William Wellman’s A Star is Born is a romantic drama from 1937 that stars screen legends Frederic March and Janet Gaynor. This picture was shot in Technicolor, making it that much more enjoyable to watch. This is the first version of the movie, having been remade in 1954,1976 and 2018. The story, for those who…
Mary Stevens, M.D. Blu-ray review
Mary Stevens, M.D. is a 1933 American Pre-Code drama film starring Kay Francis, Lyle Talbot, and Thelma Todd. This story is about a married doctor who has an affair with a long-time friend and fellow doctor and impregnating her. Screen legend Kay Francis (In Name Only, For the Defense) stars as the title character…
Santa Fe Trail Blu-ray review
Santa Fe Trail is a Western film directed by legendary director Michael Curtiz (Doctor X, Casablanca) that features a fantastic cast that includes Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Raymond Massey, Alan Hale, Van Heflin, and former United States President Ronald Reagan. The film takes place in 1854, just before the Civil War. The story mainly…
In the Good Old Summertime Blu-ray review
In what is essentially a musical remake of Ernst Lubitsch’s The Shop Around the Corner, In the Good Old Summertime tells the tale of pen-pals who are in love but are working together in the same retail store where they loathe each other. The picture would later be remade again in the film You’ve Got…
The Window Blu-ray review
Director Ted Tetzlaff’s The Window is the story about nine year old Tommy Woodry (Bobby Driscoll, Song of the South) who tells so many lies to his parents, that when something real actually happens to him, they don’t believe him, nearly causing Tommy his life. The tale of The Window is basically a ‘boy who…
Shadow of the Thin Man Blu-ray review
Shadow of the Thin Man is the fourth of six Thin Man movies starring William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles. In this caper, the married couple stumble upon another murder case that happens at a racetrack where a jockey is shot to death. Nick’s pal Lieutenant Abrams (Sam Levene, After the…
Guns for San Sebastian Blu-ray review
Guns for San Sebastian is a spaghetti Western starring the late great legendary star Anthony Quinn, the iconic Charles Bronson and directed by French film director Henri Verneuil. This movie is based on the novel A Wall for San Sebastian and is noted for being an Italian film that was shot in Mexico. Taking place…
It Happened at the World’s Fair Blu-ray review
In my lifetime, I have seen thousands of films, but It Happened at the World’s Fair is the very first movie that I have seen the iconic musician Elvis Presley act in which sounds crazy, but I am not a die-hard musical fan outside of the immortal classic The Wizard of Oz and a few…
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…
The Tender Trap Blu-ray review
The Tender Trap is a 1955 musical comedy directed by Charles Walters and starring iconic screen actor and musician Frank Sinatra, along with screen veterans Debbie Reynolds, Celeste Holm and David Wayne. I will be the first to admit that out of all the actors in this movie, I was not familiar with actor David…