DVD releases this week include reissued classics

Published: Sunday, May 10, 2009 7:08 p.m. MDT
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Movies new to DVD this week are led by the second wave of reissued classics in less-expensive four-packs from Turner Classic Movies and Warner Home Video — this time with musical, Western and war themes, and each disc has held onto previous editions' bonus features.

"TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection: Broadway Musicals" (TCM/Warner, 1950-54, two double-sided discs, $27.92). Howard Keel stars in all four of these bright, feel-good musicals, with Ava Gardner, Betty Hutton, Kathryn Grayson and Jane Powell, respectively, in "Show Boat," "Annie Get Your Gun," "Kiss Me Kate" and "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers."

"TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection: American Musicals" (TCM/Warner, 1944-52, two double-sided discs, $27.92). These colorful charmers star Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly and Judy Garland, among others, and include some of the best musicals ever put to film: "Singin' in the Rain," "The Band Wagon," "Meet Me in St. Louis" and "Easter Parade."

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"TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection: John Wayne Westerns" (TCM/Warner, 1948-72, two double-sided discs, $27.92). Included here are two that show off the colorful splendor of southern Utah, as well as Wayne's enormously underrated acting talent, "The Searchers" and "Fort Apache." Also here are "The Cowboys" and one of my all-time faves, "Rio Bravo" (which allowed Dean Martin to take acting honors and shot Angie Dickinson to stardom).

"TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection: Western Adventures" (TCM/Warner, 1969-73 two double-sided discs, $27.92). Another Wayne film, "The Train Robbers," is the only conventional Western here. Others are the excellent "Jeremiah Johnson," Robert Redford's made-in-Utah mountain-man yarn, and "McCabe & Mrs. Miller," Robert Altman's quirky, dark, R-rated mining-town drama with Warren Beatty and Julie Christie. Also, Sam Peckinpah's R-rated "The Wild Bunch," a strong character study with a great cast led by William Holden, which, for good or ill, greatly influenced future films regarding on-screen violence.

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Judy Garland stars in the film "Meet Me in St. Louis."

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