Archive: 2014

  • Mayberry RFD - Season 1 in April

    Finally making it to DVD, Warner Bros. has scheduled an April 8th street date for Mayberry R.F.D. - The Complete First Season. The much sought-after series will be on standard pressed DVDs with all 26 episodes from Season 1. Bonus features, if any, are unknown. Mayberry R.F.D. (R.F.D stands for 'Rural Free Delivery', a quaint postal d...

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  • OLIVE: Sleep, My Love, Men in War - Standard & Blu in April

    Olive has scheduled an April 15th release date for Sleep, My Love (1948) and Men in War (1957) on both DVD and Blu-Ray. This marks the DVD & Blu debut for Sleep and the Blu bow for Men in War. The great Douglas Sirk (Magnificent Obsession) directed the third and final teaming of Claudette Colbert and Don Ameche, they first ...

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  • Animation Craze: The Convoluted History of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit

    Before there was a mouse in the Walt Disney house, there was a rabbit. A rather unassuming creature-black and white with a rounded, simplistic design masterminded by Disney's brilliant early animator, Ub Iwerks-the hare, dubbed Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, made his debut in theaters in 1927. Oswald's tenure as Disney's first animated star was brief; the studio produced twenty-six Oswald shorts over the course of the next year, before Disney was forced to give up ownership of the character to his dis...

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  • KINO: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920) Gets Upgrade to Blu

    Kino has scheduled a January 28th street date for a Deluxe Edition of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920) on both DVD and Blu-Ray. Previously released by the studio on DVD, this marks Jekyll's Blu debut. Bonus features are not forthcoming but are will likely carry over from the previous release (below). Considered by many to be the first great A...

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  • Silent Cinema: Mack Sennett and the Fun Factory

    I've written previously about the evolution of cinema from the earliest experimental tinkering of the great inventors to the stylistic breakthroughs of D.W. Griffith and Louis Feuillade, a twenty-five year period when movies went from nothing more than a gleam in Louis Le Prince's eye to a world-wide phenomenon playing in a form not all that different from what we still enjoy today. The fastest and most startling evolution in film, though, may well have been in the genre of comedy...

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  • Robert Taylor: Blue-Eyed Handsome Man

    Robert Taylor, a star at MGM for close to a quarter of a century, was one of Hollywood's best-loved actors, popular with moviegoers and colleagues alike. Taylor was born in Nebraska on August 5, 1911. As a young man he was interested in both medicine and music; he ultimately selected music and was headed toward a career as a professional cellist when he followed a favorite professor to Pomona College in California. Once in California, Taylor fell into acting and a career at MGM; ...

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  • The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (Blu-Ray) in February

    20th Century Fox has announced a February 4th release date for The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (Blu-Ray). Bonus features from the DVD are expected to carry over to this new hi-def version. After making her way to China to become a missionary, an English parlor maid (Bergman) wins the heart of a Eurasian colonel (Curt Jurgens) and the r...

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  • WARNER ARCHIVE: Classic Shorts from the Dream Factory, Vol. 2

    Warner's sole Golden Age release from their Archive Collection this week is Classic Shorts from the Dream Factory, Vol. 2. The 3-disc set will contain 36 shorts in all (below) and will be available here at ClassicFlix on December 10th. These new DVDs add to the total of over 1,200 Warner Archive titles exclusively available for rent at ClassicFlix.com.

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  • CRITERION: Alfred Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent (Blu-Ray / DVD Combo) in February

    Criterion has scheduled a February 18th street date for their Blu-Ray / DVD Combo of Alfred Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent (1940). The exciting and fast-paced thriller will come in a 3-disc set with 1 Blu and 2 DVDs with all bonus features (below) contained on both formats. In 1940, Alfred Hitchcock made his official...

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  • The Twilight Zone: The Premiere Episode

    In the November 7, 1959 issue of TV Guide, Rod Serling commented, “Here’s what The Twilight Zone is: It’s an anthology series, half-hour in length, that delves into the odd, the bizarre, the unexpected. It probes into the dimension of imagination but with a concern for taste and for an adult audience too long considered to have I.Q.s in negative figures. The Twilight Zone is what it implies: that shadowy area of the almost-but-not-quite; the unbelievable told in terms that can be believed. Here’...

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