Warner Bros. Home Entertainment announced its new-to-Blu-ray selections gathered from its vast film library for release during the month of November this past week. Some deep catalog, guilty pleasures and several big studio productions are to be found among the product offerings … so let’s get to it!!!
Barbara Stanwyck stars as a tough gun moll by the name of Nan Taylor in the 1933 prison drama, Ladies They Talk About, which was team-directed by Howard Bretherton and William Keighley. The Blu-ray debut, which is a new 4K scan from the original nitrate camera negative, will be on Nov. 9.
Nan was the decoy in a successful bank robbery, but taken into custody and it looks like a jolt in the big house is her destiny. But, radio crusader, David Slate (Preston Foster) recognizes her as a former classmate and uses his influence to get her placed on probation by the district attorney (played by Robert McWade).
In something of a twist, she spills the beans to Slate, who has the hots for her, but instead of covering up her crime, he turns her in and she goes to prison.
Nothing like a bitter woman, especially after being toughened up in prison, to seek a little revenge. Once her sentence is up, she goes hunting for Slate!!
Bonus features include the 1933 theatrical cartoon, I Like Mountain Music, and the 1933 short film titled Pure Feud, featuring Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy.
Also arriving on Blu-ray for the first time on Nov. 9 is director Fritz Lang’s 1936 film release of Fury, starring Spencer Tracy and Sylvia Sidney.
This is a new 4K scan from the best available elements.
Of note, this was filmmaker Fritz Lang’s first American production. He had left Germany in 1933 after the film release of The Testament of Dr. Mabuse was banned … he decided to get out of Hitler’s Germany while the opportunity was there.
Joe (Spencer Tracy) and Katherine (Sylvia Sidney) are in love, but it is the Great Depression and they want to make sure that they have enough to make a go of marriage. Katherine gets a swell job out in California and Joe goes into partnership with his brothers on a gas station and before you know it the two are sure that it is time to tie-the-knot.
However, while on the way to pick up Katherine, Joe is arrested, falsely, for kidnapping a child and jailed. Katherine, hearing of this, races to the little town, only to see Joe burned alive as a mob, spurred on my some of the local citizens, has set fire to the jail.
But this is one of Warner Bros. social commentary films of the 1930s and there is a twist. Joe actually escaped the blaze and now wants revenge!! The real kidnappers are found and now it is payback for those who attacked the jail.
Bonus features include commentary from auteur filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich.
A guilty pleasure is also on the new-to-Blu-ray release calendar from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment in November
This would be the Nov. 30 Blu-ray debut of director Nicholas Ray’s 1958 film noir release of Party Girl, starring Cyd Charisse, Robert Taylor, Lee J. Cobb and John Ireland. This is a newly prepared 4K scan.
Vicki (Charisse) is a past-her-prime showgirl who has a chance meeting with an attorney by the name of Thomas Farrell (Robert Taylor) at a mob party hosted by Rico (Lee J. Cobb). After a rough start the pair hit it off and try to figure out a way to escape their mob ties and start a new life. They soon realize that it is hopeless.
Rounding out the November Blu-ray new releases from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment are director Herbert Ross’ 1973 murder mystery, The Last of Sheila (Nov. 09, with Dyan Cannon, James Coburn, James Mason, Raquel Welch and more); National Velvet and Some Came Running (both on Nov. 16), Lullaby of Broadway and The Thin Man Goes Home will be available on Nov. 23.
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