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May 11, 2023 - 6:01 AM
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johnjohnson
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Warner Archive has announced its June batch of Blu-ray releases. They are: Angel Face (1953), Caged! (1950), The Damned Don't Cry (1950), Dangerous When Wet (1953), Land of the Pharaohs (1955), and The Old Man and the Sea (1958).
Angel Face
Description: Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons star in this film noir thriller about a man trapped in the web of an alluring, deadly, remorseless woman who will stop at nothing to get what she wants and who conceals the evil within behind her beautiful Angel Face. Heiress Diane Tremayne (Simmons) arranges for an ambulance driver to whom she's attracted, Frank Jessup (Mitchum), to be hired as her family's chauffeur. And Diane lures Frank away from his girlfriend even as she becomes increasingly jealous of her stepmother. When Diane's parents die in an automobile accident--and the police find evidence of tampering to the car--Diane and Frank are arrested as prime suspects. After Diane convinces Frank to marry her in jail, the two are both acquitted of murder. Now, as Diane realizes that she may have been able to seduce Frank but cannot make him truly love her, she decides she would rather kill again than lose him...
Special Features and Technical Specs:
NEW 4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM FROM THE BEST PRESERVATION ELEMENTS (2023)
Audio Commentary by Eddie Muller
Original Theatrical Trailer
Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
STREET DATE: JUNE 27.
Caged!
Description: Eleanor Parker delivers an Oscar®-nominated performance as a girl swept into a petty crime--and a life behind bars--in this dramatic and realistic look at the effect that life inside prison has on a young woman. Marie Allen (Parker) becomes hardened by life inside a corrupt and dehumanizing penitentiary ... until she reaches the point that she will do anything to survive the place and the life inside which she is Caged!
Special Features and Technical Specs:
NEW 4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE (2023)
Screen Director's Playhouse Radio broadcast (8/2/51)
Classic Warner Bros. cartoon BIG HOUSE BUNNY
Original Theatrical Trailer
Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
STREET DATE: JUNE 27.
The Damned Don't Cry
Description: Oscar-winner Joan Crawford stars as a woman who uses and abandons men--clawing her way from poverty to wealth and social status--a woman who knows that The Damned Don't Cry! Crawford gives one of her best performances as Ethel Whitehead, an empowered woman who leaves her laborer husband and squalid factory town behind to find a new, better life. She uses a quiet accountant who adores her to meet a rich gangster, learns to carry herself as a socialite and leads a life of wealth and luxury as the kept woman of the mobster. But her ambition doesn't stop there, and she engineers a rivalry between the city's two leading underworld kingpins--a rivalry that will lead to the ruin of everything she has fought to gain.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
NEW 4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE (2023)
Audio Commentary by Director Vincent Sherman
The Crawford Formula - Real and Reel - Fetaurette
Screen Director's Playhouse radio broadcast (4/5/1951)
Original Theatrical Trailer
Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
STREET DATE: JUNE 27.
Dangerous When Wet
Description: Esther Williams and Fernando Lamas star in this musical, romantic aquacade -- Williams as a girl from Arkansas who has vowed to swim the English Channel to raise the money to save her family farm; and Lamas as the rich man who wins her heart and almost blocks her from reaching her goal . . . but who comes to realize that the woman of his dreams is Dangerous When Wet. Featuring a delightful original music score written by Johnny Mercer and Arthur Schwartz, the film is best remembered for Esther's famous swim with M-G-M's beloved animated characters Tom & Jerry.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
NEW 4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM FROM THE ORIGINAL TECHNICOLOR NEGATIVES (2023)
Audio-only interview with Esther Williams and Dick Simmons
"C'est La Guerre "- Unused musical outtake with Darcel and Lamas
Audio-only demo recordings by Lyricist Johnny Mercer
Classic Tom & Jerry cartoon "THE CAT AND THE MERMOUSE" (HD)
Classic Pete Smith Specialty short "THIS IS A LIVING?"
Original Theatrical Trailer
Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
STREET DATE: JUNE 27.
Land of the Pharaohs
Description: Director Howard Hawks, who worked brilliantly in virtually every genre, shows his mastery of the large-scale epic with this gigantic production filmed on location in Egypt. Thousands of extras (9,787 in one scene alone!), magnificently detailed sets (including the pyramid's inner labyrinth, booby-trapped so no one can learn its secrets and live) and vast desert vistas fill the screen and astonish the eye. There are also human-scaled stories. Of the Pharaoh (Jack Hawkins) who orders the pyramid as his tomb, dooming untold numbers to unending toil. Of the architect (James Robertson Justice) designing it to earn his people's freedom. Of the slaves constructing it of blood and sinew. And a beautiful queen (Joan Collins) whose greed leads to murder- and a stunning revenge!
Special Features and Technical Specs:
NEW 4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE (2023)
Audio Commentary by Director Peter Bogdanovich (with archival interview comments by Howard Hawks)
Classic Warner Bros. Cartoon SAHARA HARE (HD)
Original Theatrical Trailer
Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
STREET DATE: JUNE 27.
The Old Man and the Sea
Description: Ernest Hemingway's choice for the lead in the film version of his "The Old Man and the Sea" was the right one: Spencer Tracy's performance brought him the sixth of his nine Academy Award® nominations, and the film won the National Board of Review's 1958 Best Picture and Best Actor awards. Alone in a small skiff, an aging Cuban fisherman catches a huge marlin - and must defy the sea, marauding sharks, and his own flagging strength to bring his great catch home. Beautifully filmed in part on sun-drenched Cuban locales by master director John Sturges, and graced by Dimitri Tiomkin's Oscar® winning score, "The Old Man and the Sea" is a colorful cinematic ode to the indomitability of the human spirit.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
NEW 4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE (2023)
"Hemingway: The Legend and the Sea" - behind the scenes featurette
Original Theatrical Trailer
Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
STREET DATE: JUNE 27.
https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=32591
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July Announcements are up on Home Theater Forum:
The Broadway Melody (1929)
Cimarron (1931)
DuBarry Was a Lady
The Last Time I Saw Paris
The Fastest Gun Alive
And, as expected,
Helen of Troy
Probably just Helen for me.
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August titles are up, with an Extras podcast on the titles later tonight:
Little Women (1933)
The Life of Emile Zola
Father’s Little Dividend
Wichita
Gay Purr-ee
Spinout
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September announcements are up on the Archive’s Facebook page:
Christopher Strong
Saratoga
Westward the Women
Cats Don’t Dance
Palmetto
Before Night Falls
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October announcements are up:
Dance, Fools, Dance
The Devil Doll
Double Trouble
Rapa Nui
In Love and War
Mad City
Also, Looney Tunes Collector’s Choice: Volume 2 will be out on November 28th.
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October announcements are up:
Dance, Fools, Dance
The Devil Doll
Double Trouble
Rapa Nui
In Love and War
Mad City
Also, Looney Tunes Collector’s Choice: Volume 2 will be out on November 28th.
Just got LTCC Vol. 1 in the mail yesterday!
Well, per the below podcast about this month’s announcements, there will also be a third volume to look forward to at some point in the future.
https://theextras.buzzsprout.com/1781599/13614376-warner-archive-october-release-announcement
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No November releases apart from Looney Tunes apparently, but for December, we’ll be getting the following per Home Theatre Forum:
Anna Christie (includes the alternate German version)
Tarzan, the Ape Man (1932)
The Great Ziegfeld
Gentleman Jim
Madame Bovary
A Midwinter’s Dream
Saving Grace
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