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September 2024

Dracula's Daughter - 1936

Gloria Holden stars as the progeny of you-know-who and gives an interesting and sympathetic portrait of a very self-doubting vampire – more

Classic Flix has a sale on with a flat rate shipping of $4.99 and reduced prices on a list of BluRays and DVDs – Classicflix

Criterion announces Crossing Delancey on 4K Bluray for Feb 2025

The Criterion website talks about the many extras on the disk release including a "new program on the making of the film featuring actors Amy Irving and Peter Riegert and screenwriter Susan Sandler."

Here's our 2016 review of the film Crossing Delancey.

Review: The Hangman - 1959

Robert Taylor plays an embittered and jaded Deputy United States Marshal who is called "the Hangman" because of his success rate in bringing in escaped criminals. He has one final job to do before retirement, catching the last living member (named Johnny Butterfield) of a murderous gang that wiped out a Wells Fargo stage coach. The Marshal is faced with two obstacles: he doesn't know what the fleeing criminal looks like, and everyone he tries to enlist to help him identify the man refuses to do so. He ends up relying on the criminal's former girlfriend (Tina Louise) to help with the identification. More about The Hangman 1959

Teri Garr has died 1944–2024

The offbeat, quirky comic actor of Young Frankenstein and Tootsie has died – Associated Press MSN

Teri Garr was an original who fought typecasting to the end – Yahoo

Mel Brooks talks about Garr's "German accent" that got her a role for Young Frankenstein. – MSN Deadline

A Comedic Genius ahead of her time – Rolling Stone MSN

Updated review of the 1935 film directed by James Whale.

See this page on the coming release of the Our Gang/Little Rascals silent short films on Blu Ray – Classicflix.com

Years in the making, with over 800 man-hours of restoration invested in the shorts in this collection, ClassicFlix presents The Little Rascals - The Restored Silents, Volume 1 this November 19th. Volume 1 showcases the franchise in its infancy, including Our Gang (1922)—the premiere short in the series put together from eight different sources and now in its most complete form..."

Mitzi Gaynor has died - 1931-2024

South Pacific star Mitzi Gaynor dies at 93 – UPI Press

Legendary South Pacific Actress has died – People Magazine

Chicago Tribune 2013 Mitzi Gaynor’s interview – Chicago Tribune

"Showbiz Dynamo" Mitzi Gaynor – Hollywood Reporter

Mitzi Gaynor's top ten movies – Soap Central

The career of Mitzi gaynor – Soap Central

Kiss Me, Deadly - 1955

Kiss Me, Deadly can be a bit jarring if you're not prepared for how this story (courtesy of director Robert Alldrich) is told and if you're conditioned to seeing the other, more ethical 1950's noir investigators of filmdom. Here, the private detective (played by Ralph Meeker) doggedly pursues a "thread that becomes a string that becomes a rope."

More about Kiss Me, Deadly - 1955

Raymie – 1960

Though a children's film about the difficulties facing a young boy, Raymie also has a background story about the adults who congregate on a fishing pier, day after day, where they (and the young boy) deal with the circumstances of their lives. Features John Agar and Julie Adams as adults with an on-and-off-again relationship and David Ladd as the boy determined to catch an impossible fish. More about Raymie - 1964.

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