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New DVD Release: Island of Lost Souls (1932) Enters The Criterion Collection

October 27, 2011 By Cliff Aliperti 2 Comments

Bela Lugosi Island of Lost Souls

The Paramount pre-code horror classic Island of Lost Souls has just been released on DVD as part of The Criterion Collection. Reflections on the film and DVD extras.

Filed Under: News - Notes Tagged With: Arthur Hohl, Bela Lugosi, Charles Laughton, dvd, Horror, Kathleen Burke, Leila Hyams, panther woman, Paramount, pre-Code, Richard Arlen, the criterion collection

Devil and the Deep (1932) Starring Charles Laughton and Tallulah Bankhead

May 24, 2011 By Cliff Aliperti 2 Comments

A detailed look at Paramount’s Devil and the Deep (1932) starring Tallulah Bankhead and Gary Cooper, with Cary Grant and introducing Charles Laughton to American audiences as the paranoid submarine commander.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1932, Cary Grant, charles lang, Charles Laughton, Dramas, Gary Cooper, insanity, Marion Gering, Paramount, Paul Porcasi, pre-Code, Romance, submarines, Tallulah Bankhead

Horrors! in Liberty Magazine, 1946, Looks at Val Lewton

June 22, 2010 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

Val Lewton

A detailed look at the article “Horrors!” by Joseph Wechsberg in the August 24, 1946 edition of Liberty Magazine, particularly at the work of Val Lewton who is Wechsberg’s main focus.

Filed Under: News - Notes Tagged With: Boris Karloff, Horror, Liberty Magazine, Mark Robson, Paramount, RKO (Pathe), The Body Snatcher, Val Lewton

Peggy Hopkins Joyce, W.C. Fields, et al., in Paramount’s International House (1933)

February 2, 2010 By Cliff Aliperti 2 Comments

International House, billed in its day as The Grand Hotel of comedy, found Eddie Sutherland directing a cast headed by W.C. Fields, Burns and Allen, and Bela Lugosi, with top bill actually going to socialite Peggy Hopkins Joyce in what was the final film of her sporadic movie career.  The films’ everyman is played by […]

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1933, Bela Lugosi, Burns and Allen, Comedies, International House, Paramount, Peggy Hopkins Joyce, pre-Code, W.C. Fields

Louise Brooks stars in William Wellman’s Beggars of Life (1928)

June 22, 2009 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

Louise Brooks in Beggars of Life

Louise Brooks and Richard Arlen star in William Wellman’s Beggars of Life (1928) based on the novel by Jim Tully. Also starring Wallace Beery, a pre-Depression tale of hobo life.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1928, beggars of life, Dramas, Jim Tully, Louise Brooks, Paramount, Richard Arlen, Silent Film, Wallace Beery, Wild Boys of the Road, William A. Wellman

Search for Beauty (1934) starring Ida Lupino and Buster Crabbe

April 13, 2009 By Cliff Aliperti 2 Comments

A review of Paramount’s Search for Beauty (1934) starring Buster Crabbe and Ida Lupino. One of six films featured in the Pre-Code Hollywood Collection, and the first one I chose to watch … a mistake.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1934, buster crabbe, Gertrude Michael, Ida Lupino, James Gleason, Paramount, pre-Code, Robert Armstrong, Toby Wing

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