Republic raids an early Rko talkie for a fantastic special effects sequence, and you won’t believe how it’s repurposed — in a story about a TV personality (in 1939!) taking on a corrupt political mob. New York crumbles and is then washed away — sort of. It’s yet another resurfacing of a title that not long ago we couldn’t see to save our cinema-curious souls.
S.O.S. Tidal Wave
Blu-ray
Olive Films
1939 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 62 min. / Street Date October 31, 2017 / available through the Olive Films website / 29.98
Starring: Ralph Byrd, George Barbier, Kay Sutton, Frank Jenks, Marc Lawrence, Dorothy Lee, Oscar O’Shea, Mickey Kuhn, Ferris Taylor, Don ‘Red’ Barry, Raymond Bailey.
Cinematography: Jack A. Marta
Film Editor: Ernest Nims
Musical Director: Cy Feuer
Written by Gordon Kahn, Stanley Rauh, Maxwell Shane, story by James Webb
Produced by Armand Schaefer
Directed by John H. Auer
If Republic wasn’t...
S.O.S. Tidal Wave
Blu-ray
Olive Films
1939 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 62 min. / Street Date October 31, 2017 / available through the Olive Films website / 29.98
Starring: Ralph Byrd, George Barbier, Kay Sutton, Frank Jenks, Marc Lawrence, Dorothy Lee, Oscar O’Shea, Mickey Kuhn, Ferris Taylor, Don ‘Red’ Barry, Raymond Bailey.
Cinematography: Jack A. Marta
Film Editor: Ernest Nims
Musical Director: Cy Feuer
Written by Gordon Kahn, Stanley Rauh, Maxwell Shane, story by James Webb
Produced by Armand Schaefer
Directed by John H. Auer
If Republic wasn’t...
- 10/31/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Men are not immune from the harmful effects of our misogynistic culture, says Joe McCarthy; we must tackle the power imbalance at the root of all oppressive behaviour, says Ruth Eversley; don’t stand by, stand up, says Bob Jacobson
Like Rebecca Solnit (The fall of Harvey Weinstein should be a moment to challenge extreme masculinity, 12 October), I too hope that the current torrent of stories of vulnerable women being abused by powerful men represents a “moment that will pass” and be overcome. Most men do not want to dominate and humiliate women. Indeed, while men are of course not the main victims of our misogynistic culture, they are not immune from its harmful effects. All men, at some time, will have felt the tedious and unrealistic pressure to appear to be “strong and masterful”. Men stand to gain hugely from women coming forward to expose their powerful male abusers.
Like Rebecca Solnit (The fall of Harvey Weinstein should be a moment to challenge extreme masculinity, 12 October), I too hope that the current torrent of stories of vulnerable women being abused by powerful men represents a “moment that will pass” and be overcome. Most men do not want to dominate and humiliate women. Indeed, while men are of course not the main victims of our misogynistic culture, they are not immune from its harmful effects. All men, at some time, will have felt the tedious and unrealistic pressure to appear to be “strong and masterful”. Men stand to gain hugely from women coming forward to expose their powerful male abusers.
- 10/12/2017
- by Letters
- The Guardian - Film News
A military coup in the U.S.? General Burt Lancaster’s scheme would be flawless if not for true blue Marine Kirk Douglas, who snitches to the White House. Now Burt’s whole expensive clandestine army might go to waste – Sad! John Frankenheimer and Rod Serling are behind this nifty paranoid conspiracy thriller.
Seven Days in May
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1964 / B&W / 1:85 widescreen / 118 min. / Street Date May 8, 2017 / available through the WBshop / 21.99
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien, Martin Balsam, Andrew Duggan, John Houseman, Hugh Marlowe, Whit Bissell, George Macready, Richard Anderson, Malcolm Atterbury, William Challee, Colette Jackson, John Larkin, Kent McCord, Tyler McVey, Jack Mullaney, Fredd Wayne, Ferris Webster.
Cinematography: Ellsworth Fredericks
Film Editor: Ferris Webster
Original Music: Jerry Goldsmith
Written by Rod Serling from the book by Fletcher Knebel, Charles W. Bailey II
Produced by Edward Lewis
Directed by John Frankenheimer...
Seven Days in May
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1964 / B&W / 1:85 widescreen / 118 min. / Street Date May 8, 2017 / available through the WBshop / 21.99
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien, Martin Balsam, Andrew Duggan, John Houseman, Hugh Marlowe, Whit Bissell, George Macready, Richard Anderson, Malcolm Atterbury, William Challee, Colette Jackson, John Larkin, Kent McCord, Tyler McVey, Jack Mullaney, Fredd Wayne, Ferris Webster.
Cinematography: Ellsworth Fredericks
Film Editor: Ferris Webster
Original Music: Jerry Goldsmith
Written by Rod Serling from the book by Fletcher Knebel, Charles W. Bailey II
Produced by Edward Lewis
Directed by John Frankenheimer...
- 5/5/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Still awaiting the renewal verdict from NBC, Timeless (0.9/2) nonetheless hit the finale button hard last night with a visit to Joe McCarthy's America and a cliffhanger ending that revealed betrayal in high places. As execs in high places at the Comcast-owned net should note, the push worked with the time- travel series rising a strong 29% among adults 18-49 and 12% in total viewers (3.3 million) over its February 13 show. That bump from its American Ninja Warrior: All-Sta…...
- 2/21/2017
- Deadline TV
In December I (foolishly) jumped into the latest Nate Heller detective story, Better Dead, by Max Allan Collins. This book has nothing to do with the Holiday Season. This book has nothing to do with making oneself better or preparing for the New Year’s challenges. In fact, this book is so enthralling it distracted me from my Yuletide tasks and annual planning. Better Dead is just a fun book. As with other adventures in this series, the author places his hero in a real-life historical hotspot, bringing to light a fascinating true-life story with new insights.
Kind of like the musical Hamilton without the rap musical and colonial wigs.
ComicMix’s “Grand Poobah”, Mike Gold, once famously quipped “if you only read one Max Allan Collins book this month, make it this one.” He was teasing about the author’s prolific writing. The talented ‘true crime’ and detective scribe produces so many books.
Kind of like the musical Hamilton without the rap musical and colonial wigs.
ComicMix’s “Grand Poobah”, Mike Gold, once famously quipped “if you only read one Max Allan Collins book this month, make it this one.” He was teasing about the author’s prolific writing. The talented ‘true crime’ and detective scribe produces so many books.
- 1/2/2017
- by Ed Catto
- Comicmix.com
I hate writing about this. I hate having to write about this so frequently. But this is the world we live in.
As my ol’ pal Martha Thomases wrote a couple days ago, I tend to have a thing about free speech. I’m an absolutist. In my fevered brain, I figure we don’t have free speech unless it’s complete and it covers everything, in all forms of expression. Some people put limitations on what will be tolerated and they put restrictions on what can be said and where things can be said. Even if I were the one making those decisions – an amusing concept – that is not free speech. As I keep on saying, I would not remove Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf from the libraries, although I would use the book to teach high schoolers the cause and effect of hate speech.
This does not absolve the speaker (writer,...
As my ol’ pal Martha Thomases wrote a couple days ago, I tend to have a thing about free speech. I’m an absolutist. In my fevered brain, I figure we don’t have free speech unless it’s complete and it covers everything, in all forms of expression. Some people put limitations on what will be tolerated and they put restrictions on what can be said and where things can be said. Even if I were the one making those decisions – an amusing concept – that is not free speech. As I keep on saying, I would not remove Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf from the libraries, although I would use the book to teach high schoolers the cause and effect of hate speech.
This does not absolve the speaker (writer,...
- 12/7/2016
- by Mike Gold
- Comicmix.com
Writers of new musicals should never have characters announce that they’re in “The Twilight Zone.” For those theatergoers born in the immediate afterglow of the atomic bomb, Rod Serling’s seminal TV show embodied all the fear and paranoia of the Cold War, sandwiched as it was between Joe McCarthy and the Bay of Pigs. Even today, when “The Twilight Zone” stages all-day marathons on cable TV, the panic returns and is addictive as ever. Anyone who watched those episodes first-run could never say, “Make America great again!” America, back then, was scary. The new musical with the “Twilight Zone” sound.
- 12/1/2016
- by Robert Hofler
- The Wrap
– By We Are Movie Geeks Staff –
Our long election season is finally coming to an end, and all that remains is to vote. And watch an election-themed movie!
Going through the list of movies about elections, the Movie Geeks found a lot more negative than positive ones, and more movies about manipulative people behind the candidate than inspiring candidates. While there is a lot of biting social commentary and satire, there are a few light and silly election movies too. So top cap off election season, here are a dozen election and political movies.
Don’t forget to vote!
The Campaign
Jay Roach, director of the true story political HBO films “Recount” and “Game Change”, goes for the big laughs in this farce about a lazy, scandal-ridden incumbent congressman Cam Brady (Will Ferrell) who faces off against a bumbling, naive altruistic Marty Huggins (Zach Galifianakis). This comic gem captures all the election craziness,...
Our long election season is finally coming to an end, and all that remains is to vote. And watch an election-themed movie!
Going through the list of movies about elections, the Movie Geeks found a lot more negative than positive ones, and more movies about manipulative people behind the candidate than inspiring candidates. While there is a lot of biting social commentary and satire, there are a few light and silly election movies too. So top cap off election season, here are a dozen election and political movies.
Don’t forget to vote!
The Campaign
Jay Roach, director of the true story political HBO films “Recount” and “Game Change”, goes for the big laughs in this farce about a lazy, scandal-ridden incumbent congressman Cam Brady (Will Ferrell) who faces off against a bumbling, naive altruistic Marty Huggins (Zach Galifianakis). This comic gem captures all the election craziness,...
- 11/8/2016
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Leave it to Ivo van Hove to put the Devil back in the Salem witch trials. Before Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” opened on Broadway in 1953, some right-wingers (Mr. and Mrs. Elia Kazan among them) had already criticized the project for making a false comparison between the witch trials and Joe McCarthy’s persecution of suspected Communists. Those conservatives charged that there were no witches in 17th-century Massachusetts, but there were Communists in 1950s America. Miller countered, saying that his critics were taking a contemporary view of Christianity. Back in 1693, not to believe in the existence of the Devil, hence.
- 4/1/2016
- by Robert Hofler
- The Wrap
When Kirk Douglas exposed the McCarthyite blacklist for the fraud it was, the Us film industry was free. Maybe the Oscars boycott could do the same
It was the time when Hollywood almost died of shame. They called it McCarthyism, although the junior senator from Wisconsin had less to do with it than you’d think. But it was watching the House Un-American Activities Committee that taught Joe McCarthy all he knew before he set up in business himself.
Related: Trumbo review – return to red-faced Hollywood's shame
For 12 years, people found themselves on a blacklist – a list that actually never really existed
Related: ‘Every country has its fearmongers’ – Bryan Cranston on Trumbo and Hollywood’s blacklist
Continue reading...
It was the time when Hollywood almost died of shame. They called it McCarthyism, although the junior senator from Wisconsin had less to do with it than you’d think. But it was watching the House Un-American Activities Committee that taught Joe McCarthy all he knew before he set up in business himself.
Related: Trumbo review – return to red-faced Hollywood's shame
For 12 years, people found themselves on a blacklist – a list that actually never really existed
Related: ‘Every country has its fearmongers’ – Bryan Cranston on Trumbo and Hollywood’s blacklist
Continue reading...
- 2/5/2016
- by Michael Freedland
- The Guardian - Film News
Tom Brokaw took on Donald Trump’s call for a ban on Muslim entries to the U.S. on Tuesday, calling it a “dangerous proposal” tantamount to the establishment of Japanese internment camps in America during World War II. Trump’s proposal “overrides history, the law, and the foundation of America itself,” Brokaw reported on NBC’s “Nightly News” Tuesday. He added that Trump is spreading paranoia that undermines reason. The former “Nightly News” anchor also made allusions to Sen. Joe McCarthy’s anti-communism crusade of the 1950s, in which the Wisconsin legislator leveled largely baseless allegations of communist collusion at blacklists of American citizens.
- 12/9/2015
- by Jordan Chariton
- The Wrap
The life of the Presidential Medal of Freedom-winning Washington Post cartoonist who took on Joe McCarthy and Richard Nixon is coming to HBO next year. The premium network said today that it has picked up U.S. TV rights to Herblock: The Black & The White. The Michael Stevens-directed and George Stevens-produced documentary will air January 27. Political cartoonist Herb Block also won four Pulitzer Prizes during his 55 years at the Post from 1944 to his death in 2001. The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart, comedian Lewis Black and journalists Ted Koppel, David Brooks, Gwen Ifill, Tom Brokaw, Bob Schieffer, Jules Feiffer, and Tom Friedman are featured in the film. The 95-minute Herblock played at various festivals including this year’s Tribeca.
- 10/31/2013
- by DOMINIC PATTEN
- Deadline TV
In 1953, Dalton Trumbo won his first Oscar for writing Roman Holiday, but the man who went up to the podium (and whose name was on the film) was Trumbo’s friend Ian McLellan Hunter. Three years later, Trumbo won a second Oscar for The Brave One, but the name engraved on the statuette was “Robert Rich.” Why did he need a human stand-in and a pen name if he was doing such stellar work? Because he had been blacklisted after serving nearly a year in prison for contempt of Congress. You see, there was a hilarious time in American history that we all look back on and laugh at because it was dominated by members of the government being terrified of ideas that were different from their own. Although it’s difficult to imagine a United States Senator (and a Republican at that!) railing against a leftist agenda in Hollywood today, it...
- 9/19/2013
- by Scott Beggs
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
9) Walson’s Mountain
The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good.
Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge
has marked the upward surge of mankind.
From the movie, Wall Street (1987)
Up until alternate delivery systems — like home satellite dishes, home video, and, later, HBO’s online service, HBO Go — Home Box Office was synonymous with cable television. In fact, go back far enough and there was a time where, when you said “cable,” you meant “HBO,” and when you said “HBO” — … Well, you get the picture.
And that’s one of the several ironies in the birth of HBO, because cable TV was not originally developed as an alternative to broadcast television, but as an adjunct; you subscribed...
The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good.
Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge
has marked the upward surge of mankind.
From the movie, Wall Street (1987)
Up until alternate delivery systems — like home satellite dishes, home video, and, later, HBO’s online service, HBO Go — Home Box Office was synonymous with cable television. In fact, go back far enough and there was a time where, when you said “cable,” you meant “HBO,” and when you said “HBO” — … Well, you get the picture.
And that’s one of the several ironies in the birth of HBO, because cable TV was not originally developed as an alternative to broadcast television, but as an adjunct; you subscribed...
- 8/3/2013
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
During his Wednesday broadcast, MSNBC host Chris Matthews reiterated his insistence that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-tx) both looks and acts like former U.S. Sen. Joe McCarthy (R-wi). He added, however, that it was his opinion that Cruz is also a “terrorist.” When a guest argued that Matthews' assertion was irresponsible, the MSNBC host clarified that Cruz was a “political terrorist” and defended that claim.
- 7/31/2013
- by Noah Rothman
- Mediaite - TV
The Wasteland:
Television is a gold goose that lays scrambled eggs;
and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar.
Lee Loevinger
When people argue over the quality of television programming, both sides — it’s addictive crap v. underappreciated populist art — seem to forget one of the essentials about commercial TV. By definition, it is not a public service. It is not commercial TV’s job to enlighten, inform, educate, elevate, inspire, or offer insight. Frankly, it’s not even commercial TV’s job to entertain. Bottom line: its purpose is simply to deliver as many sets of eyes to advertisers as possible. As it happens, it tends to do this by offering various forms of entertainment, and occasionally by offering content that does enlighten, inform, etc., but a cynic would make the point that if TV could do the same job televising fish aimlessly swimming around an aquarium,...
Television is a gold goose that lays scrambled eggs;
and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar.
Lee Loevinger
When people argue over the quality of television programming, both sides — it’s addictive crap v. underappreciated populist art — seem to forget one of the essentials about commercial TV. By definition, it is not a public service. It is not commercial TV’s job to enlighten, inform, educate, elevate, inspire, or offer insight. Frankly, it’s not even commercial TV’s job to entertain. Bottom line: its purpose is simply to deliver as many sets of eyes to advertisers as possible. As it happens, it tends to do this by offering various forms of entertainment, and occasionally by offering content that does enlighten, inform, etc., but a cynic would make the point that if TV could do the same job televising fish aimlessly swimming around an aquarium,...
- 7/22/2013
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Don’t get up Bill O’Reilly’s Irish. When MSNBC host Chris Matthews said that Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has a “black Irish look” like 1950s Communist-hunting former Sen. Joe McCarthy and O’Reilly himself, the Fox News Channel host took him and his network to task — aiming directly for their ratings decline. “In the last six months..its all fallen apart for MSNBC,” O’Reilly said Thursday about Matthews’ “desperate attempt to get attention” and MSNBC’s recent results. As I reported last month, MSNBC hit its worst total day performance since June 2006. In primetime, the cable news network was down 20% in viewers and 19% in the key adults 25-54 demo from May 2012 to deliver its worst result since December 2007. While Fnc is still far ahead in viewership and the demo, the past couple of months have seen the cable gods shine favor on CNN, which has risen to...
- 6/14/2013
- by DOMINIC PATTEN
- Deadline TV
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