The Busby Berkeley Collection

9-film 10-disc DVD box set bought in 2013

Movies included in the set -

42nd Street (1933)

Gold Diggers of 1933

Footlight Parade (1933)

Dames (1934)

Gold Diggers of 1935

Gold Diggers of 1937

Varsity Show (1937)

Hollywood Hotel (1937)

Gold Diggers in Paris (1938)

Extras include commentaries, documentaries shorts and cartoons

42nd Street (1933)

Directed by Lloyd Bacon and starring Warner Baxter, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell and Ginger Rogers.

DVD bought in 2007

89m 15s

Extras:

Harry Warren: America's foremost composer (9m 09s)
Hollywood Newsreel (8m 57s)
A Trip Through a Hollywood Studio (10m 06s)

Grand Hotel (1932)

Directed by Edmund Goulding and starring Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery and Lionel Barrymore.

Steelbook Blu-ray bought in 2014

112m 41s

• Commentary by Jeffrey Vance and Mark A. Viera
• Checking out: Grand Hotel
• Hollywood Premiere of Grand Hotel
• Behind the Story: Nothing ever happens
• Behind the Story: Just a word of warning
• Trailer: Grand Hotel (1932)
• Trailer: Week-End at The Waldorf (1945)

Scarface (1932)

Directed by Howard Hawks and starring Paul Muni, Anne Dvorak, George Raft and Boris Karloff.

DVD bought in 2009

89m 45s

• Alternate Ending
• Trailers

The Public Enemy (1931)

Directed by William A. Wellman and starring James Cagney, Jean Harlow and Joan Blondell.

DVD bought in 2005

Part of the 'James Cagney Collection'

83m

Extras include:
Leonard Maltin Hosts Warner Night at the Movies 1931 with Newsreel, Comedy Short The Eyes Have It, Cartoon Smile, Darn Ya, Smile and 1931 Trailer Gallery
New Featurette Beer and Blood: Enemies of the Public
Commentary by Film Historian Robert Sklar

The Most Dangerous Game (1932)

Directed by Irving Pichel & Ernest B. Schoedsack, starring Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Leslie Banks and Robert Armstrong.

DVD bought in 2009

63m 47s

• Ray Harryhausen on the Importance of a Music Score (2:30)
• James V. D'arc: Curator Merian C. Cooper Papers, BYU (4:29)
• John Morgan Composer on Max Steiner (7:13)
• Trailers for Things to Come and She

Freaks (1932)

Directed by Tod Browning and starring Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams and Olga Baclanova.

DVD Bought in 2009

59m 32s

• Commentary by author David J. Skal
• "Making-of" documentary - "Freaks: The Sideshow Cinema" (1:03:21)
• Special prologue added for reissue (rolling text)
• 3 alternate endings (6:04)