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MGM borrowed a page from Warner Bros.' playbook for this gritty pre-Code gangster classic, a major step in the career of its leading lady, Jean Harlow. Walter Huston leads the cast as a respected police captain waging war on a vicious gangland chief. Adapted from a story by W.R. Burnett, whose Little Caesar had broken new ground for the genre a year earlier, The Beast of the City is a gripping and exciting tale, now remastered and restored for its Blu-ray debut.

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At the Castle, a large private psychiatric clinic, Dr. Stewart McIver (Richard Widmark) buries himself in his work day and night while his yearning wife (Gloria Grahame) is neglected — and a hard-drinking colleague (Charles Boyer) moves to console her. With Lauren Bacall, Lillian Gish, John Kerr, Susan Strasberg and Oscar Levant adding their own subplots of love, life and madness, the result is a web of entanglements. Critics mocked the storyline about patients choosing the library drapes, but with this cast and Minnelli's command of color and melodrama, the film is a treat for soap fans.

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In post-war Santa Barbara, teenager Judy Foster is consumed with the upcoming school dance — and with matchmaking. Torn between her longtime sweetheart Oogie and an older college boy working at the soda fountain, Judy also meddles in her friend Carol's romance and jumps to entirely the wrong conclusion when she catches her father secretly taking rhumba lessons from singer Rosita. Her well-meant schemes tangle everyone's love life before the dance finally sorts it all out, with plenty of songs along the way.

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Disc 2 (the Blu-ray disc) contains both the 82-minute Theatrical Cut and the 83-minute 'Dirtier Cut' in 1080p HD, both audio commentaries (Frank Sebastiano and Mike Hunchback on the Theatrical Cut; Frank Sebastiano and Fred Wolf on the Dirtier Cut), the 'Note to Self: Doing Dirty Work' making-of documentary, and interviews ('Two Dollars', 'Quicksand', 'Cutting Dirty Work', 'Front Row', 'Nose Biter', 'Face First', 'Fully Loaded', 'Excuse Me', 'The Last Word', 'Hey Jim It's Norm' and 'Revenge for Hire'). Mitch, a lifelong prankster, loses his job, his girlfriend and his apartment in one swoop and moves in with his childhood best friend Sam and Sam's cantankerous father, Pops. When Pops suffers a heart attack, surgeon Dr. Farthing offers to secure him a new heart - in exchange for $50,000 to cover Farthing's gambling debts. Desperate to raise a lot of money fast, Sam and Mitch turn their shared talent for mischief into a revenge-for-hire business called "Dirty Work," and customers line up for their creative, spiteful payback schemes. But when an evil local politician hires them for an especially malicious prank, Mitch is forced to face the consequences of what he has been doing.

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Disc 1 (the 4K UHD disc) contains both the 82-minute Theatrical Cut and the 83-minute 'Dirtier Cut' in 4K UHD, presented in Dolby Vision, plus both audio commentaries (Frank Sebastiano and Mike Hunchback on the Theatrical Cut; Frank Sebastiano and Fred Wolf on the Dirtier Cut). Mitch, a lifelong prankster, loses his job, his girlfriend and his apartment in one swoop and moves in with his childhood best friend Sam and Sam's cantankerous father, Pops. When Pops suffers a heart attack, surgeon Dr. Farthing offers to secure him a new heart - in exchange for $50,000 to cover Farthing's gambling debts. Desperate to raise a lot of money fast, Sam and Mitch turn their shared talent for mischief into a revenge-for-hire business called "Dirty Work," and customers line up for their creative, spiteful payback schemes. But when an evil local politician hires them for an especially malicious prank, Mitch is forced to face the consequences of what he has been doing.

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While America sank into despair in the early Depression, Hollywood answered with chorus girls, gangsters, romances, a handful of social-realist dramas — and this utterly singular fantasy, Gabriel Over the White House. Walter Huston stars as a corrupt U.S. president who, after a near-fatal car crash and a brush with an angel, awakens resolved to fix everything wrong with America, by any means necessary. Towering like a Yankee Colossus, he brushes aside constitutional safeguards to attack poverty, crime, and war as a populist dictator, earning the adulation of a grateful nation. Gregory La Cava, later Oscar-nominated for My Man Godfrey (1936) and Stage Door (1937), directed this grandly mounted, essential curio.

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When his brother dies in suspicious circumstances, ruthless London gangster Jack Carter heads back to Newcastle and cuts a violent path through the underworld to find out who was responsible and settle the score.

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Four Formula One drivers — American Pete Aron, two-time French champion Jean-Pierre Sarti, British driver Scott Stoddard and Italian newcomer Nino Barlini — fight through a full season of European Grands Prix, their championship rivalry bleeding into their friendships, marriages and loyalties off the track. Shot on location at the real circuits with the sport's genuine stars in cameos, the film builds to a winner-take-all final race.

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Newport socialite Tracy Lord is days away from marrying the pompous George Kittredge when her ex-husband, jazz musician C.K. Dexter Haven — who lives next door and never stopped loving her — starts quietly scheming to get her back. A tabloid reporter and photographer strong-armed into covering the wedding add a third suitor to the mix, and over one long weekend Tracy has to decide which man she actually wants, in this Cole Porter musical version of The Philadelphia Story.

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Disc 1 (the 4K UHD disc) contains the film in 4K with Dolby Vision and HDR10. Newport socialite Tracy Lord is days away from marrying the pompous George Kittredge when her ex-husband, jazz musician C.K. Dexter Haven — who lives next door and never stopped loving her — starts quietly scheming to get her back. A tabloid reporter and photographer strong-armed into covering the wedding add a third suitor to the mix, and over one long weekend Tracy has to decide which man she actually wants, in this Cole Porter musical version of The Philadelphia Story.

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Disc 2 (the Blu-ray disc) contains the theatrical version and the extended unrated version of the film, a new audio commentary by critics Bryan Reesman and Max Evry, an archival audio commentary by directors Peter and Bobby Farrelly (recorded for the extended version), the 'Kingpins: Extra Frames' featurette with the Farrelly brothers, and the theatrical trailer. Woody Harrelson plays Roy Munson, a bowling prodigy seemingly headed for stardom — until a run-in with angry rivals leaves him sadder, wiser, and missing his bowling hand. Years later he discovers Ishmael (Randy Quaid), a naive Amish bowling talent, and the two head for a million-dollar tournament in Reno, picking up Claudia (Vanessa Angel), a sharp, ambitious vixen, along the way. With her help they reach the tournament — but whether Roy and Ishmael take the prize or watch their hopes roll into the gutter is another matter. Chris Elliott and Bill Murray round out the cast of the Farrelly brothers' bowling farce.

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Disc 1 (the 4K UHD disc) contains the theatrical version of the film in 4K with Dolby Vision and a new audio commentary by critics Bryan Reesman and Max Evry. Woody Harrelson plays Roy Munson, a bowling prodigy seemingly headed for stardom — until a run-in with angry rivals leaves him sadder, wiser, and missing his bowling hand. Years later he discovers Ishmael (Randy Quaid), a naive Amish bowling talent, and the two head for a million-dollar tournament in Reno, picking up Claudia (Vanessa Angel), a sharp, ambitious vixen, along the way. With her help they reach the tournament — but whether Roy and Ishmael take the prize or watch their hopes roll into the gutter is another matter. Chris Elliott and Bill Murray round out the cast of the Farrelly brothers' bowling farce.

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Camelot is at peace, but one bond in King Arthur's court is weakening: the growing love between his finest knight, Sir Lancelot, and Queen Guinevere. The classic legend is retold as a lavish 1950s CinemaScope spectacle, shot on location amid real castles and pageantry, with Robert Taylor as the torn Lancelot, Mel Ferrer as Arthur and Ava Gardner as the queen he serves and loves.

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Naive young orphan Lili Daurier finds work with a traveling carnival and falls for its charming magician, Marc. The man who truly adores her is the show's puppeteer Paul Berthalet, a bitter former dancer crippled in the war, who can only declare his love through his puppets. Lili's innocent daily conversations with the puppets turn the act into a sensation, even as Paul torments himself over her infatuation with the womanizing Marc.

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When Melinda Lewis (Vonetta McGee) is found brutally murdered in his Los Angeles apartment, smooth-talking disc jockey Frankie J. Parker (Calvin Lockhart) turns detective to clear his own name. Pursued and attacked by junkies, dealers and thugs, he learns that Melinda was the former mistress of a Chicago mobster and had taken evidence the gangster is desperate to recover. Aided by a jealous ex-flame (Rosalind Cash) and a neighborhood karate master (Jim Kelly, in his screen debut), Frankie sets out to find the mob boss who framed him and avenge Melinda's death. A box-office hit on release and one of the few Blaxploitation films produced, written and directed by African-Americans, it carries a funk score by R&B legend Jerry Butler and Grammy winner Jerry Peters.

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A London woman is terrorized by anonymous threats, but as fear closes in, no one around her seems willing to believe her.

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Ricardo Montalban headlines this John Sturges police procedural with a strong noir streak. The case begins with a wealthy, married Boston socialite, the pregnant young woman he has been seeing, and the unlucky bar patron she talks into handing over his car — and ends with a woman's skeleton washing up on Cape Cod months later. Assigned to the investigation, Lieutenant Peter Morales (Montalban) has almost nothing to work with, so he teams up with Harvard forensic criminologist Dr. McAdoo (Bruce Bennett) to identify the killer. John Alton's striking camerawork and the Sydney Boehm–Richard Brooks screenplay, from a story by Leonard Spigelgass, round out a tight, dark thriller.

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Betrayed by his partner and his own wife after a heist on Alcatraz, professional thief Walker is shot and left for dead — but he survives. He returns to Los Angeles with one fixed purpose: to recover his $93,000 share, working his way up through the crime syndicate known as the Organization, one man at a time, until somebody pays.

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This disc contains the 1952 version of the film in 1080p HD, plus the 1922 silent version (directed by Rex Ingram) presented in SD as a bonus feature, along with audio-only radio broadcasts of the story. Shot in spectacular Technicolor, this 1952 remake of Anthony Hope's famous novel stars Stewart Granger in a dual role: as Rudolf, the would-be King of Ruritania, kidnapped on the eve of his coronation by henchmen of his wicked half-brother, the Duke of Strelsau (Robert Douglas), in a plot to seize the throne — and as Rudolf Rassendyll, an English visitor whose uncanny resemblance to the King leads the loyal Colonel Zapt (Louis Calhern) to enlist him as a stand-in to save the crown. The masquerade draws Rassendyll into romance with Princess Flavia (Deborah Kerr) and a web of treachery that ends in cloak-and-dagger combat with the villainous Rupert of Hentzau (James Mason).

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Sadie McKee works as a maid in the wealthy Alderson household, where she has grown up alongside the family's son Michael, now a lawyer. She gives her heart to Tommy, a singer, but that romance falls apart, and in New York she instead marries the alcoholic millionaire Jack Brennan. Through every turn of fortune she keeps clawing her way up from rags. In the end it is Michael, the man she has known since childhood, who stands by her.

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Joe Norson, a struggling New York mailman with a pregnant wife, impulsively pockets an envelope he believes holds a few hundred dollars. It actually contains $30,000 in blackmail money, and his attempts to put it back draw him deeper into danger in Anthony Mann's taut Manhattan noir.

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Disc 4 contains episodes 16–20: 'The Ark', 'Sunday', 'Submersion', 'Vengeance' and 'First Strike', each with an audio commentary, plus the featurettes 'Mission Directive: First Strike' and 'Stargate Atlantis: A Look Back on Season Three with Martin Gero'. A new season opens with a fleet of Wraith ships racing toward Earth, and the Atlantis team must stop the attack before the Wraith claim a new feeding ground. Along the way they must judge whether a technologically advanced people they encounter will stand with the expedition as allies — or emerge as a powerful new threat.

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Opera hopeful Prudence Budell (Kathryn Grayson), back home in Philadelphia, is unhappy with the ageing, pompous tenor engaged to sing opposite her — until she hears truck driver Johnny Donnetti (Mario Lanza, making his screen debut) singing in the street and persuades conductor José Iturbi to give the young Italian-American an audition. His voice and charm win him the part and Prudence's heart, in this Technicolor MGM musical produced by Joe Pasternak.

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With the Great War behind them, three German veterans open an auto repair shop and try to build new lives. Erich falls for the frail Patricia, Gottfried is drawn to a forbidden anti-nationalist group, and Otto meets each day with cynicism — but whatever comes, the three know they will remain comrades. Frank Borzage's lyrical version of Erich Maria Remarque's novel carries one of F. Scott Fitzgerald's rare screenwriting credits, and Margaret Sullavan's Patricia is its luminous heart, a cherished fourth comrade.

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All 23 Tom and Jerry cartoons Hanna and Barbera made in CinemaScope — the widescreen run that began with Pet Peeve (1954) — collected on Blu-ray by Warner Archive, joined by three bonus Hanna-Barbera shorts: Good Will to Men, Give and Tyke, and Scat Cats.

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Teen sisters Patti (Jane Powell) and Melba (Debbie Reynolds) turn a 1900s family holiday in the Catskills into a romantic romp. Patti, smitten with a suave older man (Ricardo Montalban), is convinced romance will follow if her disapproving parents would only let her wear a corset — with it, the 18-year-old is sure she would look like a grown woman. Melba, meanwhile, pursues a local boy (Carleton Carpenter) with lovestruck determination. Their duet of 'Aba Daba Honeymoon' became a smash-hit record, and Busby Berkeley staged the film's numbers, including 'Row, Row, Row' and a dream sequence in which a corseted Powell dazzles Montalban with an aria from The Chocolate Soldier.

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He was a legend in his own time...and for all time. Jeff Bridges portrays Wild Bill Hickok, the hard-drinking, quick-shooting gunslinger who lived on the edge. Hickok's amazing story is told with a stunning visual style and lightning-fast pace, illuminating one of the most exciting heroes of the American West. Wild Bill is "an action-packed masterpiece" (Paul Wunder, WBAI Radio). In the town of Deadwood, South Dakota, Wild Bill must face his most lethal enemy. A mysterious stranger (David Arquette) has arrived announcing that he will not leave until Hickok is dead. Wild Bill finds comfort in the arms of sexy Calamity Jane (Ellen Barkin), but he is haunted by the memory of the one woman he truly loveda longing that could ultimately bring about his downfall. As Hickok andhis opponent near their explosive confrontation, the stage is set for a powerful climax unsurpassedin high drama and edge-of-your-seat excitement.