Around the Blogosphere This Week
Miscellaneous bits of news and fun stuff from around the Internet......Exciting news from Kino Lorber: RED MOUNTAIN (1951), starring Alan Ladd and Lizabeth Scott, is "coming soon" to Blu-ray. The print will be a 4K scan of the 35mm nitrate negative. To my knowledge this is the first time it's been released for home viewing in the U.S.
...Also coming from Kino Lorber, on July 30th: The first feature-length 3-D film, BWANA DEVIL (1953). Full details on this release are at the link.
...Criterion and Janus Films have been sold. Details from Variety.
...Remembering one of the greatest storylines from GENERAL HOSPITAL on its 30th anniversary. Earlier this year the show brought some closure to that storyline in a remarkable way, with some of the same actors, three decades older.
...Director Rian Johnson has announced a third Benoit Blanc mystery, to be titled WAKE UP DEAD MAN (2025). Daniel Craig returns to solve the mystery in this sequel to KNIVES OUT (2019) and THE GLASS ONION (2022).
...Sheila O'Malley has written a very good article for Liberties titled "Lombard: Queen of Screwball."
...For baseball fans: I'm intrigued by a 2021 book by Joe Posnanski I recently came across, THE BASEBALL 100.
...New Blu-ray reviews by Glenn Erickson for Trailers from Hell: BACK FROM THE DEAD (1957), just out from Kino Lorber Studio Classics, and FRIENDLY PERSUASION (1956) from the Warner Archive Collection.
...At Shadows and Satin Karen reviews THE ACCIDENTAL STAR: THE LIFE AND FILMS OF WARNER BAXTER, which I reviewed last month.
...At Speakeasy Kristina has an interesting article on Laird Cregar, reviewing his films HUDSON'S BAY (1940) and HANGOVER SQUARE (1944).
...Notable Passings: Casting director-producer Fred Roos, who worked closely with Francis Ford Coppola, has died at 89...Composer Richard M. Sherman and actor Darryl Hickman have each passed away this week. I plan to pay tribute to them in a separate post in the coming days. (Update: Here is that post!)
...For additional recent links of interest to classic film fans, please visit my May 18th column.
posted by Laura @ 9:30 PM
3 Comments:
Some of this hits home. Fred Roos was a gentleman, and I make no claim to having enormous interaction, the little I did have was regarding an adaptation of Victor Hugo's The Man Who Laughs, was what you hope for, kind, respectful, and interested. The other item, Bwana Devil, a film I am familiar with had Barbara Britton in the female lead and Robert Stack as the male. I did not know Britton but was always an admirer. My friend Lloyd Kolmar set up her ten-year deal with Revlon. As for Bob Stack, he spent time clueing me into the business. The strongest point he made, that billing and money are important, the most significant is how much harm a poor project might do. Final item. Co-Producer of Bwana Devil ws Sidney Pink, an all-right guy who directed and produced the first film I had anything to with, shot in Spain with Jeffrey Hunter and Louis Hayward -- The Christmas Kid. The lawyer on that was Arnold Kopelson, another right guy.
Hi Barry, it's always nice to read some first-hand accounts of Golden Hollywood. We don't get that too often anymore nowadays.
Hi Margot -- I wondered when you would again be present. Thank you.
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