Garv’s Pick of the Week: Fireman, Save My Child (Warner Archive)
For the release week of April 3rd:
Garv’s Pick of the Week: Fireman, Save My Child [MOD DVD / Warner Archive]: Rubber-faced comedian Joe E. Brown is best remembered today for his supporting role as millionaire Osgood Fielding III in Billy Wilder’s Some Like It Hot (1959). However, long before Brown chased the skirts of Jack Lemmon, he was one of the most popular comedians of the Depression era. Brown also harbored a deep love for baseball, so he used the “Great American Pastime” as the focus for a loose trilogy of comedies — Fireman, Save My Child (1932), Elmer the Great (1933), and Alibi Ike (1935). To coincide with the beginning of baseball season, The Warner Archive Collection is releasing the first of these titles as a manufacture-on-demand DVD (the other two films were previously released). In this one, Joe E. Brown plays a a full-time firefighter and a part-time pitcher who gets hired by the St. Louis Cardinals but would much rather be fighting fires.
Additional Titles of Interest —
A Study in Terror [Blu-ray / Mill Creek]: This 1965 Sherlock Holmes film casts John Neville (The Adventures of Baron Munchausen) as Holmes and pits him against Jack the Ripper. Donald Houston is Dr. Watson, Frank Finlay is Inspector Lestrade, and Robert Morley is Mycroft.
Charles Bronson 4 Movie Collection [Blu-ray / Mill Creek]: The Valachi Papers (1972), The Stone Killer (1973), Breakout (1975), and Hard Times (1975) have been grouped together for this budget Blu-ray collection. All four films are crammed onto a single disc, so you may want to wait to read the reviews of the picture quality.
For The Love Of Benji [Blu-ray+DVD+Digital / Mill Creek]: The scruffy little dog’s second feature gets an HD upgrade.
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