PIONEERS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CINEMA: An Important New DVD Set
Sometimes the importance of a DVD set is so enormous, it is difficult to fully explain the depth of its significance. Such is the new...
Carl Reiner’s “Where’s Poppa” released to blu ray
“Where’s Poppa” (1970) has noted TV comedian and actor Carl Reiner helming a screenplay by Robert Klane, based on his novel. It was one...
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three” (1974) now available on blu ray
Joseph Sargent was largely a TV director when he was assigned (over Steven Spielberg, no less) to helm this screen adaption of John...
Looking at a DVD of less-known silent comedies
With so many public domain companies offering grainy prints of films without copyright, I approached the 2007 VCI Entertainment's DVD...
"Yellow Sky" (1948) now on blu ray
YELLOW SKY Directed by William Wellman. Cast: Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark, Robert Arthur, John Russell, Harry Morgan,...
Deadline USA (1952) now on blu ray
Deadline USA Directed and Written by Richard Brooks. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ethel Barrymore, Kim Hunter, Ed Begley, Warren Stevens Paul...