Warner Archive Announces July Releases
HomeWarner Archive Announces July Releases
Posted June 16, 2020 11:15 PM by Webmaster
Warner Archive has announced that it will add eight new titles to its Blu-ray catalog this July/August. They are: Michael (1996), Without Love (1945), Pat and Mike (1952),
Million Dollar Mermaid (1952), Girl Crazy (1943), Pride and Prejudice (1940), Clara's Heart (1988), and Final Space: The Complete Season One and Two (2018).
Michael
Synopsis: Would-be ghosts. UFO voyagers. A chicken that pecks out the "Moonlight Sonata" on the piano – blindfolded! They're the kinds of stories that keep the National Mirror in the nation's shopping carts. And they're the kinds of stories that make the tabloid's reporters think they've heard and seen it all. But that's before they meet Michael. He may be a grubby party animal who knows his way around a dance floor, but Michael is very much an angel. And with John Travolta in the title role, Michael is very much a divine romantic comedy. William Hurt, Andie MacDowell and Robert Pastorelli are writers sent by boss Bob Hoskins to get an exclusive on the heavenly visitor. The journalists want a page-one scoop. But their subject has a far more joyous and life-affirming plan in mind.
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Synopsis: Every rental is rented, every sublet is let in crowded Washington, D.C. So Jamie Rowan does her part for the wartime lodging crunch by sharing her home with military inventor Pat Jamieson. There are a few conditions, natch. First, for appearances, they must get married. Second, there's plenty of room for each other...but no room for love. Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn team for the third time in Without Love, played for laughs and, above all, with love. Donald Ogden Stewart adapts Philip Barry's play (five years earlier, both helped shape Hepburn's comeback movie, The Philadelphia Story).
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Synopsis: James Sullivan works the carny circuit, promoting the likes of a boxing kangaroo or grappling bear. Then the wheeler-dealer meets a million-dollar idea: beautiful swimming champ Annette Kellerman. She'll churn through a River Thames PR stunt. Cause a bathing-suit scandal among Boston bluebloods. Headline New York's Hippodrome. And become a Hollywood swimsation as cameras roll and Rin Tin Tin looks on. Glamorous, amphibious Esther Williams portrays the real-life aquatic star in a splashy biopic costarring Victor Mature and loaded with stunning spectacle (including a must-see Busby Berkeley masterwork). Is this lovely Esther's signature film? Well, she called her 1999 autobiography The Million Dollar Mermaid.
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Synopsis: Mickey Rooney. Judy Garland. Gershwin music. And Tommy Dorsey to play it. Who could ask for anything more? From Garland's rendition of "But Not for Me" to the grand finale of "I Got Rhythm," Girl Crazy is one of the most buoyant tunefests ever put on-screen. Rich kid Danny Churchill (Rooney) has a taste for wine, women and song, but not for higher education. So his father ships him to an all-male college out West where there's not supposed to be a female for miles. But before Danny arrives, he spies a pair of legs extending out from under a stalled roadster. They belong to the dean's granddaughter, Ginger Gray (Garland), who is more interested in keeping the financially strapped college open than falling for Danny's romantic line. At least at first.
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Synopsis: Like the arrows she launches at an archery target during an elegant lawn party, Elizabeth Bennet's wit is pointed and unerring. "If you want to be really refined, you have to be dead," she says, skewering the imperious airs of her hosts. Jane Austen's timeless 1813 novel of unlikely romance is richly adapted in this lavish Academy Award® winner.* Greer Garson portrays spirited Elizabeth, one of five Bennet sisters hoping for matrimony. Laurence Olivier plays Darcy, whose arrival at a nearby estate sets maiden hearts aflutter. But first impressions can mean so very much. Elizabeth and Darcy find reasons to view each other with disdain, setting in motion a velvet struggle of Pride and Prejudice, perception and reality, forgiveness and love. You'll be irresistibly caught up in it.
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Synopsis: The sun will sneak by a rooster before sports promoter Mike Conovan (Spencer Tracy) lets opportunity pass him by. So the first time he sees genteel Pat Pemberton (Katharine Hepburn) swing a five-iron, he decides to ink her to a pro contract. "Not much meat on her ," Mike later says, "but what's there is cherce." For this chercest of romantic comedies, George Cukor directs, Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin provide the Oscar®-nominated screenplay, and a deft cast plays various Damon Runyonesque types, including Aldo Ray as a dim-bulb palooka and Charles (Bronson) Buchinski as a tough guy who finds Pat tougher. Sports stars of the day (like Babe Didrikson Zaharias and Gussie Moran) add to the Jocks-and-Jills fun. Let the games begin!
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Synopsis: David Hart (Neil Patrick Harris) is a preteen as disillusioned as a 40-year-old and as vulnerable as a 5-year-old. The death of his baby sister and his parents' subsequent separation have left him despairing and lonely. But he's about to discover all the love he needs in Clara's Heart. Whoopi Goldberg recaptures the triumph and joy of her award-winning portrayal of Celie in The Color Purple, starring as savvy Jamaican housekeeper Clara Mayfield. When Clara first enters the Harts' luxurious suburban Baltimore home, David views her as an interloper and a threat. But Clara's unshakable dignity and bounteous humor act like sunshine on the tight bud of David's soul.
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Synopsis: In this serialized intergalactic space saga from independent filmmaker, actor, comedian and entrepreneur Olan Rogers, an astronaut named Gary and his adorable, planet-destroying friend, Mooncake embark on a quest to unlock the mystery of "Final Space," the place where the entire universe ends. In Season two of Final Space things get even more wild as Gary restarts with a new ship and a new AI (voiced by Jane Lynch, Glee) as they recover what's left of his crew. Conan O'Brien reprises his role as Clarence, now a series regular, alongside Ron Funches (Undatable) and Ashly Burch (Attack on Titan) as they embark on an epic mission to free the Titan Bolo (voiced by Keith David). Along the way, Gary battles new villains led by Alan Tudyk (Firefly), Christopher Judge (Stargate SG-1) and Gary's Mom, (voiced by Claudia Black,Farscape).
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Michael
Synopsis: Would-be ghosts. UFO voyagers. A chicken that pecks out the "Moonlight Sonata" on the piano – blindfolded! They're the kinds of stories that keep the National Mirror in the nation's shopping carts. And they're the kinds of stories that make the tabloid's reporters think they've heard and seen it all. But that's before they meet Michael. He may be a grubby party animal who knows his way around a dance floor, but Michael is very much an angel. And with John Travolta in the title role, Michael is very much a divine romantic comedy. William Hurt, Andie MacDowell and Robert Pastorelli are writers sent by boss Bob Hoskins to get an exclusive on the heavenly visitor. The journalists want a page-one scoop. But their subject has a far more joyous and life-affirming plan in mind.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- BRAND NEW MASTER
- Theatrical trailer
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
Synopsis: Every rental is rented, every sublet is let in crowded Washington, D.C. So Jamie Rowan does her part for the wartime lodging crunch by sharing her home with military inventor Pat Jamieson. There are a few conditions, natch. First, for appearances, they must get married. Second, there's plenty of room for each other...but no room for love. Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn team for the third time in Without Love, played for laughs and, above all, with love. Donald Ogden Stewart adapts Philip Barry's play (five years earlier, both helped shape Hepburn's comeback movie, The Philadelphia Story).
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM FROM THE BEST SURVIVING ELEMENTS
- Vintage Crime Does Not Pay short "Purity Squad"
- Classic Cartoon "Swing Shift Cinderella
- Theatrical Trailer
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
Synopsis: James Sullivan works the carny circuit, promoting the likes of a boxing kangaroo or grappling bear. Then the wheeler-dealer meets a million-dollar idea: beautiful swimming champ Annette Kellerman. She'll churn through a River Thames PR stunt. Cause a bathing-suit scandal among Boston bluebloods. Headline New York's Hippodrome. And become a Hollywood swimsation as cameras roll and Rin Tin Tin looks on. Glamorous, amphibious Esther Williams portrays the real-life aquatic star in a splashy biopic costarring Victor Mature and loaded with stunning spectacle (including a must-see Busby Berkeley masterwork). Is this lovely Esther's signature film? Well, she called her 1999 autobiography The Million Dollar Mermaid.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM
- Vintage Pete Smith Specialty short "Reducing"
- Vintage Cartoon "The Wise Little Quaker"
- Audio-Only Bonus: Radio show with Esther Williams and Walter Pidgeon
- Theatrical Trailer
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
Synopsis: Mickey Rooney. Judy Garland. Gershwin music. And Tommy Dorsey to play it. Who could ask for anything more? From Garland's rendition of "But Not for Me" to the grand finale of "I Got Rhythm," Girl Crazy is one of the most buoyant tunefests ever put on-screen. Rich kid Danny Churchill (Rooney) has a taste for wine, women and song, but not for higher education. So his father ships him to an all-male college out West where there's not supposed to be a female for miles. But before Danny arrives, he spies a pair of legs extending out from under a stalled roadster. They belong to the dean's granddaughter, Ginger Gray (Garland), who is more interested in keeping the financially strapped college open than falling for Danny's romantic line. At least at first.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM FROM THE BEST SURVIVING ELEMENTS
- Audio Commentary by Film historian John Fricke
- Comedy Short "Hollywood Daredevils"
- Vintage Cartoon "The Early Bird Dood It"
- "I Got Rhythm" Stereo Remix Version
- Audio Only Bonus "Bronco Busters" Outtake
- Theatrical Trailer
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
Synopsis: Like the arrows she launches at an archery target during an elegant lawn party, Elizabeth Bennet's wit is pointed and unerring. "If you want to be really refined, you have to be dead," she says, skewering the imperious airs of her hosts. Jane Austen's timeless 1813 novel of unlikely romance is richly adapted in this lavish Academy Award® winner.* Greer Garson portrays spirited Elizabeth, one of five Bennet sisters hoping for matrimony. Laurence Olivier plays Darcy, whose arrival at a nearby estate sets maiden hearts aflutter. But first impressions can mean so very much. Elizabeth and Darcy find reasons to view each other with disdain, setting in motion a velvet struggle of Pride and Prejudice, perception and reality, forgiveness and love. You'll be irresistibly caught up in it.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM FROM THE BEST SURVIVING ELEMENTS
- Oscar-Nominated Crime Does Not Pay short "Eyes of the Navy"
- Vintage Cartoon "The Fishing Bear"
- Theatrical Trailer
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
Synopsis: The sun will sneak by a rooster before sports promoter Mike Conovan (Spencer Tracy) lets opportunity pass him by. So the first time he sees genteel Pat Pemberton (Katharine Hepburn) swing a five-iron, he decides to ink her to a pro contract. "Not much meat on her ," Mike later says, "but what's there is cherce." For this chercest of romantic comedies, George Cukor directs, Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin provide the Oscar®-nominated screenplay, and a deft cast plays various Damon Runyonesque types, including Aldo Ray as a dim-bulb palooka and Charles (Bronson) Buchinski as a tough guy who finds Pat tougher. Sports stars of the day (like Babe Didrikson Zaharias and Gussie Moran) add to the Jocks-and-Jills fun. Let the games begin!
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE
- Theatrical Trailer
- Animated Teaser Trailer
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
Synopsis: David Hart (Neil Patrick Harris) is a preteen as disillusioned as a 40-year-old and as vulnerable as a 5-year-old. The death of his baby sister and his parents' subsequent separation have left him despairing and lonely. But he's about to discover all the love he needs in Clara's Heart. Whoopi Goldberg recaptures the triumph and joy of her award-winning portrayal of Celie in The Color Purple, starring as savvy Jamaican housekeeper Clara Mayfield. When Clara first enters the Harts' luxurious suburban Baltimore home, David views her as an interloper and a threat. But Clara's unshakable dignity and bounteous humor act like sunshine on the tight bud of David's soul.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW MASTER OF THE FILM
- Theatrical Trailer
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
Synopsis: In this serialized intergalactic space saga from independent filmmaker, actor, comedian and entrepreneur Olan Rogers, an astronaut named Gary and his adorable, planet-destroying friend, Mooncake embark on a quest to unlock the mystery of "Final Space," the place where the entire universe ends. In Season two of Final Space things get even more wild as Gary restarts with a new ship and a new AI (voiced by Jane Lynch, Glee) as they recover what's left of his crew. Conan O'Brien reprises his role as Clarence, now a series regular, alongside Ron Funches (Undatable) and Ashly Burch (Attack on Titan) as they embark on an epic mission to free the Titan Bolo (voiced by Keith David). Along the way, Gary battles new villains led by Alan Tudyk (Firefly), Christopher Judge (Stargate SG-1) and Gary's Mom, (voiced by Claudia Black,Farscape).
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Behind-the Scenes of Final Space
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature