• December 12, 2008
Actress Nina Foch has passed away at age 84 She started off in Hollywood appearing in Wagon Wheels West (1943) and then with Bela Lugosi appearing in The Return of the Vampire (1944).
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• December 10, 2008
20th Century Fox releases a DVD box set of 12 films by Murnau and Borzage Two directors who worked int he silent and early talkie era are featured in a deluxe set containing a documentary and many films never available before on VHS or DVD. The most well known of the included titles is Murnau's famous "Sunrise" in which a farmer must contend with himself, his city mistress, and the young wife he is being urged to drown (shades of "An American Tragedy").
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• November 7, 2008
The Universal Legacy Series continues with a 2-disk package for Vertigo Although it is sometimes touted as "noir" it is really just a most unusual Hitchcock film and in a more personal mode than most of his films. Kim Novak is the dopplegangered victim/criminal and James Stewart the detective with a dangerous fear of heights.
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• October 22, 2008
Orson Welles, Charlton Heston and Janet Leigh TOUCH OF EVIL 50th Anniversary 2-disk set This much touted noir film from 1958 is released to DVD with three versions: the original 1958 "Mancini" version, the 1976 108-minute "Keller" version, and the 1998 re-cut "Orson Welles' Memo" version.
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• October 13, 2008
New Mark A. Vieira Book "Hollywood Dreams Made Real: Irving Thalberg and the Rise of M-G-M" from Abrams Books A new 260 page hardback exploring MGM and Thalberg's role as producer and architect of the MGM production system.
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• October 7, 2008
3-Disk "Holiday Inn" DVD with Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire and Irving Berling tune extras The release of Holiday Inn on three disks seems like overkill, but Universal has packaged the original black and white with a colorized-version and an extra disk with the Irving Berling soundtrack sung by Crosby, Astair, Virginia Dale and Marjorie Reynolds.
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