Warner geplande releases

[Cinemaniac]

Warner Home Video have announced the Region 1 DVD release of TCM Spotlight: Esther Williams on 17th July 2007. The ravishing bathing beauty who pioneered a new genre of moviemaking -- “Aqua Musicals” -- will be seen in some of her splashiest roles with this collection from Warner Home Video and Turner Classic Movies. The Collection includes the DVD debuts of five Technicolor films from ‘America’s Favorite Mermaid’ – Bathing Beauty, On an Island with You, Easy to Wed, Neptune’s Daughter and Dangerous When Wet.

Also included are special features such as TCM host Robert Osborne’s recent “Private Screenings” interview with Esther (featured on the Bathing Beauty DVD), Academy Award-winning vintage shorts, musical number outtakes, and classic cartoons. The films will be available only as a collection in a collectible digi-pak gift and will sell for $49.92 SRP.

Bathing Beauty (1944)
Rambunctious funnyman Red Skelton joins Esther Williams in this buoyant (literally) comedy about a lovesick songwriter who enrolls in a women’s college to woo his estranged swimming-teacher wife. Highlights include music from both Harry James and his Music Makers and Xavier Cugat and his Orchestra, Skelton in a pink tutu doing unforgivable things to Tchaikovsky and a spectacular, trendsetting ‘chlorine-and-chorine’ finale.

Special Features:

• Robert Osborne hosts TCM’s Private Screenings with Esther Williams
• Oscar-nominated Short Main Street Today
• Academy Award-winning Cartoon Mouse Trouble
• Theatrical trailer
• Subtitles: English (feature film only)

On an Island with You (1948 )
Moonlight swims, swaying palms, Technicolor® sunsets and…cannibals?! Esther Williams, Peter Lawford, Ricardo Montalban and Cyd Charisse get the swimming, swaying and sunsets and Jimmy Durante gets the cannibals in this tune-filled paradise for fans of musical comedy. The frothy plot follows a swimming movie star (Williams, who else?) pursued by two handsome suitors on the set of her latest film, but the main point is mostly the songs, romance and Esther in a sizzling series of swimsuits and sarongs.

Special Features:

• Vintage Romance of Celluloid series short Personalities
• Classic cartoon The Bear and the Hare
• Theatrical trailer
• Subtitles: English (feature film only)

Easy To Wed (1946)
In this fast-paced, romantic comedy – a remake of the screwball 1930’s classic Libeled Lady – the comic bits are legion, with two standouts: Van Johnson afloat with a baleful spaniel who knows a lot more about duck hunting than he does, and a laugh-out-loud drunk scene that uncorks the incomparable lunacy of Lucille Ball. When the local paper runs an untrue story claiming an heiress (Esther Williams) is a husband stealer, she prepares to sue for libel. So a newspaper honcho (Keenan Wynn) devises a counter scheme to compromise her image: He’ll arrange a sham wedding between his fiancée (Lucille Ball) and a newsroom Romeo (Van Johnson), send the Romeo to woo the heiress, and make the phony story come true!

Special Features:

• Oscar-nominated Pete Smith Specialty comedy short Sure Cures
• Classic cartoon The Unwelcome Guest
• Theatrical trailers of Easy to Wed and Libeled Lady
• Subtitles: English (feature film only)

Neptune’s Daughter (1949)
Longing for a Latin lover, boy-crazy Betty Barrett (Betty Garrett) mistakes girl-shy Jack Spratt (Red Skelton) for the South American polo team captain José O’Rourke (Ricardo Montalban). Meanwhile, the real O’Rourke pursues Betty’s elegant sister Eve (Esther Williams). Soon mistaken identities and romantic complications spin into a dizzy mix of slapstick and flirtatious fun. All is set to terrific Frank Loesser songs, including Baby, It’s Cold Outside, winner of the 1949 Best Song Oscar®. The film ends not only happily-ever-after but with (would a Williams fan expect anything less?) a stupendous water ballet.

Special Features:

• Outtake musical number I Want My Money Back
• Esther Williams cameo sequence from 1951’s Callaway Went Thataway
• Oscar-Nominated Pete Smith Specialty comedy short Water Trix
• Oscar-nominated cartoon Hatch Up Your Troubles
• Theatrical trailers of this movie and Take Me Out to the Ball Game
• Subtitles: English (feature film only)

Dangerous When Wet (1953)
The “just add water” formula works again in this lighthearted mix of romance, music and comedy directed by Charles Walters (Easter Parade). Williams plays Katy, a farm girl who finds romance (with Williams’ future real-life husband Fernando Lamas) while training for a swim across the English Channel. In the film’s key sequence, Williams swims, swirls and swoops with cartoon stars Tom and Jerry in a concoction “brimful of attractive people and attractive performances” (Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical).

Special Features:

• Outtake musical number C’est La Guerre
• Pete Smith Specialty comedy short This Is a Living?
• Classic cartoon Name to Come
• Esther Williams musicals trailer gallery
• Subtitles: English (feature film only)

[kit carson]

31 juli 2007: Warner Film Noir Collection Vol. IV 5-DVDBoxset: Link

disc 1: Act of Violence/ Mystery Street;
disc 2: Crime Wave/ Decoy;
disc 3: Illegal/ The Big Steal;
disc 4: They Live By Night/ Side Street;
disc 5: Where Danger Lives/ Tension.

[Cinemaniac]

Warner Home Video have announced the Region 1 DVD release of The Film Noir Classic Collection Vol. 4 on 31st July 2007. The next Film Noir collection sees legendary Hollywood tough guys and femme fatales once again colliding, this time in ten smoldering suspense classics, all new to Region 1 DVD. Presented as Double Features titles include Act of Violence/ Mystery Street; Crime Wave/ Decoy; Illegal/ The Big Steal; They Live By Night/ Side Street; and Where Danger Lives/ Tension.

The new movies, which have all been digitally remastered for this collection, star film noir icons Robert Mitchum, Edward G. Robinson, Robert Ryan, Van Heflin, Ricardo Montalban, Claude Rains and Farley Granger, among others. The five-disc collection, will be available for $59.92 SRP and single titles will sell for $20.97 SRP.

About the collection…

Act of Violence (1948 )/ Mystery Street (1950)
This grim melodrama stars Van Heflin as former World War II pilot Frank Enley, a respected contractor and family man, whose wife is played by Janet Leigh. When his troubled, crippled bombardier (Robert Ryan) shows up with a gun and a score to settle, it becomes apparent that perhaps neither man is what he seems to be. Director Fred Zinnemann (The Day of the Jackal) guides a searing Act of Violence, “the first postwar noir to take a challenging look at the ethics of men in combat” (Eddie Muller, Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir).”

Murder lives on Mystery Street. John Sturges (The Great Escape) directs a revealing-“CSI”-type film about a Boston cop (Ricardo Montalban) called upon to solve the mystery surrounding a skeleton found on a Cape Cod beach with the help of a Harvard forensic expert (Bruce Bennett).

Special Features:

Act of Violence

• Commentary by Dr. Drew Casper
• Act of Violence: Dealing With the Devil
• Theatrical Trailer

Mystery Street

• Commentary by Alain Silver and Elizabeth Ward
• Mystery Street: Murder at Harvard
• Theatrical Trailer

Crime Wave (1954)/ Decoy (1946)
Legendary director Andre de Toth (House of Wax) was at the helm of this outstanding, but little-known L.A. noir about three escaped convicts from San Quentin who rob a gas station and kill a motorcycle cop. The hardboiled cop heading the manhunt is Sterling Hayden (The Asphalt Jungle).

Recent Film Noir festivals have provided an opportunity for audiences to rediscover truly forgotten films. Such is the case with Monogram Pictures Decoy, in which a drop-dead gorgeous dame Margo Shelby, played by British newcomer, Jean Gille, revives her gangster boyfriend after he dies in the gas chamber, not because she’s so fond of him, but because he knows where the loot is buried. This is a film that very few people have ever seen, but will likely be the subject of much cinephile discussion after its broad availability in this new Film Noir V.4 collection.

Special Features:

Crime Wave

• Commentary by James Ellroy and Eddie Muller
• Crime Wave: The City is Dark
• Theatrical trailer

Decoy

• Commentary by Stanley Rubin and Glenn Erickson
• Decoy: A Map to Nowhere
• Theatrical trailer

Illegal (1955)/ The Big Steal (1949)
When his career as a D.A. unexpectedly collapses, tenacious Victor Scott turns to defending criminal lowlifes. Edward G. Robinson plays Scott in this snappy remake of The Mouthpiece (1932) directed by Lewis Allen (The Uninvited). Film buffs’ moments include Jayne Mansfield’s scenes and real-life art expert Robinson’s comments on a crime lord’s collection of paintings.

Out of the Past’s Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer reteam in The Big Steal, speeding along Mexican roadways in pursuit of a grifter who has a suitcase that may be stuffed with cash. This film, both tense and humorous at the same time is directed by Clint Eastwood’s filmmaking mentor, Don Siegel.

Special Features:

Illegal

• Commentary by Nina Foch and Patricia King Hanson
• Illegal: Marked for Life
• Behind the Cameras: Edward G. Robinson
• Theatrical trailer

The Big Steal

• Commentary by Richard B. Jewell
• The Big Steal: Look Behind You

They Live By Night (1948 )/ Side Street (1950)
Young escaped convict Bowie (Farley Granger) and Keechie (Cathy O’Donnell) just want to let their new love blossom. But thugs like Chicamaw 'One-Eye' Mobley (Howard da Silva) have other ideas, forcing Bowie to be their accomplice. They Live By Night, a story of doomed and desperate love is director Nicholas Ray’s (Rebel Without a Cause) debut, and is “one of the most poignant and unforgettable noirs ever made” (The Movie Guide).

In Side Street, Granger and O’Donnell team again as struggling marrieds in an unforgiving Manhattan. In a moment of weakness, the letter carrier gives in to temptation and steals what he thinks is a few hundred dollars. But its $30,000, tied to some ruthless blackmailers, and Granger’s attempt to return it puts him in deeper peril. Anthony Mann (Border Incident) directs with a flair that makes the city a key player in this noir nerve-jangler.

Special Features:

They Live By Night

• Commentary by Farley Granger and Eddie Muller
• They Live By Night: The Twisted Road
• Theatrical trailer

Side Street

• Commentary by Richard Schickel
• Side Street: Where Temptation Lurks
• Theatrical trailer

Where Danger Lives (1950)/ Tension (1950)
Robert Mitchum, playing a doctor smitten with desire for a beautiful patient (Faith Domergue) who’s brought in after an attempted suicide, journeys Where Danger Lives when the would-be lovebirds go on the lam. Ahead is Mexico, miles back is the husband’s (Claude Rains) corpse. But the final destination for the illicit pair could be a dead end in this dark gem of a film directed by John Farrow (The Big Clock).

Noir favorite Audrey Totter (The Set-Up) leaves her mousy but devoted spouse (Richard Basehart) for another man, and the Tension mounts as he plots revenge, then sees his plan take an unexpected turn. Cyd Charisse, Barry Sullivan and William Conrad co-star in a bitter tale of the postwar American dream frayed into nightmare.

Special Features:

Where Danger Lives

• Commentary by Alain Silver and James Ursini
• Where Danger Lives: White Rose for Julie
• Theatrical Trailer

Tension

• Commentary by Alain Silver and Elizabeth Ward with Audrey Trotter
• Tension: Who’s Guilty Now?
• Theatrical Trailer

[TheGodfather]

Worden het dan dubbelzijdige discs? of 2 films op 1 disc?
Hoe dan ook: het wordt waarschijnlijk wel een aanschaf :razz:

[TheGodfather]

Artwork:

[TheGodfather]

Net m`n shipping notice gekregen van dvdpacific voor m`n Rio Bravo UE

[Cinemaniac]

Warner's Shakespeare Collection in August

[Richard B.]

Warner's Shakespeare Collection in August

Cool! Keneth Branagh's Hamlet!

[zetmoon]

Gaat Warner de volgende boxen nog eens in R2 uitbrengen?:

-Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers
-John Wayne/John Ford Box
-Film noir 1 t/m 4
-Tough guys box

[wiljan]

Reken er maar heel hard op van niet. De meeste films uit de Film Noir boxen zijn trouwens gewoon R1,2,3,4 gecodeerd, dus die kan je zonder probleem kijken.

[zetmoon]

Reken er maar heel hard op van niet. De meeste films uit de Film Noir boxen zijn trouwens gewoon R1,2,3,4 gecodeerd, dus die kan je zonder probleem kijken.

De regio code is het probleem niet, mijn DVD spelers zijn (uiteraard) regio vrij!

Ik stoor me echter aan het NTSC beeld, bijna 100 beeldlijnen minder en 3:2 pulldown gestotter.

[stefanovic]

De regio code is het probleem niet, mijn DVD spelers zijn (uiteraard) regio vrij!

Ik stoor me echter aan het NTSC beeld, bijna 100 beeldlijnen minder en 3:2 pulldown gestotter.

Tja, je zal maar filmfan zijn... Ik zou echt nooit een r1 dvd kopen...

[zetmoon]

Tja, je zal maar filmfan zijn... Ik zou echt nooit een r1 dvd kopen...

Ik heb er een paar vanwege de extra's, NAAST de PAL versie.

En bij sommige films stoor ik me aan het feit dat de muziek een halve toon hoger klinkt
bij PAL.
Zoals Grease, Saturday night fever en Elvis: That's the way it is.
Die heb ik dus ook als R1.

[Cinemaniac]

Warner Home Video and Paramount Home Entertainment have announced the Region 1 DVD release of several Elvis Presley titles on 7th August 2007. Joining forces once again (following on from their John Wayne collaboration in May) Warner and Paramount will celebrate the life of Elvis Presley, and commemorate the 30th anniversary of “The King’s” passing, with the DVD release of 24 films. The lead Warner titles in the promotion are Deluxe Editions of Viva Las Vegas and Jailhouse Rock ($19.97 SRP each) and 2 Disc Special Editions of Elvis: That’s the Way It Is and This is Elvis (making its R1 DVD debut) ($20.97 SRP each). The lead Paramount offering is the Lights! Camera! Elvis! Collection ($76.99 SRP) presented in a collectible blue suede case.

WHV also will debut Elvis: The Hollywood Collection, containing six Elvis films never before on DVD – Charro, Girl Happy,, Kissin’ Cousins, Stay Away, Joe, Tickle Me and Live A Little, Love A Little. The films will be available as a set ($49.92 SRP), as well as individually ($12.97 SRP each).

PHE is packaging eight classic Presley titles in a collectible blue suede case. The Lights! Camera! Elvis! Collection will include King Creole, G.I. Blues, Blue Hawaii, Roustabout, Girls! Girls! Girls!, Fun In Acapulco, Paradise, Hawaiian Style and Easy Come, Easy Go. Considered by many to be Elvis’ finest acting performance, King Creole was also Elvis’ personal favourite of all his films and was directed by Michael Curtiz (Casablanca). G.I. Blues was the first film that Elvis made after returning from his stint in the army and features the all-time classic song “Blue Suede Shoes”. Elvis’ highest grossing film, Blue Hawaii, was filmed in part on location in the Hawaiian Islands, as were Girls! Girls! Girls!, which was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture—Musical, and Paradise, Hawaiian Style. Elvis co-starred with a string of notable actresses including Ursula Andress in Fun In Acapulco, Barbara Stanwyck in Roustabout and Elsa Lanchester (best known for her role in Bride of Frankenstein) in Easy Come, Easy Go. All eight titles are packaged together for the first time and feature sensational musical performances of beloved songs including “Hard Headed Woman”, “Can’t Help Falling In Love” and “Return To Sender”. Retail is $76.99 SRP on the collection, while titles are available individually priced at $12.99 SRP each.

Warner is also re-releasing six titles in new packaging. Priced at $12.97 SRP each are: Double Trouble, Harum Scarum, It Happened at the World’s Fair, Speedway, Spinout and The Trouble with Girls.


The Films

Viva Las Vegas Deluxe Edition
In one of his most popular movies, Elvis Presley shared the screen with Ann-Margret in Sin City, aka Las Vegas, easily creating the most electrifying teaming Elvis had on-screen. He’s Lucky Jackson, a Grand Prix race driver working at a casino to raise cash for a new engine; she’s a hotel swimming instructor - and the romantic action revs up from their first meeting. Veteran director George Sidney, who guided Ann-Margret in the prior year’s Bye Bye Birdie, combines the hormonal heat wave with fascinating sights of ’60s Las Vegas. Songs include the high-roller title track, the stars’ duet on “The Lady Loves Me,” her sultry “Appreciation” and The King’s version of Ray Charles’ “What’d I Say.”

Features include:

• Restored and Digitally Remastered in a 16x9 master, enhanced for widescreen televisions
• Soundtrack remastered in Dolby Digital 5.1 from original production elements
• Original Mono Soundtrack
• Commentary by Steve Pond, rock journalist and author of “Elvis in Hollywood”
• New featurette Kingdom: Elvis in Vegas
• Theatrical trailer
• Subtitles: English & Français (feature film only)

Jailhouse Rock Deluxe Edition
In this 1957 box-office hit that’s Elvis “Presley’s best film” according to Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide, the King plays Vince Everett, jailed for manslaughter after a bar fight. There, Vince learns to belt out tunes while “in the house” and after being paroled, follows a bumpy road to music and movie success. Six Presley songs by Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller spike the story, including “Treat Me Nice,” “I Wanna Be Free” and the classic shimmy-shakin’ title tune that was Presley’s favorite of all his films’ production numbers.

Features include:

• Restored and Digitally Remastered in a 16x9 master, enhanced for widescreen televisions
• Soundtrack Remastered in Dolby Digital 5.1 from original production elements
• Original Mono Soundtrack
• Commentary by Steve Pond, music journalist
• New Featurette The Scene That Stole Jailhouse Rock
• Theatrical Trailer
• Subtitles: English & Français (Feature Film Only)

This is Elvis 2-Disc Special Edition
From executive producer and award-winning documentarian David L. Wolper (Roots, L.A. Confidential), This Is Elvis is an intimate, behind-the-scenes portrait crafted by Andrew Solt (Imagine: John Lennon) and Malcolm Leo (Rolling Stone: 20 Years of Rock ’n’ Roll). Elvis’ “authorized biography” draws on interviews with the people who knew Presley best – family, friends, employees and mentor/manager Colonel Tom Parker – and includes some rare, never before seen footage, including home movies, newsreels and several key TV appearances.

Features include…

Disc 1: First-ever home video release of the original, uncensored 1981 Theatrical version in a new digital transfer with soundtrack remastered in Dolby Surround 2.0

• Vintage featurette Behind the Gates of Graceland
• Elvis Presley movie trailer gallery
• Subtitles: Français (feature film only)

Disc 2: 1983 Unrated expanded Home video version with 40 minutes of footage not shown in theatres

• Subtitles: Français (feature film only)

Elvis: That’s the Way It Is 2-Disc Special Edition
It’s summer 1970 and this concert documentary allows unrestricted access to the hottest show in town: Elvis Presley’s milestone four weeks of appearances at the International Hotel in Las Vegas. Dozens of tunes (including favourites “All Shook Up” and “Suspicious Minds”) are included as the camera follows the show’s development from rehearsal to stage. This 2-Disc Special Edition contains two versions – the original 1970 theatrical version and the critically-acclaimed Special Edition from 2000, which captures even more of Elvis’ legendary performances. That’s double the entertainment for Elvis concert fans.

Features include…
Disc 1: (2000 Special Edition)

• Restoration featurette Patch It Up: The Restoration of Elvis: That’s the Way It Is
• 16x9 digital transfer with 5.1 Dolby Digital Audio
• Presley career highlights
• Director/restorer filmographies
• Theatrical trailer
• Subtitles: English & Français (feature film only)

Disc 2: (1970 Original Theatrical Version)

• Twelve never-before seen outtake song/non-musical sequences
• Subtitles: English & Français (feature film only)

Elvis: The Hollywood Collection

Charro!
The Elvis on screen here isn’t the clean-cut all-American kid ready to hit the beach or dance floor. Instead, stubble covers his face; his hat hangs low over his eyes and a bandanna hides the ugly scar that marks him as a killer. Written and directed by Charles Marquis Warren (creator of TV’s Gunsmoke, Rawhide and The Virginian), this stark sagebrush non-musical saga follows an ex-outlaw trying to go straight – but he’s got a score to settle when his own gang frames him for a heist.

Special Features:

• First-time widescreen video release [16x9 2.4:1]
• Theatrical trailer
• Subtitles: English & Français (feature film only)

Girl Happy
Rock ’n’ roll’s first icon was ranked 6th among the top box-office stars when he headlined this film. Elvis portrays Chicago club singer Rusty Wells, who, when not wowing the crowds, has the added task of watching over the overly exuberant daughter of his mob boss (Harold J. Stone) while she’s on vacation in Fort Lauderdale. Shelley Fabares, Presley’s favorite leading lady and a singing star in her own right (her 1962 tune Johnny Angel was a #1 hit), plays the daughter. And the lively songs include “Do the Clam,” “Good News,” “Puppet on a String,” the title tune and eight others. Also featured are Mary Ann Mobley and Gary Crosby.

Special Features:

• New digital transfer of complete original theatrical version with Startin’ Tonight song sequence now back in the film
• Theatrical trailer
• Subtitles: English & Français (feature film only)

Kissin’ Cousins
In his 15th film, the King takes on two roles in this backwoods romp, playing dark-haired Air Force Lt. Josh Morgan and Morgan’s adversary, blonde good ol’ boy Jodie Tatum. Lt. Josh’s assignment: try to convince his look-alike cousin Jodie to allow a missile site to be built on his land. A fistful of tunes “Barefoot Ballad”, “It’s a Long Lonely Highway,” “Tender Feeling,” the title song and 6 others), some whoop-it-up-dancing and 13 mountain cuties called Kittyhawks add to the down-home delights.

Special Features:

• New digital transfer of complete original theatrical version with Smokey Mountain Boy song sequence now back in the film
• Theatrical trailer
• Subtitles: English & Français (feature film only)

Live a Little, Love a Little
In his 28th film, Elvis Presley plays frazzled photographer Greg Nolan, juggling two jobs and scrambling to keep his work life afloat while also contending with the kooky attentions of a beach beauty (Michele Carey). Four breezy songs, including the recent Elvis chart-buster, “A Little Less Conversation” and the “Edge of Reality” dream sequence add to the zippy fun. And, for the first time, Elvis takes on-screen chances with his public image doing more “adult” comedy.

Special Features:

• Theatrical trailer
• Languages & Subtitles: English, Français & Español (feature film only)

Stay Away, Joe
Elvis Presley portrays amiable Navajo rodeo star Joe Lightcloud, returning to his home to help his tribe become cattle ranchers. A talented ensemble of screen veterans joins Presley for this good-time, two-fisted tale filmed in and around Arizona’s scenic Sedona. Burgess Meredith is Joe’s rascally father, Katy Jurado is his tough-love step mom and Joan Blondell is the shotgun-toting local gal setting her romantic sights on Joe. Plenty of fun and a couple of tunes (the title track and “Dominique”) are along for the ride too.

Special Features:

• Theatrical trailer
• Subtitles: English & Français (feature film only)

Tickle Me
Looking for part-time work until rodeo season opens, Lonnie Beale (Elvis) finds himself at a dude ranch/spa for actresses and models. Elvis enjoys his share of the laughs as he meets girl (Jocelyn Lane), loses girl and gets girl back - plus a fortune in lost gold. This film frolic tickles with a saddlebag of nine tunes, including “I’m Yours” and “Such an Easy Question.” There’s also considerable tickling of the funny bone since writers Elwood Ullman and Edward Bernds are veterans of the Three Stooges comedies.

Special Features:

• First-time widescreen video release [16x9 2.4:1]
• Theatrical trailer
• Subtitles: English (feature film only)

[Cinemaniac]

Warner Home Video have announced the Region 1 DVD release of TCM Spotlight: Myrna Loy/William Powell Collection on 7th August 2007. Following the enormous success of 2005’s The Thin Man Collection, Warner Home Video and Turner Classic Movies join forces to highlight the great motion picture chemistry of Myrna Loy and William Powell with the Region 1 DVD debut of five M-G-M classics: Manhattan Melodrama, Evelyn Prentice, Double Wedding, I Love You Again and Love Crazy. Extras include vintage shorts, classic cartoons and a radio show broadcast for Love Crazy. The films will be available only as a collection in a collectible digi-pak gift set and will sell for $49.92 SRP.

In just two years, The Thin Man Collection, featuring Powell and Loy’s star turns as Nick and Nora Charles, has sold nearly a million and a half units domestically and has become Warner Home Video’s # 1 selling classic series, surpassing previous record-holder, the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers titles.

Both Myrna Loy and William Powell had dozens of screen successes opposite other Hollywood immortals but it was the pairing of the two together that brought style, wit and warmth to the screen, created box-office magic and endeared them to generations of moviegoers.

Accompanying the new Loy and Powell teamings will be the first national release of all The Thin Man titles individually. After the Thin Man, Shadow of a Thin Man, Song of the Thin Man, The Thin Man Goes Home and Another Thin Man will also be available for $14.98 SRP.


The Films

Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
William Powell and Myrna Loy unveil their unique sparkle and rapport, sharing the screen in the first of their 14 non-cameo features. Rugged Clark Gable, in his only movie with urbane Powell, has first billing in this famed Oscar® winning (for Best Original Story) delight about childhood friends who end up on opposite sides of the law…and in love with the same woman. Gable’s character is a big-time gangster, and Powell a D.A. vying for Governorship. Adding to the cachet is the fact that real-life gangster (and reputed big-time Myrna Loy fan) John Dillinger was gunned down as he left a Chicago theater after seeing this movie.

Special Features:

• Comedy short Goofy Movies #2
• Classic cartoon The Old Pioneer
• Theatrical trailer
• Subtitles: English & Français (feature film only)

Evelyn Prentice (1934)
Myrna Loy, known for her portrayals of the perfect wife, is all too fallible as Evelyn Prentice, starring with William Powell in their first film together after the phenomenal success of The Thin Man. This heady courtroom melodrama boasts a slick murder-mystery plot, New York-minute pacing and the screen debut of someone soon to join Powell and Loy in the pantheon of Hollywood stardom: Rosalind Russell.

Nancy Harrison (Russell) stands trial for the murder of her lover. Prominent defense attorney John Prentice (Powell) has one chance to save her from the chair: find the unknown society woman who shared the womanizing victim’s attentions…and may have pulled the trigger herself. What the workaholic attorney doesn’t know is that the woman he’s hunting is his own neglected wife (Loy).

Special Features:

• Comedy short Goofy Movies #3
• Classic cartoon Discontented Canary
• Theatrical trailer
• Subtitles: English & Français (feature film only)

Double Wedding (1937)
Domineering big sister Margit Agnew likes to be in total control, even over her sister Irene’s love life. Having planned all the details of Irene’s wedding to milquetoast fiancé Waldo, she is appalled to learn that Irene has plans of her own, which don’t include marrying Waldo. Instead, Irene’s intentions are to wed beret-wearing bohemian Charlie Lodge, who lives in a trailer and cares nothing about money. Can Margit save her sister from an altered state? Well, since Myrna Loy plays Margit and William Powell plays Charlie, film fans just might guess who ends up bride and groom.

Special Features:

• Musical short Dancing on the Ceiling
• Classic cartoon The Hound and the Rabbit
• Theatrical trailer
• Subtitles: English & Français (feature film only)

I Love You Again (1940)
W.S. Van Dyke II, director of four of the six Thin Man films, helms the capricious fun in this romantic comedy. Boring, prosperous Larry Wilson (Powell) receives a blow to the head while he’s on a cruise, and totally forgets who he is. When he comes to, he realizes he’s really con man George Carey, who’s been suffering from amnesia for nine years. Not one to pass up a swindle, Carey decides to continue to pose as the wealthy Wilson, clean out his bank account and skip town. Along the way, he’ll need to use his sly charm on his wife Kay (Loy), who’s tired of the staid Larry she’s been living with and wants a divorce. Complications ensue, of course, especially when Kay begins to warm to this new side of her old spouse. And, not surprisingly, the two find that love may indeed be better the second time around.

Special Features:

• Crime Doesn’t Pay Series short Jackpot
• Classic cartoon Tom Turkey and His Harmonica Humdingers
• Theatrical trailer
• Subtitles: English & Français (feature film only)

Love Crazy (1941)
Myrna Loy joins Powell for a certifiably loony romp that showcases both stars at their madcap best. They play Susan and Steve Ireland, a happily married couple who let a series of complications during their 4th anniversary celebration put the kibosh on their wedded bliss. Susan files for divorce, and Steve opts to halt the proceedings by feigning insanity, even if it means playing ‘horsie’ with a gardener’s rake or posing in drag as his own sister. If you’re looking for screw loose screwball comedy, this is it.

Special Features:

• Classic cartoon The Alley Cat
• Audio-only bonus: Screen Directors Guild Playhouse Radio Broadcast
• Theatrical trailer
• Subtitles: English & Français (feature film only)

[TheGodfather]

dvdbeaver comparison van de Rio Bravo SE

Heb `m gisteren binnen gekregen: prachtige uitgave

[zetmoon]

dvdbeaver comparison van de Rio Bravo SE

Heb `m gisteren binnen gekregen: prachtige uitgave

Jammer alleen dat de beeldkwaliteit minder is.

Ook Gary van Beaver vind dat.

[TheGodfather]

Jammer alleen dat de beeldkwaliteit minder is.

Ook Gary van Beaver vind dat.

Had het gelezen ja. Heb de film nog niet bekeken, alleen pas de eerste paar minuutjes. Dat zag er toch goed uit (al heb ik geen referentie mogelijkheden: heb geen andere uitgaves dan deze )

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Gaat Warner de volgende boxen nog eens in R2 uitbrengen?:

-Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers
-John Wayne/John Ford Box
-Film noir 1 t/m 4
-Tough guys box

De Astaire Rogersbox kan in Europa niet bij Warner worden uitgegeven, omdat de rechten van de oude RKO-films hier bij Universal liggen. Universal heeft deze films al in Engeland in 2 boxjes uitgegeven, in VEEL slechtere beeldkwaliteit dan de Amerikaanse box. De Amerikaanse uitgave is perfect, met veel extra's. Een regio-2 versie van de Astaire-Rogers-box gaat er dus waarschijnlijk nooit komen. Alleen The barkley's of Broadway (de op één na minste film van de serie) is hier los op dvd te koop in de warner versie. Dat betrof namelijk geen RKO-film maar een MGM-film, waarvan de rechten in Europa wel bij Warner liggen.

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De Astaire Rogersbox kan in Europa niet bij Warner worden uitgegeven, omdat de rechten van de oude RKO-films hier bij Universal liggen. Universal heeft deze films al in Engeland in 2 boxjes uitgegeven, in VEEL slechtere beeldkwaliteit dan de Amerikaanse box. De Amerikaanse uitgave is perfect, met veel extra's. Een regio-2 versie van de Astaire-Rogers-box gaat er dus waarschijnlijk nooit komen. Alleen The barkley's of Broadway (de op één na minste film van de serie) is hier los op dvd te koop in de warner versie. Dat betrof namelijk geen RKO-film maar een MGM-film, waarvan de rechten in Europa wel bij Warner liggen.

Dank, dank, dank!!!!!!!

Nu weet ik eindelijk waarom!

Ik had het eigenlijk kunnen weten want de RKO Film Noirs zijn in Amerika ook door
Warner uitgebracht in inmiddels 4 boxen.
In Engeland zijn een paar van die films uitgebracht door Universal.

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Warner Home Video have announced the Region 1 DVD release of The Mickey Rooney & Judy Garland Collection: Ultimate Collector’s Edition on 25th September 2007. Warner celebrates the incomparable talents of the legendary dynamic entertainment duo, Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland with this new set which features Mickey and Judy singing, dancing, clowning and lifting spirits in the four “backyard musical’ extravaganzas that forever cemented their reputation as one of Hollywood’s most beloved screen teams. The M-G-M musical classics in this collection, finally making their first appearance on DVD, are the duo’s most famous and successful teamings: Babes in Arms, Babes on Broadway, Strike Up the Band and Girl Crazy.

This new five-disc DVD collection also includes a separate Bonus Disc of special features, with nearly three hours of essential viewing for Rooney & Garland fans, including Private Screenings with Mickey Rooney, an in-depth, deeply personal interview hosted by TCM’s Robert Osborne, and The Judy Garland Songbook, an unprecedented collection of 21 Garland movie musical numbers, both famous and rare, spanning nearly 20 years of her amazing screen career, with all songs presented in complete form. The bonus disc also features an extensive Mickey Rooney/Judy Garland trailer gallery.

Each movie in the collection has a newly-filmed, exclusive introduction by Mickey Rooney as well as vintage comedy shorts, cartoons and radio promos. Memorabilia that no fan will be able to resist rounds out the set with a portfolio of 20 collectible rare behind-the-scenes photos and a collectable guide to the set, featuring vintage memorabilia, promotional advertisements, and other rarities, along with production notes written by noted film historian John Fricke. Fricke also provides commentary on two of the films. The Mickey Rooney & Judy Garland Ultimate Collector’s Edition will be sold as a complete set only, in beautiful keepsake packaging, for $49.92 SRP.

“Our “Ultimate Collector's Edition” line is reserved for the crown jewels of the huge Warner library,” said George Feltenstein, WHV's Senior Vice President Theatrical Catalog Marketing “As we did for Fred & Ginger fans last year, we’re delighted to be doing the same for the timeless films Mickey and Judy made during M-G-M’s ‘golden age.’ We're especially thrilled that Mickey Rooney was kind enough to film new introductions. It adds a personal touch that makes this new collection all the more meaningful.”

The Films

Babes in Arms (1939)
Babes in Arms, is considered the quintessential Mickey Rooney-Judy Garland musical. Freely adapted from the 1937 Rodgers and Hart Broadway hit of the same name, it marked the producing debut of Arthur Freed, who would go on to create some of the greatest musical films in motion picture history. To direct the film, Freed hired the legendary Busby Berkeley, who had recently migrated from Warner Bros. to Metro, and Berkeley neatly handled the film’s direction and choreography, with the results being a total sensation. The film went into production immediately after the completion (but before the release of) The Wizard of Oz (1939), and Oz fans will be amused to find “The Wicked Witch of the West” actress Margaret Hamilton, once again taking on the role of screen villainess. The semi-autobiographical plot features Rooney playing Mickey Moran, the talented son of a vaudeville team, who rounds up all his fellow child entertainers to stage a fund-raiser show to help out his financially-strapped folks. Variety called it “a topflight filmusical entertainment.”

Warner Home Video’s new DVD presents the home video premiere of the film as originally released in 1939. Previous video incarnations represented the film as it was cut for reissue after the end of World War II, when M-G-M removed a charming sequence featuring Mickey and Judy impersonating Eleanor and Franklin D. Roosevelt. At the time, Metro felt the public would not want to see the recently deceased F.D.R. parodied on film, but unfortunately, the studio did not retain any film materials from this deleted number, as it had been cut out of all negatives and prints. Using a recently discovered collector’s print as source material, the sequence “Roosevelt” sequence (a/k/a “My Day”) has been permanently restored to the film.

DVD Special Features:

• Introduction by Mickey Rooney
• Commentary by historian John Fricke
• Vintage Our Gang short Duel Personalities
• Classic cartoon The Mad Maestro
• 1939 Newsreel with Mickey and Judy
• Audio-only bonuses:
  • Leo Is on the Air radio promo
  • 3 different radio shows with Rooney and Garland
• Theatrical Trailer

Strike up the Band (1940)
Mickey plays Jimmy Connors, the leader of his high school band hoping to compete in a nationwide radio contest. Judy is his girlfriend and chief vocalist. Famed orchestra leader Paul Whiteman appears in the film, which is highlighted by a massive Busbv Berkeley production number called “Do The La Conga” and Mickey shows off his percussive skills in the “Drummer Boy” sequence. The film also features the Oscar-nominated song “Our Love Affair” and a rousing finale with the Gershwins’ title tune.

DVD Special Features:

• Introduction by Mickey Rooney
• Pete Smith specialty comedy short Wedding Bills
• Classic cartoon Romeo in Rhythm
• “Do the La Conga” stereo remix version
• Audio-only bonuses:
  • Leo Is on the Air radio promo
  • Millions for Defense radio special with Mickey and Judy
  • Additional radio show with Rooney and Garland
• Theatrical Trailer

Babes on Broadway (1941)
This musical treat showcases the teenage duo’s talents as they come up with the idea to produce a show to send orphaned children on a country holiday, as well as to promote their beginning careers. The film gave Mickey and Judy the opportunity to introduce the now-famous ballad “How About You’, as well as Mickey’s unforgettable impersonation of Carmen Miranda. The film ends with a massive Busby Berkeley production extravaganza, which was one of the highlights of M-G-M’s hit musical compilation That’s Entertainment! in 1974.

DVD Special Features:

• Introduction by Mickey Rooney
• Pete Smith Specialty comedy short How to Hold Your Husband Back
• Classic cartoon Dance of the Weed
• Audio-only bonuses:
  • Two Leo Is on the Air Radio Promos
  • Radio Show Adaptation of Merton of the Movies with Rooney and Garland
  • Chin Up! Cheerio! Carry On Song Demo performed by composer Burton Lane
• Theatrical Trailer

Girl Crazy (1943)
George and Ira Gershwin’s 1930 Broadway hit served as the basis for Mickey and Judy’s last starring picture together. The tunes are sublime -- "Embraceable You," "Fascinating Rhythm," “Bidin’ My Time,” and a beautiful Garland solo on "But Not for Me." The plot has rich playboy Rooney, sent away to an all-male college out West as a way of keeping him in check, and the only gal in town is Judy, the granddaughter of the school's dean. Busby Berkeley staged the colossal dude-ranch finale to the Gershwin standard, "I Got Rhythm”, with Mickey, Judy, and a cast of hundreds, all accompanied by Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra. Look for a special appearance by a very young June Allyson singing “Treat Me Rough.”

DVD Special Features:

• Introduction by Mickey Rooney
• Commentary by historian John Fricke
• Vintage short Hollywood Daredevils
• Classic cartoon The Early Bird Dood It
• I Got Rhythm stereo remix version
• Audio-only bonus: Bronco Busters Outtake
• Theatrical Trailer

The Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland Collection- Bonus Disc

• Private Screenings with Mickey Rooney - 1996 TCM special hosted by Robert Osborne
• The Judy Garland Songbook- A superb collection of 21 complete, magical Judy Garland musical numbers spanning her many films from 1936-1954
• Mickey and Judy Trailer Gallery

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Artwork van de Rooney/Garland set:

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Beaver review van Cult Camp Classics 2 - Women in Peril.

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Beaver review van Cult Camp Classics 4 - Historical Epics.

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En ja hoor, weer een nieuwe Warner-box: Twisted Terror Collection 8)