It's a Saturday night, and Savant has a big bug movie for you, a classic 50s drive-in programmer, beautifully restored:

Image Entertainment presents Bert I. Gordon's Beginning of the End, a wacky parade of earnest acting, silly storytelling and some of the least frightening monsters ever put on film. But it's hardcore nostalgia, well-shot and crisply edited, that can finally be appreciated in this excellent transfer.

Savant's restoration announcement for The Good, The Bad and the Ugly has pulled down a record nine thousand hits in four days (somebody tell our advertisers!) which may not be much for the biggest DVD sites, but opened some eyes around here. I't's also triggered renewed contact with all my old correspondents, some of them writers and directors, who used to talk frequently about all things Leone. I''ll be sure to report on the print if & when I see it ... Thanks, Glenn Erickson