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Captain Horatio Hornblower
Raoul Walsh's four-masted seagoing epic is an ambitious Technicolor production, a Hollywood film made in Europe. Gregory Peck and Virginia Mayo bring…
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The Sheep Detectives
Different is Good in this pleasant, sometimes silly rural fantasy in which talking animals solve a crime. No, no, no ... it…
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Carrie
We don't miss every good opportunity at CineSavant -- when reviewer Terry Morgan expressed interest in this picture it was a blessing.…
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Crime Wave
André de Toth's sordid crime tale is tops in all departments. Tough cop Sterling Hayden suspects parolee Gene Nelson of being in…
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Money From Home
Blu-ray 3-D should never die -- and they need to bring the players and monitors back! The latest and most polished vintage…
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The Deadly Companions
To put Sam Peckinpah's directing in better perspective, completists ought to catch up with this independently produced oater, his first credited feature.…
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Last Summer
Like so many collectors, special CineSavant reviewer 'B' has been waiting forever for a decent disc of Frank and Eleanor Perry's hard-to-forget…
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King Creole – 4K
If you’ve never seen a movie or read a book, you might be surprised by the twists and turns of King Creole,…
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Wonder of wonders -- restored to HD, Warners' ode to high art generates big magic through Shakepeare's giddy romantic comedy. Newcomer Olivia…
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Five Easy Pieces
Jack Nicholson's second breakthrough film and the first to show his dramatic range is Bob Rafelson and Carole Eastman's portrait of an…
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The War Game
Severin Slays with disc virtuosity ... by reaching into the BBC archives for a 4K remaster of Peter Watkins' searing 'documentary' of…
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The Seventh Cross
For his third feature film Fred Zinnemann scored big with a grim story of Nazi terror that finally took note of the…
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Abandon Ship
Sony surprises us with another fine 4K upgrade for an unheralded classic in the Columbia library. It's a shipwreck survival tale that…
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A Man Named Rocca
This early starring feature for Jean-Paul Belmondo co-stars him with Christine Kaufmann in an episodic crime tale. One friend tries to spring…
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Oh! What a Lovely War — Import
Pacifism goes Panavision and color in Richard Attenborough's first directorial effort, a musical epic of the tragedy of World War One. The…
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Walk a Tightrope
Dan Duryea's slimy killer fesses up to a cold-blooded murder, but insists that the victim's wife Patricia Owens hired him to do…
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The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
Harryhausen comes at last to 4K Ultra HD! We hoped that the improved scan would bring out more to see in the…
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Red Sun
The creative part of this international genre hybrid was assembling its dynamite all-star cast. The concept is unbeatable: what kid doesn't want…
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Stavisky
Alain Resnais' historical drama of the notorious l'affaire Stavisky is one of his most accessible movies. Producer-star Jean-Paul Belmondo was fascinated by…
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Pretty Maids all in a Row
The movie ratings system experienced a rough beginning. Studios got the notion that America wanted R-rated product, which led to a number…
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Letty Lynton
This Blu-ray re-premieres a notable Joan Crawford picture that's been all but unseeable since 1936. It's romance and murder the way the…
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The Outfit
The best film of director John Flynn may be this unpretentious crime saga, a Richard Stark adaptation that makes no wrong moves…
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Deep Crimson
We welcome Terry Morgan to CineSavant as a reviewer. Terry Morgan has been writing professionally since 1990 for publications such as L.A…
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Soylent Green
Richard Fleischer's dystopian drama takes place in 2022, which makes it four years past its 'sell by' date. Is our world beginning…
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The Pornographers
The Japanese New Wave strikes -- in a challenging, entertaining art picture where all the perversity is in the characters' heads. Shôhei…
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The Navy vs. the Night Monsters
Whoa ... Red Flag Down. We're so spoiled by improved transfers of Public Domain titles that we forget that poor quality PD…