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28 Jul, 2014 By: Mike Clark
Paris Blues
Street 7/29
Kino Lorber, Drama, $24.95 DVD, $29.95 Blu-ray, NR.
Stars Paul Newman, Sidney Poitier, Joanne Woodward, Diahann Carroll.
1961. Martin Ritt’s star-powered drama from Marlon Brando’s production company is one of the first movies to deal even peripherally with the American civil rights movement from around the time the lunch counter sit-ins were commencing.
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Brannigan (Blu-ray)
Available via www.ScreenArchives.com
Twilight Time, Drama, $29.95 Blu-ray, ‘PG.’
Stars John Wayne, Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson, Mel Ferrer, John Vernon.
1975. In this cinematic nut job, John Wayne plays a Chicago detective who heads to London to track down a bail-jumper (John Vernon), and quickly clashes with Scotland Yard over police procedures.
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