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  • War & Peace Making Blu-Ray Debut in January

    Audrey Hepburn's popularity shines as bright as ever. After the recent announcement regarding My Fair Lady on 50th Anniversary Blu-Ray, Warner has slated a January 20th release date for Hepburn's 1956 epic War and Peace. Originally released on DVD by Paramount in 2002, this marks the King Vidor directed film's debut on on Blu. Bonus content for this updated edition has not been announced.

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  • WARNER ARCHIVE: Pre-Code Flood in Latest Wave

    Five new-to-DVD releases, all made during the pre-Code era between 1930-1934, have been announced by Warner as part of their Archive Collection including a third volume in their popular Dream Factory shorts series. They are: Classic Shorts from the Dream Factory, Vol. 3 (1933) - Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Curly Howard Five and Ten (1931) - Marion Davies, Leslie Howard The Man Who Played God (1932) - George...

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  • Pre-Code Obsession: Journalistic Pre-Codes

    Next to gold diggers and mustachioed cads, journalism was one of the most popular on-screen professions during the pre-Code era. Fast-talking reporters livened up early sound films, freeing them from the stiff feeling plaguing many pioneering talkies. In movies like Broadway transfer The Front Page (1931), a crackling newsroom comedy, Hollywood seemed to finally understand how to make sound pop. Newspapers were a bigger, more competitive business in those pre-Internet and...

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  • The Best of the Danny Kaye Show Coming in October

    MVD has announced an October 7th street date for The Danny Kaye Show (Best of Collection). The two-disc set will contain 45 musical clips (amounting to six full-length episodes) and parodies from Kaye's popular show which ran from 1963-1967. Special guest appearances include Liza Minnelli, Art Carney, and Rod Serling. The Danny Kaye Show won a Golden Globe for Best TV Show in 1964 and would garner several Emmy nominations - winning four...

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  • FOX CINEMA ARCHIVES: The Lieutenant Wore Skirts in Latest Release

    Fox announced a new entry into their Cinema Archives line, Tom Ewell and Sheree North in The Lieutenant Wore Skirts (1956). Lieutenant will be available here at ClassicFlix on October 14th. This DVD adds to the total of over 200 Cinema Archive titles exclusively available for rent at ClassicFlix.com.

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  • My Fair Lady - 50th Anniversary Edition in December

    Everything is 'loverly' now that Paramount has announced a December 9th release date for the 50th Anniversary of the Audrey Hepburn musical, My Fair Lady on Blu-Ray and DVD. This anniversary edition boasts the recent 4K restortation done on this 1964 classic and includes several bonus features (below), with a few holdovers from the previous edition.

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  • MPI: My Favorite Martian - Season 2 Coming in December

    MPI has scheduled a December 23rd release date for My Favorite Martian - Season 2. The series was originally released by Rhino back in 2004. MPI took up the license and released season three in October of 2012 before circling back and putting out the show's first season this past June. As with the previous two volumes, season two is a 5-disc collection featuring 37 remastered episodes. Debuting in the top ten upon its premiere season,...

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  • WARNER ARCHIVE: Cadre of Westerns in Latest Wave

    Seven new-to-DVD Westerns have been announced by Warner as part of their Archive Collection. They are: Gunfighters of Casa Grande (1964) - Alex Nicol, Jorge Mistral, Dick Bentley, Steve Rowland Gunsmoke in Tucson (1958) - Mark Stevens, Forrest Tucker, Gale Robbins Oregon Passage (1931) - John Ericson, Lola Albright Raton Pass (1951) -  Dennis Morgan, Patricia Neal, Steve Cochran

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  • Silent Cinema: A Week of Silent Swashbucklers

    Why do we love swashbucklers so much? Well, most of all, they are a ton of fun. Adventure, romance, a dash of humor and gorgeous costumes. What more could you wish for a night at the movies? When people talk about swashbucklers, the discussion often centers on the rousing films of Errol Flynn, the slick entertainments from Tyrone Power or movies from Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Burt Lancaster and others. While these Golden Age movies are spectacular, we are going to be heading a littl...

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  • FOX CINEMA ARCHIVES: Song of the Islands Comes to DVD

    Fox quietly announced a new entry into their Cinema Archives line, Betty Grable and Victor Mature in Song of the Islands. Song will be available here at ClassicFlix on October 7th. This DVD adds to the total of over 200 Cinema Archive titles exclusively available for rent at ClassicFlix.com.

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