Archive: 2014

  • A Maverick Life: The Jack Kelly Story

    If you say the name, Jack Kelly, many who follow classic entertainment will raise an eyebrow and say, a bit confused, “Who?” While this man’s name isn’t always instantly recognizable, it really should be since Jack was in front of a camera and on the big and small screens since he was a baby, and for most of his life from then on. Jack Kelly began a career as a model at the age of two under the direction of his stage mother, modeling in a soap print ad. He continued to model thro...

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  • ARTWORK UPDATE: Cinerama Holiday & South Seas Adventure

    -- SLIGHT CHANGE IN COVER ART FOR FLICKER'S UPCOMING CINERAMA RELEASES -- -- UPDATED ARTWORK ADDED TO PREVIOUS ANNOUNCEMENT -- Flicker Alley has announced two more Cinerama releases: Cinerama Holiday (Blu-Ray / DVD) and Cinerama South Seas Adventure (Blu-Ray ...

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  • D. W. Griffith's Intolerance - DVD & Blu in November

    Cohen Media has announced D.W. Griffith's Intolerance (1916) on both standard DVD and Blu-Ray. The 197 minute epic is set for a November 5th release date. Bonus features are not forthcoming. Intolerance and its terrible effects are examined in four historical eras. In ancient Babylon, a mountain girl...

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  • The Bowery Boys: Anything But Routine

    One of my treasured childhood television memories involved spending Saturday afternoons watching The Bowery Boys—moviedom’s oldest juvenile delinquents—cavort in their cinematic escapades over Chicago superstition WGN. Leo Gorcey (as Terence Aloysius “Slip” Mahoney) and his sidekick Huntz Hall (as Horace DeBussy “Sach” Jones) would find themselves in various slapstick adventures along the rest of their gang in a series of B-pictures cranked out by Poverty Row king Monogram Studios from 1946 to ...

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  • OLIVE: The Bells of St. Mary's - DVD & Blu in November

    Previously released by Republic on DVD, Olive Films has announced the DVD and Blu-Ray release of The Bells of St. Mary's (1945) with a scheduled street date of November 19th. Unlike many of Olive's offerings, Bells includes a bonus feature: The Look of Love: An Essay by Film Critic R. Emmet Sweeney.

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  • Film Noir: The Underside of Classic Cinema

    'How can you watch those old movies?' Film buffs get this from family, friends, and co-workers, but we're mesmerized by the entertainment that our grandparents and great-grandparents enjoyed. Happily, there are films from 60, 70, and 80 years ago that have retained their appeal for a mass contemporary audience. Among them, we have Buster Keaton's masterworks, Laurel and Hardy, Frank Capra's populist comedies, Universal's horror classics, and the cycle of stylish crime dramas from the 40s and ...

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  • FOX: The Three Faces of Eve (Blu-Ray) in November

    More Blu from Fox as they have announced a November 5th release date for The Three Faces of Eve (Blu-Ray). Bonus features will carry over from the DVD release. The studio is also issuing a repackaged DVD on the same day. Eve White, a mousy, withdrawn housewife startles her husband (David Wayne) when she clai...

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  • TV Time: Baseball Players on Primetime

    One national pastime arrives around springtime each year, while another one never goes away. Yes, baseball’s return is a cherished annual ritual, but one might argue the real national pastime is watching television. Baseball and television together is a powerful combination. Here, then, is my All-Star team, by position, of major league players based on their appearances in classic television. We’ll focus on the days before everything was changed by rampant commercialization and ri...

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  • TIMELESS: Gene Autry Collection, Vol. 4 in November

    More Gene Autry from Timeless Media as they have announced Gene Autry Collection, Vol. 4 for release on November 12th. All four titles are making their DVD debut and bonus features are expected (below). The 2-disc set will retail for 6.97, but is available at ClassicFlix.com for only 4.99.

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  • Pre-Code Obsession: Kay Francis

    Kay Francis was Hollywood glamour personified, playing strong, modern women while looking fabulous in the highest fashions of the day. Arriving in Hollywood in the late 1920s, just as talkies took over, Kay by all rights should never have been a star. She was beautiful, but sported a mild speech impediment during the years when studios worried over their stars' voices, and she lacked substantial experience -- she had lied her way on stage almost on whim, and had not formally trained as an actres...

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