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Most of us connect the concept of “home” or “childhood home” with one particular position, that innocent paradise we have since had to give up and support searching for forever after. In Ruth Wilcox’s world, Howards Raze is that place; the countryside house where she was born, where her family often returns to expend their vacations, and which, everyone assumes, will pass on to her children when she is tiresome.

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And it is through Ruth Wilcox (Vanessa Redgrave) ’s eyes that we first ogle Howards End; approaching the house after an evening toddle through her beloved meadow, her long dress trailing in the grass, as she goes nearer, we leer the launch windows letting out warm light from inside, and hear the voices and laughter from the family’s dinner table. And while Mrs. Wilcox returns to join her family’s company, two others are leaving the house and its unruffled world: Helen Schlegel (Helena Bonham Carter) and Paul Wilcox, embarking on a passionate romance which is not even to survive the next morning – not before, however, Helen has informed her sister Margaret (Emma Thompson) that she and Paul are “in care for,” and thus region in motion the first of a series of confusing and controversial meetings between their families.

While both families belong to the middle class, they are nevertheless separated by several layers of society and politics – the Wilcox, led by pater familias/businessman Henry (Anthony Hopkins), rich, conservative and without any sympathy whatsoever for those less fortunate than themselves (“It’s all fragment of the battle of life … The awful are poor; one is sorry for them, but there it is,” Henry Wilcox once comments) ; the Schlegels, on the other hand, with impartial enough income to lead a comfortable life, brought up by their Aunt Juley (Prunella Scales), supporting suffrage (women’s correct to vote) and surrounding themselves with actors, “blue-stockings” (feminists), intellectuals and other members of the avantgarde. Further complexity is added when Helen brings to the Schlegel home Leonard Bast (Samuel West), a bad but idealistic young clerk who loves music, literature and astronomy – and with him, his working class wife Jacky (Nicola Duffett), the embarrassment of having to interact with her, and the even more embarrassing revelation she has in store for Henry Wilcox; eventually leaving her disillusioned husband to comment that “books aren’t proper,” and that in fact they and music “are for the rich so they don’t feel poor after dinner.”

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An allegory on the quiz who will ultimately inherit England – the likes of the Wilcox, the Schlegels, or the Basts – E.M. Forster’s unique on which this movie is based is a masterpiece of social leer and character gawk alike: with empathy and a magnificent ogle for detail, Forster brings his protagonists and their environment to life, and James Ivory matches his accomplishment in this camouflage realization, finding the perfect cast and production accomplish (Luciana Arrighi) to reproduce the novel’s Edwardian society; although he superstitiously declined the offer to film at Forster’s boyhood home Rooks Nest, the model for the fictional Howards Extinguish. The movie brings together many of Britain’s best-known actors, all trained in the English school which, as Anthony Hopkins once explained, unlike Lee Strasberg’s Design Acting, is primarily based on restraint: there are no outbursts of emotion, self-control reigns supreme, and even a simple word like “yes” is reduced even further to “hmm,” leaving it to the actor’s intonation alone to narrate the word’s (or sound’s) deeper meaning in a given context. And yet, vocal intonation, looks and puny gestures often grunt louder than dramatic actions ever could, and they are as primary to the movie’s sense of authenticity as are production beget, cinematography (Tony Pierce-Roberts), soundtrack (Richard Robbins) and the selection of the movie’s non-scored music: excerpts from Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, a accepted with the “educated” Edwardian middle class, and pieces by period composers Andre Derain and Percy Grainger.

The epic centers around Margaret (Meg) Schlegel, who is “filled with … a profound vivacity, a continual and accurate response to all that she encounter[s] in her path through life,” as Forster described her, and portrayed to perfection by Emma Thompson. Meg’s friendship with Ruth Wilcox brings the families support together after Helen’s near-scandalous episode with Paul; and the two women become so cessation that Ruth eventually decides to give Meg “something worth [her] friendship” – none other than Howards Demolish, a wish that has her panicking family straggle ungentlemanly for every reason in the book to invalidate the codicil setting forth that bestowal, from its lacking date and signature to the testatrix’s region of mind, the ambiguity of the writing’s recount, the interrogate why Meg should want the house in the first set since she already has one, and the fact that the writing is only in pencil, which “never counts,” as Dolly, wife of the Wilcox’ elder son Charles is lickety-split to point out, only to be reprimanded by her father in law “from out of his fortress” (Forster) not to “interfere with what you do not understand.” And so it is that Meg will only scrutinize the house (and be instantly incorrect for Ruth because she has “her diagram of walking around the house,” as the housekeeper explains) when she and her siblings have to ogle for a modern home and Henry Wilcox, who has started to court her after Ruth’s death, suggests that the Schlegel’s furniture be temporarily stored there – a fateful decision. And while Meg and Henry slowly and painfully learn to adjust to each other, the complexity of their families’ relations, and their interactions with the Basts, finally approach crashing down on them in a dramatic conclusion.

Howards Slay deservedly won 1992’s Academy Awards for Best Actress (Thompson), Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Art Direction; and it was also nominated in the Best Narrate, Best Director, Best Supporting Actress (Redgrave), Best Current Earn, Best Cinematography and Best Costume Invent categories. Unfortunately, its subtle tones have recently been muted somewhat by the louder sounds now filling movie theaters. I for one, however, will recall this sublime movie over any summer action flick anytime.

Also recommended:

Great Novels and Short Stories of E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster: A Life (A Harvest Book)

The Remains of the Day (Special Edition)

Shadowlands

A Room with a Opinion (Two-Disc Special Edition)

Where Angels Fright to Tread

The Wings of the Dove

Brideshead Revisited (25th Anniversary Collector’s Edition)

Gosford Park

Sense & Sensibility (Special Edition)

The DVD edition at last does visual justice to this film, one of the grand films in English of the last twenty years. James Ivory’s painterly examine can be appreciated only in the widescreen format: one can view details here (and hear the rich layers of the soundtrack) that have been absent for years in the VHS version. This film will remind you why you invested in a DVD player and why Merchant-Ivory has become synonymous with the period film. Subtle, inspired, and sharp.
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“Punk’s Not Monotonous” gets its point across through interviews with upwards of 100 members of punk bands past and indicate and lots of footage of punk then and now. The film has three vaguely delineated parts: The first is a whirlwind history of punk from its do-it-yourself birth in the 1970s, through a lull in the 1980s, and appealing into the mainstream in the 1990s. The second section focuses on the bands that have been around since the 1970s or early 1980s and are detached going strong. The last section of the film is about young punk and punk-influenced bands, including remarkable debate about whether pop-punk is punk and some reassuring evidence that underground punk is aloof very mighty alive.

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Director Susan Dynner focuses on punk bands and culture in the US and UK, though we bag a smattering of international punk at the destroy of the film. More than 160 people were interviewed for this film, most of whom were or are musicians, but there are some interviews with music critics, producers, tour organizers, and punk historian Alan Parker as well. The first share of the film doesn’t say enough about why punk developed or what makes it punk for my taste. There are also no dates until we rep to the unhurried 1980s, which is a tiny bewildering. I have the impression that the film is aimed at punk fans who would already know these things and prefers to focus on the issues of punk’s longevity and the fallout of its being co-opted by the mainstream in the past 15 years.

But “Punk’s Not Unimaginative” convinced me. Punk is tranquil very mighty alive and thriving, both in mainstream derivatives and a punk underground that is as gritty and low-budget as ever. It’s wonderful to watch punkers who are quiet doing it after 3 decades next to the unique bands, and those who disfavor punk’s commerciality next to those who embrace it. And -I have to say- these middle-aged guys who are level-headed belting it out on stage are more convincing than the sexagenarian Rolling Stones. Of course, they are 10 years younger. But they aloof have the spirit leisurely the music, which is more than I can say for the Stones. “Punk’s Not Insensible” is a fun tour of the continuity of 30 years of punk rock, what has changed and what has remained the same. As one punk stalwart says, “Punk rock should be appalling!”

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The DVD (MVD 2008) : There are 18 bonus features on this disc, and I confess to not having watched them all. The features offer a smorgasbord of varying quality. Some are segments left out of the film because they are tangential. “Punk Rock Housing” and “Hair”, for example, are about some modern aspects of the punk lifestyle. There is a trailer, some outtakes, and miscellaneous short interviews. A feature called “CBGB/The Roxy/The Masque” (29 min) interviews the founders of these 3 punk clubs in Original York, London, and Los Angeles about how the clubs came into being, what they were like and what happened to them. It’s very worthwhile if you’re eager in history.

I’ve seen fair about every punk doc available and they ALL exclude one of the most prolific punk bands in history, The Misfits??? I’m not positive why this is, but it was the sole disappointment of this film. I would believe that after going for 30 years that the Misfits deserve some recognition. Other than that, stellar documentary……
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Yet another ‘Carol’ has extinct 2-D animations with titanic tell cast — Simon Callow, Kate Winslet, Jane Horrocks, Nicholas Cage, Rhys Ifans, Micheal Gambon, and Juliet Stevenson. You also have a chance to listen to Kate’s sister Beth Wislet’s speak (who can be seen in a film ‘Bodywork’) and plus, you hear blooming songs by Welsh singer Charlotte Church and Kate Winslet herself! And Ms Winslet is very friendly at that.

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So, you ask, why 2 stars? OK, listen up, please. The tale is a well-known one, so you don’t need my summery. And Scrooge is anyway going to be a excellent guy. But the process is the point, or the life of the myth, and the film misses it very wide.

In fact, Scrooge (Simon Callow) in the first act is totally a abominable guy here, feeding a mice, giving a chunk of cheese. After showing another side of him, the film is very boring in establishing his character, which should be more simple. To obtain it worse, Scrooge. out of the window, throws a jug of wintry water (and it’s winter) upon the chorus group on the street singing, among which you gaze the face of Slight Tim, abominable boy, drenched to the skin. And … sorry if I’m horrible, but — Did Dickens write that plan?

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There are many, many, unnecessary addtions and changes, which I do not introduce here. The sincere dilemma is, however, the animation itself. Jimmy T. Murakami is best known for ‘When the Wind Blows’ a unruffled but very unnerving enchanting film about two elderly man and wife, who too innocently follows the government guidance to compose a handmade shelter for the coming nuclear war. His 2-D animatiton worked at that time, but after about 14 years, it is no longer possible to grab our attention with that technique without pleasurable storyteling, character, or new designs. This ‘Christmas Carol’ has none of them, objective making itself glimpse like a Cliff Notice of animation.

Sorry if I sound harsh, but as to this eternal classc, there are better choices out there, Alastair Simm or the Muppets (with Michael Caine, and the film is superior), so why not them? The only obliging thing I could fetch about this version is Kate Winslet’s unbelievable yuletide song, which deserves more attention.

[VHS VERSION] lacks the opening and ending live-action sections in which Simon Callow plays Charles Dickens himself, touring in Boston, America, in 1867 (Dickens’s eminent reading performance in mind) . If you want to sight everything of this film, DVD is a better choice.

This could have been an agreeable spirited version of “Christmas Carol” except the character develop is seriously flawed. The backgrounds are blooming, the anecdote well told with some humerous additions, yet, in this day of CGI animation, the characters are FLAT. There is no shading of the characters, no folds in the clothing, even printed comical books have more dimention than these characters. This leads to a rather uninteresting watching experience.

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On the disc’s special features, the modern live opening and closing are shown. They really are amazing sequences and there is no explanation of why they were cleave for the DVD version. They account for why the two mice are passe throughout the film. They are a scrumptious addition to the epic.

There is a motivation as to why Scrooge becomes the poor character he is concerning his loss of Belle in early life. She becomes a major character in this version and the belief works well even if it is not strictly Dickens.

This is a decent version of the classic that could have been really fantastic if the animators had fully traditional the CGI shadings that the characters really need.
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I bought this because I have always been fascinated with the place of firefighting. This documenty style film highlights some of the companies within the FDNY. It give the viewer a apt understanding of what life within a Fire company. What is unusual about this film is it examines the continuing “Brotherhood” that has alsways been at the heart of the fire service but it looks at how 9/11 has effected the firefighters that survived the attack as they struggle with the feelings of welcoming current firefighters that have “replaced” those that were lost.

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I would highly recommend this film if you are looking for a factual glimpace into fire house life and the continuing brotherhood that endures despite suffering one of the hardest things in the department’s history. It is a very well done and respectful documentry film about the FDNY post 9/11

This is a astounding peer into the lives of the FDNY. The main honest of this video is to introduce the viewer to three differnt stations in Novel York. The main account focuses on their response and training elements. Another epic is the possible interesting of Engine 252 being moved closer to downtown Manhattan. The legend give the viewer a brief examine into not only the humor but the self defense comments that hold them from going crazy. Some material may shock smaller views and parents should preserve that in mind if planning to examine with children. A huge movie.
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A edifying anime series should have likeable characters, strong space, excellent music and should leave you begging for more until the series ruin. Record of Gloomy Heaven Volume 2 Dwelling Truckin does this like any rock and roller would, loud and aggressively.

While the first volume did a great job introducing the various characters, Oji, his wife and son, Ms. Yuki the region agent vixen, her three bubbly associates and the rest of the gang, Volume Two is where the series really really grabs the viewer. Residence Truckin’ is exactly what Sage of Dim Heaven needed to retain the viewers interest.

Oji has been continuing his guitar playing for the area rapid however when the original song he devises fails to activate the shipshape weapon, the fact that he has been ragged by the lickety-split to ruin the enemy is revealed to him and he quits. Now Ms. Yuki and her agents must run to convince Oji that he must lift the guitar and the cause support up in order to maintain their bustle and prevent the war from spreading to Earth.

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Space Truckin’ made me really feel for Oji. While Volume one made me like him and want him to wait on protect the rapid and fix things up with his family, it wasn’t until he realizes that he is fighting that the sympathy was truly there. The viewer is swept up in his feelings and we root for his return to the guitar when he puts it down for what he claims is forever.

The art seems to have improved over Volume One, with the unique panning effects being not as noticable. However the situation battles seem tacked on quality wise. I like that Pioneer is trying to expand it’s art into the computer generated realm but compared to the rest of the art, anything happening in area does not feel upright and does not seem to fit.

The order acting is better than normally expected and each character takes on a believable dub that is fairly terminate to the new voices though the dubbing does seize liberties with the modern script. The sage is quiet presented strongly but watching the dub with subtitles on can invent for bewitching times where what the character is verbally saying and what they were originally saying can differ a trustworthy deal.

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The music continues to be one of the best parts of this series. Though Cautionary Warning is veteran extensively, when Oji debuts his unique song the quality of the music increases tenfold. Yarn of Unlit Heaven easily demonstrates how worthy a soundtrack can be when frail properly.

If you have not yet picked up the first volume, rob it and this one if only to secure to the second volume, it’ll be worth the investment.

The second volume of this incredibly bizarre but surprisingly icy series is an emotional one, to say the least. Lead character Oji Tanaka finally finds out the truth about the “strange nightclub” he’s been visiting most every night to play his guitar. Not only that, but he also finds out that the music he’s been playing isn’t needed for the music itself; only for the sound it makes. Sound confusing? If so, then you should’ve watched Volume 1. Anyway, this volume of “Shadowy Heaven” is an improvement over the first; the legend starts getting gorgeous sharp by the kill of the last episode, and I opinion the animation was a itsy-bitsy better as well, though it’s unexcited unbiased below average. The computer-coloring helps it out, but not noteworthy. But, as before, the appeal’s not in the animation, but in the chronicle itself. If you’ve seen volume 1, you know what I mean. This is a immense series with an absolutely awesome hard-rock soundtrack, and I’m rubbing my hands together awaiting the next installment. Watching this series got me started listening to the music of both Michael Schenker (who happens to be Oji’s “idol”) and John Sykes, who performs the opening theme. (Isn’t it astronomical when anime opens up doors to fresh musical worlds? ) All you anime fans out there, sustain your eyes on this one. It comes with a high recommendation for fair about anyone who’s into the big-eyed cartoons.
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My 2+ year mature has loved this video since he was 9 months feeble, and it’s Unruffled his common kids’ (non-movie) video!

We bought a couple other Sing-A-Longs after this (Campout at Walt Disney World, and the Disneyland: Ecstatic Haunting one), and they don’t compare to this one. Those videos star cheesy kids who “act” for the camera and try to be cute. The kids in this video are really there to simply benefit get the environment, even though you recognize the same group of kids throughout the video.

Plus, this video concentrates more on the characters and the attractions, than the kids (during the Horrified Mansion song, it stars only the Villians and you practically fling the entire meander!) . Which makes it fun for adults and fans of Disneyland – it plays like a Disneyland home video! Also, this was filmed around 1989-1990, impartial after Splash Mountain opened. Which means you procure to stare several attractions and restaurants that are no longer there: the Rocket Jets, People Mover, and Submarine – all in pre-1998 Tomorrowland.

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My wife and I agree that the songs are also blooming expedient, even the new ones (“Making Memories” and “Walking Suitable Down the Middle of Main Street, USA” approach to mind) .

If you’re a fan of Disneyland and Disneyland videos (especially to rep you in the mood before a vacation there), this is a must-own.

My daughter loves this movie. She sings and dances to all the songs. The video is the Disney characters at Disneyland with some kids (not cartoon) . They go on rides and unprejudiced play thru disneyland. The songs are cheerful songs and you cant befriend but feel satisfied when you hear them. There is one “scary song” but when you gawk donald ducks tail sticking out the befriend of the sheet, because he’s pretending to be a ghost, you cant encourage but to laugh (my 3 yr weak cracks up every time) . I unbiased bought another say along songs because she loves this one so mighty. The video has: Mickey, Minnie, Pluto, Goofy, Donald, Roger Rabbit, Pooh, Eyeore, Tigger, Mary Poppins, Chip N Dale, Alice in Wonderland and the Rabbit, and more I fair cant consider. This movie was well worth buying.
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“Humphrey Bogart – The Signature Collection, Vol. 2″ may be as appealing a collection of Bogart films, as he emerged as a major WB star, as you’ll ever rep. They hurry the gamut of early classic noir, espionage, action/adventure, astronomical comedy, and touchy morality story, each exceptional, and stamped with the distinctive Bogie ’style’.

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“The Maltese Falcon” (1941) – One of the earliest examples of the style that became known as Film Noir, John Huston’s crime classic has been described as the finest detective film ever made, and certainly deserves the title! The second teaming of the director and star (“High Sierra” had been released earlier that year), both films had a current history, as George Raft ‘passed’ on both properties (not wanting to work with an ‘untested’ director), and the films would open Bogie into the superstardom that had eluded him in the 30s.

Dashiell Hammett’s record of amoral detective Sam Spade, the cancel of his partner, and the offbeat collection of characters in pursuit of a fantastic, jewel-encrusted statue, had been filmed twice by WB in the thirties, but never truly captured the ‘flavor’ of the unusual. Huston, with his view for characterization, and employ of light and shadow, not only got it ‘right’, but popularized a original genre, of beat-up, world-weary anti-heroes with their possess ‘codes of honor’, duplicitous women, and endings where things seldom slay ‘happily ever after’. While Film Noir wouldn’t become a film staple until after WWII, it seldom got better than this!

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I could say Worthy more, but this 3-Disc collection says it FAR better…it is, simply, a MUST Hold!

“Across the Pacific” (1942) – The next teaming of Huston and Bogie may be one of the most luscious espionage comedy/dramas of WWII, made even more intriguing by the film’s support story; Huston, who wanted, desperately, to gather into WWII, managed to leave for the war after writing Bogie into ‘certain-death’ film climax, without a resolution! While the director and star belief it was hilarious, dreadful Vincent Sherman, called in to achieve the film, probably lost a lot of sleep tying everything up!

Re-teaming the star with “Falcon” co-stars Mary Astor and Sydney Greenstreet (who are both well-behaved), the film, despite distinct flaws, is eminently ‘watchable’, and remains one of Bogie’s most celebrated films.

“Action in the North Atlantic” (1943) – One of WB’s best wartime action/adventure films, Lloyd Bacon’s tribute to the merchant marine is a superb ensemble fraction, with ample acting compensating for distinct stereotypes. Bogie isn’t the focus of the anecdote, but a team player, on a ship commanded by Raymond Massey (in one of his warmest, most ingratiating portrayals) . This film has a celebrated back-story, as well; watching their stunt men performing a dive off a burning ship, Bogie and Massey, both a bit intoxicated (being ‘off-duty’), started making bets on which stunt-man was braver…one thing led to another, until the stars, themselves, made the dive (which must have driven Jack Warner into apoplexy!)

“All Through the Night” (1942) – Humphrey Bogart made few comedies (mostly later in his career), but this ‘Damon Runyon-Types vs. the Nazis’, filmed fair after “Falcon”, is breezy fun, if totally unfriendly! The myth of gambler/promoter Bogie, investigating (for his mother!) unfamiliar goings-on, getting framed for assassinate, and discovering a Nazi cell in Manhattan with defective intentions, is so loaded with droll one-liners that you never miss the lack of logic.

Supported by a cast of Tall funny actors (including William Demarest, Frank McHugh, Jackie Gleason, and Phil Silvers), hiss-able villains (headed by Conrad Veidt and Peter Lorre, who would re-team with Bogie in “Casablanca”), and ravishing Kaaren Verne (the future Mrs. Peter Lorre) for romance, “All Through the Night” may not be a classic, but is Astounding fun!

“Passage to Marseille” (1944) – After the large success of “Casablanca”, WB attempted to accumulate similar vehicles for Bogie, to attempt to recapture the magic. Some would work very well (“To Have and Have Not”) ; most didn’t. This was one of the misfires, but it does offer “Casablanca” co-stars Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, and Helmut Dantine, in a anecdote of Devil’s Island escapees, dealing with Vichy plots, finding their ’souls’, and rejoining the fight to rid France of the Nazis. Atmospheric, if occasionally slow-moving, the film is not among Bogie’s best, but is certainly watchable, and has WB’s distinctive ‘gloss’…

Quite a collection!

Re-releasing well-liked titles on DVD is par-for-course for most labels. Only two near abet for another release when the reason is damned salubrious…WB and Criterion. Unlike the other studios, only these two do the second dip for something far better, and this reliable SIGNATURE COLLECTION VOLUME TWO contains four new-to-DVD releases, looking SENSATIONAL, but also a re-visit to THE MALTESE FALCON, which along with CASABLANCA and SIERRA MADRE, represents the very best of the world’s most beloved and timeless movie actor.

I picked up my copy today, and all I can say is WOWEE!

The modern FALCON DVD looked very helpful. It was released when WB didn’t seem to care about their older films, and the extras were paltry and the quality was safe but not grand.

The modern FALCON carries the excellence that has been the hallmark of the WB Special Editions that have become the industry standard against which others are measured. Tons of immense modern extra features, and the two previous film versions of the Hammett modern, both of which are fodder compared to the Bogart version, which looks and sounds SO Grand BETTER here.

Best of all, the signature collection has taken pity on our shelving, and is packaged in sturdy slim-cases.

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‘Gunfight at O.K. Corral’ is one of the many films that have told the fable of the notorious showdown between the Earps and the Clantons, but what sets this version apart is the casting of Burt Lancaster as the straight-shooting Marshal Wyatt Earp, and Kirk Douglas as the sardonic, dying gambler, Doc Holliday. As in all their pairings, there is a chemistry between them that makes even mundane scripts seem magical!

Lancaster, continuing his rule of alternating between heavy drama and action films, researched the historic Earp extensively, speaking to many who knew him, and his performance is restrained and assured. Douglas, on the other hand, current from playing Vincent Van Gogh in ‘Lust for Life’, knew he needed a splashy hit film, and played Doc Holliday as larger than life, swaggering, diseased, and charismatic. His portrayal is far closer in spirit to the interpretions of Holliday by Val Kilmer, in ‘Tombstone’, and Dennis Quaid, in ‘Wyatt Earp’, than Victor Former, in John Ford’s ‘My Darling Clementine’.

The film’s climactic scene is fanciful, historically, but a terrific gunbattle!

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Other aspects of the film to bask in…Dimitri Tiompkin’s glowing musical earn, highlighted by Frankie Laine’s unforgettable performance of the title tune, throughout the film…Safe supporting players, including Jo Van Speedily as Holliday’s mistress, John Ireland as Johnny Ringo, a young Dennis Hopper as Billy Clanton, and Rhonda Fleming as the gambler girlfriend of Wyatt (based on Earp’s sincere wife, Josie) …cameos by Kenneth Tobey as Bat Masterson, DeForest Kelley as Morgan Earp, Martin Milner as James Earp, and Frank Faylen as the gross sheriff.

The director, John Sturges, revisited the Earp saga some years later in ‘Hour of the Gun’, with James Garner as Earp, and Jason Robards as Holliday, but while the later film may be more true, historically, ‘Gunfight at the O.K. Corral’ is a far more delicious film.

I strongly recommend it to any western fan!

Recently I heard a teenager bemoaning the death of King Kong in Peter Jackson’s 2005 remake of the 1933 Merian Cooper classic. He was of the conception that they should never have made it where Kong died. The ending should have been different. The vast guy should have gotten help to Skull Island.

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I told this young fellow that there were clear constants in life…and in the movies…that you fair had to learn to deal with; Cleopatra was always going to be bitten by the asp, Julius Caeser was always going to go down to assassins’ knives,

the Large was always going to sink, the Earps and Doc Holliday were always going to raze the Clantons & McLaurys at the O.K. Corral, and King Kong was always going to find shot off the building. That’s how life works.

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And where those Earps and their friends and foes are concerned, John Sturges’s 1957 account oater “Gunfight At the OK Corral” is one of the top cinematic retellings of that bloody day in October of 1881 when the six-guns started blasting and the lead started flying.

“Gunfight” is a well-engineered DVD version of the unusual widescreen Technicolor unique. The colors are warm and shining and the images captivating and definite. The sound is superior and the soundtrack musical obtain by Dmitri Tiompkin genuine, as is the driving, infectious theme song sung by Frankie Laine. The opening title sequence begins with a group of riders topping a hill and riding down into tubby audience idea with Laine’s ballad lyrics (by Tiompkin & Ned Washington) goading the viewer into an interest in who these riders are and what their intentions might be. It is a map that “hooks” viewer attention immediately and draws them hasty into the film yarn. This is estimable screenwriting (Leon Uris) and wonderful direction (John Sturges) . Really savvy filmmaking.

The film opens with these three “revengers” heading into Fort Griffin, Texas, in order to end the man who killed…in a comely fight…one of the riders’ brother. Their target is one of the west’s most distinguished “dreadful men”, gambler/gunfighter/dentist John Henry “Doc” Holliday. As these men arrive to Fort Griffin looking for Holliday, yet another race rider, Dodge City, Kansas, Chief Assistant Marshal (the right Marshal, historically, was Larry Deger) Wyatt Earp, out hunting outlaw Ike Clanton, rides into town. Earp rides in and meets with the local sheriff, one “Cotton Wilson” (a non-historical, fictional character) seeking info on the Clantons. I would ticket here that fans of Howard Hawks’ “Rio Bravo” will instantly search for “Fort Griffin” as BEING “Rio Bravo” (actually a movie region at Musty Tucson, Arizona) . The street where “Dude” (Dean Martin) is knocked into a horse trough is there, as is the hotel owned by “Carlos” (Pedro Gonzales-Gonzales), where “Feathers” (Angie Dickinson) and

“Colorado” (Ricky Nelson) cease, and the saloon where Doc Holliday kills Lee Van Cleef is the same saloon space (“Burdett’s Saloon”) where Dude and John T. Chance (Duke Wayne) track a wounded killer and conclude him off.

As the weak cliche goes, “But I digress”. Getting benefit now to “Gunfight At the O.K. Corral” itself; disatisfied with the answers he gets from “Cotton Wilson”, Earp stays over to perceive more respectable news on his quarry and, in doing so, becomes alive to in yet another…plainly justifiable…killing by Doc Holliday, as well as a local lynch-mob attempt (aided and abetted by same-said “Cotton Wilson”) to hang Doc. Earp helps Doc run from Ft. Griffin and this incident (culled from Stuart N. Lake’s biography of Earp, “Wyatt Earp, Frontier Marshal”) forms the basis for the Earp-Holliday friendship that carries through for the rest of the film.

Lancaster’s characterization of Earp is glorious distinguished “on the money” historically. The early western film pioneer William S. Hart knew Earp personally and the stoic, courageous, laconic, amd iconic western hero type that plays through all of Hart’s westerns…and on into those of Gary Cooper and others…was based on the Earp persona. And Lancaster’s version of Earp is not that far removed at all from Kevin Costner’s version, done four decades later.

A point of interest in this film is that the distinguished “Buntline Special” .45 Colt with the long barrel appears here briefly in a scene between Lancaster’s Earp and Earl Holliman’s Charlie Bassett.What is shown here in this scene is magnificent worthy what the “Buntline Special” actually was; a Model 1876 Colt Revolver-Carbine, a handgun with a 10 or 12 promenade barrel (the T.V. Present with Hugh O’Brian depicted it as the 12″ version, but research evidence indicates Earp’s dependable revolver-carbine was the 10″ version) . Thriller writer Ned Buntline bought one of these for several Dodge City lawmen (among them Bat Masterson & Bill Tilghman) and had special fancy-carved walnut handles save on the stocks…handles with the name “Ned” carved onto them. These “Ned” handles were what made one of these revolver-carbines….which featured a bolt-on “skeleton frame” rifle stock attachment…”Buntline Specials”; NOT anything having to do with the barrel length.

As usual in depictions of the Earp saga, this movie is resplendent distinguished “owned” by Doc Holliday, one of the most shining figures of the stale west, and in the person of Kirk Douglas, Holliday is given masterful representation. Douglas’s Doc is tortured and sardonic, a man with many demons, yet a man of integrity with a strong code of honor. And he is depicted as a Southern Gentleman to the core. Remarkable drivel has been written that “until Kilmer and Quaid” essayed the role in the 1990s Holliday’s Georgia roots had never factored into any film depiction previously. The lie is given to this claim in “O.K.” in a scene where Gargantuan Nose Kate Fisher

(Jo Van Expeditiously) rages at Doc about being so proud of his Georgia

plantation background when “all of that is gone now”. Another verbal jab or two at Doc’s “Southern Gentleman” ways and family gets Kate a thrown knife stuck in the wall by her head.

Douglas’s portrayal here is mighty and charismatic and it is only Lancaster’s have much conceal presence that keeps Douglas from stealing every scene just out from under him. It is a long-standing fact that any attempt to do an Earp movie is going to be a challenge to whoever portrays Earp, because you realize, going in, that audience interest is going to gravitate, ultimately, to the far more shimmering and fascinating Holliday. Lancaster, to his credit, hangs in there and gets the job done.

The gunfight itself is wildly erroneous historically, though not as distinguished as was that in John Ford’s “My Darling Clementine”. There are wagons here, and “Cotton Wilson” (again…now taking on the role of Cochise County’s zigzag sheriff Johnny Behan), and Phin Clanton (who was not there), and John Ireland’s Johnny Ringo (another one who was not there), and a secondary shoot-out in Fly’s Photographic Gallery

involving Dennis Hopper’s Billy Clanton (another event that never happened…as was Ike Clanton’s being killed in the shoot-out) . In keeping with the narrative…and at odds with history…Doc Holliday shoots down the no agreeable Johnny Ringo (in truth Ringo died months later and may have been a suicide) .

Historically factual? This gunfight? Heck no! But it IS a beautifully realized sequence. The pacing, editing, and ingenuity of the thing are first rate. This is impartial damn worthy filmmaking on notion here.

The acting throughout the film is first rate as well. Earl Holliman is respectable as Dodge City deputy Charlie Bassett,

Rhonda Fleming does expedient duty as “Laura Denbow”, a gambler gal who wins Earp’s heart (and represents a vaguely semi-accurate version of Earp’s true-life actress-singer girlfriend, Josephine “Josie” Marcus) . Kenneth Tobey (“The Thing”,”Beast From 20,000 Fathoms”, “It Came From Beneath the Sea”, and “Davy Crockett And the River Pirates”) turns in a astronomical but all-too-brief Bat Masterson characterization that is one of the best I’ve seen. As for Dreadful guys, hey, Lee Van Cleef is there but gets it early on from Doc, and Lyle Bettger is his usual arrogant, oily self as Ike Clanton. The titanic Jack Elam is one of the McLaurys and he, of course, eats lead from Wyatt at the film’s climax.

Produced by Hal Wallis (later to helm Duke Wayne’s oscar winning “Honest Grit”), “Gunfight At the O.K. Corral” is a first rate fifties-style western that is impartial slow hard to beat. Pleasant filmmaking is generous filmmaking, whatever the era represented.

This one I recommend highly to anyone who loves the genre. And, if you gather yourself liking this one, check out John Sturges’s follow-up western (also starring Kirk Douglas and Earl Holliman), “Last Declare From Gun Hill”, available through Amazon.

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One of the best in a series of edifying westerns made by Randolph
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of characters including Donna Reed,Richard Denning and Lee Marvin
The remaster quality is generous(almost blinding) in it’s bright
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Director Roy Huggins has produced a winner in the classic oater HANGMAN’S KNOT. Released in 1952, this film features Scott, with a supporting cast including Donna Reed and Lee Marvin, as a Confederate agent sent west with a little party to take Yankee gold for the beleaguered Confederacy. Action is taught and the dialogue, in its leanness, is at times reminiscent of the later Budd Boetticher Scott westerns of the gradual 1950s. This is certainly one of the best Randy Scott movies of the 1950s and maintains interest thoughout.
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