Universal Pictures will add four new titles to its Blu-ray catalog later this month. They are:
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936),
That Certain Age (1938),
Nice Girl? (1941), and
Mad About Music (1938).
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
Description: Screen legends Henry Fonda and Fred MacMurray star in The Trail of the Lonesome Pine - one of the first films ever to be filmed outdoors in glorious Technicolor ! Deep in the undeveloped backwoods of the Blue Ridge Mountains, two young men are caught in the midst of an ancient and bitter feud between two families and fighting for the romantic attention of a beautiful woman (Sylvia Sidney). One of the most breathtaking movies ever to hit the silver screen, The Trail of the Lonesome Pine is an exciting melodrama and a landmark cinematic achievement that continues to captivate audiences today.
STREET DATE: JUNE 29.
That Certain Age
Description: Deanna Durbin stars in That Certain Age as a young woman who experiences the turbulence of a first crush with a man three times her age! Newspaper publisher Bill Fullerton (John Halliday) offers his guest house to visiting reporter Vincent Bullitt (Melvyn Douglas) who is under a tight deadline to finish an important article and needs a quiet place to write. His arrival creates resentment from Fullerton's daughter Alice (Durbin) and her boyfriend Ken (Jackie Cooper) since they were using the guest house as a rehearsal space for a show and fund raiser for the Boy Scouts. At first Alice tries to drive Vincent away through trickery but then develops a huge crush on him which causes concern for everyone. Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett were co-writers on the screenplay and the movie garnered two Academy Award nominations, including one for the song, "My Own."
STREET DATE: JUNE 29.
Nice Girl?
Singing sensation Deanna Durbin stars in the musical comedy Nice Girl? Scientist Oliver Dana (Robert Benchley) has his hands full with three very different daughters. Fortunately, he can always rely on his steadfast Jane (Durbin) to stay out of trouble until now. Annoyed with her boring reputation, Jane decides to change her image. First, she snubs her lackadaisical, small-town boyfriend (Robert Stack) and begins flirting with her father's world-traveling associate, Robert Calvert (Franchot Tone). Then she carries out an elaborate scheme that eventually has her spending the night at Don's New York home. What follows is a hilarious series of misunderstandings that sends the novice femme fatale heading for home - but not before neighbors spot her driving through town in bright red pajamas!
STREET DATE: JUNE 29.
Mad About Music
Description: Nominated for 4 Academy Awards, Mad About Music stars singing sensation Deanna Durbin in one of her most enduring roles. In an attempt to maintain her glamorous screen image, a famous film actress (Gail Patrick) is forced by her studio to hide her 14-year-daughter (Durbin) in a Swiss boarding school away from the publicity-hungry press. To keep her real identity secret from the other school girls, she invents a fictitious father, claiming he is a globe-trotting big game hunter. Forced to prove his existence, she tries to coax a friendly composer (Herbert Marshall) on vacation in Switzerland to play along with her ruse.
STREET DATE: JUNE 29.