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Warner Archive Announces June Titles Including Films From Elvis, Fred Astaire & Kirk Douglas

By Dillon Gonzales
June 4, 2021
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The Warner Archive has announced five new titles to debut on Blu-Ray in June: There Was A Crooked Man (1970), Guns For San Sebastian (1968), Ziegfeld Follies (1945), It Happened At The World’s Fair (1963), Chain Lightning (1950) and Madame Curie (1943). Details on these amazing films can be found below:

There Was A Crooked Man (1970)

Street Date: June 8, 2021

Synopsis: Kirk Douglas plays a charming inmate scheming to recover $500K in stolen loot he has hidden away, while Henry Fonda looms as his new prison warden. Each man will find the tables turning in this boisterous yet blistering Western packed with brawls, shootouts and wry wit. Hume Cronyn, Burgess Meredith, Warren Oates and Lee Grant provide sterling support in this devilishly entertaining film by Academy Award® winner* Joseph L. Mankiewicz from a script by David Newman and Robert Benton (Bonnie and Clyde).
*Directing and Writing (Screenplay) for Both A Letter to Three Wives (1949) and All About Eve (1950)

Technical Details

Aspect Ratio: 16×9 2.35:1
Run Time: 123
Sound: DTS-HD master audio English 2.0 Mono
Subtitles: English SDH
Color: Color

Guns For San Sebastian (1968)

Street Date: June 15, 2021

Synopsis: Leon Alastray (Anthony Quinn), a rebel on the run from the Mexican Army, escapes to the remote village of San Sebastian, where locals believe he’s a holy man. Finding the area devastated by savage Yaqui attacks and the presence of a separate enemy – Teclo (Charles Bronson), a man with his own shocking secret – Leon reveals his true identity and leads the villagers against the deadly threat. As the people of San Sebastian prepare for an explosive fight, they must gather courage to reclaim their town.

Technical Details

Aspect Ratio: 16 X 9 FULL FRAME, ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO – 2.35:1
Run Time: 111
Sound: DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 – English, STEREO – English
Subtitles: English SDH
Color: Color

Ziegfeld Follies (1945)

Street Date: June 15, 2021

Synopsis: Following in the footsteps of dearly departed showman extraordinaire Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., Ziegfeld Follies is a who’s who of Golden Age Hollywood talent. This all-star revue is heaven to fans of musicals. Fred Astaire dazzles in four numbers, with Gene Kelly joining him in their first-ever screen pairing. Red Skelton reprises his funny Guzzler’s Gin skit. Esther Williams swims, Lena Horne sings, and Judy Garland spoofs snobbery. There’s Verdi opera and Fanny Brice vaudeville. Patter and pantomime. What a show!

Technical Details

Aspect Ratio: 16 X 9 1.37:1
Run Time: 117:39
Sound: DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 – English, STEREO – English, MONO
Subtitles: English SDH
Color: Color

It Happened At The World’s Fair (1963)

Street Date: June 22, 2021

Synopsis: Fun, music and Elvis all happen in this romp boasting one of the best backdrops of any Elvis Presley movie: the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair. The King plays pilot-for-hire Mike, whose hope of starting his own flying business is grounded by the gambling of his copilot Danny (Gary Lockwood). The two hitch to Seattle, where Mike finds romance, Danny finds easy marks and both find problems prior to a “Happy Ending.” Keep an eye out for Kurt Russell as the child who wallops Mike in the shins.

Technical Details

Aspect Ratio: 16 X 9 2.35:1
Run Time: 104:54:00
Sound: DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 – English, MONO – English
Subtitles: English SDH
Color: Color

Chain Lightning (1950)

Street Date: June 22, 2021

Synopsis: Matt Brennan (Humphrey Bogart) plans to show the potential of the JA-3, an experimental jet – by flying it from Nome over the North Pole and into the Pentagon’s lap in Washington, D.C. The JA-3 has never been tested at this range and can’t provide enough pressurization at 80,000 feet. But Brennan has modifications in mind…and no shortage of courage. Eleanor Parker, as a former World War II flame, fuels the romance in this adventure that tapped into the era’s fascination with jet aviation.

Technical Details

Aspect Ratio: 16 X 9 1.37:1
Run Time: 94:41
Sound: DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 – English, MONO – English
Subtitles: English SDH
Color: B&W

Madame Curie (1943)

Street Date: June 29, 2021

Synopsis: In an era when women were allowed to be ornaments, mothers or drudges, young Marie Sklodowska of Poland dreamed of something more. She defied convention to study physics and mathematics at the Sorbonne and – with Pierre Curie, the professor who became her husband – to make one of the greatest breakthroughs in 20th-century science. Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon reunite portray the courageous couple who won the 1903 Nobel Prize for their discovery of radium.