The Lost Boys

Starring:Jason Patric, Corey Haim, Dianne Wiest, Barnard Hughes, Edward Herrmann, Kiefer Sutherland, Jami Gertz, Corey Feldman, Jamison Newlander, Brooke McCarter, Billy Wirth, Alex Winter, Chance Michael Corbitt, Alexander Bacon Chapman, Nori Morgan, Todd Feder, Christopher Peters, Keith Butterfield, Gerald Younggren, Eric Graves
Director: Joel Schumacher
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product Type: DVD

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This 1987 thriller was a predictable hit with the teen audience it worked overtime to attract. Like most of director Joel Schumacher's films, it's conspicuously designed to push the right marketing and demographic buttons, and granted, there's some pretty cool stuff going on here and there. Take Kiefer Sutherland, for instance. In Stand by Me he played a memorable bully, but here he goes one step further as a memorable bully vampire who leads a tribe of teenage vampires on their nocturnal spree of bloodsucking havoc. Jason Patric plays the new guy in town, who quickly attracts a lovely girlfriend (Jami Gertz), only to find that she might be recruiting him into the vampire fold. The movie gets sillier as it goes along, and resorts to a routine action-movie showdown, but it's a visual knockout (featuring great cinematography by Michael Chapman) and boasts a cast that's eminently able (pardon the pun) to sink their teeth into the best parts of an uneven screenplay. --Jeff Shannon

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Micheal and Sam.......2007-06-21

Have move to Santa Calria where there is lots of vampires. Micheal thinks he i a vampire now.

80's Classics .......2007-05-23

If this movie could be rated Higher I would. Its just that great era where movies were just good, I love this movie a whole lot, I believe this movie got me into the whole genre of Vampire Loving. And of course the actors in this movie for a child growing up in that era were also hot. The soundtrack to this movie is off the hook and its a great summer time CD. I highly recommend this movie. It truly is the best movie ever of its time.

Full screen & Widescreen included.......2007-05-12

The great thing about this dvd is on one side is the 'full screen' version , and the other side is the 'Widescreen' (2:35) version. Its cool when dvds come with both versions!!

Guilty Pleasure.......2007-04-29

Reading these reviews, it's clear that "The Lost Boys" has some irresistable magic going for it; I've loved it ever since I saw it in the theater when it came out. The '80's trappings are at least authentic, as the film was made in 1986 when the splashy colors of Corey Haim's shirts were actually chic (believe it, kiddies, I was there).

But what really makes it work, I think, is the care the writer (or writers) took to get the details of vampire mythology - the "hellhound", the importance of inviting the vampire into the home - right even as they re-shaped it to fit the contemporary setting. The twists all work, and the ending is just brilliant ("..all the damn vampires"). It's a solidly entertaining and engaging horror film, possibly deserving a place in a "top ten" of the genre.

One of the Best Vampires movie if not the BEST!!.......2007-04-16

First of all, im not going to get into the history of who's in it and who isn't. Second, this movie is a DEFINITE! for Vampires fan. Third, Keifer Sutherland at his best, although Coreys are lame together, in this movie they did work together as best as they could. Fourth, the Movie, the plot, the action, and the look of the vampires, are all Cool. This movie is a must *HAVE* especially the 2 Disc Edition. The Fifth reason is just that, the bonus CD is extremely what EVERY "COLLECTOR'S EDITON" should be. This is the a great movie and a great buy any place for the price!

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plight of the refugee
Dissapointing to Say The Least
Great Informational Tool, Subtitle Malfunction
powerful and compelling documentary......
Great Information But Not-So-Great Documentary

POV: Lost Boys of Sudan
Starring: Peter Kon Dut , and Santino Majok Chuor
Director: Megan Mylan , and Jon Shenk
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They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan
God Grew Tired Of Us: A Memoir

ASIN: B0002V7NYI
Release Date: 2004-11-02

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Lost Boys of Sudan, which premiered on PBS's P.O.V. series in 2003, is a gripping documentary about young refugees from the Sudanese conflict as well as a moving story of survival and acclimation in a strange and daunting land. The film centers around two young Dinka tribesmen who must flee a vicious civil war in their homeland and risk thirst, starvation, and animal attack to reach refugee camps thousands of miles away in Kenya in Ethiopia. Once there, the "lost boys'" journey begins again, as they are resettled in Houston, Texas, and must start new lives in a completely alien country. Eventually, their adjustment to 21st century life becomes the film's main focus; can they join American society and still retain their tribal connections? Told in simple but powerful images, Lost Boys of Sudan affectingly addresses themes of home, acceptance, family, and what it means to be a member of society--both America and the global community. --Paul Gaita

Description

Winner of an Independent Spirit Award and named Best Documentary at the San Francisco International Film Festival, LOST BOYS OF SUDAN follows two teenage Sudanese refugees on an extraordinary journey from Africa to America, offering a gripping and sobering peek into the myth of the American Dream. In the late `80s, Islamic fundamentalists in Sudan waged war on the country's separatists, leaving behind over 20,000 male orphans, otherwise known as "lost boys." For those who survived this traumatic ordeal and found their way to refugee camps, som were chosen to participate in a resettlement program in America--a distant place so presumably full of hope and opportunity that the Sudanese sometimes call it Heaven. But what if a free ticket to "Heaven" turned out to be anything but? Sidestepping conventional voice-over narration in favor of real-time, close-quarters poignancy, LOST BOYS OF SUDAN focuses on Santino and Peter, members of the Dinka tribe, during their first life-altering year in the United States. Safe at last from physical danger--but a world away from home--the boys must grapple with extreme cultural differences as they come to understand both the abundance and alienation of contemporary American life.

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plight of the refugee.......2007-06-04

Good film showing the struggles of two refugees' integration into American society. Shows the everyday struggles of two young men that have known nothing but hardship. This documentary shows bits of life in the refugee camp, through their transition and first year in America. Would've liked to have gotten more of their back story, as it is an amazing story of survival.

Dissapointing to Say The Least.......2007-01-17

Unless you are interested in the challenges posed by introducing a number of displaced youth who have grown up in an extremely deprived and disjointed society to the United States, this movie will not "do it" for you.

The most intruiging phenomenon in the entire film is the obvious mistrust and lack of connection between poor African-Americans and poor Africans, beyond the color of their skin.

For the most part, the situation exists between most working-class Africans and the African-Americans with whom they are lumped up with and have to coexist with at work and home (if they live in predominantly black neighborhoods) and is therefore nothing new, unless you are of a different race.

Great Informational Tool, Subtitle Malfunction.......2006-07-06

This film provides a great informational tool about the struggles and opportunities of refugees trying to make it on their own in a new place. As a history teacher, I am excited to show this to my class to demonstrate assimilation and acculturization. My one problem, and this is a big problem, is that a great deal of the subtitles go way off of the TV. This made seeing what they were saying difficult. I couldn't even see the information at the end. I have a pretty big TV, so I'm sure that this might be a persistent problem. Also, the deleted scenes have no subtitles. But all in all, this is a great glimpse of their lives. The most eye-opening is the tension between African Americans and the Africans. Ironically, the boys from Africa got along better with their white friends than the African Americans. Also interesting is the "help" the church tried to give. They keep delivering all of this furniture to the boys' tiny apartment, yet the lady from the church (who looks just like actress Shelly Long) virtually ignores their pleas for help in finding jobs and educational opportunities. She walks away from them and says "They're angry"

powerful and compelling documentary.............2006-01-16

For anyone unfamiliar with the plight of the numerous lost boys of Sudan, I really reccomend you check out this powerful, compelling, cautionary and very educational film, that looks at two young men who made it out of the turbulence of their country and were able to make a life for themselves in the United States. The Lost Boys consist of some 200,000 (or more) young Sudanese refugees, orphaned, left orphaned and alone in the African nation of Sudan. One connection out of the poverty and desolation of their country, is if they are able to obtain sponsorship through church-based programs in the United States. The two boys profiled in this film were recipients of this sponsorship.

While one journeys to Texas, to seek out work, buy a car and also attend classes at the local high school, the other's journey takes him to a small (predominantly Caucasian) town in Kansas, who attempts to integrate himself into a foreign, and a culture for which he finds himself, both, daunted and isolated.

I believe everyone should see this film, and, in fact, I think it should be implemented in the high school curriculum as a pre-requisite for all students. It is important that we all receive an education in the personal struggles of refugees, like these two young men. This film only scratches the surface, into this subject matter. There are so many important stories, like this, that need to be told!

Great Information But Not-So-Great Documentary.......2005-09-21

For me, the thing that makes a documentary enjoyable is a.) Is the information new and engaging? and b.) Is it presented in a coherent and even-flowing fashion? On the first point, THE LOST BOYS OF SUDAN delivers. We get to hear about the little known religious war in Sudan that killed (and continues to kill) millions of people. Most of those that were murdered (let's call it what it is) were adults. And left behind are their children who flee to refugee camps. Tens of thousands of children made it to these tent cities where they've grown up or died. But a few of them are lucky enough to get access to America, and fly into Houston to become U.S. citizens. This documentary follows the lives of two of THE LOST BOYS and we get to see how leaving their native lands affects them, and how American culture clashes but ultimately enfolds them. Great information.

On point "b", though, the film gets a serious thumbs down. The editing was terrible, a patchwork quilt of events rather than a concise look at these boys' lives. The information was just too broad. They show us their struggle with grades, language, driving, sports, living together, paying rent, jobs, trying to find girlfriends, etc., etc., etc. I would've liked to have seen them focus on a select few items and get us into the microcosm of these issues. For instance, I would've enjoyed learning more about their struggles to get into schools while working at the same time. But all we get is one basic phone call that one of the boy's makes where he talks to family about this issue ...and that's it. We don't hear anymore about it. There were other instances in the film where similar things occurred, too (subjects brought up and then suddenly dropped.)

But even with these problems, the documentary is interesting and informative.

For truly excellent documentaries, though, try DARK DAYS or BORN INTO BROTHELS.

The Lost Boys (Two-Disc Special Edition)

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Micheal and Sam
80's Classics
Full screen & Widescreen included
Guilty Pleasure
One of the Best Vampires movie if not the BEST!!

The Lost Boys (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Starring: Jason Patric , Corey Haim , Dianne Wiest , Barnard Hughes , and Edward Herrmann
Director: Joel Schumacher
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ASIN: B00027JZ3E
Release Date: 2004-08-10

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Customer Reviews:

Micheal and Sam.......2007-06-21

Have move to Santa Calria where there is lots of vampires. Micheal thinks he i a vampire now.

80's Classics .......2007-05-23

Full screen & Widescreen included.......2007-05-12

The great thing about this dvd is on one side is the 'full screen' version , and the other side is the 'Widescreen' (2:35) version. Its cool when dvds come with both versions!!

Guilty Pleasure.......2007-04-29

One of the Best Vampires movie if not the BEST!!.......2007-04-16

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A fair-to-middlin' movie for the kids...
Boys Own Adventure
Puerile, inaccurate, ignorant garbage
no redeeming qualities

Boys of Lost Island
Starring: Boys of Lost Island
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ASIN: B000FGFUWC
Release Date: 2006-08-01

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LOST BOYS synopsis 2/28/06 When a group of boys are stranded on a deserted island after a storm destroys their boat, they know that the only way they'll survive is to stick together. But when another storm beaches another boat, the boys find they are sharing the island with some very evil criminals. Now it will take some quick thinking and some clever plotting to not only survive, but to stay alive. And will they ever be able to escape and get back home? Based on a story by Jules Verne, BOYS OF LOST ISLAND is filled with non-stop, edge-of-your-seat adventure.

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A fair-to-middlin' movie for the kids..........2007-06-14

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...but quite slowly paced and most assuredly outdated.

It's so politically incorrect, for example, that it shows adolescent and preadolescent boys - without adult supervision - confidently and effectively handling the sorts of small-caliber rifles that rural Americans learn to use at about the same age. And it accepts this as a matter of common sense, as if anyone who supposed otherwise was some sort of drooling idiot.

If you have a kid in the household who had enjoyed Disney's film version of *Swiss Family Robinson* (1960), this low-budget, thoroughly unpolished production is a potential value.
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Boys Own Adventure.......2007-05-15

This is a film adaptation of a Jules Verne story "Deux Ans En Vacance". BOYS OF LOST ISLAND focuses on a small group of Australian youngsters marooned on an uninhabited island. A series of mini-adventures ensue including a close encounter with a deadly snake and their having to defend themselves against some deeply unpleasant adult villains. A comparison to this 1969 low-budget production can be made with the internationally renowned LORD OF THE FLIES although it is blessed with a less sinister tone. BOYS OF LOST ISLAND remains best appreciated by the audience for which it was intended, very young children.

Puerile, inaccurate, ignorant garbage.......2007-04-27

This is the worst movie I have ever watched. The maritime details are ridiculous. The yawl which delivers the boys (unharmed and unafraid) to the lost island is referred to by everyone, including the officials mounting a search, as a schooner. None of the boys wear lifejackets, even in the storm which drives them ashore. There is no sign of a radio although these are mandatory. The yacht carries rifles and ammunition and the boys are expert enough to shoot down birds on the wing, yet when they are fired on by bad guys on an exposed beach later in the film they do not return fire, even though they have the advantage of covering rocks.
Later when they sortie into the night against the bad guys they all wear spotless white shirts. They convert a rowing dinghy for sailing and sail it against the wind without bothering to add a keel, a centre-board or lee boards. When the mandatory beautiful girl turns up after having been shipwrecked and sharing a lifeboat with the bad guys she looks as if she has made a pit stop at the hairdresser's and beautician's. Oh, and the wild life includes sulphur crested cockatoos, goannas, kookaburras and emus, but they have no idea where they are!
Feeble, fatuous and foolish. I'm ashamed that it was made in Australia.

no redeeming qualities.......2006-08-22

This is NOT "non-stop, edge of your seat adventure." The story is pedestrian: the beached ship has all the supplies they need. Plus the island unaccountably has sheep, goats, even a dog. The boys don't do much of anything except climb rocks and recite dumb lines. It is not credible that Jules Verne could have written anything this bad. Even the bad-guy bit at the end only lasts ten minutes and is a fizzle.

The acting is of the quality of a junior high school play rehearsal--an early rehearsal. The technical quality is a cut above a home movie, but not by much. The sound is atrocious. The movie is 66 minutes long.

I can't imagine anyone who would enjoy this movie, not even young children.

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Southern Hospitality
The movie that started it all...
"In 100 years, we'll be chasing them Yankees in rocketships!"
Worth seeing... Once.
Southern Discomfort...

Two Thousand Maniacs
Starring: William Kerwin , Connie Mason , Jeffrey Allen , Ben Moore , and Gary Bakeman
Director: Herschell Gordon Lewis
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ASIN: B00004KDES
Release Date: 2000-02-22

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Flush from the breakthrough success of Blood Feast in 1963, producer David F. Friedman and pioneering goremeister Herschell Gordon Lewis followed up a year later with Two Thousand Maniacs!. The drive-in movie would never be the same. Filmed in 14 days in St. Cloud, Florida, on a luxurious budget of $62,000, this instant cult classic revels in the grisly fate of three unwitting Yankee couples who've been falsely detoured to the Southern hick town of Pleasant Valley (population 2000--get it?). These unlucky lovers are the guests of honor at a Confederate centennial celebration. What they don't know is that the twisted citizens of Pleasant Valley are vengeful ghosts of the Civil War, determined to dispatch their "guests" in deviously unpleasant ways. Simply put, Two Thousand Maniacs! (with Blood Feast) is the original "splatter" film.

On the murder menu: death by amputation, dismemberment by horses (one per limb), crushing by boulder, and, the most unsettling (or creative?), death by barrel rolling... with flesh-ripping nails in the sides. Tame by later standards yet still absurdly shocking, Two Thousand Maniacs! is the pure, funny-freaky essence of exploitation cinema, complete with the obligatory Playboy Playmate (Connie Mason) in the cast. Lewis (a former literature professor, no less) frequently cited this as his proudest achievement, and who's going to argue? With its crude direction, atrocious acting, and delirious redneck flavor, the movie genuinely deserves its place in cinema history, its dubious entertainment value proving surprisingly durable through the decades. A milestone of movie bloodletting, it was followed, appropriately enough, by Color Me Blood Red in 1965. --Jeff Shannon

Description

An entire town bathed in pulsing human blood from madmen crazed for carnage! The 2000 Maniacs of a small Southern town celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Civil War by forcing a handful of Northerners to serve as "guests" for a variety of macabre, blood-crazed fun and games. The festivities include a screaming man placed in a rolling barrel lined with nails, a hit-the-bull's-eye carnival game with a pretty gal and a boulder, and a blonde sexpot whose arm is hacked off and barbecued! But before they can slaughter the only smart Yank (Thomas Wood), he and the lovely Terry Adams (Connie Mason, "Playboy's Favorite Playmate") try to escape.

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Southern Hospitality.......2007-04-30

Blood Feast may be Lewis' most famous film and the one that he'll always be remembered by, but 2000 Maniacs is seen as probably his best film by many fans. The budget's higher(just a bit), the acting is better(but just a bit), and the story is more imaginative(quite a bit). Though it's a gore film, I'd have to say that Blood feast was actually gorier than this one. But 2000 Maniacs(due to the budget it looks more like 20 maniacs) manages to be entertaining coz it actually is interesting and funny. Blood Feast only had the gore going for it(as well as a few laughs), coz you really can't say it was terribly interesting as far as story goes. But any way you slice it, both 2000 Maniacs and Blood feast are required viewing for the cult/exploitation/horror film fan, as well as any film historian for that matter.

The movie that started it all..........2007-03-05

Two Thousand Maniacs! (Herschell Gordon Lewis, 1964)

I think I may be the last fan of gore movies on earth to see Herschell Gordon Lewis' infamous Two Thousand Maniacs!, an exploitation-flick take on Brigadoon whose influence on the horror film genre cannot be overstated. In other words, everything there is to say about this hugely amusing little flick has already been said, and probably better than I would say it. This flick, right here, is the genesis of the "inventive ways to kill people" movie; in other words; it's pretty hard to think of more than one or two American horror flicks a year since The Abominable Dr. Phibes that aren't influenced by this movie, as outright bad as it is.

And yes, it is bad. The special effects have the cheesiness for which Lewis is known. The acting plumbs depths of "hideous" that even exploitation films rarely explore. The script is threadbare in its best moments, and unintentionally hilarious throughout. Is Two Thousand Maniacs! bad? You'll have more suspense waiting for an answer if you ask the kid behind the counter at Taco Bell what a beef and bean burrito is made of. And yet, it's driven by such earnestness and played so straight that it transcends bad; it's got the kind of cornball appeal that lends rewatchability, though I grant you that you'll get much more of a kick out of it the second (and third and fourth and...) time around if you're at a party and doing some serious drinking. **

"In 100 years, we'll be chasing them Yankees in rocketships!".......2006-12-19

What can one say about this film?

It is easily one of, if not the BEST Herschell Gordon Lewis films.

The plot is intriguing, the acting decent (exception for Connie Mason), the gore pretty good (Especially the barrel roll sequence. Its very chilling)

This movie is a hoot, and as others have said, the commentary track is very VERY interesting as well.

Worth seeing... Once........2005-08-16

'Two Thousand Maniacs' is apparently the second gore flim ever made. Technically speaking, it's superior to Lewis's 'Blood Feast' in pretty much every way, but I think I like that film more than this one. Suffice to say, you can be a lot better than 'Blood Feast' and still really not be very good, which this film proves amply. The direction is less flat, the acting is somewhat more natural, or intentionally over the top, rather than by accident, as it appeared to be in 'Blood Feast'. Still, this movie is quite a bit longer than 'Blood Feast', which is liable to hurt you, and the intentional humor and wackiness of this film can't match the unintentional humor and wackiness of that movie. Also, it's quite a bit less gory, though it's still severely out there by the standards of the time. Occasionally, the film does manage to generate a somewhat disturbing atmosphere, via the juxtaposition of the violence and the jovial behavior of the southern town. Of course, some people think the light-hearted behavior of the townsfolk actually lessens the impact, so you never know.

Most people seem to think that 'Two Thousand Maniacs!' stands out from Lewis's other films because it actually has something going for it other than the violence, i.e. the nutty southern townfolk. I'll admit it, there over the top antics are kinda amusing for a while, but it starts to were thin well before the film is over. (Much like how the terrible acting/dialogue in 'Blood Feast' starts to lose interest pretty quickly, though I found that stuff more amusing to begin with) Southerner's may not be too fond of how they're portrayed here, but it's so over the top that it really shouldn't be taken personally. The film also earns some points for it's somewhat novel premise. (For those who don't know, it's about a group of northerner's who are tormented and assailed by the ghosts of a southern town that was massacred in the Civil War.) Also, the countrified soundtrack is kinda fun, particularly the theme song.

Overall, this film certainly isn't great, or even good, but it's sufficiently amusing, and is definitely worth a look for serious horror fans.

Grade: C

Southern Discomfort..........2005-04-28

2K MANIACS is a blessedly twisted ghost story with enough goofy gore and bad acting to satisfy any / all fans of cinematic idiocy. Herschel Gordon Lewis' opus of hicktown vengeance is a marvel considering it's 1964 release date! Without the bloodletting, TWO THOUSAND MANIACS would be fairly dull. With the scenes of communal sadism however, it's like watching a bizarre cross between THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW, HEE HAW, and THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE! Never before (or since) have so many hillbillies gathered together in order to mutilate and kill unwary visitors from north of the Mason / Dixon line! Lewis has created a ghoulish feast of horror, a cautionary tale for any who would dare travel to the southern hinterlands! Beware! Rufe and Lester just might be waiting, putting up their fake detour sign, and hoping a car full of damn yankees will happen by! Stay away from Pleasant Valley! Drive right on past and avoid it's hellish centennial celebration! Don't end up like the poor saps who were cut, chopped, hacked, drawn and quartered, crushed, poked, and otherwise eviscerated! You have been warned...

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Beach Boy Classic
A great view of a great band
Disappointed
Blast From The Past
Quintessential Southern California of the 60s

The Beach Boys - The Lost Concert
Starring: The Beach Boys
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ASIN: B00000ILEH
Release Date: 1999-06-01

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Clocking in at a mere 22 minutes, this long-lost concert video goes by much too quickly, but fans of the Beach Boys will be delighted with the quality of the digitally mastered picture and sound, making this a worthwhile addition to any Beach Boys collection. The boys were taped live on March 14, 1964 as part of a concert that also included the Beatles and Lesley Gore. After the performances were aired on closed-circuit TV to theaters packed with screaming fans, the Beach Boys segment remained virtually unseen until it was rediscovered in 1998.

Cutaway shots provide a wonderful glimpse of what teen audiences were like during the heyday of the surfin' craze (plenty of Gidget hairdos, and a few parents in the crowd, marveling at the frenzy of it all), but it's the music that counts here, and clearly the boys were having a pretty good day. Most of the early hits are played here ("Fun, Fun, Fun," "Little Deuce Coupe," "In My Room"), and while lead vocalist Mike Love hams it up, it's fascinating to witness early indications that bandleader Brian Wilson was growing tired of live performance. He revs it up for a wacky cover of "Papa Oom Mow-Mow," though, and that makes this video a time-capsule treasure, showing the Beach Boys in their prime before Wilson retreated completely into the sanctuary of the studio. --Jeff Shannon

Description

Thought lost for thirty-five years, this rare concert brings you the Beach Boys at the peak of their performing talents. Early in 1964, promoters put together a mega-concert with the hottest stars of the day: the Beatles, Lesley Gore and the Beach Boys. The performances were taped live and aired on closed circuit. The Beach Boys' portion of the show was lost until 1998, but now it can be savored by their millions of fans on home video for the first time. Songs: Fun Fun Fun, Long Tall Texan, Little Deuce Coupe, Surfer Girl, Surfin' USA, Shut Down, In My Room, Papa Oom-Mow-Mow, Hawaii.

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Beach Boy Classic.......2007-01-10

The Beach Boys as a group were formed in 1961. Here are the boys just
3 years later. The harmonies are right on the money, with Carl's leads and Brian's Falsetto sounding great. It is a rare glimpse of a group on the verge of making musical history. Harmony as a vocal sound for the past 70 years had always been pretty straight forward. Look at the 1930's, (the Mills Brothers, The Ink Spots), the 1940's (the Andrews Sisters, Southern Gospel harmony) the 1950's The Doo-Wop Sound, but nothing like what Brian Wilson was about to unleash on the Music Scene. Pet Sounds was only 2 years away. What growth. I recommend this dvd highly.

A great view of a great band.......2006-08-05

The Beach Boys - Lost Concert is a great way to see the Beach Boys perform when Brian Wilson was still touring with the band. It's before drugs, internal tensions, competition with other bands, etc. have taken over; it truly showcases America's number one band in 1964. The video presentation is very good, offering a clear black & white picture. The audio is good as well. Both are far better than expected for a film thought "lost" which usually means a horribly degraded print that's being released for posterity. The only drag about this was that it was a short film, meant as a companion piece to other filmed concerts to be shown around the country in movie theaters when the bands weren't coming on their tours. It's my suspicion, after hearing several Beach Boys live albums with the same songs/arrangements that this is an edited portion of the concert. Nevertheless, this concert film ranks highly with me because it is the original five Beach Boys doing what they do best. The DVD is also a great companion piece to the Endless Summer Beach Boys doc and the already mentioned live albums. You won't be disappointed by what you see on the disc, only by the wish that it could go on longer.

Disappointed.......2005-01-13

The DVD's audio sound like it was recorded in a Garage. Very Disappointed.

Blast From The Past.......2004-09-25

What a great time capsule! I have enjoyed the Beach Boys on phonograph record and radio for many years. It was great to finally see them in concert, even though the DVD was very short. I usually enjoy original recordings rather than new releases featuring "one or more of the original members". What is unique about this DVD is that it captures the band in time before Brian Wilson ceased touring. Technically the recording is a bit rough as is to be expected. Mike Love's voice is a bit distorted at times. What makes the audio sound most different than the phonograph records is the lack of additional studio reverberation. I am going to experiment with the audio, adding a bit of reverb. I think that will make it sound closer to what I am used to hearing on my records. Of course during the 1960s and 1970s, radio stations added their own reverb, making it sound like the musicians were performing in a gymnasium or a bat cave.

Quintessential Southern California of the 60s.......2003-07-19

THE BEACH BOYS - THE LOST CONCERT is a nostalgic reminder of the Southern California of the 1960s, where the Pacific-washed edge of the place was populated with sun-tanned surfers and their girls, and the Beach Boys could be heard on every car radio and beach blanket transistor.

The DVD, only 22 minutes in length, has the group singing 9 of their songs, including "Fun, Fun, Fun", "Little Deuce Coupe", "Surfer Girl", "Surfin' USA", and "Shut Down". The performance on March 14, 1964 - before a live audience - was filmed by promoters to air on closed-circuit TV in theaters. The DVD seems to be a faithful reproduction of the original B&W film, though one gets the impression that the promoters were working on a limited budget. The teenage audience, the makeshift stage, and the overworked sound system suggests that the venue was a commandeered high school gym. And, as the camera pans the fans, I was left wondering, "Did we really look that geeky?" (I myself was a high school frosh at the time.)

Regardless of the unsophistication of the production, this DVD is a must see for Beach Boy fans of that long ago era when US pop-music performers could still be well-groomed, clean-cut, and heart-breakingly All-American, and their lyrics celebrated fast cars, bikini-clad girls, and catching the next monster wave.

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A dark underworld of drugs, pagan rituals and acid-edged gothic rock becomes and irresistible pull for Kyle (Scott Bairstow), an All-American high school student uprooted from his suburban home. Lead by the ferocious and fanatical Shane (Eric Mabius), The Black Circle Boys seduce Kyle into their secret society that becomes his worst nightmare. Kyle's fight for acceptance becomes a fight for his life as he struggles to escape personal demons and Shane's powerful grasp on everyone around them.

Customer Reviews:

*Love this movie!.......2007-02-12

Many people would think I would be messed up in the head, but I saw this movie Black circle boys years ago. I wanted to own it, and they no longer carried it in the stores to rent, like they did at one point. I went on Amazon, and my boyfriend bought it for me when I found it. I thought I was the only one to see it, and I wasn't. My boyfriend's friend saw it years ago. Eric Mabius is so hott to me, and so is Kyle. I enjoy watching it. I don't believe in all that satan stuff, and I think it cruel what they do, but all in all I love it!

Still much to learn from this film............2007-02-11

It's been some time since this film first appeared at Sundance at the end of the 90's but it does not lose it's power...
Many will shy away from it's difficult subject matter. It is not a family film. Neither is "Twin Peaks" and that is an indisputable masterpiece.

Watch the acting. These actors have much to offer. It's apparent that like most indie films, they need some script-tweaking but that not withstanding, it is worth your time...

Ricky Kasso Story.......2004-11-24

I saw this movie on late-night Showtime probably 5 or 6 years ago, and I remembered really digging it. It is "based on a true story", that being the one of Ricky Kasso in a 1984 New York suburb. But it's a very sensationalized version of the story.

The real Ricky was a drugged-out dumbass, who killed another dumbass for ripping him off, pretty simple. He listened to Ozzy and Maiden and had a few LaVey books and thought he was a Satanist. He tried to get all the people he knew into it, but they were only there for the drugs. Before he killed the dude he kept telling him to "Say you love Satan!" as he was stabbing him, like 21 times, then gouging his eyes out and smashing his head in. There were two other guys in the woods with him; one was his right-hand man, the other was some dude they didn't really know, who was just hanging out with them for the Acid he was on while he witnessed the murder (which led police to not believe his story).

The "Satanic Panic" of the media in 1984 grabbed the "DAMN DEVIL WORSHIPPERS" aspect of the story and made him into some Cult Leader, but in reality, he was just a dumbass headbanger. He hanged himself in jail, awaiting trial.

Discovery Channel did a documentary on it called 'Satan in the Suburbs' that's also available on amazon (I think). It's pretty much everything from the story. It's 45 minutes, which is too long, and very hokey (sinister narrator dude saying things like "It was an ordinary day, in an ordinary town, but this was no ordinary crime"...etc.) It does give every detail of it all...just.....very.....very.....slowly. Jim Van Bebber did pretty much a whole Re-Enactment film with a voice-over that told the story in 15 minutes called 'My Sweet Satan'....which is a brilliant little short film starring Van Bebber as Ricky. He updated it to 1995 and used Black Metal, but it's pretty much the story. It's in the extras on the DVD for 'Deadbeat at Dawn'.

Black Circle Boys elaborates on the story, making the "just some guy hanging out with them for the Acid" the heart-throb male lead and also the "new kid in town who falls in with the wrong crowd". Ricky (Shane in this movie) is a lot more intelligent and sinister than the real Ricky. They added a love interest and all the other crap "needed" for a script, and more murder and mayhem than the real story.

The acting is really, really good. The dude that plays the retard, Rory (Chad Lindberg...the real kid's name was Gary") did a fantastic job, and the other 3 main actors were great. DONNIE WAHLBERG plays the older, creepy, gay, Satanist who teaches Shane everything. There was a real guy named Pat I think, that educated Ricky. I assume that's who Donnie's character was based on.

The story was good, except the love interest crap and the "teen angst" vibe of it. It also played sometimes like a Lifetime movie with the sap, but the dirty Indie side makes up for those moments.

Bloodletting, cat sacrifice, lots of imagery and pentagrams, etc. They did the film the right way on this type of stuff; don't go overboard with it, but make sure that people who know what it's all about aren't turned off cause you screwed it up.

The ending was weak and the Final Showdown wasn't really believable, but I'm not complaining. Overall it's a good little movie guaranteed to please the Metalhead within you.

There was another movie made within the last few years on this story called 'Ricky 6', but I haven't made a huge effort to find a copy yet. Ebay is my friend.

Two thumbs up.......2004-04-28

In my opinion this movie is exactly what you would expect it to be. Sure it is vulgar, sure there are a lot of explicits throughout the movie and much drug use, but it is what it is. Scott's charachter is coming to grips with his friends death and looking to fit in and rebel where ever he can. It is a dark movie not suited for children, but if this is the type of movie that you enjoy and go into it knowing that it is dark, vulgar and morbid, and that is what you want to see at the moment then you get what you rented. No this is not what teens are like, nor is TX Chainsaw real either, the point is just sit back and either enjoy it or hate it, but I give it 4 out of 5 stars. It is what it is.

POINTLESS.......2004-04-14

Eric Maibus and Scott Bairstow have become fine young actors, and even their adequate performances cannot save this dismal, pointless, lurid and sadistic movie. Dee Wallace Stone should be ashamed for participating. Maibus plays the hypnotic leader of a teenage devil cult, with no conscience, morals, or regard for anyone but himself; Bairstow plays the usual "misunderstood" teen who looks to the group for acceptance. The script is laden with offensive four letter words in every other sentence; enough is enough. If this is the way teens talk, then steer me clear, folks. There is no heart or soul in this movie, and no reason to rent or buy. NO STARS. C'MON AMAZON, WHEN YOU GONNA GIVE US THE 0 STARS OPTIONS???

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"Ian Holm & Andrew Birkin ... J.M. Barrie and the Lost Boys (1979) ... Koch Vision"
Heartbreaking!

The Lost Boys
Starring: Ian Holm , Maureen O'Brien , Ann Bell , Tim Pigott-Smith , and Anna Cropper
Director: Rodney Bennett
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Release Date: 2006-06-06

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Ian Holm stars in the BBC s haunting story of the life of J.M. Barrie, the creator of Peter Pan. A chance meeting with a little boy turns into a friendship that inspires the story that changed the world.

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Running Time: 270 Min

Format: DVD MOVIE

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"Ian Holm & Andrew Birkin ... J.M. Barrie and the Lost Boys (1979) ... Koch Vision".......2006-09-27

Koch Vision present - "The Lost Boys" (aka: J.M. Barrie and the Lost Boys) (1979) - Ian Holm (270 mins/Color) (Dolby Digital) --- 'The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up', J.M. Barrie the novelist, playwright and author of 'Peter Pan' led a life almost as magical and interesting as his famous creation ... Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM (9 May 1860 - 19 June 1937), more commonly known as J. M. Barrie, was a Scottish novelist and dramatist. Most people remember him for inventing the character of Peter Pan, whom he based on his friends the Llewelyn Davies boys ... Barrie grew close to the five young boys of the Llewelyn Davies family ... childless in his marriage to Mary Barrie, ultimately becoming the boys guardian and devoted surrogate father when they were orphaned ... this dramatisation tells the story of this remarkable man.

Under Rodney Bennett (Director), Louis Marks (Producer), Andrew Birkin (Screenwriter) ----- the cast includes Ian Holm (J.M. Barrie), Maureen O'Brien (Mary Barrie), Ann Bell (Sylvia Llewelyn Davies), Tim Pigott-Smith (Arthur Llewelyn Davies), Anna Cropper (Mary Hodgson), Barnaby Holm (George), Paul Holmes (George), Nicholas Borton (Jack), Jean-Benoît Louveaux (Peter), Sebastian Buss (Michael), William Hootkins (Charles Frohman), Peter Tuddenham (Dr. Rendel), Diana Sinden (Mrs. Arden (as Diana Mahony), Roger Ostime (Sir George Lewis) and Hugh Martin (Savoy Grill Manager) . . . . . the BBC three parter miniseries on the life and times of James M. Barrie who authored "Peter Pan", after his contact with Llewellyn-Davies family ... the children George, Jack, Peter, Michael and Nico make up the Lost Boys and the Never Never Land clan, George describes death as "An Awfully Big Adventure", thus the little boy wo neve grew up comes into to play ... this is considered factual as it also includes Arthur Llewelyn-Davies (the father of the boys) and confronts the issue of Barrie's affection for the Davies boys ... The first name of Peter Pan was almost certainly taken from Peter Llewellyn Davies... The BBC made an award-winning miniseries by Andrew Birkin immortal, much as Peter Pan.

BIOS:
1. Ian Holm (aka: Ian Holm Cuthbert)
Date of birth: 12 September 1931 - Goodmayes, Essex, England, UK
2. Maureen O'Brien
Date of birth: 29 June 1943 - Liverpool, England, UK
3. Ann Bell
Date of birth: 29 April 1940 - Wallasey, Cheshire, England, UK
4. Tim Pigott-Smith
Date of birth: 13 May 1946 - Rugby, England, UK
5. Anna Cropper
Date of birth: 13 May 1938 - not known

BONUS FEATURE:
1. Interview with Andrew Birkin (Director)
2. Photo Gallery

Great job by Koch Vision for releasing "The Lost Boys" (aka: J.M. Barrie and the Lost Boys) (1979) - Ian Holm, the digital transfere with a clean, clear and crisp print...looking forward to more high quality releases from the foreign film market --- order your copy now from Amazon or Koch Vision where there are plenty of copies available on DVD, stay tuned once again for top notch drama mixed with an outstanding cast and director --- gotta love it!

Total Time: 270 mins on DVD ~ Koch Vision KOC-DV-6355 ~ (6/06/2006)

Heartbreaking!.......2006-06-26

FINDING NEVERLAND was pure fiction. If you want the REAL story of JM Barrie and Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, this is it! Impeccably researched by Barrie biographer Andrew Birkin and acted to perfection by a fist rate cast including Ian Holm, who seems to BECOME Barrie in a way Johnny Depp didn't even come close to, this TV mini-series is one of the most emotionally moving films you will ever see. It follows Barrie's life beyond where FINDING NEVERLAND takes you and is absolutely heartbreaking. Don't be thrown off by the fact that this is filmed on video --it is an expert production and is simply not to be missed!

Touching Evil 1 Boxed Set (The Lost Boys/To Death and Back/What Amathus Wants)

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Two out of three
In The Caress of Touching Evil
Another amasing British series
cant... stop... watching.
I Liked It Very Much

Touching Evil 1 Boxed Set (The Lost Boys/To Death and Back/What Amathus Wants)
Starring: Robson Green , Nicola Walker , Michael Feast , Shaun Dingwall , and Adam Kotz
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ASIN: B0001WTWO2
Release Date: 2004-06-29

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This three-volume set captures a police force totally unlike the ones U.S. television and film audiences regularly see. Gone are the gunshots and widespread violence that afflict characters on NYPD Blue and Homicide. This dark British miniseries has an unflinching focus on the pensive, slightly spooked but always confident Detective Inspector Dave Creegan (Robson Green). Of course the caseload isn't entirely alien to a pop culture audience, weaned as it is on crime novels and American television-style plots. There's an aging geneticist who is possessed by an odd infatuation--apparently not a sexual one--with children, keeping them penned in an all-white room while watching them on a remote video cam, and other deviants just interesting enough to capture extended interest. Touching Evil's pacing is intricately slow, such that evidence gathering can be seen from an inchworm-like perspective (showing tweezers extracting a single hair, for example). Green's role is structured like Fox Mulder and other U.S. television creations. Moody and a bit inscrutable, Creegan comes to the Organized and Serial Crime Unit after a long sabbatical, triggered (no pun, really!) by his getting shot in the head. Rather than give up police work after meeting with the bullet, however, he recommits to the job, treating cases as if they're his personal obsession. And they are. Creegan violates all the conventions his American TV-cop counterparts break in their unbridled passion to solve crimes, but he does it with unforced and unhurried relish. The plots in each of these episodes are singular, allowing the story lines to develop like good mysteries, even driving the viewer to suspect that Creegan's passions are leading him waywardly away from the cases. Shot with mostly stoic camera angles, the show's energy changes significantly when Creegan's heart begins to pound, the camera catches in halted visuals, and the drama builds and builds until, well, until it avoids resolution time and again, much to the viewer's delight. --Andrew Bartlett

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Robson Green (Reckless) stars as the smart, sexy, brash, and slightly mysterious Detective Inspector Dave Creegan in these three gripping and gritty mysteries that follow the exploits of the Organized and Serial Crime Unit.

Maverick police detective Creegan is the newest member of London's Organized and Serial Crime Unit (OSC), an elite, rapid-response crime squad. The OSC uses their diverse crime-fighting skills to bring justice to society. Along with his stalwart partner D.I. Susan Taylor (Nicola Walker, Four Weddings and a Funeral), Creegan squares off against some of England's most dangerous criminals-a serial murderer of children, a killer intent on murdering hospital patients, and a cyber-criminal who lures young Web-surfers with a gothic fantasy game and manipulates them into committing violent crimes.

Special DVD features include: link to the Mystery! Web site; scene selections; and closed captions.

On three DVD5 discs. Region coding: All regions. Audio: Dolby stereo. Screen format: 4 x 3 full frame.

Customer Reviews:

Two out of three.......2007-02-23

4 stars for the program.
1 star for DVD features.

"Touching Evil" is the story of Detective Inspector Dave Creegan (Robson Green) who returns to the Organized and Serial Crime (OSC) Unit after recovering from a bullet wound to the head. Creegan's injury as changed him in unpredictable ways but his boss wants him back because he is a genius at getting into the mind of serial killers. Creegan and his partner, D.I. Susan Taylor (Nicola Walker), investigate the most serious crimes in England including a serial killer of children. The show was originally broadcast on British television in 1997 and was more recently shown in the US on PBS's program, Mystery. USA Network produced their own short-lived version of the show in 2004.

The show is much less violent and more thoughtful than we are used to on American television. It is also very stylish in its way. Using dark sets and odd lighting it creates a strange and uncomfortable mood. Robson Green is excellent in the lead roll. He has intense blue eyes and rugged good looks and makes himself completely believable as the detective who can concentrate on his job while his personal life crumbles. Creegan is a loner forced to work with a partner who can't trust him. The other members of the OSC aren't sure if the Creegan is as sane as the man they once knew.

The first episode deals with Creegan's return to OSC and his investigation of several young boys who have been kidnapped and left in an airtight room to suffocate. The kidnapper has left a broadcast camera so he can watch them die. Creegan and Taylor have to crack the case before it is too late. The second episode deals with a serial killer of hospital patients and realistically deals with Creegan's own demons of having come back from the dead in the ER the night he was shot in the head. The two episodes are excellent and the script and the acting are perfect. The two episodes move along well but also concentrate on developing believable characters.

The third episode was a big disappointment. An attempt to bring cyber-space into a story line, it suffers from being written in 1997 by writers who don't quite understand cyberspace. The killer is completely unbelievable as computer whiz or as a psychological manipulator of teenagers. For example, the police arrive at the college where they suspect the criminals are and demand that all students be given user id and passwords to get into the computer system. Amazingly, the very next day every student has a new computer id. Even the reason for the initial police investigation isn't quite believable as the crime that has been committed is horse mutilation. The character of the killer is completely undeveloped and we never get a chance to discover who he is or why exactly he is committing these crimes. I found this the weakest of the stories.

Throughout the episodes there are dark scenes designed to provide a mood. To some extent this works but sometimes (especially in the last episode) it interferes with the story by being so "in your face". For example, the offices where the detectives work are always dark. I find it hard to believe that someone could read a file or do some paperwork in these offices. An interview room will be a large dark room with a small reflective table in the middle. A single spotlight will shine onto the table and provide reflecting light onto the faces of those around the table. This might be good for cool looking cinematography but it isn't really believable. Another scene in the offices has red light shining through a window onto the face of one of the detectives while the office itself is lit only by one small spotlight. Dust is floating everywhere so light is always tempered by what looks like dust or smoke. This episode feels very badly overstaged.

But that is only one clinker out of three and the others discs are most certainly worth the price of admission. The DVD's themselves are of good quality but have no special features. There is no commentary or interviews. The episodes appear on the DVD exactly as they appeared on the Mystery TV program so each 2 hour episode is broken into two 1 hour programs. This means that at the end of the first hour there are closing credits and then opening credits of Mystery followed by Diana Rigg's introduction which in some cases gives more of the episode away than I would have liked. It would have been much better if they had been edited so that it was possible to watch the episodes without the break.

In The Caress of Touching Evil.......2005-08-24

Ten beyond darkness. I've set up the first episode of 'Touching Evil 1 - The Lost Boys' - in my player. I'll probably watch the opening credits by eleven pm to see who Inspector Dave Creegan is. I've left one city - Twin Peaks - waking up somewhere in England for something that I've already decided has to be the next step beyond where I was yesterday. I'm sure that this series has something to do with my life or I wouldn't have been brought to it?

'Touching Evil 1's lead character - Dave Creegan? I like him. A man of dark currents who's personnal life is a complete mess; but, he manages to function professionally in his job as crime investigator.

Well? Sometimes things happen that cross into his personnal life that take his professional life on a side road that might be inappropriate. But. That makes his vulnerabilities a unigue defense when he steps into that darkness of depraved souls who lurk in places outside humanity / compassion / human soul!

-Touching Evil is very methotical / slow moving / observant / voyeuristic-You get to be in another man's controversy / contridiction / confusion / resolution / reflection I've only gotten thru episodes 1 and 2 of session one

The Lost Boys - Creegan tracking down the killer of children

To Death and Back - Mercy Killings of Terminally Ill patients / revelations of his own death Intrigued / caught up in soul stealing mysterys of another man's life! - can't wait to get to

- episode 3 tomorrow night -

' 'What Amathus Wants '

This is a compelling series that won't let you sleep until
the final chapter

Another amasing British series.......2005-06-04

As great as Wire in the Blood. Robson Green is also amazing in the police detective Creegan character. Another British series that focuses on the psychological side of characters in a superb way, catching you atention so quickly that you can see one episode after the other with no brake. This first Touching Evel episodes grabed my interest so quickly that I will buy the next two.

cant... stop... watching........2004-11-01

this is the best cop drama i haver seen, it's dark with out beeing depresing, and totaly involving.

I Liked It Very Much.......2004-10-31

I rarely watch American TV anymore because of the chance to see crime drama at it's best like the "Touching Evil" series. I have epals that I share my favs with and visa-versa. The "Touching Evil" series was recommended by an epal because of it's intelligent drama. I rented it, for the lowest price, of course, just in case it wasn't worth the cash. I really liked it.

I do have my favorite episodes, though. The first episode, "The Lost Boys" of the series and the first episode in Series 3. Series 2 and 3 do not have specific episode titles, so I call this one, "Hearts".
"The Lost Boys" introduces Detective Inspector Dave Creegan(Robson Green) to us. Creegan is volitile, yet brilliant. He had been wounded in the line of duty, which was followed by psychiatric counselling. It makes one wonder why ACC Enwright(Michael Feast) called him back into service. Creegan's emotional volitility caused the breakup of his marriage.
After getting to know Creegan as a character, the audience can see why. Creegan is a "driven" man and has instincts that can see through the mask of a criminal as he does in "The Lost Boys". Creegan sees through the mask of university professor Ronald Hinks(Ian McDiarmid-Sen. Palatine from Star Wars). Creegan fights with Enwright and other team members to get Hinks arrested for kidnapping 3 boys, but Hink's lawyers have a larger case for Creegan's harrassment of Hinks.

Creegan is teamed up with DI Susan Taylor(Nicola Walker), Detective Sargent Jonathan Kreitman(Adam Kotz) and Detective Constable Mark Rivers(Shaun Dingwall). There is conflict almost immediately between the team members.

I would like to see a 4th "Touching Evil" series, if only to clean up some questions before ending this intelligent series. My biggest question, of course, is "Why did Enwright bring Creegan back in the first place?" Creegan made it clear that he was a "one-to-one" person and that selling ice cream would probably be the best job he would enjoy AND he was psychologically unstable. There is also the question of why Taylor was picked to partner with Creegan.

"Hearts" is just plain brilliant. All the actors are at their best in this one, but Robson Green stands out. After the murder of a friend, he finally crosses that psychological line. Green is brilliant followed by Andy Serkis(Dr. Michael Lawler). The other actors follow closely behind.

Do I recommend this series. YES, but only the British one. When we Americans try to recreate a wonderful program like this, we always fall short.

Pete Seeger's Rainbow Quest - The Greenbriar Boys and The New Lost City Ramblers

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Oldies but Goodies

Pete Seeger's Rainbow Quest - The Greenbriar Boys and The New Lost City Ramblers
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ASIN: B0007L86MG
Release Date: 2005-04-12

Description

Through extensive touring, recording, and tv appearances in the 1950s and 1960s, the New Lost City Ramblers were the first group to popularize old time string band music. They played the sounds that came from back porches and parlors, barbeques and barn dances, with joy and dedication to the traditions. This show is essential to anyone whose interests lie in folk, alternative country, or Americana. The Greenbriar Boys played a delightful, eclectic mixture of bluegrass, traditional country and Nashville, with touches of vaudeville and blues. They were very popular during the early 1960s when interest in this music was blossoming on the urban folk scene, and this show captures their outstanding musicianship at its peak.

Customer Reviews:

Oldies but Goodies.......2007-02-07

It is certainly gratifying (not to say surprising) that Pete Seeger should have had his own TV show so shortly after being officially classified as Unamerican, and blacklisted. It is even more gratifying that the show should have been preserved, for now we can see again -- and the younger generation can see for the first time -- many artists who would otherwise have vanished without videographic trace. Two such groups are (I believe) the New Lost City Ramblers and the Greenbriar Boys.

Both are later incarnations, the NLCR with Tracy Schwarz instead of Tom Paley, and the GB with the addition of Jim Buchanan, and Frank Wakefield instead of Ralph Rinzler.

These shows give new meaning to the term "low-budget production": literally the only props in addition to the musicians themselves are a few pieces of furniture and a simulated window. Nevertheless the sound and video quality are good, as is the camera work.

"Informal" and "unrehearsed" -- at least as applied to the show, if not the music -- are other words that seem barely adequate. I thought it was wonderful. If groups like the Kingston Trio gained something with their professionalism and carefully-rehearsed comedy routines, they lost something as well.

The songs are as follows:

NLCR
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Stone's Rag
Man of Constant Sorrow
The Cuckoo Bird
Arkansas Sheikh
The Soldier and the Lady
Hawkins's rag
Orange Blossom Special
I Never Will Marry
Ragtime Annie Medley

Greenbriar Boys
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Sally Goodin
The Wabash Canonball
Danville Girl
The Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me
Our Festival of Flowers
Bear Creek Hop
Roll on Buddy
Dink's Song
Little Birdie
Stewball
Midnight Special

It has to be said that some of the performances are a bit rough: in particular, Tracy Schwarz's tone would make Jascha Heifetz spin in his grave, and John Herald forgets the lyrics to "Danville Girl"...

But so what?

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