The banner film year of
1939, which saw Gone With The Wind win eight Oscars (including Best Picture,
Best Actress and Best Director), will be celebrated on June 9 by Warner Bros.
Home Entertainment with the release of not one, but four films from that year
on Blu-ray.
Heading home under “The
Golden Year Collection” promotional banner are The Hunchback of Notre Dame
(a brand new film restoration), Dark Victory (Bette Davis was
nominated Best Actress), Dodge City (in glorious Technicolor) and
Ninotchka (also nominated Best Picture and Greta Garbo for
Best Actress).
Each of these new Blu-ray releases are priced at
just $19.98 each, but it gets better.
Consumers who buy The Golden Year Collection, which is
priced at just $69.95 (and that’s before discounts at retail), get as bonus Gone
With The Wind on Blu-ray, plus a bonus disc (exclusive to the package)
that contains the documentary Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Presents
1939: Hollywood’s Greatest Year,
which is narrated by Kenneth Branagh.
Also getting a release
date this past week from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment is directors Spike
Brandt and Tony Cervone’s newest animated feature teaming Tom and Jerry with
Jonny Quest … Tom and Jerry: Spy Quest.
The DVD will be arriving
at retail on June 23.
Bonus features include
six bonus animated episodes — The Tom and Jerry Show: Birthday Bashed, The
Tom and Jerry Show: Feline Fatale, The Tom and Jerry Show: For the Love of
Ruggles, The Tom and Jerry Show: Sleuth or Consequences, Jonny Quest: The
Fraudulent Volcano and New Adventures of Jonny Quest: Deadly Junket.
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