WARNER ARCHIVE 4-FILM COLLECTIONS
GARY COOPER - 4 FILM COLLECTION (1941-1959)
ELIZABETH TAYLOR - 4 FILM COLLECTION (1950-1967)
CLARK GABLE - 4 FILM COLLECTION (1935-1939)
Arriving June 10th from Warner Archive we are getting three 4-film collection highlighting the iconic work of Hollywood screen legends Gary Cooper, Elizabeth Taylor and Clark Gable. These have all previously been issued on Blu-ray a single release edition from Warner Archive, and these are merely repackaged with the same great transfers and extras as the previous releases, and are great budget-minded, and space-saving editions for movie-lovers. Each set arrives in an oversized keepcase with flipper trays housing the individual discs, the artwork for each collection featuring a collage of the original artworks. I think these would make terrific Christmas gifts for your classic cinema loving friends and family, and they are available for pre-order from all major online retailers, including Amazon, MovieZyng and Physical Media Land - I have provided links below!
4-Disc Blu-ray Set
One of Hollywood's greatest leading men in four of his greatest performances. His Oscar-winning portrayal of war hero SERGEANT YORK, his thoughtful performance as a Quaker father in FRIENDLY PERSUASION, his serio-comic turn as Audrey Hepburn's love interest in LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON, and in one of his last roles, in the Western classic THE HANGING TREE.
Label: Warner Archive
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 134 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 Dual-Mono with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Fullscreen (1.37:1)
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Gary Cooper, Joan Leslie, Walter Brennan, Dorothy McGuire, Anthony Perkins, Audrey Hepburn, Maria Schell
Synopsis: Torn between religious pacifism and patriotism, Alvin York of Tennessee went on to become World War I's most acclaimed hero. As the simple backwoods farm boy who captured 132 German soldiers during the Battle of Argonne, Gary Cooper (handpicked by York) also won acclaim -- and his first Best Actor Academy Award . Released in 1941 when the United States was on the brink of another war, this stirring adventure inspired thousands of enlisting men. Nominated for a total of 11 Oscars including Best Picture, a winner for Best Film Editing and movingly directed by Howard Hawks, it tells of a religious man's moral crisis, heroics and subsequent return to the rural life he loved while refusing to capitalize on the adulation heaped upon him. An ode to patriotism and the human spirit, Sergeant York endures as one of Hollywood's finest hours.
Special Features:
- Audio Commentary with Jeanine Basinger, film historian and the founder and curator of Wesleyan University's Cinema Archives
- Theatrical Re-issue Trailer (2:01)
- Lions for Sale (9:00)
- Porky's Preview (6:50)
- Sergeant York: Of God and Country (38:59)
Label: Warner Archive
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 137 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 Dual-Mono with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Fullscreen (1.37:1)
Director: William Wyler
Cast: Gary Cooper, Joan Leslie, Walter Brennan, Dorothy McGuire, Anthony Perkins, Audrey Hepburn, Maria Schell
Synopsis: For two years the Civil War has been elsewhere. Now Confederate forces are nearby, looting and burning. It's time to fight back, Jess Birdwell's neighbors insist. Yet Birdwell, a Quaker, knows there must be a better way to settle things. In a role ideally suiting his stalwart persona, Gary Cooper plays Jess in William Wyler's beloved and acclaimed film of Jessamyn West's novel Friendly Persuasion. The film earned six Academy Award nominations. including Best Picture. Leading lady Dorothy McGuire was named Best Actress by the National Board of Review for her outstanding performance as Eliza Birdwell, and 24 year-old Anthony Perkins became a rising star, giving his first major film appearance in the integral role of the Birdwell's son Josh. Friendly Persuasion is a timeless classic, and a testament to the great artistry of all those involved in creating this masterful film.
Special Features:
- The Making of Friendly Persuasion (10:22)
- Theatrical Trailer (1:51)
Label: Warner Archive
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 130 minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 Dual-Mono with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Fullscreen (1.85:1)
Director: Billy Wilder
Cast: Gary Cooper, Joan Leslie, Walter Brennan, Dorothy McGuire, Anthony Perkins, Audrey Hepburn, Maria Schell
Synopsis: She plays the cello. He plays the field. She's coltishly young. He's worldly and mature. Lovestruck conservatory student Ariane knows she's not like millionaire American playboy Frank Flanagan. But if she pretends to be just as much a cosmopolitan lover as he is, maybe the magic of l'amour will take hold. May-December romance is in bloom when Billy Wilder directs and Audrey Hepburn and Gary Cooper meet for Love in the Afternoon. Laughs, Parisian settings, champagne elegance -- Wilder, in his first collaboration with long-time cowriter I.A.L. Diamond, delivers them all in a souffle-light homage to his filmmaking idol Ernst Lubitsch, punctuating it by casting Lubitsch alumnus Maurice Chevalier, the cinema's ambassador of Gallic charm who smoothly plays Ariane's detective father.
Special Feature:
- Trailer (3:00)
Label: Warner Archive
Region Code: Region-FREE
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 107 Minutes
Audio: English DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Widescreen (1.78:1)
Director: Delmer Daves
Cast: Gary Cooper, Maria Schell, Karl Malden, George C. Scott, Kar, Karl Swenson, Virginia Gregg, John Dierkes, King Donovan, Ben Piazza
Synopsis: Many stars saddled up and rode into Technicolor sunsets during the great Western revival of the 1950s, but only a few would be forever associated with the rugged individualists of the West. Among them are John Wayne, Randolph Scott and the star of The Hanging Tree, Gary Cooper. The story takes place in Skull Creek, an 1870s Montana gold camp. Dr. Joseph Frail (Cooper) arrives, setting out his shingle near the camp's boom-or-bust hubbub of adventurers, ladies of fortune, mountain men and just plain decent folks. As skilled with a six-gun as with a scalpel, Frail will need both. A tragic past shadows his days. The treachery of the mob clouds his future. A determined immigrant (Maria Schell), a shifty-eyed miner (Karl Malden) and a hellfire preacher (debuting George C. Scott) figure prominently in Frail's showdown with fate. Prominent, too, is the breathtaking countryside. Here, the mountains are imposing. And a man alone looms ever taller. read the full review HERE.
Special Features:
- Trailer (2:47)
ELIZABETH TAYLOR - 4 FILM COLLECTION (1950-1967)
5-Disc Blu-ray Set
The beloved Elizabeth Taylor takes center stage in four of her most memorable film performances. Spencer Tracy is her Dad in the wedding comedy FATHER OF THE BRIDES, Van Johnson is her love interest in the poignant romance THE LAST TIME I SAW PARIS, her Oscar-winning turn opposite Richard Burton in WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?, and as an embittered Army wife opposite Marlon Brando in REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE.
Label: Warner Archive
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated
Duration:
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 Dual-Mono with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Fullscreen (1.37:1)
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Spencer Tracy, Van Johnson, Donna Reed, Richard Burton, George Segal, Marlon Brando
Synopsis: "I would like to say a few words about weddings," a weary man says from the middle of a muddle of rice and scattered bottles. What follows is a warm, witty look at what it means to be Father of the Bride. Spencer Tracy is the father and Elizabeth Taylor the bride in this lively Vincente Minnelli-directed classic. Taylor is glowingly showcased - and reflected in three mirrors when first seen in a wedding gown. Tracy's performance captures every loving father's exasperations and joys as the day approaches. It also captured the fourth of his nine Best Actor Academy Award* nominations. The film also earned nominations for Best Picture and Screenplay. Here comes the bride, there goes dad's wallet - and everyone's heart. What sparkling fun!
Label: Warner Archive
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 116 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 Dual-Mono with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Fullscreen (1.37:1)
Director: Richard Brooks
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Spencer Tracy, Van Johnson, Donna Reed, Richard Burton, George Segal, Marlon Brando
Synopsis: Academy Award winners Elizabeth Taylor and Donna Reed star with Van Johnson in this sweeping romance loosely based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Babylon Revisited", a story of love and dreams found and lost in The City of Lights--The Last Time I Saw Paris. When reporter Charles Wills (Johnson) travels to Paris to cover the Allies' victory in World War II, he falls in love with and marries the stunningly beautiful Helen Ellswirth (Taylor). The young newlyweds choose to stay in Paris, where Charles tries to make his way as a writer. But years of struggle, rejection and poverty take their toll on the Wills' marriage, and the two drift into affairs with others as their love and dreams fade. Now, after years of disillusion and tragedy, Charles returns to Paris. But can he rediscover the passion and dreams that once came so easily?
Special Features:
- Original Theatrical Trailer (3:49)
- Classic Tom & Jerry short: Touché Pussy Cat (6:42)
Label: Warner Archive
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 131 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 Dual-Mono with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Widescreen (1.78:1)
Director: Mike Nichols
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Spencer Tracy, Van Johnson, Donna Reed, Richard Burton, George Segal, Marlon Brando
Synopsis: Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton are ideal as malevolent marrieds Martha and George in first-time-director Mike Nichols' searing film of Edward Albee's groundbreaking Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Taylor won her second Academy Award * (and New York Film Critics, National Board of Review and British Film Academy Best Actress Awards). Burton matches her as her emotionally spent spouse. And George Segal and Best Supporting Actress Oscar winner Sandy Dennis score as another couple straying into their destructive path. The movie won a total of five Academy Awards and remains after five decades a taboo-toppling landmark.
Special Features:
- Audio Commentary with Cinematographer Haskell Wexler
- Audio Commentary With Director Mike Nichols and Steven Soderbergh
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: Too Shocking for Its Time (10:37)
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: A Daring Work of Raw Excellence (20:14)
- 1966 Mike Nichols Interview (9:00)
- Sandy Dennis Screen Test (7:13)
- Elizabeth Taylor: Intimate Portrait (1:06:31)
- Trailers: The Comedians (1:24) The Sandpiper (3:24), The V.I.P.s (4:06)Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (2:13)
Label: Warner Archive
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 108 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 Dual-Mono with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Widescreen (1.85:1)
Director: John Huston
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Spencer Tracy, Van Johnson, Donna Reed, Richard Burton, George Segal, Marlon Brando
Synopsis: "An Army post in peacetime is a dull place." So begins Carson McCullers' famous novel of secret passion, Reflections in a Golden Eye. But beneath the smooth surface of military routine, a deadly tension mounts. Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando star in this startling screen version that, like the book, crackles with mysterious, exotic energy. They play the Pendertons: He's a hidebound career officer wrestling with inner demons; she's a caged lioness needful of love, whatever the source. Their off-kilter relationship plays out under the voyeuristic gaze of a soldier (Robert Forster) soon to become the focal point of tragedy. Provocatively directed by John Huston, and costarring Brian Keith and Julie Harris in moving supporting performances, this spellbinder is powerful and complex -- just like that emotion called love. This 2-disc set presents Reflections in a Golden Eye in both of its forms: the original "gold"-hued version of the film, as legendary director Huston intended, and the full-color general theatrical release version. Both have been newly remastered especially for this release.
Special Features:
- Vintage Behind-the-Scenes Footage (23:09)
- Theatrical Trailer (2:41)
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CLARK GABLE - 4 FILM COLLECTION (1935-1939)
4-Disc Blu-ray Set
Label: Warner Archive
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 135 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 Dual-Mono with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Fullscreen (1.37:1)
Director: Frank Lloyd
Cast: Clark Gable, Charles Laughton, Jeanette MacDonald, Spencer Tracy, Myrna Loy, Norma Shearer, Jean Harlow
HMS Bounty sails for Tahiti by way of Cape Horn and into movie lore. Grandly filmed, Mutiny on the Bounty captured the 1935 Best Picture Academy Award and eight nominations total. Charles Laughton portrays Captain Bligh, a seafaring monster ruling with the law of fear. Clark Gable is first officer Fletcher Christian, whose will to obey erodes under Bligh's tyranny. And Franchot Tone plays idealistic midshipman Byam, torn by his allegiance to both. That all three portrayals are vividly memorable is accented by the fact that for the only time in Oscar history, three stars from the same film were Best Actor nominees.
Special Features:
- Pitcairn Island Today (9:39)
- 1936 Newsreel: Mutiny of the Bounty Wins 1935 Award (1:00)
- A Hearst Metrotone Newsreel with footage from the 1935 Academy Awards.
- Trailers: Mutiny on the Bounty, 1935 (3:14), Mutiny on teh Bounty, 1962 (4:03)
Label: Warner Archive
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 115 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 Dual-Mono with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Fullscreen (1.33:1)
Director: Frank Lloyd, Clarence Brown, W.S. Van Dyke
Cast: Clark Gable, Charles Laughton, Jeanette MacDonald, Spencer Tracy, Myrna Loy, Norma Shearer, Jean Harlow
Synopsis: Romantic drama combines with humor, star power combines with lavish spectacle, and the walls come tumbling down! This Academy Award -winning extravaganza's street-splitting, brick-cascading, fire-raging re-creation of the cataclysmic earthquake remains "one of the greatest action sequences in the history of the cinema, rivalling the chariot race in both Ben-Hurs" (Adrian Turner, Time Out Film Guide). Clark Gable plays rakish Barbary Coast kingpin Blackie Norton. Jeanette MacDonald portrays a singer torn by her love for Blackie and her need to succeed among the operagoing elite. Earning the first of nine career Best Actor Oscar nominations, Spencer Tracy is a priest who supplements spiritual advice with a mean right hook. He urges Blackie to change. But if love and religion can't reform Blackie, Mother Nature will.
Special Features:
- Clark Gable: Tall, Dark and Handsome (46:30)
- Classic Cartoon - "Bottles" (10:16)
- Cavalcade of San Francisco (8:55)
- Night Descends on Treasure Island (8:05)
- Alternate Ending Sequence (0:37)
- Theatrical Reissue Trailer (2:11)
Label: Warner Archive
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 88 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 Dual-Mono with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Fullscreen (1.37:1)
Director: Frank Lloyd, Clarence Brow, W.S. Van Dyke
Cast: Clark Gable, Charles Laughton, Jeanette MacDonald, Spencer Tracy, Myrna Loy, Norma Shearer, Jean Harlow
Synopsis: Of course Linda Stanhope trusts her husband Van. Their marriage is based on love and respect. Who cares if Van's secretary has the face of an angel and the body of a chorus girl?
Special Features:
- The Public Pays (18:20)
- Theatrical Trailer (2:40)
Label: Warner Archive
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 107 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 Dual-Mono with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Fullscreen (1.37:1)
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Cast: Clark Gable, Charles Laughton, Jeanette MacDonald, Spencer Tracy, Myrna Loy, Norma Shearer, Jean Harlow
Synopsis: They first meet in Omaha. They meet again years later at the Swiss border and at the edge of World War II. Clark Gable as smalltime hoofer Harry Van and Norma Shearer as his one-time honey Irene, now passing herself off as a Russian aristocrat and clinging to the arm of a munitions baron, strike sparks in this witty, cogent clash of love and war based on Robert E. Sherwood's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Idiot's Delight, released in the same year as Gone with the Wind, shows Gable at his rakish, manly, movie-star best. The most memorable scene: Gable's Puttin' on the Ritz, a wise-guy song-and-dance routine that ends with the King leaping gracefully into the arms of a chorus line of peroxide cuties. Lucky girls!
Special Features:
- The Good Egg (7:36)
- It's An Ill Wind (7:29)
- Original Theatrical Trailer (3:58)
- Alternate Ending (3:23)
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