FILM REVIEWS, COLLECTION UPDATES, COMMENTS ON CINEMATIC CULTURE

Sunday, September 10, 2023

COLLECTION UPDATE: KINO-LORBER SUMMER 2023 SALE PART TWO!!

 

This is the second, and final (Who am I kidding?) physical media haul for the season. As I diligently prepare for bankruptcy, I hope these additions to my burgeoning collection will offer some solace.






COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW (1933) Directed by William Wyler and starring John Barrymore, Bebe Daniels, and Doris Kenyon

LUCKY JORDAN (1942) Directed by Frank Tuttle and starring Alan Ladd, Helen Walker, and Sheldon Leonard.

EYES OF LAURA MARS (1978) Directed by Irvin Kershner and starring Faye Dunaway, Tommy Lee Jones, and Brad Dourif.

BACKTRACK (1990) aka CATCHFIRE Directed by Dennis Hopper and starring Dennis Hopper, Jodie Foster, and Vincent Price.





THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE (1961) Directed by Val Guest and starring Janet Munro, Edward Judd, and Leo McKern.

THE STRANGE DOOR (1951) Directed by Joseph Pevney and starring Charles Laughton, Boris Karloff, Sally Forrest, and Richard Stapley.

THUNDER BAY (1953) Directed by Anthony Mann and starring James Stewart, Joanne Dru, Gilbert Roland, and Dan Duryea.

THE CRUSADES (1935) Directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Loretta Young, Henry Wilcoxon, and Ian Keith.




TENDER MERCIES (1983) Directed by Bruce Beresford and starring Robert Duvall, Tess Harper, Betty Buckley, and Ellin Barkin.

LONELYHEARTS (1958) Directed by Vincent J. Donehue and starring Montgomery Clift, Robert Ryan, and Myrna Loy.

ROAD TO BALI (1952) Directed by Hal Walker and starring Dorothy Lamour, Bob Hope, and Bing Crosby.

DEAD OF NIGHT (1945) Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, Basil Dearden, Charles Crichton, and Robert Hamer and starring Mervyn Johns, Googie Withers, Sally Ann Howes, and Michael Redgrave.





THEY CAME TO CORDURA (1959) Directed by Robert Rossen and starring Rita Hayworth, Gary Cooper, Tab Hunter, and Van Heflin.

THE TRUTH ABOUT SPRING (1965) Directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Hayley Mills, John Mills, and James MacArthur.

4D MAN (1959) Directed by Irvin S. Yeaworth, Jr. and starring Robert Lansing, Lee Meriwether, and James Congdon.

ROOM AT THE TOP (1959) Directed by Neil Paterson and starring Simone Signoret, Laurence Harvey, and Heather Sears.




EDGAR D. ULMER SCI-FI COLLECTION

THE MAN FROM PLANET X (1951) Starring Robert Clarke, Margaret Field, and William Schallert.

BEYOND THE TIME BARRIER (1960) Starring Robert Clarke and Darlene Tompkins.

THE AMAZING TRANSPARENT MAN (1960) Starring Marguerite Chapman and Douglas Kennedy.

ACCIDENT (1967) Directed by Joseph Losey and starring Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, Jacqueline Sassard, Michael York, and Vivien Merchant.




ROAD TO RIO (1947) Directed by Norman Z. McLeod and starring Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Bing Crosby, and Gale Sondergaard.

THE TURNING POINT (1952) Directed by William Dieterle and starring William Holden, Edmund O'Brien, and Alexis Smith.

YOU AND ME (1938) Directed by Fritz Lang and starring Sylvia Sydney.

NIGHT PASSAGE (1957) Directed by James Neilson and starring James Stewart, Audie Murphy, and Dan Duryea.





FILM NOIR: THE DARK SIDE OF CINEMA XIV

APPOINTMENT WITH A SHADOW (1957) Directed by Richard Carlson and starring George Nader, Joanna Moore, Brian Keith, and Virginia Field.

ONE WAY STREET (1950) Directed by Hugo Fregonese and starring James Mason, Marta Toren, and Dan Duryea.

UNDERCOVER GIRL (1950) Directed by Joseph Pevney and starring Alexis Smith and Scott Brady.








FILM NOIR: THE DARK SIDE OF CINEMA XII

UNDERTOW (1949) Directed by William Castle and starring Scott Brady, John Russell, Dorothy Hart, and Peggy Dow.

OUTSIDE THE WALL (1950) Directed by Crane Wilbur and starring Richard Basehart, Marilyn Maxwell, Signe Hasso, and Dorothy Hart.

HOLD BACK TOMORROW (1955) Directed by Hugo Haas and starring Cleo Moore and John Agar.







FILM NOIR: THE DARK SIDE OF CINEMA XIII 

STEP DOWN TO TERROR (1958) Directed by Harry Keller and starring Colleen Miller, Charles Drake, and Rod Taylor.

THE NIGHT RUNNER (1957) Directed by Abner Biberman and starring Ray Danton, Colleen Miller, Merry Anders, and Harry Jackson.

SPY HUNT (1950) Directed by George Sherman and starring Howard Duff and Marta Toren.






4 comments:

  1. You've got another huge haul of good stuff to watch! Better be careful, though. If this pile of Blu-rays you were stacking up in your YouTube video tips over you might get crushed!
    1959's 4D MAN is a very cool flick from the some of the same talents behind THE BLOB the previous year. THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE is a sci-fi film that seems to have a pretty good reputation which I've always been curious about. DEAD OF NIGHT is a creepy classic I need to see again. Looks like you've also picked up a ton of interesting film noirs. Happy viewing!

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    1. Believe it or not, all this crazy Kino collecting I've been doing this Summer has inspired me to do some serious organizing. So, everything has been safely put away on shelves and I'm no longer in danger of being crushed by falling Blu-rays! The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a real pleasant surprise. I was expecting the usual cool sci-fi flick with lots of primitive special effects. Instead, I got a well constructed human drama with a sci-fi disaster background. I may have to write a review of this one. 4D Man is loads of fun. Dead of Night is superior to half my entire collection!

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  2. Hi Mike!! You got two of my personal top favorites, ROOM AT THE TOP and TENDER MERCIES. I think that Dark Side of CInema, Film Noir XII is one of the best in the series, with two very good noirs (UNDERTOW and OUTSIDE THE WALL) even if, in my opinion, HOLD BACK TOMORROW isn't really Noir, it's a very well-acted, emotionally strong film....great choice on that set!! I won't bore you with more comments right now--- Jay from FB and Youtube 😂

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  3. Jay, you can "bore" me with your comments anytime you feel like it!! I always appreciate hearing from you and my other friends. I saw TENDER MERCIES on its initial release and always loved it. Its impact hasn't lessened after all these years. ROOM AT THE TOP is wonderful!! So glad I finally got a chance to see it. Those Noir box sets always contain interesting movies, even if some of them don't fit my personal classification of Noir. But the definition is definitely expanding, so I just go with the flow. I enjoyed all three of those films, especially UNDERTOW. HOLD BACK TOMORROW was a little far-fetched, but I'm a big fan of John Agar and Cleo Moore, so I liked it. OUTSIDE THE WALL is very good.

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