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• The Fall of the Roman Empire/The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) | Blu Ray | (11/06/2024) from £14.68   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Fall Of The Roman Empire | DVD | (30/10/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The second and last of Anthony Mann's historical epics is a smart, handsome spectacle of the decadence, corruption and intrigue that tore apart the Roman empire. The sprawling story spreads itself thin over a number of characters and stories. At the centre are handsome but stiff Stephen Boyd as Livius, the loyal soldier and symbolic son of the ageing emperor Marcus Aurelius (Alec Guinness), and Christopher Plummer as Commodus, the corrupt heir to the throne. They are boyhood friends turned enemies when the latter accedes to the throne and sells out the values of his father for greed and hedonistic pleasures. The three-hour running time is filled out with the tales of Sophia Loren (as the beautiful Lucilla in love with Livius but coveted by greedy Commodus) and a gallery of heroes and villains that includes James Mason, Mel Ferrer, Anthony Quayle, John Ireland, Omar Sharif and Eric Porter. The film is highlighted with spectacular scenes--a grandiose funeral fit for an emperor, brutal battles in the provinces as the barbarians threaten the empire, and a climactic duel to decide the destiny of Rome--which Mann weaves into the shadowy intrigue of the halls of power. Like his previous epic El Cid, The Fall of the Roman Empire remains one of the best of the 1960s epics: well written with strong performances and a consistently elegant style, but lacking the central core and magnetic hero of its superior predecessor. Ridley Scott's Gladiator (2000) tackles almost the same story with a more crowd-pleasing action-adventure slant. --Sean Axmaker

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  Yet another Fisher/Hammer colaboration pre-dating their classic horror output. 'Spaceways' is a cold war space adventure filled with intrigue and deceit. A British rocket scientist stands accused of the brutal murder of his wife and her Soviet lover. His accusers believe he shot their remains into space and he can only prove them wrong by personally going up there. Accompanying him on this cold cold journey is a lovely fellow scientist (Bartok) who is guaranteed to keep things warm.

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  Someone Behind The Door

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  No memory. No name. No mind. This man will act out someone else's insanity and revenge. Charles Bronson plays a convincing patient in this dramatic tale of deceit and hardened emotion. A neurosurgeon (Anthony Perkins) with a cheating wife takes his patient a confused amnesiac (Charles Bronson) into his home for intensive treatment. The doctor disturbed by his wife's affair conditions his lost patient to believe that the cheating wife is his own the gun in his pocket is his and the task he started prior to losing his memory was to find his cheating wife and her new mate and take the appropriate actions.