Popeye the Sailor (1933 - 1938) - Streets Tomorrow

We don't have articles or reviews on the site -- yet, but I just can't let **Warner Home Video's** release of Popeye the Sailor (1933 - 1938), which comes out tomorrow, go by without comment. After previewing it this weekend, it is sure to please even the most ardent skeptic who balked at the $64.92 retail price. With crisp and clean prints, over 20 insightful commentaries, 10 documentaries/featurettes and 16 early animation bonus shorts, it is sure to be one of the must-haves for classic film fans this year. It can be purchased here at Classicflix.com for only $44.99.

Complete disc contents below.




Disc 1:
  1. Popeye the Sailor - Commentary by Michael Barrier with Animator Dave Tendlar
  2. I Yam What I Yam - Commentary by Animator Mark Kausler
  3. Blow Me Down - Commentary by Animators Jorge Gutierrez and Sandra Equihua
  4. I Eats My Spinach - Commentary by Michael Barrier with Dave Tendlar
  5. Seasin’s Greetinks
  6. Wild Elephinks - Commentary by Historian Jerry Beck
  7. Sock-A-Bye Baby - Commentary by Historian Glenn Mitchell
  8. Let’s You and Him Fight
  9. The Man on the Flying Trapeze
  10. Can You Take It - Commentary by Filmmaker Greg Ford
  11. Shoein’ Hosses
  12. Strong to the Finich
  13. Shiver Me Timbers!
  14. Axe Me Another
  15. A Dream Walking - Commentary by Director Eric Goldberg
BONUS FEATURES:
  • Retrospective Documentary: I Yam What I Yam: The Story of Popeye the Sailor
  • Popeye Popumentary:
    • Mining the Strip, Elzie Segar and Thimble Theatre
    • Me Fickle Goyl, Olive Oyl: The World’s Least Likely Sex Symbol
  • From the Vault - 3 Bray Productions/IFC Studio Shorts
    • Colonel Heeza Liar at the Bat (1915)
    • Krazy Kat Goes A-Wooing (1916)
    • Domestic Difficulties (1916)
Disc 2:
  1. The Two Alarm Fire
  2. The Dance Contest
  3. We Aim to Please
  4. Beware of Barnacle Bill - Commentary by Historian Jerry Beck
  5. Be Kind to Animals
  6. Pleased to Meet Cha!
  7. The "Hyp-Nut-Tist"
  8. Choose yer Weppins’ - Commentary by Filmmaker Greg Ford
  9. For Better or Worser - Commentary by Filmmaker Greg Ford
  10. Dizzy Divers
  11. You Gotta Be a Football Hero - Commentary by Historian Jerry Beck
  12. King of the Mardi Gras - Commentary by Historian Michael Barrier and Actor Jack Mercer
  13. Adventures of Popeye - Commentary by Historian Glenn Mitchell
  14. The Spinach Overture - Commentary by Historian Daniel Goldmark
  15. Vim, Vigor and Vitaliky
BONUS FEATURES:
  • Retrospective Documentary: Forging the Frame - The Roots of Animation, 1900-1920
  • Popeye Popumentary:
    • Sailor’s Hornpipes: The Voices of Popeye
    • Wimpy the Moocher: Ode to the Burgermeister
  • From the Vault - 3 Bray Productions/Sullivan Studio Shorts
    • Bobby Bumps Puts a Beanery on the Bum
    • Feline Follies
    • The Tantalizing Fly
Disc 3:
  1. A Clean Shaven Man - Commentary by Writer Paul Dini
  2. Brotherly Love
  3. I Ski-Love Ski-You Ski - Commentary by Directors John Kricfalusi and Eddie Fitzgerald and Cartoonist Kali Fontecchio
  4. Bridge Ahoy!
  5. What-No Spinach?
  6. I Wanna Be a Lifeguard
  7. Let’s Get Movin’
  8. Never Kick A Woman
  9. Little Swee’pea
  10. Hold the Wire
  11. The Spinach Roadster
  12. Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor - Commentary by Directors John Kricfalusi and Eddie Fitzgerald and Cartoonist Kali Fontecchio
  13. I’m in the Army Now
  14. The Paneless Window Washer - Commentary by Animator Mark Kausler
  15. Organ Grinder’s Swing
BONUS FEATURES:
  • Popeye Popumentary:
    • Blow Me Down! The Music of Popeye
    • Popeye in Living Color: A Look at the Color Two-Reelers
  • From the Vault - 6 Out of the Inkwell Shorts
    • Modeling (1921)
    • Invisible Ink (1921)
    • Bubbles (1922)
    • Jumping Beans (1922)
    • Bed Time (1923)
    • Trapped (1923)
Disc 4:
  1. My Artistical Temperature
  2. Hospitaliky
  3. The Twisker Pitcher
  4. Morning, Noon and Night Club
  5. Lost and Foundry - Commentary by Directors John Kricfalusi and Eddie Fitzgerald and Cartoonist Kali Fontecchio
  6. I Never Changes My Altitude
  7. I Likes Babies and Infinks
  8. The Football Toucher Downer
  9. Proteck the Weakerist - Commentary by Historian Jerry Beck
  10. Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba’s Forty Thieves - Commentary by Directors John Kricfalusi and Eddie Fitzgerald and Cartoonist Kali Fontecchio
  11. Fowl Play
  12. Let’s Celebrake
  13. Learn Polikeness
  14. The House Builder Upper
  15. Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh

BONUS FEATURES:
  • Popeye Popumentary:
    • Me Lil’ Swee’pea: Whose Kid is He Anyway?
    • Et Tu Bluto? Cartoondom’s Heaviest Heavy
  • From the Vault - 4 Out of the inkwell/Fleischer studio shorts
    • A Trip to Mars
    • Koko Trains ‘Em
    • Koko Back Tracks
    • Let’s Sing With Popeye

**The Shout Factory** has announced an October 16th release date for Ironside - Season 2. The 7 DVD set will retail for $49.99, but is available at Classicflix.com for only $34.99.



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ARTWORK ADDED: Burt Lancaster - The Signature Collection

--Artwork added to previous announcement--

**Warner Home Video** has announced an October 23rd release date for Burt Lancaster - The Signature Collection. The 5 disc DVD set will include The Flame and the Arrow (1950), His Majesty O'Keefe (1954), South Sea Woman (1953), Jim Thorpe - All American (1951) and Executive Action (1973). While Executive Action is sold as part of the set, it is not available for individual sale or rent at Classicflix. The boxed set will retail for $49.92, but is available at Classicflix.com for only $37.99. Individual titles will retail for $19.97, and are available at Classicflix for $14.49.










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ARTWORK ADDED Barbara Stanwyck - The Signature Collection

--Artwork added to previous announcement--

**Warner Home Video** has announced an October 30th release date for Barbara Stanwyck - The Signature Collection. The 5 disc DVD set will include Annie Oakley (1935), East Side, West Side (1949), Executive Suite (1954), My Reputation (1946) and a double feature disc, To Please A Lady (1950) and Jeopardy (1953). The set will retail for $49.92, but is available at Classicflix.com for only $37.99. Individual titles will retail for $19.97, and are available at Classicflix for $14.49. Warner's press release is below.











On 30th October 2007, Warner Home Video will honor the 100th birthday of one of the motion picture industry’s most glamorous icons with her first-ever DVD set, Barbara Stanwyck - The Signature Collection. The DVD release includes six titles across five discs -- Annie Oakley, East Side, West Side, Executive Suite, My Reputation and a Double Feature disc, To Please A Lady and Jeopardy. Each of the discs in the collection contain various special features, including radio programs, vintage cartoons and shorts and commentary on Robert Wise’s powerful all-star drama, Executive Suite.

The Films

Annie Oakley (1935)
Over a decade before the story of "sure-shot" Annie Oakley served as the basis for Irving Berlin's hit Broadway musical starring Ethel Merman, it was Barbara Stanwyck who first took on the film role of the famous female wild-west show sharpshooter.

East Side, West Side (1949)
Stanwyck shines as a devoted Manhattan wife who has trouble holding on to her husband (James Mason) after he has been hopelessly seduced by a beautiful and bold vixen, played with shameless sensuality by the captivating Ava Gardner.

Executive Suite (1954)
Barbara Stanwyck is reunited with William Holden (her life-long friend, and co-star in 1939's Golden Boy) in this landmark, all-star film which gave a new definition to the term "Boardroom Drama."

My Reputation (1946)
This is a classic 1940s Warner Bros. "woman's picture," with Stanwyck taking on the kind of role she was most famous for.

To Please A Lady (1950)
In To Please A Lady, Barbara Stanwyck co-stars for the second time with the King of Hollywood...Clark Gable. This reunion is an exciting saga set against the backdrop of auto racing.

Jeopardy (1953)
A fast-paced thriller filled with suspense, Jeopardy gave Stanwyck a plum role to exhibit her talent for being terrified. Most of this is due to the extraordinary talents of its then-young and up-and-coming director, the masterful John Sturges.


Classicflix.com

Where the Stars Come Alive


Old Movies, Classic Movies, Vintage Movies. Whatever you call 'em, we got 'em.

Burt Lancaster - The Signature Collection in October

**Warner Home Video** has announced an October 23rd release date for Burt Lancaster - The Signature Collection. The 5 disc DVD set will include The Flame and the Arrow (1950), His Majesty O'Keefe (1954), South Sea Woman (1953), Jim Thorpe - All American (1951) and Executive Action (1973). While Executive Action is sold as part of the set, it is not available for individual sale or rent at Classicflix. The boxed set will retail for $49.92, but is available at Classicflix.com for only $37.99. Individual titles will retail for $19.97, and are available at Classicflix for $14.49.

Classicflix.com

Where the Stars Come Alive


Old Movies, Classic Movies, Vintage Movies. Whatever you call 'em, we got 'em.

Barbara Stanwyck - The Signature Collection in October


**Warner Home Video** has announced an October 30th release date for Barbara Stanwyck - The Signature Collection. The 5 disc DVD set will include Annie Oakley (1935), East Side, West Side (1949), Executive Suite (1954), My Reputation (1946) and a double feature disc, To Please A Lady (1950) and Jeopardy (1953). The set will retail for $49.92, but is available at Classicflix.com for only $37.99. Individual titles will retail for $19.97, and are available at Classicflix for $14.49. Warner's press release is below.


On 30th October 2007, Warner Home Video will honor the 100th birthday of one of the motion picture industry’s most glamorous icons with her first-ever DVD set, Barbara Stanwyck - The Signature Collection. The DVD release includes six titles across five discs -- Annie Oakley, East Side, West Side, Executive Suite, My Reputation and a Double Feature disc, To Please A Lady and Jeopardy. Each of the discs in the collection contain various special features, including radio programs, vintage cartoons and shorts and commentary on Robert Wise’s powerful all-star drama, Executive Suite.

The Films

Annie Oakley (1935)
Over a decade before the story of "sure-shot" Annie Oakley served as the basis for Irving Berlin's hit Broadway musical starring Ethel Merman, it was Barbara Stanwyck who first took on the film role of the famous female wild-west show sharpshooter.

East Side, West Side (1949)
Stanwyck shines as a devoted Manhattan wife who has trouble holding on to her husband (James Mason) after he has been hopelessly seduced by a beautiful and bold vixen, played with shameless sensuality by the captivating Ava Gardner.

Executive Suite (1954)
Barbara Stanwyck is reunited with William Holden (her life-long friend, and co-star in 1939's Golden Boy) in this landmark, all-star film which gave a new definition to the term "Boardroom Drama."

My Reputation (1946)
This is a classic 1940s Warner Bros. "woman's picture," with Stanwyck taking on the kind of role she was most famous for.

To Please A Lady (1950)
In To Please A Lady, Barbara Stanwyck co-stars for the second time with the King of Hollywood...Clark Gable. This reunion is an exciting saga set against the backdrop of auto racing.

Jeopardy (1953)
A fast-paced thriller filled with suspense, Jeopardy gave Stanwyck a plum role to exhibit her talent for being terrified. Most of this is due to the extraordinary talents of its then-young and up-and-coming director, the masterful John Sturges.


Classicflix.com

Where the Stars Come Alive


Old Movies, Classic Movies, Vintage Movies. Whatever you call 'em, we got 'em.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 3 in October


**Universal** has announced an October 9th release date for Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 3. The 5 DVD set will boast such guests as William Shatner, Jessica Tandy, Jack Klugman, E.G. Marshall, Vincent Price, Claude Akins, Peter Lorre, George Peppard, Joseph Cotton, Barbara Bel Geddes, Fay Wray and Hume Cronyn.

It will retail for $39.98, but is available at Classicflix.com for only $30.99.






Looney Tunes: Spotlight & Golden Collections, Vol. 5 in October

**Warner Home Video** has announced the release of two additional Looney Tunes collections due out on October 30th. There are no details yet except for what's listed below.

Looney Tunes - Golden Collection, Volume 5

* Four Discs
* List $64.92, Our $49.99

Looney Tunes - The Spotlight Collection Vol. 5

* Two Discs
* List $26.99, Our $18.99

The Jazz Singer - 80th Anniversary Collector’s Edition in October

**Warner Home Video** has officially announced an October 16th release date for The Jazz Singer - 80th Anniversary Collector’s Edition (1927). The 3-disc DVD set will contain loads of bonus features as listed below. It will retail for $39.92, but is available at Classicflix.com for only $29.99


BONUS FEATURES:
  • Commentary by film historians Ron Hutchinson and Vince Giordano
  • Collection of rare cartoons and shorts
    • I Love to Sing-a classic 1936 WB parody cartoon directed by Tex Avery
    • Hollywood Handicap classic M-G-M short with Al Jolson appearance
    • A Day at Santa Anita classic Technicolor Warner Bros. short with Al Jolson & Ruby Keeler cameo appearance
    • “Al Jolson in ‘A Plantation Act’ “1926 Vitaphone short made a year prior to The Jazz Singer
  • 1947 Lux Radio Theater Broadcast starring Al Jolson
  • Jolson Trailer Gallery
  • All-new feature-length documentary The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk
  • Two rarely-seen Technicolor excerpts from Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929 WB film, most of which is considered lost)
  • Studio shorts celebrating the early sound era:
    • Finding His Voice (1929 Western Electric animated promotional short, produced by Max Fleischer)
    • The Voice That Thrilled The World - Warner Bros. short about sound
    • Okay for Sound 1946 WB short celebrating the 20th anniversary of Vitaphone
    • When Talkies Were Young 1955 WB short looking back at the early talkies
    • The Voice from the Screen 1926 WB ‘demonstration’ film explores the Vitaphone technology and, looks at the making of a Vitaphone short.
  • Over 3 1/2 hours worth of rare, historic Vitaphone comedy and music shorts
    • Elsie Janis in a Vaudeville Act: “Behind the Lines”
    • Bernado Depace: “Wizard of the Mandolin”
    • Van and Schneck: “The Pennant Winning Battery of Songland”
    • Blossom Seeley and Benny Fields
    • Hazel Green and Company
    • The Night Court
    • The Police Quartette
    • Ray Mayer & Edith Evans: “When East Meets West”
    • Adele Rowland: “Stories in Song”
    • Stoll, Flynn and Company: “The Jazzmania Quintet”
    • The Ingenues in “The Band Beautiful”
    • The Foy Family in “Chips off the Old Block”
    • Dick Rich and His Melodious Monarchs
    • Gus Arnheim and His Ambassadors [
    • Shaw and Lee: “The Beau Brummels”
    • Larry Ceballos’ Roof Garden Revue
    • Trixie Friganza in “My Bag O’ Tricks”
    • Green’s Twentieth Century Faydetts
    • Sol Violinsky: “The Eccentric Entertainer”
    • Ethel Sinclair and Marge La Marr in “At the Seashore”
    • Paul Tremaine and His Aristocrats
    • Baby Rose Marie: “The Child Wonder”
    • Burns & Allen in “Lambchops “
    • Joe Frisco in “The Happy Hottentots”