FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS (1943) - New 4K Restoration Blu-ray Special Edtion

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Product Description: Based on the best-selling controversial novel by Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls graces the screen with legendary stars Gary Cooper (Beau Geste, High Noon) and Ingrid Bergman (Casablanca, Joan of Arc). The story follows expatriate American demolition expert Robert Jordan (Cooper) who aids anti-fascist freedom fighters of Spain. Assisting him is a band of warriors including the strong-willed Pilar (Katina Paxinou in an Academy Award®-winning performance), the dangerously undependable Pablo (Akim Tamiroff, The General Died at Dawn) and the lovely, innocent Maria (Bergman). As danger mounts, Robert and Maria develop a closeness that blossoms into one of the silver screen’s greatest love stories. Epic in scope yet intimate in feeling, For Whom the Bell Tolls was nominated for 9 Oscars for the wartime year of 1943, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Cooper), Best Actress (Bergman) and Best Supporting Actor (Tamiroff), and remains a shining example of Golden Age Hollywood moviemaking at its finest.

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THE BLACK TULIP / LA TULIPE NOIRE (1964) - New on Blu-ray

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Product Description: International idol Alain Delon (Un Flic, The Girl on a Motorcycle) leaps into action in this colorful swashbuckling adventure from the pen of Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers). Who is The Black Tulip? France’s most daring masked avenger—one part Zorro and one part Robin Hood! In 1789 on the eve of the French Revolution, the townspeople of Roussillon live in fear of a tyrannical aristocracy. But a local hero emerges in the form of The Black Tulip (the dashing Delon). The Marquis (Akim Tamiroff, Alphaville), the Prince (Robert Manuel, Rififi) and the Baron try to quell his banditry, but this buccaneer for justice has the support of the revolutionaries and a very clever ace up his sleeve in the form of a twin brother! Stylishly directed by Christian-Jaque (Fanfan la Tulipe) and shot in sumptuous color by Henri Decaë (Joy House), The Black Tulip (La Tulipe noire) has it all—comedy, intrigue, sword-swinging action and Delon’s fiery romances with the ravishing Virna Lisi (Queen Margot) and dazzling Dawn Addams (Zeta One)!

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New on Blu-ray: HIGH, WIDE AND HANDSOME (1937) Starring Irene Dunne & Randolph Scott

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Product Description: Hollywood legends Irene Dunne (When Tomorrow Comes), Randolph Scott (Western Union) and Dorothy Lamour (My Favorite Brunette) star in High, Wide and Handsome, a rousing musical adventure about a small town that strikes it rich. When their traveling show breaks down in a Pennsylvania village, Doc Watterson (Raymond Walburn, Christmas in July) and his lovely daughter, Sally (Dunne), find a place to stay with aspiring oilman Peter Cortlandt (Scott). All of Peter’s hard work pays off as he and Sally fall in love and he discovers a vein of oil that will make him and all his neighbors wealthy. When a railroad mogul schemes to get the land for himself, the community pulls together to build a pipeline to their dreams. Directed by the great Rouben Mamoulian (Love Me Tonight, The Mark of Zorro) and featuring songs by famed composers Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II (Show Boat), this unforgettable classic is a heartfelt story of finding success against all odds.

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DVD & Blu-ray: BLACK MAGIC (1949) Starring Orson Welles and Nancy Guild

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Product Description: After watching his gypsy parents executed by hanging for the alleged crime of sorcery, a young Joseph Balsamo is tortured mercilessly for the insolence of objecting to his parents' conviction. After a narrow escape from his captors, he vows revenge on the nobleman who sentenced his parents to death.

Having honed his skills as a charmer through his teen years and into adulthood, Joseph (Orson Welles) now dons the name Cagliostro and becomes a famous sorcerer throughout Europe earning wealth, fame and privilege. His misadventures culminate in a bit of palace intrigue with a plot against Queen Marie Antoinette (Nancy Guild)—whose exact double is under Cagliostro's spell and is helpless to be his instrument in usurping the throne of France.

Despite having helmed such cinematic triumphs as Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons, the legendary Orson Welles often had trouble in acquiring directorial assignments throughout his career. Many of Welles' film projects were independent ones—financed by acting he did in other directors' pictures. The 1949 production of Black Magic is just such an assignment as Welles used the proceeds to make his version of Shakespeare's Othello (1951).

An adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas novel Joseph Balsamo which tells the story of the 18th century sorcerer Cagliostro, Magic is directed by Gregory Ratoff and features a bravura performance of villainy from Welles, with excellent support from Guild, Stephen Bekassy and Akim Tamiroff (who would later appear with Welles in the director's classic Touch of Evil).

Frank Latimore, Valentina Cortese and Margot Grahame are also featured, with future Perry Mason star Raymond Burr appearing at the film's beginning as Alexandre Dumas' son with Berry Kroeger as the senior Dumas. NEWLY RESTORED.

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New on Blu-ray: CAN'T HELP SINGING (1944) Starring Deanna Durbin and Robert Paige

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Product Description: Singing sensation Deanna Durbin stars in the romantic musical comedy Can't Help Singing, her only movie filmed in glorious Technicolor. Set in 1849, Durbin portrays the spirited Caroline who leaves Washington to pursue a handsome cavalry officer (Davis Bruce) despite the wishes of her father (Ray Collins). After learning of her California destination, her outraged father posts a substantial reward for her return. Now, with a price on her head, Caroline attempts to keep a low profile. While in Missouri, she teams up with hilarious Russian con artists (Akim Tamiroff and Leonid Kinskey) and a dashing ex-cardsharp (Robert Paige). Together, they follow a lively trail of adventure where the music flows, laughs abound and love is found along the way.

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New on Blu-ray: UNION PACIFIC (1939) Starring Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea

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Product Description: Filmmaking legend Cecil B. DeMille (The Plainsman, The Ten Commandments) directs the classic screen duo of Barbara Stanwyck (Internes Can’t Take Money, The Lady Eve) and Joel McCrea (The Great Man’s Lady, The Palm Beach Story) in this explosive western about the struggle to build America’s first transcontinental railroad. Jeff Butler (McCrea), overseer of the Union Pacific’s construction, finds a network of schemers bent on sabotage. Most prominent are gamblers Sid Campeau (Brian Donlevy, Beau Geste), Jack Cordray (Anthony Quinn, Against All Flags) and Dick Allen (Robert Preston, Reap the Wild Wind). Dick is a former pal of Jeff’s, but their relationship changes as they fight over the railroad and over Mollie Monahan (Stanwyck), the railroad’s spirited postmistress. Featuring Akim Tamiroff (The General Died at Dawn) and Lynne Overman (Spawn of the North), this action-packed spectacle, filled with political intrigue, stampeding buffalo and train wrecks, delivers everything you would expect from a Cecil B. DeMille epic.

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New on Blu-ray: DISPUTED PASSAGE (1939) Starring Dorothy Lamour, Akim Tamiroff and John Howard

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Product Description: From Frank Borzage, the acclaimed director of 7th Heaven, Street Angel, Bad Girl, A Farewell to Arms, Desire, The Mortal Storm and Moonrise, comes this gripping story about the powerful healing ability of the human spirit. John Wesley Beaven (John Howard, The Undying Monster), an understudy of Dr. ‘Tubby’ Forster (Akim Tamiroff, For Whom the Bell Tolls), esteemed professor of medicine and surgery, struggles to fully surrender to his teacher’s philosophy of keeping the sterility of science separate from the warmth of the human spirit. His views are challenged after he falls in love with Lan Ying (Dorothy Lamour, Road to Morocco), a Chinese woman of American descent raised in Shanghai. Upon completion of paying a personal debt to her Chinese father, she promptly returns to John to accept his marriage proposal but is interjected by Forster claiming that she would ruin his life. When John becomes aware that Forster has interfered, he sets out to find his love in China. Beautifully shot in black-and-white by the great William C. Mellor (A Place in the Sun, The Diary of Anne Frank).

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New on Blu-ray: THE LIVES OF THE BENGAL LANCER (1935) Starring Gary Cooper

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Product Description: Brand New 4K Master! From Henry Hathaway, the renowned director of The Shepherd of the Hills, The House on 92nd Street, Kiss of Death, Rawhide, 23 Paces to Baker Street and True Grit, comes this action-packed adventure starring screen icon Gary Cooper (Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife, Beau Geste). The Lives of a Bengal Lancer is the thrilling tale of the heroic men who guarded the British Empire’s perilous Khyber Pass in India. Surly McGregor (Cooper) and wry, blue-blooded Forsythe (Franchot Tone, Phantom Lady) are officers in charge of newcomer Lieutenant Stone (Richard Cromwell, Baby Face Morgan), the commanding officer’s inexperienced son. Motivated by a grudge toward his father, Colonel Stone (Sir Guy Standing, Death Takes a Holiday), Lt. Stone allows himself to be captured by the enemy. Foiled in a daring rescue attempt, McGregor and Forsythe face ruthless torture for military secrets until they escape into the film’s most splendid battle, where Stone becomes an unlikely hero. Featuring stunning cinematography by the great Charles Lang (A Farewell to Arms) and a strong supporting cast that includes C. Aubrey Smith (The Hurricane), Akim Tamiroff (The General Died at Dawn) and J. Carrol Naish (Joan of Arc), The Lives of a Bengal Lancer won 2 separate Best Assistant Director Oscars for Clem Beauchamp and Paul Wing, and was nominated for 6 more Oscars, including Best Picture, Director, Screenplay and Editing.

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New on Blu-ray: THE GENERAL DIED AT DAWN (1936) Starring Gary Cooper and Madeleine Carroll

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Product Description: Brand New 4K Master! From Lewis Milestone, the celebrated director of All Quiet on the Western Front, The Front Page, A Walk in the Sun, Pork Chop Hill, Mutiny on the Bounty and Ocean’s 11, comes this classic tale of courage and heroism starring screen greats Gary Cooper (The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Beau Geste) and Madeleine Carroll (The 39 Steps, My Favorite Blonde). O’Hara (Cooper) is a mysterious American soldier of fortune who tries to foil the ambitions of General Yang (Akim Tamiroff, Touch of Evil, After the Fox), a ruthless warlord who plans to take over the provinces of Northern China. On route to Shanghai with money to buy arms for the oppressed peasants, O’Hara is lured into Yang’s clutches by a beautiful American (Carroll). An intriguing game of double-cross ensues with O’Hara battling overwhelming odds in a deadly struggle against tyranny. Exotic settings and gorgeous cinematography (Victor Milner, Cleopatra) highlight this action-packed film noir co-starring Dudley Digges (The Invisible Man), Porter Hall (Miracle on 34th Street) and William Frawley (Fred Mertz of TV’s I Love Lucy). The General Died at Dawn was nominated for 3 Oscars: Actor in a Supporting Role (Tamiroff), Cinematography (Milner) and Score (Boris Morros, Werner Janssen).

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New on Blu-ray: THE GREAT MCGINTY (1940) Starring Brian Donlevy and Muriel Angelus

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Product Description: From Preston Sturges, the legendary writer/director of Christmas in July, The Lady Eve, The Palm Beach Story and Unfaithfully Yours comes this classic comedy about an opportunist who turns corruption into a promising political career, but struggles to stay on top when he tries to go honest. Dan McGinty (Brian Donlevy, The Quatermass Xperiment) is a hungry hobo who wows the ballot-stuffers by voting 37 times in an election for Mayor. He immediately becomes the protégé of “The Boss” (Akim Tamiroff, After the Fox), who guides and schemes McGinty to Alderman, Mayor and ultimately Governor with a series of payoffs, kickbacks and bribes. In trouble, McGinty flees the country and winds up (or down) as a bartender in a seedy Central American dive where the tale has a gleeful surprise ending. The Great McGinty, a high-spirited comedy of rogues and rascals, won the 1941 Oscar for Best Original Screenplay (Sturges).

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DVD & Blu-ray: Jean-Luc Godard's ALPHAVILLE (1965)

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Product Description: Government agent Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine) is dispatched on a secret mission to Alphaville, a dystopian metropolis in a distant corner of the galaxy. Caution is hot on the trail of rogue agent Henri Dickson (Akim Tamiroff) and a scientist named Von Braun, the creator of Alpha 60, a computer that uses mind control to rule over residents of Alphaville. Caution is aided in his quest to destroy the despotic computer ruler by Von Braun's own daughter, Natacha (Anna Karina).

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