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Good, but WIERD!
Cult film in the making?
Fairuza rocks!
The Flying Wing Was Ahead Of Its TimeRalph Byrd had the role of Dick Tracy and the supporting cast included Kay Hughes, Smiley Burnette, Lee Van Atta and Francis X. Bushman. My favorite movie prop in this serial had to be the Flying Wing.
CALLING ALL CARS
Chester Gould's 1937 "Dick Tracy serial" comes to DVD!!Cartoonist Chester Gould created this action hero in the early 1930's and by the middle 30's the FBI and gangsters were in all the newspaper & radio headlines. So Gould countered with Dick Tracy G-man (in the movie serials) & Dick Tracy cop hero in the comic strip.
The "Dick Tracy" (1937) Republic Pictures 15 episode action serial launched Ralph Byrds career as the super crime solving G-man/Sherlock Holmes sleuth. The movie version was always the international view while the comic strip was the local city crime storyline.
Thanks to VCI Entertainment for a great restoration job & super loaded 2 DVD package.
This 15 episode action packed serial is over 290 mins long and is presented with great picture & sound.
Extra features include: a background Commentary by famous Dick Tracy writer Max Allan Collins who penned the comic strip for 15 years after Goulds retirement. Special photo montage & Photo Gallery. Bonus 1945 Radio Show: Dick Tracy in B-Flat - a musical rendition of Dick Tracy with the voice of Bing Crosby as Tracy, Dinah Shore as Tesh Trueheart, Bob Hope as Flathead and many more big radio stars of the 40's. This is fun stuff.
Summary: Action serials are always more about the action packed journey & how our hero escapes the bad guys at the cliff hanging ending chapters than the actual story. We need to have a thrill filled 20 minutes each week and then painfully wait until next week for the continuing saga to take us to more excitement until the finale on chapter/week 15.
Dick Tracy delivers all we expect in an action hero and this being one of the first serials gives us a taste of the world of 1937. Enjoy.
The Flying Wing Was Ahead Of Its TimeRalph Byrd had the role of Dick Tracy and the supporting cast included Kay Hughes, Smiley Burnette, Lee Van Atta and Francis X. Bushman. My favorite movie prop in this serial had to be the Flying Wing.
CALLING ALL CARS
Chester Gould's 1937 "Dick Tracy serial" comes to DVD!!Cartoonist Chester Gould created this action hero in the early 1930's and by the middle 30's the FBI and gangsters were in all the newspaper & radio headlines. So Gould countered with Dick Tracy G-man (in the movie serials) & Dick Tracy cop hero in the comic strip.
The "Dick Tracy" (1937) Republic Pictures 15 episode action serial launched Ralph Byrds career as the super crime solving G-man/Sherlock Holmes sleuth. The movie version was always the international view while the comic strip was the local city crime storyline.
Thanks to VCI Entertainment for a great restoration job & super loaded 2 DVD package.
This 15 episode action packed serial is over 290 mins long and is presented with great picture & sound.
Extra features include: a background Commentary by famous Dick Tracy writer Max Allan Collins who penned the comic strip for 15 years after Goulds retirement. Special photo montage & Photo Gallery. Bonus 1945 Radio Show: Dick Tracy in B-Flat - a musical rendition of Dick Tracy with the voice of Bing Crosby as Tracy, Dinah Shore as Tesh Trueheart, Bob Hope as Flathead and many more big radio stars of the 40's. This is fun stuff.
Summary: Action serials are always more about the action packed journey & how our hero escapes the bad guys at the cliff hanging ending chapters than the actual story. We need to have a thrill filled 20 minutes each week and then painfully wait until next week for the continuing saga to take us to more excitement until the finale on chapter/week 15.
Dick Tracy delivers all we expect in an action hero and this being one of the first serials gives us a taste of the world of 1937. Enjoy.
Intense Thriller
Worth the money
Great Movie
Best surprise ending! See Patrick Muldoon in the Blackwoods
Suspense to the very endA must see!
Look Out For The Claw
Dick Tracy: The Ultimate Collection
Worth viewing for Tracy
QUITE EASILY SPENCER TRACY'S GREATEST PERFORMANCE!TRANSFER: Instituted before Columbia's penny-pinching regime kicked in, "The Last Hurrah" has had admirable work done on its transfer. The gray scale is excellent and the anamorphic widescreen version of the movie is very nicely rendered in fine detail, with black and contrast levels dead on. There is a definite grain structure to this film but it will not distract from the performances. There are no compression related artifacts. The audio is MONO and nicely rendered.
EXTRAS: ZIP! A shame!
BOTTOM LINE: A very solid performance from the actor's actor - Spencer Tracy and a relatively clean digital transfer make me shout a rousing three cheers for this "Last Hurrah""!
Still great despite a few weak pointsThe rest of the cast is also excellent, especially Jeffrey Hunter as Tracy's newspaperman nephew, and Edward Brophy as one of Tracy's cronies, both of whom get extensive play in the movie. Unfortunately, Donald Crisp as the Cardinal and Basil Rathbone don't have that much on-screen time, and Rathbone really only has one big scene and a couple of other pieces of dialogue here and there, as does Crisp, but they're still excellent in their roles.
A few scenes seem a little weak, such as when Tracy tricks Basil Rathbone's idiot son to accept the Fire Marshall job so he can blackmail Rathbone into ponying up the housing loan money. The TV interview with Tracy's young opponent was pretty silly, and I didn't think John Carradine was especially well cast as a former KKK member, magazine publisher, and Tracy's long-time nemesis.
Other than that, the film's portrayal of Tracy as a tough, smart, down-to-earth, old-time political boss (or as Donald Crisp refers to him--"an engaging scoundrel") is itself engagingly and humorously done. It provides a fascinating and perhaps nostalgic look at a vanished era of grass-roots politicians back when they stumped in the inner-city wards, shaking hands and kissing babies and vying for votes one-by-one the hard way before the advent of TV changed the political campaigning process forever.
Overall, still a great flick and especially worth seeing if you're a Spencer Tracy fan.
VERY EERIE, FANTASTIC SETSThough a fairly simple movie with just a handful of characters, 'FEVER' can be put under the rubric of scary movies. There is always an air of eeriness throughout the movie, with an abrupt 'shocking' scene popping up every now and then, with a high potential to chill the bones most of the viewers. Much of the credit for what the movie is, should be given to the acting, mainly of the prime two characters, 'Nick' and 'Will', played by Henry Thomas and David O'Hara respectively. While Henry Thomas does a pretty good job of a person 'spooked' by the murders in the movie, it is David O'Hara, who puts up a splendid performance, by acting as a mentally deranged, 'psycho' Irishman, who is a sailor, and is a staunch believer of Nazism. The presence of such a character in the movie actually makes it spookier, than it already is.
Along with good acting, the direction is pretty decent, too, maintaining just the right amount of the funereal atmosphere throughout, without going overboard with gory details. However, worth mentioning is this particular scene, which can be said as the pivotal scene of the movie, in which 'Nick' encounters 'Will', in a train: Though there is very little flaw in the direction in the rest of the movie, this particular scene, especially being a crucial one, is so grossly misdirected, that it ruins the build-up to it. Either this scene should have had more attention paid to the minor details, which are seriously flawed, (and do much damage to it) or else, it could've done without the backdrop of an underground train-ride, and could have done with a much less complicated backdrop.
The movie has all the elements of a spook-thriller, and is scary from the beginning to the end, building up to a good suspense. The overall feel of the movie is also well maintained, without trying to give too much detail to gore, and primarily paying attention to maintain the stolid and chilling atmosphere, in a very subtle manner.
Unreal. Winter is surely talented, and "Fever" is amazing!I was actually waiting for this to be released in theaters, especially after reading articles.... I was really hoping that this would bring Winter's brilliance to the masses. Unfortuantely, Hollywood is pathetic, and they didn't market this movie and/or try to sell it enough.
This film ranks up there with "The Haunting" (the original, of course!), "Lost Highway" (in its tense mood and supernatural cinematics), "M" (for its beautifully expressionistic imagery), and both "Rosemary's Baby" and "The Shining" (for true psychological fright)...
I loved "The Idiot Box" and "Freaked", but they were silly, outright comedies of the most absurd degree, "Fever" is intense, intelligent, and incredibly cinematic. I loved it!
Best Wishes,
Ramzi Abed....
Excellent tension and mood!
Zany Guilty PleasureOn her way home from the party, a weird rainstorm hits. It causes the entire world to go into a sleep from which only the women awake days later. What will Lisa do? Why, take her cheatin' husbands' job as town sheriff and unsuccessfully attempt to stop the rampant looting and chaos, of course.
And it gets loonier. It eventually turns into a road movie when Lisa, her sister, the town's senior citizen floozy, and the local feminist all jump in an RV and head to Elysium, a new society that was made by women for women. On the way, they meet hippie chicks, biker babes and scientists who want to make sure the human race continues. There are enough zany shenanigans here to satisfy the guiltiest of pleasures.
VIVA LA VULVA!
Frisky, Feisty and FierceTHE NEW WOMEN gives you that rare aesthetic density, a funky, sophisticated humor and a provocative voila! Riffing off the feisty, all-female melodrama George Cukor pioneered in THE WOMEN, this film likewise exults in an all-girl milieu, but amped with a sci-fi premise. The film's humor is sharp and ingenious, and the women are by turns frenetic, profound, campy and coy - full-bodied females that straight cinema could care less about.
Spike Lee's first movie.that is shot in black & white. It is the story of three men vying
for the attention and affection of 1 woman. As the story unfolds
it's a question of "Who's Zoomin Who" And who if anybody will ride the "Freeway Of Love". This is not a typical date movie,
but if you choose to watch it with you main squeeze. Don't scratch where it don't itch. In other words, you could wonder where they are and who they're with when their not with you.
But don't ask. This was Spike debut as actor and director.
For a movie made on a shoestring budget,the plot, though slow at
times, kept me interested.
good debut
Unhibited sex from a black female's point of view.I loved Spike Lee's book and enjoyed this film. I had no idea he was that knowledgeable about the NBA and I loved his tales about Pippen, Miller and the 69-70, 72-73 New York Knicks championship teams.