Transcript: Christian Movie Reviews: Warner Archive Blu-ray March 2023

Greetings, Classics and Cinema TV fans. This is Jason Lockhart here with you once again bringing you another silver screen spotlight. We are looking at a first look at brand new releases from the good folks at Warner Archive. This is a lot of fun. This is really, really cool. getting to just kind of take a sneak peek at some of these awesome new releases. First off, we're not going to spend a big load of time on this. We're going to let you read the full written reviews when we get them, so be sure to go to Classic Cinema Plus and check out the full written reviews. But this is pretty cool. First off, we have Greta Garbo, and we have Robert Taylor in Camille. So really a really classic romantic film from the 30s, 1936. Pretty interesting. Now what they did here is something very, very interesting with Warner Archive. Was with the bonus features. This is really awesome. Not only do you have the restored film Camille, But on the bonus features, you get audio bonus of Leo is on the Air radio promos, the theatrical reissue trailer. But the main one that is really, really awesome and makes this even so much cooler beyond the restored film is this. You get the 1921 silent version starring Rudolph Valentino. So not only do you get Camille, the 1936 version, but you get the 1921 version as well. You get both of them on this release. That is amazing. That is so cool. So if you into those old romantic films from the 30s definitely check out Camille That pretty awesome Another one that is coming up is Susan Hayward in I Cry Tomorrow This is, I love biopics, okay? And Lillian Roth was an amazing actress. And, okay, so she, her career goes into a downward spiral when she loses her fiancé. She takes a drink, then another drink, and then ten, and then thousands, and then before you know it, she's lost everything. And it shows the downward spiral of this really sad, sad life of Lillian Roth. Pretty amazing. Now, bonus features include vintage Lillian Roth musical short story conference, three excerpts of MGM Parade TV series, The vintage newsreel excerpts covering the movie's premiere and accolades and the theatrical trailer. So there's a lot of really awesome stuff on this release here. So definitely, if you love those biopics, yeah, I'll Cry Tomorrow is one of those ones you'll probably want to add to your collection. Very, very cool. Another one, Confessions of a Nazi Spy. This, love me some Edward G. Robinson. Edward G. Robinson is, uh, right up there with, uh, some of the best actors of all time. Uh, he's really amazing. Um, probably in one of my favorite, uh, film noirs of all time, uh, The Red House. Love Edward G Robinson and The Red House Um such a great film Such an amazingly great film Well this is another one that he did Confessions of a Nazi Spy And as we said you can check out the Google the thing and get more in detail about these releases, but we just want to give you a first look at it. So that's what this is. But anyway, it's really interesting. We get a special features, vintage Warner Brothers short, Meet the Fleet, and of course, the theatrical trailer, gotta have a trailer on there, love the trailers, so, pretty cool, yeah, I have actually never seen this one, so I am really looking forward to checking this one out, Confessions of a Nazi Spy, I love those old films that deal with the Nazis and all that, and the resistance against the Nazis and all. I enjoy those. So, um, yeah, seeing one that I've never seen before, that's going to be a lot of fun. So yeah, Confessions of a Nazi Spy coming to Blu-ray. All right. And then the one that I was really excited about, uh, this time around, uh, we have here in the collection, uh, the Esther Williams Turner Classic Movies box set, right, which has like about five different DVDs in it filled with different films, one of which is Neptune's Daughter. Okay. Well, anytime you can upgrade to better quality, well, it's a thing to do, right? So this is Neptune's Daughter on Blu-ray. Now, the interesting thing that I love about this is Neptune's Daughter has Esther Williams in it, but it also has one of my favorite comedians of all time, Red Skelton. I love Red Skelton. And this is, so you got this musical comedy that's just amazing. Because you get your Esther Williams but you get your Red Skelton as well How do you beat that You can It just so cool All right Special features include Betty Garrett outtake, musical number, I Want My Money Back. You got the vintage MGM cartoons. Oh, I love that. A vintage MGM cartoon. Yes. Hatch up your troubles. All right. Vintage MGM short. uh, water tricks, very, very cool, uh, theatrical trailer, promotional radio interview with, uh, Esther Williams and Dick Simmons and more. So there's a lot of really cool stuff, uh, included on this, uh, release. And so I'm, I'm excited that we get to, um, upgrade, uh, the DVD, uh, to a Blu-ray. This is the main event for me. I love this. I can't wait to see how great it looks on Blu-ray. So there you go. That's just a quick little first look at some new releases from the good folks at Warner Archive. So yeah, they got you covered all the way around. Musical comedies, Nazi adventures, romantic films, and biopics. They got you covered all the way around. So there you go. So what are you most excited about? Let us know in the comments. We'd appreciate it. Be sure to like, share, and subscribe. And be sure to go to Classic Cinema Plus. Check out all the reviews of these, one of which is already up. More coming very, very soon. So go check them out at Classic Cinema Plus. And until we see you next time with another Silver Screen Spotlight, this is Jason Lockhart reminding you that if you want to see a great film, check out a classic, and we will see you next time. Have a good one. Bye. Thank you.