Archive: 2014

  • WARNER ARCHIVE: Kilroy was Here, Lost Angel & Wife Wanted

    Four releases from the Warner Archive Collection this week with Jackie Cooper, Margaret O'Brien and Kay Francis (in her final film role) headlining. They are: Kilroy was Here (1947) - Jackie Cooper, Jackie Coogan, Wanda McKay, Frank Jenks Lost Angel (1943) - Margaret O'Brien, James Craig, Marsha Hunt, Philip Merivale, Henry O'Neill Where are Your Children? (1943) - J...

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  • James Dean Blu-Ray's in November

    Warner has announced a November 5th for the Blu-Ray release of James Dean's three starring film roles: East of Eden (1955), Giant (1956) and Rebel Without a Cause (1955). All three will be 'Blu-Ray Books' and carry all the bonus features from the DVD releases. Streeting on the same day will be an Ultimate Collector's Edition that will have all the contents of the three releases, plus include: A 40-page co...

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  • TV Time: Beat the Clock

    Who do you think had the best job during the Golden Age of Television? Reginald Rose, who got to pour his heart and soul into acclaimed socially relevant teleplays? Betty Furness, who got to dress up and show a national television audience the wonders of Westinghouse products? Or maybe Ozzie Nelson, who...who... Well, nobody's really sure what Ozzie did, of course, but it must have been fulfilling because the guy just looked so darn amiable all the time. I believe the best job may...

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  • Hitchcock Blu-Ray Singles in October

    Released in a mammoth 15-disc set last year, and trickling out as exclusive to Amazon throughout this year, Universal has finally scheduled the five Alfred Hitchcock titles above for wide release on October 1st. Promoted as 'Alfred Hitchcock (Blu-Ray) singles - Wave 1' by the studio, they are expected to carry over all the bonus features from the DVD releases.

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  • Book Review: Patsy Ruth Miller

    My Hollywood: When Both of us were Young by Patsy Ruth Miller. A beautiful, large-format book which has 250 pages, this book was originally published some years ago and has been extremely hard to find in the recent past. BearManor Media has rectified this problem by republishing the book and therefore making it available once again, to the masses. The editor for this edition was BearManor Media author Philip J. Riley who has done a terrific job in making sure the book ha...

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  • 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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