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: Stalag 17 (70th Anniversary)
Never one to shy away from controversy, director Billy Wilder took on Stalag 17; a comedy tinged war film less than a decade after the end of World War II and with the United States mired in the Korean War. Reworked by Wilder and Edwin Blum from a play by Donald Bevan and Edmund Trzcinski, […]
Blu-ray Review: The Bridges at Toko-Ri
Based on the hard-hitting novel of the same name by James A. Michener, The Bridges at Toko-Ri is set in 1952, during the Korean War. Rear Admiral George Tarrant (Fredric March) commands Task Force 77 aboard a Naval aircraft carrier. When bomber pilot Lt. Harry Brubaker (William Holden) ditches his wounded plane and lands in […]
Blu-ray Review Breezy
Clint Eastwood’s third directorial effort, 1973’s Breezy concerns a May – December romance between Frank Harmon (William Holden) a jaded, middle-aged square and Edith Alice ‘Breezy’ Breezerman (Kay Lenz), a free-spirited, hippie teenager with a good heart. Having lost her parents years ago in an automobile accident, she had been raised by an aunt in […]
Blu-ray Review: The Blue Knight
A 20-year veteran of the Los Angeles police department, Bumper Morgan (William Holden, Sabrina) is just days away from retirement. Years patrolling the streets have left him more than a little jaded, not just by the criminals he’s sworn to protect us from, but the actions of his own, younger colleagues. As the film begins, […]
Union Station (Blu-ray)
If asked to name a 1950 noir starring William Holden and Nancy Olson a majority would understandably name Billy Wilder’s classic Sunset Boulevard. However, there’s another film that meets that criteria, the somewhat forgotten Union Station. Though it’s billed as noir, Union Station is really a straightforward thriller. While it’s certainly suspenseful, it’s not particularly […]
Audrey Hepburn Collection (Breakfast at Tiffany’s / Funny Face / Sabrina) (Blu-ray)
Voted one of the greatest female screen legends in American cinema history by the American Film Institute, Audrey Hepburn remains a fashion icon and fan favorite, more than twenty years after her death in 1992. Warner Bros. Audrey Hepburn Collection offers up three of her most popular films, Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961), Funny Face (1957) […]
The Grace Kelly Collection (DVD)
[AMAZONPRODUCTS asin=”B00JF81XBS”]Though her career only spanned six years and eleven films, Grace Kelly is considered one of the most iconic, fashionable stars in cinematic history. Just shy of what would have been Grace Kelly’s 85th birthday, Warner Brothers has released The Grace Kelly Collection, a DVD compilation of six of her most notable and memorable […]
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. […]
Blu-ray Review: Stalag 17
Never one to shy away from controversy, director Billy Wilder took on Stalag 17; a comedy tinged war film less than a decade after the end of World War II and with the United States mired in the Korean War. Reworked by Wilder and Edwin Blum from a play by Donald Bevan and Edmund Trzcinski, […]