New on Blu-ray: VARIETY GIRL (1947) Starring Bob Hope & Bing Crosby

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Product Description: Featuring three dozen stars, Variety Girl is a mammoth musical romance on how a movie star is born set amid the reality of a Hollywood studio! Playing himself, the incomparable Bob Hope reigns as top comic over one of the most star-studded casts ever assembled including Bing Crosby, Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Alan Ladd, Barbara Stanwyck, Paulette Goddard, Dorothy Lamour and many, many more. Starlet wannabe Amber LaVonne (Olga San Juan) is mistaken for her friend, the beautiful and talented Catherine Brown (Mary Hatcher). While the zany Amber flubs her way from audition to screen test to stage debut, Catherine cannot seem to keep her head above water in dealing with studio head R.J. O'Connell (Frank Ferguson). Along the way, the madness stops only long enough for musical numbers by Pearl Bailey, Spike Jones and His City Slickers, The Mulcays, and a rare puppetoon version of Romeow and Juliacat. Topped off by an A-list all-star variety revue, Variety Girl proves itself to be among the most entertaining and hilarious comedies ever filmed.

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THE IRON MISTRESS (1952) - Blu-ray Release of Biographical Drama Starring Alan Ladd & Virginia Mayo

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Product Description: Homespun Bayou lad Jim Bowie (Alan Ladd) is learning the courtly ways of 1825 southern society. He’s wearing only the finest suits and cravats. Proving himself in business and at the gaming table. And should the occasion call for it, he keeps handy the specially made blade – tempered with meteorite steel – that would make his name forever a part of American lore.

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THE GREAT GATSBY (1949) - Blu-ray Release of F. Scott Fitzgerald Adaptation Starring Alan Ladd, Betty Field & Macdonald Carey

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Product Description: A Great Cast… A Great Novel… A Great Motion Picture! This 1949 retelling of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s beloved novel takes us back in time to The Roaring Twenties, an age of hot jazz and cold champagne. The great Alan Ladd (Shane) stars as Jay Gatsby, formerly Jake Gatz, who works his way from poor fisherman to extravagant Long Island millionaire and then risks it all to woo back his former love, the beautiful Daisy Buchanan (Betty Field, The Shepherd of the Hills). Shot with noir style by director Elliott Nugent (The Cat and the Canary), this rare and ravishing Paramount adaptation was made long before the book became canonized as The Great American Novel. The first-rate cast features Macdonald Carey, Ruth Hussey, Barry Sullivan, Howard da Silva, Ed Begley, Elisha Cook Jr. and Shelley Winters.

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FILM NOIR: THE DARK SIDE OF CINEMA XXVI - New on Blu-ray (Dr. Broadway, Smooth as Silk, The Great Gatsby)

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Product Description: This collection features three unsung gems of classic film noir:

DR. BROADWAY (1942) – An Apple a Day Couldn’t Keep This Doctor Away! Macdonald Carey (Shadow of a Doubt) stars as hot-shot city physician Timothy “Doc” Kane, also known as Dr. Broadway, in a rollicking mystery film which marked the directorial debut of Anthony Mann (T-Men, Raw Deal, The Naked Spur). Under the bright lights of the Great White Way, Doc knows everyone and everyone knows him. He’s no ordinary practitioner; when he’s not doling out medical advice, he’s rounding up racketeers and saving a beautiful blonde (Jean Phillips, Among the Living) from a window ledge—twice. Based on a novel by Borden Chase (Winchester ’73, Bend of the River), the plot throws Doc into a zippy gangster mystery set against a glittering backdrop of 1942 Times Square. The lively cast includes J. Carrol Naish, Richard Lane, Eduardo Ciannelli and Joan Woodbury.

SMOOTH AS SILK (1946) – He Takes What He Wants… A Lady’s Lips, A Lover’s Life! A slick lawyer attempts to get away with murder in Smooth as Silk, a fast-paced noir thriller starring Kent Taylor (Tangier) and Virginia Grey (Portrait in Black). When Paula Marlowe (Grey) learns her boyfriend Mark Fenton (Taylor) represents the nephew of theatrical producer Stephen Elliott (John Litel, Woman in Hiding), the ambitious actress two-times the attorney and begins seeing his client so she can score a role in his uncle’s play. Successfully landing a part, Paula quickly trades up to Stephen, who announces their engagement at a party on opening night. Determined to get even, Fenton plans to use his advanced legal knowledge to pull off the perfect diabolical crime. Smoothly directed by the versatile Charles Barton (Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein).

THE GREAT GATSBY (1949) – A Great Cast… A Great Novel… A Great Motion Picture! This 1949 retelling of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s beloved novel takes us back in time to The Roaring Twenties, an age of hot jazz and cold champagne. The great Alan Ladd (Shane) stars as Jay Gatsby, formerly Jake Gatz, who works his way from poor fisherman to extravagant Long Island millionaire and then risks it all to woo back his former love, the beautiful Daisy Buchanan (Betty Field, The Shepherd of the Hills). Shot with noir style by director Elliott Nugent (The Cat and the Canary), this rare and ravishing Paramount adaptation was made long before the book became canonized as The Great American Novel. The first-rate cast features Macdonald Carey, Ruth Hussey, Barry Sullivan, Howard da Silva, Ed Begley, Elisha Cook Jr. and Shelley Winters.

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SHANE (1953) - Blu-ray & 4K Ultra HD Release of Classic Western Starring Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur and Van Heflin

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Product Description: Director George Stevens' (A Place in the Sun, Giant) legendary rendition of the archetypal Western myth made Shane one of the enduring classics of American cinema. Based on Jack Schaeffer's novel, the story brings Alan Ladd (The Great Gatsby), a drifter and retired gunfighter, to the assistance of a homestead family terrorized by an aging cattleman and his hired gun (Jack Palance, The Lonely Man). In fighting the last, decisive battle, Shane sees the end of his own way of life. Mysterious, moody and atmospheric, the film is enhanced by the intense performances of it's splendid cast, featuring Jean Arthur (The Plainsman), Van Heflin (3:10 to Yuma) and Brandon deWilde (Hud). Shane earned 6 Academy Award nominations for 1953, including Best Motion Picture and Best Supporting Actor (for both Palance and deWilde), winning for it's now iconic Technicolor cinematography by Loyal Griggs.

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THE PROUD REBEL (1958) New on Blu-ray - Western Starring Alan Ladd & Olivia de Havilland

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Product Description: Wandering the North in search of medical advice for his mute son David, ex-Confederate soldier John Chandler (Alan Ladd) finds himself in Aberdeen, Illinois—the next stop in a long trail of towns where he desperately hopes to find a cure for his youngster who lost the power of speech when a traumatic fire took the life of his mother.

While many townsfolk in Aberdeen still hold a grudge against Southerners, the same can’t be said for kindly doctor Enos Davis (Cecil Kellaway) who recommends John head to Minnesota where a specialist may be able to treat David’s condition. Before he can leave town, however, Chandler runs afoul of Jeb and Tom Burleigh—one-armed sheep rancher Harry Burleigh’s roughneck sons—who pick a fight with John after attempting to steal David's beloved dog.

Dragged before an indifferent judge, John is railroaded with an assault and battery charge and given the choice of 30 days or $30…neither of which he can afford. On hand for the trial is spinster Linnett Moore (de Havilland) who intervenes on John’s behalf by offering to pay his fine while he works off the debt on her farm.

Starring Alan Ladd in one of his most sober and moving performances, and a feistily endearing Olivia de Havilland, The Proud Rebel also boasts being helmed by one of the Golden Age’s most prolific directors in Michael Curtiz (Casablanca), along with beautiful cinematography by Ted McCord (Sound of Music) and a rousing score by Jerome Moross (The Big Country).

Alan Ladd’s real-life son, David (in the role of David), and consummate character actor Dean Jagger are featured, with superb support from Cecil Kellaway, Harry Dean Stanton, James Westerfield, Henry Hull, Tom Pittman, John Carradine, Percy Helton and Mary Wickes.

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New on Blu-ray: BOTANY BAY (1953) Starring Alan Ladd and James Mason

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Product Description: Botany Bay tells the story of the birth of Australia as a nation in the late 18th century—drawing its founding settlers from the dreary prisons of England. Condemned to live out the rest of their existence in a foreign land, these convicted criminals are given a chance for reformation on new soil. Among them are Hugh Tallant (screen great Alan Ladd, Whispering Smith), a rebellious medical student unjustly accused of highway robbery, and Sally Munroe (a wonderful Patricia Medina, Sangaree), a pretty young actress sentenced in a dispute over the ownership of a necklace. In order to reach their new life in the British penal colony of Botany Bay, however, they have to survive the grueling voyage of the prison ship Charlotte—and the treachery of its sadistic overlord, Captain Gilbert (a fiery James Mason, The Man Between). When the ship finally lands at its destination, the film comes to a crashing climax that makes it one of the most exciting sea adventures ever filmed! Franz Waxman’s (Red Mountain) score and John F. Seitz’s (Captain Carey, U.S.A.) Technicolor cinematography heighten the drama in this sweeping swashbuckler from screenwriter Jonathan Latimer (Night Has a Thousand Eyes) and director John Farrow (Submarine Command).

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New on Blu-ray: RED MOUNTAIN (1951) Starring Alan Ladd, Lizabeth Scott, Arthur Kennedy & John Ireland

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Product Description: Stained by the Blood of the West’s Greatest Heroes! From William Dieterle, the acclaimed director of Portrait of Jennie, Rope of Sand and Dark City, comes a rip-roaring Technicolor western with the all-star lineup of Alan Ladd (Shane), Lizabeth Scott (Desert Fury), Arthur Kennedy (Bend of the River) and John Ireland (Gunfight at the O.K. Corral). In the waning days of the Civil War, a rebel captain (Ladd) flees to Colorado to join a band of Southern mercenaries led by the bloodthirsty General Quantrill (Ireland). Along the way he drags an innocent gold-prospecting couple (Kennedy and Scott) into danger when the husband is accused of murder. Packed with fast-paced cavalry action, thrilling shootouts, a rousing Franz Waxman (Botany Bay) score and colorful Charles Lang (The Magnificent Seven) cinematography, Red Mountain is a glittering gem of a western!

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New on Blu-ray: FILM NOIR - THE DARK SIDE OF CINEMA XX (Captain Carey USA, Appointment with Danger & Make Haste to Live)

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Product Description: This collection features three film noir classics:

CAPTAIN CAREY, U.S.A. (1950) – Screen legend Alan Ladd (Lucky Jordan) plays the title role in this outstanding noir tale of a former OSS operative who returns to Italy after the war to avenge the death of resistance worker Giulia (Wanda Hendrix, Sierra)—only to find out that his “deceased” lover is not only still alive, but also now the wife of a powerful Italian baron (Francis Lederer, Midnight). Carey decides to stick around, hoping to flush out the traitor who had caused the wartime deaths of several of his OSS colleagues and resistance fighters. Enhanced by the musical number “Mona Lisa,” which won an Academy Award (Best Original Song, 1950) and later became an all-time classic. Directed by Hollywood great Mitchell Leisen (No Man of Her Own).

APPOINTMENT WITH DANGER (1951) – Ladd is back as the U.S. Mail’s Ace Agent Smashes the Biggest Mail Robbery Plan in History! Screen legend Alan Ladd (Chicago Deadline) is Postal Inspector Al Goddard, assigned to investigate the murder of a fellow officer. The only witness to the crime is Sister Augustine (Phyllis Calvert, Time Out of Mind), who identifies the photograph of one of the assailants. This leads Goddard to a seedy hotel where he learns that the assailant is a member of a gang headed by Earl Boettiger (Paul Stewart, Kiss Me Deadly), and he soon discovers that the gang is planning a million-dollar mail robbery. This taut and thrilling film noir also features Jan Sterling (Female on the Beach) and future Dragnet stars, Jack Webb and Harry Morgan, as Stewart’s henchmen. Directed by noir master Lewis Allen (So Evil My Love).

MAKE HASTE TO LIVE (1954) – Only a Gangster Killer Knew the Secret of Her Past! In this taut noir melodrama, Crystal (Dorothy McGuire, The Spiral Staircase) has unknowingly married a murderer. She knew Steve (Stephen McNally, The Raging Tide) was handsome and charming. But by the time she discovered he was a cold-blooded killer, it was too late: he had already become her husband. So she ran like never before, and built herself a new life together with her daughter. And years later, when she learns that Steve had been jailed for murder, Crystal thought she was safe. But when Steve is released from prison, he has a deadly reunion in mind. With Mary Murphy (The Wild One) and Edgar Buchanan (Human Desire), Make Haste to Live was the final feature film by veteran director William A. Seiter (Hot Saturday).

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New on Blu-ray: SAIGON (1947) Starring Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake & Douglas Dick

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Product Description: Following their noir classics This Gun for Hire, The Glass Key and The Blue Dahlia, screen legends Alan Ladd (Lucky Jordan) and Veronica Lake (The Hour Before the Dawn) team up for the fourth and final time in Saigon. After World War II, Larry (Ladd) learns that his flying buddy Mike will only live a short while longer due to shrapnel injuries. In order to finance one last wild trip for his friend, he accepts a lucrative flying job from a crooked profiteer. The plane takes off with sultry secretary Susan (Lake) on board—who, of course, falls for dashing Larry. However, danger awaits them when they’re forced to land their plane—and smuggled cargo—in Vietnam, with the police hot on their trail. Directed by Leslie Fenton (Whispering Smith), Saigon is a breathtaking, romance-laden adventure for Lake and Ladd!

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New on Blu-ray: THUNDER IN THE EAST (1952) Starring Alan Ladd and Deborah Kerr

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Product Description: Screen legends Alan Ladd (Lucky Jordan, Shane) and Deborah Kerr (From Here to Eternity, The King and I) give sterling performances in the romantic war drama, Thunder in the East. In the mountainous Indian province of Ghandahar, 1947, shortly after the country has gained its independence, American gunrunner Steve Gibbs (Ladd) finds himself caught in a raging rebel conflict when he is unable to sell his arms to a peace-minded government official (Charles Boyer, A Woman’s Vengeance). Amidst it all, Steve falls in love with the beautiful and blind Englishwoman, Joan Willoughby (Kerr). Action and romance crescendo in a gun-blazing climax as an army of rebels lays siege to Ghandahar, ensnaring the two lovers. Rousingly directed by Charles Vidor (Gilda, A Farewell to Arms) and co-starring Corinne Calvet (Peking Express) and Cecil Kellaway (Unconquered).

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New on Blu-ray: FILM NOIR - THE DARK SIDE OF CINEMA XVI (Mystery of Marie Roget / Chicago Deadline / Iron Man )

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Product Description: This collection features three film noir classics:

THE MYSTERY OF MARIE ROGET (1942) – The Mystery-Master’s Spine-Clutching Classic of the Phantom Mangler of Paris! The haunting film adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s pioneering detective story The Mystery of Marie Rogêt paints the future “Queen of Technicolor” Maria Montez (Cobra Woman, Tangier) in stunning shades of noir. A successful actress in the City of Light, Marie Rogêt (Montez) has a sinister dark side: she is plotting the death of her younger sister. When Marie goes missing and the maimed corpse of a young woman is discovered, Rue Morgue sleuth Dr. Paul Dupin (Patric Knowles, O.S.S.) works to track down the killer. Filled with suspense and intrigue, this gripping classic (also known as Phantom of Paris) was inspired by the real-life unsolved murder case of Mary Rogers. Featuring Maria Ouspenskaya (The Wolf Man), John Litel (Pitfall), Edward Norris (The Man with Two Lives) and Lloyd Corrigan (The Chase).

CHICAGO DEADLINE (1949) – Was She Good or Evil? Ladd Provides the Answer. From noir king Lewis Allen, director of The Uninvited, Desert Fury, So Evil My Love and Appointment with Danger, comes a twist-filled mystery headlined by screen greats Alan Ladd (Lucky Jordan, O.S.S.) and Donna Reed (It’s a Wonderful Life, Backlash). In a cheap hotel room on Chicago’s South Side, hard-nosed newspaperman Ed Adams (Ladd) finds the body of a dead girl, Rosita Jean d’Ur (Reed). Her address book leads to a host of men frightened by her death but claiming never to have known her. The more questions Ed asks…the more he uncovers the shocking truth. June Havoc (No Time for Love), Irene Hervey (Play Misty for Me) and Arthur Kennedy (Bright Victory) add strong support to the smoldering suspense of Chicago Deadline.

IRON MAN (1951) – He’s All Man in the Ring—or Anywhere! Jeff Chandler (Man in the Shadow, The Tattered Dress) stars as a coal miner who turns to professional boxing in the knock-out noir Iron Man. In a small Pennsylvania mining town, Coke Mason (Chandler) is a man with simple life ambitions: he endeavors to marry Rose (Evelyn Keyes, 99 River Street) and own a small business. But his gambling brother George (Stephen McNally, The Raging Tide) has plans to take advantage of Mason’s intense rage and turn him into a professional boxer. Worried that his “killer instinct” may prove to be too much in the ring, Mason must cope with the pressures of his newfound success in this blistering boxing drama from noir master Joseph Pevney, director of Flesh and Fury, Foxfire and Female on the Beach. Featuring future Hollywood legend, Rock Hudson (Man’s Favorite Sport?), and TV legends James Arness (Gunsmoke) and Jim Backus (Mister Magoo, Gilligan’s Island).

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New on Blu-ray: THE CARPETBAGGERS (1964) Starring George Peppard, Alan Ladd & Robert Cummings

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Product Description: Harold Robbins’ (Nevada Smith, Stiletto) bestseller about ’30s Hollywood comes to the screen in a torrent of frank, controversial and (for the times) sensational scenes that helped break the Production Code. George Peppard (Breakfast at Tiffany’s, P.J.) is the ruthless tycoon who (with amazing parallels to Howard Hughes) builds a multimillion-dollar empire. Carroll Baker (Baby Doll, The Big Country), who performs a razzle-dazzle striptease atop a glittering chandelier, is the Jean Harlow-type star. In addition to its depiction of the wild life in Tinseltown’s early days, the film also boasts Alan Ladd’s (Lucky Jordan, Shane) terrific final screen performance as the hero’s sidekick, Nevada Smith (later portrayed in the film’s prequel by a gunslinging Steve McQueen). Featuring Bob Cummings, Martha Hyer, Elizabeth Ashley, Lew Ayres, Martin Balsam, Ralph Taeger, Archie Moore and the daring direction of Edward Dmytryk (The Caine Mutiny, Mirage).

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New on Blu-ray: LUCKY JORDAN (1942) Starring Alan Ladd

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Product Description: Screen great Alan Ladd (China, O.S.S., Calcutta, Shane) stars as a wise guy who finds himself in one predicament after another in Lucky Jordan. When he discovers that he can no longer avoid the draft, a self-serving New York racketeer (Ladd) fails at his half-hearted attempt at military life. He goes AWOL, stealing a car that happens to contain a briefcase full of valuable military plans. What follows is an escapade filled with Nazi spies, espionage, assassins, saboteurs…and a beautiful member of the WAC determined to reform the gangster. Directed by Frank Tuttle (This Gun for Hire) and co-starring Helen Walker (Murder, He Says), Lucky Jordan is tough…trigger mad…and terrific!

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New on Blu-ray: CHINA (1943) Starring Loretta Young and Alan Ladd

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Product Description: From John Farrow, the acclaimed director of Wake Island, Calcutta, The Big Clock, Night Has a Thousand Eyes and Alias Nick Beal, comes this explosive wartime epic starring Loretta Young (The Stranger, The Farmer’s Daughter) and Alan Ladd (O.S.S., This Gun for Hire). Ladd plays an American gasoline salesman in 1941 China who supplies his wares to the highest bidder—in this case, the enemy Japanese. His unbiased business philosophy is tested on a trip to Shanghai when he meets an American schoolteacher (Young) and her Chinese students who tell him of Japanese cruelty. In a surprise show of fierce allegiance, he joins a band of Chinese guerrillas on a daring heist. Co-starring William Bendix (Lifeboat) and featuring masterful cinematography by Leo Tover (Hold Back the Dawn), this action-packed tale carried a Hollywood record of using seventy pounds of precious, rationed gunpowder.

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New on Blu-ray: FILM NOIR - THE DARK SIDE OF CINEMA IV (Calcutta, An Act of Murder, Six Bridges To Cross)

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Product Description: This collection features three film noir classics.

CALCUTTA (1946) – From John Farrow, the acclaimed director of Wake Island, The Big Clock, Alias Nick Beal, His Kind of Woman, Hondo and Back from Eternity, comes this classic film noir starring screen legend Alan Ladd (This Gun for Hire, The Blue Dahlia, Shane) with Gail Russell (The Uninvited, Angel and the Badman) and William Bendix (Lifeboat, The Glass Key). Neale (Ladd) and Pedro (Bendix) fly cargo between Chungking and Calcutta. When their friend and fellow pilot Bill is murdered, Neale vows to play judge and jury and bring the criminals to justice himself. Along the way, he meets Bill’s fiancée Virginia (Russell) and becomes suspicious of a deeper plot while also falling for her charms. Beautifully shot by John F. Seitz (The Lost Weekend, Double Indemnity) and co-starring June Duprez (And Then There Were None), this heart-pounding thriller simmers with postwar intrigue.

AN ACT OF MURDER (1948) – From Michael Gordon, the acclaimed director of The Web, The Lady Gambles, Woman in Hiding, Cyrano de Bergerac, Pillow Talk and Portrait in Black, comes this classic film noir starring screen legend Fredric March (Death Takes a Holiday, Inherit the Wind) as a man faced with an impossible predicament. Calvin Cooke (March), a no-nonsense judge in a small Pennsylvania town, finds his thoughts turning to end the life of his beloved wife Cathy (Florence Eldridge, The Story of Temple Drake) when he learns that she has an incurable disease and is suffering from unbearable pain. He decides to move forward with his plan and then surrenders himself to the police. Defended by a brilliant attorney (Edmond O’Brien, The Hitch-Hiker), Cooke goes on trial for his life in a case that will decide if he’s legally guilty of murder or morally innocent of killing his wife. This controversial thriller was written by Michael Blankfort (The Dark Past) and Robert Thoeren (The Prowler), based on a book by Ernst Lothar (The Clairvoyant).

SIX BRIDGES TO CROSS (1955) – From Joseph Pevney, the outstanding director of Foxfire, Female on the Beach, The Midnight Story, Man of a Thousand Faces and The Night of the Grizzly, comes this classic film noir starring screen great Tony Curtis (The Vikings, Trapeze) with George Nader (The Female Animal) and Julie Adams (Bend of the River). For decades, policeman Edward Gallagher (Nader) has tried to steer his lifelong friend and charming thief Jerry Florea (Curtis) from his life of crime. As Jerry graduates from two-bit hood to criminal mastermind, he must choose between the chance at redemption offered by his friend, or the irresistible allure of the crime of the century. Gorgeously shot by legendary cinematographer William H. Daniels (Thunder on the Hill) and co-starring Sal Mineo (Rebel Without a Cause) and Jay C. Flippen (Night Passage), Six Bridges to Cross is a thrilling crime drama inspired by the infamous Great Brink’s Robbery of 1950.

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New on Blu-ray: THIS GUN FOR HIRE (1942) Starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake

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Product Description: One of Hollywood's classic hard-boiled thrillers and a favorite of suspense film lovers, this picture marked the first hit pairing of tough guy Alan Ladd, in the role that made him an instant star, and sultry blonde bombshell Veronica Lake.

Adapted from a novel by Graham Greene, This Gun For Hire is the edgy story of love, power and betrayal set in the seamy underworld of the 1940s. Philip Raven (Ladd) is a cold-blooded professional killer who's been double-crossed by his client. Ellen (Lake) is a beautiful nightclub singer who's spying on her corrupt boss. Lt. Michael Crane (Robert Preston) is a dedicated cop who wants Ellen's love and Raven's capture. The tension mounts steadily ... and before the case is wrapped up, someone will pay with his life.

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New on Blu-ray: THE GLASS KEY (1942) Starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake

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Product Description: A film noir classic featuring the stars of This Gun For Hire! This engrossing and intricate murder mystery, based on Dashiell Hammett's best-selling novel, stars Brian Donlevy, Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake. Ed Beaumont (Ladd) is the loyal right-hand man of Paul Madvig (Donlevy), a corrupt politician who is accused of murder. Hunting down the real killer, Beaumont must endure a brutal beating from gangsters, the annoying hindrance of the police and the beguiling advances of his boss's fiancée, socialite Janet Henry (Lake).

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