Saturday, February 14, 2009
New DVDs
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Fans of pre-code films should be saving their pennies for the next few weeks. Laura who muses writes that two collections of pre-code dvd's will be released shortly. At the end of March, Warners' Forbidden Hollywood, Vol. 3, will be available and then, on April 7th, Universal will release its own pre-code collection. And there's a British film goodie coming out soon, too.
Warner's set includes movies directed by the marvelous William Wellman. The films are Other Men’s Women (Mary Astor and Richard Toomey), The Purchase Price (Barbara Stanwyck, Lyle Talbot and George Brent), Frisco Jenny (the fabulous Ruth Chatterton), Midnight Mary (written by Anita Loos and starring Loretta Young), Heroes for Sale (Richard Bartlemass) and Wild Boys of the Road (Frankie Darro and Dorothy Coonon who later married William Wellman). Details galore at DVD Times. The films have been remastered of course and there are tons of bonuses included such as "two feature-length documentaries profiling the director, along with new commentaries, original theatrical trailers, vintage Warner Bros. shorts and cartoons of the era."
Universal's set includes the films Merrily We Go To Hell (Fredric March and Sylvia Sidney), Hot Saturday (Cary Grant, 
Randolph Scott and Nancy Carroll), Torch Singer (Claudette Colbert), Search for Beauty (Ida Lupino and Buster Crabbe), The Cheat (Tallulah Bankhead) and Murder At The Vanities (a young and awesome Kitty Carlisle and Victor McLaglen). Details at ClassicFlix. No extras except a short documentary.
British films fans also have cause to rejoice because a collection of three fantastic films made in the 50s is being released at the end of March entitled British Cinema - Renown Pictures Literary Classics Collection (The Pickwick Papers / Tom Brown's Schooldays / Svengali).One feels some alarm at the VCI Video folks' using "renown" in the title instead of "renowned" (nouns used as adjectives being as annoying as nouns used as verbs, cf. "to medal") so I hope the production values are not similarly problematic since aside from that * It looks wonderful.
* Update here.
Warner's set includes movies directed by the marvelous William Wellman. The films are Other Men’s Women (Mary Astor and Richard Toomey), The Purchase Price (Barbara Stanwyck, Lyle Talbot and George Brent), Frisco Jenny (the fabulous Ruth Chatterton), Midnight Mary (written by Anita Loos and starring Loretta Young), Heroes for Sale (Richard Bartlemass) and Wild Boys of the Road (Frankie Darro and Dorothy Coonon who later married William Wellman). Details galore at DVD Times. The films have been remastered of course and there are tons of bonuses included such as "two feature-length documentaries profiling the director, along with new commentaries, original theatrical trailers, vintage Warner Bros. shorts and cartoons of the era."Universal's set includes the films Merrily We Go To Hell (Fredric March and Sylvia Sidney), Hot Saturday (Cary Grant, Randolph Scott and Nancy Carroll), Torch Singer (Claudette Colbert), Search for Beauty (Ida Lupino and Buster Crabbe), The Cheat (Tallulah Bankhead) and Murder At The Vanities (a young and awesome Kitty Carlisle and Victor McLaglen). Details at ClassicFlix. No extras except a short documentary.British films fans also have cause to rejoice because a collection of three fantastic films made in the 50s is being released at the end of March entitled British Cinema - Renown Pictures Literary Classics Collection (The Pickwick Papers / Tom Brown's Schooldays / Svengali).
* Update here.
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I'm happy I could provide the info! I know the first few times I came across the company's name I kept thinking I must be reading it incorrectly.
Best wishes,
Laura
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Laura
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