Hollywood’s 1940s craze for composer biographies did not yield many masterpieces, and Till the Clouds Roll By is one of the weaker efforts in the bunch. Robert Walker tries gamely to suggest the decency of Jerome Kern but is defeated by a sluggish story line pairing him with a crotchety mentor (Van Heflin). As a [...]
Archive for the ‘VHS’ Category
Till The Clouds Roll By [VHS]
Posted by admin on October 31st, 2011
Posted in VHS 
Tags: angela-lansbury, composer-biographies, dance-two, frank-sinatra, jerome-kern, judy-garland, lena-horne, marilyn-miller, production-numbers, robert-horton, robert-walker, silver-lining, stage-star, strange-idea, van-heflin 
Comments OffGood-bye, My Lady [VHS]
Posted by admin on October 29th, 2011
Brandon de Wilde and Walter Brennan star in the simple-and simply charming-story of a Mississippi swamp boy’s discovery of an unusual dog who steals his heart, based on James Street’s novel. Year: 1956 Director: William A. Wellman Starring: Walter Brennan, Phil Harris, Brandon De Wilde
Posted in VHS Tags: charming-story, director-william, mississippi-swamp, phil-harris, swamp-boy, walter-brennan Comments OffHalloween Tree [VHS]
Posted by admin on October 28th, 2011
Spock (Leonard Nimoy) waxes spooky as Death personified in this video retelling of Ray Bradbury’s classic Halloween adventure. A Hanna-Barbera animated presentation, The Halloween Tree tells the story of four close friends who must face their greatest fears as they travel through time to save their dear comrade, Pip. It’s Halloween night, Pip’s favorite holiday, [...]
Posted in VHS Tags: animated-presentation, bear-classic, classic-halloween, deeper-understanding, educational-journey, faraway-places, halloween-adventure, halloween-night, halloween-tree, hanna-barbera, leonard-nimoy, little-spooks, ray-bradbury, spock-leonard, time-periods, time-waster, yogi-bear Comments Off55 Days at Peking [VHS]
Posted by admin on October 28th, 2011
Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing factions, overwhelming odds, delayed relief and tacit support of the Boxers by the Empress of China and her generals.
Posted in VHS Tags: boxer-rebellion, disparate-interests, overwhelming-odds, tacit-support Comments OffThe ’60s [VHS]
Posted by admin on October 27th, 2011
Tackling an entire decade–and a turbulent one at that–within a three-hour movie is a challenge, and while The ’60s is frequently entertaining, it unfortunately is not completely up to the task. The movie follows the lives of four young people, three from a white suburban family with parents out of The Wonder Years and one [...]
Posted in VHS Tags: archival-footage, black-panther, democratic-convention, football-player, josh-hamilton, julia-stiles, leonard-roberts, nth-degree, political-activist, suburban-family, watts-riots, wonder-years Comments OffSingable Songs: A Young Children’s Concert with Raffi [VHS]
Posted by admin on October 25th, 2011
Young Children’s Concert: Singable Songs [VHS]
Babette’s Feast [VHS]
Posted by admin on October 24th, 2011
Some movies can only be described as delicious. In Babette’s Feast, a woman flees the French civil war and lands in a small seacoast village in Denmark, where she comes to work for two spinsters, devout daughters of a puritan minister. After many years, Babette unexpectedly wins a lottery, and decides to create a real [...]
Posted in VHS Tags: academy-award, foreign-language, french-dinner, moral-fiber, puritan-minister, seacoast-village, sensual-pleasure, village-elders Comments OffBehind The Green Door (VHS)
Posted by admin on October 21st, 2011
This is an adult movie cult favorite–along with Deep Throat. Classy Adult film.
