Forbidden Hollywood Collection, Vol. 1 - Three films that fans have long been waiting for on DVD. First, a Canadian soldier is forced to give up the woman he loves when his well-to-do family learns she's a prostitute, in director James Whale's heartbreaking drama Waterloo Bridge (1931). Mae Clarke, Douglass Montgomery and a young Bette Davis star. Then, Red-Headed Woman (1932) is a saucy, pre-Production Code drama starring Jean Harlow as a golddigging secretary who hooks the company's married boss, while carrying on with chauffeur Charles Boyer. With Lewis Stone, Chester Morris. Finally, the daring-for-its-time romantic drama Baby Face (1933) stars Barbara Stanwyck as an amoral, greedy gal who sleeps her way up the corporate ladder in a New York bank, not caring who gets hurt. George Brent, Donald Cook, Henry Kolker, and a young John Wayne co-star as some of Stanwyck's conquests.
Elizabeth Taylor And Richard Burton: The Film Collection - The multi-character drama The V.I.P.s (1963) looks at the lives and loves of a group of people waiting at a London airport. Elizabeth Taylor is caught between the husband she has recently fled (Richard Burton) and a suave Lothario (Louis Jourdan); Orson Welles is a filmmaker; Rod Taylor an Australian businessman; and Oscar-winning Margaret Rutherford a dotty duchess. Next, Vincente Minnelli directs Taylor and Burton in The Sandpiper (1965), about a liberated artist who begins a torrid romance with a conservative (and married) minister. Contains the Oscar-winning theme "The Shadow of Your Smile." And, political and romantic intrigue ensue in Duvalier-ruled Haiti in The Comedians (1967), with Taylor as a South American diplomat's wife who gets involved with naive businessman-turned-anti-government rebel Burton. Peter Ustinov, Alec Guinness, Lillian Gish also star in Graham Greene's story. Four-disc set also includes Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Special Edition). 8 1/2 hrs. total. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English.
Charlie Chan Collection, Vol. 2 - Warner Oland returns as Charlie Chan for another round of whodunits. Considered by many to be the best of the Chan films, Charlie Chan at the Opera (1936) has Charlie and Lee Chan (Keye Luke) looking into the murder of a diva and finding the prime suspect is her ex-asylum inmate husband (Boris Karloff). Charlotte Henry co-stars. Then, the death of a prominent horse breeder looks like a work-related accident, but Chan's investigation leads to a connection to a gambling ring, in Charlie Chan at the Race Track (1936). Luke also stars. The Asian gumshoe must sift through a wild list of suspects when a murder occurs under the big top, in Charlie Chan at the Circus (1936). And, working for the U.S. Navy, Chan heads to Berlin, where he clashes with a local policeman while trying to rescue #1 son Lee from a cadre of international spies, in Charlie Chan at the Olympics (1937). With Luke, Fredrick Vogeding. 4 2/3 hrs. total on four discs. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; featurettes; theatrical trailers.
Holiday (1938) - Classic George Cukor comedy stars Cary Grant as a free-spirited young man who is introduced to his fiancee's stuffy society family and falls in love with her sister (Katharine Hepburn). Doris Nolan, Lew Ayres, Edward Everett Horton co-star. 96 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English, French, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish.
The Premiere Frank Capra Collection - Exclusive to this collection, American Madness (1934) is the little-seen drama starring Walter Huston as a bank president who gets in trouble with his board of directors for making loans to working-class depositors without sufficient collateral. When a crooked teller's antics cause a run on the bank, Huston's devoted employees and the small businessmen he's helped out come to his aid. With Kay Johnson, Pat O'Brien, Constance Cummings. Six-disc boxed set also includes It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, You Can't Take It with You, and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.
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