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Sunset Boulevard [1950]

starring: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Fred Clark
directed by: Billy Wilder

Release Date April 07, 2003
She's ready, but are you ready for her? In this magnificent film, Billy Wilder bites the hands that feeds him. Gloria Swanson dazzles as desperate, faded silent movie star Norma Desmond, who is trying to claw her way back to the top after years of seclusion in her Hollywood mansion on Sunset Boulvard. However, her time has been and gone, and at fifty years old, this seems impossible. When Joe Gillis (Holden), an equally desperate screenwriter, happens upon her mansion while fleeing some debt collectors, he finds the perfect way to make some money by using Norma. However, will he be able to escape her wrath when she discovers the truth? After all, in the immortal words of Desmond, "No-one ever leaves a star, that's what makes one a star....."

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The Bridge On The River Kwai [1957]

starring: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald
directed by: David Lean

Release Date December 04, 2000
If that was a film of duty and bravery, the only characters who meet both demands, were British commandos of 316. All other lines seem to be unrealistic. The facility that was depicted in the movie, is not a forced labor, but rather a holiday camp. Japanese staff had all possibilities to force POWs do whatever work, but Japs don't even tried, simply observing sabotage and malingering. British officers surrender, carry conference with the enemy, build the bridge for the enemy and even celebrate on this occasion. There is neither bravery nor duty here. Colonel Saito was right that they carry no shame - and this can be (and is underscored in the film?) the virtue of the Western man - to act dishonestly and still bear no shame, even claiming to have ... Read More:

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Network [1976]

starring: Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch, Robert Duvall, Wesley Addy
directed by: Sidney Lumet

Release Date March 17, 2003
It could have been a great film. It had all it needed to be a masterpiece. It debunked the old traditional boring television of our great grand parents, that television that was speaking all the time in order to bring us the truth, to teach us the true truth, to make us believe every word they said was absolutely inspiring and we had to be thankful and grateful for this new medium to be so effective in teaching us, in lifting us out of our ignorance. They treated television as a super book, an encyclopedia and they had not understood the slightest smallest element of what this medium was. They had not read Marshall McLuhan and when they had heard of him they thought he was trite, insignificant and purely ranting and raving. And they were going to learn ... Read More:

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Sam Peckinpah - The Legendary Westerns Collection : Ride The High Country / The Wild Bunch Special Edition / The Ballad Of Cable Hogue / Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid Special Edition (6 Disc Box Set)

starring: Jason Robards, William Holden, Robert Ryan, Ernest Borgnine, Warren Oates
directed by: Sam Peckinpah

Release Date August 14, 2006
fantastic value for the money.four classic westerns with wonderful actors at their very best,hours of entertainment on the cheap, I am Happy.

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The Towering Inferno [1975]

starring: Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Fred Astaire
directed by: Irwin Allen, John Guillermin

Release Date June 01, 2006
Due to an alleged stupid dispute between Warners and 20th Century Fox over who owns the UK rights to the Towering Inferno this magnificent 2 disc set is unavaible in the UK except on Region 1 import. But it is well worth the effort to get hold of one.
Beautifully packaged, with the main feature remastered and a host of fascinating extras, far to many to go into detail about on disc 2, plus a set of lobby cards, this is the ultimate Towering Inferno set and one that every fan of this classic disaster movie should own.

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John Wayne Collection - The Alamo/Red River/The Horse Soldiers/The Big Trail/North To Alaska/The Comancheros/The Undefeated

starring: John Wayne, Rock Hudson, Richard Boone, Marguerite Churchill, Walter Brennan
directed by: John Wayne, Andrew V. McLaglen, John Ford, Henry Hathaway, Michael Curtiz

Release Date May 14, 2007
Due to an alleged stupid dispute between Warners and 20th Century Fox over who owns the UK rights to the Towering Inferno this magnificent 2 disc set is unavaible in the UK except on Region 1 import. But it is well worth the effort to get hold of one.
Beautifully packaged, with the main feature remastered and a host of fascinating extras, far to many to go into detail about on disc 2, plus a set of lobby cards, this is the ultimate Towering Inferno set and one that every fan of this classic disaster movie should own.

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Love Is A Many Splendoured Thing [1955]

starring: William Holden, Jennifer Jones, Torin Thatcher
directed by: Henry King

Release Date May 09, 2005
There is little not to like with this 50s movie. Two great actors, a renowned Director,(Henry King - Twelve o'clock High,Snows of Kilamanjaro, Carousel) a good story and a wonderful setting.
Jennifer Jones plays a Eurasian Doctor and Holden a Journalist based in Hong Kong. A romance develops and the rest is history. I'll say no more for fear of spoiling your pleasure. The movie was nominated for 8 Oscars.

The film is especially interesting in one respect in that there is much to be seen of Hong Kong as it was in the 1950s when the movie was shot on location. The city was a fully fledged British colony then, plenty of HM's Warships in the harbour and British looking officials in Town.Lots of English 'Tea Party' accents around'. Hong Kong was ... Read More:

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Casino Royale [1967]

starring: David Niven, Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, Orson Welles, Joanna Pettet
directed by: John Huston, Joseph McGrath, Ken Hughes, Richard Talmadge, Robert Parrish

Release Date April 24, 2001
I wouldn't normally write reviews as it's all so subjective. However, this was so bad I feel compelled to tell you. I wanted to turn it off after 30 minutes but persevered. It's awful.

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An Affair To Remember / Love Is A Many Splendored Thing

starring: Deborah Kerr, Cary Grant, Richard Denning, William Holden, Jennifer Jones
directed by: Leo McCarey, Henry King

Release Date January 31, 2005
I wouldn't normally write reviews as it's all so subjective. However, this was so bad I feel compelled to tell you. I wanted to turn it off after 30 minutes but persevered. It's awful.

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The Bridge On The River Kwai/The Guns Of Navarone/Das Boot - The Director's Cut

starring: Alec Guinness, William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Jurgen Prochnow, Herbert Gronemeyer
directed by: David Lean, Wolfgang Petersen, J. Lee Thompson

Release Date October 01, 2007
I wouldn't normally write reviews as it's all so subjective. However, this was so bad I feel compelled to tell you. I wanted to turn it off after 30 minutes but persevered. It's awful.