I came to this series having never seen it before (my parents wouldn't let us watch ITV).
One of the refreshing things about 1970's productions is the lack of political correctness. This allows writers to represent more credible historical relationships between men and women.
The early plots are quite interesting, and the larger than life characters keep you interested. However after a while the storylines and action become predictable and repetative. In the second series, Gila von Weitershausen appears as Rowena, a headstrong maid marion style character. She looks the part, but her scenes are dubbed and it doesn't sound too good at times.
Unless you are looking for nostaglia, I wouldn't particularly recommend this one. ... Read More:
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I came to this series having never seen it before (my parents wouldn't let us watch ITV).
One of the refreshing things about 1970's productions is the lack of political correctness. This allows writers to represent more credible historical relationships between men and women.
The early plots are quite interesting, and the larger than life characters keep you interested. However after a while the storylines and action become predictable and repetative. In the second series, Gila von Weitershausen appears as Rowena, a headstrong maid marion style character. She looks the part, but her scenes are dubbed and it doesn't sound too good at times.
Unless you are looking for nostaglia, I wouldn't particularly recommend this one. ... Read More:
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I can see the points that the 3* reviewer is making and I'm sure if this was a dramatisation of a much loved English novel, I would be spitting nails too.
There is also the rather thorny issue of the fact that this was cobbled together out of 'spare' scenes from 'The Three Musketeers' and it does show with a lengthy slide show of scenes from the first film at the start and occasional narrative voice-overs to fill the viewer in.
However, it does complete Dumas' story and it does so in the same amusing and light-hearted manner that Dumas wrote his novel.
I can't speak for period accuracy, but certainly nothing jarred for me.
This is not such a good film as the first, but it is still very enjoyable and occasionally laugh-out-loud funny, and to see the ... Read More:
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For Your Eyes Only has some of the better action of the Bond films, but there are so many other things wrong with it that it almost cancels out the quality action sequences. The opening sequence of the film, with the remote controlled helicopter and Blofeld in a wheelchair, is excellent. The theme song for the film is awful. What you have with For Your Eyes Only is a stereo typical 80s love song and the entire soundtrack consists of 80s music. I do realize this was made in the 80s but the music is so 80s its funny.
One of the noteworthy things about this film is that the action scenes were either done very well or they were incredibly realistic. For Your Eyes Only is one of the only Bond films with ski scenes that don't only avoid coming of a plainly ridiculous , but that are ... Read More:
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This double sided dvd contains two horror films What's The Matter With Helen ? and Who Slew Auntie Roo ? both starring Shelley Winters. Sadly she is no longer with us but we are still able to endjoy her performances with dvds like this one.
The first film What's The Matter With Helen ? concerns two mothers of convicted murders who escape their past and move to Hollywood. One (played by Debbie Reynolds) becomes a star, while the other (Winters) is left out in the cold and gradually decends into madness. An excellent film which also stars the late Dennis Weaver (McCloud, Gentle Ben). The print is excellent (1.78 ratio widescreen) with very little print damage and good sound quality.
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This double sided dvd contains two horror films What's The Matter With Helen ? and Who Slew Auntie Roo ? both starring Shelley Winters. Sadly she is no longer with us but we are still able to endjoy her performances with dvds like this one.
The first film What's The Matter With Helen ? concerns two mothers of convicted murders who escape their past and move to Hollywood. One (played by Debbie Reynolds) becomes a star, while the other (Winters) is left out in the cold and gradually decends into madness. An excellent film which also stars the late Dennis Weaver (McCloud, Gentle Ben). The print is excellent (1.78 ratio widescreen) with very little print damage and good sound quality.
The second film Who Slew Auntie Roo ? features Winters as Auntie Roo as a "kindly" auntie ... Read More:
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For Your Eyes Only has some of the better action of the Bond films, but there are so many other things wrong with it that it almost cancels out the quality action sequences. The opening sequence of the film, with the remote controlled helicopter and Blofeld in a wheelchair, is excellent. The theme song for the film is awful. What you have with For Your Eyes Only is a stereo typical 80s love song and the entire soundtrack consists of 80s music. I do realize this was made in the 80s but the music is so 80s its funny.
One of the noteworthy things about this film is that the action scenes were either done very well or they were incredibly realistic. For Your Eyes Only is one of the only Bond films with ski scenes that don't only avoid coming of a plainly ridiculous , but that are actually are very ... Read More:
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This film deserves so much more credit for what it achieves from Huxley's original. While some of the performances are a little shakey, this film represents one of the great Oliver Reed's finest moments - he exudes power and sexuality as Grandier, and the film achieves some particularly powerful/disturbing moments in the depiction of the ergot-addled nunnery.
HOWEVER...
This film has truly been victimised by the censors and there is Still no DVD version available - surely with the garbage which the censors let through these days this film can be restored and re-released?
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