Blu-ray Review: Stalag 17 (70th Anniversary)
Never one to shy away from controversy, director Billy Wilder took on Stalag 17; a comedy tinged war film less than a decade after the end of World War II and with the United States mired in the Korean War. Reworked by Wilder and Edwin Blum from a play by Donald Bevan and Edmund Trzcinski, […]
Father of the Bride (1950) (Blu-ray)
One of the best Hollywood comedies of the 1950’s, Father of the Bride features Spencer Tracy at the top of his game And Elizabeth Taylor looking breathtakingly beautiful. Adapted from a novel by Edward Streeter, the film opens as successful attorney Stanley T. Banks (Tracy) is surveying the mess caused by the huge wedding reception […]
Blu-ray Review: Stalag 17
Never one to shy away from controversy, director Billy Wilder took on Stalag 17; a comedy tinged war film less than a decade after the end of World War II and with the United States mired in the Korean War. Reworked by Wilder and Edwin Blum from a play by Donald Bevan and Edmund Trzcinski, […]