Chivalry! Vows of loyalty and honor! Combat action that will impress today’s Marvel fans! The violet eyes and super-damsel figure of Elizabeth Taylor! MGM’s made-in-Merrie Olde England tale of Knights and knaves and forbidden love is yet another suits-of-armor sword-basher about ransoming King Richard from those European Union swine across the channel. Everything clicks, from Miklos Rozsa’s most stirring anthem to the righteous justice of the finale. And it’s restored from 3-strip Technicolor. Robert Taylor is terrific as the stalwart Ivanhoe, the kind of no-funny-business hero they ain’t makin’ anymore.
Ivanhoe
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1952 /Color / 1:37 Academy / 106 min. / Available at Amazon.com / Street Date December 14, 2021 / 21.99
Starring: Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Emlyn Williams, Robert Douglas, Finlay Currie, Felix Aylmer, Guy Rolfe.
Cinematography: Freddie Young
Art Director: Alfred Junge
Film Editor: Frank Clarke
Original Music: Miklos Rozsa
Written by Aeneas MacKenzie, Marguerite Roberts,...
Ivanhoe
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1952 /Color / 1:37 Academy / 106 min. / Available at Amazon.com / Street Date December 14, 2021 / 21.99
Starring: Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Emlyn Williams, Robert Douglas, Finlay Currie, Felix Aylmer, Guy Rolfe.
Cinematography: Freddie Young
Art Director: Alfred Junge
Film Editor: Frank Clarke
Original Music: Miklos Rozsa
Written by Aeneas MacKenzie, Marguerite Roberts,...
- 12/7/2021
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Sinister stabbings, women kicked and beaten, perverse hoodlums selling cocaine and murdering street-beat bobbies: what happened to civilized English crime? Cavalcanti’s vicious postwar Brit Noir shocked critics for The Times and was cut to ribbons for American distribution. A disillusioned, bored Raf hero turns to smuggling and skullduggery; this fully restored crime classic gives us Trevor Howard, Sally Gray and Griffith Jones in one of the best — and most brutal — crime pix of its day. Plus attractive Pi extras.
They Made Me a Fugitive
Region-free Blu-ray
Powerhouse Indicator
1947 / B&w / 1:37 flat full frame / 102 78 min. / I Became a Criminal / Street Date September 23, 2019 / available from Powerhouse Films UK / £15.99
Starring: Sally Gray, Trevor Howard, Griffith Jones, René Ray, Charles Farrell, Maurice Denham, Vida Hope, Peter Bull, Sebastian Cabot.
Cinematography:Otto Heller
Film Editors: Margery Saunders, Terence Fisher (uncredited)
Original Music: Marius-François Gaillard
Written by Noel Langley from a novel by Jackson Budd...
They Made Me a Fugitive
Region-free Blu-ray
Powerhouse Indicator
1947 / B&w / 1:37 flat full frame / 102 78 min. / I Became a Criminal / Street Date September 23, 2019 / available from Powerhouse Films UK / £15.99
Starring: Sally Gray, Trevor Howard, Griffith Jones, René Ray, Charles Farrell, Maurice Denham, Vida Hope, Peter Bull, Sebastian Cabot.
Cinematography:Otto Heller
Film Editors: Margery Saunders, Terence Fisher (uncredited)
Original Music: Marius-François Gaillard
Written by Noel Langley from a novel by Jackson Budd...
- 11/12/2019
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
There's no place like home! For Dorothy's ruby red slippers, of course. This iconic statement has never been truer now that her stolen pair from The Wizard of Oz has reportedly been found after a decade. The pair was previously snatched from the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, Mn, in 2005 after someone smashed the window at the museum. However, according to the New York Post, the FBI plans to release details on the finding of these shoes 13 years later. They were previously insured at a whopping $1 million considering an anonymous donor offered the hefty award to anyone who found the slippers, but the offer expired after the tenth anniversary of them going missing. (Photo Credit: Getty Images) Technically, there are multiple pairs of ruby-red slippers floating around. One pair was acquired by the National Museum of American History, for example, while actress Debbie Reynolds owned another. Actually, a...
- 9/4/2018
- by Dan Clarendon
- Closer Weekly
Simon Brew Apr 3, 2017
Why the writers credited on a movie are rarely the only ones who put the screenplay together....
The Wizard Of Oz, since its initial release in 1939, has richly deserved its long-cemented status as an all-time classic. A regular resident in the IMDb top 250 films of all time, and a part of many people’s DVD collection, it’s a film that I’d wager more and more people fall in love with each year. Long may that continue.
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Lots of brilliant people were involved in bringing The Wizard Of Oz to the big screen. Some terrific writers, too, who came up with a quotable and cherished script. The film’s screenplay is credited to Noel Langley,...
Why the writers credited on a movie are rarely the only ones who put the screenplay together....
The Wizard Of Oz, since its initial release in 1939, has richly deserved its long-cemented status as an all-time classic. A regular resident in the IMDb top 250 films of all time, and a part of many people’s DVD collection, it’s a film that I’d wager more and more people fall in love with each year. Long may that continue.
See related Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Ciro Nieli & Brandon Auman 10 ways we didn’t get kicked off the set of Tmnt Out Of The Shadows Tmnt season 3: 5 great episodes (with cake)
Lots of brilliant people were involved in bringing The Wizard Of Oz to the big screen. Some terrific writers, too, who came up with a quotable and cherished script. The film’s screenplay is credited to Noel Langley,...
- 3/30/2017
- Den of Geek
The Los Angeles Film Critic Association will honor Oscar-winning film editor Anne V. Coates for her career achievement, the group announced Saturday. Coates, whose credits range from “Lawrence of Arabia” to “Fifty Shades of Grey,” will be only the second editor to receive a lifetime honor from the association — Dede Allen received the award in 1999. Coates, born in the United Kingdom, began her career with editing short films together for church tours. Later, she became an assistant film editor at London’s Pinewood Studios. Also Read: Kerry Washington, Rocker Tom Morello Named 2015 Aclu Honorees She edited Noel Langley’s “The Pickwick Papers...
- 10/10/2015
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Teresa Wright: Later years (See preceding post: "Teresa Wright: From Marlon Brando to Matt Damon.") Teresa Wright and Robert Anderson were divorced in 1978. They would remain friends in the ensuing years.[1] Wright spent most of the last decade of her life in Connecticut, making only sporadic public appearances. In 1998, she could be seen with her grandson, film producer Jonah Smith, at New York's Yankee Stadium, where she threw the ceremonial first pitch.[2] Wright also became involved in the Greater New York chapter of the Als Association. (The Pride of the Yankees subject, Lou Gehrig, died of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis in 1941.) The week she turned 82 in October 2000, Wright attended the 20th anniversary celebration of Somewhere in Time, where she posed for pictures with Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour. In March 2003, she was a guest at the 75th Academy Awards, in the segment showcasing Oscar-winning actors of the past. Two years later,...
- 3/15/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Teresa Wright and Matt Damon in 'The Rainmaker' Teresa Wright: From Marlon Brando to Matt Damon (See preceding post: "Teresa Wright vs. Samuel Goldwyn: Nasty Falling Out.") "I'd rather have luck than brains!" Teresa Wright was quoted as saying in the early 1950s. That's understandable, considering her post-Samuel Goldwyn choice of movie roles, some of which may have seemed promising on paper.[1] Wright was Marlon Brando's first Hollywood leading lady, but that didn't help her to bounce back following the very public spat with her former boss. After all, The Men was released before Elia Kazan's film version of A Streetcar Named Desire turned Brando into a major international star. Chances are that good film offers were scarce. After Wright's brief 1950 comeback, for the third time in less than a decade she would be gone from the big screen for more than a year.
- 3/11/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Christmas was the most wonderful holiday for my mother. Not for religious reasons, since she adamantly avoided organized religions, but for the opportunity to decorate the house. Her specialty was "the village," covering two long tables with a wintry scene of miniature buildings, people, animals, ponds and my small train set. Some of our most joyful moments were spent setting up this miniature idealized community.
Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol was also part of that season's celebration, first with my mother reading it aloud over several nights and later by listening to a radio version (Lionel Barrymore's). Having spent six of her teenage years in a Texas State orphanage in the 1920s, my mother loved and understood Dickens in ways I could not yet fathom. When the British film production of A Christmas Carol arrived in Dallas in December 1951, my parents took my niece and me to see it.
Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol was also part of that season's celebration, first with my mother reading it aloud over several nights and later by listening to a radio version (Lionel Barrymore's). Having spent six of her teenage years in a Texas State orphanage in the 1920s, my mother loved and understood Dickens in ways I could not yet fathom. When the British film production of A Christmas Carol arrived in Dallas in December 1951, my parents took my niece and me to see it.
- 12/10/2012
- by Chale Nafus
- Slackerwood
Amitabh Bachchan
The 18th edition of the Kolkata International Film Festival will host a special section in the honour of Amitabh Bachchan. The festival will be inaugurated by Bachchan along with Shahrukh Khan.
Six of Bachchan starrer films: Saath Hindustani, Abhiman, Saudagar, Deewar, Black, and Cheeni Kum will be screened under the special section “Big Story” (Amitabh Bachchan).
The festival will run from 10th to 17th November, 2012. The eight day festival will host 170 films from 62 countries.
This year the festival will hold various special sections. Some of them are:
Centenary Tribute
This section will screen 13 films of Michelangelo Antonioni.
The Adventure (1960)
The Night (1961)
The Eclipse (1962)
The Red Desert (1964)
Identification of a Woman (1982)
People of the Po Valley (1947)
Lies of Love (1949)
Superstitions (1949)
Dustmen (1948)
Kumbha Mela (1989)
Roma 90 (1990)
Sicilia (1997)
Michelangelo Eye to Eye (2004)
200 Years Birth Anniversary Charles Dickens
Nicholas Nickleby by Douglas McGrath
The Pickwick Papers by Noel Langley
100 Years Of Indian Cinema
Raja Harishchandra by D.
The 18th edition of the Kolkata International Film Festival will host a special section in the honour of Amitabh Bachchan. The festival will be inaugurated by Bachchan along with Shahrukh Khan.
Six of Bachchan starrer films: Saath Hindustani, Abhiman, Saudagar, Deewar, Black, and Cheeni Kum will be screened under the special section “Big Story” (Amitabh Bachchan).
The festival will run from 10th to 17th November, 2012. The eight day festival will host 170 films from 62 countries.
This year the festival will hold various special sections. Some of them are:
Centenary Tribute
This section will screen 13 films of Michelangelo Antonioni.
The Adventure (1960)
The Night (1961)
The Eclipse (1962)
The Red Desert (1964)
Identification of a Woman (1982)
People of the Po Valley (1947)
Lies of Love (1949)
Superstitions (1949)
Dustmen (1948)
Kumbha Mela (1989)
Roma 90 (1990)
Sicilia (1997)
Michelangelo Eye to Eye (2004)
200 Years Birth Anniversary Charles Dickens
Nicholas Nickleby by Douglas McGrath
The Pickwick Papers by Noel Langley
100 Years Of Indian Cinema
Raja Harishchandra by D.
- 11/3/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
An original pair made for The Wizard of Oz is being lent to show on Hollywood costume but has to be home for Thanksgiving
The ruby slippers that danced Dorothy down the yellow brick road in The Wizard of Oz are leaving the Us for the first time, to sparkle in the V&A's major exhibition on Hollywood costume. However, they have to be home for Thanksgiving.
Since Judy Garland wore them in the 1939 movie – a tale of kindness, courage and magic in hard times which touched the hearts of the nation and generations since – the slippers have become some of the most famous shoes ever created, copied in every fancy dress store, available in every size from small girl's dream to big foot transvestite.
The shoes are coming to London on loan from the Smithsonian in Washington, the first time they have ever left the States, but they are...
The ruby slippers that danced Dorothy down the yellow brick road in The Wizard of Oz are leaving the Us for the first time, to sparkle in the V&A's major exhibition on Hollywood costume. However, they have to be home for Thanksgiving.
Since Judy Garland wore them in the 1939 movie – a tale of kindness, courage and magic in hard times which touched the hearts of the nation and generations since – the slippers have become some of the most famous shoes ever created, copied in every fancy dress store, available in every size from small girl's dream to big foot transvestite.
The shoes are coming to London on loan from the Smithsonian in Washington, the first time they have ever left the States, but they are...
- 10/4/2012
- by Maev Kennedy
- The Guardian - Film News
Ryan Lambie Jun 14, 2019
Script rewrites. Exacting directors. Terrible twists of fate. We look back through the ages to bring you 26 nightmarish film shoots…
The lavish lifestyles of Hollywood’s more famous actors and filmmakers may hint at a world of glamour and cash, but as this list proves, the process of actually putting a movie together is rarely dignified. What follows is a lengthy catalogue of ill-advised location choices, tantrums, dreadful acts of God, spiked bowls of soup, dangerous lions, bruised egos, broken bones, and shattered dreams.
For the prospective filmmaker, this article could be read as a cautionary tale of just how badly a production can go--though in order to keep the tone relatively light, we’ve excised those film productions that ended in tragedy (you’ll have to look elsewhere to discover the sad stories behind Twilight Zone: The Movie and The Crow).
Nevertheless, we suggest you pour...
Script rewrites. Exacting directors. Terrible twists of fate. We look back through the ages to bring you 26 nightmarish film shoots…
The lavish lifestyles of Hollywood’s more famous actors and filmmakers may hint at a world of glamour and cash, but as this list proves, the process of actually putting a movie together is rarely dignified. What follows is a lengthy catalogue of ill-advised location choices, tantrums, dreadful acts of God, spiked bowls of soup, dangerous lions, bruised egos, broken bones, and shattered dreams.
For the prospective filmmaker, this article could be read as a cautionary tale of just how badly a production can go--though in order to keep the tone relatively light, we’ve excised those film productions that ended in tragedy (you’ll have to look elsewhere to discover the sad stories behind Twilight Zone: The Movie and The Crow).
Nevertheless, we suggest you pour...
- 1/19/2012
- Den of Geek
Script rewrites. Exacting directors. Terrible twists of fate. We look back through the ages to bring you 20 nightmarish film shoots…
The lavish lifestyles of Hollywood’s more famous actors and filmmakers may hint at a world of glamour and cash, but as this list proves, the process of actually putting a movie together is rarely a dignified process. What follows is a lengthy catalogue of ill-advised location choices, tantrums, dreadful acts of God, spiked bowls of soup, ruined studios, bruised egos, broken bones and shattered dreams.
For the prospective filmmaker, this article could be read as a cautionary tale of just how badly wrong a production can go – though in order to keep the tone relatively light, we’ve excised those film productions that ended in tragedy (you’ll have to look elsewhere to discover the sad stories behind Twilight Zone: The Movie and The Crow).
Nevertheless, we suggest you...
The lavish lifestyles of Hollywood’s more famous actors and filmmakers may hint at a world of glamour and cash, but as this list proves, the process of actually putting a movie together is rarely a dignified process. What follows is a lengthy catalogue of ill-advised location choices, tantrums, dreadful acts of God, spiked bowls of soup, ruined studios, bruised egos, broken bones and shattered dreams.
For the prospective filmmaker, this article could be read as a cautionary tale of just how badly wrong a production can go – though in order to keep the tone relatively light, we’ve excised those film productions that ended in tragedy (you’ll have to look elsewhere to discover the sad stories behind Twilight Zone: The Movie and The Crow).
Nevertheless, we suggest you...
- 1/19/2012
- Den of Geek
Throughout the month of December, TV Editor Kate Kulzick and Film Editor Ricky D will review classic Christmas adaptions, posting a total of 13 each, one a day, until the 25th of December.
The catch: They will swap roles as Rick takes on reviews of television Christmas specials and Kate takes on Christmas movies. Today is day 25- Merry Christmas!
Scrooge/A Christmas Carol (1951)
Written by Noel Langley
Directed by Brian Desmond Hurst
What’s it about?
An adaptation of the Dickens classic- The miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by four ghosts on Christmas Eve, prompting him to reevaluate his values.
Review
By this point, everyone knows the story of A Christmas Carol. It’s one of the most performed and retold novellas ever written and it seems that every few years a new actor takes on the role of Ebenezer Scrooge. There’s the Albert Finney version, the George C. Scott version,...
The catch: They will swap roles as Rick takes on reviews of television Christmas specials and Kate takes on Christmas movies. Today is day 25- Merry Christmas!
Scrooge/A Christmas Carol (1951)
Written by Noel Langley
Directed by Brian Desmond Hurst
What’s it about?
An adaptation of the Dickens classic- The miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by four ghosts on Christmas Eve, prompting him to reevaluate his values.
Review
By this point, everyone knows the story of A Christmas Carol. It’s one of the most performed and retold novellas ever written and it seems that every few years a new actor takes on the role of Ebenezer Scrooge. There’s the Albert Finney version, the George C. Scott version,...
- 12/25/2011
- by Kate Kulzick
- SoundOnSight
Chicago – Throughout his extensive work as a film columnist, author and journalist, Robert K. Elder has been drawn to exploring both the universality and striking diversity of the human experience. In his books, Elder is intent on capturing specific moments within the lives of his subjects, while discovering their universal truths through their juxtaposition.
Elder’s latest book, “The Film That Changed My Life,” is no exception. The book compiles one-on-one interviews with thirty directors about the pivotal moviegoing experience that altered their sense of cinema (and sense of self). Filmmakers and film buffs alike will undoubtedly find the book to be a compulsive page turner. John Woo discusses his idolization of James Dean in “Rebel Without a Cause,” while Frank Oz gushes about his love of Welles in “Touch of Evil” and Atom Egoyan recalls the moment he first stumbled upon Ingmar Bergman’s “Persona.”
On June 11, Elder will...
Elder’s latest book, “The Film That Changed My Life,” is no exception. The book compiles one-on-one interviews with thirty directors about the pivotal moviegoing experience that altered their sense of cinema (and sense of self). Filmmakers and film buffs alike will undoubtedly find the book to be a compulsive page turner. John Woo discusses his idolization of James Dean in “Rebel Without a Cause,” while Frank Oz gushes about his love of Welles in “Touch of Evil” and Atom Egoyan recalls the moment he first stumbled upon Ingmar Bergman’s “Persona.”
On June 11, Elder will...
- 6/7/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Dorothy, Toto and friends could all be getting a 21st century make-over, if Warner Bros gets its way. The studio have set up shop on a remake of the 1939 classic Wizard Of Oz, and have approached Back To The Future director Robert Zemeckis to direct the live-action update. Bafflingly, though, the WB are so dead set on sticking true to the ’39 Oz that they’re planning on dusting off Noel Langley and co’s original script and shooting with that. Which sounds like a disaster of Psycho ’98 proportions. And it’s all...
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- 11/17/2010
- by Josh Winning
- TotalFilm
Oscar-winning filmmaker Robert Zemeckis is in very early discussions with Warner Bros. to direct a live-action remake of the 1939 MGM classic "The Wizard of Oz," an individual familiar with the project has confirmed to TheWrap. And "remake" is the operative word. WB will be using the original "Oz" screenplay -- thought it's hard to imagine that Zemeckis is planning a pointless shot-for-shot remake like Gus Van Sant's "Psycho." Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf are credited with the original 1939 screenplay, although more than 19 writers had a hand...
- 11/17/2010
- The Wrap
If you named five movies that you believe should never, ever, ever be remade, one of the first that comes to mind (for me at least) is The Wizard of Oz. The brilliantly entertaining 1939 classic starring Judy Garland still holds up today and is one of the greatest films ever made, musical or not. Sadly, its time has now come. Deadline says that Warner Bros is looking to develop a live-action remake of The Wizard of Oz and they're currently in "early talks" with Back to the Future director Robert Zemeckis to helm. Despite the level of talent involved, this is still something I am completely against. This really is a day I thought we'd never see! Not many details are known yet, however Deadline says they plan to use the original script from the 1939 movie, which is credited to Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf, though ...
- 11/17/2010
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
My favorite film adaptation of Charles Dickens. .A Christmas Carol. is the 1951 version starring Alastair Sim. Directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and adapted by Noel Langley, the movie captured the dark yet whimsical tone of Dickens. classic.
.Disney.s A Christmas Carol,. the new animated film from writer-director Robert Zemeckis, tried to reinvigorate one of the greatest Christmas stories ever told. Though Zemeckis failed to find the right balance between the dark and the whimsical, I still applaud the movie for being faithful to Dickens. work.
The film is very faithful indeed, that some of the images may terrify little children. Let.s face it, Dickens. 1843 novella was intended for adults. So Walt Disney Pictures is in a quandary. They are marketing an animated film to children that will ultimately scare them.
We all know the story by now. An old, bitter miser, Ebenezer Scrooge (voiced by Jim Carrey), finds...
.Disney.s A Christmas Carol,. the new animated film from writer-director Robert Zemeckis, tried to reinvigorate one of the greatest Christmas stories ever told. Though Zemeckis failed to find the right balance between the dark and the whimsical, I still applaud the movie for being faithful to Dickens. work.
The film is very faithful indeed, that some of the images may terrify little children. Let.s face it, Dickens. 1843 novella was intended for adults. So Walt Disney Pictures is in a quandary. They are marketing an animated film to children that will ultimately scare them.
We all know the story by now. An old, bitter miser, Ebenezer Scrooge (voiced by Jim Carrey), finds...
- 11/4/2009
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
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