"Actor: Walter Abel"

• Silent Night, Bloody Night | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  The new owner of a mansion discovers it was once a mental home. When he visits his inheritance he sets about investigating some old crimes that took place at the mansion scaring the local populace in the process.

• The Three Musketeers | DVD | (30/01/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  All for One! And One for All! The reckless sons of the flashing blade ride and fight for love and their King in the grandest romance ever born from the fire-dipped pen of the immortal Alexandre Dumas! Young blood leaps in tingling veins and feminine hearts stand still in this first ever sound film adaptation of the classic story of The Three Musketeers!A young Gascon D’Artagnan (Walter Abel) arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the King’s Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Athos (Paul Lukas), Porthos (Moroni Olsen) and Aramis (Onslow Stevens). Together they fight to save France and the honor of the lady Constance (Heather Angel) from the scheming machinations of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter.

• Comedy Greats | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A "two-plus-one" package from Siren, Comedy Greats features classics from the two greatest silent-screen comics, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, plus a rather dreary effort from Danny Kaye. Never the most scintillating of comedians, Kaye's personable talents are thinly spread in 1949's The Inspector General. Distantly(!) based on a short story by Russian satirist Nikolay Gogol, this tale of mistaken identity enables Kaye to indulge in obvious wisecracks and not-so-smart dialogue. Sylvia Fine's songs are mildly amusing, and Henry Koster draws capable support from Walter Slezak and Elsa Lanchester, but it's a long haul. When he made Tilli's Punctured Romance in 1914, Charles Chaplin had yet to perfect the "little man" routine which made him the most popular 1920s screen star. His loveable rogue is well displayed opposite Marie Dressler's formidable country maid, whose unexpected windfall becomes the real object of his desire. Mabel Normand contributes an attractively period chic, and if, in the hands of Mack Sennett, the humour tends to fall back on music-hall slapstick, the historical significance of the film is undoubted. Yet it's Buster Keaton's 1928 classic Steamboat Bill Jr which comes out on top here. Keaton is perfectly cast as the put upon student, whose bravery saves both his father and his steamboat-owning rival, and wins the hand of the latter's daughter. Solid support comes from Ernest Torrence and the winsome Marion Byron, with Charles Riesner getting maximum drama from the cyclone sequence, but it's Keaton's soulful expression and breathtaking stuntwork which are the most potent reminders of a talent only later to receive its due. On the DVD: Comedy Greats is acceptably remastered, with 1.33:1 aspect ratio and 12 chapter headings per film, and decently packaged, this is worth acquiring--even though Keaton's film is the only one you're likely return to often. --Richard Whitehouse

• Silent Night Bloody Night | DVD | (26/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Maniacs have taken over the asylum! The new owner of a mansion discovers it was once a mental home. When he visits his inheritance he sets about investigating some old crimes that took place at the mansion scaring the local populance in the process.

• Silent Night, Bloody Night | DVD | (30/05/2005) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  The mansion... the madness... the maniac... no escape. Starring Warhol Factory favourite Mary Woronov as well as cameos by other Superstars SILENT NIGHT BLOODY NIGHT is a bizarre tale of an escaped lunatic who terrorizes a small New England town and has strange dealings with the inhabitants of an old mansion which is up for sale.