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@Mike Frezon The review for Broadway Melody of 1940 is now live!

I'm reviewing stuff this weekend, so my self-programmed Noir Alley will have to be delayed until mid-week.

I've never seen The Spider Woman Strikes Back, and I can't wait to now on this upcoming Blu-ray.

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Talk about slim pickings this week....! Argh!

I remember Variety writing up an article about that. Some months later, I found in a collectors' magazine a VHS of those clips including all of the takes of her two numbers showing her in dire shape, sometimes with a snappish temper but somehow managing to pull herself together for takes and...

What's irritating about the sound of Li'l Abner and Robin and the 7 Hoods is that they both had soundtrack albums in stereo. In Li'l Abner's case in wall-to-wall encompassing stereo that is far more appealing to listen to than the muted soundtrack on the DVD.

That Bette Davis-Joan Crawford World War II movie is Hollywood Canteen, a fictional story of the real life organization of the West Coast iteration of the canteen in which Bette Davis served as organizing president. That was Joan's first Warner Bros. appearance after she walked out of MGM after...

Some real classics to be sure on display this week. I hope I get to review some of them. Thanks for the prices, Mike.

The film is based on Maxwell Anderson's verse play Elizabeth the Queen and I believe much of the dialogue in the screenplay stayed true to Anderson. Not quite Errol Flynn's cup of tea, I wouldn't think. But he's so handsome and dashing that it's easy to see why he made Elizabeth weak in the...

I first saw this one rainy July night in a giant Philadelphia theater with about a dozen people in the audience, and it was one of my more miserable nights in the cinema. I had wanted to go to The Sound of Music but was outvoted. It seemed endless to me as a teen and too soon after King of Kings...

A couple of weeks ago, I bought the HD streaming version of Postcards from the Edge. I had never upgraded my DVD, and the movie has always been a favorite, so I watched it tonight. Enjoyed the excellent video and audio quality. Carrie Fisher's biting, absorbing script is excellent, and Mike...

Thank you so much. I hadn't bothered upgrading my LPs to CDs but now I have and at a budget price, too. Couldn't be happier.

And Gene Kelly and Lana Turner and Angela Lansbury and Vincent Price and Frank Morgan and on and on....

Isn't it ironic that the first two color films Bette made found her playing the same character.