Tag: Warner Archive Collection

Gabriel Over the White House Blu-ray review

Due to the political season we recently had, Warner Archive went deep into their vaults to release on Blu-ray the 1933 pre-code political drama entitled Gabriel Over the White House. Screen icon Walter Huston (Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Beast of the City, The Furies) is Judson Hammond, The President of the United States….


The Searchers UHD review

Legendary director John Ford’s The Searchers is the story about an American Civil War veteran who goes on a long journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches after the rest of his brother’s family is attacked and murdered during a raid on their farm in Texas. The journey takes several years and has many…


Mr. Lucky Blu-ray review

Directed by H.C. Potter, Mr. Lucky is a 1943 romantic comedy drama starring screen icon Cary Grant as Joe Adams, a swindler and smooth-talking gambler out to launch a casino after taking money from a charitable organization. Not the most noble role for Grant, at least at first! Told in flashback, the story is about…


Nora Prentiss Blu-ray review

Nora Prentiss is a film Noir about a man who has become weary with his all too routine married life. The boredom of staleness of his lifestyle leads him to falling in love with another woman, the title character, and it proves to be the costliest thing he has ever done. Directed by Vincent Sherman…


The Walking Dead Blu-ray review

Director Michael Curtiz, the man responsible for directing some of the arguably best classic films in cinema including Casablanca, Mildred Pierce, and Angels with Dirty Faces, dabbled a little into the classic horror film genre in the early thirties. Horror themed movies on his resume which consist of Doctor X, Mystery of the Wax Museum…


I Remember Mama Blu-ray review

George Stevens’ I Remember Mama is considering to be one his biggest achievements in the director’s career. The 1948 drama was based on John von Duten’s play, which was based the novel by Kathryn Forbes which was called Mama’s Bank Account. The film has a mighty fine cast with Irene Dunne, Barbara Bel Geddes, Sir…


Journey into Fear Blu-ray review

Norman Foster’s Journey into Fear was a movie that had never been on DVD or Blu-ray domestically until just recently the Warner Archive Collection gave it the first ever release on disc. It was available on VHS and laserdisc back in the day and a DVD was released overseas and that was it until now!…