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I have looked forward to having John Barrymore’s SHERLOCK HOLMES on DVD for quite some time. I had seen the movie before but only in a wretched public domain VHS which was so dark that most of the film was hard to make out. The first half is made up of original material that setsContinue reading “SHERLOCK HOLMES (1922): It’s Great To Have But I Wish The Movie Were Better”

Ernst Lubitsch is remembered today as “the man with the golden touch”. His droll and witty comedies of the sexes from the 30’s and 40’s such as TROUBLE IN PARADISE and TO BE OR NOT TO BE certainly deserve their place in movie history. So do his silent films which thanks to present day technologyContinue reading “ETERNAL LOVE: Last Lubitsch Silent Loses A Little”

While the MGM/20th Century Fox Midnite Movies series has a number of great offerings from the 1950s through the 1980s, this double feature is, in my opinion, the best of the lot. The reason is that both movies are sci-fi classics from the late 1950s (’57 and ’58 to be specific) and they are presentedContinue reading “MIDNITE MOVIES: Their Best Double Feature”

I have waited for years to see these titles on DVD and at last they are finally here. Anyone who grew up watching late night horror shows on local TV probably saw these films at one time or another especially THE RETURN OF DRACULA. Both were made by Gramercy Productions a division of Levy-Gardner-Laven, anContinue reading “RETURN OF DRACULA / THE VAMPIRE: Classic 1957 Double Bill On DVD Or Separately on Blu-Ray”

I had read about WITCHCRAFT (1964) for years in anthologies about British horror films but I had never seen it until I purchased this set a few years back. While undeniably low budget, it was definitely a quality example of the less is more school of filmmaking. It also happens to be the last inContinue reading “WITCHCRAFT / DEVILS OF DARKNESS: Very Uneven Double Feature”

Director Daniel Haller began his career as an art director for Roger Corman. He worked on all the early Edgar Allan Poe pictures and after the success of THE HAUNTED PALACE (1963), was given his chance to direct on another adaptation of an H.P. Lovecraft story. H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) was a writer who came intoContinue reading “H. P. LOVECRAFT: 2 Films, Same Director”

Over the several years there have been a number of these MOVIES 4 YOU DVDs released under the MGM banner in conjunction with Timeless Media. They specialize in B movie horror and sci-fi and come primarily from the American International and United Artists back catalogue. They are designed to give the consumer a decent productContinue reading “MOVIES 4 YOU: Quadruple Feature DVDs That Won’t Cost You A FOURtune”

This review will focus on THE FACE OF MARBLE which is the one rare title in the set and was another seminal B movie horror from my childhood. It is also the only one of the 4 movies to have been made by Monogram, one of the legendary Poverty Row studios. A number of reviewsContinue reading “TIMELESS HORROR: THE FACE OF MARBLE Beckons”

Most people familiar with silent comedy are not familiar with Charley Chase. They recognize the face but not the name. Chase is probably best known as the obnoxious conventioneer in Laurel & Hardy’s SONS OF THE DESERT. He was a hard working, driven individual who died in 1940 at the age of 46. His realContinue reading “CHARLEY CHASE: Rediscovered”

Norville Hardy (he added the Oliver later in honor of his father) began his film career in 1914 in Jacksonville, Florida where he appeared in literally hundreds of films. He was known as Babe Hardy because of his babyish face (the famous toothbrush moustache would come later). By 1920 he had come to Hollywood asContinue reading “OLIVER HARDY: A Pre-Laurel Showcase”