Archive: February 2014

  • Character Actors: The Men

    The Internet Movie Data Base (IMDb) credits Edward Everett Horton with a quotation that pokes fun at his career as a character actor in films: 'I have my own little kingdom. I do the scavenger parts no one else wants and I get well paid for it.' Horton was modest. It is left to the vintage film buff to insist that Horton and his fellow character actors created their kingdoms with inimitable acting skills; that what he called parts no one else wanted were parts that very few actors could pull ...

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  • Silent Cinema: The Chaplin Mutuals

    I classify Chaplin as the greatest motion picture comedian of all time. - Buster Keaton After his apprenticeship with Mack Sennett at Keystone Studios in 1914, Charlie Chaplin signed a one-year deal with Essanay Studios where he directed fourteen shorts, including such films as The Tramp and Burlesque on Carmen. By the end of that year, Chaplin was the most famous entertainer in the world. He had, especially when directing himself, a sense of rhythm that turned comedy into ...

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  • FOX ARCHIVES: Jeanne Crain, Ann Sothern Featured in Latest Wave

    Two Jeanne Crain films highlight this week's wave of three from Fox's Cinema Archives line. Crain's first credited role, Home in Indiana (1944), is among the two and it co-stars Walter Brennan, Charlotte Greenwood, Ward Bond, Lon McCallister and June Haver. Also out is 1953's Technicolor Western City of Bad Men starring Crain, Dale Robertson, Richard Boone, Lloyd Bridges and Carole Mathews. An Otto Preminger directed Screwball Comedy,...

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  • WARNER ARCHIVE: Dr. Kildare - Season 2, Bill Elliott Mysteries

    More Dr. Kildare this week as Warner has announced Dr. Kildare - Season 2 as part of their Archive line. Great co-stars abound in this 9-disc set with a very special color episode starring Robert Redford. Also out is the 2-disc Bill Elliott Detective Mysteries set with Elliot's turn as a detective in his last five films (below). Both will be available here at ClassicFlix on February 18th. These new DVDs add to the tota...

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  • Double Indemnity, Touch of Evil Blu-Rays in April

    Depressed on tax day? Universal is doing their part to relieve those tax burden blues by announcing their Blu-Ray releases of two of the golden age's most revered film noirs on April 15th: Double Indemnity (1944) and Touch of Evil (1958). Each will carry over all the bonus features from the standard releases, including Touch containing all three versions of the film. Artwork is not yet available. Double Indemnity (1944)...

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  • ARTWORK UPDATE: The Big Valley - Season 2

    Timeless Media has updated the artwork for The Big Valley - Season 2. -- ORIGINAL ANNOUNCEMENT -- In the last decade, when the major studios were cranking out DVDs at a brisk pace, it was rare for a TV series to be abandoned mid-season. Such was the case however for The Big Valley when Fox stopped output for the series midway through Season 2 in 2007. ...

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  • FLICKER BLU: Lon Chaney in The Hunchback of Notre Dame

    Lon Chaney stars in Flicker Alley's latest offering as they have announced the Blu-Ray debut of The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923). The single-disc release comes loaded with bonus features (below) and will street on March 11th. The Hunchback of Notre Dame starring Lon Chaney as Quasimodo, looking as if he had just stepped out from the o...

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  • Linda Darnell: Hollywood Beauty

    Linda Darnell is best remembered as one of the most beautiful women to grace the movies in the '40s and '50s, yet a closer look at her career suggests she was much more than that. The underrated Darnell was talented as both a dramatic actress and a comedienne, and her list of credits is one any actress would envy. Darnell starred in every kind of movie, including film noir, Westerns, swashbucklers, comedies, musicals, and dramas; some of her films are among the very finest titles in American c...

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  • FOX ARCHIVES: The Glory Brigade & More

    Two Military/War dramas and a B Crime-Drama make up this week's Fox Cinema Archives wave. They are: The Glory Brigade (1953) - Victor Mature, Alexander Scourby, Lee Marvin, Richard Egan In Love and War (1958) - Robert Wagner, Dana Wynter, Jeffrey Hunter, Hope Lange, Bradford Dillman, Sheree North, France Nuyen Island in the Sky (1938) - Gloria Stuart, Michael Whalen, Paul Kelly, Robert Kellard...

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  • The Women (Blu-Ray) in May

    One of the top films of what is usually considered the Golden Age's greatest year of filmmaking (1939), The Women (Blu-Ray) has been announced by Warner Bros. with a May 6th street date. Bonus features have not been confirmed, but are expected to be carried over from the standard release. Be careful what you say in private. It could beco...

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