Customer Review: I am a big fan of Naxos. This is probably my least favorite cd. Its choral pieces seem more like opera and out of character with other cds in this line (such as Sanctus, Agnus Dei). But at ($) or less, ... Read More
Customer Review: Daddy Mack Orr is definitely a late blooming blues guitar player. He was playing the "circuit" with Muddy, Wolf, or B.B. And he only recently recorded his third CD (on the Memphis-based Insides Sounds label). ... Read More
Customer Review: In reply to M.Clegg's contention with regards to the status of the stars of this great complete recording, I would like to point out that all the main leads, Justino Diaz (New York City Opera Production), Paige ... Read More
Customer Review: In 1943's NORTHERN PURSUIT Canadian Mountie Errol Flynn tracks downed Nazi pilot Col. von Keller (Helmut Dantine) across Canada to prevent his secret sabotage mission from coming to fruition. The premise of the ... Read More
Customer Review: Air force is one of my favorites especially the character developement by John Garfield and James Brown.Harry Carey and his battered baseball cap. George Tobias with his comic relief. The wartime propaganda is great. A very good period ... Read More
Customer Review: The Big Sleep is certainly an excellent film; but I would be mighty impressed if you could follow one hundred percent of that plot with all those characters getting murdered by the second! Please don't misunderstand; just as others have noted this ... Read More
Customer Review: Best known for bringing Joan Crawford to an Oscar win, `Mildred Pierce' is a nice slice of contemporary crime noir heaven complete with slick performances, witty dialog and subtle yet engaging direction. It pretty much has everything that one could ask for ... Read More
Customer Review: Set in Martinique in 1940 following the fall of France this story is a great one and well-adapted to Humphrey Bogart's film persona as a "tough guy with character." He plays an American caught up in the struggle between the Free French and the Vichy over who is going ... Read More
Customer Review: People have been writing about this book for a long time, mostly saying how good this compelling story about an old Southern family is. I'm just a small voice, but I want to add my praise of this book that intertwines past and present, what is real and what is not, the conscious and ... Read More
Customer Review: Faulkner uses 59 short chapters, most of them monologues, to tell his story in AS I LAY DYING. That story--the final few days of Addie Bundren and the nine-day odyssey of her coffin to Jefferson for burial--gradually unfolds through the observations of 15 narrators, seven of them Bundrens. IMHO, the effect ... Read More
