DVD: Joan Leslie

DVD: Joan Leslie

DVD:

Joan Leslie

Judi Dench, Ian Holm

Hbo Home Video, 2001

The Last of the Blonde Bombshells DVD
I received the DVD The Last of the Blonde Bombshells as a gift and since have ordered 2 as gifts. The response has been terrific! You don't have to be a Judi Dench fan to thoroughly enjoy this delightful period story.

This is the Army

Ronald Reagan, Irving Berlin

Echo Bridge Home Entertainment, 2000

A souvenir from the World War II with Ronald Reagan
Do you remember that Ronald Reagan was an actor before being President of the United States or the voice and image of General Electric. That is true. it is a movie in which Ronal Reagan plys one of the main character. It is also a souvenir of World War I and World War ...

Sergeant York (Two-Disc Special Edition)

Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan

Warner Home Video, 2006

Sgt. York the ultimate Soldier
I found the 2 disk set of Sgt York a very good buy. The second disk is as good as the movie itself. I as a gun collector and a historian found some flaws in the movie itself. He did not use a 1903 Springfield he used a M-1917 Enfield Rifle that fired a 30-06 bullet and ...

The Reluctant Astronaut

Don Knotts, Leslie Nielsen

Universal Studios, 2003

5, 4, 3, 2, 1, blastoff to hilarity
The Reluctant Astronaut is one of the truly classic Don Knotts films, consistently hilarious while also sporting some touching scenes between a father and his son. Roy Fleming (Knotts) is just about the last person you would want to shoot into space: I seriously doubt ...

The Public Enemy

Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy (II)

Warner Home Video, 2005

WILLIAM A. WELLMAN, OPUS 23
***** 1931. Directed by William A. Wellman. The screenplay earned an Academy award nomination. During the prohibition, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle become part of the Paddy Ryan gang and enjoy the mobster life. For a while. Cagney, Harlow and Blondell are great in this ...

Warner Bros. and the Homefront Collection (Irving Berlin's This Is the Army / Thank Your Lucky Stars / ...

Irving Berlin, George Murphy

Warner Home Video, 2008

great movies
Finally "Thank your lucky star" and "Hollywood canteen" are on DVD. I already had a VHS but this is the final set. It's wonderful to see Hollywood in the past, Hollywood unfortunately forever lost. This is Hollywood as we remember. I hardly wait Nov 11

Yankee Doodle Dandy (Two-Disc Special Edition)

James Cagney, Ann Sothern

Warner Home Video, 2003

A Genuine Classic!
Wow! What a classic movie this is. It's from a different era and probably seems too schmaltzy and contrived. Still, it is a terrific movie in its own terms. James Cagney is a credible song and dance man as he plays the great showman George M. Cohan. His dancing down ...

The Errol Flynn Signature Collection, Vol. 1 (Captain Blood / The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex / The ...

Joan Leslie, Nana Bryant

Warner Home Video, 2005

Keep The Flynn's Coming
Warner has been doing it right with their releases of classic films and this is no exception. Like volume 2 of the Flynn Signature collection the quality and films are nothing short of spectacular. They don't make movie stars like this anymore. And he was dead before ...

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon

Madacy Records, 1998

One of the classics
When my son was in junior high, we watched this film together because I'd recently read the book for a college class I was taking. As an adult, he remembered that he had enjoyed it, so I ordered it for him. He loved it once again and has added it to his collection of ...

The Canterville Ghost

Cherie Lunghi, Leslie Phillips

Platinum Disc, 2004

Another Gem (all be it a small one) In Patrick Stewart's Body of Work
Having seen, "The Canterville Ghost" years ago, I knew it was something I wanted to see again. It's just scary enough to give an appreciated shock or two, but not so much that you can't sit down with your 8-12 year old and have a family movie night. My 18 and 19 year ...

Mad Love

Chris O'Donnell, Drew Barrymore

Walt Disney Video, 2000

An underrated gem!
This film is about a high schooler named Matt (Chris O'Donnell) who has a crush on free spirited Casey (Drew Barrymore), so he finally gets the guts to ask her out, and they go to a punk rock concert together. They start to really like each other, and become boyfriend ...

Love Affair

Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer

Madacy Records, 1998

The one that started it all
This is the wonderful rendition of what we most often think of as starting with "An Affair To Remember". This is the original, with many of it's scenes and even it's dialogue repeated in "An Affair To Remember" I owned this VHS and played it until it became unplayable. ...

Man in the Saddle

Randolph Scott, Joan Leslie

Sony Pictures, 2005

Rattled by the rush.
This is a spectacular Western. I can easily see a day coming when Andre DeToth's star will be in the ascendant, and Boetticher's will have fallen into oblivion. I recently saw almost all of Boetticher's westerns with Randolph Scott in a local theater, and you could ...

The Virgin Queen

Bette Davis, Richard Todd

20th Century Fox, 2008

Davis plays Queen Elizabeth I for a second time
This is Davis' second film in which she plays Queen Elizabeth I of England. Personally, I thought 1939's "Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex" was better, but it is hard to compare the two since this film takes place 15 years earlier in history than "Private Lives" ...

The Canterville Ghost

Patrick Stewart, Neve Campbell

Geneon [Pioneer], 2000

Wonderfully entertaining
Patrick Stewart's portrayal of the ghost was delightful and poignant and he wove into his role some Shakespeare which added depth. Neve Campbell was also exceptional as the young child who believed and shed her tears for the ghost's release.