance, and only Bothus, using hypnosis, can cure her. In spite of the alchemist's success, the priest fabricates a connection between the scientist and infernal forces, and then condemns him for these unsubstantiated diabolical ties. With Alba cured, however, the king sends his lisping town crier to find a knight who will defeat the strange river-dwelling monster. Keitel volunteers, saying in his best Brooklynese iambic quadrameter, "The dragon I shall slay for thee!"

Keitel's rendition of Sir Thomas Malory's Arthurian English is totally comical. Intentionally so? It's hard to tell. Keitel doesn't do much to hide the accent he used in Pulp Fiction, and later in the movie, he does some slapstick pratfalls. Maybe this film is a comedy, but as I've suggested above, I don't think it ever made up its mind one way or the other. Whether intended to make you laugh or not, you may well get a chuckle hearing Keitel say "Ye, poltroon," and "Thou, varlet."

As Keitel, the priest, the king, and The Green Knight (a seemingly intentional comic relief character, poorly lifted from Monty Python's Holy Grail) bumble about, Alba finds the "dragon" again. She boards the space ship and meets the star of the movie, a mute alien who communicates by theremin. Somehow Alba understands his waahs and woos, and this leads to dialogue like:

"Why won't you take your helmet off and kiss me?"

"Waaaahh. Woooo."

"It will kill you to remove your helmet? But why?

"Woooo. Waaaahhh."

"You can't breathe the same air as me? That's ridiculous."

"Waaa-waaah. Woo-wooo. Tinky-winky."

"I'm tired of your words."

"Waah. Woo-waaah."

"Stop saying 'I can't.'"

"Woooooooo."

"Don't blaspheme!"

Have you ever seen Evil Dead 2? I got a similar feeling from this film. It's a feeling that the movie is a spoof, not because it was written as such, but because, during the making of the movie, it became obvious to cast and crew that it could be nothing else.

Having a mute, clueless alien move about in a clueless earth culture means that the script has to stretch to incredible lengths to make anything actually happen. One fight scene occurs in which a single martial-arts tumble is executed by Ayex the Aryan alien. The fight ends when Keitel manages to steal Ayex's armor, killing Ayex on the spot. Except that Bothus shows up with an elixir that saves Ayex and enables him to breathe earth air.

Keitel and the evil priest wind up boarding the space ship and shooting into outer space with no way of controlling the ship. Ayex develops the power to have his head glow, which makes the peasants believe he is a saint. The king grants him his daughter's hand, but not speaking any English, the aloof alien can only make his head glow in reply. And everyone lives happily ever after.

What can I say? This is a weird film. It's B-quality all the way, but I was mildly entertained in spite of, or because of that.

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