Warner Archive Announces October Releases
HomeWarner Archive Announces October Releases
Posted August 30, 2024 07:51 PM by Webmaster
Warner Archive has announced its October batch of Blu-ray releases. They are: The Walking Dead (1936), The Return of Doctor X (1939), The Beast with Five Fingers (1946),
Sweethearts (1938), For Your Consideration (2006), and A Man Called Shenandoah (1965-1966).
The Walking Dead
Boris Karloff stars in this classic horror film as John Elman, a man who comes back from the dead to seek revenge on the gangsters who framed him for the murder of the judge who first jailed him. After evidence proving Elman's innocence arrives seconds following his electrocution, officials allow Dr. Evan Beaumont (Edmund Gwenn) to experiment with putting a mechanical heart into Elman. The device revives the dead man, but he has become a monstrous, white-haired, vengeful zombie. Directed by Oscar® winner Michael Curtiz, this thriller is a must-have for fans of the genre.
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The Return of Doctor X
In a bizarre but fascinating bit of casting, Humphrey Bogart stars as a vampire in his only horror film role. After a murderous doctor is executed, he is revived with human blood--and soon people with that blood type begin to disappear. When an eager reporter stumbles across a popular actress who was thought to be dead, he can't help noticing that her skin is unnaturally pale and that she keeps her face concealed beneath a long black veil. Suspecting that evil is afoot, he investigates the terrifying world of a psychotic doctor (Bogart) and is drawn into a series of unsolved murders
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The Beast with Five Fingers
On a dark night, in an isolated Italian villa, the last will and testament of a disabled former concert pianist is read. From another room comes the sound of a piano being played in the unmistakable style of the dead man--the start of a reign of terror by The Beast with Five Fingers. Terrified, the heirs disinter the dead man and discover his long-paralyzed left hand has been severed and is missing. Now, one-by-one the people in the villa die, and the gruesome disembodied hand is not going to stop killing until it finds revenge for the pianist's murder in this terrifying horror classic.
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Sweethearts
Broadway's Gwen Marlowe and Ernest Lane are sweethearts, onstage as stars of Victor Herbert's operetta and offstage as happily marrieds. Then Hollywood beckons, and their fretful stage producer puts the kibosh on any Tinseltown plans by trumping up a romantic triangle that sets the lovebirds feuding. Notable as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's first feature film shot in the three-color Technicolor® process, the 24-karat Golden Age singing team of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy are at their absolute best in this lavish, gossamer-weight box office smash glittering with songs that highlight their superb voices. Director W. S. Van Dyke II provides sophistication, the Dorothy Parker-Alan Campbell script provides rapier wit and the Oscar® -winning cinematography provides proof the ravishing, red-haired MacDonald was born for Technicolor ®.
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For Your Consideration
From director Christopher Guest comes another brilliant "mockumentary" following in the tradition of his ensemble efforts "Best in Show", "A Mighty Wind" and "Waiting For Guffman". The sardonic genius Ricky Gervais joins Guest's cast of regulars including Catherine O'Hara, Parker Posey, Eugene Levy, Michael McKean for this skewering of Hollywood awards season with its hype and hoopla.
Special Features and Technical Specs: TBA
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 29.
A Man Called Shenandoah
Wagon Train star Robert Horton returned to television as a gunfighter in search of his identity across the wilds of the Old West in this fan-favorite series from the 1965-66 season. A stranger is shot and left to die from exposure to the elements. Half dead, he is brought to a small town by a pair of cowboys who hope there may be a reward for his capture. A worldly woman, Kate (Beverly Garland), nurses the man back to health. When he recovers consciousness, the man has no idea who he is or where he came from. Newly christened Shenandoah by Kate, he is forced into a gunfight, killing the one man who might have told him who he is. Forced to bid goodbye to Kate, he sets out on the long, lonely trail to discover his own identity. Notable guests Shenandoah encounters while searching for clues to his past include DeForest Kelley, Edward Asner, Bruce Dern, Cloris Leachman, Warren Oates, George Kennedy, Leonard Nimoy, Martin Landau and Frank Gorshin.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
The Walking Dead
Boris Karloff stars in this classic horror film as John Elman, a man who comes back from the dead to seek revenge on the gangsters who framed him for the murder of the judge who first jailed him. After evidence proving Elman's innocence arrives seconds following his electrocution, officials allow Dr. Evan Beaumont (Edmund Gwenn) to experiment with putting a mechanical heart into Elman. The device revives the dead man, but he has become a monstrous, white-haired, vengeful zombie. Directed by Oscar® winner Michael Curtiz, this thriller is a must-have for fans of the genre.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
- AND More...
The Return of Doctor X
In a bizarre but fascinating bit of casting, Humphrey Bogart stars as a vampire in his only horror film role. After a murderous doctor is executed, he is revived with human blood--and soon people with that blood type begin to disappear. When an eager reporter stumbles across a popular actress who was thought to be dead, he can't help noticing that her skin is unnaturally pale and that she keeps her face concealed beneath a long black veil. Suspecting that evil is afoot, he investigates the terrifying world of a psychotic doctor (Bogart) and is drawn into a series of unsolved murders
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
The Beast with Five Fingers
On a dark night, in an isolated Italian villa, the last will and testament of a disabled former concert pianist is read. From another room comes the sound of a piano being played in the unmistakable style of the dead man--the start of a reign of terror by The Beast with Five Fingers. Terrified, the heirs disinter the dead man and discover his long-paralyzed left hand has been severed and is missing. Now, one-by-one the people in the villa die, and the gruesome disembodied hand is not going to stop killing until it finds revenge for the pianist's murder in this terrifying horror classic.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
- AND More...
Sweethearts
Broadway's Gwen Marlowe and Ernest Lane are sweethearts, onstage as stars of Victor Herbert's operetta and offstage as happily marrieds. Then Hollywood beckons, and their fretful stage producer puts the kibosh on any Tinseltown plans by trumping up a romantic triangle that sets the lovebirds feuding. Notable as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's first feature film shot in the three-color Technicolor® process, the 24-karat Golden Age singing team of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy are at their absolute best in this lavish, gossamer-weight box office smash glittering with songs that highlight their superb voices. Director W. S. Van Dyke II provides sophistication, the Dorothy Parker-Alan Campbell script provides rapier wit and the Oscar® -winning cinematography provides proof the ravishing, red-haired MacDonald was born for Technicolor ®.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION FROM THE TECHNICOLOR SEPARATION MASTER POSITIVES
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
- AND More...
For Your Consideration
From director Christopher Guest comes another brilliant "mockumentary" following in the tradition of his ensemble efforts "Best in Show", "A Mighty Wind" and "Waiting For Guffman". The sardonic genius Ricky Gervais joins Guest's cast of regulars including Catherine O'Hara, Parker Posey, Eugene Levy, Michael McKean for this skewering of Hollywood awards season with its hype and hoopla.
Special Features and Technical Specs: TBA
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 29.
A Man Called Shenandoah
Wagon Train star Robert Horton returned to television as a gunfighter in search of his identity across the wilds of the Old West in this fan-favorite series from the 1965-66 season. A stranger is shot and left to die from exposure to the elements. Half dead, he is brought to a small town by a pair of cowboys who hope there may be a reward for his capture. A worldly woman, Kate (Beverly Garland), nurses the man back to health. When he recovers consciousness, the man has no idea who he is or where he came from. Newly christened Shenandoah by Kate, he is forced into a gunfight, killing the one man who might have told him who he is. Forced to bid goodbye to Kate, he sets out on the long, lonely trail to discover his own identity. Notable guests Shenandoah encounters while searching for clues to his past include DeForest Kelley, Edward Asner, Bruce Dern, Cloris Leachman, Warren Oates, George Kennedy, Leonard Nimoy, Martin Landau and Frank Gorshin.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- FOUR-DISC SET
- NEW 4K RESTORATION FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
