Another gloomy day in LA, where we seem to be alternating days with sunshine and fog ...

Image Entertainment has delivered a fine disc of Blockade, a not-very-astute thriller of wartime intrigue purportedly produced to promote sympathy and aid to the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War. Ten years later, it would be the centerpiece in the 'evidence' that Hollywood Ten acusee John Howard Lawson had used his screenwriting job to foment pro-Soviet Propaganda. With Madeleine Carrol and Henry Fonda.

MGM's A Kiss Before Dying pits Robert Wagner against decent society, as a scheming social climber who resorts to diabolically clever murders to get rich quick. Virginia Leith and Joanne Woodward stand out in this pulpy, slick potboiler.

Not much news, after yesterday's report on two screenings Savant caught last week. Criterion wants us to to know that the Chicago International Dinner and a Movie program will recommence on December 10, with a screening of RASHOMON. Full details can be had at this site. Thanks for reading! Glenn