THE DVD SHELF: “M,” “Stagecoach” and Rob Marshall’s “Nine”
We screen Fritz Lang’s classic “M,” John Ford’s “Stagecoach” and Rob Marshall’s motion picture adaptation of Maury Yeston’s “Nine.”
Sunday Morning – The Quiet Man
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On the Beach $6.42 When the entire Northern hemisphere is destroyed in an atomic war, the residents of Melbourne, Australia, realize that it is only time keeping them safe before a cloud of radioactive materials reaches their part of the world too.Genre: Feature Film-DramaRating: NRRelease Date: 14-AUG-2001Media Type: DVD… |
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True Grit [Blu-ray] $11.99 A wonderful/rueful running gag in El Dorado involves the Edgar Allan Poe line “Ride, boldly ride” being mangled by toupee-wearer Wayne into “Ride, baldy, ride.” Two years later, in True Grit, Wayne put the joke in italics by donning an eyepatch and several inches of girth to play cantankerous territorial marshal Rooster Cogburn. Critics belatedly noticed that he could be a marvelously entertaining… |
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Cool Hand Luke $6.47 Paul Newman gives one of the defining performances of his career, and cemented his place as a beautiful-rebel screen icon playing the stubbornly tough and independent title character in Cool Hand Luke. And before he became familiar as a sidekick in 1970s disaster movies (Earthquake and the Airport movies), George Kennedy won an Oscar for playing Dragline, the brutal chain-gang boss who tries to be… |