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Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 0043396243156
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: June 10, 2008
Running Time: 332 minutes
Sales Rank: 14510
Studio: Sony Pictures
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Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 06/10/2008
Amazon.com:
Icons of Adventure is a terrific quartet of picaresque features from Britain's Hammer studios, best known for such unique horror films as The Curse of Frankenstein and the 1958 Dracula, both starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. Lee was also the star of three of the films in the Icons set, two of those colorful pirate adventures. The 1962 The Pirates of Blood River finds Lee playing a deceptively docile buccaneer, one-eyed Captain LaRoche, who convinces a fugitive from a penal colony to help him locate a Huguenot colony on a large island. The runaway prisoner (Kerwin Matthews) is actually the son of a colony founder, sentenced to hard labor for challenging the establishment's tight grip on personal freedom. When the hero discovers that LaRoche simply intends to overwhelm the colony and use it as a new base of operation, he leads the fight to protect the authorities who previously threw him into hell. The more elegant and engaging The Devil-Ship Pirates (1964) is a 16th century tale of a Spanish pirate, Captain Robeles (Lee), who convinces a small village on the British coast that Spain has won its Spanish Armada battle against England. Pretending to be an official, occupying force instead of a bunch of swashbucklers, Robeles rules the village with an iron fist while being hectored by a real Spanish naval officer who doesn't agree with his methods.
Lee turns up again as the imperious leader of a cutthroat tong--a secretive, organized criminal society--in the exotic 1961 Terror of the Tongs. Geoffrey Toone plays the captain of a British passenger ship whose daughter is murdered by the Red Dragon Tong during the latter's attempt to find incriminating papers smuggled (against her knowledge) within her possessions. As the captain seeks vengeance, he gets close to the dangerous heart of the tong, which exacts punishment over anyone who does not cooperate by hacking off his or her fingers. The fourth feature in Icons of Adventure is very different from the others and doesn't involve Lee. The Stranglers of Bombay (1960) stars Guy Rolfe as Captain Harry Lewis, a career soldier helping to protect the interests of exporters the British East India Company. Stationed in India for years, Lewis has conducted a thorough study of a rash of disappearances and anticipates a military assignment to solve the long-running mystery. When the job goes to an outsider who knows nothing about India, Lewis works independently and discovers a religious cult called the Stranglers, who waylay travelers and steal their possessions. A tense thriller involving crazed rituals of bloodletting, torture, wild-eyed sacraments and poisonous snakes, The Stranglers of Bombay looks like an influence on Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Great Hammer Collection
This is a better than average collection and well worth the small amount of money I paid for it. Most of the films in this collection are better than the others (you can't like them all equally) but it was worth my money to but this collection.
Rating: - Icons of Adventure Collection
Icons of Adventure Collection (The Pirates of Blood River / The Devil-Ship Pirates / The Stranglers of Bombay / The Terror of the Tongs)
Great action, good price!
Rating:  - Excellent transfer in proper ratios
Behind the cheap cover artwork (and no front reference to Hammer), this Columbia/Sony collection of 4 movies is great ! Excellent anamorphic transfer, in proper ratios and interesting commentaries.
Rating: - Icons a Must for fans of Obscure Hammer!
After all these years, we finally get a copy of Hammer's "Stranglers of Bombay" on DVD...and there's three more obscure Hammer adventure films included on two-discs and they all look and sound awesome. Buy this now! Let's send Sony a message that there are Hammer fans out there willing to part with their hard-earned cash for a great, great bargain. You know who you are!
Rating: - More Hammer titles emerge from the vaults
Although this set contains 4 movies, I bought it for 2, specifically Terror of the Tongs and Stranglers of Bombay, as these fit as easily into the "Hammer Horror" collection as in the adventure collection, which I find less interesting. Both films are in fine condition, and in Tongs, it is great to see Christopher Lee in yet another villainous role. Some of the gruesomeness is surprising given the British Board of Film Censors' attitude toward these films, particularly shots of cut -off hands in Stranglers, making me wonder if this is a restoration or the original release. The censorship applied to Tongs results in its being fairly tame, as discussed in detail in the excellent book Hammer Films: The Bray Studios Years. For Hammer collectors, this set is a must-have. Others might find it less interesting.
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