| WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE: | The Fugitive - Season 3, Vol. 2 December 8th Paramount Retail: $39.99, Our: $29.99 |  |
Season 3, Vol. 1 hasn't hit the streets yet, but Paramount has set a December 8th release date for The Fugitive - Season 3, Vol. 2. It is expected to be a four-disc set as previous half-season releases.
It will retail for $39.99, but is available at ClassicFlix.com for only $29.99.
| WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE: | Route 66, Season 3, Vol. 2 October 20th Infinity Retail $29.99, Our: $20.99 |  |
Infinity Entertainment has announced an October 20th release date for Route 66, Season 3, Vol. 2. The four disc set will contain the last 15 episodes from the third season. Incidentally, the first episode in this set, "A Gift for a Warrior" was George Maharis' last as he would leave the show and eventually be replaced by Glenn Corbett.
Retail will be $29.99, but it is available at Classicflix.com for only $20.99.
Grapevine Video, known for its hundreds of rare and hard-to-find titles on DVD-R, has released its third commercially pressed DVD - Ladies of the German Cinema. The single disc double feature has two rare German films 1921: Sappho starring Pola Negri and Backstairs (A.K.A. Hintertreppe) starring Henny Porten.
It is now available for rent or purchase. Purchase price is $19.99.
SYNOPSIS:
Berlin, Germany, 1921. The new Weimar Republic was in the midst of a powerful creative renaissance that still affects the arts as we know them today. Then and now, the most celebrated medium of Weimar Germany’s artistic revolution was its movies, and some of Germany’s most loved and celebrated actresses were at the height of their popularity. Some of those names include Asta Nielsen, Lil Dagover, and the two ladies featured in these two German films from 1921: Pola Negri and Henny Porten.
Sappho (1921, 82 min.)
Pola Negri’s Sappho is a rare, largely unseen film that has been restored with its original tints and released on video for the first time ever, complete with a devastating orchestral score. The story is an ornate, contemporary costume drama about a notorious vamp whose long run of using men is brought to an abrupt halt when she meets the love of her life. However, the ghosts of her past haunt the new relationship, including the fact that she has previously driven her new beau’s brother insane. (The lunatic brother is played by Alfred Abel, best known today for his role as Fredersen, the aristocratic lord of Metropolis [1927]).
Sappho showcases Negri in many roles—a mother, a bride, a heartless socialite, a devoted lover—and each role she plays is completely and thoroughly believable. Her staredown of a former lover when he brandishes a gun jumps off of the screen; her silent scream at the film’s end is so potent that it seems audible. The film itself was censored when it first reached American shores, and was only released in an altered version called Mad Love; this is the original, uncensored European version.
Backstairs (1921, 50 min.)
Henny Porten’s Backstairs (A.K.A. Hintertreppe) is one of the earliest attempts at reproducing a pioneering and revolutionary genre of German theatre called "intimate theatre" (kammerspiel). This purposefully minimalistic film seized the imaginations of film critics, and helped pioneer a small but very influential subgenre of German film called the kammerspielfilm; this film style would come to a greater fruition in F. W. Murnau’s Sunrise (1927).
Henny Porten’s career correlates to that of America’s Mary Pickford in many ways, except that Porten came off as a sexy mother figure, whereas Pickford was a sexy daughter figure. It should be of no surprise that Porten played many matronly characters in German movies, including an appearance as Mary, mother of Jesus, in the recently rediscovered 1924 German epic I.N.R.I. Most of Porten’s films are difficult to find and few were released in America, so this is a rare opportunity to watch her in top form.
| WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE: | White Christmas - Anniversary Edition November 3rd Paramount Retail $24.99 Our: | |
Paramount has announced a November 3rd release date for the heart-warming Christmas classic White Christmas - Anniversary Edition. This 2-disc special edition will have all new bonus features (below) not on the previous single disc release.
Retail price is $24.99, and we'll have it for $17.99. However, for 3 days only (until September 6th), we'll have it for the SPECIAL LOW PRE-ORDER PRICE of $15.98.
SYNOPSIS:
White Christmas is a treasury of Irving Berlin classics, among them "Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep," "Sisters," "Mandy," and the beloved holiday song, "White Christmas." Two talented song-and-dance men (Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye) team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. One winter, they join forces with a sister act (Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen) and trek to Vermont for a white Christmas. Of course, there's the requisite fun with the ladies, but the real adventure starts when Crosby & Kaye discover that the inn is run by their old army general who's now in financial trouble. And the result is the stuff dreams are made of.
BONUS FEATURES (* Are New to this Special Edition):
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| WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE: | It's a Wonderful Life (Blu-Ray) November 3rd Paramount Retail $39.99, Our: $27.99 | |
Paramount has scheduled a November 3rd release date for the Blu-Ray debut of the perennial Christmas classic It's a Wonderful Life.
It's not a special edition as the only bonus features were on previous releases (The Making of It's A Wonderful Life, Original Theatrical Trailer [in HD]). It will have a colorized version and is reported to be a 2-disc set.
It will retail for 39.99, but is available at ClassicFlix.com for only $27.99.
| WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE: | Wagon Train - Season 1 November 17th Timeless Media Retail $79.98 | |
Good news from Timeless Media this morning as they've confirmed Wagon Train - Season 1 for release on November 17th. Originally thought to be for genereal release, we've received word that the 10-disc set will be exclusive to Sam's Club. We will of course have it available for rent.
When and if it gets a general release, we'll have it for sale. However, this release will be a limited run in a collector's tin shaped like a covered wagon, so if it is re-released, it will probably be in a plain case.
On another Wagon Train note, we previously listed Wagon Train - The Color Season as only available for sale, now the 16 disc set is also available for rent with 32 color episodes from season 7 as well as 16 bonus episodes from other seasons of Wagon Train.
For the first time, NBC Universal and TMG bring you the complete, uncut first season of Wagon Train, one of America's most enduring and sought after TV westerns of all time. Direct from the NBC vaults, these 39 episodes have been re-mastered and presented on 10 dual layer DVD's in this special collector's edition.
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.
Ward Bond, who starred in "Wagonmaster", recreated his role from the film as Major Seth Adams. He was joined by costars Robert Horton as Head Scout Flint McCullough, Frank McGrath as the cook Charlie Wooster, and Terry Wilson as Assistant Wagon master Bill Hawks, who all brought their skills as horsemen as well as wonderful actors to the show, giving Wagon Train a special, western flavor.
Each well crafted episode focused on a personal story of courage and perseverance of not just the main cast, but of the westward-bound emigrants as they made the perilous journey by Conestoga wagon from the banks of the Mississippi to California's Pacific shores, in the face of great odds. Their heart-warming (and sometimes heartbreaking) sagas tell the tale of how the American West was truly won, by hard-working and determined people driven by the promise of freedom and prosperity in the new land, and by those who saw them through the harshest of landscapes to the promised land that beckoned them.
Joining the cast each week were some of Hollywood's brightest stars in guest roles, including Ernest Borgnine (The Willy Moran Story), Sterling Hayden (The Les Rand Story), Agnes Moorehead (The Mary Halstead Story), Keenan Wynn (The Luke O'Malley Story), June Lockhart ( The Sarah Drummond Story), Debra Paget and Nick Adams (The Marie Dupree Story), and many, many more.
This 10 DVD collector's edition of Wagon Train – The Complete First Season, including all 39 great episodes, is sure to please both fans of the original broadcast, and newcomers who are seeing it for the first time. As Major Adams says as he leads his charges westward and they roll their Conestoga wagons out onto the prairie, "WAGONS, HO!"
Mentioned two weeks ago with an unbelievable low price of $19.95, and then quickly removed from their site, WBShop has permanently listed The Our Gang Collection for a still reasonable price of $34.95. The five disc set includes all 52 post-Roach MGM shorts and is now available for rent at ClassicFlix.
Also permanently listed and available for rent are the Film Noir & Crime films below:
You can also find them listed HERE in the Recent Additions section. They're available to put in your queue, but may be approximately four weeks before they are available for shipment.
This new wave brings the total Warner Archive titles exclusively available for rent at ClassicFlix.com to 238.
| WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE: | The General (Blu-Ray) November 10th KINO Retail $34.95 Our: $24.99 |  |
Released last year by Kino in a 2-disc Ultimate Collector's Edition, Buster Keaton's masterpiece The General is now set for a November 10th release date for its Blu-Ray debut.
And if the spectacluar restoration on the U.C.E. done by Kino is any indication, the upcoming Blu release should be just as stunning.
It is expected to be a single disc release and it will carry over all the bonus features on the U.C.E. with no new ones anticipated.
The General (Blu-Ray) will retail for $34.95, but is available at ClassicFlix.com for only $24.99.
SYNOPSIS:
Rejected by the Confederate army as unfit, and taken for a coward by his beloved Annabelle Lee (Marion Mack), young Johnny Gray (Keaton) is given a chance to redeem himself when Yankee spies steal his cherished locomotive. Johnny wages a one-man war against hijackers, an errant cannon and the unpredictable hand of fate while roaring along the iron rails. “Every shot has the authenticity and the unassuming correct composition of a Mathew Brady Civil War photograph,” wrote film historian David Robinson, “No one—not even Griffith or Huston and certainly not Fleming (Gone With the Wind) caught the visual aspect of the Civil War as Keaton did.”
BONUS FEATURES:
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| WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE: | Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 4 November 24th Universal Retail $39.98 Our: $30.99 | |
Although their output isn't what it was in years past, Universal is slowly getting back into the good graces of classic film fans with every release of their Universal Backlot Series. Now, it appears that classic T.V. fans have more reason to support Universal as they've announced a November 24th release date for Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 4.
Having seemingly abandoned Alfred Hitchcock Presents, this release will mark Universal's first classic T.V. release in two years when Season 3 of Alfred Hitchcock Presents was released.
As always, great guest stars are expected (below). A bonus featurette is also included: Fasten Your Seatbelt: The Thrilling Art of Alfred Hitchcock.
It will retail for $39.98, but is available at ClassicFlix.com for only $30.99.
SYNOPSIS:
Legendary, award-winning and suspenseful, Alfred Hitchcock Presents set the gold standard for all TV mystery series to come and has remained an indelible part of popular culture. And now, the complete fourth season – all 36 episodes – is available on DVD for fans to enjoy again and again.
Join guest stars Steve McQueen (Bullitt), Bette Davis (All About Eve), Claude Rains (Casablanca), Cloris Leachman (Young Frankenstein), Roger Moore (The Spy Who Loved Me), Walter Matthau (The Odd Couple), Brian Keith (Family Affair), Elizabeth Montgomery (Bewitched), Art Carney (Harry and Tonto), Mary Astor (The Maltese Falcon), Barbara Bel Geddes (Dallas), Denholm Elliott (Raiders of the Lost Ark), Dick York (Bewitched), Leslie Nielsen (Airplane!) and more as they act in stories of intrigue and murder … all under the watchful eye of the Master of Suspense himself. Nominated for 15 Primetime Emmy Awards, and winner of 3 Primetime Emmy Awards plus the Golden Globe for Television Achievement, there’s no question why this show remains one of the most beloved classic series ever made.
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| WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE: | Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 4 November 24th Universal Retail $39.98 Our: $30.99 | |
Although their output isn't what it was in years past, Universal is slowly getting back into the good graces of classic film fans with every release of their Universal Backlot Series. Now, it appears that classic T.V. fans have more reason to support Universal as they've announced a November 24th release date for Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 4.
Having seemingly abandoned Alfred Hitchcock Presents, this release will mark Universal's first classic T.V. release in two years when Season 3 of Alfred Hitchcock Presents was released.
As always, great guest stars are expected (below). A bonus featurette is also included: Fasten Your Seatbelt: The Thrilling Art of Alfred Hitchcock.
It will retail for $39.98, but is available at ClassicFlix.com for only $30.99.
SYNOPSIS:
Legendary, award-winning and suspenseful, Alfred Hitchcock Presents set the gold standard for all TV mystery series to come and has remained an indelible part of popular culture. And now, the complete fourth season – all 36 episodes – is available on DVD for fans to enjoy again and again.
Join guest stars Steve McQueen (Bullitt), Bette Davis (All About Eve), Claude Rains (Casablanca), Cloris Leachman (Young Frankenstein), Roger Moore (The Spy Who Loved Me), Walter Matthau (The Odd Couple), Brian Keith (Family Affair), Elizabeth Montgomery (Bewitched), Art Carney (Harry and Tonto), Mary Astor (The Maltese Falcon), Barbara Bel Geddes (Dallas), Denholm Elliott (Raiders of the Lost Ark), Dick York (Bewitched), Leslie Nielsen (Airplane!) and more as they act in stories of intrigue and murder … all under the watchful eye of the Master of Suspense himself. Nominated for 15 Primetime Emmy Awards, and winner of 3 Primetime Emmy Awards plus the Golden Globe for Television Achievement, there’s no question why this show remains one of the most beloved classic series ever made.
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