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Michael Caine stars as Noel Holcroft in John Frankenheimer's adaptation of Robert Ludlum's novel. A German native adopted by American parents, Noel learns that his biological father was one of Hitler's financial advisers, and he has left his son a bequest of four billion dollars with the intention that it be distributed as .. Read more

Starring	Michael Caine, Anthony Andrews, Michael Lonsdale, Victoria Tennant
Director	John Frankenheimer
Genres	Drama, Thriller

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- From the blood soaked ashes that is Berlin 1945, rises a mighty plan hatched by the doomed Ãbermensch, involving some... read more on Time Out
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  holcroft
  
  would have been better if the video to dvd conversion as done better
  
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  - stonehaven
  - 02 Nov 2008 at 16:54
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  Dreadful Quality
  
  Dated story line. But, worst of all the quality of the DVD is dreadful, blurred visuals, hardly audible audio, dreadful.
  
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- - BoldonLad
  - 1 review
  - 27 Nov 2011 at 09:34
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  The Holcroft Covenant
  
  A classic Robert Ludlum yarn that has been completely ruined by a third rate transcription service. The audio and video quality is an offence to the senses. I ... read more »
  
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- - Sionbach
  - 1 review
  - 16 Nov 2011 at 07:46
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  Quality of the DVD is AWFUL
  
  Don't rent this. Like the last 2000000 people who rated, the quality of this DVD transfer is terrible. At one point you even get an obvious tape drift. Don... read more »
  
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  - Lingfield, England
  - 05 Feb 2011 at 10:30
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  Horrible Covenant
  
  The film promises to be good but the print quality and the sound are dreadful even on a top qulity DVD player. Could not watch more than 15 minutes and gave up... read more »
  
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  - Surrey
  - 29 Jan 2010 at 12:50
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  The only reaon I gave it half a star is that 'painful' best describes it!
  
  There really must be something wrong with the technology - no right minded company would release a title in this poor state knowingly.
  
  The picture ... read more »
  
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  - Horsham
  - 10 Oct 2009 at 09:52
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  disappointing
  
  The quality of the picture and sound on this recording were so terrible, it really detracted from the story line... ...disappointing because it was so difficult... read more »
  
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  - London
  - 08 May 2009 at 20:18
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  Holcroft
  
  This film was spoiled by the conversion to DVD. The background music drowned out the dialogue in many places. The quality of the film itself was not that great ... read more »
  
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  - Scotland
  - 03 Apr 2009 at 10:54
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  Quality
  
  Enjoyed the film but the quality of both sound and picture was poor.
  
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- - Meggi
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  - West Molesey
  - 05 Mar 2009 at 11:08
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  The Holcroft Covenant
  
  VERY poor colour quality and sound track. We wish we had read other critics comments before we rented as we would not have requested it. We are surprised that... read more »
  
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  - Tring
  - 04 Mar 2009 at 11:56
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  good film bad copy
  
  Was this dvd from a vhs copy? It was so bad to watch that you could not read the subtitles. That said the story is ok and clever. But please get a better copy ... read more »
  
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  - 20 Feb 2009 at 18:00
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  holcroft
  
  would have been better if the video to dvd conversion as done better
  
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  - stonehaven
  - 02 Nov 2008 at 16:54
- - 3
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  Horrible Covenant
  
  The film promises to be good but the print quality and the sound are dreadful even on a top qulity DVD player. Could not watch more than 15 minutes and gave up... read more »
  
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- 854979
- - a customer
  - Surrey
  - 29 Jan 2010 at 12:50
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  The only reaon I gave it half a star is that 'painful' best describes it!
  
  There really must be something wrong with the technology - no right minded company would release a title in this poor state knowingly.
  
  The picture ... read more »
  
  Report this review
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  - Horsham
  - 10 Oct 2009 at 09:52
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  Quality of the DVD is AWFUL
  
  Don't rent this. Like the last 2000000 people who rated, the quality of this DVD transfer is terrible. At one point you even get an obvious tape drift. Don... read more »
  
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- - aMillion
  - 13 reviews
  - Lingfield, England
  - 05 Feb 2011 at 10:30
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  The Holcroft Covenant
  
  Rubbish soundtrack.
  
  How dare they release a film in this condition.
  
  Turned it off.
  
  Sound was awefull
  
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  - Manchester
  - 19 Nov 2008 at 20:44
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  disappointing
  
  The quality of the picture and sound on this recording were so terrible, it really detracted from the story line... ...disappointing because it was so difficult... read more »
  
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  - London
  - 08 May 2009 at 20:18
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  Predictable rubbish
  
  This DVD was obviously copied from a very poor video, and it showed. The storyline rushed from city to city without any real reason. After half an hour I gave ... read more »
  
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  - Bridgwater
  - 22 Nov 2008 at 10:03
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  Unviewable
  
  Rubbish copy. A complete waste of time sending this out!
  
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  - Clitheroe
  - 05 Dec 2008 at 11:18
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  Very poor quality transfer
  
  I was looking forward to watching this film again after , maybe 10 years.I'd already read the Ludlum novel and knew that the film wasn't nearly as good ... read more »
  
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  - 07 Dec 2008 at 21:48
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  Abysmal
  
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  The sound and picture quality of this DVD is as the title states, abysmal. There is a bit of subtitling when the actors start to speak in German to each other ... read more »
  
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  - Attleborough
  - 08 Dec 2008 at 10:06

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- From the blood soaked ashes that is Berlin 1945, rises a mighty plan hatched by the doomed Ãbermensch, involving some... read more on Time Out
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- - Time Out
  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:21

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- The Holcroft Covenant
  
  Michael Caine stars as Noel Holcroft in John Frankenheimer's adaptation of Robert Ludlum's novel. A German native adopted by American parents, Noel learns that his biological father was one of Hitler's financial advisers, and he has left his son a bequest of four billion dollars with the intention ...