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JUST GIVE US WHAT WE WANT! AND ON A LIGHTER NOTE…
Pillow Talk - 50th Anniversary Edition
Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan who? America’s
original favorite on-screen couple is—
Pre-Code Hollywood Collection arguably—Rock Hudson and Doris Day! Of
Those were the years, before the suits in the course, most of us sorted out that whole “closet”
censorship department got a hold of our right to thing by the time high-school ended. Replete
jaw-dropping adultery, murder, immorality and sex. with charming humor and certain themes that
We don’t ask for much, do we? Universal Pictures has were—by mid-century standards—shockingly
finally deemed us mature enough to enjoy six classic daring to explore on film, Pillow Talk remains a
films from the most decadent era in motion picture must-have for romantic comedy-lovers of any
history: Pre-Code Hollywood. In 1934, Hollywood generation. Available on DVD April 14.
was turned upside down by the enforcement of a
strict “Production Code” that effectively castrated filmmakers’ abilities to make Rhoda- Season One
the kinds of films the public had come to crave. Now standing as a symbol of artis- Almost as successful as The Mary Tyler Moore
tic freedom, this collection of controversial classics will be released on April 7. Show from which it sprang but every bit as en-
dearing, Rhoda Morgenstern’s (Valerie Harper)
The Cheat career-chasing, man-hunting days as a sidekick
A compulsive gambler (Tallulah Bankhead) will do anything to pay off her debt– ended with the kickoff of an award-winning
including turning to a wealthy businessman behind her husband’s back. series that appealed to everyone’s inner hope-
fulness. Recalling the days when the feminist
Merrily We Go to Hell movement was in full-swing, Rhoda becomes
An abusive alcoholic (Fredric March) reunites with a woman from his past— available on DVD April 21.
driving his wife (Sylvia Sidney) to drastic measures.
Hot Saturday
CLASSICS FROM “THE VAULT”
Scandal erupts after a young woman (Nancy Carroll) innocently spends the night
Pinocchio (Two-Disc 70th Anniversary
with a notorious playboy (Cary Grant) and neglects to tell her fiancé (Randolph
Platinum Edition)
Scott).
No, the famous Blue Fairy was not, in fact,
modeled after Marilyn Monroe—as she was
Torch Singer
only 14 and unknown to the masses at the time
After giving up her illegitimate child for adoption, a notorious nightclub singer
of the film’s production. Regardless of this burst
(Claudette Colbert) attempts to reunite with her daughter through a children’s
bubble, the digitally restored Disney magic
radio show.
flows no less brilliantly. While the jokers on your
dating cache may be struggling to be seen as
Murder at the Vanities
men, Pinocchio must learn the virtues of hon-
While musical revue “The Vanities” captivates the audience on its opening night, a
esty and loyalty in order to become a real boy.
murder investigation secretly takes place backstage.
Send a few copies of this release to prospective
dates and hope that they get the message! This
Search for Beauty
collector’s edition of Pinocchio is available now
Olympic swimming champion (Buster Crabbe) and Ida Lupino are tricked into
on DVD.
endorsing a “fitness” magazine that features racy photos.
Walt Disney Legacy Collection - True
Life Adventures Series
The Spirit Before you check out Disneynature’s new
(Two-Disc Special Edition + Digital Copy) documentary Earth and become desensitized
Who says substance has to take precedence over by the hi-def resolution and James Earl Jones’
style? In the realm of guilty pleasures, this particular foreboding baritone utterances, take a look
expressionist take on Will Eisner’s creation takes the at the Disney brothers’ first venture into the
multilayered cake. Armed with fistfuls of violence wild. Cataloguing countless hours of animal
and a high-profile cast that must have cost a fortune, behavior in the 1950s, this series is very likely
The Spirit reveals the solemn, not-so-joyous life of a what the Discovery Channel used as a model for
former cop resurrected from death. Available on its programming. True Life Adventures Volumes
DVD April 14. 1 - 4 are available now on DVD.
28 RAGE monthly | APRIL 2009
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