Archive: 2015

  • TV Time: Lessons from Classic TV Westerns

    Maybe classic television can't teach us everything about the world, but I ask, if TV doesn't know it, is it really worth knowing? I was recently in a philosophical mood and looking to acquire some life lessons, so I turned to perhaps the most instructive of all genres: TV Westerns. After viewing some old favorites as well as a few series I had never seen, here is what I learned: The Rifleman As single father and rancher Lucas McCain, Chuck Connors projects solid moral ...

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  • SHOUT: Mr. Magoo Theatrical Collection, Dobie Gillis - Season 3

    Shout! Factory has scheduled Mr. Magoo - The Theatrical Collection (1949 - 1959) for release on April 22nd. The 4-disc set will include all 53 theatrical cartoons, including 12 cartoons in anamorphic widescreen, and the previously released feature film 1001 Arabian Nights (1959). Then on May 6th, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis - Season 3 will street. Among the guest stars in the 5-disc set will ...

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  • FOX ARCHIVES: Follow the Sun & The Pride of St. Louis

    Two sports biopics make up this week's wave from Fox's Cinema Archives line. First up is Glenn Ford as Ben Hogan in Follow the Sun (1951), co-starring Anne Baxter, Dennis O'Keefe, June Havoc, Larry Keating, Roland Winters and Nana Bryant. The other has Dan Dailey as pitching ace 'Dizzy' Dean in The Pride of St. Louis (1952), co-starring Joanne Dru, Richard Hylton, Richard Crenna and Hugh Sanders. Due on Februar...

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  • 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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