Taza, Son Of Cochise
Taza, Son Of Cochise (1954) is rather anomalous in the cycle of films made by producer Ross Hunter and director Douglas Sirk at Universal pictures as it is a Western… Read more »
Tag: Rock Hudson
Embryo
If one goes into Embryo (1976) hoping to find a similar cinematic experience to The Unborn (1991), one will be sorely disappointed. The now public domain Embryo is a strange… Read more »
Battle Hymn
Douglas Sirk’s Battle Hymn (1957) is in many ways a typical “ode to the armed forces” melodrama that was very popular in the fifties. Still, there’s enough of Sirk in… Read more »
Rock Hudson’s Home Movies
After a pleasant weekend at the Philadelphia Comic-Con, for whatever reason, my mind wandered to Mark Rappaport’s film Impostors (1979). It was refreshing and encouraging to remember a film which… Read more »
Magnificent Obsession
I don’t believe this is Douglas Sirk’s best film. Still, it’s my favorite. It probably has something to do with my background in Catholicism (CCD every Tuesday night). Films that… Read more »
The Tarnished Angels
Douglas Sirk’s style is unmistakable. In the last 70 some years his films have become synonymous with the America of the nuclear age. I have written before about how Sirk… Read more »
