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A million American GIs are bivouacked in the English countryside, awaiting debarkation to France... and the green fields are loaded with young…
Articles by Glenn Erickson
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Television’s Lost Classics Vol One: John Cassavetes
John Cassavetes springs forth as a major 1950s talent in these two 'Primetime Special' dramatic plays broadcast live on ABC and CBS.…
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Gardens of Stone
Francis Coppola's get-out-of-debt directorial assignments may not be his most personal movies, but this one is satisfying just the same, with its…
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Posse from Hell
Wow -- a good Audie Murphy movie. Clair Huffaker's screenplay should take credit, as well as the workmanlike direction of former Hitchcock…
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Shame (Skammen)
War no longer recognizes 'innocent bystanders': a married couple seeks to sidestep 'civil disturbances' by relocating to a rural island, only for…
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The Giant Behemoth
"Brace Yourself For A SHOCK!...200 Feet of Living Burning Horror!" Eugène Lourié's second feature about an irate sea monster wrecking a city…
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Desert Fury
The murky crimes of sordid characters come to the fore in the wide-open Nevada spaces... producer Hal Wallis' Technicolor noir concentrates on…
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Beat the Devil
The star lineup sparkles in this witty, lighthearted tale of a gang of international schemers and cutthroats trying to -- well, what…
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Satan Never Sleeps
Pearl S. Buck and Leo McCarey give it to ya straight: Red China is BAD. This strange mix of Cold War truth-telling…
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Screamers
Screaming, flying 'Autonomous Mobile Swords' have decimated the enemy in a war on a far-off planet, but now the pesky smart weapons…
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The Last Command
The 'other' Hollywood studio version of the Alamo story is quite good, with strong production values, exciting stunt battle action and something…
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Forty Guns
Cult favorite Samuel Fuller explodes the mid-range Hollywood oater with elements we can all appreciate: a ritualistic fetishizing of the gunslinger ethos,…
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The Wasp Woman
Roger and Gene Corman's first 'The Filmgroup' production is a slick little programmer that belies its drive-in monster movie heritage: the trim…
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Bent
Too edgy for the mainstream, Martin Sherman's influential play is nevertheless transformed into an admirable, well-crafted show. In Hitler's Berlin of 1934,…
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The Prize
Already eclipsed by James Bond and sexier European films, Paul Newman does his best to energize this derivative but lively spy-chase thriller…
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Willie Dynamite
Here's something I never expected to see: I ran to the blaxploitation attraction Willie Dynamite because I like actress Diana Sands, and…
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Foxfire
Jane Russell heats up an Arizona mining town but she's just trying to help her new husband with his ethnic identity issues,…
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Panique
For directing skill and sensual sophistication this psychologically intense murder tale equals or betters the most sophisticated American noirs. Julien Duvivier gives…
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Symbiotic Earth
Just when we thought the world was doomed by the rejection of scientific rationalism, this lecture docu about the theories and discoveries…
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The Black Windmill
Secret agent Michael Caine must take on both the kidnappers of his son and his own suspect Army Intelligence colleagues in Don…
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CineSavant 2018 Favored Disc Roundup
CineSavant 2018 Favored Disc Roundup Savant picks The Most Impressive Blu-rays and DVDs of 2018 Welcome again to the most self-indulgent list…
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Anne of the Thousand Days
A movie for people who don't normally like costume dramas about kings and queens, this adaptation of Maxwell Anderson's play is great…
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Notorious
Alfred Hitchcock's nearly perfect romantic spy thriller teams Cary Grant with Ingrid Bergman to yield just what audiences wanted in 1946, an…
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Dracula: Prince of Darkness
How to shake up a mid-sixties slump at Hammer Films? It's back to basics time, with Christopher Lee returning in a most…
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The True Story of Jesse James
Nicholas Ray's CinemaScope detour into outlaw Americana is yet another sincere artistic effort muffled by studio interference. Ray sought to examine a…
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The Sea Hawk
Grand action entertainment bursts forth on the high seas, showing us how much production value Golden Hollywood could lavish on an exciting,…