The hits keep happening, as the DJ used to say. No E.T., but Savant stays in character by delivering the goods on two intriguing library titles.

MGM has dug deep to bring up another anarchic, apocalyptic Robert Aldrich potboiler, this one a down & dirty Hollywood dirge that raised eyebrows and caused a heap 'o trouble, when Harry Cohn finally figured out that its slimy villain Stanley Hoff was at least partially based on him! The Big Knife is a collision of method fireworks and overwritten dialogue that still packs a punch. Jack Palance, Ida Lupino, Wendell Corey, Jean Hagen, Rod Steiger and Shelley Winters are all given meaty roles to chew on.

Firefox is a Cold-War weapon of a movie, sending America's biggest movie star and slickest special effects against the Russkies. Clint Eastwood's combo spy caper and jet attack film is given a great transfer by Warners.

Reviews are stacking up so fast here that I get depressed when a title just eight days old, like The Alec Guinness Collection drops off the 'new' list, with the little graphic and the paragraph, down to the clump of 30 or so recently reviewed discs. The highly-awaited Mysterious Island, for instance, comes out today, but is already not that easy to find. So please check the full page of reviews below before giving up on Savant ... thanks! Glenn Erickson