Richard Brooks’ The Happy Ending (1969) + $ (1971)
Reviews of two classic Richard Brooks films – the housewife crack-up drama The Happy Ending (1969) on Blu from Twilight Time + the heist comedy $ (1971) from Sony.
Tag: Warren Beatty
DVD: $ (1971)
Richard Brooks’ extremely fluffy bank robbery flick $ (“dollars”) borrows elements from the best while remaining very tongue-in cheek in spite of some mean behaviour and bursts of violence.
Shot entirely on location in Hamburg, Germany…
Mike Nichols’ The Fortune (1975)
Review of Mike Nichols ‘lost’ homage to screwball comedies, The Fortune (1975), released on Blu via Twilight Time.
BR: Fortune, The (1975)
Twilight Time’s release of Mike Nichols’ The Fortune on Blu-ray (apparently its first-ever home video release) kind of echoes the situation of Peter Bodganovich’s At Long Last Love (1975), a film similarly written-off as a box office dud that vanished from distribution and took decades to emerge in a pristine HD transfer…
Reassessing The Only Game in Town (1970) +The Staircase (1969)
Instead of filming Frank Gilroy’s play in its natural setting of Las Vegas, Vegas was rebuilt in Paris at a cost of $11 for Fox’ The Only Game in Town, so Liz could be closer to husband Richard Burton as filming of Staircase was winding down. As I often do at KQEK.com, I try and pair the available with the should-be-available, so alongside a review of Twilight Time’s Only Game Blu-ray is a review of Staircase.
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