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She [DVD] [1965]

DVD ~ Ursula Andress
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  • Actors: Ursula Andress, Peter Cushing, Bernard Cribbins, John Richardson, Rosenda Monteros
  • Directors: Robert Day
  • Writers: David T. Chantler, H. Rider Haggard
  • Producers: Aida Young, Michael Carreras
  • Format: PAL, Widescreen
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: U
  • Studio: Warner Home Video
  • DVD Release Date: 29 Oct 2001
  • Run Time: 101 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00005NMWA
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 41,158 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Hammer's She might be a travesty of Rider Haggard's epic adventure novel, scaling things down to fit into a budget lavish only by the studio's low standards. At least the film opens with the unexpected sight of Peter Cushing and Bernard Cribbins in a dive in Palestine in 1919, shimmying with belly-dancers and brawling with the locals John Ford-style. Less entertainingly the film then switches attention to blonde clod John Richardson who is dreamily visited by blonde goddess Ursula Andress--her eerie beauty enhanced by the usual Hammer trick of dubbing the foreign crumpet with a posh voice.

Our adventurers are given a map which leads them through deserts and mountains to the lost city of Kuma, an Egyptian-style civilisation ruled by Ayesha. This immortal She-Who-Must-be-Obeyed has been unaccountably waiting for Richardson to be reincarnated ever since she pettishly killed him thousands of years ago. In this reading, She is an Aryan fascist given to tipping those who displease her into a pit of molten lava. Her final comeuppance--as she bathes again in the blue flame of immortality and finds the process reversed so she suffers one of Hammer's patented Dracula dissolves to dust--takes place during a native uprising which overthrows her whole corrupt regime.

The leads look terrific but can't act for beans so it's a mercy that stalwarts Cushing and Christopher Lee (as the treacherous High Priest) are on hand, not to mention Cribbins (comedy servant in bowler hat), Andre Morell and Rosenda Monteros.

The James Bernard music is enchanting in a way Robert Day's direction sadly isn't, but the sets and (especially) costumes are splendid and the film has its moments of magic and terror: as the centurion pours out the remains of Morell's daughter from a jar, as the flame burns blue and the lovers bathe in it.

On the DVD: the 2.35:1 widescreen print is in very good shape. Otherwise, there's not even a trailer. --Kim Newman

Special Features
2.35 Wide Screen
English
Region 0
Dolby Digital Mono English
Dolby Digital Mono
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars They say a moth is attracted to a flame, 2 Jun 2005
By bernie "xyzzy" (Arlington, Texas) - See all my reviews
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Well not quite the book but a little closer than earlier versions this movie is quit fun to watch.

Three men back from the war, Maj. Horace Holly (Peter Cushing), Job (Bernard Cribbins), and Leo Vincey (John Richardson) are just aching for adventure. While having a good time in the local bar in Palestine, Leo is vamped by a beautiful exotic girl Ustane (Rosenda Monteros.) He gets abducted and is confronted by a mysterious and mesmerizing timeless beauty Ayesha (Ursula Andress). She gives him a ring and a map and says find me. His friend sees the ring and the map and says treasure. So they are off in the desert. They will soon find more than they expected, and so shall we.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Decent Hammer Production, 7 Jun 2007
Although it's a far cry from an adaptation of Rider Haggard's magnificent novel, this Saturday matinee version from Hammer is reasonably entertaining. Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee contribute their typically fine performances, muting the overall campiness of the production.

If you have an HDTV, you'll be disappointed, as this is not anamorphic widescreen. In fact, it's just the same transfer used for the laserdisc. (I have the laserdisc, and it looks exactly the same.)

I have a certain fondness for this movie, which if nothing else inspired me to read the book. Other film versions are even farther from the novel; the 1935 version relocates the action from Africa to the Arctic!

Here's hoping a remastered HD version will be available someday.
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4.0 out of 5 stars She who waits, 20 Nov 2007
By Trevor Willsmer (London, England) - See all my reviews
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Hammer's 1965 version of She can't match Merian C. Cooper's 1935 version for spectacle but it's still rather more handsomely mounted than you'd expect from the studio: location shooting, numerous sets and more extras than usual even if these descendants of Ancient Egyptians seem to have an army consisting of Roman legionaries. The most commercially successful adaptation of `the famous novel by H. Rider Haggard' (as the credits bill it), even inspiring a dreary sequel, The Vengeance of She, it's also surprisingly good, with rather more substance than you might expect.

Played partially as an old-fashioned adventure with far more action than any other version, the story is updated to post-WW1 Palestine, its explorers (Peter Cushing, John Richardson and mild comic relief Bernard Cribbins) now reimagined as demobbed soldiers uprooted by the war. "She who waits" is introduced into the picture surprisingly early and long before they reach her domain - here it is Ayesha herself who urges Leo to make the hazardous journey to prove that he is the reincarnation of her lost love. The second half makes more of the battle for Leo's soul, with more of an argument made against the temptations of eternal youth than in other versions, and the film goes to much darker places than its predecessors: this time Leo is lost long before the blue flame appears, and the end remarkably bleak. Being Hammer it also ups the sadism, not only in a mass execution of chained slaves but in the manner in which one character is `returned' to their family.

With Haggard's novel touching on the worship of beauty and youth above character or even basic humanity (She is so in thrall to her image of a lover that she blames herself for his infidelity) it's actually rather fitting that both leads are dubbed: Ursula Andress because of her thick accent - but then, no-one ever cast her for her voice - and John Richardson because, well, with his zombie-like vocal delivery that made him the Clive Owen of his day, acting never was his forte as long as he had the looks to get away with not having to. It's left to the bearded Peter Cushing's Holly to provide the weight of authority and make the case for growing old gracefully, which he does with effortless professionalism, while Christopher Lee's ambitious high priest Bilali is a far more interesting and less blindly devoted character here, adding another layer of moral decay to the crumbling kingdom. The production design makes a virtue of its relative economy, Kumar past its prime and on the edge of rebellion, the lost city itself long crumbled and the kingdom retreated into the very mountains, though the fact that the sets are smaller than they look and shot with long lenses to look larger is occasionally given away by distortion in some of the panning shots thanks to the still far from perfected Scope lenses. The special effects, though not always photo-realistic, are rather good in their old-fashioned way while James Bernard's score features a particularly memorable desert trek theme. All in all, one of Hammer's finer hours, and still highly enjoyable.

Warner/Canal Plus' DVD boasts no extras but an acceptable widescreen 2.35:1 transfer, though the title sequence looks somewhat faded.

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3.0 out of 5 stars A Hammer production! Good for nostalgia value and the odd unintentional laugh
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4.0 out of 5 stars Scarily camp !
This is a boys own adventure story of the old school acted with a very British stiff upper lip.
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