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  • KINO: Ox-Bow Incident and Yellow Sky Debut on Blu

    Kino has announced July 12th as the release date for two popular Western titles, both directed by William Wellman, The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) and Yellow Sky (1948) on Blu-ray. Both were previously released on DVD via 20th Century Fox. The Ox-Bow Incident debuted on DVD back in 2003 and will be seeing a brand-new 4K restoration. Yellow Sky is simply transferring to HD. There's no word on if the DVDs will be seeing...

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  • COLUMBIA CLASSICS: Girls' School Arrives on DVD

    Sony's Columbia Classics debuts the Anne Shirley and Ralph Bellamy comedy Girls' School (1938) on DVD for the first time. Girls' School will be available here at ClassicFlix on May 10th. This new DVD adds to the total of over 250 Columbia Classics titles exclusively available for rent at ClassicFlix.com.

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  • Rediscovered: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

    Roscoe Arbuckle is remembered less for his comic artistry than for the 1921 scandal that brought his acting career to an abrupt halt. Arbuckle's films were pulled from U.S. theaters in the crucial year when he, the other reigning male comedy stars, Chaplin, Keaton and Lloyd, were transitioning from shorts to features, becoming a study in frustration and unrealized potential.Roscoe's friends got him directing jobs, and he also wrote gags and complete scenarios for other comics. In ...

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  • FOX ARCHIVES: On the Threshold of Space Debuts on DVD

    Fox's lone Cinema Archive announcement this week is 1956's On the Threshold of Space.  New to DVD and available at ClassicFlix on May 10th, the aviation drama stars Guy Madison, Virginia Leith and in his final performance, John Hodiak, who died of a heart attack at age 41 just prior to the end of shooting. Dean Jagger, Warren Stevens, and the late Martin Milner also appear. Though the film was originally released in an a...

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  • CRITERION: Night and Fog and Carnival of Souls Arrive in July

    Criterion has announced July street dates for Night and Fog (1955) and Carnival of Souls (1962) on both DVD and Blu-Ray. Both are seeing an updated releases from their previous Criterion incarnations. Night and Fog originally dropped on DVD in 2003 from the studio while Carnival of Souls premiered on DVD in 2009. Each is receiving its first release on Blu-Ray. Both Blus and the Night and Fog DVD will be single-disc, while Carnival...

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  • Dark Cinema: The Best Bits of Blondell

    If you are of an age to remember an old Blue Bonnet margarine commercial from the 1960s, you'll know 'everything's better with Blue Bonnet on it.'Well, I apply that same line of thinking to one of my favorite pre-Code actresses: 'Every film's better with Joan Blondell in it.'Blondell appeared in more than 30 features from the pre-Code era including such classics as The Public Enemy (1932), but even in films that weren't classic, Blondell was a shining...

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  • WARNER ARCHIVE: Susan Slept Here on Blu, Plus Forbidden Hollywood & More

    Eight new releases have been announced by Warner as part of their Archive Collection. The tenth installment in Warner Archive's long-running Forbidden Hollywood series arrives, containing five pre-Code titles starring the likes of Barbara Stanwyck and Warren William. This marks the final volume in the long-runnning series which started in 2006 on regular pressed DVD sets. Also included in this week's releases are four films starring Robert Taylor. They are:...

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  • SHOUT: The Defenders - Season One Arriving in July

    Shout! Factory has announced a July 12th release date for The Defenders - Season 1. This marks the debut of the E.G. Marshall and Robert Reed-starring law drama on DVD. The series ran for four seasons between 1961 and 1965. The 9-disc set contains all 32 episodes in the first season. Bonus features are still to be determined. 

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  • WARNER ARCHIVE: Hitchcock's Suspicion on Blu, Eleanor Parker & More

    Four new releases have been announced by Warner as part of their Archive Collection including the arrival of Alfred Hitchcock's Suspicion (1941) on Blu-ray. Included in this week's releases are two films starring Eleanor Parker. They are: The Seventh Sin (1957) - Bill Travers, George Sanders, Jean-Pierre Aumont Valley of the Kings (1954) - Robert Taylor, Victor Jory Also being released is the 19...

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  • WARNER ARCHIVE: Robert Montgomery Leads Latest Wave

    Five new titles have been announced by Warner as part of their Archive Collection. Four out of the five star actor Robert Montgomery. They are: The First Hundred Years (1938) - Virginia Bruce, Warren William, Binnie Barnes, Alan Dinehart, Harry Davenport Haunted Honeymoon (1940) - Constance Cummings, Leslie Banks Piccadilly Jim (1936) - Frank Morgan, Madge Evans, Eric Blore, Billie Burke, Robert Benchley

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