Archive: September 2014

  • Joan Crawford: Film Noir's Grand Dame

    Over the course of her decades-long career, Joan Crawford would inhabit and shed many different personas. In her silent days, she was the sassy, Charleston stomping flapper girl. When life got gritty during the Depression, she charmed audiences as an ambitious working girl always striving for a life of glamour. By the forties, when her hairstyles coiled higher and shinier and shoulder pads loomed over her tiny frame, she fell into a strange hodgepodge of so-called women's pictures, and suspen...

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  • ARTWORK ADDED: Man of the West and Pocketful of Miracles

    --ARTWORK ADDED TO PREVIOUS ANNOUNCEMENT-- ORIGINAL ANNOUNCEMENT KINO: Man of...

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  • White Christmas - Diamond Edition in October

    I'm dreaming of a White Christmas...in October! Paramount has announced an October 14th release date for the 60th Anniversary Diamond Edition of the Bing Crosby Christmas musical, White Christmas. The 1954 film was originally pressed to DVD in 2004 before receiving an Anniversary Edition DVD and Blu-Ray in 2009. This latest Diamond Edition includes several bonus features (below), although quite a few are holdovers from the previous Anniversary edition. ...

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  • KINO: Man of the West and Pocketful of Miracles

    Kino's new off-shoot label KL Studio Classics has announced November street dates for Gary Cooper's Man of the West (November 4th) and Bette Davis' Pocketful of Miracles (November 18th).  Both have been out of print since their previous DVD releases. Pocketful was released on DVD in 2001 while Man of the West was put out in 2008. Each will receive a remastered DVD as well as debut on Blu-Ray. Bonus conten...

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  • Daniel Boone - The Complete Series Available in September

    Go into the West with all 165-episodes of Daniel Boone! 20th Century Fox has just announced a September 23rd street date for Daniel Boone - The Complete Series. This is the first time all six seasons of the series have been put into one box set. Individual seasons were put out via Goldhill Home Media back in 2006. Bonus content isn't likely. Since single seasons will not be made available from Fox, we will continue to carry old versions of the s...

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  • The Real McCoys Seasons 3 - 6 Now Available

    SFM Entertainment has released seasons three through six of the popular 1950s TV series, The Real McCoys. Seasons one through four have been previously released but have since gone out of print. This marks the first time the final two seasons have been available on DVD. There's no definitive date on reissues of seasons one and two, but they are expected. The Real McCoys ran from 1957 to 1962 and sparked a frenzy for shows about rural life, generating imitations...

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  • Thin Man-Esque Mr. and Mrs. North Now Available

    Recently added and now available to rent and buy is the 1950s mystery series, Mr. and Mrs. North. Synergy Entertainment's release boasts a nearly complete collection of the mystery series with fifty episodes (of 57) over four pressed discs. Running for two seasons from 1952-1954, Mr. and Mrs. North is akin to the Thin Man with a husband and wife team solving capers before the police. Also available from Film Chest (Synergy's sister compa...

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  • FLICKER CINERAMA: Seven Wonders and Search for Paradise (3-DAY SPECIAL PRICE)

    Twelve months since their last Cinerama releases, Cinerama Holiday and South Seas Adventure, Flicker Alley continues their quest to make Cinerama available on home video with the release of Cinerama's Seven Wonders of the World and Search for Paradise. Both titles are being released in Blu-Ray / DVD Combo packs and each release has its own bonus content (below). Both will be available here at ClassicFlix on November 11th for onl...

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  • Classics 101: Bad Films Gone Good - A Stroll Down Poverty Row

    Roger Corman: 'My work in low-budget exploitation films would eventually earn me some notoriety as 'The King of the B's', which is ironic ... I never made a B movie in my life. The B movie dated from the Depression and was a phenomenon only up through the early 1950s... Bs had died out by the time I began directing. The term was never used in connection with any of my films within the industry, where the precise meaning of the term was always known.' You may well be askin...

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  • WARNER ARCHIVE: The Great Race and Fourth Volume of Bowery Boys in Latest Wave

    Warner has announced two new releases as part of their Archive Collection. The first is the Blake Edwards classic The Great Race (Blu-Ray). This marks Blu debut of the 1965 comedy since it was originally released on DVD in 2002. The second Warner release this week is the long-awaited fourth and final volume of The Bowery Boys containing the last twelve films in the series. Also coming is The Adventures of Marco Polo, originally r...

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