New on Blu-ray: LETTY LYNTON (1932) Starring Joan Crawford & Robert Montgomery

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Product Description: Letty Lynton cemented Joan Crawford's status at MGM as both a stunning beauty & dramatic powerhouse. In this pre-code scorcher, Crawford plays a socialite escaping a toxic lover in Uruguay. When her past threatens her new romance with Robert Montgomery, a shocking poisoning and a bold false alibi propel the scenario in this high-stakes drama. Directed by Clarence Brown, Letty Lynton represents the MGM style at its finest, with Crawford impeccably costumed by the studio's famous designer Adrian.

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New on Blu-ray: STRANGE CARGO (1940) Starring Clark Gable and Joan Crawford

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Product Description: Through impenetrable jungles. Across perilous swamps. Desperate for a second chance at life, a band of Devil's Island felons and a tough-as-nails prostitute struggle toward freedom. Film giants Clark Gable and Joan Crawford team for the eighth and last time in this gripping story that explores the lures of the flesh and the transcendence of the spirit. Fighting each other and the elements, the stars imbue this provocative adventure with audacity, power and passion.

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New on Blu-ray: GRAND HOTEL (1932) Starring Greta Garbo, John Barrymore & Joan Crawford

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Product Description: A drama dealing with the interpersonal relationships of a variety of people living in a Berlin hotel.

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New on Blu-ray: POSSESSED (1931) Starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable

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Product Description: Joan Crawford stars as a factory girl with two ways out of poverty: brains and beauty. Using her wiles, in no time she's living on Park Avenue, draped in designer gowns, dripping in jewels, and cuddled up with a man who isn't her husband (Clark Gable). It's a scorching love match which mixes themes of greed, ambition, politics, and sex in a world where morals are in short supply. The sizzling chemistry between Gable & Crawford results in an unforgettable pre-code gem.

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JOAN CRAWFORD COLLECTION New on Blu-ray (Grand Hotel / The Women / Possessed / The Damned Don't Cry)

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Product Description: Celebrate the unforgettable Joan Crawford in these four of her most beloved classics: GRAND HOTEL, THE WOMEN, POSSESSED(1947), and THE DAMNED DON'T CRY

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SADIE MCKEE (1934) - Blu-ray Release of Classic Romantic Drama Starring Joan Crawford

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Product Description: In this vivid melodrama, Joan Crawford is Sadie McKee, who must choose between love (with Gene Raymond) and money (with Edward Arnold) and eventually gets both (with Franchot Tone). Crawford had an amazing ability to adapt her screen persona with changing times. She was a frenetic flapper in the '20s, a chin-up working girl in the '30s, and a film noir femme fatale in the '40s. Here she is at her Depression-Era peak as Sadie, a maid who sacrifices all for love, suffers like crazy but somehow winds up happy at the end. The leading lady gets excellent support from her three co-stars. Tone (who was soon to become Crawford's second husband)and Raymond are compelling as the handsome young suitors in her life, one good, one a scoundrel. And Edward Arnold is particularly memorable in his sympathetic portrayal of the millionaire drunk Sadie marries. But from rags to riches, from heartbreak to happiness, the film is all Crawford's.

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New on Blu-ray: HUMORESQUE (1946) Starring John Crawford and John Garfield

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Product Description: Glamorous socialite Helen Wright (Joan Crawford) takes what she wants -- clothes, alcohol, men -- uses them up and tosses them aside. Then she meets brilliant young violinist Paul Boray (John Garfield). But this is one toy she can't break. Instead, her love for Paul brings Helen to the breaking point. In this acclaimed and profound exploration of desire, Crawford makes Helen a rich, layered character torn between selfless love and selfish impulses. Garfield matches her as the driven genius. Humoresque's production values extend to the musical interludes, dubbed by Isaac Stern. Garfield's dazzling technique is thanks to two real violinists hidden behind him -- one to do the fingering and one the bow work. Bravo!

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New on Blu-ray: THE SHINING HOUR (1938) Starring Joan Crawford and Margaret Sullivan

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Product Description: When Joan Crawford saw The Shining Hour on the Broadway stage, she pleaded with M-G-M executives to let her spread her acting wings in the film version. Ms. Crawford got her way, playing a New York siren who marries a prosperous farmer (Melvyn Douglas) and moves to Wisconsin. There she is drawn to his handsome brother (Robert Young), even as she befriends the brother’s selfless wife (Margaret Sullavan, Crawford’s choice for the role). The passionate triangle plays out in the best tradition of classic screen melodrama: glossy and chic, but resonant with honest emotion, all under the expert direction of the great Frank Borzage. The film’s heart-stopping climax with Crawford battling flames to rescue Sullavan from certain death is both literally and figuratively, incendiary filmmaking.

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New on Blu-ray: DANCE, FOOLS, DANCE (1931) Starring Joan Crawford

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Product Description: Look out, Jake Luva. That sinuous moll cuddling up to you on the dance floor isn't the floozy she seems. She's Bonnie Jordan, es-society girl and undercover reporter, investigating a murder that has your fingerprints all over it. She has what it takes, all right - to take you and your crime empire down. As Bonnie and Jake, Joan Crawford and Clark Gable exude plenty of pre-code sensuality in their first screen teaming. Gable is fifth-billed, but the moment he and Crawford go into a clinch, there is no question who in the film could match her star power. Crawford and Gable went on to make seven more films together. And each smoldered with the red-hot chemistry originally sparked in Dance, Fools, Dance.

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New on Blu-ray: TOD BROWNING'S SIDESHOW SHOCKERS (Freaks / The Unknown / The Mystic)

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Product Description: The world is a carnival of criminality, corruption, and psychosexual strangeness in the twisted pre-Code shockers of Tod Browning. Early Hollywood’s edgiest auteur, Browning drew on his experiences as a circus performer to create subversive pulp entertainments set amid the world of traveling sideshows, which, with their air of the exotic and the disreputable, provided a pungent backdrop for his sordid tales of outcasts, cons, villains, and vagabonds. Bringing together two of his defining works (The Unknown and Freaks) and a long-unavailable rarity (The Mystic), this cabinet of curiosities reveals a master of the morbid whose ability to unsettle is matched only by his daring compassion for society’s most downtrodden.

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New on Blu-ray: THE DAMNED DON'T CRY (1950) Starring Joan Crawford & David Brian

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Product Description: Oscar-winner Joan Crawford stars as a woman who uses and abandons men--clawing her way from poverty to wealth and social status--a woman who knows that The Damned Don't Cry! Crawford gives one of her best performances as Ethel Whitehead, an empowered woman who leaves her laborer husband and squalid factory town behind to find a new, better life. She uses a quiet accountant who adores her to meet a rich gangster, learns to carry herself as a socialite and leads a life of wealth and luxury as the kept woman of the mobster. But her ambition doesn't stop there, and she engineers a rivalry between the city's two leading underworld kingpins--a rivalry that will lead to the ruin of everything she has fought to gain.

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New on Blu-ray: FLAMINGO ROAD (1949) Starring Joan Crawford

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Product Description: Joan Crawford stars as a dancer in a traveling circus. Stranded in a corrupt Southern town, she is framed for murder by a crooked sheriff.

Joan Crawford’s triumphant performance in Warner Bros. MILDRED PIERCE (1945) earned her a Best Actress Oscar, paving the way for future leading roles in the studio’s best productions. Crawford followed with HUMORESQUE, POSSESSED, and then reunited with her MILDRED PIERCE director Michael Curtiz, for 1949’s FLAMINGO ROAD. Based on a play by Robert and Sally Wilder the story finds Crawford cast as carnival dancer Lane Bellamy, who finds herself stranded in a small town. When she meets Fielding Carlisle, the local Deputy Sheriff (Zachary Scott), he takes a liking to her, and offers to help Lane by getting her a job as a waitress. The politically ambitious county sheriff, Titus Semple (Sydney Greenstreet) is blatant in his political ambitions, and has positioned himself to serve as a supporter of Fielding Carlisle’s rise in the community, positioning him to run for Governor, but with the secret motivation of advancing his own personal interests. Titus Semple takes an immediate dislike to Lane Bellamy, and has her unjustly railroaded to prison. Meanwhile, Fielding marries society belle, the lovely Annabelle Weldon (Virginia Huston). After her release from prison, Lane is determined not to be subject to Semple’s nefarious abuses again, and gets herself a new job at a roadhouse run by Lute Mae Sanders (Gladys George). State politicians often gather there, and soon Lane meets the suave and handsome Dan Reynolds (David Brian), who is Semple’s main political revival. Dan and Lane soon fall in love and marry. With Titus Semple’s political ambitions serving to build conflict, and Fielding’s own personal spiral leading to alcoholism, jealous of Dan and Lane’s marriage, the story builds to a thrilling conclusion where Lane takes matters into her own hands to defeat Titus Semple…but at what cost?

This new Blu-ray presentation of FLAMINGO ROAD is derived from a new 1080p HD master from the best available preservation elements, with both fully restored picture and audio. The film is coupled with several extras including a production featurette CRAWFORD AT WARNERS, a classic Warner Bros. cartoon CURTAIN RAZOR starring Porky Pig (in HD!), the studio’s blooper reel BREAKDOWNS OF 1949, a radio broadcast from SCREEN DIRECTOR’S PLAYHOUSE starring Joan Crawford with director Michael Curtiz, and the film’s theatrical trailer.

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New on Blu-ray: OUR DANCING DAUGHTERS (1928) Starring Joan Crawford & John Mack Brown

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Product Description: Joan Crawford had been under contract at M-G-M for several years giving fine performances in many films without “breaking through”. When she heard about a film in the works called “The Dancing Girl”, Crawford fought for the role and won. It was her performance as “jazz baby” Diana Medford in this film that changed it all, and shot her to stardom. Ultimately titled OUR DANCING DAUGHTERS, Crawford’s energy practically bursts off the screen, as she portrays Diana as a lady who knows how to Charleston! However, the real truth is that it’s all a guise. Deep inside, Diana is virtuous and idealistic. Her baby-faced friend Ann (Anita Page) is actually amoral and selfish. She will stop at nothing to trap noble and dependable Ben Blaine (John Mack Brown) into marriage, breaking Diana’s heart. Ben eventually wises up to Ann’s true nature, as well as his own feelings for Diana. This story of “flaming youth” is a telling reflection of the time in which it was made. Accordingly, this 1928 film has been meticulously restored for this Blu-ray release, with both its image and audio (its original synchronized score of music and sound effects) meticulously restored.

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DVD & Blu-ray: RAIN (1932) Starring Joan Crawford and Walter Huston - 90th Anniversary

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Product Description: VCI is pleased to present RAIN, celebrating it's 90 Anniversary in a stunning new 4K restoration, produced from the original, uncut 94-minute version. It is a most important film in the history of the cinema, and one of the greatest films the 'Thirties' produced. The consummate dramatic and artistic achievement of both Miss Crawford and Walter Huston will give the picture life for many decades to come. W. Somerset Maugham's powerful story of Sadie Thompson has perhaps the most celebrated version, vividly capturing the lives of several very different human beings, thrown together on Pago Pago during a fierce monsoon. Brilliant performances are given by Crawford, as the cynical prostitute, and Huston, as the minister who tries to reform her. A 'tour de force' of camera work, style and direction of a film that caused controversy when first released, 'Rain' is one of the true classic dramas of film history.

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New on Blu-ray: TROG (1970) Starring Joan Crawford

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Product Description: The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas. Bigfoot of the Pacific Northwest. Few claim to have seen these links to our primitive past. But when a wild half-man/half-ape emerges from his countryside cave, TV cameras are there to observe the event – and the ensuing terror!

People call him Trog, short for a prehistoric cave dweller known as the troglodyte. To a determined anthropologist (Joan Crawford in her final film role), he's the scientific discovery of the age. To others, he's walking death. A grocer is impaled on a meat hook, a car is tossed aside like a twig, a child is kidnapped – all after local resident Sam Murdock (Michael Gough) prods the brute into a blind rampage. In true horror tradition, the world's Murdocks leave no doubt who the real savages are ... but what will become of he who is part-man, part-monster, all Trog!

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New on Blu-ray: NIGHT GALLERY Season 1

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Product Description: Prepare for the chill of a lifetime as the master of suspense, Rod Serling (The Twilight Zone), hosts every spine-tingling episode from the complete first season of Night Gallery. Thrill to stories performed by Hollywood greats including Joan Crawford, Ossie Davis, Larry Hagman, Diane Keaton, Roddy McDowall, Burgess Meredith and Agnes Moorehead, and directed by cinematic masters like Steven Spielberg (Jaws) in this unforgettable series—available for the first time in HD, from 2K scans of the interpositives! Night Gallery: Season 1 also features top-notch direction by acclaimed filmmakers Daryl Duke (The Silent Partner), Boris Sagal (The Omega Man), Barry Shear (Across 110th Street), Jeannot Szwarc (Jaws 2), Don Taylor (The Island of Dr. Moreau) with wonderful performances by John Astin, Diane Baker, Martine Beswick, Tom Bosley, Jack Cassidy, Godfrey Cambridge, Bert Convy, Phyllis Diller, Louis Hayward, George Macready, Raymond Massey, Joanna Pettet, John Randolph, Barry Sullivan, Torin Thatcher, William Windom & many others.

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New on Blu-ray: WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE ? (1962) Starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford

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Product Description: Two icons from the golden age of Hollywood, Oscar® winners* Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, take their famous feud on-screen in Robert Aldrich's thriller. In fierce, no-holds-barred performances, Bette Davis portrays aging ex-child star Baby Jane Hudson while Joan Crawford plays Blanche, the crippled sister Jane torments psychologically. As the sisters descend into madness, the tension builds to a shocking ending in this unforgettable Academy Award®-winning** classic.

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