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The Black Windmill [DVD]
enlarge	Director: Don Siegel Actors: Michael Caine, Donald Pleasence, Clive Revill, Janet Suzman Studio: Universal Pictures UK Category: DVD List Price: ~~£15.99~~ Buy New: £1.44 as of 25/11/2009 05:58 GMT details You Save: £14.55 (91%) New (16) Used (4) Collectible (1) from £1.25 Seller: fastdvd2006 Rating: 7 reviews Sales Rank: 10689 Format: PAL Languages: English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), Dutch (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Czech (Subtitled), Finnish (Subtitled), Italian (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Hungarian (Subtitled), Danish (Subtitled), German (Subtitled), Polish (Subtitled), English (Original Language) Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over Region: 2 Number Of Discs: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5050582434163 ASIN: B000GALHI8 Release Date: August 7, 2006 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 7 1 2 Next » The Black Windmill May 31, 2009 Mr J Sheales This is one of Michael Caine's best films of the early 1970's. It is a spy thriller. Michael Caine plays John Tarrant a British Intelligence agent who has his son kidnapped for a ransom in diamonds. br / br /This is a very good thriller, with Michael Caine at his best. Nice dvd copy but a slow movie, that missed it's chance to be great October 16, 2009 Andy B (Canada) 1 out of 1 found this review helpful A nice letter box 2.35.1 image no extras, which is not that bad. br / br /But the film itself just seems to amble on. Fine performances from the cast it just seems that Don Siegle, who gave us terrific paced movies as Dirty Harry Telefon just seem to be stuck in the slow groove with this 1. br / br /A fine book which had a really interesting story line just seems to plodding along. br / br /No doubt with the never ending stream of remakes going on, maybe this 1 will reappear. br / br /Not terrible, just not great. Underrated Michael Caine thriller July 12, 2009 Mr. Haseebuddin Ahmad (Blackburn, England) Michael Caine gives an effectively understated and terse performance as the persistently tough John Tarrant in this solid outing from the legendary Don Siegel who gave us Dirty Harry and the excellent Charley Varrick. The Black Windmill has a sense of urgency and pace to it as Tarrant strives to do a deal with a gang of criminals, led by the ever-dependable John Vernon, in order to get his boy back. He is a typical Siegel hero who will stop at nothing to bring justice to his persecutors. br / br /There are several muscular set-pieces that liven up the film, such as a motorway explosion, a foot chase through a train station that is quite reminiscent of Clint Eastwood running all over San Francisco in Dirty Harry, a dramatic prison van escape and the bullet-riddled finale worthy of any decent '70s action movie. Efficiently average but rather unexciting with it February 16, 2007 Trevor Willsmer (London, England) 25 out of 27 found this review helpful The Black Windmill has a workable premise, a unspectacularly decent cast (Delphine Seyrig, Donald Pleasance, Janet Suzman, Clive Revill, Dennis Quilley, Edward Hardwicke and Joss Ackland among them) and a good director in Don Siegel, but it never catches fire. Michael Caine, playing a very different spy to Harry Palmer - more of a middle class career army officer who never needed to be blackmailed into the job - finds himself being set up by the vicious kidnappers of his young son to steal some diamonds intended for some dubious operation, eventually finding himself having to avoid his employers, the French and British police and take out the very bad guys (hey, it is John Vernon). All of which sounds at least more energetic than the film actually is. It moves along with competence, dotting the `i's and crossing the `t's, but even though a surprising amount happens in the last half hour, it never seems to develop any tension or urgency. Along the way there's a nice Sean Connery joke and a neat scene that manages to reference both The sound of Music and Caine's own Battle of Britain, but the good Scope composition and the typical 70s Roy Budd score make more of an impression than anything else in the film. br / br /Uiniversal's DVD has no extras, but it does boast a good 2.35:1 widescreen transfer that at least ensures the film looks its best and has none of the panning-and-scanning problems of the TV prints. Good but not great May 25, 2008 John A. Clouston (Belper, Derbyshire United Kingdom) 7 out of 8 found this review helpful This isn't up there with The Ipcress File, Funeral in Berlin or Get Carter - but that's not to say it's a bad film. The photography and music give it some class, the cast are excellent and the plot is interesting rather than thrilling. It does have it's moments though, and I would be quite happy to watch it again. br / br /Michael Caine supported by the likes of John Vernon, Janet Suzman, Donald Pleasance, Joss Ackland and Delphine Seyrig can't be a complete waste of time - we even get a brief but memorable appearance by Catherine Schell. I agree it's more likely to be enyoyed by fans of Michael Caine and British espionage films in general, but it's by no means a duffer. Showing reviews 1-5 of 7 1 2 Next »

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