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FOX: Wild River, Titanic, How Green & Gentleman's Agreement on Blu
Less than two weeks ago, we announced
two Fox sets exclusive for purchase at FoxConnect, but available for
rent here at ClassicFlix. Now, two releases from those sets are coming
out as singles on January 15th: Wild River (Blu-Ray) and Gentleman's Agreement (Blu-Ray).
On the same day, How Green Was My Valley (Blu-Ray) is going to be released, as well as Wild River on standard DVD (their first non-MOD or non-Blu release since Stars and Stripes Forever last December).
On January 1st, the previously announced then postponed, Titanic (Blu-Ray) will be streeting. Bonus features vary per release.
On the same day, How Green Was My Valley (Blu-Ray) is going to be released, as well as Wild River on standard DVD (their first non-MOD or non-Blu release since Stars and Stripes Forever last December).
On January 1st, the previously announced then postponed, Titanic (Blu-Ray) will be streeting. Bonus features vary per release.
KAZAN AT FOX: 8 New to Blu-Ray Including A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Exclusive to their site (FoxConnect), 20th Century Fox has released
two Elia Kazan sets on Blu-Ray -- but we have them for rent! They are:
Kazan at Fox, Vol. 1 (Blu-Ray)
Kazan at Fox, Vol. 2 (Blu-Ray)
Volume 1 consists of titles that were released before as singles on standard DVD. Most of the bonus features carry over and Panic has two new ones.
Volume 2 titles were released on standard DVD in the 18-disc Elia Kazan Collection, but were never released as singles (and are not likely to be soon). Details below.
Hailed as one of the most acclaimed and influential directors of all time, Elia Kazan remains a true Hollywood icon. This collection presents four of his finest films, available for the first time on Blu-Ray with authentic high-quality picture and sound.
Boomerang (1947)
Director Elia Kazan won critical acclaim for this vividly portrayed, suspenseful 1947 true crime drama set in Connecticut, where the events actually happened. When a beloved priest is gunned down, the local police chief (Lee J. Cobb) is under enormous pressure to find his murderer, and, based only on vague descriptions, he undertakes a massive manhunt, eventually arriving at both a suspect (Arthur Kennedy) and a confession.
But the state’s attorney (Dana Andrews) is determined to convict only if it’s right to do so. Also starring Jane Wyatt, Cara Williams, Sam Levene, Ed Begley and Karl Malden, Boomerang is gripping noir entertainment from start to finish.
BONUS FEATURES:
Director Elia Kazan and producer Darryl F. Zanuck caused a sensation with "the most spellbinding story ever put on celluloid" (Hollywood Reporter), which won three Academy Awards including Best Picture. One of the first films to directly tackle racial prejudice, this acclaimed adaptation of Laura Z. Hobson's bestseller stars Gregory Peck in an Oscar nominated role as a journalist assigned to write a series on anti-Semitism.
Searching for an angle, he decides to pose as a Jew - and soon discovers what it is to be a victim of religious intolerance. Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield, Dean Stockwell and June Havoc also star in this riveting World War II classic.
BONUS FEATURES:
Pinky, a young nurse (Jeanne Crain), returns to her small southern hometown, but the trip is bittersweet one: Educated in the North, Pinky is engaged to a doctor who doesn't know that she is part black. Her grandmother (Ethel Waters) is a proud black woman who is less than happy to learn that Pinky's fiancee is white. Then, Pinky's friendship with a southern aristocrat, Miss Em (Ethel Barrymore), is cause for more scandal - and a lawsuit - when she dies and leaves her house to Pinky.
Shunned by both blacks and whites, Pinky's choices make her the unfortunate target of bigotry in this compelling classic. This deeply moving drama features three indelible Oscar-nominated performances from Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore and Ethel Waters.
BONUS FEATURES:
In this suspenseful melodrama, a bullet-ridden corpse turns up in the water off the New Orleans docks. To the police, he's a John Doe...until a public health doctor (Richard Widmark) discovers he carries a virulent strain of bubonic plague. Hundreds of officers are mobilized to track down the killers and all who had contact with the dead man in a desperate race against the clock before the highly contagious disease spreads far beyond the port area and puts the entire country in peril.
BONUS FEATURES:
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
This poignant and heartwarming story, Elia Kazan's directorial debut, is based on the best-selling novel about life in Brooklyn's Irish tenements at the turn of the twentieth century.
BONUS FEATURES:
Marlon Brando stars as Emiliano Zapata, the hero of the 1920 Mexican revolution. Anthony Quinn's portrayal of Zapata's hard-living brother earned him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar.
NO BONUS FEATURES
Man on a Tightrope (1953)
The legendary Fredric March plays Karel Cernik, who courageously leads his traveling circus in a desperate run for the German border to escape from 1950's communist Czechoslovakia.
NO BONUS FEATURES
Wild River (1960)
Montgomery Clift is a government agent who must evacuate lands to make way for a new dam. When an elderly woman refuses to leave, Clift falls for her granddaughter (Lee Remick).
BONUS FEATURE:
Kazan at Fox, Vol. 1 (Blu-Ray)
Kazan at Fox, Vol. 2 (Blu-Ray)
Volume 1 consists of titles that were released before as singles on standard DVD. Most of the bonus features carry over and Panic has two new ones.
Volume 2 titles were released on standard DVD in the 18-disc Elia Kazan Collection, but were never released as singles (and are not likely to be soon). Details below.
Hailed as one of the most acclaimed and influential directors of all time, Elia Kazan remains a true Hollywood icon. This collection presents four of his finest films, available for the first time on Blu-Ray with authentic high-quality picture and sound.
Boomerang (1947)
Director Elia Kazan won critical acclaim for this vividly portrayed, suspenseful 1947 true crime drama set in Connecticut, where the events actually happened. When a beloved priest is gunned down, the local police chief (Lee J. Cobb) is under enormous pressure to find his murderer, and, based only on vague descriptions, he undertakes a massive manhunt, eventually arriving at both a suspect (Arthur Kennedy) and a confession.
But the state’s attorney (Dana Andrews) is determined to convict only if it’s right to do so. Also starring Jane Wyatt, Cara Williams, Sam Levene, Ed Begley and Karl Malden, Boomerang is gripping noir entertainment from start to finish.
BONUS FEATURES:
- Audio Commentary by film historians Alain Silver and Jame Ursini
Director Elia Kazan and producer Darryl F. Zanuck caused a sensation with "the most spellbinding story ever put on celluloid" (Hollywood Reporter), which won three Academy Awards including Best Picture. One of the first films to directly tackle racial prejudice, this acclaimed adaptation of Laura Z. Hobson's bestseller stars Gregory Peck in an Oscar nominated role as a journalist assigned to write a series on anti-Semitism.
Searching for an angle, he decides to pose as a Jew - and soon discovers what it is to be a victim of religious intolerance. Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield, Dean Stockwell and June Havoc also star in this riveting World War II classic.
BONUS FEATURES:
- Audio Commentary by Celeste Holm, June Havoc and Film Critic Richard Schickel
- AMC Backstory Episode: Gentleman's Agreement
- Fox Movietone Newsreels
Pinky, a young nurse (Jeanne Crain), returns to her small southern hometown, but the trip is bittersweet one: Educated in the North, Pinky is engaged to a doctor who doesn't know that she is part black. Her grandmother (Ethel Waters) is a proud black woman who is less than happy to learn that Pinky's fiancee is white. Then, Pinky's friendship with a southern aristocrat, Miss Em (Ethel Barrymore), is cause for more scandal - and a lawsuit - when she dies and leaves her house to Pinky.
Shunned by both blacks and whites, Pinky's choices make her the unfortunate target of bigotry in this compelling classic. This deeply moving drama features three indelible Oscar-nominated performances from Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore and Ethel Waters.
BONUS FEATURES:
- Audio Commentary by film historian Kenneth Geist
In this suspenseful melodrama, a bullet-ridden corpse turns up in the water off the New Orleans docks. To the police, he's a John Doe...until a public health doctor (Richard Widmark) discovers he carries a virulent strain of bubonic plague. Hundreds of officers are mobilized to track down the killers and all who had contact with the dead man in a desperate race against the clock before the highly contagious disease spreads far beyond the port area and puts the entire country in peril.
BONUS FEATURES:
- Audio Commentary by authors and historians James Ursini and Alain Silver
-
Jack Palance: From Grit to Grace
- Richard Widmark: Strength of Characters
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
This poignant and heartwarming story, Elia Kazan's directorial debut, is based on the best-selling novel about life in Brooklyn's Irish tenements at the turn of the twentieth century.
BONUS FEATURES:
- Commentary by Film Historian Richard Schickel with Elia Kazan, Ted Donaldson and Norman Lloyd
- The Making of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- An Appreciation of Dorothy McGuire
- Fox Movietone News Segments
Marlon Brando stars as Emiliano Zapata, the hero of the 1920 Mexican revolution. Anthony Quinn's portrayal of Zapata's hard-living brother earned him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar.
NO BONUS FEATURES
Man on a Tightrope (1953)
The legendary Fredric March plays Karel Cernik, who courageously leads his traveling circus in a desperate run for the German border to escape from 1950's communist Czechoslovakia.
NO BONUS FEATURES
Wild River (1960)
Montgomery Clift is a government agent who must evacuate lands to make way for a new dam. When an elderly woman refuses to leave, Clift falls for her granddaughter (Lee Remick).
BONUS FEATURE:
- Commentary by Film Historian Richard Schickel
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Blu-Ray) in November
| WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE: | The Postman Always Rings Twice (Blu-Ray) November 13th Warner Bros. Retail: $19.98, Our: $15.99 |   |
One of filmdom's best-love noirs will be making its Blu debut on November 13th as Warner has scheduled The Postman Always Rings Twice (Blu-Ray) for release. Bonus features will likely carry over from the standard release.
SYNOPSIS:
The sign outside the roadside diner says "Man Wanted." Drifter Frank Chambers knows the sign has more than one meaning when he eyes pouty, luminous Cora, the much-younger bride of the diner's proprietor.
Based on the same-titled novel by James M. Cain (Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce), this quintessential film-noir classic combines studio-system gloss with Cain's hard-bitten tale of murderous attractions. John Garfield and Lana Turner give career-benchmark performances as Frank and Cora, illicit lovers who botch a first attempt to bump off Cora's hubby, pull it off, betray each other at trial and yet wriggle free. But their volatile tale does not end there. As the film's metaphorical title indicates, fate is sure to ring again.
BONUS FEATURES (likely carry over from standard DVD):
- Revealing Documentary Profile "The John Garfield Story," Narrated by Julie Garfield
- Introduction by Film Historian and Author Richard Jewell
- Theatrical Trailers of the Original and the 1981 Remake
- Behind-the-Scenes Image Gallery
BLU OLIVE: Body & Soul, Force of Evil in Late July
| WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE: | Body and Soul July 31st Olive Flims Retail: 19.95, Our: $14.99 |  |
| WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE: | Body and Soul (Blu-Ray) July 31st Olive Flims Retail: 29.95, Our: | |
| WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE: | Force of Evil July 31st Olive Flims Retail: 19.95, Our: $14.99 | |
| WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE: | Force of Evil (Blu-Ray) July 31st Olive Flims Retail: 29.95, Our: | |
Olive Films has announced the Blu-Ray debuts for two previously released John Garfield films: Body and Soul (1947) & Force of Evil (1948). Streeting on July 31st, both Blu-Ray's will have a special pre-order price of $17.98 until Sunday.
Standard versions accompany these Blu's and Force will have a Martin Scorsese introduction (1995).
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