Join Amazon Prime and get unlimited Free First Class Delivery. Already a member? Sign in.

 

or
Sign in to turn on 1-Click ordering.
 
   
More Buying Choices
13 used & new from £2.98
Have one to sell? Sell yours here
 
   
Sirocco [DVD] [1951]
 
See larger image 
Share your own customer images

Sirocco [DVD] [1951]

DVD ~ Humphrey Bogart
4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.07 & this item Delivered FREE in the UK with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions
You Save: £6.92 (53%)
o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o
In stock.
Items for dispatch to UK will be sold by Amazon's Preferred Merchant. (Why?) Gift-wrap available.

Only 3 left in stock--order soon (more on the way).

12 new from £2.98 1 used from £2.99
Learn about Lovefilm
Amazon's choice for DVD rental.
With a 14 day FREE trial. Learn more

Frequently Bought Together

Sirocco [DVD] [1951] + The Harder They Fall [DVD] [1956] + Dead Reckoning [DVD] [1947]
Total RRP: £38.97
Price For All Three: £16.02

Some of these items ship sooner than the others. Show details

What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item?

Sirocco [DVD] [1951]
54% buy the item featured on this page:
Sirocco [DVD] [1951] 4.0 out of 5 stars (2)
£6.07
Dead End [DVD] [1937]
13% buy
Dead End [DVD] [1937] 4.7 out of 5 stars (3)
£3.98
Dead Reckoning [DVD] [1947]
11% buy
Dead Reckoning [DVD] [1947] 4.0 out of 5 stars (4)
£4.88
In A Lonely Place [DVD] [1950]
11% buy
In A Lonely Place [DVD] [1950] 4.6 out of 5 stars (7)
£4.88
Explore similar items

Product details

  • Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Lee J. Cobb, Märta Torén, Everett Sloane, Gerald Mohr
  • Directors: Curtis Bernhardt
  • Writers: A.I. Bezzerides, Hans Jacoby, Joseph Kessel
  • Producers: Henry S. Kesler, Robert Lord
  • Format: Black & White, Full Screen, PAL
  • Language Arabic, English
  • Subtitles: Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: PG
  • Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 27 Jan 2003
  • Run Time: 94 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00007JGKU
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 13,741 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

    •  Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?

Reviews

Special Features
Vintage Advertising Gallery
Photo Montage: The Bogart Collection
Languages: English, German, Italian and Spanish.
Subtitles (Movie Only): Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish

Synopsis
Bogart produced this action vehicle, in which he stars as Harry Smith, an American gun runner selling weapons to the Arabs in Damascus, circa 1925. As the French and Syrians wage war against each other, Smith is pursued by Feroud (Lee J. Cobb), a French colonel. Smith complicates matters for himself by stealing Feroud's girlfriend (Marta Toren), who has been eager to get away from the commander.

See all Reviews

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

Dead Reckoning [DVD] [1947]

Dead Reckoning [DVD] [1947]

DVD ~ Humphrey Bogart
4.0 out of 5 stars (4)  £4.88
In A Lonely Place [DVD] [1950]

In A Lonely Place [DVD] [1950]

DVD ~ Humphrey Bogart
4.6 out of 5 stars (7)  £4.88
Sahara [DVD] [1943]

Sahara [DVD] [1943]

DVD ~ Humphrey Bogart
4.2 out of 5 stars (5)  £4.98
The Harder They Fall [DVD] [1956]

The Harder They Fall [DVD] [1956]

DVD ~ Humphrey Bogart
4.7 out of 5 stars (3)  £5.07
Desperate Hours, The [DVD]

Desperate Hours, The [DVD]

DVD ~ Humphrey Bogart
5.0 out of 5 stars (3) 
› Explore similar items

Tags Customers Associate with This Product

 (What's this?)
Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
Check the boxes next to the tags you consider relevant or enter your own tags in the field below
(1)
(1)
See all 3 tags...

Your tags: Add your first tag
 
See most popular tags
 

Customer Reviews

2 Reviews
5 star:
 (1)
4 star:    (0)
3 star:
 (1)
2 star:    (0)
1 star:    (0)
 
 
 
 
 
Average Customer Review
4.0 out of 5 stars (2 customer reviews)
 
 
 
 
Share your thoughts with other customers:
Most Helpful Customer Reviews

 
2 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Film that Ought to have more Fame than Casablanca, 28 Sep 2008
The vintage advertising montage consists of two advertisements, both rather reflective of the time; as in deed they are. Neither are particularly interesting, but do show cinematic advertising history, and could be interesting to the aficionados of fifties film.

Photo Montage: The Bogart Collection, starts by a short biography of the man himself, though doesn't mention Sirocco or Casablanca. After the biography the montage begins showing pictures from his films advertisements.

The DVD menu layout is presented in a typically 50s style, with different text sizes and styles.

The disk is of a good strong material, with an understated design, which shows all that you need to know as well as the classic unimposing design.

Synopsis: Bogart plays an untaxed intersectional surreptitious importer of devices for the encouragement of retreat by the occupiers of Syria. This modus operandi puts upon Bogart, Harry Smith, a reputation of ruthlessness.
Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)



 
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Bogart called this one "a stinker." He wasn't wrong, but at least there's Everett Sloane to appreciate, 25 Jan 2009
By C. O. DeRiemer (San Antonio, Texas, USA) - See all my reviews
(TOP 100 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)   
We know Bogart liked to keep working. The movies he made in the late Forties through the mid Fifties, however, sometimes give "work" a bad name. He veered effortlessly between fine movies that to this day continue to challenge, satisfy or do both and movies that are nothing more than nearly forgotten commercial hackwork. He knew what he was turning out; he called Sirocco a stinker. What an odd and undiscriminating selection process he and his agent must have had. In 1950 he makes Chain Lightening but then makes In a Lonely Place. In 1951 it's Sirocco and then The African Queen. In 1953 it's Battle Circle and then Beat the Devil (maybe a confusing failure, but not hackwork).

With Sirocco Bogart gives us Harry Smith, a gunrunner who finds himself in Damascus. The year is 1925. The French run things. A lot of Syrians don't like that at all. They're called "rebels." Harry? He doesn't care one way or another as long as he's paid. Harry is tired, sour, cynical and a skeptic. He doesn't believe in anything except money and the value of his own hide. He's Bogart. Harry quickly finds himself involved with a martinet of a French general named LaSalle (Everett Sloane) who thinks shooting five Syrians for every dead French soldier will be educational for everyone; a sympathetic French colonel named Feroud (Lee J. Cobb) who thinks he can avoid bloodshed if he can just sit down and talk things over with the rebel leaders, especially Emir Hassan (Onslow Stevens); and Feroud's mistress, a cool drink of water named Violette (Marta Toren), a beautiful woman who seems to be aroused more by the prospect of shopping than the prospect of making love. In other words, a courtesan to scriptwriters, a sophisticated prostitute to the more realistic; something akin to a wealthy CEO's trophy wife. Harry meets Violette, wants her and comes close to falling for her. This sets up some tension between himself and Colonel Feroud. All the while Harry is trying to extricate himself from an arms deal gone very, very wrong. By the end of the movie no one has gained much of anything, although it appears Violette will have the time to do more shopping.

At one point in Sirocco Violette says to Harry Smith, "What a man! You're so ugly! Yes, you are! How can a man so ugly be so handsome?" Ugly? Quasimodo, that's ugly. Bogart may not have been handsome, but he had style, a unique screen personality and the good fortune to star in three -- count 'em, three -- iconic career-making movies in less than two years. High Sierra, The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca carved Bogart's screen persona so deeply in granite that even hackwork like Sirocco scarcely makes a chip. When we see Harry we're really seeing Roy, Sam and Rick.

There's no reason to watch this movie unless you're fond of Bogart and have an hour and a half to waste. But if you watch, remember Everett Sloane. He was a fine, fine actor who seldom found memorable parts in Hollywood. He was a member of Orson Welles' Mercury Theater and came to Hollywood with Welles. He wound up in the Fifties doing a ton of television shows. He killed himself in 1965 when he was 55. My best memories of Sloane include Mr. Bernstein in Citizen Kane (1941); Arthur Bannister in The Lady from Shanghai (1947); Mario Belli in Prince of Foxes (1949); Dr. Eugene Brock in The Men (1950); and, powerfully, Walter Ramsey in Patterns (1956).
Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)


Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
 
 
 
Only search this product's reviews


Customer Discussions

 Beta (What's this?)
This product's forum (0 discussions)
  Discussion Replies Latest Post
  No discussions yet

Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
  [Cancel]


Active discussions in related forums
  Discussion Replies Latest Post
drama
worst film you've ever seen ? 		402 16 minutes ago
drama
Secret Dairy of a call Girl 		3 22 minutes ago
classics
desert war film 		1 31 minutes ago
action
Goriest ACTION movies... 		8 44 minutes ago
action
Movie where supporting actor outshines lead? 		15 2 hours ago
classics
Green Haired boy 		5 5 hours ago
thriller
Cold War type Spy thrillers - Books/DVD's 		17 23 hours ago
   
Related forums

Listmania!

Create a Listmania! list

Look for similar items by category

Feedback

Fun for Everyone

Christmas Gifts
Achieve over 15,000 RPM with our great range of Powerballs.

›Shop the Powerball store

  

Let Olay Amaze You

Olay Total Effects Day Moisturiser SPF15 50ml
Amazon.co.uk sells all your favourite ranges from Olay, including Regenerist and Total Effects.

›Discover Olay at Amazon.co.uk

  

Boys Smell

Lynx Africa Body Spray and After Shave Gift set
But we make sure they smell good...

›Discover male grooming at Amazon.co.uk

  

Treat Someone

Amazon.co.uk Gift Certificates--available in any amount from £5 to £500 With an Amazon.co.uk Gift Certificate, you can get them what they want (even if you don't know what that is).

›Learn more about Gift Certificates

  
Ad

Where's My Stuff?

Delivery and Returns

Need Help?

Your Recent History

  (What's this?)
You have no recently viewed items or searches.

After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.

Look to the right column to find helpful suggestions for your shopping session.
Continue Shopping: Top Sellers

amazon.co.uk Amazon Home
International Sites:  United States  |  Germany  |  France  |  Japan  |  Canada  |  China
Business Programs: Sell on Amazon  |  Fulfilment by Amazon  |  Join Associates  |  Join Advantage
Customer Service  |  Help  |  View Basket  |  Your Account
About Amazon.co.uk  |  Careers at Amazon
Conditions of Use & Sale |  Privacy Notice  © 1996-2009, Amazon.com, Inc. and its affiliates