Bad Girls Crashing the Manor
By DAVE KEHR
The set “Three Wicked Melodramas From Gainsborough Pictures” includes “The Man in Grey” (1943), “Madonna of the Seven Moons” (1945) and “The Wicked Lady” (1945).
Two new Blu-ray DVDs — Jack Arnold’s “Creature From the Black Lagoon” and Alfred Hitchcock’s “Dial M for Murder” — revive the golden age of 3-D.
The set “Three Wicked Melodramas From Gainsborough Pictures” includes “The Man in Grey” (1943), “Madonna of the Seven Moons” (1945) and “The Wicked Lady” (1945).
John Wayne stars in four “Three Mesquiteers” installments from the 1930s: “Overland Stage Raiders,” “Red River Range,” “The Night Riders” and “Three Texas Steers.”
One new Blu-ray DVD, “This Is Cinerama,” commemorates an ultra-wide-screen experience, and another remembers Cinemiracle, a Cinerama imitator.
Robert Mitchum and Teresa Wright play adopted siblings in Raoul Walsh’s western “Pursued” (1947); Romy Schneider stars in Bertrand Tavernier’s “Death Watch” (1980).
The demands placed on actresses in horror movies reaches a new extreme in “The Bunny Game.”
“Bye Bye Birdie” (1963) and “High Time” (1960), both new on DVD from Twilight Time, look at emerging youth. “The Hanging Tree” was Gary Cooper’s last western.
TCM’s “Universal Rarities: Films of the 1930s” includes four features, each starring either Gary Cooper, Mae West, W. C. Fields or Jack Benny.
“Jaws,” a seminal blockbuster, is now out in a Blu-ray edition.
A set of Marilyn Monroe’s films, restored to near-original quality, on Blu-ray.
A look at the Criterion/Eclipse boxed set “Jean Grémillon During the Occupation.”
Warner Archives’ six-disc “Crime Does Not Pay: The Complete Shorts Collection” gathers 50 or so episodes from a series that ran from 1935 until 1947.
Two of the most famous titles in the Republic Pictures library, “High Noon,” and “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” are coming out on DVD.
New DVDs out this week include “The Saphead,” with Buster Keaton; the Israeli drama “Seven Minutes in Heaven”; and Cartoon Network’s “Adventure Time.”
The British television series “Midsomer Murders”’ and “George Gently” are out on DVD.
Charlie Chaplin’s silent classic “The Gold Rush” is released in a Criterion Collection set that includes the original 1925 version and Chaplin’s 1942 cut.
From Tippi Hedren’s worst nightmare to a Walter Matthau romance, a collection of standout releases to curl up on the couch with during chilly autumn months.
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