Tag: Robert Ryan

Blu-ray Review: Odds Against Tomorrow

A late noir, 1959’s Odds Against Tomorrow puts aside the femme fatales and husbands in distress in favor of an apparently simple crime—robbery for the sake of acquiring some much needed cash—and taps into the racial unease of the era

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Bad Day At Black Rock (Blu-ray)

Set just after the end of World War II in 1945, John Sturges’ Bad Day at Black Rock is a suspenseful drama, film noir and a western. Based on the short story “Bad Time at Hondo” by Howard Breslin and

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Born to Be Bad

DVD Review: Born To Be Bad

While most people remember director for classics such as Rebel Without a Cause, Bigger Than Life and Johnny Guitar, Born to Be Bad is considered by most to be one of Ray’s lesser films. However, while Born to Be Bad

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Blu-ray Review: King of Kings

Warner Bros. | 1961 | 168 mins. | PG-13 The second of producer Samuel Bronston’s big-gauge roadshow epics filmed in Spain, King of Kings (1961) is a tasteful rendering of the Christ story and was MGM’s follow-up to their phenomenally

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