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[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Dave Boy

Okay, so there is no denying that this box set is entertaining.
If you love the low budget monster movies then this box set is great.
It's a shame then that the film have not been remastered as advertised.

The films that look the best are The Womaneater, Strange World Of Planet X and The Giant Gila Monster.
The Beast From Haunted Cave and Monster From Green Hell are really not too bad a picture.
Gorgo looks colourful but still has washed out detail.
The Crater Lake Monster looks like an old tv print with transmission lines.
Behemoth The Sea monster has picture noise like digital blocking.
The Killer Shrews is just the old public domain print.

So, yes it does look bad from my comments but I really don't think that these films are going to look any better than they are here..no one is going to put the money in to restoring these which is a shame.
If you can pick up this set cheap then I say go for it, it really is a lot of fun.

Sounds to be the equivalent of a Mill Creek box set except it costs £30 not £4.

Pity as i hoped it would be a beautiful remaster job.

Thanks for the info, Dave Boy.

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[Dave Boy]

Saw this advertised on Talking Pictures. £15

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VINTAGE SCI-FI COLLECTION -VOLUME 1
ONCE IN A NEW MOON – (1935) Director: Anthony Kimmins. Stars: Eliot Makeham, René Ray, Morton Selten, Derrick De Marney. When the small town of Shrimpton-on-Sea is dragged out into space by the force of a 'dead star' passing Earth, the populace try to organise a local government based on equal rights for all, but conflicts arise between the local aristocracy and the villagers. Filmed At Shepperton Studios. Watch out for the great Wally Patch and a young Thorley Walters at the start of his career.
THE NIGHT CALLER – aka Blood Beast From Outer Space (1965) Director: John Gilling. Writers: Jim
O'Connolly (screenplay), Frank Crisp (novel). Stars: John Saxon, Maurice Denham, Patricia Haines. An intelligent, restrained, moody and highly effective winner. In it, scientist John Saxon,working at England's Falsley Park research station, grapples with a mysterious sphere that has touched down on the moors, direct from the Jovian moon Ganymede. The film cleaves fairly evenly into two discrete sections. In the first, Saxon and his Falsley co-workers (including blonde, no-nonsense Ann Barlow,
played by the excellent Patricia Haines) conduct tests on the sphere and endeavour to puzzle out its mysteries. In the latter half, Saxon assists Scotland Yard in its investigation of the disappearances of several dozen young women, all of whom had answered an ad for a modelling job in "Bikini Magazine." Filmed At Shepperton.
PHANTOM FROM SPACE (1953) Directed and Produced by W Lee Wilder. Stars: Ted Cooper, Tom Daly, Steve Acton and Burt Wenland. An alien being with the power of invisibility lands in Santa Monica. Killing two people who attacked him due to the menacing appearance of his spacesuit, the creature takes it off while being pursued by the government authorities.
DR.CYCLOPS (1940) Castle Films Digest version. Director: Ernest B. Schoedsack. Producer: Dale Van Every. Stars: Albert Dekker, Thomas Coley, Janice Logan, Charles Halton, Victor Kilian, Frank Yaconelli, Paul Fix and Frank Reicher. Four explorers are summoned to Peru by the brilliant physicist Dr Thorkel. They discover a rich source of radium and a half-mad Thorkel
who shrinks them down to one-fifth their normal size when they threaten to stop his unorthodox experimentation. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for special effects in the 1941 ceremony.
TARGET EARTH – (1954) Director: Sherman A. Rose. Stars: Richard Denning, Kathleen Crowley, Virginia Grey. Raw Panic The Screen Never Dared Reveal! Giant robots from Venus invade Chicago... Stranded in the deserted city are strangers Frank and Nora.
STRANGER FROM VENUS – (1954) Director: Burt Balaban. Stars: Patricia Neal, Helmut Dantine, Derek Bond. Tonight, first contact will be made! A beautifully-crafted tale of a superior being from Venus who has the power of life and death at his
touch. Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal's glowing and sensitive performance as a woman caught up in the biggest event in history is complemented by Helmut Dantine's powerful, moving portrayal as the Stranger.
THE ALIEN FACTOR – (1978) Director: Don Dohler (as Donald M. Dohler). Stars: Don Leifert, Tom Griffith,Richard Dyszel. A spaceship containing specimens for an intergalactic zoo crashes on Earth near a small back woods town. The specimens escape, and soon town folk are turning up mutilated.
CAPTIVE – (1980) Directors: Robert Emenegger, Allan Sandler. Writers: Seth Marshall III (screenplay),Robert Emenegger. Stars: Cameron Mitchell, David Ladd, Lori Saunders. Earth and the planet Styrolia are at war over the possession of valuable Dirathium crystals. A Styrolian warship is shot down on Earth, and the surviving aliens make their way to a nearby farmhouse where they take the family captive.
PSI FACTOR – (1980) Director: Bryan Trizers. Writers: Steven Posner, Robert Emenegger. Stars: Peter Mark Richman, Gretchen Corbett, Tom Martin. Aliens from another dimension cross space and time to come to Earth. A scientist tries to discover what their motives are.
THE DREAM DOCTOR (1936) Director: R W Lotinga (real name Widgley R Newman). Cinematography: John Miller. Stars: Julie Suedo, Sydney Monckton, Leo Genn, Margaret Yarde, Yvonne Murray, Peter Cousins, Thelma Sheehan and Jennifer Skinner. A lady gypsy interprets the dreams of a doctor's patients, but are her readings any more true than her psychic pronouncements?

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As usual with Renown, Don't expect much if any remastering. May go for this.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Night Caller is good quality. I have the original dvd with both versions on it from Renown.

Good film as well.

[Demoncrat]

Ooh Target Earth and Captive. And The Night Caller, Dr Cyclops ... etc.
Tempting ...

[Susan Foreman]

The Powell And Pressburger Collection | Renown Films

THE POWELL & PRESSBURGER COLLECTION. RRP £59.99 OUR PRICE £25 with FREE UK P&P

11 DVD BOX SET

"A collection of 11 classic British films from influential filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Films from the 1940s onwards reflecting the times and the passing world incidental to the stories they recount. We see Britain as it was before and during the Second World War and the art of film making is shown at its finest.

The collection is also a showcase of some of the greatest cinematic talent of all time, from David Niven, Laurence Olivier and Deborah Kerr to Peter Finch, Wendy Hiller and even Sabu. Through eleven classic films spanning from 1941 to 1966, each one guaranteed to keep not only film buffs but the casual viewer hours of pleasure time and time again.

The films in this collection are; A MATTER OF LIFE & DEATH (1946) Stars: David Niven as a pilot given a reprieve when heaven make a clerical error; BATTLE OF THE RIVER PLATE (1956) Stars: Peter Finch in the true story of the 1939 naval battle; A CANTERBURY TALE (1944) Stars: Eric Portman & Sheila Sim where three pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town; 49th PARALLEL (1941) Stars Laurence Olivier and Leslie Howard in a classic war film; I KNOW WHERE I’M GOING (1945) Stars: Wendy Hiller as a woman who gets stranded on an island due to a storm and begins to see life differently; Ill MET BY MOONLIGHT (1957) Stars: Dirk Bogarde and David Oxley play British officers assigned to kidnap the German commander-in-chief General Kreipe (Marius Goring) and spirit him back to Cairo; THE LIFE & DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP (1943) Stars: Roger Livesey as he reflects over his career and the woman (Deborah Kerr) he loved and lost; THE RED SHOES (1948) Stars: Moira Lister in the classic ballet film; THEY’RE A WEIRD MOB (1966) Stars: Walter Chiari as an Italian immigrant in Australia looking for work; THE TALES OF HOFFMAN (1951) Stars: Robert Rounseville as Hoffman in an adaptation of the Offenbach's opera; BLACK NARCISSUS (1946) Stars Deborah Kerr & Jean Simmons a drama of tensions, jealousy and lust within a convent in a Himalayan valley"

[Susan Foreman]

To be fair, there's not a lot here

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