VCI has announced some long-awaited Conrad Veidt titles for release on April 24th: Power (Jew Suss) (1933) co-starring Benita Hume, Frank Vosper and Cedric Hardwicke; and I Was a Spy (1934) co-starring Madeleine Carroll, Herbert Marshall, Edmund Gwenn and Nigel Bruce. Also announced for the same date is The Perils of Pauline (1934). This PD serial has been released by several companies and we're ...
Read moreMore from the estate of David O. Selznick as Kino has announced a May 1st release date for Bird of Paradise (1932) on both standard DVD and Blu-Ray. Bonus features are not expected. Joel McCrea (The Most Dangerous Game) stars as a handsome South Seas soldier of fortune who falls in love with Dolores Del Rio (Flying Down to Rio), the daughter of ...
Read more--ARTWORK ADDED TO PREVIOUS ANNOUNCEMENT-- ORIGINAL ANNOUNCEMENT If you don't know it yet, you'll soon be aware that the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic is this April. To coincide with it, Criterion has already announced the release of A Night to Remember (1958); and now, 20th Century-Fox has scheduled 1953's Titanic for release...
Read moreMore Duke. More Blu-Ray. More Duke on Blu-Ray. On June 5th, Paramount will release Hondo (Blu-Ray). The bonus features will carry over from the standard edition, but this release has added Spanish, French and Portuguese dubbing and subtitles. It will retail for 4.99, but is available at ClassicFlix.com for only 8.99.SYNOPSIS: Apache war drums sound an ominous warning for an isolated female rancher ...
Read moreFour public domain films are making the leap to Blu-Ray in the coming months. Next week, Legend Films is releasing The Little Shop of Horrors (Blu-Ray) and Plan 9 from Outer Space (Blu-Ray). Legend is primarily known for their colorization of black and white films, but has also done a decent job at bringing some titles to Blu recently. Both will be available in original black and white and colorized versions. Newcomer Film Che...
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