Archive: May 2014

  • FOX ARCHIVES: Forever Amber & More in Leading Ladies Wave

    Four new-to-DVD titles, all with strong leading ladies, have been announced by Fox as part of their Cinema Archives line. Forever Amber (1947) - Linda Darnell, Cornel Wilde, Richard Greene, George Sanders, Glenn Langan, Richard Haydn, Jessica Tandy Good Morning, Miss Dove (1955) - Jennifer Jones, Robert Stack, Kipp Hamilton, Marshall Thompson, Chuck Connors Kentucky (1938) - Loretta Young, Richard Greene, W...

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  • WARNER ARCHIVE: Show Boat (1936) & Maverick - Season 5

    The long-awaited release of the 1936 version of Show Boat is finally coming from Warner and is one of two classic titles announced this week from their Archive Collection. The other is the Fifth and Final Season of Maverick which consists of 13 episodes on 3 discs. Both will be available here at ClassicFlix on May 20th. These new DVDs add to the total of over 1,200 Warner Archive titles exclusively available for rent a...

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  • WARNER ARCHIVE: Hit the Deck (Blu), Ann Sothern & More!

    Musicals and romantic comedies are in the spotlight this week from Warner's Archive Collection. Hit the Deck (Blu-Ray) headlines this wave and stars Jane Powell, Tony Martin, Debbie Reynolds, Vic Damone, Russ Tamblyn, Ann Miller, Gene Raymond, Walter Pidgeon, J. Carrol Naish, Richard Anderson and Jane Darwell. A couple of double features are also part of the mix with Ann Sothern and Gene Raymond starring in She's Got Everything / The Smartest Girl in Tow...

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  • The Casting Trampoline Part II: Might-Have-Beens (1940-1960)

    Here is a second selection of casting tales from Hollywood history. As before, the caveat holds that much of what passes as Hollywood history is gossip, and when it comes to casting deals, the story may be clouded by hearsay, whimsy, and star egos. Film buffs love these stories; we play the altered movies in our heads. Who has not loved Olivia De Havilland as Melanie, the decent, nurturing...

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  • FLICKER BLU: Chaplin Mutuals & Sennett Collection in August

    Flicker Alley has announced two releases with an August 5th street date: Chaplin Mutual Comedies (Blu-Ray / DVD) - Steelbook and The Mack Sennett Collection, Vol. 1 (Blu-Ray). The Chaplin set will be a 5-disc combo pack with 3 DVDs and 2 Blu-Ray's and will come in a limited edition steelbook. The Sennett Collection will be a 3-disc Blu-Ray set only. Bonus features (below) abound.

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  • FOX ARCHIVES: Three Romantic Comedies

    Romantic comedies are the theme for Fox's Cinema Archives line this week as they have announced: Marry the Boss's Daughter (1941) - Brenda Joyce, Bruce Edwards Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! (1948) - June Haver, Lon McCallister, Walter Brennan, Anne Revere, Natalie Wood That Other Woman (1942) - Virginia Gilmore, James Ellison, Dan Duryea, Janis Carter, Alma Kruger, Lon McCallister All three are...

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  • WARNER ARCHIVES: Mickey Rooney, Fay Wray and More in Wave of B's

    B's, all with well-known stars and different genres, are the theme for this week's Warner Archive Collection releases. They are: A Slight Case of Larceny (1953) - Mickey Rooney, Eddie Bracken, Elaine Stewart Race Street (1948) - George Raft, William Bendix, Marilyn Maxwell, Frank Faylen, Harry Morgan Sky Full of Moon (1952) - Carleton Carpenter, Jan Sterling, Keenan Wynn, Robert Burton, Elaine Stewart

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  • Animation Craze: Lotte Reiniger

    More than a decade before Snow White first flitted across the screen in Walt Disney’s seminal feature-length animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), a young woman in Germany produced her own animated feature. Rather than hand-drawn animated cels, however, this woman’s film was made with silhouettes, using a technique that she herself had devised that allowed for seamless movement onscreen. The film, featuring hand-tinted frames in glorious, full-blown color, took the...

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  • TIMELESS: The Big Valley - Season 3 -- 3 DAY SPECIAL PRICE

    Hot off last week's release of the much anticipated and highly popular Season 2, Timeless Media Group has announced The Big Valley - Season 3 for release on July 8th. The 6-disc set will retail for 4.93 (slightly higher than Season 2, but still more than reasonable) and is available here at ClassicFlix for only 4.99. However, for three days only (until Thursday April 17th), we'll have it for the special pre-order price of

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  • Silent Cinema: Little Mary Takes Charge

    Known as 'America's Sweetheart,' Mary Pickford was actually Canadian, born Gladys Marie Smith in Toronto in 1892. Shortly after the death of her alcoholic father, the seven year old Gladys hit the stage, and along with her brother and sister, began to tour Canada and the United States regularly as part of a series of low-rent theater troupes. Hoping to become a Broadway actress, Smith moved to New York in 1906 and cha...

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