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May 27, 2013
Savant's new reviews today are: Blu-ray + DVD 
Tobe Hooper throws impressive production and effects resources at Colin Wilson's celebrated book The Space Vampires, but this Quatermass-meets-George Romero-meets-Naked Space Babe extravaganza doesn't quite hang together. Steve Railsback, Peter Firth, Mathilda May, Frank Finlay, Patrick Stewart and Michael Gothard start in the tail of Halley's Comet and end up in a London devastated by a plague of vampires and a death ray from space that steals human life energy. With both theatrical and the longer international version and plenty of good extras. In Blu-ray (+ DVD) from Scream Factory / MGM.
5/28/13
Here it is, ground zero for anticommunist propaganda pictures. Matt Cvetic's tales of defeating commies by going undercover into their nefarious cells makes for an exciting drama, but the script offers the same cartoon comrades bilking those lesser Americans we "know" to be most vulnerable to ideological attack: union members, teachers and blacks. One of the most dishonest Hollywood pictures ever made, the F.B.I wanted nothing to do with it. Frank Lovejoy is great as the Cold War undercover contact; the director is the dependable Gordon Douglas at the top of his form. From The Warner Archive Collection.
5/28/13
and Blu-ray 
James Stewart finds a perfect American town for his big city business plans, but finds that he can't keep it from changing, especially after he falls in love with local newspaperwoman Jane Wyman. Ace '30s screenwriter Robert Riskin wanted free of Frank Capra but his story has the worst of phony "Capracorn" without the director's humanizing touch. Nicely directed (by William Wellman) with plenty of cute scenes, but the whole exercise seems fatally outdated. In Blu-ray from Olive Films.
5/28/13
Hello!
Well, I don't intend to plague Savant readers with more "advise me" requests for awhile, but I was heartened by the sheer number of responses -- 32. Most were votes of confidence and all were greatly gratifying. That almost beats the old record for Hanging Munchkins, the hot-button issue that proved to MGM that there was enough 
I'm looking at the Savant Threat Board to see what's on the horizon disc-wise; this year has has so far had such a surplus of Savant Gotta Have Titles that I'm thinking of adding a special recommendation article this Christmas season. Ah yes -- on June 18 Criterion debuts a Blu-ray of Savant fave Things to Come, which I've reviewed twice already in earlier, less than wonderful editions. I'm excited by the prospect of seeing the latest English renovation optimized with Criterion's image polish and audio clean-up. Here's hoping. Thanks for reading, Glenn Erickson
May 25, 2013
Savant's new reviews today are: Blu-ray 
Starring Fred MacMurray, Alida Valli and Frank Sinatra, this 1948 production is a dizzying stew of good intentions gone fuzzy, a pro-Faith miracle movie that annoys many people but charmed another segment of the audience. A press agent tries to drum up national sentiment for an 'unknown' movie star, only to have an apparent real miracle sieze the country by storm. The movie not only doesn't connect the dots into a coherent statement, it interprets misinformed illusion as proof of an all-redeeming Faith. A real curiosity and a beautifully preserved presentation, in Blu-ray from Olive Films.
5/25/13
The expert commentary is the buying point for this edition of a superior film noir directed by not signed by Anthony Mann, the true story of a loner thief-killer who proved difficult to trace and even harder to kill. It was the breakthrough movie for Richard Basehart. Noir experts Alain Silver and Jim Ursini analyze the film's makers, its expressive style, its place in the noir canon and the true crime story that inspired it. The super-criminal's stated motivation was so bizarre that the filmmakers decided to leave it out -- nobody would believe it. A DVD-R disc from Pendragon Video.
5/25/13
and 
A fascinating historical curio filmed in New York, with activists Abbie Hoffman, Alan Jacobs, Paul Krassner and Phil Ochs, in the winter of 1968, just after the first big anti-war protests but before the country ignited in assassinations, riots and the police riot at the Chicago Democratic Convention. The laid-back interviews (and one filmed speech) show the activists unsure of their next step, not convinced that The Movement is going anywhere. A terrific restored transfer accompanied by helpful explanatory extras and new interviews with the filmmakers Peter Gessner and Thomas Hurwitz. From Icarus Films.
5/25/13
Hello! So hey, I've reviewed The Miracle of the Bells. The volume of email I received (90% "go for it") probably amounts to more discussion than this picture has inspired in the previous fifty years. The review hopefully will communicate something... I often discover what I really think about a movie only after I start writing about it. 
I got to read a great book last week, a new publication by Chris D., who has spent at least twenty years studying Japanese crime and Yakuza films. I first bumped into Chris across a dinner table in 2002, after a screening by a rep from the old company Home Vision Entertainment. Chris was enthused about some obscure Japanese picture with 'scorpion' in the title. Home Vision was putting out a series of Yakuza pictures, among them the intense Battles without Honor and Humanity; I remember that one of them starred the famous Yukio Mishima. And soon thereafter some big titles (Branded to Kill, etc.) were released by Criterion. Eventually Eclipse released two or three collections of similar pictures, and I started to feel as if I were getting a handle on things. Or so I thought. Chris D.'s Gun and Sword: An Encyclopedia of Japanese Gangster Films 1955-1980 is a giant (822 page) reference work that must cover in detail (filmmakers and stars) more than a thousand titles. Hundreds of illustrations are included as well. As expert Stuart Galbraith IV explains, the kinds of pictures covered include "the swordfighting ninkyo sagas set in the 1890-1940 period, the modern jitsuroku ("true story") bloodbaths, the matatabi (wandering samurai gambler) pictures, plus the juvenile delinquent subgenres: sukeban (girl boss), taiyozoku ("sun tribe") and bosozoku ("violent tribe" or biker)" tales. The films are organized by studio, and Chris has included helpful mini-histories for the various companies. The book accomplishes quite a feat in that it covers a huge volume of films yet maintains a solid point of view, a sense of perspective, critical flexibility and good humor. I like Chris D.'s style of writing in his foreward and the several longer-form essays that crop up. He relates the Japanese Yakuza style to American and British crime films and his entertaining plot synopses point out particularly good pictures. He also offers a four-page glossary of common Yakuza terms. Going forward, I know this is going to be a useful reference, as well as fun casual reading. The scope of Chris' knowledge is indeed encyclopedic. Although it's outside his defined area of inclusion, the science fiction / gangster show The H-Man is referenced as a cross-genre hybrid. If I start feeling insecure among all the Female Convict Scorpion movies, I'll just keep that familiar page bookmarked. See also this link about a June 21 Chris D. book signing in Hollywood. Thanks for reading, and for the response to the Bells meltdown ... Cheers, Glenn Erickson
May 21, 2013
Savant's new reviews today are: Blu-ray 
Delmer Daves' best western is a nearly perfect suspense tale, as farmer and family man Van Heflin is forced to escort outlaw Glenn Ford to prison. Heflin's only hope is to outsmart the outlaw gang hot on his trail. Great drama, interesting characterizations and romantic backup from Felicia Farr and Leora Dana. And a great Frankie Laine theme song, to boot. With Henry Jones and Richard Jaeckel. Looks terrific in B&W Blu-ray from The Criterion Collection.
5/21/13
Blu-ray 
One of the few acknowledged films noir not filmed in B&W, with star Gene Tierney looking almost supernaturally gorgeous in super-saturated Technicolor. Rising author Cornel Wilde marries the wealthy and passionate Tierney unaware that his new bride is murderously jealous of anybody that comes between them. With Jeanne Crain as the sane romantic alternative and Vincent Price as an unhappy D.A.. It's also one of the best vintage Technicolor restorations yet, in Blu-ray from Twilight Time.
5/21/13
and Volume 6 
The four restored films cover a wide range of subjects, showing how Code enforcement robbed American films of edgy subject matter and frank political comment. The Wet Parade with Robert Young and Walter Huston is Upton Sinclair's protest against the evil of alcohol, compounded by the hypocrisy of prohibition; Downstairs shows John Gilbert playing a ruthless bedroom blackmailer and cad; Mandalay's exotic extremes see Kay Francis sold into slavery; and the angry Massacre , a dramatization of the mistreatment of Native Americans starring Richard Barthelmess and Ann Dvorak, is more educational and entertaining than later 'relevant' issue pictures. From The Warner Archive Collection.
5/21/13
Hello! A quiet week at DVD Savant. I'm prepping a book review for the column, as well as a review of a disc designed to sell primarily for its expert commentary track. I guess I'll find a better way to explain that when I get to the review itself. I'm also debating whether or not to review Olive Films' beautifully encoded Blu-ray of Miracle of the Bells, a late-forties' movie with Fred MacMurray and Frank Sinatra about the power of Faith and Goodness. Or at least, that's what it wants to be about. I found its values offensive, and I wonder if I shouldn't disqualify myself from writing about it just because it affects me so strongly. I alienate enough readers by leaking my political thoughts, so why press my luck with churchgoers? I do get asked how I choose what to review. What's offered is a big part of that answer, of course. Savant isn't limited to old movies; I just avoid things I find bad or dull. I'm in with some trends but not others. I've stopped going to see most mega-budget superhero epics, because I forget what them almost as soon as I exit the theater. I try not to chase after the big titles that everyone's writing about, and that includes many of the Oscar winners in the last ten years. It's more rewarding to investigate movies slightly outside the mainstream, that readers might appreciate learning about. It's great when I hear from a viewer who thinks he may have discovered something based on a Savant recommendation. But plenty of movies I don't like come along, that seem to beg for a review. I found it impossible to write about The Exorcist without waving my personal bias like a flag, and perhaps that's a weakness. The same goes for equally competent but hateful political pictures like My Son John. There I have to be even more careful in my criticism, for the mail response will certainly let me know if I fail to present a logical argument. Conservatives take note, as lately I think my reviews have become more wary of the evasions and illogic that crops up in some liberal social comment movies. Perhaps it's better to steer clear of Miracle of the Bells. Or maybe I should go for it, and not worry. I admire the frankness of Leonard Maltin's movie guide, which calls it ludicrous and slams it with a low rating. But a sixty-word capsule review doesn't require him to explain anything. I find the movie really disturbing, which may be some kind of residual guilt from my Sunday School days. Any advice? Thanks for reading, Glenn Erickson
May 18, 2013
Savant's new reviews today are: 
Wow! This modest crime thriller with some smart ideas is a great film noir rediscovery. Bank teller Barry Sullivan is accused of Grand Theft, hounded from his job and persecuted by a bonding company detective (Charles McGraw) who doesn't know the meaning of Innocent Until Proven Guilty. An interesting take on "loser noir" sees Sullivan harrassed beyond the breaking point, unable to convince anybody that he's not a crook. But who took the $50,000 in cash from his bank cubicle? Co-starring Dorothy Malone, this 1954 show was thought lost, but is now found and handsomely restored. From The Warner Archive Collection.
5/18/13
Writer-director Joan Carr-Wiggin's conventional but intelligent script gives the underused Marcia Gay Harden a chance to flex her acting muscles in comedy mode. She aces her starring role as a cheated-on wife who surreptitiously forms a fast friendship with her husband's mistress. What sounds old fashioned is a pleasure to watch -- Harden is really likeable, and the movie respects its characters. With Leonor Watling and Aidan Quinn. From Kino Lorber.
5/18/13
and 
Edmund Gwenn's best "cute little old codger" vehicle is this amusing tale from producer Julian Blaustein, about the concerted effort to catch the oddest counterfeiter on the Treasury Department's books -- someone who passes $1 bills so poorly forged that the word "Washington" is misspelled. Top agent Burt Lancaster must be patient to nab his quarry, while phony bill passer Dorothy McGuire takes a personal interest in the crafty old fool. Instead of dimwit whimsey, we're treated to a semi-docu realism that befits what is actually a true story. From 20th Fox Cinema Archives.
5/18/13
Hello! Everything seems to be running okay here today, and I'm back in review harness. Upcoming Blu-ray notices will include Scream Factory / MGM's Lifeforce (pictured), Twilight Time / Fox's Leave Her to Heaven, Olive / Paramount / Republic's Miracle of the Bells, Champion and Hoodlum Empire and Anchor Bay's A Common Man. DVD selections include Fox Cinema Archives' Sons and Lovers and Icarus Films' docu Last Summer Won't Happen. My latest Warner Archives to-do list is impressive in itself. I'm ready to write up their Forbidden Hollywood 6 collection, while the Cold War epics Never Let Me Go and I Was a Communist for the FBI wait in the wings. I'm also hoping for Mask of Dimitrios to walk in the door -- it has been one of the top request titles in reader mail here at Savant. George Feltenstein said that the Collection would be nailing some much-desired titles this year... Link of the day: over at the recommended site Trailers from Hell, Joe Dante comments on a reissue trailer for Peter Bogdanovich's Boris Karloff horror pic Targets. Be sure to read the accompanying text -- and follow its link to a second, original Targets trailer. It plays like a gun control PSA from today! Thanks for reading! Glenn Erickson
May 15, 2013
Savant's new reviews today are: Classics Blu-ray 
Warners boosts its top classic gangster titles to HD, with terrific remastered presentations of Little Caesar, The Public Enemy, The Petrified Forest and White Heat. I'll see your Humphrey Bogart and Edward G. Robinson and raise you two James Cagneys! These still-breathtaking crime thrillers come complete with trailers, featurettes, "Night at the Movies" bundles of short subjects, commentaries and an extra DVD disc with a feature length docu and a stack of gangster-themed WB cartoons. In Blu-ray from Warner Home Video.
5/14/13
Blu-ray 
Prepare to have your retinas dazzled by Teinosuke Kinugasa's vintage tale of fierce love in the Emperor's court, as a great warrior demands the wife of another loyal retainer, breaking all the rules. Thanks to a recent restoration, the breathtaking original colors of this amazingly designed movie look better than ever. An Oscar winner for Best Foreign Film, the movie's designs drew rave U.S. reviews back in 1954. In Blu-ray from The Criterion Collection.
5/14/13
and 
Savant's favorite among producer Sam Goldwyn's Eddie Cantor musicals, this tale of a shipboard cruise to Egypt to claim a $77 million dollar reward sees Eddie assailed by a number of fortune hunters, including impossibly youthful and impressively talented singer Ethel Merman, the attractive Ann Sothern & George Murphy, and the famed Nicholas Brothers when they both looked like 6th graders. Lucille Ball can be spotted in the huge musical numbers as a Goldwyn Girl. The finale is a full-on experimental 3-strip Technicolor romp in a fantastic ice cream factory. Good songs and great entertainment, from The Warner Archive Collection.
5/14/13
Hello! The fact that you can read this means that my DVDtalk uploading problem got resolved, thanks to some great help from Homer & Luis at the home hosting company. I've been writing furiously trying not to think about the uploading issue, and will have to go back through my reviews to see if they're loaded with nervous errors. I've been seeing some terrific pictures, including some new Warner Archive Pre-Codes. They show how the Code censorship banned not only nudity and sex innuendo, but relevant subject matter and honest expressions of sexuality as experienced by real people. I've also seen a fun new film noir (see photo) that concludes on a Malibu beach, at the same lonely beach house seen in Kiss Me Deadly. That was quite a shock of recognition. As I'm writing this ahead of time, right now I need to go back and work on getting DVD Savant up and running again ... thanks for reading and for the corrections. I've also fixed about 50 typos and other mistakes in my Monster (El monstruo resucitado) review -- now if I could only upload them! --- Glenn Erickson
May 10, 2013
What, no reviews today? Well, I'm in a holding pattern here while the DVD Savant host site decides how I am to continue uploading reviews. They're working on the problem but no fix seems on the way that will get reviews out tonight. Since you can't see them yet, take my word for it, the reviews are brilliant! They're Warners' Ultimate Gangsters Collection: Classics (Blu-ray) with Public Enemy, Little Caesar, The Petrified Forest and White Heat; Criterion's Japanese classic Gate of Hell (Blu-ray) and The Warner Archive Collection's Eddie Cantor musical Kid Millions. I hope I can get them launched tomorrow. Should anyone have any pressing questions about those or other new releases, please write (address above) ... if I've got the disc I'll answer as best I can. I do have one link to offer, courtesy of correspondent Gary Teetzel: a Blastr article with scans of a 1968 Howard Johnson's Children's Menu, promoting 2001: A Space Odyssey. I'd have a sample image up here for you, but, ha, ha, I can't upload anything! I love the way the kids finish by saying that they now understand the movie's mystery ending, and immediately declare gender-stereotyped career choices! Thanks for reading, back tomorrow I hope -- Glenn Erickson Saturday May 11, 2013
Savant's new reviews today are: Portrait of Jason 
Theatrical screenings are underway for a new restoration of Shirley Clarke's game-changing experimental documentary from New York of the 1960s. Flamboyant gay hustler Jason Holiday addresses the camera non-stop, revealing his unusual lifestyle, his pragmatic-hipster approach to life and his ambitions to do a one-man stage show. In one twelve-hour marathon session, Clarke's camera makes this man reveal his inner self -- or does the clever fellow pace his performance to optimal dramatic effect? The film's L.A. run begins next week at the New Beverly theater. From Milestone Films.
5/11/13
(1946) Blu-ray 
Gary Cooper makes an unlikely physicist-secret agent, flying into wartime Switzerland and Italy to contact atom scientists working for the Nazis and engaging in one of Hollywood's most brutal fight scenes of the 1940s. But the real mystery in Fritz's Lang's espionage thriller is the "why" of how its anti-nuke, anti-Fascist message was suppressed -- pressure was brought to bear to eliminate the film's entire last reel of expensive location work. Savant has the whole story. In Blu-ray from Olive Films.
5/11/13
and (El monstruo resucitado) 
They say the modern Mexican horror film began with this totally bizarre 1953 concoction about a mad surgeon with a horribly disfigured face, who vows to punish the world but would also like a little love from the adventurous reporter who answers his newspaper ad. Director Chano Urueta's impressive production conjures the look of the Universal horror classics -- a mansion in a graveyard! wax statues! an ape-man caged in the dungeon! a remote-controlled killer zombie! -- while mixing in motifs and situations from everything from Frankenstein to Phantom of the Opera. From One 7 Movies.
5/11/13
Hello! Dick Dinman has uploaded a great 3-part radio show this week, using his interviews with the late, wonderful Jonathan Winters. In Part One of Dick Dinman Says Goodbye to Jonathan Winters the comedian talks about his childhood, his self-imposed stay in a mental institution and his rebirth and rediscovery in the all-star comedy classic It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Part Two continues with a discussion of The Loved One and Winters' thoughts on modern comedy and politics (with an Arnold Schwartzenegger impression). In Part Three Winters talks about Stanley Kramer and his love of painting, among some other candid observations. I was able to be a fly on the wall when Jonathan Winters and George Kennedy were helping a student out on a film shoot, and listening to him just gab for three hours was the most entertaining evening of my life. Thanks for putting these shows together, Dick. Thanks for reading! -- Glenn Erickson
May 07, 2013
Savant's new reviews today are: Blu-ray 
Wow! A top-flight Humphrey Bogart gangster film, finally viewable again and in Blu-ray as well. Bogie is the tough DA who takes on Murder Incorporated, and the whole picture is devoted to hardboiled crime action. With second-billed Zero Mostel in a great dramatic role, just before he was blacklisted; also Ted de Corsia, Roy Roberts, Everett Sloane and a gallery of Warners tough guys to keep things hopping. We won't be seeing many more 'new' Bogart performances like this, as they aren't making 'em any more. In Blu-ray from Olive Films.
5/07/13
Blu-ray 
It's about time -- John Sturges' all-star POW tunnel-and-run adventure turns Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, James Coburn, Charles Bronson and twenty more interesting actors into desperate escapees. And you won't believe how young David McCallum of NCIS looks -- even greener than his Illya Kuryakin days. A superior old-time favorite, with plenty of extras and reissued in Blu-ray from Fox / MGM.
5/07/13
and 
Charles Laughton delivers a genuine acting tour-de-force as a milquetoast teacher who finds his courage while standing up to Nazi occupiers, in Jean Renoir's RKO war propaganda picture with Maureen O'Hara, Walter Slezak, George Sanders and Kent Smith. A perfect little movie built around Laughton's bravura theatrical oratory against Fascist tyranny... very moving stuff. From The Warner Archive Collection.
5/07/13
Hello! Eddie Selover sends along a great career article he's written on Basil Rathbone over at Bright Lights Film Journal. He has information and insights on Rathbone that are ceratinly new to me. An awful lot of WW2-themed pictures are showing up all of a sudden, so you'll have to bear with me while I review some very interesting, and in some cases all but forgotten thrillers. Coming up quick will be Olive Films' disc of Fritz Lang's Cloak and Dagger and the Fox MOD program's The Moon is Down, which was written by none other than John Steinbeck. But for folks that aren't interested, I'll break them up with a new batch of Warner Archive titles, including two sets of Forbidden Hollywood PreCode pictures, the scarce noirs Mask of Dimitrios and Loophole and the sublime Eddie Cantor musical Kid Millions. That's the one where all the Egyptians call him Eddie-Bay. That Fox MOD roster contains a slew of Jane Withers comedies, and musicals featuring Mitzi Gaynor and June Haver. I haven't seen any of them but I'm tempted to check out The I Don't Care Girl after reading a rave for its musical numbers over at David Cairns' Shadowplay. The new Fox disc I'm going for right away is Jack Cardiff's Sons and Lovers (pictured), another picture that nobody seems to remember. I talked a couple of close friends into catching it at the Museum about ten years ago, and the best the studio could come up with was a beat-up print riddled with splices. I had to explain what happened in a couple of scenes. This ought to be a better experience. Oh, and I guess I'm going to have to go back and take in Olive's new Blu-ray of John Ford's The Sun Shines Bright. I was underwhelmed by it back at UCLA in 1974, but I understand that Republic's release version was severely cut and that Olive has restored Ford's version (thank you, correspondent "B"). Take it from me, it's a Hollywood Law with self-nominated film experts (cough, cough) : we all prefer elusive "longer" versions, and take it as a badge of seriousness to suss out the differences. Thanks for reading! -- Glenn Erickson
May 03, 2013
Savant's new reviews today are: Eclipse Series 38: The Thick-Walled Room, I Will Buy You, Black River, The Inheritance 
Each title in this terrific four-disc set is a hard-hitting winner. The Thick-Walled Room tells the truth about scapegoated Japanese war criminals, I Will Buy You is a searing exposé of the bribery and corruption in big league baseball recruting, Black River is a seamy gangster story set just outside an American Naval Base, and The Inheritance is a suspenseful mini-classic about the schemes cooked up to circumvent the will of a dying industrialist. Filmmaker Masaki Kobayashi was easily the best of Japan's rebel filmmakers. From Eclipse.
5/04/13
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital + UltraViolet 
Last year's popular hit begins as a nervously fascinating story of a Bipolar patient trying to rebuild his life in all the wrong ways. The personalities and romance angles in David O. Russell's movie click and stay clicked, what with Bradley Cooper and especially Jennifer Lawrence making an incredibly attractive couple. So why does it turn into a sitcom and resolve like a lame, feel good movie? We don't knock the feeling, but the first half of the film was going in such an interesting, dangerous direction. In Blu-ray + DVD + Digital + Ultraviolet from Anchor Bay / Starz / Weinstein.
5/04/13
and Blu-ray 
What sounds like a novel idea -- covering the major battles of WW2 with God's eye-view animated maps -- turns out to be a Cliff's Notes capsulization of WW2's Greatest Hits, all glossed over with 90 minutes of graphic eye candy that more often than not gets in the way of the film's messages. The spokespeople come off well and some content is effective, but viewers that don't already the topographical theaters of war memorized aren't going to know what the hell they're looking at. But we all agree it looks great. Just think of a standard war docu but with dry charts replaced by a super-globe digital model, and vintage film montages replaced by whiz-bang digital visuals. Maybe that's just what you want to see! In Blu-ray from The History Channel.
5/04/13
Hello! Some big-time critics squawked good and loud and submitted a petition, and Warner Home Video listened: The Good News result is that the upcoming Blu-ray of George Stevens' Shane will be in flat 1:37, not widescreen 1:66 as it was premiered in 1953 (it was filmed in 1951, see, and Stevens rightfully freaked when he found out that Paramount was showing it in a wide format, cropping his compositions. Kudos to Jeffrey Wells of Hollywood Elsewhere, who provided a pulpit for the controversy and for once is on the right side of an aspect ratio issue. The upshot of all this righteous re-formatting is that the disc will be delayed two months, to August 13. Go in Peace. I've heard a rave from Nathaniel Thompson about the horror thriller The Name of the Game is Kill! and hope to be reviewing VCI's new DVD fairly soon. And a bright new batch of Olive Films Blu-rays has arrived, featuring Fritz Lang's Cloak and Dagger, the Humphrey Pushcart gangster film The Enforcer (which I've never seen) and Fred Zinnemann's Marlon Brando picture The Men. And MGM-Fox has surprised me; I'd been turned down for a Blu screener of The Great Escape, but a copy apparently escaped in my direction anyway. A note of thanks will be in order. And thanks for reading -- hopefully not too many typos in today's reviews! -- Glenn Erickson
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