A better Monday than most ... Savant has a winner love story, and a Bogart flick that you'll probably enjoy for his performance alone.

Warners' A Patch of Blue is an old favorite, a Sidney Poitier vehicle one doesn't have to explain as a product of its time. Elizabeth Hartman gives the standout performance as the vulnerable blind girl, with Poitier doing able support, and Shelley Winters stealing the screen whenever she can. With a powerhouse score by Jerry Goldsmith, too.

Columbia TriStar debuts another Humphrey Bogart vehicle with 1951's Sirocco, a so-so thriller set in 1925 Damascus, about seven years after Lawrence of Arabia left, with the French moving in, it seems. Despite good support from Lee J. Cobb and a dreamy-eyed Marta Toren, it ain't much. although Bogie fans won't be intimidated from seeking it out.

Some discs go right from the mailbox, directly into the DVD player. Criterion's long-promised restoration of Beauty and the Beast magically appeared today, and Savant couldn't resist checking it out tooty sweetie. It looks great ... I think it will be the first title Criterion has officially replaced with a better version. The review will be a few days' coming ... Thanks for reading, Glenn Erickson