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Screen legends and Holiday Inn co-stars Bing Crosby (The Emperor Waltz) and Fred Astaire (Daddy Long Legs) reunite for another dazzling Irving Berlin musical spectacular, Blue Skies. Dancing star Jed Potter (Astaire) and singer/nightclub owner Johnny Adams (Crosby) are both in love with songstress Mary O’Hara (Joan Caulfield, Larceny). She marries Johnny but his passion for buying and selling nightclubs drives them apart. So Jed steps in, hoping to win Mary’s heart—until fate steps in and changes the lives of all three. Wonderfully directed by the versatile Stuart Heisler (Among the Living, Beachhead) and featuring thirty Irving Berlin songs including the showstopper “Puttin’ on the Ritz,” Blue Skies remains one of the all-time great musicals! Special Features: -Brand New 2K Master and Newly Remastered Audio -NEW Audio Commentary by Film Critic and Author Simon Abrams -Trailers -Optional English Subtitles

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While unscrupulous con artist Rick Maxon (John Payne) was talking war widow Deborah Owens Clark (Joan Caulfield) into raising money to construct a memorial in her husband's honor, he, of course, intended to bilk her for every penny. That was until he fell in love with her. But Maxon's problems are just beginning, as he's still beholden to Silky (Dan Duryea)-the crook who planned the scam-and having an affair with Silky's gal (Shelley Winters). Offbeat film noir co-stars Dorothy Hart. 89 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English; Subtitles: English; audio commentary; theatrical trailers. Top About this item Similar From the Brand Reviews Larceny

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The French court will never be the same when Bob Hope gets through with it! A barber in the court of King Louis XV, Monsieur Beaucaire (Hope, My Favorite Brunette), falls in love with a beautiful maid (Joan Caulfield, Larceny). When the king has had enough of the inept barber’s shenanigans, Beaucaire is led to the guillotine where he is about to lose his head! Luckily for him, the Duc de Chandre (Patric Knowles, The Bride Wore Boots) rescues Beaucaire from his inevitable fate, transporting him to the Spanish court. However, when he later poses as a nobleman, it seems he may have pushed his luck a little too far. Featuring lavish costumes and sets, this classic comedy directed by Hollywood great George Marshall (The Ghost Breakers) showcases Bob Hope at his finest. Melvin Frank (My Favorite Blonde) and Norman Panama (The Court Jester) adapted the screenplay from Booth Tarkington’s (The Magnificent Ambersons) novel, with Marjorie Reynolds (Holiday Inn), Cecil Kellaway (Unconquered), Joseph Schildkraut (The Shop Around the Corner), Reginald Owen (The Good Fairy), Constance Collier (Rope) and Hillary Brooke (Road to Utopia) rounding out the wonderful cast. Special Features: -Brand New 2K Master -Bob Hope Trailers -Optional English Subtitles

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The Rains of Ranchipur (1955)�based on a Louis Bromfield novel and an earlier Twentieth Century Fox hit The Rains Came (1939)�is a juicy full-bore melodrama directed by Fox�s own master of the genre the great Jean Negulesco. Starring Lana Turner as a heartless vixen who first lures then falls in love with an honorable Indian physician (Richard Burton) the film plays out against the magnificent sweep of the Indian subcontinent torn by the harsher powers of nature and lushly photographed by Milton Krasner. Also starring Fred MacMurray as a potentially heroic drunk Michael Rennie as Turner�s cruelly cuckolded husband Eugenie Leontovich as a worldly-wise Maharani and Joan Caulfield as a loyal innocent the film is further highlighted by a romantic score from the incomparable Hugo Friedhofer (available here as an isolated track) and thrilling special effects that were nominated for an Academy Award.Enjoy the extensive Julie Kirgo liner notes and film art packaged with the Blu-ray

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Academy Award winners Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald re-team in Welcome Stranger - their follow-up film to Best Picture winner Going My Way. Dr. McRory (Fitzgerald) is a crotchety old physician who decides to take his first vacation in years. He requests a substitute doctor and gets Jim Pearson (Crosby), a brash young man who immediately rubs him the wrong way. So Dr. McRory decides to forget the vacation and stay home to protect his practice. This puts the two men at each other’s throats – and the fun begins! Filled with classic Bing Crosby songs, this heartwarming comedy gem is just what the doctor ordered.