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I watched Lucy Gallant this afternoon, too, and you folks are right: it looks smashing (that fashion show climax really showed off those Edith Head creations to their best advantage). Ready for a disc release for sure. But that 1950's mentality about women's roles in society is really eye-rolling.

No to both questions. John Wayne's The Green Berets was a Vietnam saga, and The Deer Hunter won the face-off between Vietnam pictures.

For me personally, that voting was a disaster. Only one film that I voted for finished in either first or second place in any of the decades (1930s-1960s) and got a release: The Ghost and Mrs. Muir. I was okay with the winners but almost none of the ones I voted for ever got a second look and...

Yeah, I would definitely have remembered if Lady in the Dark had been mentioned. I have it on a VHS tape recorded from a TV broadcast, likely AMC and have watched in within the last two years. Certainly would love to have a better copy of it even if only traces of its brilliant...

I keep seeing these various Golan and Globus announcements and earnestly yearn to see Appointment with Death. Alas, not yet!

My original review of the disc can be found here.

Wow! Impressive and beautifully arranged.

You can never go wrong with an Alan K. Rode commentary. He's one of the best in the business right now.

The Five Pennies with Danny Kaye and Barbara Bel Geddes and Louis Armstrong?

The nominations you received were well deserved! Those are among your most outstanding releases during the past year, so kudos to you!

I was hoping you might consider Star Spangled Rhythm, Paramount's all-star contribution to the war entertainment effort. Filled with delightful songs and skits and most all of the Paramount roster doing something, it's brimming with patriotic nostalgia. Of course, most of the big stars making...

I don't think Dorothy ever played Dolly on Broadway, but she certainly headed up one of the national tours because I saw her in it, my first exposure to Dolly on the musical stage. (I later saw Pearl Bailey on Broadway.)

Seems like when Hondo was released on 2D Blu-ray, it was mentioned that the movie was controlled by the John Wayne estate who have in its possession a fine 3D master of the movie and deliberately chose not to release it (maybe thinking the costs wouldn't be recouped by the release). It could...

Would love to see VistaVision no-shows like The Desperate Hours, The Leather Saint, and Li'l Abner. Fingers crossed.

It certainly did, and I reviewed it here.

Raye toured three wars: World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. I suspect she spent more time overseas than Bob Hope did since he was heavily in demand in films and TV and she wasn't nearly as busy in those mediums (though she did do occasional films, had a TV series that ran about three years between...

Martha Raye practically steals her sequence in Monsieur Verdoux from Charlie Chaplin, of all people. She could be a very effective and dynamic performer in the right hands.

I was just thinking the same thing about my OLED last night. It will be six years old in September and has (probably) 12,000+ hours on it. Time to start looking around though everything is still functioning right now.

Absolutely delighted with this news. Kudos to them!

Thanks for the warning. I'll be reviewing the disc on Wednesday and will be on the lookout for that.

And in recent years has become my go-to Christmas movie. It is simply wonderful.

Well, of course we would all want out favorites to look and sound their best, and for you and me, You Were Never Lovelier would certainly qualify as one that needs a fair bit of attention. But it's not like we can't see it at all; that's all I meant.

I was thinking the same thing this morning. It's why I'm not chomping at the bit more to get You Were Never Lovelier. I can watch it on DVD any time I want.

Yep, I'd love to see that again in 3D.

Would Tony Curtis' two boxing movies qualify: Flesh and Fury and The Square Jungle?

I'd love to see on Blu-ray his first version of Anything Goes, the two films he did with Mary Martin, and Star-Spangled Rhythm.

Has Blue Skies been announced? Sorry. I claim a faulty memory and also that Kino announces and releases SO MANY discs that it's hard to remember.

That will be the first one in my order that I watch when I receive it.

No, you're not the only one. I haven't gotten my seven-disc order yet either.

I just wanted to mention that I finally got to watch the Blu-ray of 23 Paces to Baker Street, and the transfer was sterling, both video and audio. I was so happy to throw away that dreadful pan and scan DVD-R that Fox issued several years ago and which I reviewed.