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  • WARNER ARCHIVE: Kay Francis Latest Wave's Leading Lady

    Five new-to-DVD releases have been announced by Warner as part of their Archive Collection. Kay Francis stars in four. They are: Confession (1937) - Ian Hunter, Basil Rathbone The Feminine Touch (1941) - Rosalind Russell, Don Ameche, Van Heflin, Donald Meek I Found Stella Parish (1935) - Ian Hunter, Paul Lukas, Sybil Jason The White Angel (1936) - Ian Hunter, Donald Woods, N...

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  • My Fair Lady 50th Anniversary Edition Available in October

    Paramount has announced October 27th as the new release date for their 50th Anniversary Edition of My Fair Lady (1964). Originally announced last September for a December 2014 release, the studio pushed the film back almost a year for various unconfirmed reasons including possible additions to the bonus content - none of which looks to have been changed - and talks of a theatrical rerelease. This edition will boast a new 4K restoration as w...

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  • The Old Corral: Joining The Royal Canadian Mounted Police

    I'm very happy to see VCI releasing the four seldom seen 40-45 minute 'streamliner' Westerns released by Screen Guild/Lippert in 1946-1947 as part of their Royal Canadian Mounted Police series. All four starred former Hopalong Cassidy sidekick, Russell Hayden.In 1945 Robert L. Lippert, a West Coast theatre chain owner, formed Action Pictures and released three low budget features filmed in Cinecolor. These films eventually saw release through Screen Guild, a new ...

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  • 5-Disc W.C. Fields Collection in October

    Universal will release a five-disc W.C. Fields Comedy Essentials Collection on October 13th. The only feature making its DVD debut is Fields' 1932 comedy If I Had a Million, boasting A-list talent including Gary Cooper and Charles Laughton. The remaining seventeen titles included have all been previously released. The title will retail for 9.98 and is available here at ClassicFlix for only 4.99.

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  • WARNER ARCHIVE: John Gilbert Latest Wave's Leading Man

    Four new-to-DVD releases have been announced by Warner as part of their Archive Collection. John Gilbert, the acclaimed silent star whose career allegedly ended when he started talking, stars in all four. They are: Gentleman's Fate (1931) - John Gilbert, Leila Hyams, Louis Wolheim, Anita Page, Marie Prevost The Phantom of Paris (1931) - John Gilbert, Leila Hyams, Lewis Stone, Jean Hersholt, C. Aubrey Smith Re...

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  • Mary Martin's Peter Pan Debuts on DVD and Blu-Ray

    Video Artists Int'l has announced August 25th as the release date for the television adaptation of Mary Martin's Peter Pan. Out of print since the late-1990s this marks the first time the 1955/1956 NBC telecasts of the Broadway musical will be released in HD. Both versions will contain the 1956 performance, while the 1955 staging with the same cast is a Blu-Ray exclusive. Bonus features on the Blu-ray will include an interview with Martin's daugh...

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  • Classics 101: Klassics for Kids

    Classic movie fans aren't born (unfortunately); they're made, either by those of us lucky enough to discover Turner Classic Movies or another similar channel (are there any others left?) that programs films older than Home Alone for the kids, or though the love and encouragement of caring parents who understand that vintage cinema is as rich a part of our heritage as great novels. You read to your kids (don't you?) so why not sit down with them to enjoy classic films as well? Sure, y...

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  • COLUMBIA CLASSICS: The Deadline Arrives on DVD

    Sony's Columbia Classics debuts the Buck Jones Western The Deadline (1931) on DVD for the first time. The Deadline will be available here at ClassicFlix on August 25th. This new DVD adds to the total of over 250 Columbia Classics titles exclusively available for rent at ClassicFlix.com.

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  • KINO: Phantom of the Opera Comes Back into Print and Blu

    Kino has announced the release of four titles this October. October 13th: The Phantom of the Opera (1925) - Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry October 20th: Diary of a Lost Girl (1929) - Louise Brooks, Fritz Rasp, Vera Pawlowa October 27th: I Want to Live! (1958) - Susan Hayward, Simon Oakland, Virginia Vincent, Theodore Bik...

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  • Dark Cinema: Noirs You Should Know

    Double Indemnity. Laura.Out of the Past. The Postman Always Rings Twice. Gilda.Features such as these can almost always be found on 'best of' lists for film noir, and I'd venture to say most film lovers (even those who aren't noir devotees) have seen each of them at least once.But what of the great noirs that are unheralded and, all too often, unseen? There are countless first-rate pictures from this dark and shadowy era tha...

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