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New Warner Archive releases
Topic Started: Nov 16 2010, 09:08 AM (3,119 Views)
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It's a Ginger Rogers 6-pack.

Finishing School
Primrose Path
Lucky Partners
Chance at Heaven
Suicide Fleet
Upperworld (1934)

Thoughts?
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Coming next week, westerns and noir:

Stars in My Crown (1950) Jody McCrea
The Outriders (1950) Jody McCrea
Ambush (1950) Directed by Sam Wood
Ride, Vaquero! (1953) Robert Taylor, Anthony Quinn
Wild Rovers (1971) Directed by Blake Edwards, starring William Holden (restored "roadshow" version)
Tim Holt Western Classics, Vol. 1: 10 films (titles to be announced, but their from early in Holt's career, it says here)
Destination Murder (1950) Stanley Clements, Joyce Mackenzie
Experiment Alcatraz (1950)
The Tattooed Stranger (1950)
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New releases:

Whiplash (1948) Dane Clark, Alexis Smith
The Wagons Roll at Night (1941) Humphrey Bogart, Sylvia Sidney
Confidential Agent (1945) Charles Boyer, Lauren Bacall
The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947) Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck
Devotion (1946) Ida Lupino, Paul Henreid, Olivia de Havilland
Days of Glory (1944) Directed by Jacques Tourneur, starring Gregory Peck
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A good batch, all of 'em interesting for one reason or another. Confidential Agent, while not what everybody would call a good movie, is a favorite of mine. Ditto for The Wagons Roll At Night, which is, after all, a Bogart movie about carnivals. Of course, it's about a lion escaping from a carnival, and did you ever go to a carnival that had lions? Maybe they all escaped at once and never came back, in which case no wonder there's a movie about it.

Days Of Glory is a pro-Russian wartime movie, if that matters to you. It doesn't hold my attention.
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I have DIED and gone to heaven. Latest releases:

Von Stroheim's "The Merry Widow" (1925)
"Don Juan" (1926) PLUS all the Vitaphone shorts that premiered with it on opening night.
Noah's Ark (1928)

Wow.

WOW.



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The silent Merry Widow is a truly oddball film -- I don't know the full history, but Von Stroheim was benched at some point and more company-minded men took charge. Thus you go back and forth between operetta froth and seriously quirky decadence, with hints that things were a lot quirkier at some point.

This may be the first film to feature blindfolded musicians at a seduction: two ladies, stationed on the very bed the seducer is maneuvering the heroine onto. They smile and chat with each other as vice and virtue square off dramatically a few feet away. You're left with the impression that if vice won, they'd stay put and keep playing -- or something.
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I've wanted all of these films for a long time; the only one I've seen is Noah's Ark, and the spectacle in that one is amazing.
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Noah’s Ark is the only one I haven’t seen, so looking forward to it.

The Don Juan collection seems to be a duplicate of the laserdisc collection. Obviously of supreme historical interest, but I think you’ll find that an hour of those utterly static musical shorts, without the novelty of sound gluing you to your seat, is more than enough. (One short, The Volga Boatmen, didn’t make either collection, so I assume it is lost.)

Having said that, the Will Hays introduction is priceless. The man was a cross of Margaret Hamilton, Charles Middleton, and Carry Nation, the perfect choice for the head of a censorship office.
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Just announced:

Yolanda and the Thief (1945) Fred Astaire, Lucille Bremer
Invitation to the Dance (1956) Gene Kelly
Little Nellie Kelly (1940) Judy Garland
Thoroughbreds Don't Cry (1937) Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney
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I liked Yolanda.
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I've been waiting for "Invitation to the Dance". Perhaps it's not a true classic, but it's certainly an interesting experiment and the whole thing is very well executed.

Basic idea is three stories told in dance: a circus clown with unrequited love for a beautiful acrobat (as the subject matter implies, a bit self-consciously arty); a modern-day riff on La Ronde with a bracelet being passed from lover to lover (with flashy turns for a parade of other dancers); and finally a US sailor who finds himself in an cartoony Arabian Nights fantasy (mostly animated, with Kelly outdancing a sexy snake and a pair of palace guards).
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The Yellow Rose, The: Complete Series (22 episodes, David Soul & Cybill Shepard)
The F.B.I.: Season One - Part 1 (16 episodes from 1965-66)
The Last Dinosaur (1977, Richard Boone)
PT 109 (1963, Cliff Robertson as JFK in WW2)
The Squeeze (1977, with Stacy Keach)
The Rise and Fall of Michael Rimmer (1970, Peter Cook & John Cleese)
Used People (1992, Shirley MacLaine)
Some Mother's Son (1996, Helen Mirren)
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Fritz Lang's While the City Sleeps and Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (both widescreen; 1956)
Age of Innocence (1934, Irene Dunn)
Unfinished Dance (1947, Margaret O'Brien & Cyd Charisse)

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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt is my least favorite Lang picture. Fontaine looks like hell and turns in a lousy performance, and the plot is sheer crap. You'll be entertained by While the City Sleeps: it's the one with "Stop Me Before I Kill More" written on the mirror, an eerie touch from a real-life case.
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Mar 2 2011, 07:12 PM
The Wagons Roll At Night[/i], which is, after all, a Bogart movie about carnivals. Of course, it's about a lion escaping from a carnival, and did you ever go to a carnival that had lions? Maybe they all escaped at once and never came back, in which case no wonder there's a movie about it.
Remake of the 1936 Warner film Bengal Tiger with Barton Mclaine
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