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Danger Signal
Ah romance! A handsome stranger takes a room in your house, lets you feed him and doesn't pay the rent -- of…
Articles by Glenn Erickson
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The Age of Innocence
Martin Scorsese commands the screen without a single profane word or gunshot to the head. His adaptation of Edith Wharton's 1920 novel…
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Red Planet Mars
It's a review. No, it's a rant. Stop, you're both right. CineSavant's overt mission is to demonstrate that old movies, especially old…
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While the City Sleeps & Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Fritz Lang’s final American films. The amazingly creative Fritz Lang almost singlehandedly pioneered a number of key genres: the fantasy epic, the…
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Joan of Arc (1948)
Does every great actress see Joan of Arc as the ultimate serious role? Ingrid Bergman ran into serious career trouble while this…
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Hotel Berlin
"Grand Hotel. Nazis come. Nazis go. Nothing ever happens." That's a paraphrase from 1932's Grand Hotel, indicating that the hallowed halls once…
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The New Centurions
Joseph Wambaugh's breakthrough novel went through a blender to fit George C. Scott into the narrative, but it's still a great cop…
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The Black Scorpion
Wow! Prime stop-motion animation from the heyday of monstrous science fiction, in a new restoration that puts a brilliant shine on those…
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The Seven-Ups
Forget All Singing! - All Dancing! Tonight's bill of fare is wall-to-wall high grade crime action. Roy Scheider leads a great cast…
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Otley
Few latecomer '60s spy movies were big successes. This amusing Brit effort sank without a trace, perhaps taking with it the career…
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Basket Case
Classic Midnite Cult movies were a mini-phenomenon chosen by the public, created by word of mouth approval. Frank Henenlotter's wild 'n' weird…
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Underworld U.S.A.
Sam Fuller turns the crime film inside-out with this tale of on infiltrator taking down the syndicate. Vengeful Cliff Robertson uses both…
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Ingrid Bergman’s Swedish Years: Eclipse Series 46
No, the movie star Ingrid Bergman was never a starlet with a seven-year contract, and her stellar career didn't begin opposite Humphrey…
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Women in Love
Finally -- a satisfying home video edition of Ken Russell's absorbing, argument-starting classic, in which D. H. Lawrence's quartet of bohemians attempt…
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Liquid Sky
Remembered as a briefly hot quasi- avant-garde title, then a cult item, Slava Tsukerman's brightly colored movie is said to capture a…
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Robert Altman’s ‘Images’
Do we sometimes 'grow into' movies? This one now plays like a minor masterpiece. 'Seventies auteur Robert Altman proves himself an expert…
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The Outer Limits Season One
Wow — somebody took their sweet time about it, but we finally have a quality Blu-ray set of an entire generation’s favorite…
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Dragonwyck
Before Vincent Price haunted houses, he chalked up plenty of experience as a Broadway star and a versatile character actor. This superb Joseph…
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The Drowning Pool
'Harper Days Are Here Again,' reads the advertising tag line for this worthy follow-up to Paul Newman's first outing as Ross Macdonald's…
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King of Jazz
Make room for a genuine rarity, come back from the cinema graveyard in excellent condition: a lavish color musical extravaganza from 1930…
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The Dumb Girl of Portici
We may not have film of the legendary actresses Lily Langtree or Sara Bernhardt to enjoy, but now we can see the…
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Ship of Fools
Secure one major book with a serious subject, sign up a wagonload of stars (including a legend or two) and make sure…
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Great Balls of Fire!
Director Jim McBride puts retro magic into a rock 'n' roll bio about a big talent who was probably more fun on…
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A Fistful of Dynamite (Duck You Sucker)
More mysterious than ever, Sergio Leone's ode to (condemnation of?) revolution is said to be the centerpiece of his three 'Once Upon…
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Highway Dragnet
Here's something odd: the formative feature in Roger Corman's proto- career. Roger gets credits for Story and Associate Producer, and learned what…
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Colossus: The Forbin Project (Region B)
This nearly forgotten Sci-fi masterpiece should have been a monster hit. For some reason Universal didn't think that a computer menace was…