DVD & Blu-ray: ARSENIC AND OLD LACE (1944) - Criterion Collection

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Product Description: Frank Capra adapted a hit stage play for this marvelous screwball meeting of the madcap and the macabre. On Halloween, newly married drama critic Mortimer Brewster (Cary Grant, cutting loose in a hilariously harried performance) returns home to Brooklyn, where his adorably dotty aunts (Josephine Hull and Jean Adair, who both starred in the Broadway production) greet him with love, sweetness . . . and a grisly surprise: the corpses buried in their cellar.

A bugle-playing brother (John Alexander) who thinks he’s Teddy Roosevelt, a crazed criminal (Raymond Massey) who’s a dead ringer for Boris Karloff, and a seriously slippery plastic surgeon (Peter Lorre) are among the outré oddballs populating Arsenic and Old Lace, a diabolical delight that only gets funnier as the body count rises.

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New on Blu-ray: ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS (1940) Starring Raymond Massey

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Product Description: This acclaimed film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway play stars Raymond Massey as Abe Lincoln, and spans his early years in Kentucky through his election to the Presidency in 1860.

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New on Blu-ray: SANTA FE TRAIL (1940) Starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland

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Product Description: In 1854, Jeb Stuart, George Custer and other graduates from West Point are posted to Kansas to help pacify the territory before railroad construction to Santa Fe can resume.

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New on Blu-ray: CHAIN LIGHTNING (1950) Starring Humphrey Bogart and Eleanor Parker

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Product Description: Matt Brennan knows how to open eyes to the potential of the experimental jet, the JA-3. He'll pilot it from Nome over the North Pole to Washington DC and land it on the Pentagon's lap. The distance is beyond the JA-3's tested range. Nor can the craft provide the pressurization needed for flight at 80,000 feet. But Brennan has some modifications in mind. And the courage to put them to the test. Humphrey Bogart plays Brennan in Chain Lightning's lofty mix of adventure and romance. Eleanor Parker, as a World War II flame who reenters Brennan's life, helps fuel the romance. And the adventure takes wing with a story that, like Breaking the Sound Barrier, The McConnell Story and other postwar films, taps into the era's fascination with jet aviation. Cleared for takeoff.

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Classic Movies: THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW (1944) Starring Edward G. Robinson and Joan Bennett

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Product Description: Newly Mastered in HD! Richard Wanley (Edward G. Robinson, The Stranger) is no criminal... at least, he wasn't until he met "the woman in the window." With his wife and kids out of town, the chaste professor engages in an innocent flirtation with a chance acquaintance (Joan Bennett, Scarlet Street) and inadvertently commits a shocking and unspeakable crime. But that's just the beginning of his problems, for as the cunning D.A. (Raymond Massey, The Hurricane) - one of Wanley's dearest friends – gets closer and closer to identifying the killer, Wanley finds he's more and more willing to resort to desperate measures to avoid being caught. Masterfully directed by the legendary Fritz Lang (Metropolis, Spies), The Woman in the Window is a suspense-laden, gripping thriller with the logic and plausibility of a nightmare. Co-starring Dan Duryea (Storm Fear).

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