Warner Archive will add nine new titles to its Blu-ray catalog this Novemer. They are:
Fury (1936),
Ladies They Talk About (1933),
Party Girl (1958),
The Last of Sheila (1973),
National Velvet (1944),
Some Came Running (1958),
Lullaby of Broadway (1951),
The Thin Man Goes Home (1945), and
The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart (2020).
Fury
Synopsis: After being falsely accused of kidnapping, gas station owner Joe Wilson (Spencer Tracy) is put in a small-town jail and becomes the focus of a vigilante mob set on lynching him. After a stunning escape, the believed-dead Joe connives a fitting revenge.
Striking drama from director Fritz Lang (his American debut) criticizes mob mentality and features superior performances from Tracy, Sylvia Sidney, Walter Abel, Edward Ellis, and Walter Brennan; look for "Toto" as Wilson's dog.
STREET DATE: NOVEMBER 30.
The Last of Sheila
Synopsis: Raised voices at a Bel-Air party. The front door bursts open. Sheila runs from the mansion, away from her irate husband, Clinton Greene (James Coburn). A screech of brakes beyond the driveway. Sheila is hit and dies.
Synopsis: One year later to the day, Greene invites six Hollywood insiders (played by Raquel Welch, James Mason, Dyan Cannon, Richard Benjamin, Joan Hackett and Ian McShane) who were present that fatal night aboard his yacht, the Sheila, anchored off Nice, France, for a "murder game" devised to reveal his guest's innermost secrets...a game that proceeds to an inexorable and surprising climax.
STREET DATE: NOVEMBER 9.
Lullaby of Broadway
Synopsis: C'mon and listen to songbird Doris Day heads toward Great White Way stardom in this sparkling songfest full of favorite standards!
The steps of the studio set towered before her like a pyramid. All Doris Day had to do was dance up and down those steps wearing a flowing gold lame dress. "You've got to be out of your minds," Day exclaimed in a voice heard across the soundstage. "I can't even walk up and down those stairs."
She danced divinely--and sang--in this musical delight about a singer newly arrived in New York - and destined for fame in the capable company of co-stars Gene Nelson, S.Z. Sakall, Billy De Wolfe, Gladys George and Florence Bates.
Savor the Oscar winning title tune, Cole Porter's "Just One of Those Things," "Somebody Loves Me" and six more swell songs. C'mon along and listen to (and watch) this Lullaby of Broadway.
STREET DATE: NOVEMBER 23.
The Thin Man Goes Home
Synopsis: Outlaws come and go in Nick and Nora's lives. Now it's time to meet the in-laws.
The debonair sleuths leave little Nicky Jr. at boarding school, grab Asta and head to Nick's boyhood home of Sycamore Springs. Of course, wherever they go, murder has a way of showing up on the doorstep—a point proven in this fifth Thin Man film.
Nick can show off his gumshoe talents for his parents (Harry Davenport and Lucile Watson) when an artist is killed. And he'll do it without customary liquid inspirations because Nick (William Powell) is on the wagon. He's also on his game. As is Nora (Myrna Loy), wrestling a folding lawn chair, tailing a presumed suspect through town, igniting a pool-hall rumble and cracking wise as goodas she gets.
Make yourself at home, whodunit fans!
STREET DATE: NOVEMBER 23.
National Velvet
Synopsis: Academy Award winners Elizabeth Taylor and Mickey Rooney star in this children's classic about the friendship that develops between a headstrong jockey and a young English girl as they work together to turn an "unbreakable" horse into a champion.
STREET DATE: NOVEMBER 16.
Some Came Running
Synopsis: After a round of partying he can't remember, World War II veteran Dave Hirsh is placed on a bus headed for the last place he'd choose: Parkman, Indiana, the hometown Hirsh hasn't seen in well over a decade.
Frank Sinatra plays Hirsh, whose arrival in Parkman brings small-town hypocrisy to the unforgiving light of day in this character-driven tale directed by Vincente Minnelli and based on a novel by James Jones (whose From Here to Eternity had led to Sinatra's 1953 Oscar).
In his first screen pairing with Sinatra, Dean Martin plays a sharp-witted cardsharp. And Shirley MacLaine earned one of the movie's five Academy Award nominations as the good-hearted floozie with a potentially fatal attraction to Hirsh.
STREET DATE: NOVEMBER 30.
Party Girl
Synopsis: Deft lawyer Thomas Farrell (Robert Taylor) has found himself a role successfully defending the crooked goons of crime boss Rico Angelo (Lee J. Cobb). When Thomas meets glamorous dancer Vicki Gaye (Cyd Charisse), he falls in love with her. Vicki makes Thomas realize that he should stop representing criminals, and he tries to break ties with Angelo. However, the mobster will not let Thomas free and kidnaps Vicki in order to keep the lawyer in his employ.
STREET DATE: NOVEMBER 30.
Ladies They Talk About
Synopsis: Gun moll Barbara Stanwyck is thrown into San Quentin thanks to her involvement in a bank robbery and the machinations of D.A./preacher David Slade (Preston Foster). It isn't political ambition that motivates Slade: he's in love with Stanwyck, and hopes that her incarceration will rehabilitate her. Instead, Stanwyck becomes a hard-bitten prison-block leader, spearheading a jailbreak. When things go awry, she holds Slade responsible. Upon her release, she goes gunning for Slade, and doesn't realize that she's really in love with him until she nearly puts him six feet under.
STREET DATE: NOVEMBER 30.
The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
Description: Amassing over 5.5 million viewers to-date, the Emmy Award-winning The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart is one of HBO's most watched documentaries. Now, relive the past through a whole new lens as fans of all generations can get to know the iconic trio like never before.
The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart, directed by acclaimed filmmaker Frank Marshall ("Arachnophobia," "Eight Below") chronicles the triumphs and hurdles of brothers Barry, Maurice and Robin Gibb, otherwise known as the Bee Gees. The filmwas an official selection of the 2020 Telluride Film Festival. Frank Marshall also produces alongside Nigel Sinclair and Jeanne Elfant Festa, part of the award-winning team behind HBO's "The Apollo" and "George Harrison: Living in the Material World," and Mark Monroe. The film is a Polygram Entertainment presentation of a Kennedy/Marshall and White Horse Pictures production in association with Diamond Docs.
The Bee Gees, who found early fame in the 1960s, went on to write over 1,000 songs, including twenty #1 hits throughout their storied career. The film follows the iconic trio's meteoric rise as they rode the highs of fame and fortune, negotiated the vagaries of the ever-shifting music business and navigated the complexities of working so intimately alongside family.
The critically acclaimed documentary is an intimate exploration of the Gibb story, featuring revealing interviews with oldest brother Barry and archival interviews with the late twin brothers Robin and Maurice. The film features a wealth of never-before-seen archival footage of recording sessions, concert performances, television appearances and home videos, as well as interviews with musicians Eric Clapton, Noel Gallagher, Nick Jonas, Chris Martin, Justin Timberlake, music producer Mark Ronson, singer Lulu, record company executive Bill Oakes, among others.
The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart: Polygram Entertainment presents a Kennedy/Marshall Company and White Horse Pictures production in association with Diamond Docs. Director of photography, Michael Dwyer; supervising producer, Aly Parker; executive producers, David Blackman, Jody Gerson, Steve Barnett, Nicholas Ferrall, Cassidy Hartmann, Ryan Suffern; written by Mark Monroe; edited by, Derek Boonstra and Robert A. Martinez; produced by Nigel Sinclair, Jeanne Elfant Festa, Mark Monroe and Frank Marshall; directed by Frank Marshall.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Deleted scenes
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
STREET DATE: NOVEMBER 16.