Archive: August 2013

  • Tyrone Power: One of the Best

    Tyrone Power was one of the greatest stars of the classic film era. His spectacularly good looks were such that at times it's overlooked that he was also a fine actor whose skills grew more impressive with the passage of time. He was highly effective starring in everything from swashbucklers and Westerns to musicals and romantic comedies to film noir and costume dramas. His early death at the age of 44 was a great loss to all who love the movies. Power has always been my favorite acto...

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  • Pre-Code Obsession: Introduction to Pre-Code Cinema

    Gangsters wielding sharp suits and even sharper grins. Tommy guns and Model As roaring through dark city nights. Ladies in slinky dresses, a dozen diamond bracelets dripping from their arms. Dancing girls, incorrigible cads and man-made monsters. These characters all walked the streets of the pre-Code era, roughly four years of American cinema made during talkie era, before the implementation of what was known as the Production Code. Though always technically subject to restriction and censorshi...

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  • From Here to Eternity (Blu-Ray) in October

    Sony has announced an October 1st release date for From Here to Eternity (Blu-Ray). Although not promoted as such, the studio has timed this Blu release of 1953's Oscar winner for best picture to coincide with its 60th anniversary. Most of the bonus features from the DVD release will carry over. ------------------------------- In this landmark film, passion and tragedy collide on a milit...

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  • OLIVE: Betty Boop - The Essential Collection, Vol. 2 in September

    With Volume 1 still four weeks away from release, Olive has announced the DVD and Blu-Ray release of Betty Boop - The Essential Collection, Vol. 2. The new collection will contain 12 shorts (below) which are making their DVD & Blu debuts and have been re-mastered in HD from 4K scans of the original negatives and finegrains.

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  • The Fly (Blu-Ray) in September

    Fox has set a September 10th release date for The Fly (Blu-Ray). Released on DVD in 2007 in a special 4-disc set that included the two sequels and a bonus disc, this HD upgrade of the 1958 film includes most of the previous bonus features from that set (below). Experimental scientist Andre Delambre (Davi...

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  • WARNER ARCHIVE: Sugarfoot - Season 1

    Sugarfoot - Season 1 is this week's Warner Archive Collection release. The Will Hutchins series, based on The Boy from Oklahoma (1954) starring Will Rogers Jr., alternated weekly with Cheyenne and featured numerous guest stars as noted in the synopsis below.. This release adds to the total of over 1,100 Warner Archive titles exclusively available for rent at ClassicFlix.com.

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  • CRITERION: The Uninvited, I Married a Witch in October

    Two of our members most requested films have been announced by Criterion on DVD and Blu-Ray: I Married a Witch (1942) and The Uninvited (1944). Both are making their DVD and Blu debuts and come with minimal bonus features (below). Veronica Lake casts a seductive spell as a charmingly vengeful sorceress in this supernatural s...

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  • Bishop's Wife, Best Years of our Lives (Blu-Ray) in November

    Warner has announced a November 5th release date for two of their most prestigious Goldwyn holdings: The Bishop's Wife (Blu-Ray) and The Best Years of Our Lives (Blu-Ray). Each will retail for 9.98, but will be available at ClassicFlix.com for only 5.99.

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  • OLIVE: The Atomic City (Blu-Ray) in September

    Olive has scheduled a September 17th release date for The Atomic City (Blu-Ray). The 1952 thriller stars Gene Barry and was previously released on DVD by Olive in 2011. Nuclear physicist Frank Addison (Gene Barry, The War of the Worlds) and his wife are living every parent's worst nightmare: their son Tommy (Lee Aaker, TV's ...

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  • WARNER ARCHIVE: Andy Hardy, Vol. 2

    Warner has announced the concluding volume of the complete Andy Hardy series collection with the scheduled release of The Andy Hardy Collection, Vol. 2. The 5-disc set, 10-film set will be available here on August 6th and adds to the total of over 1,100 Warner Archive titles exclusively for rent at ClassicFlix.com.

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