Robert Aldrich Smackdown: …All the Marbles (1981)
Robert Aldrich’s directorial swan song, the underrated wrestling comedy …All the Marbles / aka California Dolls (1981), is covered through the magic of dead home video format CED!
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CED: … All the Marbles / California Dolls (1981)
Robert Aldrich’s final film as director is a suitable career swan song, packed with the type of working class characters, tough circumstances, and raw language typical of his rough comedic work, and reverberating with memorable performances by a veteran and two newcomers…
Video Store Day, Post #3
With Video Store Day now done, I’ve written up another related blog about taboo video titles of the era as a preamble to scans from a 1986 issue of Canadian Video Retailer. Also included in the Editor’s Blog are scans of a longer article about ‘knowing your local clientele,’ featuring interviews with managers / owners from three shops in the GTA: the late Video Visa in Thornhill, the late CED rental shop The Video Disc Centre which existed at Toronto’s Union Station, and Mr. Video (which in 1993 morphed into the still-strong Bay Street Video). The entire 31-page issue will be available to read until the end of the month, so check out the blog!
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