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Frank Sinatra - The Early Years
Double Dynamite (new to DVD)
It Happened in Brooklyn (new to DVD)
Step Lively (new to DVD)
Higher and Higher (new to DVD)
The Kissing Bandit (new to DVD)

Frank Sinatra - The Golden Years
None But the Brave (new to DVD)
The Man wit the Golden Arm (new to DVD)
Some Came Running (new to DVD)
The Tender Trap (new to DVD)
Marriage on the Rocks (new to DVD)

Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly
Take Me Out to the Ball Game (newly repackaged)
On the Town (newly repackaged)
Anchor's Aweigh (newly repackaged)

Frank Sinatra - The Rat Pack Ultimate Collection
Ocean's Eleven (newly repackaged)
Sergeant's 3 (never before on DVD!)
4 For Texas (newly repackaged)
Robin and the Seven Hoods (newly repackaged)

Its not a Raoul Walsh or King Vidor collection, but its nice to see that Warner may give The Man With a Golden Arm a decent DVD.

EDIT: And Some Come Running? YES

Great for Some Came Running, but I'm really curious how The Man with the Golden Arm will look and whether it'll have a commentary (probably not since it isn't listed). At the very least it should be progressive, unlike the otherwise pretty good Hart Sharp edition.

It appears all the releases are due May 13th. I guess Warner Bros. is foregoing original poster art for these though.

davidhare wrote:A pity Warners are not remastering Anchors Away - the source print is awful.

Very true, probably the worst transfer by Warner since the invention of the format.

Who owns The Naked Runner (1967)? I'd love to see that movie, as I love Sidney Furie and Otto Heller's work on The Ipcress File.

I've always enjoyed Sinatra's acting (especially in From Here to Eternity) but I haven't heard of most of these. Has anybody seen any of the more obscure titles?

And finally, The Man With the Golden Arm gets a definitive DVD release (or at least I'm assuming...knowing Warner it should look rather breathtaking, though).

Dylan wrote:And finally, The Man With the Golden Arm gets a definitive DVD release (or at least I'm assuming...knowing Warner it should look rather breathtaking, though).

I did have to chuckle at the "(New to DVD)" tag for that one

It seems that The Naked Runner was produced by Sinatra's production company, Artanis, but that Warner released the VHS tape. If they own it, it seems strange that they didn't include it any of these boxes.

Why not include NEVER SO FEW? It´s Sinatra, right?

Stefan Andersson wrote:Why not include NEVER SO FEW? It´s Sinatra, right?

Because it's already available in the Steve McQueen box and individually. For the most part, Warner tries to avoid including the same discs in different sets.

Just want to urge everybody who hasn't seen it to give Some Came Running a shot. It's Minnelli's, Sinatra's, Dean's and Maclaine's best movie all rolled into one.

SOME CAME RUNNING was fine. Dino gave us three good dramatic performances in SCR, RIO BRAVO, and THE YOUNG LIONS and then ...
nothing.
If you get the Sinatra - Golden Years box with SOME CAME RUNNING, you will have to endure NONE BUT THE BRAVE, a below average war movie which begins with some awful special effects as a transport plane performs an aerodynamic impossibility as it crash lands on the water and skips across the waves to plop itself on an island inhabited by a few forgotten Japanese soldiers. The title refers to the endurance required by those choosing to sit through the rest of the movie.

Dean Martin's best performances weren't in dramas though

domino harvey wrote:Dean Martin's best performances weren't in dramas though

I've always had an enormous soft spot for Texas Across the River in my heart. It's one of the very first movies I remember ever watching on TV.

And then there are all those Matt Helm masterpieces....

GringoTex wrote:Just want to urge everybody who hasn't seen it to give Some Came Running a shot. It's Minnelli's, Sinatra's, Dean's and Maclaine's best movie all rolled into one.

And it has an Elmer Bernstein score. I've heard so many great things about this over the years and I look forward to seeing it.

Here's the DVD Active rundown of these releases. Apparently, Warner wasn't content to just fuck up the artwork of the new titles:

DVD Active wrote:Additional titles with new packaging will be Never So Few, High Society, Till the Clouds Roll By and The First Deadly Sin which all carry a suggested retail price of $12.97.

At least all the titles are dirt cheap.

Sergeant’s 3
Special Features:
• Audio commentary by Frank Sinatra Jr.

He could give out his PIN number halfway thru that track and no one would ever find out

DVDtalk on Golden Years

That DVD Talk review mentions The Man with the Golden Arm at 1.85:1 letterboxed, but the Hart Sharp is 1.33:1. Is Warner Bros. in the wrong?

domino harvey wrote:Ocean's 11 coming out on Blu-ray October 5

I can't remember whether it was 'Ocean's 11' or 'Robbo And The Seven Hoods', but can you imagine a bunch of eight year old 'Rat Pack' wannabes trooping off to our local cinema to watch our 'heroes' do their thing!
"E-Oh-E-le-ven!" :-"