Recommended Good show! VCI Entertainment has released British Cinema: Classic 'B' Film Collection, Volume 1 , a three-disc, six film collection of some sprightly, fast-paced programmers from Britain's lower-end production companies. Purists will be upset by VCI's use of beat-up syndicated television prints (including a pan-and-scan version of the only widescreen title in this collection), but 'B' movie lovers (hopefully) will just sit back and enjoy the shows - especially when one considers these entertaining but admittedly marginal titles may not come to DVD in any other way than in these compromised transfers. Titles include 1938's Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror , 1940's Crimes in the Dark House and The Girl in the News , 1952's The Frightened Man , 1958's Tread Softly Stranger , and 1960's The Siege of Sidney Street . There's not a dog in the bunch (another ... Read the entire review ...
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Recommended Good show! VCI Entertainment has released British Cinema: Classic 'B' Film Collection, Volume 1 , a three-disc, six film collection of some sprightly, fast-paced programmers from Britain's lower-end production companies. Purists will be upset by VCI's use of beat-up syndicated television prints (including a pan-and-scan version of the only widescreen title in this collection), but 'B' movie lovers (hopefully) will just sit back and enjoy the shows - especially when one considers these entertaining but admittedly marginal titles may not come to DVD in any other way than in these compromised transfers. Titles include 1938's Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror , 1940's Crimes in the Dark House and The Girl in the News , 1952's The Frightened Man , 1958's Tread Softly Stranger , and 1960's The Siege of Sidney Street . There's not a dog in the bunch (another ... Read the entire review ...