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Aug 1, 2016 · With Rita Hayworth sizzling the screen and yet keeping the trampier aspects of the lady’s history at arm’s length, Miss Sadie Thompson makes for an entertaining movie restricted a bit by the Production Code in force at the time but providing enough fireworks to stay true to the central character.
May 3, 2023 · The Production: 3.5/5. A romantic comedy-drama of some charm but little substance, Raoul Walsh’s The Strawberry Blonde offers a first-rate cast and some lilting turn-of-the-20 th century tunes in its flashback story of the road not taken. Warner Bros.’ stable of top stars and able character actors are abetted with Columbia’s Rita Hayworth ...
Aug 7, 2024 · Release Date: 07/30/2024. MSRP: $34.49. The Production: 4.5/5. Orson Welles’ 1947 film noir The Lady from Shanghai is a very confusing film, its history almost as confusing. Originally, Columbia Pictures head Harry Cohn snagged the film rights to pulp novel If I Die Before I Wake from producer William Castle (given an Associate Producer ...
Jun 17, 2009 · Mar 1, 2007. Messages. 8,942. Location. New Orleans. Real Name. Allen. In the Sony Film Noir Thread, Mike Schlesinger said that the two Volumes of Columbia Film Noir and the Rita Hawworth Collection would be released at the same time. I will have to quite buying WA and save for these three collections along with the Four others announced by ...
Aug 22, 2020 · 12 Legendary Performances Rita Hayworth is the epitome of Hollywood glamour with an unparalleled on-screen presence whose talent was only surpassed by her beauty. Her rise from a Spanish dancer and vaudeville performer to one of the world’s greatest movie goddesses is chronicled in this song...
Mar 19, 2023 · Notably missing here are an appreciation by Simon Callow, an excerpt from a 1970 French TV interview with Rita Hayworth, an image gallery and a Trailers from Hell commentary by Joe Dante, all of which are present on the Region Free Indicator Blu-ray release and an introduction by the late Robert Osborne on the TCM Blu-ray release. Overall: 4.5/5
Feb 8, 1999 · The first, You'll Never Get Rich (1941) is the topic at hand, and the second, You Were Never Lovelier (1942), both had him paired with a female lead that many might not think of as a dancer. But that was Rita Hayworth's background. This romantic comedy with some terrific musical numbers has been beautifully restored by Columbia, and reaches us ...
Jul 10, 2013 · Despite a happy marriage to Carmen, Juan’s head is turned by the brash, sophisticated Dona Sol (Rita Hayworth), and he deserts his home life to live openly with her despite warnings of her fickle nature and her tendency to discard lovers as soon as the next rising star makes an appearance.The original 1922 Blood and Sand ran a compact eighty ...
May 5, 2016 · Aviator Bat MacPherson (Richard Barthelmess) is looking for work but has a shady past of bailing on a fellow pilot who happens to have been the younger brother of Geoff’s best friend and fellow pilot Kid Dabb (Thomas Mitchell). And Bat’s young wife Judy (Rita Hayworth) is the girl Geoff left the States to escape after a nasty breakup.
Feb 8, 1999 · This edition has a similarly excellent encode of the film with lossless audio, but brings back the Bogdanovich track and interview; plus the addition of a new interview with biographer/actor Simon Callow (who appears on many other Welles releases), a clip of Rita Hayworth from a 70s show, and a nice booklet containing essays and an excerpt from William Castle's memoir (he was an associate ...
