Showing posts with label Jack Benny. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jack Benny. Show all posts
WARNER ARCHIVE: Jack Benny, Danny Kaye & Cheyenne's Final Season
A superb wave from Warner's Archive Collection this week as they have announced two films starring Jack Benny, four starring Danny Kaye and the final season of the T.V. series Cheyenne. Click here to read the full story.
CRITERION: To Be or Not to Be - Standard & Blu in August
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To Be or Not to Be August 28th Criterion Retail $29.95, Our: $23.99 |
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To Be or Not to Be (Blu-Ray) August 28th Criterion Retail $39.95, Our: $31.99 |
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One of the greatest comedies (and maybe films) of all time, To Be or Not to Be (1942), gets the Criterion treatment on DVD and Blu-Ray this August 28th.
The Ernst Lubitsch dark comedy, which has been of print for for two years, stars Jack Benny and Carole Lombard (in her last screen appearance). Bonus features and details below.
As nervy as it is hilarious, this screwball masterpiece from Ernst Lubitsch stars Jack Benny and, in her final screen appearance, Carole Lombard as husband-and-wife thespians in Nazi-occupied Warsaw who become caught up in a dangerous spy plot.
To Be or Not to Be is a Hollywood film of the boldest black humor, which went into production soon after the U.S. entered World War II. Lubitsch manages to brilliantly balance political satire, romance, slapstick, and urgent wartime suspense in a comic high-wire act that has never been equaled.
BONUS FEATURES:
- New audio commentary featuring film historian David Kalat
- Lubitsch le patron, a 2010 French documentary on director Ernst Lubitsch’s career
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Two episodes of The Screen Guild Theater, a radio anthology series:
- Variety (1940), starring Jack Benny, Claudette Colbert, and Lubitsch
- To Be or Not to Be (1942), an adaptation of the film, starring William Powell, Diana Lewis, and Sig Ruman
- Trailer
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien
Jack Benny - Lost Episodes
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The Jack Benny Program - The Lost Episodes July 23rd Shout! Factory Retail: $29.93, Our: $23.99 |
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Well... Likely to be in the running for best DVD release of 2013, Shout! Factory has announced The Jack Benny Program - The Lost Episodes for release on July 23rd.
The 3-disc set will feature 18 episodes UNSEEN SINCE THEIR ORIGINAL BROADCAST. Guest stars abound and bonus features are included (below).
Retail will be $29.93, but it's available at ClassicFlix.com for only $23.99.
The Jack Benny Program and its legendary star are counted among the most dazzling jewels in the crown of American comedy. From its beginnings as an immensely popular radio program to its heyday on television, the daily trials and tribulations of the beloved comedian kept millions of fans laughing for over 30 years.
Here at last are 18 long-lost episodes — unseen since their original broadcast — that have been lovingly restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Jack, Don, Mary, Eddie “Rochester” Anderson and a constellation of guest stars are all here in this first-of-its-kind DVD collection of The Jack Benny Program.
Guest stars include Natalie Wood, Red Skelton, Gary Cooper, George Burns, John Wayne, Dick Van Dyke, Billy Graham, Milton Berle, Tony Curtis and President Harry Truman.
BONUS FEATURES:
- New Interviews With Director Norman Abbott, Benny Secretary Dorothy Ohman and Actor/Writer/Satirist Harry Shearer
- Comedy Bits From The Jack Benny Television Specials
- Hearst Newsreels
OLIVE: Indiscreet, It's in the Bag! Standard & Blu in January
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It's in the Bag! January 22nd Olive Films Retail: $24.95, Our: $17.99 |
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It's in the Bag! (Blu-Ray) January 22nd Olive Films Retail: $29.95, Our: $21.99 |
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Indiscreet October 16th Olive Films Retail: $24.95, Our: $17.99 |
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Indiscreet (Blu-Ray) January 22nd Olive Films Retail: $29.95, Our: $21.99 |
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More from Olive Films as two completely different titles are coming out on January 22nd on standard DVD & Blu-Ray.
First up we have the playful romance Indiscreet (1958) with Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman which makes its Blu debut (having been released by Republic on DVD in 2001).
Then we have Fred Allen, in his only starring vehicle, in It's in the Bag! The thinly plotted comedy has an all-star cast of Jerry Colonna, Sidney Toler, Jack Benny, Don Ameche, William Bendix, Victor Moore and Rudy Vallee and is making its DVD & Blu debut.
TCM VAULT: Benny, Cooper, Fields & West in 1930's Rarities Collection
| WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: TITLES: | 1930's Rarities Collection (TCM Vault) August 7th Universal Million Dollar Legs (1932), Belle of the Nineties (1934), Artists and Models(1937), Souls at Sea (1937) |
More big names headline Universal's upcoming 1930's Rarities Collection due on August 7th.
The 4-disc set features:
- Million Dollar Legs (1932) with W.C. Fields & Jack Oakie
- The previously released and long out of print Belle of the Nineties (1934) starring Mae West
- Artists and Models (1937) starring Jack Benny and Ida Lupino and featuring Richard Arlen and Gail Patrick
- Souls at Sea (1937) directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Gary Cooper, George Raft and Frances Dee along with a host of golden age character actors
Available exclusively for purchase at TCM.com, these four titles above will be available for rent here at ClassicFlix and nowhere else!
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