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Five Graves to Cairo
It's smart, it's funny, it has a touch of romance... it's Billy Wilder & Charles Brackett's entertaining espionage thriller set between the…
Articles by Glenn Erickson
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I’ll Get You + Fingerprints Don’t Lie
Witness one Robert Lippert, an American independent producer who flourished in multiple eras of Hollywood. We discuss his adaptation to changes in…
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The Alfred Hitchcock Classics Collection 4K Ultra HD
Universal's top-of-the-line Alfred Hitchcock classics make the jump to Ultra HD in a worthy update. We've seen these before but they're always…
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When Worlds Collide
George Pal's second science fiction classic has conceptual imagination and visual wonder to spare, along with a million awkward and dated details.…
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Flash Gordon 4K
Arrow jumps into the 4K Ultra HD bracket with a knockout 40th anniversary presentation of this campy, music-filled and incredibly colorful Dino…
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The Naked City
Jules Dassin's most popular pre-exile crime thriller is many things: a cracking good police tale, a drama of human struggle and weakness,…
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Flying Leathernecks
John Wayne, Robert Ryan and some thrilling color combat footage grace this Howard Hughes WW2 aviation epic, that's famous for being the…
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Attack of the Crab Monsters
Roger Corman began his boom year of 1957 with a marvelous bit of 'way-out' sci-fi -- a 'Tidal Wave of Terror' no…
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Black Gravel
When they dig it up, what will they find? Fans will want to see this forgotten Deutsch-noir masterpiece. Helmut Käutner's tale of…
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Airplane!
Most people smile just at the mention of this show ... nothing is more healthy than an old fashioned laugh. Zucker, Zucker…
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Black Test Car + The Black Report
For vintage Japanese classics Arrow is the place to be this summer. Yasuzô Masumura's complicated tale of industrial espionage is an attack…
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Night Visitor
Hookers! Devil worshippers! A naughty teenage voyeur! A deadly knife, a lethal sedan and a chainsaw-wielding psychopath! Nasal Spray! CineSavant breaks with…
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Red Ball Express
Trucks for victory! No deadheads on this run! Bald Tires for Adolf! Budd Boetticher's two-fisted teamsters haul General Patton's supplies through a…
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Toni
Fans of Jean Renoir will rush to see something 'new' from the great director; this very different Renoir picture sees him filming…
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Hiroshima (1953)
Japanese cinema's earliest attempt to depict the full impact of the 1945 atom-bomb attack is one of the best anti-Nuke movies ever...…
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The Sign of the Cross
The message of this ode to early Christian martyrs is overpowered by Cecil B. DeMille's indulgence of his sanctimonious/perverse instincts: although seldom…
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Hollywoodland
Is this a thrilling, Chinatown-like Hollywood mystery, or a semi-docu about the making of the first TV Superman show? Or is it…
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The Sin of Nora Moran
Hoo-haw, as they say... but the hot reputation of this pre-Code slice of censor bait begins and ends with its astonishing original…
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The City Without Jews
A major silent film find: recently rediscovered and restored, this much-sought Austrian satire offers historical insight on antisemitism in 1920s Europe, and…
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Pat and Mike
Still one of Tracy and Hepburn's best, this follow-up to Adam's Rib works on all levels. It rings the feminist rights gong…
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The Complete Films of Agnes Varda
An artist's life is always more than their 'published' works, but that this massive 'Agnés in a box' comes close to being…
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Wake Island
Never heard of Wake Island? Its fall terrified Americans at Christmas of 1941. The war's just begun, we're definitely not winning, and…
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L’innocente
Luchino Visconti's handsome final feature adapts a classic Italian novel about an arrogant aristocrat whose selfish double-standard philosophy causes ruin and misery.…
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Tony Curtis Collection
Good Old Tony Curtis! We could always depend on Tony for a sly, ingratiating smile, charm that ranged from candid-sweet to barracuda…
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Raggedy Man
Here's a story about a different kind of 'lockdown.' This near-perfect Americana drama might be the real pinnacle of Sissy Spacek's wonderful…
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Orgasmo
Severin's extravagant four-film six-disc The Complete Umberto Lenzi / Carroll Baker Giallo Collection is a luxurious trip into sexy, violent Italo thrill territory.…