Originally a stage play by Harry Kurnitz, and envisioned as a vehicle for Sophia Loren, the original script for A Shot in the Dark didn’t include Clouseau, and Anatole Litvak was to direct. When those
[Note: Portions of this review appeared in an earlier DVD review of the film.] Less than a year after delivering Cecil B. DeMille’s Samson and Delilah on DVD with an impressive DVD transfer, Paramount
The Jungle Book, based on Rudyard Kipling’s book, is the 19th animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, and the final film produced by Walt Disney, who died during its production. With a
More than seventy years before Jerry Bruckheimer and Johnny Depp made Pirates fun again, Tyrone Power became a star, beloved for his swashbuckling roles in films such as The Mask of Zorro, Blood and Sand,
Largely considered to be one of the best films to come out of Hollywood in the 1940’s, Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s The Ghost and Mrs. Muir still manages to be a deeply affecting love story more
Overdone, gaudy, and deliciously entertaining, Samson and Delilah is the kind of epic Cecil B. DeMille (The Ten Commandments) thrived on. Nobody did sword and sandal epics better than he did, and in terms of
20th Century Fox | 1950 | 138 mins. | NR If Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard offers a brilliant glimpse of washed up Hollywood, All About Eve is the best example of a stars struggle to