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  1. Mark McSherry

    Crawdaddy's "Random Thoughts" about Home Video, Film & TV

    Had to pre-order. $28 + $5 Shipping from Arrow US.
  2. Mark McSherry

    Crawdaddy's "Random Thoughts" about Home Video, Film & TV

    Glenn Erickson put up his review of the blu-ray THEY WON'T BELIEVE ME. Plus a lot of effort to do this (quoting)--- "The Major Restoration We’re informed that They Won’t Believe Me underwent radical editorial surgery for re-issue, just as did RKO’s Rachel and the Stranger … perhaps both were...
  3. Mark McSherry

    Crawdaddy's "Random Thoughts" about Home Video, Film & TV

    The only reason to watch Fear is to see Warren William. The first signs of his illness, chronic fatigue and lower back pain that made it difficult to sleep at nights, appeared in January 1943. Unable to determine a cause, WW took a year+ break from movie/stage work, with rumors spreading about...
  4. Mark McSherry

    Crawdaddy's "Random Thoughts" about Home Video, Film & TV

    Glenn Erickson wrote up a review of The Harder They Fall DVD back in early 2003. A reader took issue with calling the film "dated." Glenn posted the complete comment at the end of his piece.
  5. Mark McSherry

    Crawdaddy's "Random Thoughts" about Home Video, Film & TV

    The movie, 13 West Street, following Noir Alley looks interesting too. Alan Ladd in an 1962 adaptation of a Leigh Brackett novel. From Turner Classic Movies- "Leigh Brackett's second career as a screenwriter spans the three decades between The Big Sleep (1946) and The Empire Strikes Back...
  6. Mark McSherry

    Crawdaddy's "Random Thoughts" about Home Video, Film & TV

    It is interesting that the NIGHTMARE ALLEY author's ex-wife was C.S. Lewis' companion, Joy Davidman (Gresham). The UK bluray release of NIGHTMARE ALLEY keeps getting put off. At one time, it was to have been available this week. Now the date it set for the (it will be done, when it's done) date...
  7. Mark McSherry

    Crawdaddy's "Random Thoughts" about Home Video, Film & TV

    And it was Ann Sheridan that lead to Errol Flynn's downfall. :) "Errol Flynn had his first Bloody Mary in the 1940s, and he was on the Warner Bros. lot. And the actress Ann Sheridan — she was in Angels with Dirty Faces among other things-- was drinking a Bloody Mary and she gave Errol a try...
  8. Mark McSherry

    Crawdaddy's "Random Thoughts" about Home Video, Film & TV

    Just a follow-up. Fredric Brown's 'Madman's Holiday' (Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine 7-43), that very rare and thus expensive to obtain novella, is now available for pre-order. It is included in Market for Murder: Fredric Brown Mystery Library, Volume Three from Haffner Press. Eddie...
  9. Mark McSherry

    Crawdaddy's "Random Thoughts" about Home Video, Film & TV

    Haffner Press is reprinting all of Fredric Brown's non-sf short fiction in chronological order. So far, two volumes have been released. No announcement yet on Volume Three, but "Madman's Holiday", a 1943 novella, could be included. If not, a future Volume Four would.
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