Samuel Fuller's first picture under his Fox contract is a fine Korean War 'suicide squad' tale, filmed on a sound stage but looking quite authentic. Richard Basehart leads a fine cast. Lots of cigars get chomped, and Gene Evans is actually named Sgt. Rock. Plus an excellent commentary from Trailers from Hell's new guru Michael Schlesinger. Fixed Bayonets! Blu-ray Kl Studio Classics 1951 / B&W / 1:37 flat full frame / 92 min. / Street Date September 20, 2016 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95 Starring Richard Basehart, Gene Evans, Michael O'Shea, Richard Hylton, Craig Hill, Skip Homeier, Neyle Morrow, Wyott Ordung, John Doucette, George Conrad Cinematography Lucien Ballard Art Direction George Patrick, Lyle Wheeler Film Editor Nick DeMaggio Original Music Roy Webb Written by Samuel Fuller from a novel by John Brophy Produced by Jules Buck Directed by Samuel Fuller
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Sam Fuller's third independent film The Steel Helmet was a risky proposition...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Sam Fuller's third independent film The Steel Helmet was a risky proposition...
- 8/30/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
When John Huston went to war he took his mission seriously... as an artist. He made four wartime docus for the army. San Pietro and the long suppressed Let There Be Light are the classics we studied in film school; Winning Your Wings is typical enlistment booster material and Report from the Aleutians a remarkably good record of how the war was really fought in far-flung locations. Let There Be Light: John Huston's Wartime Documentaries Blu-ray Olive Films 1942-1945 Color and B&W 1:33 flat full frame 281 min. Street Date January 19, 2016 available through the Olive Films website 29.95 Directed by John Huston
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Of the Hollywood directors who 'went to war' and made high-profile Signal Corps films for the public, John Huston was surely the most innovative. He made one enlistment booster for the Army Air Corps and then three pictures that the Army thought were either too long,...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Of the Hollywood directors who 'went to war' and made high-profile Signal Corps films for the public, John Huston was surely the most innovative. He made one enlistment booster for the Army Air Corps and then three pictures that the Army thought were either too long,...
- 1/19/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
A report lists new measures to revitalise ailing British film industry
Two days before Christmas, the report of the Prime Minister's working party on the ailing British film industry thumped on to his desk, and the cinema moguls will be agog to scan its findings when they published after Parliament resumes.
One recommendation they are unlikely to see in the report is the Writers' Guild idea that television should not be allowed to show films made for the cinema until they are at least 15 years old.
If that were currently the rule - instead of the five year wait which is normally imposed - 22 of the 47 movies shown by the BBC over the past holiday fortnight would have been kept off the screen, including Women In Love, Carry On Up The Khyber, and Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid.
Which, some may feel, would have improved the quality of entertainment...
Two days before Christmas, the report of the Prime Minister's working party on the ailing British film industry thumped on to his desk, and the cinema moguls will be agog to scan its findings when they published after Parliament resumes.
One recommendation they are unlikely to see in the report is the Writers' Guild idea that television should not be allowed to show films made for the cinema until they are at least 15 years old.
If that were currently the rule - instead of the five year wait which is normally imposed - 22 of the 47 movies shown by the BBC over the past holiday fortnight would have been kept off the screen, including Women In Love, Carry On Up The Khyber, and Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid.
Which, some may feel, would have improved the quality of entertainment...
- 1/3/2014
- by Hugh Hebert
- The Guardian - Film News
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