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  • Hollywood's Great Voices Part II: The Women

    Lights of New York was the first '100% talking' feature, arriving in midsummer 1928 in theaters wired for sound. In the space of the following year, every Hollywood studio created a sound department and began releasing talkies.The microphone did not simply add live sound; it dictated camera work, forced the creation of the modern screenplay, and called on film actors to project their personalities in dramatic speech. This piece surveys the accomplishments of actresses in ...

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  • ARTWORK ADDED: Doris Day and Rock Hudson Romantic Comedies Collection

    --ARTWORK ADDED TO PREVIOUS ANNOUNCEMENT-- ORIGINAL ANNOUNCEMENT Doris Day and Rock Hudson Comedies Arrive on Blu in April...

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  • COLUMBIA CLASSICS: Triple Threat Arrives on DVD

    Sony's Columbia Classics debuts the Richard Crane football drama Triple Threat (1948) on DVD for the first time. Triple Threat will be available here at ClassicFlix on February 23rd. This new DVD adds to the total of over 250 Columbia Classics titles exclusively available for rent at ClassicFlix.com.

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  • Five New-to-DVD in Cary Grant Vault Collection -- 3 Day Special Price

    Five titles will be making their DVD debut in the upcoming Cary Grant: The Vault Collection being released by Universal on April 19th. This six-disc set features 18 of Grant's films made between 1932-1936 with five titles bowing on digital format for the first time: Madame Butterfly (1932), The Woman Accused (1933), Ladies Should Listen (1934), Enter Madame (1935) and Gambling Ship (1933) - while t...

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  • Ten Valentines for Your Valentine's Day

    Valentine's Day is just around the corner and below are ten suggestions of favorite romantic films that have just the thing to chase away the winter doldrums.The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926) - Ronald Colman and Gary Cooper both love Vilma Banky in this well-told Western romance. This silent movie is a visual masterpiece, with scenes tinted in amber, blue, and red, and there's an exciting flood sequence as well. This is a great film for those uncertain about wat...

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  • Doris Day and Rock Hudson Comedies Arrive on Blu in April

    Love is in the air as Universal announces April 19th for the release of the Doris Day and Rock Hudson Romantic Comedies Collection on Blu-Ray. The three disc set will include Pillow Talk (1959), Lover Come Back (1962) and Send Me No Flowers (1964). Both Lover and Send Me are making their debut on Blu while Pillow Talk previously came out in conjunction with Universal's centennial in 2012....

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  • Beverly Hillbillies - Season 1 Arrives in April

    Paramount announced the arrival of The Beverly Hillbillies - Season 1 on DVD April 26th. The studio has titled this release the 'official' first season so as to distinguish the set from the many public domain releases of the popular rural comedy's first season. Paramount released Season Two in 2008, Season Three in 2009 and Season Four in 2014. 

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  • WARNER ARCHIVE: Bogie and Bacall on Blu, Plus Hedy Lamarr & George O'Brien

    Five new releases have been announced by Warner as part of their Archive Collection. The Big Sleep (1946) and Key Largo (1948), the legendary films noirs starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall arrive on Blu-Ray for the first time. The Big Sleep will include the little-seen 1945 prerelease version of the film as a bonus feature. Also included in this week's releases are two films starring the beautiful Hedy Lamarr. They are: ...

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  • OLIVE: Try and Get Me! Debuts on Blu in April

    Olive has announced the debut of Cy Endfield's Try and Get Me! (also known as The Sound of Fury) on both DVD and Blu-Ray in April. The 1950 film noir boasts a diverse cast that includes Frank Lovejoy, Richard Carlson and Lloyd Bridges. Try and Get Me! will be available April 19th.

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  • Silent Cinema: American Epics - Silent Film on a Large Scale

    We are right in the middle of an age of epics with the biggest films involving superheroes, spaceships and worlds in the balance. There were other ages of epics, of course, most notably the biblical epics of the 1950s and 1960s, but the Hollywood silent movie epic is a special breed with real sets, real casts of thousands and, in some case, real danger. Yes, later films did sometimes have these elements but there is a lovely grit and opulence to the silent versions.Let's talk abou...

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