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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0733961709421
Format: Box set, Black & White, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: A&E Home Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Manufacturer: A&E Home Video
Number Of Items: 5
Publisher: A&E Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 30, 2003
Running Time: 975 minutes
Studio: A&E Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: April 05, 1961
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Before The Avengers and the James Bond films, the pioneering 1960 British series Danger Man helped to usher in spy-mania in Great Britain. Patrick McGoohan stars as "Drake, John Drake," an agent of NATO's secret service branch. "A messy job," he informs us, "That's when they usually call on me." Most Americans only know Drake as the Secret Agent Man, the title of the hour-long series that debuted on these shores in 1964. This half-hour series never aired in the United States, making this five-disc set, containing all 39 first season episodes, essential for Brit-TV aficionados, not to mention that branch of Prisoner devotees who insist that the kidnapped "No. 6" is actually Drake himself. Like 007, the dapper and unflappable Drake possesses a keen wit and "animal sense of danger," and his assignments take him all over the world, from Rome and Paris to the Arabian desert. But Drake is old school. He very rarely uses a gun. He is not a womanizer. He does not possess an arsenal of cool gadgets. His missions are more gritty and realistic; classic "cloak and dagger" stuff. He foils not megalomaniacs trying to take over the world, but a rogue's gallery of embezzlers, assassins, slave traders, traitors, and the like. Also fun for Anglophiles are early glimpses of favorite British character actors, including Miss Moneypenny herself, Lois Maxwell ("Positions of Trust"); a pre-Avengers/Pussy Galore Honor Blackman ("Colonel Rodriguez"), Judy Carne, Laugh-In's Sock-It-to-Me girl ("Hired Assassin"; Charles Gray from the Bond films You Only Live Twice and Diamonds Are Forever ("The Key"); and Jean Marsh of Upstairs, Downstairs fame ("Name, Date and Place"). The jazzy score is also killer. --Donald Liebenson
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The opening season is great fun, and most (but not all) episodes are very sharp black and white. Camera work is pretty straight-forward, but occasionally, some adventurous shots (noir/expressionist) that make you sit up and say Wow! The scripts, however, do leave something to be desired. The 1/2 hour limit forces most of the episodes I've seen so far to seem more like dramatic skits, or formulaic rough drafts, than compelling drama. But there are still enough unpredictable touches, and first-rate ... Read More
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This is the root of the Prisoner series. It shows American spy John Drake as a competent agent, globe trotting in half hour increments and James Bonding the hell out the place.
MacGoohan is a little more light in his approach than in later years, but this is supposed to be a genesis, after all.
The black and white points out the simplicity of the times. You were either good or bad and John Drake was either going to save you or stop you depending.
Young Mr. MacGoohan ... Read More
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More good character driven drama in 26 minutes than in most of today's 'hour long' shows. One can see hints throughout of The Prisoner to come.
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Great early first season Danger man/Secret Agent (Man) thirty minute episodes. The larger box has it all.
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These early half-hour shows hold up extremely well. If you liked the hour-long SECRET AGENT show, you'll like these too. In fact some of these little 1/2 hour episodes are as good as the best of the hour long series.
However, don't buy this particular item, go ahead and buy the combined megaset, Secret Agent (aka Danger Man) - The Complete Collection Megaset 2007 which includes both the 1/2 hour and 1 hour shows if you can find a copy. And beware the other "megaset" which has only the 1-hour shows.
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0733961709421
Format: Box set, Black & White, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: A&E Home Video
Languages:
Manufacturer: A&E Home Video
Number Of Items: 5
Publisher: A&E Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 30, 2003
Running Time: 975 minutes
Studio: A&E Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: April 05, 1961