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Although I didn't find the movie "The Buddy Holly Story" too insulting (I never knew the bloke), I can understand why those who did in fact have some connection with him, want to put the record straight. "The Real Buddy Holly Story" is a pretty standard music documentary, which I must confess I will always be a sucker for. Although I found it didn't bring to life anything overly insightful, it contains some great interviews with many music icons, particularly a couple with "Keef" Richards of the Stones. It is always great to see his clouded intellect in full flight, during his hazy heights of the seventies. However, the interviews I found the most personal and interesting, were those of his two brothers. What wonderful Texan country folk they are, and their memories of their great brother are indeed grounded and humane. For any Buddy Holly fan, the brief live vintage footage alone, makes this worthwhile watching, not to mention the live playing of Jerry Allison. What an underated drummer and so crucial to the sound of The Crickets. Anybody who has an interest on Buddy's impact or his music, will be more than happy with what this documentary has to offer.

I am a middle school music teacher, and I bought this movie to add to my history of rock and roll unit. I was torn between "The Buddy Holly Story," with Gary Busey (which I've seen before and is great), and this one. In the end, I chose the "Real" version, because it is more historically accurate. It certainly is, but was comprised of mainly interviews, and a few clips of Buddy and the Crickets concert footage. I was disappointed, because I thought Paul McCartney would make a more exciting tribute to Buddy Holly. So, in short, factual and boring: yes, exciting and stimulating: no.

Interviews with family, friends, colleagues, and music industry leaders of 1950s make this as close to an autobiography as we're ever going to get from Buddy Holly, especially as it was produced only 20 or so years after his death. It's been 50 years since this talented 22 year old left us tragically, and still we ponder the unanswerable question "what if?" This documentary sets the facts straight even if the details will always be open to interpretation, if only because each person's perception is their reality. One person will remember an event as evidence Buddy was brash and stubborn, while for another it proved he was sweet and polite; truth is in the eye of the beholder. The lyrics to one of Buddy's final songs, That Makes It Tough, have become haunting in retrospect. "Memories will follow me forever, though I know my dreams cannot come true." And that's the impression of Buddy that I was left with by the people interviewed: an ambitious and talented "good ol' boy" from Lubbock, focused on his dreams, worthly of being remembered as fully human and not just a musical legend.

As Paul McCartney expresses it at the beginning of this fine documentary, he was dissatisfied with the version of the Buddy Holly story as told in the movie by that name, and hoped in this film to tell THE REAL BUDDY HOLLY STORY. He therefore set out to interview as many of the people who were either friends or family or fellow musicians and who are still alive. If you have read John Goldrosen's highly regarded biography THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY there will be little here that is unfamiliar, but it is always great to see film footage, some of it very raw, that can, of course, never be contained inside a book. The documentary manages a pretty balanced view of Buddy's life, though it politely skips over some of the more controversial aspects of his life, such as the somewhat acrimonious breakup of the Crickets near the end of Buddy's life and the complexities created by Buddy marrying a Hispanic female at a time when such a thing was pretty unusual. The film also ignores or minimizes other aspects of Buddy's life. For instance, there is some mention of his religious convictions, but no indication of how deep those were. In fact, Buddy remained a devout Baptist throughout his short life and even tithed to the church (giving 10% of your income to your local church). At the end of his life he was forming plans to record a collection of religious songs. Items like this are usually left out of accounts of Buddy's bio. Still, this film has a lot of great footage and some wonderful interviews with a lot of great people, not just people who knew and performed with Buddy, but some who were deeply influenced by him, like Keith Richards. McCartney is a solid if not terribly penetrating interviewer (his position in the rock world would prevent his asking any uncomfortable questions, such as probing for details about the reputed fight between Buddy and a bandmate before appearing on Ed Sullivan). The one thing that I've always regretted was just how little quality film footage there is of Buddy Holly performing. We've a lot a photographs and a satisfying number of studio recordings, but few recordings of Buddy performing live. Even one of the sequences found in this film shows Buddy lip synching rather than performing live. The film does include a great deal of rather raw footage, where we get visuals of Holly performing with either inadequate or no audio. There may someday be a better documentary film about Buddy Holly, but it is unlikely that we will ever see one with as much first-rate original interview footage. And no film is likely to do a better job of documenting just how central Buddy Holly was to the development of rock music in the early sixties, when bands like the Beatles, following the example of Holly, started writing their own songs instead of doing covers of those written by others. It has often been stated that of all the deaths of performers in the history of music in the rock era, it was Holly's that most impoverished our culture. Only 22 at the time of his death, Holly could well have taken our music in completely new directions. We'll never know what he might have done, but what he actually accomplished was extraordinary.

Anyone who was a Buddy Holly fan, this DVD is excellant to have. There is real footage, that will bring you back to that era. Paul McCartney did a wonderful job. This is the best DVD on the market. Only wish there was more live footage, but Buddy died at the height of his career, so this is all that has been around. Worth every penny!

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Gary Busey did an excellent job even doing his own singing. He out did himself.

This is one of my favorite movies about the early rock 'n roll era. Is it all factually accurate? Of course not. Is Gary Busey's live singing and playing comparable to Buddy Holly? Of course not. It is, however, the definitive roll of Busey's career and not to be missed. Also, it's a great peek into a bygone time for a generation too young to have experienced the groundbreaking Buddy Holly and his peers. Watch the movie and then buy a real Buddy Holly CD and enjoy them both.

Would buy again from this seller. Item arrived quickly, and in condition described. Thanks so much!

This is one of my favorite movies. Sadly, Sony/Columbia Tristar has taken the "flipper" DVD from 1999 off the shelves with both wide and full screen versions and replaced with a lackluster fullscreen only version instead(this one os from 2005). I was lucky enough to find an older one brand new for the same price as the fullscreen DVD. Gary Busey, Don Stroud and Charle Martin Smith were great in this music biopic, some of it is, however fictitious. But even with that, this is one of my faves. It rocks!

This movie is the other side of la Bomba: the other young rock and roll star who died in a plane crash in the winter of 1959. The songs done by Gary Busey are pretty good, but not right on. The idea that Richie Valenz and Buddy Holly might have gone on to be even better known and regraded as rock and roll stars has made people call the end of this movie :"the day the music died". I liked the movie and if Elvis had been on the plane instead of getting drafted, things might have been different. In the 60's the hunger for rock and roll brought us the Rolling Stones and the Beetles.

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I am soo thrilled (You have know I idea) that I found Attack, with J. Palance,Albert.(Creep) and L Marvin. I've told my bros. that I got it, and already they want to get their hands on it! It was in fantastic shape! I Will buy from the vendor again! Thanks so much. Steve

The spine of this movie is the cowardice of a commanding officer, and the politics that put him and keeps him in that position. The story is told with stick figure characters, dull "on the nose" dialogue, and clueless combat scenarios. There are many fine war shows to choose from, this one is marginally watchable and a complete waste of your time.

When I was a kid we went to the drive-in to see this movie. I was so young I never knew what the name of the movie was, but I had strong memories of the German tank and Jack Palance ever since. For all the years after, I only knew I had great admiration for Jack Palance and didn't really care for Eddie Albert. After I stumbled into the name of the movie, bought it and watched it, I realized those opinions of these two great actors were created from watching this movie so long ago in a drive-in. Remarkable plot and good characterization. These fine actors made you live the movie. We'll forever miss them, except in the great work they left behind like this movie.

This movie started off ok, but it went downhill from there. The German Tanks looked like trucks with poles as gun barrels and it looked like it had been shot on a backlot in Hollywood. I can think of better movies to spend your money on.

The Bottom Line: A bit stagy (you can definitely tell it was based on a play) with a lack of war action that belies the film's title, Attack nonetheless presents a different look at war and is all the better for it.