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A Time for Dying
It's the final theatrical western of the legendary director Budd Boetticher, and he also wrote the screenplay! Ace cinematographer Lucien Ballard…
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Written on the Wind
"I'm filthy -- period!" With an ideal cast -- Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack and Dorothy Malone -- director Douglas Sirk…
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Village of the Giants
Bert I. Gordon's career groove of shrinking and bloating various animals and people bottoms out in this trashy drive-in groaner: it's colorful…
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Repeat Performance
Who Shot Barney? Or should we say, who is going to shoot Barney? Chalk up another excellent Noir Rescue by The Film…
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Classic Mexican Horrors
La Llorona and El Fantasma del Convento: conceived as Mexican horror fables for Mexican audiences, these expressionist gems tap indigenous cultural riches…
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Cinema of Discovery Julien Duvivier in the 1920s
If discovering brilliant filmmakers appeals, it's difficult to to better than this five-disc, nine-feature labor of recovery and restoration from Lobster films.…
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Edge of Darkness
Righteous propaganda fuels the patriotic fire: Lewis Milestone and Robert Rossen's blood-soaked ode to Norwegian resistance goes way over the top. These…
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Kitten with a Whip
Showbiz dynamo Ann-Margret tries on 'teenage hellion' for size. She terrorizes the straight, impossibly patient John Forsythe, sending him on a weekend…
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The Devil’s Men
Devil worshippers are running amuck in Greece, haven't you heard? This Greek-English horror show stars Peter Cushing and Donald Pleasance, so it…
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The Unknown Man of Shandigor
It's something completely different . . . a genuine obscurity, a Swiss spy fantasy from the 1960s with major appeal to fans…
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Lady in a Cage
Though the title suggests anything from a feminist manifesto to a women-in-prison melodrama, Lady in a Cage is in fact a home…
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Gold Diggers of 1933
Busby Berkeley's musical comedy extravaganza not only gets away with a social message, it makes one of the best cultural statements ever…
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The Capture
It's a manhunt South of the Border -- Niven Busch's drama has violence and murder but is really a novelistic character study…
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The Brain Eaters
They're after you, and your wives and children! This Corman/VeSota/Ed Nelson shocker with the excellent poster is a Robert Heinlein knockoff that…
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Black Magic
Orson Welles in fine form! This lavishly produced costume drama, beautifully cast and directed, was filmed on location in gorgeous Italian palazzos,…
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Angels with Dirty Faces
Released on a Thanksgiving weekend in 1938, Angels With Dirty Faces was a holiday treat with an unexpected punch; it could have…
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Stage Fright (1950)
Alfred Hitchcock puts Jane Wyman in harm's way, as she tries to rescue her unworthy boyfriend Richard Todd from a murder charge.…
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The Naked Jungle
This creepy-crawly epic enjoyed a strong reputation on my grade-school playground. Does George Pal's man-versus-the-elements saga hold up 68 years later? The…
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The Spider Woman Strikes Back
People are measured by the company they keep—in a superhero’s case, that company is usually the supervillain. Villains, besides giving the hero…
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Night Gallery (Season 1)
A modern-day mythologist with a populist bent, Rod Serling fused the cautionary tales of fantasists like Ray Bradbury to the righteous anger…
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A Tale of Two Cities (1958)
It's the 'other' version of Dickens' terrific novel, an English film that few Americans have seen. This Australian DVD is in the…
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All My Sons
Burt Lancaster and Edward G. Robinson are excellent in this adaptation of Arthur Miller's award-winning Broadway play, about a family torn apart…
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The Great Moment
Every once in a while a movie studio would ruin what might have been a masterpiece -- and Preston Sturges' last-released Paramount…
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A Hard Day’s Night 4K
The Fab Four's first and biggest movie hit comes to 4K Ultra HD! The Beatles brought something new and exciting to 1964…
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The Blockhouse
For this perplexing British production Peter Sellers fronts a solid cast (Charles Aznavour, Jeremy Kemp, Per Oscarsson and Peter Vaughn) in a…
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Straight Time
Straight Time Blu-ray Warner Archive Collection 1978 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 114 min. / Available at Amazon.com / Street Date…