Kino Lorber Studio Classics has given classic comedy lovers an early Christmas gift with the November 9th Blu-ray debuts of three hilarious movies by W.C.
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“I’ve got my heart set on the thing. I’m goin’ through with it.” — Harold Bissonette (W.C. Fields) in It’s a Gift (1934) Kino Lorber
Kino Lorber Studio Classics has given classic comedy lovers an early Christmas gift with the November 9th Blu-ray debuts of three hilarious movies by W.C.
The comedy team of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore were beloved in England in the 1960s and 70s, having found success on stage, television, film,
I have a problematic relationship with the Marx Brothers film A Night at the Opera (1935). It is a movie that I dearly love and
The new Blu-ray release of The Naked Spur from the Warner Archive Collection is an argument against the attitude that if you own a classic
I’ve always been a sucker for movie musicals, and I’ve always had a bit of a crush on Julie Andrews. Consequently, Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)
It could be argued that Dick Van Dyke was the most gifted comic actor of the 1960s. Combining the natural likeability of Jack Lemmon, the
The boutique video label ClassicFlix has undertaken an ambitious multi-volume project to scan and restore all of the sound-era Our Gang comedies produced at Hal
Few movie comedians have had as consistent a run of quality comedies as Bob Hope. After finding his “wisecracking brave coward” character in his breakout
Both W.C. Fields and Mae West are more or less unknown to younger audiences. From the 1980s onward, their films did not get much broadcast
For most kids who grew up in the Sixties and Seventies, The Little Rascals was a staple of their television diet. However, few of those
