In recording the audio commentary for 1934’s SEARCH FOR BEAUTY with Lee Gambin, I’m pleased to have achieved another first: the oldest film I’ve had the pleasure to reanimate on Blu-ray. And it certainly served us with lashings of fodder to discuss – from overt sexual ogling (from the women!) to bare behinds, a barely legal Ida Lupino, ample lashings of queerness and even fascist regalia!

Get your copy directly from Kino Lorber (or from Cinemaniacs, if you’re in Australia) and get to hear how this pre-code film reflected the momentum of the modern fitness movement, ‘the body beautiful’, and why Buster Crabbe’s ‘pecs’ were hot box office property.