Tag: Henry Jones

Blu-ray Review: 3:10 to Yuma (1957) (Criterion Collection)

Filmed at a time when director Delmer Daves was delivering some of the best work of his career—his other mid-fifties films include Jubal (1956) (which he also scripted), Cowboy (1958), and The Hanging Tree (1959)—3:10 to Yuma, based on a short story by Elmore Leonard, is one of the best westerns of the decade, and a movie that still resonates almost sixty years after its

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Blu-ray Review: The Bad Seed

Every mother wants to believe her child is an angel, no matter how badly behaved they are. Such is the premise of The Bad Seed, a pseudo-camp horror classic that went a long way in convincing that cute, little blonde kids are evil. Written by novelist William March in 1954, Maxwell Anderson (What Price Glory, Key Largo) successfully adapted The Bad Seed for the stage

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