Global Discoveries on DVD: Heroines, Heroes, Dogs, Filmmakers

Global Discoveries on DVD: Heroines, Heroes, Dogs, Filmmakers

From the Fall 2021 Cinema Scope. — J.R. The way the Internet Movie Database tells it, two pairs of writerly brothers worked with Josef von Sternberg on his first talkie, Thunderbolt (1929), recently released on a Kino Lorber Blu-ray (with a knowledgeable audio commentary by Nick Pinkerton that I’ve so far only sampled). Charles and Jules Furthman are both credited for “story,” though Jules, the younger of the two, gets a screen credit for the a…