4K UHD Review: Sabrina (1954)
Fresh off her success in William Wyler’s Roman Holiday, Audrey Hepburn joined Humphrey Bogart, William Holden and director Billy Wilder for 1954′s Sabrina. Adapted from Samuel A. Taylor’s play Sabrina Fair, by Taylor himself with Ernest Lehman, the film plays out like something out of a fairytale. It begins with the words “once upon a […]
Blu-ray Review: Houseboat
Planned as a vehicle for Cary Grant and his third wife actress-writer Betsy Drake, 1958’s Houseboat was to be their third film together after 1948’s Every Girl Should Be Married and 1952’s Room for One More. However, by the time the film was made, Grant was infatuated by Sophia Loren. He had Drake replaced with […]
Blu-ray Review: The Carpetbaggers
Based on the Harold Robbins novel of the same name, The Carpetbaggers was a landmark of the sexual revolution of the 1960’s. offering more heated embraces and sexual innuendo than most films of the era. George Peppard stars as Jonas Cord (a character loosely based on Howard Hughes), the son of the wealthy Jonas Cord, […]
First Men in the Moon (Blu-ray)
Released just five years before Neil Armstrong became the first man on the moon, First Men in the Moon based on H.G. Wells’ iconic tale, opens in 1964 with the first manned United Nations moon flight, consisting of a three man crew from America, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union. They land on the moon […]
Sabrina (1954) (Blu-ray)
[Note: Parts of this review appeared in an evaluation of a previous DVD release.] Fresh off her success in William Wyler’s Roman Holiday, Audrey Hepburn joined Humphrey Bogart, William Holden and director Billy Wilder for 1954′s Sabrina. The film was adapted from the Samuel A. Taylor play Sabrina Fair, by Taylor himself with Ernest Lehman. […]