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24 Mar, 2014 By: Mike Clark

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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (Blu-ray)

Warner/Paramount, Western, $19.98 Blu-ray, NR.
Stars Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Jo Van Fleet.
1957. The casting and production values here are all mighty irresistible within the limitations of a Western that aims to be commercially splashy above all else. This is definitely high-octane Kirk Douglas (about $8 a gallon, I’d say) — and if he isn’t deliciously over the top as Doc Holliday just by himself, the script calls on him to cough rabidly into a pestilence-packed handkerchief on frequent occasion. There doesn’t appear to have been any remastering or polishing of the image here — but VistaVision was VistaVision, so the imagery here is as intense as Frankie Laine’s singing and Douglas’s hacking.
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Here Comes the Navy

Available via Warner Archive
Warner, Drama, $18.95 DVD, NR.
Stars James Cagney, Pat O’Brien, Gloria Stuart, Frank McHugh.
1934. James Cagney is a San Diego shipyard worker with attitude named Chesty, while Pat O’Brien is the Chesty-loathing naval chief petty officer who goes by “Biff.” The Chesty-Biff combo pretty well suggests the tone of this speedy Warner Bros. “guy fluff.” This movie is a natural for buffs of naval history, and much of the backdrop action involves day-to-day procedures aboard ship, which makes this one of the more intriguing screen time capsules of its era.
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