Archive: 2015

  • 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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  • FOX ARCHIVES: Footlight Serenade & The Pleasure Seekers

    Two more this week from Fox's Cinema Archives line: Footlight Serenade (1942) - John Payne, Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Jane Wyman, James Gleason, Phil Silvers The Pleasure Seekers (1964) - Ann-Margret, Anthony Franciosa, Brian Keith, Carol Lynley, Gardner McKay, Pamela Tiffin, Gene Tierney Both are available here at ClassicFlix on A...

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  • COLUMBIA CLASSICS: Four More in Latest Wave

    A hodgepodge mix of four new-to-DVD classics are on their way from Sony's Columbia Classics line. They are: Bait (1954) - Cleo Moore, Hugo Haas, John Agar The Devil's Playground (1937) - Richard Dix, Dolores del Rio, Chester Morris, Ward Bond Lightning Guns (1950) - Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnette, Gloria Henry Too Tough to Kill (1935) - Victor Jory, Sally O'Neil, Johnny Art...

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  • TIMELESS: Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre - Season 2 in September

    Timeless Media has announced Zane Grey Theatre - Season 2 for release on September 30th. A perfect fit for Timeless Media and their TV Western dominance, the anthology series has been in DVD limbo since VCI released Season 1 back in 2009. But with its popularity with classic Western fans, not to mention great guest stars, subsequent seasons were not likely to remain unavailable indefinitely. The 4-disc set will contain all of the ...

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  • Classics 101: A Primer on Serials Part I

    Difficult for us to appreciate these days, but once upon a time, there was a movie theatre in most every neighborhood and the films changed three times a week; you could go to the same theatre on Monday, Thursday and Saturday and see a completely different show, with a feature, newsreel, cartoon and various entertaining or educational short subjects. As a way of keeping audiences coming back (“I loved tonight’s Louise Fazenda movie but that Lupino Lane picture th...

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  • TV Time: Timeless Media Hidden Gems

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