Been away from this blog a few days, and the new release info has been coming in by the truckload. It’ll take a couple days to post ‘em all, but here’s a start.
Olive has licensed a batch of Paramounts (again), including Nicholas Ray’s Run For Cover (1954). Coming from Ray’s sweet spot, surrounded by the likes of Johnny Guitar (1954) and Rebel Without A Cause (1955), it’s been overshadowed by the director’s other pictures. Hope the DVD puts it in front of a larger audience.
Jimmy Cagney, Nicholas Ray and VistaVision — what’s not to like?
Green Briar Picture Shows had a great post on this movie in the last few weeks or so. Worth checking out.
Very happy to see this on the way, along with The Hangman, Warpath, The Savage and others.
I am so purchasing this. Ray and Cagney. Cant wait.
Just a word of love for RUN FOR COVER. Toby’s “sweet spot” phrase is very well-said–it’s a relatively quiet and serene film for Ray, which makes it very unusual, and most people, including me, choose his best films from the more characteristically intense ones. Yet this deserves to be valued too–it takes its qualities of tone and texture from the more mature and settled quality within the hero, played by James Cagney, and it’s nice to see a character like this so effectively done in a Ray film, partly as contrast to most of his usual characters (I’m writing this after just watching BITTER VICTORY again last week) but also simply for its own sake. Not that Matt Dow (Cagney) is infallible–he has a streak about the younger, morally weaker Davey (John Derek) that animates the drama–but that just makes him human. Cagney fans should know that this is one of the actor’s best performances. The movie is a beautiful, satisfying Western–the kind that devotees of 50s Westerns deserve.
Yowsers! Just announced this will also be released on Blu-ray!
http://www.classicflix.com/olive-westerns-cover-silver-city-denver-grande-a-1182.html