Archive: August 2013

  • Veronica Lake: Hollywood Actress

    I will have one of the cleanest obits of any actress. I never did cheesecake like Ann Sheridan or Betty Grable. I just used my hair. – Veronica Lake Veronica Lake never received her due of sex appeal like her Hollywood competition. Her legs were not insured for million dollars like Betty Grable and her two biggest assets were not being promoted like Jane Russell. When she stood to attention in So Proudly We Hail! (1943), uniformed Veronica Lake stood 4 feet, 11 inches tal...

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  • BLU FOX: Fantastic Voyage, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

    Fox has announced two Sci-Fi favorites for Blu-Ray on October 8th: Fantastic Voyage (Blu-Ray) and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (Blu-Ray). Both are expected to carry most, if not all the bonus features over from the DVD releases.

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  • The Old Corral: The Tenderfoot's Guide to '50s Westerns

    The first motion picture to tell a story, have a plot, use close-ups, have actual cuts, and on and on, was The Great Train Robbery of 1903. The Western is as old as cinema itself. By 1950, the Western had gone through quite an e...

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  • OLIVE: Shack Out on 101 in September

    Olive Films continues to impress with its brisk release schedule as they have announced the DVD and Blu-Ray release of Shack Out on 101 (1955). Olive is certainly picking up the slack of some of the major studios which have virtually non-existent output, or have pushed out their catalog on MOD without remastering and/or the proper aspect ratio. This release, as with all of Olive's recent releases, is newly remastered and is in the original 1.78:1 aspect ratio.

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  • Silent Cinema: Who Invented the Movies?

    Trying to say definitively who invented the movies is a little like trying to say who invented fire—the records are sketchy, everybody who knows for certain is dead, and what evidence that does remain comes largely from the self-serving accounts of Thomas Edison's patent lawyers. And where do you start, which is to say, what was the first indispensable step toward what we now think of as motion pictures? If I knew his name, I'd say it was the first caveman who thought to entertain h...

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  • FOX ARCHIVES: No Highway in the Sky, Sweet and Low-Down, Ramona & More

    Four more previously unreleased titles are coming from Fox's Cinema Archives line on August 20th. They are: April Love (1957) - Pat Boone, Shirley Jones No Highway in the Sky (1951) - James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Glynis Johns, Jack Hawkins Ramona (1936) - Loretta Young, Don Ameche, Kent Taylor, Pauline Frederick, Jane Darwell, Katherine DeMille, V...

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  • TIMELESS: Gene Autry Collection, Vol. 3 in August

    More Gene Autry from Timeless Media as they have announced The Gene Autry Collection, Vol. 3 for release on August 13th. All four titles (above) are making their DVD debut and unlike the previous volumes, bonus features are not expected. The 2-disc set will retail for 6.97, but is available at ClassicFlix.com for only 3.99.

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  • TIMELESS: More Rare Television

    More rarely seen (or even heard of) offerings are coming from Timeless Media as they have announced Harbor Command - The Complete Series and Mackenzie's Raiders - The Complete Series for release. Harbor Command stars Wendell Corey and contains all 39 episodes from the series. Mackenzie's Raiders stars Richard Carlson and ran for 38 episodes, however, the 'Complete Series,' as noted by the cover, does not include the l...

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  • OLIVE: Americano & Fighting Kentuckian, DVD & Blu in September

    Two more from Olive are scheduled for September 24th: The Americano (1955) and The Fighting Kentuckian (1949). Both will be released on DVD and Blu-Ray with this being Americano's debut on both. ...

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  • Animation Craze: The Roots of American Animation - 1900 - 1940

    Animation, as a cinematic medium, does not begin and end with Walt Disney. He did not create the concept; truth be told, on his own merits, he was not even all that great of an artist. Instead, what Disney had was vision—the vision that animated cartoons could be something greater than mere novelty. He was not the only person to have this idea; since the very beginnings of film, there had been men and women intrigued by the possibilities presented by this new innovation. But unlike most of his p...

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