[amazon_link asins=’B07D4CLC3N’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’5b67dadf-d241-11e8-97c0-edb94721a883′]Released in 1957, Vicente Minnelli’s screwball comedy Designing Woman earned writer George Wells an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. The concept for the story came from famed, two-time Oscar winning costume designer Helen Rose, who…
[amazon_link asins=’B07FRXG255′ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’fbf67c61-d00c-11e8-bb68-afe82d0663a9′]Released in 1988, Bat 21 (stylized as “Bat*21”) is based on the true story of Lt. Col. Iceal “Ham” Hambleton, a weapons countermeasure expert shot down in the jungles of Vietnam while taking part in…
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[amazon_link asins=’B079PTC3G4′ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’d3551098-c4d7-11e8-b00d-a54990853a7e’]A circus acrobat before an Injury forced him to find a new career, Burt Lancaster (Tough Guys) always dreamed of doing a film about the circus. That opportunity came with Trapeze, based on Max Catto’s…
[amazon_link asins=’B07CT95HP6′ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’35d3e940-c4cd-11e8-9a25-57e0fbb6ba5a’]By the 1960’s, Joan Crawford’s (Mildred Pierce) career was in serious decline. Her days as a Hollywood glamour girl were long past, and despite a brief resurgence in 1962’s Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? good…
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[Editor’s Note: This film is currently only available in the U.S. in the Jack Ryan 5-Film Collection in 4K, but it will no doubt be released by itself internationally and domestically at some point in the future, thus we are…