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Rope, a review by Achim

Title: Rope
Year: 1948
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Rating: PG
Length: 81 Min.
Video: Full Frame 1.33:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital Mono, Spanish: Dolby Digital Mono, French: Dolby Digital Mono
Subtitles: English

Stars:
Dick Hogan
His Friends
John Dall
Farley Granger
Their housekeeper

Plot:Extras:
Scene Access
Trailers
Featurettes
Gallery
Production Notes

I remember watching this many years ago but I didn't remember that is was this awesome. Great direction by the master (the reveal of the dinner table, the swinging kitchen door partly concealing the view, the reveal of the books Mr. Kentley wants to take home), good acting and sharp dialog make this a pleasure to watch. And that despite the fact that it all looks a bit fake, just like theater, due to the fact it plays out in real time and the few cuts that are there are made invisible by smart camera movement (Hitchcock wanted the film to be entirely without cuts but was restricted by the length of a camera magazine being approx. 10min).

Nice touch how they kept changing the painted background slightly each time it became visible to make it's static nature less obvious.



(From Alfred Hitchcock Marathon on July 2nd, 2009)

The House That Would Not Die, a review by addicted2dvd

The House That Would Not Die (1970/United States) IMDb  Echo Bridge Home Entertainment Director: John Llewellyn Moxey Writing: Henry Farrell (Teleplay), Barbara Michaels (From the Novel "Ammie, Come Home") Length: 74 min. Video: Full Frame 1.33:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital: 2-Channel Stereo Subtitles: None

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Stars:
Barbara Stanwyck as Ruth Bennett
Richard Egan as Pat McDougal
Michael Anderson, Jr. as Stan Whitman
Kitty Winn [Katherine Winn] as Sara
Doreen Lang as Sylvia Wall
Mabel Albertson as Mrs. McDougal

Plot:
Ruth (Barbara Stanwyck) and her niece, Sara, move into an old home with a dark past and are faced with strange occurrences of spirits and possession.

Extras:

• Scene Access

This is an old TV Movie that was in the Haunted Hollows set I got last week. As such it depends more on atmosphere then anything else. While this one has a slow start... I found it does a good job at drawing you into the story. I have seen better films of it's kind... but it is definitely worth the time put in to watch it. Going into this one I was a little concerned about the quality... especially what with there being 5 films on this single sided disc. But I was pleasantly surprised. While the image was a little soft... it was more then watchable. Really no complaints there either. This movie alone was worth the money I paid for the 8 film set.



(From What Movies I Been Watching on June 9th, 2013)

The One Where It All Began: The Pilot Marathon, a review by DJ Doena

24



What's the show about?
Jack Bauer works for the CTU, the Counter Terrorist Unit. He saves the United States more than once but he has only 24 hours to do so and not a minute more. And for this job he has to sacrifice everything: his family life, his health, his career and even his life.

"12:00a.m. - 01:00a.m."
Today is the day of the California presidential primary. Jack Bauer's unit has to prevent an attack on the black senator Palmer, a likely candidate for becoming the next president of the United States. Meanwhile Jack's daughter has sneaked out of the house and has disappeared.

My Opinion
24 is a great show even if the stories have become absurd lateley. They are fast running out of threats they didn't fight before. After watching the trailer of the seventh season I had the feeling it will be a mix of Die Hard 2 and 4, but I am willing to tune in.

(From The One Where It All Began: The Pilot Marathon on January 6th, 2008)