FOX ARCHIVES: 15 More in New Wave

20th Century-Fox has another spectacular wave of new Cinema Archive titles due out on December 13th. Fifteen to be exact -- with those of particular note below:

  • The Big Show (1961) - Esther Williams, Cliff Robertson, Nehemiah Persoff, Robert Vaughn
  • The Best Things in Life Are Free (1956) - Gordon MacRae, Dan Dailey, Ernest Borgnine, Sheree North, Tommy Noonan
  • The Brasher Doubloon (1947) - George Montgomery, Nancy Guild, Conrad Janis
  • Dreamboat (1952) - Clifton Webb, Ginger Rogers, Anne Francis, Jeffrey Hunter, Elsa Lanchester
  • Inferno (1953) - Robert Ryan, Rhonda Fleming, William Lundigan
  • The Jackpot (1950) - James Stewart, Barbara Hale, James Gleason
  • The Late George Apley (1947) - Ronald Colman, Vanessa Brown, Richard Haydn, Charles Russell
  • Sentimental Journey (1946) - John Payne, Maureen O'Hara, William Bendix, Cedric Hardwicke, Glenn Langan
  • The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939) - Don Ameche, Loretta Young, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Gene Lockhart, Spring Byington
  • That Lady in Ermine (1948) - Betty Grable, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Cesar Romero, Walter Abel, Reginald Gardiner
Also, Madison Avenue (1962), which was previously announced and already due out, has been pushed back to this same release date.

All can be found in the recent additions section.




BLU NOIR: Laura in February

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February 5th
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A definitive noir classic, Laura (Blu-Ray) has been announced by Fox for release on February 5th.

Bonus features (below) will carry over from the standard release. Retail will be $24.99, but It is available at ClassicFlix.com for just $20.99.

A definitive film noir classic, Laura tells the shocking story of a Park Avenue society beauty murdered in her apartment, which brings Detective Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) to New York's most elegant neighborhood. As he tries to get inside the head of the victim, Laura Hunt (Gene Tierney), he also questions the men in her life - the acerbic critic Waldo Lydecker (Clifton Webb) and playboy fiancee Shelby Carpenter (Vincent Price).

Lulled by her stunning portrait, fine liquor and classical music, McPherson doesn't know he's in for a heart-stopping shock with the sudden appearance of a woman who seems to be Laura herself. Steeped in suspense, heightened reality and witty sophistication, Laura leads to a shocking climax.

BONUS FEATURES:

  • Extended Movie Version - with Alternate Opening
  • Commentary by Composer David Raksin and Wesleyan University Film Professor Jeanine Basinger
  • Commentary b Film Historian/Author Rudy Behlmer
  • Documentaries
    • "Gene Tierney: A Shattered Portrait"
    • Vincent Price: The Versatile Villain"
  • Deleted Scene - with Optional Commentary by Rudy Behlmer
  • Theatrical Trailer

WARNER ARCHIVE: MacDonald, Eddy, Mitchum in New Wave

Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, although not paired, lead this week's wave from the Warner Archive Collection over at WBShop.

MacDonald's films are Cairo (1942), Three Daring Daughters (1948) and The Sun Comes Up (1949) -- the last two being her final screen appearances. Nelson Eddy stars in The Chocolate Soldier (1941), along with Rise Stevens and Nigel Bruce.

Not to be out shined though is Robert Mitchum in My Forbidden Past (1951) with Ava Gardner, Melvyn Douglas, Lucile Watson and Janis Carter.

Also out are three early 60's action/adventure flix:

  • Black Gold (1962) - Philip Carey, Diane McBain, James Best, Fay Spain, Claude Akins
  • The Castilian (1963) - Broderick Crawford, Cesar Romero, Frankie Avalon
  • Coast of Skeletons (1964) - Richard Todd, Dale Robertson
All will be available here at ClassicFlix on December 18th.

These new DVDs add to the total of over 1,000 Warner Archive titles exclusively available for rent at ClassicFlix.com.

Jon Hall, Lynn Bari & Dana Andrews in Kit Carson (1940)

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January 29th
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Hen's Tooth Video has announced a January 29th street date for Kit Carson (1940).

This "wagon train" Western stars Jon Hall, Lynn Bari, Dana Andrews, Ward Bond, Harold Huber and Clayton Moore.

Retail will be $19.95, but It is available at ClassicFlix.com for just $17.99.


FOX: Wild River, Titanic, How Green & Gentleman's Agreement on Blu

Less than two weeks ago, we announced two Fox sets exclusive for purchase at FoxConnect, but available for rent here at ClassicFlix. Now, two releases from those sets are coming out as singles on January 15th: Wild River (Blu-Ray) and Gentleman's Agreement (Blu-Ray).

On the same day, How Green Was My Valley (Blu-Ray) is going to be released, as well as Wild River on standard DVD (their first non-MOD or non-Blu release since Stars and Stripes Forever last December).

On January 1st, the previously announced then postponed, Titanic (Blu-Ray) will be streeting. Bonus features vary per release.








WELLES: Black Magic

Yesterday, a bit under the radar, Hen's Tooth Video released Black Magic (1949) starring Orson Welles.

The officially licensed release comes with English subtitles, but bonus features are not included.

Based on a novel by Alexander Dumas, Black Magic stars Orson Welles as the 18th century master hypnotist and charismatic charlatan, Cagliostro.

After his mother is executed for supposedly practicing “witchcraft,” young Joseph Balsamo is raised by gypsies. Under their tutelage, he perfects his skills performing magic tricks and selling snake oil in the gypsy’s traveling caravan show. Eventually Balsamo meets Franz Mesmer, the famous hypnotist, who convinces Joseph he has even greater gifts which could heal the sick. But Joseph chooses a very different path assuming the name Cagliostro and embarking on a vendetta for power over the man who ordered his mother’s death.

TIMELESS: The Virginian - The Complete Seventh Season

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February 5th
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Timeless Media has announced a street date of February 5th for The Virginian - The Complete Seventh Season.

This release leaves only season eight as yet unreleased (Season 9 "The Men from Shiloh" came out last October). The 9-disc set will retail for $59.99, but is available at ClassicFlix.com for only $44.99.

WARNER ARCHIVE: The Bowery Boys, Volume 1

Slip and Sach, and the rest of the Bowery Boys, finally get their due as Warner has announced the release of The Bowery Boys, Vol. 1.

The 4-disc set will contain 12 films -- albeit not the first twelve of the series. They are:
  • Live Wires (1946)
  • In Fast Company (1946)
  • Bowery Bombshell (1946)
  • News Hounds (1947)
  • Fighting Fools (1949)
  • Hold That Baby! (1949)
  • Master Minds (1949)
  • Blonde Dynamite (1950)
  • Lucky Losers (1950)
  • Blues Busters (1950)
  • Crazy Over Horses (1951)
  • No Holds Barred (1952)
Also out is the Gypsy (Blu-Ray); Warner's initial foray into Blu MOD. Both will be available here at ClassicFlix on December 14th.

These new DVDs add to the total of over 1,000 Warner Archive titles exclusively available for rent at ClassicFlix.com.

CRITERION: On the Waterfront Standard & Blu in February

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February 19th
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February 19th
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Criterion has announced a February 19th release date for On the Waterfront (1954) on standard DVD & Blu-Ray.

The Elia Kazan film, starring Marlon Brando with an all-star cast of Lee J. Cobb, Eva Marie Saint, Karl Malden and Rod Steiger, and winner of eight Oscars, was previously released by Sony. In this release, Criterion even outdoes themselves by adding a plethora of bonus features that need 3-DVD's and 2-Blu's respectively to contain them. Details below.



Marlon Brando gives the performance of his career as the tough prizefighter-turned-longshoreman Terry Malloy in this masterpiece of urban poetry, a raggedly emotional tale of individual failure and institutional corruption.

On the Waterfront charts Terry’s deepening moral crisis as he must choose whether to remain loyal to the mob-connected union boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb) and Johnny’s right-hand man, Terry’s brother, Charley (Rod Steiger), as the authorities close in on them.

Driven by the vivid, naturalistic direction of Elia Kazan and savory, streetwise dialogue by Budd Schulberg, On the Waterfront was an instant sensation, winning eight Oscars, including for best picture, director, actor, supporting actress (Eva Marie Saint), and screenplay.

BONUS FEATURES:

  • Commentary featuring authors Richard Schickel and Jeff Young
  • Conversation between filmmaker Martin Scorsese and critic Kent Jones
  • Elia Kazan: Outsider (1982), an hour-long documentary
  • New documentary on the making of the film, featuring interviews with scholar Leo Braudy, critic David Thomson, and others
  • New interview with actress Eva Marie Saint
  • Interview with director Elia Kazan from 2001
  • Contender, a 2001 documentary on the film’s most famous scene
  • Alternate presentations of the restoration in two additional aspect ratios: 1.85:1 (widescreen) and 1.33:1 (full-screen)
  • New interview with longshoreman Thomas Hanley, an actor in the film
  • New interview with author James T. Fisher (On the Irish Waterfront) about the real-life people and places behind the film
  • Visual essay on Leonard Bernstein’s score
  • Visual essay on the aspect ratio
  • Trailer
  • PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Michael Almereyda and reprints of Kazan’s 1952 ad in the New York Times defending his testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee, one of the 1948 New York Sun articles by Malcolm Johnson on which the film was based, and a 1953 Commonweal piece by screenwriter Budd Schulber

Bonanza - Season 5, Gunsmoke - Season 7, Vol. 2 in February

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February 12th
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February 12th
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February 5th
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More T.V. Westerns from Paramount as they have announced Bonanza - Season 5, Vol. 1 & Bonanza - Season 5, Vol. 2 as well as Gunsmoke - Season 7, Vol. 2 for release in February.

All three sets will include bonus features (below).



Bonanza follows the High-Sierra adventures of the Cartwright family – wise patriarch Ben Cartwright and his three dissimilar sons, Adam, Hoss and “Little Joe” as they attempt to maintain and operate their sprawling timberland ranch, the Ponderosa, in an era of violence and lawlessness in mid-1800’s Nevada.

BONUS FEATURES:

  • Audio Commentary With Andrew J. Klyde
  • "The Andy Williams Show" With Andy Williams, guests Lorne Greene and Dan Blocker
  • Original NBC Network Logo, Bumpers and Chevrolet Logo
  • "Periscope: Lorne Greene" (CBC programme)
  • Photo Gallery

Bonanza follows the High-Sierra adventures of the Cartwright family – wise patriarch Ben Cartwright and his three dissimilar sons, Adam, Hoss and “Little Joe” as they attempt to maintain and operate their sprawling timberland ranch, the Ponderosa, in an era of violence and lawlessness in mid-1800’s Nevada.

BONUS FEATURES:

  • Original NBC Network Logo, Bumpers and Chevrolet Logo
  • Highway of Melody Excerpt featuring Michael Landon
  • Photo Gallery


America’s longest running, trail blazing western, Gunsmoke, returns to DVD with the second volume of the pioneering seventh season!

BONUS FEATURES:

  • Trailers
    • The Prisoner
    • The Dealer
    • The Summons
    • The Boys
  • Sponsor Material

KAZAN AT FOX: 8 New to Blu-Ray Including A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Exclusive to their site (FoxConnect), 20th Century Fox has released two Elia Kazan sets on Blu-Ray -- but we have them for rent! They are:

Kazan at Fox, Vol. 1 (Blu-Ray)

Kazan at Fox, Vol. 2 (Blu-Ray)
Volume 1 consists of titles that were released before as singles on standard DVD. Most of the bonus features carry over and Panic has two new ones.

Volume 2 titles were released on standard DVD in the 18-disc Elia Kazan Collection, but were never released as singles (and are not likely to be soon). Details below.



Hailed as one of the most acclaimed and influential directors of all time, Elia Kazan remains a true Hollywood icon. This collection presents four of his finest films, available for the first time on Blu-Ray with authentic high-quality picture and sound.

Boomerang (1947)
Director Elia Kazan won critical acclaim for this vividly portrayed, suspenseful 1947 true crime drama set in Connecticut, where the events actually happened. When a beloved priest is gunned down, the local police chief (Lee J. Cobb) is under enormous pressure to find his murderer, and, based only on vague descriptions, he undertakes a massive manhunt, eventually arriving at both a suspect (Arthur Kennedy) and a confession.

But the state’s attorney (Dana Andrews) is determined to convict only if it’s right to do so. Also starring Jane Wyatt, Cara Williams, Sam Levene, Ed Begley and Karl Malden, Boomerang is gripping noir entertainment from start to finish.

BONUS FEATURES:

  • Audio Commentary by film historians Alain Silver and Jame Ursini
Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
Director Elia Kazan and producer Darryl F. Zanuck caused a sensation with "the most spellbinding story ever put on celluloid" (Hollywood Reporter), which won three Academy Awards including Best Picture. One of the first films to directly tackle racial prejudice, this acclaimed adaptation of Laura Z. Hobson's bestseller stars Gregory Peck in an Oscar nominated role as a journalist assigned to write a series on anti-Semitism.

Searching for an angle, he decides to pose as a Jew - and soon discovers what it is to be a victim of religious intolerance. Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield, Dean Stockwell and June Havoc also star in this riveting World War II classic.

BONUS FEATURES:

  • Audio Commentary by Celeste Holm, June Havoc and Film Critic Richard Schickel
  • AMC Backstory Episode: Gentleman's Agreement
  • Fox Movietone Newsreels
Pinky (1949)
Pinky, a young nurse (Jeanne Crain), returns to her small southern hometown, but the trip is bittersweet one: Educated in the North, Pinky is engaged to a doctor who doesn't know that she is part black. Her grandmother (Ethel Waters) is a proud black woman who is less than happy to learn that Pinky's fiancee is white. Then, Pinky's friendship with a southern aristocrat, Miss Em (Ethel Barrymore), is cause for more scandal - and a lawsuit - when she dies and leaves her house to Pinky.

Shunned by both blacks and whites, Pinky's choices make her the unfortunate target of bigotry in this compelling classic. This deeply moving drama features three indelible Oscar-nominated performances from Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore and Ethel Waters.

BONUS FEATURES:

  • Audio Commentary by film historian Kenneth Geist
Panic in the Streets (1950)
In this suspenseful melodrama, a bullet-ridden corpse turns up in the water off the New Orleans docks. To the police, he's a John Doe...until a public health doctor (Richard Widmark) discovers he carries a virulent strain of bubonic plague. Hundreds of officers are mobilized to track down the killers and all who had contact with the dead man in a desperate race against the clock before the highly contagious disease spreads far beyond the port area and puts the entire country in peril.

BONUS FEATURES:

  • Audio Commentary by authors and historians James Ursini and Alain Silver
  • Jack Palance: From Grit to Grace
  • Richard Widmark: Strength of Characters

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
This poignant and heartwarming story, Elia Kazan's directorial debut, is based on the best-selling novel about life in Brooklyn's Irish tenements at the turn of the twentieth century.

BONUS FEATURES:

  • Commentary by Film Historian Richard Schickel with Elia Kazan, Ted Donaldson and Norman Lloyd
  • The Making of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
  • An Appreciation of Dorothy McGuire
  • Fox Movietone News Segments
Viva Zapata! (1952)
Marlon Brando stars as Emiliano Zapata, the hero of the 1920 Mexican revolution. Anthony Quinn's portrayal of Zapata's hard-living brother earned him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar.

NO BONUS FEATURES

Man on a Tightrope (1953)
The legendary Fredric March plays Karel Cernik, who courageously leads his traveling circus in a desperate run for the German border to escape from 1950's communist Czechoslovakia.

NO BONUS FEATURES

Wild River (1960)
Montgomery Clift is a government agent who must evacuate lands to make way for a new dam. When an elderly woman refuses to leave, Clift falls for her granddaughter (Lee Remick).

BONUS FEATURE:

  • Commentary by Film Historian Richard Schickel

FOX ARCHIVES: 21 More in Prolific Wave

Starting their MOD program three years after Warner Bros., 20th Century-Fox seems determined to catch Warner in output or at least make a good show of it.

All of Fox's monthly waves have had a minimum of 13 titles; and this month is no different as 21 new Cinema Archive titles have been announced.

All will be available here at ClassicFlix on November 27th. Of particular note are:

  • Down to the Sea in Ships (1949) - Richard Widmark, Lionel Barrymore, Dean Stockwell, Cecil Kellaway, Gene Lockhart
  • Father Was a Fullback (1949) - Fred MacMurray, Betty Lynn, Rudy Vallee, Thelma Ritter, Natalie Wood
  • Happy Land (1943) - Don Ameche, Frances Dee, Harry Carey, Ann Rutherford
  • It Happens Every Spring (1949) - Ray Milland, Jean Peters, Paul Douglas, Ed Begley
  • Little Old New York (1940) - Alice Faye, Fred MacMurray, Richard Greene, Brenda Joyce, Andy Devine, Henry Stephenson, Fritz Feld, Ward Bond
  • My Pal Gus (1952) - Richard Widmark, Joanne Dru, Audrey Totter, George Winslow
  • Show Them No Mercy! (1935) - Rochelle Hudson, Cesar Romero, Bruce Cabot, Edward Norris, Edward Brophy
  • Stanley and Livingstone (1939) - Spencer Tracy, Nancy Kelly, Richard Greene, Walter Brennan, Charles Coburn, Cedric Hardwicke, Henry Hull, Henry Travers
  • This is My Affair (1937) - Robert Taylor, Barbara Stanwyck, Victor McLaglen, Brian Donlevy, Douglas Fowley, Alan Dinehart, Sig Ruman
  • Wait 'till the Sun Shines, Nellie (1952) - Jean Peters, David Wayne, Hugh Marlowe, Albert Dekker
  • Where Do We Go From Here? (1945) - Fred MacMurray, Joan Leslie, June Haver, Gene Sheldon, Anthony Quinn
Also, Half Angel (1951) which was previously announced and then delayed is part of this wave as well as the perpetually public domain Claudette Colbert war drama Three Came Home (1950).

All can be found in the recent additions section.

Fury - The Lost Episodes in January

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January 8th
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Mill Creek Entertainment has set a January 8th street date for Fury - The Lost Episodes. The 3-disc set will contain 23 episodes (18 of which are reportedly making their DVD debut).

Retail will be $9.98, but It is available at ClassicFlix.com for just $8.99.


Fury tells the heartfelt story of Joey, a young orphan boy who is taken in by Jim Newton, a recent widower and owner of the Broken Wheel ranch. The two soon become close when Jim introduces Joey to a wild horse named Fury - King of the Wild Stallions!

This Classic American Western television series aired on NBC from 1955-1960 and starred Peter Graves (TV's Mission: Impossible) as Jim Newton. Relive the excitement of Fury with Joey and his pals Pee Wee and Packy through 23 thrilling episodes! 
 
DISC 1:
  • Joey Finds a Friend
  • Killer Stallion 
  • The Horse Coper 
  • Joey Goes Hunting 
  • Scorched Earth 
  • Joey Has Dame Trouble 
  • Joey and the Gypies 
  • Joey’s Father
DISC 2:
  • Joey Saves the Day 
  • The 4-H Story 
  • Junior Rodeo 
  • Ghost Town 
  • The Hobo 
  • Tungsten Queen
  • Joey Sees It Through 
  • Stolen Fury
DISC 3:
  • The Choice 
  • The Boy Scout Story 
  • Search for Joey 
  • The Miracle 
  • The Test 
  • Fury Runs to Win 
  • The Baby

WARNER ARCHIVE: Silents, Swashbucklers and Bobby Jones

Two silent dramas, two swashbucklers and a collection of Bobby Jones Shorts are the latest from the Warner Archive Collection over at WBShop. They are:
  • The Bobby Jones Collection - James Cagney, Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, W.C. Fields, Joan Blondell, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Glenda Farrell
  • The Circle (1925) - Eleanor Boardman, Malcolm McGregor, Alec B. Francis & dir. Frank Borzage
  • The Show (1927) - John Gilbert, Renee Adoree, Lionel Barrymore, Edward Connelly, Gertrude Short & dir. Todd Browning
  • Sinbad the Sailor (1947) - Maureen O'Hara, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Walter Slezak, Anthony Quinn, George Tobias
  • The Spanish Main (1945) - Maureen O'Hara, Paul Henreid, Walter Slezak, Binnie Barnes, John Emery & dir. Frank Borzage
All will be available here at ClassicFlix on November 27th.

Also coming out are two titles previously released on standard DVD that have gone out of print:  The Clock (1945) and Madame Curie (1943).

These new DVDs add to the total of over 1,000 Warner Archive titles exclusively available for rent at ClassicFlix.com.









COLUMBIA CLASSICS: Houston Story, Mickey Rooney & Jerry Lewis

This month's Columbia Classic wave is an eclectic group with Westerns, musicals, noir & British comedy. All will be available here at ClassicFlix on November 27th. They are:
  • All Ashore (1953) - Mickey Rooney, Dick Haymes, Peggy Ryan, Ray McDonald, Barbara Bates
  • The Camp on Blood Island (1958) - Andre Morell, Carl Mohner, Walter Fitzgerald, Edward Underdown, Phil Brown
  • Don't Panic Chaps (1959) - Dennis Price, George Cole, Thorley Walters
  • Hook, Line and Sinker (1969) - Jerry Lewis, Peter Lawford, Anne Francis, Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez
  • The Houston Story (1956) - Gene Barry, Barbara Hale, Edward Arnold, Paul Richards, Jeanne Cooper
  • Men Without Law (1930) - Buck Jones, Carmelita Geraghty, Thomas Carr
Also coming out is Arizona (1940) starring Jean Arthur, William Holden, Warren William, Porter Hall and Edgar Buchanan. It was previously released on standard DVD and has long been out of print.






OLIVE: Les Miserables (1958) Standard & Blu in January

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January 22nd
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January 22nd
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Olive Films is loading up January as they have now announced a January 22nd release date for Les Miserables (1958) on standard DVD & Blu-Ray.

This French version of the oft-filmed tome stars Jean Gabin and will be in French with optional English subtitles. Sysnopsis below.



An epic in the tradition of Doctor Zhivago and still considered as greatest film adaptation of Victor Hugo’s masterpiece, Les Miserables has been fully restored in HD.

Jean Valjean (Jean Gabin) is paroled after serving 19 year term in a hard labor prison for stealing some bread. After spending a night in a missionary, he tries to steal some silverware, but he is set straight by a kindly bishop (Fernand Ledoux) who protects his from the police and gives him a set of expensive candlesticks and makes him promise that he has to become a new man that day.

Nine years later, Valjean is now a wealthy industrialist and a mayor. He eventually befriends Fantine (Daniele Delorme), a single mother turned prostitute and risks everything when he comes to her aid, after she’s nearly arrested by police officer Javert (Bernard Blier) - Javert previously served as a guard at the prison Valjean was held in and becomes suspicious that the mayor and Valjean are the same person.

The all-star cast includes legendary character actors Bourvil and Serge Reggiani. Directed by Jean-Louis Le Chabois. 

OLIVE: Indiscreet, It's in the Bag! Standard & Blu in January

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It's in the Bag!
January 22nd
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January 22nd
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October 16th
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Indiscreet (Blu-Ray)
January 22nd
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More from Olive Films as two completely different titles are coming out on January 22nd on standard DVD & Blu-Ray.

First up we have the playful romance Indiscreet (1958) with Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman which makes its Blu debut (having been released by Republic on DVD in 2001).

Then we have Fred Allen, in his only starring vehicle, in It's in the Bag! The thinly plotted comedy has an all-star cast of Jerry Colonna, Sidney Toler, Jack Benny, Don Ameche, William Bendix, Victor Moore and Rudy Vallee and is making its DVD & Blu debut.