New on Disc: 'The Vikings' and more …
4 Apr, 2016 By: Mike Clark
The Vikings
Kino Lorber, Drama, $19.95 DVD, $29.95 Blu-ray, NR.
Stars Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, Janet Leigh.
1958. The Vikings is closer to first-rate entertainment than a truly first-rate movie, but above and beyond its prodigious nostalgic currency, the result is still fairly irresistible for anyone inclined toward its red-meat sentiments.
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RKO Varieties Triple Feature — Variety Time, Make Mine Laughs, Footlight Varieties
Available via Warner Archive
Warner, Musical, $21.99 DVD, NR.
Stars Jack Paar, Gil Lamb, Liberace, Jack Haley, Leon Errol.
1948/1949/1951. Made up of film clips strung together by an emcee’s patter, these hour-long revues were both a lament for long dead vaudeville and an embrace of the new medium of television that was making life miserable for studios and exhibitors.
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