Dick Dinman's DVD Classics Corner On The Air

The talented and vivacious Julia Adams, who was so memorably savored and menaced by THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON, joins producer/host Dick Dinman as they salute Universal Studios Home Entertainment’s UNIVERSAL CLASSIC MONSTERS: THE ESSENTIAL COLLECTION which includes the Blu-ray debuts of DRACULA, FRANKENSTEIN, THE MUMMY, THE INVISIBLE MAN, THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, THE WOLF MAN, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, and of course THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON in its original 3-D version.

(PART TWO): Boris Karloff’s talented daughter Sara Karloff rejoins producer/host Dick Dinman and paints an affectionate and vivid portrait of her celebrated father who was in fact the total opposite in every imaginable way from the “horrific” characters he customarily portrayed so brilliantly during the course of his legendary career.

(PART ONE) : Producer/host Dick Dinman and hisdistinguished guest Sara Karloff converse about her father’s early struggles, belated “overnight” discovery and subsequent career highs and lows.

Producer/host Dick Dinman’s guest Pat Boone talks about his nearly fatal accident on the set of THE JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH and sheds new light on the oft-repeated story about his “refusal” to kiss co-star Shirley Jones and frankly reveals why he later in his film career accepted the against-type role of an initially immoral character and the previously unscripted demands of that role which almost caused him to walk off the film.

In the second part of this salute to Twilight Time’s fabulous Blu-ray incarnation of the original THE JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH top-billed star Pat Boone discusses his refusal to co-star with Marilyn Monroe on another film, an accident on location in Carlsbad Caverns, and how he became a profit participant in this landmark science fiction film classic.

Twilight Time has just released a sumptuous-looking Blu-ray rendering of the one, the only, the original THE JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH which remains to this day one of the most popular science fiction classic films in cinema history and to celebrate this great release radio and television recording legend and cinema icon Pat Boone frankly reveals to producer/host Dick Dinman his initial reservations aboutstarring in this universally revered film. EXTRA ADDED ATTRACTION: The beautiful and talented Arlene Dahl chimes in on the challenges involved in co-starring in this physically demanding Jules Verne epic and candidly discusses for the first time her somewhat frosty relations with costar James Mason.

Producer/host Dick Dinman welcomes back acclaimed biographer Robert Matzen whose new book DUTCH GIRL is creating a worldwide sensation as it chronicles for the first time teenager Hepburn’s intense experiences through five years of Nazi occupation and, through it all, had to contend with the fact that both her parents had sided with the Nazi’s.

Producer/host Dick Dinman welcomes back Dvd Savant Glenn Erickson as both marvel at the excellence of the NIGHT AND THE CITY cast with special emphasis on the virtuoso fever pitch performance of Richard Widmark in what is unquestionably his finest acting triumph and both comment on the comparatively disappointing turn his career path would take during the ensuing decade and beyond.

The Criterion Collection’s stunning 4K Blu-ray release of both the U.S. and British versions of Jules Dassin’s monumentally intense descent into noir darkness NIGHT AND THE CITY is cause for rapturous celebration and producer/host Dick Dinman’s returning guest is author/historian Glenn Erickson whose incisive and revelatory commentary is just one of the superb special features included on this sensational Criterion Blu-ray disc. PLUS: “Dick’s Picks” segment shines the klieg lights on twelve favorite recent Criterion Collection Blu-ray releases.

Olive Films has just released the meticulously restored film noir scorcher CRY DANGER in the crystal clear Blu-ray format and producer/host Dick Dinman salutes both this tougher-than-nails Dick Powell classic as well as acclaimed “Czar of Noir” Eddie Muller who is responsible for rescuing this rough-and-tough revenge film from obscurity and restoring it to it’s current brilliant picture and sound luster.