The Yearling Blu ray Warner Archive 1946 / 1.33:1 / 128 min. Starring Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, Claude Jarman Jr. Cinematography by Charles Rosher, Leonard Smith Directed by Clarence Brown Based on Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’s 1938 novel, The Yearling revels in the solitary adventures of Jody Baxter, a boy whose untamed nature is reflected in…
It Happened Tomorrow Blu ray Kino Lorber 1944 / 1.33:1 / 85 min. Starring Dick Powell, Linda Darnell, Jack Oakie Cinematography by Archie Stout, Eugen Schüfftan Directed by René Clair René Clair takes a trip through The Twilight Zone in It Happened Tomorrow, the story of a reporter’s perilous adventure with a different kind of…
The Producers Blu ray Kino Lorber 1967 / 1.85:1 / 88 min. Starring Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder Cinematography by Joseph Coffey Directed by Mel Brooks At his most unrestrained, Mel Brooks would have made Voltaire blush. Would such uninhibited comedy survive under the gaze of today’s self-appointed blacklisters? The answer can be found in the…
The Dungeon of Andy Milligan Collection Blu ray Severin Films 1965-1984 / 1.33:1, 1:85.1. Starring Neil Flanagan, Berwick Kaler, Maggie Rogers Cinematography by Andy Milligan Directed by Andy Milligan “I should have killed Andy.” – Jimmy McDonough In 1987 Andy Milligan was working on his latest film, a bloody revenge saga with a Frankenstein theme…
The Invisible Man Appears / The Invisible Man vs. The Human Fly Blu ray Arrow Films 1949, 1957 / 1.33:1 / 87, 96 min. Starring Chizuru Kitagawa, Takiko Mizunoe Cinematography by Hideo Ishimoto, Hiroshi Murai Directed by Nobuo Adachi, Mitsuo Murayama Founded in 1942, Daiei Films appealed to the hearts and minds of movie-goers with…
Isle of the Dead Blu ray Warner Archive 1945 / 1.33:1 / 72 min. Starring Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Katherine Emery Cinematography by Jack MacKenzie Directed by Mark Robson The Swiss symbolist Arnold Böcklin produced several versions of Isle of the Dead in the late 1800’s—none of them suggested a typical tourist attraction but more…
The Bad News Bears Blu ray Imprint 1976 / 1.78:1 / 102 min. Starring Walter Matthau, Tatum O’Neal, Vic Morrow Cinematography by John Alonzo Directed by Michael Ritchie W.C. Fields’ final screen appearance was a brief walk-on in Sensations of 1945, an overloaded variety show that barely found time for the great man. As usual…
Twentieth Century Blu ray – Region B Indicator 1934 / 1.33:1 / 91 min. Starring John Barrymore, Carole Lombard Cinematography by Joseph August Directed by Howard Hawks All the world’s a stage and that includes the Twentieth Century, a deluxe passenger train transformed into an itinerant theater thanks to the first class talent in first…
Baby Doll Blu ray Warner Archive 1956 / 1.85:1 / 114 min. Starring Karl Malden, Carroll Baker, Eli Wallach Cinematography by Boris Kaufman Directed by Elia Kazan Depraved, degenerate, and dreadfully funny, the genre known as Southern Gothic blurred the line between humor and horror and helped define the work of artists like William Faulkner,…
So Evil My Love Blu ray Kino Lorber 1948 / 1.33:1 / 112 min. Starring Ray Milland, Ann Todd, Geraldine Fitzgerald Cinematography by Mutz Greenbaum Directed by Lewis Allen In 1944 Ray Milland starred in The Uninvited, the story of an orphan plagued by the vengeful spirit of her mother. The film remains a shivery…
Dark Intruder Blu ray Kino Lorber 1965 / 1.85:1 / 59 min. Starring Leslie Nielsen, Peter Mark Richman, Judi Meredith Cinematography by John F. Warren Directed by Harvey Hart Produced in 1965, Universal Pictures intended Dark Intruder for television but when NBC executives screened the film they took a pass—set in the goth-friendly year of…
Tex Avery Screwball Classics Volume 2 Blu ray Warner Archive 1948-55 / 1.33:1 / 143 min. Starring Blasé Basset Hounds, Antisocial Alley Cats, Swivel-hipped Sex-bombs, Hot-to-Trot Wolves Directed by Tex Avery With their bawdy gags and come-hither chorus girls, Tex Avery’s cartoons might seem better suited to the burlesque stage than a movie theater. Your…
The Kiss Before the Mirror Blu ray Kino Lorber 1933 / 1.33:1 / 69 min. Starring Nancy Carroll, Frank Morgan, Gloria Stuart Cinematography by Karl Freund Directed by James Whale James Whale’s The Kiss Before the Mirror opens on familiar terrain for the director of Frankenstein—a moon-lit backroad littered with crooked trees and clutching branches….