Friday is here again - 4 more re-views of what's good to view:
Criterion's Throne of Blood presents one of Kurosawa's most famous in the best possible light. Toshiro Mifune takes a bloody path, and lives to regret it.
MGM's Terror in a Texas Town is an oddity, even among oddities. It's a cheap western with a weird script and a crazy ending - this is the one where Sterling Hayden goes up against a gunslinger - with a harpoon.
Robert Aldrich's Attack! has minor classic status as a combat film - perhaps a bit overcooked on the theatrical trimmings, it contains shocks worthy of a war horror comic. Jack Palance goes into the meat grinder, for real.
Jack Palance is back in Paramount's The Lonely Man, a wet noodle of a Western. Presented in great-looking VistaVision, this one is slack in all departments, despite the presence of young Anthony Perkins.
Up next, Elite's rediscovered Kiwi horror film from 1981, that caught Savant's fancy, plus a wrapup of Westerns and War pictures, and Polanski's latest and greatest. Glenn Erickson
Posted by DVD Savant at May 30, 2003 11:05 AM
