ClassicFlix comes forward with an entire 26 original episodes of the comic duo’s 1952 TV show, all fully remastered by the 3-D Archive people. That’s 13 + hours of Abbott and Costello comedy, looking better than new — even the original opening logos have been restored. The repeating leads are fully attuned to A&c’s style of comedy — Sid Fields, Hillary Brooke, Gordon Jones, etc.. The full set comes with numerous audio commentaries and featurettes.
The Abbott and Costello Show Season 1
Blu-ray
ClassicFlix
1952-1953 / B&W / 1:33 flat / 676 min. / Street Date December 14, 2021 / Available from ClassicFLix / 49.99
Starring: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Sid Fields, Hillary Brooke, Gordon Jones, Joe Besser, Joe Kirk, Bobby Barber, Joan Shawlee, Veda Ann Borg, Elvia Allman, Virginia Christine, Bingo the Chimp; Iris Adrian, Glenn Strange.
Cinematography: George Robinson
Art Director: Mac Capps
Film Editor: Gene Fowler Jr., Fred R. Feitshans Jr.
Original Music: Raoul Kraushaar
Written by Sid Fields,...
The Abbott and Costello Show Season 1
Blu-ray
ClassicFlix
1952-1953 / B&W / 1:33 flat / 676 min. / Street Date December 14, 2021 / Available from ClassicFLix / 49.99
Starring: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Sid Fields, Hillary Brooke, Gordon Jones, Joe Besser, Joe Kirk, Bobby Barber, Joan Shawlee, Veda Ann Borg, Elvia Allman, Virginia Christine, Bingo the Chimp; Iris Adrian, Glenn Strange.
Cinematography: George Robinson
Art Director: Mac Capps
Film Editor: Gene Fowler Jr., Fred R. Feitshans Jr.
Original Music: Raoul Kraushaar
Written by Sid Fields,...
- 12/18/2021
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
By Fred Blosser
Many books have been written about Hollywood Westerns. After 45 years, the late William K. Everson’s “A Pictorial History of the Western Film” (The Citadel Press, 1969) remains one of the best: a coffee-table book with substance. Everson appropriately tips his sombrero to John Ford, John Wayne, Henry Hathaway, and Howard Hawks (with measured praise for “Red River”), and his comments on films spanning the history of the genre up to the end of the 1960s, from “The Great Train Robbery” (1903) to “The Wild Bunch” (1969), are incisive and thought-provoking. As a film scholar and preservationist, Everson was particularly knowledgeable about older and often obscure movies from the silent and early sound eras. Three of the classic titles he highlights are worthy of his approval and deserve to be better known than they are.
King Vidor’s “Billy the Kid” (1930) is slow going at times, particularly if you’re...
Many books have been written about Hollywood Westerns. After 45 years, the late William K. Everson’s “A Pictorial History of the Western Film” (The Citadel Press, 1969) remains one of the best: a coffee-table book with substance. Everson appropriately tips his sombrero to John Ford, John Wayne, Henry Hathaway, and Howard Hawks (with measured praise for “Red River”), and his comments on films spanning the history of the genre up to the end of the 1960s, from “The Great Train Robbery” (1903) to “The Wild Bunch” (1969), are incisive and thought-provoking. As a film scholar and preservationist, Everson was particularly knowledgeable about older and often obscure movies from the silent and early sound eras. Three of the classic titles he highlights are worthy of his approval and deserve to be better known than they are.
King Vidor’s “Billy the Kid” (1930) is slow going at times, particularly if you’re...
- 9/13/2014
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Some images Nsfw:
Dr. Caligari had always been the stuff of legend for me. I had heard many discuss this odd little porn-ish film full of cranial craziness, but I had never been able to get my hands on a copy. I finally stumbled across this film at an aging video rental store in North Hollywood, California. Eddie Brandt’s Saturday Matinee may very well be one of the last great video rental stores in existence. Their shelves are always packed with endless obscure titles, and it’s rare that I journey to the shop and not leave with some strangely enthralling and possibly extinct monster of a horror gem. Dr. Caligari is one such find.
Back in 1982, porn director Stephen Sayadian tried to bridge porn into the mainstream film industry with a sci-fi infused flick called Café Flesh. Café Flesh (which is equally difficult to locate) was far too...
Dr. Caligari had always been the stuff of legend for me. I had heard many discuss this odd little porn-ish film full of cranial craziness, but I had never been able to get my hands on a copy. I finally stumbled across this film at an aging video rental store in North Hollywood, California. Eddie Brandt’s Saturday Matinee may very well be one of the last great video rental stores in existence. Their shelves are always packed with endless obscure titles, and it’s rare that I journey to the shop and not leave with some strangely enthralling and possibly extinct monster of a horror gem. Dr. Caligari is one such find.
Back in 1982, porn director Stephen Sayadian tried to bridge porn into the mainstream film industry with a sci-fi infused flick called Café Flesh. Café Flesh (which is equally difficult to locate) was far too...
- 3/5/2014
- by Rebekah McKendry
- FEARnet
Production equipment savvy? Living in Calgary or looking to move there? The Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers wants to hire a Production Coordinator to help manage their equipment. Visit their site for details.Speaking of Canada, Rhizome has a cool video from a ’70s Canadian arts show where artist Evelyn Roth discusses crocheting sculptures out of videotape. Plus, Rhizome finally has their archives back online.Then, Experimental Cinema has news of a DVD of Canadian filmmaker Joyce Wieland’s films being released.Are female horror directors on the rise in the U.K.? Eleanor McKeown investigates for Electric Sheep.Then, for Peaches Christ’s website, Michael Varrati sticks up for the much maligned slasher genre. Hear, hear! They’re just damn fun, is all!Listen to the mellifluous voice of Mike Plante discussing his new Cinemad distribution effort.Landscape Suicide has some very lovely stills from Hollis Frampton’s underground classic Zorns Lemma,...
- 3/13/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
We’re nottelling you anything new when we say we live in a digital world. We emailinstead of writing letters. We text instead of making a phone call. And wewatch movies via streaming rather than going to the local video store. In factthere really aren’t any local video stores any more. That’s what makes EddieBrandt’s Saturday Matinee in Burbank, California, adjacent North Hollywoodextra special.
Besides a random mom and pop shop and the last few free standing Blockbusterstores, there aren’t a lot of options to pick up a DVD. Some supermarkets haveRedbox machines where you can grab a flick for $1. And of course, you can order discs fromNetflix, but by the time they show up, you usually forgot you had once had anydesire to see the documentary about the typeface Helvetica.
That’s whyEddie Brandt’s Saturday Matinee is such a special place. The secret pleasure...
Besides a random mom and pop shop and the last few free standing Blockbusterstores, there aren’t a lot of options to pick up a DVD. Some supermarkets haveRedbox machines where you can grab a flick for $1. And of course, you can order discs fromNetflix, but by the time they show up, you usually forgot you had once had anydesire to see the documentary about the typeface Helvetica.
That’s whyEddie Brandt’s Saturday Matinee is such a special place. The secret pleasure...
- 3/9/2011
- by Pop Culture Passionistas
- popculturepassionistas
The comics Twitterverse can't quite figure out what to do with most of the things coming out of Charlie Sheen's mouth these days, but that hasn't stopped wave after wave of awkward jokes and observations from showing up this week.
On a sadder note, the entertainment industry lost actress Jane Russell on Monday. Edgar Wright, Mark Millar and Justin Gray all mourned her passing, while Gabriel Hardman noted the importance of North Hollywood video store owner and former Hanna-Barbera writer and cartoonist Eddie Brandt, whose death also sent some ripples through posting today. Click on down to check out what they had to say and see who Andy Diggle might have preferred in the role of Scott Pilgrim over Michael Cera.
I'm @brianwarmoth, and this is your Twitter Report for March 1, 2011.
@andydiggle It's becoming increasingly apparent that Kieran Culkin, great as he was as Wallace Wells, would have made a better Scott Pilgrim.
On a sadder note, the entertainment industry lost actress Jane Russell on Monday. Edgar Wright, Mark Millar and Justin Gray all mourned her passing, while Gabriel Hardman noted the importance of North Hollywood video store owner and former Hanna-Barbera writer and cartoonist Eddie Brandt, whose death also sent some ripples through posting today. Click on down to check out what they had to say and see who Andy Diggle might have preferred in the role of Scott Pilgrim over Michael Cera.
I'm @brianwarmoth, and this is your Twitter Report for March 1, 2011.
@andydiggle It's becoming increasingly apparent that Kieran Culkin, great as he was as Wallace Wells, would have made a better Scott Pilgrim.
- 3/1/2011
- by Brian Warmoth
- MTV Splash Page
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