Tuesday 10 February 2015

Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

Directed by Michael Curtiz and starring James Cagney, Joan Leslie and Walter Huston.


2-disc Special Edition DVD bought in 2004
125m 30s







Extras include - 

Commentary with Film Historian Rudy Behlmer:
Warner Night at the Movies -
Newsreel
Patriotic Short Subject - Beyond the Line of Duty
Let Freedom Sing!: The Story of Yankee Doodle Dandy (105m)
John Travolta Remembers James Cagney
You, John Jones (Wartime Short starring Cagney)
"James Cagney: Top of the World" documentary
Cartoon - Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid
Cartoon - Yankee Doodle Bugs
Cartoon - Yankee Doodle Daffy
Theatrical Trailer

Sullivan's Travels (1942)

Directed by Preston Sturges and starring Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake and Robert Warwick.



Arrow Films Special Edition Blu-ray bought in 2014
90m 46s








New high definition digital transfer of the film by Universal Pictures
Uncompressed Mono 2.0 PCM Audio
Audio commentary by filmmaker and Python Terry Jones
Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer
Kevin Jackson on Sullivan s Travels
The Preston Sturges Stock Company
Safeguarding Military Information: a Sturges-scripted propaganda short
Theatrical Trailer
Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Jay Shaw
Booklet featuring new writing on the film by screwball comedy expert Peter Swaab

Saboteur (1942)

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings, Otto Kruger and Norman Lloyd.


Blu-ray bought in 2014
108m 48s






'Saboteur': A Closer Look
Production Photographs
Storyboards: The Statue of Liberty Sequence
Alfred Hitchcock's Sketches
Theatrical Trailer

The Tracy & Hepburn Collection


4-disc 4-film 'Spencer Tracy - Katharine Hepburn' 
DVD Collection bought in 2013







Films included in the set - 

Woman of the Year (1942)
Keeper of the Flame (1942)
Adam's Rib (1949)
Pat and Mike (1952)

Errol Flynn Adventures


5-disc 5-film DVD collection bought in 2013








Films included in the set -

Desperate Journey (1942)
Edge of Darkness (1943)
Northern Pursuit (1943)
Uncertain Glory (1944)
Objective Burma (1945)

Extras include shorts, newsreels and cartoons.

Gene Kelly Collection


4-disc 4-film DVD Collection bought in 2013









Films included in set -

For Me and My Gal (1942)
On the Town (1949)
Summer Stock (1950)
Invitation to the Dance (1956)

Saludos Amigos (1942)

Produced by Walt Disney and directed by Norman Ferguson, Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney and Hamilton Luske.

DVD bought in 2006
40m 15s






DVD extra:
South of the Border with Disney