FRENCH WITHOUT TEARS (1940) - Blu-ray Release of Comedy Starring Ray Milland and Ellen Drew

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Product Description: From celebrated playwright Terence Rattigan and director Anthony Asquith (The Winslow Boy, The Browning Version) comes this effervescent comedy-of-manners starring the ever-charming Ray Milland (Arise My Love) and Ellen Drew (Christmas in July). Adapted from Rattigan’s 1936 play (which made Rex Harrison a star), this 1940 film version begins when Diana (Drew), the sister of a young Englishman studying at a language “cramming” school in the south of France, arrives in town to flirt with all of her brothers’ schoolmates. Alan (Milland), one of the students, tries his hardest to resist Diana’s charms—to no avail, of course! Deliciously entertaining, French Without Tears is a sly satire on the “civilized” romantic entanglements of the upper-crust milieu.

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DVD & Blu-ray: THE MAD DOCTOR (1940) Starring Basil Rathbone and Ellen Drew

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Product Description: Death Lurked in His Hypnotic Eyes! In the nerve-jangling thriller The Mad Doctor, the great Basil Rathbone (The Black Sleep, The Comedy of Terrors) is Dr. George Sebastien, a smooth and sinister physician who woos, weds and murders several of his wealthy women patients for their fortunes. Aided by his demented manservant (Martin Kosleck, House of Horrors), he sets up a Park Avenue psychiatry practice and effects an apparently miraculous cure for troubled heiress Linda Boothe (Ellen Drew, Isle of the Dead), whom he makes his fourth wife. Can the suspicious Dr. Downer (Ralph Morgan, Strange Interlude) and Linda’s ex-fiancé Gil (John Howard, The Undying Monster) foil Sebastien’s schemes and save Linda before it’s too late? Rathbone is splendid as the diabolically debonair doctor in this psychological chiller from director Tim Whelan (The Murder Man, The Thief of Bagdad) and cinematographer Ted Tetzlaff (My Man Godfrey, Notorious).

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New on Blu-ray: ISLE OF THE DEAD (1945) Starring Boris Karloff

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Product Description: Once you visit the Isle of the Dead, there is no hope of returning to the land of the living. A small island off the coast of Greece holds a secret so dreadful that once you step onto its soil you must remain there forever. General Pherides (master of horror Boris Karloff) is one such a visitor. Going to the island to honor the grave of his late wife, Pherides discovers that it is held in the grip of a terrifying plague, a sickness that enters the victims mind and drives them insane! Pherides leads the fight against the plague, but then falls prey to it himself. In his delirium, he believes that a woman named Thea (Ellen Drew) is a vrykolaka, a vampire responsible for the deaths. Insanity runs rampant, and grave robbery, premature burial and ghastly vampires are the unspeakable horrors that await on the Isle of the Dead.

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New on Blu-ray: UNIVERSAL HORROR COLLECTION Volume 5 - The Monster and the Girl / Captive Wild Woman / Jungle Woman / Jungle Captive (1941-1945)

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Product Description: Get Ready for More Thrills and Chills! Volume 5 of the Universal Horror Collection includes four tales of terror from the archives of Universal Pictures, the true home of classic horror. A mobster's brain is transplanted into an ape who carries out his revenge in The Monster and The Girl. A mad scientist turns an ape into a beautiful, but deadly woman in Captive Wild Woman. Jungle Woman, the sequel to Captive Wild Woman, is an eerie thriller with all the danger of wild animals on the loose and a sexy killer on the prowl! And in the Jungle Captive, a scientist has experimented on re-animating animals ... but now he has decided to go one step further and re-animate a human!

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New on Blu-ray: CHRISTMAS IN JULY (1940) Starring Dick Powell and Ellen Drew

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Product Description: Brand New 4K Master! From Preston Sturges, the legendary writer/director of The Lady Eve, The Great McGinty, The Palm Beach Story and The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek comes this classic screwball comedy full of joy and laughter. A workplace practical joke goes awry when an office clerk (Dick Powell, Pitfall), believing he has won a $25,000 prize, takes his girlfriend (Ellen Drew, The Crooked Way) on an extravagant Christmas shopping spree... in the middle of July. After they discover it was all a hoax, their spending spree turns into a wild slapstick riot. More than just a holiday heart-warmer, this madcap masterpiece is a classic gift of laughter that is perfect for every season. Beautifully shot in black-and-white by the great Victor Milner (Reap the Wild Wind, Cleopatra).

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