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Escape to Athena
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 0012236990932
Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
Label: Artisan Entertainment
Manufacturer: Artisan Entertainment
Publisher: Artisan Entertainment
Release Date: June 24, 1997
Studio: Artisan Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: June 06, 1979
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Rating: - So the 70s was the last great age of movie-making, huh?
Escape to Athena is another nail in the theory that the 70s was a golden age of movie-making. It's a typical example of those transatlantic star-studded messes so beloved of Lew Grade after the modest success of The Eagle Has Landed led him to inflict the likes of The Cassandra Crossing (okay, that one is a guilty pleasure), Voyage of the Damned and Michael Winner's The Big Sleep on the world. A bizarre cross between Hogan's Heroes and The Guns of Navarone (well, director and co-scenarist George ... Read More
Rating: - DVD available in Region 2 of fun 1970s action movie
Region-free DVD player owners might be interested to learn that a DVD of this fun 1970s actioner is available in Europe.
In this entertaining World War II action movie, two actors, who previously played the character James Bond, Roger Moore and David Niven (who spoofed the part up in the unfunny CASINO ROYALE) team up with previous Bond villain Telly Savalas (Blofeld in the excellent ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE) in an effort to destroy a Nazi missile silo in the Aagean Sea.
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Rating: - One of the Best War Movies Ever (and a Rare One!)
OK, so not everyone has seen this movie in their lives, but this is a rare-see for cable TV viewers. Featuring Telly Savalas from "Kojak", this is one of ITC's best movies ever made -- but whatever happened to the studios after 1992? Don't they have it on DVD yet??
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