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New Warner Archive releases
Topic Started: Nov 16 2010, 09:08 AM (3,116 Views)
JazzGuyy
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Some stuff that looks interesting in this week's new Warner Archive releases. There's some Errol Flynn movies, some Barbara Stanwyck, Luise Rainer and an Academy Award winner from the war years. Also a few other items.

http://www.wbshop.com/New-Releases/ARCHIVENEW,default,sc.html?psortb1=name-sort&psortd1=1&sz=17
TANSTAAFL!
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Chuck Jones' Phantom Tollbooth, finally! It's more the cute Chuck Jones than the comic Chuck Jones, and it's definitely pitched and paced for pre-ADD kids, but it's still a pleasure to watch and offers a lot of genuinely clever bits between the preachments for learning. Sort of a feature spin on Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land.
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“The Human Comedy” DEFINITLY!
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I can't imagine someone actually spending time to come up with a less-interesting list of Christmas-themed tv shows. Surely there are holiday episodes of better shows somewhere in the WB Archives.
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Just arrived from the Warner Archives:

Alias the Doctor (1932) with Richard Barthelmess, Norman Foster, and Marian Marsh (directed by Michael Curtiz).
Heat Lighting (1934) with Aline MacMahon, Ann Dvorak, Preston Foster, Glenda Ferrell, Frank McHugh, and Lyle Talbot (dir. Mervyn LeRoy)
Black Fury (1935) with Paul Muni and William Gargan (dir. Curtiz)
From Headquarters (1933) with George Brent and Eugene Pallette (dir. William Dieterle)
Blondie Johnson (1932) with Joan Blondell, Chester Morris (dir. Ray Enright)

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Being released this week:

Susan Lennox, Her Fall and Rise(Garbo & Gable)
Romance (Garbo)
Torrent (Garbo's screen debut)
Two Faced Woman (Garbo & Melvyn Douglas)
Double Feature: The White Sister 1923 (Lillian Gish) and 1933 (Helen Hayes)

Thoughts?
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Women’s week.

The only one I’ve seen is Two-Faced Woman, which, if no great shakes, is better than its career-killer reputation would lead you to expect.
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New announcements:

Vincente Minelli's The Cobweb with Richard Widmark
Tea And Sympathy
Two Weeks in Another Town with Kirk Douglas and Edward G. Robinson
Walter Pidgeon Double Feature: Society Lawyer/Stronger Than Desire
Warren William Triple Feature: Times Square Playboy, Don't Bet on Blondes, The Woman from Monte Carlo
Robert Young Double Feature: Paradise for Three/Miracles for Sale
The Reluctant Debutante

Thoughts? Recommendations?
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Anybody?
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I ordered The Cobweb, The Reluctant Debutante and Two Weeks in Another Town right off the bat. The Cobweb is one of the great bad movies. It's set in a funny farm and the whole plot turns on the new drapes in the common room. Great cast (Widmark, Bacall, Boyer, Gloria Grahame, Oscar Levant, Gish, Susan Strasberg), great direction, music, production values all in the service of the silliest plot ever. I could watch it every night. Two Weeks in Another Town also rates five stars on the SillyMeter -- it's a sequel to The Bad and the Beautiful, sort of, set in Rome, and Minnelli gets to poke fun at some of the foreign flicks so popular at the time (La Dolce Vita and Last Year In Marienbad stand out). Edward G. Robinson, a washed up director, and Kirk Douglas, a washed-up actor, get together to wow the public one last time though they hate each other, but it doesn't come out the way you'd expect. The actors (Claire Trevor, Cyd Charisse) are so much fun to watch that you ignore the script. The Reluctant Debutante is pure champagne. Rex Harrison is married to Kay Kendall, a daughter by his first marriage comes to stay, so Kendall decides she has to come out as a debutante, and moves heaven and earth to make it happen. Only trouble is, the daughter is typical California girl Sandra Dee. This is high comedy: no pratfalls, no rudeness -- so if you don't like Lubitsch, The Philadelphia Story or Noel Coward, stay away. But for me, it's a five star picture, unjustly neglected even when it came out, even though the great Julius Epstein (Casablanca) did the script from a play by William Douglas Home.

As for the rest, I'll have to do research but nothing leaps out. Tea and Sympathy is also Minnelli, but you just about have to be female to like it. Well, maybe there are some gays old-fashioned enough to, but not many, I bet. Deborah Kerr feels sorry for teenager John Kerr because the other boys tease him for being a sissy, so what does she do? You got it! Trouble is, she takes two hours to get around to it. Long movie, but with the usual Minnelli bells and whistles.

Don't think I need any more Warren William movies. Two is more than enough.
Edited by panzer the great & terrible, Jan 23 2011, 05:20 PM.
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Thank you... the Warren William movies will probably be the only ones I order, although I may add the Cobweb 'cause you make it sound so good...
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People have been mockingly quoting the final line of TEA AND SYMPATHY for decades: "Years from now, when you talk about this--and you will--be kind." The film's main interest is sociological in that it shows what tight grip censorship still had on the movie industry in 1956. The Legion of Decency threatened to rate it "C for Condemned" (i.e. You go to Hell if you see it), so MGM had to add an epilog assuring us the boy was not gay and the wife was punished. This mollified the Legion enough to change its rating to "B--Morally Objectionable in part for All" (i.e. You may have to do time in Purgatory.)
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Haven't seen the film, but critic Walter Kerr ripped "Tea and Sympathy" into small pieces in one of his books: "How Not to Write a Play." He used it as an example of "the well-made play" -- a term of contempt, referring to plays that were all construction and clumsy manipulation, contriving to make characters and situations unrealistically simple and obvious (and sometimes contradictory) in service of a plot.
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The latest batch...

The Bodyguard (1948) Lawrence Tierney, Priscilla Lane
Chicago Calling (1952) Dan Duryea
Operation C.I.A. (1965) Burt Reynolds
The Night Digger (1971) Patricia Neal
Libel (1959) Olivia De Havilland, Dirk Bogarde
Twenty Plus Two (1961) David Janssen, Jeanne Crain
The Hour of 13 (1952) Peter Lawford
Home Before Dark (1958) Jean Simmons
Night Unto Night (1949) Ronald Reagan
Stallion Road (1947) Ronald Reagan
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Sunday in New York (1963) Jane Fonda, Robert Culp
Bachelor in Paradise (1961) Bob Hope, Lana Turner
The Bachelor Father (1931) Marion Davies
My Love Came Back (1940) Olivia de Havilland
Design for Scandal (1941) Walter Pidgeon, Rosalind Russell
Bride by Mistake (1944) Laraine Day
Her Highness and the Bellboy (1945) Hedy Lamarr, Robert Walker
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