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'.
La Traviata (1982)
6.9/10
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Starring: Teresa Stratas, Placido Domingo
"(Teresa) Stratas not only sings magnificently but also looks the role ... She is a screen presence as riveting to watch as to listen to ... Having ca... Read more
Lassie: Lassie Come Home / Hills of Home / Courage of Lassie / Son of Lassie (1948)
5.9/10
Director: Fred M Wilcox, S Sylvan Simon
Starring: Dame May Whitty, Donald Crisp, Edmund Gwenn, Elizabeth Taylor, Elsa Lanchester,...
Lassie x 4. 'Lassie Come Home' (1943) - In "one of the all-time great family films" (Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide), a remarkable collie - sold by her... Read more
Lauren Bacall: Key Largo / Blood Alley / Dark Passage / Designing Woman (1957)
9/10
Director: Delmer Daves, John Huston, Vincente Minnelli, William A Wellman
Starring: Edward G Robinson, Gregory Peck, Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne, Lauren Bacall
Lauren Bacall Box Set. 'Dark Passage' (1947) - Humphrey Bogart is a prison escapee framed for murder who emerges from plastic surgery with a new face.... Read more
Little Big Man ( Blu-ray ) (1970)
7.6/10
Director: Arthur Penn
Starring: Chief Dan George, Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Jeff Corey, Martin Balsam
Recounting how the West was won through the eyes of a white man raised as a Native American, Arthur Penn's 1970 adaptation... of Thomas Berger's satir... Read more
Little Kidnappers, The (1990)
Director: Donald Shebib
Starring: Bruce Greenwood, Charlton Heston, Leah Pinset, Patricia Gage
Loosely based on a 50s movie of the same name, it tells the story of two young orphan boys who travel by themselves from the Old country to join their... Read more
Ma and Pa Kettle At the Fair (1952)
6.9/10
Director: Charles Barton
Starring: Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, James Best
In this blast from the past Ma (Marjorie Mann) and Pa (Percy Kirlbride) are trying to raise enough money at the county fair to send their daughter Ros... Read more
Madigan (1968)
6.6/10
Director: Don Siegel
Starring: Don Stroud, Harry Guardino, Henry Fonda, Inger Stevens, James Whitmore, Richard...
Richard Widmark and Henry Fonda star in this critically acclaimed detective drama that takes a hard-hitting look at the lives and loves of New York Ci... Read more
Make Mine a Million (1959)
6.8/10
Director: Lance Comfort
Starring: Bernard Cribbins, Kenneth Connor, Sid James, Arthur Askey, Clive Morton
An ad-man teams up with a make-up artist in a cunning plot to advertise Bonko detergent on non-commercial television. Despite the trouble it causes, t... Read more
Metropolis (Reconstructed & Restored) ( Blu-ray ) (1927)
8.3/10
Director: Fritz Lang
Starring: Alfred Abel, Brigitte Helm, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Gustav Frohlich
Fritz Lang's masterwork, set in a towering city of the future whose populace is divided between the idle ruling class and the dehumanized workers who... Read more
Moby Dick ( Blu-ray ) (1956)
7.4/10
Director: John Huston
Starring: Bernard Miles, Gregory Peck, Harry Andrews, James Robertson Justice, Mervyn John...
Herman Melville's sea classic is brought to the screen with intensity by director John Huston. Starring Gregory Peck as Ahab, Richard Basehart as Ishm... Read more