George Stevens’ Western drama known as Giant is a 1956 three-hour plus epic film, along the lines of Gone with the Wind, Ben Hur, The Ten Commandments, Lawrence of Arabia among others. The movie is based on Edna Ferber’s novel under the same name and features a wealth of great legendary, iconic actors including Elizabeth…
Ivanhoe Blu-ray review
Ivanhoe is a 1952 British-American historical adventure epic film directed by Richard Thorpe and features one of the greatest casts ever assembled for a film. Legendary actor Robert Taylor (Waterloo Bridge, High Wall) stars as knight Saxon Wilfred of Ivanhoe who is searching for the recently disappeared Richard the Lionheart, Norman King of England (Norman…
National Velvet Blu-ray review
National Velvet is a sports drama film directed by Clarence Brown and was shot in Technicolor. The 1944 film stars the future iconic actress Elizabeth Taylor who was age 12 during the making of this picture, along with fellow screen icons Mickey Rooney and Angela Lansbury. In National Velvet, Michael “Mi” Taylor (Mickey Rooney, A…
The Mirror Crack’d Blu-ray review
British director Guy Hamilton, mainly known for being at the helm for several James Bond films, went into the world of Agatha Christie with the 1980 film The Mirror Crack’d, a mystery featuring the famous sleuth Miss Marple. The story has Miss Marple (Angela Lansbury, Murder She Wrote) tracking down a murderer who has poisoned…