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Sunday, November 4, 2012

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Anthony Dawson and Grace Kelly in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Dial M for Murder,” which suggests 3-D’s dramatic potential.
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Anthony Dawson and Grace Kelly in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Dial M for Murder,” which suggests 3-D’s dramatic potential.

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.

Bad Girls Crashing the Manor

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).

Tall in the Saddle in 2 Eras at Once

John Wayne stars in four “Three Mesquiteers” installments from the 1930s: “Overland Stage Raiders,” “Red River Range,” “The Night Riders” and “Three Texas Steers.”

Taking the Long View of Cinerama

One new Blu-ray DVD, “This Is Cinerama,” commemorates an ultra-wide-screen experience, and another remembers Cinemiracle, a Cinerama imitator.

Riding Future and Freudian Frontiers

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).

Testing Horror’s Threshold for Pain

The demands placed on actresses in horror movies reaches a new extreme in “The Bunny Game.”

‘What’s the Matter With Kids Today?’

“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.

Universal’s Paramount Hits

TCM’s “Universal Rarities: Films of the 1930s” includes four features, each starring either Gary Cooper, Mae West, W. C. Fields or Jack Benny.

Oh, Bruce, What Teeth You Have

“Jaws,” a seminal blockbuster, is now out in a Blu-ray edition.

Marilyn Monroe Restored: Gentlemen Prefer Blu-ray

A set of Marilyn Monroe’s films, restored to near-original quality, on Blu-ray.

Amours Aloft and at Sea in Wartime

A look at the Criterion/Eclipse boxed set “Jean Grémillon During the Occupation.”

Justice Served, Justice Blurred

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.

Facing Evil, Both Terrestrial and Otherwise

Two of the most famous titles in the Republic Pictures library, “High Noon,” and “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” are coming out on DVD.

Navigating Loss, Exalting Imagination

New DVDs out this week include “The Saphead,” with Buster Keaton; the Israeli drama “Seven Minutes in Heaven”; and Cartoon Network’s “Adventure Time.”

I Say, There’s a Knife in Your Back

The British television series “Midsomer Murders”’ and “George Gently” are out on DVD.

Braving the Klondike on a Shoe Diet

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.

DVDs
Discs Till December

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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