The Cat and the Canary & The Ghost Breakers Blu ray Kino Lorber 1939, 1940 / 72, 83 min. Starring Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard Cinematography by Charles B. Lang Directed by Elliott Nugent, George Marshall Bob Hope’s brand of comedy may have been extinct by the sixties but it was alive and kicking in the…
Dr. Who and the Daleks/Daleks’ Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. Blu ray Kino Lorber 1965, 1966 / 82, 84 min. Starring Peter Cushing, Bernard Cribbens Cinematography by John Wilcox Directed by Gordon Flemyng The story of Doctor Who turns on a distinctly British conceit; our hero, a grandfatherly type usually found puttering in the garden, is…
The Paleface Blu ray Kino Lorber 1948 / 91 min. Starring Bob Hope, Jane Russell Cinematography by Ray Rennahan Directed by Norman Z. McLeod In 1934 Al Christie directed Going Spanish, a 19 minute farce billed as “An Educational Musical Comedy.” The movie is notable only for the film debut of Bob Hope whose wisecracks…
The Balcony Blu ray Kino Lorber 1963 / 84 min. Starring Shelley Winters, Peter Falk Cinematography by George Folsey Directed by Joseph Strick When Jean Genet died in 1986, France’s Minister of Culture proclaimed “Jean Genet has left us and with him, a black sun that enlightened the seamy side of things… Genet was liberty…
Town Bloody Hall Blu ray Criterion 1979 / 85 min. Starring Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston Cinematography by D.A. Pennebaker Directed by D.A. Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus No matter the subject, Norman Mailer was the star of whatever he produced—in Advertisements for Myself, a mix of self-criticism and self-congratulation—he could have been talking to himself….
Audie Murphy Collection Blu ray Kino Lorber 1952, 1958, 1959 / 242 min. Starring Audie Murphy, Stephen McNally, Walter Matthau, Charles Drake Cinematography by Irving Glassberg, Harold Lipstein Directed by Don Siegel, Jesse Hibbs, Jack Arnold “My temper was explosive… perhaps I was trying to level with my fists what I assumed fate had put…
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves Blu ray Kino Lorber 1944/ 87 min. Starring Maria Montez, Jon Hall Cinematography by George Robinson Directed by Arthur Lubin Thanks to George Robinson’s Technicolor photography and Vera West’s kaleidoscopic costumes, death and destruction look pretty as a picture in 1944’s Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Director Arthur Lubin’s…
Slave of the Cannibal God Blu ray Code Red 1978/ 99 min. Starring Ursula Andress, Stacy Keach Cinematography by Giancarlo Ferrando Directed by Sergio Martino At the same moment the Korean War was ending and Eisenhower entered the White House, illustrator Samson Pollen found his niche; illuminating the fever dreams of suburban dads for action…
The Lady Eve Blu ray Criterion 1941/ 94 min. Starring Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, William Demarest Cinematography by Victor Milner Directed by Preston Sturges In The Lady Eve a wealthy ophiologist named Charlie Pike and a sexy card shark named Jean Harrington fall in love. It’s a rapid-fire romance fueled by equal portions of love and lust…
The Flesh and the Fiends Blu ray Kino Lorber 1960 /95 min. Starring Peter Cushing, Donald Pleasence, George Rose, Billie Whitelaw Cinematography by Monty Berman Directed by John Gilling The Flesh and the Fiends lives up to its name and then some. The setting is Scotland but the squalid streets and charnel houses suggest Dickens’…
The Thief of Baghdad Blu ray – All Region Colosseo Film 1961 /100 min. Starring Steve Reeves, Georgia Moll, Arturo Dominici Cinematography by Tonino Delli Colli Directed by Arthur Lubin When he shuffled off this mortal coil in 1995, Arthur Lubin’s New York Times obituary was titled “Arthur Lubin, 96, Director Of ‘Mr. Ed’ TV…
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break Blu ray Kino Lorber 1941 /77 min. Starring W.C. Fields, Franklin Pangborn, Leon Errol Cinematography by Charles Van Enger Directed by Edward Cline If Larsen E. Whipsnade ever laid eyes on Harold Bissonette, his mouth would water. Bissonette, a mild-mannered grocer for whom no good deed goes unpunished,…
Al Adamson: The Masterpiece Collection Blu ray Severin Films 1965 – 1989 / 2841 min. Starring Russ Tamblyn, Regina Carrol, Lon Chaney Cinematography by Gary Graver, Vilmos Zsigmond, László Kovács Directed by Al Adamson, David Gregory The titles grab you by the collar like a desperate carny barker – Psycho A Go-Go, Blood of Ghastly…