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Yojimbo, a review by Antares

Yojimbo





Year: 1961
Film Studio: Toho
Genre: Action, Classic
Length: 111 Min.

Director
Akira Kurosawa (1910)

WritingProducerCinematographer
Kazuo Miyagawa (1908)

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       Clint Eastwood became an international star playing a nameless wandering gunfighter who supplants himself into situations where his bravado and his prowess with weapons help him to defeat corrupt and greedy adversaries. His was lifted almost completely intact from a film by acclaimed Japanese director Akira Kurosawa. In YojimboYojimboYojimboSaturday Night LiveReview Criterion
5 Stars - The pinnacle of film perfection and excellence.

(From Yojimbo (1961) on June 4th, 2010)

Stranger from Venus, a review by GSyren

Title	Stranger from Venus (Disc ID: D896-1C13-6577-B0FD)
Director	Burt Balaban
Actors	Patricia Neal, Helmut Dantine, Derek Bond, Cyril Luckham, Willoughby Gray
Produced	1954 in United Kingdom
Runtime	75 minutes
Audio	English Dolby Digital Mono
Subtitles	None
Overview
My thoughts	The Day the Earth Stood Still, just like The Cosmic Man. And just to make sure, the producers hired Day's female lead Patricia Neal. Just like The Cosmic Man this movie is mostly talk and very little tech. Well, we do get a saucer but it looks about as high tech as the saucers in Plan 9 From Outer Space. It's not an awful movie, but it hasn't aged very well. Viewers acustomed to today's filmmaking would probably be bored to tears. Personally I found it mildly interesting, but unless you're a fifties genre movies completist you might as well skip it.
My rating

(From Reviews and ramblings by Gunnar on February 22nd, 2014)

Tom's TV Pilots marathon, a review by Tom

The Addams Family: Volume One (1964/United States) IMDb | Wikipedia Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (United States) Length: 564 min. Video: Full Frame 1.33:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 1, Spanish: Dolby Digital 1 Subtitles: English, Spanish

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Plot:
They're creepy and they're kooky, mysterious and spooky, and now for the first time, they're on DVD! The Addams Family, America's first family of ghastly giddiness, are here in all of their ghoulish glory in the original TV series based on the delightfully demented imagination of Charles Addams. Tarantulas, torture racks, and tombstones have never been so much fun! Join Gomez, Morticia, Uncle Fester, Lurch, Cousin Itt, and the rest of the gang for a fiendishly funny and altogether ooky experience. It's time to pay a call on...The Addams Family!

The Addams Family
1.01 The Addams Family Goes to School
Writer: Seaman Jacobs (Writer), Ed James (Writer), Charles Addams (Original Characters By)
Director: Arthur Hiller
Cast: Carolyn Jones (Morticia), John Astin (Gomez), Allyn Joslyn (Mr. Hilliard), Jackie Coogan (Uncle Fester), Ted Cassidy (Lurch), Blossom Rock (Grandmama), Lisa Loring (Wednesday), Ken Weatherwax (Pugsley), Madge Blake (Miss Comstock), Nydia Westman (Miss Morrison), Rolfe Sedan (Postman), Itself (The Thing)

I always enjoyed this series when I caught it on TV. But it is not a series I can watch many episodes after another. This is why I still have my volumes 2 and 3 unwatched.
The canned laughter was especially annoying here. I am already quite used to series without laugh track.

Rating:

(From Tom's TV Pilots marathon on March 25th, 2011)