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Callan: The Movie [1974] [DVD]

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Binding : DVD
EAN : 5055019500183
Label : Prism Leisure
Manufacturer : Prism Leisure
Publisher : Prism Leisure
Release date : 2001-09-01
Title : Callan: The Movie [1974] [DVD]
Audience rating : Suitable for 15 years and over
Format : PAL
Languages : Array
Number of items : 1
Region code : 2
Running time : 180
Studio : Prism Leisure
Number of discs : 1

Customer reviews

review by: Fan of Great Music date: 2007-10-04 rating:

Excellent, gripping film
I also remember with fondness the TV series and agree that the movie is not a replacement for the series. But, in its own right the movies is well worth watching. Modern viewers will probably be disappointed by the lack of graphic violence, but what is there is shocking in its suddenness and brutality. It also shows what can be done with a few blows. The acting throughout is first class. All who have seen the TV series will miss the classic opening sequence of lightbulb which set the tone for the whole saga.

review by: hyperbolelad date: 2004-07-06 rating:

Nice to have
Not as satisfying as the tv series,but given how much of the Callan tv series has been lost its great having this movie which is based upon the first ever tv play of Callan and gives it the more expensive production values than tv could at the time. This dvd is particularly worth having for the excellent interview with Edward Woodward in which he manages to cover just about all anybody could ask about the Callan programmes. Woodward comes across as being a very honest intelligient, articulate and thoroughly nice unpretentious man. br / br /I was only ten when the series originaly aired on London television,but I do remember it being a favourite with my parents and watching the series via the wonders of dvd all these years on I can see why because they are just thoroughly absorbing dramas. You cant help but wonder what makes the lead character ie Callan tick, he's far too caring a man to be involved in the dirty tricks department of the British secret service. br / br /In the movie Eric Porter (best remembered for playing Sherlock Holmes's arch enemy Moriarty in the definitive Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes series) plays Callans commanding officer, Hunter,and in the tv boxset Hunter is played by the even more interesing William Squire. I reckon there is a fair bit to compare in the evil genius Moriarty and the scheming ministry of murder commander Hunter.Both are Napoleans of misdeed presiding over their minnions like evil puppeteers pulling the strings. Hunter in the tv series does occasionaly have an almost fatherly touch particularly in the way that he has such enormous belief in Callans ability to do the job despite Callan's uncalled for character trait of having compassion for the victims. Watching him in the movie one can definitely see why Eric Porter was chosen for the part of Moriarty in the Granada tv Holmes,his portrayal of Hunter is totaly the epitomy of Sherlock Holmes's reptilian opponent which he was called upon to play over a decade later . Interestingly William Squire went on to play superbly another Holmesian character the litigious busy body (nosey neighbour on the moors)Stapleton in the BBC's 1982 "Hound of the Baskervilles" Sherlock Holmes tv dramatisation played by Tom Baker so yet another Sherlockian connection. br / br /Regards. br / br /Jim Clark..London..England aka poetryanimations at youtube

review by: date: 2000-10-27 rating:

Brilliant British Drama
I'm too young to have watched the Callan series, but my parents introduced me to it when we watched this DVD and I'm hooked. Brilliant characters, brilliant acting, brilliant scripting... I cannot praise this film highly enough.

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