DVD: Buccaneer, The (1958)
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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BR: From Noon Till Three (1976)
Frank Gilroy’s novel may have flowed from comedy to romance, black comedy to semi-tragedy, with an absurdist finale, but his own adaptation and direction resulted in a most peculiar western which was an impossible sell…
BR: Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)
Riding on the success of the vicious crime thriller One False Move (1992), Carl Franklin’s follow-up film was the first of a proposed series of films based on Walter Moseley’s former machinist-turned detective Easy Rollins…
BR: From the Terrace (1960)
From the Terrace is rife with class issues among differing strata of wealthy families as seen through the experiences of an unwanted son, but it’s also a richly sexual melodrama that fits neatly within Fox’s other grand productions, especially Peyton Place (1957), which like Terrace, was directed by Canadian-born Mark Robson…
BR: Kings Go Forth (1958)
After winning an Oscar for his work in the WWII drama From Here to Eternity (1954), Frank Sinatra headlined 11 major films before Kings Go Forth, the first of his two war dramas in 1958, followed by Some Came Running…
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