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'.
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
Watch on the Rhine (1943)
7.4/10
Director: Herman Shumlin
Starring: Bette Davis, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Paul Lukas
Anti-Fascist German engineer Kurt Muller (Paul Lukas), with his American-born wife, Sara (Bette Davis), and their three children, returns to the Unite... Read more
In This Our Life (1942)
7.5/10
Director: John Huston
Starring: Bette Davis, Charles Coburn, Dennis Morgan, George Brent, Olivia de Havilland
In this melodrama, pampered sibling Stanley Timberlake (Bette Davis) is 24 hours away from marrying her lawyer fiancé, Craig Fleming (George Brent), w... Read more
The Great Lie (1941)
7.3/10
Director: Edmund Goulding
Starring: Bette Davis, George Brent, Mary Astor
After her long-time boyfriend, pilot Pete Van Allen (George Brent), marries fiery concert pianist Sandra Kovak (Mary Astor) while drunk, Maggie Patter... 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
The Mortal Storm (1940)
7.9/10
Director: Frank Borzage
Starring: James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, Robert Young
Professor Victor Roth (Frank Morgan) enjoys a tranquil life with his family in Germany. His daughter Freya (Margaret Sullavan) is courted both by Mart... Read more
James Stewart: The Shop Around the Corner / The Stratton Story / The FBI Story / The Spirit of St Louis (1940)
8.9/10
Director: Billy Wilder, Ernst Lubitsch, Mervyn LeRoy, Sam Wood
Starring: Agnes Moorehead, Frank Morgan, James Stewart, June Allyson, Margaret Sullavan, M...
James Stewart Box Set. 'The Shop Around the Corner' (1940) - Alfred Kralik (Stewart) and Klara Novak (Margaret Sullavan) are employees at Matuschek an... 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 Return of Frank James (1940)
6.7/10
Director: Fritz Lang
Starring: Henry Fonda, Gene Tierney, Jackie Cooper, Henry Hull
Fabled Missouri outlaw Frank James, brother of the legendary Jesse James straps on his six-shooters and rides out for revenge in director Fritz Lang's... Read more
The Old Maid (1939)
7.7/10
Director: Edmund Goulding
Starring: Bette Davis, George Brent, Miriam Hopkins
After disappearing for two years, Clem Spender (George Brent) returns on the day his former fiancée, Delia (Miriam Hopkins), is marrying another man.... Read more