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The Warner Archive Collection is a renowned home entertainment brand dedicated to preserving and releasing classic films and television series from Warner Bros.’ vast library. Launched in 2006, the collection offers a wide array of titles, many of which have long been out of circulation or were previously unavailable on Blu-ray. The Warner Archive focuses on providing high-quality, remastered editions of beloved classics, cult favourites, and rare gems across various genres, from Hollywood’s Golden Age to more recent hits.

angels with dirty faces

Off-screen pals James Cagney and Pat O’Brien teamed up for the sixth time in this enduring gangster classic. Cagney’s Rocky Sullivan is a charismatic ghetto tough whose underworld rise makes him a hero to a gang of slum punks. O’Brien is Father Connolly, the boyhood chum-turned-priest who vows to end Rocky’s influence. Other ace talents join them: Humphrey Bogart as a scheming lawyer, Ann Sheridan as Rocky’s hard-edged girlfriend and the Dead End Kids as worshipful street urchins, all ably directed by Michael Curtiz (Casablanca). The 1938 New York Film Critics Best Actor Award came Cagney’s way, as well as one of the film’s three Oscar nominations. Watch the chilling death-row finale and you’ll know why.

Language(s): English
Hard of Hearing Subtitles: English
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Screen Ratio: 1:1.37
DTS-HD Master Audio

dr. jekyll and mr.hyde (1931)

“I’ll show you what horror means…” growls the hideous Mr. Hyde (Fredric March) as the helpless, terrified Ivy (Miriam Hopkins) cowers on her bed. And now you’ll see too, as you watch this fully restored 1932 version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s spine-chilling masterpiece. With the inclusion of 17 minutes of previously censored material, this is the definitive Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Director Rouben Mamoulian’s choice of young, handsome Fredric March (known then as a comic actor) to play the lead raised studio hackles. But Mamoulian argued, “I don’t want Hyde to be a monster. Hyde is not evil, he is the primitive, the animal in us, whereas Jekyll is a cultured man, representing the intellect. Hyde is the Neanderthal man, and March’s makeup was designed as such.” Obviously, Mamoulian’s insistence paid off, as March won 1932’s Oscarr for Best Actor. Indeed, the public’s fascination with Hyde equaled that of Boris Karloff’s Frankenstein and Bela Lugosi’s Dracula.

Language(s): English
Hard of Hearing Subtitles: English
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DTS-HD Master Audio

a night at the opera

Arts Patron Mrs. Claypool (Margaret Dumont) intends to pay pompous opera star Lassparri $1,000 per performance. Hey, maybe that’s why they call it grand opera! This is grand comedy, too, as Groucho, Chico and Harpo cram a ship’s stateroom and more with wall-to-wall gags, one-liners, musical riffs and two hard-boiled eggs – all while skewering Lassparri’s schemes and helping two young hopefuls (Kitty Carlisle and Allan Jones) get a break. To save the opera, our heroes must first destroy it. They must also gain ocean passage as stowaways, pull the wool (if not the beards) over the eyes of city hall, shred legal mumbo-jumbo down to a sanity clause, pester dowager Claypool and unleash so much glee that many say this is the best Marx Brothers movie. Seeing is believing.

Language(s): English
Hard of Hearing Subtitles: English
DTS-HD Master Audio
Bonus Footage & Trailers
Commentary: Leonard Maltin
Documentaries: ‘Remarks on Marx’, ‘Groucho Marx on The Hy Gardner Show’, ‘Los Angeles: Wonder City of the West’, ‘Sunday Night at the Trocadero’, ‘How to Sleep’

gold diggers of 1933

A Broadway producer has the talent, the tunes, the theatre and everything else he needs to put on a show – except the dough. Not to worry, say Ginger Rogers and the other leggy chorines decked out in giant coins. Everyone will soon be singing We’re in the Money. Soon after 42nd Street, the brothers Warner again kicked the Depression blues out the stage door and into a back alley. Mervyn Le Roy directs the snappy non-musical portions involving three wonderfully silly love matches (including Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler). And Busby Berkeley brings his peerless magic to the production numbers, his camera swooping and gliding to showstoppers that are naughty (Pettin’ in the Park), neon-lit (The Shadow Waltz) and soul-searing (Remember My Forgotten Man). Solid cinema gold!

Language(s): English
Hard of Hearing Subtitles: English
DTS-HD Master Audio
Bonus Footage
Documentaries: We’re in the Money (Cartoon), Pettin’ in the Park (Cartoon), I’ve Got to Sing a Torch Song (Cartoon), Rambling ‘Round Radio Row (Short), 42nd Street Special (Short), Seasoned Greetings (Short)
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a star is born

Producer David O. Selznick turned his attention to Hollywood with this 1937 original classic directed by William A. Wellman. The Academy Award®-winner* tells the story of hopeful young actress Esther Blodgett (Janet Gaynor), whose career is launched by Norman Maine (Fredric March), a movie star who also wins the actress’ heart. Esther becomes leading lady Vicki Lester, but as Norman’s career flounders, he sinks into an abyss of alcoholism. Esther chooses to sacrifice her stardom to care for him, but he refuses to let her abandon her dreams. Remade three times in years ahead, this original version has finally undergone a meticulous restoration from its original nitrate Technicolor® camera negatives. The result is a revelation and a definitive presentation of this timeless classic.

Two Lux Radio Theater Broadcasts (Audio Only): Janet Gaynor and Robert Montgomery (9/13/1937), Judy Garland and Walter Pidgeon (12/28/1942)
Classic WB Cartoon: A Star Is Hatched
Classic WB Shorts: Mal Hallett & His Orchestra, Taking the Count, Alibi Mark
Original Theatrical Trailer

some came running

Vincente Minnelli directs this 1950s American drama adapted from the novel of the same name by James Jones. A twist of fate leads army veteran Dave Hirsh (Frank Sinatra) to end up in his hometown of Parkman, Indiana, where he hasn’t visited in 16 years. Dave meets the flirtatious Ginny (Shirley MacLaine) who instantly falls for him. Dave, however, has more important matters to attend to, namely the inevitable reunion with his estranged brother. The cast also includes Dean Martin, Arthur Kennedy and Martha Hyer.

Subtitles: English
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2.0 DTS-HD Master Audio Mono
Bonus Footage
Documentaries: The Story of ‘Some Came Running’
Trailers

stage fright

In Alfred Hitchcock’s world, theatres are where danger stalks the wings, characters are not what they seem and that “final curtain” can drop any second. The droll Stage Fright springs from that entertaining tradition. Jane Wyman plays drama student Eve Gill, who tries to clear a friend (Richard Todd) being framed for murder by becoming the maid of flamboyant stage star Charlotte Inwood (Marlene Dietrich). Filming in his native England, Hitchcock merrily juggles elements of humor and whodunit and puts a game ensemble (Alastair Sim, Sybil Thorndike, Joyce Grenfell, Kay Walsh and daughter Patricia Hitchcock) through its paces. No one turns a theatre into a bastion of dread like Hitchcock and Stage Fright is proof positive.

Subtitles: English
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Screen Ratio: 1.85:1
DTS-HD Master Audio

fury

Joe Wilson, a wrongly jailed man thought to have died in a blaze started by a bloodthirsty lynch mob, is somehow alive. And dead to all he ever stood for and perhaps ever will. Because Joe aims to ensure his would-be executioners meet the fate Joe miraculously escaped. Spencer Tracy is Joe, Sylvia Sidney is his bride-to-be, and Fury lives up to its volatile name with its searing indictment of mob justice and lynching. In his first American film, director Fritz Lang (Metropolis, The Big Heat) combines a passion for justice and a sharp visual style into a landmark of social-conscience filmmaking. In the 49 years before this movie’s release, some 6,000 people in the U.S. were victims of lynch mobs. The Fury over those tragedies – and over other injustices to come – remains.

Subtitles: English
Screen Ratio: 1.37:1
DTS-HD Master Audio
Bonus Footage
Commentary: Peter Bogdanovich
Interviews: Audio interview excerpts of Fritz Lang (Director)
Trailers

dr. jekyll and mr. hyde (1941)

Spencer Tracy stars in this lush and psychologically driven 1941 adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, offering a darker, more introspective take on Stevenson’s classic tale. As the well-meaning Dr. Jekyll, Tracy seeks to free humanity from its baser impulses – but his experiments unleash the savage and violent Mr. Hyde, with devastating consequences. Ingrid Bergman subverts expectations as Ivy, a troubled barmaid caught in Hyde’s brutal grip, while Lana Turner brings grace to the role of Jekyll’s fiancée. Directed by Victor Fleming (Gone with the Wind), the film pairs MGM gloss with shadowy tension, delving into themes of repression, duality, and moral consequence. With moody cinematography and powerful performances, this version swaps overt horror for psychological depth, resulting in a haunting portrait of the monster within.

Language(s): English
Hard of Hearing Subtitles: English
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DTS-HD Master Audio

ivanhoe

Stand and pledge loyalty – or prepare to lie cold beneath your shields. Chivalrous knight Wilfred of Ivanhoe is determined to restore Richard the Lion-Hearted to England’s throne. Gallantry and costumed pageantry combine in this crowd-pleasing nominee for 3 Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Robert Taylor plays the title role, and Elizabeth Taylor and Joan Fontaine also star in a rousing adaptation of Sir Walter Scott’s novel. The film’s jousting tournament is a galloping display of steeds and stouthearted men. Most spectacular of all is the siege of Torquilstone Castle, a wave-after-wave onslaught of arrows, fire, boulders, battering rams and blades. To the battlements!

Language(s): English
Hard of Hearing Subtitles: English
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Screen Ratio: 1.37:1
Mono 2.0
DTS-HD Master Audio
Bonus Footage
Documentaries: Tom and Jerry: The Two Mouseketeers

crossfire

Years of police work have taught Detective Finlay that where there’s crime, there’s motive. But he finds no usual motive when investigating a man’s death by beating. The man was killed because he was a Jew. “”Hate,”” Finlay says, “”is like a gun.”” Robert Young portrays Finlay, Robert Mitchum is a laconic army sergeant assisting in the investigation of G.I. suspects, and Robert Ryan plays a vicious bigot in a landmark film noir nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Edward Dmytryk (Murder, My Sweet) directs, draping the genre’s stylistic backdrops and flourishes around a topic rarely before explored in films: anti-Semitism in the U.S. Here, Hollywood takes aim at injustice…and catches bigotry in a Crossfire.

Subtitles: English
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Screen Ratio: 1:1.37
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio
Commentary: Film historians Alain Silver and James Ursini
Documentaries: Crossfire: Hate Is Like a Gun
Interviews: Edward Dmytryk (Director)

babydoll

Times are tough for cotton miller Archie (Karl Malden), but at least he has his child bride (Carroll Baker), who’ll soon be his wife in title and truth. The one-year agreement keeping them under the same roof – yet never in the same bed – is about to end. But a game with a sly business rival (Eli Wallach) is about to begin. In Baby Doll, as in A Streetcar Named Desire, director Elia Kazan and writer Tennessee Williams broke new ground in depicting sexual situations – earning condemnation from the then-powerful Legion of Decency. They earned laurels too: four Academy Award nominations, Golden Globe Awards for Baker and Kazan, and a British Academy Award for Wallach. Watch this funny, steamy classic that, as Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide proclaims, “still sizzles.”

Language(s): English
Hard of Hearing Subtitles: English
Interactive Menu
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio
Bonus Footage
Documentaries: Baby Doll: See No Evil
Trailers

each dawn i die

CAGNEY. RAFT. CAN THE BIG HOUSE HOLD THEM BOTH? Framed for manslaughter after he breaks a story about city corruption, reporter Frank Ross is sure he’ll prove his innocence and walk out of prison a free man. But that’s not how the system works at Rocky Point Penitentiary. There, cellblock guards are vicious, the jute-mill labour is endless and the powers Ross fought on the outside conspire to keep him in. Frank’s hope is turned to hopelessness. And he’s starting to crack. Two of the screen’s famed tough guys star in this prison movie that casts a reform-minded eye on the brutalising effects of life in the slammer. James Cagney “”hits a white-hot peak as [Ross,] the embittered, stir-crazy fall guy”” Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide). And George Raft (Cagney’s friend since their vaudeville days) portrays racketeer Hood Stacey, who may hold the key to springing Ross.

Language(s): English
Hard of Hearing Subtitles: English
Bonus Footage
Documentaries: Warner Night at the Movies 1939, A Day at Santa Anita, Detouring America, Stool Pigeons and Pine Overcoats: The Language of Gangster Films, Breakdowns of 1939, Each Dawn I Crow
Radio Show with George Raft and Franchot Tone (Audio only)
Outtakes
Trailers

isle of the dead

Once you visit the Isle of the Dead, there’s no hope of returning to the land of the living A small island off the coast of Greece holds a secret so dreadful that once you step onto its soil you must remain there forever. General Pherides (master of horror Boris Karloff) is one such a visitor. Going to the island to honour the grave of his late wife, Pherides discovers that it’s held in the grip of a terrifying plague – a sickness that enters the victim’s mind and drives them insane! Pherides leads the fight against the plague, but then falls prey to it himself. In his delirium, he believes that a woman named Thea (Ellen Drew) is a vorvolaka – a vampire responsible for the deaths. Insanity runs rampant, and grave robbery, premature burial and ghastly vampires are the unspeakable horrors that await on the Isle of the Dead.

Language(s): English
Hard of Hearing Subtitles: English
Interactive Menu
Screen Ratio: 1.37:1
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio
Bonus Footage
Commentary: Dr Steve Haberman (Screenwriter/Film Historian)
Trailers

damn yankees

Step up to the plate for Damn Yankees, the rousing movie of the 1,019-performance Broadway grand slam that imports nearly all the original New York lineup, including Tony Award-winning stars Gwen Verdon as luscious vamp Lola and Ray Walston as her slyly Satanic boss Applegate. Hollywood’s Tab Hunter suits up as potential lost soul and Washington Senators slugger Joe Hardy, revealing a freewheeling fun side unseen in previous roles. The Pajama Game duo of Richard Adler and Jerry Ross serve up an out-of-the-park home-run score, including “Whatever Lola Wants” and “Heart.” Choreographer Bob Fosse provides all the right moves, and he joins Verdon on-screen in performing “Who’s Got the Pain?” No pain here, just pure pleasure.

Language(s): English
Hard of Hearing Subtitles: English
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Screen Ratio: 1.85:1
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio

damn yankees

Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly play ball in a big way as 1900s vaudevillians who spend the winter flinging the onstage blarney and the summer flinging the ol’ horsehide for baseball’s world champs, the Wolves. Sinatra is second sacker Dennis Ryan and Kelly is shortstop Eddie O’Brien in this Busby Berkeley-directed romp that combines baseball with that other all-American pastime: romance. Esther Williams plays the new team owner, and Betty Garrett is a Baseball Annie with eyes for blue-eyed Ryan. Kelly and Stanley Donen’s deft musical stagings range from a soft-shoe duet charmer to an exciting “barrel roll” Kelly solo. Their work persuaded producer Arthur Freed to green-light their direction of the same year’s On the Town.

Language(s): English
Hard of Hearing Subtitles: English
Interactive Menu
Screen Ratio: 1.37:1
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio
Bonus Footage
Bonus Tracks: Deleted musical numbers: ‘Baby Doll’ and ‘Boys and Girls Like You and Me’, Deleted Scenes
Documentaries: Cartoon: ‘The Cat and the Mermouse’
Trailers

sante fe trail

“It has about everything that a high-priced horse opera should have – hard riding, hard shooting, hard fighting, a bit of hard drinking and Errol Flynn,” proclaims The New York Times. Add costars Olivia de Havilland, Ronald Reagan, Raymond Massey and a somewhat revamped re-creation of American history, and you’re on the Santa Fe Trail. Bright young lieutenants Jeb Stuart (Flynn) and George Armstrong Custer (Reagan) are assigned to Kansas Territory to guard the Santa Fe Trail. There, they clash with the fanatical abolitionist John Brown (Massey). On a more romantic side, they also vie for the hand of ‘Kit Carson’ Holliday (de Havilland). But the pursuit of Brown leads the army to the pivotal battle at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, which strikes the spark that hastens the Civil War.

Subtitles: English
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Screen Ratio: 1.37:1
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio
Bonus Footage
Documentaries: The Story of Some Came Running
Trailers

rachel, rachel

New England schoolteacher Rachel Cameron’s life is small and safe. Too small and too safe for a warmhearted woman who wants to do something-anything-to keep from slipping into spinsterhood. Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward joined their stellar talents in this powerfully human movie, with Newman making his directorial debut and Woodward giving one of her hallmark screen performances. Both won New York Film Critics and Golden Globe awards for their work, and the film garnered four Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture. The Newmans teamed afterward on other masterful films (The Glass Menagerie, Mr. & Mrs. Bridge and the TV miniseries Empire Falls). But for tenderness, insight and artistry, none surpasses Rachel, Rachel.

Language(s): English
Hard of Hearing Subtitles: English
Interactive Menu
Screen Ratio: 1.85:1
Audio: Mono 2.0, DTS-HD Master Audio
Bonus Footage
Documentaries: A Jest of God
Trailers

vision quest

High school wrestler Louden Swain is a man obsessed, trying to shed 23 pounds in a dangerously short time and take on Shute, the undefeated, tough-as-nails 168-pound champion who’s the best wrestler in the state. Matthew Modine stars as the mop-headed student undeterred in his Vision Quest…until the day a sexy drifter (Linda Fiorentino) threatens to pin Louden and his dreams to the mat of unrequited love. The hit soundtrack features Journey’s “Only the Young,” Foreigner’s “Hot Blooded” and John Waite’s “Change.” In her first film, Madonna shines while performing “Gambler” and “Crazy for You.” You’ll go crazy for Vision Quest.

Language(s): English
Hard of Hearing Subtitles: English
Interactive Menu
Screen Ratio: 1.85:1
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio

children of the damned

Six gifted children are found to pose a threat to the world in this chilling horror story from the makers of Village of the Damned. The children, who all live in England but are from different parts of the world, are normal in all respects expect that they are geniuses with acute psychic powers. They have more in common than their IQs, however. None of them have fathers, and no one seems to know where they came from. When a psychologist (Ian Hendry of TV’s The Avengers) attempts to find out more, he unlocks a mystery that could lead to the destruction of the universe.

Language(s): English, Russian
Hard of Hearing Subtitles: English
Subtitles: English
Interactive Menu
Screen Ratio: 1.85:1
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio
Bonus Footage
Commentary: John Briley (Screenwriter)
Trailers

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