Another 20th Century Fox movie not seen since the studio's "Key Video" sub-label in the mid-80s now gets a DVD-R release from their Cinema Archives. Joshua Then and Now stars James Woods as the title character, a Jew from Canada who becomes a famous writer. As the film begins he's pondering how he "got from there to here" as his wife has been hospitalized in an undisclosed location, thus starting a narrated flashback that consumes about three quarters of the movie's running time. We get a look at his younger days in Montreal with father Reuben (Alan Arkin), a small-time con artist and former boxer. His mother Esther (Linda Sorensen) is an exotic dancer, and provides one of the movie's funniest moments as she performs a striptease act for Joshua's friends after his Bar M...Read the entire review

Peter (Peter Weller) and Katherine Witner (Judy Davis) have plenty -- high-paying jobs, an incredibly expensive upper-class Southern California home, each other -- but deep down, neither one of them is happy. One day, completely independently of each other, both of them give up on their jobs, and instead of panicking, they throw a party, where it becomes clear to both of them that neither one is particularly happy, and that both of them have cheated. Instead of simply getting a divorce, however, they decide to do something more "enlightened": stay married, keep on living together, but take a break from the relationship, having their affairs in the open while they turn their teamwork to finding a new line of work that will support and satisfy both of them.

Or something like that. Although it contains a number of intriguing and even incredibly successful moments, The New Age feels lik...Read the entire review

Look at the box for Goodbye Lover, and there are quite a few reasons to be intrigued. First of all, there's that picture of the film's star, Patricia Arquette, staring seductively in front of a purple-and-orange backdrop that I interpreted all these years as indication of a futuristic sci-fi movie. Flip it over, and you'll discover the movie's eclectic cast: Arquette, Don Johnson, Dermot Mulroney, Mary-Louise Parker, Ellen Degenres, and Vincent Gallo -- A-listers are fun, but this is a strong and unusual roster of extremely likable character actors. And then there's the director, Roland Joffe, who made his name with Oscar-winning true story drama The Killing Fields, then inexplicably used that Hollywood cachet to produce the Super Mario Bros. movie.

Ben Dunmore (Jo...Read the entire review

Did you ever see a movie trailer and then never see the actual movie come out? That's happened a number of times- Warner included a trailer for a movie called One Hot Summer with its prints of 1992's summer blockbuster Batman Returns (the first movie I ran to a sold-out theater, and this trailer was the first thing to hit the screen during that)- it made the audience laugh and seemed to be a good enough movie (featuring Juliette Lewis' first appearance since the surprise hit Cape Fear the previous fall), but after Batman Returns stopped playing One Hot Summer was never heard about again. I'd wondered a bit what had happened to it but mostly forgot about it until flipping through laserdiscs at Tower Video more than a year later, and finding a movie with Juliette Lewis that I'd never heard of called Tha...Read the entire review

A fairly big ($4.6 million) production released by 20th Century-Fox, Mr. Billion (1977) is one of many dozens of late 1970s/early ‘80s films that, for one reason or another, have fallen into almost total obscurity. Mr. Billion was intended as Italian actor Terence Hill's Hollywood breakthrough vehicle, he already well established as one of Europe's biggest stars. A child actor in films since the early 1950s, Hill (born Mario Girotti) transitioned to adult roles by the end of the decade. He had a good role in Visconti's The Leopard (1963), but mostly appeared in routine Italian and German Westerns during the ‘60s, notably Old Surehand (1965), Rita of the West (1967), God Forgives…I Don't! (1967, playing a character named "Cat Stevens"), and Django, Prepare the Coffin (1968).

What really put Hill on the map, however, were a long series of comedies...Read the entire review

Although I'd heard a few negative comments about Fox's "Cinema Archives" DVD-Rs, most of the ones I've seen so far have been decent. This release of 1969's The Games, which hasn't been available on any home media before, certainly indicates that the quality of these discs is not exactly consistent. Although this movie was shot in 2.35 Panavision, it's presented here in 4x3 pan and scan. The back cover accurately indicates this saying "4:3 (pan&scan)", not even using the common "fullscreen" misnomer, but being that this disc is primarily available through mail order that doesn't help those in deciding whether or not to place the order.

The Games is certainly an interesting film: it follows four aspiring runners in four countries as they find their talent...Read the entire review

The Movie
Director Quentin Tarantino apparently experienced a political awakening, when he recently appeared at a Black Lives Matter march in New York City, where he and many others protested the killings of African Americans by police officers. Tarantino, the director of countless racially-tinged revenge fantasies since the beginning of the New Millennium, would be the last person you'd expect to grow a political conscience, especially since his films lack any depth beyond their surface level cleverness and lack also an awareness of the larger world that informs his N-word laden films. While promoting his revenge fantasy Django Unchained in 2013, Tarantino incorrectly bemoaned the portrayal of Native Americans and other non-whites in the Westerns of John Ford, taking special aim at The Searchers. Tarantino derided Ford for treating the Indian characters in his films as one-dimensional savage...Read the entire review

Was 1985 really 30 years ago (and possibly even longer ago depending on when you're reading this)? How time flies- that was the year I finally convinced my parents to buy a VCR after pestering them for one ever since they first came out and thus opening up the world of movies one could see with it. Movies like Key Exchange seemed tailor-made for home video and cable movie channels, which were firmly entrenched by 1985- while this had a token theatrical run it didn't seem to set the world on fire like the bigger releases that year, and 20th Century Fox even issued the VHS tape on their Key Video "sub-label" (and this DVD uses the exact same text summary from its back cover) suggesting that this was a rather minor film. The 70s were practically forgotten with disco being deader than dead, giving way to the era of yuppies, bright colors and less-tacky fashions. Cell phones and the interne...Read the entire review

In tenth grade English class we had been assigned to read and discuss rather extremely in-depth a few books, one of which was When the Legends Die by Hal Borland. Why this book was chosen I still have no idea- it was only 25 years old then, and while well-regarded by those who have read it isn't exactly considered a "literary classic" up there with our other readings like Of Mice and Men. It seems schools still assign this book today as I found many study questions for it on-line. I had always wanted to see the 1972 movie adaptation (which was released on VHS in the 80s on Fox's Playhouse Video label) but never got ahold of a copy until this DVD-R disc from Fox Cinema Archives.

The theme of When the Legends Die in either form is worthy of study, as i...Read the entire review

20th Century Fox's Cinema Archives brings us yet another long-unseen movie, Alan Arkin's Fire Sale from 1977. A dark comedy written by Robert Klane (who had previously given us Where's Poppa? and would later bring the world Weekend at Bernie's and its sequel), Arkin both directs and stars as Ezra Fikus, a high school basketball coach who isn't very well-liked as his teams have so far had "two wins and 147 losses." His coaching career is understandably on the rocks, and meanwhile his wife Marion (Anjanette Comer) is going nuts from their inability to have a child. Ezra's dad Benny (Vincent Gardenia) owns a department store in ...Read the entire review

I was surprised to see that 1983's Kidco has finally made it to DVD. This is one of those movies from the 1980s that received only a very brief theatrical release but found most of its audience through the exploding home video market (released back then on Fox's Playhouse Video label) and repeated showings on cable movie channels during their glory years. It was somewhat forgotten after that, but it started showing up on the digital movie services last year and is now available on DVD, albeit on a DVD-R through Fox's Cinema Archives program.

Though we're told up front that "this story really happened," I wasn't aware until now that the movie used the real names of most of the people involved. The mastermind behind the story is sixth-grader Richard "Dickie" Cessna,...Read the entire review

The Collection:

Don Ameche's film and TV career stretched from the 1930s to the 1990s and encompassed both light comedy and heavy melodrama, as well as a handful of biopics. Fox Cinema Archives has repackaged three of their previously released Don Ameche movies from the 1930s into a mostly satisfying triple feature that shows off the talented actor's many sides.

Josette (1938)

The Movies:

Among the handsomest of matinee idols in the 1930s and '40s, Tyrone Power served as a dependable utility player of a leading man - one who could often surprise with his sensitivity and depth. He functioned at 20th Century Fox studio in the same way Robert Taylor did at MGM - reliably bringing in the crowds, year after year, yet also becoming more subtle and interesting as the wrinkles set in. Although starring in a fair share of great movies (my fave: 1947's circus noir Nightmare Alley), the three less-than-stellar films included in this Fox Cinema Archives package indicate assignments more typical of what he'd do at Fox. Despite whatever flaws they've got, the three made-to-order DVDs showcase the square-jawed actor's versatility in zippy comedy (1936's Love Is News), taut thriller (1952's Diplomatic Courier), and gritty combat (1950's American Guerr...Read the entire review

The Movie:

Like a unusually large chunk of pop culture from the 1970s, the film Made for Each Other is based on the notion that psychoanalysis and group therapy is innately fertile ground for comedy. In this case, it's a romantic comedy in which two New Yorkers in their mid-30s meet in a group session, get it on, and then decide to see if they can turn their fling into a relationship, avoiding all the mistakes they've made in the past. The movie subscribes to the notion that any person you see today is basically the sum total of their life experiences, and so its love story is structured around copious flashbacks -- starting with the main characters' conceptions -- to help explain how these folks got so crazy.

The film stars Renee Taylor (Fran'...Read the entire review

A semi-sensible grouping of three variably entertaining outings. 20th Century-Fox's Cinema Archives line of hard-to-find library and cult titles has recently been repackaging solo titles into triple features, usually grouped around a single performer, or a shared theme. Here, in the Remember the Day; A Life in the Balance; Tonight We Sing! triple feature, one could say the common link is either Anne Bancroft (appearing in two here: 1953's Tonight We Sing! from director Mitchell Leisen, with David Wayne, Ezio Pinza, Roberta Peters, Tamara Toumanova, the voice of Jan Peerce, and Isaac Stern, and 1955's A Life in the Balance, from Harry Horner, with Ricardo Montalban, Lee Marvin, Rodolfo Acosta, and Jose Perez), or that two of the movies feature a young child at the center of the story (A Life in the Balance and 1941's lovely Remember the Day, from He...Read the entire review

Uncomplicated, entertaining fare from he-man Victor McLaglen. 20th Century-Fox's Cinema Archives line of hard-to-find library and cult titles has re-packaged three solo discs starring McLaglen into the triple feature This is My Affair; Battle of Broadway; Professional Soldier. Professional Soldier, from 1935 (originally titled Damon Runyon's Professional Soldier during its first run), was directed by Tay Garnett and co-starred Freddie Bartholomew, Gloria Stuart, Constance Collier, and Michael Whalen. McLaglen took third billing to real-life love birds Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck in 1937's This is My Affair, directed by William A. Seiter and co-starring Brian Donlevy, John Carradine, Douglas Fowley, Robert McWade, Sidney Blackmer, Frank Conroy, and Sig Ruman. And 1938's quasi-B comedy from director George Marshall, Battle of Broadway, co-starred B...Read the entire review

For decades Hand of Death (1962), a low budget but amusing sci-fi thriller, was nearly impossible to see. It never turned up on television, nor was it available in any home video format.

Then, in 2000, an unusual opportunity presented itself. I was invited to a birthday party honoring the star of Hand of Death, actor John Agar, an evening scheduled to include a super-rare screening of the elusive Hand of Death. It took some doing, apparently. Fox's legal department seem to think loaning out a VHS dupe of Hand of Death for a single evening was akin to entrusting Tutankhamen to complete strangers.

In truth, Agar was a pretty bad actor, an assessment Agar himself wholeheartedly agreed with, but his long association with two movie genres, science fiction (Revenge of the Creature, Tarantula, The Brain from Planet Arous, etc.) and Westerns (Fort Apach...Read the entire review

Squad Car (1960) is another head-scratcher of a release from Fox Cinema Archives. The movie has no stars, runs a few seconds over an hour, and is an undistinguished, very low-budget effort with no discernible selling points. Certainly I had never heard of it before, but decided to take a chance after reading a funny if negative review by "chrisparson82" over at the Internet Movie Database entitled "Buckle Up. This one sucks."

Squad Car isn't quite as terrible as "chrisparson82" describes, and I'm honestly grateful for having the opportunity to see it, but neither is it worth the $19.98 SRP Fox is asking.

The movie was shot flat for widescreen cropping, but Fox's video transfer is incorrectly 4:3 full-frame. Oddly though, it looks like a newish transfer.

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When Columbia and Universal-International began getting out of the second features market around 1960, letting outsiders like Britain's Hammer Films and Japan's Toho Co., Ltd. provide them with the B-movies they required, 20th Century-Fox picked up the slack. Robert L. Lippert's Associated Productions (those shot in England used the Lippert Films moniker) produced most of these modest Bs, made between 1959 and 1965, and while they're not exactly good, many are quite entertaining. Some examples: The Alligator People (1959), Witchcraft, The Last Man on Earth (for AIP), The Earth Dies Screaming (all 1964), and Curse of the Fly (1965). A lot of these films were for many years nearly impossible to see; Fox seems to have had little interest in selling them into syndication, and precious few are out on video, even now.

The Day Mars Invaded Earth (1963) is one of Li...Read the entire review

]]> DVD Video https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/68270 Fri, 10 Apr 2015 19:18:54 UTC Recommended

William A. Graham's Together Brothers (1974) was shot on a shoestring budget in Galveston, Texas and populated almost exclusively by non-actors. It's a dark and uncompromising slice of inner-city drama framed by the murder of a well-liked police officer known by the locals as "Mr. Kool" (Ed Bernard). His death has only one witness: five year-old Tommy (Anthony Wilson), who manages to escape and spends the next few days in a trace-like state. One of the only people to get ...Read the entire review ]]> DVD Video https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/68236 Mon, 06 Apr 2015 22:30:22 UTC Skip It Two wrongs don't make a right.... 20th Century-Fox's Cinema Archives line of hard-to-find library and cult titles has started to package their previously released M.O.D.s into triple features (in this case: an Ernest Borgnine themed gathering). Curiously, this "3-Film Collection," as it's clearly labeled on the front cover, only contains two movies: 1956's The Best Things in Life Are Free, the Michael Curtiz directed color musical starring Gordan MacRae, Dan Dailey, Ernest Borgnine, and Sheree North, and 3 Brave Men, the 1956 black and white Commie drama from Philip Dunne, starring Ray Milland, Ernest Borgnine, and Frank Lovejoy. Unfortunately, both titles here are fatally compromised cropped and panned-and-scanned fullscree...Read the entire review ]]> DVD Video https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/68179 Fri, 03 Apr 2015 21:30:44 UTC Rent It Based on the 1948 novel, Richard Heffron's I, The Jury (1982) is the second adaptation of Mickey Spillane's pulpy revenge thriller. It's also the first appearance of hard-boiled detective Mike Hammer (Armand Assante), who's looking to avenge the murder of his one-armed vet buddy, Jack Williams (Frederic Downs). Along the way, he discovers secrets at a sex clinic run by Dr. Charlotte Bennett (Barbara Carrera) and a tail from the CIA, who may or may not use mind control when...Read the entire review ]]> DVD Video https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/68087 Fri, 27 Mar 2015 11:28:09 UTC Skip It Sometimes sweet romantic remake...but far too silly. 20th Century-Fox's Cinema Archives line of hard-to-find library and cult titles, has released Seventh Heaven, the 1937 romance starring Simone Simon, James Stewart, Jean Hersholt, Gregory Ratoff, Gale Sondergaard, J. Edward Bromberg, John Qualen, Victor Kilian, Thomas Beck, Sig Rumann, and Mady Christians. A critically and financially unsuccessful remake of the wildly successful 1927 Janet Gaynor/Charles Farrell silent original, this version of Austin Strong's play is compromised by a miscast Stewart, an under-directed Simon, and the simultaneously too-specific and completely unnecessary context of the Paris slums before WWI. Still...Stewart and Simon are attractive together. No extras for this not bad-looking fullscreen black and white transfer. "The Sock," the infamous, sinister Paris square "between Heaven and H...Read the entire review ]]> DVD Video https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/67920 Fri, 13 Mar 2015 01:18:03 UTC Recommended Three meat-and-potato offerings from now-forgotten big star Warner Baxter. 20th Century-Fox's Cinema Archives line of hard-to-find library and cult titles has released The Road to Glory, Wife, Husband and Friend, Earthbound, a Warner Baxter triple feature. 1936's gloomy World War I romantic actioner, The Road to Glory, is directed by Howard Hawks, co-written by a pasel of scripters including Nunnally Johnson and no less than William Faulkner, and stars Fredric March, Baxter, Lionel Barrymore, June Lang, and Gregory Ratoff. 1939's romantic comedy Wife, Husband and Friend, is directed by Gregory Ratoff, scripted by Nunnally Johnson, and stars Loretta Young, Baxter, Binnie Barnes, Cesar Romero, George Barbier, J. Edward Bromberg, and Eugene Pallette. And Earthbound, a fantasy B murder mystery, is directed by Irving Pichel, and stars Baxter, Andrea Leeds, Lynn Bar...Read the entire review ]]> DVD Video https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/67887 Tue, 10 Mar 2015 13:49:43 UTC Recommended Much like their recent Susan Hayward set, Fox Cinema Archives has taken three of their films starring Spencer Tracy (each previously released individually) and bundled them together in a triple feature. First up is The Power and the Glory (1933), which stars Tracy as industrialist Tom Garner, who carved out a significant chunk of the railroad business for himself before unexpectedly committing suicide. On the day of his funeral, most people have very little in the way of nice things to say about Tom, but Henry (Ralph Morgan) remains defensive of his friend's frequently controversial actions. When Henry's wife (Sarah Padden) takes a certain satisfaction in knowing Henry's in the ground, it sets Henry off on a long trip down memory lane, recounting his memories growing up with Tom when they were children, and sticking by him during the long, hard climb from the bottom of the railroad business ...Read the entire review ]]> DVD Video https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/67844 Sat, 07 Mar 2015 23:43:36 UTC Recommended Having previously released the three titles individually, Fox Cinema Archives has now taken three of their films starring Susan Hayward and bundled them together in a triple feature. I Can Get It For You Wholesale is arguably the most entertaining of the three. Hayward plays Harriet Boyd, a longtime model with a dream of something bigger. For years, she's been saving money and designing her own dresses, even slipping a few of her garments out with the help of Sam Cooper (Sam Jaffe), production manager at the firm where she currently models, who puts his own name on them. She just needs one more piece of personnel: fast-talking salesman Teddy Sherman (Dan Dailey), who will take the designs she's drawn up and use his existing relationships with buyers to get their company's foot in the door. He's got a bit of cold feet about bailing on a reliable job for a risk, but she convinces him to join u...Read the entire review ]]> DVD Video https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/67834 Sat, 07 Mar 2015 01:15:42 UTC Rent It "Sirens" follows longtime EMT partners Johnny (Michael Mosley) and Hank (Kevin Daniels), who are breaking in a new, slightly square partner, Brian (Kevin Bigley). Johnny is struggling to work out his relationship with Theresa (Jessica McNamee), a police officer, who demanded a break when Johnny refused to move in with her. Hank is openly gay and is constantly on the prowl for new suitors. They share a love for traditionally "manly" interests, especially football. Brian, conversely, lives in a house with his parents (on separate floors, he insists) and enjoys things like oldies music and birdhouses. Based on a British TV show with the same name, this version was adapted for American television by Denis Leary and screenwriter Bob Fisher. In the post-"Office" world of American television, bringing shows over from other countries has become a crutch for TV. The last few years are littered with failed ada...Read the entire review ]]> DVD Video https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/67791 Tue, 03 Mar 2015 15:27:33 UTC Highly Recommended Three enjoyable entertainments from that whirling, twirling dress form, Loretta Young. 20th Century-Fox's Cinema Archives line of hard-to-find library and cult titles has released Come to the Stable, Three Blind Mice, Suez, a Loretta Young triple feature. 1949's religious comedy drama Come to the Stable is directed by Henry Koster (from a real-life Clare Boothe Luce story), and co-stars Celeste Holm, Hugh Marlowe, Elsa Lanchester, Thomas Gomez, Dorothy Patrick, Regis Toomey, Dooley Wilson, and Mike Mazurki. 1938's romantic comedy Three Blind Mice, is directed by William A. Seiter, and co-stars Joel McCrea, David Niven, Stuart Erwin, Marjorie Weaver, Pauline Moore, and Binnie Barnes. And Suez, from 1938's biopic hooey Suez, is directed by Allan Dwan, and stars Tyrone Power, Annabella, J. Edward Bromberg, Joseph Schildkraut, Henry Stephenson, Sidney Blackm...Read the entire review ]]> DVD Video https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/67686 Sat, 21 Feb 2015 14:09:35 UTC Skip It When the Fox Broadcasting Corporation announced in August 2013 that they would produce an American remake of Broadchurch (2013), the eight-part British crime drama about the murder investigation of a 12-year-old boy in a small, coastal village, the whole enterprise seemed singularly misguided and pointless. Having seen both Broadchuch and its American remake, retitled Gracepoint (2014), in their entireties, I'm more convinced than ever. Broadchurch won three BAFTA awards (Best Drama Series, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor) and earned high ratings. The ITV show eventually aired on BBC America but, of course, airings on that niche digital cable/satellite network didn't get a lot of attention nor draw mainstream viewers. One can only speculate why Fox didn't simply acquire broadcast rights to Broadchurch instead of going to the time, trouble, and expense of remaki...Read the entire review ]]> DVD Video https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/67599 Fri, 13 Feb 2015 14:10:08 UTC Recommended More repackaging: Fox Cinema Archives has repurposed three earlier titles, all starring James Stewart: Take Her, She's Mine (1963), The Jackpot (1950), and No Highway in the Sky (1951). The discs themselves are labeled "The James Stewart Collection" but this isn't mentioned anywhere on the packaging. Retailers seem to be listing this under Take Her, She's Mine, so be aware. The bad news is that Take Her, She's Mine is the same crappy 4:3 letterboxed copy as before. This is unacceptable. Who still has a 4:3 television set? Not me. Not anyone I know. The other two movies pre-date the widescreen revolution and are okay transfers in their original 1.37:1 aspect ratios. After serving as an bomber pilot during World War II, Stewart w...Read the entire review ]]> DVD Video https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/67596 Thu, 12 Feb 2015 19:50:46 UTC Rent It Just barely so-so musical triple feature. 20th Century-Fox's Cinema Archives line of hard-to-find library and cult titles has grouped together three previously released stand-alone titles into a three-disc triple feature: The Pleasure Seekers, Three Little Girls in Blue, The Shocking Miss Pilgrim. 1965's The Pleasure Seekers--shown here in a flat letterboxed transfer that maintains its correct widescreen ratio--is directed by Jean Negulesco and stars Ann-Margaret, Tony Franciosa, Carol Lynley, Gardner McKay, Pamela Tiffin, Andre Lawrence, Gene Tierney, Brian Keith, and Vito Scoti. Three Little Girls in Blue, from 1946, features June Haver, George Montgomery, Vivian Blaine, Celeste Holm, Vera-Ellen, Frank Latimore, and Charles Smith, and is directed by Bruce Humberstone. And finally, 1947's The Shocking Miss Pilgrim is directed by George Seaton, and star...Read the entire review ]]> DVD Video https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/67583 Thu, 12 Feb 2015 01:08:12 UTC Recommended Technicolor-soaked South Seas trifle, with plenty of songs and, um... "comedy." 20th Century-Fox's Cinema Archives line of hard-to-find library and cult titles has released Song of the Islands, the 1942 musical comedy romance starring Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Jack Oakie, Thomas Mitchell, George Barbier, Billy Gilbert, Hilo Hattie, and Harry Owens And His Royal Hawaiians. Paper-thin, tune-filled island shenanigans with an ample supply on hand of cheesecake (Grable), beefcake (Mature), and ham (Oakie), Song of the Islands was precisely the kind of escapist fare war-shocked Americans wanted in the spring of 1942--a favorable context for this sort of assured piffle that wouldn't be entirely out-of-line today (watch Song of the Islands after reading today's horrific headlines--it works a lot better that way). An original trailer is included here--a rarity with these ...Read the entire review ]]> DVD Video https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/67516 Sun, 08 Feb 2015 21:03:06 UTC Recommended Action-filled Technicolor triple feature from Fox. 20th Century-Fox's Cinema Archives' line of hard-to-find library and cult titles has released Red Skies of Montana, The Siege at Red River, Untamed, a three-disc collection of these previously released Archives titles. Forest firefighting actioner Red Skies of Montana (also known as Smoke Jumpers), from 1952, stars Richard Widmark, Constance Smith, Jeffrey Hunter, Richard Boone, Warren Stevens, James Griffith, and Joe Sawyer, and is directed by Joseph M. Newman. 1954's Civil War Western, The Siege at Red River, directed by Rudolph Mate, stars Van Johnson, Joanne Dru, Richard Boone, Milburn Stone, Jeff Morrow, and Craig Hill. And Untamed, from 1955, is a CinemaScope South African adventure epic directed by Henry King, and starring Tyrone Power, Susan Hayward, Richard Egan, Agnes Moorehead, Rita Mor...Read the entire review ]]> DVD Video https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/67462 Sun, 01 Feb 2015 02:22:47 UTC Highly Recommended Pleasingly silly B effort, with the delightful Allyn Joslyn in top form. 20th Century-Fox's Cinema Archives line of hard-to-find library and cult titles has released It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog, the 1946 crime comedy directed by Herbert I. Leeds, and starring Carole Landis, Allyn Joslyn, Margo Woode, Henry Morgan, Reed Hadley, Jean Wallace, Roy Roberts, John Ireland, John Alexander, and Rodney the Dog. Fast-paced and funny anytime expert farceur Allyn Joslyn is running around and pulling a face, It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog's quick, efficient pleasures are easy to take. No extras for this sharp fullscreen black and white transfer. WWII veteran Henry Barton (Allyn Joslyn) has a problem. While away in the war, his police beat on Read the entire review ]]> DVD Video https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/67455 Sat, 31 Jan 2015 03:40:43 UTC Skip It International tedium. 20th Century-Fox's Cinema Archives' line of hard-to-find library and cult titles has released International Settlement, the 1938 comedy/drama from Fox B-meister Sol Wurtzel, directed (barely) by Eugene Forde, and starring Dolores del Rio, George Sanders, June Lang, Dick Baldwin (oh, no...), Ruth Terry, John Carradine, Keye Luke, Harold Huber, Leon Ames, and Pedro de Cordoba. With romantic entanglements set down in the middle of the Sino-Japanese War, International Settlement isn't competent enough to be even mildly diverting, and not ridiculous enough to be unintentionally amusing. In other words, it commits the worst sin a B can: it's boring. No extras for this nice fullscreen black and white transfer. The S.S. Santa Louisa, bound for the Orient. Amateur journalist Joyce Parker (June Lang), having won a contest to write a story o...Read the entire review ]]>