Warner Archive Announces April Releases
HomeWarner Archive Announces April Releases
Posted March 10, 2025 08:24 PM by Webmaster
Warner Archive has announced its April batch of Blu-ray releases. They are: Springfield Rifle (1952), Side Street (1950), Lili (1953), Three The Hard Way (1974), Clean and Sober (1988), and Wacky Races: The Complete Series (1968).
Springfield Rifle
Academy Award winner Gary Cooper stars as a Union officer in the United States' Civil War who goes undercover--pretending to be court-martialed--to uncover who is stealing army horses and selling them to the South before they can hijack a delivery of the new Springfield Rifle. While delivering a shipment of horses desperately needed to mount a big offensive in the United States' Civil War, Union Major Lex Kearny (Cooper) is overwhelmed by a band of Confederate raiders. Rather than risk the lives of his men, he sounds retreat, leaving the precious cargo behind--for which he faces a court-martial. But this is only a ploy to send Kearny underground to find who has been stealing horses from the Union Army. Kearny's mission remains so secret that even his wife (Phyllis Thaxter) believes he has gone renegade, and she surrenders evidence that implicates him as a Southern spy. Now, can Kearny stop the gang of traitorous horse thieves before he is sentenced to death for espionage?
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Side Street
This thrilling Anthony Mann-directed film noir classis follows a part-time postal clerk who, in a moment of desperation, takes what he thinks is $200 but finds himself wanted by the police and the underworld for stealing a $30,000 intended blackmail payment. New York City postal worker Joe Norson (Farley Granger) wants nothing more than to provide a comfortable life for himself and his wife (Cathy O'Donnell), who is pregnant. Out of frustration he steals $30,000 from the shady lawyer Victor Backett (Edmon Ryan). However, the theft has higher stakes than Joe could have imagined: Backett extorted the money from Emil Lorrison (Paul Harvey), an innocent man whom he framed in a sex scandal and later murdered. Trying to hide the money from his wife, Joe gives it to his friend Nick Drumman (Edwin Max) for safekeeping. When Joe attempts to retrieve the money and return it to Backett, he finds himself caught up in a murderous web. A spectacular car chase brings a climax to the film, which was largely shot at various iconic New York locations, including Central Park, Stuyvesant Town, Battery Park, the Bellevue Hospital morgue, the Polyclinic maternity ward, Wall Street, Bowling Green Park, the Fulton Fish Market, the Queensboro Bridge and a Greenwich Village nightclub. SIDE STREET is a must-see noir, now looking better than ever as it does on this new Blu-ray release!
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Lili
Orphan Lili Daurier joins a carnival and falls under the spell of its star, a suave magician. But it is the show's crippled, embittered puppeteer who truly loves Lili, a love he can express only through his puppets. "It is not often that the word 'enchanting' can accurately be applied to a musical," Clive Hirschhorn wrote in The Hollywood Musical, "but it was the best way to describe Lili, as well as Leslie Caron's genuinely touching performance." Nominated for six Academy Awards® , Lili offers sentiment without sugar, simplicity without banality and a lyrical heart that beats to an Oscar -winning Bronislau Kaper score highlighted by Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo and an imaginative sequence of Caron dancing with her beloved puppets come to life. Mel Ferrer, Jean Pierre Aumont, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Amanda Blake and Kurt Kasznar also star. Enjoy this beloved classic as never before in all its Technicolor glory.
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Three The Hard Way
At the height of their big-screen popularity, three 1970s superstars head the cast of the action-thriller THREE THE HARD WAY. Directed with style and panache by Gordon Parks, Jr.(Super Fly), audience favorites Jim Brown, Fred Williamson and Jim Kelly command the screen as a trio with a mission: They're out to stop a secret white supremacist organization that plans to contaminate the water supplies of Detroit, Los Angeles and Washington D.C. with a substance that is a lethal poison only to the Black population. Three The Hard Way provides stands as an audience favorite of its era. Long only seen in an edited 89 minute version, this new Blu-ray presentation restores the film to its original 97 minute theatrical version, with our new master derived from a 4K scan of the original camera negative. Get in on the action with this blaxploitation classic
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Clean and Sober
When the comic star of Night Shift and Beetlejuice tackled his first dramatic role, the result was one of Michael Keaton's best performances ever, earning the National Society of Film Critics Best Actor Award*. Keaton plays real-estate broker Darryl Pointer whose cocaine habit consumes him until he enters a local detox program promising direction and privacy. It also guarantees one thing more: the toughest battle of his life. Powerfully directed by Glenn Gordon Caron and boasting other great performances from Kathy Baker, Morgan Freeman and M. Emmet Walsh, Clean and Sober is a hard-hitting study of beating personal demons…one day at a time.
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Wacky Races: The Complete Series
It's the Hanna-Barbera favorite making its remastered Blu-ray debut! Start your engines! Diabolical do-badder Dick Dastardly, his snickering canine cohort Muttley and their Mean Machine take on you and all comers for all the fast and furious fun of the complete animated series Wacky Races. Gear up to keep pace with this dimwitted duo as well as their rivals: Peter Perfect in his Turbo Terrific, Luke and Blubber Bear in the Arkansas Chucgabug, the Ant Hill Mob in the Bulletproof Bomb and glamorous Penelope Pitstop in her pink Compact Pussycat. Fasten your seat belts for all 17 original episodes plus Hilarious, High-Speed Extras that will keep you awake at the wheel straight through to the Finish Line!
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Springfield Rifle
Academy Award winner Gary Cooper stars as a Union officer in the United States' Civil War who goes undercover--pretending to be court-martialed--to uncover who is stealing army horses and selling them to the South before they can hijack a delivery of the new Springfield Rifle. While delivering a shipment of horses desperately needed to mount a big offensive in the United States' Civil War, Union Major Lex Kearny (Cooper) is overwhelmed by a band of Confederate raiders. Rather than risk the lives of his men, he sounds retreat, leaving the precious cargo behind--for which he faces a court-martial. But this is only a ploy to send Kearny underground to find who has been stealing horses from the Union Army. Kearny's mission remains so secret that even his wife (Phyllis Thaxter) believes he has gone renegade, and she surrenders evidence that implicates him as a Southern spy. Now, can Kearny stop the gang of traitorous horse thieves before he is sentenced to death for espionage?
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE
- Original theatrical trailer
- Classic Cartoons:
- FEED THE KITTY
- RABBIT'S KIN
- Joe McDoakes Short: SO YOU WANT TO ENJOY LIFE
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
Side Street
This thrilling Anthony Mann-directed film noir classis follows a part-time postal clerk who, in a moment of desperation, takes what he thinks is $200 but finds himself wanted by the police and the underworld for stealing a $30,000 intended blackmail payment. New York City postal worker Joe Norson (Farley Granger) wants nothing more than to provide a comfortable life for himself and his wife (Cathy O'Donnell), who is pregnant. Out of frustration he steals $30,000 from the shady lawyer Victor Backett (Edmon Ryan). However, the theft has higher stakes than Joe could have imagined: Backett extorted the money from Emil Lorrison (Paul Harvey), an innocent man whom he framed in a sex scandal and later murdered. Trying to hide the money from his wife, Joe gives it to his friend Nick Drumman (Edwin Max) for safekeeping. When Joe attempts to retrieve the money and return it to Backett, he finds himself caught up in a murderous web. A spectacular car chase brings a climax to the film, which was largely shot at various iconic New York locations, including Central Park, Stuyvesant Town, Battery Park, the Bellevue Hospital morgue, the Polyclinic maternity ward, Wall Street, Bowling Green Park, the Fulton Fish Market, the Queensboro Bridge and a Greenwich Village nightclub. SIDE STREET is a must-see noir, now looking better than ever as it does on this new Blu-ray release!
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION FROM THE BEST PRESERVATION ELEMENTS
- Audio Commentary by Richard Schickel
- Featurette "Where Temptation Lurks"
- Crime Does Not Pay Short "The Luckiest Guy in the World"
- Classic Cartoons:
- "Goggle-Fishing Bear"
- "Polka Dot Puss"
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
Lili
Orphan Lili Daurier joins a carnival and falls under the spell of its star, a suave magician. But it is the show's crippled, embittered puppeteer who truly loves Lili, a love he can express only through his puppets. "It is not often that the word 'enchanting' can accurately be applied to a musical," Clive Hirschhorn wrote in The Hollywood Musical, "but it was the best way to describe Lili, as well as Leslie Caron's genuinely touching performance." Nominated for six Academy Awards® , Lili offers sentiment without sugar, simplicity without banality and a lyrical heart that beats to an Oscar -winning Bronislau Kaper score highlighted by Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo and an imaginative sequence of Caron dancing with her beloved puppets come to life. Mel Ferrer, Jean Pierre Aumont, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Amanda Blake and Kurt Kasznar also star. Enjoy this beloved classic as never before in all its Technicolor glory.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION FROM THE ORIGINAL TECHNICOLOR NEGATIVES
- Original theatrical trailer
- Classic M-G-M Cartoons:
- THE IMPOSSIBLE POSSUM
- PECOS PEST
- PUPPY TALE
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
Three The Hard Way
At the height of their big-screen popularity, three 1970s superstars head the cast of the action-thriller THREE THE HARD WAY. Directed with style and panache by Gordon Parks, Jr.(Super Fly), audience favorites Jim Brown, Fred Williamson and Jim Kelly command the screen as a trio with a mission: They're out to stop a secret white supremacist organization that plans to contaminate the water supplies of Detroit, Los Angeles and Washington D.C. with a substance that is a lethal poison only to the Black population. Three The Hard Way provides stands as an audience favorite of its era. Long only seen in an edited 89 minute version, this new Blu-ray presentation restores the film to its original 97 minute theatrical version, with our new master derived from a 4K scan of the original camera negative. Get in on the action with this blaxploitation classic
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
Clean and Sober
When the comic star of Night Shift and Beetlejuice tackled his first dramatic role, the result was one of Michael Keaton's best performances ever, earning the National Society of Film Critics Best Actor Award*. Keaton plays real-estate broker Darryl Pointer whose cocaine habit consumes him until he enters a local detox program promising direction and privacy. It also guarantees one thing more: the toughest battle of his life. Powerfully directed by Glenn Gordon Caron and boasting other great performances from Kathy Baker, Morgan Freeman and M. Emmet Walsh, Clean and Sober is a hard-hitting study of beating personal demons…one day at a time.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
Wacky Races: The Complete Series
It's the Hanna-Barbera favorite making its remastered Blu-ray debut! Start your engines! Diabolical do-badder Dick Dastardly, his snickering canine cohort Muttley and their Mean Machine take on you and all comers for all the fast and furious fun of the complete animated series Wacky Races. Gear up to keep pace with this dimwitted duo as well as their rivals: Peter Perfect in his Turbo Terrific, Luke and Blubber Bear in the Arkansas Chucgabug, the Ant Hill Mob in the Bulletproof Bomb and glamorous Penelope Pitstop in her pink Compact Pussycat. Fasten your seat belts for all 17 original episodes plus Hilarious, High-Speed Extras that will keep you awake at the wheel straight through to the Finish Line!
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVES
- Optional English SDH subtitles
- TBD
