Billy Wilder’s World War II comedy masterpiece, STALAG 17 is coming to Blu Ray from Paramount Home Video on October 8th. Based on the stageplay by Donald Bevan and Edmund Trzcinski (both real prisoners of Stalag 17B in Austria) the story takes place in a Luftwaffe prison camp somewhere on […]
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One of the subgenres of the Western is known as the Zapata Western and these stories took place specifically during the Mexican Revolution. Some of the most well known titles would include Italian entries like Sergio Leone‘s Duck You Sucker (aka Fistful of Dynamite), Damiano Damiani‘s A Bullet For the […]
Charles Laughton’s only outing as a director The Night of the Hunter (1955) has been recently released on DVD by the good folks at The Criterion Collection. I first saw it on Turner Classic Movies several years ago. Ever since my initial viewing, it’s been one of my most favorite […]