LEGENDS OF HOLLYWOOD HORROR 6-FILM COLLECTION
JOAN CRAWFORD 4-FILM COLLECTION
BETTE DAVIS 4-FILM COLLECTION
JUDY GARLAND 6-FILM COLLECTION
Arriving October 14th from film preservation experts Warner Archive we are getting four more multi-film repacks by way of Blu-ray collections highlighting the iconic work of Hollywood screen legends. We are getting 4-film collections from legendary divas Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, a 6-film set from the melodious musical icon Judy Garland, and a terrific 6-film set of vintage terrors the 1930s.
These titles have all been previously been issued on Blu-ray as single editions from Warner Archive, but they have never been made available bundled together like this. These have been repackaged with the same great transfers and extras as those 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 any of these would make terrific Christmas gifts for you film-loving friends and family, and remember, Christmas is only 3 months away, it's creeping up on us! Also, that 6-film Hollywood Legend of Horror Collection is a must-watch for Halloween.
These four sets are all available for pre-order from all the usual online retailers, including Amazon, DiabolikDVD, MovieZyng and Physical Media Land - I have provided purchase links at the bottom!
HOLLYWOOD LEGENDS OF HORROR 6-FILM COLLECTION (1932-1939)
Classic tales of mad passions and madder deeds! Includes: Doctor X, The Return of Doctor X, Mark of the Vampire, The Mask of Fu Manchu, Mad Love, and The Devil-Doll.
Label: Warner Archive
Region Code: Region-Free
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 76 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 Dual-Mono with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Fullscreen (1.37:1)
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Lee Tracy, Preston Foster, John Wray, Harry Beresford, Arthur Edmund Carewe, George Rosener, Leila Bennett
Is there a (mad) doctor in the house? "Yes!" shrieks Doctor X, filmed in rare two-strip Technicolor . An eminent scientist aims to solve a murder spree by re-creating the crimes in a lab filled with all the dials, gizmos, bubbling beakers and crackling electrostatic charges essential to the genre. Lionel Atwill is Doctor Xavier, pre-King Kong scream queen Fay Wray is a distressed damsel and Lee Tracy snaps newshound patter, all under the direction of renowned Michael Curtiz. Also includes the separately filmed B&W version, originally intended for small U.S. markets and International distribution, which has been unavailable for over 30 years. Read the full review HERE.
Special Features:
- Alternate B&W version of DOCTOR (97 min) HD
- UCLA Before & After Restoration featurette (8 min) HD
- New documentary: "Monsters and Mayhem: The Horror Films of Michael Curtiz (28 min) HD
- New Audio Commentary by author/film historian Alan K. Rode
- Archival Audio Commentary by Scott MacQueen, head of preservation, UCLA Film and Television Archive
- Original B&W Theatrical Trailer (2 min) HD
THE RETURN OF DOCTOR X (1939)
Label: Warner Archive
Region Code: Region-Free
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 62 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 Dual-Mono with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Fullscreen (1.37:1)
Director: Vincent Sherman
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Wayne Morris, Rosemary Lane
In a bizarre but fascinating bit of casting, Humphrey Bogart stars as a vampire in his only horror film role. After a murderous doctor is executed, he is revived with human blood--and soon people with that blood type begin to disappear. When an eager reporter stumbles across a popular actress who was thought to be dead, he can't help noticing that her skin is unnaturally pale and that she keeps her face concealed beneath a long black veil. Suspecting that evil is afoot, he investigates the terrifying world of a psychotic doctor (Bogart) and is drawn into a series of unsolved murders. Read the full review HERE.
Special Features:
- Archival commentary by director Vincent Sherman and Author/Film Historian Dr. Steve Haberman
- Classic WB cartoons: Doggone Modern (7:26) and Porky's Hotel (6:48)
- Original Theatrical Trailer (2:33)
Label: Warner Archive
Region Code: Region-Free
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 61 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 Dual-Mono with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Fullscreen (1.37:1)
Director: Tod Browning
Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Bela Lugosi, Jean Hersholt, Elizabeth Allen, Carroll Borland, Lionel Atwill
In a remote village in Central Europe, a nobleman's body is found drained of its blood and with two small punctures on the neck--the Mark of the Vampire. An ancient terror, a horror that won't die, haunts the village: the long undead Count Mora (Bela Lugosi) and his daughter, Luna (Carroll Borland), rule the night. But the vampires have not fed on the people of the village for a very long time. Now, with the help of an expert in the occult, Professor Zelen (Lionel Barrymore), and local Baron Otto (Jean Hersholt), police inspector Neumann (Lionel Atwill) unearths a mystery far stranger and more terrifying than anyone could have imagined! Read the full review HERE.
Special Features:
- New 1080p HD master from 4K scan of Original Nitrate Camera negative!
- Audio Commentary by Kim Newman and Steve Jones
- Classic MGM Short “A Thrill for Thelma” (18 min)
- Classic MGM Cartoon “The Calico Dragon” (8 min)
- Theatrical Trailer (2 min)
Label: Warner Archive
Region Code: Region-Free
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 69 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 Dual-Mono with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Fullscreen (1.37:1)
Director: Charles Brabin
Cast: Boris Karloff, Myrna Loy, Lewis Stone, Lawrence Grant, Karen Morley, Charles Starrett, Jean Hersholt, David Torrence
Boris Karloff takes one his most celebrated cinematics turn as the diabolical fiend Dr. Fu Manchu, and Myrna Loy plays his exotic daughter in this 1932 cult horror classic. This time, the evil Fu Manchu patiently awaits the discovery of Genghis Khan's tomb. For he is certain that possession of Khan's mask and sword will enable him to rule the East and lead it to victory over the hated Western world. When British scientists in the Gobi Desert discover the tomb, Fu captures and tortures them in his elaborate Torture Garden, hoping they will take him to the treasure he craves. But an unexpected traitor has other plans for the doctor. Based on Sax Rohmer's original story "The Mask of Fu Manchu" is "fast moving and humorous" (Halliwell's Film Guide) and full of pre-code suspenseful horror. This restored Blu-ray presentation features the film in its uncut version, as first released to theaters in 1932. Read the full review HERE.
Special Features:
- Audio Commentary by Greg Mank
- Classic Cartoons: Freddy the Freshman (1932) (6:54), The Queen Was in the Parlor (1932) (6:46)
Label: Warner Archive
Region Code: Region-Free
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 68 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 Dual-Mono with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Fullscreen (1.37:1)
Director: Karl Freund
Cast: Peter Lorre, Frances Drake, Colin Clive, Ted Healy
In his American feature-film debut, Peter Lorre turns in one of his creepiest performances as a renowned plastic surgeon whose sadistic obsession with an actress drove him over the edge of sanity. Dr. Gogol (Lorre) is in love with his Yvonne Orlac (Frances Drake), an actress whose appearance in a Grand Guignol-like horror theater has mesmerized him. She quits the theater to travel with her concert-pianist husband. Stephen (Colin Clive), enraging Gogol. But when Stephen's hands are crushed in a train accident, Yvonne turns to Gogol as a last resort. Motivated by sadistic intentions, Gogol secretly replaces Stephen's hands with those of a guillotined murderer, hoping that the operation will send Yvonne rushing into his arms as the murderer's hands take on a life of their own. Mad Love is one of the most chilling horror stories every put on screen, lending a macabre twist on themes of requited love and jealousy. Read the review HERE.
Special Features:
- Audio Commentary by Steve Haberman
- Theatrical Trailer (2:04)
Label: Warner Archive
Region Code: Region-Free
Special Features:
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 79 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 Dual-Mono with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Fullscreen (1.37:1)
Director: Tod Browning
Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O' Sullivan, Frank Lawton
Master of the macabre Tod Browning (Freaks) created this spine-tingler about madness, murder and revenge. Lionel Barrymore stars as an escaped convict who uses a mad scientist's shrinking serum to create tiny people. Maureen O'Sullivan co-stars as Barrymore's innocent daughter and Frank Lawton as her devoted suitor. Rafaela Ottiano adds a note of horror as the scientist's maniacal widow. Full of menacing moments 'certain to return in nightmares", this is truly an unforgettable horror classic!
Special Features:
- Audio Commentary by Film Historian Dr. Bruce Haberman and Film Historian/Filmmaker Constantine Nasr
- Classic Cartoons: Milk and Honey (8:09) and The Phantom Ship (7:36)
- Original Theatrical Trailer (1:54)
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JOAN CRAWFORD 4-FILM COLLECTION (1932-1950)
Celebrate the unforgettable Joan Crawford in these four of her most beloved classics: GRAND HOTEL, THE WOMEN, POSSESSED(1947), and THE DAMNED DON'T CRY
Label: Warner Archive
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: Edmund Goulding
Cast: Joan Crawford, Greta Garbo, Norma Shearer, Van Heflin, David Brian
Special Features:
- Checking Out: Grand Hotel (12:20)
- Hollywood Premiere of Metro Goldwyn Mayer's Grand Hotel (9:24)
- Nothing Ever Happens (1933) (18:50)
- Just a Word of Warning Theater Announcement (1:16)
- Trailers: Grand Hotel (1932) (2:27), Week-End at the Waldorf (2:43)
Label: Warner Archive
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 133 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 Dual-Mono with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Fullscreen (1.37:1)
Director: George Cukor
Cast: Joan Crawford, Greta Garbo, Norma Shearer, Van Heflin, David Brian
Be careful what you say in private. It could become a movie. Some gossip overheard by Clare Boothe Luce in a nightclub powder room inspired her Broadway hit that's wittily adapted for the screen in The Women. George Cukor directs an all-female cast in this catty tale of battling and bonding that paints its claws "Jungle Red" and shreds the excesses of pampered Park Avenue princesses. Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Joan Fontaine, Mary Boland and Paulette Goddard are among the array of husband snatchers, snitches and lovelorn ladies. Norma Shearer is jilted Mary Haines, who ultimately learns to claw without ruining her manicure. All the glamming and slamming comes with a shimmery bauble: a fashion-show sequence in eye-popping Technicolor
Special Features:
- Another Romance of Celluloid: From the Ends of the Earth (1939) (10:20)
- Hollywood: Style Center of the World (11:07)
- One Mother's Family (8:44)
- Alternate Fashion Show Sequence (6:14)
- Scoring Stage Sessions (38:37)
- Trailers: The Women (3.27), The Opposite Sex (3:45)
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 Fullscreen (1.37:1)
Director: Curtis Bernhardt
Cast: Joan Crawford, Greta Garbo, Norma Shearer, Van Heflin, David Brian
Academy Award winner Joan Crawford earned another Best Actress nomination for her tour-de-force performance in Possessed (1947) which opens with Crawford portraying a woman found wandering the streets of Los Angeles. Taken to a mental hospital, she weaves a harrowing tale of insanity, murder and the passion by which provides the basis for the film's apt title. Louise Howell's (Crawford) psychiatrist learns that she is a nurse hired to care for a dying woman and that she rekindled a former romance with her patient's neighbor, David Sutton (Van Heflin). But the suicide of her charge and rejection by the man she loves drive Howell to madness--and murder. Or do they? Is Howell's harrowing story true or the misperception of a deranged mind? Is Howell guilty of murder or an innocent victim of something far more sinister? Directed by Curtis Bernhardt, the film features a superb performances from its impressive cast, all richly underscored by the music of the great Franz Waxman.
Special Features:
- Audio Commentary by Film Historian Drew Casper
Possessed: The Quintessential Film Noir (9:33)
Trailer (2:05)
Label: Warner Archive
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: Vincent Sherman
Cast: Joan Crawford, Greta Garbo, Norma Shearer, Van Heflin, David Brian
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. Read review with screenshots HERE.
Special Features:
- Audio Commentary by Director Vincent Sherman
- Featurette: The Crawford Formula: Real To Reel (13:43)
- Screen Directors' Playhouse radio broadcast 4/5/1951 (59:14)
- Original Theatrical Trailer (2:12)
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BETTE DAVIS 4-FILM COLLECTION
The incomparable Bette Davis in four of her best Warner Bros. classics: JEZEBEL, DARK VICTORY, THE LETTER, and THE PRIVATE LIVES OF ELIZABETH AND ESSEX
Label: Warner Archive
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 104 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 Dual-Mono with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Fullscreen (1.37:1)
Director: Owen Davis
Cast: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Crisp, Fay Bainter, Richard Cromwell, Henry O'Neill, Spring Byington, John Litel
While movie fans were abuzz over who might play Scarlett O'Hara in the upcoming Gone with the Wind, Bette Davis got another Southern-belle role -- and gave a fiery performance that won the 1938 Best Actress Academy Award . Davis plays Julie, a New Orleans beauty whose constant attempts to goad fiance Pres Dillard (Henry Fonda) to jealousy backfire. Angry and disgraced, Pres breaks their engagement and leaves town. Julie endures a year of remorse until Pres comes home -- married. Then her vengeance explodes. Jezebel is also noted for its sumptuous sets and costumes, Fay Bainter's Oscar -winning performance and William Wyler's vivid direction, highlighted by a horrifying re-creation of a yellow fever epidemic. But the film's greatest strength is Davis, whose titanic talent has never been better displayed than in Jezebel.
Special Features:
- Audio Commentary by film historian Jeanine Basinger
- Jezebel: Legend of the South (23:57)
- Melody Masters: Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra (19380 (9:13)
- Daffy Duck in Hollywood (19380 (8:04)
- Ramblin 'Round the Hollywood Studios with the Candid Cameraman (1:45)
- Theatrical Reissue Trailer (1:57)
Label: Warner Archive
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 104 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 Dual-Mono with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Fullscreen (1.37:1)
Director: Edmund Goulding
Cast:Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ronald Reagan
A young socialite is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, and must decide whether she'll meet her final days with dignity. Bette Davis' bravura, moving-but-never-morbid performance as Judith Traheme, a dying heiress determined to find happiness in her few remaining months remains a three-hankie classic.
Special Features:
- Audio Commentary by Film Historian James Ursini and CNN Film Critic Paul Clinton
- Warner Night at the Movies: The Roaring Twenties Trailer (3:31), Newsreel (2:05), Old Hickory - 1939 Short (16:50),
Merry Melody Short: Robin Hood Makes Good (1939) (7:47)
- 1939: Tough Competition for Dark Victory (9:33)
- 1/8/1940 Lux Radio Theater Broadcast (59:12)
- Theatrical Trailer (3:18)
Label: Warner Archive
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 95 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: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson, Frieda Inescort, Gale Sondergaard, Bruce Lester, Elizabeth Inglis, Cecil Kellaway, Victor Sen Yung, Doris Lloyd, Willie Fung, Tetsu Komai
Six years after exploding to stardom in Of Human Bondage, Bette Davis equaled that excitement with another W. Somerset Maugham role as an adulteress using her sexual wiles to escape a murder conviction in The Letter. The film throbs with sultry tension thanks to Davis, an impeccable supporting cast, atmospheric cinematography and the artistry of three-time Academy Award winner* William Wyler, Davis' director on Jezebel and The Little Foxes. Nominated for seven Oscars , including Best Picture, Actress, Director and Supporting Actor, The Letter remains one of Hollywood's most special deliveries, a peerless example of melodrama as movie art.
Special Features:
- Alternate Ending Sequence
- Lux Radio Theater Adaptations: 4/41 & 2/94
- Theatrical Trailer (2:15)
Label: Warner Archive
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: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Donald Crisp, Alan Hale, Vincent Price, Henry Stephenson
Bette Davis and Errol Flynn made The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex fascinatingly public, striking sparks in this lavish Technicolor tale of the ill-fated love between the aging Elizabeth I and the dashing Earl of Essex. Thoroughly unglamorous here -- eyes and hairline shaved, face painted chalky white -- double Academy Award winner* Davis exudes such intelligence, energy and ardor that her romance with the decades-younger Essex (Flynn at the peak of his remarkable good looks and athletic verve) is completely believable. Based on Maxwell Anderson's play Elizabeth the Queen and directed by Michael Curtiz, this nominee for five Oscars takes liberties with historical accuracy, but none with dramatic impact. Long may these tempestuous, titled lovers reign! SPECIAL FEATURES: Leonard Maltin Hosts Warner Night at the Movies 1939 with Newsreel, Musical Short "The Royal Rodeo", Cartoon "Old Glory" and Theatrical Trailer; Featurette "Elizabeth and Essex: Battle Royale"
Special Features:
Warner Night at the Movies 1939: Introduction by Leonard Maltin (4:23), "Dark Victory" Theatrical Trailer (3:15), Newsreel (2:07), WB Cartoon: "Old Glory" (9:03), WB Short: "The Royal Rodeo" (14:28)
- Featurette: "Elizabeth & Essex: Battle Royale" (2005) (10:36)
- Theatrical Trailer (3:27)
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JUDY GARLAND 6-FILM COLLECTION
(1940-1954)
It's Judy! A collection of 6 of her great classic musicals: STRIKE UP THE BAND, GIRL CRAZY, MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS, IN THE GOOD OLD SUMMERTIME, SUMMER STOCK and A STAR IS BORN.
Label: Warner Archive
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 100 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0, 5.1 Surround Dual-Mono with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Fullscreen (1.37:1)
Director: Busby Berkeley
Cast: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Paul Whiteman, June Preisser, William Tracy, Larry Nunn
Among cinema's many treasures, few are as delightfully entertaining as the musical pairings of Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney. Strike Up the Band is one of the brightest results of that talented collaboration. Brimming with youthful high spirits, Mickey and Judy are effervescent as high school kids who are ready and eager to climb the long ladder of success. He's an energetic bandleader, she's his lovelorn singer. Together, they sing and dance their way to the top, with a few bumps along the way! Of course, the film abounds in musical riches, from a rousing "Drummer Boy," performed by Mickey and Judy, to Judy's plaintive rendition of "(I Ain't Got) Nobody." There's an all-out musical tribute to that forties dance craze, the conga ("Do the La Conga!"), and a stirring patriotic finale to the title song.
Special Features:
- Introduction by Mickey Rooney (3:16)
- MGM Short: Wedding Bills (1940) (3:42)
- MGM Animated Short: Romeo in Rhythm (8:17)
- "Do the La Conga" Stereo Version (6:01)
- "Leo is on the Air" Radio Promo - "Millions for Defense"
- 1940 Lux Radio Theater Broadcast with Rooney and Garland.
- Theatrical Trailer (2:47)
Label: Warner Archive
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 713 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0, 5.1 Surround Dual-Mono with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Fullscreen (1.37:1)
Director: Norman Taurog,
Busby Berkeley
Cast: Norman Taurog, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Gil Stratton, Robert E. Strickland, Rags Ragland, June Allyson, Nancy Walker, Guy Kibbee, Frances Rafferty, Henry O'Neill, Howard Freeman, Tommy Dorsey, Tommy Dorsey Band
Mickey Rooney. Judy Garland. Gershwin music. And Tommy Dorsey to play it. Who could ask for anything more? From Garland's rendition of "But Not for Me" to the grand finale of "I Got Rhythm," Girl Crazy is one of the most buoyant tunefests ever put on-screen. Rich kid Danny Churchill (Rooney) has a taste for wine, women and song, but not for higher education. So his father ships him to an all-male college out West where there's not supposed to be a female for miles. But before Danny arrives, he spies a pair of legs extending out from under a stalled roadster. They belong to the dean's granddaughter, Ginger Gray (Garland), who is more interested in keeping the financially strapped college open than falling for Danny's romantic line. At least at first.
Special Features:
- Song Selection
- Introduction by Mickey Rooney (4:10)
- Audio Commentary by film historian John Fricke
- Hollywood Daredevils - Pete Specialty Short (1943) (9:21)
- MGM Cartoon: The Early Bird Dood It! (8:51)
-"I Got Rhythm" Stereo Remix Version (7:31)
- "Bronco Busters" Outtake (Audio only, 2:22)
- Theatrical Trailer (2:13)
Label: Warner Archive
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 113 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0, 5.1 Surround Dual-Mono with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Fullscreen (1.37:1)
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor, Lucille Bremer, Tom Drake, Marjorie Main
Judy Garland stars in a timeless tale of family, captured with warmth and emotion by director Vincente Minnelli. The enduring popularity of Meet Me in St. Louis comes from a terrific blend of music, romance and humor. Starring Judy Garland, together with Margaret O'Brien (awarded a special Oscar as 1944's outstanding child actress) and Mary Astor, and featuring the musical classics "Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis," "The Trolley Song" and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas."
Special Features:
- Audio Commentary by John Fricke, Margaret O'Brien, Irving Brecher, Hugh Martin and Barbara Freed-Saltzman.
- Introduction by Liza Minnelli (4:59)
- Meet Me in St. Louis: The Making of an American Classic (30:47)
- Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972) (50:31)
- Becoming Attractions: Judy Garland (46:10)
- Meet Me in St. Louis 1966 TV Pilot (26:35).
- Warner Brothers Vitaphone Short: Bubbles (1930) (7:54)
- Soundie Short: Skip to My Lou (1941) (3:11)
- Audio Vault: "Boys and Girls Like You and Me" Outtake, 12/2/1946 Lux Radio Theater Broadcast; and a Music Only Track.
- Theatrical Trailer
Label: Warner Archive
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 103 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0, 5.1 Surround Dual-Mono with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Fullscreen (1.37:1)
Director: Robert Z. Leonard
Cast: Judy Garland, Van Johnson, S.Z. Sakall, Spring Byington, Clinton Sundberg, Buster Keaton, Marcia Van Dyke, Lillian Bronson, Liza Minnelli
Judy Garland, Van Johnson and silent comedy icon Buster Keaton star in this delightful musical when love can bloom between the most unlikely of couples In the Good Old Summertime.
Special Features:
- Introduction by Judy Garland Biographer John Fricke (4:20)
- James Fitzpatrick MGM Traveltalks
- "Chicago, the Beautiful" (10:15)
- Night Life in Chicago (8:53)
-Theatrical Trailer (3:04)
- Song Selection
Label: Warner Archive
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 713 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0, 5.1 Surround Dual-Mono with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Fullscreen (1.37:1)
Director: Charles Walters
Cast: Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Eddie Bracken, Gloria DeHaven, Marjorie Main, Phil Silvers, Ray Collins
There's an unusual harvest at Falbury Farm: beans, hay show tunes. It's a bumper crop, too, with Judy Garland and Gene Kelly leading all the hoofing, singing and sparking. In her final MGM musical, Garland plays Jane Falbury, a farm owner more than a bit riled when her aspiring-actress sister (Gloria De Haven) shows up with a theatrical troupe that wants to stage a musical in the family's barn. Any guess who becomes the show's sudden star after its lead runs off with a Broadway actor? Highlights include Kelly's shuffle-and-squeak "You, Wonderful You" dance solo making use of loose boards and newspaper on the floor, tuxedo-topped Garland's leggy, joyous "Get Happy" and a Kelly/Phil Silvers country-bumpkin bit of "Heavenly Music" backed by woofing canines. After a show like this, how're you gonna keep these kids down on the farm?
Special Features:
- Song Selection
- Summer Stock: Get Happy! (16:31)
- Vintage Tex Avery Cartoon "The Cuckoo Clock" (7:06)
- Vintage Pete Smith Specialty Short: "Did'ja Know" (7:50)
- "Fall In Love" Audio Outtake (2:0)
- Theatrical Trailer (2:55)
Label: Warner Archive
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: PG
Duration: 176 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0, 5.1 Surround Dual-Mono with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Widescreen (2.55:1)
Director: George Cukor
Cast: Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson, Charles Bickford, Tom Noonan
Judy Garland had no better showcase of her singing and acting talent than as the title "star" of this moving, memorable classic directed by George Cukor. Shortened after its 1954 premiere, the film was famously reconstructed to near its original length in 1983 under the leadership of the late film historian Ronald Haver. Using cutting-edge digital restoration tools, this timeless movie has been meticulously preserved and restored from the original camera negative, bringing back its original luster, brilliant saturated colors and crisp CinemaScope image. A Star Is Born endures as one of Hollywood's supreme triumphs.
Special Features:
- Introduction (3:00)
- Audio Vault (106:05)
- Deleted Scenes (22:23)
- Alternate Takes (8:37)
- When My Sugar Walks Down the Street Outtake (0:58)
- Pantages Premiere TV Special (29:58)
- Newsreel Montage (7:52)
- Premiere in Cinemascope (2:05)
- A Report by Jack L. Warner (6:23)
- Film Effects Reel (0:57)
- Looney Tunes Short: A Star is Bored (7:12)
- Theatrical Trailers: A Star Is Born (1937)(2:47),
A Star Is Born (1954) (3:53), A Star Is Born (1976) (3:46)
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