Warner Archive has announced its July slate of Blu-ray releases. They are:
Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949),
Objective, Burma! (1945),
I Wouldn't Be In Your Shoes (1948),
Step By Step (1946),
The Herculoids: The Complete Orig. Series, and
Pennyworth: The Complete Second Season (2021).
Objective, Burma!
Synopsis: Leading a team of 36 commandos, Captain Charles Nelson (Errol Flynn) parachutes into Japanese-occupied Burma in hopes of destroying a critical radar base. The mission is a success, but when the group reaches the air strip where they expect to find planes ready to fly them to safety, they instead find a waiting Japanese army. With no choice but to attempt an escape on foot, Nelson splits his team in two and reluctantly heads into an impenetrable jungle. Directed by Raoul Walsh.
STREET DATE: JULY 13.
I Wouldn't Be In Your Shoes
Synopsis: Future Oscar®-winning producer Walter Mirisch (In the Heat of the Night) broke into the film business at poverty-row studio Monogram Pictures, with his first film "FALL GUY" in 1947, based on a short story by Cornell Woolrich. The next year Mirisch brought another production derived from a Woolrich work to the studio, with this 1948 Film-noir with a modest budget, a little-known cast, and directed by screen veteran William Nigh. The result was "I WOULDN'T BE IN YOUR SHOES", a captivating tale about a down-on-his luck dancer set-up to be wrongly accused of murder (Don Castle), and the efforts of his devoted wife (Elyse Knox) to prove his innocence against all odds. Virtually unseen for decades, and now restored from original nitrate elements, this little gem of a film will impress new audiences and once seen, not soon be forgotten.
STREET DATE: JULY 20.
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Synopsis: Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly and Esther Williams find romance, gangsters and lots of song and dance on the baseball diamond in the fast-paced, fun-filled musical romp Take Me Out to the Ball Game.1906. The champion ball club The Wolves' success depends on the powerhouse double play combination of O'Brien to Ryan to Goldberg. Trouble is O'Brien (Kelly--An American in Paris, Brigadoon) and Ryan (Academy Award winner Sinatra--From Here to Eternity, Pal Joey) would rather be pursuing their vaudeville career than playing baseball . . . that is until the team gets a new owner, beautiful K.C. Higgins (Williams--Dangerous When Wet). And when a professional gambler who has bet heavily against The Wolves tries every dirty trick he knows to influence the outcome of the big game, it's the baseball players against the gangsters for a wild, hysterical, musical nine innings.
STREET DATE: JULY 20.
Step By Step
Synopsis: The stars of 1945's Dillinger are reunited in this fast-paced espionage thriller from director Phil Rosen. Lawrence Tierney (Born to Kill, Reservoir Dogs) stars as Marine veteran Johnny Christopher, who meets and is immediately drawn to the beautiful Evelyn Smith (Anne Jeffreys; Riffraff, Trail Street). Evelyn's new job as secretary to a U.S. senator in California soon brings unexpected intrigue and trouble for her and Johnny. The machinations of a sinister group of Nazi spies lead to mysteries and mistaken identities, and the two soon find themselves framed for murder!
STREET DATE: JULY 20.
Pennyworth: The Complete Second Season
Synopsis: A year after the explosive events of last season, England finds itself embroiled in a devastating civil war, with the powerful, neo-fascist Raven Union, led by Lord Harwood (Jason Flemyng) threatening to control the entire country. North London remains one of the few resistance holdouts remaining. It's here in the West End Neutral Zone, that we find Alfred Pennyworth (Jack Bannon). After years in the British Army, his training with the SAS has taught him to be a cynical optimist – expecting the worst, but knowing that he can handle it. Now running The Delaney, a black-market Soho club that welcomes everyone, regardless of their politics, Alfred, with his SAS mates, "Bazza" (Hainsley Lloyd Bennett) and "Daveboy" (Ryan Fletcher), is now in search of a way out – before London, and his country, burns itself to the ground. And he's got his eye on America.
STREET DATE: JULY 13.
The Herculoids: The Complete Original Series
Synopsis: Somewhere out in deep space, and out of the creative imagination of the animation aces at Hanna- Barbera Studios, live the Herculoids. Humanoid Zandor — along with his wife, Tara, and son, Dorno — leads a group of unique creatures: Zok the flying dragon, powerful simian Igoo (who has rocklike skin), rhinoceros hybrid Tundro and two protoplasmic wonders appropriately named Gloop and Gleep. Together, they use their diverse super-strengths to defend their utopian planet against attack from such sinister invaders as the Pod Creatures, the Reptons and the Mutoids. For total family entertainment, this 18-episode, 3-disc collection is out of this world, literally.
STREET DATE: JULY 27.