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DVD Classics Corner with Dick
Dinman GENA ROWLANDS, MARGARET O'BRIEN, KATHLEEN HUGHES, KARL MALDEN AND
DICK DINMAN SALUTE "SCARLET STREET'S" EDWARD G. ROBINSON: Kino Video
has miraculously pulled Fritz Lang's acclaimed film noir classic
"SCARLET STREET" out of public domain hell with it's vibrant Blu-ray
release which sheds new light on the incredible versatility of it's star
Edward G. Robinson who is saluted on producer/host Dick Dinman's tribute
show by distinguished guests and Robinson co-stars Gena Rowlands,
Margaret O'Brien, Kathleen Hughes, and the late Karl Malden.
DICK DINMAN SALUTES FRED MacMURRAY (Part Two): 20th Century
Fox Home Entertainment's crystal-clear Blu-ray release of MGM/UA's Billy
Wilder masterwork THE APARTMENT sheds new light on Fred MacMurray's
amazing versatility and producer/host Dick Dinman and author Charles
Tranberg continue their tribute to beloved star MacMurray and try to
solve the mystery of why this supremely popular star of four decades who
played a variety of roles to perfection was perpetually ignored by his
peers during awards time.
DICK DINMAN SALUTES FRED MacMURRAY (Part One): 20th Century Fox
Home Entertainment has just released a mother load of MGM/UA classics to
Blu-ray including three of Alfred Hitchcock's most acclaimed
masterpieces (REBECCA, NOTORIOUS, SPELLBOUND), two of Woody Allen's most
popular comedies (ANNIE HALL, MANHATTAN) and Billy Wilder's five Oscar
winner THE APARTMENT which features stellar performances by Jack Lemmon,
Shirley MacLaine and the under-rated Fred MacMurray who is saluted by
producer/host Dick Dinman and his guest author Charles Tranberg whose
biography of Fred MacMurray sheds new light on this talented and
versatile star and his initial resistance to starring in both DOUBLE
INDEMNITY and THE APARTMENT which remain two of his most challenging and
memorable roles.
PARAMOUNT TAKES "WINGS" INTO THE WILD BLU (RAY) YONDER (Part
Two): Author/Producer William Wellman Jr. is joined in producer/host
Dick Dinman's continuing tribute to Paramount Pictures groundbreaking
Blu-ray restoration of "WINGS" by Paramount Pictures Vice President of
Archives Andrea Kalas.
WILLIAM WELLMAN JR. AND DICK DINMAN TAKE "WINGS" INTO THE WILD BLU
(RAY) YONDER (Part One): Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment's
amazing Blu-ray restoration of "WINGS", the very first Academy Award
Winner for Best Picture, is a mesmerizing home video achievement for the
ages and producer/host Dick Dinman's guest William Wellman Jr. tells the
fascinating story about the relentless courage and determination of his
iconic father, director William Wellman, who overcame incredible
obstacles and violent inter-studio conflicts in his struggle to bring
this spectacular World War One airborne masterpiece to fruition.
OSCAR-WINNER GEORGE CHAKIRIS AND DICK DINMAN SALUTE WEST SIDE STORY
(Part Two): George Chakiris returns to reveal the tension between
WEST SIDE STORY "lovers" Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer, the hands-off
direction by Robert Wise which negatively affected Beymer's performance,
the conflict and stark differences between Yul Brynner and Richard
Widmark on a later film, and the sheer pleasure of acting opposite
legendary superstar Lana Turner.
OSCAR-WINNER GEORGE CHAKIRIS AND DICK DINMAN SALUTE WEST SIDE STORY
(Part One): Who better to celebrate the Blu-ray release of WEST SIDE
STORY with producer/host Dick Dinman than George Chakiris whose electric
performance in the iconic musical masterwork justifiably earned him a
Best Supporting Actor Oscar. Part one covers his early struggles, his
surprising impressions of Marilyn Monroe, his introduction to WEST SIDE
STORY, and the facts behind the unfortunate firing of co-director Jerome
Robbins.
DICK DINMAN "MEETS" JUDY GARLAND IN ST. LOUIS (Part Two):
Acclaimed author/producer John Fricke sheds new light on the genesis of
Judy Garland's drug dependency problems and the failure of those around
her to come to her aid and also discusses with producer/host Dick Dinman
the causes of the ultimate career failure of MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS' least
known but controversial star Lucille Bremer.
DICK DINMAN "MEETS" JUDY GARLAND IN ST. LOUIS (Part One):
Warner Home Video strikes Blu-ray gold with their stunning Blu-ray
restoration of one of Judy Garland's most successful Technicolor-ful
hits MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS which tugs at the heartstrings more than ever
today with it's warm and wonderful depiction of a turn of the century
music-prone family. Celebrating the release of this joyous slice of
Americana with producer/host Dick Dinman is author/producer John Fricke
whose spectacular new coffee table book JUDY: A LEGENDARY FILM CAREER at
long last corrects the many misconceptions about this beloved and unique
artist's career and life.
DUMBO, BUGS, DAFFY, PORKY, TOM & JERRY ARE BLU!: Classic
animation fans have three big reasons to rejoice as the Blu-ray format
blossoms with the joyous release of Walt Disney's full length
masterpiece DUMBO as well as Warner Home Entertainment's TOM & JERRY:
THE GOLDEN COLLECTION (37 cartoons) and THE LOONEY TUNES PLATINUM
COLLECTION (50 cartoons!) and celebrating this "animated" Blu-ray event
with producer/host Dick Dinman is Linda Jones who is the daughter of the
legendary animation director Chuck Jones.
JAMES DARREN AND DICK DINMAN SALUTE "THE GUNS OF NAVARONE" (Part
Two): The multi-talented James Darren returns to share more stories
with producer/host Dick Dinman about his life and times as a Hollywood
star, teen idol, singer and director on the occasion of Sony Pictures
Home Entertainment's release of a pristine Blu-ray edition of THE GUNS
OF NAVARONE which stands taller than ever as one of the greatest WW2
blockbuster adventures in cinema history.
JAMES DARREN AND DICK DINMAN SALUTE "THE GUNS OF NAVARONE" (Part
One): Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has just released THE GUNS OF
NAVARONE, one of the greatest WW2 adventure epics of all time, in a
spectacular new Blu-ray edition and NAVARONE star and acclaimed actor,
singer, teen idol and director James Darren regales producer/host Dick
Dinman as he recalls his experiences working with Gregory Peck, David
Niven and Anthony Quinn as well as details about his lasting friendship
with Frank Sinatra and many other silver screen giants.
DICK DINMAN "COLLECTS" OSCAR NOMINEE SAMANTHA EGGAR: William
Wyler's shocker THE COLLECTOR, about sexual obsession carried to extreme
lengths, has just been released by Image Entertainment in a striking new
Blu-ray edition. This stark suspense thriller about a meek bank clerk
who kidnaps and imprisons a beautiful young woman is more gripping and
powerful than ever and Oscar nominee Samantha Eggar reveals to
producer/host Dick Dinman the harrowing process it took to bring this
ultra-challenging role to brilliant and ultimately award-winning
fruition.
TWILIGHT TIME FOR A BLU "EGYPTIAN": The exciting new Classic
DVD label Twilight Time rolls out one of the most controversial and
misunderstood epics in cinema history THE EGYPTIAN in a dazzling Blu-ray
incarnation sure to please fans of this uniquely humanistic yet lavishly
produced spectacle and award-winning producer/writer Nick Redman and
writer/film music aficionado Julie Kirgo reveal to producer/host Dick
Dinman THE EGYPTIAN'S tortured production history which includes the
controversial casting of studio head Darryl F. Zanuck's
talent-challenged mistress Bella Darvi which caused Marlon Brando to
quit the production and they discuss the groundbreaking collaboration of
composers Alfred Newman and Bernard Herrmann on the legendary score.
PLUS: Richard Widmark reveals his volatile experience with Bella Darvi.
DICK DINMAN GOES INTO THE WILD BLU YONDER WITH "AIRPLANE":
AIRPLANE, widely considered by many to be the funniest motion picture
ever conceived is now available in 1080p Blu-ray and 5.1 DTS-HD Master
Audio (as are comedy classics THE NAKED GUN and PLANES, TRAINS &
AUTOMOBILES) courtesy of Paramount Home Entertainment and producer/host
Dick Dinman's guests are two of AIRPLANE'S stars Robert Hays and the
late Peter Graves who go into hilarious detail about their experiences
on this uproarious anything-for-a-laugh romp.
BEN-HUR IS BLU!: Warner Home Video's BEN-HUR 50th ANNIVERSARY
ULTIMATE COLLECTOR'S EDITION has been labeled by many critics as "the
most impressive and spectacular Blu-ray transfer, classic or otherwise,
ever seen" but it took years of painstaking labor combined with an
almost fanatical quest for perfection and millions of dollars to restore
this winner of eleven Academy Awards to it's present awe-inspiring state
and producer/host Dick Dinman salutes the stunning success of this
massive endeavor with Warner Home Video's Senior. V.P. of Classic and
Theatrical Marketing George Feltenstein.
DICK DINMAN RAISES (BLU) "KANE": Orson Welles' CITIZEN KANE,
which many film classic connoisseurs consider the greatest film ever
made, is at last available in an amazing new Blu-ray 70th Anniversary
Ultimate Collector's Edition that is so spectacularly vivid visually and
aurally that virtually no description could possibly do justice to this
groundbreaking 4K restoration from original nitrate elements and
producer/host Dick Dinman celebrates this monumental event with favorite
guest and home video pioneer George Feltenstein, Warner Home Video's
V.P. of Classic and Theatrical Marketing.
DICK DINMAN HAS BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S: Audrey Hepburn has
never looked more delectable or delivered a more scintillating
performance as in her iconic role of Holly Golightly in Blake Edwards'
ultra-romantic cinema classic BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S which is now
available in all it's Technicolor glory in Paramount Home
Entertainment's lustrous new 50th Anniversary Blu-ray incarnation and
Paramount's V.P. of Restoration Ronald F. Smith and V.P. of Archives
Andrea Kalas regale producer/host Dick Dinman with their account of the
challenges inherent in meticulously restoring this much beloved film.
INSIDE THE WALLS OF THE WARNER ARCHIVE: Warner Home Video
Senior Vice President George Feltenstein shares with producer/host Dick
Dinman the inside story of the trials, tribulations and triumphs that
contributed to the formation and ultimately astounding success of the
Warner Archive which is the first and foremost classic dvd
movies-on-demand concept that literally revolutionized the home video
industry. PLUS: Exclusive announcements of upcoming Warner releases as
well as two 3-D classic bombshell revelations!
THE BELLE OF NEW YORK SAVES FRED ASTAIRE (Part Two): This
second-show tribute to the wonderful cd release of Fred Astaire's THE
BELLE OF NEW YORK with producer/host Dick Dinman's guest George
Feltenstein continues with generous samples of Astaire's BELLE songs as
well as Astaire's rare jazz recordings and includes the astounding sound
of the Astaire taps in spectacular syncopation with the music of some of
the greatest jazz musicians of all time.
THE BELLE OF NEW YORK SAVES FRED ASTAIRE (Part One): As far as
producer/host Dick Dinman is concerned the cd release of the entire
songs and score to the forgotten Fred Astaire musical THE BELLE OF NEW
YORK constitutes the happiest surprise of the year as this marvelous cd
contains some of the most witty and tuneful songs you've never heard
which are charmingly sung by Fred Astaire, and Dick and BELLE cd
producer and Warner Home Video Senior Vice President George Feltenstein
reflect on what qualities made Fred Astaire the favorite singer of the
major songwriters such as George Gershwin, Cole Porter and Irving
Berlin.
FRED ASTAIRE SAVES A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS: To celebrate the
Warner Archive release of the Fred Astaire classics A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS
and YOLANDA AND THE THIEF four of Fred Astaire's distaff co-stars (Kim
Novak, Joan Leslie, Arlene Dahl, Terry Moore) regale producer/host Dick
Dinman with their warmly affectionate takes on how it was to work with
this multi-talented (dancer, vocalist, actor, songwriter, choreographer,
drummer, pianist) cinema giant. PLUS: Archival comments by David Niven
and Audrey Hepburn and Astaire songs galore.
THE FILMS, LIFE, AND (MANY) LOVES OF GLENN FORD. (Part Six):
Glenn Ford's affair with a reticent Hope Lange, director David Swift's
incendiary quote about Ford, a brilliant Ford in Vincente Minnelli's THE
COURTSHIP OF EDDIE'S FATHER, Ford rides the range with Henry Fonda, Ford
is Superman's earth father, the final career slide, victimized by
Hollywood "jackals", Michael Anderson Jr., (Ford's co-star in his last
major film) affectionately reveals Ford's prankster side, and Peter Ford
summarizes his conflicted feelings about his stormy relationship with
his father and praises the consummate skill which made Glenn Ford a
beloved star for so many decades. DICK'S PICKS OF THE WEEK: Sergio Leone
fans thrill to the news that ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST is now
available on Blu-ray, courtesy of Paramount Home Entertainment, looking
and sounding better than it ever has.
THE FILMS, LIFE, AND (MANY) LOVES OF GLENN FORD. (Part Five):
Glenn Ford at odds with Marlon Brando in Japan, Ford and Shirley
MacLaine get together, Glenn does two films with Debbie Reynolds and
proposes, Glenn is voted number one box office star of the year, Frank
Capra and Bette Davis verbally attack Glenn, three disastrous remakes
instigate a precipitous career decline and producer/host Dick Dinman's
previous guest Ernest Borgnine shares an uncomfortable experience with
Ford. DICK'S PICKS OF THE WEEK: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
releases THE HEROES OF TELEMARK and THE NIGHT OF THE GENERALS which are
two terrific widescreen and color "Combat Classics" available for the
first time on DVD.
THE FILMS, LIFE, AND (MANY) LOVES OF GLENN FORD. (Part Four):
Glenn Ford's co-star Eleanor Parker joins Peter Ford on this show and
shares her not completely flattering assessment of Ford with
producer/host Dick Dinman, Glenn Ford's disintegrating film career saved
by two major MGM films (INTERRUPTED MELODY and BLACKBOARD JUNGLE), the
"new, improved and dramatically different" Glenn Ford is finally
propelled into superstardom, an affair with Jack Lemmon's eventual
bride-to-be creates a lifelong coolness between Lemmon and Ford, Ford
excels in three great Westerns, and delivers an incomparably finer
performance in the first incarnation of RANSOM than Mel Gibson did in
the remake. DICK'S PICKS OF THE WEEK: Warner Home Video releases two
much-requested Stanley Kubrick classics (LOLITA and BARRY LYNDON) on
Blu-ray for the very first time!
THE FILMS, LIFE, AND (MANY) LOVES OF GLENN FORD. (Part Three):
Glenn Ford gets along famously with much disliked director Fritz Lang
who offers Ford's young son Peter his first martini, Peter's
frustratingly difficult relationship with his dad which at one point
almost leads to blows, Glenn gets Rita Hayworth pregnant. DICK'S PICKS
OF THE WEEK: Warner Home Video releases THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING and
PAPILLON on Blu-ray for the very first time!
THE FILMS, LIFE, AND (MANY) LOVES OF GLENN FORD. (Part Two):
Son Peter Ford "feels responsible" for the failure of his parents
marriage, Glenn Ford's huge break with Bette Davis (who makes a pass at
him), and Ford is teamed with Rita Hayworth in the ultimate erotic noir
GILDA during which the two begin their tempestuous extramarital affair.
DICK'S PICKS OF THE WEEK: Warner Home Video's magnificent GRAND PRIX
Blu-ray puts you in the drivers seat with astonishing clarity!
THE FILMS, LIFE, AND (MANY) LOVES OF GLENN FORD. (Part One):
Golden Age superstar Glenn Ford's warm and naturalistic on-screen
persona was in stark contrast to the driven, remote and chronically
unfaithful reality of the man himself according to son Peter Ford, whose
moving and nuanced biography of his father GLENN FORD: A LIFE reveals a
Glenn Ford the public never knew with the keen insight and unflinching
candor that only his son could provide. Peter Ford is producer/host Dick
Dinman's guest on this, the first of six shows devoted to the criminally
underrated film star. Part one covers Glenn Ford's humble beginnings,
his callous mistreatment by his first film director, his first real
break and his ultimately unhappy marriage to MGM's "queen of tap"
Eleanor Powell. DICK'S PICKS OF THE WEEK: Warner Archives' Glenn Ford
military comedies DON'T GO NEAR THE WATER and ADVANCE TO THE REAR.
THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD: George Stevens was and is
conceivably the only producer/director with the talent, humanity,
vision, painterly eye and sheer tenacity to so successfully bring THE
GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD, the story of Jesus of Nazareth, so powerfully
and poetically to fruition and, to celebrate MGM/UA Home Entertainment's
Blu-ray release of this monumental cinematic achievement, producer/host
Dick Dinman's guest, Emmy award-winning writer/producer George Stevens
Jr., relates the tremendous challenges, setbacks and sacrifices that
were endured during the production of this once in a lifetime cinematic
masterwork.
FILMS OF FAITH: THREE BIBLICAL BLU-RAY BLOCKBUSTERS:
Producer/host Dick Dinman commemorates the Blu-ray debuts of 20th
Century Fox Home Entertainment's THE BIBLE, Warner Home Video's KING OF
KINGS and MGM/UA Home Entertainment's THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD and
guest Michael Anderson Jr. talks about his thirteen month long memorable
experience playing Little James, one of the Apostles, in George Stevens'
THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD.
TRACY AND HEPBURN ARE TOGETHER AGAIN! (Part Two): Producer/host
Dick Dinman's salutes Warner Home Video's TRACY AND HEPBURN: THE
DEFINITIVE COLLECTION with Tracy co-stars John Ericson and the late Anne
Francis who affectionally relate their experiences working with Tracy,
and the late Oscar winner Karl Malden tells Dick his theory about what
qualities made Tracy an actor without equal. Also archival insights from
Tracy co-stars Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra,
Richard Widmark, Angela Lansbury, Mickey Rooney, Robert Wagner, Lee
Marvin and Sidney Poitier as well as scenes from some of Tracy's finest
classics.
TRACY AND HEPBURN ARE TOGETHER AGAIN! (Part One): For the first
time ever all nine of the Spencer Tracy/Katharine Hepburn cinema
classics have been released in Warner Home Video's TRACY AND HEPBURN:
THE DEFINITIVE COLLECTION and producer/host Dick Dinman salutes this
fabulous collection with writer/producer John Dayton for whom friend
Katharine Hepburn starred in her last three films.
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE BLU! (Part Three): Paramount Pictures
V.P. of Restoration Ronald F. Smith and Paramount Pictures V.P. of
Archives Andrea Kalas tell producer/host Dick Dinman about the
painstakingly long and arduous process that was necessary in order to
bring this incredible restoration of Cecil B. DeMille's THE TEN
COMMANDMENTS to fruition.
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE BLU! (Part Two): Producer/host Dick
Dinman continues to celebrate the Blu-ray release of Cecil B. DeMille's
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS with DeMille biographer Katherine Orrison who
proves conclusively that she remains the ultimate authority on all
things DeMille.
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE BLU! (Part One): Cecil B. DeMille's
cinematic monolith THE TEN COMMANDMENTS has just been meticulously
restored and released on Blu-ray and the results from a picture and
sound perspective are so astounding that it seems certain that DeMille's
masterwork hasn't looked and sounded nearly as good in all of it's
theatrical incarnations. Producer/host Dick Dinman celebrates this major
event with the preeminent DeMille biographer/author Katherine Orrison as
his distinguished guest.
DICK DINMAN'S SAGEBRUSH SAGAS: Producer/host (and rabid Western
fan) Dick Dinman celebrates the online Warner Archive release of five
rip-snorting classic M.G.M. Westerns (AMBUSH, THE OUTRIDERS, RIDE
VAQUERO, STARS IN MY CROWN and WILD ROVERS) with Arlene Dahl, the
beautiful and abundantly talented distaff star of both AMBUSH and THE
OUTRIDERS, and features generous samples of the great scores from these
films composed by Andre Previn, Bronislau Kaper and Jerry Goldsmith.
CONTROVERSIAL CLASSICS: Producer/host Dick Dinman salutes eight
daringly controversial films just released on Blu-ray and DVD that dared
to approach previously taboo subjects with unrelenting candor and
ferocity: SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS, NETWORK, ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN,
AMERICA AMERICA, GIRL OF THE NIGHT, INTRUDER IN THE DUST, DEVIL'S
DOORWAY, and LAST TANGO IN PARIS. Special appearance by the late Tony
Curtis.
SAYING GOODBYE TO BETTY GARRETT: The prodigiously talented
singer, actress, dancer, comedienne, playwright, and composer Betty
Garrett who excelled in movies, theater and television was a three-time
treasured guest on DVD CLASSICS CORNER ON THE AIR and on the sad
occasion of her passing producer/host Dick Dinman pays tribute to this
very special lady.
VERSATILE VINCENTE (Part Four):
VERSATILE VINCENTE (Part Three):
VERSATILE VINCENTE (Part Two):
VERSATILE VINCENTE (Part One): Although principally remembered
and revered for his astonishing contribution to musical cinema the
Warner Archives' recent release of four beautifully remastered
widescreen and color Vincente Minnelli non-musicals (THE COBWEB, TEA AND
SYMPATHY, THE RELUCTANT DEBUTANTE and TWO WEEKS IN ANOTHER TOWN)
graphically demonstrate his inventive mastery of both stark drama and
lighthearted comedy and who better to join producer/host Dick Dinman in
turning the spotlight on the length and breadth of Minnelli's amazing
versatility than Mark Griffin, author of the acclaimed biography A
HUNDRED OR MORE HIDDEN THINGS: THE LIFE AND FILMS OF VINCENTE MINNELLI.
ALL ABOUT BETTE (Part Two): Gena Rowlands, one of the most
respected and honored actresses in contemporary film and television,
joins producer/host Dick Dinman to celebrate the life and career of ALL
ABOUT EVE's all-time megastar Bette Davis, and reveals some hilarious
and touching anecdotes about Davis and how their eventual friendship
overcame an extremely rocky start.
ALL ABOUT BETTE (Part One): The recipient of an unprecedented
14 Oscar nominations (a feat unmatched in Oscar awards history until
TITANIC) ALL ABOUT EVE is now available in the magic of super high
definition Blu-ray from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment and to
celebrate this joyous occasion producer/host Dick Dinman is joined by
Turner Classic Movies host/historian Robert Osborne as well as
scintillating star Joan Leslie as they all pay tribute to ALL ABOUT
EVE's iconic star Bette Davis.
THE TWISTED 60's BLU-RAY WORLD OF SAMUEL FULLER: Nymphomania,
paranoia, madness, prejudice, prostitution, pedophilia are all subjects
banned from mainstream cinema in the buttoned-down early 60's but rebel
director/writer Samuel Fuller lifts the lid on these hitherto verboten
issues with shocking power in Criterion's stunning new Blu-ray releases
of THE NAKED KISS and SHOCK CORRIDOR. THE NAKED KISS star Michael Dante
and Samuel Fuller's widow Christa Lang Fuller regale producer/host Dick
Dinman with their touching, hilarious and affectionate reminiscences on
one of cinema's great rogue directors.
THE (MIS)ADVENTURES OF STEWART GRANGER (Part Five): Granger
injured during longest duel in film history, major problems with George
Cukor which result in the loss of A STAR IS BORN and compromises the
success of his trip to Pakistan for BHOWANI JUNCTION, his own frank
self-appraisal.
THE (MIS)ADVENTURES OF STEWART GRANGER (Part Four): Granger
brings MOONFLEET to M-G-M and ultimately regrets it, helps Grace Kelly
land her star-making role in Hitchcock's TO CATCH A THIEF, war time
experiences, over-night stardom in England, loses BEN-HUR due to "his
own vanity", considers himself a "failure" because he made "so many
mistakes".
THE (MIS)ADVENTURES OF STEWART GRANGER (Part Three): Granger
almost killed in SCARAMOUCHE stunt, sold into M-G-M "slavery", "I hate
Richard Brooks", Brooks "mistreatment" of Ramon Navarro, a self-doubting
Robert Taylor, an anti producer ("ugly little men") tirade.
THE (MIS)ADVENTURES OF STEWART GRANGER (Part Two): Granger
loses QUO VADIS and IVANHOE, can't stand his KING SOLOMON'S MINES
director who he helps fire, endures danger and sickness on African
location, and regrets that SCARAMOUCHE turns out to be more comedy than
drama.
THE (MIS)ADVENTURES OF STEWART GRANGER (Part One): A troubled
boyhood, Granger becomes an actor to get the girls, Granger's
SCARAMOUCHE disillusionment, MOGAMBO his idea but loses the part, kicks
himself for "copying" Ronald Colman in THE PRISONER OF ZENDA, and David
Niven's "betrayal."
ELIA KAZAN: THE ACTOR'S DIRECTOR: 20th Century Fox Home
Entertainment returns to the retail film classic business with the truly
astonishing ELIA KAZAN COLLECTION, an awe-inspiringly comprehensive dvd
collection devoted to the brilliant director which includes an all-new
Martin Scorsese documentary on Kazan as well as 15 cinema treasures from
classic film noir to timeless period pieces featuring such stars as
Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh,James Dean, Natalie Wood, Montgomery Clift
and Gregory Peck. To commemorate this astonishing collection
producer/host Dick Dinman chats with Kazan star Terry Moore about her
experience working with the iconic director.
THE FILMS OF RITA HAYWORTH: Producer/host Dick Dinman salutes
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment's just-released dvd collection THE
FILMS OF RITA HAYWORTH which honors the iconic love goddess (and
perpetually underrated actress) with beautifully restored and remastered
transfers of five of her most acclaimed and requested film classics:
COVER GIRL, TONIGHT AND EVERY NIGHT, GILDA, SALOME, and MISS SADIE
THOMPSON. EXTRA: A chat with HART TO HART'S Stefanie Powers.
WALT DISNEY VS. THE NAZI'S IN SOUTH AMERICA!: At the outbreak
of World War 2 the U.S. State Department sends Walt Disney and his top
animators to South America as good will ambassadors to deflect growing
Nazi/fascist influence and producer/host Dick Dinman's guest Theodore
Thomas has written, produced, and directed a just-released on dvd
documentary which reveals the unvarnished truth and hitherto unknown
facts about this significantly important occurrence entitled WALT AND EL
GRUPO.
THE (BLU) BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI (Part Two): Sony Pictures
Home Entertainment's Senior Vice President of Asset Management, Film
Restoration and Digital Mastering tells producer/host Dick Dinman how he
and his tireless staff were actually able to exceed the quality of the
visual and aural standards of the original theatrical release of THE
BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI without compromising the integrity of the
original negative and Rita Belda, Sony Technical Specialist, Film
Restoration and Asset Management, chimes in mid-show with some exciting
news about Sony's new Screen Classics By Request project.
THE (BLU) BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI (Part One): David Lean's
monumental screen achievement is at long last available in the
magnificence of Super High Definition Blu-ray and 5.1 DTS Surround Sound
and "looks better than it did in first-run road show engagements"
according to producer/host Dick Dinman's guest Geoffrey Horne who played
one of the principle roles opposite William Holden and Alec Guiness and
was rewarded for his efforts by receiving special introductory billing
in one of the most brilliantly conceived screen epics in cinema history.
SUBLIMELY SINISTER MITCHUM MADNESS! (Part Two): Robert Mitchum
co-stars Anne Jeffreys, Karen Sharpe Kramer and Jane Russell as well as
producer Stanley Rubin and writer/producer William Wellman Jr. all try
to top each other as they share their uproarious, touching and at times
explosive experiences with Mitchum with producer/host Dick Dinman.
SUBLIMELY SINISTER MITCHUM MADNESS! (Part One): Robert
Mitchum's potently terrifying performance as a bible-spouting, murderous
maniac is just one of the many highlights of the beautiful and gripping
masterwork THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER which is the only film to be directed
by the legendary Charles Laughton and has just been magnificently
restored for Blu-ray by the Criterion Collection. Producer/host Dick
Dinman and guests Peter Graves and Michael Anderson Jr. salute the
formidable and unique talents of the irrepressible and irreplaceable
Robert Mitchum.
BOUNTIFUL BING BONANZA! OUR CROSBY CHRISTMAS CUP RUNETH OVER:
Producer/host Dick Dinman's Christmas show pays tribute to Bing Crosby,
the number one recording artist of all time, and salutes the happy
holiday release of Universal Home Entertainment's THE BING CROSBY
COLLECTION (which features six Crosby classic cinema treats) as well as
Paramount Home Entertainment's stunning Blu-ray incarnation of WHITE
CHRISTMAS and Dick's guest Mary Crosby dispenses holiday cheer as she
she regales us with details about the release of Infinity Home
Entertainment's BING CROSBY CHRISTMAS TELEVISION SPECIALS (Volume 2) and
her experiences working with her dad and David Bowie, Robert Goulet, and
Mary Martin.
FANTASIA'S SOUND OF MUSIC ON A WHITE CHRISTMAS!: This holiday
season promises to be more magically, mirthfully and musically
magnificent because of the long-awaited Blu-ray debuts of four musical
masterpieces: Walt Disney Home Entertainment's FANTASIA/FANTASIA 2000,
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment's THE SOUND OF MUSIC and Paramount
Home Entertainment's WHITE CHRISTMAS. Producer/host Dick Dinman's guest
today is legendary dancer/choreographer Marge Champion who was the
Disney model/choreographer for SNOW WHITE, the Blue Fairy in PINOCCHIO,
Mr. Stork in DUMBO, and Hyacinth Hippo in FANTASIA.
BOGIE BONANZA!: Producer/host Dick Dinman walks listeners
through some of the cinematic highlights of Humphrey Bogart's incredible
career that are included in the outstanding 24-film HUMPHREY BOGART: THE
ESSENTIAL COLLECTION and features portions of a very rare Humphrey
Bogart/Lauren Bacall interview conducted by legendary newsman Edward R.
Murrow as well as some comments by two-time Bogart costar Joan Leslie.
THE EXORCIST MEETS KING KONG (IN BLU-RAY!): Warner Home Video
pioneer George Feltenstein returns to reveal the low-down on the
long-awaited Blu-ray release of the one, the only, the original KING
KONG, and surprises producer/host Dick Dinman with news of some shocking
discoveries that make their very first appearance on the pristine new
Blu-ray incarnation of what many believe to be the scariest film ever
made THE EXORCIST and shares exclusive news about upcoming Warner Home
Video releases.
BLU BOGIE: THE MALTESE FALCON and THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA
MADRE, two of Humphrey Bogart's most acclaimed cinema classics, have
been restored to luminous perfection in Super High Definition Blu-ray
and to celebrate the occasion producer/host Dick Dinman and Warner Home
Video Senior Vice President of Classic and Theatrical Marketing George
Feltenstein marvel at the enduring popularity of this great actor who
was named the number one "Male Star of All Time" by the American Film
Institute.
PRETTY MAIDS, OCEAN'S 11 AND ANGIE DICKINSON: Angie Dickinson,
one of producer/host Dick Dinman's most treasured guests, returns to
regale us with some uproarious memories about her participation in the
outrageously controversial and feverishly erotic sex farce co-starring
Rock Hudson PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN A ROW which has just been released by
the Warner Archive, as well as her memories of working and frolicking
with the legendary Rat Pack (Sinatra, Martin, Davis Jr. and Lawford) in
the original OCEAN'S 11 which Warner has just magnificently restored on
Blu-ray.
SAYING GOODBYE TO TONY CURTIS (Part Three): The late Tony
Curtis reveals shocking facts in candid and blistering fashion that
"he's never told anyone else" to producer/host Dick Dinman about his
disastrous descent into drug-induced personal and professional hell as
well as his spectacular and inspiring comeback in new and exciting
artistic triumphs.
SAYING GOODBYE TO TONY CURTIS (Part Two): The late Tony Curtis
shares intimate remembrances with producer/host Dick Dinman about the
stratospheric highs and soon-to-be catastrophic lows that accompanied
his ascendency into the rarified ranks of Hollywood super-stardom.
SAYING GOODBYE TO TONY CURTIS (Part One): A mega-movie star who
was also an uncommonly versatile actor who could play light comedy and
heavy drama with equal ease, the late Tony Curtis delivers a
no-holds-barred account to producer/host Dick Dinman about his rough,
poverty-stricken upbringing on the mean streets of New York and the
miraculous first break that transported him on the road to stardom.
MARGE CHAMPION: LOVELY TO LOOK AT, DELIGHTFUL TO KNOW: The
mirthful musical Technicolor delight LOVELY TO LOOK AT has just been
released by the Warner Archive and helping producer/host Dick Dinman
celebrate the happy occasion is one of it's stars Marge Champion who
sits high atop the rarified list of great cinema dancers alongside the
likes of Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, and Gene Kelly.
FORBIDDEN (BLU) PLANET!: Possibly the single most influential
science-fiction classic in the annals of screen history, FORBIDDEN
PLANET is finally here in the full glory of Super High Definition
Blu-ray and the wonder of remastered Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound,
and joining producer/host Dick Dinman is none other than it's beautiful
and bountifully talented star Anne Francis who has some great stories
about it's production and also candidly reveals some of the heartbreaks
she experienced during her acclaimed screen career.
AN EXCLUSIVE THREE-SHOW VISIT WITH KIM NOVAK (Part Three): In
this final segment Kim Novak tells producer/host Dick Dinman about what
she had to go through to convince tough studio boss Harry Cohn to allow
her to do her most challenging role and relates her experiences with
Alfred Hitchcock and Jimmy Stewart on the Hitchcock masterpiece VERTIGO
as well as with an unceasingly dictatorial Kirk Douglas, an aging and
amorously-inclined Fredric March, a delightful Fred Astaire, and
nineteen (count 'em!) siamese cats.
AN EXCLUSIVE THREE-SHOW VISIT WITH KIM NOVAK (Part Two): Kim
Novak returns and regales producer/host Dick Dinman with her unusual
take on the reputedly volcanic director Otto Preminger, her
disappointingly chilly on-set non-relationship with her idol and costar
Tyrone Power, as well as her experience with an incredibly uncomfortable
William Holden, an extremely vulnerable Rita Hayworth, and a mercurial
Frank Sinatra whose demeanor changed spectacularly from picture to
picture.
AN EXCLUSIVE THREE-SHOW VISIT WITH KIM NOVAK (Part One): Kim
Novak is that rare superstar who has for decades guarded her privacy
zealously, granted few interviews and has virtually withdrawn from
Hollywood's glaring spotlight but in this three-show DVD CLASSICS CORNER
ON THE AIR exclusive and comprehensive chat she and producer/host Dick
Dinman celebrate Sony Picture Entertainment's dvd release of the KIM
NOVAK COLLECTION as she relates how she was virtually thrust into
instant stardom and reveals her feelings about the advantages and
disadvantages about this jarringly sudden fame.
RIDIN' THE RANGE WITH CLINT WALKER: To celebrate the Warner
Archive remastered dvd release of the action-packed sagebrush saga
YELLOWSTONE KELLY your producer/host Dick Dinman pow-wows with his
boyhood idol and YELLOWSTONE KELLY star Clint Walker whose eight seasons
in the title role of the television series CHEYENNE created an indelibly
positive image for his millions of fans that lives on to this day.
A BLU STAGECOACH (Part Two): Producer/host Dick Dinman's
salute to Criterion's spectacular Blu-ray transfer of John Ford's
STAGECOACH continues with a rare treasure from his personal public
domain vault: a radio version of STAGECOACH with Claire Trevor repeating
her original film role opposite iconic western leading man Randolph
Scott stepping in for John Wayne as the notorious Ringo Kid.
A BLU STAGECOACH (Part One): To salute the occasion of the
first (and finest ever) Blu-ray release by Criterion of director John
Ford's Oscar-winning western masterpiece STAGECOACH your producer/host
Dick Dinman's guests director Andrew McLaglen (who knew Maine-born Ford
intimately from the twenties until his death) and the late Karl Malden
share touching and humorous reminiscences about their experiences with
the great man.
CROSBY IN COURT! (PART TWO): Mary Crosby and George Knopfler
return to discuss with producer/host Dick Dinman more sacrifices that
were necessary to achieve this David vs. Goliath two million dollar plus
court victory and the potential ultimate ramifications this success
could have on performers similarly afflicted by their employers
"creative" bookkeeping practices.
CROSBY IN COURT! (PART ONE): A ten year legal battle between
interests for the Bing Crosby estate against MCA Records Inc. has just
resulted in a two million dollar plus jury award in favor of the Crosby
people which is a decision that should hopefully embolden those many
artists who feel they've been financially mistreated by their employers
to take similar action. Bing's daughter Mary Crosby and distinguished
trial attorney George Knopfler share with producer/host Dick Dinman
details about the trials (pun intended) and tribulations it took to
bring about this major victory for artists rights.
DVD CLASSICS CORNER ON THE AIR IS IN LIKE FLYNN (AGAIN)!: Only
a star of the legendarily charismatic magnitude of Errol Flynn could
inspire the dvd release of no less than four collections and Warner Home
Video's just released TCM SPOTLIGHT: ERROL FLYNN ADVENTURES just might
be the best of a magnificent bunch. Warner Home Video V.P. George
Feltenstein, Errol Flynn's daughter Rory Flynn, and fellow swashbuckler
Stewart Granger explain to producer/host Dick Dinman why they feel that
Errol Flynn was both a great movie star and a great actor.
DESCENDING INTO THE DARK DEPTHS OF NOIR (PART TWO):Sony
Pictures Home Entertainment's COLUMBIA FILM NOIR CLASSICS (VOLUME TWO)
takes viewers on a dark journey among low-lifes and mobsters, crooked
cops and gun molls, and the dim-witted pawns who forever changed the
landscape of cinema, and whose doomed paths are as disturbing today as
when they were first committed to film. Sony's film restoration
technical specialist Rita Belda explains to producer/host Dick Dinman
how and why the gripping films included in this collection were chosen
out of Columbia's vast noir library.
DESCENDING INTO THE DARK DEPTHS OF NOIR (PART ONE): Warner
Home Video's tense, tingling, and terrific no holds barred FILM NOIR
COLLECTION (Volume Five) introduces us to the people you've always
wanted to meet: murderers, thugs, blackmailers, snitches, shysters,
duplicitous dames and (gasp!) politicians. Producer/host Dick Dinman's
guests are Kathryn Grant Crosby who co-stars in the most relentlessly
shocking film in this collection as well Warner Home Video V.P. George
Feltenstein who explains his theory on why film noir retains it's
popularity in contemporary times.
GARLANDS FOR JUDY: "A STAR" IS BLU! (Part Three): Warner Home
Video's senior vice president of classic and theatrical marketing George
Feltenstein shares with host Dick Dinman the reasons why A STAR IS BORN
maintains it's reputation as the greatest musical drama in cinema
history, explains why it looks better than any wide screen/color film of
it's era and marvels over the incomparable brilliance of the
performances of Judy Garland and James Mason.
GARLANDS FOR JUDY: "A STAR" IS BLU! (Part Two): John Fricke
returns to reveal the truth about the insidious studio intrigue that
resulted in the butchering of A STAR IS BORN in it's initial engagement
(which probably cost Judy Garland and James Mason their respective
Oscars) and the miraculous restoration that is on luminescent display in
Warner Home Video's new Blu-ray release.
GARLANDS FOR JUDY: "A STAR" IS BLU! (Part One): Your host Dick
Dinman celebrates Warner Home Video's magnificent Blu-ray release of the
greatest musical drama ever committed to celluloid A STAR IS BORN with
Judy Garland author/historian extraordinaire John Fricke as they explore
the myriad of controversies surrounding the classic film and the chaotic
ups and downs of it's brilliant star's career. PLUS: In an exclusive
clip from Dick Dinman's very first star interview MGM leading man
Stewart Granger tells Dick why he "turned down" the role of Norman
Maine, an account that John Fricke regards with great ("sour grapes?")
suspicion.
THE THREE LIVES OF TERRY MOORE (Part Two): Terry Moore shares
more memories about the highs and lows of her Hollywood career with host
Dick Dinman and reveals the identity of her favorite (and least
favorite) leading man. EXTRA: THE BROTHERS WARNER is the DICK'S PICKS
OF THE WEEK!
THE THREE LIVES OF TERRY MOORE (Part One): From child actress
to animal-loving teen sensation to Oscar-nominated temptress, the
eternally beautiful and bountifully talented Terry Moore has led at
least three on-screen lives and in this exclusive two-part chat with
host Dick Dinman this entrancing lady shares some of her most memorable
reminiscences about life in Golden Age Hollywood. EXTRA: Lionsgate's
fabulous Blu-ray editions of THE LADY KILLERS and CONTEMPT are DICK'S
PICKS OF THE WEEK!
DOCTOR ZHIVAGO IS BLU!: Certainly no film as resplendent as
David Lean's DOCTOR ZHIVAGO in both picture and sound deserves more to
get the full Blu-ray super-high-definition treatment and Warner Home
Video's incarnation of this magnificent romantic epic astonishes in all
respects. Dick Dinman's guest is the distinguished British star Rita
Tushingham whose performance as Zhivago's daughter is one of the high
points of this universally adored classic.
THOSE B-A-A-D GIRLS OF FILM NOIR: In the 40's and 50's
the juiciest roles for actresses in Hollywood were often in B-pictures
that explored the dark side of life and offered them starring roles as
cool, calculating gals who could stick a knife in a guy's back and make
him like it and Sony's dvd release of BAD GIRLS OF FILM NOIR (Volumes 1
& 2) showcases these dames at their most deadly and duplicitous. In a
show that includes generous samplings of audio clips from these
forgotten gems Sony Entertainment's restoration wizards Rita Belda and
Grover Crisp tell your host Dick Dinman how and why they chose these
eight films out of their vast library.
THE BROTHERS WARNER BY THE WARNER SISTERS: In the
infant days of Hollywood, four brothers built an empire on a dream,
revolutionized Hollywood and created the first major studio with a
social conscience and your host Dick Dinman's guest ,
writer/producer/director Cass Warner Sperling, talks about the triumphs
and challenges inherent in her 30 years of researching personal archives
and conducting interviews with relatives, actors and others with close
ties to the studio's history that eventually yielded the award-winning
documentary THE BROTHERS WARNER which is both an intimate family
portrait and an epic saga.
THE MUSIC MAN'S 76 BLU TROMBONES: Your host Dick Dinman and
Warner Home Video's Senior V.P. for Theatrical Catalogue Marketing
George Feltenstein chat about how the astonishing clarity and
magnificent sound of this immaculately stunning super high definition
Blu-ray rendition of THE MUSIC MAN was achieved. Archival commentary by
Shirley Jones. PLUS: Exclusive news about upcoming Warner Home Video and
Warner Archive releases.
SALUTING EDWARD G. ROBINSON: To commemorate the release of six
new Edward G. Robinson classics from the Warner Archive (THE MAN WITH
TWO FACES, MANPOWER, TIGER SHARK, TWO SECONDS, THE LAST GANGSTER, and
OUR VINES HAVE TENDER GRAPES) your host Dick Dinman and three of
Robinson's leading ladies (Margaret O'Brien, Kathleen Hughes, and Gena
Rowlands) pay tribute tribute to this uncommonly versatile superstar.
TV MOVIE'S BRAVE TRUE-LIFE LADIES: THE BETTY FORD STORY: Dick
Dinman's (fourth-time) returning guest, the supremely talented Gena
Rowlands, won both a Golden Globe and Emmy Award as Best Actress for her
stingingly uncompromising performance as First Lady Betty Ford, whose
courageous revelations about her mastectomy and addiction to alcohol and
prescription drugs boldly broke new ground in bringing these heretofore
taboo subjects out into the open for the very first time.
TV MOVIE'S BRAVE TRUE-LIFE LADIES: BABE (Part Two): Stanley
Rubin, the producer of the Emmy Award winning television movie classic
BABE shares with host Dick Dinman the problems and roadblocks he and his
producing partner Norman Felton had to overcome to bring this very
special project to fruition. (BABE was Dick Dinman's first speaking role
in a television movie and audio of the short scene is included in this
show.)
TV MOVIE'S BRAVE TRUE-LIFE LADIES: BABE (Part One): Susan
Clark, who so deservedly received a Best Actress Emmy Award for her
bravura performance as Babe Didrikson Zaharias, who was one of the
greatest Gold Medal athletes of the 20th century, tells host Dick Dinman
about the myriad of challenges she faced in bringing this gallant lady
back to life.
BING SINGS AGAIN! (Part Three): From daughter to mother: Mary
Crosby's vivacious and charming mother Kathryn Grant Crosby offers her
unique and intimate perspective about the qualities that set Bing Crosby
apart from all of the other iconic entertainers while host Dick Dinman
spins some great Crosby musical classics
BING SINGS AGAIN! (Part Two): Mary Crosby returns to regale
your host Dick Dinman with some pricelessly humorous and surprising
stories about her legendary dad and reveals the truth about the rumors
of a Crosby-Sinatra feud in a show chock full of generous musical
samples of the Crosby singing style that contributed to make him the
most popular and longest running musical super-star of the century.
BING SINGS AGAIN! (Part One): To commemorate the release of
THE BING CROSBY RADIO RECORDINGS 1954-1956 (160 song!) mega-set (and the
first major Crosby cd release in decades) your host Dick Dinman welcomes
Bing's talented and beautiful daughter Mary Crosby to the first of three
mirth-filled musical shows devoted to saluting the gentleman who those
in the know now acknowledge to be the greatest and most versatile
entertainer of the twentieth century.
MIRACLE ON 34th STREET (Part Two): Conclusion of the radio
version of MIRACLE ON 34th STREET.
MIRACLE ON 34th STREET (Part One): As a holiday gift to his
cherished listeners and to commemorate the Blu-ray release of 20th
Century Fox Home Entertainment's MIRACLE ON 34th STREET your host Dick
Dinman presents and narrates a gem from his own private public domain
collection: the rarely heard radio version of MIRACLE ON 34th STREET
with Maureen O'Hara, John Payne and Edmund Gwenn in his Oscar winning
role of Kris Kringle recreating their original roles in this charming
holiday classic.
I'M DREAMING OF A BLU CHRISTMAS: A full show "Dick's
Picks" program as your host Dick Dinman chooses the following Blu-ray
releases as the perfect holiday gifts for classic film lovers feeling
Blu: Paramount's IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, VCI Entertainment's A CHRISTMAS
CAROL, 20th Century Fox's MIRACLE ON 34th STREET, and Warner's QUO
VADIS, THE WIZARD OF OZ and GONE WITH THE WIND.
A CASTLE OF COLUMBIA NOIR: Host Dick Dinman and guest
Rita Belda (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Technical Specialist, Film
Restoration and Asset Management) salute Sony's dvd releases of THE
WILLIAM CASTLE COLLECTION and THE COLUMBIA PICTURES FILM NOIR COLLECTION
(#1) as they trade hilarious true stories about the outrageous stunts
Castle would pull in order to ballyhoo his classic horror films after
which they explore the dark depths of the classic film noir genre.
A FULLER FILM EXPERIENCE: Samuel Fuller's widow Christa
Lang Fuller, Fuller star Michael Dante and host Dick Dinman salute the
tumultuous life and cinematic legacy of the defiantly maverick
writer-director whose brilliant works are now on display in Sony
Pictures Home Entertainment's new dvd release THE SAMUEL FULLER
COLLECTION.
OZ AND ENDS: In addition to sharing final fascinating
facts about the creation of the astounding new Blu-ray release of THE
WIZARD OF OZ, home video pioneer George Feltenstein tantalizes host Dick
Dinman with previews of the Blu-ray releases of GONE WITH THE WIND and
Hitchcock's NORTH BY NORTHWEST as well as other upcoming and current
classic Blu-ray, standard dvd, and Warner Archive releases and reveals
for the first time, in a DVD CLASSICS CORNER ON THE AIR exclusive, the
name of an iconic and groundbreaking cinema classic currently being
prepared for a 2011 Blu-ray debut.
THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD IN BLU (Part Three): Dick
Dinman's returning guest is Warner Home Video Senior Vice President of
Theatrical and Classic Catalogue Marketing pioneer George Feltenstein
who discusses how he and his talented restoration wizards were able to
create a new OZ Blu-ray release that visually and audibly surpasses even
the original Technicolor release prints.
THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD IN BLU (Part Two): The first OZ
director fired! The Tin Man hospitalized in critical condition! The
first Wicked Witch leaves OZ in a huff! (Or, as Groucho Marx would say:
"A minute and a huff!"). "Over The Rainbow" almost cut from the film!
The second Wicked Witch badly burned! Emmy Award winning OZ
producer/documentarian John Fricke returns and shares with host Dick
Dinman the trials and tribulations it took to create this incredibly
risky masterwork.
THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD IN BLU (Part One): In a show
dedicated to the magnificence of the new 70th Anniversary Blu-ray
release of THE WIZARD OF OZ Emmy Award winning OZ documentarian/producer
John Fricke tells host Dick Dinman fascinating true facts about what it
took to bring this once in a lifetime masterpiece to the screen.
ELEANOR PARKER'S FAVORITE (AND LEAST FAVORITE!) LEADING
MAN: Three time Best Actress Oscar nominee Eleanor Parker's scores
of leading men included Gable, Flynn (twice), Bogart, Sinatra (twice),
Mitchum, Kirk Douglas, Heston, MacMurray, and many others of equal
prominence and she returns to the show to reveal to Dick Dinman her
choice for favorite leading man (and to address rumors that they were
intimately involved) and in blistering no-holds-barred terms reveals the
identity of a leading male co-star she despised and why. In a surprise
conclusion the subject of her ire tells Dick Dinman his side of the
story.
KIRK DOUGLAS'S FAVORITE FILM: Dick Dinman's
distinguished guest two-time Best Actress Oscar nominee Gena Rowlands
returns to the show and chimes in with her opinion of Kirk Douglas'
choice for the best film he ever made as do Kirk's son Michael Douglas
and producer-director Steven Spielberg.
SAYING GOODBYE TO KARL MALDEN: Dick Dinman's
bittersweet send-off to Oscar and Emmy winning character star Karl
Malden who will always remain one of his very favorite guests.
THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK (Part One): Only director
George Stevens could transfer this extraordinary portrayal of humanity
set during one of history's most inhumane periods into a motion picture
of such singular power and everlasting relevance in which Dick Dinman's
guest Millie Perkins brilliantly portrays the insightful 13-year-old
biographer of her family's two-year hiding from the Nazi's murderous
aggression in an Amsterdam attic.
THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK (Part Two): Dick Dinman's
guest Diane Baker began her distinguished film career with a stunningly
sensitive and deeply felt portrayal as Anne Frank's sister in this
George Stevens masterwork and discusses the challenges inherent in
bringing this poignant true story to the screen with such
uncompromisingly authentic detail and shattering effect.
THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK (Part Three): Dick Dinman
and his multi-talented guest George Stevens Jr. discuss the challenges
inherent in bringing THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK to the screen as well as
the unique qualities that made producer-director George Stevens Sr. a
universally revered filmmaker for the ages.
ELEANOR PARKER'S INTERRUPTED MELODY: The frequently
requested Oscar winning true life musical drama INTERRUPTED MELODY is
finally available from the Warner Archive Collection and Dick Dinman's
guest is it's three time best actress Oscar nominated star Eleanor
Parker who explains in detail the incredible challenges she faced in her
Oscar nominated portrayal of Marjorie Lawrence whose illustrious
operatic career was sideswiped by polio. ADDED ATTRACTION: Dick Dinman
goes WESTBOUND with Randolph Scott's co-star Michael Dante.
THE WARNER ARCHIVE COLLECTION: Dick Dinman's guest
George Feltenstein, senior vice president in charge of Warner Home
Video's classic catalogue, opens the curtain to reveal an exciting new
milestone in dvd history which will make hundreds of pristine
never-before-released cinema classics available to classic movie fans at
their beck and call.
TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES FIFTEENTH
ANNIVERSARY: Turner Classic Movies master of ceremonies Robert
Osborne and senior vice president of programming Charles Tabesh
celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of the one and only Turner Classic
Movies with host Dick Dinman.
GLORIOUS BLACK AND WHITE: Converting a color film
(NICKELODEON) to black and white may seem like a strange idea to some
but this marvelous restoration proves conclusively that certain films
benefit spectacularly when released in this process. Grover Crisp, Sony
Pictures Entertainment senior vice president of asset management, film
restoration and digital mastering, explains to host Dick Dinman why and
how this unusual task was accomplished and discusses the latest Sony
Blu-ray releases.
A WEALTH OF WELLMAN: (Part One) As six of
director William Wellman's most controversial and banned-for-decades
classics are now finally released in the new FORBIDDEN HOLLYWOOD
COLLECTION (Volume Three) Dick Dinman and returning guest William
Wellman Jr. expose the fiery artistic sensibilities and turbulent life
experiences of one of the most tempestuous super-talents in cinema
history.
A WEALTH OF WELLMAN: (Part Two) More
colorful revelations about the passionately productive director William
Wellman with Dick Dinman's guest William Wellman Jr.
QUO VADIS, ROBERT TAYLOR, HOLLYWOOD AND COMMUNISM: To
commemorate the release of the magnificent Blu-ray dvd of one of the
finest Biblical extravaganzas of all time Dick Dinman and guest Linda J.
Alexander, the author of the highly acclaimed book ROBERT TAYLOR:
RELUCTANT WITNESS, HOLLYWOOD AND COMMUNISM, reveal the true and never
before told facts about how Taylor was forced to testify before the
House of Un-American Activities and subsequently suffered at the hands
of those ignorant about what really transpired during this incident at
the inception of the dark days of the Hollywood blacklist. SPECIAL ADDED
ATTRACTION: NATALIE WOOD COLLECTION.
CHUCK AMUCK! PART 1 Dick Dinman pays tribute to
legendary Looney Tunes animation director Chuck Jones with Jones'
talented daughter Linda Jones Clough as they focus on the qualities that
made his contributions to the field of animation so unique and beloved
as well as offer a preview of the new Turner Classic Movies documentary
CHUCK JONES: MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD.
CHUCK AMUCK! PART 2 Dick Dinman's tribute to Chuck
Jones concludes with his guest Peggy Stern who produced the enchanting
and memorable documentary CHUCK JONES: MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD.
DICK DINMAN'S BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION FOR ERNEST BORGNINE. Hale and
hearty 92 year old Oscar, Golden Globes, and Emmy-winning screen legend
Ernest Borgnine celebrates his birthday with Dick Dinman and regales us
with his affectionate remembrances of Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift,
William Holden, Bette Davis, Gary Cooper, Spencer Tracy and many other
of filmdom's greats with whom he shared the screen during the course of
his unparalleled fifty-two year career.
KNOW THE SCORE: THE CLASSIC MUSIC O20th CENTURY FOX.
Dick Dinman's returning guest, writer, producer and film music scholar
Nick Redman discusses the remarkable (and too often unheralded)
"isolated score" option exclusive to many recent 20th Century Fox
classic home video releases with generous samples from the scores of THE
SAND PEBBLES, PLANET OF THE APES, CAPTAIN FROM CASTILLE, GARDEN OF EVIL
and THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL.
DVD CLASSICS CORNER ON THE AIR SALUTES THE FINEST FILM
COLLECTION OF 2008: The "Dick's Pick's" of the year is the
remarkable coffee table worthy MURNAU, BORZAGE AND FOX COLLECTION which
features 12 films from two directors whose magically romantic, erotic
and visually extravagant styles were integral in the development of
modern movies. Dick Dinman's guests are executive music producer Nick
Redman and composer/conductor Christopher Caliendo who composed the
scores for two of these masterpieces as well as the full-length
documentary included with this awesome collection.
RANDY RIDES AGAIN Legendary western star Randolph Scott
is saluted along with the director of six of Scott's finest cinema
classics Budd Boetticher. Dick Dinman's guests are Michael Dante who
costarred with Scott in a Boetticher directed western and has some great
stories to tell, as well as Senior Vice President In Charge Of
Restoration for Sony Pictures Entertainment Grover Crisp who describes
the arduous and time-consuming process it took to bring the
Scott-Boetticher cinema milestones to home video in such phenomenal
shape.
THE POWERS OF POWER Dick Dinman and his guest Tyrone
Power Jr. in a riveting and revealing profile of Twentieth Century Fox's
greatest Golden Age superstar Tyrone Power, in a show that includes a
generous sampling of scenes and music from some of Power's greatest
films.
THE FUTURE: THREE DIMENSION IN YOUR LIVING ROOM! George
Feltenstein returns to regale Dick Dinman with a prediction that the
three dimension process will be an integral part of your home theater
experience in the not-so-distant future. Includes audio clips from nine
three dimension classics in which Randolph Scott, Edmond O'Brien, Joanne
Dru, John Ireland, Richard Carlson, Arlene Dahl and Fernando Lamas extol
the virtues of this "new" cinematic thrill. Special added feature: Errol
Flynn out west!
THE PRESENT: CINERAMA IN YOUR LIVING ROOM! They said
it couldn't be done but Warner Home Video's new Blu-ray dvd version of
HOW THE WEST WAS WON makes video history by reproducing the stupendous
three-panel Cinerama ultra-widescreen process for home exhibition and
perfecting a technology that finally eliminates the "join lines" and
unifies the images into a superb home viewing experience that actually
captures the essence of the production's initial exclusive reserved seat
theatrical exhibitions. Dick Dinman's guest, senior vice president in
charge of Warner Home Video's classic catalogue George Feltenstein,
reveals how this incredible feat was accomplished and gives us a sneak
preview of upcoming classic Blu-ray releases.
A CONVERSATION WITH ROBERT OSBORNE Dick Dinman's guest
is noted author, columnist, and Turner Classic Movies host Robert
Osborne as they discuss the dramatically increased popularity of the
Golden Age cinema classics as well as some major never Oscar-nominated
stars whose work has always been taken for granted.
FRANK SINATRA: A TRIBUTE TO THE (ACTING) CHAIRMAN OF THE
BOARD Dick Dinman's guests Turner Classics Movies host Robert
Osborne and three-time Best Actress Oscar nominee and two-time Sinatra
leading lady Eleanor Parker (in a very rare and exclusive interview)
focus on Sinatra the actor and offer some revealing and occasionally
critical insights about Sinatra's dramatic abilities.
FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELTS! IT'S BETTE DAVIS' HUNDREDTH
BIRTHDAY! (part one) Dick Dinman and distinguished columnist, film
historian, author, raconteur and Turner Classic Movies host Robert
Osborne in a centennial tribute to that star of stars Bette Davis.
Special guest appearance by Joan Leslie whom Davis called "The nicest
girl on the Warner lot."
FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELTS! IT'S BETTE DAVIS' HUNDREDTH
BIRTHDAY! (part two) The Bette Davis centennial celebration
continues as Dick Dinman pairs up with two time Best Actress Oscar
nominee Gena Rowlands who, in addition to co-starring with Davis, was
also one of her closest friends, though their relationship began on a
decidedly chilly note.
PART ONE Seven year old child prodigy, THE BLUE
ANGEL, Nazi brutality, escape to Paris and the United States, THE BRIDE
OF FRANKENSTEIN, the early days at Universal and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,
the great MGM scores, introduction to David O. Selznick and Alfred
Hitchcock, the first Oscar nomination.
PART TWO REBECCA, SUSPICION, moving over to Warner
Brothers, a revealing and unexpected portrait of studio head Jack L.
Warner, the great Waxman-Warner years, free at last, first Oscar win for
Billy Wilder's SUNSET BLVD, never-before-released unused SUNSET BLVD
music, director George Stevens complains about Waxman's score for A
PLACE IN THE SUN, second consecutive Oscar win for A PLACE IN THE SUN,
Waxman score for NIGHT AND THE CITY replaced in Britain.
PART THREE Hitchcock dislikes Waxman's REAR WINDOW
score, the great Twentieth Century Fox scores, back to Warner's with THE
SILVER CHALICE, reunion with Billy Wilder for THE SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS,
Steven Spielberg loves Waxman's SPIRIT score, a controversial PEYTON
PLACE.
PART FOUR Jack Warner livid over Waxman's initial
score for NUN'S STORY, BELOVED INFIDEL, ADVENTURES OF A YOUNG MAN,
Bernard Herrmann calls Waxman's score for TARAS BULBA (which almost
didn't happen!) "the score of a lifetime", a SUNSET BLVD finale.
Dick Dinman's DVD CLASSICS CORNER ON THE AIR is proud to present a
four part tribute to Franz Waxman, the only Golden Age composer to win
two consecutive Oscars. Dick's guest is his son, producer John Waxman,
who shares some poignant, humorous, and always compelling stories about
his father's experiences during his legendary three decade plus career.
Included in these shows will be generous samplings of twenty-seven
Waxman scores, some of which have never been released commercially in
any home audio format.
STEVE McQUEEN : REBEL WITH A CAUSE Dick Dinman and his
Oscar-winning guest Karl Malden pay tribute to Steve McQueen who was one
of the most iconic screen legends of the 60's and 70's.
UP IN THE AIR WITH "AIRPLANE" Dick Dinman salutes the
25th Anniversary of one of the funniest films ever made with two of
AIRPLANE'S stars Robert Hays and Peter Graves.
PRODUCED BY JOHN WAYNE. John Wayne's production
company was responsible for some of the screen's most memorable efforts
and Dick Dinman's guests Karen Sharpe who, after being introduced in
Wayne's THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY was subsequently placed under exclusive
contract to Wayne, and William Wellman Jr. whose father directed five
Wayne-produced films, reveal the inside story about what went on during
the filming of these popular screen successes.
SEEING RED : A SKELTON IN YOUR CLOSET. Red Skelton was
one of the greatest comic geniuses of the twentieth century and three of
his beautiful and talented leading ladies (Arlene Dahl, Ann Rutherford
and Betty Garrett) regale host Dick Dinman with their hilarious,
touching and sometimes physically painful experiences working with this
totally unpredictable master clown.
MAJOR DUNDEE : RESTORATION OF A TROUBLED CLASSIC. An
unprecedented restoration (with twelve extra minutes and an entirely new
score) of a much-maligned mega-flop is discussed by Dick's guests
Michael Anderson Jr. (who was one of the top-billed stars) and
Christopher Caliendo (who composed the new MAJOR DUNDEE score). Included
are some hilarious revelations about tempestuous director Sam Peckinpah,
Charlton Heston and perpetually inebriated co-star Richard Harris.
SPENCER TRACY : GREATEST OF THE GREAT. Dick Dinman's
guests are Tracy co-stars John Ericson and Anne Francis who
affectionally relate their experiences working with Tracy, and Oscar
winner Karl Malden tells Dick his theory about what qualities made Tracy
an actor without equal. Also archival insights from Tracy co-stars
Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, Richard Widmark,
Angela Lansbury, Mickey Rooney, Robert Wagner, Lee Marvin and Sidney
Poitier as well as scenes from some of Tracy's finest classics.
CAPRACORNICOPIA (part one): Dick Dinman's two part
tribute to Frank Capra with guest Frank Capra Jr. who, sadly, passed
away recently. These two shows, which have been revised somewhat from
the original, are repeated in his honor.
DICK'S PICKS TOP TEN LIST (part two)
DICK'S PICKS TOP TEN LIST (part one): Dick Dinman's
choices for the top ten classic dvd releases of last year.
STANWYCK and LANCASTER: ALWAYS AT THEIR BEST : Stanwyck
co-star John Ericson and Lancaster co-star Tony Curtis reveal what
qualities made Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster such enduring cinema
giants and Chad Everett tells host Dick Dinman about his riotous
encounter with Lancaster.
CLARK GABLE: KING OF HOLLYWOOD: Gable co-stars Jane
Russell and Audrey Totter share their experiences with Dick Dinman on
working and dating the super-star and undisputed king of all the stars
Clark Gable.
A FORD IN YOUR FUTURE (part three): Award winning
producer-director Nick Redman and executive in charge of the 20th
Century Fox classics division Richard Ashton weigh in on what it was
that made John Ford one of the most revered film directors of all time.
ELMER BERNSTEIN : CELLULOID MAESTRO: Generous samples
of classic Bernstein film music (as well as other legendary cinema
composers) abound in Dick Dinman's tribute to the art of film scoring.
A FORD IN YOUR FUTURE : (part two): Contemporary film
composer Christopher Caliendo talks about the challenges of scoring the
newly-restored Ford silent classics THE IRON HORSE and FOUR SONS as
well as the sorry state of the current film music industry.
A WINTER'S TALE: The brilliant comic genius Jonathan
Winters returns to DVD CLASSICS CORNER ON THE AIR for the fourth time
with new and riotous, as well as poignant, stories about his chaotic
life and times.
A CROSBY CHRISTMAS: Dick Dinman's annual Christmas
show tribute to Bing Crosby features an exclusive interview with Bing's
widow as well as songs galore and scenes from some Crosby's biggest
movie hits.
A FORD IN YOUR FUTURE (part one): In the first of a
three-show tribute to iconic director John Ford, Dick Dinman's guest,
director Andrew V. McLaglen, who knew director Ford intimately and
professionally from the early 30's until his death, tells some
never-before-heard stories about the unpredictable director in a show
that features scenes and music from some of the great Ford classics.
MITCHUMANIAMARATHON: (part two): Dick Dinman's guests
Jane Russell, Peter Graves, Anne Jeffreys, William Wellman Jr., Karen
Sharpe, Stanley Rubin, and Michael Anderson Jr. try to top each other
with their funny and sometimes very personal recollections about
free-spirited rebel superstar Robert Mitchum.
MITCHUMANIAMARATHON (part one): Was there ever a more
colorful superstar than Robert Mitchum? Not according to Dick Dinman's
guest Michael Anderson Jr. who co-starred with Mitchum in THE
SUNDOWNERS.
AL JOLSON: "MAMMY'S" BOY: To this day Al Jolson is
considered by many to be the greatest entertainer of the twentieth
century. Host Dick Dinman is joined by Betty Garrett, whose husband
Larry Parks portrayed Jolson in THE JOLSON STORY, as they reveal some
surprising insights about this legendary performer.
GARY COOPER: MAN OF THE WEST: When Joan Leslie was
sixteen years old she became Gary Cooper's leading lady in SERGEANT YORK
and Michael Anderson directed "Coop" in his last two films. Both join
your host Dick Dinman as they reminisce about one of classic filmdom's
greatest stars.
THE MICKEY and JUDY SHOW: Dick Dinman and his guest
Ann Rutherford (Mickey Rooney's leading lady in twelve Andy Hardy
films) marvel at the length and breadth of Rooney's musical talents in a
show that includes songs by Rooney and Judy Garland as well as generous
samplings of Rooney's untutored mastery of a multitude of musical
instruments.
DANCIN' ON AIR WITH FRED ASTAIRE: Fred Astaire's co-
star Joan Leslie and host Dick Dinman explore the incomparable genius of
film legend Astaire not only as a dancer supreme but as a vocalist,
actor, piano soloist, choreographer and songwriter. Archival comments
by Audrey Hepburn and David Niven.
ROBERT TAYLOR: MOST UNDER-RATED SUPERSTAR? Taylor
co-stars Arlene Dahl, Chad Everett, and Audrey Totter join Dick Dinman
in a tribute to one of filmdom's most under-appreciated superstars with
clips spotlighting Taylor's versatility.
MIKLOS ROZSA : MOVIELAND'S MAGICAL MUSICAL MAESTRO.
10/17/07 (part three) Dick Dinman's tribute to Miklos Rozsa
concludes with the broadcast world premiere of a suite from a Rozsa
score never before released on any home audio format.
MIKLOS ROZSA : MOVIELAND'S MAGICAL MUSICAL MAESTRO.
10/10/07 (part two) Why were Hitchcock and David O. Selznick not on
speaking terms with Miklos Rozsa? The real scoop on Rozsa's DRAGNET
theme lawsuit.
MIKLOS ROZSA : MOVIELAND'S MAGICAL MUSICAL MAESTRO.
10/03/07 (part one) The first of a three-show 100th Birthday Salute
to Miklos Rozsa (BEN-HUR, SPELLBOUND, EL CID, DOUBLE INDEMNITY, THE
KILLERS, etc.) as Rozsa's daughter Juliet joins host Dick Dinman in a
series of shows that reveal aspects of the creative and human side of
the man behind the music as well as feature generous samples of some of
his most revered works.
FILM NOIR -THE BLEAKER THE BETTER (part two) Dick
Dinman's guest is Film Noir's Queen of Mean, Audrey Totter, who reveals
a different side of this talented lady.
FILM NOIR -THE BLEAKER THE BETTER (part one) Farley
Granger (star of the two Hitchcock masterpieces STRANGERS ON A TRAIN and
ROPE) and author Robert Calhoun share stories about Farley's experiences
with directors Alfred Hitchcock, Nicholas Ray and Anthony Mann.
BETTY GARRETT and OTHER SONGS Dick Dinman pays
tribute to his guest Betty Garrett who survived the heinous blacklist
and emerged victoriously not only as a stage, tv, and screen star, but
also as an award-winning director and author.
IN THE SWIM WITH ESTHER WILLIAMS (track one)
Dick Dinman's guest Betty Garrett shares revealing stories about her
experiences with Hollywood's Million $ Mermaid.
IN THE SWIM WITH ESTHER WILLIAMS (track two)
TALENT, GUTS, and PERSEVERANCE: THE STANLEY KRAMER SAGA
(part two) Dick Dinman's guests Tony Curtis, Jonathan Winters, Abby
Mann and Karen Sharpe Kramer pay tribute to Hollywood's bravest
director.
TALENT, GUTS, and PERSEVERANCE: THE STANLEY KRAMER SAGA
(part one) Dick Dinman's guests Tony Curtis, Jonathan Winters, Abby
Mann and Karen Sharpe Kramer pay tribute to Hollywood's bravest
director.
TWO REBEL DIRECTORS Michael Dante returns and paints
a vivid picture of two directors he worked with, Samuel Fuller and Budd
Boetticher, who defied the Hollywood "system" --- and paid a terrible
price.
Joan Collins and the Seven Thieves Michael Dante, one
of the stars of the classic thriller SEVEN THIEVES, reveals the real
story of the on-set friction between Joan Collins and Rod Steiger and
remembers legendary star Edward G. Robinson.
Katherine Hepburn's 100th Birthday! Katherine
Hepburn's last three performances were in projects produced by Dick
Dinman's guest, writer-producer John Dayton.
Cinema Literary Classics! Dick Dinman's guest Stewart
Granger reveals the story behind his "Prisoner of Zenda."
John Wayne's 100th Birthday! (Part Four) Dick
Dinman's guest: Andrew V. McLaglen.
John Wayne's 100th Birthday! (Part Three) Dick
Dinman's guests: Michael Anderson Jr. and Andrew V. McLaglen.
John Wayne's 100th Birthday! (Part Two) Dick Dinman's
guests: Michael Anderson Jr. and Andrew V. McLaglen.
John Wayne's 100th Birthday! (Part One) Dick Dinman's
guests: Angie Dickinson and Andrew V. McLaglen.
Capracornacopia (Part Two) Dick Dinman's guest Frank
Capra Jr. returns with more Capraesque stories about his father.
Capracornacopia (Part One) Dick Dinman and guest
Frank Capra Jr. salute legendary director Frank Capra.
Errol Flynnathon (Part Two) Dick Dinman's guest is
Errol Flynn's daughter Rory, plus comments from swashbuckler Stewart
Granger.
Errol Flynnathon (Part One) Dick Dinman's guest:
Flynn co-star Ann Rutherford
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