4K UHD Review: Roman Holiday (70th Anniversary Edition)
Released on August 27, 1953, Roman Holiday is probably best known as the film that introduced American audiences to Audrey Hepburn. Director/producer William Wyler (Ben-Hur) had originally wanted Elizabeth Taylor for the role of Princess Ann (‘Anya Smith’) but Hepburn was cast after a screen test. After she had performed a dignified, subdued scene from […]
4K UHD Review: To Kill A Mockingbird (60th Anniversary Edition)
A bonafide classic, Universal has given “To Kill a Mockingbird” the excellent 4K UHD release it deserves.
Blu-ray Review: Captain Newman, MD.
Arizona, 1944, Colfax Army Air Force Base. Josiah Newman, MD (Gregory Peck) needs help, space, and time. As head of the hospital’s psyche ward he has six weeks to either cure, ship back, or ship out his ever-growing number of patients all suffering from varying degrees of “Combat Fatigue.” Newman turns to an opportunistic orderly […]
Blu-ray Review: Roman Holiday (Paramount Presents Edition)
Released on August 27, 1953, Roman Holiday is probably best known as the film that introduced American audiences to Audrey Hepburn. Director/producer William Wyler (Ben-Hur) had originally wanted Elizabeth Taylor for the role of Princess Ann (‘Anya Smith’) but Hepburn was cast after a screen test. After she had performed a dignified, subdued scene from […]
Blu-ray Review: Designing Woman
[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 fashioned a romance, equal parts Hepburn/Tracy comedy and conflict. Wells took Rose’s initial idea and […]
Moby Dick (1956) (Blu-ray)
An underrated work in John Huston’s filmography, Herman Melville’s massive novel Moby Dick is impossible to condense entirely as a film. However, Huston (with co-writer Ray Bradbury), managed to reduce the whole thing into two concise, yet exciting hours of cinema. Huston’s obvious respect for the source text, alongside the surprising expressiveness of his camera […]
Moby Dick (1956) (Kino Release) (DVD)
An underrated work in John Huston’s filmography, Herman Melville’s massive novel Moby Dick is impossible to condense entirely as a film. However, Huston (with co-writer Ray Bradbury), managed to reduce the whole thing into two concise, yet exciting hours of cinema. Huston’s obvious respect for the source text alongside the surprising expressiveness of his camera […]
Billy Two Hats (Blu-ray)
The first American Western to be filmed in Israel, director Ted Kotcheff’s (Life at the Top, Fun With Dick and Jane, North Dallas Forty) Billy Two Hats has made its way to Blu-ray courtesy of Kino Lorber Studio Classics. Released in 1974, this is a fairly slow-paced affair, but with Gregory Peck and Jack Warden […]
Pork Chop Hill (Blu-ray)
Produced by star Gregory Peck, and based on the book by U.S. military historian Brigadier General S. L. A. Marshall, Pork Chop Hill was the first Hollywood film to openly question those in charge of the American armed forces. April, 1953 in Korea. With the talks Panmunjom ongoing, and a ceasefire expected, Lt. Joe Clemons […]
Blu-ray Review: Spellbound
While Spellbound deserves its place as a Hitchcock classic, it’s far from his best work. Adapted from the 1927 novel The House of Dr. Edwardes, by 1945 the idea of psychoanalysis was catching on, and Freud’s ideas had really taken off. As such, it was the perfect time to make a movie about psychotherapy. Psychiatrists […]