New & Upcoming Releases

Arabesque (Kino 4K UHD $39.95) Stanley Donen envisioned a 1966 follow-up romantic spy picture for Cary Grant after Charade but Grant thought the script was stinko so it went to Gregory Peck and Sophia Loren instead.

Night of the Blood Beast / Attack of the Giant Leeches (Film Masters BD $29.95) For those of you out there who think that here in the Balcony we have no standards whatsoever when it comes to 1950s monster movies, we give you Night of the Blood Beast and Attack of the Giant Leeches. I’m not even certain these are movies; I’ve seen movies, and they’re not this bad.

Blue Christmas (VCI INDIE BD $29.95) And now for something completely different, here’s Max Allan Collins’ take on the classic A Christmas Carol, only it’s a film noir version set in 1942.

Charley Chase at Hal Roach: The Late Silents (Kit Parker Films BD $39.95, DVD $34.95) More than a dozen late-silent period 2-reel comedies, some of Charley’s best. Titles include There Ain't No Santa Claus, Many Scrappy Returns, and The Way of All Pants. Our selection as Official ITB Release of the Month for November.

Circus of Horrors (Kino 4K UHD $39.95) Sidney Hayers gives us a bizarre, tasteless horror film about a mad plastic surgeon (!) conducting wicked experiments from his own personal circus.

The Complete Thin Man Collection (Warner Archive $49.98) Who isn’t going to want THIS under their Christmas tree, hmmm? William Powell and Myrna Loy star in (ready?) The Thin Man, After the Thin Man, Another Thin Man, Shadow of the Thin Man, The Thin Man Goes Home, and Song of the Thin Man.

Laurel & Hardy: Year Two (Flicker Alley BD $49.99) And the hits just keep on comin’; ten more silent Laurel & Hardy films, including The Finishing Touch, From Soup to Nuts, and the hysterical Two Tars.

Louis Feuillade: the Complete Crime Serials (1913-1918) (Eureka! Masters of Cinema BD £78.99) Four classic French silent serials, including Fantômas, Les Vampires, Judex, and Tih Minh.

Maniac Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Picture Vol. 17 (Kino BD $24.95) A new 4K restoration, from the original camera negative and other 35mm elements preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive, which is an awful fuss to make over this 1934 exploitation picture, one of the worst horrors ever unleashed on the public.

The Martian Chronicles (Kino BD $29.95) This is the 1980 TV miniseries version of the Ray Bradbury classic, written by Richard Matheson and starring Rock Hudson, Darren McGavin, and Bernadette Peters. Is it any good? Well, Mr. Bradbury didn’t think so.

One, Two, Three (Billy Wilder, 1961) (Kino BD $29.95) Fast-paced Cold War comedy from Billy Wilder, 1961; James Cagney stars and retired as soon as the picture wrapped. Horst Buchholz and Pamela Tiffin co-star.

Scarface (Criterion 4K UHD $49.95, BD $39.95) We firmly aver that there is only one good movie by this title, and it’s the 1932 Howard Hawks original with Paul Muni, Boris Karloff, and George Raft.

Seven Samurai (Criterion 4K UHD $59.95) And, as we’ve said many times, this is our all-time favorite movie. It is, of course, from Akira Kurosawa, 1954, and it’s as funny, exciting, and moving as any movie we can think of.

The Sugarland Express (Universal 4K UHD $23.79) Early Steven Spielberg drama, 1974. Goldie Hawn and William Atherton kidnap a police officer and it’s a chase across Texas.

Topkapi (Kino BD $29.95) Ah, who doesn’t love a good heist film with a confusing title? This 1964 Jules Dassin film has a fine international cast, including Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov, Maximilian Schell, Robert Morley and Akim Tamiroff, to name a few.

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The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (Kino BD $24.95) Otto Preminger’s 1955 drama, based on a true story, about a military man who disobeys orders and suffers the consequences. Gary Cooper and Ralph Bellamy star.

Fright (Kino 4K UHD $39.95) Susan George stars as a babysitter terrorized by the ex-husband of her boss in this 1971 British thriller.

Godzilla (Criterion 4K UHD $49.95) Well, Criterion is sure going to town re-releasing Ishirō Honda’s 1954 monster classic in a variety of formats and packages, hai?

I Love Lucy: The Complete Series (Paramount BD $99.99) The most beloved program in television history is back, newly remastered and with a wealth of brand new features for 2024, including The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show, as originally broadcast from 1957-1960, including cast commercials; three long-lost “flashback” scenes that introduced selected repeat episodes; Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance introduce the 1959 CBS-TV schedule; and much more!

The Proud and Profane (Kino BD $24.95) No, it’s not a political rally, it’s George Seaton’s 1956 wartime romance with William Holden and Deborah Kerr.

The Third Man (Studiocanal UK 4K UHD £44.99) It seems as though Carol Reed’s peerless 1949 British noir with Orson Welles gets new life every year, too, doesn’t it?

White Christmas (Paramount 4K UHD $25.99) Oh, look, it’s that time of year again, nearly.

Stay Tuned!

More November Releases Announced Shortly!