Product Details

• Actors: Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde, Georgia Brown, Hugh Griffith, Elizabeth Hartman
• Directors: John Frankenheimer
• Writers: Bernard Malamud, Dalton Trumbo
• Producers: Edward Lewis, Enrico Isacco
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Fox Home Entertainme
• VHS Release Date: March 2, 1994
• Run Time: 132 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6302995825
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #228,864 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A forgotten masterpiece!, October 18, 2007

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Hiram Gomez Pardo (Valencia, Venezuela) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fixer [VHS] (VHS Tape)

If the term "entireness" adjusts itself to just a few North American filmmakers, then, John Frankenheimer should be included in this reduced catalogue.

This is a deeply moving drama about anti-Semitism in tsarist Russia around 1911. A Russian Jewish peasant (the formidable Alan Bates) is wrongly imprisoned for a unlikely crime - on the fragile humanity of a gentle child in Kiev. Bogarde plays the role of a very sympathetic tsarist defense attorney. Based on a true story on Bernard Malamud's Pulitzer-Prize winning novel, the movie is at certain passages unrelenting but at the end will reward you. Because such level of direction, and two giants actors as Bogarde and Bates are hard to find in those days.

A must- see.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars incredible film, July 26, 2008

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Catherine J. Garbus "ceejay" (Tunkhannock, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fixer [VHS] (VHS Tape)

when this film came out in the theaters I went to see it 10 times. Everyone I took to see it was horrified and did not understand why I liked it. It is powerful and moving. I so hoped Bates would win the Academy Award. I hope this will come out on DVD soon as well as other of Bates films that are only on VHS.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unforgettable and Moving. Should be Released in DVD Format!, July 20, 2010

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Charlie Griffin - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fixer [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I saw "The Fixer" in a theater when it was first released. That was at least 40 years ago, and I have never forgotten the powerful and moving performance by Alan Bates. I am dismayed that it has not been released in DVD format. The world is missing a masterpiece.