Big Budget Blockbuster Shopping List

Classic movies & entertainment new on disc the week of JUNE 11(and the previous week)

WILD STRAWBERRIES CRITERION

THE FIGHTING LADY

DICK VAN DYKE SEASON 3

HIGHWAY PATROL SEASONS 2 & 3

PERRY MASON SEASON 8

WAGON TRAIN SEASON 8

GREAT COMEDY TEAMS COLLECTION

LONE RANGER 80^TH ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION

LI’L ABNER

PRIDE OF THE BOWERY, EAST SIDE KIDS COLLECTION

SUPERMAN & FRIENDS 75^TH ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION

Warner archive:

 The Painted Veil

Air Force

Black Market Babies

Don’t Gamble with Strangers

Women in Bondage

The Human Factor

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Last week’s highlights (and last week was so big it took me till this week to compile the thing)

ALFRED HITCHCOCK ESSENTIALS

CARNIVAL STORY

COMBAT SEASON 3

CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON

DIRTY DOZEN / STALAG 17

THE INVISIBLE MAN

IN OLD ARIZONA

KNOCK ON ANY DOOR

LONE RANGER COLLECTOR’S EDITION

LONE RANGER 28 EPISODES

LOVE AFFAIR

LURE OF THE WILDERNESS

MCHALE’S NAVY 20 EPISODES

THE MUMMY

MIDWAY

ODD COUPLE

PERFECT UNDERSTANDING

PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (1943)

THE RING

RED SKIES OF MONTANA

ROPE

RAWHIDE SEASON 6

SCREAM OF FEAR

THE TIJUANA STORY

TRAVELING SALESWOMAN

THE STRANGLERS OF BOMBAY

TRUE GRIT / THE SEARCHERS

GUNFIGHT AT OK CORRAL / MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE

TWILIGHT ZONE SEASON 2

UNTAMED

4 JOHN WAYNE FAVORITES

WAR: 10-MOVIE COLLECTION

WC FIELDS COMEDY FAVORITES COLLECTIONS

Warner Archive:

THE FBI: THE COMPLETE FIFTH SEASON

TERROR ON A TRAIN

THE DECKS RAN RED

THE REFORMER AND THE REDHEAD

RIGHT CROSS

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And some I missed at the tail end of May, all from 20th Century FOX cinema archives :

THE GAMBLER FROM NATCHEZ

WESTERN UNION

SILVER WHIP

SIEGE AT RED RIVER

ROAD TO GLORY

…whew!! leave your picks and recommendations, please…

June Guide to Classics on TV

a huge roundup of full-month previews and picks! Learn about the month ahead here…

June TCM star of the month is ELEANOR PARKER (tcm link) means the airing of an amazing amount of great movies every Monday, and that includes stuff like DETECTIVE STORY and SCARAMOUCHE. There are plenty of tributes & spotlights to make film geeks happy, on noir writers every Friday night, Jane Russell, D Day, Patricia Medina, Lana Turner, Father’s DayRalph Bellamy, Basil Rathbone, Jean-Paul Belmondo , Anthony Mann westerns, Judy Holliday and many more, and the May guest Programmer is menswear designer Joseph Abboud who understandably focuses on dashing men like Errol Flynn and Cary Grant.

Just a few of many must-sees I can recommend are WESTWARD THE WOMEN with Robert Taylor, and A WOMAN’S FACE which to me was Joan Crawford’s best role (both must-MUST-sees), suspenser with Lucille Ball LURED, noirs DETOUR, and THE HIGH WALL, ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT and pre-code BABY FACE .

Essentials, Jr. returns with a fun pirates double feature, and I say fun because pirates AARRRRRRRR.

I haven’t had the time to fully obsess over my whole month schedule yet but a few movies I’m looking forward to seeing for the first time: TCM underground title THE PSYCHOPATH, one of the cult movie picks THE VAMPIRE, SCREAMING EAGLES, THE THIRTEENTH CHAIR, and that Anthony Mann spotlight reminds me I already have DEVIL’S DOORWAY and need to watch it finally.

As usual I don’t give you all the details because everyone linked from here has unique picks, so here’s your roundup of some bloggers’ looks at the month ahead:

Thrilling Days of Yesteryear

*  Immortal Ephemera 

Laura’s Misc Musings:  TCM  highlights  /  FOX MC  highlights 

Journeys in Classic Film

Hollywood Revue

celluloid club does weekly TCM alert posts at this tag

The motion pictures weekly what to watch posts at this tag

caftan woman picks one

she blogged by night tcm picks

*  shadows & satin looks at the month’s noirs 

this post will be updated and pinned to my top navbar/ menu all month, so come back anytime you need to find out when to set your highly sophistimacated recorders.

Feel free to leave your picks/recommendations for others in the comments.

*picture credit to an acquaintance of this blog & talented artist over at ART, MOVIES & WHATNOT

Epic Double Feature Shopping List

Classic movies & entertainment new on disc the week of MAY 28, in a list as big, wide and epic as Cleopatra and possibly every bit as costly

THE BIRDS

BLOWING WILD

CLEOPATRA 50^TH ANNIVERSARY

DARK COMMAND

FATHER GOOSE

FILE ON THELMA JORDON

THE GRASS IS GREENER

IN OLD CALIFORNIA

LADY FROM LOUISIANA

THE MAGIC CHRISTIAN

BEST OF FILM NOIR VOL 1

CLASSIC TV MYSTERY COLLECTION, CLASSIC TV WESTERNS, CLASSIC TV COMEDY

JEANETTE MACDONALD IN PERFORMANCE: PRINCESS OF OPERA & OPERETTA-– THE VOICE OF FIRESTONE

Warner archive:  THE SILVER CHALICE, LET FREEDOM RING, DIANE, EXECUTIVE SUITE, THE MERRY WIDOW, A LIFE OF HER OWN, THE CAT & THE FIDDLE

Alpha video via Oldies.com:

AIRBORNE

ALIMONY MADNESS

AVIATOR DOUBLE FEATURE

CLIPPED WINGS

CONFIDENTIAL

DAUGHTER OF THE WEST

DOCKS OF SAN FRANCISCO

GIRL ON THE RUN

IDA LUPINO COLLECTION VOLS 1 & 2 (TV)

TOM MIX DBL FEATURE

MACK SENNETT COMEDY

WALK THE DARK STREET

& more…

Grapevine:

ADVENTURES OF TARZAN

PIONEER’S GOLD

POLLY OF THE CIRCUS

GHOST OF ST. MICHAEL’S

PHANTOM CREEPS

IT’S IN THE BAG

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Last week’s highlights:

FIVE CARD STUD

CARRY ON COLLECTION VOL 1

CATCH 22

COME BACK LITTLE SHEBA

COPPER CANYON

THE COUNTRY GIRL

THE FAR HORIZONS

GENE AUTRY SHOW

GOVERNMENT AGENTS VS PHANTOM LEGION (serial)

HELL IS FOR HEROES

LAST TRAIN FROM GUN HILL

LONE RANGER

PETRIFIED FOREST

ULTIMATE GANGSTERS COLLECTION

lots of JERRY LEWIS titles…DISORDERLY ORDERLY, DELICATE DELINQUENT, MORE

Warner Archive:

A GUY NAMED JOE, STAND UP& FIGHT, HOUSE OF THE SEVEN HAWKS, CATTLE KING, POWER & THE PRIZE, MASK OF DIMITRIOS (which I recently wrote about here) & more

Fox Cinema archives:

POWDER RIVER,  PRINCESS OF THE NILE,  YOUNG GUNS OF TEXAS

3:10 to Shopping List

Classic movies & entertainment new on disc the week of MAY 14

Morituri

With other matters keeping me away from blogging much lately, it’s a perfect time to welcome a guest, Craig of VIKING SAMURAI (who also guest-posted here writing on BODY SNATCHER during the Val Lewton event). This time Craig looks at the 1965 war movie Morituri…

Have List Will Shop

Classic movies & entertainment new on disc the week of MAY 7.

BAND OF OUTSIDERS criterion

DUNGEON OF HARROW / DEATH BY INVITATION double feature

THE GREAT ESCAPE

HENRY FONDA FILM COLLECTION 4 discs 10 movies

PILLOW TALK

SABOTEUR

SHADOW OF A DOUBT

TRUE GRIT

VIVA ZAPATA

4MOVIE COLLECTION HOLLYWOOD HITS: REVENGE OF FRANKENSTEIN, RETURN OF THE VAMPIRE, MR. SARDONICUS, AND BROTHERHOOD OF SATAN

ROGER CORMAN’S CULT CLASSICS – SCI-FI CLASSICS TRIPLE FEATURE

BOB HOPE COLLECTION 3 movies

ADAM 12 CLASSIC COLLECTION

DICK VAN DYKE SHOW SEASON 2

GUNSMOKE SEASON 8

HOPALONG CASSIDY

HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL SEASON 6, COMPLETE SERIES

LEAVE IT TO BEAVER 20 TIMELESS EPISODES

ROUTE 66 CLASSIC COLLECTION

SPACE 1999 SEASONS 1, 2

SUPERMAN COLLECTION, best of Warner brothers

TWILIGHT ZONE SEASON 1

Warner archive:

SECRET GARDEN

POPEYE 60S ANIMATED CLASSICS

PENROD & SAM

DUFFY OF SAN QUENTIN

TENTH AVENUE ANGEL

OTHER REGIONS:

BILLY LIAR

Of interest:

BROADWAY MUSICALS, A JEWISH LEGACY

BARRYMORE

CITIZEN HEARST

you may now file for bankruptcy, but don’t forget to leave your picks!

MAY Guide to Classics on TV

a huge roundup of full-month previews and picks! Learn about the month ahead here…

Land of the Shopping List

Classic movies & entertainment new on disc the week of APRIL 30…

CLOAK & DAGGER

COMBAT SEASON 1

THE ENFORCER

FUNNY GIRL

GROUCHO MARX TV CLASSIC: 3-DISC COLLECTOR’S SET

HE WALKED BY NIGHT

HOODLUM EMPIRE

THE LONELY TRAIL

THE MEN

OZU COLLECTION – THE GANGSTER FILMS – Walk Cheerfully (1930), That Night’s Wife (1930), Dragnet Girl (1933), A Straightforward Boy (1929) ** region 2

PALS OF THE SADDLE

Warner archive:

FORBIDDEN HOLLYWOOD COLLECTION: VOLUME 7

COMMAND DECISION

THE COURTSHIP OF EDDIE’S FATHER

LAND OF THE PHARAOHS

THE LONELINESS OF THE LONG DISTANCE RUNNER

Grapevine:

DR JEKYLL & MR HYDE COLLECTION (1912-1955)

SABAKA

MYSTERY MOUNTAIN

TEXAS GUN FIGHTER

THE LONE AVENGER & more…

Alpha video via Oldies.com:

BEYOND OUR OWN

CROSS STREETS

THE CRUSADER

FORGOTTEN FUNNYMEN

HER FORGOTTEN PAST

MEDIC VOL 11

POVERTY ROW DOUBLE FEATURE

& more, including lots of westerns….

First Look: Dark Pages latest issue

hot off the presses is the very latest issue of the original bi-monthly publication for noir movie fans; here’s what you’ll find in it…

The cover story is a feature on one of noir’s greatest dames, Gloria Grahame. There’s part 2 of the Jean Heather profile, nuggets on Marilyn Monroe in noir, steep ponderings on the question of “what is noir?” and on the question of why a bunch of the best noir actresses didn’t get Oscars they so richly deserved, another installment in the ongoing history of noir music, plus the usual quizzes and quotes and letters.

As for me, I contributed a movie review plus my regular Noir on TCM viewing calendar full of details on a theme; this issue it’s all about movie-making bumpy rides, problems legal, contractual, personal, trivial and/or financial, and let you know about all the noir dvd and blu-ray releases confirmed through the next couple months.

As usual, Dark Pages is bursting with grade A noirhead knowledge and opinion, guaranteed to entertain and enlighten. Subscribing is easy, with paper and e-versions available so just check out this page to learn more and subscribe  and hit that dark pages tag in the fine print of this post to see what past issues were all about.

The Shopping List that Never Sleeps

Classic movies & entertainment new on disc the week of APRIL 23

CHAMPION

THE CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS

COPACABANA

THE FIGHTING SEABEES

MAGIC TOWN

MALDONNE (MISDEAL)

SANTA FE STAMPEDE

THE RED PONY

RICHARD III

WAKE OF THE RED WITCH

WAR OF THE WILDCATS

BLU-RAY TWIN PACK: DEMENTIA 13 & THE TERROR

Warner archive:

Bomba the Jungle Boy: Volume One

A Dangerous Profession

The Fall Guy

Loophole

FBI Code 98

TV/other:

LOONEY TUNES SUPER STARS: SYLVESTER & HIPPETY HOPPER – MARSUPIAL MAYHEM

MAVERICK SEASON 2

FEDERAL AGENTS VS. UNDERWORLD, INC (SERIAL)

THE RESTLESS GUN COMPLETE SERIES