Warner Archive Announces June Releases
HomeWarner Archive Announces June Releases
Posted May 2, 2025 07:55 PM by Webmaster
Warner Archive has announced its June batch of Blu-ray releases. They are: His Kind of Woman (1951), Splendor in the Grass (1961), Executive Suite (1954), The Enchanted Cottage (1945), A Date with Judy (1948), and The Citadel (1938).
His Kind of Woman
Hard-luck gambler Dan Milner is in sudden luck. He'll get $50,000 to hang out at a posh Mexican resort - $5,000 now and the big payoff when the gangsters making the offer don't expect him to live long enough to collect. His Kind of Woman is a film noir fan's kind of movie: dark, sassy, surprise-filled. Robert Mitchum plays Milner, who finds the romantic stakes raised when he meets a self-proclaimed heiress (Jane Russell in the role that launched her friendship with Mitchum). The mystery is twisted, the sets are astonishing, the cast is large and talented. But what makes this cult favorite stand apart is Vincent Price's hilarious turn as a self-absorbed, gun-collecting Hollywood star. Mitchum gets the girl, but Price steals the movie.
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Splendor in the Grass
Deanie (Natalie Wood in an Oscar® nominated performance that marked a career turning point toward complex adult roles) is a teenager eager to do what's right in her 1920s Kansas town. But the emotions she shares with boyfriend Bud (Warren Beatty's screen debut) are too strong. Soon the conflict between respectable behavior and human desire will push Bud to a physical collapse…and Deanie to madness. Director Elia Kazan encouraged Pulitzer-Prize winner William Inge (Bus Stop, Picnic) to turn a true story he heard during his Midwest youth into an Academy Award®-winning screenplay. The result, Splendor in the Grass remains as poetic, penetrating and powerful today as it was decades ago.
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Executive Suite
The president of Tredway Corp. has unexpectedly died. Long live the new president. But who will the exec be? There's no official line of succession…and so the shady deals and insider backstabbing begin. Boardroom and boudoir politics play out in this star-packed tail of corporate machinations directed by the great Robert Wise (The Sound of Music, The Set-Up). A bottom line opportunist (Fredric March), and an idealistic manufacturing VP (William Holden) emerge as leading candidates for the top post. But while power-suited men maneuver, a woman (Barbara Stanwyck) may have the most clout. She's the founder's daughter and the company's major stockholder…and may be the velvet power behind the Tredway throne.
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The Enchanted Cottage
Can two damaged, lonely people find happiness together? Can the love and inner beauty they nurture transform their outward appearance? When Oliver Bradford (Robert Young) returns hideously scarred from World War II, he leaves his fiancée, believing that no woman could ever love him. But Oliver meets Laura Pennington (Dorothy McGuire), a very plain young woman who thinks that no man would love a woman so lacking in physical beauty as she. The couple marry, more out of desperation than affection, and move into a small house that has served over the years as a honeymoon cottage for newlyweds. But the love of all the prior guests lingers within their home, and Oliver and Laura become beautiful whenever they are inside The Enchanted Cottage. Based on the play by Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, and first filmed in 1924 starring Richard Barthelmess, this 1945 production was met with critical and audience acclaim.
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A Date with Judy
A Date With Judy takes you on a sunny, spirited romp through post-war America that's bright with song and shining with innocence. A galaxy of Hollywood favorites lead the way, including Jane Powell in the title role, neophyte screen sired Elizabeth Taylor, foggy-voiced Wallace Beery, and the "Brazilian Bombshell" Carmen Miranda (making her M-G-M debut). Based on a very popular radio series, this merry musical follows the adventures of young Judy Foster. For Judy, going to the big school dance is a full time job- and so is making a perfect hash of her friends' and family's love lives…all with the best intentions, of course. The film's delightful score is highlighted by a raft-raiser of a song ("It's a Most Unusual Day")…and the comedy is in the capable hands of Beery and Miranda. When she teaches him how to rhumba, it's more Stan-and-Ollie than Fred-and-Ginger…and so much fun.
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The Citadel
Typhoid. Tuberculosis. Cave-Inx. Young Dr. Andrew Mason fights the ills that beset the overworked and forgotten people in poor Welsh mining towns. He is a resolute healer….until the burdens of his struggle shatter his idealism. To the dismay of his wife, he opens a London practice tending to the pampered rich. Then tragedy forces his to face what he has become, and what he has lost. From A.J. Cronin's acclaimed novel and featuring an extraordinary cast of Robert Donat, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Richardson, Emlyn Williams, and Rex Harrison, this powerful and exhilarating 1938 box-office hit earned four Academy Award® nomination, including Best Picture. One of the earliest productions from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's British studios, it also won the New York Film Critics Circle and National Board of Review honors for Best Picture.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
His Kind of Woman
Hard-luck gambler Dan Milner is in sudden luck. He'll get $50,000 to hang out at a posh Mexican resort - $5,000 now and the big payoff when the gangsters making the offer don't expect him to live long enough to collect. His Kind of Woman is a film noir fan's kind of movie: dark, sassy, surprise-filled. Robert Mitchum plays Milner, who finds the romantic stakes raised when he meets a self-proclaimed heiress (Jane Russell in the role that launched her friendship with Mitchum). The mystery is twisted, the sets are astonishing, the cast is large and talented. But what makes this cult favorite stand apart is Vincent Price's hilarious turn as a self-absorbed, gun-collecting Hollywood star. Mitchum gets the girl, but Price steals the movie.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE
- Feature commentary by Film Historian Vivian Sobchack
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
Splendor in the Grass
Deanie (Natalie Wood in an Oscar® nominated performance that marked a career turning point toward complex adult roles) is a teenager eager to do what's right in her 1920s Kansas town. But the emotions she shares with boyfriend Bud (Warren Beatty's screen debut) are too strong. Soon the conflict between respectable behavior and human desire will push Bud to a physical collapse…and Deanie to madness. Director Elia Kazan encouraged Pulitzer-Prize winner William Inge (Bus Stop, Picnic) to turn a true story he heard during his Midwest youth into an Academy Award®-winning screenplay. The result, Splendor in the Grass remains as poetic, penetrating and powerful today as it was decades ago.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE
- Feature-length documentary ELIA KAZAN: A DIRECTOR'S JOURNEY
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
Executive Suite
The president of Tredway Corp. has unexpectedly died. Long live the new president. But who will the exec be? There's no official line of succession…and so the shady deals and insider backstabbing begin. Boardroom and boudoir politics play out in this star-packed tail of corporate machinations directed by the great Robert Wise (The Sound of Music, The Set-Up). A bottom line opportunist (Fredric March), and an idealistic manufacturing VP (William Holden) emerge as leading candidates for the top post. But while power-suited men maneuver, a woman (Barbara Stanwyck) may have the most clout. She's the founder's daughter and the company's major stockholder…and may be the velvet power behind the Tredway throne.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE
- Feature Commentary by Oliver Stone
- Tom and Jerry cartoon "HIC-CUP PUP"
- Pete Smith Specialty "DO SOMEONE A FAVOR"
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
The Enchanted Cottage
Can two damaged, lonely people find happiness together? Can the love and inner beauty they nurture transform their outward appearance? When Oliver Bradford (Robert Young) returns hideously scarred from World War II, he leaves his fiancée, believing that no woman could ever love him. But Oliver meets Laura Pennington (Dorothy McGuire), a very plain young woman who thinks that no man would love a woman so lacking in physical beauty as she. The couple marry, more out of desperation than affection, and move into a small house that has served over the years as a honeymoon cottage for newlyweds. But the love of all the prior guests lingers within their home, and Oliver and Laura become beautiful whenever they are inside The Enchanted Cottage. Based on the play by Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, and first filmed in 1924 starring Richard Barthelmess, this 1945 production was met with critical and audience acclaim.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE
- Audio-only LUX RADIO THEATER 9/3/45 broadcast
- Audio-only GENERAL ELECTRIC THEATER 9/24/53 broadcast
- Original theatrical trailer
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
A Date with Judy
A Date With Judy takes you on a sunny, spirited romp through post-war America that's bright with song and shining with innocence. A galaxy of Hollywood favorites lead the way, including Jane Powell in the title role, neophyte screen sired Elizabeth Taylor, foggy-voiced Wallace Beery, and the "Brazilian Bombshell" Carmen Miranda (making her M-G-M debut). Based on a very popular radio series, this merry musical follows the adventures of young Judy Foster. For Judy, going to the big school dance is a full time job- and so is making a perfect hash of her friends' and family's love lives…all with the best intentions, of course. The film's delightful score is highlighted by a raft-raiser of a song ("It's a Most Unusual Day")…and the comedy is in the capable hands of Beery and Miranda. When she teaches him how to rhumba, it's more Stan-and-Ollie than Fred-and-Ginger…and so much fun.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE
- Classic TOM AND JERRY Cartoon PROFESSOR TOM
- M-G-M Musical Short MARTIN BLOCK'S MUSICAL MERRY-GO ROUND SHORT #3
- Two audio-only episodes of the "A DATE WITH JUDY" radio show:
- "GOING TO A MOVIE WITH FRANK SINATRA"
- "OOGIE & HIS HOT LICKS"
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
The Citadel
Typhoid. Tuberculosis. Cave-Inx. Young Dr. Andrew Mason fights the ills that beset the overworked and forgotten people in poor Welsh mining towns. He is a resolute healer….until the burdens of his struggle shatter his idealism. To the dismay of his wife, he opens a London practice tending to the pampered rich. Then tragedy forces his to face what he has become, and what he has lost. From A.J. Cronin's acclaimed novel and featuring an extraordinary cast of Robert Donat, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Richardson, Emlyn Williams, and Rex Harrison, this powerful and exhilarating 1938 box-office hit earned four Academy Award® nomination, including Best Picture. One of the earliest productions from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's British studios, it also won the New York Film Critics Circle and National Board of Review honors for Best Picture.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION FROM THE BEST PRESERVATION ELEMENTS
- Classic short subjects:
- THE SHIP THAT DIED
- STRANGE GLORY
- Classic Cartoon: THE DAFFY DOC
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
