New on Blu-ray: MAID OF SALEM (1937) Starring Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray

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Product Description: Two of the most popular actors from the Golden Age of Hollywood, Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray, star in Maid of Salem. Inspired by the true-life Salem witch trials, an independent young woman's (Colbert) liberal attitude and love for an adventurer (MacMurray) leads to scandal in her small town. Accused of casting evil spells by the Puritan townsfolk, she must prove her innocence during one of the most notorious periods in American history.

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New on Blu-ray: BLOOD ON THE SUN (1945) Starring James Cagney & Sylvia Sidney

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Product Description: The great James Cagney (The Roaring Twenties, Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye) stars in the compelling spy thriller, Blood on the Sun. Cagney is Nick Condon, an American newspaperman working in Tokyo prior to the bombing of Pearl Harbor, who finds himself in possession of an enemy plan for world domination. Amidst political intrigue and crossed loyalties, Condon must now find a way to warn the outside world. A fine, riveting melodrama with a judo-fighting Cagney at his fiery best, Blood on the Sun was directed by Frank Lloyd (Mutiny on the Bounty) and features the spellbinding Sylvia Sidney (You and Me) with Porter Hall (The General Died at Dawn), John Emery (Spellbound), Robert Armstrong (King Kong) and Wallace Ford (Flesh and Fury).

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New on Blu-ray: IF I WERE KING (1938) Starring Ronald Colman, Francis Dee & Basil Rathbone

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Product Description: Set in 15th-century Paris, a rogue poet matches wits with a crafty king and leads the Empire to victory in the spectacular romantic adventure If I Were King. Screen great Ronald Colman (Lost Horizon, A Double Life) is at his swashbuckling best as François Villon and Basil Rathbone (The Mad Doctor) gives a superb Academy Award-nominated performance for Best Supporting Actor as Louis XI, a tyrant with a besieged city on the verge of revolt. When a twist of fate makes Villon the chief constable, the king gives him a week to save the city and win the love of a beautiful princess (Frances Dee, The Crime of the Century)…or die! Deliciously wicked repartee abounds in the lavish, fast-paced excitement, which legendary writer Preston Sturges (The Great McGinty) claimed as one of his finest achievements. Directed by Frank Lloyd (Mutiny on the Bounty, The Last Command).

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New on Blu-ray: MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY (1935) Starring Clark Gable and Charles Laughton

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Product Description: HMS Bounty sails for Tahiti by way of Cape Hornand into movie lore. Grandly filmed, Mutiny on the Bounty captured the 1935 Best Picture Academy Award and eight nominations total.* Charles Laughton portrays Captain Bligh, a seafaring monster ruling with the law of fear. Clark Gable is first officer Fletcher Christian, whose will to obey erodes under Blighs tyranny. And Franchot Tone plays idealistic midshipman Byam, torn by his allegiance to both. That all three portrayals are vividly memorable is accented by the fact that for the only time in Oscar history, three stars from the same film were Best Actor nominees.

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DVD & Blu-ray: THE INTRIGUE - The Films of Julia Crawford Ivers

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Product Description: Most commonly known as the principle screenwriter for ill-fated director William Desmond Taylor, publicity-shy Julia Crawford Ivers was a filmmaker of diverse talents, working as director, scenarist, production supervisor, and editor at Paramount. This collection showcases two of Ivers’s directorial efforts: A Son of Erin (1916) and The Majesty of the Law (1915, of which only a single reel survives). But the centerpiece is The Intrigue (1916, directed by Frank Lloyd) a sci-fi/espionage film in which world powers vie for control of a death ray during World War I. Through these meticulous restorations of films preserved by the Library of Congress, the woman once known as “Lady in the Shadows” can now finally receive the attention her work so richly deserves.

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