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Bogie & Bacall: The Signature Collection [DVD] DVD
Four-disc set includes "To Have and Have Not," "The Big Sleep" (1946), "Dark Passage," and "Key Largo."

William Powell & Myrna Loy

TCM Spotlight: Myrna Loy And William Powell Collection [DVD]
William Powell re-teamed with Myrna Loy after the first "Thin Man" movie for "Evelyn Prentice" (1934), an expert thriller in which Powell plays a womanizing lawyer whose adulterous affair leads to blackmail, deceit, and murder. Una Merkel, Harvey Stephens, and Rosalind Russell, in her debut, also star. Then, "Manhattan Melodrama" (1934) is a compelling crime drama starring Powell and Clark Gable as boyhood friends from the New York streets who grow up to follow different paths, one as a gangster, the other as a crusading D.A. Loy and Mickey Rooney co-star. "Double Wedding" (1937) is a frantic screwball story with Powell as a Bohemian painter and Loy as a workaholic dress shop owner who spar over Loy's younger sister's life choices. Edgar Kennedy co-stars. Stodgy businessman Powell is headed for divorce from wife Loy when a konk on the head reverts him back to his real persona of a slick con artist, in "I Love You Again" (1940). And, in "Love Crazy" (1941), Powell and Loy are a married couple whose fourth wedding anniversary is not a happy affair, thanks to a series of events that occur after Loy's gossipy mother visits. Standard; Soundtrack: English. Five-disc set.

Clark Gable & Carole Lombard in No Man of Her Own

 No Man Of Her Own [DVD](1932) DVD
In order to elude detectives, New York gambler Clark Gable takes refuge in a small town upstate where he meets and marries librarian Carole Lombard. Returning to the Big Apple, Gable reverts to his gambling ways and meets an old flame who threatens to turn him over to the law. Dorothy Mackaill, Grant Mitchell co-star in this snappy farce; Gable and Lombard's only film together. 81 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English (SDH), French; theatrical trailer; more.

 

Leading Men DVD Collections - Paul Newman, Rock Hudson & Gary Cooper

 The Paul Newman Collection [DVD] DVD
In the role that made him a star, Paul Newman is middleweight boxing champ Rocky Graziano in Robert Wise's Oscar-winning biodrama, "Somebody up There Likes Me" (1956). Steve McQueen co-stars. Newman portrays notorious outlaw Billy the Kid in director Arthur Penn's first feature, "The Left-Handed Gun" (1958). An ambitious lawyer's (Newman) dark past comes back to haunt him while defending a war buddy who's been accused of murder, in "The Young Philadelphians" (1959). With Barbara Rush, Robert Vaughn. Newman plays Ross MacDonald's cool private eye in "Harper" (1966) and again in "The Drowning Pool" (1975) which follows the detective to New Orleans where he tries to find out who's been blackmailing an ex-girlfriend (Joanne Woodward).

Rock Hudson: Screen Legend Collection [DVD] DVD
Man's man Rock Hudson heats up the screen in a three-disc, five-film set! When a rich, old man (Charles Coburn) leaves a fortune to the family of a woman he once loved, a soda jerk (Hudson) finds he's no longer the perfect lad for the clan's daughter, in "Has Anybody Seen My Gal?" (1952). Piper Laurie, Gigi Perreau co-star. Rock flexes his pecs in the Arabian-flavored costume epic "The Golden Blade" (1953), journeying to Baghdad on a mission of vengeance. Laurie, Gene Evans co-star. Hudson wears the white hat, and Kirk Douglas the black, in the muscular Western "The Last Sunset" (1961), with Dorothy Malone and Joseph Cotten. Giving an intense performance, Hudson plays an egotistical doctor working in the jungle, in "The Spiral Road" (1962) Burl Ives, Gena Rowlands also star. And playboy Rock is asked to woo psychiatrist Leslie Caron by her father (Charles Boyer) in the romantic comedy "A Very Special Favor" (1965). Walter Slezak, Larry Storch co-star. 8 3/4 hrs. total. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital stereo; Subtitles: English (SDH), French; theatrical trailers.

Gary Cooper: The Signature Collection [DVD] DVD
Former Confederate officer Gary Cooper poses as a U.S. marshal to bring down some outlaw brothers in the rough-and-tumble Texas town of "Dallas" (1950). Ruth Roman, Steve Cochran co-star. Coop is a disgraced Union officer who joins up with a band of horse rustlers working for the Confederacy, but whose side is he really on, in "Springfield Rifle" (1952). With Phyllis Thaxter, Lon Chaney, Jr. Charlton Heston co-stars with Cooper in "The Wreck of the Mary Deare" (1959), the story of a ship salvager who helps the lone remaining crew member of a grounded boat who is accused of destroying the vessel. This five-disc set also includes "Sergeant York" and "The Fountainhead." 9 hrs. total. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono.

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Cary Grant & Joan Bennett in Big Brown Eyes & Wedding Present from the mid-1930s

Cary Grant: Screen Legend Collection [DVD] DVD
This three-disc set shines with five films starring the ever-suave Cary Grant. Newspaper publisher Porter Madison II (Grant) falls for a lookalike impersonating the "Thirty Day Princess" (1934), unaware that she's not royal...and not available! Silvia Sidney, Edward Arnold co-star. Grant plays a Paris beauty shop doctor more than pleased with the results of his work on Genevieve Tobin, in "Kiss and Make Up" (1934). Helen Mack, Edward Everett Horton also star. Blinded in a chemical accident, pilot Grant causes aviatrix Myrna Loy's heart to take flight, in "Wings in the Dark" (1935), with Roscoe Karns and Dean Jagger. Can copper Danny (Grant) and manicurist Eve (Joan Bennett) stop bickering long enough to nab jewel thieves together? Find out, in "Big Brown Eyes" (1936). Walter Pidgeon, Lloyd Nolan co-star. And Grant and Bennett play ace reporters, in love but resolutely staying single, in "Wedding Present" (1936). Conrad Nagel, Gene Lockhart also star. 6 1/3 hrs. total. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English (SDH), French.


Cary Grant: The Signature Collection [DVD] DVD
Five-disc boxed set includes "My Favorite Wife," "Destination Tokyo," "Night and Day," "The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer," and "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House."

Astaire & Rogers Collection, Vol. 1 DVD
Five-disc boxed set includes "Top Hat," "Follow the Fleet," "Swing Time," "Shall We Dance," and "The Barkleys of Broadway." 

 Astaire & Rogers Collection, Vol. 2 [DVD] DVD
Five-disc boxed set includes "Flying Down to Rio," "The Gay Divorcee," "Roberta," "Carefree," and "The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle."

 Astaire And Rogers: The Complete Film Collection [DVD] DVD
Eleven-disc boxed set includes "Flying Down to Rio," "The Gay Divorcee," "Roberta," "Top Hat," "Follow the Fleet," "Swing Time," "Shall We Dance" (1937), "Carefree," "The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle," "The Barkleys of Broadway," and the documentary "Astaire & Rogers: Partners in Rhythm."

 

The Betty Grable Collection, Vol. 1 [DVD] DVD
Four-disc set includes "Down Argentine Way," "Moon Over Miami," "The Dolly Sisters," and "My Blue Heaven."

Laurel & Hardy, Vol. 1 (Sons Of The Desert) [DVD] DVD
It's a heapin' helpin' of hilarity with five flicks from the famed funnymen. First up is the feature "Sons of the Desert" (1933), one of Stan and Ollie's finest efforts, where the boys attend a lodge convention against their wives' wishes...and get into oodles of trouble. Co-stars Charley Chase, Mae Busch. Followed by four shorts: the Oscar-winning "The Music Box" (1932), where the pair struggle to deliver a piano to a hilltop house; "Another Fine Mess" (1930), in which the boys hide out from the cops in a swank mansion; "Busy Bodies" (1933) finds them making sawdust of a lumber company; and "County Hospital" (1932) has Stan visiting a laid-up Ollie in the hospital...with predictable results. 170 min. total. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby

 Laurel & Hardy, Vol. 2 (Way Out West/Block-Heads) [DVD] DVD
One of the screen's most dynamic duos returns for a trio of comedic treasures. First, a young woman in the Wild West town of Bushwood Gulch is about to lose her father's deed to land grabbers, when galloping to the rescue come...Laurel and Hardy? The feature-length frontier farce "Way Out West" (1937) includes the classic song "Trail of the Lonesome Pine." With Rosina Lawrence, Stanley Fields. Next, Ollie is reunited in a veterans hospital with old army pal Stan, who stayed in the trenches for 20 years because no one told him the war was over. Trouble--and hilarity--ensue in the feature "Block-Heads" (1938). With Billy Gilbert, Patricia Ellis. And in the short "Chickens Come Home" (1931), happily married mayoral candidate Ollie has to turn

Clark Gable & Ava Gardner in Mogambo (1953)

Clark Gable: The Signature Collection [DVD]
Six-disc set includes "Dancing Lady," "China Seas," "Wife vs. Secretary," "San Francisco," "Boom Town," and "Mogambo."

Clark Gable Collection [DVD] DVD
In "Call of the Wild" (1935), the first adaptation of the classic Jack London novel to feature sound, Clark Gable stars as Jack Thornton, who strikes up a strong bond with a foul-tempered sled dog while prospecting for gold in Alaska. Loretta Young, Jack Oakie co-star; William Wellman directs. Then, Gable is the rugged title character in "Soldier of Fortune" (1955), a top-notch adventure saga about an American running a smuggling operation in China who is enlisted by beautiful Susan Hayward to find her missing photographer husband. Michael Rennie and Gene Barry also star. And, two ex-Confederate soldiers, brothers Gable and Cameron Mitchell, sign on as cowhands on a hazard-filled run from Texas to Montana, in "The Tall Men" (1955). With Rob

Warner Bros. Pictures Tough Guys Collection [DVD] DVD
Six-disc boxed set includes "'G' Men," "Bullets or Ballots," "San Quentin," "A Slight Case of Murder," "Each Dawn I Die," and "City for Conquest."
 

The Lucy & Desi Collection [DVD] DVD
In addition to "Forever Darling" and "The Long, Long Trailer," this three-disc set includes the exclusive title "Too Many Girls" (1940), a delightful Rodgers-Hart musical starring Lucille Ball as a carefree co-ed at a small university trying to dodge the four boys hired to keep an eye on her. Stellar support from Desi Arnaz (this is where they met!), Ann Miller, Eddie Bracken; look for Van Johnson as a chorus boy. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; theatrical trailers; bonus shorts.
 

Carole Lombard

 Carole Lombard: The Glamour Collection [DVD]
In "Man of the World" (1931), Carole Lombard is an American girl in Paris who's romanced by a sophisticated writer (William Powell) who turns out to be an extortionist out to get her uncle's fortune. "We're Not Dressing" (1934) stars Bing Crosby as a deckhand on a ship full of high-society types who gets to give the orders when the vessel shipwrecks on a South Seas island. Lombard, George Burns and Gracie Allen co-star; songs include "May I?" and "It's a Lie." "Hands Across the Table" (1935) features Lombard as a manicurist about to wed wealthy Ralph Bellamy when penniless playboy Fred MacMurray walks into her life. A Park Avenue gal (Lombard) must choose between two suitors (Preston Foster and Cesar Romero), in "Love Before Breakfast" (1936)

Joan Bennett in Scarlet Street (1945)

Scarlet Street (Special Edition) [DVD](1945) DVD
Edward G. Robinson and Joan Bennett star in director Fritz Lang's compelling drama concerning a lonely middle-aged bank cashier whose life is tragically changed when he becomes involved with a predatory, manipulating woman. 101 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English; audio commentary; photo gallery.

 The Woman In The Window [DVD](1945) DVD
Dazzling film noir from director Fritz Lang showcasing Edward G. Robinson as an amiable professor invited to join beautiful model Joan Bennett in her apartment when his wife and children are on vacation. His fantasies turn to terror when he kills her tough boyfriend and finds himself in the middle of a deadly blackmail plot. Raymond Massey, Dan Duryea, Bobby Blake, and Spanky McFarland also star. 99 min. Standard; Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital mono, French Dolby Digital mono, Spanish Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English, Spanish.

 Matt Helm Lounge [DVD]
After the success of the James Bond films, Dean Martin swung his way onto the big screen as super-cool secret agent Matt Helm in these popular lighthearted spy thrillers. The first film in the series, "The Silencers" (1966), finds Martin and klutzy assistant Stella Stevens saving America's nuclear arsenal from Asian mastermind Victor Buono. With Daliah Lavi, Roger C. Carmel, and Beverly Adams. Next, when criminal kingpin Karl Malden threatens to destroy Washington with a hijacked "helio-beam," it's up to ICE agent Helm to stop him, in the fast-paced "Murderers' Row" (1966), also starring Ann-Margret, James Gregory, and Dino, Desi & Billy. Then, the ace spy and lady-killer goes to Mexico with a gorgeous female scientist to track down a mystery.

The Wizard Of Oz (Three-Disc Collector's Edition) [DVD](1939) DVD
Follow Dorothy over the rainbow and down the Yellow Brick Road, along with the Scarecrow, Tin Woodsman, Cowardly Lion and Toto, too, for fun and adventure in the Emerald City. Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, Margaret Hamilton and Frank Morgan star in one of the most beloved films of all time. 101 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital 5.1; Subtitles: English, French, Spanish; audio commentary; "making of" documentary; featurettes; deleted scenes; biographies; photo gallery; newsreel footage; bonus shorts "The Wizard of Oz" (1910), "The Magic Cloak of Oz" (1914), "The Wizard of Oz" (1933); isolated music score; theatrical trailers; more. Three-disc set.

Janet Leigh & John Gavin in Psycho (1960)

 Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection [DVD] DVD
Fifteen-disc boxed set includes "Saboteur," "Shadow of a Doubt," "Rope," "Rear Window," "The Trouble with Harry," "The Man Who Knew Too Much" (1956), "Vertigo," "Psycho," "The Birds," "Marnie," "Torn Curtain," "Topaz," "Frenzy," "Family Plot," and a disc featuring the "AFI Salute to Alfred Hitchcock" program and the documentary "Masters of Cinema: Alfred Hitchcock."

The Complete Thin Man Collection [DVD] DVD
All six films from the popular MGM series starring William Powell and Myrna Loy as Dashiell Hammett's sophisticated crimesolvers, Nick and Nora Charles, are featured in a seven-disc boxed set. The duo's search for a missing inventor leads to a deadly whodunit in "The Thin Man" (1934), with Maureen O'Sullivan, Nat Pendleton, and Edward Ellis in the title role. Nick and Nora then return to solve a murder among San Francisco's bluebloods in "After the Thin Man" (1936), co-starring Elissa Landi and a young James Stewart. Baby Nick Charles, Jr. makes his debut in "Another Thin Man" (1939), as mom and pop aid an old friend who fears for his life. C. Aubrey Smith and Virginia Grey co-star. Then, it's murder among the "horsey set" in "Shadow of the Thin Man".

 Errol Flynn: The Signature Collection [DVD] DVD
Six-disc set includes "Captain Blood," "Dodge City," "The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex," "The Sea Hawk," "They Died with Their Boots On," and the exclusive documentary "The Adventures of Errol Flynn."

 Errol Flynn: The Signature Collection, Vol. 2 [DVD] DVD
Five-disc boxed set includes "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1936), "The Dawn Patrol," "Dive Bomber," "Gentleman Jim," and "The Adventures of Don Juan."

Classic Comedies Collection [DVD] DVD
Special collector's set includes "Dinner at Eight," "Libeled Lady," "Stage Door," "Bringing Up Baby," "The Philadelphia Story," and "To Be or Not to Be."

 The Bette Davis Collection [DVD] DVD
Five-disc set includes "Dark Victory," "The Letter," "Now, Voyager," "Mr. Skeffington," and "The Star."

The Bette Davis Collection, Vol. 2 [DVD] DVD
Seven-disc set includes "Marked Woman," "Jezebel" (Remastered Version), "The Man Who Came to Dinner," "Old Acquaintance," "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" (Special Edition), and the exclusive documentary "Stardust: The Bette Davis Story."

The Joan Crawford Collection [DVD] DVD
Five-disc set includes "The Women," "Mildred Pierce," "Humoresque," "Possessed" (1947), and "The Damned Don't Cry."
 

Laura [DVD](1944) DVD
One of the greatest Hollywood whodunits ever made, Otto Preminger's noir-flavored thriller stars Dana Andrews as a detective investigating the murder of New York socialite Gene Tierney who becomes infatuated with her image and memory. Memorable support is given by Clifton Webb as a sardonic columnist and Vincent Price as Tierney's callous playboy fiance. 87 min. Standard; Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital stereo, Dolby Digital mono, Spanish Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English, Spanish; alternate opening; deleted scene; audio commentary; "Biography" episodes; theatrical trailer. 

Film Noir Classic Collection [DVD] DVD
Five-disc set includes "Murder, My Sweet," "The Set-Up," "Out of the Past," "Gun Crazy," and "The Asphalt Jungle."

Film Noir Classic Collection, Vol. 2 [DVD] DVD
Five-disc set includes "Dillinger" (1945), "Born to Kill," "Crossfire," "Clash by Night," and "The Narrow Margin" (1952).

Film Noir Classic Collection, Vol. 3 [DVD] DVD
A Mexican and an American agent team up to take on a California rancher who's been exploiting illegal Mexican farmworkers, in "Border Incident" (1949). Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy star. A professional gambler (Robert Mitchum) and a beautiful singer (Jane Russell) get caught up in a deported crime lord's plan to get back into the U.S., in "His Kind of Woman" (1951). With Vincent Price, Raymond Burr. "YOU look into the gun of a fear-maddened killer" in "Lady in the Lake" (1947), director/star Robert Montgomery's "subjective camera" adaptation of the Raymond Chandler mystery about Detective Philip Marlowe's return to sleuthing. "On Dangerous Ground" (1952) focuses on a hardened New York cop (Robert Ryan) who softens up when he meets a co

Elliott Gould, Natalie Wood, Robert Culp & Dyan Cannon in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969)

 Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice [DVD](1969) DVD
Paul Mazursky made his directing debut with this landmark Swingin' Sixties satire, about a "sexually liberated" couple (Robert Culp and Natalie Wood) who are the envy of their more conventional friends (Elliott Gould and Dyan Cannon), and the foursome's efforts to keep the sexual revolution from passing them by. 105 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital stereo; Subtitles: English, Japanese; audio commentary by Culp, Gould, Cannon, Mazursky; featurette.

Jean Harlow & James Hall in Howard Hughes' Hells Angels (1930)

Hell's Angels [DVD](1930) DVD
A lavish and painstakingly authentic WWI drama that was, at the time, the most expensive movie ever made. Ben Lyon and James Hall are brothers at Oxford who join the British Air Corps when war breaks out, and Jean Harlow, in her starring debut, is the temptress who comes between them. Spectacular flying sequences (including one featuring stunt work by producer/co-scripter/co-director Howard Hughes) highlight the film. 131 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: Spanish, French.

That's Entertainment!: The Complete Collection [DVD] DVD
Four-disc set includes "That's Entertainment!," "That's Entertainment, Part II," "That's Entertainment! III," and the exclusive "That's Entertainment!: Treasures from the Vault," which includes documentaries, premiere footage, TV specials, "making of" featurettes, musical outtakes, and more.

Hattie McDaniel & Vivien Leigh in Gone With The Wind (1939)

Gone With The Wind (Four-Disc Collector's Edition) [DVD](1939) DVD
Vivien Leigh is coquettish Southern belle Scarlett O'Hara, Clark Gable is gambler-rogue Rhett Butler, in one of the best-loved films of all time. Olivia de Havilland, Leslie Howard and Hattie McDaniel co-star in this epic of love and loyalty in the Civil War South. Winner of 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress. 238 min. Standard; Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital 5.1, mono; Subtitles: English, French, Spanish; documentaries; featurettes; interview; more. Four-disc set.

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