Edmond O'Brien

Golden Age Theater Volume 4

LCD TV Phoenix (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008

Golden Age Theater Volume 4 Four (more) star-packed episodes from the award winning General Electric Theater. User [...]

SATURDAY NIGHT CINEMA WHITE HEAT

Atlas Shrugs (Free subscription) | 11/22/2008

White Heat - Cagney, Mayo. Hot baby hot White Heat (1949) is is a 1949 crime film starring James Cagney, Virginia Mayo and Edmond O'Brien. Directed by Raoul Walsh, from a screenplay by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts based on a story by Virginia Kellogg, it is consider one of the classic gangster films. Click here for the movie - if I run it at Atlas, it will slow the load time down to a crawl and everyone...

WILD SLAY RIDE

New York Post (Free subscription) | 11/15/2008

WHEN a movie begins with narration from beyond the grave, you know you're in for a hard-boiled story. It's a technique that's used rarely, but famously - William Holden in "Sunset Boulevard," Edmond O'Brien in "DOA," Joe Pesci in "Casino." Now it's...

Hocker to host film noir festival

Toledo Free Press (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008

The Collingwood Arts Center's Lyric Photoplay Society invites the public to take a walk into som...

April 8, 1953: first big Hollywood 3D film

Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008

On this day's date in 1953, the first 3D movie made by a major Hollywood studio hit screens. I was surprised to learn that it wasn't Jaws 3D House of Wax, but rather Man In The Dark. From Wired: Man in the Dark was a noir film starring Edmond O'Brien, a remake of the 1936 Ralph Bellamy movie, The Man Who Lived Twice. As 3-D it was underwhelming -- the climactic roller-coaster scene was described as...

The Love God?

Coffee Coffee and More Coffee (Free subscription) | 04/01/2008

Nat Hiken - 1969 Universal Region 1 DVD The Love God? almost defies description. In its own peculiar way, Nat Hiken's film encapsulates the confusion of late Sixties, simultaneously progressive and conservative, hip and square, nostalgic and progressive. Hiken...

The Killers, (PG)

The Independent (Free subscription) | 02/15/2008

First released in 1946 and based on a 12-page short story by Hemingway, this Hollywood classic is notable for giving breakout roles to both Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner.

Recent blogosphere highlights

PETRONA (Free subscription) | 10/26/2007

From a few posts I've read over the past week or so (see my Google Reader page for more): Dovegreyreader and Bluestalking Reader both feature excellent reviews of The Gathering by Anne Enright. (In case you blinked recently, this book...

Ivey: Classic crime

The Eagle (Free subscription) | 09/30/2007

Old crime movies are a favorite of mine. Here are four classic examples to watch this week in glorious black and white:

HD DVD Releases for the Week of Sept. 25, 2007

Nintendo Deals (Free subscription) | 09/25/2007

HD DVD Releases for the Week of September 25, 2007 Next [HD DVD] ~ Jim Beaver, Nicolas Cage, Peter Falk, and Thomas Kretschmann The Wild Bunch [HD DVD] ~ William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, and Edmond O'Brien Wyatt Earp [HD DVD] ~ Kevin Costner The Getaway (Unrated) [HD DVD] ~ Royce D. Applegate, Alec Baldwin, Kim Basinger, and Alex Colon Gods and Generals [HD DVD] ~ Jeff Daniels, Stephen...

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Celebrity Birthdays, September 10

Starpulse News (Free subscription) | 09/10/2007

Happy Birthday to My Chemical Romance bassist Mikey Way (1980), actor Ryan Phillippe (1974), "Donnie Darko" actor James Duval (1972), actor Jonathon Schaech (1969), British film director Guy Ritchie (1968), rapper Big Daddy Kane (1968), Yankees pitcher Randy Johnson (1963), "Shakespeare in Love" actor Colin Firth (1960), film director Chris Columbus (1958), "Simpsons" voice actor Dan Castellaneta (1958),...

TCM Alert: Saturday, September 1st

LIBERTAS (Free subscription) | 08/31/2007

Can it be September already? While I look forward to temperatures finally dipping below 190, I sure don't care for another birthday rolling around. After hitting thirty the years just sped up. I’m hurtling towards death. And I think it's time for some hair-plugs and a Porsche. Where was I…? Oh, great day on TCM tomorrow. [...]

DVD REVIEWS / FANTASTIC VOYAGE: SPECIAL EDITION

San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/22/2007

RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) FANTASTIC VOYAGE: SPECIAL EDITION It must have seemed like the most absurd sci-fi idea of all time, but Art Cruickshank's special-effects team won an Oscar and director Richard Fleischer turned the Jerome Bixby story idea...

Fantastic Voyage

Cinema de Merde (Free subscription) | 07/10/2007

Scientists shrink a sub and go for a cruise inside the human body! They have adventures in the heart and lungs and inner ear, and the whole thing could be said to have a touch of the trippy.