The Warner Archive has announced nine new titles to debut on Blu-Ray in May: Bachelor In Paradise (1961), They Won’t Believe Me (1947), The Yearling (1946), The Private Lives of Elizabeth & Essex (1939), Mr. Blandings Builds His Dreamhouse (1948), Escape From Fort Bravo (1953), Drunken Master II (1994), Athena (1954) and The Tender Trap (1955). Details on these amazing films can be found below:
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Bachelor In Paradise (1961)
Street Date: May 11, 2021
Synopsis: America was sprawling away from Main Street, transforming into a nation of bedroom communities within easy commute of the office. But what’s going on in those bedrooms? Bob Hope intends to find out when he plays a Bachelor in Paradise. Always quick with a quip, Hope portrays Arthur J. Niles, noted author of books that offer worldly advice while documenting the lifestyles and love lives of various cultures. His newest study: Paradise Village, a rambling new suburb in Southern California’s San Fernando Valley. Lana Turner, in her only screen teaming with the comedy legend, portrays the stylish unmarried femme who works in the tract’s sales office. Looks like paradise may lose a bachelor but gain a comedy.
Technical Details
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New 2021 1080p HD Master sourced from 4k scan of Original Camera Negative.
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Run Time: 109:00
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Subtitles: English SDH
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Audio Specs: STEREO – English, DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 – English
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Aspect Ratio: 16X9 Letterbox, 2.35:1
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Product Color: COLOR
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Disc Configuration: BD 50
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Special Feature: Theatrical Trailer
They Won’t Believe Me (1947)
Street Date: May 11, 2021
Synopsis: Robert Young stars in They Won’t Believe Me, an absorbing film noir melodrama. The original RKO publicity tells the story: “When a man goes to the devil he usually takes a woman with him…this man took THREE!” Young plays a dirty rotten scoundrel who sponges off his wealthy wife (Rita Johnson), seduces and abandons another woman (Jane Greer) and runs off with a third (Susan Hayward). Returning home, Young plots to murder his wife and get away with her money, but a series of ironic plot twists leaves him battling for his life. The role of faithless cad was a startling change of pace for Young, and he pulls it off brilliantly. Irving Pichel directed Jonathan Latimer’s uncompromising script.
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NEW 2021 1080p HD Master Sourced from 4k scan of Nitrate Preservation Elements of Original 95 Minute Release Version!’
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Run Time: 95:00
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Subtitles: English SDH
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Audio Specs: DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 – English, MONO – English
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Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1, 4×3 FULL FRAME
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Product Color: BLACK & WHITE
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Disc Configuration: BD 50
Street Date: May 11, 2021
Synopsis: Life abounds in the 1870s Florida scrubland that’s home to young Jody Baxter. There are bears to hunt, cash crops to plant, evenings of storytelling with Pa and Ma. And there are timeless lessons of love and letting go that Jody learns from Flag, the orphaned pet fawn that follows him around with devotion. From Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’ Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, and sensitively directed by Clarence Brown (National Velvet), The Yearling is superb family entertainment that knows well what a shiny harmonica means to a lonely boy or what a six-day rain means to hard-luck farmers. Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman and Claude Jarman, Jr. play the Baxters in a resplendent film nominated for seven Academy Awards® and the winner of two, plus a Special Award for the year’s Outstanding Child Actor to young Jarman.
Technical Details
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New 2021 1080p HD Master sourced from 4k scan of Original Technicolor Negative!
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Run Time: 128:00
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Subtitles: English SDH
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Audio Specs: DTS HD-Master Audio 1.0 – English
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Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1, 4×3 FULL FRAME
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Product Color: COLOR
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Disc Configuration: BD 50
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SPECIAL FEATURES: Screen Guild Players Radio Broadcast; Cartoon Cat Concerto; Theatrical Trailer
The Private Lives of Elizabeth & Essex (1939)
Street Date: May 18, 2021
Synopsis: Bette Davis and Errol Flynn made The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex fascinatingly public, striking sparks in this lavish Technicolor® tale of the ill-fated love between the aging Elizabeth I and the dashing Earl of Essex. Thoroughly unglamorous here – eyes and hairline shaved, face painted chalky white – double Academy Award® winner* Davis exudes such intelligence, energy and ardor that her romance with the decades-younger Essex (Flynn at the peak of his remarkable good looks and athletic verve) is completely believable. Based on Maxwell Anderson’s play Elizabeth the Queen and directed by Michael Curtiz, this nominee for five Oscars® takes liberties with historical accuracy, but none with dramatic impact. Long may these tempestuous, titled lovers reign!
Technical Details
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New 2021 1080p HD Master sourced from 4k scan of Original Technicolor Negatives!
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Run Time: 106:00
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Subtitles: English SDH
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Audio Specs: DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 – English, MONO – English
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Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1, 4×3 FULL FRAME
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Disc Configuration: BD 50
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SPECIAL FEATURES: Leonard Maltin Hosts Warner Night at the Movies 1939 with Newsreel, Musical Short “The Royal Rodeo”, Cartoon “Old Glory” and Theatrical Trailer; Featurette “Elizabeth and Essex: Battle Royale”
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dreamhouse (1948)
Street Date: May 18, 2021
Synopsis: New York adman Jim Blandings is ready to say goodbye to his cramped city apartment and build, from the ground up, a Connecticut home with room enough for his growing family and dreams. All it will cost him is his time and money…and perhaps his job, marriage, happiness and what’s left of his sanity. Goodbye, Manhattan. Hello, comedy. As Jim, Cary Grant is a flustered poster boy for homeowner anxiety in this gleeful laughfest. Myrna Loy, her voice and line phrasing like musical chimes, plays Jim’s ever-patient wife. Louise Beavers is the sunny housemaid whose enthusiasm for Wham Ham saves Jim’s career bacon. And Melvyn Douglas is the perhaps-too-friendly family friend. “Drop in and see us sometime,” Jim says. Invitation accepted!
Technical Details
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New 2021 1080p HD Master sourced from 4k scan of Original Nitrate Camera Negative!
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Run Time: 94:00
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Subtitles: English SDH
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Audio Specs: DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 – English, MONO – English
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Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1, 4×3 FULL FRAME
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Disc Configuration: BD 50
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Special Features: Classic Cartoon: “House of Tomorrow”; Lux Radio Theater with Cary Grant and Irene Dunne; Screen Director’s Playhouse with Betsy Drake and Cary Grant (radio program); Theatrical Trailer
Escape From Fort Bravo (1953)
Street Date: May 18, 2021
Synopsis: Any Johnny Reb who tries to escape the Union prison outpost of Fort Bravo faces the unforgiving Arizona Territory desert stretching before him…and the even more unforgiving pursuit of Bravo’s resolute Captain Roper. Yet there’s a common foe that may unite the Civil War rivals: the fierce Mescalero horsemen waging guerilla war against Blue and Gray alike. William Holden portrays tough-minded Roper in a Western acclaimed for its scenic vistas (shot in Death Valley) and for sequences that showed a major action filmmaker was on the rise. John Sturges directs, setting the taut, rugged tone for The Great Escape, The Magnificent Seven and more hits to come.
Technical Details
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New 2021 1080p HD Master sourced from 4k scan of Original Camera Negative!
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Run Time: 98:00
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Subtitles: English SDH
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Audio Specs: STEREO – English, DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 – English
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1, 16X9 Widescreen
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Product Color: COLOR
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Disc Configuration: BD 50
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Special Feature: Theatrical Trailer
Drunken Master II (1994)
Street Date: May 18, 2021
Synopsis: The film that cemented Jackie Chan’s iconic status as an action hero unlike any other pack a punch and brings a belly laugh in this eye-popping presentation taken from the original negatives! In turbulent China before World War I, the collapse of the Manchu Dynasty fuels violent uprisings and political chaos–the perfect setting for a grand-scale smuggling ring led by an unscrupulous British consul. When the ring plots to steal China’s crown jewels only one man, legendary “Drunken Fist” master Huang Fei-hung (Chan), possesses the courage and ferocity to stop the ruthless gang. Contains three different audio tracks, the original Cantonese language track, Mandarin and English. *Note* This new high definition master taken from the original camera negative offers the option of the original English subtitles that appeared on theatrical prints in Hong Kong, as well as other venues, and contain the spelling and grammatical errors as seen at the time. Also offers English SDH sub-titles.
Technical Details
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NEW 2021 1080p HD Master Sourced from 4K scan of Original Camera Negative!
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Run Time: 102:00
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Subtitles: English SDH
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Audio Specs: MONO – English, DTS 2.0 – Chinese, DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 – English
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Aspect Ratio: 16X9 Letterbox, 2.40:1
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Product Color: COLOR
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Disc Configuration: BD 50
Athena (1954)
Street Date: May 25, 2021
Synopsis: If a suitor wants to win the heart of one of the seven Mulvain sisters, he’d better be ready to dead lift 300 lbs. and dine on shredded-parsnip soufflé. Combining the then-novel topic of physical fitness with Hollywood song and dance, Athena is an eat-your-veggies romantic romp highlighted by catchy Hugh Martin/Ralph Blane tunes and socko color cinematography. Jane Powell (fresh off her triumph in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers) and Debbie Reynolds play two of the sisters, and Edmund Purdom and Vic Damone play their smoking, boozing, nonvegetarian beaux. Former Mr. Universe Steve Reeves flexes his pecs in a supporting role, displaying a physique so phenomenal it soon vaulted him to screen stardom as the mighty Hercules.
Technical Details
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NEW 2021 1080p HD Remaster!
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Run Time: 96:00
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Subtitles: English SDH
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Audio Specs: STEREO – English, DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 – English
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Aspect Ratio: 16 X 9 Widescreen, 1.75:1
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Product Color: COLOR
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Disc Configuration: BD 50
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SPECIAL FEATURES: 3 Outtake Musical Numbers: “Competition Dance,” “Imagine (Second Reprise)” with Vic Damone and Debbie Reynolds and “Love Can Change the Stars (Duet Reprise)” with Jane Powell and Edmund Purdum ; Theatrical Trailer
The Tender Trap (1955)
Street Date: May 25, 2021
Synopsis: Frank Sinatra and Debbie Reynolds star as a pair of romantic opposites in this romance classic. Fun-loving, free-spirited Manhattan talent agent and playboy Charlie Reader (Sinatra) is happy playing the field when he becomes the target of the far more formidable Julie Gillis (Reynolds) who is on a one-woman mission of matrimony. She has her life mapped out in details that fall just shy of where the wedding portrait will hang and the number of goldfish swimming in the bowl. Julie even knows she’ll be married next March 12. She just doesn’t know to whom. But it’s a cinch he’ll have blue eyes.
Technical Details
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New 2021 1080p HD Master sourced from 4k scan of Original Camera Negative!
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Run Time: 111:00
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Subtitles: English SDH
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Audio Specs: DTS HD-Master Audio 5.1 – English
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Aspect Ratio: 16 X 9 Letterbox, 2.55:1
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Product Color: COLOR
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Disc Configuration: BD 50
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Special Features: “Frank in the Fifties” featurette; Excerpt from THE MGM PARADE (Ep. 7) featuring Debbie Reynolds; Excerpt from THE MGM PARADE (Ep. 8) featuring Debbie Reynolds; Theatrical Trailer.
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