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'.
Red Dust (1932)
7.4/10
Director: Victor Fleming
Starring: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Mary Astor
Clark Gable runs a rubber plantation in Indo-China and finds he is attracted to both of his female visitors. Will he stick with the brazen bad girl Je... Read more
Rescue Dawn (Blu-ray) (2006)
7.3/10
Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Christian Bale, Jeremy Davies, Steve Zahn
During the Vietnam War, Dieter Dengler (Christian Bale), a U.S. fighter pilot, is shot down over Laos and taken captive by enemy soldiers. Interned in... Read more
Samson and Delilah ( Blu-ray ) (1949)
6.8/10
Director: Cecil B DeMille
Starring: Angela Lansbury, George Sanders, Hedy Lamarr, Henry Wilcoxon, Victor Mature
Journey through time to a gloriously extravagant setting of lust, violence, and treachery in this Oscar-winning adventure from legendary filmmaker Cec... Read more
Seconds (1966)
7.7/10
Director: John Frankenheimer
Starring: Rock Hudson, Salome Jens, John Randolph, Will Geer
Rock Hudson is a revelation in this sinister, science-fiction-inflected dispatch from the fractured 1960s. "Seconds", directed by John Frankenheimer,... Read more
Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics (2010)
7.8/10
Director: Mac Carter
Starring: David Cronenberg, Frank Langella, George Reeves, Margot Kidder, Pat Boone, Sam H...
What personal tragedy helped inspire the creation of Superman? What pop phenomenon put Batman back on the cultural radar? What changes to Wonder Woman... Read more
See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989)
6.8/10
Director: Arthur Hiller
Starring: Gene Wilder, Joan Severance, Kevin Spacey, Richard Pryor
It was murder! The blind guy couldn't see it. The deaf guy couldn't hear it. But now they're both wanted for it in the drop-dead comedy, SEE NO EVIL,... Read more
Shivers (1975)
6.6/10
Director: David Cronenberg
Starring: Barbara Steele, Joe Silver, Lynn Lowry, Paul Hampton
Aka 'They Came from Within', 'The Parasite Murders'. Initially reviled in its native land (some critics took exception to the fact the film was largel... Read more
Silver Linings Playbook ( Blu-ray ) (2012)
7.7/10
Director: David O Russell
Starring: Chris Tucker, Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Jacki Weaver
Pat Solatano (Bradley Cooper) has lost everything - his house, his job and his wife. He finds himself living back with his mother (Jacki Weaver) and f... Read more
Some Like It Hot ( Blu-ray ) (1959)
8.3/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: George Raft, Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe, Pat O'Brien, Tony Curtis, Joe E Brown
Perhaps the funniest American film of the 1950's, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon play two second rate musicians on the run from the Chicago mob, who take... Read more
Spencer Tracy: Captains Courageous / Bad Day at Black Rock / Boys Town / Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1954)
7.9/10
Director: John Sturges, Norman Taurog, Victor Fleming
Starring: Freddie Bartholomew, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner, Mickey Rooney, Spencer Tracy
Spencer Tracy Box Set. 'Captains Courageous' (1937) - In this adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's classic, wealthy 10-year-old Harvey Cheyne (Freddie Bart... Read more