Warner Bros. Home
Entertainment continues to mine its rich library of cinematic treasures with a
series of announcements this week that will see both DVD and Blu-ray product
offerings plucked from this gold mine of films.
Streeting on Feb. 24 will
be a newly prepared Blu-ray edition of writer/director Paul Schrader’s 1980
sexually-tinged murder thriller, American Gigolo, starring Richard
Gere in his breakout performance as Julian, a boy-toy for rich women.
When he meets Michelle
(Lauren Hutton) he actually begins to “fall in love,” but a nasty — and very
twisted — murder occurs and he becomes the number suspect. Watch poor Julian squirm … it’s delicious!
On the same date, Feb.
24, director Frank Darabont’s 2001 cinema-history drama, The Majestic, starring
Jim Carrey, Martin Landau and Laurie Holden, will be getting a Blu-ray push as
well.
On the DVD front, a
four-film collection of pre-code films will be available on Nov. 18 in the
latest edition of the studio’s popular “Forbidden Hollywood” promotional
banner. Included in Forbidden
Hollywood, Volume Eight are Blonde Crazy (1931, James Cagney and
Joan Blondell) Strangers May Kiss (1931, teaming Robert Montgomery with Norma
Shearer), Hi, Nellie (1934, with Paul Muni and Glenda Farrell) and Dark
Hazard (1934, Glenda Farrell returns with Edward G. Robinson and
Genevieve Tobin … plus Sidney Toler).
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