A Hole in the Head (Blu-ray)
After experiencing a career decline in the early 1950’s, Frank Sinatra began a career rebirth with the eve-of-Pearl Harbor drama From Here to Eternity, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. By the end of the 1950’s, Sinatra had reclaimed his title as the top recording artist in the world, and […]
Birdman of Alcatraz (Blu-ray)
After directing over 140 television shows for CBS during the 1950’s, and receiving mixed reviews for his first two films, 1962 proved to be a pivotal year for John Frankenheimer. Both The Manchurian Candidate, and The Birdman of Alcatraz earned him nominations for Best Director from the Director’s Guild of America. Known for creating “psychological […]
Oscar® Winning 1953 Classic Film Titanic Comes to Blu-ray on April 3
Coinciding with the 100th Anniversary of the sinking of the famous passenger liner, Titanic, the 1953 Academy Award® Winner for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay, bursts onto Blu-ray for the first time April 3rd from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. The influential film features a stellar cast including Golden Globe® winner and Academy Award® nominee […]
Blu-ray Review: The Misfits
Written by the playwright Arthur Miller for his wife Marilyn Monroe—whom he would divorce before the film was released, The Misfits has perhaps become more famous for what went on behind the scenes than what happened on it. Monroe delivers one of the best performances of her career, though she was reportedly battling drug addiction.
Blu-ray Review: All About Eve
20th Century Fox | 1950 | 138 mins. | NR If Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard offers a brilliant glimpse of washed up Hollywood, All About Eve is the best example of a stars struggle to stay at the top of the heap. Written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, the dialogue is pitch perfect—filled with […]
DVD Review: How the West Was Won – Ultimate Collector’s Edition
In the 1950’s, the relatively new medium of television was all the rage in American homes. Families no longer felt the same desire to trudge to their local cinema, when this new “tube” could beam entertainment to them in the comfort of their own homes. Feeling the pinch, Hollywood movie makers new they had to […]
Trailer for Alfred Hitchcock’s Rare Window
Recently, as part of Turner Classic Movies 31 Days of Oscar, I watched Hitchcock’s Rear Window(1954). The film about a wheelchair bound photographer who spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder. Starring James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr, Judith Evelyn, Ross […]