Bagatellen (Free subscription) | yesterday
“War is Hell” has been the operative slogan of combat cinema for the past century. A sister slogan “War is Crime” continues to draw far less cachet for obvious reasons. I can think of only a half dozen films off the top of my head that have explored the relationship as centerpiece. Andre de Toth’s [...]
Bagatellen (Free subscription) | 12/02/2008
Saddled with one of the more generic names in the genre, Day of the Outlaw largely avoids genre boilerplate thanks to a few choice decisions by director Andre De Toth. Chief among them is his break with the conventional scenery of sagebrush and arroyos, opting instead for alpine Wyoming at the height of winter [...]
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 10/16/2008
Did you share a casual conversation with Kim Cattrall in line at Starbucks? Snap a photo of Michael Cera at a downtown club? Peek past the movie trucks and trailers lining your suburban street? With Michigan's new tax incentives luring more Hollywood movies to the state, the Free Press wants to hear your stories and share your pictures in this column.
ABC TV (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
Seriously ill, concert pianist Karen Duncan is admitted to a Swiss sanitorium. CAST: Gilber Roland, Barbara Stanwyck DIR: Andre de Toth (1947)
LA Times (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
WHEN movies seemed in danger of losing audiences to TV in the early 1950s, Hollywood tried to find ways to lure to people back into theaters. (Remember wide-screen movies') One gimmick that worked for a while was 3-D films. Their golden age began in 1952 with the action flick "Bwana Devil." Over the next few years, 50 3-D movies were made before the novelty wore off. In the '80s, 3-D returned with...
Salon (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Put on those gimmicky glasses. This old-fashioned adventure will wow you with the possibilities of modern 3-D.
DVD Talk (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
This week the DVD Savant has a number of new reviews including: Tobor the Great - A ditzy, juvenile...
ABC TV (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
A cattle vs sheepman feud loses Connie Dickason her fiance, but gains her his ranch, which she determines to run alone in opposition to the man her father wanted her to marry. CAST: Veronica Lake DIR: Andre de Toth (1947)
More Than Meets the Mogwai (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
"The monster should always be bigger than the leading lady" Roger Corman
LA Times (Free subscription) | 05/30/2008
Alexander "Sandy" Courage, who composed the soaring theme for the TV series in the 1960s and was an Emmy Award-winning, Oscar-nominated arranger, has died. He was 88.Courage, who had been in declining health since 2005, died May 15 at an assisted-living facility in Pacific Palisades, said his step-daughter, Renata Pompelli.After launching his 54-yearcareer as a composer for CBS Radio in 1946, became...
LA Times (Free subscription) | 05/30/2008
Alexander "Sandy" Courage, who composed the soaring theme for the TV series in the 1960s and was an Emmy Award-winning, Oscar-nominated arranger, has died. He was 88.Courage, who had been in declining health since 2005, died May 15 at an assisted-living facility in Pacific Palisades, said his step-daughter, Renata Pompelli.After launching his 54-yearcareer as a composer for CBS Radio in 1946, became...
Lost in the Frame (Free subscription) | 05/25/2008
Nigel Davenport and Michael Caine in Play Dirty (dir. André De Toth, 1968). Nigel Green. Mohsen Ben Abdallah and Mohamed Kouka: "All they ask is kif and each other." Another tough little movie from De Toth--maybe his toughest ever. Superficially, it's a Dirty Dozen knock-off, but really it's a brilliant deconstruction of the colorful-gang-of-wartime-scoundrels genre, with its stock theme of camaraderie...
DaveKehr.com (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008
This week in the New York Times, a look at the group of westerns recently released by MGM DVD, which includes two films of great stature — Anthony Mann's “Man of the West” (1958) and Andre De Toth’s “Day of the Outlaw” (1959, and pictured above) — as well as some lesser but interesting titles [...]
Elusive Lucidity (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
Just over a year ago I wrote a little on this topic ( the last graf ), but I was going through some old files on my computer and come upon these comparative private notes from a couple years back inspired by some Randolph Scott Westerns directed by three auteurist favorites. There's no real reason for this, and I haven't seen a Joseph H. Lewis, Andre De Toth, or Budd Boetticher film in some months...
Coffee Coffee and More Coffee (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Andre De Toth - 1959 MGM Region 1 DVD To coincide with what would have been Andre De Toth's 96th birthday - Day of the Outlaw is more noir then western. Much of the action takes place indoors in...
