BROADWAY ON THE BIG SCREEN 6-FILM COLLECTION
FRED ASTAIRE 4-FILM COLLECTION
JAMES STEWART 4-FILM COLLECTION
ROBERT TAYLOR 4-FILM COLLECTION
SPENCER TRACY 4-FILM COLLECTION
We are getting several 4-film and 6-film collections from Warner Archive highlighting the iconic work of Hollywood screen legends James Stewart, Fred Astaire, Robert Taylor, Spencer Tracy, and a themed set celebrating Broadway on the Big Screen! 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. They are available for order or pre-order from all major online retailers, including Amazon, MovieZyng and Physical Media Land - I have provided links below!
Six big stage musical favorites are brought together for this dazzling collection of musical favorites. Frank Loesser's GUYS AND DOLLS starring Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra, Rosalind Russell and Natalie Wood star in GYPSY, the dynamic choreography of Bob Fosse adds zing to Doris Day in THE PAJAMA GAME and Gwen Verdon in DAMN YANKEES, Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse shine in Lerner and Loewe's BRIGADOON, and Ken Russell's wild imagination creates an homage to the genre as Twiggy stars in THE BOY FRIEND.
GUYS AND DOLLS (1955)
Label: Warner Archive
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 155 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 5.1 with Optional English Subtitles
Video; 1080p HD Widescreen (2.55:1)
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast: Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine, Stubby Kaye
Hollywood legends Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra and Vivian Blaine (from the original Broadway cast) are dazzling in this Frank Loesser (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying) masterpiece. Featuring hits like "Luck Be a Lady" and "A Woman in Love," this smash film version of one of Broadway's most popular musicals is guaranteed rip-roaring "four-star entertainment" (New York Daily News).
Special Features:
- The Goldwyn Touch (23:54)
- From Stage to Screen (26:41)
- More Guys and Dolls Stories: Adelaide (00:51), Brando Dance Lesson (1:34), Goldwyn's Career (2:38), On the Set (1:12), Rehearsing Adelaide (1:29)
- Musical Performances: Fugue for Tinhorns (1:42), I'll Know (5:01), Guys and Dolls (3:26), Adelaide (3:34), Luck Be a Lady (3:14), Sue Me (3:15)
- Theatrical Trailer (4:53)
GYPSY (1962)
Label: Warner Archive
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 143 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 Dual-Mono with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Widescreen (2.41:1)
Director: Mervyn Leroy
Cast: Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden
Ringing with the showbiz sass of its Jule Styne/Stephen Sondheim score, the film version of the Broadway hit Gypsy takes you on a grand vaudeville tour. It sweeps you up in the roller-coaster relationship of Louise (Natalie Wood), the wallflower later to blossom into sophisticated stripper Gypsy Rose Lee, and her ambitious mother, Rose (Rosalind Russell who's performance won her a fifth Best Actress Golden Globe Award). Karl Malden scores as Herbie, the salesman who falls for Rose - to his exasperation. Full of terrific tunes (Everything's Coming Up Roses and Small World among them), Gypsy will certainly entertain you and definitely make you smile.
Special Features:
Songs: Wherever We Go (2:39), You Couldn't Get Away From Me (3:37)
- Trailer (3:36)
THE PAJAMA GAME (1957)
Label: Warner Archive
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 101 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 Dual-Mono with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Widescreen (1.85:1)
Director: George Abbott, Stanley Donen
Cast: Doris Day, Carol Haney, Eddie Foy Jr., Reta Shaw, Barbara Nichols
Labor and management at the Sleeptite Pajama Factory aren't sleeping much lately: A proposed 7 1 2-cent hourly wage increase is why -- and a strike may result. But negotiations here involve snappy stars, terrific tunes and dynamic dances as Doris Day, John Raitt and a Broadway-seasoned cast play The Pajama Game. Songs by the Damn Yankees duo of Richard Adler and Jerry Ross and choreography by Bob Fosse generate lots of "Steam Heat," all whipped together delightfully under the direction of two musical masters of stage and screen, George Abbott and Stanley Donen. Besides "Steam Heat" (showcasing the quirky brilliance of dancer Carol Haney), catch "Hey There," "I'm Not at All in Love," "Hernando's Hideaway," "Once-a-Year Day" and other all-time-great numbers. For peerless entertainment, negotiate no further. Nothing's quite the same as The Pajama Game!
Special Features:
- Song Selection
- Deleted Musical Sequence "The Man Who Invented Love"(3:02)
- Theatrical Trailer (3:17)
DAMN YANKEES (1958)
Label: Warner Archive
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 111 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 Dual-Mono with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Widescreen (1.85:1)
Director: George Abbott
Cast: Tab Hunter, Gwen Verdon, Ray Walston
Step up to the plate for Damn Yankees, the rousing movie of the 1,019-performance Broadway grand slam that imports nearly all the original New York lineup, including Tony Award -winning stars Gwen Verdon as luscious vamp Lola and Ray Walston as her slyly Satanic boss Applegate. Hollywood's Tab Hunter suits up as potential lost soul and Washington Senators slugger Joe Hardy, revealing a freewheeling fun side unseen in previous roles. The Pajama Game duo of Richard Adler and Jerry Ross serve up an out-of-the-park home-run score, including "Whatever Lola Wants" and "Heart." Choreographer Bob Fosse provides all the right moves, and he joins Verdon on-screen in performing "Who's Got the Pain?" No pain here, just pure pleasure.
Special Features:
- Song Selection
- US Theatrical Trailer (2:31)
- UK Theatrical Trailer (2:32)
BRIGADOON (1954)
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 (2.55:1)
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, Cyd Charisse, Elaine Stewart, Barry Jones, Hugh Laing, Albert Sharpe, Virginia Bosler, Jimmy Thompson, Tudor Owen, Owen McGiveney, Dee Turnell, Dody Heath, Eddie Quillan
Look on a map and you won't find it. Look in your heart and there it will be. Enchantment is a place -- and a movie -- called Brigadoon when Gene Kelly stars in and choreographs a lyrical film adaptation of the 1947 Broadway musical by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe (My Fair Lady, Camelot). Vincente Minnelli directs this otherworldly tale of vacationing New Yorkers (Kelly and Van Johnson) who discover a Scottish village that comes to life once every 100 years for one day only. There, Kelly and a town lass (Cyd Charisse) share the love of a lifetime -- one seemingly allotted just 24 hours. But fear not, there's magic and timeless songs hereabouts: "Almost Like Being in Love," "The Heather on the Hill" and more!
Special Features:
Deleted Scenes: Come to Me, Bend to Me (3:29), From This Day On (4:38), Sword Dance (3:00), There but for You Go I! (Audio Only) (4:15)
- Trailer (3:45)
THE BOY FRIEND (1971)
Label: Warner Archive
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 138 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 5.1 Surround with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Widescreen (2.40:1)
Director: Ken Russell
Cast: Twiggy, Christopher Gable
Special Features:
- Vintage Featurette: All Talking . . . All Singing . . . All Dancing (8:40)
- Trailer (2:47)
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The one and only Fred Astaire is unforgettable in four of his unforgettable musicals. Fred stars with Judy Garland in Irving Berlin's EASTER PARADE, he-costars with the glamorous Cyd Charisse in THE BAND WAGON and SILK STOCKINGS, and made his final screen musical appearance with Petula Clark in Francis Ford Coppola's magical screen version of FINIAN'S RAINBOW
EASTER PARADE (1948)
Label: Warner Home Entertainment
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 103 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 Dual-Mono with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Fullscreen
Director: Charles Walters
Cast: Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, Ann Miller
If you can't join 'em, beat 'em! When his long-time dance partner abandons him for the Ziegfeld Follies, Don Hewes decides to show who's who what's what by choosing any girl out of a chorus line and transforming her into a star. So he makes his choice and takes his chances. Of course, since Fred Astaire portrays Don and Judy Garland plays the chorine, we know we're in for an entertainment sure thing.
Special Features:
- Audio Commentary with Fred Astaire's daughter Ava Astaire McKenzie and Garland's biographer John Fricke
- Easter Parade: On the Avenue (2005, 34:25)
- "Mr. Monotony" Outtake (3:09)
- "Mr. Monotony" Dailies (18:11)
- Radio Promo - Audio Only (4:24)
- 3/11/1951 Screen Guild Theater Broadcast - Audio Only (54:00)
- Theatrical Trailer (1:59)
THE BAND WAGON (1953)
Label: Warner Home Entertainment
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 112 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 Dual-Mono with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Fullscreen (1.37:1)
Director:
Cast: Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Judy Garland, Petula Clark, Ann Miller
Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse dazzle in director Vincente Minnelli’s classic, featuring numbers set in a train station (“By Myself”), a penny arcade (“A Shine on Your Shoes”), a backlot Central Park (“Dancing in the Dark”) and a smoky café (“The Girl Hunt”). As the hallmark song which originated here goes, “That’s Entertainment!”
Special Features:
- Audio Commentary with Liza Minnelli and Michael Feinstein
- Get Aboard! The Band Wagon (2005, 37:09)
- The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli 1973, 58:25):
- Short: Jack Buchanan with the Glee Quartet (6:00)
- Tex Avery Short: The Three Little Pups (6:46)
- Theatrical Trailer (3:14)
SILK STOCKINGS (1957)
Label: Warner Archive
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 118 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 5.1with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Widescreen (2.40;1)
Director: Rouben Mamoulian
Cast: Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, anis Paige, Peter Lorre, George Tobias, Jules Munshin, Joseph Buloff, Wim Sonneveld
You'd think chilled borscht pulses in her veins. She's Nina Yoshenka, a lovely yet severe Soviet envoy sent to Paris to rescue wayward comrades from the perils of champagne and capitalism. But there may be a thaw in Nina's Cold War. She meets Steve Canfield, a smoothly brash American who won't take nyet for an answer. Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse recapture the magic of their The Band Wagon pairing in this musical based on the same-titled 1955 Broadway hit and on the famed 1939 Greta Garbo comedy Ninotchka. Set to witty Cole Porter tunes, spiked with laughs and featuring the two leads dancing the Eugene Loring-Hermes Pan choreography into timeless emotion, Silk Stockings shows why elegance and fun never go out of style.
Special Features;
- Cole Porter in Hollywood: Satin and Silk (2003, 10:01)
- Vitaphone short: Paree, Paree (1934, 20:53)
- Short: Poet and Peasant Overture (1955, 9:07)
- Theatrical Trailer (2:57)
FINIAN'S RAINBOW (1968)
Label: Warner Home Entertainment
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 145 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 5.1 Surround with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Widescreen (2.35:1)
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Cast: Fred Astaire, Petula Clark, Tommy Steele, Don Francks, Keenan Wynn, Barbara Hancock, Al Freeman, Ronald Colby, Dolph Sweet, Wright King, Louis Silas
He wears a ratty old cardigan instead of tails, a battered felt hat in place of a topper -- but one glimpse of those agile feet and you know he's Fred Astaire. The great entertainer sang and danced his last musical lead in Finian's Rainbow, director Francis Ford Coppola's exuberant movie of the 1947 Broadway hit. Astaire plays an Irish rogue who plants a stolen crock of leprechaun gold in the soil near Fort Knox to reap what he thinks will be a rich harvest. In tow are his spirited daughter (Petula Clark), a love-struck leprechaun (Tommy Steele) and a bigoted Southern senator (Keenan Wynn) transformed by misbegotten magic. The treasurable Burton Lane/E.Y. Harburg score includes "How Are Things in Glocca Morra?," "Look to the Rainbow," "If This Isn't Love" and "Old Devil Moon." Watching it, you'll be in clover. Four-leaf all the way.
Special Features:
- Audio Commentary with Director Francis Ford Coppola
- Francis Ford Coppola: DVD Introduction (5:26):
- The World Premiere of Finian's Rainbow (25:37)
- Theatrical Trailer (2:58)
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JAMES STEWART 4-FILM COLLECTION (1940-1962)
The legendary James Stewart takes the spotlight here with four of his best performances. In Ernst Lubitsch's charming THE SHOP AROUND THER CORNER, Stewart co-stars with Margaret Sullavan in the comedic love story that was later remade as YOU'VE GOT MAIL. Director Frank Borzage's THE MORTAL STORM once again co-stars Stewart and Sullavan, in a dark drama reflecting the growing Nazi threat in Europe. Stewart is electrifying in director Anthony Mann's Technicolor western masterpiece THE NAKED SPUR, and finally Stewart portrays a Western settler in the all-star epic HOW THE WEST WAS WON
THE SHOP AROUND THER CORNER (1940)
Label: Warner Home Entertainment
Region: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 99 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 Dual-Mono with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Fullscreen (1.37:1)
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Cast: James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, Frank Morgan, Joseph Schildkraut, Sara Haden, Felix Bressart, William Tracy, Inez Courtney, Sarah Edwards, Edwin Maxwell, Charles Halton, Charles Smith
Special Features:
- The Miracle of Sound (1940, 10:57)
- Screen Guild Players (29:46) - aired 9/29/40, strarring Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan
- Lux Radio Theater (59:53) Aired6/23/41, starring Don Ameche and Claudette Colbert, was directed by Sanford Barnett and produced by Cecil B DeMille.
- Theatrical Trailer (4:05)
THE MORTAL STORM (1940)
Label: Warner Home Entertainment
Region: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 100 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 Dual-Mono with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Fullscreen (1.37:1)
Director: Frank Borzage
Cast: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Robert Young, Frank Morgan, Robert Stack
The Mortal Storm is the story of Hitlers rise to power as seen through the microcosm of one German family. What may seem small and personal is instead towering, a bold revelation of the brutality of the Nazi regime that so infuriated propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels that he banned all M-G-M movies in Germany. In their fourth and final teaming, Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart play sweethearts, evoking the tender, romantic empathy that always marked their work together. They lead a sterling cast in director Frank Borzages sweeping tale of the political and human chaos that rips a family apart, sets child against parent and lover against lover, and leads to savagery, sacrifice and heroism.
Special Features:
- MGM Cartoon: Peace on Earth (1939, 8:30)
- WB Short Films: Meet the Fleet (1940, 20:18)
- Theatrical Trailer (2:47)
THE NAKED SPUR (1953)
Label: Warner Home Entertainment
Region: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 91 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 Dual-Mono with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Fullscreen (1.37:1)
Director: Anthony Mann
Cast: James Stewart, Janet Leigh, Robert Ryan, Ralph Meeker
"Plain arithmetic. Money splits better two ways instead of three," smooth talking outlaw Ben Vandergroat reasons to his captors, three bounty hunters thrown together by chance. They're taking to justice in Abilene, but Ben has other ideas. If he can set the men against each other -- play on their greed, their fears, their vanities -- he may be able to make his break to freedom. In the third of his five landmark Anthony Mann-directed Westerns, James Stewart stars as the relentless leader of bounty hunters caught in the snare of the hunted (Robert Ryan). Tough, sweating with tension and towering as tall as its breathtaking Colorado Rockies setting, The Naked Spur is simply "one of the best Westerns ever made." (Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide).
Special Features;
- Pete Smith-narrated Specialty Short; Things We Can Do Without (1953, 8:50)
- Animated Short: Little Johnny Jet (7:04)
- Theatrical Trailer (2:44)
HOW THE WEST WAS WON (1962)
Label: Warner Home Entertainment
Region: Region-Free
Rating: G
Duration: 162 Minutes 40 Seconds
Audio: English TrueHD, DTS-HD MA 5.1 with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Widescreen (2.89;1)
Director: George Marshall, Henry Hathaway, John Ford
Cast: Agnes Moorehead, Carolyn Jones, Carroll Baker, Debbie Reynolds, Eli Wallach, George Marshall, George Peppard, Gregory Peck, Harry Morgan, Henry Fonda, Henry Hathaway, James Stewart, John Ford, John Wayne, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Raymond Massey, Richard Widmark, Russ Tamblyn, Spencer Tracy, Walter Brennan
Henry Fonda, Gregory Peck, Debbie Reynolds, James Stewart and John Wayne are among the big names in this big saga following a family's move West through generations - marked by the spectacles of a heart-pounding raging river ride, a thunderous buffalo stampede and a bracing runaway train shootout. Via technological advances, this panoramic winner of three Academy Awards can now be seen with a resplendent, restored clarity eliminating it's original three-panel join lines and in roof-raising Dolby 5.1 audio.
Special Features:
- Audio Commentary by filmmaker David Strohmaier, Cinerama, Inc. Director John Sittig, Film Historian Rudy Behlmer, Music Historian Jon Burlingame, and Stuntman Loren James
- David Strohmaier's 2002 Documentary: Cinerama Adventure (93.00)
- 1080p Smilebox Curved Screen Simulation
ROBERT TAYLOR 4-FILM COLLECTION (1950-1956)
One of M-G-M's most popular leading men, Robert Taylor displays his star quality in four of his very best M-G-M films. 1950's DEVIL'S DOORWAY casts Taylor as a Native American Civil War veteran facing violence and hatred upon his return from the battlefield. Taylor is unforgettable in 1952's IVANHOE, a richly Technicolored epic co-starring Elizabeth Taylor, THE LAST HUNT is a taut CinemaScope action classic from Director Richard Brooks, and Taylor gives one of his most unforgettable performance in William A. Wellman's overlooked masterpiece WESTWARD THE WOMEN
Label: Warner Home Entertainment
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 84 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 Dual- Mono with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Fullscreen (1.37:1)
Director: Anthony Mann
Cast: Robert Taylor, Louis Calhern, Paula Raymond
Shoshone tribesman and Civil War hero Lance Poole (Robert Taylor) returns home with a Congressional Medal of Honor on his chest and a saddlebag full of dreams about prospering as a cattleman on his family's land. But Native Americans have no citizenship, no property rights. The courts, despite the efforts of Lane's attorney (Paula Raymond) offer no remedy. Lance and his people must fight to keep their land. Devil's Doorway, the first of the dozen or so groundbreaking Westerns by auteur filmmaker Anthony Mann (The Naked Spur) is one of the earliest films sympathetic to the plight of Native Americans, standing alongside the same year's Broken Arrow. Perhaps not coincidentally, Lane Poole's tribal name is Broken Lance.
Special Features:
- Droopy short; The Chump Champ (7:17)
- Tom & Jerry short; Cue Ball Cat (7:06)
- Original Theatrical Trailer (1:48)
IVANHOE (1952)
Label: Warner Home Entertainment
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 106 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 Dual-Mono with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Fullscreen (1.37:1)
Director:
Cast: Robert Taylor (I), Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Emlyn Williams, Robert Douglas, Felix Aylmer, Harold Warrender, Sebastian Cabot, Norman Wooland, Guy Rolfe, and Finlay Currie
Stand and pledge loyalty -- or prepare to lie cold beneath your shields. Chivalrous knight Wilfrid of Ivanhoe is determined to restore Richard the Lionhearted to England's throne. Gallantry and costumed pageantry combine in this crowd-pleasing nominee for 3 Academy Awards , including Best Picture. Robert Taylor plays the title role, and Elizabeth Taylor and Joan Fontaine also star in a rousing adaptation of Sir Walter Scott's novel. The film's jousting tournament is , a galloping display of steeds and stouthearted men. Most spectacular of all is the siege of Torquilstone Castle, a wave-after-wave combat of arrows, fire, boulders, battering rams and blades. To the battlements!
Special Features:
- Classic Cartoon: Tom and Jerry in "The Two Mouseketeers" (1952, 7:26)
- Theatrical Trailer (1:52)
THE LAST HUNT (1956)
Label: Warner Home Entertainment
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 103 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 Dual-Mono with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Fullscreen (1.37:1)
Director:
Cast: Robert Taylor, Stewart Granger, Lloyd Nolan, Russ Tamblyn, Debra Paget
Robert Taylor (Quo Vadis) and Stewart Granger (The Prisoner of Zenda) team up in this "grim, fierce, raw-boned outdoor fare" (Variety) filmed on location in rugged Custer State Park, North Dakota. Charlie Gilson (Taylor), a mean-spirited hunter, joins reserved Sandy McKenzie (Granger) on a great government-sanctioned buffalo hunt that will keep the buffalo population under control and make the men rich. Joining them are Woodfoot, an old, one-legged skinner (Lloyd Nolan), and Jimmy (Russ Tamblyn), a half-Indian boy. But trouble begins to break the team apart when Charlie kills a group of Indians whom he accuses of stealing his horses. Charlie's subsequent mistreatment of the lone survivors -- an Indian woman and her child -- forces Sandy to realize that his partner is consumed with hate...and that he enjoys killing more than just buffalo. "Raw, real and rugged" (L.A. Examiner), The Last Hunt is so intense and powerful that its stark images will stay with you long after the film ends.
Special Features:
- MGM Parade TV Promo #1 (3:32)
- MGM Parade TV Promo #2 (7:45)
- Theatrical Trailer (3:46)
Label: Warner Archive
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 115 Minutes 53 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 Dual-Mono with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Fullscreen (1.37:1)
Director: William A. Wellman
Cast: Robert Taylor, Denice Darcel, Hope Emerson, John McIntire
They are rugged pioneers and brave trailblazers who tame the wild west. These are the women of the great frontier -- that's right -- the women! Based on historical record, this wagon-train saga details a 2,000-mile journey from Chicago to California. The men seek gold; the women seek matrimony. Both strike pay dirt! Buck Wyatt (Robert Taylor) is a tough, experienced scout who leads a wagon train comprised of two ex-showgirls (Denise Darcel and Julie Bishop), a hearty widow (Beverly Dennis) and fifteen men who act as guides. When one of the men disobeys Buck's orders not to fraternize with the ladies, Buck shoots him, causing the others to desert. Instead of turning back, the determined women insist on going on, learning to ride, shoot, and drive mules. Although treacherous terrain and a deadly ambush lay ahead, these tough ladies are filled with the American frontier spirit, and nothing will stop them! Based on a story by Frank Capra, and directed by signature gusto by the masterful William Wellman, Westward the Women is a cinematic masterpiece.
Special Features:
- Audio Commentary by Scott Eyman
- Vintage MGM featurette "Challenge of the Wilderness" (10:30)
- Lux Radio Theatre Broadcast 12/29/52 with Robert Taylor (49:14)
- MGM cartoons: Texas Tom (6:44), The Duck Doctor (7:03)
- Original Theatrical Trailer (3:36)
SPENCER TRACY 4-FILM COLLECTION (1936-1955) Screen legend Spencer Tracy gives magnetic performances in four of his great M-G-M classics. Fritz Lang's 1936 masterpiece FURY gave Tracy one of his first great screen roles, while he showed off his comedic gifts along side William Powell, Myrna Loy and Jean Harlow in LIBELED LADY. He leads Robert's Rangers in the 1940 Technicolor adventure NORTHWEST PASSAGE, and displays his immortal talents in John Sturges' 1955 CinemaScope thriller BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK.
FURY (1936)
Label: Warner Archive
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 92 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 Dual-Mono with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Fullscreen (1.37:1)
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy
Joe Wilson, a wrongly jailed man thought to have died in a blaze started by a bloodthirsty lynch mob, is somehow alive...but dead to all he ever stood for and perhaps ever will be, because Joe aims to ensure his would-be executioners meet the fate that he miraculously escaped. Spencer Tracy is Joe, Sylvia Sidney is his bride-to-be, and Fury lives up to its volatile name with its searing indictment of mob justice and lynching. In his first American film, director Fritz Lang (Metropolis, The Big Heat) combines a passion for justice and a sharp visual style into a landmark of social-conscience filmmaking. In the 49 years before this movie's release, some 6,000 people in the U.S. were victims of lynch mobs. The Fury over those tragedies -- and over other injustices to come -- remains.
Special Features:
- Audio Commentary with filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich, with recorded comments by late director Fritz Lang recorded by Bogdanovich in 1965.
- Theatrical Trailer (2:12)
LIBELED LADY (1936)
Label: Warner Archive
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 99 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 Dual-Mono with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Fullscreen (1.37:1)
Director: Jack Conway
Cast: Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy, Walter Connolly, Charley Grapewin, Cora Witherspoon, E.E. Clive, Bunny Beatty, Otto Yamaoka, Charles Trowbridge, Spencer Charters, George Chandler, William Benedict, William Newell
Bill Chandler (William Powell ) is one of America's great anglers, a sports fisherman without peer, doom in waders to the wiliest trout. And that isn't the only fish story Chandler tells. Four of Hollywood's greatest stars -- Powell, Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy and Spencer Tracy -- reel in this whopper of a screwball romantic comedy classic nominated for a Best Picture Oscar . It all starts when society diva Loy slaps newsman Tracy with a libel suit. Tracy enlists fiancee Harlow and down-on-his-luck Powell in a counter maneuver involving a rigged marriage, a phony seduction, a fabulously funny fishing scene, fisticuffs, broken promises and hearts, and, eventually, true love for all. This Lady is one fine catch.
Special Features:
- Classic MGM Shorts: Keystone Hotel (1935, 14:53), New Shoes (1936, 10:23), Little Cheeser (1936, 9:22), Leo Is On The Air (13:30)
- Theatrical Trailer (2:47)
Label: Warner Archive
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 128 Minutes
Audio: English DTS HD-MA 2.0 Dual-Mono with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Fullscreen (1.37:1)
Director: King Vidor
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Ruth Hussey
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 128 Minutes
Audio: English DTS HD-MA 2.0 Dual-Mono with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Fullscreen (1.37:1)
Director: King Vidor
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Ruth Hussey
Spencer Tracy and a stellar supporting cast grab muskets , gun powder and knives, and head out for adventure in Northwest Passage, a lavish Technicolor retelling of French and Indian War heroics, based on Kenneth Roberts' best seller. Tracy plays a true-life explorer Major Robert Rogers, the intrepid leader of the celebrated Roberts' Rangers fighting force that took on one of the most challenging expeditions in military history. Tracy's portrayal brilliantly captures the American pioneering spirit, but he had to muster up his own will to carry it off. "It isn't exactly fun to work in bitter cold and be sloshing through mud all day" he said. For twelve grueling weeks of location shooting, he endured trapsing through swamps, crossing rapids, and climbing mountains. Of this rousing epic (released shortly after Gone With the Wind), The New York Times wrote, "Now that the 'Wind' has stopped ruffling your hair, you can have it lifted, scalp and all in Northwest Passage.
Special Features:
- Vintage Featurette: Northward, Ho! (9:25)
- Original Theatrical Trailer (2:01)
BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK (1955)
Label: Warner Archive
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 82 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 Dual-Mono with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Widescreen (2.55:1)
Director: John Sturges
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis, Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan, Ernest Borgnine, John Ericson, Lee Marvin, Russell Collins, Walter Sande
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 winner* Spencer Tracy (a 1955 Best Actor Oscar 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.
Special Features:
- Audio Commentary by Film Professor Dana Polan
- Trailer (3:26)
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