The Searchers

It's NATALIE WOOD month on TCM and they just showed a very cool short documentary narrated by Robert Redford on her! WEST SIDE STORY just got over and GYPSY is on now...filmed just after she signed and put her hands and feet in this sidewalk slab!

THE SEARCHERS

I watched the John Ford classic THE SEARCHERS last night in VISTAVISION and TECHNICOLOR and what an Amazing film! John Wayne gives an Oscar Worthy performance in this one and it is THE most beautiful representation of the old West ever shot on film. I had to watch all the extras and then head off to the gym! Jeffrey Hunter should have won best supporting actor and Natalie Wood plays Debbie fresh from her Oscar nominated performance in REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE. Lana Wood plays Debbie as a child. The story is most effective and I wish film makers of today would learn from a film like this (Some have). Most of the violence is hinted at or talked about, it is not shown and it doesn't need to be and is even more effective than showing it (Which most of today's film makers do?). Mike Nesmith got the idea for the classic MONKEE shirts from Wayne's shirt in this film and several others. A true classic!

MIRACLE ON 34th STREET

A great film to watch to kick off the season! I picked this BLU RAY up a while ago BUT am still baffled by the fact that 20th CENTURY FOX removed content from the two disc DVD release I bought a few years ago. The cover clearly states the colorized version is on here too BUT it is not. It is also missing the TV version and a few other things. I still love having the original and BEST version on BLU RAY!