Welcome back to DVD Savant, for those AOL subscribers who two days ago received the newsletter for the first time in months. Savant's been chugging along all that time, and you'll find a wealth of reviews you've missed. Here's what's new:

Fox's Classic offering this month is The Mark of Zorro, the nifty Tyrone Power swashbuckler with the razor-sharp fencing scenes and the good sense of humor. Too bad about Laura, which was pulled from the schedule a couple of days ago; I hope it's so they can remaster it, and not because of a legal problem, or an abandonment of the series.

MGM's offering of John Huston's Prizzi's Honor is a fine disc of an odd black comedy that forgot to be funny but remains a major gangster fascination. Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner star, and Anjelica Huston won an Oscar.

Columbia's Cromwell can't be faulted technically, but the film is a weak epic that limped in just as the whole British film industry was collapsing. Alec Guinness holds up his end of the talky script, and Richard Harris sulks and snaps like an irate woodchuck through the whole enterprise. From the auteur of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

It just occurred to me that Newsletter readers often never see this page, so I'd be best off advising them to start doing so in the Newsletter itself. Having DVD Savant's reviews split between this home site and the regular DVD Talk review logs is already somewhat confusing; I often amend and correct mistakes on my site, but not on the DVD Talk über-site. Whatever the remedy, I'm just glad to have part of my readership back. Thanks again, Glenn Erickson