Around the Blogosphere This Week
...The latest exciting news from Kino Lorber: A brand-new 4K restoration of HELL BENT (1918), written by John Ford and Harry Carey (Sr.), starring Carey and directed by Ford, is "coming soon."
...Lee Gambin recently Tweeted that he will be recording audio commentaries for Kino Lorber Blu-ray releases of SON OF ALI BABA (1952), starring Tony Curtis and Piper Laurie, and BUCCANEER'S GIRL (1950) with Yvonne DeCarlo. Both have previously been released on DVD. I reviewed BUCCANEER'S GIRL way back in 2007 and found it quite delightful. I'm hoping to review the Blu-ray in due course, as well as SON OF ALI BABA, which I've never seen.
...Caftan Woman has discovered that DARK CITY (1950) is...an Easter movie?! Not exactly, but I'd forgotten that holiday is briefly alluded to in the film.
...A few days ago I reviewed the second film in the Hopalong Cassidy series, THE EAGLE'S BROOD (1935). I was delighted that Dan Stumpf reviewed a later film in the series, FALSE COLORS (1943), for Mystery File. I added that one to my "watch" stack!
...Here's a short interview with Eddie Muller, who shares that while most of the films shown on Noir Alley are films already available to Turner Classic Movies, "...they've been very good about allowing me to choose five or six films a year that are outside of the licenses. We go after them and get them specifically for ‘Noir Alley.’”
...At Jeff Arnold's West: An extensive rundown on "Women in Westerns."
...Scott Feinberg has interviewed 91-year-old actress Nancy Olson for the Hollywood Reporter.
...Chris Pine is set to star in a new movie version of THE SAINT, previously played on the big screen by George Sanders and Louis Hayward, among others, and notably by Roger Moore for television. I hope he has better luck rebooting that series than he did with JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT (2014), a very enjoyable film which is currently in my "rewatch" pile. I was disappointed there weren't any more Ryan films.
...Frequent Hallmark star Jill Wagner has given birth to her first child, a daughter.
...Theme park reporter Brady MacDonald shares his thoughts on how Disneyland might reopen in the coming months at MiceChat.
...At Comet Over Hollywood, Jessica has reviewed an interesting Lucille Ball film I enjoyed a couple years ago, BEAUTY FOR THE ASKING (1939). I liked its unexpected story twists.
...For additional recent links of interest to classic film fans, please check out my April 18th roundup.
Have a great week!
posted by Laura @ 2:30 PM
3 Comments:
A "new" John Ford picture, and there's more of Rachel and the Stranger?! Such news! And thanks.
You're very welcome, glad to share the good news. As always, thanks for writing such enjoyable posts, as well as reading here!
Best wishes,
Laura
Chris Pine is set to star in a new movie version of THE SAINT, previously played on the big screen by George Sanders and Louis Hayward, among others, and notably by Roger Moore for television.
I keep hoping that someday somebody will do a version of The Saint set in the early 1930s and based on the early 30s Saint stories. The George Sanders movies were based on the late 30s/early 40s version of Simon Templar who is quite a different character and the Roger Moore TV series was based on the late 40s/1950s version of Simon Templar who is quite a different character again.
The early 30s stories were totally outrageous high adventure with quite a few spy thriller plots.
Plus I'd love to see Simon Templar driving a 1930s sports car and wearing 1930s clothing, surrounded by glamorous women with 30s hairstyles and fashions.
But they'll do it in a contemporary setting and it won't work because Simon Templar does belong in the 21st century. The real Simon Templar is too much of a larger-than-life piratical figure to exist today.
As you may have gathered I'm a major Saint fan!
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