The effort to restore neglected films doesn’t get more rewarding than this 4K rebirth of Lewis Milestone’s version of the acclaimed Somerset Maugham story. Loaned from MGM, Joan Crawford tries on the role of Sadie Thompson and holds her own opposite Walter Huston’s fire & brimstone preacher. It’s still a major achievement of the pre-Code era, an adult story that doesn’t water down its ‘dangerous’ themes: it’s exactly the kind of show that the censors didn’t want made.
Rain
Blu-ray
Mary Pickford Foundation / Vci
1932 / B&w / 1:37 Academy / 94 + 76 min. / Street Date September 27, 2022 / Available from Mvd / 29.95
Starring: Joan Crawford, Walter Huston, Fred Howard, Ben Hendricks Jr., William Gargan, Mary Shaw, Guy Kibbee, Kendall Lee, Beulah Bondi, Matt Moore, Walter Catlett.
Cinematography: Oliver Marsh
Art Director: Richard Day
Film Editor: W. Duncan Mansfield
Original Music: Alfred Newman
Screen adaptation by Maxwell Anderson from the play by John Colton,...
Rain
Blu-ray
Mary Pickford Foundation / Vci
1932 / B&w / 1:37 Academy / 94 + 76 min. / Street Date September 27, 2022 / Available from Mvd / 29.95
Starring: Joan Crawford, Walter Huston, Fred Howard, Ben Hendricks Jr., William Gargan, Mary Shaw, Guy Kibbee, Kendall Lee, Beulah Bondi, Matt Moore, Walter Catlett.
Cinematography: Oliver Marsh
Art Director: Richard Day
Film Editor: W. Duncan Mansfield
Original Music: Alfred Newman
Screen adaptation by Maxwell Anderson from the play by John Colton,...
- 9/20/2022
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
[[tmz:video id="0_rbertpxx"]] Andre Berto is pissed about Manny Pacquiao's loss to Joe Horn for the Wbo title over the weekend, telling TMZ Sports the controversial decision was "a whole bunch of bulls**t." We spoke with the former welterweight champ about the outrage surrounding Pac-Man's unanimous 12th round loss on Sunday ... and the Beast is clearly siding with the critics who think the judges butchered the call. But Berto thinks Manny will "handle his business" and...
- 7/5/2017
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Rita Hayworth in 3-D, in a hot story that was acceptable for 1925 and 1932, but too racy for repressed 1953. On a tropical island, a prostitute cabaret singer battles a fiery preacher missionary inspector for her freedom. Hayworth is dynamite, and it takes all of her talent to keep the show afloat, with so much interference from the equally repressed censors. Miss Sadie Thompson 3-D 3-D Blu-ray Twilight Time 1953 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 91 min. / Street Date July 12, 2016 / Available from Twilight Time Movies Store29.95 Starring Rita Hayworth, José Ferrer, Aldo Ray, Russell Collins, Diosa Costello, Harry Bellaver, Wilton Graff, Peggy Converse, Henry Slate, Rudy Bond, Charles Bronson, Jo Ann Greer. Cinematography Charles Lawton Jr. Original Music George Duning, Morris Stoloff, Ned Washington, Lester Lee Written by Harry Kleiner from a story by W. Somerset Maugham Produced by Jerry Wald Directed by Curtis Bernhardt
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Yes! 3-D on Blu-ray shows no sign of going away,...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Yes! 3-D on Blu-ray shows no sign of going away,...
- 7/26/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
USA Network is doing more than debuting a new show on June 29. It's introducing viewers to the Necessary Roughness League!
Indeed, the upcoming dramedy - which stars Callie Thorne as a newly-separated therapist who takes on a bevy of professional athletes as clients - has gone out of its way to legitimize the sports side of the series. That's what stood out to me the most during a set visit this week.
Inside a warehouse in Atlanta, workers have built a locker room that rivals any in the NFL. There are four-walled coaching offices (where we watched Andrea Anders film her first scene), playbooks and posters (above) belonging to the New York Hawks (the team for which Mehcad Brooks plays wide receiver) and lockers with name plates that include references to the show's staff. (Creator/producer Craig Shapiro plays middle linebacker.)
But that's not all: the show has also constructed a fictional four-team league,...
Indeed, the upcoming dramedy - which stars Callie Thorne as a newly-separated therapist who takes on a bevy of professional athletes as clients - has gone out of its way to legitimize the sports side of the series. That's what stood out to me the most during a set visit this week.
Inside a warehouse in Atlanta, workers have built a locker room that rivals any in the NFL. There are four-walled coaching offices (where we watched Andrea Anders film her first scene), playbooks and posters (above) belonging to the New York Hawks (the team for which Mehcad Brooks plays wide receiver) and lockers with name plates that include references to the show's staff. (Creator/producer Craig Shapiro plays middle linebacker.)
But that's not all: the show has also constructed a fictional four-team league,...
- 6/9/2011
- by matt@mediavine.com (Matt Richenthal)
- TVfanatic
Ryan Reynolds, Taylor Kitsch, Hugh Jackman, Liev Schrieber and Lily Collins in X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Photo: 20th Century Fox The big news item of the day is the Vulture exclusive suggesting David Slade (The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, 30 Days of Night) is in line to direct Wolverine 2. Claude Brodesser-Akner reports Fox has narrowed the search down to Slade and Robert Schwentke (Flightplan, Red). The decision will ultimately come down to Hugh Jackman but an inside source is confident it's going to be Slade, which seems like an inspired choice to me.
I loved Slade's Hard Candy and 30 Days of Night, and from what I've heard he at least did a good job with the action scenes in the third Twilight installment. The plot for the Wolverine sequel picks up in Japan where the first one left off and sees Logan jump into a forbidden romance with a Japanese woman, promising all...
Photo: 20th Century Fox The big news item of the day is the Vulture exclusive suggesting David Slade (The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, 30 Days of Night) is in line to direct Wolverine 2. Claude Brodesser-Akner reports Fox has narrowed the search down to Slade and Robert Schwentke (Flightplan, Red). The decision will ultimately come down to Hugh Jackman but an inside source is confident it's going to be Slade, which seems like an inspired choice to me.
I loved Slade's Hard Candy and 30 Days of Night, and from what I've heard he at least did a good job with the action scenes in the third Twilight installment. The plot for the Wolverine sequel picks up in Japan where the first one left off and sees Logan jump into a forbidden romance with a Japanese woman, promising all...
- 8/21/2010
- by Kevin Blumeyer
- Rope of Silicon
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