Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve finally gets some DVD love as The Great Gildersleeve Movie Collection is being released via Warner's Archive Collection,
The two disc set features four Gildersleeve starring vehicles (The Great Gildersleeve, Gildersleeve's Bad Day, Gildersleeve on Broadway and Gildersleeve's Ghost), plus Seven Day's Leave (1942) in which he supports Lucille Ball and Victor Mature (who coincidentally would be 100 today if he were still alive).
Also out is Howard Hawk's talkie debut The Dawn Patrol
(1930). It stars Richard Barthelmess, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, and
features Neil Hamilton, Frank McHugh, Clyde Cook and James Finlayson.
Both will be available here at ClassicFlix on February 26th.
These new DVDs add to the total of over 1,100 Warner Archive titles exclusively available for rent at ClassicFlix.com.
WARNER ARCHIVE: Dead End Kids & Robert Taylor
A Dead End Kids double feature and two Robert Taylor titles are the latest from the Warner Archive Collection over at WBShop.
The single disc The Dead End Kids on Dress Parade / Hell's Kitchen double feature has numerous co-stars including Ronald Reagan, Margaret Lindsay, John Litel and Frankie Thomas.
Robert Taylor's two entries are 1957's crime-drama Tip on a Dead Jockey and the made for TV Western Return of the Gunfighter (1967).
All will be available here at ClassicFlix on February 19th.
Also coming out are two titles previously released on standard DVD that have gone out of print: Angels in the Outfield (1951) and The Green Pastures (1936).
These new DVDs add to the total of over 1,100 Warner Archive titles exclusively available for rent at ClassicFlix.com.
The single disc The Dead End Kids on Dress Parade / Hell's Kitchen double feature has numerous co-stars including Ronald Reagan, Margaret Lindsay, John Litel and Frankie Thomas.
Robert Taylor's two entries are 1957's crime-drama Tip on a Dead Jockey and the made for TV Western Return of the Gunfighter (1967).
All will be available here at ClassicFlix on February 19th.
Also coming out are two titles previously released on standard DVD that have gone out of print: Angels in the Outfield (1951) and The Green Pastures (1936).
These new DVDs add to the total of over 1,100 Warner Archive titles exclusively available for rent at ClassicFlix.com.
TCM VAULT: Karloff - Criminal Kind in April
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Karloff: Criminal Kind (TCM Vault) April 16th Sony The Criminal Code (1931), The Guilty Generation (1931), Behind the Mask (1932) |
Karloff: Criminal Kind, a 3-disc set, has been scheduled to street on April 16th.
A TCM Vault release, it will contain all the usual bonus features associated with the Vault line. Some of the co-stars include with Walter Huston, Robert Young, Constance Cummings and Leo Carrillo with Criminal Code helmed by Howard Hawks.
Available exclusively for purchase at TCM.com, this set will be available for rent here at ClassicFlix and nowhere else!
SYNOPSIS:
Turner Classic Movies and Sony Home Entertainment proudly present Karloff: Criminal Kind, a new collection of three atmospheric crime thrillers that showcase Boris Karloff’s intensity and depth as a dramatic actor.
Before he gained notoriety as “The Monster” in Frankenstein, Boris Karloff (b. William Henry Pratt) had appeared in over 75 feature films and serials.
Born to a distinguished British family, he assumed a stage name and immigrated to Canada and then the United States, where he performed various manual labor jobs while trying to launch an acting career. The grittiness of his life experience carries over to his performances in the three films in this collection.
The Criminal Code (1931)
Directed by Howard Hawks (Scarface, The Big Sleep), Karloff plays a prisoner who is both a ruthless killer and a steadfast friend to other convicts—so long as they maintain the prisoner’s code of silence.
The Guilty Generation (1931)
Karloff plays a notorious bootlegger whose son falls for the daughter of his mortal enemy in a Prohibition-era twist on “Romeo and Juliet.
Behind the Mask (1932)
Karloff plays a small-time criminal who helps a federal agent (Jack Holt) bust a narcotics syndicate.
BONUS FEATURES:
- Introduction by Robert Osborne
- Lobby Cards
- Publicity Still(s)
- Movie Poster(s)
- Scene Still(s)
- TCMDb Article
CRITERION: Olivier's Richard III on Standard & Blu in April
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Richard III April 9th Criterion Retail $29.95, Our: $23.99 |
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Richard III (Blu-Ray) April 9th Criterion Retail $39.95, Our: $31.99 |
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Criterion has announced an April 9th release date for Laurence Olivier's Richard III (1955) on standard DVD & Blu-Ray.
Both come with all the bonus features from the previous standard 2-disc release, with the exception of an essay by historian Bruce Eder. Exclusive the Blu release is a booklet featuring an essay by film critic Amy Taubin.
With Richard III, Laurence Olivier-as director, producer and star-transfigures Shakespeare's great historical drama into a mesmerizing vision of Machiavellian villainy. Olivier's performance, viewed as the greatest of his career, charges Richard with magnetic malevolence as he steals his brother Edward's crown through a murderous set of machinations.
His inspired direction brings to the screen superlative performances by veteran theater actors Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud and the young Claire Bloom.
Filmed in Vista Vision and Technicolor, The Criterion Collection is proud to present the restored film for which Olivier received the 1956 British Academy Film Award for the Best Actor and Best Film.
BONUS FEATURES:
- Audio Commentary by Playwright and Stage Director Russell Lees, Joined by John Wilders, Former Governor of the Royal Shakespeare Company
- Great Acting: Laurence Olivier, a 1966 BBC Interview with Olivier, Hosted by Renowned Theater Critic Kenneth Tynan
- Gallery of On-Set and Production Stills and Posters, featuring excerpts from Olivier's Autobiography on Acting
- 12 Minute Television Trailer, including footage of Olivier, Producer Alexander Korda, Production Designer Roger Furse, and Other Crew Members at Work in Shepperton Studios
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Amy Taubin (BLU-RAY ONLY)
KINO BLU: Keaton's College & Little Fugitive in March
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College (Ultimate Edition) March 5th Kino Retail $29.95, Our: $23.99 |
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College (Blu-Ray) March 5th Kino Retail $34.95, Our: $27.99 |
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Little Fugitive (Blu-Ray) March 26th Kino Retail $34.95, Our: $27.99 |
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Kino has scheduled March for the Blu-Ray debuts of Buster Keaton's hilarious College (1927) and 1953's charming Little Fugitive. A standard Ultimate Edition DVD of College will also be released.
Bonus features for the Keaton feature are below, but have yet to be determined for Fugitive.
Buster Keaton goes back to school and stages a hilarious send-up of university life in College.
Keaton stars as Ronald, an idealistic freshman who attends Clayton College in pursuit of higher learning, but finds himself instead embroiled in a war of athletics as he fights for the heart of his beloved coed, Mary (Anne Cornwall). More than he had in any other feature, Keaton stretched the boundaries of solo physical comedy.
In a series of unforgettable vignettes, stone-faced Ronald tries his hand as a baseball player, soda jerk, waiter, coxswain, and track star, performing each task with a steady determination but with consistently disastrous results. These scenes are especially amazing because in demonstrating Ronald's athletic inadequacies, Keaton reveals a surprising degree of physical prowess and finesse, particularly during the film's exhilarating climax.
BONUS FEATURES:
- Audio commentary by film historian Rob Farr (Slapsticon Founder)
- Visual essay on the film's locations
- "The Scribe," a 1966 industrial short that was Keaton's final filmed performance
SHOUT: Howdy, Kids!! Saturday Afternoon Western Roundup in April
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Howdy, Kids!! - A Saturday Afternoon Western Roundup April 9th Shout! Factory Retail: $29.93, Our: $23.99 |
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Shout! Factory has announced an April 9th release date for Howdy, Kids!! - A Saturday Afternoon Western Roundup.
A follow up to their popular Hiya, Kids!! collection released in 2008, this wall to wall TV Western set will be on three discs and feature 14 different shows.
Retail will be $29.93, but it is available at ClassicFlix.com for only $23.99.
In the 1950's television was new and thrilling. And nothing thrilled audiences like Westerns which pitted white-hatted heroes against black-hatted villains a reflection of a time when the world seemed like a simpler place.
Looking back these shows had a significant impact on the children of the first television generation and helped to shape the medium as it increasingly became a part of our culture.
Howdy Kids!! A Saturday Afternoon Western Roundup is a collection of the best Westerns from the dawn of television Features classic episodes from these beloved TV shows: The Lone Ranger, Roy Rogers, The Rifleman, Annie Oakley, Adventures of Kit Carson, Cisco Kid, Champion the Wonder Horse, Buffalo Bill Jr., Sgt. Preston, Fury, The Range Rider, Adventures of Rick O'Shay, Sky King, and Red Ryder.
OLIVE: Devil and Miss Jones, Ruthless, Sun Shines Bright & 3 More
Six more titles are coming from Olive Films on March 26th. All will be released on both standard DVD and Blu-Ray.
They are:
- The Atomic Kid (1954) - Mickey Rooney, Robert Strauss, Elaine Devry, Bill Goodwin, Whit Bissell
- China Gate (1957) - Gene Barry, Angie Dickinson, Nat 'King' Cole, Paul Dubov, Lee Van Cleef & dir. by Samuel Fuller
- The Devil and Miss Jones (1941) - Jean Arthur, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn, Edmund Gwenn, Spring Byington, S.Z. Sakall, William Demarest & dir. by Sam Wood
- Hell's Half Acre (1954) - Wendell Corey, Evelyn Keyes, Elsa Lanchester, Marie Windsor, Nancy Gates
- Ruthless (1948) - Zachary Scott, Louis Hayward, Diana Lynn, Sydney Greenstreet, Lucille Bremer, Martha Vickers, Raymond Burr & dir. by Edgar G. Ulmer
- The Sun Shines Bright (1953) - Charles Winniger, Arleen Whelan, John Russell, Stepin Fetchit, Grant Withers, Milburn Stone & dir. by John Ford
Sylvester and Hippety Hopper - Looney Tunes Super Stars in April
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Sylvester & Hippety Hopper (Looney Tunes Super Stars) April 23rd Warner Bros. Retail: $19.98, Our: $15.99 |
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Warner Bros. has announced an April 23rd release date for Sylvester & Hippety Hopper (Looney Tunes Super Stars).
The single disc release will feature all 13 Sylvester/Hippety shorts plus five bonus Sylvester cartoons. 17 of the 18 are new-to-DVD.
It will retail for 19.98, but is available at ClassicFlix.com for only $15.99.
From the moment they teamed up, the endlessly-persistent Sylvester J. Pussycat, Sr. and the hyperactive young kangaroo Hippety Hopper would go on to became one of Warner Bros. most reliably hilarious animated duos. Now, together for the first time on DVD, it’s the best of the failure-prone feline and spring-loaded little marsupial in 18 classic cartoons re-mastered to all their Golden-Age-of-Animation glory!
Featuring 17 shorts never-before-seen on DVD, these timeless cat vs “giant mouse” gems include Sylvester’s riotous pursuit of Hippety after the ‘roo escapes the zoo in Hop, Look and Listen, Sylvester’s hapless attempts to impress his son Sylvester, Jr. in Pop ‘Im Pop! and the acclaimed Hoppy-Go-Lucky, a brilliant send-up of John Steinbeck’s classic Of Mice and Men. And that’s just the beginning of the bounding, bouncing, cat-confounding fun in this cartoon cornucopia from the heyday of Warner Bros. animation!
SHORTS:
- Hop, Look an Listen
- Hippety Hopper
- Pop ‘im Pop!
- Who's Kitten Who?
- Hoppy-Go-Lucky
- Cats Aweigh!
- Bell Hoppy
- Lighthouse Mouse
- Too Hop to Handle
- Slap-Hoppy Mouse
- Mouse-Taken Identity
- Hoppy Daze
- Freudy Cat
- Cat's Paw
- Fish and Slips
- Birds of a Father
- Claws in the Lease
- Goldimouse and the Three Cats
Route 66 - Season 4 in April - 3 DAY SPECIAL PRICE
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Route 66 - The Complete Fourth Season April 2nd Shout! Factory Retail: $29.93, Our: |
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In November of 2011, Shout! Factory announced they had acquired the exclusive home video rights of the iconic 1960's TV series Route 66. Then last May, after Infinity Entertainment had already released the first three seasons, Shout! bypassed the idea of releasing Season 4 as a stand-alone set and instead released Route 66 - The Complete Series.
Now comes word from Shout! that Route 66 - The Complete Fourth Season has been announced for an April 2nd street date.
The 5-disc set will retail for $29.93, and can be purchased here at ClassicFlix for only $23.99. However, for three days only (untill January 17th), we'll have it for the special pre-order price of $19.98.
DUKE: McLintock (Blu-Ray) Plus Four Republic Titles in March
Olive Films has announced McLintock! (Blu-Ray) and four other John Wayne films for release on March 26th.
The other four (Originally Republic releases):
The other four (Originally Republic releases):
- A Man Betrayed (1941) - Frances Dee, Edward Ellis, Wallace Ford, Ward Bond, Harold Huber
- The Lawless Nineties (1936) - Ann Rutherford, Harry Woods, George 'Gabby' Hayes
- Westward Ho (1935) - Sheila Bromley, Frank McGlynn Jr., Jim Farley, Jack Curtis (Previously released on DVD)
- Wyoming Outlaw (1939) - Ray Corrigan, Raymond Hatton, Don 'Red' Barry
WARNER ARCHIVE: This Land is Mine (1943) Plus Karloff & Noir
Wartime fare, Karloff and Film Noir kick off Warner's first Archive Collection wave of 2013.
WWII Fare:
These new DVDs add to the total of over 1,100 Warner Archive titles exclusively available for rent at ClassicFlix.com.
WWII Fare:
- Music for Millions (1944) - Margaret O'Brien, Jose Iturbi, June Allyson, Jimmy Durante, Marsha Hunt, Hugh Herbert, Harry Davenport, Marie Wilson
- Salute to the Marines (1943) - Wallace Beery, Fay Bainter, Reginald Owen, Ray Collins, Keye Luke, Marilyn Maxwell, William Lundigan
- This Land Is Mine (1943) - Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, George Sanders, Walter Slezak & dir. by Jean Renoir
- A single disc Boris Karloff Triple Feature contains West of Shanghai (1937), The Invisible Menace (1938) and Devil’s Island (1939)
- Code Two (1953) - Ralph Meeker, Elaine Stewart, Sally Forrest, Keenan Wynn, Robert Horton, James Craig
- Death in Small Doses (1957) - Peter Graves, Mala Powers, Chuck Connors
- Murder Is My Beat (1955) - Paul Langton, Barbara Payton, Robert Shayne, Selena Royle
- Scene of the Crime (1949) - Van Johnson, Arlene Dahl, Gloria DeHaven, Tom Drake, Leon Ames, John McIntire, Donald Woods, Norman Lloyd, Jerome Cowan
These new DVDs add to the total of over 1,100 Warner Archive titles exclusively available for rent at ClassicFlix.com.
PRICE UPDATE: Maverick - The Complete Second Season
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Pricing on the previosly announced Maverick - The Complete Second Season will indeed be $39.98 retail. It is available here at Classicflix.com for only $31.99.
ORIGINAL ANNOUNCEMENT
Pricing info will probably follow shortly, but this morning Warner Bros. announced Maverick - The Complete Second Season for release on April 23rd.
The 6-disc set will likely retail for the same $39.98, and when word comes we'll pass it along. For rental members, it is available to put in your rental queue immediately.
For fans of classic TV Westerns such as Cheyenne, Bonanza and Gunsmoke, Maverick - The Complete Second Season comes to DVD!
James Garner stars as a card shark travelling the Old West with a sense of humor and a knack for getting into trouble. Wisecracking ladies’ man Bret Maverick (Garner) and his more serious brother Bart (Jack Kelly) – two handsome bachelors on the loose in the Wild West – have more success at the game of poker than the game of love.
Yet they keep trying their luck in one frontier outpost after another. Though cardsharps Bret and Bart would just as soon slip out of town quietly as face a gunman, when it’s time for a showdown, don’t bet against a Maverick!
Pricing on the previosly announced Maverick - The Complete Second Season will indeed be $39.98 retail. It is available here at Classicflix.com for only $31.99.
ORIGINAL ANNOUNCEMENT
Pricing info will probably follow shortly, but this morning Warner Bros. announced Maverick - The Complete Second Season for release on April 23rd.
The 6-disc set will likely retail for the same $39.98, and when word comes we'll pass it along. For rental members, it is available to put in your rental queue immediately.
For fans of classic TV Westerns such as Cheyenne, Bonanza and Gunsmoke, Maverick - The Complete Second Season comes to DVD!
James Garner stars as a card shark travelling the Old West with a sense of humor and a knack for getting into trouble. Wisecracking ladies’ man Bret Maverick (Garner) and his more serious brother Bart (Jack Kelly) – two handsome bachelors on the loose in the Wild West – have more success at the game of poker than the game of love.
Yet they keep trying their luck in one frontier outpost after another. Though cardsharps Bret and Bart would just as soon slip out of town quietly as face a gunman, when it’s time for a showdown, don’t bet against a Maverick!
Maverick - The Complete Second Season
Pricing info will probably follow shortly, but this morning Warner Bros. announced Maverick - The Complete Second Season for release on April 23rd.
The 6-disc set will likely retail for the same $39.98, and when word comes we'll pass it along. For rental members, it is available to put in your rental queue immediately.
For fans of classic TV Westerns such as Cheyenne, Bonanza and Gunsmoke, Maverick - The Complete Second Season comes to DVD!
James Garner stars as a card shark travelling the Old West with a sense of humor and a knack for getting into trouble. Wisecracking ladies’ man Bret Maverick (Garner) and his more serious brother Bart (Jack Kelly) – two handsome bachelors on the loose in the Wild West – have more success at the game of poker than the game of love.
Yet they keep trying their luck in one frontier outpost after another. Though cardsharps Bret and Bart would just as soon slip out of town quietly as face a gunman, when it’s time for a showdown, don’t bet against a Maverick!
The 6-disc set will likely retail for the same $39.98, and when word comes we'll pass it along. For rental members, it is available to put in your rental queue immediately.
For fans of classic TV Westerns such as Cheyenne, Bonanza and Gunsmoke, Maverick - The Complete Second Season comes to DVD!
James Garner stars as a card shark travelling the Old West with a sense of humor and a knack for getting into trouble. Wisecracking ladies’ man Bret Maverick (Garner) and his more serious brother Bart (Jack Kelly) – two handsome bachelors on the loose in the Wild West – have more success at the game of poker than the game of love.
Yet they keep trying their luck in one frontier outpost after another. Though cardsharps Bret and Bart would just as soon slip out of town quietly as face a gunman, when it’s time for a showdown, don’t bet against a Maverick!
COLUMBIA CLASSICS: Blondell, Kovacs & More in February Wave
Sony has announced eight more Columbia Classic DVDs for release on February 19th.
Two standouts are There's Always a Woman (1938) starring Joan Blondell, Melvyn Douglas, Mary Astor, Frances Drake and Jerome Cowan and Five Golden Hours (1961) starring Ernie Kovacs, Cyd Charisse and George Sanders.
The other six are:
Two standouts are There's Always a Woman (1938) starring Joan Blondell, Melvyn Douglas, Mary Astor, Frances Drake and Jerome Cowan and Five Golden Hours (1961) starring Ernie Kovacs, Cyd Charisse and George Sanders.
The other six are:
- Apache Ambush (1955) - Bill Williams, Richard Jaeckel, Alex Montoya, Movita
- Ambush at Tomahawk Gap (1953) - John Hodiak, John Derek, David Brian, Maria Elena Marques, Ray Teal
- The Bamboo Prison (1954) - Brian Keith, Robert Francis, Dianne Foster, Jerome Courtland, E.G. Marshall
- The Brigand (1952) - Anthony Dexter, Jody Lawrance, Gale Robbins, Anthony Quinn, Carl Benton Reid
- Ghost of the China Sea (1958) - David Brian, Lynette Bernay, Norman Wright
- Target Hong Kong (1953) - Richard Denning, Nancy Gates, Richard Loo, Soo Yong, Ben Astar
TCM VAULT: Glenn Ford - Undercover Crimes in March
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Glenn Ford: Undercover Crimes (TCM Vault) March 19th Sony The Lady in Question (1940), Framed (1947), The Undercover Man (1949), Mr. Soft Touch (1949), Convicted (1950) |
A Glenn Ford set is coming courtesy of TCM's Vault line on March 19th.
The 5-disc set, Glenn Ford: Undercover Crimes, will contain all the usual bonus features associated with the Vault line.
Available exclusively for purchase at TCM.com, this set will be available for rent here at ClassicFlix and nowhere else!
SYNOPSIS:
One of the most versatile and reliable leading men of the studio era, Glenn Ford had a particular talent for crime pictures—playing both sides of the law! In Glenn Ford: Undercover Crimes, Turner Classic Movies and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment proudly present an unprecedented collection of five fully restored and re-mastered crime classics never before released on DVD.
The non-stop action in this special collection, much of it under the cover of night, are directed by such masters of the genre as Charles Vidor (Gilda) and Joseph H. Lewis (Gun Crazy).
The Lady in Question (1940)
Ford is an innocent taken in by the charms of Rita Hayworth (in their first film pairing).
Framed (1947)
Glenn Ford is a willing participant in his own demise, at the hands of a femme fatale.
The Undercover Man (1949)
Ford fights the good fight as a Treasury agent chasing mobsters.
Mr. Soft Touch (1949)
Glenn Ford tangles with Mafiosi, this time to help a lady in distress (Evelyn Keyes).
Convicted (1950)
Glen Ford plays an inmate who is given a second chance at life by a sympathetic warden (Broderick Crawford) and a second chance at love by the warden’s daughter.
BONUS FEATURES:
- Introduction by Ben Mankiewicz
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Digital Image Gallery
- Behind-the-Scenes Photo(s)
- Lobby Cards
- Publicity Still(s)
- Movie Poster(s)
- Scene Still(s)
- TCMDb Article
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