New to DVD Highlights
This is where you will find many interesting DVDs and Blu-rays new to the library. Some titles will have graced Alice's shelves in a previous life on VHS Video, some are already on DVD but have now made their way to Blu-ray, while others have eluded capture in any format - until now. However, to be privy to the bigger picture, you will need to also check out 'Featured Acquisitions', 'Latest Alice Picks', 'Recent Arrivals',and 'New Releases'.
The Sheepman (1958)
6.9/10
Director: George Marshall
Starring: Edgar Buchanan, Glenn Ford, Leslie Nielsen, Mickey Shaughnessy, Shirley MacLaine
If there's one word in Powder Valley's cattle country that makes the locals' jaws clench and trigger-fingers twitch, here it is: sheep. But easygoing... Read more
The Third Man ( Blu-ray ) (1949)
8.2/10
Director: Carol Reed
Starring: Alida Valli, Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard
Joseph Cotten is pulp fiction writer Holly Matins, who arrives in Vienna to work for his friend Harry Lime (Orson Welles), only to be told that Lime h... Read more
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ( Blu-ray ) (1947)
8.3/10
Director: John Huston
Starring: Bruce Bennett, Humphrey Bogart, Tim Holt, Walter Huston
Pauline Kael calls this 'one of the strongest of all American movies'. Three Americans strike it rich and greed takes over. With Bogart, Walter Huston... Read more
The War You Don't See (2010)
8.5/10
Director: John Pilger
Following his award-winning documentary The War on Democracy, John Pilger's new film is a powerful and timely investigation into the media's role in w... Read more
The Ward (2010)
5.6/10
Director: John Carpenter
Starring: Jared Harris, Mika Boorem, Danielle Panabaker, Amber Heard, Mamie Gummer, Laura-...
It is the 1960s. Welcome to North Bend Psychiatric Hospital, an isolation ward for disturbed women that holds a terrifying secret. Kristen (Amber Hear... Read more
The Westerner (1940)
7.5/10
Director: William Wyler
Starring: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Doris Davenport
A classic tale of range wars in the late 1800s, with Gary Cooper as a wanderer who finds himself in the middle. Walter Brennan won his third Oscar as... Read more
The Women (1939)
8/10
Director: George Cukor
Starring: Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer, Rosalind Russell, Mary Boland, Paulette Goddard, J...
Based on the Clare Booth Luce play of the same name, this MGM comedy is justly famous for its all-female cast and deft direction by George Cukor. The... Read more
The Young Philadelphians (1959)
7.4/10
Director: Vincent Sherman
Starring: Alexis Smith, Barbara Rush, Brian Keith, Paul Newman, Robert Vaughn, Diane Brews...
Paul Newman stars as a young attorney who seems ruthlessly focused on money, career and social climbing, but who surprises everyone by risking everyth... Read more
There's a Girl in My Soup (1970)
5.7/10
Director: John Boulting, Roy Boulting
Starring: Diana Dors, Goldie Hawn, Peter Sellers
Self-absorbed British cooking show host Robert Danvers (Peter Sellers) went through women as often as he went through serviettes. He thought he'd foun... Read more
Thief (1981)
7.4/10
Director: Michael Mann
Starring: James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Robert Prosky, Willie Nelson, James Belushi
Aka "Violent Streets". James Caan stars in this superb study of a jewel thief who desperately tries to create the life he visualised while in prison -... Read more