Warner Archive Announces September Releases
HomeWarner Archive Announces September Releases
Posted August 16, 2019 03:06 PM by Webmaster
Warner Archive has announced that it will add seven new titles to its Blu-ray catalog in September: A Touch of Class (1973), The Letter (1940), My Favorite Year (1982), The Set-Up (1949), Young Sheldon: The Complete Second Season (2018-2019), Lethal Weapon: The Complete Third Season (2018-2019), and Popeye the Sailor: The 1940s, Volume 3 (1942-1957).
The Set-Up
Synopsis: Boxing Wednesdays. Wrestling on Fridays. Stoker Thompson is on Paradise City's Wednesday card, fighting after the main event. He's been 20 years in the game and is sure he's just one punch away from big paydays. But there's one thing Stoker doesn't yet know: his manager wants him to take a dive tonight.
The Set-Up comes out swinging as one of the great films about the so-called sweet science. Robert Wise directs, shaping real-time events into an acclaimed and unsparing film-noir look at the stale-air venues, bloodthirsty fans, ring savagery and delusional dreams of boxing's palooka world. Robert Ryan embraces perhaps his fi nest screen hour as Stoker. Audrey Totter, an icon of the noir genre like Ryan, plays Stoker's steadfast wife. In a sport that would take their last flicker of dignity, the Thompsons are reclaiming theirs.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Synopsis: Six years after exploding to stardom in Of Human Bondage, Bette Davis equaled that excitement with another W. Somerset Maugham role as an adulteress using her sexual wiles to escape a murder conviction in The Letter. The film throbs with sultry tension thanks to Davis, an impeccable supporting cast, atmospheric cinematography and the artistry of three-time Academy Award® winner* William Wyler, Davis' director on Jezebel and The Little Foxes. Nominated for seven Oscars®, including Best Picture, Actress, Director and Supporting Actor, The Letter remains one of Hollywood's most special deliveries, a peerless example of melodrama as movie art.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Synopsis: They thought it would be a simple fling. Instead, they got flung. Being free and easy proves neither free nor easy for already-married Steve and divorced Vickie when they fall in love.
George Segal and Glenda Jackson bring the right touch to A Touch of Class, a glossy, grown-up romantic comedy directed and co-written by Hollywood veteran Melvin Frank (The Court Jester, Li'l Abner). At his harried best teetering between two households, Segal plays sometimes sly, sometimes fumbling Steve. As Vickie, Jackson slings verbal jabs and hotel furnishings with equal glee – and won the second of her two Best Actress Academy Awards®.* The honors for this classiest of romantic romps don't stop there. The two leads each won Golden Globes®. And the film earned five Oscar® nominations in all, including Best Picture. All in all, it's entertainment touched by magic.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Synopsis: King Kaiser's Comedy Cavalcade goes on in minutes. But guest star Alan Swann is exiting the building. Fast. "I'm not an actor. I'm a movie star!" he bellows in stark fear. He just found out the show is LIVE!
Directed by Richard Benjamin and inspired by incidents from comedy legend Mel Brooks' early career, My Favorite Year is a golden age revisited, a zany, misty-eyed tribute to TV's early days. Academy Award® winner* Peter O'Toole plays Swann. Once a swashbuckling movie idol whose face was plastered on fan magazines, Swann is now mostly plastered. And it falls to Cavalcade's rookie writer (Mark Linn-Baker) to keep him on the sober and narrow. Don't touch that dial. Special Features and Technical Specs:
Synopsis: For 10-year-old Sheldon Cooper, being vulnerable, naive and stratospherically smart isn't always helpful in a place like East Texas, where church and sports rule. His football-coach father, George Sr.; fiercely protective mother, Mary; older brother, Georgie; and twin sister, Missy, do their best to support the high-maintenance, high-IQ child while coping with their own ups and downs. But it's tough love from his no-nonsense, tell-it-like-it-is Meemaw that helps him navigate problems in the real world – like video games, a humming refrigerator or rival prodigy Paige, who might be even smarter than our hero. Join Young Sheldon in 22 hilarious, heartwarming episodes as he embarks on an innocent, awkward and hopeful journey toward the beloved, eccentric genius he will become.
Lethal Weapon: The Complete Third Season
Synopsis: Entering its third season, Lethal Weapon combines action and drama with friendship and humor as it follows Detective Roger Murtaugh (Damon Wayans) and the squad – Captain Avery (Kevin Rahm), Scorsese (Johnathan Fernandez) and Detective Sonya Bailey (Michelle Mitchenor) – working a crime-ridden beat in modern-day Los Angeles. The series also follows Murtaugh's family, including his wife, Trish (Keesha Sharp), and children, Roger Jr. "RJ" (Dante Brown) and Riana (Chandler Kinney). In the third season, Murtaugh meets his match in Wesley Cole (Seann William Scott), a former international CIA operative who has been everywhere and seen everything. When Cole returns home and assumes his duties as an officer with the LAPD, he soon finds himself navigating a new partnership with Murtaugh as he adjusts to life in Los Angeles.
Popeye the Sailor: The 1940s, Volume 3
Synopsis: Prepare for 17 newly presented adventures featuring our favorite spinach-eating sailor man and his lovely leading lady, Olive Oyl. This set finishes out Popeye's second decade of screen stardom with cartoons originally released to movie theaters in 1948 and 1949. Providing more globe-trotting and time-traveling adventures, the cartoons have been restored to look their lavish best utilizing the techniques of three classic color systems.
The Polacolor process was a short-lived 3-strip technique designed to be an alternative to Technicolor®. The studio gave it a try on a group of cartoons produced during this period, and the results are particularly striking – with fresh restorations that now show their proper, vibrant hues.
In these cartoons, Popeye and Olive travel back to prehistoric times, ancient Greece and the Sherwood Forest. They visit Plymouth Rock and the Old West, then battle assorted baddies in the Egyptian desert, the freezing Arctic and the Ozarks. Of course, Bluto is back as Popeye's number-one nemesis, tackling the sailor man as a rival lumberjack, a fanatic flying ace and a lecherous vaudeville hypnotist.
But that's not all. Popeye also has his fists full with a pair of pet dogs, irritating houseflies and a quartet of spinach-hating, sound-alike nephews. He ultimately meets his match when Olive decides to throw her hat in the ring and makes a run for U.S. president!
Hilarious sight gags, gorgeous cartoon art and more action-packed goodness from the golden age of animation: Popeye the Sailor: The 1940s, Volume 3 will leave you rooting – and toot-tooting – for more!
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Olive Oyl for President
Wigwam Whoopee
Pre-Hysterical Man
Popeye Meets Hercules
A Wolf in Sheik's Clothing
Spinach vs Hamburgers
Snow Place Like Home
Robin Hood-Winked
Symphony in Spinach
Popeye's Premiere
Lumberjack and Jill
Hot Air Aces
A Balmy Swami
Tar with a Star
Silly Hillbilly
Barking Dogs Don't Fite
The Fly's Last Flight
The Set-Up
Synopsis: Boxing Wednesdays. Wrestling on Fridays. Stoker Thompson is on Paradise City's Wednesday card, fighting after the main event. He's been 20 years in the game and is sure he's just one punch away from big paydays. But there's one thing Stoker doesn't yet know: his manager wants him to take a dive tonight.
The Set-Up comes out swinging as one of the great films about the so-called sweet science. Robert Wise directs, shaping real-time events into an acclaimed and unsparing film-noir look at the stale-air venues, bloodthirsty fans, ring savagery and delusional dreams of boxing's palooka world. Robert Ryan embraces perhaps his fi nest screen hour as Stoker. Audrey Totter, an icon of the noir genre like Ryan, plays Stoker's steadfast wife. In a sport that would take their last flicker of dignity, the Thompsons are reclaiming theirs.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- BRAND NEW REMASTER OF THE FILM
- Audio commentary by director Robert Wise and Martin Scorsese
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
Synopsis: Six years after exploding to stardom in Of Human Bondage, Bette Davis equaled that excitement with another W. Somerset Maugham role as an adulteress using her sexual wiles to escape a murder conviction in The Letter. The film throbs with sultry tension thanks to Davis, an impeccable supporting cast, atmospheric cinematography and the artistry of three-time Academy Award® winner* William Wyler, Davis' director on Jezebel and The Little Foxes. Nominated for seven Oscars®, including Best Picture, Actress, Director and Supporting Actor, The Letter remains one of Hollywood's most special deliveries, a peerless example of melodrama as movie art.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- BRAND NEW REMASTER OF THE FILM
- Alternate Ending Sequence
- Two Radio Adaptations (audio only):
- Lux Radio Theater adaptation starring Davis, Marshall and Stephenson from 4/21/41
- Lux Radio Theater adaptation starring Davis and Marshall from 3/6/44
- Theatrical trailer
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
Synopsis: They thought it would be a simple fling. Instead, they got flung. Being free and easy proves neither free nor easy for already-married Steve and divorced Vickie when they fall in love.
George Segal and Glenda Jackson bring the right touch to A Touch of Class, a glossy, grown-up romantic comedy directed and co-written by Hollywood veteran Melvin Frank (The Court Jester, Li'l Abner). At his harried best teetering between two households, Segal plays sometimes sly, sometimes fumbling Steve. As Vickie, Jackson slings verbal jabs and hotel furnishings with equal glee – and won the second of her two Best Actress Academy Awards®.* The honors for this classiest of romantic romps don't stop there. The two leads each won Golden Globes®. And the film earned five Oscar® nominations in all, including Best Picture. All in all, it's entertainment touched by magic.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- BRAND NEW REMASTER OF THE FILM
- Theatrical trailer
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
Synopsis: King Kaiser's Comedy Cavalcade goes on in minutes. But guest star Alan Swann is exiting the building. Fast. "I'm not an actor. I'm a movie star!" he bellows in stark fear. He just found out the show is LIVE!
Directed by Richard Benjamin and inspired by incidents from comedy legend Mel Brooks' early career, My Favorite Year is a golden age revisited, a zany, misty-eyed tribute to TV's early days. Academy Award® winner* Peter O'Toole plays Swann. Once a swashbuckling movie idol whose face was plastered on fan magazines, Swann is now mostly plastered. And it falls to Cavalcade's rookie writer (Mark Linn-Baker) to keep him on the sober and narrow. Don't touch that dial. Special Features and Technical Specs:
- BRAND NEW REMASTER OF THE FILM
- Audio commentary by director Richard Benjamin
- Original trailer
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
Synopsis: For 10-year-old Sheldon Cooper, being vulnerable, naive and stratospherically smart isn't always helpful in a place like East Texas, where church and sports rule. His football-coach father, George Sr.; fiercely protective mother, Mary; older brother, Georgie; and twin sister, Missy, do their best to support the high-maintenance, high-IQ child while coping with their own ups and downs. But it's tough love from his no-nonsense, tell-it-like-it-is Meemaw that helps him navigate problems in the real world – like video games, a humming refrigerator or rival prodigy Paige, who might be even smarter than our hero. Join Young Sheldon in 22 hilarious, heartwarming episodes as he embarks on an innocent, awkward and hopeful journey toward the beloved, eccentric genius he will become.
Lethal Weapon: The Complete Third Season
Synopsis: Entering its third season, Lethal Weapon combines action and drama with friendship and humor as it follows Detective Roger Murtaugh (Damon Wayans) and the squad – Captain Avery (Kevin Rahm), Scorsese (Johnathan Fernandez) and Detective Sonya Bailey (Michelle Mitchenor) – working a crime-ridden beat in modern-day Los Angeles. The series also follows Murtaugh's family, including his wife, Trish (Keesha Sharp), and children, Roger Jr. "RJ" (Dante Brown) and Riana (Chandler Kinney). In the third season, Murtaugh meets his match in Wesley Cole (Seann William Scott), a former international CIA operative who has been everywhere and seen everything. When Cole returns home and assumes his duties as an officer with the LAPD, he soon finds himself navigating a new partnership with Murtaugh as he adjusts to life in Los Angeles.
Popeye the Sailor: The 1940s, Volume 3
Synopsis: Prepare for 17 newly presented adventures featuring our favorite spinach-eating sailor man and his lovely leading lady, Olive Oyl. This set finishes out Popeye's second decade of screen stardom with cartoons originally released to movie theaters in 1948 and 1949. Providing more globe-trotting and time-traveling adventures, the cartoons have been restored to look their lavish best utilizing the techniques of three classic color systems.
The Polacolor process was a short-lived 3-strip technique designed to be an alternative to Technicolor®. The studio gave it a try on a group of cartoons produced during this period, and the results are particularly striking – with fresh restorations that now show their proper, vibrant hues.
In these cartoons, Popeye and Olive travel back to prehistoric times, ancient Greece and the Sherwood Forest. They visit Plymouth Rock and the Old West, then battle assorted baddies in the Egyptian desert, the freezing Arctic and the Ozarks. Of course, Bluto is back as Popeye's number-one nemesis, tackling the sailor man as a rival lumberjack, a fanatic flying ace and a lecherous vaudeville hypnotist.
But that's not all. Popeye also has his fists full with a pair of pet dogs, irritating houseflies and a quartet of spinach-hating, sound-alike nephews. He ultimately meets his match when Olive decides to throw her hat in the ring and makes a run for U.S. president!
Hilarious sight gags, gorgeous cartoon art and more action-packed goodness from the golden age of animation: Popeye the Sailor: The 1940s, Volume 3 will leave you rooting – and toot-tooting – for more!
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- BRAND NEW 4K REMASTERS FROM THE ORIGINAL NEGATIVES
- Optional English SDH subtitles for each episode
Olive Oyl for President
Wigwam Whoopee
Pre-Hysterical Man
Popeye Meets Hercules
A Wolf in Sheik's Clothing
Spinach vs Hamburgers
Snow Place Like Home
Robin Hood-Winked
Symphony in Spinach
Popeye's Premiere
Lumberjack and Jill
Hot Air Aces
A Balmy Swami
Tar with a Star
Silly Hillbilly
Barking Dogs Don't Fite
The Fly's Last Flight