![]() | Astaire & Rogers Ultimate Collector's Edition (Flying Down to Rio / The Gay Divorcee / Roberta / Top Hat / Follow the Fleet / Swing Time / Shall We Dance / Carefree / The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle / The Barkleys of Broadway)
Buy new: $87.99 / Used from: $71.99 Contains all of the films Astaire & Rogers made together. There is a bonus disc of material on Astaire & Rogers plus an audio CD of their musical numbers. You don't get this if you just buy volumes 1 & 2 separately.
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![]() | Lucille Ball Film Collection (Dance Girl Dance / The Big Street / Du Barry Was a Lady / Critic's Choice / Mame)
Buy new: $44.99 / Used from: $27.99 Get this and wonder to yourself why Lucille Ball had to wait for TV to come along to be a star. She shows incredible range in these five entertaining films. If you're expecting Lucy Ricardo style comedy you'll be disappointed. Extras are vintage cartoons and shorts including "Lucky Mame" which amounts to a 10 minute trailer
of the film "Mame".
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![]() | Bogie & Bacall - The Signature Collection (The Big Sleep / Dark Passage / Key Largo / To Have and Have Not) (1946)
Buy used from: $21.95 Another great collection.
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![]() | Humphrey Bogart - The Signature Collection, Vol. 1 (Casablanca Two-Disc Special Edition / The Treasure of the Sierra Madre Two-Disc Special Edition / They Drive by Night / High Sierra)
Buy new: $53.99 / Used from: $15.01 The films are first rate. There is the following overlap with other collections: "Casablanca-2 Disk Edition" is in the 18 Best Picture Pack. "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" is in the Warner Legends Collection.
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![]() | Humphrey Bogart - The Signature Collection, Vol. 2 (The Maltese Falcon Three-Disc Special Edition / Across the Pacific / Action in the North Atlantic / All Through the Night / Passage to Marseille)
Buy new: $42.99 / Used from: $46.15 You're getting an extra film here - the 1931 version of the Maltese Falcon. The other films could have easily devolved into dated WW II epics, but Bogart's acting keeps you intrigued. A must have.
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![]() | The Marlon Brando Collection (Julius Caesar / Mutiny on the Bounty 1962 / Reflections in a Golden Eye / The Teahouse of the August Moon / The Formula )
Buy new: $53.99 / Used from: $23.23 Contains more than its share of commentaries and featurettes about the various films. A real mixed bag of performances.
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![]() | James Cagney - The Signature Collection (The Bride Came C.O.D. / Captains of the Clouds / The Fighting 69th / Torrid Zone / The West Point Story)
Buy new: $44.99 / Used from: $24.95 These are not the top-tier of Cagney films, but they all feature great Cagney performances in enjoyable movies. There are no commentary tracks on these films and no biographical material. Instead you get the Warner Night at the Movies treatment - vintage shorts, cartoons, and newsreels per film.
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![]() | TCM Archives - The Lon Chaney Collection (The Ace of Hearts / Laugh, Clown, Laugh / The Unknown)
Buy new: $33.49 / Used from: $23.99 A good introduction to the actor and his work. Plenty of extra features to boot.
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![]() | The Chaplin Collection, Vol. 1 (Modern Times / The Great Dictator / The Gold Rush / Limelight)
Buy used from: $64.99 Four great double-disk editions of four great films by a master.
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![]() | The Chaplin Collection, Vol. 2 (City Lights / The Circus / The Kid / A King in New York / A Woman of Paris / Monsieur Verdoux / The Chaplin Revue / Charlie - The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin)
Buy used from: $138.55 Another must have. My only caution here is that the packaging design led to cramped space for the DVDs. Think about this if you wind up buying this set used.
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![]() | Chaplin Mutual Comedies: Restored 90th Anniversary Edition
Buy new: $59.99 / Used from: $33.99 Contains 12 two-reelers made in 1916 & 1917 for the Mutual Film corporation on two discs plus a text intro to each short film. A third disc is the 1975 documentary "The Gentleman Tramp", which is a biography on Chaplin along with a discussion of his work. The fourth disc has a documentary on Eric Campbell, the large Scottish actor who was Chaplin's foil in the Mutual series of comedies.
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![]() | Gary Cooper - The Signature Collection (Sergeant York / The Fountainhead / Dallas / Springfield Rifle / The Wreck of the Mary Deare)
Buy new: $36.49 / Used from: $30.93 Very enjoyable set of Cooper's films done at MGM and Warner Bros. Sergeant York comes in a double disk edition with Cooper biographical information. The Fountainhead has an informative featurette.
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![]() | The Joan Crawford Collection (Humoresque / Possessed (1947) / The Damned Don't Cry / The Women / Mildred Pierce)
Buy new: $44.99 / Used from: $23.99 Five great performances by Joan Crawford including her academy award winning one in "Mildred Pierce".
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![]() | The Joan Crawford Collection, Vol. 2 (A Woman's Face / Flamingo Road / Sadie McKee / Strange Cargo / Torch Song)
Buy new: $35.49 / Used from: $33.99 A second volume of the Joan Crawford Collection will be released in Feb. 2008 by WHV. Will contain Sadie McKee/Strange Cargo/A Woman's Face/Torch Song/Flamingo Road spanning from 1934 to 1953. Included will be biographical featurettes on Crawford's career.
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![]() | The Bette Davis Collection (The Star / Mr. Skeffington / Dark Victory / Now, Voyager / The Letter)
Buy used from: $30.98 All five films were Academy Award nominated performances by Davis.
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![]() | The Bette Davis Collection, Vol. 2 (Jezebel / What Ever Happened to Baby Jane Two-Disc Special Edition / The Man Who Came to Dinner / Marked Woman / Old Acquaintance / Stardust: The Bette Davis Story)
Buy used from: $44.09 This has a wider range of production dates than the first volume. This ranges from the 1930's with "Marked Woman" to the 1960's in "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?". Includes her second Oscar-winner "Jezebel".
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![]() | The Bette Davis Collection, Vol. 3 (The Old Maid / All This, And Heaven Too / The Great Lie / In This Our Life / Watch on the Rhine / Deception)
Buy new: $43.99 / Used from: $33.99 This third collection of Davis' films has commentary tracks on four of the films plus a featurette on Davis' career. Also included is the typical Warner Night at the Movies treatment of cartoons, newsreels, and classic shorts.
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![]() | Bette Davis Centenary Celebration Collection (All About Eve / Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte / The Virgin Queen / Phone Call from a Stranger / The Nanny)
Buy new: $35.99 / Used from: $28.98 5 films from the latter part of Ms. Davis' career at Fox. Two are double-dips - "Hush Sweet Charlotte" and "All About Eve". No info on special features yet, but Fox is usually good about including featurettes and commentary tracks on their classic DVDs.
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![]() | Doris Day Collection 1 (Billy Rose's Jumbo / Calamity Jane / The Glass Bottom Boat / Love Me or Leave Me / Lullaby of Broadway / The Pajama Game / Please Don't Eat the Daisies / Young Man with a Horn)
Buy new: $79.99 / Used from: $64.98 All DVDs are packed with bonus features including vintage shorts and featurettes, cartoons, trailers and more. However, there are no commentary tracks and no biographical material on Doris Day herself.
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![]() | The Doris Day Collection, Vol. 2 (Romance on the High Seas / My Dream Is Yours / On Moonlight Bay / I'll See You in My Dreams / By the Light of the Silvery Moon / Lucky Me)
Buy new: $41.49 / Used from: $32.53 Again you have great movies and good shorts, cartoons, and trailers, but nothing on the star herself and no commentary tracks.
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![]() | The Complete James Dean Collection (East of Eden / Giant / Rebel Without a Cause Special Edition)
Buy new: $46.99 / Used from: $35.00 How sad that, with the exception of some TV appearances and appearances as uncredited extras in films, this really IS the COMPLETE James Dean collection. Although you only get three films you get plenty of extra features and commentary tracks for the films. A must-have tribute to what might have been.
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![]() | The Errol Flynn Signature Collection, Vol. 1 (Captain Blood / The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex / The Sea Hawk / They Died with Their Boots On / Dodge City / The Adventures of Errol Flynn)
Buy new: $53.99 / Used from: $33.34 A must have. Five great performances by Flynn plus a bonus documentary on the star. Each of the films includes a featurette on the film or its subject matter.
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![]() | The Errol Flynn Signature Collection, Vol. 2 (The Charge of the Light Brigade / Gentleman Jim / The Adventures of Don Juan / The Dawn Patrol / Dive Bomber)
Buy new: $44.99 / Used from: $27.99 A second volume of Flynn pictures that are must haves. In case you're wondering, "Robin Hood" is already in the Warner Legends Collection. There is a commentary track on "Don Juan" and a featurette on "Dive Bomber". All other films get the standard Warner Night at the Movies treatment.
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![]() | Henry Fonda - The Signature Collection (Advise and Consent / Battle of the Bulge / Mister Roberts / The Wrong Man)
Buy new: $35.99 / Used from: $30.88 Pass on this one. Three of these films are in other collections. Just get "Mr. Roberts" separately.
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![]() | Clark Gable - The Signature Collection (Dancing Lady / China Seas / San Francisco / Wife vs. Secretary / Boom Town / Mogambo)
Buy new: $53.99 / Used from: $35.95 A good collection of Gable's work when he was at MGM and Warner's. Mogambo is actually a remake of the pre-code "Red Dust", which I would have preferred.
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![]() | Greta Garbo - The Signature Collection (Anna Christie / Mata Hari / Grand Hotel / Queen Christina / Anna Karenina / Camille / Ninotchka / Garbo Silents)
Buy new: $72.99 / Used from: $59.99 A must have. The great performances by the unique Garbo in silents and in talking pictures. The one possible overlap is that "Grand Hotel" is in Warner's 18 Best Picture pack bundle. Commentary is included on "Flesh and the Devil" and the silents. There is also a TCM documentary on Garbo's life and career.
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![]() | The Judy Garland Signature Collection (A Star is Born / The Wizard of Oz / The Harvey Girls / Love Finds Andy Hardy / In the Good Old Summertime / Ziegfeld Girl / For Me and My Gal)
Buy new: $71.99 / Used from: $43.22 The disadvantages in this set is "The Wizard of Oz" is now in both two and three disk editions sold separately. This set has the old 1-disc edition. Also in 2008 an Andy Hardy boxed set will include "Love Finds Andy Hardy", making this a double-dip if you plan to own both sets.
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![]() | The Cary Grant Signature Collection (Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House / Destination Tokyo / The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer / My Favorite Wife / Night and Day)
Buy new: $36.99 / Used from: $32.75 Cary Grant at war, in the suburbs, and with two wives. A good balance of comedy, drama, and action. There are no featurettes on Grant's career here, just the standard short subject and cartoon you normally find on WB classic DVDs.
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![]() | The Cary Grant Box Set (Holiday / Only Angels Have Wings / The Talk of the Town / His Girl Friday / The Awful Truth)
Buy new: $37.49 / Used from: $24.00 Put out by Sony, and a pretty good collection of films plus extras. His Girl Friday has a commentary track and most of the other films have at least one featurette. This is the only way to get Holiday on DVD in Region 1.
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![]() | Katharine Hepburn Collection (Morning Glory / Undercurrent / Sylvia Scarlett / Without Love / Dragon Seed / The Corn Is Green [1979])
Buy new: $53.99 / Used from: $24.37 A good range of performances including her first Best Actress performance in "Morning Glory". "Without Love" is actually a Tracy & Hepburn film. A good buy.
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![]() | The Hepburn & Tracy Signature Collection (Woman of the Year / Pat and Mike / Adam's Rib / The Spencer Tracy Legacy)
Buy new: $28.99 / Used from: $18.00 It may have only three films, but you get an excellent bonus disc on Spencer Tracy's career.
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![]() | The Alfred Hitchcock Signature Collection (Strangers on a Train Two-Disc Edition / North by Northwest / Dial M for Murder / Foreign Correspondent / Suspicion / The Wrong Man / Stage Fright / I Confess / Mr. and Mrs. Smith)
Buy used from: $38.84 This is a must have of Hitchcock films made at Warner's. Good extras too. The only possible problem is that "The Wrong Man" is in this and Henry Fonda's Signature Collection. Get this collection and pass on Fonda's.
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![]() | The Art of Buster Keaton (The General / Sherlock, Jr. / Our Hospitality / The Navigator / Steamboat Bill Jr. / College / Three Ages / Battling Butler / Go West / The Saphead / Seven Chances / 21 Short Films)
Buy new: $179.99 / Used from: $148.45 This very good set by Kino has all of the films that still exist from Keaton's independent days as a filmmaker. Keaton Plus has a combination of shorts, commercials, home movies, and other extras from his time after MGM cancelled his contract. Essential for any fan.
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![]() | Buster Keaton Collection (The Cameraman / Spite Marriage / Free & Easy)
Buy new: $35.99 / Used from: $20.88 If you don't know Buster Keaton's work go get "The Art of Buster Keaton". Once you see what he was capable of, get this set and see what the studio system did to the man. "Cameraman" is great, it is downhill from there. Included is the excellent 40 minute documentary "So Funny It Hurt" that talks about the sad end of Keaton at MGM.
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![]() | Gene Kelly Collection (Singin' in the Rain / An American in Paris / On the Town / Anatomy of a Dancer)
Buy new: $37.99 / Used from: $36.74 If you have the Warner 18 Best Picture pack, you already have "An American In Paris". That's the only duplication. There is plenty of bonus material here including "Anatomy of a Dancer" and the bonus disc of material for Singin' in the Rain.
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![]() | Burt Lancaster - The Signature Collection (The Flame and the Arrow / Jim Thorpe All-American / His Majesty O'Keefe / South Sea Woman / Executive Action)
Lancaster made most of his well-known films at United Artists and Columbia/Sony. This set would have been better had there been some material on Lancaster's career, but instead you get vintage shorts, newsreels, and cartoons. Executive Action includes a featurette "Nov. 22, 1963 - In Search of an Answer". There are no commentary tracks.
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![]() | The Harold Lloyd Comedy Collection Vols. 1-3
Buy new: $75.99 / Used from: $51.99 Definitely worth the money if you like silent film comedies. There is a bonus disc of featurettes, bios, and home movies. Also, there are commentary tracks on Lloyd's major silent features including "Safety Last", "The Freshman", "The Kid Brother", and "Speedy".
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![]() | Myrna Loy and William Powell Collection (Manhattan Melodrama / Evelyn Prentice / Double Wedding / I Love You Again / Love Crazy)
Buy new: $40.99 / Used from: $37.99 The five remaining films that Loy & Powell did together that were not yet on DVD. This collection features a vintage short and cartoon per film but no documentaries or commentary tracks. For that kind of info you need "The Thin Man" boxed set.
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![]() | The Lucy & Desi Collection (Too Many Girls / The Long Long Trailer / Forever, Darling)
Buy new: $19.99 / Used from: $14.74 A collection of films that are more for the fan of their TV show. "Too Many Girls" is the film where they first met.
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