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Good neighbor policy? Wartime exigencies inspired an intra-hemisphere cultural exchange, with the movies seizing on the new popularity of Latin music. Republic’s contribution gives us the great songs of Ady Barroso and a full soundtrack of his compositions — in a featherweight musical romance, of course.

Brazil

Blu-ray

Olive Films

1944 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 91 min. / Street Date December 6, 2016 / available through the Olive Films website / 29.98

Starring Tito Guízar, Virginia Bruce, Edward Everett Horton, Robert Livingston, Veloz and Yolanda, Fortunio Bonanova, Richard Lane, Frank Puglia, Aurora Miranda, Billy Daniel, Dan Seymour, Roy Rogers.

Cinematography Jack A. Marta

Film Editor Fred Allen

Songs Ary Barroso, Hoagy Carmichael

Written by Frank Gill Jr., Laura Kerr, Richard English

Produced by Robert North

Directed by Joseph Santley

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

The wartime ‘Good Neighbor Policy’ was a P.R. blitz intended to steer South America toward the U.S. and away from the Axis.

By Massiel Bobadilla

HollywoodNews.com: I don’t know whose idea it was to put this movie together, but frankly, it sounds like movie magic in the making.

Legendary guitarist Carlos Santana is currently collaborating with actor Benjamin Bratt, and brother Peter Bratt, to put together a biopic, with Ben in the title role, sources revealed earlier this week.

Set to begin filming sometime in 2011, the currently unnamed project is still being written.

“They’ve already told the story of Selena, of Ritchie Valens, and before that there was Tito Guízar, but still no Santana,” Carlos said. “We’re going to start having interviews in order to present my story clearly, so that people know where I come from, who I am…so that people know that my mother is conviction and my father is charisma.”

I’ll be keeping my ears peeled for more info on this movie! It...