Customer Review: CHARLTON HESTON IS EXCELLENT IN THIS DRAMATIC PRESENTATION OF A MAN THAT GIVES UP HIS OWN PLEASURES OF A QUIET FAMILY LIFE TO FIGHT A BATTLE FOR JUSTICE.
Customer Review: Rousing moving, but they seem to have copied it from a VCR that was watched 50 times too many. Yul Brenner is a marvel in this movie, even with poor quality color and definition.
Customer Review: How have I not seen this movie before now?? It's true that it's very simplistic, for todays' standards, but for it's time, it is wonderful. I see NOTHING wrong with Yul Brynner strutting around half naked, showing off his shaved head. He is perfect for this role, and I was pleasantly surprised at... more info
Customer Review: A beautiful print of this good film. The film is not quite as good as the original book though. But decent, considering that Mervyn Leroy was behind the wheel of this super-production, so it could hardly fail. The best is the crisp and beautiful cinematography, the real sets, the colors, the whole... more info
Customer Review: Nowadays, the Western is almost a dead genre, a far cry from the days in which it dominated the movies. Of course, even in its heyday, it had various stages. Earlier Westerns tended to focus on adventure, with cowboys and Indians and bank robbers. Around the 1950s, a new subgenre began to appear,... more info
Customer Review: Well, besides being a big ham, unless of course you are a big fan of the Bible and the Scriptures, this is a worthless effort in story telling. Nowadays we have much more specific indications on who Solomon was and how the Queen of Sheba came into play. There are even sources that really and... more info
Customer Review: The Blu Ray release of How the West Was Won is by far the best version released to date. The frames are nearly perfectly aligned and synchronized. The "smile box" format is a real treat. It simulates the Cinerama theatre experience very well. The soundtrack sounds great. Blu Ray has definitely... more info
Customer Review: An impressive film that should be in any film buff's library. The scenery, acting and story are very well done. Some license is taken with the lives of both Michelangelo and Pope Julius II. However, the acting and exchanges between Heston as Michelangelo and Rex Harrison as Julius II is superb.... more info
Customer Review: I remember watching this when I was a junior high student. It was the first I had heard of the horrible fate of six million European Jews under Hitler's Nazi Europe. It was so moving and heartbreaking that I remember crying several times. When I visited the Holocaust museum in Washington, D.C., one... more info
Customer Review: More than an epic tale of an early 20th Century oilman, this is a fascinating study of the greed for power and what it does to a man.
We meet Daniel Plainview down the bottom of a mine, exerting himself in mind-numbingly monotonous and backbreaking work, looking for gold or silver. He is a man... more info