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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New on Blu-ray: JACK BENNY - COMEDY CLASSICS (1937-1939) - Two-Film Collection

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Product Description: A struggling ad man (Jack Benny) agrees to judge a debutante beauty contest in order to appease his wealthy-and last-client (Richard Arlen), and his disgruntled staffer (Ida Lupino) contrives to pose as a blueblood in order to join the competition. "Artists and Models" (1937) co-stars Gail Patrick, Ben Blue, Judy Canova, Martha Raye, Louis Armstrong. Then, the efforts of a stage producer (Benny) to make his disinterested star (Dorothy Lamour) jealous by flirting with a married noble (Binnie Barnes) blow up in his face. "Man About Town" (1939) co-stars Edward Arnold, Monty Wooley, Betty Grable, Isabel Jeans, Phil Harris.

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DONOVAN'S REEF (1963) - Blu-ray & 4K Release of John Wayne Adventure Comedy

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Product Description: Legendary filmmaker John Ford (Stagecoach, The Quiet Man) and star John Wayne (Fort Apache, The Searchers ) team up for what would be their final collaboration in this boisterous, uproarious South Seas escapade! Life on a South Pacific island for two ex-Navy buddies (The Duke and Lee Marvin, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance) is just about perfect—they spend most of their time in Donovan’s Reef, the local saloon where they brawl and feud and somehow manage to stave off the sameness of tropical living. Then, into this mayhem arrives a straitlaced Bostonian (Elizabeth Allen, Cheyenne Autumn) in search of her father. Jack Warden, Cesar Romero, Dick Foran and Dorothy Lamour add to the laughs—and pandemonium—in this tropical Technicolor treat!

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New on Blu-ray: THE ROAD TO HONG KONG (1962) Starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope & Joan Collins

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Product Description: Bob Hope and Bing Crosby take off on The Road to Hong Kong, the seventh and final Road movie from the irresistibly charming and wacky duo. Cavorting through a series of madcap adventures with Joan Collins, Robert Morley and Road queen Dorothy Lamour—as well as scene-stealers Peter Sellers, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Pat O’Brien and David Niven—Crosby and Hope dish out a “fricassee of jokes and gags” (Los Angeles Times) in what may be the wildest entry in their legendary film series from Singapore to Bali. Vaudevillians Harry (Crosby) and Chester (Hope) travel to Tibet to search for a drug to restore Chester’s memory. Once they find the cure, Chester’s memory becomes so good that he accidentally memorizes a secret formula for space navigation. Soon the two meet up with a beautiful spy (Collins) and get slightly sidetracked…to another planet! From fabulous filmmakers Norman Panama and Melvin Frank (Road to Utopia, White Christmas, The Court Jester).

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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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New on Blu-ray: THE LAST TRAIN FROM MADRID (1937) Starring Dorothy Lamour, Lew Ayres, Gilbert Roland and Anthony Quinn

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Product Description: Screen goddess Dorothy Lamour (My Favorite Brunette) headlines The Last Train from Madrid, a captivating film that profiles the lives of refugees fleeing the horrors of the Spanish Civil War. Protected by only a single guard while escaping from Madrid on a train, a group of weary individuals from different social classes share snippets of life and love before and during the war illustrating the profound impact it has had on their lives. Directed by James P. Hogan (The Mad Ghoul) and co-starring Lew Ayres (Donovan’s Brain), Gilbert Roland (She Done Him Wrong), Anthony Quinn (The Guns of Navarone), Robert Cummings (The Accused), Lionel Atwill (The Secret of the Blue Room), Karen Morley (Scarface) and Helen Mack (Son of Kong). The Last Train from Madrid beautifully interweaves the dramatic stories of seven strangers with a common mission. Featuring early uncredited appearances by Alan Ladd (Shane) and Charles Middleton (Ming of Flash Gordon).

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New on Blu-ray: CAUGHT IN THE DRAFT (1941) Starring Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour

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Product Description: Comedy legend Bob Hope (The Ghost Breakers) once again teams up with his “Road to” co-star Dorothy Lamour (My Favorite Brunette) in this hilarious comedy directed by David Butler (Road to Morocco). Hope plays gun-shy movie star Don Bolton who, despite his concerted efforts to avoid the draft, nevertheless gets caught in it. Despite being the worst of soldiers, Don ends up being hailed as a hero and then looks to win the heart of the colonel’s gorgeous daughter (Lamour). Beautifully shot in glorious black-and-white by the great Karl Struss (Sunrise) and co-starring Eddie Bracken (Hail the Conquering Hero).

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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: SPAWN OF THE NORTH (1938) Starring George Raft, Henry Fonda and Dorothy Lamour

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Product Description: From Henry Hathaway, the outstanding director of The Shepherd of the Hills, The House on 92nd Street, Kiss of Death, Rawhide, 23 Paces to Baker Street, Nevada Smith and True Grit, comes this sprawling epic starring screen greats Henry Fonda (The Ox-Bow Incident), George Raft (They Drive by Night), Dorothy Lamour (My Favorite Brunette), John Barrymore (Twentieth Century) and Akim Tamiroff (The General Died at Dawn). This wild-eyed “western of the North” is the tale of one man’s transformation from fisherman to vigilante, forced by honor to stand alone against Russian pirates. It was the early 1900s, and Alaska was proving itself to be the last of the American frontiers. Men and women of all backgrounds raced to make a better life for themselves in this virgin territory, while others strove to rob its riches and claim its beauty as their own. Jim Kimmerlee (Fonda) just wanted to make an honest living off of the rich Alaskan salmon fisheries. He was about to find out, however, that whether in friendship, love or war, frontiers are neither easily forged nor soon forgotten. Beautifully shot in glorious black-and-white by Charles Lang (A Farewell to Arms) with a memorable score by Dimitri Tiomkin (Rio Bravo).

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New on Blu-ray: ROAD TO SINGAPORE (1940) Starring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope

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Product Description: The 1940s’ hottest movie trio—Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour—chart a course for comedy, music and romance in Road to Singapore. Running out on his stuffy desk job and marriage-minded girlfriend, Josh Mallon (Crosby) links up with sailor-buddy Ace (Hope) and sets sail for the farthest point on the map: Singapore. On the exotic island of Kaigoon, they meet Mima (Lamour), a lovely young dancer on the run from her domineering fiancé. Josh and Ace rescue Mima, who moves into their shack, cooks, cleans, sings—and quickly becomes the object of their wise-cracking war for her affections. Road to Singapore was the initial entry in the legendary Hope-Crosby-Lamour Road series that delighted moviegoers for years to come. The Victor Schertzinger-helmed film was the top-grosser of 1940 and features Charles Coburn, Jerry Colonna and Anthony Quinn in key supporting roles.

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