Archive: 2015

  • TIMELESS: Gene Autry Collection Vol. 9 in February

    Gene Autry Collection, Vol. 9 has been set by Timeless Media for release on February 24th. The 2-disc set will feature four fully-restored films, all of which are making their DVD debut. Details below. Comin' Round the Mountain (1936, 55 min.) When Pony Express Rider Gene Autry's horse is shot from...

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  • TV TIME: Horror Icons on the Small Screen

    Like many stars of the golden age of Hollywood, some of the most notable horror icons of the era eventually transitioned to television. I won't argue their best work was done on the small screen, but there is a lot of enjoyable material from them on DVD. Let's examine some of the classic television appearances of these legendary performers. One legendary movie monster who is not a regular on the tube is Bela Lugosi, who is of course Dracula in the 1931 Universal ...

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  • The Old Corral: The Lone Ranger in 'The Ghost of Coyote Canyon'

    The Lone Ranger was ABC's top-rated show throughout its original run, and the network's first big success of the 1950s. Of course, the character had been around since his radio debut in 1933, created by George Trendle and Frank Striker. And while the show, novels, comics and movie serials were big hits, it was the TV show, starring Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels, became a true phenomenon. For many of us, Clayton Moore is the Lone Ranger, the same way Sean Connery is J...

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  • WARNER ARCHIVE: Two Silent Treasures Lead Quartet of Releases

    Four new-to-DVD releases have been announced by Warner as part of their Archive Collection. Two silent pictures anchor the latest wave: John Gilbert's The Cossacks (1928) and Colleen Moore in Why Be Good? (1929). Prior to being found in an Italian film archive in the 1990s, Why Be Good? was presumed lost for decades. Warner Bros., the UCLA Film and Television Archive and The Vitaphone Project then started the restoration process in 2012...

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  • FOX ARCHIVES: Carole Landis and Robert Donat in Dueling War Dramas

    Two war dramas, new to DVD, have been announced by Fox as part of their Cinema Archives line. Manila Calling (1942) -  Lloyd Nolan, Carole Landis, Cornel Wilde, James Gleason The Young Mr. Pitt (1942) -  Robert Donat, Robert Morley, Phyllis Calvert, John Mills Both will be available here at ClassicFlix on November 11th. These DVDs add to the total of over 300 Cinema Archive t...

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  • Zero at the Bone: Chilling Moments in Classic Films

    My article title comes from Emily Dickinson; it is how she described the feeling of coming upon a snake as it slid past her in the grass. It is a feeling film makers have produced in willing audiences since the silent days. With its sensory presentation, film is the perfect medium for the thriller. While we often date the modern thriller from the premiere of Psycho in 1960, movies had been scaring the socks off people for half a century. In 1910, in fact, there was a one-reel Fra...

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  • OLIVE: Four Film Noirs Come to Individual Blu

    Olive Films has announced a December 23rd release date for Rope of Sand, Union Station, Appointment with Danger, and Dark City on Blu-Ray. All four were previously compiled into Olive's Film Noir Collection, Vol. 1 set in 2012 but are now being released as singles. It is assumed these will be carry-overs straight from the box set with no bonus content attached.

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  • Easy Living at the Lone Pine Film Festival

    The 25th Lone Pine Film Festival took place in Lone Pine, California, in early October, providing film fans with a very special time in an area where hundreds of classic-era movies were filmed. Although I've been to the charming little Sierra town of Lone Pine on many occasions, this was my first visit to the festival, and I can't underline enough what a good time I had. Anyone who loves classic films, especially Westerns, will want to put the Lone Pine Film Festival on their 'mus...

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  • FOX CINEMA ARCHIVES: Michael Shayne Comes Out of the Vault in November

    Fox has announced the resurrection of Michael Shayne, private detective, as part of their latest releases in their Cinema Archives line. The studio is releasing Just Off Broadway (1942), the sixth of seven movies featuring Lloyd Nolan's detective, Michael Shayne, which ran from 1940 to 1942. After years of silence on the series, it was feared Fox had abandoned Shayne after kickstarting the character's resurgence with the release of Dressed to Kill

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  • Dark Cinema: Color Noir

    When we think of film noir, dark, foggy streets and shadowy black and white cinematography often come to mind. That look is as closely tied to the genre as its fatalistic themes. Noir is about more than gloomy grey alleyways though. Sometimes it pops with juicy, lurid color. It seems so wrong to film the darkest moments of the human soul in rainbow hues, until you realize the bleakest tale is often of the evil that unfolds in broad daylight. What could be more jarring, and effecti...

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