VHS Products

Manufacturer: Hollywood Select Video
Starring: George Adamson, Terence Adamson, Anthony Bourke, James Hill, Virginia McKenna

A rather jarring mix of period drama, trashy romance, and all-star blockbuster, Duel of Hearts is a swashbuckling, bodice-ripping tale of slightly dubious quality. Based on a novel by Barbara Cartland, it provides the usual dollops of intrigue and love, although its choice of a female protagonist does at least give it some twist. The splendidly named Lady Caroline Faye (Alison Doody) is the ...

Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent
Starring: Alison Doody, Michael York, Geraldine Chaplin, Benedict Taylor, Billie Whitelaw
Directed By: John Hough

Manufacturer: Paramount Home Video
Starring: Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles, Jack Hawkins, Virginia McKenna
Directed By: Sergei Bondarchuk

Manufacturer: Lions Gate/Vestron
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Simon Ward, Agostina Belli, Anthony Quayle, Virginia McKenna
Directed By: Alberto De Martino

This television miniseries tells the story of the founding of the modern Olympics by focusing on individuals in several countries and their preparations and eventual competition in Athens in 1896. David Ogden Stiers (a familiar face to viewers of M*A*S*H reruns) portrays a Princeton classics professor whose knowledge of the ancient Olympics means he's given the task of recruiting an ...

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Starring: David Ogden Stiers, Hunt Block, David Caruso, Alex Hyde-White, Benedict Taylor
Directed By: Alvin Rakoff

Born Free is a bona fide family classic. The tale of how Kenya game warden George Adamson and his wife Joy (on whose book the film is based, with Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers in the principal roles) adopted and raised three orphaned lion cubs, taking a particular shine to the one they call Elsa before helping her return to the wild, is familiar by now; so's John Barry's Oscar-winning ...

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Starring: Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers, Geoffrey Keen, Peter Lukoye, Omar Chambati
Directed By: James Hill, Tom McGowan

Manufacturer: Do Not Use
Starring: Richard Burton, Virginia McKenna, Robert Hardy, Ian Bannen, Robert Beatty
Directed By: Herbert Wise

Nice concept, shaky execution--that about sums up the mixed blessings of British actor Peter Howitt's intelligent but forgivably flawed debut as a writer-director. It's got more emotional depth than most frothy romantic comedies, and its central idea--the parallel tracking of two possible destinies for a young London professional played by Gwyneth Paltrow--is full of involving possibilities. It's ...

Manufacturer: Paramount
Starring: Paul Brightwell, Linda Broughton, Evelyn Duah, Terry English, Charlotte Fryer

Coincidence throws Mij the otter and Graham Merrill (Bill Travers) the computer worker together on a busy London street. What transpires from this chance meeting is an epiphany that leads to the complete upheaval of Graham's life. Evicted from his city flat thanks to the antics of his newly acquired, mischievous otter, Graham embarks on a train journey to the Scottish Highlands. Suffice it to say ...

Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
Starring: Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna, Peter Jeffrey, Jameson Clark, Helena Gloag
Directed By: Jack Couffer

Manufacturer: MGM (Warner)
Starring: Gary Cooper, Charlton Heston, Michael Redgrave, Emlyn Williams, Cecil Parker
Directed By: Michael Anderson