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Rachel and the Stranger
Here's a pleasant surprise: one of RKO's most popular releases of 1948 has suddenly emerged in an uncut version that's a full…
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Billy Liar
Do you ever lapse into daydream fantasies to escape from everyday life? Tom Courtenay and John Schlesinger changed their destinies and that…
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The Head
A scientist who operates out of a starkly Modernist laboratory of glass and steel, Dr. Ood comes from a long line of…
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Outcast of the Islands
Lust-filled treachery in the steaming tropics! He dared to love a cannibal empress! Taglines like that suggest that it wasn't easy to…
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The Sound Barrier
Why is David Lean's stirring ode to British aviation so historically and technically bogus? Because at heart it's a science fiction film!…
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The Great Gildersleeve Movie Collection
Like the transition from silent movies to the talkies, the progression from radio to film was a rocky road for some performers.…
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Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
Timothy Spall stars in a fascinating, surprisingly non-morbid look into the life of Albert Pierrepoint. England's reluctant celebrity hangman dispatched hundreds of…
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Night Passage
James Stewart's final western of the 1950s is a high-gloss family show with more than its share of spirited desperados and adventuresome…
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Our Hospitality
Buster Keaton's first full feature is a real accomplishment, a little masterpiece that deftly balances comedy and drama. Buster's star appeal is…
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Army of Shadows
Jean-Pierre Melville's most accomplished, most personal movie gets a new reissue. Ignored in 1969 and released in the United States only 37…
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Terminal Station & Indiscretion of an American Wife
Don't do it Vittorio! The Italian master's last neorealist project was done 'in collaboration' with American producer David O. Selznick, who proceeded…
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Their Finest Hour: 5 British WWII Classics
Can a war movie be reassuring in a time of crisis? Each of the films in this excellent collection stress people working…
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Action of the Tiger
Van Johnson steps into adventure-guy shoes more suitable for Humphrey Bogart in this European-shot thriller. Daring Martine Carol provides the sex appeal…
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The Uninvited
The story of a lonely young woman and the ghosts in her life, Dorothy Macardle’s Uneasy Freehold was published in 1941 and…
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The Intrigue
Look out, it's an X-Ray Death Ray! We rushed this review out, and it's only 104 years late. One of the feature…
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Abbott and Costello Go to The Black Lagoon
A CineSavant Article A mention in a book by Tom Weaver of an odd shared visual in two Universal-International movies of the…
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Murder, He Says
The Snopes family were a collection of Southern-fried scoundrels introduced by William Faulkner in 1940’s The Hamlet—over the course of three novels…
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The Day of the Dolphin
They swim, they play, and they talk. They love George C. Scott and call him 'pa.' Mike Nichols' paranoid sci-fi classic combines…
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Beau Geste
It's a classic from the Golden Year of 1939, directed in fine style by Wild Bill Wellman and well cast with Paramount…
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3-D Rarities II
3-D Blu-ray isn’t going away, even as the equipment to show it becomes hard to find — and the 3-D Film Archive…
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Show Boat (1936)
One of the best and most melodic of filmic transpositions from Broadway, James Whale's beautifully directed movie showcases all-time great performances by…
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The Bolshevik Trilogy 3 Films by Vsevolod Pudovkin
Ready for some good old-fashioned artistic propaganda, Soviet-style Russian filmmakers tried to make film grammar into an emotional-intellectual science, and these pro-Revolution…
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The Mad Magician
For Vincent Price, revenge was a dish served cold and in 3-D. In 1954, just a year after his three-dimensional rampage in…
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Hammer Volume Five – Death and Deceit
Indicator delivers another in their long line of fan-friendly box sets with Hammer Volume Five - Death and Deceit (a subhead that could be…
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Dodsworth
It's 'Marriage Story' circa 1936. Talk about older shows that still pack a dramatic wallop... William Wyler's most celebrated '30s film is…
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Supernatural
Wow! That glorious original poster jumped out at us, making us ask why we couldn't see this classic-era Paramount horror picture starring…