Tag: Steve Cochran

The Beat Generation (Blu-ray)

April 6, 2015

Albert Zugsmith is one of the more interesting figures in Hollywood history. While he produced some very impressive films—Orson Welles’ Touch of Evil, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Written on the Wind—he is probably best remembered for a series of teen exploitation films—High School Confidential and Sex Kittens Go to College—during the late fifties and early sixties. At the height of the beatnik movement in 1959,

The Best Years of Our Lives (Blu-ray)

October 27, 2013

By the end of 1945, the long struggle of World War II was finally over and American soldiers, who fought so long and hard, were finally settling in back home with their friends and family. Most in Hollywood felt as though the public wanted a break from the war pictures that had dominated screens over the previous four year period. Despite that, producer Samuel Goldwyn