Archive: 2015

  • TIMELESS: Zane Grey Theatre - Season 3 Arrives in December

    Timeless Media continues its plans to release the remaining seasons of the Western anthology series, Zane Grey Theatre and has announced that season three will be available December 2nd, coming hot on the heels of season two which arrives September 30th. The television show, running from 1956-1961 featured a cadre of A-list guest stars including Barbara Stanwyck, David Niven, and Walter Brennan.

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  • KINO: Restored Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Coming in November

    Kino has announced a November 18th release date for the 4K restoration of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Robert Wiene's 1919 horror film has been on DVD in several different incarnations since the early 2000's. Kino's updated version marks the first time it will be available on Blu-Ray. Several new bonus features have been announced for this upcoming restoration including a new 27-minute documentary, an updated musical score, and essay booklet.

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  • FOX CINEMA ARCHIVES: Two Comedies in Latest Release

    Two comedies, new to DVD, have been announced by Fox as part of their Cinema Archives line. Molly and Me (1945) -  Gracie Fields, Monty Woolley, Roddy McDowall, Reginald Gardiner Straight, Place and Show (1938) -  Al Ritz, Jimmy Ritz, Harry Ritz, Richard Arlen, Ethel Merman All will be available here at ClassicFlix on September 30th. These DVDs add to the total of over 200 Ci...

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  • Gunsmoke - Season 11 Coming in Two Volumes

    Paramount is getting back in the saddle with Marshal Dillon, announcing a December 2nd street date for volumes one and two of Gunsmoke, Season 11. The studio's been rather consistent with their releases of the Emmy Award winning series; most recently season 10 debuted in August. Bonus content and a complete episode listing are forthcoming.

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  • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Debuts on Blu

    Sony has announced a December 2nd street date for the Blu-Ray debut of Frank Capra's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington in honor of its 75th-anniversary. This release comes hot on the heels of Criterion's announcement of It Happened One Night, another Capra classic, coming to both Blu-Ray and DVD November 18th.  The bonus content for Mr. Smith looks to be carried over from its previous release, as part of the Frank Capra Col...

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  • TV TIME: Are You Ready For Some Football?

    Football dominates the television landscape today, and its biggest games fill up lists of the most watched broadcasts of all time. Yet in the classic era of TV, football steadily gained popularity while baseball remained the national pastime. Witness Herman the Rookie, a classic episode of The Munsters in which Herman Munster tries out for the Los Angeles Dodgers. By the end, Herman is playing football with Eddie, and he draws interest from the general manag...

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  • The Phil Silvers Show - The Complete Series Coming in November

    Head into Fort Baxter with all 142-episodes of The Phil Silvers Show! Shout Factory has just announced a November 4th street date for Sgt. Bilko - The Phil Silvers Show (The Complete Series). This is the first time the series has been put into one box set. Paramount put out a 50th-anniversary, 3-disc set in 2006, while season one was put out in 2010. Bonus content for this new series is included below. Currently, this is a buy-only prod...

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  • The Old Corral: The Durango Kid

    In 1940, Columbia Pictures' B unit released a typically unassuming Western called The Durango Kid. Directed by Lambert Hillyer, it starred a Dartmouth College football star turned Columbia contract player, Charles Starrett, along with Luana Walters and Kenneth MacDonald. At the time, that was pretty much it, just another B Western from Columbia. Five years later, Columbia returned to the character (or at least the name), changed things around, and came up with The Ret...

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  • COLUMBIA CLASSICS: Two Diverse Dramas in Latest Wave

    Two new-to-DVD classics are on their way from Sony's Columbia Classics line. They are: Run Wild, Run Free (1969) - John Mills, Mark Lester, Gordon Jackson, Fiona Fullerton Vanity Street (1932) - Charles Bickford, Helen Chandler, Mayo Methot, George Meeker, Arthur Hoyt Both will be available here at ClassicFlix on October 14th. These new DVDs add to the total of over 200 Columbia Classics&nbsp...

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  • 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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