I must admit that I really enjoy the silent films that Kino Lorber has released over the years having found some amazing discoveries for me. The label recently released a silent film double-feature on Blu-ray-Drifting and White Tiger. Both films have a lot in common; they are from 1923, directed by Tod Browning and feature…
Play Misty for Me Blu-ray review ( Kino Lorber release)
Play Misty for Me is one of my favorite Clint Eastwood films mainly because I am a lifelong fan of suspenseful thrillers and horror movies, which this movie is. The movie not only stars Clint Eastwood, but it is also directed by him, and is noteworthy of being the first film that he directed. In…
Two Mules for Sister Sara Blu-ray review (Kino Lorber)
Two Mules for Sister Sara is another Western starring the great Clint Eastwood. This movie also stars another screen great in Shirley MacLaine (The Children’s Hour). The film was co-written by Budd Boetticher, who was synonymous with Westerns, having directed plenty of them in the mid to late fifties. At the helm for this film…
The Secret Ways Blu-ray review
Screen great Richard Widmark, known for his lead roles in some of the best Noirs from the forties and fifties such as Road House, Kiss of Death and Night and the City, stars in a crime-espionage thriller called The Secret Ways. This movie is one I had not heard of, but when Kino Lorber announced…
Apache Blu-ray review
Burt Lancaster is one of the great American actors and had a brilliant career starring in Film Noirs, dramas, Westerns and comedy. He had great range as an actor. Perhaps his greatest ‘range’ was in the 1954 Western film Apache where he plays an Apache Indian! The film was based on the novel Broncho Apache…
P.J. Blu-ray review
P.J. is a neo-noir crime mystery thriller from 1968 directed by the great John Guillerman(King Kong ‘76) and starring George Peppard(The Blue Max) and screen legend Raymond Burr(Perry Mason). For those who have seen The Long Goodbye, Busting and Shadows of an Empty Room, P.J. has similar elements. New York private eye “P.J.” Peter Joseph…
Dragnet (1954) Blu-ray review
During the 1950s, Dragnet was one of the most famous and successful television series. The series starred Jack Webb as hard-nosed Sgt. Joe Friday. The show was popular enough to give it a full-length feature film in 1954 with Jack Webb in his usual role, and also handled the directing chores. The story is simple…
Seven Sinners Blu-ray review
Seven Sinners is a romance drama starring screen icons John Wayne and Marlene Dietrich. This is the first of three films they did together, the other two being The Spoilers and Pittsburg. In this picture, Bijou Blanche (Dietrich) is a femme-fetale singer who continuously gets kicked out of various South Sea Islands because she is…
The Lost Weekend Blu-ray review
For my entire adulthood I have avoiding drinking alcohol. For one thing, I never really liked the taste of alcoholic beverages, but I have also seen first-hand how being a compulsive drinker affected people that I know. Being acquainted with those who were alcoholics turned me off to drinking. Alcoholism is one of our biggest…
Joe Kidd Blu-ray review
Joe Kidd was one of the few Clint Eastwood films I had not had the opportunity to watch until this year. Since I had since just about every other Eastwood Western, and was being announced for an upgraded Blu-ray release, I felt now was the right time and I am glad that it gave it…