"VHS format. LOUISIANA PURCHASE. Universal, 1993 (originally released in 1941), 1 hour, 39 minutes, color, digitally recorded. Note: this was filmed in color, not b&w, as indicated. Includes the original theatrical trailer for the film. This is a musical comedy, with Hope becoming a target of a Senate investigation. Guess who eventually winds up before Congress filibustering for all he's worth. Some Irving Berlin tunes, including: You're ..."
"One reviewer wrote: This is a super film. I bought it because Carole Mathews plays a handmaiden, but her part is so small you could blink and miss it. Instead I was lucky enough to see the rare double act of matinee idol Cornel Wilde and Phil Silvers turn the traditional tale of Aladdin into the nearest a cinema can get to pantomime. There are a few things which might be considered dodgy by today's standards, a Persian princess with blo ..."
"A half-century later, Mark Twain's yarn still doesn't seem like an ideal vehicle for Bing Crosby, and Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke certainly wrote better songs than those offered up here. Still, this droll 1949 musical, like its star, has an easygoing charm and affability that'll win over young and old alike. Der Bingle plays Hank, who wakes up in A.D. 528, rousted by palooka-like Sir Sagramore (William Bendix). At Camelot, not ev ..."
"It would be nice to say that hiring Joseph H. Lewis (Gun Crazy, The Big Combo) to direct A Lawless Street led to its becoming a classic Randolph Scott Western. Can't do it. At this point in his career, Randy was cutting corners as star-producer, scoping out his next oil well, and not worrying that a blind grandma could see he was being doubled in the fight scenes. Scott plays a town marshal who's had enough of "taming the beast," j ..."
"Intrepid frontiersman Chris Holden foils the political and personal ambitions of renegade Martin Garth in the Ohio Valley following the French and Indian War."
"Lavish treatment of Ernest Hemingway's classic novel stars Gary Cooper as an American teacher who journeys to Spain to join the Loyalist forces in their civil war against the Fascists and falls in love with fellow freedom fighter Ingrid Bergman. With Akim Tamiroff, Joseph Calleia and Best Supporting Actress Oscar-winner Katina Paxinou."
" You have to wait over 20 minutes for Tyrone Power's entrance in Blood and Sand, but it's a good one: a close-up of Power grinning like FDR, his hair oiled and a cigar jutting out of his teeth, framed against a blood-red backdrop. This is the young matador Juan Gallardo, now grown after the opening reels have established his childhood as a bullfighting prodigy. What happens upon Juan's return to Seville is high Technicolor drama: succ ..."