Join the Sixties generation
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Warner Archive Collection New Releases July 30: Crooners and Cowboys
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NOTE: These DVDs are
Manufactured on Demand (MOD); to order, fans must visit The Warner Archive
Collection (www.WarnerArchive.com or www.wbshop.com)
GOING
HOLLYWOOD
(1933)
Marion Davies enchants and delights in this cockeyed romantic fable that sees a
schoolteacher successfully stalk a radio crooner from the Big Apple to
Tinseltown. French teacher Sylvia Bruce is bored by the confines of the girl's
school she teaches at (she dares to believe in love, you know) when she has a
late night revelation thanks to pop-heartthrob Bill Williams' (Bing Crosby)
radio show. Leaving school, she tracks down Bill to declare her love but it
turns out he's departing for Hollywood.
Naturally, Sylvia pursues. Like a fever dream in reverse, Going Hollywood moves
from blockbuster musical fantastiques to sly Hollywood
satire. Buoyed by Davies' ebullient charms and Crosby's intoxicating crooning,
Going Hollywood casts a spell as potent as the absinthe Crosby
consumes in the picture. Directed by Raoul Walsh and also stars Ned Sparks and
Patsy Kelly.
CHEYENNE:
THE COMPLETE SIXTH SEASON (1961-62) The trailblazing TV Western continues to deliver
its perfect mix of high drama and cowboy thrills for a sixth, penultimate
season. In this 4-Disc, 13-Episode complete collection, the peripatetic
pistolero Cheyenne Bodie (Clint Walker) continues to drift into jams that demand
his brand of justice. From the cow towns of Texas
to the rugged northwest, Cheyenne
brings law to the lawless whether they be found behind a cattle quarantine
(³Winchester Quarantine² with Union Pacificıs Susan Cummings), inside a
railroad car (³One Way Ticket² with Philip Carey as Cole Younger), or behind a
badge (³Trouble Street² with James Coburn). Other notables this season include
Lee Van Cleef (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly), Ellen Burstyn (Big Love), John
Anderson (Heaven with a Gun), and James Hong (Blade Runner). But enough chatter
time to saddle up and ride with The Big Man!
New from HBO
HUNTED:
THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON (2012) From creator Frank Spotnitz (Strike Back, The
X-Files), Hunted is an edge-of-your-seat thriller that stars Melissa George as
Sam Hunter, a highly skilled operative for an elite private security firm
called Byzantium. After Sam narrowly survives an attempt on her life that may
have been orchestrated by members of her own team she returns to work a year
later (having told nobody of her whereabouts) and must perform her
secretive duties without knowing who to trust and who might want her dead.
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