Posts Tagged ‘Warner Archive’
Bobby Ware Is Missing DVD Review: And Starring Neville Brand as Indiana Jones
One missing little film featuring two lost little boys has been rescued by the great big Warner Archive Collection.
Read MoreCry of the Hunted / Wind Across the Everglades DVDs Review: Attack of the Swamp Features
Two entirely different ’50s bayou flicks ‒ now available on home video from the Warner Archive Collection ‒ receive a mite good scrutinizin’.
Read MorePlease Believe Me (1950) DVD Review: A Romantic Comedy from Val Lewton?
The famous horror visionary’s penultimate film ‒ which stars Deborah Kerr, Robert Walker, Mark Stevens, and Peter Lawford ‒ finally hits home video thanks to the Warner Archive Collection.
Read MoreThe Beginning or the End (1947) DVD Review: Are You Gonna Drop the Bomb or Not?
Hollywood’s first depiction of the Manhattan Project ‒ itself a bomb at the box office ‒ hits home video at last thanks to the Warner Archive Collection.
Read MoreThe Hoodlum Saint DVD Review: When Nick Charles Met Jessica Fletcher
William Powell, Esther Williams, and Angela Lansbury star in a forgotten footnote of film history, newly available to DVD via the Warner Archive Collection.
Read MoreTrader Horn (1931) / Eskimo (1933) DVD Reviews: A Pair of Van Dykes
W. S. Van Dyke’s early pre-Code adventures shot in Africa and the Arctic make their digital media debuts thanks to the Warner Archive Collection.
Read MoreDick Foran Western Collection DVD Review: The Singing Cowboy Who Could Actually Sing
The Warner Archive Collection wants you to know Dick. And what better way is there than this?
Read MoreKirby Grant and Chinook Adventure Triple Feature, Volume 3 (1949-1953) DVD Review: Chinook of the North?
The Warner Archive Collection takes off to the Great White North (eh!) for another trio of Northern adventures of RCMP Corporal Rod Webb.
Read MoreGentleman’s Fate / The Phantom of Paris DVDs Review: John Gilbert, Cinema’s Forgotten Heartthrob
The Warner Archive Collection unburies several talkies from one of the Golden Age of Hollywood’s many fallen stars.
Read MoreThe Hunger (1983) Blu-ray Review: The Longest Anti-Smoking PSA Ever
Bowie. Babes. Blood. Bauhaus. Carcinogens. That is all.
Read MoreShowdown in Little Tokyo Blu-ray Review: The Ultimate Guilty Pleasure of the ’90s
“We’re so far outside on this one, it’s not even funny.” Oh, but it is, Dolph. It is.
Read MoreCount Your Blessings (1959) DVD Review: More of a Curse, Really
Deborah Kerr, Rossano Brazzi, and Maurice Chevalier sink in a dreary comedy set across the English Channel.
Read MoreCallaway Went Thataway DVD Review: Mad Men and a Drunken Hopalong Cassidy
Fred MacMurray, Dorothy McGuire, and multiple Howard Keels shine in this delightful MGM comedy.
Read MoreRun of the Arrow DVD Review: Samuel Fuller’s Dances with Wolves
A blaring Rod Steiger and a bronzed Charles Bronson highlight a forgotten feature with an still-relevant social commentary.
Read MoreHoneymoon Hotel (1964) / Come Fly with Me DVDs Review: Sexist ’60s Rom-Coms
Two more rarities from the swingin’ jet-set era by director Henry Levin make their digital debuts courtesy the Warner Archive Collection.
Read MoreSpenser: For Hire: The Complete Second Season (1986-87) DVD Review: SPEN-SAH!
The criminally neglected cult ABC TV series starring the late great Robert Urich returns courtesy of the Warner Archive.
Read MoreJohnny Angel / Riff-Raff (1947) DVDs Review: Double Fistin’ RKO Film Noir
The Warner Archive Collection unleashes several underrated film noir gems from the iconic studio.
Read MoreFive Came Back (1939) DVD Review: The Birth of the Disaster Film Genre
The powerful melodrama, co-written by Dalton Trumbo, makes its long-overdue debut from the Warner Archive Collection.
Read MoreThe Decent, the Mediocre, and the Dreadful: The Warner Archive Revisits the Swinging Sixties
Three rarities starring David McCallum, George Hamilton, and Robert Morse resurface. But is that really a good thing?
Read MoreOnce a Thief (1965) DVD Review: Post-Beat America Meets the French New Wave
The Warner Archive Collection releases an excellent, atmospheric, innovative, and gritty crime drama from yesteryear. A definite must-see.
Read MoreSignpost to Murder DVD Review: Stuart Whitman Goes Loco for Joanne Woodward
The Warner Archive Collection brings us a seldom seen psychological thriller that has trouble finding its own direction.
Read More42nd Street / Ladyhawke / Wolfen Blu-rays Review: The Musical, Magical, and Mythical
The Warner Archive Collection brings us three classic catalogue titles out of the Standard and into the realms of High-Definition.
Read MoreA Newly Widened Screen, Part II: Alibis and Those Who Sympathize
The Warner Archive Collection brings us two more titles from the early days of DVD in widescreen for the first time.
Read MoreThe Maltese Bippy DVD Review: Rowan and Martin Comedy is No ‘Laugh-In’ Matter
The first and only post-fame feature-length film from the classic sketch comedy hosts is a mostly dreadful horror spoof.
Read MoreSol Madrid DVD Review: The Nutty NCIS Kojak Batman Star Trek 007 Affair
David McCallum’s solo venture into the ’60s spy genre is odd, compelling, and worth a look.
Read MoreJohn J. Malone Mystery Double Feature DVD Review: Pat O’Brien vs. James Whitmore
The Warner Archive Collection rescues two forgotten comedies featuring the less-than-celebrated fictional sleuth.
Read MoreArrow in the Dust DVD Review: This is More Like Dust in the Wind
The Warner Archive does its best to preserve a flick where Sterling Hayden punches Lee Van Cleef, and l’il wooden Indian figures are set aflame and thrown off a ledge. And that’s about it.
Read MoreKid Glove Killer DVD Review: Van Heflin Shines in Unsuccessful Film Pilot
Is it a film noir? A political corruption yarn? A forensics investigatory piece? A rom-com? It’s all these things, and more!
Read MoreThe Scorpio Letters DVD Review: Amusing Z-Grade Eurospy Fodder
The only thing poisonous about these letters was found in the Nielsen ratings.
Read MoreBlack Patch (1957) DVD Review: A Genuinely Magnificent, Forgotten B Western
Imagine if David Lynch traveled back in time to the ’50s, made a TV show, then re-edited it into a feature film to create the Spaghetti Western movement.
Read MoreEscape from East Berlin DVD Review: Don Murray Flees Communist Oppression!
The Warner Archive Collection digs up the fictionalized account of a famous digging out co-starring Colonel Klink himself.
Read MoreThe Velvet Touch (1948) DVD Review: Shades of Colombo in the Shadow of Birdman
The Warner Archive Collection dusts off the charming, well-made film noir howcatchem starring Rosalind Russell and Sydney Greenstreet.
Read MoreThe Stranger Collection DVD Review: The Man with No Shame Trilogy
The Warner Archive Collection dusts off a trio of strange spaghetti westerns starring the even stranger Tony Anthony.
Read MoreBad Men of Tombstone DVD Review: The First of the Last of the Badmen
Barry Sullivan and Broderick Crawford team up for a fabulous, forgotten B western of high grade ore.
Read MoreFace of Fire (1959) DVD Review: Slow but Poignant Human Horror
Filmmaker Albert Band manages to pave the way for every other sci-fi and horror series ever with one simple drama now available (at last) from the Warner Archive Collection.
Read MoreScreaming Eagles (1956) DVD Review: The Allied Artists Invasion of Normandy
The Warner Archive Collection preserves a seldom seen (but highly enjoyable) WWII quickie ripe with B movie and TV veterans.
Read MoreOur Mother’s House DVD Review: The Illegitimate Dawn of an Unofficial New Wave
Seven kids raised on religion, a dead mother, and a deadbeat dad. You do the math.
Read MoreAll at Sea [aka Barnacle Bill] DVD Review: Alec Guinness in Full (Multiple) Form
The Warner Archive Collection brings us the last genuine Ealing Comedy, which also features a young (and already bald) Donald Pleasance.
Read MoreOne Foot in Heaven DVD Review: Ass-Kickers, Shit-Kickers, and Methodists
Fredric March stars as Minister William Spence in this forgotten (but enjoyable) biopic.
Read MoreThe Big Shot / Swing Your Lady DVDs Review: A Binary Blast of Bogey
The Warner Archive Collection delivers two entirely different sides of Humphrey Bogart, including the film he perhaps hated making the most.
Read MoreThe Alphabet Murders (1965) DVD Review: Oh, My Aching Little Grey Cells!
Tony Randall makes for one of cinema’s least memorable Hercule Poirots in this dire British spoof of the Agatha Christie novel.
Read MoreFar from the Madding Crowd (1967) Blu-ray Review: A Magnificent Festering!
If you avoid certain NFL-oriented video games, does that mean you’re Far from the Madden Crowd?
Read MoreWonder What I Want to See at WonderCon 2015 No More
The con programs I am most intrigued by are…
Read MoreSpeed (1936) DVD Review: James Stewart Returns to Reclaim His Title
The Warner Archive Collection unburies the famous late actor’s first starring role, wherein he is paired with Ted Healy as a sidekick!
Read MoreThe Murder Man (1935) DVD Review: When Spencer Met Stewart
Spencer Tracy’s first starring role for MGM is supported by the feature film debut by James Stewart in this unconventional murder mystery.
Read MoreBorn Reckless (1958) DVD Review: My Long Hard Ride with Mamie Van Doren
A delightfully dumb ditty that is bursting with equestrian euphemisms and great B-grade bombshells.
Read MoreAdventure in Baltimore DVD Review: Pastor Robert Young Hasn’t Got a Prayer
Unhappy honeymooners Shirley Temple and John Agar appear on-screen together for the second and final time in this odd 1949 dud.
Read MoreWhite Comanche DVD Review: 40% Cotton, 230% Shatner
The Warner Archive Collection brings us a much-needed improved print of the campy Shatner vs. Shatner Euro western cult classic.
Read MoreThe RKO Brown and Carney Comedy Collection DVD Review: The Lonely Quartet of a Forgotten Duo
Four highlights from the short-lived comic pairing include the final villainous teaming of Bela Lugosi and Lionel Atwill, as well as a newly discovered Robert Mitchum in drag!
Read MoreRatboy (1986) DVD Review: Locke and Load
And to think all it took for us to get rid of Sondra Locke was to let her direct!
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