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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0089859853821
Format: Anamorphic, Box set, Black & White, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, HiFi Sound, Surround Sound, THX, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: VCI Entertainment
Manufacturer: VCI Entertainment
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: VCI Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 16, 2008
Running Time: 465 minutes
Sales Rank: 41056
Studio: VCI Entertainment
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SIEGE OF SIDNEY: The dramatization of true events sets the stage for this drama. The date is 1911 and a standoff is sparked between Russian anarchists and police officers. The young woman trapped in the middle thinks back to the events that led up to the siege with unpleasant memories. Violence and flashbacks to the events provide the tension to sustain the viewer to stay till the end! THE FRIGHTENED MAN: Charles Victor, the owner of a small furniture & antique shop uses extra cash from handling stolen good to put his son through Oxford. However, the son gets himself kicked out and comes home to sponge off the old man. When Victor s savings are depleted, the son wants more and gets himself involved with some heavy duty bad guys. Tragedy is the name of the game in this one. CRIMES AT THE DARK HOUSE: When lady luck smiles sometimes, it doesn t last! The inheritance of a large estate leads to murder, when a madman kills the recepient only to gain entrance to the estate so that he can murder his enemies. HOODED TERROR: Made on a low budget, this drama thriller is both classy & suspenseful. The house of horrors has plenty for the horror fan to enjoy. This restoration is a must for horror fans! GIRL IN THE NEWS: The perfect plot! An unsuspecting nurse, once acquitted of murder, is hired as a nurse for the wheelchair-bound Mr. Bentley. This falls into the plans of Mrs. Bentley and the butler lovers plotting to set Ms. Graham up when Mr. Bentley is found dead. TREAD SOFTLY STRANGER: Diana Dors plays Calico, the sexy vamp (or tramp?) and Terence Morgan, the staid little office worker and love interest of Calico. Things heat up when the shady but handsome brother arrives from London. Instant attraction strikes between Calico & the brother making her plan of theft take off. Product Specs: 3-DVD9s; Dolby Digital; 465 minutes; B&W; 1.33:1 Aspect Ratio; MPAA NR; Year 1938, 1940, 1952, 1960; SRP - $29.99
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Four stars for The Girl in the News. The rest really are B movies, and the video transfer quality is not good for any of them
Unless you're a glutton for B movies (and I usually am), the reason for buying this set is The Girl in the News. I have no idea why VCI would label this Carol Reed film a B movie. I can well understand why they don't fess up and let us know that the video quality of all the films in the set ranges from abysmal to just poor. VCI seems to have taken whatever old, tired VHS tapes they could find and slapped them onto the DVD format. However, the only real quality turkey in the lot is Tread Softly Stranger. The most amusing has Tod Slaughter camping it up as a chortling murderer in Crimes at the Dark House.
But The Girl in the News is an A effort. If it doesn't reach the classic status of the films Carol Reed directed in his great Forties and early Fifties years (Night Train to Munich, 1940; Odd Man Out, 1947; The Fallen Idol - Criterion Collection, 1948; The Third Man - Criterion Collection (2-Disc Edition), 1949; Outcast of the Islands, 1952), still it is a fine example of that satisfying genre, the well mannered British murder thriller peopled with attractive and accomplished actors, and with a clever script.
"Nurse required to attend invalid in quiet Surrey village; 22-26; hospital trained but experience in private nursing essential. Apply sending details and photograph to Mrs. Bentley, Camthorpe House, Camthorpe, Surrey." The advertisement might have added, "Also essential: Nurse must be thought guilty, even though she was acquitted at trial, of murdering a previous invalid ... Read More
Rating:  - Low-Quality Transfers
The quality of the picture and sound in "British Cinema Classic B Film Collection, Vol. 1" is mediocre. The picture is generally blurry, the sound fuzzy. Most of the films carry the logo of a TV distributor. One of them, "The Siege of Sidney Street," was filmed in a widescreen process called Dyaliscope (2.35:1), but on this disc the picture is cropped to the old TV ratio (1.33:1). The right and left sides are cut off.
Rating:  - Good films, good transfers. Pricey at $26.99
SIX GOOD VINTAGE BRITISH FILMS. TRANSFER QUALITY IT GOOD. MANY OF THESE ARE AVAILABLE IN OTHER SETS. A BIT PRICEY AT $26.99 FOR 6 PUBLIC DOMAIN FILMS.
Rating: - Glad I took a chance on this.
This would have been a 5 star item if not for the inclusion of "The Hooded Terror", which is not in the same class by the other films. The remainder are unique in that they're based on literate story telling and their focus is on their capable acting. A valued addition to my collection at an excellent price.
Rating:  - "British Cinema Classics ... B Film Collection Vol. 1 ... VCI Ent. (2008)"
VCI Entertainment presents "BRITISH CINEMA CLASSIC B FILM COLLECTION VOL.1" --- (1938-1960) (465 mins/B&W) (Dolby digitally remastered) --- The titles included in the set are: The Siege of Sidney Street (1960), The Frightened Man (1952), Crimes at the Dark House (1940), The Hooded Terror (1938), Girl in the News (1940) and Tread Softly Stranger (1958) ------- A standout is "Crimes at the Dark House" (1940) is a British film starring Tod Slaughter, Sylvia Marriott and Hilary Eaves and was directed by George King. It is loosely based on the novel The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins --- In this lurid melodrama Tod Slaughter plays a villain who murders the wealthy Sir Percival Glyde in the gold fields of Australia and assumes his identity in order to inherit his estate in England --- On arriving in England he schemes to marry an heiress for her money and, with the connivance of the enigmatic Count Fosco, embarks on a killing spree of all who suspect him to be an impostor and get in the way of his plans to be the Lord the Manor --- Outstanding performance by the legendary Tod Slaughter, who always gave us his best in every film.
My fellow reviewer Annie Van Auken has given the synopses on each film on this page --- Listed below are some of the cast and release dates from the six British Cinema Classics from VCI.
Films with Titles, Date Released, Time, Directors & Some of the Cast members:
First up we have - "SIEGE OF SIDNEY STREET" (11 October 1960) (93 ... Read More
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