Monday 9 February 2015

The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941)

Directed by William Keighley and starring James Cagney, Bette Davis and Stuart Erwin.


DVD bought in 2013
91m 30s
Part of the 'James Cagney Collection'





Warner Night at the Movies -
Vintage newsreel,
musical shorts "Carnival of Rhythm" and the Oscar-nominated "Forty Boys and a Song,"
classic cartoons "Porky's Pooch" and the Oscar-nominated "Rhapsody in Rivets"
Theatrical trailer

Torrid Zone (1940)

Directed by William Keighley and starring James Cagney, Ann Sheridan and Pat O'Brien.


DVD bought in 2013
88mins
Part of the 'James Cagney Collection'





Warner Night at the Movies -
Vintage newsreel,
musical short "Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra,"
historical short "Pony Express Days,"
classic Oscar-nominated cartoon "A Wild Hare"

The Thief of Bagdad (1940)

Directed by Michael Powell, Ludwig Berger, and Tim Whelan, starring Conrad Veidt, Sabu, June Duprez and John Justin.

DVD bought in 2006

Blu-ray bought in 2015
106mins






DVD





Blu-ray extras -

Image galleries
Theatrical Trailer

The Mark of Zorro (1940)

Directed by Rouben Mamoulian and starring Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell and Basil Rathbone.


Special Edition DVD bought in 2006
93m 37s






All new colorized feature
Restored black and white feature
Commentary by film critic Richard Schickel
"Tyrone Power: The Last Idol" as seen on Biography on the A&E Network

The Sea Hawk (1940)

Directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains, Henry Daniell and Flora Robson.


DVD bought in 2005
127mins
Part of the 'Errol Flynn Collection'





Leonard Maltin Hosts Warner Night at the Movies
Newsreel,
Alice in Movieland short,
Porky's Poor Fish cartoon
New featurette: The Sea Hawk: Flynn in Action

Rebecca (1940)

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders and Judith Anderson.


Criterion 2-disc DVD bought in 2004
130mins







• Commentary by film scholar Leonard J. Leff, author of Hitchcock and Selznick: The Rich and Strange Collaboration of Alfred Hitchcock and David O. Selznick in Hollywood
• Isolated music and effects track
• Rare screen, hair, makeup, and costume tests
• Footage from the 1940 Annual Academy Awards ceremony
• Hundreds of behind-the-scenes photos
• Illustrated essay on Daphne du Maurier
• Hitchcock on Rebecca
• Phone interviews with star Joan Fontaine and Dame Judith Anderson from 1986
• Hitchcock's casting notes
• Reissue trailer
• Production correspondence and casting notes
• 1939 test screening questionnaire
• Complete broadcast of the 1938 Campbell Playhouse radio adaptation
• 1941 Lux Radio Theatre broadcast
• 1950 Lux Radio Theatre broadcast
• 22-page booklet

The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Directed by George Cukor and starring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart and Ruth Hussey.


2-disc special edition DVD bought in 2005
112m 07s






Commentary by Film Historian Jeannine Basinger
George Cukor Movie Trailer Gallery
Katharine Hepburn: All About Me - A Self-Portrait
The Men Who Made the Movies: George Cukor
Robert Benchley Short: That Inferior Feeling
Cartoon: The Homeless Flea
Audio-Only Bonus: Two Radio Adaptations Featuring the Movie's Three Stars