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Posted Jul. 28, 2008,
Tyrone Power: Matinee Idol Collection!
By Dennis Dermody
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Out this week is a spectacular ten film box set: The Tyrone Power Matinee Idol Collection.The impossibly handsome Tyrone Power was 20th Century Fox’s dreamboat matinee idol from 1937 to 1952. He was cast in swashbuckling adventures, sparkling comedies, dramas, and through the course of his varied career proved himself a surprisingly good actor in such films as The Razor’s Edge, Nightmare Alley, The Sun Also Rises and Witness For The Prosecution.
This “Matinee Idol” set illuminates many other facets of that pretty face -- starting with hi first scene-stealing role in Ladies Dormitory (1936). Loretta Young was frequently paired with Power and three films featuring the duo, are included: Cafe Metropole (1937), a sophisticated comedy with Adolphe Menjou in which Tyrone Power poses as a Russian prince; Second Honeymoon (1937) wherein Power and Young play a divorced couple still in love with each other; and Love Is News (1937) in which Power plays a crafty newspaperman writing a series of scathing articles about a spoiled rich girl (Young) until she turns the tables on him by announcing her engagement to him to the press which turns his life upside down. Tyrone even remade this with Gene Tierney in the heiress role in That Wonderful Urge (1948), which is also part of this fun box set.
Posted Mar. 5, 2008,
Hammer DVDs: The Nanny and The Strangler of Bombay!
By Dennis Dermody
Got the word that come summer Sony is releasing a box of action adventures from the British studio most known for the Christopher Lee Dracula films, Hammer. The box is supposedly going to include the bloodthirsty Stranglers of Bombay, Terror of the Tongs, Pirates of Blood River and Devil Ship Pirates. Also on April 8, Fox is releasing the excellent 1965 Hammer thriller starring Bette Davis -- The Nanny. In that film Bette is definitely Auntie Maim!