Hunchback of Notre Dame, Starring Charles Laughton,
and Blu-ray Debuts of – Bette Davis’ Dark Victory,
Errol Flynn’s Dodge City and Greta Garbo’s Ninotchka
Collection also includes Gone With the Wind
Burbank, Calif. March 10, 2015 – On June 9, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment will celebrate one of the most prolific twelve months in Hollywood’s history with the 6-disc
The Golden Year Collection. Leading the five-film set will be the Blu-ray debut of
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, in a new restoration which will have its world premiere at TCM’s Classic Film Festival beginning March 26 in Los Angeles. Charles Laughton and Maureen O’Hara star in Victor Hugo’s tragic tale which William Dieterle directed.
The other films featured in the WBHE collection ($69.96 SRP) are new-to-Blu-ray releases of Dark Victory, starring Bette Davis, George Brent and Humphrey Bogart; Dodge City, starring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland and Ann Sheridan; and Ninotchkastarring Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas and Ina Claire, and directed by Ernst Lubitsch. 1939’s Oscar®[1]winner Gone with the Wind will also be included. (Further details on the films below)
The Collection also contains a sixth disc with the rerelease of the fascinating documentary, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Presents1939: Hollywood’s Greatest Year, narrated by Kenneth Branagh and containing film clips and insights about this unprecedented and unequalled year in films.
1939 was noteworthy in America and Europe for many reasons. World War II had begun with Hitler’s invasion of Poland. The Great Depression dwindled as President Roosevelt and the United States prepared to fight. NBC demonstrated the new medium of television at the World’s Fair. Batman, a new superhero, was born. Frank Sinatra made his recording debut. And nylon stockings went on sale for the first time.
Most significant for American culture that year was the sheer number of remarkable film releases. 365 films were released in 1939, many of which are considered the most enduring classics in film history and three of the 10 Best Picture Oscar® nominees[2] for the year, Gone with the Wind, Dark Victory and Ninotchka are included in this collection.
The Films in The Golden Year Collection
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
In 15th century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bell ringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.
With huge sets, rousing action scenes and a versatile throng portraying a medieval Paris of cutthroats, clergy, beggars and nobles, The Hunchback of Notre Dame remains one of Hollywood’s all-time grandest spectacles.
Charles Laughton endured a daily five-and-a-half hour makeup session to become Quasimodo, Victor Hugo’s mocked and vilified anti-hero. The result was one of his best performances -- outsized yet nuanced, heartrending yet inspiring. Maureen O’Hara is the gypsy Esmeralda, whose simple act of pity frees the emotions within Quasimodo. When she is wrongly condemned, he rescues her from hanging, sweeping all of Paris into a fight for justice.
Special Features:
NEW! The Lone Stranger and Porky – Vintage 1939 WB Cartoon
Drunk Driving – Oscar® nominated[3]Vintage 1939 MGM Short
Interview with Maureen O’Hara
Theatrical Trailer
Dark Victory
A young socialite is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor and must decide whether she’ll meet her final days with dignity.
Bette Davis’ bravura, moving but never morbid performance as Judith Traherne, a dying heiress determined to find happiness in her few remaining months, turns the film into a three-hankie classic. But that success would never have happened if Davis hadn’t pestered studio brass to buy Dark Victory’s story rights. Jack Warner finally did so skeptically. “Who wants to see a dame go blind?” he asked. Almost everyone was the answer: Dark Victory was Davis’ biggest box-office hit yet and garnered three Academy Award® nominations for 1939’s Best Picture, Best Actress (Davis) and Best Music, Original Score (Max Steiner).
Special Features:
· Commentary by film historian James Ursini and CNN film critic Paul Clinton
· “Warner Night at the Movies”
o NEW! Old Hickory - Vintage 1939 WB Short
o Robin Hood Makes Good - Vintage 1939 WB Cartoon
o Vintage Newsreel
o The Roaring TwentiesTrailer
· 1939: Tough Competition for Dark Victory - Featurette
· 1/8/40 Lux Radio Theater Broadcast (Audio Only)
· Theatrical Trailer
Dodge City
Wade Hatton (Errol Flynn), a Texas cattle agent, witnesses firsthand the brutal lawlessness of Dodge City and takes the job of sheriff to clean the town up.
In his first of eight Westerns, Flynn is as able with a six-shooter as he was with a swashbuckler’s sword. He confronts lynch mobs, slams outlaws into jail and escapes (along with co-star Olivia de Havilland) from a fiery, locked railroad car. Cheered for Flynn’s sagebrush debut, its vivid Technicolor look and spectacular saloon brawl that may have employed every available Hollywood stunt person, Dodge City later gained another distinction when it inspired Mel Brooks’ cowboy parody Blazing Saddles.
Special Features (Previously Released):
· “Warner Night at the Movies”
o Introduction by Leonard Maltin –Featurette
o Vintage Newsreel
o Sons of Liberty– Vintage WB 1939 Academy Award®-Winning[4] Short
o Dangerous Dan McFoo- Vintage1939 WB Cartoon
o Dodge City: Go West, Errol Flynn - Featurette
o The Oklahoma Kid Trailer
· Theatrical Trailer
Ninotchka
A stern Russian woman (Greta Garbo) sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man (Melvyn Douglas) who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
Garbo Talks!’ proclaimed ads when silent star Greta Garbo debuted in talkies. Nine years and 12 classic screen dramas later, the gifted movie legend was ready for another change. Garbo Laughs! cheered the publicity for her first comedy, a frothy tale of a dour Russian envoy sublimating her womanhood for Soviet brotherhood until she falls for a suave Parisian man-about-town (Melvyn Douglas).
Working from a cleverly barbed script written in part by Billy Wilder, director Ernst Lubitsch knew better than anyone how to marry refinement with sublime wit. “At least twice a day the most dignified human being is ridiculous,” he explained about his acclaimed Lubitsch Touch, That’s how we see Garbo’s love struck Ninotchka: serenely dignified yet endearingly ridiculous. Garbo laughs. So will you.
Ninotchka received four 1939 Academy Award® nominations – Best Picture, Best Actress in a Leading Role (Garbo), Best Writing- Original Story (Melchior Lengyel), and Best Writing-Screenplay (Charles Brackett Walter Reisch, Billy Wilder).
Special Features:
· NEW! Prophet Without Honor – Vintage 1939 Academy Award® nominated[5] MGM Short
· NEW! The Blue Danube – Vintage 1939 MGM Cartoon
· Theatrical Trailer
Gone with the Wind
Lauded as one of the American cinema’s grandest, most ambitious and spectacular pieces of filmmaking, Gone with the Wind, was helmed by Victor Fleming in 1939, the same year as the director’s The Wizard of Oz. Producer David O. Selznick’s mammoth achievement and still history’s all-time domestic box-office champion ($1.6 billion[6]) captured ten 1939 Academy Awards® including: Best Picture, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actress for Hattie McDaniel, the first Oscar® awarded to an African-American actor. Margaret Mitchell’s Pulitzer prize-winning novel, on which the film is based, has been translated into 16 languages, has sold hundreds of millions of copies worldwide, and even now continues to sell 50,000 copies a year.
Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Olivia de Havilland, Leslie Howard and Hattie McDaniel star in this classic epic of the American South. On the eve of the Civil War, rich, beautiful and self-centered Scarlett O'Hara (Leigh) has everything she could want -- except Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard). As the war devastates the South, Scarlett discovers the strength within herself to protect her family and rebuild her life. Through everything, she longs for Ashley, unaware that she is already married to the man she really loves (Gable) -- and who truly loves her -- until she finally drives him away. Only then does Scarlett realize what she has lost ... and tries to win him back.
Narrated by Kenneth Branagh this informative documentary contains film clips and insights about this unprecedented and unequalled year in films.
Special Features included on this disc (Previously Released):
· Breakdowns of 1939 – Vintage 1939 WB Short
· Sons of Liberty – Also on the Dodge City disc
· Drunk Driving – Also on the The Hunchback of Notre Dame disc
· Prophet Without Honor – Also on the Ninotchka disc
· Sword Fishing – Vintage 1939 WB Short
· Detouring America –Vintage 1939 WB Cartoon
· Peace on Earth -Vintage1939 MGM Cartoon
· Trailers
[Show spoiler]Coming from Warner
It's listed as "catalog" and "Cinema's Golden Year" so I assume it will include some (hopefully) new classic stuff.
I hate that Warner has turned me into that guy but this is probably just going to be Best Years of Our Lives, Mrs. Miniver and Grand Hotel in a new box
I assume by "Cinema's Golden Year", they mean 1939...so this should include the upcoming Hunchback of Notre Dame and Ninotchka releases, plus some repackages.
I hate that Warner has turned me into that guy but this is probably just going to be Best Years of Our Lives, Mrs. Miniver and Grand Hotel in a new box
"Don't let me hear you say life's taking you nowhere, angel."
"Some of these days, and it won't be long
Gonna drive back down where you once belonged
In the back of a dream car twenty foot long
Don't cry my sweet, don't break my heart
Doing all right, but you gotta get smart
Wish upon, wish upon, day upon day, I believe oh Lord
I believe all the way"
"Run for the shadows, run for the shadows
Run for the shadows in these golden years"
*Ahem*
I'm hoping for the best, and I would like to think that this box set will have some all-new material.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (already confirmed)
Ninotchka (already confirmed)
Dark Victory (coming in Germany in May)
Dogde City (coming in Germany in May)
The Women (already out)
Gone With the Wind (already out)
Wishful thinking:
Gunga Din
Wuthering Heights:
The Roaring Twenties
Quote:
Originally Posted by anthonyb
I assume by "Cinema's Golden Year", they mean 1939...so this should include the upcoming Hunchback of Notre Dame and Ninotchka releases, plus some repackages.
I'm hoping for the best, and I would like to think that this box set will have some all-new material.
I'm hoping for the best too but I'm not gonna lie, they're kind of wearing me down a little bit. But I suppose most of that comes from frustration with the Archives sub-label.
The press site mentions "First Time on Blu-ray" so it will definitely have something new included
Yep.
Dogde City, Dark Victory, The Hunchback, Ninotchka are all movies from '39, and they're all set for release on BD in May in Germany. It will also probably include The Women.
So, relax folks. This one will be a winner.
Quote:
Originally Posted by javi92
Well, if I have to buy GWTW again to get some new titles, I guess I might, assuming the ratio of new to reissues is > 2.
As always, the new titles will also be available separately.
OMG!
another classic Bette Davis comes to bd.
now that is something to get excited about for sure. Dark Victory is one amazing film.
plus more Bogart at the same time.
1939 is indeed Hollywood's Golden Year!
other 1939 Warner controlled films include:
Allegheny Uprising
The Roaring Twenties
Gunga Din
Goodbye Mr. Chips
Wuthering Heights
The Old Maid
Those would make a great Part II bd box set!
(if only)
Well on Amazon's listing for (Warner Bros 20 film collection dvd set.)
The Golden Years comprised of:
1946-1959 (The Golden Years)
· The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
· An American in Paris (1951)
· Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
· Gigi (1958)
· Ben-Hur (1959)
Around the World in 80 Days was supposed to come out during an anniversary year, but it wasn't ready in time I guess.
It needs to be released for sure.
you would think Warner would hold it until 2016, but maybe it is indeed the "new to bd title" if those years are considered "the Golden Years".
Is there a link to the Warner press site or is that for certain members ?
Im anxious to know whats on this set !
Im trying to hold out importing because I feel some of the titles will eventually be released here.
This is why Im trying to avoid buying DVDs /DVD sets because you never know whats going to be on blu ray
This collection will include the following titles:
The Hunchback of Notre Dame ('39)
Ninotchka
Dark Victory
Dodge City
and...Gone with the Wind
Full press release:
Quote:
Revisit 1939, Hollywood’s Greatest Year,
with 4 New Blu-ray™ Debuts
THE GOLDEN YEAR COLLECTION JUNE 9
Features Newly Restored Blu-ray Debut of The
Hunchback of Notre Dame, Starring Charles Laughton,
and Blu-ray Debuts of – Bette Davis’ Dark Victory,
Errol Flynn’s Dodge City and Greta Garbo’s Ninotchka
Collection also includes Gone With the Wind
Burbank, Calif. March 10, 2015 – On June 9, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment will celebrate one of the most prolific twelve months in Hollywood’s history with the 6-disc
The Golden Year Collection. Leading the five-film set will be the Blu-ray debut of
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, in a new restoration which will have its world premiere at TCM’s Classic Film Festival beginning March 26 in Los Angeles. Charles Laughton and Maureen O’Hara star in Victor Hugo’s tragic tale which William Dieterle directed.
The other films featured in the WBHE collection ($69.96 SRP) are new-to-Blu-ray releases of Dark Victory, starring Bette Davis, George Brent and Humphrey Bogart; Dodge City, starring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland and Ann Sheridan; and Ninotchkastarring Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas and Ina Claire, and directed by Ernst Lubitsch. 1939’s Oscar®[1]winner Gone with the Wind will also be included. (Further details on the films below)
The Collection also contains a sixth disc with the rerelease of the fascinating documentary, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Presents1939: Hollywood’s Greatest Year, narrated by Kenneth Branagh and containing film clips and insights about this unprecedented and unequalled year in films.
1939 was noteworthy in America and Europe for many reasons. World War II had begun with Hitler’s invasion of Poland. The Great Depression dwindled as President Roosevelt and the United States prepared to fight. NBC demonstrated the new medium of television at the World’s Fair. Batman, a new superhero, was born. Frank Sinatra made his recording debut. And nylon stockings went on sale for the first time.
Most significant for American culture that year was the sheer number of remarkable film releases. 365 films were released in 1939, many of which are considered the most enduring classics in film history and three of the 10 Best Picture Oscar® nominees[2] for the year, Gone with the Wind, Dark Victory and Ninotchka are included in this collection.
The Films in The Golden Year Collection
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
In 15th century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bell ringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.
With huge sets, rousing action scenes and a versatile throng portraying a medieval Paris of cutthroats, clergy, beggars and nobles, The Hunchback of Notre Dame remains one of Hollywood’s all-time grandest spectacles.
Charles Laughton endured a daily five-and-a-half hour makeup session to become Quasimodo, Victor Hugo’s mocked and vilified anti-hero. The result was one of his best performances -- outsized yet nuanced, heartrending yet inspiring. Maureen O’Hara is the gypsy Esmeralda, whose simple act of pity frees the emotions within Quasimodo. When she is wrongly condemned, he rescues her from hanging, sweeping all of Paris into a fight for justice.
Special Features:
NEW! The Lone Stranger and Porky – Vintage 1939 WB Cartoon
Drunk Driving – Oscar® nominated[3]Vintage 1939 MGM Short
Interview with Maureen O’Hara
Theatrical Trailer
Dark Victory
A young socialite is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor and must decide whether she’ll meet her final days with dignity.
Bette Davis’ bravura, moving but never morbid performance as Judith Traherne, a dying heiress determined to find happiness in her few remaining months, turns the film into a three-hankie classic. But that success would never have happened if Davis hadn’t pestered studio brass to buy Dark Victory’s story rights. Jack Warner finally did so skeptically. “Who wants to see a dame go blind?” he asked. Almost everyone was the answer: Dark Victory was Davis’ biggest box-office hit yet and garnered three Academy Award® nominations for 1939’s Best Picture, Best Actress (Davis) and Best Music, Original Score (Max Steiner).
Special Features:
· Commentary by film historian James Ursini and CNN film critic Paul Clinton
· “Warner Night at the Movies”
o NEW! Old Hickory - Vintage 1939 WB Short
o Robin Hood Makes Good - Vintage 1939 WB Cartoon
o Vintage Newsreel
o The Roaring TwentiesTrailer
· 1939: Tough Competition for Dark Victory - Featurette
· 1/8/40 Lux Radio Theater Broadcast (Audio Only)
· Theatrical Trailer
Dodge City
Wade Hatton (Errol Flynn), a Texas cattle agent, witnesses firsthand the brutal lawlessness of Dodge City and takes the job of sheriff to clean the town up.
In his first of eight Westerns, Flynn is as able with a six-shooter as he was with a swashbuckler’s sword. He confronts lynch mobs, slams outlaws into jail and escapes (along with co-star Olivia de Havilland) from a fiery, locked railroad car. Cheered for Flynn’s sagebrush debut, its vivid Technicolor look and spectacular saloon brawl that may have employed every available Hollywood stunt person, Dodge City later gained another distinction when it inspired Mel Brooks’ cowboy parody Blazing Saddles.
Special Features (Previously Released):
· “Warner Night at the Movies”
o Introduction by Leonard Maltin –Featurette
o Vintage Newsreel
o Sons of Liberty– Vintage WB 1939 Academy Award®-Winning[4] Short
o Dangerous Dan McFoo- Vintage1939 WB Cartoon
o Dodge City: Go West, Errol Flynn - Featurette
o The Oklahoma Kid Trailer
· Theatrical Trailer
Ninotchka
A stern Russian woman (Greta Garbo) sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man (Melvyn Douglas) who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
Garbo Talks!’ proclaimed ads when silent star Greta Garbo debuted in talkies. Nine years and 12 classic screen dramas later, the gifted movie legend was ready for another change. Garbo Laughs! cheered the publicity for her first comedy, a frothy tale of a dour Russian envoy sublimating her womanhood for Soviet brotherhood until she falls for a suave Parisian man-about-town (Melvyn Douglas).
Working from a cleverly barbed script written in part by Billy Wilder, director Ernst Lubitsch knew better than anyone how to marry refinement with sublime wit. “At least twice a day the most dignified human being is ridiculous,” he explained about his acclaimed Lubitsch Touch, That’s how we see Garbo’s love struck Ninotchka: serenely dignified yet endearingly ridiculous. Garbo laughs. So will you.
Ninotchka received four 1939 Academy Award® nominations – Best Picture, Best Actress in a Leading Role (Garbo), Best Writing- Original Story (Melchior Lengyel), and Best Writing-Screenplay (Charles Brackett Walter Reisch, Billy Wilder).
Special Features:
· NEW! Prophet Without Honor – Vintage 1939 Academy Award® nominated[5] MGM Short
· NEW! The Blue Danube – Vintage 1939 MGM Cartoon
· Theatrical Trailer
Gone with the Wind
Lauded as one of the American cinema’s grandest, most ambitious and spectacular pieces of filmmaking, Gone with the Wind, was helmed by Victor Fleming in 1939, the same year as the director’s The Wizard of Oz. Producer David O. Selznick’s mammoth achievement and still history’s all-time domestic box-office champion ($1.6 billion[6]) captured ten 1939 Academy Awards® including: Best Picture, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actress for Hattie McDaniel, the first Oscar® awarded to an African-American actor. Margaret Mitchell’s Pulitzer prize-winning novel, on which the film is based, has been translated into 16 languages, has sold hundreds of millions of copies worldwide, and even now continues to sell 50,000 copies a year.
Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Olivia de Havilland, Leslie Howard and Hattie McDaniel star in this classic epic of the American South. On the eve of the Civil War, rich, beautiful and self-centered Scarlett O'Hara (Leigh) has everything she could want -- except Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard). As the war devastates the South, Scarlett discovers the strength within herself to protect her family and rebuild her life. Through everything, she longs for Ashley, unaware that she is already married to the man she really loves (Gable) -- and who truly loves her -- until she finally drives him away. Only then does Scarlett realize what she has lost ... and tries to win him back.
Narrated by Kenneth Branagh this informative documentary contains film clips and insights about this unprecedented and unequalled year in films.
Special Features included on this disc (Previously Released):
· Breakdowns of 1939 – Vintage 1939 WB Short
· Sons of Liberty – Also on the Dodge City disc
· Drunk Driving – Also on the The Hunchback of Notre Dame disc
· Prophet Without Honor – Also on the Ninotchka disc
It would have made more sense to release this last year, since that's the 75th anniversary of the "Golden Year", but better late than never . Sounds like a nice well-rounded collection
Ill probably just get Dark Victory - I wish this would have been in a Bette Davis Blu Ray set, but there are LOTS of excellent films that she was in to do a set with her
Ill probably just get Dark Victory - I wish this would have been in a Bette Davis Blu Ray set, but there are LOTS of excellent films that she was in to do a set with her
I'll probably pick it up just for Dark Victory, I love Bette Davis! I mean its also great that they are including Gone With The Wind, thats never been released on blu before, right!?! Lol!
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Warner 'The Golden Year' Collection (Ninotchka, Dodge City, Dark Victory, more) - 6/9
. Sounds like a nice well-rounded collection
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