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Warner Archive will release on Blu-ray director John Schlesinger's Far from the Madding Crowd (1967), starring Julie Christie, Peter Finch, Alan Bates, and Terence Stamp. The release will be available for purchase later this year.
Special Features:
Original International Roadshow Version (with Overture, Entr'acte, and Exit Music)
Includes 3 minutes of footage not shown in original domestic theatrical release
Vintage featurette - "LOCATION: FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD" (1080p)
Original Theatrical Trailer
http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=15794
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More sixties films on Blu-ray, always great news.
I suppose the timing is to coincide with the release of the remake (well not really a remake, just another version of the book). It will be interesting to compare the look of both films. The first made in the mid-sixties & released in 1967 (the summer of love), lovely rich colour. I dunno, maybe the new version will be a more sombre affair.
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Warner Archive has announced that it will bring to Blu-ray Lloyd Bacon's 42nd Street (1933), starring Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, and George Brent. Recently restored, the film will be available for purchase on April 21.
Synopsis: Meet a dewy-eyed ingenue, a gee-whiz tenor, stuck-up stars, hard-up producers, brassy blondes and "shady ladies from the 80s." They're all denizens of 42nd Street, belting out ageless Harry Warren/Al Dubin songs and tapping out Busby Berkeley's sensational Depression-lifting production numbers.
The put-on-a-show plot spins merrily, full of snappy banter and new faces Ruby Keeler (her movie debut), Dick Powell and Ginger Rogers. The show-stopping numbers (Shuffle Off to Buffalo, You're Getting to be a Habit with Me and the title tune) still dazzle. Looking and sounding its best in years via this new digital transfer from the restored original camera negative and optical audio tracks, 42nd Street shows that good times never go out of style.
Special Features:
From Book to Screen to Stage (2006 Retrospective documentary)
Hollywood Newsreel (Vintage WB Short Subject)
A Trip Thru a Hollywood Studio (Vintage WB Short Subject)
Harry Warren - America's Foremost Composer (Vintage WB Short Subject)
The 42nd Street Special (Vintage WB Short Subject)
Young and Healthy (Vintage WB 1933 Cartoon)
Shuffle Off to Buffalo (Vintage WB 1933 Cartoon) (1080p HD)
Original Theatrical Trailer
http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=16316
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Warner Archive has confirmed that it will release on Blu-ray Howard Hawks' The Big Sleep (1946), starring Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers, and Bob Steele, and John Huston's Key Largo (1948), starring Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor, and Thomas Gomez. The two releases will be available for purchase later this year.
The Big Sleep
Synopsis: L.A. private eye Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) takes on a blackmail case…and follows a trail peopled with murderers, pornographers, nightclub rogues, the spoiled rich and more. Raymond Chandler's legendary gumshoe solves it in hard-boiled style – and style is what The Big Sleep is all about. Director Howard Hawks serves up snappy character encounters (particularly those of Bogart and Lauren Bacall), brisk pace and atmosphere galore. This Blu-rayTM doubles your pleasure, offering two versions of this whodunit supreme: the familiar 1946 theatrical version, full of reshot scenes of incendiary Bogart/Bacall chemistry, and the less-familiar 1945 prerelease version, as a special feature, whose plot and resolution are more linear in fashion.
Special Features:
Original Theatrical Trailer
Alternate 1945 Pre-release Version with previously unissued introduction by UCLA Film Preservation Officer Robert Gitt
The Big Sleep 1945/1946 Comparisons - Uncut Robert Gitt "Lecture" Version (30 Minutes). Nearly twice the length of the Comparisons feature as seen on DVD.
Optional English, French, Spanish SDH subtitles
Key Largo
Synopsis: A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco (Edward G. Robinson) holes up - and holds at gunpoint hotel owner Nora Temple (Lauren Bacall), her invalid father-in-law (Lionel Barrymore) and ex-GI Frank McCloud (Humphrey Bogart).
McCloud's the one man capable of standing up against the belligerent Rocco. But the postwar world's realities may have taken all the fight out of him. John Huston co-wrote and compellingly directs this film of Maxwell Anderson's 1939 play with a searing Academy Award-winning performance by Claire Trevor as Rocco's gold-hearted, boozy moll. In Huston's hands, it becomes a powerful, sweltering classic.
Special Features:
Original Theatrical Trailer
Optional English, French, Spanish SDH subtitles
http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=18251
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Warner Archive has confirmed that it will release on Blu-ray Alfred Hitchcock's I Confess (1953), starring Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden, O.E. Hasse, and Charles Andre. The release will be available for purchase later this year.
Synopsis: In Alfred Hitchcock's I Confess, Father Michael Logan (Montgomery Clift), apparently a model of clerical piety, hears a killer's confession. Eyewitnesses point to a priest as the murderer and the sacrament of penance forbids Logan to speak out - even in his own defense - when circumstantial evidence targets Logan as the prime suspect!
Academy Award winners Anne Baxter and Karl Malden co-star as a former flame and a police inspector whose attempts to clear Logan only entrap him further. Filmed in Quebec on locations highlighting that city's Old World traditions, I Confess races toward a climax that's unforgettable. And in true Hitchcock fashion, you'll confess to being hooked all the way.
Special Features:
Hitchcock's Confession: A Look at I Confess: Making of Documentary
Premiere Newsreel
Theatrical Trailer
http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=18248
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Warner Archive has announced that it will add tree new titles to its Blu-ray catalog: John Sturges' Bad Day at Black Rock (1955), William A. Wellman's Battleground (1949), and Terence Young's Wait Until Dark (1967).
Bad Day at Black Rock
Folks in Black Rock have their own way of welcoming mysterious, one-armed stranger John J. Macreedy. He's welcome to leave. Or they'll make sure he leaves in a pine box. Two-time Academy Award(r) winner* Spencer Tracy (a 1955 Best Actor Oscar(r) nominee for this film) plays World War II veteran Macreedy, who keeps his own counsel about why he's come to Black Rock and who keeps his wits about him when confronted with threats and violence. Director John Sturges (The Great Escape) ramps up the tension while revealing Macreedy's mission and the town's grim secret. Robert Ryan, Walter Brennan, Ernest Borgnine and Lee Marvin are among the town's thugs and lap dogs. "I'm half horse, half alligator," one says. They'll find Macreedy is even tougher stuff. This timeless classic makes exceptional use of the then-new CinemaScope screen, set to a pulsating musical score by the great Andre Previn.
Special Features:
Audio Commentary Track by film historian Dana Polan
Original Theatrical Trailer
STREET DATE: JANUARY 17
Battleground
December 1944. A civilian victim of the Battle of Bastogne scrounges through garbage to find a scrap of food. "I don't even see those things," a war-numbed GI says. "I want to remember them!" his buddy snaps. Bastogne veteran Robert Pirosh remembers with his Oscar(r)-winning* screenplay for Battleground, a gripping tale of 101st Airborne troops resisting Hitler's fierce, final counter-offensive. Directed by William A. Wellman (The Story of GI Joe), the superb cast includes James Whitmore as a bantam rooster of a Sergeant, and Van Johnson as a wisecracking PFC (as in "Praying for Civilian"). Rugged and unsparing, Battleground - nominated for six Academy Awards(r) including Best Picture - makes sure we all remember.
Special Features:
Classic Tex Avery Cartoon - Little Rural Riding Hood
Classic MGM Pete Smith Specialty - Let's Cogitate
Original Theatrical Trailer
STREET DATE: JANUARY 10.
Wait Until Dark
Now two are left: Susy, recently blinded and still learning how to live in a sighted world, and Roat, a psychopathic killer. Roat wants a heroin-stuffed doll he thinks Susy has. All Susy wants is to survive. Dim the lights, check the door's chain lock, and brace yourself for a chiller as polished as the steel of Roat's blade. Audrey Hepburn earned her fifth Academy Award(r) nomination as Susy. Alan Arkin is pure evil as Roat, master of disguise and accents. Jack Weston and Richard Crenna costar as his henchmen. Building to a heart-pounding one-on-one confrontation, Wait Until Dark belongs to the screen's most memorable thrillers" (David Shipman, The Story of Cinema).
Special Features:
Featurette - Take a Look in the Dark-Alan Arkin and Producer Mel Ferrer Reminisce
About the Making of the Film
Original Theatrical Trailer
"Warning" Teaser Trailer
STREET DATE: JANUARY 27.
http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=20381
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There's a forth, The Bells Are Ringing (1960), quite a busy month for Warner Archive. Last year started off strong, but petered out as the year went on (for me anyway). I'll be buying Battleground & esp Bad Day At Black Rock, I've been banging on about releasing that one on Blu-ray for years.
Warner Archive has added up one more release to its January batch of titles: director Vincente Minnelli's Bells Are Ringing (1960), starring Judy Holliday, Dean Martin, Fred Clark, Eddie Foy, Jr., and Jean Stapleton. The release will be available for purchase on January 31.
Special Features:
Featurette - Bells are Ringing: Just in Time
Outtake Musical Numbers:
Is it a Crime? - Judy Holliday
My Guiding Star - Dean Martin
Alternate Take:
The Midas Touch - Hal Linden & Chorus
Original Theatrical Trailer
http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=20386
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