I've been waiting for this title for years on DVD. This is one of my favourite musicals. No Doubt Warners will pull out the stops for this release. If you're never seen this movie buy it now, i guarantee you'll love it.
This is Vincentte Minelli's finest hour. Thank you Warners
King Vidor ("The Big Parade", "The Crowd", "Show People") was one of the first major Hollywood studio directors to feature an all-African-American cast in this visually striking film from M-G-M in 1929. Produced in the first full year of sound production, Vidor's film (like Rouben Mamoulian's "Applause" released the same year)manages to avoid the staginess and overcome many of the technical limitations inherent in the early talkies. Forget the stereotype-laden plotline: the lust for a city vamp (Nina Mae McKinney)leads a sharecropper-turned-preacher (Daniel L. Haynes) astray--this film gets 4 stars for its climactic sequence alone: a bravura expressionistic chase through a fog-shrouded swamp that is worthy of Murnau or Lang at their best--definitely worth a look! More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Daniel L. Haynes DVD Release Date: 10 January 2006
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Fans of classic movie musicals will be in heaven with Astaire & Rogers Collection, Vol. 1, featuring the DVD debut of five films of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, the quintessential dancing duo. The two gems of the set are Top Hat (1935), generally considered their definitive movie, and Swing Time (1936), which many consider their most enjoyable. Follow the Fleet (1936), Shall We Dance (1937), and The Barkleys of Broadway (1949) fill out the set, each with its own charms.
Who was Greta Garbo? For a while the greatest of all movie stars, then a celebrated recluse, always "the mysterious lady," Garbo purred, "I want to be alone," and people took her at her word. Of course, the real Garbo is actually the "reel" Garbo, the silvery, suffering creature on the movie screen--the way the light caught her eyes, and the way she slithered around in silk. There are other Garbo films to be seen, but Garbo: The Signature Collection is the essential Garbo, the alpha and omega for fans and beginners. This 10-disc package collects seven of her MGM sound pictures, three silents, and the Turner Classic Movies documentary Garbo, which gives a good career overview and warm testimony from friends and relatives (although more critical perspective on her talent would... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Greta Garbo DVD Release Date: Released the 06 September 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Part mystery, part wartime polemic, Lifeboat finds director Alfred Hitchcock tackling a cinematic challenge that foreshadows the self-imposed handicaps of Rope and Rear Window. As with those subsequent features, Hitchcock confines his action and characters to a single set, in this instance the lone surviving lifeboat from an Allied freighter sunk by a German U-boat in the North Atlantic. A less confident, ingenious filmmaker might have opened up John Steinbeck's dialogue-driven character study beyond the battered boat and its cargo of survivors, but Hitchcock instead revels in his predicament to exploit the enforced intimacy between his characters.
