Leapin' lizards! (Literally!) The granddaddy of magnified reptilian dinosaur movies comes to Blu-ray, with VCI's release of MVDvisual's production, sourcing UCLA Film Archive elements.

One Million B.C. was a hard-to-find title - I think I last saw it in the early days of VHS - though stock footage (actually mostly outtakes) from the film turned up in innumerable cheap ‘50s sci-fi pictures. It was a production of Hal Roach Studios for release through United Artists, one of a comparative handful of feature films the company made that didn't star Laurel & Hardy.

Producer Hal Roach realized from the earliest days of talking pictures that the market for short comedies of the type in which his company excelled and specialized (Laurel & Hardy, Our Gang, Charley Chase, etc.) was drying up. Profits on all but the most popular were always pretty marginal, and bigger studios he, Mack Sennet...Read the entire review

The Serial:

Movie serials were a staple of movie matinees in the 30's and 40's,but they were incredibly popular in the silent era too.Unfortunately, there are few chapterplays from the 1910's and 20'sthat still exist in complete form. That's why it's so exciting thatSprocket Vault has unearthed, restored, and released a complete 10chapter serial from 1928: The Mysterious Airman. Not only isthe film of interest to historians however, but it's a funcliffhanger in its own right. The tinted picture looks amazing too,especially for a film this old that was presumed lost for decades.

Jack Baker (Walter Miller) is the owner of an aviation company andengaged to one of his pilots, Shirley Joyce (Eugenia Gilbert).Joyce's father has invented a new device, the Joyce Aerometer, whichmakes flying safe in all sorts of weather and even at night. He'sleased the gadget only to Baker and won't...Read the entire review