WARNER ARCHIVE: The Judge Steps Out, A Thunder of Drums

Two more titles have been added over at WBShop as part of Warner's Archive Collection.

First up is the comedy/drama The Judge Steps Out (1949) with Alexander Knox and Ann Sothern. The other is the Richard Boone Western A Thunder of Drums (1961), also starring George Hamilton, Luana Patten and Charles Bronson.

Both are now available for rent at ClassicFlix, but may be approximately four weeks before they are available for shipment.

These new DVDs bring the total Warner Archive titles exclusively available for rent at ClassicFlix.com to 509.

WARNER ARCHIVE: Bette Davis - That Certain Woman, Jimmy the Gent

Two more titles have been added over at WBShop as part of Warner's Archive Collection. Both are early Bette Davis: Jimmy the Gent (1934) starring James Cagney with Allen Jenkins and That Certain Woman (1937) with Henry Fonda & Donald Crisp.

They are now available for rent at ClassicFlix, but may be approximately four weeks before they are available for shipment.

These new DVDs bring the total Warner Archive titles exclusively available for rent at ClassicFlix.com to 507.

Soldiers of Fortune - The Complete Series in November

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Soldiers of Fortune - The Complete Series
November 30th
Timeless Media
Retail: $39.99, Our: $24.99
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More from Timeless Media as they have announced Soldiers of Fortune - The Complete Series for release on November 30th.

The action / adventure series ran for two years (52 episodes) and followed the exploits of Tim Kelly (John Russell) and Toubo Smith (Chick Chandler), international adventurers who traveled the world offering their services for hire.

The 5-disc set will retail for $39.99, but is available at ClassicFlix.com for only $24.99. Bonus features are not expected.

The Virginian - Season 2 in December

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The Virginian - The Complete Second Season
December 7th
Timeless Media
Retail: $79.98, Our: $59.99
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Well this has certainly turned out to be "T.V. Western Monday" as the fourth newly announced Western to DVD comes from Timeless Media with their upcoming release of The Virginian - The Complete Second Season on December 7th.

The 10-disc set, in a "Collector's Tin" as last year's Season 1 release, will retail for $79.98, but is available at ClassicFlix.com for only $59.99. Bonus features are not yet known.

Wagon Train - Season 2 in November

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Wagon Train - The Complete Second Season
November 23rd
Timeless Media
Retail: $79.98, Our: $59.99
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Timeless Media has announced Wagon Train - The Complete Second Season for release on November 23rd.

The 10-disc set, in a "Collector's Tin" as last year's Season 1 release, will retail for $79.98, but is available at ClassicFlix.com for only $59.99. Bonus features are not yet known.

Bonanza - Season 2, Vol. 1 in December

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Bonanza - Season 2, Vol. 1
December 7th
Paramount
Retail: $39.99, Our: $29.99
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More from Paramount as they have announced Bonanza - Season 2, Vol. 1 for release on December 7th.

The 4-disc set will retail for $39.99, but is available at ClassicFlix.com for only $29.99. Bonus features are not yet known.

Have Gun Will Travel - Season 5, Vol. 1 in November

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Have Gun Will Travel - Season 5, Vol. 1
November 30th
Paramount
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Paramount has announced Have Gun Will Travel - Season 5, Vol. 1 for release on November 30th.

The 3-disc set will retail for $39.99, but is available at ClassicFlix.com for only $29.99. Bonus features are not likely.

The Lucy Show - Season 3 in November

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The Lucy Show - Season 3
November 30th
Paramount
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Paramount has announced The Lucy Show - Season 3 for release on November 30th.

The 4-disc set will retail for $39.99, but is available at ClassicFlix.com for only $29.99. Bonus features are not yet known, but if they are anything like Seasons 1 and 2, there will be plenty.

WARNER ARCHIVE: 15 Including -30-, Stranger on the Third Floor

15 more titles on 11 DVDs have been added over at WBShop as part of Warner's Archive Collection in a prolific wave that includes silents, early sound, dramas and thrillers.

Two that have had many requests over the years, and are part of this wave are Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) with Peter Lorre and -30- (1959) with Jack Webb, William Conrad and a host of others.

Some Joan Crawford silents are out too: Our Dancing Daughters (1928) & Our Modern Maidens (1929).

Early sound includes Barbara Stanwyck in Illicit (1931) as well as three Aline MacMahon vehicles.

All 15 titles can also be found HERE in the Recent Additions section.

They are now available for rent at ClassicFlix, but may be approximately four weeks before they are available for shipment.

This new wave brings the total Warner Archive titles exclusively available for rent at ClassicFlix.com to 505.

VCI: 3 British Cinema Releases in November

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British Classics Double Feature, Vol. 1
November 30th
VCI
Retail $14.99, Our: $12.99
Tomorrow We Live (1943), Inquest (1939)
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British Classics Double Feature, Vol. 2
November 30th
VCI
Retail $14.99, Our: $12.99
Naked Fury (1959), Cover Girl Killer (1960)
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Renown Pictures Crime Thrillers Collection
November 30th
VCI
Retail $14.99, Our: $12.99
Murder Can Be Deadly (1962), The Marked One (1965), Pit of Darkness (1961)
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VCI has scheduled a November 30th street date for three Renown British Cinema releases.

Each will be a single disc release and bonus features are not expected. Details below.

Tomorrow We Live (1943, 85 min.)
When his village is overtaken by Nazis, Frenchman Jean Baptiste (John Clements) escapes to England after his village is overtaken by Nazis. To avenge his fellow countrymen, Jean is armed with information about a secret submarine base. Can he make it to his fellow patriots before the Nazis catch him?

Inquest (1939, 60 min.)
In this courtroom drama, a young woman is suspected of killing her husband after a revolver is found in her attic. She enlists the support of a King’s Counsel to help prove her innocence. It was based on a play by Michael Baringer which had previously been adapted as a film in 1931.

Naked Fury (1959, 57 min.)
A gang of thieves led by American Eddy (Reed de Rouen) kill a security guard during a botched safe robbery and flee with his daughter (Leigh Madison) as a hostage. They hide out in a dangerously unstable old warehouse for a couple of days awaiting their getaway ship to sail, but Johnny (Kenneth Cope) falls for the girl - provoking a serious falling-out and a violent conclusion to the disastrous heist.

Cover Girl Killer (1960, 61 min.)
Set in the sleazy world of a backstreet 50s nightclub. A serial-killer is believed to be murdering the models of glamour magazine, when cover-girl Gloria Starke (Milnes), is found dead after going on an assignment with mysterious bespectacled TV producer, Spendosa (Harry H Corbett), Inspector Brunner (Brooks) is put on the case to interview all concerned.

Murder Can Be Deadly (1962, 60 min.)
Callgirl Jo Lake (Liz Fraser) is working in clubland rackets with her man who is killed by gangland boss (Kenneth Griffin). Clubber, Tom (Tony Wickert) is caught up in the murder.

The Marked One (1965, 65 min.)
William Lucas plays a lorry driver who is recently out of prison. He becomes a target when it’s discovered that he knows where he can find plates for making forged banknotes.

Pit of Darkness (1961, 75 min.)
When Richard Logan, the partner in a safe making firm is found unconscious on an old deserted bomb site, he finds that he has no recollection of the last three weeks. Then he discovers that the private detective, hired by his wife, has been found murdered, and a safe that his firm installed in a large country house has been cleverly opened and the contents missing. So with the help of his wife, he sets to uncover the truth.

ARTWORK ADDED: Meet John Doe

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Meet John Doe (70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition)
November 30th
VCI
Retail: $14.99, Our: $12.99 $9.98 (Until September 19th )
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Being billed as "a keeper" and an edition that will "retire all previous DVD versions in your collection," VCI has announced a November 30th release date for Meet John Doe (70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition).

This Ultimate Collector's Edition has undergone extensive restoration and if it is anything like VCI's restoration of A Christmas Carol, the results should be spectacular.

Bonus features include an audio commentary plus loads of other great stuff (below).

In addition, and rare for VCI titles, it is subtitled. Not just in English, but also in French, German and Spanish.

Retail will be $14.99, but it's available at ClassicFlix.com for only $12.99. However, for 3 days only (until September 19th), we'll have it for the SPECIAL LOW PRE-ORDER PRICE of $9.98. ORDER TODAY!

SYNOPSIS:
The unique Frank Capra touch is evident all through this fascinating social commentary. The naive Cooper is hired to spearhead a national goodwill drive benefiting the corrupt politician Arnold. Barbara Stanwyck plays the cynical promoter who first dupes Cooper, but later falls in love with him. Capra says several different endings were filmed...and he wasn’t fully satisfied with any of them. Of them all the current conclusion best states Capra’s idealism.

For more than 50 years, Meet John Doe has been dogged by a lack of proper attention to its original film elements. In December of 1945 the film’s original producers – Frank Capra and Robert Riskin – sold all rights in the film to New York distributor, Sherman Krellberg’s Goodwill Pictures.

While in Goodwill’s possession the camera negative eventually deteriorated due to poor storage conditions and was junked. In the years that followed most existing prints fell into generally poor condition. But in the mid-1970s, the American Film Institute launched a partial restoration of this important film combining Krellberg’s surviving 35 mm nitrate prints with the Warner Brothers’ studio print. It was these elements that formed the basis for a duplicate negative, which is now held in the Library of Congress in Washington D.C.

This DVD is derived from one of the surviving European prints. The general image was only fair; it was faded, scratched and carried various forms of age-related damage. But after transfer to Digi-Beta , the picture underwent substantial digital restoration, image processing and noise reduction eventually yielding a fully watchable picture.

BONUS FEATURES:

  • Audio Commentary (with optional English subtitles) by Laureate’s Ken Barnes with “archival contributions” from Frank Capra
  • Three Featurettes:
    • “Meet Mr. Cooper”
    • “Meet Miss Stanwyck”
    • “Meet Mr. Capra”
  • Extensive Cast and Crew Profiles
  • Production Background
  • A before and after comparision of the digital restoration of “Meet John Doe”
  • Vintage “Lux Theater” radio productions
    • "Sorry Wrong Number “ starring Barbara Stanwyck & Burt Lancaster
    • “For Whom The Bell Tolls” starring Gary Cooper & Ingrid Bergman

Meet John Doe (70th Anniv.) in November - 3 DAY SPECIAL PRICE

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Meet John Doe (70th Anniversary UCE)
November 30th
VCI
Retail: $14.99, Our: $12.99 $9.98 (Until September 19th )
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Being billed as "a keeper" and an edition that will "retire all previous DVD versions in your collection," VCI has announced a November 30th release date for Meet John Doe (70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition).

This Ultimate Collector's Edition has undergone extensive restoration and if it is anything like VCI's restoration of A Christmas Carol, the results should be spectacular.

Bonus features include an audio commentary plus loads of other great stuff (below).

In addition, and rare for VCI titles, it is subtitled. Not just in English, but also in French, German and Spanish.

Retail will be $14.99, but it's available at ClassicFlix.com for only $12.99. However, for 3 days only (until September 19th), we'll have it for the SPECIAL LOW PRE-ORDER PRICE of $9.98. ORDER TODAY!

SYNOPSIS:
The unique Frank Capra touch is evident all through this fascinating social commentary. The naive Cooper is hired to spearhead a national goodwill drive benefiting the corrupt politician Arnold. Barbara Stanwyck plays the cynical promoter who first dupes Cooper, but later falls in love with him. Capra says several different endings were filmed...and he wasn’t fully satisfied with any of them. Of them all the current conclusion best states Capra’s idealism.

For more than 50 years, Meet John Doe has been dogged by a lack of proper attention to its original film elements. In December of 1945 the film’s original producers – Frank Capra and Robert Riskin – sold all rights in the film to New York distributor, Sherman Krellberg’s Goodwill Pictures.

While in Goodwill’s possession the camera negative eventually deteriorated due to poor storage conditions and was junked. In the years that followed most existing prints fell into generally poor condition. But in the mid-1970s, the American Film Institute launched a partial restoration of this important film combining Krellberg’s surviving 35 mm nitrate prints with the Warner Brothers’ studio print. It was these elements that formed the basis for a duplicate negative, which is now held in the Library of Congress in Washington D.C.

This DVD is derived from one of the surviving European prints. The general image was only fair; it was faded, scratched and carried various forms of age-related damage. But after transfer to Digi-Beta , the picture underwent substantial digital restoration, image processing and noise reduction eventually yielding a fully watchable picture.

BONUS FEATURES:

  • Audio Commentary (with optional English subtitles) by Laureate’s Ken Barnes with “archival contributions” from Frank Capra
  • Three Featurettes:
    • “Meet Mr. Cooper”
    • “Meet Miss Stanwyck”
    • “Meet Mr. Capra”
  • Extensive Cast and Crew Profiles
  • Production Background
  • A before and after comparision of the digital restoration of “Meet John Doe”
  • Vintage “Lux Theater” radio productions
    • "Sorry Wrong Number “ starring Barbara Stanwyck & Burt Lancaster
    • “For Whom The Bell Tolls” starring Gary Cooper & Ingrid Bergman

WARNER ARCHIVE: Atlantis, The Lost Continent & Chubasco

Two more titles have been added over at WBShop as part of Warner's Archive Collection. They are Atlantis, the Lost Continent (1961) and Chubasco (1967).

They are now available for rent at ClassicFlix, but may be approximately four weeks before they are available for shipment.

These new DVDs bring the total Warner Archive titles exclusively available for rent at ClassicFlix.com to 494.

Sony Begins MOD Program With a Bang

Like Warner in March of 2009, Sony has entered the MOD DVD market with a bang by officially announcing 100 DVDs for release as part of its "Screen Classics by Request" program.

These "manufactured-on-demand" titles are intended for collectors and are currently only available for purchase at Sony's website and DeepDiscount.com. However, 57 of them (below) from the Golden Age of Hollywood will be made available for rent here at ClassicFlix in the coming weeks (look for them in the recent additions section).

While more classic films available on DVD is always great news, I want to prepare our rental members that in order to carry these Sony titles and other M.O.D. releases at reasonable levels, we will have to raise our membership fees starting next month. Members will be informed with a full explanation via email likely within the next week.

NEW SONY MOD TITLES:

  • The 27th Day
  • The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock
  • 711 Ocean Drive
  • Address Unknown
  • Apache Territory
  • Arizona Raiders
  • Battle of the Coral Sea
  • Birds do It
  • The Black Arrow
  • A Bullet is Waiting
  • The Case Against Brookly
  • Cell 2455, Death Row
  • Charge of the Lancers
  • City Streets
  • Conquest of Cochise
  • Counter-Attack
  • Crash Landing
  • Criminal Lawyer
  • Father is a Bacherlor
  • Five Finger Exercise
  • Foosteps in the Fog
  • Forbidden Trail
  • Fury of the Congo
  • Genghis Khan
  • The Guilt of Janet Ames
  • Hoedown
  • Hot Blood
  • The Interns
  • Johnny Allegro
  • The Juggler
  • Jungle Manhunt
  • Jungle Moon Men
  • The Long Haul
  • Man on a String
  • The Man Who Turned to Stone
  • Mickey One
  • New Orleans Uncensored
  • The Night the World Exploded
  • No Greater Glory
  • No Time to Be Young
  • Over 21
  • Pickup Alley
  • The Pumpkin Eater
  • Pygmy Island
  • Saddles and Sagebrush
  • The Shadow on the Window
  • A Song to Remember
  • Song Without End
  • The Soul of a Monster
  • Storm Center
  • A Study in Terror
  • Surprise Package
  • Synanon
  • Tarawa Bachhead
  • Three Stripes in the Sun
  • 12 to the Moon
  • Winter a Go-Go

Perry Mason - Season 5, Vol. 2 in November

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Perry Mason - Season 5, Vol. 2
November 16th
Paramount
Retail: $49.99, Our: $37.99
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Paramount has announced Perry Mason - Season 5, Vol. 2 for release on November 16th.

The 4-disc set will retail for $49.99, but is available at ClassicFlix.com for only $37.99.

The Lemon Drop Kid in October

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The Lemon Drop Kid (1951)
October 19th
Shout Factory
Retail: $9.99, Our: $7.99
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Shout Factory has announced an October 19th release date for The Lemon Drop Kid.

The Bob Hope Christmas comedy was previously released by Brentwood Home Video, but has long been out of print. Bonus features are not expected.

It will retail for $9.99, but is available at ClassicFlix.com for only $7.99.

The Deputy - The Complete Series in October

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The Deputy - The Complete Series
October 26th
Timeless Media
Retail: $89.98, Our: $59.99
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Previously released in a best of 3-disc set, Timeless Media has announced The Deputy - The Complete Series for release on October 26th.

The 12-disc set will contain all 76 episodes from the Henry Fonda western series. Bonus features are not expected.

It will retail for $89.98, but is available at ClassicFlix.com for only $59.99.

Johnny Staccato - The Complete Series

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Johnny Staccato - The Complete Series
October 5th
Timeless Media
Retail: $34.98, Our: $24.99
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Timeless Media has announced Johnny Staccato - The Complete Series for release on October 5th.

The 3-disc set will contain all 27 episodes from the only season of the John Cassavetes series. Bonus features are not expected.

It will retail for $34.98, but is available at ClassicFlix.com for only $24.99.

Yul Brynner: Escape from Zahrain in December

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Escape from Zahrain (1962)
December 7th
Olive Films
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Olive Films has announced a December 7th street date for Escape from Zahrain (1962). It will be a single disc release with no bonus features expected.

Retail will be $27.95, but it is available at ClassicFlix.com for only $17.99.

SYNOPSIS:
In a strife-torn Arab state, fanatical loyalists of a nationalist leader (Yul Brynner) attack a police van transporting him to prison and aid his escape into the deadly Arabian Desert. Escaping with him are fellow death row prisoners Huston (Jack Warden), a swashbuckling American who had embezzled a fortune from the Zahrain Oil Company and Tahar (Anthony Caruso), a sadistic maniac.

Sal Mineo (Rebel Without a Cause) plays a student who helps the fugitives flee the pursuant police in a stolen ambulance. This vintage adventure yarn features a special cameo appearance by James Mason (North by Northwest). Directed and Produced by Ronald Neame (The Poseidon Adventure).

WARNER ARCHIVE: 12 More Including A Stolen Life, High Wall

Film noir and documentaries are the theme of twelve new titles that have been added over at WBShop as part of Warner's Archive Collection.

Some of the notables are:

  • A Stolen Life (1946) - Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, Dane Clark, Walter Brennan
  • Betrayed A.K.A. When Strangers Marry (1944) - Dean Jagger, Kim Hunter, Robert Mitchum
  • High Wall (1947) - Robert Taylor, Audrey Totter, Herbert Marshall
  • The Underworld Story (1950) - Dan Duryea, Herbert Marshall, Gale Storm, Howard Da Silva, Michael O'Shea

Also out is:

They are now available for rent at ClassicFlix, but may be approximately four weeks before they are available for shipment. NOTE: Wait times for A Stolen Life will be longer as the release date is not until September 28th.

These new DVDs bring the total Warner Archive titles exclusively available for rent at ClassicFlix.com to 492.

ARTWORK ADDED: Bing Crosby - The Television Specials, Vol. 2

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Bing Crosby - The Television Specials, Vol. 2
November 9th
Infinity
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More Bing is on the way as Infinity Entertainment has announced a November 9th release date for Bing Crosby - The Television Specials, Vol. 2.

The set features four complete Christmas-themed episodes on two discs. Bonus features are not yet known, but will hopefully be as plentiful and rare as those featured in Volume 1. Guest stars include Bob Hope, Mary Martin, Robert Goulet, Terry-Thomas and Mary Costa.

This marks the fourth upcoming release for Bing along with The Bing Crosby Universal Backlot Collection and White Christmas (Blu-Ray) on November 2nd, as well as The Legendary Bing Crosby later this month.

Retail will be $29.98, but it's available at ClassicFlix.com for only $21.99.

SYNOPSIS:
Bing Crosby and Christmas, they're synonymous. It was only natural for the voice that sold more than 100 million copies of "White Christmas" - and the star of such film classics as Holiday Inn and White Christmas - to celebrate the season on television.

Bing Crosby - The Television Specials, Vol. 2 showcases those beloved Christmas shows. Included in this premiere, two-disc collection are Bing's first holiday special, produced in England in 1961, his first color special from 1962 with Mary Martin, Bing Crosby and the Sounds of Christmas with Robert Goulet and Mary Costa from 1971. Also included is Bing's final special, Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas, which includes the iconic duet of "The Little Drummer Boy / Peace on Earth" with David Bowie.

These treasured programs have been meticulously restored from the original film and videotape sources and are presented with all original performances intact.

The Elia Kazan Collection in November

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The Elia Kazan Collection
November 9th
Fox
Retail $199.98, Our: $169.99
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Fox has announced a November 9th release date for The Elia Kazan Collection.

The 18-disc set will feature 15 films with 5 new-to-DVD (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Viva Zapata!, Man on a Tightrope, Wild River, and America, America.) The other 10 make up films already released by Fox, Warner and Sony.

The collection will also include a collector's booklet and the documentary, A Letter to Elia.

Also, we've confirmed with the studio that at this time singles will not be available. So anyone wishing to purchase the previously unreleased titles may only do so through this set. For renters, this also means that we will not have those titles available.

Retail will be $199.98, but it's available at ClassicFlix.com for only $169.99.

The Bridge on the River Kwai (Blu-Ray / DVD Combo) in November

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The Bridge on the River Kwai (Blu-Ray / DVD Combo)
November 2nd
Sony Pictures
Retail: $34.99, Our: $27.99
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Previously released several times in a standard version, The Bridge on the River Kwai now gets Blu treatment as Sony has scheduled a November 2nd release date for a Blu-Ray / DVD combo pack Collector's Edition.

Most of the bonus features (below) will carry over from the previous standard Limited Edition, with three new features exclusive to the Blu-Ray disc.

Retail will be $34.99, but it is available at ClassicFlix.com for only $27.99.

NOTE: When standard DVDs are part of a Blu-Ray / DVD combo pack, we usually stick to only renting the Blu-Ray from the new release and use the previously released standard DVD for non-Blu rentals. However, in this case, because of the likely upgraded standard DVD, we're renting the second DVD in this set as well.

SYNOPSIS:
When British POWs build a vital railway bridge in enemy-occupied Burma, Allied commandos are assigned to destroy it in David Lean's epic World War II adventure The Bridge on the River Kwai.

Spectacularly produced, The Bridge on the River Kwai captured the imagination of the public and won seven 1957 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Alec Guinness), and Best Director. Even it's theme song, an old WWII whistling tune, the Colonel Bogey March, became a massive hit. The Bridge on the River Kwai continues today as one of the most memorable cinematic experiences of all time.

NOTE: This is a Blu-Ray / DVD Combo pack. Disc 1 is a Blu-Ray disc, disc 2 is a standard disc.

BONUS FEATURES(** Indicates bonus features exclusive to the Blu-Ray disc):

  • Crossing the Bridge: Picture-in-Graphics Track **
  • The Steve Allen Show with William Holden & Alec Guinness **
  • The Bridge on the River Kwai Premiere Narrated by William Holden **
  • An Appreciation by Filmmaker John Milius
  • Original Featurette: Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
  • Exclusive Documentary - Adaptation of Boulle's Novel, Casting, History of Production, Score, Release, Restoration and More
  • USC Short Film Introduced by William Holden
  • Photo Gallery