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starring: Michael Caine, Omar Sharif, Florinda Bolkan, Nigel Davenport, Per Oscarsson directed by: James Clavell  List Price: $14.99 Price: $2.99 You Save: $12.00 (80%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780764004629 Format: Color, Letterboxed, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 076400462X Label: Starz / Anchor Bay Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Starz / Anchor Bay Release Date: January 26, 1999 Running Time: 128 minutes Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay Theatrical Release Date: January 28, 1971 Sales Rank: 13194 Related Items: Editorial Review: Amazon.com: James Clavell's heartfelt film of paradise found and lost in the midst of the bloody Thirty Years War, a senseless religious conflict long since degenerated into a rabble of looters preying on peasants, is a triumph of passion over style. Michael Caine stars as the Captain, a happily tolerant leader whose army of mercenaries, a mix of Protestants and Catholics, murders, pillages, and rapes side by side for whatever faction is paying more this month. Omar Sharif is Vogel, a lone refugee whose flight from the marauding band leads them all to a beautiful village in the mountains. The Captain and Vogel make an unlikely pair, the shrewd mercenary with the dream of peace, and the philosopher peasant hanging on to his own life in the face of certain death, and their alliance to preserve this Eden and her people stands in contrast to the soldiers who soon become splintered by greed, lust, and religious zealotry. Clavell isn't exactly subtle, but his sense of irony is biting: one Christian soldier is ready to lead an mob in righteous battle after a perceived blasphemer, and in the next scene attacks and rapes an innocent Christian maiden he's sworn to protect. The film falters in clumsy battle scenes and awkward dramatic staging, but Caine's complex characterization of the guarded Captain and Sharif's haunted performance keep the story alive, and the beautiful photography sets the film like a jewel into its setting. --Sean Axmaker Average Rating:
 Rating: - Medieval The setting is beautiful. The valleys are green and lush but the air is fill with feelings of bad auguries. The man in rags running away from a decimated town takes your thoughts to the days of the Black Plague in Europe. It is a slow pace movie full of intrigue and treachery. Michael,Caine,Omar Sharif, and the rest of the cast performance is good. The story, a chapter in Europe's dark history. Rating:  - The Thirty Years' War -- in real timeThe Last Valley is set during the Thirty Years' War and this movie seems to be filmed in real time. The Tirolean countryside is breath-taking (kudos to the cinematographer) but the story line is as uneven as the terrain. A band of battle-weary soldiers discovers a valley apparently untouched by the war and decide to winter over, but not without setting down their rather draconian ground rules. (One does wonder why the villagers --who vastly outnumber the soldiers-- don't tell them to take a hike ... Read More Rating:  - The Expurgated CutThis is very much a movie worth seeing, but I am not at all pleased that some ninny took it upon themselves to censor this film. This is not the movie as it was released to theaters and shame on ABC Pictures for failing to release this in its original form. The image of the DVD itself is grainy and apparently no effort was put into trying to clean the film up (from a technical stand point at any rate). Having said that, IMO this is the single best performance Michael Caine ever turned ... Read More Rating: - Involving, Low-Key EpicSmart script but mostly uninspired filmmaking prevent this from being quite the lost classic it's sometimes billed as. Both leads are good with Caine doing one of his rare accents and it doesn't falter. Florinda Bolkin fascinates. Unfortunately, the villagers are done up in such garishly colorful clothes the picture at times looks like Heidi and the brutal truths the film tries to get at are undercut. Rating: - The Last ValleyAt best a 3 star production. Old style filming looking more like a spagetti Western at times. Good story line with mediocre results. Browse for similar items by category:
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