4K Master from the UCLA Film & Television Archive’s 35mm restoration. One of the most renowned World War II films relates the timeless saga of the American G.I. as no other movie has before or since. The dilemma of the common soldier trudging to an unknown fate under a blazing Italian sun is captured by the different thoughts and personalities of a disparate group of men under arduous stress.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
Commentary by Alan K. Rode
Zanuck Goes to War: The WWII Films of Fox
The Battle of San Pietro – Un-cut version from the Academy Film Archive preservation negative
WWII Fox Movietone Newsreels
4K Master from the UCLA Film & Television Archive’s 35mm restoration. One of the most renowned World War II films relates the timeless saga of the American G.I. as no other movie has before or since. The dilemma of the common soldier trudging to an unknown fate under a blazing Italian sun is captured by the different thoughts and personalities of a disparate group of men under arduous stress.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
Commentary by Alan K. Rode
Zanuck Goes to War: The WWII Films of Fox
The Battle of San Pietro – Un-cut version from the Academy Film Archive preservation negative
WWII Fox Movietone Newsreels
STAN AND OLLIE LOOK AND SOUND BETTER THAN EVER! In new 2K and 4K digital restorations from original 35mm nitrate sources, Laurel and Hardy’s classic comedies are here in the best quality since their first release! Bonus Extras: 2,500 rare photos, posters and studio files • Commentaries by Randy Skretvedt and Richard W. Bann • Film and audio interviews with L&H co-workers • Alternate soundtracks, music tracks, trailers • Almost 9 hours of EXCLUSIVE rarities!
STAN AND OLLIE LOOK AND SOUND BETTER THAN EVER! In new 2K and 4K digital restorations from original 35mm nitrate sources, Laurel and Hardy’s classic comedies are here in the best quality since their first release! Bonus Extras: 2,500 rare photos, posters and studio files • Commentaries by Randy Skretvedt and Richard W. Bann • Film and audio interviews with L&H co-workers • Alternate soundtracks, music tracks, trailers • Almost 9 hours of EXCLUSIVE rarities!
Stylish, Dark, Cynical! The Crimson Kimono (1959), The Lineup (1958), The Shadow in the Window (1956), The Long Haul (1957), Pickup Alley (1957), The Tijuana Story (1957), She Played with Fire (1957), The Case Against Brooklyn (1958), Man on a String (1960) –
Stalwart “noir” directors and casts highlight these hard to find features: Address Unknown (1944), Escape in the Fog (1945), The Guilt of Janet Ames (1947), The Black Book (The Reign of Terror) (1949), Johnny Allegro (1949), 711 Ocean Drive (1950), The Killer That Stalked New York (1950), Assignment Paris (1952), The Miami Story (1954)
It’s time once again for film noir fans rejoice with 9 additional major studio film noirs, this time from the period 1954-1956: “Bait” (1954), “The Crooked Web” (1955), “The Night Holds Terror” (1955), “Footsteps in the Fog” (1955), “Cell 2455, Death Row” (1955), “5 Against the House” (1955), “New Orleans Uncensored”(1955), “Spin a Dark Web” (1955), “Rumble on the Docks” (1956)
Blu-rays
Josephine Baker captivated audiences through stage, recordings and motion pictures, and you’ll see why in “The French Way,” a farcical romantic-comedy set in contemporary WWII France, about young lovers forbidden to marry by their respective families. Baker, as “Zazu,” the owner of a nightclub, inherits a job restoring harmony between the two families and allowing the young lovers to se marier. A lost film – exquisitely restored!
Blu-rays
Part devil, part legend and all man, Boss (former football star Fred Williamson) is an ex-slave who’s “decided to hunt white folks for a change,” becoming a bounty hunter and setting out on the trail of fugitive outlaw Jed Clayton (William Smith). With his comic sidekick Amos (D’Urville Martin), he rides into the town of San Miguel, finds that it has no sheriff and takes the job himself. Boss takes a bite out of local crime, chases women and brings the hammer down on Clayton in this amusing and action-filled parody of the 1970s blaxploitation genre, instituting black man’s law in this white man’s town!