DVD: Martha Hyer

DVD: Martha Hyer

DVD:

Martha Hyer

Marjorie Bennett, Humphrey Bogart

Paramount, 2008

Isn't it romantic?
Everybody loves a good Cinderella story, especially if it has a dash of realism and a sense of humour. And unbaked souffles. And methinks it also helps the case if you have Audrey Hepburn as the modern Cinderella-with-a-wit, which is the strongest point in the ...

The Best of Everything

Hope Lange, Stephen Boyd

20th Century Fox, 2005

One of the BEST from the 50's
I haven't seen this film in sometime, which is why I decided to just get myself a copy. With Joan Crawford, Hope Lange, Stephen Boyd, Brian Aherne, Suzy Parker, Diane Baker, Martha Hyer and Louis Jourdan (just to name a few) in the cast....you can't go wrong. ...

Some Came Running

Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin

Warner Home Video, 2008

Good movie to watch
Who would think that small town life is boring? Not if you watched this film. Frank Sinatra plays this soldier who comes home from WW2. Somewhere along the way, he hooks up with Shirley McClaine, who follows him, but she has some unwelcome company of her own following ...

The Sons of Katie Elder / The Shootist

John Wayne, Dean Martin

Paramount, 2007

Four Wild Sons of a Murdered Father and a Devout, Defrauded Mother
The following review is limited to THE SONS OF KATIE ELDER. The setting of this western is the town of Clearwater, TX (near Laredo), probably in the 1870's. The four sons of Katie Elder, who had not seen each other, or her, in years, come to her funeral. The eldest ...

The Chase

Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda

Columbia Pictures, 2004

Peyton Place with guns
One of Marlon Brando's best. This is Peyton Place with Guns. One of the best scenarios developed upon the premise of the evil of wagging tongues, jealousy, class envy, and hatred fueled by Friday night party-frenzy and too much booze. One man (Brando's town sheriff) ...

Houseboat

Cary Grant, Sophia Loren

Paramount, 2002

"I hired her for my children"...."Adopt me?!"
"With that fine Italian hand that can't cook, or sew, or even do the laundry - you've managed to put a family back together again..." I just recently purchased HOUSEBOAT (1958) and watched it for the first time and Cary Grant was never better than when he stars with ...

Film Noir Classic Collection, Vol. 2 (Born to Kill / Clash by Night / Crossfire / Dillinger (1945) / The ...

Claire Trevor, Lawrence Tierney

Warner Home Video, 2005

Almost as good as Volume 1
The first set of the Film Noir Classic Collection was chock full of great movies, so I was naturally looking forward to the second set. Volume 2, happily, is also a good collection, not quite at the par of the first set but still with five decent-to-great movies. And ...

Sabrina

Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart

Paramount, 2001

Old Time Favorite
While the remade "Sabrina" with Harrison Ford is okay, this version with Audrey Hepburn, William Holden and Humphrey Bogart is my all time favorite. I can watch it over and over. The fashions are classic, the acting great..some of the lines are memorable and I love ...

H.G. Wells' First Men in the Moon

Edward Judd, Martha Hyer

Sony Pictures, 2002

Not As Dated As You Think!
The moon landing in this movie if you notice, is almost exactlly like a recent NASA Landing on Mars, which used a "Bouncing Ball" Type of landing very similar To First Men In The Moon. This Mars landing was The Mars Rover that took videos as it checked out Mars ...

The Sons of Katie Elder

John Wayne, Dean Martin

Paramount, 2001

Not a great Waynestern, but a good one with very enjoyable twists
This is a different sort of Western for John Wayne. While he has a big reputation as a gunfighter, he spends the film avoiding fighting as much as he can. Wayne also has fewer action sequences in the film. This may simply be due to the plot of the movie, or it may ...

Lucky Me

Doris Day, Robert Cummings

Warner Home Video, 2007

"Lucky" for us, it stars DORIS!!
"Lucky Me" was the next to last film under Doris Day's Warner Brothers contract. Although she has stated that she didn't believe in the project to the same extent that she'd believed in some of her prior films, you'd not know it while watching her performance. While ...

Bikini Beach

Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello

MGM (Video & DVD), 2000

Bikini Beach Is The Best!
Almost all reviewers list "Beach Blanket Bingo" as their favorite movie in the beach movie series. I have to give a slight edge to "Bikini Beach" for my personal favorite. Frankie Avalon does double duty very well, playing the English rock star known as Potato Bug, as ...

Born to Kill

Claire Trevor, Lawrence Tierney

Turner Home Ent, 2005

Clash of the Wicked.
"Born to Kill" is probably the second-greatest film noir on the "amour fou" motif, next to 1949's "Gun Crazy". Two lovers' irrational infatuation lead them to depravity, madness, and eventual self-destruction. "Born to Kill" is not as persistent in its sexualization of ...

The Delicate Delinquent

Jerry Lewis, Darren McGavin

Paramount, 2004

Had profound affect on me
I don't really know why, but this film had a profound affect on me. I was 6-7 years old, family life was pretty bad, and this film made me.. feel weird, but in a good way. All I can say for sure is that the emotions I had during and around the time I saw this silly ...

The Carpetbaggers

George Peppard, Alan Ladd

Paramount, 2003

Love the music and the storyline.
I've been a fan of this version of the movie for years. I love the theme music, and the storyline. George Pappard is wonderful also. Definitely dated, a lot of sexist stuff, pre women's lib.