Editorial review of Warner Classic Mega Collection courtesy of Amazon.com
This is it. The ultimate gift for the ultimate movie lover. The greatest classics of all time from the world’s largest, and most heralded film library. Warner Home Video and Amazon.com bring you an unprecedented mega-set of the most beloved and popular classic films of all time from the venerable studio’s unparalleled potpourri of Hollywood essentials. All the great stars, the great moments, the most lauded and treasured films of all time, in one mind-boggling assemblage of cinematic greatness..
From Bogart’s unforgettable romance with Ingrid Bergman in CASABLANCA, to his on-screen and off-screen love affair with Lauren Bacall, in TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT, Gene Kelly’s incredible singin’ and dancin’ in the rain, to GWTW’s Scarlett and Rhett, the swashbuckling adventures of Errol Flynn, the irresistible sleuthing of Powell and Loy in the Thin Man series, Charlton Heston’s Oscar-winning chariot race against Stephen Boyd in BEN-HUR, the inspired lunacy of the Marx Bros., Orson Welles as Citizen Kane, Rosalind Russell as AUNTIE MAME. or Fred & Ginger at their very best. It’s all here. Essential gangster classics, spectacular musicals, screwball comedies, mysteries, romances, & grand epics that define moviemaking.
The Warner library draws not only from its own 80+ years of amazing films, but also all the pre-1986 films of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the RKO library, and several classics from independent producers. This group of specially selected classics has been brought together as an instant DVD library of the best films ever made, digitally remastered and painstakingly restored, and as is the hallmark of Warner Home Video releases, most of the titles come with a plethora of exciting extras. Fascinating behind-the-scenes documentaries, star biographies, vintage shorts, cartoons, featurettes, trailers, newsreels, and everything that has critics referring to Warner Home Video as the company that sets the “gold standard” for classic film presentations on DVD. Now their very best can be yours, to have and hold forever. Titles are:
| 42nd Street | Freaks | Objective Burma |
| Adventures of Robin Hood, The: Special Edition | Friendly Persuasion | Ocean’s 11 (1960) |
| Advise and Consent | Fury | On the Town |
| Alice Adams | Gaslight | Operation Pacific |
| An American in Paris | Giant 2-Disc SE | Out of the Past |
| The Americanization of Emily | Gigi | Petrified Forest |
| Anchors Aweigh | Glass Bottom Boat | Philadelphia Story Two-Disc SE |
| Angels with Dirty Faces | Gold Rush, The | Please Don’t Eat the Daisies |
| Anna Christie | Gone with the Wind 4-Disc Edition | Possessed ’47 |
| Anna Karenina | Goodbye Mr. Chips | The Prince and the Pauper |
| Annie Get Your Gun | Grand Hotel | The Prince and the Showgirl |
| Asphalt Jungle, The | Great Dictator, The | Private Lives of Elizabeth & Essex |
| Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer, The | Great Ziegfeld | Public Enemy |
| Bad Day at Black Rock | Gun Crazy | Queen Christina |
| The Band Wagon Two-Disc SE | Gunga Din | Random Harvest |
| The Barkleys of Broadway | Harvey Girls, The | Rebel without a Cause Two-Disc SE |
| Bells are Ringing | High Sierra | Rio Bravo |
| Ben Hur 4-Disc Edition | Horror of Dracula | The Roaring ’20s |
| The Big Sleep | House of Wax (1953) | Robin and the Seven Hoods |
| Billy Rose’s Jumbo | Humoresque | Scaramouche |
| Blackboard Jungle | Hunchback of Notre Dame 1939 | The Sea Chase |
| Blood Alley | I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang | The Sea Hawk |
| Born to Kill | I Confess | Searchers, The |
| Boys Town | I Remember Mama | Set-up, The (1949) |
| Brigadoon | In the Good Old Summertime | Shall We Dance (1937) |
| Bringing Up Baby Two-Disc SE | Jezebel | Shop Around the Corner |
| Butterfield 8 | Key Largo | Show Boat |
| Camille | Kid, The | Singing’ in the Rain Two-Disc SE |
| Captain Blood | Kim | Son of Lassie |
| Casablanca 2-Disc SE | King in New York/Woman in Paris, A | Stage Door |
| Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | King Kong 2-Disc SE | Stage Fright |
| Chaplin Revue | King of Kings | Stagecoach |
| Christmas Carol 1938 | Lassie Come Home | The Star (1953) |
| Christmas in Connecticut 1945 | Libeled Lady | Star is Born, A (1954) |
| The Cincinnati Kid | Limelight | Story of Sea Biscuit |
| Circus, The | Little Caesar | Strangers on a Train: Special Edition |
| Citizen Kane 2-Disc SE | Love Finds Andy Hardy | Suspicion |
| City Lights | Love in the Afternoon | Swing Time |
| Clash By Night | Love Me or Leave Me | Take Me Out to the Ballgame |
| Courage of Lassie | Lullaby of Broadway | Tall in the Saddle |
| Cowboys, The | The Maltese Falcon | Tarzan Collection |
| Crossfire | The Master of Ballantrae | Taste the Blood of Dracula |
| Curse of Frankenstein, The | Mata Hari | TCM Archives: Buster Keaton |
| The Damned Don’t Cry | McQ | TCM Archives: Lon Chaney |
| Dark Passage | Mildred Pierce | That’s Entertainment I |
| Dark Victory | Mister Roberts | That’s Entertainment II |
| Day at the Races, A | Modern Times | That’s Entertainment III |
| Days of Wine and Roses | Monsieur Verdoux | Them! |
| Designing Woman | Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941) | They Died with their Boots on |
| Destination Tokyo | Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House | They Drive By Night |
| Dial M for Murder | Mr. Skeffington | The Thin Man Collection |
| Dillinger | Mrs. Miniver | To Be or Not to Be |
| Dinner at Eight | Mummy, The (1959) | To Have and Have Not |
| Doctor Zhivago 2-Disc S | Murder, My Sweet | Top Hat |
| Dodge City | Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 | The Train Robbers |
| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | My Fair Lady 2-Disc SE | Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The: Special Edition |
| Dracula Has Risen From the Grave | My Favorite Wife | The Unsinkable Molly Brown |
| East of Eden Two-Disc SE | Narrow Margin | Where The Boys Are |
| Easter Parade Two-Disc SE | National Velvet | White Heat |
| Face in the Crowd | Never So Few | The Wizard of Oz Two-Disc SE |
| Father of the Bride | Night and Day | The Women |
| Finian’s Rainbow | Night at the Opera, A | The Wrong Man |
| Follow the Fleet | Night in Casablanca, A | Yankee Doodle Dandy: Special Edition |
| For Me and My Gal | Ninotchka | The Yearling |
| Foreign Correspondent | North By Northwest | Young Man with a Horn |
| Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed | Now Voyager | Ziegfeld Girl |
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