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  • Hitchcock: The Nooks and Crannies

    As a twelve-year-old in the mid-60's, I watched whatever vintage films the networks aired (these were mostly from the mid-50's on up) and whatever aired on the matinee movie on Cleveland's local stations. Alfred Hitchcock was my favorite director. Back then, station libraries had very few films predating WWII, and for years Saboteur (1942) was the earliest Hitchcock I knew. I watched it whenever it ran, if I didn't have to be in school, and after repeated viewings I anticipated spec...

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  • OLIVE: Dragonfly Squadron Coming to DVD & Blu in October

    Olive Films has announced an October 14th release date for the debut of 1954's Dragonfly Squad to Blu-Ray and DVD. Out of circulation for several years, audiences were forced to purchase expensive VHS copies before now. The studio also plans on including both the 2D and original 3D versions of the feature on the Blu-Ray disc.

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  • FOX CINEMA ARCHIVES: Affairs of Cellini & More for August

    Constance Bennett and Fredric March's 1934 historical romance, The Affairs of Cellini, premieres on DVD as part of Fox's Cinema Archives line. Alongside The Affairs of Cellini Fox is releasing Everything Happens at Night (1939) starring figure skater turned actress Sonia Henie and Ray Milland, as well as Five of a Kind (1938), an adventure starring Canada's famed Dionne Quintuplets. All will be available here ...

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  • WARNER ARCHIVE: Film Noir the Theme of Recent Releases

    Four new-to-DVD films noir are on their way from Warner's Archive Collection. They are: Below the Deadline (1946) - Warren Douglas, Ramsay Ames, Jan Wiley The Hunted (1948) - Preston Foster, Belita Incident (1949) - Warren Douglas, Jane Frazee, Robert Osterloh, Joyce Compton, Anthony Caruso Stage Struck (1948) - Kane Richmond, Audrey Long, Conrad Nagel Artwork is coming so...

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  • Carole Lombard: Screwball Comedienne

    January 16th, 2014, marked the 72nd anniversary of actress Carole Lombard's tragically early death in the crash of TWA Flight 3. Lombard was on a highly successful war bonds drive just weeks after Pearl Harbor when her plane crashed outside Las Vegas, Nevada, killing all 22 people on board. Details of Lombard's life and the ill-fated flight have been chronicled in Robert Matzen's outstanding new book Fireball. On the flight's anniversary I attended a lecture...

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  • COLUMBIA CLASSICS: Four Diverse Titles Planned for August

    Four new-to-DVD classics are on their way from Sony's Columbia Classics line. They are: The Big Boss (1941) - Otto Kruger, Gloria Dickson, John Litel, Don Beddoe Cafe Hostess (1940) - Preston Foster, Ann Dvorak, Douglas Fowley East of Fifth Avenue (1933) - Wallace Ford, Dorothy Tree, Mary Carlisle, Walter Connolly The Tiger Makes Out (1967) - Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson, Bob Dis...

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  • Silent Cinema: Buster Keaton, Part One (The Roscoe Arbuckle Years, 1917-1920)

    Of all the developments that made 1917 such a landmark year in film - the industry-wide adoption of what is now known as 'classical continuity editing,' Mary Pickford's emergence as the most powerful woman in Hollywood history, Charlie Chaplin

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  • Christmas Comes Early With Holiday Inn on Blu

    Universal has announced an October 7th street date for the 1942 Christmas classic, Holiday Inn on Blu-Ray. The Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire comedy was last released on special edition DVD in 2006, and has been included on several Bing Crosby sets. All bonus content from the previous DVD release is carrying over to Blu, including the colorized and original black and white versions of the film (below). Final artwork hasn't been revealed. BO...

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  • CRITERION: My Darling Clementine Premiering on Blu

    Criterion has announced an October 14th street date for the 1946 Western, My Darling Clementine, on a newly restored DVD (2-disc) and Blu-Ray. The John Ford classic was released on DVD by 20th Century Fox a decade ago, then as part of several box sets including Ford at Fox, The Essential John Ford collection in 2007 and last year's Henry Fonda Set. A few fascinating bonus features are planned to accompany the sets including th...

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  • FOX CINEMA ARCHIVES: Two B Comedies New to DVD

    Two B comedies have been announced by Fox as part of their Cinema Archives line. The first is Colonel Effingham's Raid (1945), a war-era comedy starring  Charles Coburn and Joan Bennett. The second is another entry in the Jones Family series Down on the Farm (1939) starring Jed Prouty, and Spring Byington. All will be available here at ClassicFlix on July 29th. These DVDs add to the total o...

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