Warner geplande releases

[Richard B.]

Artwork van de tweede Errol Flynn box:

Ik kan het kwijl nauwelijks binnenhouden. Die MOET ik hebben. Dive Bomber zal al in de Europese versie van de vorige set maar de rest van de films lijken me geweldig.

[Cinemaniac]

Warner Home Video have announced the release of five romantic classics making their Region 1 DVD debuts on 6th February 2007. This offering, representing views of romance spanning five decades, includes The Clock, Crossing Delancey, Miracle in the Rain, A Summer Place and Blume in Love. Lovers, star-crossed, destined and otherwise, include Judy Garland and Robert Walker / Jane Wyman and Van Johnson / Sandra Dee and Troy Donohue / George Segal and Susan Anspach / Amy Irving and Peter Reigert. Bonus features such as vintage shorts and classic cartoons are included as well.

The Clock (1945)
Judy Garland, in her first dramatic role, and Robert Walker are sweethearts for the ages in this glowing valentine directed by Vincente Minnelli. And New York itself takes a role, transforming the whirlwind courtship into a love triangle. This classic wartime romance tells the story of a soldier on a two day leave in Manhattan and the lovely young woman who shows him the sights, and ultimately gives him her heart. The film was named one of the Top 10 movies of 1945 by The National Board of Review.

Features include:

- Vintage Pete Smith Specialty Short Hollywood Scout
- Classic cartoon The Screwy Truant
- Audio-Only Bonus: Radio show adaptation with Judy Garland and John Hodiak
- Original theatrical trailer



Crossing Delancey (1988)
Amy Irving, as modern career girl, Izzy, is the radiant center of this witty charmer, and her co-stars strike comic sparks galore as old-world ways rub against new-world woes. Peter Riegert plays the ”pickle man,” Jeroen Krabbe is his rival and Sylvia Miles is the matchmaker Izzie’s grandmother hires to find the right man for her. Irving was nominated for a Golden Globe® for her performance as a young woman with one foot in each of two worlds -- not quite sure about “crossing Delancey.”

Features include:

- Original theatrical trailer



Miracle in the Rain (1956)
Get the handkerchiefs ready for Miracle in the Rain, starring Jane Wyman and Van Johnson as lonely strangers who meet, fall in love and make plans never to part when he returns from the front. Like The Clock of 11 years earlier, Miracle beguiles with vignettes of bustling World War II New York. And it shines with its sense that those we hold close to our hearts are always with us. The film is based on the novel by Hollywood writer Ben Hecht, and the lush score composed by legendary film composer Franz Waxman (Sunset Blvd. and The Spirit of St. Louis).

Features include:

- Two vintage “Behind the Cameras” segments from the Warner Bros. Presents TV series
- Original theatrical trailer



A Summer Place (1959)
Sandra Dee and Troy Donahue, teen idols of their day, star in this enduring favorite about desire and tumult at an elite Maine resort, from the bestseller by Sloan Wilson (The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit). In his first movie lead, Donahue is strong, handsome and unshakably devoted as lovestruck Johnny Hunter. And 17-year-old Dee is pixieish Molly, a woman/child struggling to cope with adult emotions. Set to a lush Max Steiner score that produced one of the most unforgettable movie themes ever, this box-office hit also stars Dorothy McGuire, Richard Egan, Arthur Kennedy, Constance Ford, the adults in Johnny and Dee’s lives, also romantically at odds.

Features include:

- Original theatrical trailer



Blume in Love (1973)
Beverly Hills divorce attorney Stephen Blume (George Segal) finds the tables turned when his own marriage falls apart. Now that it’s too late, he realizes he loves his wife Nina (Susan Anspach) more than ever before. The bumbling, bereft Blume will do anything to win her back. Each overture is rejected. And each rejection just fuels Blume’s quest. The hilarious Blume in Love is writer/director Paul Mazursky’s witty, dead-on look at the modern marriage-go-round. Kris Kristofferson, Shelley Winters and Marsha Mason give comical and complex supporting performances as people in love and in lust, out of luck yet never out of hope.

Features include:

- Original theatrical trailer

[TheGodfather]

Warner Home Video have announced the Region 1 DVD release of James Cagney: The Signature Collection for 24th April 2007. The Oscar winning screen icon comes to life in this collection that includes five new-to-DVD films – The Bride Came C.O.D., Captain of the Clouds, The Fighting 69th, Torrid Zone and The West Point Story. Cagney’s versatile talent is on display opposite a star-studded array of screen favorites including Bette Davis, Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Virginia Mayo, Ann Sheridan and Pat O’Brien. Special features on each title in the Collection include the entertaining “Warner Night at the Movies” short subject galleries with vintage newsreels, vault treasures and classic cartoons. James Cagney: The Signature Collection will be available as a giftset with superslim packaging for $49.92 SRP and the individual titles will sell for $19.97 SRP.

The Films


The Bride Came C.O.D (1941)
Comedy comes from a mother lode of sources in this screwball farce headlined by the ebullient pairing of James Cagney and Bette Davis, scripted by Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein (Casablanca, Arsenic and Old Lace). Whether up in the clouds, or underground in a mine, the stars (in their second and final film together) spar with harebrained zest as a pilot hired to kidnap an about-to-elope heiress, and the happy result from start to end is C.O.D. – Comedy on Demand.

DVD Special Features:

* Warner Night at the Movies 1941 short subjects gallery:
o Vintage newsreel
o Musical shorts Carnival of Rhythm and the Oscar-nominated Forty Boys and a Song
o Classic cartoons Porky’s Pooch and the Oscar-nominated Rhapsody in Rivets
o Trailers of The Bride Came C.O.D. and 1941’s Honeymoon for Three
* Subtitles: English (feature film only)


Captains of the Clouds (1942)
One of the first war-themed films to hit theatres after America entered World War II tells the expansive tale of rugged bush pilots who bring their flying savvy to the Royal Canadian Air Force. James Cagney plays pilot Brian MacLean with grit and swagger. Michael Curtiz, who would next helm Cagney’s Yankee Doodle Dandy, directs this two-time Academy Award nominee cheered for vivid Technicolor lensing of North Country lakes and forests.

DVD Special Features:

* Warner Night at the Movies 1942 short subjects gallery:
o Vintage newsreel
o Sports short Rocky Mountain Big Game
o Classic cartoon Fresh Hare
o Trailers of Captains of the Clouds and 1942’s In This Our Life
* Classic cartoon What’s Cookin; Doc?
* Subtitles: English (feature film only)


The Fighting 69th (1940)
In the seventh of their nine movies together, off-screen pals James Cagney and Pat O’Brien play soldiers of the famed, largely Irish-American World War I regiment, the Fighting 69th. O’Brien is Father Duffy, the brave chaplain whose statue stands today in Manhattan’s Times Square. Cagney is Jerry Plunkett, a street-tough braggart turned yellow by the horror of No Man’s Land, but inspired to redemptive heroism by Duffy’s courage under fire.

DVD Special Features:

* Warner Night at the Movies 1940 short subjects gallery:
o Vintage newsreel
o Two patriotic shorts: Young America Flies and the Oscar-nominated London Can Take It!
o Classic cartoon Pilgrim Porky
o Trailers of The Fighting 69th and 1940’s Brother Orchid
* Classic cartoon The Fighting 69½th
* Audio-only bonus: radio adaptation with Pat O’Brien, Robert Preston and Ralph Bellamy
* Subtitles: English (feature film only)


Torrid Zone (1940)
Off-screen pals James Cagney and Pat O’Brien team for the eighth time in this snappy action comedy set in a Central American “Banana” Republic. In a role widely cited as putting her on the movie fan’s map, Hollywood’s “Oomph Girl” Ann Sheridan portrays wisecracking chanteuse Lee Donley who’s the lure to keep the plantation’s best man (Cagney) from leaving the company. With superb support, zippy repartee, plus 950 banana trees planted over 5 backlot acres, the heat is on.

DVD Special Features:

* Warner Night at the Movies 1940 short subjects gallery:
o Vintage newsreel
o Musical short Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra
o Technicolor historical short Pony Express Days with Torrid Zone’s George Reeves
o Classic Oscar-nominated cartoon A Wild Hare
o Trailers of Torrid Zone and 1940’s Santa Fe Trail
* Subtitles: English (feature film only)


The West Point Story (1950)
Yankee Doodle Dandy Academy Award winner James Cagney puts on his dancing shoes again for this merry musical comedy packed with spirited starpower and lively tunes by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn.

Cagney plays a Broadway showman down on his luck yet full of hotshot ideas. Brought to West Point to stage the cadets’ annual musical, he decides to make it a tryout for a Broadway transfer. But first, he must lure the show’s talented lead (Gordon MacRae) out of the military. He’s got just the right bait: a sweet-natured Hollywood star (Doris Day). Virginia Mayo and Gene Nelson also star alongside the irrepressible Cagney, who’s “in rare good form, singing, dancing and wisecracking in his most electrifying style” (Bosley Crowther, The New York Times).

DVD Special Features:

* Warner Night at the Movies 1950 short subjects gallery:
o Vintage newsreel
o Oscar-winning Sports Parade short Grandad of Races
o Classic cartoon His Bitter Half
o Trailers of The West Point Story and 1950’s Tea for Two
* Subtitles: English (feature film only)










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[TheGodfather]

Warner Home Video have announced the Region 1 DVD release of four films which form their second wave of “Director’s Showcase” titles. Arriving on 22nd May 2007 is a group of films honoring the powers behind the camera with first-time DVD releases of Prince of the City 2-Disc Set, Steelyard Blues, Straight Time and Whose Life Is It Anyway?

Featured directors are Sidney Lumet, John Badham, Ulu Grosbard and Alan Myerson. The films have all-new transfers and include bonus features such as commentaries, featurettes and vintage interviews. Each title will sell individually for $19.97 SRP.

*Note: Warner originally announced these titles and two more (Daryl Duke’s “Payday” – with director & producer's commentary - and Lee Grant’s “Tell Me A Riddle”) for a March release. We expect two which are no longer on the schedule to arrive as part of a later Director’s Showcase wave.

Prince of the City 2-Disc Set (1981)
“The first thing a cop learns is that he can’t trust nobody but his partners,” detective Danny Ciello tells an assistant D.A. “I sleep with my wife but I live with my partners. I will never give them up.” From Robert Daley’s riveting book about New York City police corruption investigations, director/co-writer Sidney Lumet’s film portrays a squad that pays a terrible price when one in its ranks does just that. Treat Williams (as Ciello, inspired by real-life undercover narcotics cop Robert Leuci) leads a terrific ensemble cast which includes Jerry Orbach, Bob Balaban and Lindsay Crouse in a standout performance as Leuci’s wife. This gripping film, which features 130 locations and 126 speaking parts, won Lumet a New York Film Critics Best Director Award and an Oscar nomination (with Jay Presson Allen) for the screenplay.

Features include:

* New featurette Prince of the City: The Real Story
* Theatrical trailer
* Languages: English & Français (dubbed in Quebec)
* Subtitles: English, Français & Español (feature film only)


Steelyard Blues (1972)
Klute collaborators Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland reunite in a more lighthearted vein for this funny, freewheeling fable from writer David S. Ward and producers Tony Bill and Michael and Julia Phillips, the team behind the same year’s Academy Award-winning* Best Picture The Sting. Alan Myerson directs Fonda as Iris, a good-natured hooker whose clientele includes a Who’s Who of City Hall. But she’s faithful to free-spirited parolee Jesse Veldini (Sutherland), who’s itching to resume his career as a demolition derby driver. Veldini’s return could ruin the reelection campaign of his ambitious DA brother (Howard Hesseman) – so steps are taken to make the ex-jailbird toe the line. Peter Boyle, John Savage and Garry Goodrow co-star.

Features include:

* Vintage featurette Would You Believe? Peter Boyle!
* Theatrical trailer
* Subtitles: English, Français & Español (feature film only)


Straight Time (1978)
After years behind bars, Max Dembo faces Straight Time. He hopes it will mean a new life, a job, a place to call home, perhaps even a girl of his own. Instead, it’s a one-way ticket to disaster. Dustin Hoffman plays Max, a freed con trapped by an indifferent criminal system and his self-destructive bent. Before and during production, Hoffman apprenticed himself to Edward Bunker, the ex-con whose book No Beast So Fierce inspired the movie. The resulting experience is intensely real and superbly acted by Hoffman and a terrific ensemble (Theresa Russell, Harry Dean Stanton, Gary Busey, M. Emmet Walsh and Kathy Bates). As Newsweek’s David Ansen wrote, Straight Time “has an edgy, lingering intensity.”

Features include:

* Commentary by Dustin Hoffman and director Ulu Grosbard
* Vintage featurette Straight Time: He Wrote It for Criminals
* Theatrical trailer
* Languages: English & Français
* Subtitles: English, Français, Español, Português & Chinese (feature film only)


Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981)
In this searing screen version of the hit Broadway play by Brian Clark, Richard Dreyfuss plays gifted sculptor Ken Harrison -- a hospitalized quadriplegic, jousting with physicians, teasing nurses and striving to persuade hospital authorities and the justice system that he can’t be denied one of the few choices he has left. John Badham directs a compelling cast, including John Cassavetes, Christine Lahti and Bob Balaban.

Features include:

* Commentary director John Badham and composer Arthur B. Rubinstein
* Theatrical trailer
* Subtitles: English (feature film only)




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[kit carson]

"An Evening With Warner Home Video"

Ma. 26 febr. a.s.: gelegenheid tot stellen van vragen aan/chatten met 't Warner-team: Link.

[Cinemaniac]

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Ah, eindelijk! Wilde deze film al heel lang zien. Geïnspireerd op 't boek van de inmiddels overleden ex-crimineel Edward Bunker, beter bekend als Mr. Blue in Reservoir Dogs.

[Cinemaniac]

Warner Home Video have announced the Region 1 DVD release of World War II Collection Vol. 2: Heroes Fight for Freedom for 5th June 2007. Never before seen on Region 1 DVD, the titles include Air Force, Command Decision, Hell to Eternity, The Hill, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo and 36 Hours. These six films present stirring tales of front-line action, conflict and heroism and star Hollywood’s top leading men such as Clark Gable, Robert Mitchum, Sean Connery, Jeffrey Hunter, Spencer Tracy, John Garfield and James Garner. Extras reinforcing the excitement are World War II era shorts, classic cartoons, a vintage making-of featurette and trailer galleries. The six-disc World War II Collection Vol. 2 will be available for $59.92 SRP, with individual titles selling for $19.97 SRP.

Air Force (1943)
Howard Hawks guides one of Hollywood’s greatest battle epics, a film of courage, camaraderie and combat. This is the story of the Mary-Ann, a B-17 bomber which leaves San Francisco for Honolulu on the day before Japan’s sneak attack on Pearl Harbor…and flies right into World War II. A gifted ensemble cast – including John Garfield, Harry Carey, Gig Young and Arthur Kennedy – plays ordinary Americans called upon to do the extraordinary. Air Force was nominated for four Academy Awards, winning one for Editing.

DVD Special Features:

- Oscar-nominated Technicolor drama short Women at War
- Classic cartoons The Fifth-Column Mouse and Scrap Happy Dafft
- Theatrical trailer
- Subtitles: English (feature film only)

Command Decision (1948)
Clark Gable heads the cast in a film about the wrenching choices officers must make in time of war. Gable plays a U.S. general who realizes that Allied victory depends on destroying the Nazi’s jet factories. Based on the Broadway hit play, Command Decision combines thrilling aerial pyrotechnics with tense war room battles to create an indelible portrait of the men whose judgment holds the power of life and death.

DVD Special Features:

- Vintage Passing Parade Short Souvenirs of Death
- Classic cartoon King-Size Canary
- Theatrical trailer
- Subtitles: English (feature film only)

Hell to Eternity (1960)
Tells the real-life story of Marine Guy Gabaldon (Jeffrey Hunter), a Hispanic kid from the streets of East L.A. who was raised in a Japanese-American foster family. In an astonishing true story of heroism during the Battle of Saipan, Gabaldon used his language and combat skills to convince 800 Japanese to surrender to American troops after their commander commits suicide. For this, he won the Navy Cross…and the gratitude of all America.

DVD Special Features:

- 1960s war movies trailer gallery
- Subtitles: English (feature film only)

The Hill (1965)
Sean Connery headlines and Sidney Lumet directs this jolting tale of life and mutiny inside British military prison walls in North Africa during World War II. The inmates are soldiers who once defied, rebelled, talked back. The wardens are sadists who perpetrate cruelty in the name of discipline, forcing soldiers on the brink of collapse beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline known as The Hill, a manmade, torturous tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. Ossie Davis and Michael Redgrave also star.

DVD Special Features:

- Vintage featurette The Sun…The Sand…The Hill
- 1965 war movies trailer gallery
- Subtitles: English (feature film only)

36 Hours (1964)
James Garner does a heroic star turn as U.S. Major Jefferson Pike, an amnesiac who’s been kidnapped by the Germans as the key player in an elaborate ruse to get him to divulge the Allied D-Day plans. Rod Taylor makes a canny opponent as the duplicitous Doktor in this tense twist-filled wartime thriller. The clock is ticking with the Nazis having only 36 Hours and using any means necessary to pull off their complicated plan to get the D-Day details out of Pike.

DV Special Features:

- James Garner war movies trailer gallery
- Subtitles: English (feature film only)

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
“The Doolittle Raid” -- a true World War II event and a novel of the same name -- became the basis for this suspenseful saga about a bold mission that boosted morale in the war’s bleak, early days. Spencer Tracy stars as Lt. Col. James Doolittle, who devises a plan to launch fully-loaded bomber planes from a dangerously short aircraft carrier runway. Academy Award-winning Best Special Effects recreate the squadron’s low-altitude, “hedge-hopping” sweep over Japan, and even utilize film footage from the actual raid. The intensive training, the daring bombing run, the subsequent forced landings in China and the perilous trek to safety: all the valiant touchstones of the true-life raid are captured in a beloved classic whose other stars include Van Johnson, Robert Walker and Robert Mitchum.

DVD Special Features:

- Academy Award-nominated Pete Smith Specialty Short Movie Pests
- Vintage Passing Parade Short A Lady Fights Back
- Classic cartoon Bear Raid Warden
- Theatrical trailer
- Subtitles: English (feature film only)

[Cinemaniac]

John Wayne-fans opgelet!

Warner Home Video (WHV) and Paramount Home Entertainment (PHE) will join forces to honor the great John Wayne on May 22 -- the week that would have been ‘the Duke’s’ 100th birthday. With 9 new titles due the studios combined DVD libraries now offer 48 Wayne popular classics. The lead titles in the promotion are Rio Bravo in both a Two-Disc Special Edition ($20.97 SRP) and Ultimate Collectors Edition ($39.92 SRP), The Cowboys as a Deluxe Edition ($19.97 SRP) and True Grit as a Special Collector’s Edition($19.99 SRP).

WHV also will debut the John Wayne Film Collection, a six-disc set (also available individually) featuring six films never before on DVD: Allegheny Uprising, Reunion in France, Tycoon, Without Reservations, Trouble Along the Way and Big Jim McLain. Retail on the Collection is $49.92 SRP, and $12.97 SRP for the individual releases.

The Films

True Grit: Special Collector’s Edition (PHE)
This classic cinematic masterpiece features Wayne in a larger-than-life performance as the drunken, uncouth and totally fearless one-eyed U.S. Marshall Rooster Cogburn. The role won him his only Academy Award® for Best Actor in a Leading Role at the age of 63 after 40 years of making films, and Wayne himself said that it was “my first chance to play a character role instead of John Wayne.” Called “one of the most delightful, joyous and scary movies of all time” (Roger Ebert), True Grit is a glorious adventure and American odyssey lead by Wayne, whose screen presence fully embodies his status as a star and legend. Directed by prolific filmmaker Henry Hathaway, the film also features enchanting performances by Kim Darby, Glen Campbell, Robert Duvall and Strother Martin.

Bonus features:

- Commentary by Jeb Rosebrook, Bob Boze Bell and J. Stuart Rosebrook
- True Writing
- Working with the Duke
- Aspen Gold: Locations of True Grit
- The Law and the Lawless
- Theatrical trailer

Rio Bravo: Special Edition and Ultimate Collectors Edition (WHV)
Director Howard Hawks lifted the Western to new heights with Red River. He does it here again, capturing the legendary West with a stellar cast in peak form. Wayne is Sheriff John T. Chance, a small-town lawman enlisting the help of a ragtag team to hold a murderer in jail until the state marshal can arrive. On one side is an army of gunmen dead-set on springing the murderous cohort from jail. On the other are Chance and his two deputies: one a recovering drunkard (Dean Martin), the other a crippled codger (Walter Brennan). Also in their ranks are an unseasoned, trigger-happy youth (Ricky Nelson) and a woman with a past (Angie Dickinson) – and her eye on Chance. Rio Bravo will feature a new digital transfer from restored picture and audio elements.


DVD Special Features:

Disc One

- Remastered feature film
- Commentary by John Carpenter and Richard Schickel (Renowned director Carpenter and film critic Schickel explore how this legendary Western was an extension of Hawks’ own personality and why it’s considered such an influential classic today)
- Wayne trailer gallery

Disc Two

- The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks (1973 documentary)
- Two All New Featurettes:
Commemoration: Howard Hawks’ Rio Bravo
Old Tucson: Where the Legends Walked

Ultimate Collector’s Edition includes everything in the Rio Bravo Special Edition plus the following collectible memorabilia:

- Press book
- Dell comic book
- Lobby cards

The Cowboys: Deluxe Edition (WHV)
This deluxe edition has been newly restored and remastered, and features a new cast/director featurette. The Cowboys gave Wayne one of his juiciest roles as a leather-tough rancher who, deserted by his regular help, hires 11 greenhorn schoolboys for a cattle drive across 400 treacherous miles. When the dust settled, Wayne had given one of his best performances. “In The Cowboys,” Rex Reed wrote, “all the forces that have made him a dominant personality as well as a major screen presence seem to combine. Old Dusty Britches can act.” Co-starring the equally memorable Roscoe Lee Browne, Colleen Dewhurst and Bruce Dern, The Cowboys was directed by Mark Rydell (On Golden Pond).

DVD Special Features:

- Commentary by Mark Rydell (Director Rydell discusses how he helped his young, inexperienced cast work with screen legend Wayne)
- The Cowboys: Together Again
- The Breaking of Boys and the Making of Men
- Theatrical Trailer

Allegheny Uprising (WHV)
Only months after his Stagecoach breakthrough, John Wayne brings his one-of-a-kind line readings and presence to the real-life role of colonial man of action James Smith. The place is Pennsylvania a decade before the American Revolution. Joined by like-minded frontiersmen, Smith intercepts trade shipments, besieges forts and risks the certain-death charge of treason against the king. Another Stagecoach alumna joins the Duke: Claire Trevor, playing a fiery barmaid eager to join the scrap against the redcoats.

Special Features:

- The Bill of Rights [1939 WB short]
- Land of the Midnight Fun [1939 WB cartoon]

Big Jim McLain (WHV)
All 6’4” of John Wayne plays the title role, a federal agent ferreting out subversives in Hawaii. Rallying to the cause are co-stars Nancy Olsen and Veda Ann Borg. And 6’7” James Arness (whom Wayne would later recommend to star on TV’s “Gunsmoke”) is McLain’s war-hero partner, Baxter. The documentary-style story moves swiftly, with good-natured humor peppered throughout. Pre-statehood Hawaii locales range from elite resorts to a Shinto temple and from the sunken remains of the battleship Arizona to a Molokai leper colony.

Special Features:

- So You Want to Enjoy Life [1952 WB short]
- The Super Snooper [1952 WB cartoon]
- Theatrical Trailer

Reunion in France (WHV)
John Wayne is in straight-up heroic mode as a fugitive RAF pilot on the run from the Gestapo, and Joan Crawford (in haute couture despite the war) is Michele, the spoiled, high-society Parisian who discovers her own patriotism as she helps the airman escape his Nazi pursuers. This glossy, briskly paced thriller also stars Philip Dorn as Michele’s fiancé, an industrialist she suspects of collaborating with the Germans.

Special Features:

- We Do It Because [1942 MGM short]
- War Dogs [1943 MGM cartoon]
- Theatrical Trailer

Trouble Along The Way (WHV)
This sports comedy-drama is directed by Michael Curtiz (Casablanca). John Wayne tackles the role of Steve Williams, a former top football coach who has been banned from the major conferences for his inability to conform and is making ends meet as a bookie. When he receives a call from likable Father Burke (Charles Coburn) with an offer to establish a football program – fast- in a last-ditch effort to save his tiny St. Anthony’s College from bankruptcy, Williams sees it as a way to prove to a Children’s Court officer (Donna Reed) that he’s a fit parent as he fights for custody of his 12 year old tomboy daughter. Of course, there’s bound to be Trouble Along the Way.

Special Features:

- So You Think You Can’t Sleep [1953 WB short]
- Muscle Tussle [1953 WB cartoon]
- Theatrical trailer

Tycoon (WHV)
A tumultuous love story (with co-star Laraine Day), a dynamite supporting cast, horizon-spanning location filming and brilliant Technicolor make Tycoon exciting entertainment. But the biggest thrill is watching Wayne as a bold, bare-knuckled railroad honcho high above an Andean gorge in a breathless grand finale that involves a half-built bridge, an onrushing wall of water, and a locomotive with the Duke at the controls.

Special Features:

- Hollywood Wonderland [1947 WB short]
- Red Hot Rangers [1947 MGM cartoon]

Without Reservations (WHV)
Claudette Colbert and Wayne are a double delight in this playful, romantic comedy. Colbert plays Kit Madden, a novelist who’s heading to Hollywood to turn her bestseller about a handsome pilot into a film. On the train she meets real-life marine pilot (John Wayne), and thinks he’s the perfect man to portray her screen hero…except he thinks the whole thing is “a lot of hooey.” Their comedic rapport becomes more captivating with one misadventure after another as they make their way cross-country. Adding to the fun are surprise walk-ons from stars like Jack Benny, Cary Grant, Louella Parsons playing herself, and director Warner LeRoy.

Special Features:

- I Love My Husband, But! [1946 MGM short]
- Holiday for Shoestrings [1946 WB cartoon]

Also part of the promotion are 3 new DVD Collections from Paramount with a total of 14 films.

John Wayne Century Collection ($99.99 SRP) brings together 14 classic films starring John Wayne, including the new Special Collector’s Edition of True Grit and four additional Special Collector’s Editions. The films in the collection are:

- The High And The Mighty Special Collector’s Edition (Adventure Collection)
- Island In The Sky Special Collector’s Edition (Adventure Collection)
- True Grit Special Collector’s Edition (Western Collection)
- Hondo Special Collector’s Edition (Western Collection)
- McLintock! Special Collector’s Edition (Western Collection)>
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Western Collection)
- The Shootist (Western Collection)
- Big Jake (Western Collection)
- Donovan’s Reef (Adventure Collection)
- In Harm’s Way (Adventure Collection)
- Hatari! (Adventure Collection)
- Rio Lobo (Western Collection)
- The Sons Of Katie Elder (Western Collection)
- El Dorado (Western Collection)

Noted in brackets are the films which make up the 2 smaller DVD collections, with the 9-film John Wayne Western Collection priced at $74.99 SRP and the 5-film John Wayne Adventure Collection priced at $42.99 SRP.

[Kees Hoekerd]

Goed nieuws! 3 grote klassiekers waarvan alleen The Cowboys maar extra's had! (1 korte featurette over de jonge cowboys)

Die Century Collection is niks nieuws, al die films zijn al een tijdje op dvd.

[TheGodfather]

Klinkt goed, vooral die Rio Bravo set klinkt als een must-have

[Bogart-Fan]

Rio Bravo is schitterend en een van de allerbesten in het genre. Zo'n superdeluxe uitgave zat er aan te komen. De 3-disc set lijkt op de Ultimate Edition van The Searchers. Klasse!

Maar persoonlijk kijk ik toch vooral uit naar de niet-westens van Wayne. Kortgeleden Hatari!, Donovan's Reef en The Long Voyage Home gezien, en dat was best even een verademing.

[Kees Hoekerd]

Wel heel vet als je al die paramount titels nog niet hebt.. Ben benieuwd naar het artwork van de totale box.
Zelf heb ik ze allemaal, op Donovan's Reef en In Harm's Way na.
Aantal R2NL en R1. Het nieuwe R1 artwork is geweldig, en hiermee heb je uiteindelijk echt een totaal plaatje.

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Het artwork van Rio Bravo en the Cowboys valt me erg tegen, als ik die vergelijk met de oude uitgaves!

[TheGodfather]

Het artwork van Rio Bravo en the Cowboys valt me erg tegen, als ik die vergelijk met de oude uitgaves!

Vind ze wel wat hebben
Ben benieuwd naar het artwork van die UE 8)

[TheGodfather]

Artwork Rio Bravo UE:

[Kees Hoekerd]

Artwork Rio Bravo UE:

That's what I'm talking about!

[Richard B.]

Artwork Rio Bravo UE:

(rio) bravo Warner!

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Ah, eindelijk! Wilde deze film al heel lang zien. Geïnspireerd op 't boek van de inmiddels overleden ex-crimineel Edward Bunker, beter bekend als Mr. Blue in Reservoir Dogs.

komt deze ook op R2nl uit???

[Dennis Kuijper]

komt deze ook op R2nl uit???

Jep,op 25-4-07,ben er ook wel benieuwd naar.

Productinfo
Speelduur: 109
Taal verpakking: Nederlands
Ondertiteling: Nederlands, Engels, Frans
Beeldformaat: 16:9 - 1:77:1
Geluidskwaliteit:
Mono 1.0 - Engels
Mono 1.0 - Frans

DVD extra's:
Audio commentaar: van Dustin Hoffman en Ulu Grosbard
Bioscooptrailer:
Korte film: Straight Time: He Wrote it for Criminals

[Dennis Kuijper]

Artwork Rio Bravo UE:

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Inderdaad erg mooi. Zal wel niet regio 2 uitkomen.

[Cinemaniac]

Warner Home Video will bring 'camp' home this summer with the June 26 introduction on Region 1 DVD of Cult Camp Classics, Volumes 1 through 4. The studio which pioneered genre collections such as Forbidden Hollywood and Controversial Classics has gathered together 12 trashy treasures that will bring hours of kitschy fun in four volumes: Sci-Fi Thrillers (Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman, Queen of Outer Space, The Giant Behemoth); Women in Peril (The Big Cube, Caged, Trog); Terrorized Travelers (Hot Rods to Hell, Skyjacked, Zero Hour!) and Historical Epics (The Colossus of Rhodes, Land of Pharaohs, The Prodigal).

Meer info en de covers vindt je hiero!

Goed nieuws dat Warner 't gladiatorenspektakel Colossus of Rhodes uitbrengt. Tis de laatste film van Sergio Leone, voordat hij zich stortte op spaghetti-westerns.

[TheGodfather]

Errol Flynn collection vol. 2 review @ dvdbeaver

[Cinemaniac]

Warner Home Video have announced the Region 1 DVD release of Classic Musicals from the Dream Factory Volume 2 for 24th July 2007. This collection of seven newly-remastered favorites from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s Golden Era features the DVD debuts of The Pirate, That’s Dancing and Words and Music along with two new to DVD Double Feature discs: a pair of Mario Lanza/Kathryn Grayson musicals -- That Midnight Kiss and Toast of New York, and two Fred Astaire favorites -- Royal Wedding/ Belle of New York.

Following last year’s successful Volume 1 (reviewed here) this second collection of the fabled studio’s vintage musicals features some of the most memorable numbers by the greatest stars of the genre, top lined by the Hollywood musical’s golden trio of immortal legends –- Judy Garland, Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly. Landmark numbers include Fred Astaire dancing on the ceiling and with a coat rack, Gene Kelly’s “Be a Clown,” and Judy Garland belting out “Johnny One Note.” The talents of Mickey Rooney, Jane Powell, Lena Horne, Ray Bolger and many more stars are also showcased.

Each feature film has been meticulously restored and remastered from its original elements and complemented with new featurettes, commentaries, rare outtake musical numbers, radio interviews, audio only bonus outtakes and vintage cartoons. The titles will be available individually for $19.97 SRP, the 2-disc Double Features will sell for $24.98 SRP and the seven-disc collection will sell for $59.92 SRP.

The Pirate (1948 )
A treasure trove of fun awaits when a Caribbean beauty (Judy Garland) with a mad crush on a legendary pirate meets a vagabond actor (Gene Kelly) who poses as the scoundrel. Vincente Minnelli, who was married to Garland at the time, directs, bringing his uncanny skill with color and design to this joyous romp set to Cole Porter tunes. Mixing tremulous girlishness with hellcat hilarity, Garland was never better as a comedienne. Parodying the rakish style of Fairbanks and Barrymore, Kelly duels, dupes and dances with buccaneer bravado. All by itself, his Be a Clown (danced with the Nicholas Brothers and reprised with Garland) is reason enough to love the film.

DVD Special Features:

• Commentary by historian John Fricke (Noted Garland biographer Fricke details every aspect of this tempestuous production as Garland, Kelly and Minnelli pushed the artistic limits of the movie musicals to the breaking point)
• New featurette The Pirate: A Musical Treasure Chest
• Oscar-nominated Pete Smith Specialty 1948 MGM comedy short You Can’t Win
• 1947 MGM classic cartoon Cat Fishin’
• Mack the Black stereo remix version
• Audio-outtakes: Love of My Life and Mack the Black
• Roger Edens’ guide tracks of Be a Clown, Manuela, Nina, Voodoo and You Can Do No Wrong
• Promotional radio interviews with Gene Kelly for On the Town and Judy Garland for The Pirate
• Theatrical trailer
• Subtitles: English (feature film only)

That’s Dancing! (1985)
Executive producer Gene Kelly hosts this extravagant celebration of dance that features some of his greatest screen work, as well as performances that range from Baryshnikov to break dancing, Fred and Ginger to Shirley Temple and Bojangles, and Busby Berkeley spectaculars to Michael Jackson music videos. Written, produced, and directed by Jack Haley Jr., who performed the same duties creating the legendary That’s Entertainment! in 1974, That’s Dancing! follows a similar structure. Kelly, joined by co-hosts Ray Bolger, Sammy Davis Jr., Mikhail Baryshnikov and Liza Minnelli, set the stage for clips from the peerless M-G-M musicals, also featuring landmark moments of dance on film from virtually every studio in the industry, adding more fun and glorious surprises. This cinema anthology spanning eight decades of dance has boundless energy, unending artistry and “no shortage of showstoppers” (Entertainment Weekly).

DVD Special Features:

• Introduction by Gene Kelly and Jack Haley, Jr.
• Invitation to Dance
• The Search
• The Cameras Roll
• The Gathering
• Theatrical trailer
• Subtitles: English (feature film only)

Words and Music (1948 )
Hart wrote the lyrics. Rodgers wrote the music. Audiences still applaud the results. Mickey Rooney (as Lorenz Hart) and Tom Drake (as Richard Rodgers) team in a splashy biopic of the songwriters behind Babes in Arms, Pal Joey and more Broadway classics. In glossy Hollywood style, the film plays loose with facts and lets the songs speak for themselves. Judy Garland belts out Johnny One Note. Lena Horne delivers a haunting Where or When. Gene Kelly and Vera-Ellen lead a streetwise Slaughter on 10th Avenue ballet. Some 22 songs/specialties and a baker’s dozen of major stars are included within the film.

DVD Special Features:

• Commentary by historian Richard Barrios [Author and historian Barrios provides fascinating insights into the genius of Rodgers and Hart, one of the greatest songwriting teams of the twentieth century, and why the studio failed to bring the truth of Hart's story to the screen.]
• New featurette A Life in Words and Music
• Oscar-nominated Theatre of Life 1948 MGM short Going to Blazes!
• 1948 MGM classic cartoon The Cat That Hated People
• Lover and You’re Nearer Outtakes featuring Perry Como
• Audio-only bonuses: Outtakes of Falling in Love with Love, I Feel at Home with You, Manhattan (alternate version), My Funny Valentine, My Heart Stood Still, On Your Toes (alternate version) and Way Out West on West End Avenue
• Theatrical trailer
• Subtitles: English (feature film only)

Double Feature: That Midnight Kiss (1949) and The Toast Of New Orleans (1950)
The muscular tenor of Mario Lanza combines with the bright coloratura of Kathryn Grayson in two marvelous musicals. Lanza makes his debut in That Midnight Kiss as a trucker who travels the road to romance and musical success. Pianist José Iturbi, who helped popularize classical music on film, makes his final movie appearance in this breezy treat. Next, big voices conquer the Big Easy in The Toast of New Orleans, with selections from Verdi, Bizet, the popular Be My Love and more. David Niven co-stars in this tale of a haughty diva and the shrimp fisherman whose talent she discovers.

DVD Special Features:
Disc One - That Midnight Kiss

• Pete Smith Specialty 1949 MGM comedy short Sports Oddities
• 1949 MGM classic cartoon Seńor Droopy
• One Love of Mine outtake sequence with Lanza and Grayson
• Theatrical trailer
• Subtitles: English (feature film only)

Disc Two - The Toast of New Orleans

• 2006 BBC documentary Mario Lanza:Singing to the Gods
• Vintage Fitzpatrick Traveltalk 1940 MGM shorts Modern New Orleans and Old New Orleans
• Theatrical trailer

Double Feature: Royal Wedding (1951) and The Belle of New York (1952)
Fred Astaire slips on his dancing shoes for two magical musicals. In roles loosely based on Fred’s career with his sister Adele, he and Jane Powell play siblings whose London stage engagement overlaps Princess Elizabeth’s Royal Wedding. Stanley Donen directs this delight which features Astaire’s famous dance with a hat rack, as well as his famous dancing on the walls and ceiling to the song “You’re All The World To Me”. Lovely Jane Powell was given her first “adult” role in this smash hit, in which she introduced the Oscar-nominated Burton Lane/Alan Jay Lerner hit “Too Late Now”. On the other side of the pond, Fred and Vera-Ellen star in The Belle of New York. Loosely based on a turn of the century stage play, this 1952 screen treatment is a showcase for sensational songs by Harry Warren and Johnny Mercer, and the incomparable talents of the two stars, all under the inspired direction of Charles Walters. Fred plays a playboy who sings (I Wanna Be a Dancin’ Man). She’s a charity worker likelier to prefer a guy with his feet on the ground…until Fred dances her off her feet and into the sky.

DVD Special Features:

Disc One: Royal Wedding

• Private Screenings with Stanley Donen [2006 TCM special]
• Royal Wedding: June, Judy and Jane-A New Featurette
• Car of Tomorrow 1951 MGM cartoon
• Droopy’s Double Trouble 1951 MGM cartoon
• Ev’ry Night at Seven outtake with Peter Lawford and Jane Powell
• Fred Astaire and Jane Powell MGM Promotional Radio Interview for Royal Wedding [audio only]
• Theatrical trailer

Disc Two: The Belle of New York

• Musiquiz 1952 MGM Pete Smithshort
• Magical Maestro 1952 MGM Tex Avery cartoon
• I Wanna Be a Dancin’ Man-Unused alternate take
• Theatrical trailer

[Quido]

Hoewel musical niet echt mijn genre is (The Pirate, Royal Wedding en The Belle of New York vond ik matig tot redelijk, de rest nog niet gezien), word ik door die prachtige extra's en remastered beeld en geluid toch weer benieuwd. Warner

[Cinemaniac]

Covers van Classic Musicals from the Dream Factory Volume 2:

[TheGodfather]

James Cagney Signature Collection II (R2) in June Warner Home Video have announced the UK Region 2 HMV Exclusive DVD release of James Cagney: The Signature Collection Volume II for 11th June 2007 priced at £29.99. The award-winning screen icon comes to life in this collection that includes four new-to-UK DVD films – The Bride Came C.O.D., The Fighting 69th, Torrid Zone and The West Point Story.

Special features on each title in the Collection include the entertaining “Warner Night at the Movies” short subject galleries with vintage newsreels, vault treasures and classic cartoons.

This is the UK equivalent of the April Region 1 DVD release: James Cagney: The Signature Collection and is identical in terms of content other than the obvious omission of a fifth film - Captain of the Clouds.

The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941)
Comedy comes from numerous sources in this screwball farce headlined by the ebullient pairing of James Cagney and Bette Davis, scripted by Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein (Casablanca, Arsenic and Old Lace). Whether up in the clouds, or underground in a mine, the stars (in their second and final film together) spar with harebrained zest as a pilot hired to kidnap an about-to-elope heiress, and the happy result from start to end is C.O.D. – Comedy on Demand.

DVD Special Features::

• Warner Night at the Movies 1941 short subjects gallery:
  • Vintage newsreel
  • Musical shorts Carnival of Rhythm and the Oscar-nominated Forty Boys and a Song
  • Classic cartoons Porky’s Pooch and the Oscar-nominated Rhapsody in Rivets
  • Trailers of The Bride Came C.O.D. and 1941’s Honeymoon for Three

The Fighting 69th (1940)
In the seventh of their nine movies together, off-screen pals James Cagney and Pat O’Brien play soldiers of the famed, largely Irish-American World War I regiment, the Fighting 69th. O’Brien is Father Duffy, the brave chaplain whose statue stands today in Manhattan’s Times Square. Cagney is Jerry Plunkett, a street-tough braggart turned yellow by the horror of No Man’s Land, but inspired to redemptive heroism by Duffy’s courage under fire.

DVD Special Features:

• Warner Night at the Movies 1940 short subjects gallery:
  • Vintage newsreel
  • Two patriotic shorts: Young America Flies and the Oscar-nominated London Can Take It!
  • Classic cartoon Pilgrim Porky
  • Trailers of The Fighting 69th and 1940’s Brother Orchid
• Classic cartoon The Fighting 69½th
• Audio-only bonus: radio adaptation with Pat O’Brien, Robert Preston and Ralph Bellamy

Torrid Zone (1940)
Off-screen pals James Cagney and Pat O’Brien team for the eighth time in this snappy action comedy set in a Central American “Banana” Republic. In a role widely cited as putting her on the movie fan’s map, Hollywood’s “Oomph Girl” Ann Sheridan portrays wisecracking chanteuse Lee Donley who’s the lure to keep the plantation’s best man (Cagney) from leaving the company. With superb support, zippy repartee, plus 950 banana trees planted over 5 backlot acres, the heat is on.

DVD Special Features:

• Warner Night at the Movies 1940 short subjects gallery:
  • Vintage newsreel
  • Musical short Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra
  • Technicolor historical short Pony Express Days with Torrid Zone’s George Reeves
  • Classic Oscar-nominated cartoon A Wild Hare
  • Trailers of Torrid Zone and 1940’s Santa Fe Trail

The West Point Story (1950)
James Cagney puts on his dancing shoes again for this merry musical comedy packed with spirited starpower and lively tunes by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn.

Cagney plays a Broadway showman down on his luck yet full of hotshot ideas. Brought to West Point to stage the cadets’ annual musical, he decides to make it a tryout for a Broadway transfer. But first, he must lure the show’s talented lead (Gordon MacRae) out of the military. He’s got just the right bait: a sweet-natured Hollywood star (Doris Day). Virginia Mayo and Gene Nelson also star alongside the irrepressible Cagney, who’s “in rare good form, singing, dancing and wisecracking in his most electrifying style” (Bosley Crowther, The New York Times).

DVD Special Features:

• Warner Night at the Movies 1950 short subjects gallery:
  • Vintage newsreel
  • Oscar-winning Sports Parade short Grandad of Races
  • Classic cartoon His Bitter Half
  • Trailers of The West Point Story and 1950’s Tea for Two