Warner Archive Announces July Releases
HomeWarner Archive Announces July Releases
Posted June 8, 2026 10:14 PM by Webmaster
Warner Archive has revealed its July batch of Blu-ray releases. They are: Macao (1952), Crime Wave (1953), Colt .45 (1950), The Keyhole (1933), The Seventh Cross (1944), Lilly Turner (1933), The Sisters (1938), Presenting Lily Mars (1943), Random Harvest (1942), Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951), Bonnie Scotland (1935), and A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935). All titles are scheduled to arrive on the market on July 28.
Macao
Description: One of the most sizzling fusions of sex appeal of the 1950s, Jane Russell and Robert Mitchum ignite a tantalizing tale of mystery and deception. The quick pulse of this film noir begins as three strangers arrive in Macao, the infamous Portuguese island off the south coast of China. A dangerous game of subterfuge is played out in the island's smoke-filled hotels, gambling houses, bleak streets and docks by Nick Cochran (Mitchum), Julie Benson (Russell), and Lawrence Trumble (William Bendix), and a host of other shady characters-none of whom are what they seem to be.
The provocative atmosphere of dark dealing and murder is eclipsed only by the steamy passion that erupts between Cochran and Benson, almost making them forget that they are at the center of a tempest of international intrigue.
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Reformed ex-con Steve Lacey (Gene Nelson) has finally built a straight, honest life with his devoted wife, Ellen (Phyllis Kirk). But that fragile American dream shatters in the dead of night when a wounded former cellmate crashes into his home after a deadly gas-station holdup. Trapped in a tightening vise, Lacey is terrorized by a pair of escaped San Quentin thugs—including a menacing early performance by Charles Bronson (billed as Charles Buchinsky) and the unhinged Timothy Carey—who extort his help for a high-stakes bank heist. On their trail is Detective Lt. Sims (Sterling Hayden), a cynical, toothpick-chewing force of nature who operates with a disturbing edge of righteous sadism. Sims doesn't care about rehabilitation; he wants his targets caught, and he's more than willing to use the terrified newlyweds as bait.
Shot on location over a frenetic two weeks, Crime Wave completely rejects Hollywood studio gloss in favor of moody, naturalistic night cinematography by master cinematographer Bert Glennon (They Died With Their Boots On). From the long-lost streets of early '50s Los Angeles to an actual, real-time Bank of America robbery, this B-noir masterpiece serves as both a gripping psychological thriller and a stark time capsule of the era of its production.
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Description: Gunsmith Steve Farrell (Scott) arrives in the town of Bonanza Flats to demonstrate the ultimate advancement in frontier weaponry: the new, rapid-firing Colt .45 pistol. But when ruthless outlaw villain Brett Amrock (Zachary Scott) deceptively steals a pair of those revolutionary revolvers, he unleashes a brutal wave of terror across the territory. Wrongfully accused of aiding the bandits, Farrell must break away from the law, track down the vicious gang, and reclaim the deadly weapons before the West is completely overrun.
Directed with relentless, fast-paced energy by Edwin L. Marin (Tall in the Saddle) and beautifully photographed in vibrant Technicolor®, Colt .45 is a quintessential, hard-hitting Warner Bros. Western. Featuring stellar supporting performances from Ruth Roman, Lloyd Bridges, and Chief Thundercloud, this action classic stands tall as a premier showcase for Randolph Scott's enduring, iron-jawed heroism.
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Description: Kay Francis and George Brent co-star in this infectious pre-code classic, directed by signature panache by Michael Curtiz. Francis portrays Ann Brooks, a socialite with a complicated marital status. She's married to an older, wealthy gentleman (Henry Kolker), while not being quite properly divorced from her unseemly ex (Monroe Owsley). Ann flees to Cuba to untangle her circumstances, with her suspicious husband not far behind. He hires suave private detective Neil Davis (George Brent) to tail her and gather evidence against Ann. The assignment takes a steamy, unexpected turn when the investigator tries to get the goods on her, only to fall madly in love. Aboard a cruise ship bound for Cuba, this pre-Code delight sails into a web of blackmail, mistaken identities, and irresistible romance.
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Description: Somewhere in Nazi Germany there is a concentration camp. And in that camp there are seven crosses, one for each of the men who dared to escape. One by one, the Gestapo hunts the seven down and returns them to the crosses…and death. Until there is one cross left…and one man is trying to escape it. Fred Zinnemann (The Search, High Noon) directs Spencer Tracy at the head of a terrifically talented ensemble that includes such notables as Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy (their first appearance together), Ray Collins, Signe Hasso, and Agnes Moorehead. This tense, terse and gripping wartime thriller both plumbs the depths of human depravity and soars to the heights of human charity and sacrifice, as one man's journey through hell restores his faith in mankind.
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Description: Hard-luck dame Lilly Turner (Ruth Chatterton) has a terrible habit of falling for the wrong men. After her marriage to a flamboyant but abusive carnival magician falls apart, she flees into the arms of an alcoholic barker. But when a psychotic strongman develops an obsessive fixation on her and a genuine, gentle man (George Brent) enters her dreary life, Lilly fights to finally take control of her destiny. Directed by the legendary William A. Wellman (The Public Enemy), this gritty 1933 pre-Code melodrama dives deep into the seedy, spectacular world of traveling medicine shows and sideshows.
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Description: "I was delighted with this part because it was a change of pace" Bette Davis said about playing Louise Elliott in The Sisters. "I was always challenged by a new type of person to play." Louise is a most appealing type of person, a warm, intelligent woman who loses her heart to a charming ne'er-do-well (Errol Flynn, in his first pairing with Davis) who marries, then deserts her. It takes the pandemonium of the San Francisco earthquake and two years of heartache to reunite them. Anita Louise and Jane Bryan co-star as Louise's sisters, whose own marital trials and tribulations add more hankies and more prestige melodrama bookended by the 1904 and 1908 presidential elections and enriched by a nod to a dawning woman's movement
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Description: Presenting Judy Garland! Whether swinging a hot number with Bob Crosby and His Orchestra or emoting a hilariously hammy version of Lady MacBeth's sleepwalking scene, Judy is a delight as a stage-struck Hoosier in this charming film based on Booth Tarkington's novel. Lily is certain she has the talent to light up the Great White Way, so when big producer John Thornway (Van Heflin) visits her hometown, she expends all the candlepower of her charisma to impress him. He's not impressed. He heads back to New York and Lily follows, thumbing her way east one what she's sure is a one-way trip to instant stardom. At a mere 20 years old, Judy had already reached stardom.
Presenting Lily Mars proves why, displaying her once-in-a generation voice, gift for comedy and enduring movie magnetism. Highlighted by memorable musical numbers and a grand finale alongside Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra, Presenting Lily Mars is M-G-M musical magic at its best.
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Description: Paula Smith (Greer Garson) is the secretary of industrialist Charles Rainier (Ronald Colman). She's also his wife, which Charles does not know. Shell-shocked during World War I, he doesn't recall his days as her husband, John Smith. Advised not to endanger Charles' fragile mental state, Paula cannot openly reveal her identity. She must find other ways to remember their life together. From the novel by James Hilton (Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Lost Horizon) comes one of the great sentimental romance movies. Garson's Paula, along her same-year triumph as Mrs. Miniver, established her persona as the strong, self-sacrificing wife. Random Harvest gathered seven Academy Award® nominations* (including Best Picture and Colman as Best Actor) and also reaped a box-office harvest as the year's #4 hit.
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Description: In one of his favorite roles, screen legend Gregory Peck plays the valiant Napoleonic era naval hero in this swashbuckling saga adapted for the screen by Hornblower's creator C.S. Forester. True to the famed novels, Hornblower outthinks his rivals out fight them. He's unflinching under fire, modest in victory – and more than a little at sea romantically with Lady Barbara Wellsley (Virginia Mayo). Director Raoul Walsh guides the broadside for broadside action with flourishes befitting sea warfare's most exciting era. Two fully-rigged and three nearly complete ships – from a 38-gun frigate to a 100-gun command ship were used in the film. Fire when ready, matey!
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Description: Stan Laurel (himself), the black sheep of the MacLaurel clan, and his pal Oliver Hardy (himself) stow away on a ship bound for Scotland to claim Laurel's share of his late uncle Angus Ian MacLaurel's estate. But Laurel's inheritance consists of a snuffbox and a dusty pair of bagpipes. MacLaurel leaves his fortune to his beautiful granddaughter, Lorna (June Lang), on the condition that she travels to the Raj and stay with her aunt Lady Violet Ormsby (Anne Grey) and Lady Vi's handsome brother, Colonel Gregor MacGregor (Vernon Steele). Meanwhile Laurel and Hardy are inadvertently drafted into His Majesty's Army and sent to India with Lorna's true love, Alan Douglas (William Janney). Now, in a tale of heroism, romance and incredible dumb luck, Laurel and Hardy will stop a native revolt, thwart Lady Violet's plot to steal the inheritance and reunite the lovers Laurel and Alan. One of the best feature films Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy made during their tenure at Hal Roach Studio, BONNIE SCOTLAND has now been newly restored from original nitrate protection elements.
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Description: Love is blind, fickle and true. And under the sway of capricious fairies, it becomes blinder (a queen romances a donkey), more fickle (best friends swoon over each other's beaux) and truest of all (lovers repledge their devotion). "Lord, what fools these mortals be!". In Shakespeare's bewitching comedy, a slew of legends from the Warner Bros. stock company including James Cagney, screen-debuting Olivia de Havilland, Dick Powell, Joe E. Brown and others play these mortals in this double Academy Award® winner. Theatrical legend Max Reinhardt and studio collaborators turn his famed Hollywood Bowl production into an exquisite film, with Erich Wolfgang Korngold adapting the glorious Felix Mendelssohn score.
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Macao
Description: One of the most sizzling fusions of sex appeal of the 1950s, Jane Russell and Robert Mitchum ignite a tantalizing tale of mystery and deception. The quick pulse of this film noir begins as three strangers arrive in Macao, the infamous Portuguese island off the south coast of China. A dangerous game of subterfuge is played out in the island's smoke-filled hotels, gambling houses, bleak streets and docks by Nick Cochran (Mitchum), Julie Benson (Russell), and Lawrence Trumble (William Bendix), and a host of other shady characters-none of whom are what they seem to be.
The provocative atmosphere of dark dealing and murder is eclipsed only by the steamy passion that erupts between Cochran and Benson, almost making them forget that they are at the center of a tempest of international intrigue.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE
- Audio Commentary by Eddie Muller with screenwriter Stanley Rubin
- Private Screenings with Robert Mitchum & Jane Russell with Robert Osborne
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
Reformed ex-con Steve Lacey (Gene Nelson) has finally built a straight, honest life with his devoted wife, Ellen (Phyllis Kirk). But that fragile American dream shatters in the dead of night when a wounded former cellmate crashes into his home after a deadly gas-station holdup. Trapped in a tightening vise, Lacey is terrorized by a pair of escaped San Quentin thugs—including a menacing early performance by Charles Bronson (billed as Charles Buchinsky) and the unhinged Timothy Carey—who extort his help for a high-stakes bank heist. On their trail is Detective Lt. Sims (Sterling Hayden), a cynical, toothpick-chewing force of nature who operates with a disturbing edge of righteous sadism. Sims doesn't care about rehabilitation; he wants his targets caught, and he's more than willing to use the terrified newlyweds as bait.
Shot on location over a frenetic two weeks, Crime Wave completely rejects Hollywood studio gloss in favor of moody, naturalistic night cinematography by master cinematographer Bert Glennon (They Died With Their Boots On). From the long-lost streets of early '50s Los Angeles to an actual, real-time Bank of America robbery, this B-noir masterpiece serves as both a gripping psychological thriller and a stark time capsule of the era of its production.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE
- Audio Commentary by Film Noir Foundation founder Eddie Muller and author James Ellroy
- Featurette Crime Wave-The City Is Dark
- Classic WB cartoon "Baby Buggy Bunny"
- Classic WB Short "Gadgets Galore"
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
Description: Gunsmith Steve Farrell (Scott) arrives in the town of Bonanza Flats to demonstrate the ultimate advancement in frontier weaponry: the new, rapid-firing Colt .45 pistol. But when ruthless outlaw villain Brett Amrock (Zachary Scott) deceptively steals a pair of those revolutionary revolvers, he unleashes a brutal wave of terror across the territory. Wrongfully accused of aiding the bandits, Farrell must break away from the law, track down the vicious gang, and reclaim the deadly weapons before the West is completely overrun.
Directed with relentless, fast-paced energy by Edwin L. Marin (Tall in the Saddle) and beautifully photographed in vibrant Technicolor®, Colt .45 is a quintessential, hard-hitting Warner Bros. Western. Featuring stellar supporting performances from Ruth Roman, Lloyd Bridges, and Chief Thundercloud, this action classic stands tall as a premier showcase for Randolph Scott's enduring, iron-jawed heroism.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM FROM THE TECHNICOLOR NEGATIVES
- Classic WB Comedy Short "So You Want to Have a Party"
- Classic WB Cartoon "Hillbilly Hare"
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
Description: Kay Francis and George Brent co-star in this infectious pre-code classic, directed by signature panache by Michael Curtiz. Francis portrays Ann Brooks, a socialite with a complicated marital status. She's married to an older, wealthy gentleman (Henry Kolker), while not being quite properly divorced from her unseemly ex (Monroe Owsley). Ann flees to Cuba to untangle her circumstances, with her suspicious husband not far behind. He hires suave private detective Neil Davis (George Brent) to tail her and gather evidence against Ann. The assignment takes a steamy, unexpected turn when the investigator tries to get the goods on her, only to fall madly in love. Aboard a cruise ship bound for Cuba, this pre-Code delight sails into a web of blackmail, mistaken identities, and irresistible romance.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE
- Classic WB cartoon "BUDDY'S DAY OUT"
- Classic POPEYE Cartoon "WILD ELEPHINKS"
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
Description: Somewhere in Nazi Germany there is a concentration camp. And in that camp there are seven crosses, one for each of the men who dared to escape. One by one, the Gestapo hunts the seven down and returns them to the crosses…and death. Until there is one cross left…and one man is trying to escape it. Fred Zinnemann (The Search, High Noon) directs Spencer Tracy at the head of a terrifically talented ensemble that includes such notables as Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy (their first appearance together), Ray Collins, Signe Hasso, and Agnes Moorehead. This tense, terse and gripping wartime thriller both plumbs the depths of human depravity and soars to the heights of human charity and sacrifice, as one man's journey through hell restores his faith in mankind.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM FROM THE BEST PRESERVATION ELEMENTS
- Three M-G-M shorts directed by Fred Zinnemann:
- ONE AGAINST THE WORLD
- FORBIDDEN PASSAGE
- YOUR LAST ACT
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
Description: Hard-luck dame Lilly Turner (Ruth Chatterton) has a terrible habit of falling for the wrong men. After her marriage to a flamboyant but abusive carnival magician falls apart, she flees into the arms of an alcoholic barker. But when a psychotic strongman develops an obsessive fixation on her and a genuine, gentle man (George Brent) enters her dreary life, Lilly fights to finally take control of her destiny. Directed by the legendary William A. Wellman (The Public Enemy), this gritty 1933 pre-Code melodrama dives deep into the seedy, spectacular world of traveling medicine shows and sideshows.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE
- Classic WB comedy short "Mushrooms"
- Classic WB cartoon "Bosko's Picture Show"
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
Description: "I was delighted with this part because it was a change of pace" Bette Davis said about playing Louise Elliott in The Sisters. "I was always challenged by a new type of person to play." Louise is a most appealing type of person, a warm, intelligent woman who loses her heart to a charming ne'er-do-well (Errol Flynn, in his first pairing with Davis) who marries, then deserts her. It takes the pandemonium of the San Francisco earthquake and two years of heartache to reunite them. Anita Louise and Jane Bryan co-star as Louise's sisters, whose own marital trials and tribulations add more hankies and more prestige melodrama bookended by the 1904 and 1908 presidential elections and enriched by a nod to a dawning woman's movement
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE
- Studio blooper reel BREAKDOWNS OF 1938
- WARNER BROS. SHORT "THE NIGHT INTRUDER"
- LUX RADIO THEATER BROADCAST with IRENE DUNNE and DAVID NIVEN
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
Description: Presenting Judy Garland! Whether swinging a hot number with Bob Crosby and His Orchestra or emoting a hilariously hammy version of Lady MacBeth's sleepwalking scene, Judy is a delight as a stage-struck Hoosier in this charming film based on Booth Tarkington's novel. Lily is certain she has the talent to light up the Great White Way, so when big producer John Thornway (Van Heflin) visits her hometown, she expends all the candlepower of her charisma to impress him. He's not impressed. He heads back to New York and Lily follows, thumbing her way east one what she's sure is a one-way trip to instant stardom. At a mere 20 years old, Judy had already reached stardom.
Presenting Lily Mars proves why, displaying her once-in-a generation voice, gift for comedy and enduring movie magnetism. Highlighted by memorable musical numbers and a grand finale alongside Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra, Presenting Lily Mars is M-G-M musical magic at its best.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM FROM THE BEST PRESERVATION ELEMENTS
- MGM Short: Heavenly Music
- MGM Tex Avery cartoon Who Killed Who?
- Audio only bonuses:
- Outtake song "Paging Mr. Greenback"
- "Where There's Music" (complete sequence)
- "Where There's Music" (film version in stereo)
- Lux Radio Theater broadcast with Van Heflin and June Allyson (3/11/1946)
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
Description: Paula Smith (Greer Garson) is the secretary of industrialist Charles Rainier (Ronald Colman). She's also his wife, which Charles does not know. Shell-shocked during World War I, he doesn't recall his days as her husband, John Smith. Advised not to endanger Charles' fragile mental state, Paula cannot openly reveal her identity. She must find other ways to remember their life together. From the novel by James Hilton (Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Lost Horizon) comes one of the great sentimental romance movies. Garson's Paula, along her same-year triumph as Mrs. Miniver, established her persona as the strong, self-sacrificing wife. Random Harvest gathered seven Academy Award® nominations* (including Best Picture and Colman as Best Actor) and also reaped a box-office harvest as the year's #4 hit.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM FROM THE BEST PRESERVATION ELEMENTS
- Vintage M-G-M Shorts:
- DON'T TALK
- MARINES IN THE MAKING
- Lux Radio Theater Broadcast 1/31/1944 with Garson and Colman
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
Description: In one of his favorite roles, screen legend Gregory Peck plays the valiant Napoleonic era naval hero in this swashbuckling saga adapted for the screen by Hornblower's creator C.S. Forester. True to the famed novels, Hornblower outthinks his rivals out fight them. He's unflinching under fire, modest in victory – and more than a little at sea romantically with Lady Barbara Wellsley (Virginia Mayo). Director Raoul Walsh guides the broadside for broadside action with flourishes befitting sea warfare's most exciting era. Two fully-rigged and three nearly complete ships – from a 38-gun frigate to a 100-gun command ship were used in the film. Fire when ready, matey!
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION FROM THE ORIGINAL TECHNICOLOR NEGATIVES
- Classic WB short "MY COUNTRY 'TIS OF THEE"
- Classic WB cartoon "CAPTAIN HAREBLOWER"
- Lux Radio Theater Broadcast with Gregory Peck and Virginia Mayo
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
Description: Stan Laurel (himself), the black sheep of the MacLaurel clan, and his pal Oliver Hardy (himself) stow away on a ship bound for Scotland to claim Laurel's share of his late uncle Angus Ian MacLaurel's estate. But Laurel's inheritance consists of a snuffbox and a dusty pair of bagpipes. MacLaurel leaves his fortune to his beautiful granddaughter, Lorna (June Lang), on the condition that she travels to the Raj and stay with her aunt Lady Violet Ormsby (Anne Grey) and Lady Vi's handsome brother, Colonel Gregor MacGregor (Vernon Steele). Meanwhile Laurel and Hardy are inadvertently drafted into His Majesty's Army and sent to India with Lorna's true love, Alan Douglas (William Janney). Now, in a tale of heroism, romance and incredible dumb luck, Laurel and Hardy will stop a native revolt, thwart Lady Violet's plot to steal the inheritance and reunite the lovers Laurel and Alan. One of the best feature films Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy made during their tenure at Hal Roach Studio, BONNIE SCOTLAND has now been newly restored from original nitrate protection elements.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION FROM NITRATE PROTECTION ELEMENTS
- Commentary by Laurel & Hardy aficionados Leonard Maltin and Richard W. Bann
- L&H feature excerpts from HOLLYWOOD PARTY [1934] and PICK A STAR [1937]
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
Description: Love is blind, fickle and true. And under the sway of capricious fairies, it becomes blinder (a queen romances a donkey), more fickle (best friends swoon over each other's beaux) and truest of all (lovers repledge their devotion). "Lord, what fools these mortals be!". In Shakespeare's bewitching comedy, a slew of legends from the Warner Bros. stock company including James Cagney, screen-debuting Olivia de Havilland, Dick Powell, Joe E. Brown and others play these mortals in this double Academy Award® winner. Theatrical legend Max Reinhardt and studio collaborators turn his famed Hollywood Bowl production into an exquisite film, with Erich Wolfgang Korngold adapting the glorious Felix Mendelssohn score.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE AND NITRATE PROTECTION ELEMENTS
- Commentary by Film Historian Scott MacQueen
- Olivia de Havilland screen tests for DANTON
- Vintage Featurette A DREAM COMES TRUE
- "Presenting…" a gallery of six teaser trailers showcasing cast members
- Warner Bros. Studio Café teaser trailer
- Warner Bros. musical short SHAKE MR. SHAKESPEARE
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
