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'.
Stir Crazy (1980)
6.8/10
Director: Sidney Poitier
Starring: Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor
STIR CRAZY teams two of the most brilliant and zany comic performers of their day: Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder. Skip (Wilder) and Harry (Pryor) have... Read more
Easter Parade ( Blu-ray ) (1948)
7.5/10
Director: Charles Walters
Starring: Ann Miller, Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, Peter Lawford
Fred Astaire and Judy Garland's only movie together was this spectacular Irving Berlin musical. After splitting with longtime dance partner Ann Miller... Read more
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral ( Blu-ray ) (1957)
7.2/10
Director: John Sturges
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Jo Van Fleet, John Ireland, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming
Superbly mounted, landmark western that authentically depicts the famous showdown between Wyatt Earp and 'Doc' Holliday and the Clanton Gang, while ex... Read more
No Highway in the Sky (1951)
7.3/10
Director: Henry Koster
Starring: Glynis Johns, Jack Hawkins, James Stewart, Janette Scott, Marlene Dietrich
Theodore Honey (James Stewart) is a mathematician charged with discovering what caused the crash of a "Reindeer" airliner. As he travels to investigat... Read more
The Artist (Blu-ray) (2011)
7.9/10
Director: Michel Hazanavicius
Starring: James Cromwell, John Goodman, Penelope Ann Miller, Berenice Bejo, Jean Dujardin
Five Academy Awards--including Best Picture, Director, and Actor--went to this magical, mostly silent seriocomedy set in 1927 Hollywood. As screen ido... Read more
The Moneychangers (2076)
Director: Boris Sagal
Starring: Anne Baxter, Christopher Plummer, Kirk Douglas, Timothy Bottoms
An adaptation of Arthur Hailey's novel about corruption and infighting in the world of high finance, centering on two bank VPs who are after the top j... Read more
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
7.5/10
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Starring: Robert Walker, Spencer Tracy, Van Johnson, Phyllis Thaxter
This exciting true-life adventure is about the first bombing attack on Tokyo during WW II. It follows Lt Col Jimmy Doolittle (Spencer Tracy) and his m... Read more
Judgment at Nuremberg ( Blu-ray ) (1961)
8.2/10
Director: Stanley Kramer
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland, Marlene Dietrich, Maximilian Schell, Montgomery Cl...
In 1948 the trials of Germans for crimes against humanity where drawing to a close and this film examines one of the lesser trials, in which four judg... 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
The Little Foxes (1941)
8.2/10
Director: William Wyler
Starring: Bette Davis, Dan Duryea, Herbert Marshall, Richard Carlson, Teresa Wright
It's the turn of the century in the Deep South, and the Hubbard siblings are embroiled in their own money-driven, power-hungry civil war. The most cal... Read more