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 Spaceways $2.99 SPACEWAYS-was a very interesting film that I never saw as a youngster. Because of several Amazon reviews I was hesitant to buy this film and first rented it to see what I thought of it. My score of four stars is not that different from the average viewer, but I do think I enjoyed it much more than the typical reviewer because of my personal taste. One fact we can agree on, and as another reviewer has commented, this is an unusually fine DVD transfer for an old film made from good original source material, and produced a very excellent picture on a large screen TV. The much discussed mystery plot, (which included murder, espionage and the efforts of a lead engineer to clear his name of same in the eyes of military intelligence), was written around a nice film expose of von Braun's early three stage space vehicle, first conceived to orbit the Earth in a two hour orbit at 1075 miles altitude. That, plus the nice screen presentation of this craft, good sets, costumes, models, and the decent special effects were a very pleasant surprise after all these years of laboring under the impression that these concepts were only available in the form of book drawings and an early Disney feature animation. A nice job was done of presenting the very dated plot, outdated relations between the genders and the never dated physics of orbital mechanics. I am going to purchase this inexpensive film for my library of sci-fi classics. Howard Duff always puts on a good show and pulled off this unconventional acting assignment credibly. The entire cast (Howard Duff, Eva Bartok, Andrew Osborn, Alan Wheatley) did a fine job considering their acting assignment. Note, this movie is strictly for space cadets and I would not recommend it for anyone else.  SHOOT HIM AT SUNRISE! Would a Military Firing Squad End Six Generations of Patriotism? $19.95 What a wonderful story of a family's triumphs and tribulations through the generations. Tied into historical events, this novel is a great read. I could not put it down. Gayleen Ienatsch |
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