Warner Bros. Home
Entertainment announced some interesting film library selections that will be
heading to DVD and Blu-ray during 2015.
Making its DVD debut on
Feb. 10 is director John G. Adolfi’s 1930 film release of Sinners Holiday, starring
Grant Withers and Lucille La Verne.
Huh? How is that big news? 1930?
What makes this early
sound film important is that it is the film debut of one James Cagney. Plus Sinners Holiday is the second
feature film for another future star, Joan Blondell.
On the same date, Feb.
10, is director Rouben Mamoulian’s 1934 film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s
“Resurrection,” which was titled for the screen as We Live Again. Teamed in the roles of Katusha and Dmitri are
Anna Sten and Fredric March.
On the Blu-ray release
front, there will be seven new hi-def product offers on the seventh day of
April. These are Hooper and Sharky’s
Machine, both starring Burt Reynolds, director Cameron Crowe’s Singles
(1992, Bridget Fonda, Matt Dillon, Kyra Sedwick and Eric Stoltz), filmmaker
Brett Ratner’s After the Sunset (2004, Salma Hayek teams with Pierce Brosnan
and Woody Harrelson), The Corruptor (1999, Mark Wahlberg
and Chow Yun-Fat) and lastly the music scene is explored in Detroit
Rock City and Empire Records.
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