DVD: Chester Conklin

DVD: Chester Conklin

DVD:

Chester Conklin

Don Ameche, Irving Bacon

20th Century Fox, 2008

Almost a classic
This film should have been a worthy 20th Century Fox entry into the best films of 1939, often considered Hollywood's best year. A great idea about the advent of Hollywood itself, it starts really well but becomes bogged down in the hokey melodramatics for which Alice ...

The Great Dictator (2 Disc Special Edition)

Rudolph Anders, Chester Conklin

Warner Home Video, 2003

a brilliantly orchestrated dark dramedy (drama/comedy).....
I first saw THE GREAT DICTATOR when I was in grade school, around the time that SCHINDLER'S LIST was released, a far more sober look at the devestating effects of the Holocaust on countless Jews and gentiles alike, as well as the work of Oskar Schindler during that ...

The Palm Beach Story

Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea

Universal Studios, 2005

"Useless wife" in demand (recommended)
Penniless Geraldine "Gerry" Jeffers (Claudette Colbert), knows how far her good looks can take her in the world. She loves her husband, Tom Jeffers (Joel McCrea) but doesn't like being poor and he is unwilling to pimp her innocent feminine wiles. The solution? Leaving ...

Fancy Pants

Bob Hope, Lucille Ball

Paramount, 2004

Fancy Pants, Classic Bob Hope Film
Bob Hope's movies are all sparkling with goodhearted & witty humor. This DVD of a classic costarring somebody named Lucille Ball is a ton of fun rating A+A+A+A+A.

First Kings of Comedy Collection ("The Golden Age Of Comedy" and "When Comedy Was King")

Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy

Genius Entertainment, 2007

Nostalgia and great service
These are hard to find Laurel and Hardy shorts. With one click, the videos were on their way. The service at Amazon is great and the videos are in sterling quality and exactly what I ordered.

Modern Times (2 Disc Special Edition)

Richard Alexander, Henry Bergman

Warner Home Video, 2003

A brilliant silent comedy
"Modern Times" is one of Charlie Chaplin's most memorable films. In this movie, the Tramp joins the ranks of the unemployed, and eventually teams up with a poor girl (Paulette Goddard) who's trying to make her way in the world. Like all Chaplin films, "Modern Times" ...

Son of Paleface

Bob Hope, Jane Russell

Bci / Eclipse, 2000

Son of Palface 1952
Four years after his hit comedy "The Palface 1948" , Bob Hope (1903-2003) returned to the screen as Junior Potter , Son of Painless Peter Potter , the hapless hero of the first film (The Palface 1948) . The Harvard-bred Junior heads out West to claim his fathers ...

Phantom from 10,000 Leagues/The Beast with a Million Eyes

Paul Birch, Lorna Thayer

MGM (Video & DVD), 2007

another good pairing in the MGM/Fox Midnight Movies series
Thanks again to MGM and Fox for resurrecting this DVD line. Here we have a couple of extremely low budget American International Pictures films (back when they were still known as American Releasing Corporation - in fact, I think these were the first two sci-fi/horror ...

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek

Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton

Paramount, 2005

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
Preston Sturges's divinely goofy comedy is extremely broad, but still clicks, thanks to a bizarre, surprisingly risque premise only this director could concoct, and a kooky cast only he could assemble. Hutton and Bracken are mutually over-the-top as Trudy and Norval, ...

A Big Hand for the Little Lady

Henry Fonda, Joanne Woodward

Warner Home Video, 2007

Totally Underrated
Without a doubt one of the most unsung and unknown great movies. The cast alone should say something, Henry (Never made a bad movie) Fonda, Joanne Woodward, Jason Robards, Burgess Meredith, Charles Bickford, and of course Paul Ford in a most memoriable role as ...

Li'l Abner

Jeff York, Martha O'Driscoll

Allied Artists Entertainment, 2003

A 1940 Hit , well worth watching!
This 1940 version of Li'l Abner is and will remain a classic (but not to all). I think it really captures Al Capp's Characters to a T. All the girls chasing Abner were great. Jeff York could of used about 30 more pounds of muscle to really look like Abner(those skinny ...

Modern Times

Richard Alexander, Henry Bergman

Image Entertainment, 2000

A brilliant silent comedy
"Modern Times" is one of Charlie Chaplin's most memorable films. In this movie, the Tramp joins the ranks of the unemployed, and eventually teams up with a poor girl (Paulette Goddard) who's trying to make her way in the world. Like all Chaplin films, "Modern Times" ...

Sons of the Pioneers

Roy Rogers, George 'Gabby' Hayes

Good Times Video, 2003

"Roy Rogers B-Western Series ... Sons of the Pioneers (1942) ... Republic Pictures "
Republic Pictures presents "SONS OF THE PIONEERS" (2 July 1942) (62 mins/B&W) (Fully Restored/Dolby Digitally Remastered) --- Roy Rogers (born Leonard Slye) moved to California in 1930, at the age of 18 --- played in such musical groups as The Hollywood Hillbillies, ...

The Perils of Pauline

Betty Hutton, John Lund

ROAN, 2000

Betty Hutton is fabulous
The Perils of Pauline is a silent movie serial of 1914, followed by second serial in 1934, and finally the movie was made in 1947 starring Betty Hutton (1-3). Pearl White (Betty Hutton) stars as a working girl in a clothing factory. She sings while working and dreams ...

Hallelujah I'm a Bum

Al Jolson, Madge Evans

MGM (Video & DVD), 2002

fine Jolson vehicle
Hallelujah I'm A Bum let Al Jolson really flex his muscle in one of the earliest musicals after "talkies" were invented. Al Jolson sings numerous songs marvelously throughout the entire picture; and the plot moves along at a fine pace. The action and musical numbers ...