June Night

Starring:Ingrid Bergman, Marianne LÃ¶fgren, Lill-Tollie Zellman, Marianne Aminoff, Olof Widgren, Gunnar SjÃ¶berg, Gabriel Alw, Olof Winnerstrand, Sigurd WallÃ©n, Hasse Ekman, Maritta Marke, Gudrun Brost, John Botvid, Karin SwanstrÃ¶m, Carl StrÃ¶m, Nils Jacobsson, Jean Claesson, Nina Scenna, Millan Bolander, Allan Linder
Director: Per Lindberg
Studio: Fox Lorber
Product Type: DVD

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Or, if you prefer, I See Wet People. M. Night Shyamalan's attempt at a newfangled mythology--about a depressed apartment superintendent (Paul Giamatti) who discovers a sea-nymph (Bryce Dallas Howard) who may hold the key to humanity's hopeful future--is intriguing enough to capture the imaginations of children and adults who haven't lost sight of their innocent sense of wonder. Cynics, on the other hand, will likely scoff at Shyamalan's awkward fantasy, which includes one victim--a film critic--widely interpreted as Shyamalan's revenge against reviewers who panned The Village. Shyamalan originally improvised this melancholy fantasy as a bedtime story for his children; unfortunately, it still feels mostly half-baked and ultimately ineffective due to a number of plot holes and inconsistencies that a writer as talented as Shyamalan should've been able to avoid. For those wishing to learn more about the film's troubled history, and Shyamalan's petulant split from Disney studios, The Man Who Heard Voices: Or, How M. Night Shyamalan Risked His Career on a Fairy Tale is an interesting read. --Jeff Shannon

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Apartment building superintendent Cleveland Heep (Giamatti) rescues what he thinks is a young woman from the pool he maintains. When he discovers that she is actually a character from a bedtime story who is trying to make the journey back to her home, he works with his tenants to protect his new friend from the creatures that are determined to keep her in our world.

Customer Reviews:

I Liked It...........2007-07-06

It's not fair to compare every new M. Night Shyamalan movie to his magnum opus The Sixth Sense. I kept that in mind, sat back and gave this one a chance, and I thought it had charm. I liked the feel to it, the colorful cast, and the way it leaped right into its tale without wasting time in explaining how this reality-shattering event came to be: in Shyamalan's hands it simply WAS. I don't regret buying this DVD and think if it's taken for its own merits, Lady in the Water is enjoyable.

Why... you're not a wizard at all !!.......2007-06-28

This is the second clunker in a row from this formerly great director who seems to be drowning under the weight of his reputation.

Everyone loved "The Sixth Sense." I also loved "Signs" and even the slow paced "Unbreakable." But "The Village" however, left me cold.

This movie was an attempt at a modern fairy tale but it fails miserably. There is no sense of wonder and you get that feeling from the major characters themselves. It is dry, flat and, at times, derivative. The title of my review is an example of that and it will be familiar to those who have actually watched the film and recognize the scene which borrows from many fantasies at once. Perhaps this was his intention. If so, he did not pull it off in a way which makes us smile. Just groan.

The ending, which I suppose was meant to be inspirational, was just plain silly. Too convoluted. Fairy tales are not supposed to be like that.

Depends On How Far You Let Your Imagination Go.......2007-06-27

I have seen every M. Night Shyamalan movie and like most people I have also had my share of problems with them as well. No matter what you think of him or his films he will no doubt always give an interesting story and he does so with Lady in the Water. Like one of the characters say in this film "the world no longer has any originality" I definitely agree. With Lady in the Water you get complete originality with a weird array of characters. Paul Giamatti (Cleveland Heep) plays a building manager of an apartment complex that unexpectedly becomes part of a living fairytale.

Only thing is you truly don't know if there will be a happy ending or not. While patrolling the swimming pool on a late night Cleveland slips on the wet cement and falls into the pool. He wakes up on his couch to a pale woman with red hair (Bryce Dallas Howard) sitting across from him. She tells him her name is story and that she is scared so he lets her stay for a while. After a bit he carries the sleeping story outside so she can return home but Cleveland is chased back into his home by a wolf like creature. Story won't tell Cleveland too much as she doesn't truly know everything herself. Cleveland finds out from one of the tenants a story that sounds similar to what's been happening around him. He realizes that Story is just trying to go home and that the creature does not want her to go and will kill her before she can get the chance.

Unlike the trailer for "The Village" what you see in the trailer for "Lady in the Water" is what you get in the film. No real big plot twist, Shyamalan left the movie the way it was without the crazy twist. He even has a bigger role in this film and it was a lot better than his past appearances that he's known for. The story itself is what you'll truly appreciate this movie for. Shyamalan put everything together so well that you start to forget that it's totally unreal for these events to happen. It's a type of story that has been done plenty of times in films like "Kate and Leopold" or even for kids something like "A Kid in King Arthur's Court". "Lady in the Water" is done in such a serious manner that you can't really compare it to those other films. The film gets more exciting and interesting as it goes on and more characters start to participate.

The apartment complex gave Shyamalan a plethora of characters to work with and he added them very well. Somehow he gave each of them a purpose in the movie and it didn't feel overcrowded in any way. This movie was done with great style that makes it very entertaining. The score and pacing were done in a way that made it feel serene but still got you into the film enough to keep watching. The cinematography is very well done, perfect colors to make the feeling of it complete. This is a movie I would definitely recommend to some but not all as not everyone will be able to let their imaginations go to truly enjoy it.

The sound was horrible.............2007-06-27

I guess this one was for theater viewing only. I had to blast the sound because the character Story always has to whisper. Other background sounds and music were blasting because the volume was so high. I have no idea why this was done. M. Night Shyamalan was good in the movie. I was surprised by him but Noah Gray-Cabey was the best actor by far. June Kyoto Lu is pretty good too.

i wish i could .......2007-06-25

get my money and my time back---

all was wasted on this horrible movie!!!

i think he needs to go back to having only CAMEO'S of himself in the movies he makes -- can you imagine, he would have destroyed the village, and the sixth sence if he decided to take on a major role!!

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The sound was horrible......
i wish i could

Lady in the Water (Full Screen Edition)
Starring: Sarita Choudhury , Tovah Feldshuh , Paul Giamatti , Jared Harris , and Mary Beth Hurt
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
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Release Date: 2006-12-19

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I Liked It...........2007-07-06

Why... you're not a wizard at all !!.......2007-06-28

Depends On How Far You Let Your Imagination Go.......2007-06-27

The sound was horrible.............2007-06-27

i wish i could .......2007-06-25

The Boris Karloff Collection (Tower of London / The Black Castle / The Climax / The Strange Door / Night Key)

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Enjoy Karloff...but don't expect much from these far-from-horror programmers
Karloff's other great films.
Where's Boris?
Karloff fan not disappointed
Good set with a great actor

The Boris Karloff Collection (Tower of London / The Black Castle / The Climax / The Strange Door / Night Key)
Starring: Charles Laughton , Boris Karloff , Sally Forrest , Richard Wyler , and William Cottrell (II)
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ASIN: B000FWHW8Q
Release Date: 2006-09-19

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Includes:

Night Key

Tower Of London

The Climax

The Strange Door

The Black Castle

Format: DVD MOVIE

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The gaunt face, the large eyes and elegant hands, the rich voice with a touch of menace (and more than a touch of lisp): Boris Karloff had the tools of a genuine movie star. He also had a deeply sensitive understanding of flawed creatures, which made his best roles--including the Frankenstein monster and the Mummy--weirdly sympathetic. His profitable employment in those Universal monster movies is filled out with the release of The Boris Karloff Collection, a grouping of non-classics from his Universal jobs.

These are the kind of movies that would show up with great promise on your local "Nightmare Theater" or "Creature Feature" late-show slot: Hey, Boris Karloff in something called Tower of London? Sounds scary! And you'd watch in bewilderment as the film would turn out to be a historical drama with a few grisly touches. Universal perpetuates this misunderstanding with this DVD release, which declares "The Master of Horror in His Most Frightening Roles!" Which is quite a stretch. (Some of Karloff's best horror stuff is on the Bela Lugosi Collection, a superior DVD package.)

Still, for fans, there's much to enjoy here. Tower of London is a thoroughly entertaining tale of Richard III's bloody rise to power, with Basil Rathbone as Richard and Karloff as his bald, beetle-browed executioner (definitely one of Boris's best looks). Two early-1950s films are great fun: The Strange Door has Charles Laughton doing one of his modern-Nero roles as a perverse nobleman with a really cool torture dungeon (Karloff is his servant), and The Black Castle lays on the wolf howls and creaking doors in a tale of revenge. Juicy performances by Richard Greene and Stephen McNally gives this oomph, even if Karloff and Lon Chaney Jr., are peripheral. McNally's castle is equipped with an excellent secret room with swarming alligators.

Night Key (1937) isn't horror, but a perfectly OK B-movie about inventor Karloff and his revenge on the businessman who stole his electrically charged idea. 1944's The Climax was made to capitalize on the lavish sets Universal made for The Phantom of the Opera, and director George Waggner (The Wolf Man) seems far too enamored of costumes and arias. Even when it's dull, which is frequently, the film has gorgeous Technicolor to look at, and Karloff is suitably obsessed as a doctor messing with a promising soprano. In short, the DVD set may disappoint the unwary, but Karloff devotees will enjoy the icon, and the occasional alligator pit. --Robert Horton

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Enjoy Karloff...but don't expect much from these far-from-horror programmers.......2007-06-27

The problem with the Boris Karloff Collection is the false promotion Universal gives it. This "Franchise Collection" says on the box, "The Master of Horror In His Most Frightening Roles!" Far from it. Of the five movies only The Strange Door has a bit of horror and the movie belongs to Charles Laughton, not Karloff. For the others, Karloff mostly plays secondary roles which aren't scary, although Mord in Tower of London is a man to avoid. None of the movies would win any awards. Still, Karloff was an interesting actor and it's hard not to like him even in these secondary films.

--Night Key. This B-movie crime programmer has as much connection to horror as a thin pork chop has to a freshly ripped-out human tongue. Karloff as the well-intentioned, kindly and ingenious inventor does a fine job, but the movie is forgettable. Of interest to some is that the director is Lloyd Corrigan, a writer and director in the late Twenties and throughout the Thirties. He became one of Hollywood's most recognizable character actors when the Forties started. He usually played roly-poly parts, chortling and happy-spirited.

--Tower of London. Here we have a cauldron of a movie bubbling merrily away that spatters as much rancid stew on Richard III almost as vividly as Shakespeare did. Basil Rathbone plays Richard with enthusiastic malice. As a henchman, he has Boris Karloff as Mord, a big, club-footed, bald-headed, muscular torturer, eager to use the executioner's axe or the torturer's rack and whip. "You're more than a duke," Mord tells Richard, "more than a king. You're a god to me!" Mord eagerly and admiringly acts on Richard's plans, from thrusting a dagger into the back of the mad old Henry VI to tipping Clarence, Richard's troublesome brother, into a huge vat of malmsey, then sitting on the lid while waiting for the sound of the bubbles to stop. This is Basil Rathbone's movie, however, and he makes the most of it with icy diction and some good lines. He hands his own dagger to Mord, then sends him to where Henry VI is praying. "A fitting occasion for a blade in the shape of a cross," Richard says. "It will insure the thrust and bless the wound."

-- The Climax would be more aptly named The Anti-Climax. It marked Boris Karloff's return to movies after three years on Broadway and touring in Arsenic and Old Lace. His name alone led many to believe The Climax would be a grand, shivering horror fest, especially as it would be Karloff's first color film. Instead, The Climax is a sad tale of an elderly doctor who has a thing about a singer he strangled ten years previously. For some, it might have promised a delightful Technicolor movie of Viennese operetta and Hollywood soubrettes. Instead, it's a weak re-make of The Phantom of the Opera, without the Phantom, which was released the year before. More than anything else, we get a story of aged obsession, hypnotism and throat spray that is as flavorless and stale as a slice of month-old Sachertorte. Inexplicably, Karloff is under-utilized. When Karloff says in that deep, sincere voice of his, "I've come to help you, my dear," we hope things will pick up. They don't.

--The Strange Door. "They've begun by disliking each other," says Alain de Maletroit (Charles Laughton), smacking his lips, eyes gleaming at the prospect of the forced marriage between his 20-year-old niece and a drunken wastrel he chose for her in a rough French tavern. "Hatred will come later. I'm in the mood for relaxation! Let's visit the dungeons!" As de Maletroit, Laughton sports an amazing comb-over, almost as grotesque as the one he wore in Jamaica Inn. de Maletroit can be charmingly gracious one moment, squinty-eyed suspicious the next, and absolutely jolly as he enjoys his crazed and nefarious plans. The movie is hardly more than an amusing throw-away, but Laughton turns it into a comedy of melodramatic excess. Karloff has a much smaller, but important role, and does a sympathetic job of it. On balance, the movie is fun and worth watching because of Laughton, but it's basically filler.

--The Black Castle. The best thing -- and that's pretty good -- about The Black Castle is that it's a black-and-white Forties' gothic grabber featuring a murderous mad count which was somehow made in 1952. Skulking around in the shadows of the count's castle is a long-gowned Boris Karloff in a decidedly secondary role of an aged doctor who may or may not be the salvation of the hero. Surprisingly, for all the cliches, The Black Castle keeps moving merrily along. The movie takes itself seriously, but it's competently enough made to keep our interest, even if we wind up sitting back with a smile while we watch. It's even reassuring in a way to realize there are strong echoes of The Most Dangerous Game. Hollywood's second creative rule has always been, "If you're going to steal, steal from the best." It's first creative rule, of course, is "If you're going to steal, steal from the best and then turn it into liverwurst." The Black Castle is a nice bite of Austrian braunschweiger.

Karloff's other great films. .......2007-02-21

Best known for Frankenstein and The Mummy plus several notable films with Bela Lugosi this collection features five classic forgotten gems.
Tower of London is a big budget historical epic with Karlof as the kings brutal exicutioner.Notable also for an early Vincent Price cameo!
Night Key is a crime drama as Karloff plays an inventor of a security system kidnapped to aid gansters on a series of robberies.
The Climax was originally to be a sequel to The Phantom of the Opera but the idea was changed, although it features several Phantom cast members.Karloff is a doctor obsessed by a young singer who's voice resembles his dead lovers.
Based on a R.L.Stevenson story The Strange Door features Charles Laughton co-starring as an evil nobleman who's prisoners have only Karloff as his servent to help them escape.
The Black Castle is a similar film to The Strange Door only this time Karloff is a doctor who uses drugs to help young captured lovers escape.
Each film is unique and worth investigation as many are lost classics.The only fault is the extras, a couple of trailers is all there is.A documentery on his long and varied career would have good.A nice addition to the Lugosi collection in the same series.

Where's Boris?.......2007-01-27

The only reason I knocked off a star is, I was disappointed that in a couple of the movies, Boris is hardly in them. It is really stretching to include them as a collection of his movies. Other than that, the quality is first rate. And I was glad they gave us three discs, instead of one double-sided one, like they have done in the past. I don't know if Universal didn't have more in their library to choose from, but it is painfully obvious in The Black Castle, that Boris and Lon are just making cameos to try market it as a horror movie.

Karloff fan not disappointed.......2007-01-10

bought this one especially for "Tower of London" but I also enjoyed "the Night Key", an obsure movie, but enjoyable nonetheless. I love old horror movies so you could say whenever a Bela Lugosi, Karloff, or Lon Chaney Jr or Sr. movie appears on sale I snatch them up.

Good set with a great actor.......2006-12-17

It doesn't matter how good you are at something if you don't use your talent in the right arena, you won't receive the proper recognition. Because he was associated with the "low" genre of horror, Boris Karloff probably didn't get the respect he deserved compared to other actors of his era. In his best movies, however, Karloff was a great actor who would steal the show from his co-stars. Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Body Snatcher and other films show Karloff was no mere hack but the best horror actor - and one of the best actors, period - of his era.

The Boris Karloff Collection, however, is a bit disappointing if you're a Karloff fan. That's not a statement about the quality of these movies, but of the five in the set, Karloff is only really a star in two, and ironically, these are the two weakest in this three-disc set.

Disc One has Night Key and Tower of London. Night Key features Karloff as an inventor of alarm systems. His invention years ago was stolen by a man who now runs a security company, but Karloff is still willing to sell him his even newer device. When he is once again conned, Karloff goes on a burglary spree using a device that bypasses the security systems; his intent is not personal gain but rather to embarrass his adversary into fulfilling their deal properly. Unfortunately, some hoodlums catch on to his game and use him for their own nefarious schemes. This movie is unremarkable, neither good nor bad.

Tower of London is a version of the story of Richard III, though not necessarily Shakespeare's version. In this movie, Basil Rathbone is Richard and Karloff is his faithful (and murderous) servant. Though best known for his Sherlock Holmes role, Rathbone is also a good villain, as he shows here. Vincent Price is also on hand as Clarence, Richard's brother; nearly a quarter-century later, Price would be Richard in Roger Corman's version of the same movie.

The first film on the second disc is The Climax, which is probably most noteworthy as Karloff's first color movie. In this film, he is a doctor who years earlier, killed his opera star fiancee in a fit of rage. Now, a new singer looks to take her place, and Karloff is intent on stopping her. Although it has some moments, this movie emphasizes music over horror and only works okay with both of them.

The other movie on the disc is my favorite in the set, The Strange Door. In this film, a rather roguish man is made to believe he is a killer. He flees into the hands of a delightfully evil Charles Laughton, who intends on marrying the man to his niece for motives that are unclear till the end. Karloff plays Laughton's dungeon keeper whose loyalties are more with the prisoners than his employer. Laughton's villainy helps make this movie a cut above. Also, look for Alan Napier (Alfred from TV's Batman) in a small role.

Finally, the sole movie on the last disc is The Black Castle, another period adventure like The Strange Door. In this one, Richard Greene goes to the home of an evil count (is it just me, or are most counts evil in movies?) to find proof that the Count killed Greene's friends. Karloff plays the Count's benevolent physician and Lon Chaney plays a more cruel servant. Though not outstanding, this movie is also fun to watch.

There are no extras in this set, but with a pair of three-star movies (Night Key and The Climax) and three four-star ones (the others), I am giving this set four stars. As stated before, however, this is not a great set when it comes to featuring Karloff, as he has only supporting roles in three of these films. So as a set, the Boris Karloff Collection may be a bit misleading, but overall, it's still enjoyable.

Lady in the Water (Combo HD DVD and Standard HD DVD) [HD DVD]

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I Liked It....
Why... you're not a wizard at all !!
Depends On How Far You Let Your Imagination Go
The sound was horrible......
i wish i could

Lady in the Water (Combo HD DVD and Standard HD DVD) [HD DVD]
Starring: Sarita Choudhury , Tovah Feldshuh , Paul Giamatti , Jared Harris , and Mary Beth Hurt
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
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Customer Reviews:

I Liked It...........2007-07-06

Why... you're not a wizard at all !!.......2007-06-28

Depends On How Far You Let Your Imagination Go.......2007-06-27

The sound was horrible.............2007-06-27

i wish i could .......2007-06-25

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Nerely great
Not worth blue ray
An amazingly poor movie
Lady in the Water not an epic, but not BAD
"Man may have forgotten how to listen"

Lady in the Water [Blu-ray]
Starring: Sarita Choudhury , Tovah Feldshuh , Paul Giamatti , Jared Harris , and Mary Beth Hurt
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ASIN: B000JU7KAE
Release Date: 2006-12-19

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Customer Reviews:

Nerely great.......2007-06-12

I enjoyed it immensely, and think it is his best effort yet. It is a fantasy story set in a suburban apartment complex with humor, drama, suspense and, of course, the wild use of imagination. Shyamalan really let me lose myself in the fantasy and get enthralled in the imaginative characters. The acting was appropriate, the directing was great and the writing was very smart. The only place I thought it lacked was in plot coherence, but it is easy to overlook it when you're flirting with fantasy. I especially liked how the story entwined with different historical fairytales, making for great post-movie conversation, which carried on for days.

Not worth blue ray.......2007-02-04

Its quite a nice story, but the picture is not worth the money for a blu-ray disc. - Also the sound on my DVD is not exact synchronized with the picture!

An amazingly poor movie.......2007-01-21

Not a good DVD to check out Blu-ray (often dark) and an amazingly poor movie. Paul Giamatti is good, but some of the actors are terrible and the special effects are very uninteresting. The movie just could not hold my interest. I just didn't care what happened to the characters, so it was not frightening.

Lady in the Water not an epic, but not BAD.......2007-01-12

Lady in the Water is a movie that feels like it is trying to be some other movie most of the time. M Night Shallymollydingdong's flick is correctly advertised as a "fairy tale," has a comprehendable story, and, a first, doesn't seem to have the "OMG HUGE PLOT TWIST" element that makes the other movies made by this director famous.

Paul Giamatti gives a terrific performance, although some of the "supporting" characters are quite dull.

The Blu-Ray version of this movie has nothing the standard dvd did not, and although the picture and sound are improved, it is not drastic.

I liked this movie more than any other movie M Night has made, save Sixth Sense. For a good family film, almost in the same vein as Time Bandits (minus the brittish "wit"), this movie hits the spot.

"Man may have forgotten how to listen".......2007-01-08

This interpretation of a bed time story that first introduces characters weirder than the ones in "Batteries Included." We are lead to believe they are all in some sort of transition in life and are given a purpose.

The film has a "B" movie knockoff of a Spielberg feel. Every time they look up you expect a bicycle crossing the moon.

The characters and the actors look like cardboard knockoffs of famous actors more than people. Bryce Dallas Howard in make up looks like a young Tilda Swinton.

Then "Whisper in the Noise" mangles a great Dylan song "Times are a Changing"

Grate concept - pitiful execution.

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This slice of Stockholm in the 40's will surprise
Subtitles
A Luminous Ingrid Bergman Shines in this film...

June Night
Starring: Ingrid Bergman , Marianne Löfgren , Lill-Tollie Zellman , Marianne Aminoff , and Olof Widgren
Director: Per Lindberg
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This slice of Stockholm in the 40's will surprise.......2004-01-08

JUNE NIGHT / Sweden 1940 (2.5 STARS)
16 December 2003: Through the divine Ingrid Bergman is at her prettiest best (we can see why she was lured away to Hollywood very soon after this her last film in Sweden), I could not understand her character's motivations in this film.
* Mise-en-scene: The film starts dramatically with a shoot-out and the rehabilitation that follows. There is intensity in the character's motivations and her crisis is real. I was amazed at how modern Stockholm was way back in 1940.
* The Stockholm community, though lovable has been created more with an eye to theatrical platitudes than to portray real people. Despite this we enjoy their little shenanigans and feel for their individual wants. But by the time we get to the end, we no longer feel the connect with any of the lead characters. It is not so much the fact that we despise Bergman's character for the choices she make as it is a lack of the director's ability to build a real person with real motivations - good or bad.
* Cinematography, Editing & Sound: In contrast with Casablanca made only two years later, the technical finesse is lacking and the sound and editing look more rookie, though none of that stopped me from wondering at how modern Swedish cinematic language was at that time when few other nations were ready to experiment with morality quite in the same way as were the Swedish, way back in the 1930s.

Subtitles.......2003-03-02

June Night proves that smooth dialogue DOES have an existence. It's clever and very mature in its content, doesn't leave off and have the viewer wondering what it was they might have missed. So often the translation to English comes off as awkward, but not so with this film. It's a smart and emotionally engaging rendition. The words are laid out in a very clean white script for easy reading, (luckily not overly large) so the full picture is clearly visible (a minor pet peeve i have with certain foreign films).

And, of course, the performances! Ingrid delivers a hard, knock-down portrayal of Kerstein, the mysterious, alluring girl around town. The supporting cast, Olof Widgren as the potential love interest, and the three lasses whom befriend Kerstein, only heighten the intrigue of Ingrids' character.

Per Lindberg is behind the directors chair on this one, and, despite June Night's slow pace (Per took his time), the movie unfurls as it was meant to. The pieces gently fall into your lap until you're left nodding in agreement. It all ends just as it should and you realize the ninety minutes went by much more quickly than you had previously thought.

It's a fine display of Bergman's talents and a rare foreign film treat. I happily recommend this.

A Luminous Ingrid Bergman Shines in this film..........2002-05-17

A nicely paced film about the possibility of second chances and starting over, June Night is above all else a perfect vehicle for the amazing acting and astonishing beauty of a young Ingrid Bergman (the mother of Isabella Rossellini)... The frankness of the film sets it ahead of other films of its time, (the Swedes tend to be more open about many things than other countries, at least they were earlier)... A nice, solid picture with a lot going for it, it kept me interested from beginning to end. Recommended.

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A classic British WWII propaganda film from 1942

They Raid by Night
Starring: Lyle Talbot , June Duprez , Victor Varconi , George N. Neise , and Charley Rogers
Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet
Manufacturer: Alpha Video
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ASIN: B0001DMXLK
Release Date: 2004-03-23

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A classic British WWII propaganda film from 1942.......2004-08-26

Britain was many months away from its finest hour when They Raid By Night was produced in 1942, but propaganda films such as this one helped sustain the morale of a people suffering through the vagaries of war. I'm fascinated by British propaganda films of the early 1940s, and this one is particularly interesting. The action of They Raid By Night takes place not in England or Germany, but in occupied Norway. The general of the Free Norway movement is being held in a prison camp well inside enemy lines, and the British are anxious to get him out safely. A motley group of three soldiers are sent behind enemy lines to make good the escape. With a convoy on its way to pick them up, all the trio have to do are parachute into Norway, find and rescue the imprisoned Norwegian general, make their way back to shore, and wait to be picked up. In command is Captain Owen (Lyle Talbot), who is joined by a scrappy little communications specialist (and borderline comic relief) named Harry and a Norwegian resistance fighter named Falken. These guys aren't Hogan's Heroes, as they keep getting caught; luckily for them, though, the German soldiers and their traitorous Norwegian collaborators are on a similar wavelength as Colonel Klink.

Of course, this film was made to deliver an important message. What can a mere three men do against the tens of thousands of enemy soldiers in Norway? Plenty. Is Norway worth liberating? Certainly. While some Norwegians betrayed their country and collaborated with the enemy, a secret but large majority of Norway's citizens are ready, willing, and able to stand up and take their country back. Those collaborators aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer, either, and fate will not allow them to go unpunished for their misdeeds.

For obvious reasons, this is a low-budget film; even the somewhat grainy aspect of the picture does nothing to make the fake backdrops look real. The fighting action is also a little on the lame side; remember when you were a kid and really milked your fall whenever a friend "shot" you - that's how many of these German soldiers go down. This really doesn't matter, though. The only thing that bothered me is the fact that Lyle Abbott, after giving a pretty good performance, seems to read the lines of his big speech at the end.

There are better British World War II propaganda films, but They Raid By Night remains an inspirational, entertaining, and historically significant film.

The Night They Saved Christmas [Region 2]

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The Night They Saved Christmas
this movie was pure holiday magic, as well as Dudly Moore's "SANTA CLAUS THE MOVIE"
A Christmas classic for Gen Xers
Wish they would produce this on DVD for the US! It's in the UK on DVD!
Unaware of Region Codes

The Night They Saved Christmas [Region 2]
Starring: Jaclyn Smith , Art Carney , Paul Le Mat , Mason Adams , and June Lockhart
Director: Jackie Cooper
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B0000DZRRC

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The Night They Saved Christmas.......2007-01-16

The first VHS received skipped through out the movie, the reason a 5 is given as it was replaced quickly and the 2nd VHS was very pleasant in watching. No hassle to get movie replaced and that was one of the reasons for a best rating. Would make more purchases in future.

this movie was pure holiday magic, as well as Dudly Moore's "SANTA CLAUS THE MOVIE".......2006-10-31

Christmas in the 80's & in the early 90's there were no other christmas movies like this one. It had a big impact on me. Every year I would watch this movie while either decorating my tree of just chilling and having hot chocolate. It would still give me the chills of pure christmas magic. This was one of my all time favorites, It had something about it, that just makes christmas the mother of all holidays. When I was younger this movie seemed very real to me, and the way it was directed and how the plot really worked. I really loved the whole Ice Fog thing, that really kicked in the North Pole effect and how no one is able to see it, with your own eyes and it was concealed by a huge wall of ice, and had a secert enternce, unless you go though it. Now that was really cool. I really was impressed with the whole talking into a candy cane phone thing, and the rollor coaster ride through the ice glaciers and snowy mountains. The most wonderfull thing about this film, that it was full of color, and the mood was set right. It had very little special effects and it was not over done either. Now that I wish they had a real theme park based on this movie lol. I am now 23, and I still love this film. Art Carney to me was the ideal Santa Claus, his looks and his personality hit it right on the money. He took on his role very seriously at times and thats what drew me into this movie. Now I know Tim Allen puts on the red suit and still does a great job, but Art Carney really pulled his stings a bit more. I think with out all the joking around, Santa was very real in this movie. I like the fact that at one moment he had a long talk with Jacylin Smith (the mother)about her childhood, and ya know the old saying, HE SEES YOU WHEN YOUR SLEEPING AND HE KNOWS WHEN YOUR AWAKE. Well Carney proved it. That was a very special moment in that movie for me. It really gives you a sence of what santa would be like, in real life. Art Carney's santa was very realistic and he was very down to earth with that role. The young actors who played her kids, David, Marrianne and CB. I liked how the younger one started to have his doubts untill he saw the real thing, I like the whole idea of oil drillers digging oil in the arctic circle and not having no idea that Santa really lived up there. That was very smart, This movie has alot of magic to it, for those who grew up with it, will know what I am talking about, it may not be a comedy but as for a drama its really good. It really grabs you and make your holiday spirt even bigger, but most of all it keeps you believing in the unbelieveable, and it keeps the magic of what childhood christmas should always and forever will be. I really want this movie on dvd so badly, I know they have Dudly Moores Santa Claus the movie on dvd, now that was another Santa Classic. But this movie seemed more real, despite not having that much special effects and it really worked well in a real life setting in different situations. This movie deserve a new dvd packageing and as a few special features here and there based on the legend of Santa Claus. This will be a holiday classic for when I have kids one day, and I will sit and watch it with my own family. Christmas in the 80' will always be a cherished memory of mine I will have for the rest of my life. I will never forget how this movie maked me look at the way I look at Santa Claus in all my years of different holiday movies... Just keep up on praying that we get this one on dvd fast!

A Christmas classic for Gen Xers.......2006-07-31

Very good movie...shows you the spirit of Christmas prevails.

I remember watching it when the NBC logo popped up saying "Saturday Holiday Movie". I loved it from the beginning. I thought it was so "high tech" with the snowmobiles that the kids drove to reach Santa and the robot that knew everyone's name.

I won't reveal the secrets of the movie, but if you love the 80's or you were born then, watch it for the sentimental value!

Wish they would produce this on DVD for the US! It's in the UK on DVD!.......2006-07-29

This movie deserves 5 stars! I can't belive they haven't produced this on DVD in the US. It's been years since I heard it was on DVD in the UK (you can buy it from eBay, but you can't play it unless you have a region 2 player).

Unaware of Region Codes.......2006-04-27

I purchased a DVD of this movie after Christmas of 2005 from a person in the UK. Since the DVD version was so hard to find I thought I was lucky to have found a copy. But I had no idea there was such thing as region codes when I purchased the DVD, as I'm sure many people don't. It was a month or more after I received it that I tried to play it in my player and found out it wouldn't work. It was only then that I discovered there was something wrong, and after some research I found out about the different regions. I contacted the seller and they were very unsympathetic, after which I recalled the saying "buyer beware" . There needs to be a Region Code warning on all DVD's for sale from other countries for unsuspecting buyers, just like me. So for anyone who happens to read this who is considering buying any DVD from the UK or any other foreign country, BEWARE. It will not work in your DVD player here in the U.S. If only I had known beforehand, but like they say...hindsight is 20/20 .

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Invisible double feature

The Girl from Sin/Henry's Night In
Starring: Jerry Denby , Joyana , Barbi Kemp , Mary O'Hara (II) , and Bob Oran
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
ProductGroup: DVD
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The Teaser/Frankie and Johnnie... Were Lovers
Deep Jaws/The Dicktator
Evil Come Evil Go/Terror at Orgy Castle/The Hand of Pleasure

ASIN: B000AYEI6I
Release Date: 2005-10-04

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Invisible double feature.......2005-11-27

I just got through watching these films. The Girl From S.I.N is a long, drawn out boring piece of trash. The whole thing is narrated. The character never talk. Only about 2 minutes of nudity in the whole feature! I was very disappointed. A real waste of DVD disc space.

Henry's Night In was alright. Not trash but not great either. It concerns a guy who goes to an auction and but a trunk. In the trunk is a book of how to make an invisibility potion. Henry's wife is always after him because he cannot satisfy her. Henry goes to see a shrink and he tells Henry that if he wants to save his marriage that he should cheat on his wife so he'll have more experience at satisfying a woman. Henty concocts the invisibility potion and uses it to get into several women's homes that love in his neighborhood. He watches them bathe and has sex with all of them. His wife finds out that Henry has been using invisibility and all the women he's had sex with. She takes him back though because he's been doing it to save his marriage. This film is pretty good because the story moves on pretty quickly and there's plenty of totally naked women to look at! There's a lot of huge breasts and full bush. Both films are in clack and white and both are about 70 minutes.

Charlie Rose with Donald Francis; Richard Price; David Rockwell; Jewel (June 3, 1998)

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Charlie Rose with Donald Francis; Richard Price; David Rockwell; Jewel (June 3, 1998)

Manufacturer: Charlie Rose
ProductGroup: DVD
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First, Dr. Donald Francis, AIDS pioneer researcher of the company Vaxgen, discusses the new FDA approval for human testing for a vaccine against AIDS and talks about the disease in general. Then, Richard Price, known as "the voice of the Bronx," discusses his new book Freedomland, set in a fictional New Jersey town. Then, David Rockwell discusses his field of business, the burgeoning market "entertainment architecture" which creates elaborate theme-style restaurants, hotels, zoos, and more. Finally, singer Jewel discusses her new book of poetry, A Night Without Armor, and reads some excerpts of that work.

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