Tag: Cecil B. DeMille

Of Presidents and Buccaneers

Of Presidents and Buccaneers

October 22, 2019 | By

Future U.S. President Andrew Jackson in 3 unique productions: THE PRESIDENT’S LADY (1953) on Twilight Time Blu + Cecil B. DeMille’s 1938 and 1958 productions of THE BUCCANEER from Olive Films.

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DVD: Buccaneer, The (1958)

DVD: Buccaneer, The (1958)

October 22, 2019 | By

Cecil B. DeMille wasn’t adverse to revisiting a hit property – his 1956 remake of his 1923 spectacular The Ten Commandments ensured the producer-director of Samson and Delilah…

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DVD: Buccaneer, The (1938)

DVD: Buccaneer, The (1938)

October 22, 2019 | By

Based on the novel by Lyle Saxon, Cecil B. DeMille’s production is a fancy, kinetically paced adventure-drama loosely based on a unique chapter during the was of 1812, in which famed pirate Jean Lafitte…

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Western Film Soundtracks

Western Film Soundtracks

March 8, 2013 | By

A quartet of western soundtrack reviews featuring Jerry Goldsmith’s Stagecoach (1966) and Rio Lobo (La-La Land), Lalo Schifrin’s Coogan’s Bluff (Intrada), and Luis Bacalov’s A Man Called Noon and The Grand Duel (Quartet Records), the latter of which was a major sonic element in Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill: Vol. 1. Also: some Peter Collinson news + details of Olive’s DVD-only edition of Cecil B. DeMille’s Samson and Delilah (1949).

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