Today marks the 50th Anniversary of the publication of Ernest Tidyman’s novel Shaft. The book introduces us to black private eye John Shaft as he is hired by Harlem crime lord, Knocks Persons, to locate and rescue his kidnapped daughter who has been grabbed by the Mafia to force Persons to relent in a turf…
Month: April 2020
Film Review – ALIAS SMITH AND JONES (1971)
ALIAS SMITH AND JONES (TV) (USA, 1971) ***½ Distributor: American Broadcasting Company (ABC); Production Company: Universal Television; Release Date: 5 January 1971 (USA), 19 April 1971 (UK); Filming Dates: 8-28 October 1970; Running Time: 74m; Colour: Technicolor; Sound Mix: Mono; Film Format: 35mm; Film Process: Spherical; Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1; BBFC Cert: PG….
“The Songs of Genesis” now available from McFarland
My new book The Songs of Genesis: A Complete Guide to the Studio Recordings was published by McFarland & Co. on 14 April and is available to order from their site. The book will be available from most online booksellers at some point in May. Kindle versions are available now from Amazon.
Film Review – BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (1969)
BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (USA, 1969) ***** Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox; Production Company: Campanile Productions / Newman-Foreman Company; Release Date: 23 September 1969 (USA), 5 February 1970 (UK); Filming Dates: 16 September 1968 – 13 March 1969; Running Time: 110m; Colour: DeLuxe; Sound Mix: Mono (Westrex Recording System); Film Format:…
Film Review – LOVE AND DEATH (1975)
LOVE AND DEATH (USA, 1975) **** Distributor: United Artists; Production Company: Jack Rollins & Charles H. Joffe Productions; Release Date: 10 June 1975 (USA), October 1975 (UK); Filming Dates: 21 September 1974-late February 1975; Running Time: 85m; Colour: DeLuxe; Sound Mix: Mono; Film Format: 35mm; Film Process: Spherical; Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1; BBFC…
Book Review – THE SLEEPWALKER (2019) by Joseph Knox
THE SLEEPWALKER (2019) **** by Joseph Knox This paperback edition published by Black Swan, 2020, 433pp First published in hardcover by Doubleday, 2019 © Joesph Knox, 2019 ISBN: 978-1-7841-6218-4 Blurb: As a series of rolling blackouts plunge the city into darkness, Detective Aidan Waits sits on an abandoned hospital ward, watching a mass murderer…
Film Review – THE WOLF MAN (1941)
THE WOLF MAN (USA, 1941) ***½ Distributor: Universal Pictures; Production Company: Universal Pictures; Release Date: 9 December 1941 (USA), 13 March 1942 (UK); Filming Dates: 8 September 1941 – 25 November 1941; Running Time: 70m; Colour: B&W; Sound Mix: Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording); Film Format: 35mm; Film Process: Spherical; Aspect Ratio:…
TV Review – THE VIRGINIAN: THE MOUNTAIN OF THE SUN (1963)
THE VIRGINIAN: THE MOUNTAIN OF THE SUN *** 1963 USA 75m Colour National Broadcasting Company (NBC) / Revue Studios Western (PG) The Virginian (Drury) acts as guide to three missionary women (Hart, Nolan and Strickland) who wish to take medicine and the word of God into the desert to a tribe of Yaqui Indians. The…
Film Review – BANDOLERO! (1968)
BANDOLERO! (USA, 1968) *** Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox; Production Company: Twentieth Century Fox; Release Date: 1 June 1968 (USA), 2 August 1968 (UK); Filming Dates: 2 October–early or mid December 1967; Running Time: 106m; Colour: DeLuxe; Sound Mix: 4-Track Stereo (Westrex Recording System); Film Format: 35mm; Film Process: Panavision (anamorphic); Aspect Ratio:…
Film Review – BADMEN OF TOMBSTONE (1949)
BADMEN OF TOMBSTONE (USA, 1949) **½ Distributor: Allied Artists Pictures (USA), Associated British Film Distributors (ABFD) (UK); Production Company: King Brothers Productions; Release Date: 22 January 1949 (USA), 31 October 1949 (UK); Running Time: 75m; Colour: B&W; Sound Mix: Mono (Western Electric Recording); Film Format: 35mm; Film Process: Spherical; Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1;…