FOX: The Three Faces of Eve (Blu-Ray) in November

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The Three Faces of Eve (Blu-Ray) November 5th 20th Century Fox Retail $24.99, Our: $19.99

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More Blu from Fox as they have announced a November 5th release date for The Three Faces of Eve (Blu-Ray).

Bonus features will carry over from the DVD release. The studio is also issuing a repackaged DVD on the same day.


Eve White, a mousy, withdrawn housewife startles her husband (David Wayne) when she claims she did not buy the flashy, provocative clothes he finds in their bedroom. After she complains of blackouts, he takes her to a psychiatrist (Lee J. Cobb) who soon encounters her second personality, Eve Black, a sexy, uninhibited woman.

As Eve's therapy continues, her third self, the sensible, intelligent Jane appears to help resolve her rare multiple personality condition. Based on a true story, this acclaimed psychological drama brilliantly explores the dimensions of the human mind.

BONUS FEATURES:

• Commentary by film historian Aubrey Solomon
• Fox Movietone News: Academy Awards
• Theatrical Trailer

TCM VAULT: Sony's Film Noir Classics, Vol. 4 in August

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Film Noir Classics, Vol. 4 (TCM Vault) August 6th Sony So Dark the Night (1946), Johnny O'Clock (1947), Walk a Crooked Mile (1948), Between Midnight and Dawn (1950), Walk East on Beacon! (1952)

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Sony's Film Noir Classics sets continue with Film Noir Classics, Vol. 4 due on August 6th.

Released via the TCM Vault line, all five films are new to DVD. Bonus features abound like previous Vault releases. 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 again partner to present the fourth collection in this series, Columbia Pictures Film Noir Classics IV.

These five films, all fully restored and remastered and never before released on DVD, showcase the work of directors Joseph H. Lewis, Robert Rossen, Gordon Douglas and Alfred L. Werker—all of them masters at creating taut and atmospheric visions from morally-strained hard-boiled stories.

The collection also highlights the genre-defining cinematography of Burnett Guffey and George E. Diskant, and iconic performances by film noir mainstays Dick Powell, Evelyn Keyes, Lee J. Cobb, Dennis O'Keefe and Edmond O'Brien, who excelled at revealing the raw heart that beat beneath noir's tough exteriors.

So Dark the Night (1946)
Director Joseph H. Lewis (Gun Crazy, 1950) established his reputation as a talented stylist by wrangling a complicated story—of a Parisian detective (Steven Geray) who falls in love while on vacation, only to see the woman murdered—into a taut and atmospheric film noir.

Overcoming the challenges of recreating the French countryside in Canoga Park, California, and working with a cast of virtual unknowns, Lewis and noir cinematographer extraordinaire Burnett Guffey craft one of the great surprise endings in all of noir, which would inspire such films as Possessed (1948) and Memento (2000).

Johnny O'Clock (1947)
Johnny O'Clock (Dick Powell) is a junior partner in a posh casino with Guido Marchettis (Thomas Gomez), but is senior in the eyes of Nelle (Ellen Drew)—Guido's wife and Johnny's ex. This love triangle leads to a web of complications, leaving Police Inspector Koch (Lee J. Cobb) to unravel the threads of deceit and a murdered casino employee's sister (Evelyn Keyes) to tug on Johnny's heartstrings before it's too late.

Applying Raymond Chandler's dictum that a good plot is an excuse for a series of exciting scenes, rookie director Robert Rossen strings together tense vignettes—brought vividly to life by cinematographer Burnett Guffey.

Walk a Crooked Mile (1948)
Director Gordon Douglas drew on mounting anti-Communist fervor to create one of the first Cold War films—the tale of an FBI agent (Dennis O'Keefe) and a Scotland Yard detective (Louis Hayward) who must bust a spy ring led by a ruthless agent (Raymond Burr) working to infiltrate an atomic research facility.

Producer Eddie Small stood tall in a battle against FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to produce the film without interference, arguing the Bureau was fair game for fictionalization. But Hoover had the last word, writing The New York Times to say the FBI had not sanctioned the film.

Between Midnight and Dawn (1950)
Dan Purvis (Edmund O'Brien) and Rocky Barnes (Mark Stevens) are lifelong pals who survived WWII and continue their armed service as uniformed prowl car boys on the night shift in LA. But their friendship is tested by their ongoing battle with a ruthless racketeer (Donald Buka), the love they share for a beautiful radio announcer (Gale Storm) and Dan's uncompromising and exaggerated sense of justice.

Often seen as the first example of the now commonplace buddy cop movie, this film demonstrates that the genre has always been rife with tension.

Walk East on Beacon! (1952)
Director Alfred L. Werker (He Walked by Night) adapted this tale of Communist spies stealing secrets about the Manhattan Project. The source material was a Reader's Digest article by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, and the movie shares Hoover's obsession with surveillance, creating an atypical noir focused on technology rather than obsessed with character psychology.

However, the film did make abundant use of the mean streets with over 14 weeks of location shooting throughout the northeast, thus providing a rare snapshot of an era in American life—its physical locations and its mental state.

BONUS FEATURES:

• Intro
• Scene Stills
• Publicity Stills
• Movie Posters
• TCMDb Article

OLIVE: The Men, Miracle of the Bells, Three Faces West in April

Four more titles are coming from Olive Films on April 30th. This now brings the total of Olive's releases for April to 17!

All four will be released on both standard DVD and Blu-Ray. Non bold titles were previously released on DVD, while bold titles are making their DVD and Blu debuts.

They are:

• The Men (1950) - Marlon Brando, Teresa Wright, Everett Sloane, Jack Webb, Richard Erdman
• The Miracle of the Bells (1948) - Fred MacMurray, Alida Valli, Frank Sinatra, Lee J. Cobb
• Pals of the Saddle (1938) - John Wayne, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune
• Three Faces West (1940) - John Wayne, Sigrid Gurie, Charles Coburn

Details can be found in the recent additions section.

CRITERION: On the Waterfront Standard & Blu in February

WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE:

On the Waterfront February 19th Criterion Retail: $39.95, Our: $31.99

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WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE:

On the Waterfront (Blu-Ray) February 19th Criterion Retail: $49.95, Our: $39.99

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Criterion has announced a February 19th release date for On the Waterfront (1954) on standard DVD & Blu-Ray.

The Elia Kazan film, starring Marlon Brando with an all-star cast of Lee J. Cobb, Eva Marie Saint, Karl Malden and Rod Steiger, and winner of eight Oscars, was previously released by Sony. In this release, Criterion even outdoes themselves by adding a plethora of bonus features that need 3-DVD's and 2-Blu's respectively to contain them. Details below.



Marlon Brando gives the performance of his career as the tough prizefighter-turned-longshoreman Terry Malloy in this masterpiece of urban poetry, a raggedly emotional tale of individual failure and institutional corruption.

On the Waterfront charts Terry’s deepening moral crisis as he must choose whether to remain loyal to the mob-connected union boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb) and Johnny’s right-hand man, Terry’s brother, Charley (Rod Steiger), as the authorities close in on them.

Driven by the vivid, naturalistic direction of Elia Kazan and savory, streetwise dialogue by Budd Schulberg, On the Waterfront was an instant sensation, winning eight Oscars, including for best picture, director, actor, supporting actress (Eva Marie Saint), and screenplay.

BONUS FEATURES:

• Commentary featuring authors Richard Schickel and Jeff Young
• Conversation between filmmaker Martin Scorsese and critic Kent Jones
• Elia Kazan: Outsider (1982), an hour-long documentary
• New documentary on the making of the film, featuring interviews with scholar Leo Braudy, critic David Thomson, and others
• New interview with actress Eva Marie Saint
• Interview with director Elia Kazan from 2001
• Contender, a 2001 documentary on the film’s most famous scene
• Alternate presentations of the restoration in two additional aspect ratios: 1.85:1 (widescreen) and 1.33:1 (full-screen)
• New interview with longshoreman Thomas Hanley, an actor in the film
• New interview with author James T. Fisher (On the Irish Waterfront) about the real-life people and places behind the film
• Visual essay on Leonard Bernstein’s score
• Visual essay on the aspect ratio
• Trailer
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Michael Almereyda and reprints of Kazan’s 1952 ad in the New York Times defending his testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee, one of the 1948 New York Sun articles by Malcolm Johnson on which the film was based, and a 1953 Commonweal piece by screenwriter Budd Schulber

OLIVE: Widmark, Cobb & Tina Louise in The Trap (1959)

WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE:

The Trap November 20th Olive Films Retail: $24.95, Our: $17.99

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WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE:

The Trap (Blu-Ray) November 20th Olive Films Retail: $29.95, Our: $21.99 SPECIAL 3-Day Price $17.98

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The Trap (1959), a crime-drama starring Richard Widmark, Lee J. Cobb and Tina Louise, has been announced for release on DVD and Blu-Ray by Olive Films.

Both street on November 20th with the Blu-Ray having the special pre-order price of $17.98 until Sunday September 9th.

CRITERION BLU: 12 Angry Men, Rules of the Game in November

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12 Angry Men (1957) November 22nd Criterion Retail: 29.95, Our: $23.99

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WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE:

12 Angry Men (Blu-Ray) (1957) November 22nd Criterion Retail: 39.95, Our: $31.99

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WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE:

The Rules of the Game (1939) November 15th Criterion Retail: 29.95, Our: $23.99

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WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE:

The Rules of the Game (Blu-Ray) (1939) November 15th Criterion Retail: 39.95, Our: $31.99

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Criterion has announced November release dates for standard and Blu-Ray versions of 12 Angry Men (1957) and The Rules of the Game (1939).

12 Angry Men was previously released by MGM and comes loaded with the expected Criterion bonus features for such the original TV version from 1955.

Rules will carry over all the features from the previous Criterion release. More details below.




12 Angry Men
12 Angry Men, by Sidney Lumet, may be the most radical big-screen courtroom drama in cinema history. A behind-closed-doors look at the American legal system as riveting as it is spare, the iconic adaptation of Reginald Rose’s teleplay stars Henry Fonda as the initially dissenting member of a jury of white men ready to pass judgment on a Puerto Rican teenager charged with murdering his father. What results is a saga of epic proportions that plays out in real time over ninety minutes in one sweltering room. Lumet’s electrifying snapshot of 1950s America on the verge of change is one of the great feature-film debuts.

BONUS FEATURES:

• Frank Schaffner’s 1955 television version, with an introduction by Ron Simon, director of the Paley Center for Media Studies
• Twelve Angry Men: From Television to the Big Screen, a video essay by film scholar Vance Kepley comparing the Sidney Lumet and Schaffner versions
• Archival interviews with Lumet
• New interview about the director with writer Walter Bernstein
• New interview with Simon about television writer Reginald Rose
• New interview with cinematographer John Bailey in which he discusses cinematographer Boris Kaufman
• Tragedy in a Temporary Town (1956), a teleplay directed by Lumet and written by Rose
• Original theatrical trailer
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by writer and law professor Thane Rosenbaum

The Rules of the Game
Widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir's masterpiece The Rules of the Game (La Regle de jeu) is a scathing critique of corrupt French society cloaked in a comedy of manners. Amorous intrigue abounds at a weekend hunting party, where the refusal of one of the guests to play by the class-based rules sets off a chain of events that ends in tragedy. Although the original negative was destroyed during World War II, this edition features the fully reconstructed version embraced by audiences and critics around the world as a timeless representation of Jean Renoir's genius.

BONUS FEATURES:

• Introduction to the film by Jean Renoir
• Audio Commentary Written by Film Scholar Alexander Sesonske and Read by Filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich
• Version Comparison: Side by Side Analysis of the Two Endings of the Film, Along with an Illustrated Study of Renoir's Shooting Script
• Selected Scene Analysis by Renoir Historian Christopher Faulkner
• Excerpts from Jean Renoir, le patron: La Regle et l'exception (1966), a French Television Program Directed by Jacques Rivette
• Part one of Jean Renoir, a two-part 1993 BBC Documentary by David Thompson, featuring reflections on Renoir from his family, friends, collaborators, and admirers.
• New video essay about the film's production, release, and later reconstruction.
• Jean Gaborit and Jacques Durand discuss their reconstruction and re-release of the film.
• Interview with Renoir's son, Alain, an assistant cameraman on the film.
• Interview with The Rules of the Game set designer Max Douy
• 1995 Interview with Actress Mila Parely
• Written tributes to the film and Renoir by J. Hoberman, Kent Jones, Paul Schrader, Wim Wenders, and others.
• PLUS: A 24-page booklet featuring writings by Jean Renoir, Francois Truffaut, Henri Cartier-Bresson Tavernier, and an essay by Alexander Sesonske.

Wagon Train - Season 3, The Virginian - Season 4 in May

WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE:

Wagon Train - The Complete Third Season May 17th Timeless Media Group Retail $79.99, Our: $59.99

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WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE:

The Virginian - The Complete Fourth Season May 17th Timeless Media Group Retail $79.99, Our: $59.99

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More great T.V. Westerns from Timeless Media Group as they have announced a May 17th release date for both Wagon Train - The Complete Third Season and The Virginian - The Complete Fourth Season.

Each 10-disc set will come in a collectible tin and retail for $79.99, but they'll be available at ClassicFlix.com for only $59.99. Bonus features, if any, are not yet known.

ARTWORK ADDED: The Virginian - Season 3

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ORIGINAL ANNOUNCEMENT

WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE:

The Virginian - The Complete Third Season March 15th Timeless Media Retail: $79.98, Our: $59.99

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On the heels of the just released Season 2, Timeless Media has announced a March 15th release date for The Virginian - The Complete Third Season.

The 10-disc set, as the previous releases, will be in a "Collector's Tin." Retail will be $79.98, but it's available at ClassicFlix.com for only $59.99. Bonus features are not yet known.

The Virginian - Season 3 in March

WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE:

The Virginian - The Complete Third Season March 15th Timeless Media Retail: $79.98, Our: $59.99

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On the heels of the just released Season 2, Timeless Media has announced a March 15th release date for The Virginian - The Complete Third Season.

The 10-disc set, as the previous releases, will be in a "Collector's Tin." Retail will be $79.98, but it's available at ClassicFlix.com for only $59.99. Bonus features are not yet known.

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.