Warner Archive Announces September Releases
HomeWarner Archive Announces September Releases
Posted July 31, 2024 09:30 PM by Webmaster
Warner Archive has announced its September batch of Blu-ray releases. They are: Journey Into Fear (1943), Conflict (1945), Bathing Beauty (1944), I Remember Mama (1948), A Prairie Home Companion (2006), and Jonny's Golden Quest/Jonny Quest vs. the Cyber-Insects (1992-1995).
Journey Into Fear
Description: Orson Welles' touches of cinematic brilliance make Journey Into Fear a stunning success. Joseph Cotten portrays am American gunnery engineer pursued by Gestapo agents. His adventures make him cross paths with an impressive array of characters portrayed by Dolores Del Rio, Ruth Warrick, Agnes Moorehead, Everett Sloane, Hans Conried, and Welles himself, who plays Colonel Haki, head of the Turkish Secret Police. The cinematography by Karl Struss in low—key and stylized, with a reviewer of the era pointing to its "Brilliant atmosphere, the nightmare of pursuit, and when the shock comes it leaps at the eye and ear". Journey Into Fear is a thriller worthy of the cinematic master Orson Welles.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Conflict
Description: Conflict is a love triangle with murder at its heart, an atmospheric film noir of rainy nights, looming shadows, fatal romance and a trench-coated killer that walks out of the mist – all directed by Curtis Bernhardt, a filmmaker skilled in the Expressionistic style of his native Germany. The story embraces the perfect noir topic: the almost-perfect crime. Humphrey Bogart portrays Richard Mason, married to nagging Katherine… but in love with her sunny sister. Shortly after a fifth-year wedding celebration at the home of a friend, Richard decides to remove the obstacle to his happiness. He kills Katherine, carefully leaving no evidence of his guilt. Or at least he thinks he killed her- until mysterious events cause Richard to fear Katherine is very much alive!
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Bathing Beauty
Description: Hoping to win back his estranged swimming coach wife (Esther Williams), a love-struck songwriter (Red Skelton) enrolls in a women's college, and graduates summa cum laude in comedy! Red's in rare form and Esther's in formfitting swimsuits in this delightfully musical farce. Bathing Beauty begins with a splash: Xavier Cugat plays, Red clowns and Esther plunges into a pool. And from there things go, well, swimmingly. The college is lauded with pretty M-G-M starlets. Cugie shakes up more hot South American rhythms. Harry James swings into help North American sounds, and a fine cast including Basil Rathbone, Donald Meek, Janis Paige, and Margaret Dumont give expert support. The finale is a wowser of a water ballet, featuring Hollywood's favorite bathing beauty swimming gracefully along alternating jets of water and flame. But Esther isn't the only artistic lovely.
When production began, the film's title was "Mr. Co-Ed", with Skelton positioned to be the center of attraction, but M-G-M soon found out as filming continued, that the film was going to catapult Esther Williams into screen super-stardom, leading to the film being released with the title Bathing Beauty with Esther becoming one of the studio's biggest stars in a series of Technicolor® aquatic entertainments for over a decade.
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I Remember Mama
Description: Under the skillful direction of Oscar®-winner George Stevens, Irene Dunne and Barbara Bel Geddes star in this reminiscence of a daughter for the mother holding their family together with love and discipline in the heartwarming I Remember Mama. Mama emigrated from Norway to early 20th century San Francisco, where she has devoted her life to her children, including Katrin, keeping her house in order and reigning in their offbeat relatives, friends and boarders in this family classic. Based on Kathryn Forbes' short story collection "Mama's Bank Account" and the play by John Van Druten.
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A Prairie Home Companion
Description: From legendary director Robert Altman comes his final film, the deeply moving and comedic A Prairie Home Companion. Based on Garrison Keillor's wildly popular radio program of the same name, Altman invites audiences to the fictional "closing night" of the fabled show. As the rain pours down on a blustery Minnesota evening, the cast tapes their final performance, while waiting for the Texas businessman who has bought the theater to arrive and shut them down. Backstage the colorful ensemble says their goodbyes and confront old conflicts, while onstage a sold-out audience enjoys the wit and musical whimsy for which the show is famous. But when a mysterious woman appears offstage introducing herself as the angel Asphodel, it becomes apparent that this will be no ordinary closing night.
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Jonny's Golden Quest / Jonny Quest vs. the Cyber-Insects
Description: Nearly 30 years after the landmark animated series was brought to prime-time television by Hanna-Barbera, the continued popularity of Johnny Quest led the studio to create two new feature-length adventures built around Quest presented together on this one Blu-ray™ disc. In Jonny's Golden Quest, long-time Quest fans get to meet the women behind the adventurous men. Joining scientist Benton Quest, his plucky son Jonny, bodyguard Race Bannon and Jonny's young friend Hadji are Benton's biologist wife Rachel, Race's ex-wife Jade and young 12-year-old Jessie. In Jonny Quest vs.The Cyber Insects, the evil Dr. Zin has genetically modified household pests into disturbingly large insects that he calls assassinoids, fearless and devoted warriors that will conduct his plan for world domination. Team Quest, headed by internationally respected scientist Benton Quest, is Earth's only hope. When the good doctor becomes Zin's captive, the stakes – and the action quotient – grow higher. Enter Jonny Quest, Dr. Quest's bright, excitable, imaginative and heroic young son, ex-special agent Race Bannon, Jonny's child genius friends Hadji and Jessie (Race's daughter), their robotic pal 4-DAC and bulldog Bandit to complete the job of vermin extermination before it's too late.
STREET DATE: SEPTEMBER 24.
Journey Into Fear
Description: Orson Welles' touches of cinematic brilliance make Journey Into Fear a stunning success. Joseph Cotten portrays am American gunnery engineer pursued by Gestapo agents. His adventures make him cross paths with an impressive array of characters portrayed by Dolores Del Rio, Ruth Warrick, Agnes Moorehead, Everett Sloane, Hans Conried, and Welles himself, who plays Colonel Haki, head of the Turkish Secret Police. The cinematography by Karl Struss in low—key and stylized, with a reviewer of the era pointing to its "Brilliant atmosphere, the nightmare of pursuit, and when the shock comes it leaps at the eye and ear". Journey Into Fear is a thriller worthy of the cinematic master Orson Welles.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION from safety preservation master positives from the Library of Congress
- Audio-only Orson Welles Mercury Theater Radio Broadcasts:
- DRACULA (7/11/1938)
- TREASURE ISLAND (7/18/1938)
- A TALE OF TWO CITIES (7/25/1938)
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
Conflict
Description: Conflict is a love triangle with murder at its heart, an atmospheric film noir of rainy nights, looming shadows, fatal romance and a trench-coated killer that walks out of the mist – all directed by Curtis Bernhardt, a filmmaker skilled in the Expressionistic style of his native Germany. The story embraces the perfect noir topic: the almost-perfect crime. Humphrey Bogart portrays Richard Mason, married to nagging Katherine… but in love with her sunny sister. Shortly after a fifth-year wedding celebration at the home of a friend, Richard decides to remove the obstacle to his happiness. He kills Katherine, carefully leaving no evidence of his guilt. Or at least he thinks he killed her- until mysterious events cause Richard to fear Katherine is very much alive!
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE
- Classic 1945 WB Cartoons:
- LIFE WITH FEATHERS
- TRAP HAPPY PORKY
- WB 1945 Shorts:
- PEEKS AT HOLLYWOOD
- ARE ANIMALS ACTORS?
- Audio-only CONFLICT radio broadcast (9/11/1945) starring Humphrey Bogart
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
Bathing Beauty
Description: Hoping to win back his estranged swimming coach wife (Esther Williams), a love-struck songwriter (Red Skelton) enrolls in a women's college, and graduates summa cum laude in comedy! Red's in rare form and Esther's in formfitting swimsuits in this delightfully musical farce. Bathing Beauty begins with a splash: Xavier Cugat plays, Red clowns and Esther plunges into a pool. And from there things go, well, swimmingly. The college is lauded with pretty M-G-M starlets. Cugie shakes up more hot South American rhythms. Harry James swings into help North American sounds, and a fine cast including Basil Rathbone, Donald Meek, Janis Paige, and Margaret Dumont give expert support. The finale is a wowser of a water ballet, featuring Hollywood's favorite bathing beauty swimming gracefully along alternating jets of water and flame. But Esther isn't the only artistic lovely.
When production began, the film's title was "Mr. Co-Ed", with Skelton positioned to be the center of attraction, but M-G-M soon found out as filming continued, that the film was going to catapult Esther Williams into screen super-stardom, leading to the film being released with the title Bathing Beauty with Esther becoming one of the studio's biggest stars in a series of Technicolor® aquatic entertainments for over a decade.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION FROM THE ORIGINAL TECHNICOLOR NEGATIVES
- TCM PRIVATE SCREENINGS with ESTHER WILLIAMS, hosted by Robert Osborne
- Classic M-G-M cartoon MOUSE TROUBLE
- Classic M-G-M short MAIN STREET TODAY
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
I Remember Mama
Description: Under the skillful direction of Oscar®-winner George Stevens, Irene Dunne and Barbara Bel Geddes star in this reminiscence of a daughter for the mother holding their family together with love and discipline in the heartwarming I Remember Mama. Mama emigrated from Norway to early 20th century San Francisco, where she has devoted her life to her children, including Katrin, keeping her house in order and reigning in their offbeat relatives, friends and boarders in this family classic. Based on Kathryn Forbes' short story collection "Mama's Bank Account" and the play by John Van Druten.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION FROM NITRATE PRESERVATION ELEMENTS
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
A Prairie Home Companion
Description: From legendary director Robert Altman comes his final film, the deeply moving and comedic A Prairie Home Companion. Based on Garrison Keillor's wildly popular radio program of the same name, Altman invites audiences to the fictional "closing night" of the fabled show. As the rain pours down on a blustery Minnesota evening, the cast tapes their final performance, while waiting for the Texas businessman who has bought the theater to arrive and shut them down. Backstage the colorful ensemble says their goodbyes and confront old conflicts, while onstage a sold-out audience enjoys the wit and musical whimsy for which the show is famous. But when a mysterious woman appears offstage introducing herself as the angel Asphodel, it becomes apparent that this will be no ordinary closing night.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Audio commentary with Director Robert Altman and Kevin Kline
- Additional Scenes
- Behind-the-Scenes Documentary
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
Jonny's Golden Quest / Jonny Quest vs. the Cyber-Insects
Description: Nearly 30 years after the landmark animated series was brought to prime-time television by Hanna-Barbera, the continued popularity of Johnny Quest led the studio to create two new feature-length adventures built around Quest presented together on this one Blu-ray™ disc. In Jonny's Golden Quest, long-time Quest fans get to meet the women behind the adventurous men. Joining scientist Benton Quest, his plucky son Jonny, bodyguard Race Bannon and Jonny's young friend Hadji are Benton's biologist wife Rachel, Race's ex-wife Jade and young 12-year-old Jessie. In Jonny Quest vs.The Cyber Insects, the evil Dr. Zin has genetically modified household pests into disturbingly large insects that he calls assassinoids, fearless and devoted warriors that will conduct his plan for world domination. Team Quest, headed by internationally respected scientist Benton Quest, is Earth's only hope. When the good doctor becomes Zin's captive, the stakes – and the action quotient – grow higher. Enter Jonny Quest, Dr. Quest's bright, excitable, imaginative and heroic young son, ex-special agent Race Bannon, Jonny's child genius friends Hadji and Jessie (Race's daughter), their robotic pal 4-DAC and bulldog Bandit to complete the job of vermin extermination before it's too late.
STREET DATE: SEPTEMBER 24.
