TIMELESS: Cimarron City - The Complete Series in March

WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE:

Cimarron City - The Complete Series March 6th Timeless Media Group Retail: $39.98, Our: $29.99

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Previously released in a 3-disc best-of set, Cimarron City will be another completed series from Timeless as they have announced Cimarron City - The Complete Series for release on March 6th.

The 6-disc set will retail for $39.98, but is available at ClassicFlix.com for only $29.99. Bonus features are not expected.


SYNOPSIS:
Set in the rough and tumble of Oklahoma Territory of the 1890's, the classic Western Cimarron City stars George Montgomery as Mayor Matthew Rockford, a cattle rancher and the son of the city's founder, and John Smith as Sheriff Lane Temple.

Cimarron City has high hopes to become capital of the future state of Oklahoma, and Rockford and Sheriff Temple struggle to keep law and order in the oil and gold boom town. Audrey Totter co-stars as Beth Purcell, owner of the boarding house, and Jason Robards Sr. and Dan Blocker Bonanza's Hoss Cartwright have recurring roles in the series.

TIMELESS: Wagon Train - Season 5, The Virginian - Season 6 in May

WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE:

Wagon Train - The Complete Fifth Season May 1st Timeless Media Group Retail $79.98, Our: $59.99

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WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE:

The Virginian - The Complete Sixth Season May 1st Timeless Media Group Retail $79.98, Our: $59.99

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More great T.V. Westerns are coming from Timeless Media Group as they have announced a May 1st release date for Wagon Train - The Complete Fifth Season and The Virginian - The Complete Sixth Season.

Both will be in collectible tins and be 10 and 9 discs respectively. As with many great shows of the era, A-list guest stars abound (see below). Bonus features are not expected.

Continuing in their great tradition of classic TV westerns, NBCUniversal and Timeless Media Group now bring you the complete, uncut Wagon Train - The Complete Season Five, one of the most enduring and sought after westerns of all time. Direct from the vaults at Universal, these 37 episodes have been re-mastered and presented on 10 dual layer DVDs in a special edition embossed collectible tin, with a handsome DVD booklet complete with all the episode synopses, the guest stars and more.

Inspired by the classic western film Wagonmaster, directed by John Ford The Searchers, Stagecoach, Wagon Train debuted on Wednesday, September 18, 1957 on the NBC Television Network. The ensemble acting, wonderful scripts and great western scenery soon made Wagon Train a fixture in American homes on Wednesday nights, as millions of Americans of all ages tuned in to NBC for great family entertainment.

John McIntire returns to the cast of Wagon Train full-time as Wagon Master Chris Hale, joining costars Robert Horton (Head Scout-Flint McCullough), Frank McGrath (Charlie Wooster), Terry Wilson (Bill Hawks), and Denny Miller (Duke Shannon). Season Five marks the last appearance of Robert Horton in Wagon Train, after almost five full seasons.

Each weekly episode featured some of Hollywood's brightest stars in guest roles, including Joseph Cotten (The Captain Dan Brady Story), Polly Bergen (The Kitty Albright Story), Barbara Stanwyck (The Maud Frazier Story), Rory Calhoun (The Artie Matthewson Story), Nick Adams (The Traitor), Bette Davis (The Bettina May Story), Robert Culp (The Baylor Crowfoot Story), Jane Wyatt (The Heather Mahoney Story) and many more!

This 10 DVD collector's edition of Wagon Train The Complete Season Five, including all 37 great episodes, is sure to please both fans of the original broadcast and newcomers who are seeing it for the first time.


Owen Wister's 1902 western novel The Virginian was one of the first great novels of the American West. Set in the semi-mythical town of Medicine Bow, Wyoming in the 1890s, it chronicled the lives and relationships of the people who came west and settled the wild land. The Virginian was the first 90 minute television western, airing in prime time on NBC from 1962-1971.

Season Six of The Virginian saw James Drury and Doug McClure continue their roles as The Virginian and Trampas, but as in the previous seasons, there were changes in Medicine Bow. The great Charles Bickford (John Grainger) passed away mid-season, and was replaced by Wagon Train's John McIntire as the new proprietor of the Shiloh Ranch (Clay Grainger). McIntire's real-life wife, Jeanette Nolan, took the role of Clay's wife, Holly. Sara Lane, Don Quine and Clu Gulager rounded out the cast of Season Six and the saga of Medicine Bow went on.

They were joined by a distinguished array of guest stars, including Charles Bronson (The Reckoning), Darren McGavin (The Deadly Past), James Whitmore (Paid in Full), Susan Oliver (A Small Taste of Justice), Leslie Nielsen (The Fortress), Robert Lansing (Execution at Triste), and the Velvet Fog himself, Mel Tormé (The Handy Man), just to name a few.

COLUMBIA CLASSICS: Yesterday's Enemy, Who's Minding the Mint?

Sony has announced two Columbia Classic titles for release on February 7th.

The caper comedy Who's Minding the Mint? (1967) involves United States Mint employee Harry Lucas (Jim Hutton) who inadvertently destroys $50,000. Also starring Dorothy Provine, Milton Berle, Joey Bishop, Bob Denver and Walter Brennan.

Also out is the Val Guest helmed war-drama Yesterday's Enemy (1959) starring Stanley Baker, Guy Rolfe and Leo McKern about a band of British soldiers in an enemy-held village.

KINO BLU: Lost Keaton - 16 Comedy Shorts in March

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Lost Keaton - 16 Comedy Shorts (1934-37) - Blu-Ray March 20th Kino Retail $39.95, Our: $30.99

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More Blu from Kino as they have announced Lost Keaton - 16 Comedy Shorts (1934-37) - Blu-Ray for release on March 20th.

Released in standard definition in July 2010, this 2-disc Blu-Ray set will feature the same content.

SYNOPSIS:
For Buster Keaton, the era of the "talkies" was a tumultuous time. As a result of signing with MGM, the quality, the quality of his ambitious, eclectic comedies began to decline and in 1934, he signed a contract with Earle W. Hammons's Educational Pictures which, despite its name, specialized in comedy short subjects. Keaton's move to Educational was a return to his roots, crafting a stream of two reel comedies in rapid succession, as he had done in the early 1920's, when he first refined his cinematic craft.

The films Buster Keaton made with Educational Pictures (ALL sixteen of which are collected here) pay homage to his earlier work, but at the same time incorporated the element of sound, all while exploring new possibilities for his recurring comic persona, "Elmer".

This FIVE HOUR+ collection features all 16 Educational Pictures shorts.

DISC 1:

• The Gold Ghost
• Allez Oop
• Palooka from Paducah
• One Run Elmer
• Hayseed Romance
• Tars and Stripes
• The E-Flat Man
• The Timid Young Man

BONUS FEATURES:

• Film Notes
• Photo Gallery
• Why They Call Him "Buster"

DISC 2:

• Three on a Limb
• Grand Slam Opera
• Blue Blazes
• The Chemist
• Mixed Magic
• Jail Bait
• Ditto
• Love Nest on Wheels

BONUS FEATURE:

• Film Notes

SHOUT: Underdog, Tennessee Tuxedo Complete Collections Coming

WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE:

Underdog - The Complete Series February 21st Shout! Factory Retail: $69.97, Our: $51.99

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WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE:

Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales - The Complete Collection March 6th Shout! Factory Retail: $49.97, Our: $37.99

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There's no need to fear, the complete series is here! More like two of them...

Shout! Factory has announced complete collections for both Underdog and Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales.

Underdog - The Complete Series (Officially Underdog - Complete Collector's Edition) will be a 9-disc set with numerous bonus features. Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales - The Complete Collection will be a 6-disc set with limited bonus features. More details below.


When the city is in trouble, humble and lovable Shoeshine Boy turns into his alter ego Underdog to stop a series of villains, including the evil Simon Bar Sinister and Riff Raff. And when TV reporter Sweet Polly Purebred finds herself in danger, no one but Underdog can save the day!

Now you can enjoy the 1960s cartoon canine superhero in this complete collection that includes all three seasons of the classic series. Each of the nine discs features Underdog’ s greatest adventures along with all of the original shorts from Go Go Gophers, Klondike Kat and Commander McBragg.

BONUS FEATURES:

• Bonus Cartoons: Tooter Turtle And The Hunter
• Alternate Episode Openings And Closings
• Featurette
• Commentaries With Writer/Producer/Cocreator W. Watts Biggers, Voice Actor George S. Irving, Producer Treadwell Covington, Animation Historian Mark Arnold and More . . .

Featuring the voice of the late, great Don Adams (who portrayed Maxwell Smart on Get Smart and later voiced Inspector Gadget), Tennessee Tuxedo And His Tales educated as well as entertained youngsters.

Tennessee, a wise-cracking penguin, and his dimwitted pal Chumley resided in the Megalopolis Zoo, where they were constantly scheming against zookeeper Stanley Livingston and his assistant Flunky in an attempt to raise the quality of zoo life. Their projects required the assistance of their educated friend, Phineas J. Whoopee (voiced by Larry Storch), and his 3-D BB (a three-dimensional blackboard).

This 6-DVD set contains all 70 Tennessee Tuxedo cartoons for the first time in one collection, highlighted with the addition of many of the supporting segments of The King And Odie and The Hunter. As an added bonus, we have included episodes of Tooter Turtle and Klondike Kat to round out this classic collection of Total TeleVision animation.

BLU: To Catch a Thief in March

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To Catch a Thief (Blu-Ray) March 6th Paramount Retail: $22.99, Our: $17.99

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Paramount has announced a March 6th street date for To Catch a Thief (Blu-Ray).

The release will carry over all the bonus features (below) from the standard "Centennial" version which is now out of print.

It will retail for $22.99, but is available at ClassicFlix.com for only $17.99.


American expatriate John Robie living in high style on the Riviera is a retired cat burglar. He must find out who a copy cat is to keep a new wave of jewel thefts from being pinned on him. High on list of prime victims is Jessie Stevens, in Europe to help daughter Frances find a suitable husband. Lloyds of London insurance agent is using a thief to catch a thief. Take an especially close look at scene where Robie gets Jessie's attention, dropping an expensive casino chip down decolletage of French roulette player.

BONUS FEATURES:

• Commentary by Dr. Drew Casper, Hitchcock Film Historian
• Featurettes:
  • A Night with the Hitchcock's
  • Unacceptable Under the Code: Film Censorship in America
  • Writing and Casting To Catch a Thief
  • The Making of To Catch a Thief
  • Behind the Gates: Cary Grant & Grace Kelly
  • Alfred Hitchcock and To Catch a Thief: An Appreciation
  • Edith Head: The Paramount Years
• Original Theatrical Trailer
• If You Love To Catch Thief, You’ll Love this Interactive Travelogue
• Galleries

TCM VAULT: Sony's Film Noir Classics, Vol. 3 in January

WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: TITLES:

Film Noir Classics, Vol. 3 (TCM Vault) January 16th Sony My Name is Julia Ross (1945), The Mob (1951), Drive a Crooked Road (1954), Tight Spot (1955), The Burglar (1957)

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Sony's Film Noir Classics sets continue with Film Noir Classics, Vol. 3 due on January 16th.

Released via the TCM Vault line, all five films are new to DVD. Bonus features, aside from an introduction from Martin Scorsese, will probably be minimal.

Available exclusively for purchase at TCM.com, this set will be available for rent here at ClassicFlix and nowhere else!

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, The Film Foundation and Turner Classic Movies partner on the third collection in the series, Columbia Pictures Film Noir Classics III.

This collection of previously unreleased noir favorites hurl you into a shadowy world of hit men, kidnappers, corrupt cops, bank robbers, mob informers, femme fatales and hard-luck losers.

My Name is Julia Ross (1945)
Nina Foch plays an unemployed secretary lured to an isolated mansion by insidious characters.

The Mob (1951)
In one of his most dynamic roles, Broderick Crawford plays a police detective who goes undercover as a dock worker in New Orleans to expose The Mob.

Drive a Crooked Road (1954)
Mickey Rooney gives a fine, underrated performance as a race car enthusiast blackmailed into driving the getaway car at a bank robbery.

Tight Spot (1955)
Ginger Rogers, cast against type, is a tough, uncooperative witness in a criminal case threatened by her association with gangsters in Tight Spot.

The Burglar (1957)
Dan Duryea stars as a cunning jewel thief who recruits Jayne Mansfield, Mickey Shaughnessy and Peter Capell for one final heist before retiring.

TCM VAULT: Dietrich in Dishonored & Shanghai Express This February

More Universal titles, via TCM's Vault line, are on their way as a Marlene Dietrich double feature with Dishonored (1931) and Shanghai Express (1932) is now up for pre-order and exclusive to TCM.com

Its will be available to rent here at ClassicFlix and has release date of February 6th. No additional specs are known at this time.

Dishonored / Shanghai Express (TCM Vault)
Turner Classic Movies and Universal Studios Home Entertainment present the 2-disc Marlene Dietrich Double Feature: Dishonored & Shanghai Express. Marlene Dietrich, directed by Josef von Sternberg, appears in two of their best collaborations.

Dishonored (1931, 91 min.)
Inspired by the exploits of the famous World War I spy Mata Hari, Dishonored is a striking espionage thriller about a widow (Marlene Dietrich) who is forced to turn to prostitution to support herself. Recruited by the Austrian Secret Service as a spy, she becomes an expert in ferreting out secrets from the enemy but meets her match in the form of a Russian agent named Kranau (Victor McLaglen).

Shanghai Express (1932, 80 min.)
Set against the backdrop of a Chinese civil war, Shanghai Express is an opulent romantic adventure that focuses on a diverse group of passengers traveling by express train from Peking to Shanghai. Among them is Captain Donald Harvey (Clive Brook), who finds himself reunited with his former lover, now an infamous adventuress who calls herself Shanghai Lily (Marlene Dietrich). Desire and deception follow, culminating in a tense hostage situation when their train is hijacked by a Chinese warlord.

Presented for the first time on DVD, these two films have been fully restored and re-mastered and confirm Dietrich’s iconic status as a glamorous and enigmatic movie siren while demonstrating von Sternberg’s reputation as a supreme stylist of mood and atmosphere through his dazzling command of the medium.

CRITERION: David Lean Directs Noel Coward Standard & Blu in March

WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE: TITLES:

David Lean Directs Noel Coward March 27th Criterion Retail: $79.95, Our: $64.99 In Which We Serve (1942), This Happy Breed (1944), Blithe Spirit (1945), Brief Encounter (1945)

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WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE: TITLES:

David Lean Directs Noel Coward (Blu-Ray) March 27th Criterion Retail: $99.95, Our: $84.99 In Which We Serve (1942), This Happy Breed (1944), Blithe Spirit (1945), Brief Encounter (1945)

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Criterion has announced David Lean Directs Noel Coward for release on standard and Blu-Ray this March 27th.

Each 4-disc set will include the four titles above, with This Happy Breed (1944) making its DVD debut, and Blithe Spirit (1945) being resurrected after having been out of print for several years. Synopses and bonus features are below.


In the 1940s, the wit of playwright Noel Coward and the craft of filmmaker David Lean melded harmoniously in one of cinema’s greatest writer-director collaborations.

With the wartime military drama sensation In Which We Serve, Coward and Lean (along with producing partners Ronald Neame and Anthony Havelock-Allan) embarked on a series of literate, socially engaged, and enormously entertaining pictures that ranged from domestic epic (This Happy Breed) to whimsical comedy (Blithe Spirit) to poignant romance (Brief Encounter). These films created a lasting testament to Coward’s artistic legacy and introduced Lean’s visionary talents to the world.

In Which We Serve (1942)
In the midst of World War II, the renowned playwright Noel Coward engaged a young film editor named David Lean to help him realize his vision for an action drama about a group of Royal Navy sailors (roles that would be filled by Coward himself, Bernard Miles, and John Mills, among others) fighting the Germans in the Mediterranean. Coward and Lean ended up co-directing the large-scale project—an impressive undertaking, especially considering that neither of them had directed for the big screen before (this would be Coward’s only such credit). Cutting between a major naval battle and flashbacks to the men’s lives before they left home.

In Which We Serve (an Oscar nominee for best picture) was a major breakthrough for both filmmakers and a sensitive and stirring piece of propaganda.

This Happy Breed (1944)
David Lean brings to vivid emotional life Noel Coward's epic chronicle of a working-class family in the London suburbs over the course of two decades.

Robert Newton and Celia Johnson are surpassingly affecting as Frank and Ethel Gibbons, a couple with three children whose modest household is touched by joy and tragedy from the tail end of the First World War to the beginning of the Second.

With its mix of politics and melodrama, This Happy Breed is a quintessential British domestic drama, featuring subtly expressive Technicolor cinematography by Ronald Neame and a remarkable supporting cast including John Mills, Stanley Holloway, and Kay Walsh.

Blithe Spirit (1945)
Blithe Spirit, David Lean’s delightful film version of Noel Coward’s theater sensation (onstage, it broke London box-office records before hitting Broadway), stars Rex Harrison as a novelist who cheekily invites a medium (Margaret Rutherford) to his house to conduct a seance, hoping the experience will inspire a book he’s working on.

Things go decidedly not as planned when she summons the spirit of his dead first wife (Kay Hammond), a severe inconvenience for his current one (Constance Cummings). Employing Oscar-winning special effects to spruce up Coward’s theatrical farce, Blithe Spirit is a sprightly supernatural comedy with winning performances.

Brief Encounter (1945)
Adapting Noel Coward's play Still Life, legendary filmmaker David Lean deftly explores the thrill, pain, and tenderness of illicit romance during the dour, gray Britain of 1945. From a chance meeting on a train platform, a middle-aged married doctor (Trevor Howard) and a suburban housewife (Celia Johnson) enter into a quietly passionate, ultimately doomed love affair set to a swirling Rachmaninoff score.

BONUS FEATURES:

• Audio commentary on Brief Encounter by film historian Bruce Eder
• New interviews with Noël Coward scholar Barry Day on all of the films
• Interview with cinematographer-screenwriter-producer Ronald Neame from 2010
• Short documentaries from 2000 on the making of In Which We Serve and Brief Encounter
• David Lean: A Self Portrait, a 1971 television documentary on Lean’s career
• Episode of the British television series The Southbank Show from 1992 on the life and career of Coward
• Audio recording of a 1969 conversation between Richard Attenborough and Coward at London’s National Film Theatre
• Trailers
• PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by Ian Christie, Terrence Rafferty, Farran Smith Nehme, Geoffrey O’Brien, and Kevin Brownlow

CRITERION: A Night to Remember Std & Blu in March

WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE:

A Night to Remember (1958) March 27th Criterion Retail: $29.95, Our: $23.99

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WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE:

A Night to Remember (Blu-Ray) (1958) March 27th Criterion Retail: $39.95, Our: $31.99

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Released by Criterion in 1998 on standard DVD, A Night to Remember (1958) will be released on standard and Blu-Ray this March 27th.

The release, timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the Titanic disaster, includes bonus features (below) on the 2-disc SD set as well as the Blu release.


On April 14, 1912, just before midnight, the unsinkable Titanic struck an iceberg. In less than three hours, it had plunged to the bottom of the sea, taking with it more than 1,500 of its 2,200 passengers. In his unforgettable rendering of Walter Lord’s book of the same name, A Night to Remember, the acclaimed British director Roy Ward Baker depicts with sensitivity, awe, and a fine sense of tragedy the ship’s final hours.

Featuring remarkably restrained performances, A Night to Remember is cinema’s subtlest, finest dramatization of this monumental twentieth-century catastrophe.

BONUS FEATURES:

• Audio Commentary by Don Lynch and Ken Marschall
• The Making of A Night to Remember, a 60 minute documentary featuring William MacQuilty's rare behind-the-scenes footage
• Archival interview with Titanic survivor Eva Hart
• En natt att minas - A forty-five-minute Swedish documentary from 1962 featuring interviews with Titanic survivors
• Trailer
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Michael Sragow

WARNER ARCHIVE: Pre-Code, Drama in New Wave of 10

Continuing to dig up gems from their deep catalog, Warner has posted 10 new Archive releases (15 total films) over at WBShop. All will be available here at ClassicFlix on January 3rd.

A very young Loretta Young headlines five films from the five pre-code double features. They are:

• Road to Paradise (1930) / Week-End Marriage - Loretta Young, Jack Mulhall, Norman Foster, Aline MacMahon, George Brent
• The Right of Way (1931) / The Truth About Youth (1930) - Loretta Young, Conrad Nagel, Conway Tearle, David Manners, Myrna Loy
• Loose Ankles (1930) / The Naughty Flirt (1931) - Loretta Young, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Louise Fazenda
• The Office Wife (1930) / Party Husband (1931) - Dorothy Mackaill, Lewis Stone, Natalie Moorhead, Hobart Bosworth, Joan Blondell
• I've Got Your Number (1934) / Havana Widows (1933) - Joan Blondell, Pat O'Brien, Allen Jenkins, Glenda Farrell

Great drama is on tap too with:

• The Great Sinner (1949) - Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Melvyn Douglas, Walter Huston, Ethel Barrymore, Frank Morgan, Agnes Moorehead
• The Green Years (1946) - Charles Coburn, Tom Drake, Beverly Tyler, Hume Cronyn, Gladys Cooper, Selena Royle, Jessica Tandy, Richard Haydn
• Youngblood Hawke (1964) - James Franciscus, Suzanne Pleshette, Genevieve Page, Eva Gabor, Mary Astor
• Edward, My Son (1949) - Spencer Tracy, Deborah Kerr, Ian Hunter
• The Brothers Karamazov (1958) - Yul Brynner, Maria Schell, Claire Bloom, Lee J. Cobb, Albert Salmi, William Shatner, Richard Basehart

These new DVDs add to the total of over 800 Warner Archive titles exclusively available for rent at ClassicFlix.com.

BLU: The Mountain, Where Love Has Gone in February

WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE:

The Mountain (Blu-Ray) February 28th Olive Retail: 29.95, Our: $21.99

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WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE:

Where Love Has Gone (Blu-Ray) February 28th Olive Retail: 29.95, Our: $21.99

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Previously released by Olive in standard definition, The Mountain (1956) and Where Love Has Gone (1964) are now scheduled to bow on Blu-Ray with a February 28th release date.

Like the standard releases from Olive, bonus features are not expected.

BLU: A Streetcar Named Desire in April

WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE:

A Streetcar Named Desire (Blu-Ray) April 10th Warner Bros. Retail: $34.99, Our: $29.99

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Warner Bros. has announced A Streetcar Named Desire (Blu-Ray) for release on April 10th.

The "Blu-Ray Book" will carry over all the bonus features (below) from the standard version plus include a 40-page commemorative book with photos, production notes and more.

It will retail for $34.99, but is available at ClassicFlix.com for only $29.99.

A Streeetcar Named Desire: The Original Director's Version is the Elia Kazan/Tennessee Williams film moviegoers would have seen had not scenes been cut at the last minute. Featuring three minutes of previously unseen footage underscoring, among other things, the tension between Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) and Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando), and Stella Kowalski's (Kim Hunter) passion for husband Stanley.

Catch all of the classic - nominated for 12 Academy Awards - including Best Picture and winner of 4 - that introduced a new era of filmmaking. Step aboard this Streetcar.

BONUS FEATURES:

• Commentary by Karl Malden and Film Historians Rudy Behlmer and Jeff Young
• Elia Kazan Movie Trailer Gallery
• 5 Insightful Documentaries:
  • A Streetcar on Broadway
  • A Streetcar in Hollywood
  • Censorship and Desire
  • North and the Music of the South
  • An Actor Named Brando
• Movie and Audio Outtakes
• Marlon Brando Screen Test
• Feature-Length Profile: Elia Kazan: A Director's Journey
• PLUS: 40 Page Book with Photos, Trivia and More

DISNEY: The Waltz King

In the summer, Disney quietly launched their own MOD program called "Disney Generations" which is sold exclusively at Amazon. Today, the first classic title from the Generations line was released.

Originally airing on The Wonderful World of Disney, The Waltz King (1963) stars Kerwin Mathews, Brian Aherne and Senta Berger and is now available for rent exclusively at ClassicFlix.

WARNER ARCHIVE: Green Dolphin Street, Serenade & Robert Montgomery

Warner Bros. has posted three new Archive releases over at WBShop.

Topping the list is the 19th century romantic-drama Green Dolphin Street (1947) with Lana Turner and Van Heflin. It also features Donna Reed, Richard Hart, Frank Morgan, Edmund Gwenn, Dame May Whitty, Reginald Owen, Gladys Cooper and Linda Christian.

Also out is the 1956 technicolor drama Serenade starring Mario Lanza, Joan Fontaine and Vincent Price.

Not to be outdone, if only by sheer volume, is Robert Montgomery who gets a 4-disc set . Details below.

The Robert Montgomery Collection
Raise a cinematic champagne glass to debonair leading man Robert Montgomery, one of MGM’s leading lights of the 1930s and 1940s. This bountiful 4-Disc, 8-Movie Collection showcases the versatile actor in dramas and comedies alike.

Costars include Rosalind Russell, Tallulah Bankhead and some of the best supporting players in Hollywood history. The collection includes: Shipmates (1931), The Man in Possession (1931), Faithless (1932), Lovers Courageous (1932), But the Flesh Is Weak (1932), Made on Broadway (1933), Live, Love and Learn (1937), The Earl of Chicago (1940).

They are available here at ClassicFlix with a release date of December 27th.

These new DVDs add to the total of over 800 Warner Archive titles exclusively available for rent at ClassicFlix.com.

WARNER ARCHIVE: The Andy Hardy Collection, Vol. 1

Announced and released by Warner Bros. on Thursday, The Andy Hardy Collection, Vol. 1 has been added to our unparalleled selection of classic titles.

Although not in original release order of the series, all have either been newly remastered or digitally upgraded. Bonus features are not forthcoming.

NOTE: We've added an Andy Hardy link in our Series "genre."

SYNOPSIS:
Andy Hardy, the original teen supreme, comes careening to your screen in the first of a series of collections!

MGM’s 1937 adaptation of Aurania Rouverol’s play Skidding, A Family Affair, proved such a stunning success that production commenced on a series inspired by it almost immediately. Carrying over three of A Family Affair’s cast members (Mickey Rooney as Andy Hardy, Cecilia Parker as sister Marian, and Sara Haden as Aunt Milly), the Hardy series was launched in 1937 with You’re Only Young Once and the addition of Lewis Stone (Judge Hardy), Fay Holden (Mrs. Hardy) and Ann Rutherford (Polly Benedict). It was not long before Rooney’s boundless energy and talent stole the show (and the hearts of teenage girls all over the USA), and Andy Hardy took over the series. Not that anyone minded!

This collection features a sextet of sensational picks from the Hardy series, none of which have ever been available on DVD, some not available in any format. Each film comes packaged in its own DVD case, complete with artwork based on the original posters. Each film has either been newly remastered, or digitally upgraded from a recent progressive master source, specifically for this new DVD release. All best-available film elements have been used in the creation of this collection, and although none of these films have been 'fully restored', the result is a distinct improvement in quality for each picture, and the first new work done to any of these films in over 20 years.

You’re Only Young Once (1937)
On vacation with his family on California’s Catalina Island, Andy Hardy falls head over swim fins for a sophisticated young beauty (Eleanor Lynn). Judge Hardy warns his son that she is too fast for him.

Out West with the Hardys (1938)
The Hardys out west! While Judge Hardy gets into a legal wrangle to save an old friend’s ranch, Andy tries to turn a bronco into a jalopy and Marian tries to lasso herself a cowpoke.

Judge Hardy and Son (1939)
Tasked by Judge Hardy with locating the estranged daughter of an elderly immigrant couple, Andy Hardy finds himself juggling four different girls when his mother falls seriously ill. With Maria Ouspenskaya.

Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (1940)
When Andy falls for the picture of a glamorous debutante (Diana Lewis) he tags along with Judge Hardy’s crusade to save a NYC orphanage in hopes of meeting her. Lucky for Andy he has gal pal Betsy Booth (Judy Garland) around to help out.

Andy Hardy's Private Secretary (1941)
All set to graduate from high school and Andy flunks his English exam – in spite of the fact that the Judge has gone to all the trouble of getting him his very own private secretary (captivating Kathryn Grayson in her screen debut).

Life Begins for Andy Hardy (1941)
After graduating from high school, Andy heads for New York, giddy with visions of high finance, chic women and posh nightclubs. But the big city is tough on a small-town boy. With Judy Garland in her final appearance as Betsy Booth.

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (Blu-Ray) in February

WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE:

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (Blu-Ray) February 7th MGM Retail: $19.99, Our: $15.99

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Currently exclusive to Wal-Mart, and available for rent here at ClassicFlix, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (Blu-Ray) has been announced for wide release by MGM on February 7th.

It will retail for 19.99 but is available at ClassicFlix.com for only $15.99. Bonus features below.


On a winding desert highway, eight vacation-bound motorists share an experience that alters their plans - and their lives! After a mysterious stranger divulges the location of a stolen fortune, they each speed off in a mind-bending, car-bashing race for the loot -- and the most side-splitting laughfest in history.

Spencer Tracy heads a hilariously zany cast that stars Hollywood's greatest comedians (Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney, Dick Shawn, Phil Silvers, Terry-Thomas and Jonathan Winters) and features cameo appearances by every joker and jester in the business, from Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis to The Three Stooges. Nominated for 6 Oscars, It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is "an explosive motion picture experience" (Variety)!

BONUS FEATURES:

• Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute
• Extended Scenes
• Theatrical & Re-Issue Trailer

KINO: Scarlet Street, A Star is Born (1937) Coming to Blu-Ray

WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE:

Scarlet Street (Blu-Ray) (1945) February 28th Kino Retail: 29.95, Our: $23.99

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WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE:

A Star Is Born (Blu-Ray) (1937) February 7th Kino Retail: 29.95, Our: $23.99

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WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE:

A Star Is Born (1937) February 7th Kino Retail: 24.95, Our: $19.99

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WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE:

Spiders (1919) February 28th Kino Retail: 29.95, Our: $23.99

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Joan Bennett in HD! And that's not all...

Kino has announced Scarlet Street (Blu-Ray) for release on February 28th. Directed by Fritz Lang, the gripping, and unapologetic noir stars Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett and Dan Duryea. Bonus features will carry over from the standard version.

Also coming is A Star is Born (1937) on standard and Blu-Ray this February 7th. Released by Image Entertainment on standard DVD way back in 1998, the multi-Oscar nominated film (and two-time winner) makes its Blu-Ray debut and will be mastered in HD from an original 35mm nitrate print. The sole bonus feature will be the original theatrical trailer.

Another former Image property that will be reissued by Kino is Fritz Lang's Spiders (1919). It will also be due on February 28th.