20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (Special Edition)

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The swashbuckler genre bumped into science fiction in 1954 for one of Hollywood's great entertainments. The Jules Verne story of adventure under the sea was Walt Disney's magnificent debut into live-action films. A professor (Paul Lukas) seeks the truth about a legendary sea monster in the years just after the Civil War. When his ship is sunk, he, his aide (Peter Lorre), and a harpoon master (Kirk Douglas) survive to discover that the monster is actually a metal submarine run by Captain Nemo (James Mason). Along with the rollicking adventure, it's fun to see the future technology that Verne dreamed up in his novel, including diving equipment and sea farming. The film's physical prowess is anchored by the Nautilus, an impressive full-scale gothic submarine complete with red carpet and pipe organ. In the era of big sets, 20,000 Leagues set a precedent for films shot on the water and deservedly won Oscars for art direction and special effects. Lost in the inventiveness of the film and great set pieces including a giant squid attack are two great performances. Mason is the perfect Nemo, taut and private, clothed in dark fabric that counters the Technicolor dreamboat that is the beaming red-and-white-stripe-shirted Kirk Douglas as the heroic Ned Land. The film works as peerless family adventure nearly half a century later. --Doug Thomas

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Climb aboard the Nautilus ... and into a strange undersea world of spellbinding adventure! Kirk Douglas, Paul Lukas, and Peter Lorre star as shipwrecked survivors taken captive by the mysterious Captain Nemo, brilliantly portrayed by James Mason. Wavering between genius and madness, Nemo has launched a deadly crusade across the seven seas. But can the captive crew expose his evil plan before he destroys the world? Disney's brilliant Academy Award(R)-winning (1955, Best Art Direction and Best Special Effects) adaptation of Jules Verne's gripping tale makes 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA a truly mesmerizing masterpiece!

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Arronax Redux.......2007-08-27

20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA was the most expensive movie ever filmed at the time of its 1954 release. A great adaptation of Jules Verne's surprisingly prescient 19th Century novel, LEAGUES stars James Mason as the cultured, world-weary cynical genius Captain Nemo, designer and builder of the nuclear submarine "Nautilus." The cast is rounded out by Kirk Douglas as macho harpooner Ned Land, Paul Lukas as Professor Arronax, and Peter Lorre as Conseil, all of whom have been taken prisoner by the half-mad Nemo.

James Mason is perfect as Nemo. A romanticist and a scientist, Mason's Captain Nemo is brother to Walter Pidgeon's Doctor Morbius of FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956). Nemo, the custodian of arcane secret knowledge, has lost faith in humanity, and has isolated himself aboard his self-sustaining leviathan-like submarine. Half Cutty Sark and half Martian spacecraft (the set design is very reminiscent of George Pal's 1953 WAR OF THE WORLDS), the "Nautilus" boasts a library full of classics, a Grand Saloon full of art masterpieces, and a full-sized pipe organ upon which Nemo plays Debussy's "La Mer" all day long.

Without a hope for humanity, Nemo's own humanity is hopelessly stunted. He routinely attacks ships of all types, sinking them with abandon, and putting surviving sailors to death. Although he briefly considers sending Arronax back to the family of nations with the news of his many discoveries, his innate cynicism overtakes him.

Nemo and his ship are attacked by a giant squid in a classic film sequence. It is the unpolished, ill-regarded Ned Land, whom Nemo despises, who saves him. In the end, Land's efforts come to naught as Nemo takes his secrets to a watery grave.

In this amazingly memorable film, Disney literally spared no expense in providing the viewer with gorgeous and never-before-attempted underwater photography sequences, with a fascinating rendering of the "Nautilus," with an adapted storyline which still holds its own 53 years later, and with a rock solid cast.

This is GREAT family entertainment.

excellent.......2007-06-27

What else can you say about a movie with James Mason and Kirk Douglas set beneath the sea. Excellent story, effects, acting etc......

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.......2007-06-25

Rich rendering of the classic Jules Verne tale by Walt Disney was, at the time, the most costly picture ever made, and it shows. The re-mastering of this beloved fantasy adventure is visually breathtaking, with vibrant colors popping off the screen unlike films half its age. Veterans Lukas and Lorre are solid, and Douglas is amusingly over the top as Ned (he even sings!), but the brooding Mason inhabits Nemo like a second skin, carrying the movie. Imaginative and exciting, "League" does full justice to its venerable source, and constitutes top family viewing.

Great Movie!.......2007-06-07

Amazon had what I wanted and the movie was just terrifc! My husband loved this movie when he was a child and I was so pleased Amazon had it to purchase! We got the movie well before it was promised!

Great !.......2007-05-25

This book is the first science fiction I read as a child. The first time I watched this movie I was about 10 years old. Since then till date, I have not forgotten a single scene or dialogue of the film. This is a superb film and quite advanced technically, for it's time. James Mason is the perfect Captain Nemo!

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Professionalism, teamwork, training, serious tone make for a pleasant surprise
Great memories
Nostalgia at its best....
great
Can't wait for Season Two

S.W.A.T. - The Complete First Season
Starring: Michael Harland , and David Adams
Director: Harry Falk , Dick Moder , Phil Bondelli , Bernard McEveety (II) , and Richard Benedict
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ASIN: B00008YLVB
Release Date: 2003-06-03

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Tough but not swaggering, serious but not solemn, S.W.A.T. won over its 1970s television audience with several unexpectedly interesting elements: A degree of storytelling sophistication; visually exciting, guerrilla-like street violence; and a subtle but determined fascination with the psyches of the show's five principal characters. To a non-viewer, S.W.A.T. looked like a fatuously reassuring, law-and-order shill in the aftermath of the Vietnam war and Watergate. In reality, creator-producer Robert Hammer (a Peabody Award winner for the 1979 POW TV drama, When Hell Was in Session) managed to make an ideal, mid-'70s Aaron Spelling cop show with an extra emphasis on the human factor in peacekeeping.

Spun off from an earlier Spelling series, The Rookies, S.W.A.T. was the story of Special Weapons and Tactics, an elite branch of the Los Angeles Police Department assigned the most critical cases of urban violence in an American era of cult terrorism, snipers, assassinations, traumatized war veterans, and organized crime. Considering what the S.W.A.T. team is up against in every episode--shooters with sophisticated weaponry, psychotic revolutionaries, vulnerable takeover targets (nuclear reactors, etc.)--one might have expected the show to be swallowed up in gadgetry and fancy police protocol for extreme emergencies. But from the pilot (technically, a two-hour Rookies episode not included in this set) on, S.W.A.T. was clearly much more interested in the way team leader Lieutenant Dan "Hondo" Harrelson (Steve Forrest), Sergeant David "Deacon" Kay (Rod Perry), and officers Street (Robert Urich), Luca (Mark Shera), and McCabe (James Coleman) tried to understand the modern world even while keeping its meanest tendencies in check.

Inventive stories with occasional twists and appealing guest stars (James Keach, Cameron Mitchell, Annette O'Toole) keep one glued to the 13 episodes contained here. Among the best: "A Coven of Killers," starring Sal Mineo as a Charles Manson-like monster; "Jungle War," featuring Mitchell as a career cop and war vet facing an emotional breakdown; and "The Bravo Enigma," an apocalyptic tale of a curiously likable hit man (Christopher George) unknowingly spreading a plague through L.A. --Tom Keogh

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Professionalism, teamwork, training, serious tone make for a pleasant surprise.......2007-06-29

I grew up during the 1970s, watching a lot of TV crime shows, but never caught an episode of S.W.A.T. Apparently, it ran for only one calendar year, spanning two TV seasons. I ended up with the Season 1 DVDs by accident and only recently watched them. I was very pleasantly surprised. This was no silly, insubstantial Starsky & Hutch, another show I had not seen until recently but had a very different reaction to.

I do not remember seeing Steve Forrest in other shows or liking what I did see. He made a believer out of me in his role on S.W.A.T. He does a terrific job as the strong, smart, dedicated, professional leader of the team. Rod Perry is also a stand-out. As Forrest's highly skilled, trusted right-hand man, Perry has great chemistry with Forrest and is very good at playing both light and serious scenes (though the twang in how he says his boss's nickname "Hondo" can be distracting; and where does the nickname come from? The bare-bones disk set, which does not even have chapter breaks within each episode, omits the pilot episode). James Coleman conveys quiet strength and expertise as the team's sniper.

The professionalism, training, equipment, teamwork, and seriousness with which the men approach their work, reinforced by the dramatic opening and powerful theme music, capture the imagination. In the show, the police engage in training exercises, test new machinery, are pro-active (as when an armored car is stolen and the team immediately begins trying to figure out how and where it might be used), and outsmart and out-maneuver, as well as out-gun, the villains. The show uses the technique of featuring multiple crimes in one episode, which is also used to good effect in all of the various CSI series. Somewhat like "Old West" feel of The A-Team, there is real fun and interest in seeing S.W.A.T. go up against the bad guys, who usually have skills and elaborate plans of their own.

Showing a specially skilled S.W.A.T. team gave Aaron Spelling and people behind the series a standard of quality they had to aim for, which was good discipline and pushed them to more serious work. Spelling should have embraced this, rather than reportedly disowning the show, preferring pure fluff programming. The best episode in the 13-show set is probably the one in which the team protects a mobster turned government witness in the hospital. Both the police and the criminals are smart, there is suspense and a twist, and Mark Shera shines, with an opportunity to show feeling in serious, well-crafted scenes. The episodes about a jewelry theft from a beauty pageant and a coin heist are also above-average.

It is easy to criticize the show. Of course, there are repetitious gun-rack-emptying, running, and driving scenes when a call comes in and the team has to "roll." But routine and procedure are part of police work.

Setting the series in the fictional "WCPD" does not help authenticity. The plain, baggy, baseball-style caps that the men wore may be authentic, but it does not help the dramatic effect of the opening freeze-frame shots to have Mark Shera's and Robert Urich's deadly serious but small-looking faces peeking out from under the caps like mice. Sometimes the series and Shera seem to be trying too hard to show off his character as the team clown. Urich is completely wasted by the series, coming off as wooden, self-conscious, forced, and extraneous. Rose Marie's appearances as a hawker of cheap pastries and sandwiches at the police station, obviously meant to provide some color and humor, can get tiresome.

The dialogue and interactions can be stiff and the characters and stories shallow. This is often true of scenes with Forrest at home with the wife and kids and of the story-lines with "personal" angles. Like Hawaii Five-O, S.W.A.T., at its best, is proof of a basic point. If a show is done professionally, it can be entertaining to watch the characters for what they do on the job, which is how the public and peers see them in real life, and there is no need to constantly delve into personal subplots.

Two shows are particularly disappointing. In "Time Bomb" (included in the disk set as a first season episode but according to episode guides not aired until the second season), the criminal's plan never gets off the ground and much time is wasted on chase scenes around a movie studio backlot. In "Blind Man's Bluff," Forrest is wounded in an unconvincing, sloppy way; he responds unprofessionally and out of character; his replacement appears once, in one exaggerated, talky scene as a jerk, and is never seen in action; the role of the rest of the team is weak; and little goes on during the episode.

Although the team responded to some interesting individual incidents, the episode in which a reporter was following the team around did not make much of that plot line. The episode in which S.W.A.T. tracked an international hit man (played with gusto by Christopher George) suffered from the distracting complication that he was infected with a deadly disease and from an anticlimactic end confrontation. Also, too often, as when a basketball team is taken hostage, the crooks put themselves in a box with little realistic plan of escape, making themselves too easy pickings and not enough of a challenge for S.W.A.T. Regardless of these and other possible complaints, it is still fun and interesting to see how the team sizes up and responds to each situation, with Hondo barking out orders and the men expertly deploying their skills, weapons, and tactics to solve the particular high-stakes problem.

Overall, the shows in the DVD set are good entertainment. As to the hatchet-job review that boasted "non-fan, fresh eyes," as though it was entitled to some special weight just for not having seen the show when it originally aired (neither did I), all it had to offer were stale, obvious, superficial criticisms and inapt comparisons to other shows, without any attempt to appreciate what S.W.A.T. does well. (What could be easier than ridiculing the show for featuring a "Charles Manson type" as the villain one week, as though it was supposed to be taken seriously as the real thing, and with no mention of Sal Mineo's live-wire performance?) Another review that trashed the series sounded like canned comments written without even watching the show. For example, the review announced self-importantly, without any explanation or support, that the series showed no regard for police procedure and, except for "one time," always shot first and asked questions later. This is absurd; time and again, the episodes showed far more understatement, skill, intelligence, and discipline in response to a crisis than I had expected.

If you watch the show for yourself, you will find that it had something special. Even if, as some say, the quality declined in the second season, I hope some day (soon?) myself to be able to see the rest of the episodes of the series.

Great memories.......2007-06-13

Oh boy. Happy memories. Did this take me back! The 1970s was a fine era when it came to classic TV shows, and this was one of my favourites as a teenager. The memorable theme music by Rhythm Heritage was also a big hit on the charts, and to this day I still have the two original Rhythm Heritage LPs I purchased - 'Discofied' and 'Last Night On Earth', in my collection. One of these LPs had the SWAT theme on it.
I remember the friendly rivalry between my best friend and I at the time as to who was the better looking, Robert Urich or Mark Shera (and of course we had the obligatory pin-ups on our walls). We never did agree on that subject!! Robert for her, Mark for me. So sad to hear Bob had passed away.
Thanks guys for the great memories!!

Nostalgia at its best...........2007-04-05

Cant wait for the entire second season to come out! The series is well done (acting, storyline and casting). Brings back many childhood memories and is there any theme music that is cooler....? Great addition to my collection. If you dont have it...get it.

great.......2007-01-10

I am a great fun of everything that was on air in the 70ies and SWAT is one of my favourite. I really hope the other seasons will appear soon.
It's well done and even with few special effects involved the public in all the stories of the great 5 cops.

Can't wait for Season Two.......2006-12-17

Brought back so many memories of watching this show when it was on air. Fantastic gift with no commercials!!!

Event Horizon (Two-Disc Special Collector's Edition)

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In Space, No One Can Hear You Gag
GOOD COMBINATION OF SCI-FI AND FANTACY HORROR
Rent it
Efficient horror/sci-fi crossover
Could've been great.

Event Horizon (Two-Disc Special Collector's Edition)
Starring: Laurence Fishburne , Sam Neill , Kathleen Quinlan , Joely Richardson , and Richard T. Jones
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Manufacturer: Paramount
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ASIN: B000E1NXAY
Release Date: 2006-04-18

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Drawing from Andrei Tarkovsky's heady science fiction meditation Solaris by way of Alien and Hellraiser, this visually splendid but pulpy piece of science fiction schlock concerns a mission in the year 2047 to investigate the experimental American spaceship Event Horizon, which disappeared seven years previously and suddenly, out of nowhere, reappeared in the orbit of Neptune. Laurence Fishburne stars as mission commander Captain Miller and Sam Neill is Dr. Weir, the scientist who designed the mystery ship. Miller's T-shirt- and army-green-clad crew of smart-talking pros finds a ship dead and deserted, but further investigations turn up blood, corpses, dismembered body parts, and a decidedly unearthly presence. It turns out that the ship is really a space-age haunted house where spooky (and obviously impossible) visions lure each of the crew members into situations they should know better than to enter. The ship is gorgeously designed, borrowing from the dark, organic look of Alien and adding the menacing touch of teeth sprouting from bulwark doors and clawlike spikes inexplicably shooting out of the engine room floor. Unfortunately the film is not nearly as inventive as the production design--it turns into a woefully inconsistent psychic monster movie that sacrifices mood for tepid shocks--but the special effects are topnotch, and ultimately the movie has a trashy B movie charm about it. --Sean Axmaker

Description

The year is 2047. Years earlier, the pioneering research vessel Event Horizon vanished without a trace. Now a signal from it has been detected, and the United States Aerospace Command responds. Hurtling toward the signal's source are a fearless captain (Laurence Fishburne), his elite crew and the lost ship's designer (Sam Neill). Their mission: find and salvage the state-of-the-art spacecraft. What they find is state-of-the-art interstellar terror.

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In Space, No One Can Hear You Gag.......2007-08-28

The movie wasn't what I'd expected, which was a mix of future science fiction and the supernatural. That makes it admittedly hard to be impartial, because what you do get is a gore fest that must have exhausted Hollywood's supply of fake blood for months. The bad part is that this goulash of gruesomeness is by and large pointless, other than to shock and disgust the viewer.

A rescue ship is sent to find the Event Horizon, an earlier space craft that was launched and then vanished. It is found indeed, and (it's never quite clear) turns out to have gone to Hell and back, literally, or at least to some warped dimension. The ship is possessed. To further complete this religious image of hell and horror, the captain of the Event Horizon even spews a little Latin while the screams of the damned surround him on a record found by the rescuers.

There was trouble right off the bat in the movie when the rescue ship nearly rams the EH. Hey guys, if you read the ship on your sensors but can't see it through all the nebulae, slow down. Further making it hard to take this movie seriously, other than the endless butcher shop scenes, is its characters' actions. If you've left your son on earth and you're now at the other end of the solar system, and yet you see him running around on the EH, get a clue. He ain't really there.

It's legitimate to criticize the movie for its firehose-connected-to-a-slaughterhouse scenes because they're so gratuitous, unlike the mess in "Saving Private Ryan" or even "300." Because I'm afraid my disgust at the blood-soaked dementia portrayed in the movie might unfairly bias me, I err on the side of generosity and give it three stars, barely. The show's premise was both promising and interesting, but its execution was middling to fair. And there's more to a good movie than just making spectators squirm in their seats.

GOOD COMBINATION OF SCI-FI AND FANTACY HORROR.......2007-08-11

This movie is MUCH better than alot of the reviews have lead to believe. Relased in 1997, this is one of those movies that didn't have a sucsessful run in the theater, then throughout years, developed a cult following.
As the movie starts, We are given some brief info. concerning the history of the space program, as well as THE EVENT HORIZON itself. Aparently, THE EVENT HORIZON was an experimental spaceship designed to explore the boundaries of the galaxy. As the E.H. was preparing to launch, it disappeared. Seven years later, a signal from the E.H. was found in an orbit around NEPTUNE. The opening scene is really good, very 'dark' but colorfull at the same time, it sets the tone for the rest of the movie.
We are then introduced to DR. WEIR, who seems to be a troubled man, who is preparing for his new assignment, acompany a salvage crew to find out what happened. The salvage crew consists of: CAPT. MILLER(LAURENCE FISHBURN) STARK, SMITTY, JUSTIN, D.J., PETERS, AND COOPER and you really get the impression that none of them want to be there. Once they reach NEPTUNE'S orbit, DR. WEIR informs the crew about the history of the ship, as well as a single message that was slavaged. Upon listening, D.J. is able to translate the message as LATIN: "Liberate' me'", "save me". As the crew investigate what happened to the ship and her crew, bizarre things start to happen, and the crew slowly realize that the ship brought 'something' back.
EVENT HORIZON is similiar to ALIEN, with a H.P. LOVECRAFT twist, it has an effective 'other-world' vibe to it. The biggest flaw, in my opinion, is the editing. The movie 'feels' like it moves way to fast.EVENT HORIZON was originally rated NC-17 and there were major cuts to the movie to get an R-rating for release. Unfortunatly, this was before the DVD boom and the footage was discarded and lost. The lost footage, from what I've heard, consists of the gore-flashes in the latter part of the movie.
Great acting, Great story(although moves a little to fast), and good editing(considering R-rating) 4.5 out of 5!!. Fans of fantacy horror will NOT be dissapointed!!!!!

Rent it.......2007-08-06

Think The Shining set in space, with touches of Alien (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) and Hellraiser. That would be the film but not as good as any of them. The movie's concept is great and could have been a scary film but drops the ball. The movie was somewhat predictable and the cgi wasn't that great. If the space ships were cgi, then the cgi for the items floating around in the space ships weren't the greatest. The cinematography was excellent but again, the story falls short and almost close to boring. As it stands, the best horror movies out there are:
Hellraiser, The Exorcist (The Version You've Never Seen), The Exorcist 3, The Thing (Collector's Edition), Saw - Unrated (Two-Disc Special Edition), Saw II - Unrated (Two-Disc Special Edition) and Saw III (Unrated Widescreen Edition).

Efficient horror/sci-fi crossover.......2007-07-24

Formulaic sci-fi shocker that while not being as good as, say, Aliens, still manages to pack a punch. The plot seems to be made up of elements of Aliens 2 and Sphere (and Solaris); you'll see what I mean when you watch the movie. Laurence Fishburne wheels out his Matrix role to play the big, butch captain of the spaceship, while Sean Pertwee (son of Dr. Who Mk. III actor John Pertwee, fact fans, he even has the same voice), Kathleen Quinlan and the ubiquitous Sam Neill provide support. The acting is generally more efficient than inspired.
There's more bloodshed in this than many other sci-fi flicks, and fans of the horror genre may find stuff here to get their teeth into. The effects are pretty good - extra credits for the powerful sound FX - but at times they come close to overshadowing everything else (sound familiar?).
A typical 4-star movie, then.

Could've been great. .......2007-05-27

This movie had so much going for it, but it never really found its groove. So many elements necessary for a good sci-fi thriller were there but not put to good use.
Having said that, I still recommend checking it out. It's kind of a mess, but I can't deny the creep factor of this movie. It's dark and brooding and has a few good shocks.
As with everything else I've seen by Paul Anderson, something's missing. It's the body of a good movie absent a soul. Maybe one of these days he'll get it all together on one. I'll look forward to it.

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Great action
20th Century Movie with 1980 Score !!
Good Cast-Good Action
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One of those movies you either love or hate -- I enjoyed it.

S.W.A.T. (Widescreen Special Edition)
Starring: Jay Acovone , Mario Aguilar Jr. , Denis Arndt , Reg E. Cathey , and Josh Charles
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ASIN: B00008EYA5
Release Date: 2003-12-30

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Samuel L. Jackson and Colin Farrell swagger through S.W.A.T., a guns-and-big-trucks macho extravaganza based on the 1970s TV show of the same name, about the police teams brought in to take care of extremely dangerous situations. Jackson plays a sergeant brought out of retirement to form a new squad, which includes rebellious Farrell (The Recruit) and tough babe Michelle Rodriguez (Girlfight, Blue Crush). After a lot of training and head-butting with a smarmy police captain, the squad gets assigned to transfer the head of a European crime cartel (Olivier Martinez, Unfaithful) who's declared on television that he'll give $100 million to anyone who gets him out. Every scumbag in Los Angeles descends to claim the money, turning a routine transfer into a bullet-filled gauntlet. Despite some gaps in logic and a generic flavor, S.W.A.T. will satisfy most action-movie junkies. Also featuring LL Cool J and Josh Charles. --Bret Fetzer

Description

An arrested drug kingpin is transported by a Los Angeles Police Department S.W.A.T. team, led by Jackson's character, out of the city and into federal custody. Plans go awry when the kingpin offers $100 million to anyone who can free him. Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Colin Farrell, Michelle Rodriguez, LL Cool J, Oliver Martinez.

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Great action.......2007-08-24

Great action movie, however I found the story a little hard to believe.

Corey Cotta, Author of All of Yesterdays Tomorrows.

20th Century Movie with 1980 Score !!.......2007-05-18

Overall good film... Well acted ,good plot.. but taken aback by the fact that the film's Producers allowed a "1980s made for TV film score" to go with this masterpiece, Bad Judgement, Why ??,

Good Cast-Good Action.......2007-04-22

SWAT is a good, not a great action movie. The opening scene is a take on a real life bank robbery, in which the robbers wore body armour and fired fully automatic assualt rifles. This is probably the most intense scene in the film. The rest of the film is pretty much Hollywood fare, with a predictable storyline and character profiles, examples: good cop(s) turn bad, evil drug lord, tough female cop etc. etc. etc. Samuel L. Jackson gives a credible performance as the leader of the SWAT team. Colin Farrell as the hotshot member leaves no memorable screentime. The film attempted to forge a middle ground between reality and super heroism, but remained as neither.

:0).......2007-01-07

I liked it.. it was an entertaining movie and very watchable..love the actors and their chemistery on screen a good movie for your collection..

One of those movies you either love or hate -- I enjoyed it........2006-04-10

I saw this movie on t.v. for the first time a few days ago and now I'm buying the DVD. I'm not a big fan of action movies but I do watch them now and again. I've read quite a few negative reviews about this film and I think they are undeserved. When I saw it I thought it was good, not Diehard good, but it held its own. I really enjoyed it. I really liked the idea that they included a female member of SWAT. One never sees a woman SWAT member. It looks like this is one of those movies you either love, like, or hate. One has to make up one's own mind.

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"Whelmed" by this Blu-ray disc
Don't SWAT this Blu-Ray

S.W.A.T. [Blu-ray]
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson , and Colin Farrell
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ASIN: B000F9RB94
Release Date: 2006-09-19

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"Whelmed" by this Blu-ray disc.......2007-07-09

For starters, I will assume that anyone reading this has seen the movie and thus I will not spend time talking about what a fun (if a little bit campy) action flick this is.

Out of the dozen or so Blu-ray movies I've seen so far, this was the least impressive. I'm avoiding using words like "disappointing" because it isn't--the picture quality is amazing. The lossless audio track, however, left something to be desired. It just didn't impress the way tracks from movies like "Pirates of the Caribbean" or "The Patriot" do.

Also--and this could just be old age setting in--but I could swear there's some missing scenes from the theatrical version. The Bonus Features on this disc are impressively packed, with many deleted scenes and other extras. I could be wrong, so I won't count against it in the review, but it seems shorter than it should be.

That said, if you are a Samuel L. Jackson, Michelle Rodriguez or Colin Ferrell fan, this is a great flick to own. It's unfortunate that L.L. didn't have more screen time as his performances are always over-the-top in an entertaining way. My advice? Wait for a good sale on this one and snap it up. It'll make a great addition to your Blu library.

Don't SWAT this Blu-Ray.......2007-01-04

SWAT has some awesome video shots in 1080p. The audio is bold.

The movie is non stop action.

I have 3 Sony Blu-ray units displaying on a Sony 1080p LCD, a Pioneer 1080p Plasma & a Sony 1080p projection unit. The video is awesome on all three.

The Greatest '70s Cop Shows (Charlie's Angels / Starsky and Hutch / S.W.A.T. / Police Woman / The Rookies)

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A Starsky and Hutch Fan
3 stars if you didn't grow up with these shows
Maybe!
OH.....JUST SHOOT ME!!
More Angie, please...!

The Greatest '70s Cop Shows (Charlie's Angels / Starsky and Hutch / S.W.A.T. / Police Woman / The Rookies)
Director: Ronald Austin , Allen Baron , Richard Benedict , John D.F. Black , and Cliff Bole
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ASIN: B00000F6RL
Release Date: 2003-05-06

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It may sound like a gimmick--The Greatest '70s Cop Shows is a compilation of first episodes from Starsky and Hutch, Police Woman, S.W.A.T., The Rookies, and Charlie's Angels--but this DVD anthology really opens one's eyes to the look and feel of dramatic television during the so-called Me Decade. Except for Angels, which never wavered from its self-mocking, glossy action/stiff exposition playbook, these cop-program debuts (four of them from Aaron Spelling) import much of their fluid camera movement, multiple points-of-view, and dynamic, often wordless storytelling from the era's rough-and-tumble action movies (e.g., The French Connection). Which is to say these shows may be dumb but not necessarily cheesy (except Angels' post-modern cheese). There is a lot to admire about the opening ambush in S.W.A.T.'s "The Killing Ground," the hard-boiled camaraderie of Police Woman's "The End Game," and especially the reckless physicality and ironic jokes of Starsky and Hutch's "Savage Sunday." --Tom Keogh

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The definitive collection of your favorite '70s cop shows is finally here! See how all the action started with this collection of the first episodes of Charlie's Angels, Starsky and Hutch, S.W.A.T., The Rookies and Police Woman!

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A Starsky and Hutch Fan.......2004-12-06

I love the fact that they are putting out DVD's like this I grew up with all these shows and I love all of them and seeing David Soul (Hutch from Starsky and Hutch, He is Hot !!!!) in it is a plus also !!!!! Starsky and Hutch was my favorite show as a kid and I still love watching it. It is worth the money to buy it with all 5 shows they were some of the best shows on TV in the 70's.

3 stars if you didn't grow up with these shows.......2004-10-25

I was a child of the 70s and remembered these shows fondly. I took them VERY seriously at the time. Now they are instant nostalgia and a hoot. I love the bland studio bars and apartments, the lack of much blood after some serious gun fights, the friendly neo-fascist cops who do their duty & then go party. These are the "first" episodes of each show but that is misleading. Most started as 2 hour movies of the week. These are the first of the on going episodes but in most cases the viewer's second helping.

The Rookies-the most social conscious of the group. The street wise cop who grew up in the 'hood with the very naive suburban kid. Nice sentiments here about getting through to gang members excpet that these guys are psuhing 40 when they should be teens & the slum is obviously a Hollywood backlot with lots of newspapers thrown all over it.

Police Woman-good drama, Angie does some nice touches. The show isn't just about her though, a whole unit so it's kinda misleading. That hippuie undercover has on of the oddest faces to grace a TV screen. And I loved the casual traffic driving past a desperate shoot out early on.

SWAT-Now this felt like a pilot. Like most of SWAT's villains, total psychos. Although no one mentions it, they are sniffing alot during the episode so grown up viewers will know that they are all coked up.

Starsky & Hutch-lame plot but good commadarie. Watch for a sexy cameo but Suzanne Sommers. This show was a little more into innuendo but then came...

Charlie's Angels-not a cop show! This one actually isz the first time we'd seen the Angels. Not bad but the whole Doyle as a preacher bit was grating. I remeber them calling this a "jiggle show" but note the lack of the extra large busts we've come to expect nowadays.

I wish they'd have released the "best" ep of each show rather than the "first", now that would be a 5 star DVD!

Maybe!.......2004-09-27

I captioned this as maybe , because I Love everyone of these shows , and the individual programs chosen for this Collection , but having purchased this , and having watched it . It is great for those last two reason , but let me tell you were the problem lies . Copying these from whatever , or however , from the very first show on the collection you run into the problem that the sound does not match the picure . The words are heard bfore the Lips even move . Now this is regular on the Charlie's Angels show , and sparadically on the others , but I still enjoyed the Collection Purchase very much .

OH.....JUST SHOOT ME!!.......2004-06-03

It was just GREAT having the chance to own this DVD ! I am a big fan of America's Cop Shows and this item was really a "must -have".I just wish they could release more episodes of "The Police Woman" and "The Rookies" ( with Kate Jackson!!!), which are very interesting and which I had never watched before due to they had never been aired here in Brazil."The Angels" are "foxy" as always and you also get a chance to watch "Starski & Hutch" in the same package.

More Angie, please...!.......2004-01-30

"Starsky & Hutch" were entertainingly silly for a couple of years, as were "Charlie's Angels", and "The Rookies" looks earnest but dated and tad naive. "SWAT" is essentially a shoot-em-up with few characters you get to know at all.

Interestingly, the one out of the five (and the one NOT produced by Aaron Spelling) that is easliy the most legitimate cop drama is "Police Woman" with Angie Dickinson--- it feels like a damn movie... something the other four certainly do not.

Funny how memories have written-off this series as a single, older version of a Charlie's Angel who still has her badge but does nothing else but turn "tricks", when, in fact, "Police Woman" seems to be the most sophisticated of the lot; it's aged beautifully.

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Great action.......2007-08-24

Great action movie, however I found the story a little hard to believe.

Corey Cotta, Author of All of Yesterdays Tomorrows.

20th Century Movie with 1980 Score !!.......2007-05-18

Overall good film... Well acted ,good plot.. but taken aback by the fact that the film's Producers allowed a "1980s made for TV film score" to go with this masterpiece, Bad Judgement, Why ??,

Good Cast-Good Action.......2007-04-22

:0).......2007-01-07

I liked it.. it was an entertaining movie and very watchable..love the actors and their chemistery on screen a good movie for your collection..

One of those movies you either love or hate -- I enjoyed it........2006-04-10

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Without Go Fish there'd be no L Word
A must have for your collection!
worst lesbian movie I've ever seen
Go Fish vs. The L Word
Surprisingly Good

Go Fish
Starring: Guinevere Turner , V.S. Brodie , T. Wendy McMillan , Anastasia Sharp , and Jamika Ajalon
Director: Rose Troche
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ASIN: B00005BKZK
Release Date: 2001-07-24

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Go Fish won acclaim in its initial release in 1994, probably because of its irreverence in gazing at the lives of a group of young lesbians in Chicago. The film was directed and cowritten by Rose Troche, who went on to make Bedrooms and Hallways with the help of Guinevere Turner, her then-partner and star of this film. (Turner later appeared in several films and collaborated with director Mary Harron to bring the nearly unadaptable Bret Easton Ellis novel American Psycho to the big screen.)

Go Fish is an audience film in that it needs a crowd to make its in-joke mentality pulse. In fact, it's hard to believe the film transcended its target demographic despite the fact that in its heart of hearts it's an old-fashioned love story. It feels amateurish upon solo home viewing, though retaining an iota of charm for its low-budget clunkiness and funkiness. While it basically tells the story of a young lesbian (played by Turner) looking for Ms. Right, and conforms to a standard scenario in that love is always found where it's least expected, it benefits mostly from Troche's ability to wring some wit out of "dyke drama" and, with her insider's point of view, poke gentle fun at it with a relatively sharp stick. --Paula Nechak

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A film-festival favorite, this "groundbreaking picture" (The Hollywood Reporter) is a candidand honest look at women in love that is "visually audacious, full of surprising charm and highly entertaining" (Variety)! In her directorial debut, Rose Troche (Bedrooms & Hallways), along with her co-writer and lead actress Guinevere Turner, delivers a lively, warm-hearted romantic comedy about the quest for Ms. Right that is "original, witty and delightful" (Los AngelesTimes)! Feisty, beautiful Max (Turner) is an outgoing young woman looking for romance. Tired of hearing her whine about the missing "X" factor in her life, Max's roommate sets her up with bashful, olderbut homelyEly (V. S. Brodie). Needless to say, there's no sign of fireworks! But just as Max begins to think that she is destined to be alone forever, she discovers that some oflife's best surprises come in plain, brown paper packages.

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Without Go Fish there'd be no L Word.......2007-01-17

Crtiticze all you want, but without Go Fish breaking the ground that it did, we'd have no L Word. While the production values are low, hollywood was not shelling out millions of dollars tomade for, by and about lesbian films. This film is historical and paved the way for lesbian representation. Hate ot or Love it...we are here because of it.

A must have for your collection!.......2007-01-11

This is a good movie that is well written, acted and a good message as well. A must have for the lesbian collection! It was a low budget film that was creatively done. I highly recommend it.

worst lesbian movie I've ever seen.......2006-12-23

My and girlfriend watched this movie and we hated it. It was senseless and we had to stop it when it was around 35 min. I couldn't watch it no more. It was horrible. My girlfriend gave it to her best friend and she said it was the worst lesbian movie she had ever seen... I agree!

Go Fish vs. The L Word.......2006-11-05

Like many of the other viewers who reviewed "Go Fish," I was initially so repelled by this movie that I shut it off half way through. At the time I had just begun to date women and I was disturbed by the way that this movie represented the lesbian community. I found myself thinking "This is not me. This is not how I want to walk through life. This is not how I want to be seen by others." The experiences of the women portrayed in this film did not (and still do not) represent my experience as a lesbian. Ironically, this is one of the main arguments made by critics of the L-word.
In a way, "Go Fish" is a foil of the L-Word; comparing these two features may be more interesting and enlightening than watching either one alone. It has been argued that the L-word is normalizing or "mainstreaming" the queer community and thereby misrepresenting the actual experience of lesbians--but by only representing a specific subculture of the lesbian community, doesn't "Go Fish" ultimately do the same thing? Wealthy, conventionally beautiful lesbians do exist and have sex with other wealthy, conventionally beautiful lesbians (even if they are a minority).

While in the process of figuring out my own identity and role in the queer community, I found it difficult to stomach a depiction of lesbians who are so completely removed from mainstream society. One reviewer suggested that people who write negative reviews of "Go Fish" have internalized the ideas that this movie is trying to dispel. I can see their point--many people who are gueer struggle with internalized homophobia and may shun a film that depicts lesbians without all the airbrushing. Plainly, many viewers (including myself) do not WANT to see themselves in this movie because it is unconventional and "unattractive."

It's no coincidence that one word which repeatedly comes up in reviews of "Go Fish" is "ugly." The lesbians in the L-word are "hot." Shane is "hot"--people of all genders and orientations want to watch Shane and Carmen having sex. The popularity of this show speaks for itself--I believe that the beauty of the characters in the L-word has contributed to making lesbians (and lesbian sex) appealing to mainstream society, and maybe it's a means to an end (the end being equal rights). But just because people will tune in to watch Shane and Carmen having sex doesn't necessarily mean that they're going to change their minds about gay marriage... And where does this leave lesbians like Max, Ely and Moira (not surprisingly, the LEAST popular character on the L-word!) who don't fit the model?

The big question is... Are we only acceptable to society when we're young, attractive and having hot sex--but not when we want to adopt children, pay taxes together or be politically active? By purchasing and supporting a the L-word and being repelled by "Go Fish" am I just buying into a revised version of homophobia? Do I only watch the L-word because it helps me feel better about being who I am?

Surprisingly Good.......2006-07-15

It's funny that a lot of people are claiming they were "duped" by the cover of this movie, thinking it was going to be about two hot straight-looking girls getting it on. That's exactly what I thought when I saw the cover, which is why I never rented the movie after years of seeing it in the video store. Then after seeing almost every lesbian film there is, I decided, finally, to watch Go Fish, and was shocked when I realized the main characters weren't straight-looking at all (accept for Turner, who seems a little akward playing a butch but tries to pull it off the best she can). I was surprised that I actually ended up liking this movie a lot better than a lot of other lesbian films I've seen, even though the acting is stale. But you have to bare in mind that the movie was extremely low-budget, didn't have any big-name backing, and was basically homemade. I was also a little shocked to find that this movie was made in the early 90s, revolutionary for it's time. As for the comments people have made about the attractiveness of the actors, grow up. The whole point of the film is that looks aren't everything, and yes, in real life, we do sometimes fall in love with people who are, godforbid, unattractive. And you'd think that in the 21st Century people, especially within the lesbian community, wouldn't be as misogynistic as to say "we only want to see hot girls making out." As far as the "duping" cover of this film, I think it's sad the producers had to use it to trick people into buying it, since so many people are too shallow to see past the fact that the characters in this film, except for Turner, aren't beautiful, and that's the whole point, by the way. It's also ironic that so many people who posted hear are saying "Go Fish" sucks, rent the "L Word" instead, when the writers and directors of "Go Fish" are two of the "L Word's" creators (Troche and Turner). The story line is a bit immature but fun, and the film brings up a lot of important issues about gender and sexuality and includes people from all different races and backgrounds (another rarity, even in lesbian films). Anyway, this film is going to remain a lesbian classic inspite of its amateurishness and the bad reviews people have given it.

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connect the dots.... <~
Salt of the Earth still relevant
This is the official edition
Must see film for all Activists
Public Domain

Salt of the Earth Special Edition
Starring: Rosaura Revueltas , Will Geer , David Wolfe , Mervin Williams , and David Sarvis
Director: Rosaura Revueltas , and Herbert J. Biberman
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ASIN: 6304863365
Release Date: 1999-07-27

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Included in the prestigious National Film Registry of the Library of Congress, Salt of the Earth represents a milestone in the history of American movies. It was produced, written, and directed by filmmakers who were still blacklisted when the film was made in 1953, during the anticommunist witch-hunts that plagued Hollywood (and the entire country) at the height of the McCarthy era. While the filmmakers faced misguided suspicion of promoting anti-American sentiments, the film was financed in part by the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers, which strongly supported this powerful social-realist drama about a strike by Mexican American zinc miners in New Mexico. Featuring a prominent role for blacklisted actor Will Geer (later famous as Grandpa on TV's The Waltons), the story intensifies when the strikers are forced to stop picketing and their wives take up the cause. Focusing on one struggling couple to illustrate its themes of individual dignity and human rights, the film was released in only 13 theaters nationwide in 1954, receiving a majority of highly positive reviews. Still, Salt of the Earth was surrounded by controversy before, during, and after its production, and it was widely misinterpreted as a call for social revolution. It remained largely unseen in America until the 1960s, but this boldly independent film has since been duly recognized for its artistic and social importance. --Jeff Shannon

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Based on actual events, this landmark film depicts a strike by Mexican-American mineworkers in New Mexico. With the exception of five actors, the cast comprises non-professionals, mostly participants in the real-life strike.

The film is remarkably prophetic in its portrayal of the wives of the oppressed workers which seem to anticipate the women's liberation movement that would rise over a decade later. The film's very existence is the result of political struggle. It was made during the height of the McCarthy era, and the blacklisted cast and crew were subject to attacks by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and other anti-Communist organizations. These attacks were misguided, however, as Salt of the Earth is now considered one of the most important American films in history.

Included on this disc is the documentary The Hollywood Ten about the ten filmmakers who defied the HUAC, resulting in their blacklisting. Based on actual events: A critically acclaimed film of politics and passion. Directed by Herbert Biberman, one of the Hollywood Ten, Salt of the Earth was chosen by the Library of Congress as one of only 100 films to be preserved for posterity. Salt of the Earth is the only American blacklisted film.

Includes the documentary The Hollywood Ten.

Includes production notes, hundreds of production stills, a history (and hundreds of pictures) of the strike the film was based on, a history of the blacklist in Hollywood, and Congressional testimony of the blacklisted filmmakers.

This is the official edition of the film, produced under license from the filmmakers' families. The digitally enhanced transfer is far superior to VHS and other versions.

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connect the dots.... <~.......2006-06-12

Yes it is propaganda....I see it as a brilliant example of creating discord and division as a good thing. We don't see what happens after. Like if you saw Kinsey he goes looking for butterflies in the forest at the end. In reality he went off to "investigate" sado masochistic sex...then to an unglorious demise.Salt Of The Earth ( a horrible contradiction) offers with the promise of equality driven by the typical feeling and emotion driven responses which in reality the antithesis never delivers as advertised(the norm with the communism hoax) Most women were able to raise thier own children at home ,have farm life where "economic forces "wouldnt cause them to have 3 part time jobs with no benefits,and dictatorial (to be equal and even steven)idiotic policies of some nut who owns so many corporations he has no idea who the woman is and crushes her daily like an ant. Yay for women ! Forget just one "opressor" who was her husband. King of the Castle was made a joke by Gleason...Lucille Ball never obeyed her husband. But the fact is many women were queens of the castle. Women weren't soldiers. They and children were the spoils of war. The fair things. And we see them quitting thier careers daily to raise children contrary the utopian liberation from thier intended purposes. They are hard wired to do this. (most are anyway) The King and Queen of the castle was a layer of strength and autonomy the communists were terrified of. A nation of soverigns. I guess they are much better off now being un-oppressed by multinational megalomaniacs corporate middle management weenies whims? The husband and wife both HAVE to work now and can barely make it. But public private partnerships will raise junior for you these days or an afterschool programmer at the afterschool program. Oh yes. Much better comrade. The kids now get after school mentors and the molesters have a data base you can look up to see how close they are to junior's school which is locked down like an armed camp. So you have peace of mind while you are working at MalWart (eg) . That is if you even have a husband.(Or maybe he's had a sex change like Klinger) <~ not thats theres anything wrong with that!! Yep...these guys like Ring Lardner were wonderful at changing peoples thinking . I urge anyone else who loves this movie to see Ring Lardners Coup' De Tat ~~>M*A*S*H The movie about lazy drunk American soldiers,who wince and abhor the carnage inflicted on the soldiers by the communists. In the TV show they give aid and comfort to the enemy whenever possible.It was an particularly effective movie capitalizing on the first War the US was to supposedly lose after the big so called World War 2 victory. So make a movie about it Ring ! About soldiers (but doctors) synthesis requires a emotional trigger to stir you from your foundational beliefs invoked by feeling or opinions and a freezing of the emotional state just where you want your audience torn somewhere inbetween. They are soldiers but they save lives....Hmmm rock and a hard place.Then get to work with incompetent US Commanding Officers drinking sex...etc Nothing demoralizing about that ! The US now has the highest morals of any nation in the world. Ask anyone. Lardner illustrates US command is totally out of touch with the heroes who would be better spent saving lives in a nice community center perhaps at home. These freaks and weidohs who just HATED fighting "commies" ! No they are not freaks today. But we considered that immoral behavior back when we were immoral. Yep..shame on us for being mean to the poor hollywood movie makers.=_-( They were showing us the better world of today yesterday,and we didn't appreciate it.How many of us were walking around humming Suicide Is Painless ? Thats a nice thought to have on your mind now isn't it? Thanks Ring Lardner ! Oh but we can laugh at ourselves as we are sooooo sophisticated. Unless we are on "meds" and thats normal now. Meds for lil' Johnny(odds are he has some "disorder")too. It never got to us! Everything is swell. And we're all better off! Oh yes...Those loveable Hollywood Ten ...they are masters at thier craft. HOW COULD WE HAVE BEEN SO CLOSE MINDED? Folks.... They weren't called the Hollywood Ten....They were called the UNFRIENDLY Hollywood Ten. Connect the dots. Thesis...Antithesis...Synthesis

Salt of the Earth still relevant.......2006-05-16

Salt of the Earth is the ONLY film which suffered the repression and supression, not only in its filming (shooting up the set with real guns, deporting the main actress), but in actually preventing access to film dev labs--it was finally developed in a [...] lab under another name, and finally prevented from being shown theatrically. It was selected by the Library of Congress for Preservation for Posterity.
There has been a serious misconception that the film is in public domain, but that is only a bootleg copy, not the restored version of the film, along with the complete story of the making of the film, the strike it was based upon, the lives of the actors (real mine workers) and the aftermath. Despite being blacklisted in the U.S., this film was the most-widely seen non-local film in several countries (including China).
If you haven't seen the film in this version, I urge you to see it. This version is the only legal one, and returns a significant portion of its proceeds to the surviving filmmakers and their families. You can find out more about the film, and the making of it, at Organa.com.
There is no other film like it, and the issues it raises, despite the half-century that has transpired, are still relevant, even if the details have changed.
Aleen Stein

This is the official edition.......2005-06-22

This edition of Salt of the Earth was produced by Organa LLC under license from the filmmakers' families. The high-quality transfer was digitally enhanced. In my opinion both image and sound are far superior to the VHS and other versions.

Must see film for all Activists.......2005-06-20

I had heard about this film from my activists friends and I ordered it, and loved it ! It energizes my mind and body ! It makes one feel like going out and fighting for any Cause, " there are plenty out there " I have lent the dvd to friends and they liked it. I especially like that it shows the women as we are. We are strong, unafraid, and we can be vicious if pushed too far.! " Que Viva La Mujer" This was a film well done !

Public Domain.......2005-06-17

Salt of the Earth is in the public domain and can be released by anyone willing to go through the trouble. It is available for download at the Internet Archive, www.archive.org

That said let me say that Salt of the Earth is a great film and so poignant even for today.

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In Space, No One Can Hear You Gag
GOOD COMBINATION OF SCI-FI AND FANTACY HORROR
Rent it
Efficient horror/sci-fi crossover
Could've been great.

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Starring: Laurence Fishburne , Sam Neill , Kathleen Quinlan , Joely Richardson , and Richard T. Jones
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
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ASIN: 6305222916
Release Date: 1998-12-15

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In Space, No One Can Hear You Gag.......2007-08-28

GOOD COMBINATION OF SCI-FI AND FANTACY HORROR.......2007-08-11