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Coming on disc July 14, 2026: Two Arabian Knights (1927) and The Racket (1928) from Howard Hughes in Hollywood Volume 1
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"Newly restored by Flicker Alley" - set includes audio commentaries, outtakes, the documentary Howard Hughes in Hollywood (2026), the First Academy Awards (2026), a Hart Wegner Remembrance, Image Gallery of production stills, promotional material, and rare documents from the Howard Hughes Motion Picture Records at the University of Nevada. Las Vegas Souvenir Booklet with a new essay by film historian Imogen Sara Smith, vintage reviews, conservation notes, and introductions on each score. All Region Encoding (A,B,C).
A December 2019 review of Two Arabian Knights here at Cinemagraphe.
Criterion announces their September disc releases
Henry Fonda and director Sidney Lumet with 1957's 12 Angry Men
2K digital restoration - nine hours of first-person testimonies of Holocaust survivors - 1985 (French) – Shoah
New Warner Archive releases for July
UPDATE June 15: Some titles have been moved to August 4 for release: Macao, A Midsummers Night's Dream, Presenting Lily Mars, Random Harvest, The Seventh Cross and The Sisters. The other July films coming 7/28 are Bonnie Scotland, Captain Horatio Hornblower, Crime Wave, Colt 45, Lily Turner and The Keyhole.
An incredible slate of 13 film releases this month from Warner Archive. One of the highlights is getting a Kay Francis 1933 film, The Keyhole, and Ruth Chatterton's Lilly Turner also from 1933. There's simply not that many HD releases on disc for their films (Kay has only seven official releases that I know of, and The Keyhole will move that number to eight. Ruth has eleven with this release of Lilly Turner.)
Captain Horatio Hornblower 1951. Technicolor feature from director Raoul Walsh and stars Gregory Peck and Virginia Mayo. From the original nitrate film negatives. Extra features: Bugs Bunny cartoon Captain Hareblower from 1954 (7 minutes); My country 'Tis of Thee from 1950 (19 minutes), original trailer, also Luxe Radio adaptation of the film.
Macao, 1952. 4K scan from camera negative. With Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell, "mostly" directed by Joseph von Sternberg. Includes Eddie Muller audio commentary joined by Macao script writer Stanley Rubin. Also Robert Osbourne Private Screenings interview with Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell.
Random Harvest, 1942. With Greer Garson and Ronald Colman and directed by Mervyn LeRoy. 4K scan from preservation elements. Includes these extras: Don't Talk (1942) 22 minute short with Donald Douglas and Gloria Holden; Marines in the Making, 1942, 9 minute short, and original Luxe radio adaptation of the feature film.
The Keyhole, 1933. From the original camera negative. With Kay Francis and George Brent and directed by Michael Curtiz. Includes 2 cartoons, the 6 minute Popeye Wild Elephinks (1933) and Buddy's Day Out (1933) 7 minutes.
Presenting Lily Mars, 1943. 4K scan from safety film. With Judy Garland and Van Heflin. Includes Luxe Radio adaptation.
Lilly Turner, 1933. With Ruth Chatteron and George Brent, directed by William Wellman. 4K scan from the original camera negative. Includes Vitaphone short featuring Harry Gribbin and Shemp Howard; cartoon Bosko's Picture Show. Includes trailer.
The Sisters, 1933. 4K scan from the nitrate camera negative. With Erroll Flynn and Bette Davis, directed by Anatole Litvak. Includes The Breakdowns of 1938 blooper reel, and Night Intruder (1938) 14 minute. Includes trailer.
Bonnie Scotland, 1935. Scan from the nitrate "lavender" protection film. With Laurel and Hardy. Richard Vann audio commentary with Leonard Maltin. Includes Laurel and Hardy excerpts from Hollywood Party (1934) with Lupe Velez, and Pick A Star (1937).
Crime Wave, released 1954 but originally filmed in 1952. 4K scan from the camera negative. With Sterling Hayden, Gene Nelson, Phyllis Kirk and Charles Bronson, Directed by André De Toth. Includes audio commentary from Eddie Muller and James Elroy. Has featurette on the making the film with interviews and archival footage of the makers. Baby Buggy Bunny (1954) 7 minutes; Gadgets Galore (1954) 10 minutes. With trailer.
A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1935. "Original roadshow release" version. 4K scan from the camera negative and nitrate fine-grain sources. With James Cagney, Dick Powell, Ian Hunter, Verree Teasdale, Hobart Cavanaugh, Olivia de Havilland, Jean Muir, Grant Mitchell, Frank McHugh, Dewey Robinson, Joe E. Brown, Hugh Herbert, Otis Harlan, Arthur Treacher, Victor Jory, and Anita Louise. Directors William Dieterle and Max Reinhardt. Disc includes featurette The Dream Comes True (1935) 8 minutes, Shake, Mr. Shakespeare (1936) parody short, 20 minutes.
Colt .45, 1950. Technicolor film directed by Edwin Marin. 4K scan from original negatives. Stars Randolph Scott, Zachary Scott, and Ruth Roman. Includes Cartoon short.
The Seventh Cross, 1944. Director Fred Zinnemann, starring Spencer Tracy, Signe Hasso, Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn. 4K scan from film preservation materials. Includes three Fred Zinnemann directed shorts such as One Against the World with Jonathan Hale (1939) 11 minutes, plus two other titles. Disc includes original trailer.
Letty Lyndon, 1932 DVD version of the Blu Ray release from June 2026.
Review: A Queen for Caesar - 1962: About six months after the release of this relatively modest Italian production telling the story of how Cleopatra (Pascale Petit) ended up in a rug rolled out at the feet of Caesar (Gordon Scott), the 1963 Cleopatra with Elizabeth Taylor appeared. Often cited as the most expensive film ever made (after adjustments for inflation and paying attention to a ratio of how production costs differ), the Taylor Cleopatra is famous for both the cost and gossip surrounding its production. That film came out in a flurry of publicity that had been building for years over which time the film had reached a status of fame where it was famous for being famous. Not the case here with this 1962 film.
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This Was Hollywood: Forgotten Stars and Stories (Turner Classic Movies)
More New Warner Archive disc releases in June
Come Live With Me, 1941. Hedy Lamar and Jimmy Stewart, directed by Clarence Brown. 4K scan from the camera negative. Includes two M-G-M shorts: Officer Pooch and American, Preferred (1941).
Strange Cargo, 1940. Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Ian Hunter, Peter Lorre. Directed by Frank Borzage. Includes "Gable and Crawford" featurette from the original DVD release; Goin' Fishin' (1940) an Our Gang short; M-G-M cartoon Home on the Range (1940).
Rose Marie, 1936. The second screen team-up of Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald. Directed by W. S. Van Dyke. Includes Screen Guild radio Rose Marie show version from 1947; 1948 performances of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy together on The Kraft Music Hall; 1936 Vick's Open House radio program performances of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. M-G-M Hollywood the Second Step short film; Happy Harmony cartoon 1936 Little Cheeser.
Pretty Maids All in A Row, 1971. Rock Hudson, Angie Dickinson, Roddy McDonald. Directed by Roger Vadim. Written by Writers Gene Roddenberry and Francis Pollini. 4K remaster.
Last Summer, 1969. Barbara Hershey, Richard Thomas, Catherine Burns, Bruce Davison. Includes a deleted scene, new audio commentary, video of Q & A's with the stars talking about the film in Los Angeles and New York City. Includes trailers and a booklet. Director Frank Perry.
"Film buff finds lost 1968 vampire TV movie that was rumored to be so scary it was ordered destroyed"
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On the occasion of her 100th birthday "Behind the myth" of Marilyn Monroe – Irish Times
The problem with writing about Marilyn Monroe to mark her centenary is that everything to be said about her has already been said, and almost all of it has been mediated through an event that took place 64 years ago: her fatal barbiturate overdose at the age of 36..."
Review: The Admirable Crichton - 1957: There was a slew of "island" movies post-World War II and through the 1950's. The Blue Lagoon (1949) and Island of Desire (1952), both British productions, built on the already existing genre of beachcomber stories in which someone (willingly or unwillingly) is isolated onto an island and has to either contend with weather, food sourcing, or simply a foreign environment of people and culture (for example the 1938 Beachcomber with Charles Laughton). With Blue Lagoon and Island of Desire, the situation is an echo of Adam and Eve, but 1957's The Admirable Crighton (aka Paradise Lagoon) pushes this into an almost (but not quite) farcical extreme with four couples marooned on an island. On top of this simple mathematical balance is an evaluation of the English class system run through a very unusual situation where tradition and genius have to come to terms with each other.
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New Warner Archive releases in June
Night and Day 1946. Technicolor feature with Cole Porter tunes with Cary Grant. From new 4K scan. Extra features: 2-reel Musical Movieland, a Dezi Arnaz 1-reel musical short, The Big Snooze Bugs Bunny short.
Thirty Seconds over Tokyo, 1944. With Spencer Tracy, Van Johnson, and Robert Walker. Includes the shorts The Lady Fights Back short and Ode to Victory and Mouse Trouble, a Tom and Jerry cartoon.
Letty Lyndon, 1932. Out of circulation for some 90 years due to legal problems. Scanned from safety film copy of the original negative. With Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, May Robson and Nils Asther. Includes these extras: Irving Thalberg, Prince of Hollywood (2005 documentary); five Joan Crawford radio appearances with two episodes M-G-M's Good News radio program, A Doll's House Lux radio program drama, The Train Ride radio adaptation, and None Shall Part Us original radio program.
Start the Revolution Without Me, 1970. With Gene Wilder and Donald Sutherland. 4K scan from camera negative. Includes cartoons The Scarlet Pumpernickle and The Napoleon Bunnypart.
The Hanna-Barbera Dasterdly and Muttley and Their Flying Machines cartoon collection. 4K scans from camera negatives. Extras on the Blu Ray are the same as on the original DVD collection release.
Review: Zarak, 1956: Zarak Khan (Victor Mature) and dancer Salma (Anita Ekberg) are having a tough time making their mutual affection viable. It is the 1800's and the British Empire is cracking down on Afghan bandits like Zarak, and then there's the problem that Salma is one of Zarak's father's various wifes. A Technicolor/CinemaScope adventure shot on location in India, Morocco, and Myanmar.
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Review: Superman, 2025: This is, unfortunately, kind of a stupid movie. The special effects are often spectacular, though not always, and there are performances from the cast that are really quite good, but, again, not always. But, in the end the film is doomed by its script. Superhero films are not exactly renowned for adherence to reality, but even with the acceptance of the extraordinary physical powers of Superman, something easy enough to do after many decades of superhero movies (a cycle kicked off by the 1978 Superman with Christopher Reeves), it is the actions of the human cast that bogs down this movie into a Saturday morning cartoon level of storytelling.
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Includes the film, plus a variety of extras, including:
The Inimitable Corinne Griffith: The Orchid Lady of the Screen (2026) - A visual essay from historian David Pierce, narrated by Claire Lockhart, that explores the life of The Garden of Eden’s beguiling star
Blue Ray The Garden of Eden
Review: Cat-Women of the Moon, 1953: Marie Windsor is having serious problems keeping her mind on her job as navigator on a rocketship traveling toward the moon. She keeps feeling compelling thoughts demanding she land the craft at a certain spot on the far side of the familiar space orb. Once landed, they disembark and Windsor deftly maneuvers the male crew (the ship's two leaders are both in love with her) toward a secret ruined city below the surface. There they discover a race of "cat-women" who run around in black leotard tights and who exercise a kind of mind-control skill that is at its most powerful when projected onto the female brain, that is, Windsor's. Meanwhile, the men are delighted to meet these beautiful denizens of an ancient space-empire, not suspecting the Cat-Woman have a master plan to swipe the rocketship and head to earth on a mission to conquor and repopulate their almost vanished species.
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The line-up of May releases from Warner Archive, quite a few titles with excellent new 4K scans from quality film elements.
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Blue Ray Fleischer Cartoons – Greatest Hits, Vol. 1
Twenty animated shorts including Betty Boop, Popeye and others. Bonus material includes audio commentary by a "roundtable of Fleischer experts:" Paul Dini, Will Friedwald, Bob Jaques, Charlie Judkins, Mark Kausler, Thad Komorowski, Leonard Maltin, Ray Pointer and Rob Waldman.
Fast Review: The Return of Swamp Thing - 1989: This film doesn't have much ambition other than to play sequel to the original film of 1982 and to try to underline every character and story element with an alternative meaning that is pure camp humor. Louis Jourdan plays a villain that seems somehow bored no matter how much mayhem is happening in his immediate surroundings, and our main star, a young and pretty Heather Locklear, seems to happily grin bigger and bigger as the preposterousness of the story builds. The special effects, writing and side-characters are much better than a straight-to-VHS-tape movie of the 1980s, but somehow The Return of Swamp Thing seems like it was truly made to reside on the shelf of some eternal Blockbuster Video store where it is always ten-minutes before closing on a Friday night and you've already seen all the other "better" titles.
Release News
4K Release: Hold That Ghost — Abbott and Costello
One of Abbott and Costello’s earliest comedies and one of their best. The film has a spontaneity, helped along by Joan Davis, that is not always present in later releases from the duo.
Three-Film Blu-ray Collection: Brit Noir
Includes The Frightened City (1961), The Ringer (1952), and Cage of Gold (1950). Incidentally, Sean Connery and Yvonne Romaine also appear in The Frightened City.
UK Edition of Buster Keaton’s The General Coming in 4K
Eureka has announced a UK 4K edition of Buster Keaton’s silent comedy classic The General.
Joan Bennett and Claude Rains: The Man Who Reclaimed His Head
The 1934 drama starring Claude Rains and Joan Bennett is coming to Blu-ray.
Fast Review: The Divorce of Lady X, 1938: Laurence Olivier is an attorney in London who is a jaded veteran of divorce trials. One evening he is forced by circumstances of weather to stay overnight at a hotel teeming with women who are also stuck there after an event at the hotel's dance hall. Mercilessly disregarding the plea of the hotel management to "double-up" on lodgings since there's not enough room for everyone, Olivier ends up being outsmarted by a clever Merle Oberon who practically steals his bed out from under him, an action that leaves him sleaping uncomfortably in an outer room and also quite smitten.
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Review: The Leech Woman, 1960: Colleen Gray spends part of this film under heavy age makeup, caught in a twisted variation on the “fountain of youth” story. In this case, a venal scientist (her husband!) is determined to make millions from an African tribe’s secret youth-restoring medicine. He pretends his efforts are meant to restore his much older wife’s health and beauty, but we can easily see this is merely a ploy to gain access to her wealth. When success comes, though, there's a price, one that catches the mendacious husband completely by surprise.
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The Marion Davies' film It's A Wise Child, 1931, Warner Archive Blu Ray, release coming May 26, 2026.
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