Created by Dashell Hammett, the Thin Man is a series of mystery-comedy movies featuring private detective Nick Charles and his wife Nora. Screen legends William Powell and Myrna Loy played the roles Nick and Nora Charles to perfection and starred in all six Thin Man movies. Of the thirteen films they did together, six of…
Vera Cruz (Kino Lorber) Blu-ray review
Vera Cruz is a Western from 1954 starring a pair of screen legends in Burt Lancaster and Gary Cooper and future icon Charles Bronson. Directed by Robert Aldrich, he pushes the bar with characters that don’t care about right or wrong and has a shocking scene where Bert Lancaster’s character threatens to murder child hostages….
The Thin Man Goes Home Blu-ray review
The Thin Man Goes Home is the fifth in the six film Thin Man series which stars William Powell and Myrna Loy reprise their roles as Nick and Nora Charles. The 1945 film is notable for being the first that was not directed by W.S Van Dyke who passed away in 1943. In this comedy…
Chain Lightning Blu-ray review
Chain Lightning is a drama film from 1950 starring Humphrey Bogart which was to be his last film that he did for Warner Brothers. In this film he spends much of the picture in the air as a pilot in the aviation race! The focus of Chain Lightning is on World War II flying ace…
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…
Son of Ali Baba Blu-ray review
Son of Ali Baba is a fantasy adventure film starring one iconic actor (Tony Curtis) one iconic actress (Piper Laurie) and directed by Kurt Neuman, the man responsible for The Fly and other whacky sci-fi B pictures. In Son of Ali Baba, Curtis plays, Kashma Baba, son of a thief from Baghdad, Ali Baba (Morris…