THE HARD WAY (1943) - Blu-ray Release of Musical Drama Starring Ida Lupino, Dennis Morgan & Joan Leslie

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Product Description: Director Vincent Sherman helmed this dark drama about a woman (Ida Lupino) who will do almost anything to keep her younger sister from becoming trapped in a small-town life of marriage and drudgery as she has been. Dennis Morgan, Joan Leslie and Jack Carson co-star, in this underrated classic which earned Lupino a Best Actress award from the New York Film Critics for her tour-de-force performance. Newly remastered from 4K scans of the original nitrate negative, THE HARD WAY is an unforgettable, powerful and timeless work ready for rediscovery.

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RHAPSODY IN BLUE (1945) - Blu-ray Release of Oscar-Nominated George Gershwin Biopic Starring Robert Alda

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Product Description: Robert Alda stars alongside musical greats Al Jolson, Paul Whiteman, and Oscar Levant in this lavish fictionalized biography of composer George Gershwin. The film traces Gershwin's rise from a song plugger for a Manhattan music publishing company to the heights of international fame and fortune. Gershwin's first big hit is Swanee, introduced on Broadway by Al Jolson (playing himself). In collaboration with his lyricist brother, Ira (Herbert Rudley), George pens hit after hit in show after show. But George's kindly old music teacher wants his prize pupil to aspire to something more artistic. Gershwin responds with Rhapsody in Blue, which debuts at Aeolian Hall in 1924 under the baton of bandleader Paul Whiteman (also playing himself). As his fame and workload grows, George finds he has no time at all for romance; the two ladies in his life both eventually realize that they'll always have to play second fiddle to Gershwin's muse. Newly remastered from 4K scans of nitrate materials, this new Blu-ray disc restores over 12 minutes of footage never before seen by the general public, and also includes the outstanding overture of Gershwin melodies which only accompanied the film during its New York and Hollywood premiere engagements.

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New on Blu-ray: SERGEANT YORK (1941) Starring Gary Cooper

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Product Description: Torn between religious pacifism and patriotism, Alvin York of Tennessee went on to become World War I's most acclaimed hero. As the simple backwoods farm boy who captured 132 German soldiers during the Battle of Argonne, Gary Cooper (handpicked by York) also won acclaim and his first Best Actor Academy Award®. Released in 1941 when the United States was on the brink of another war, this stirring adventure inspired thousands of enlisting men. Nominated for a total of 11 Oscars® including Best Picture, a winner for Best Film Editing and movingly directed by Howard Hawks, it tells of a religious mans moral crisis, heroics and subsequent return to the rural life he loved while refusing to capitalize on the adulation heaped upon him. An ode to patriotism and the human spirit, Sergeant York endures as one of Hollywoods finest hours.

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