Warner: The Maltese Falcon, Cool Hand Luke, and Rebel Without a Cause Heading to 4K Blu-ray (UPDATED)

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Warner: The Maltese Falcon, Cool Hand Luke, and Rebel Without a Cause Heading to 4K Blu-ray (UPDATED)

Posted February 15, 2023 04:13 PM by Webmaster

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment will release on 4K Blu-ray The Maltese Falcon (1941), Cool Hand Luke (1967), and Rebel Without a Cause (1955). The three releases, which are the first of a wave of classic titles to be upgraded to 4K Blu-ray, will be available for purchase this April.

UPDATE: Complete special features and technical specs for each release are included below. Also included are new promotional trailers for The Maltese Falcon and Cool Hand Luke. When viewing the trailers, please make sure to set resolution to 4K/2160p.

The Maltese Falcon

Description: A gallery of high-living lowlifes will stop at nothing to get their sweaty hands on a jewel-encrusted falcon. Detective Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) wants to find out why - and who'll take the fall for his pertner's murder. An all-star cast (including Sydney Greenstreet, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre and Elisha Cook Jr.) joins Bogart in this crackling mystery masterwork written for the screen (from Dashiell Hammett's novel) and directed by John Huston. This nominee for 3 Academy Awards Best Picture, Supporting Actor (Greenstreet) and Screenplay (Huston) - catapulted Bogart to stardom and launched Huston's directorial career. All with a bird and a bang!

Special Features and Technical Specs:
  • 4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM
  • HDR PRESENTATION OF THE FILM
  • Audio Commentary by Eric Lax
  • The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Brid
  • Becoming Attractions: The Trailers of Humphrey Bogart
  • Make-up Tests
  • Broadcasts
    • 2/8/43 Lux Radio Theater Broadcast
    • 9/20/43 Screen Guild Theater Broadcast
    • 7/3/46 Academy Award Theater Broadcast
  • Trailers
    • 1936 "Satan Met a Lady"
    • 1941 "The Maltese Falcon"
    • "Sergeant York" Trailer
  • "Warner Night at the Movies"
    • "New Highlights of the Roosevelt Churchill Parley" (newsreel)
    • "The Gay Parisian" (1941 WB short)
    • "Meet John Doughboy" (1941 WB cartoon)
    • Breakdowns of 1941 (WB short)
  • Optional English SDH, Spanish, Parisian French subtitles
STREET DATE: APRIL 4.

Cool Hand Luke

Description: His crime: nonconformity. His sentence: the chain gang. Paul Newman plays one of his best-loved roles as Cool Hand Luke, the loner who won't - or can't - bend to the arbitrary rules of his captivity. A cast of fine character actors, including George Kennedy in his Oscar-winning role of Dragline and the indelible Jo Van Fleet as Luke's mother, give Newman solid support. And Strother Martin is the Captain who taunts Luke with the now-legendary line, "What we've got here is... failure to communicate". No failure here. With rich humor and vibrant storytelling power, Cool Hand Luke succeeds resoundingly.

Special Features and Technical Specs:
  • 4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM
  • HDR PRESENTATION OF THE FILM
  • Audio Commentary by Eric Lax
  • "A Natural-Born World-Shaker: Making Cool Hand Luke" (featurette)
  • Trailer
  • Optional English SDH, Spanish, Parisian French subtitles
STREET DATE: APRIL 18.

Rebel Without a Cause

Description: In one of moviedom's most influential roles, James Dean plays Jim Stark, the new kid in town whose loneliness, frustration and anger mirrored those of postwar teens - and reverberate more than 40 years later. Natalie Wood (as Jim's girlfriend Judy) and Sal Mineo (in his screen debut as Jim's tag-along pal Plato) were Acadamy Award nominees for their achingly true performances. Director Nicholas Ray was also an Oscar nominee for this landmark film chosen as one of the Top-100 American Films by the American Film Institute.

Special Features and Technical Specs:
  • 4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM
  • HDR PRESENTATION OF THE FILM
  • Audio Commentary Douglas L. Rathgeb
  • "James Dean Remembered" (1974 TV special)
  • "Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents" (featurette)
  • "Dennis Hopper: Memories from the Warner Lot" (featurette)
  • Screen Tests
  • Wardrobe Tests
  • Deleted Scenes
  • Optional English SDH, Spanish, Parisian French subtitles
STREET DATE: APRIL 4.