February 27, 2003
February 27, 2003

Good evening - just one review again tonight, and no excuses offered - I'm encountering a serious hour shortage here between work and writing. I'll be doing my best ...

Warners' deluxe 2-disc Special Edition of Otto Preminger's The Cardinal gives his epic of the church a regal sendoff. The soapy tale takes novice Priest Tom Tryon from WW1 to well into WW2, along the way encountering Nazis, the Klan, troublesome churchmen and a tempting Romy Schneider. It's big and quite impressive, although not as good as other pictures he was making at the time.

I have a notice here that a Barbara Steele (swoon) movie I've never seen is on the way, The Faceless Monster aka Nightmare Castle aka Amanti d' oltretomba. Who cares about the name, the word is that this version is 100 minutes long ... and the earlier versions I'd not bothered to check out were as much as half an hour shorter. Yes, when you're still a sci-fi and horror fan at heart, these are the things that matter. Thanks for reading, Glenn Erickson

Posted by DVD Savant at February 27, 2003 08:40 PM