New on Blu-ray: THE TEXAS RANGERS (1936) Starring Fred MacMurray, Jack Oakie & Jean Parker

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Product Description: 4K Restoration by Universal Pictures in collaboration with The Film Foundation! Fred MacMurray (The Apartment) and Jack Oakie (Murder at the Vanities) star in a magnificent, Oscar®-nominated Western (1936 Best Sound Recording) from legendary director King Vidor (The Big Parade, War and Peace). MacMurray and Oakie play Jim Hawkins and Wahoo Jones, two devil-may-care outlaws who roam the Texas frontier. Their days are numbered, however, when the elite Texas Rangers sweep through to bring law and order to the state. Deciding, "If you want to beat 'em, join 'em," Jim and Wahoo enlist in the Rangers in order to stay one jump ahead of the lawmen. But the outlaws are soon engaged in a series of hair-raising adventures, confronting villains who seek to exploit the innocent settlers. As Jim and Wahoo become heroes, they are suddenly in conflict—with themselves and their old partners in crime. 4K Restoration by Universal Pictures in collaboration with The Film Foundation. 35mm Nitrate Silent Fine Grain Provided by UCLA Film & Television Archive. Restoration Services conducted by NBCUniversal StudioPost. "OSCAR"® is the registered trademark and service mark of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

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THE CITADEL (1938) - Blu-ray Release of King Vidor's Drama Starring Robert Donat and Rosalind Russell

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Product Description: Typhoid. Tuberculosis. Cave-Inx. Young Dr. Andrew Mason fights the ills that beset the overworked and forgotten people in poor Welsh mining towns. He is a resolute healer .until the burdens of his struggle shatter his idealism. To the dismay of his wife, he opens a London practice tending to the pampered rich. Then tragedy forces his to face what he has become, and what he has lost. From A.J. Cronin's acclaimed novel and featuring an extraordinary cast of Robert Donat, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Richardson, Emlyn Williams, and Rex Harrison, this powerful and exhilarating 1938 box-office hit earned four Academy Award nomination, including Best Picture. One of the earliest productions from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's British studios, it also won the New York Film Critics Circle and National Board of Review honors for Best Picture.

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New on Blu-ray: NORTHWEST PASSAGE (1940) Starring Spencer Tracy, Robert Young and Ruth Hussey

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Product Description: Spencer Tracy and a stellar supporting cast grab muskets , gun powder and knives, and head out for adventure in Northwest Passage, a lavish Technicolor retelling of French and Indian War heroics, based on Kenneth Roberts' best seller. Tracy plays a true-life explorer Major Robert Rogers, the intrepid leader of the celebrated Roberts' Rangers fighting force that took on one of the most challenging expeditions in military history. Tracy's portrayal brilliantly captures the American pioneering spirit, but he had to muster up his own will to carry it off. It isn't exactly fun to work in bitter cold and be sloshing through mud all day he said. For twelve grueling weeks of location shooting, he endured trapsing through swamps, crossing rapids, and climbing mountains. Of this rousing epic (released shortly after Gone With the Wind), The New York Times wrote, Now that the 'Wind' has stopped ruffling your hair, you can have it lifted, scalp and all in Northwest Passage.

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New on Blu-ray: STREET SCENE (1931) Starring Sylvia Sydney, William Collier Jr. and Estelle Taylor

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Product Description: One of the great stage-to-screen adaptations of the early sound film era, STREET SCENE (1931) presents a New York City tenement melting pot, boiling over with summer heat, resentment, and longing. Independent producer Samuel Goldwyn acquired the rights of the Pulitzer Prize winning and hit Broadway play by Elmer Rice, who also penned the screenplay. Under the direction of King Vidor, the relatively simple set (building, sidewalk, street) becomes a canvas of human emotion, achieved through dynamic camerawork and powerhouse performances by Sylvia Sidney, Estelle Taylor, and Beulah Bondi--a member of the original Broadway cast who made her film debut as the busybody Mrs. Jones. Composer Alfred Newman's score offers musical cues carefully timed to character dialogue, along with a Gershwin-esque theme that Newman reused during his long career at 20th Century-Fox. The film's restoration allows us to fully experience the power of STREET SCENE, seeing and hearing in vivid clarity as Anna Maurrant (Taylor), her daughter Rose (Sidney), and neighbor Sam Kaplan (William Collier, Jr.) open their hearts and crash against the limitations of their environment.

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New on Blu-ray: SOLOMON AND SHEBA (1959) Starring Yul Brynner & Gina Lollobrigida

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Product Description: In what would be director King Vidor’s (Duel in the Sun, War and Peace) final feature film, Yul Brynner (The King and I, The Magnificent Seven) stars as King Solomon alongside Gina Lollobrigida (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) as the sultry Queen of Sheba and George Sanders (All About Eve) as Solomon’s duplicitous brother, Adonijah. The epic biblical tale is scripted by Anthony Veiller (The Killers), Paul Dudley (Timbuktu) and George Bruce (Two Years Before the Mast) and features stunning photography by Freddie Young (Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago).

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New on Blu-ray: THE BIG PARADE (1925) Starring John Gilbert and Renee Adoree

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Product Description: One of the most moving and impactful depictions of war, director box-office hit, set the bar first and set it high. King Vidors remarkable silent classic is presented here in a revelatory 4K digital restoration from the rediscovered original camera negative. Wealthy James Apperson (John Gilbert) deploys as a soldier in World War I France and grows from a naive kid into a battle-hardened veteran as he and his two buddies are paraded toward the front. The film fiercely captures the heroism of the ordinary foot soldier struggling to survive, and how James determination to return to the village girl (Renée Adorée) he loves faces the ultimate test. Other great war epics would follow, but The Big Parade, a bracingly human and brutally vivid

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New on Blu-ray: MAN WITHOUT A STAR (1955) Starring Kirk Douglas

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Product Description: Screen legend Kirk Douglas (Lonely Are the Brave, The Vikings) stars in this exciting King Vidor (Duel in the Sun) western about a rugged loner who becomes caught up in a bloody range war when he falls in love with two beautiful women. Dempsey Rae (Douglas) is a wandering cowboy who doesn’t like the fact that his open spaces are being fenced in by greedy ranchers and decides to help a town fight back against ranch owner Reed Bowman (Jeanne Crain, Leave Her to Heaven) after he meets the town’s sexy madam (Claire Trevor, Stagecoach). Loved by western buffs for its offbeat humor and Douglas’s witty performance, Man Without a Star features a top-notch script by Borden Chase (Red River) and D. D. Beauchamp (The Man from the Alamo) with stunning photography by the great Russell Mett (Midnight Lace). William Campbell (Escape from Fort Bravo), Richard Boone (Hombre) and Jay C. Flipped (Thunder Bay) co-star in this classic action-packed western.

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Classic Movies: RUBY GENTRY (1952) Starring Jennifer Jones and Charlton Heston

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Product Description: Their love ignited a deadly passion! She can never be a part of his world, but she can tear his world apart! Jennifer Jones (Gone to Earth, Portrait of Jennie) delivers a powerful performance as a strong-willed Southern beauty from the wrong side of the tracks in this bold, sweeping drama co-starring Charlton Heston (The Big Country, Ben-Hur) and Karl Malden (Patton, On the Waterfront). She was raised in the rugged swamplands; he was born into wealth and privilege. Yet, from the moment Ruby (Jones) first laid eyes on Boake (Heston), she vowed to have him for her own. Now, the residents of the small tidewater town will do everything in their power to stand in her way. But they've never seen a passion like this one... and they've never met a woman like Ruby. Directed by King Vidor (Duel in the Sun, The Fountainhead).

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