Hello from a bright and sunny Hollywood! A tip for cable viewers, today at 5PM Pacific time, TCM is showing the (presumably) Kino restoration of Metropolis. Three new reviews for you:
Home Vision Entertainment has a unique French farce called Drôle de drame, a convoluted comedy of manners set in 1900 London, where a society matron tells elaborate lies to avoid the scandal of their servants quitting, and causes no end of trouble. A mystery writer with a double identity is accused of murder by a nosy bishop, a randy milkman parks himself in the attic for days with an attractive young lady, and an insane serial killer takes a professional interest in the hero, while falling in love with his wife.
Universal's Night Passage shapes up like a grade AAA deluxe Western, with terrific landscapes, a great Dimitri Tiomkin score, and a good story that puts a lot of excitement and mystery behind James Stewart and Audie Murphy. But then Stewart pulls out that darn accordion again ...
A topflight cast and excellent production values highlight the PBS teleseries American Family: The First Season, a multigenerational comedy-drama that shapes up as a good Latino soap. But there's also some emphatic socially-conscious messages that can get in the way. Edward James Olmos, Sonia Braga, Esai Morales and Raquel Welch star.
Thanks for Reading, Glenn Erickson
Posted by DVD Savant at May 05, 2003 12:59 PM