We're getting by with some help from an author-friend this week, and are dipping both into the new discs available and the Savant backlog:
Warners' The Valley of Gwangi is a personal favorite that everyone admits is a turkey of movie graced with some of the best stop-motion dinosaurs in history. James Franciscus is a dud, but Gwangi the Great uses his razor jaws to show his opinion of the human actors. With a nice interview featurette with Ray Harryhausen.
Stuart Galbraith throws Savant a lifesaver with a trim look at the Brit teleseries Danger Man, The Complete First Season. This is the first incarnation of the Patrick McGoohan spy series, when it was a half hour long and had to do without Johnny Rivers' finger-snapping theme song.
MGM stumbles forward with the Hemdale drama The Boost starring James Woods and Sean Young. Savant has issues with the ideas in and behind the movie, which blame drugs for the failure of a corrupt lifestyle choice, by a person so unstable he would have crashed on lemonade instead of the white powder.
Am looking at a bunch of early Dick Van Dyke episodes - I have Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in but am waiting a little closer to street date to watch it - while trying to catch up with some typical quirky independent product and some slick new HVe and Criterion offerings! Thanks, Glenn Erickson
Posted by DVD Savant at October 17, 2003 04:37 PM