Squirm

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The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out...and to their ravenous intent, they leave no doubt! A truly frightening account of an infestation of biting worms, Squirm is guaranteed to make you dojust that (Los Angeles Times)! When a powerful storm knocks Fly Creek, Georgia's power lines down onto wet soil, the resulting surge of electricity drives large, bloodthirsty worms to the surfaceand then out of their soil-tilling minds! Soon, the townspeople discover that their sleepy fishing village is overrun with worms that burrow right into their skin! Inundated by hundreds of thousands of carnivorous creatures, the terrorized locals race to find the cause of the rampagebefore becoming tilled under themselves!

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I love this movie.......2007-03-25

I live in the small Georgia town of Port Wentworth and remember when they were filming this movie. It brings back alot of memories, they gave away alot of the worms to us. I am fixing to purchase my second copy of this movie since I loaned my first one out and never got it back so they must have loved it also. If anyone is into older scary movies try this one.

I'm sorry, but this movie is bad.......2006-10-23

The director must have said, "Okay people, we're in the south here, so BE AS SOUTHERN AS YOU CAN." Already the movie is flawed. Add into the mix some awful special effects and an extremely predictable storyline where the missing Mr. Beardsley has been eaten by worms. What have you got? Squirm - a movie that will forever be ridiculed.

Just take a look for a second at the hero Mick - a red-haired pale guy with glasses who overpacks for travel and can't even transport a piece of plywood without hurting his ankle. Usually in movies with underdog heros, the trials of the protagonist push him through a gradual change until he becomes brave and respectable, but not this guy. He saves the day by hiding up in a tree.

Then take a look at what the hero is battling against. Worms. Worms that are sometimes portrayed to us as gross close-up shots of random (and repetitive) stock footage, while at other times appear to be nothing more than lifeless, rubbery-looking spaghetti, as pink as your standard pencil eraser.

Lame.

Should anybody ever watch Squirm? No. Now let's move on.

Watch The MST3K Version.......2005-11-23

This movie is crud. Bad acting, stupid idea, and not so many scenes of monster worms. It's just that plain and simple. Watch the episode of MST3K when Mike and the rest made fun of this movie.

CRAWLING SPAGHETTI.......2005-11-06

WARNING: DON'T EAT SPAGHETTI WHILE WATCHING THIS MOVIE!
Truly, there are times when the masses of crawling worms look like spaghetti with beef sauce..yuck! With that said, SQUIRM is a pretty disgusting if effective little film. Filmed in Georgia with plenty of thick Southern accents, this movie posits what might happen if a massive amount of electricity was discharged into the earth. What results in this movie is a massive amount of hideously ugly flesheating worms that dessimate the little town of Fly Creek, Georgia. Relatively slow moving, the movie's climactic scenes do pack a slimy punch. Don Scardino, who got his start on soap operas, makes an unlikely leading man with his moppish blonde hair, thick glasses and gangly physique. The rest of the cast of unknowns are reminiscent of community theater actors and the overall production is rather shoddy and unpolished. But there are some gruesomely effective worm attacks, so it's not a total wash.

Lieberman's Waterloo.......2005-07-04

I once thought I had seen it all in the vaunted "animals/insects run amok" genre. I've seen more movies with sharks ravaging innocent swimmers than I care to admit. I've sat through more than a few films featuring monstrous spiders. I've watched cinematic disasters involving mutated bears, crazed squids, wacky octopi, mad whales, hungry alligators/crocodiles, murderous roaches, ravenous eels, and bloody thirsty birds. Name something that scuttles, flies, creeps, runs, crawls, swims, jumps, and judders--I've likely seen it in a schlock film. Like I said, I thought I'd seen it all. I was wrong. Jeff Lieberman, the creator of such B budget groaners as "Blue Sunshine" and "Just Before Dawn," presents a novel take on the aforementioned nature gone wild films with "Squirm." Here's a movie that all filmgoers should ignore with extreme prejudice, a movie so colossally bad that the DVD should carry a warning label saying, "Caution: This movie will kill you, your entire family, and everybody you've ever met." It's so bad I'm told the folks over at MST3K tore it to shreds. Why is Lieberman's effort in this genre so horrible to behold? Because, my dear friends, he made a movie about killer worms. Yes. Worms.

"Squirm" takes place in the Deep South shortly after a freak storm downed power lines in the area. Oddly enough--I should say impossibly enough--the electrical current pouring out of these wires goes directly into the ground, thereby causing some weird metamorphosis to take place. Bloodworms apparently don't take too kindly to massive charges of electricity; it causes them to acquire strange powers, like a hunger for human blood, the ability to strip a human being down to the bone in a matter of minutes, and the ability to appear and disappear in the blink of an eye. Anyway, none of the characters initially knows anything about the trouble lurking under their feet. When we first meet the principals, they're mooning around town doing a whole lot of nothing. Mick (Don Scardino) is a Yankee with a soft spot for egg creams (watch and see), a tendency to annoy southern law enforcement officers, and only has eyes for a belle named Geri (Patricia Pearcy). Why Mick turns up is somewhat of a mystery to me, not because the movie fails to explain his presence but because I simply can't remember why this yutz shows up in this podunk town. Anyway, he meets Geri's supremely annoying sister Alma (Fran Higgins), her equally annoying mother, and the next-door neighbor worm farmer Roger (R.A. Dow).

What follows is nonsensical to the nth degree. Roger, a slow talking hick who is sweet on the gregarious Geri, recognizes that Mick is the competition. The three head out on a fishing trip, probably so Rog can show up this mouthy carpetbagger, but disaster strikes when worm boy goes over the side of the boat and falls prey to the bloodthirsty worms. Johnny Reb pops up out of the water wailing like a siren with worms stuck all over his face, and then runs off into the underbrush. Think we'll see him again later? Mick and Geri, obviously sensing something is amiss in the area, attempt to bring the local sheriff (Peter MacLean) in to investigate. He's not happy about any of this. He witnessed Mick's egg cream fiasco at the local diner and warned the kid to get out of town. When he runs into him again at a local farm, as a result of a worm attack that killed an old geezer, he's even less amused. Since the local constabulary expresses little interest in putting an end to the mutant worms, it's only a matter of time before the creepy crawlies make their move. And wouldn't you know it? They choose to launch a massive assault on Geri's house, thus placing her whole family at risk. Do you think Roger might show up to cause a spot of trouble? Watch and see.

Goodness gracious, this movie absolutely reeks! Lame acting, cheap set pieces, a dumb plot, and a glacial pace--these are the elements of "Squirm" that will leave you squirming with discomfort. The least horrific thing going for Lieberman's film is the one element that ought to produce a few scares, namely the rampaging beasties. But when you rely on worms to induce shivers, you're already doomed to banality. Easily the most frightening things in the movie are the over the top southern accents, Alma's Joanie Cunningham haircut, and anything having to do with Roger. Mick's a real hoot too, but probably not in the way Lieberman intended. There's a scene where deranged Roger throws a flimsy sheet of siding at our hero and knocks the kid out. Wow, what a wimp! A sequel probably would have shown Mick falling into a coma after someone hits him in the head with a piece of balsa wood. There are several other scenes like this one, scenes that ought to produce a few chuckles thanks to the sheer ridiculousness of it all. Instead, I could only muster a look of pity for the people involved in this car wreck.

Incredibly, Scardino went on to a fairly lengthy career as an actor and director. Pearcy and MacLean also survived to work in Hollywood again. Alas, the inestimable talents of Fran Higgins and R.A. Dow are only on display here. More incredibly, "Squirm" received the DVD treatment from MGM. Supplements include a trailer, a television spot, and a commentary--more like a confession--from director Lieberman. I can't recommend "Squirm" to anyone. I love watching and reviewing bad movies, and even I can't find a single redeeming element in this atrocity. Not "so bad it's good," not "so bad I'll suffer through it because I've nothing else to watch," "Squirm" isn't a film; it's a war crime. Treat it as such.

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hammer wasn't really great at this time
Hammer's last Frankenstein a little rough around the egdes
The Frankenstein saga concludes
Franknstein And The Monster From Hell: The Final Frankenstein
One of the Best in the Series

Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
Starring: Peter Cushing , Shane Briant , Madeline Smith , David Prowse , and John Stratton
Director: Terence Fisher
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ASIN: B0000AUHOO
Release Date: 2003-10-21

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Though it wasn't Hammer Studios' final film, Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell can be considered its swan song, an intelligent, inventive, stylized reworking of the themes that had sustained the series for almost two decades. Dr. Frankenstein has buried his old identity and reigns over an insane asylum as Dr. Victor (Peter Cushing under a flamboyant blond wig in his sixth and final turn as the mad scientist) as if it were a live-parts yard for his continuing experiments. With the help of an ambitious acolyte he builds his latest creature, a hirsute apelike brute stitched together from the asylum's most promising inhabitants and turned into a sad, tortured slave. The film was shot at the end of Hammer's glory days, and the budgetary constraints can be seen in unconvincing miniatures and the rather bulky and stiff ogre suit, but the dark, claustrophobic sets create an effectively gloomy atmosphere. Director Terence Fisher effectively pulls out all stops for a marvelous sequence of the creature digging through the asylum graveyard in the middle of a flashing electrical storm, a demonic twist on the iconic gravedigging images that go all the way back to the 1931 Frankenstein. This was the last reunion for Cushing and Fisher, who together gave birth to Hammer's gothic reign with The Curse of Frankenstein and Horror of Dracula. Fisher retired after finishing the film. --Sean Axmaker

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hammer wasn't really great at this time.......2006-03-06

I mean in the late fifties and through the sixties Hammer Productions were great Like Brides of Dracula, The Phantom of the Opera and The Gorgon but this wasnt one of them This was really Weird Its the usally Hammer Frankenstein Story:
Man Meets Frankenstein, Becomes Frankenstein's Helper, Creates a Monster and then destroyes it. This was not a great Hammer Movie
although the music and sets were good I Would Reccomend stopping at "Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed"

Hammer's last Frankenstein a little rough around the egdes.......2006-03-06

"Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell" was Hammer's seventh and last film in their highly acclaimed Frankenstein series. While certainly not of a caliber as their earlier films, this movie is still quite enjoyable for a number of reasons, first and foremost being the return of Peter Cushing to the role after being replaced by the pallid and dull Ralph Bates for "Horror of Frankenstein". Cushing made this role his a long time ago, and he is always a joy to watch, glibly manipulating everyone around him, in this case the entire staff of an insane asylum, until everyone is working for him! Terence Fisher was back for one last go as director, and while this film falls a little short in some areas (notably the incredibly cheap-looking rubber suit of the neanderthal man-monster), Fisher's masterful handling of his actors never lets it get dull. It is a fitting conclusion to a wonderful series of films. One can only lament that Hammer's Dracula films never even approached this kind of continuity or satisfaction!

The Frankenstein saga concludes.......2006-02-01

The last of the Peter Cushing Frankenstein movies opens appropriately enough with a grave robbery. The delivery of the corpse, however, is not going to Frankenstein but rather to Simon Helder, a doctor who wants to follow in Frankenstein's footsteps. He is not very successful and in fact winds up arrested and sent to an asylum for the criminally insane.

Fortunately for Helder, Frankenstein is also in this asylum. He was committed there years earlier, but with the asylum director's cooperation, has faked his death and now serves the institution as Dr. Viktor. He is indeed the inmate running the asylum, and while not attending to patients, he is continuing his experiments. Happily for Frankenstein, his position of authority finally frees him from the meddling officials who always seem to disturb his work. Helder is soon working with him, along with the beautiful but mute Sarah.

This time, Frankenstein's subject is a "neolithic" man who is monstrous in size but homicidal. When the "monster" almost dies in an escape attempt, Frankenstein takes it upon himself to fix him up, giving him new hands, eyes and a brain. Of course, things go awry and the monster goes on a rampage. (As a note of trivia: this movie has David Prowse as the monster; he would go on to work with Cushing in Star Wars.)

The Hammer Frankenstein movies are a fun set, particularly due to Cushing. Unlike the Universal Frankenstein series, the focus is on the scientist, not the monster. Colin Clive, who is probably the most well-known Frankenstein from the Karloff movie (and despite the quality of the Hammer movies, none can top Universal's Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein), played the scientist as an obsessed genius. Cushing is driven less by obsession and more by arrogance, which often drives him into a villainy that Clive's Frankenstein would never have dared.

Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell is not a perfect movie, but it does not have some nice moments. Overall, it rates a low four stars, not bad, but not spectacular either.

Franknstein And The Monster From Hell: The Final Frankenstein .......2006-01-09

To: Hammer Film Fans:

The Good:
The baron is back! The newest monster is awsome! Movies that take place in asylums are usually bad. Late Hammer films are usually bad. THIS IS AN EXEPTION! I REPEAT, THIS IS AN EXCEPTION! This is a great film. Buy it. It really dosen't deserve an R rating. It is more like
PG-13 material.

The Bad:
It is really gory. The scene where the monster ttacks Sarah's boyfreind, and she regains speaking abilites is such a stupid scene.

FROM: The Hammer Film Reveiwer

One of the Best in the Series.......2005-12-31

The Hammer Frankenstein Movies that I Liked were the Ones with monsters stiched up and stuff like that, the others were boring
This one could have had a Better Ending like Baron Frankenstein getting killed by the inmates or because of his perverted idea with Sarah and the Monster Simon would have stabbed him or something by this time you could call Baron Frankenstein "Immortal" come on He should have died in "Evil of Frankenstein" or "Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed" Because of there endings. In this he basically scuffs his other monster away and plans more Experiments and sets up for yet another sequel but it never comes "I Hate Those endings" we should have seen Baron Frankenstein get Killed

The ones i liked
The Curse of Frankenstein{1957}
The Evil of Frankenstein{1964}
Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell{1973}

The ones i hated
The Revenge of Frankenstein{1958}
Frankenstein Created Woman{1967}
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed{1969} "The Rape Scene was Stupid"
The Horror of Frankenstein{1970}"I would have liked it if Cushing was in it

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Frankenstein
Starring: Bo Svenson , and Robert Foxworth
Director: Dan Curtis
Manufacturer: Dark Sky Films
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ASIN: B000TGJ87Q
Release Date: 2007-10-30

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Producer Dan Curtis (Dark Shadows, The Night Stalker), faithfully resurrects Mary Shelley's Gothic classic in an acclaimed adaptation starring Robert Foxworth (Falcon Crest), Bo Svenson (Delta Force) and Susan Strasberg (Picnic).

Fiercely devoted to the theories of extending and creating human life, scientist Victor Frankenstein and his assistants have secretly assembled an artificial man with human parts stolen from graves. Once he is brought to life, the enormous creature exhibits a child-like innocence. Unaware of his superhuman strength and frightful appearance, the Giant becomes hostile and demands that Victor create him a mate.

Bonus features include a new audio commentary track with actors Robert Foxworth (Victor Frankenstein) and John Karlen (Otto Roget) plus 1973 Frankenstein promo, recap and preview from the original broadcast on ABC-TV's Wide World Of Mystery.

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Great DVD for children

Rescue Heroes Adventure Collection Volume 1

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ASIN: B000EES1YY

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Has 6 programs on it Cave in, Electrical storm, The fire in field 13, Peril on the peaks, Tidal wave and Meteor

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Great DVD for children.......2006-04-15

As with all Rescue Heroes titles, this one is great. What you will find about Rescue Heroes is that there are no guns and little violence (no person on person). The RHs are just an elite team of rescuers who, for the most part, perform emergency services in the wake of natural disasters and occasionally add helpful safety tips to use at home.

At the time of this writing, however, there are two copies for sale at $60 and $100. I have no idea what drugs these people were doing, but you can usually find good copies for about $5-$15 dollars. Their retail price from Fisher Price is only $20 per DVD and they are currently still available from FP.

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francois in paris, chestnuts in blossom ...
An enjoyable late Medieval costume drama
The Beloved Rogue
great film - horrible ending
Entertaining, bizarre swashbuckler

The Beloved Rogue
Starring: John Barrymore , Conrad Veidt , Marceline Day , Lawson Butt , and Henry Victor
Director: Alan Crosland
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ASIN: B00006674G
Release Date: 2002-06-25

Description

The French poet-patriot Francois Villon enters a battle of wits with King Louis XI and fights to save his beloved in this exciting and romantic adventure. An enormous production with lavish sets and costumes, this swashbuckling story features a vibrant performance by the great John Barrymore. It also marks the American film debut of German film star Conrad Veidt, who would go on to play unforgettable roles in classics like "Casablanca" and "The Thief of Bagdad."

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francois in paris, chestnuts in blossom ..........2007-04-26

john barrymore stars as francois villon in this late silent epic and delivers one of his best screen performances. he is matched by conrad veidt in a splendidly hammy (i mean that in the best sense) turn as louis xi, jointly foisting off the takeover of paris by the evil burgundians in late medieval france. villon of course is remembered as one of frances great literary figures and the legends about his picaresque life have been grist for writers for centuries. this is a funny swashbuckler, and richly deserving its fine reputation, tho i wish i wish i wish (in vain, it seems) that the ronald colman "if i were king" (with an early screenplay from preston sturges!) of a decade later would find ITS way to dvd (i wont even dare hope for the dennis king / jeanette macdonald "vagabond king"). major fun.

An enjoyable late Medieval costume drama.......2007-01-25

This film begins in 1432, when François de Montcorbier is burnt at the stake for his role in trying to drive the English out of his beloved France. While gathering up some of his ashes to put in a locket the next day, his grief-stricken widow prays that her child will grow up to have the same type of heart and soul that his father did, only that he'll get to live instead of die for France. Twenty-five years later, that child, François Villon (a real historical person who lived from 1431-63), is a renowned national poet and very popular with the common people in Paris and the nearby city of Vauxcelles. He's also hopelessly in love with wine and women. Villon is so popular indeed that he's made King of the Revels on All Fools' Day, but the wild fun festivities come to a premature and devastating halt when Villon insults Charles, Duke of of Burgundy, a dangerous rival to King Louis XI. Since this incident happened in Vauxcelles and not Paris itself, however, King Louis XI only has Villon banished from ever setting foot in Paris again, on the threat of immediate death. Villon eventually goes back to Paris to help the people and to try to prevent the evil Charles from taking over as king. He winds up back in Paris accidentally, by means of a catapault that he and his friends were using to send food and brandy to the poor. It is upon this return to Paris that he meets Charlotte de Vauxcelles, whom he is catapaulted into the bedroom of and immediately falls in love (or at least lust) with. For trying to break up Charlotte's impending marriage to Count Thibault, a man she doesn't love, Villon is once more sentenced to death, but he manages to save his hide by prophesising to the king that Louis's death will occur 24 hours after his own. This friendly relationship with the king isn't long-lived, however, although no matter what happens to him, Villon remains determined to expose Charles for the scheming traitorous scumbag he really is in order to both save France and win Charlotte's hand in marriage.

Although this is a very enjoyable film, with touches of several genres (comedy, melodrama, swashbuckling, drama), it is, however, a costume drama, a genre that isn't always the best introduction for someone just getting into silent film. The silent costume drama can be a bit of an acquired taste even for more seasoned fans, what with a lot of different characters to keep track of, usually a longer length than most silents, a lot more intertitles than usual, and a plot that can take awhile to fully set up (as well as how some people just aren't interested in historical pictures anyway). This film does start out a bit slowly for those very reasons, but before long it gets more and more interesting, compelling, and exciting, and has a plot that's a lot easier to follow, with less meandering twists and turns, than is sometimes found in silent costume dramas. (Although I agree that the ending is a bit lacklustre and in media res, particularly in comparison to the great scene that just came before.) John Barrymore is simply fantastic in the leading role, and exhibits a lot of range throughout the course of the film, getting to swashbuckle, be romantic, and be comedic instead of just playing the part in a dramatic serious manner straight through. He's also looking quite handsome in this film, and even appears in just a loincloth in some of the scenes. Conrad Veidt is also wonderful as King Louis XI, a role which also allows him to express a range of different emotions, and the great character comedian Mack Swain is great as Villon's pal Nicholas. It's nice to see him in a more serious film instead of just comedies. Overall, in spite of the potential drawbacks of the costume drama genre, this is a great film for seeing why John Barrymore is considered one of the finest male actors of the 20th century.

The Beloved Rogue.......2005-10-23

Hollywood used to have a thing about turning the clock back four or five hundred years, locating things in a European capital, and dressing the Big Star in tights while having him clatter over the rooftops or through the trees. Come to think of it, movies are still partial to tights and rooftop cavortings, although today's heroes are apt to wear a more elaborate costume, move faster than a speeding bullet, and are almost always forced to suffer through at least one `origins' story.

The extra-normal powers enjoyed by François Villon, the fifteenth century `first great poet of France,' seems to have been a limitless capacity for wine and an uncanny talent for spontaneous creation of metered verse. At least so says the 1927 silent THE BELOVED ROGUE, a biography of sorts starring the ever-entertaining John Barrymore. I haven't been able to squeeze many facts about the historic Villon out of the internet. What it does have to say is a little more piquant than what you'll get from the movie. Apparently, Villon was a thief, robber, and may have killed a priest or two during his career. Banished a number of times for his crimes, Villon was sentenced to death by hanging at least once. More immediately, an operetta based on Villon, The Vagabond King, premiered in 1925. The Vagabond King would be turned into a movie twice, in 1930 and 1956. In 1938 the Justin Huntly McCarthy play would be adapted to If I Were King, starring Ronald Coleman. Popular guy, that Villon. THE BELOVED ROGUE may be the only movie about Villon not based on the operetta.

Not having seen any of the other films I can't attest to comparisons, but on it's own this movie is a lot of fun. Villon, as legend has it, was born on the day of Joan of Arc's martyrdom, and our first glimpse of the toddler is an amusing scene that shows him refusing the bottle unless wine is mixed in with the milk. Villon grows into the King of Fools, a low caste lover of life who chums around with silent film comics Slim Summerville and Mack Swain. This seems to be something of a light romantic comedy, but it's hard to tell with silent movies. In any event, the humor induces smiles rather than guffaws. To add some class conflict grit into the proceedings the movie has Villon fall in love with the beautiful princess Charlotte de Vauxcelles, played by the transcendently beautiful Marceline Day. The bent and seedy King Louis XI (played with decrepit aplomb by German actor Conrad Veidt) banishes Villon from his beloved Paris not, as the history books seem to indicate, for murder and mayhem, but because Villon insults the foul, Princess Charlotte chasing, Duke of Burgundy.

Although it's relatively breezy and easygoing, THE BELOVED ROGUE has a few strange, rough edges. This is the second John Barrymore silent film I've seen, and it's the second one in which he's gone through physical torment for Love. In this case it's a jarringly well-staged trial by fire. Some of the minor players are strange, too. There's a bouncy dwarf and Dick Sutherland as the palace executioner. Sutherland suffered from acromegaly, a disease that distorts the facial feature. It's the same disease Rondo Hatton - the Creeper in the Basil Rathbone/Sherlock Holmes The Pearl of Death - suffered from. In other words there's something side-show exploitative to this movie that some may find more jarring than entertaining.

great film - horrible ending.......2005-03-22

Everything is right about this film until the ending. Barrymore is fantastic as is Conrad Veidt. Sets are immense and Barrymore's tragic scene when he removes is clown makeup, knowing he is exiled, is one of the two or three greatest acting scenes in film. And John proves himself a fine comedian in many scenes. But the ending---there is none!

There is no conclusion, nothing but a tremendous build up to a confrontation that never occures. For me it destroys the film. But this, along with Svengali, contains probably Barrymore's two best roles.

Entertaining, bizarre swashbuckler.......2002-08-13

With the exception of two earlier films, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1920) and The Sea Beast (1926), THE BELOVED ROGUE is more a personal statement by its star, John Barrymore, than any film he ever made. Designed as a romp through 15th century Paris (in a snowstorm, no less), ROGUE is both inventive and bizarre as Barrymore's Gothic tastes were given free rein by United Artists.
The actor specifically wanted to avoid the "Hollywood" type of situations where the hero rescues the heroine and both live happily ever after. Despite the film's inventiveness, the plot eventually works itself out along the more traditional lines that Barrymore wanted to avoid like the plague. It was said that he was unhappy with the finished product but many years after his death, when ROGUE was considered a lost film, a subsequent owner of Barrymore's house found a mint 35mm print of this film stored away in the basement. Perhaps that print is the one used for this dvd, courtesy of Mr. Barrymore himself.

Since the film seeks a de-glamourized view of the Middle Ages, fans of Hollywood swashbuckers made during the 1930s and 40s will probably be surprised - dismayed may be a better word - at the dingy surroundings and deformed characters present in many scenes. Barrymore revelled in this type of setting and perhaps felt justified that he could never have played such parts had he remained on the stage. As it turned out, the film rights to the hit stage play, "If I Were King," were not available so Barrymore and company had to cobble a story together based on public domain information on Francois Villon, steering clear from any story elements original to the play.

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A swashbuckling sensation, The Beloved Rogue, has thrilled audiences for years due in large part to the incomparable John Barrymore who turns out a great performance as the legendary poet-patriot, Francois Villon. Set amongst wonderfully fantastic winter sets, The Beloved Rogue promises high-flying stunts, wild snowstorms, passionate romance, and good-hearted humor.

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This Canadian import DVD single features Electrical Storm (Audio track with still images), four 30 second snippets from The Making of the Video and Electrical Storm (The Video)

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Electrical Storm Review.......2002-10-30

First off I LOVE U2 but this DVD single is really a waste. It has the music video and a small interview with Larry and a 1 picture photo gallery. I thought there would be a little more to it than this.

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great video
Back to basics for U2

Electrical Storm (dvd Single)
Starring: U2
Manufacturer: Phantom Sound & Vision
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ASIN: B0000714DF
Release Date: 2002-10-29

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Region 1/NTSC DVD. Features the 'Electrical Storm' video (director's cut), 'Electrical Storm'(William Orbit Mix) & 'Interview With Larry' plus a collection of photographs by Anton Corbijn. The video for Electrical Storm is directed by Anton Corbijn & feat

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great video.......2003-12-25

One of the best U2 videos. Actually has some artistic merit (not your usual mindless exposition), thanks to Anton Corbijn.
The "interview" with Larry is like one and a half minutes and he says nothing, really; just articulates, not very successfully, his awe of Samantha Morton (she is a hot, hot, hottie).

Back to basics for U2.......2002-12-24

The title says it all that U2 is back to the kind of music their known for, great guitar work by The Edge and soaring vocals from Bono this song reminds me that U2 isn't going to leave the music scene. This DVD includes the music video to "Electrical Storm" the video is not very different from previous because U2 has always been creative with their videos using very creative directors such as one of my favs "One" a must see if you like U2 all in all this DVD is a nice dolby 5.1 version or you could get the "Best Of U2 1990 - 2000" which includes many other U2 videos including this one.

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