Warner Brothers Archive Collection (DVDs only)

[zombeaner]

You can also pick them up through the TCM store for $17.99

[stereo]

I also don't think it's the entire archive collection at DD. I can't find Urgh! A Music War or Carny for example (but I may just be blind).

[zombeaner]

I also don't think it's the entire archive collection at DD. I can't find Urgh! A Music War or Carny for example (but I may just be blind).

The TCM store has Urgh, it was the first one I looked for.

[MoonlitKnight]

I also don't think it's the entire archive collection at DD. I can't find Urgh! A Music War or Carny for example (but I may just be blind).

Yeah, you're right. They don't have either...nor do they have Rudolph's "Made in Heaven," a title for which I searched. :-k

[starmanof51]

New stuff, dominated by Edward G. Robinson:

Because You're Mine (Mario Lanza)
Call It A Day (Olivia DeHavilland)
Gun Glory (Stewart Granger)
I Love Melvin (Reynolds/O'Connor. Paging David Hare!)
The Man With Two Faces (Robinson)
Manpower (Robinson/Dietrich)
The Nutcracker (must be christmas)
Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (Robinson)
Out of the Fog (Garfied/Lupino)
Rich, Young, and Pretty (Jane Powell)
Tiger Shark (Robinson)
Two Seconds (Robinson)

and a six disc collection of something called "The Big Band, Jazz, and Swing Short Subject Collection", that has serious potential but is sparsely described.

With all the Robinson they've spewed out one way or another, I'm flummoxed at the "The Sea Wolf" being unreleased. I'd like to think it's due to a pressed disc possibility, but I'm too jaded for that.

[domino harvey]

TIGER SHARK
They've started the dumping of Howard Hawks?! I was sure they were holding out for a Hawks set.

AND AND AND One of the greatest musicals ever, I Love Melvin, gets dumped?! So, what, no more musical boxes either?

[buskeat]

TIGER SHARK
They've started the dumping of Howard Hawks?! I was sure they were holding out for a Hawks set.

AND AND AND One of the greatest musicals ever, I Love Melvin, gets dumped?! So, what, no more musical boxes either?

I think we'll see a Film Noir Vol. 5 in 2010, a Jean Harlow set in 2011, Magnificent Ambersons in 2012 perhaps. That should cover classic releases for the next three years right there, with Greed after that in 2024 in a 100th anniversary edition.

[HarryLong]

Dumping OUR VINES HAVE TENDER GRAPES is downright criminal!

[montgomery]

and a six disc collection of something called "The Big Band, Jazz, and Swing Short Subject Collection", that has serious potential but is sparsely described.

This is totally unfounded, but my guess is that it's probably similar (or identical?) to the Vitaphone sets they put out on laserdisc.

Update: The list is up and yes, it's similar.

[atcolomb]

Speaking of Edward G Robinson he was in a British film called Sammy Going South (1963) also titled as A Boy Ten Feet Tall, it's a good movie to watch about a Ten year old boy traveling 4500 miles on his own from the Suez Canal to Durban, South Africa. Well made and great performances and hard to get on dvd or any other format.

[starmanof51]

Also added:

The Last Gangster (more Robinson)
Give a Girl A Break (between this and I Love Melvin, I think you're right about no more musicals boxes, Domino)

[Zumpano]

Warner now to remaster some of their Archive releases / Star Is Born Blu-Ray in next 6 months

[jaredsap]

Star Is Born Blu-Ray in next 6 months

As much as I love the Cukor, I'm ecstatic they've definitely remastered and included the Wellman.

[domino harvey]

Also added:

The Last Gangster (more Robinson)
Give a Girl A Break (between this and I Love Melvin, I think you're right about no more musicals boxes, Domino)

Give a Girl a Break is a fucking masterpiece. Warners sat on these two and released stuff like Words and Music? Barf

[Matt]

Hey! Words and Music at least has some great numbers (2 Lena Horne, June Allyson doing "Thou Swell," and "Slaughter on 10th Ave.") For musical songwriter biopic awfulness, it's hard to top Night and Day and Deep in My Heart.

I may have to blind buy Give a Girl a Break just based on the presence of the Champions, Debbie Reynolds, and Bob Fosse. I'll wait until they pack it with a few more Debbie Reynolds titles in a "Value Pak" though.

[domino harvey]

I'd certainly rank Give a Girl a Break among the best musicals ever made, if that helps you along any. And while I don't rate it quite as highly as the Donen, I Love Melvin is nothing to sneeze at: Debbie Reynolds dressed up in a football costume and getting tossed around would have surely moved some units had Warners any balls

[domino harvey]

In case you didn't see it in the Bargains thread, Warner Archives is doing a 10 titles for 99.95 with free shipping through the end of the month. Finally bit the bullet and picked up a bunch of titles I'd been eying, will report back on quality later:

Above and Beyond
Gabriel Over the White House
Give a Girl a Break
I Love Melvin
Juke Girl
the Moon is Blue
the Strawberry Blonde
Thousands Cheer
Tiger Shark
Today We Live

[Frankinho007]

Newest wave:

Boy with Green Hair, The (1948)
Canterville Ghost, The (1944)
Easiest Way, The (1931)
Enchanted Cottage, The (1945)
Golden Dawn (1930)
Happy Years, The (1950)
Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929)
It's A Great Life (1929)
Next Voice You Hear, The (1950)
On With the Show (1929)
Peanuts Motion Comics: The Complete First Volume
Rio Rita (1929)
Sally (1929)
Show Girl in Hollywood (1930)
Smart Woman (1948)
Union Depot (1932)
Untamed Youth (1957)
Woman on Pier 13, The (1949)

[domino harvey]

There goes any remaining hope of a fourth Bette Davis set. What a joke

[Frankinho007]

There goes any remaining hope of a fourth Bette Davis set. What a joke

Am I missing something? No Davis title has been released in this wave?

[domino harvey]

Whoops. Man, you know it's been a long day when you confuse the Enchanted Cottage and Cabin in the Cotton #-o

[Matt]

Ah'd lahk ta scold ya, but ah jay-ust wahshed mah hay-uh.

[Jeff]

Boy with Green Hair, The (1948)
Canterville Ghost, The (1944)

I can't believe these are being relegated to the Archive line, though after The Tall Target, I shouldn't be surprised at anything.

[HerrSchreck]

I'm waiting for someone to report in from the hospital, typing with their pinky toe that they've been brain damaged by watching Golden Dawn, probably the most disastrous musical ever made (and certainly among the--if not the--most racist). Watching the ensemble chorus chiming in behind the female lead singing My B'wana is one of the most brain-frying experiences you'll have watching cinema. Pushes the outer frontiers of bad film and Bad Taste into abstraction. The writers obliviously putting together this film is kind of like the cinematic equivalent of walking into a small child's incredibly tragic funeral service tap dancing and farting while juggling rubber tits and goosing all the ladies & tossing gags around.

In better WB Archive news, I recently saw Niblo's heartfelt The Red Lily... beautifully composed and constructed, visually... very good film, stupid ending though.

[The Elegant Dandy Fop]

That's it. When I get paid, I'm getting Golden Dawn. Your description sold me on it.