Warner Bros. Home Entertainment was busy this week with new Blu-ray product offerings plucked from the studio’s extensive film and television library.
The first of these is the Nov. 2 Blu-ray launch of Sex and the City: The Complete Series, which includes, as a bonus, both of the theatrical releases — director Michael Patrick King’s 2008 film release of Sex and the City (which generated blockbuster numbers) and King’s 2010 follow-up, Sex and the City 2 (which also scored some nice summer box office action).
Sex and the City: The Complete Series will be an 18-disc collection showcasing all six-seasons of this Emmy-winning series (a total of 96 episodes).
This boxed set comes loaded with extras, include an alternate ending to the series finale, deleted scenes, episode commentary with Michael Patrick King and vintage featurettes.
In other release news from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment this past week, there will be five new Blu-ray debuts selected from the studio’s film library that will be heading home during the month of September.
Arriving on Sept. 14 is director Michael Curtiz’s Christmas-of-1940 film release of Santa Fe Trail, teaming Errol Flynn with Olivia de Havilland, the seventh time that the two had appeared together. Often labeled as a “Western,” Santa Fe Trail is actually a pre-Civil War look at the life and times of radical abolitionist John Brown (played by Raymond Massey), with a focus on events that took place in Kansas and ending with the raid on the Harper’s Ferry Armory in Virginia during October of 1859 (one of those trivia things … Harper’s Ferry became Harpers Ferry in 1891 and moved from Virginia to the newly-created state of West Virginia in June of 1863).
The battle itself featured the likes of Jeb Stuart (Errol Flynn) and George Armstrong Custer (Ronald Reagan) taking on John Brown’s forces … shortly after the siege the two would be on opposite sides in the Civil War.
The following week, Sept. 21, there are three new Blu-ray selections heading home. These are: director Anthony Mann’s 1953 Western, The Naked Spur, starring James Stewart, Janet Leigh and Robert Ryan; Straight Time, featuring Dustin Hoffman, Gary Busey and Theresa Russell, and the 1949 thriller, The Window, directed by Ted Tetzlaff and starring child actor Bobby Driscoll (The Song of the South) as Tommy, a nine-year-old spinner of tall tales, who witnesses a murder … and no one believes him, except the killer!!
Closing out the month on Sept. 28 is the Blu-ray debut of director Sam Wood’s 1935 comedy, A Night at the Opera, starring the Marx Brothers.
Bonus features include commentary by film critic Leonard Maltin, the documentary titled Remarks on Marx, a pair of featurettes — “How to Sleep” and “Los Angeles: Wonder City of the West” — and more.
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