Tag: Tyrone Power

The Razor’s Edge (1946) (Blu-ray)

The first film version of W. Somerset Maugham’s novel, directed by Edmund Goulding (Wilson) The Razor’s Edge captures one man’s search for the meaning of life. Larry Darrell (Tyrone Power) returns from World War I questioning why he survived, while…

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The Black Swan (Blu-ray)

More than seventy years before Jerry Bruckheimer and Johnny Depp made Pirates fun again, Tyrone Power became a star, beloved for his swashbuckling roles in films such as The Mask of Zorro, Blood and Sand, and The Black Swan. Recently…

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Blu-ray Review: Blood and Sand (1941)

The first Hollywood adaptation of Vincente Blasco Ibanez’s Blood and Sand released in 1922, helped solidify Rudolph Valentino’s legend. In 1941, 20th Century Fox and Darryl Zanuck produced a sound and Technicolor remake, determined to give the story the stylish…

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Diplomatic Courier

DVD Review: Diplomatic Courier

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment recently debuted Fox Cinema Archives, a new manufacture-on-demand (MOD) series which will bring several hard to find films to DVD for the first time ever. The first wave of titles includes the 1952 spy thriller,…

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