Tag: Hope Lange

Blu-ray Review: Peyton Place (1957)

[amazon_link asins=’B06XXSR2KF’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazetteo-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’dcbbacdd-2f77-11e7-be10-09c2beb735ac’] In 1956, Grace Metalious was a housewife, and mother of three when her first novel, Peyton Place became a bestseller. It sold 60,000 copies in the first ten days of release, and remained on…

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The Young Lions (Blu-ray)

Based on the 1948 novel by Irwin Shaw, Edward Dmytryk’s The Young Lions was forced to make several concessions to the censors before its release in 1958. Even so, the film was, and still is, a fairly effective story about…

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Blu-ray Review: Bus Stop

Taken from the stage play by William Inge, Bus Stop tells the story of Beauregard “Bo” Decker (Don Murray) a back-country cowboy from Montana leaving his ranch for the first time to participate in a phoenix rodeo. Portrayed as a…

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Blu-ray Review: Blue Velvet

Three years after the major disappointment that was Dune, David Lynch came back better than ever with Blue Velvet. The film begins, appropriately enough, with the opening credits superimposed over a beautiful piece of blue velvet swaying in the breeze….

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Blue Velvet Makes Its Blu-ray Debut November 8th

LOS ANGELES (September 14, 2011) – From the mind of David Lynch (Mulholland Drive, “Twin Peaks”) comes a visionary story so startling, so provocative, so mysterious that it will open your eyes to a world you have never seen before….

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