Product Details

• Actors: Harry Akst, Warner Baxter, George Brent, Edna Callaghan, Wallis Clark
• Directors: Lloyd Bacon
• Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 237
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: Warner Home Video
• DVD Release Date: November 22, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000B8V97E
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #188,887 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Warner Classics Mega Collection" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

This is it. The ultimate gift for the ultimate movie lover. The greatest classics of all time from the world's largest, and most heralded film library. Warner Home Video and Amazon.com bring you an unprecedented mega-set of the most beloved and popular classic films of all time from the venerable studio's unparalleled potpourri of Hollywood essentials. All the great stars, the great moments, the most lauded and treasured films of all time, in one mind-boggling assemblage of cinematic greatness.. From Bogart's unforgettable romance with Ingrid Bergman in CASABLANCA, to his on-screen and off-screen love affair with Lauren Bacall, in TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT, Gene Kelly's incredible singin' and dancin' in the rain, to GWTW's Scarlett and Rhett, the swashbuckling adventures of Errol Flynn, the irresistible sleuthing of Powell and Loy in the Thin Man series, Charlton Heston's Oscar-winning chariot race against Stephen Boyd in BEN-HUR, the inspired lunacy of the Marx Bros., Orson Welles as Citizen Kane, Rosalind Russell as AUNTIE MAME. or Fred & Ginger at their very best. It's all here. Essential gangster classics, spectacular musicals, screwball comedies, mysteries, romances, & grand epics that define moviemaking. The Warner library draws not only from its own 80+ years of amazing films, but also all the pre-1986 films of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the RKO library, and several classics from independent producers. This group of specially selected classics has been brought together as an instant DVD library of the best films ever made, digitally remastered and painstakingly restored, and as is the hallmark of Warner Home Video releases, most of the titles come with a plethora of exciting extras. Fascinating behind-the-scenes documentaries, star biographies, vintage shorts, cartoons, featurettes, trailers, newsreels, and everything that has critics referring to Warner Home Video as the company that sets the "gold standard" for classic film presentations on DVD. Now their very best can be yours, to have and hold forever. Titles are:

42nd Street	Freaks	Objective Burma
Adventures of Robin Hood, The: Special Edition	Friendly Persuasion	Ocean's 11 (1960)
Advise and Consent	Fury	On the Town
Alice Adams	Gaslight	Operation Pacific
An American in Paris	Giant 2-Disc SE	Out of the Past
The Americanization of Emily	Gigi	Petrified Forest
Anchors Aweigh	Glass Bottom Boat	Philadelphia Story Two-Disc SE
Angels with Dirty Faces	Gold Rush, The	Please Don't Eat the Daisies
Anna Christie	Gone with the Wind 4-Disc Edition	Possessed '47
Anna Karenina	Goodbye Mr. Chips	The Prince and the Pauper
Annie Get Your Gun	Grand Hotel	The Prince and the Showgirl
Asphalt Jungle, The	Great Dictator, The	Private Lives of Elizabeth & Essex
Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer, The	Great Ziegfeld	Public Enemy
Bad Day at Black Rock	Gun Crazy	Queen Christina
The Band Wagon Two-Disc SE	Gunga Din	Random Harvest
The Barkleys of Broadway	Harvey Girls, The	Rebel without a Cause Two-Disc SE
Bells are Ringing	High Sierra	Rio Bravo
Ben Hur 4-Disc Edition	Horror of Dracula	The Roaring '20s
The Big Sleep	House of Wax (1953)	Robin and the Seven Hoods
Billy Rose's Jumbo	Humoresque	Scaramouche
Blackboard Jungle	Hunchback of Notre Dame 1939	The Sea Chase
Blood Alley	I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang	The Sea Hawk
Born to Kill	I Confess	Searchers, The
Boys Town	I Remember Mama	Set-up, The (1949)
Bridgadoon	In the Good Old Summertime	Shall We Dance (1937)
Bringing Up Baby Two-Disc SE	Jezebel	Shop Around the Corner
Butterfield 8	Key Largo	Show Boat
Camille	Kid, The	Singing' in the Rain Two-Disc SE
Captain Blood	Kim	Son of Lassie
Casablanca 2-Disc SE	King in New York/Woman in Paris, A	Stage Door
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof	King Kong 2-Disc SE	Stage Fright
Chaplin Revue	King of Kings	Stagecoach
Christmas Carol 1938	Lassie Come Home	The Star (1953)
Christmas in Connecticut 1945	Libeled Lady	Star is Born, A (1954)
The Cincinnati Kid	Limelight	Story of Sea Biscuit
Circus, The	Little Caesar	Strangers on a Train: Special Edition
Citizen Kane 2-Disc SE	Love Finds Andy Hardy	Suspicion
City Lights	Love in the Afternoon	Swing Time
Clash By Night	Love Me or Leave Me	Take Me Out to the Ballgame
Courage of Lassie	Lullaby of Broadway	Tall in the Saddle
Cowboys, The	The Maltese Falcon	Tarzan Collection
Crossfire	The Master of Ballantrae	Taste the Blood of Dracula
Curse of Frankenstein, The	Mata Hari	TCM Archives: Buster Keaton
The Damned Don't Cry	McQ	TCM Archives: Lon Chaney
Dark Passage	Mildred Pierce	That's Entertainment I
Dark Victory	Mister Roberts	That's Entertainment II
Day at the Races, A	Modern Times	That's Entertainment III
Days of Wine and Roses	Monsieur Verdoux	Them!
Designing Woman	Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)	They Died with their Boots on
Destination Tokyo	Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House	They Drive By Night
Dial M for Murder	Mr. Skeffington	The Thin Man Collection
Dillinger	Mrs. Miniver	To Be or Not to Be
Dinner at Eight	Mummy, The (1959)	To Have and Have Not
Doctor Zhivago 2-Disc S	Murder, My Sweet	Top Hat
Dodge City	Mutiny on the Bounty 1935	The Train Robbers
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	My Fair Lady 2-Disc SE	Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The: Special Edition
Dracula Has Risen From the Grave	My Favorite Wife	The Unsinkable Molly Brown
East of Eden Two-Disc SE	Narrow Margin	Where The Boys Are
Easter Parade Two-Disc SE	National Velvet	White Heat
Face in the Crowd	Never So Few	The Wizard of Oz Two-Disc SE
Father of the Bride	Night and Day	The Women
Finian's Rainbow	Night at the Opera, A	The Wrong Man
Follow the Fleet	Night in Casablanca, A	Yankee Doodle Dandy: Special Edition
For Me and My Gal	Ninotchka	The Yearling
Foreign Correspondent	North By Northwest	Young Man with a Horn
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed	Now Voyager	Ziegfeld Girl

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

34 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A great beginning, November 14, 2005

By	TJinPhilly "tjinphilly" (Philadelphia, PA United States) - See all my reviews

As a big movie buff and collector, and a big Warners fan, this is a great collection. God knows that I have spent more than $1500 collecting movies. Some people have criticised the cost, but, this is clearly designed for people like me, who are big collectors. Spending $1500 on this is no different than people who spend $1500 on a Steiff animal or porcelin dolls.

The only disappointment is that Warners has YET to put the movie that really made Warners a major player on DVD, The legendary "Jazz Singer" with Al Jolson. that one disc would complete my collection of the AFI top 100 films of all time. I'm really missing that classic. So, please Warner, if you see this, release the great 1927 classic and complete my collection.

47 of 65 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Instant DVD collection, September 24, 2005

By	joseph Corey "party favors columnist" (Raleigh, NC United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Over the course of three years, Warners has risen to the top of big studios when it comes to their treatment of vault titles. It seems like every month I've another Warners boxset coming in the mail. I'm still watching the Garbo collection. If you haven't had a chance to delight in not only their fine transfers, but amazing bonus shorts, this is it.

42 of 59 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Quite a Collection of About 198 Films, November 2, 2005

By	M. Hart "Sci-Fi Fan" (USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

The "Warner Classics Mega Collection" certainly contains a large number of classic films. Some of my favorites that are contained within this massive 198-film collection include the following:

* The classic children's tale of "The Wizard of Oz" (1939) starring Judy Garland (1922-1969)

* The Civil War drama of "Gone With the Wind" (1939) starring Clark Gable (1901-1960) and Vivien Leigh (1913-1967)

* The Roman/first-century story of "Ben-Hur" (1959) starring Charlton Heston

* The classic musical of "My Fair Lady" (1964) starring Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993), Rex Harrison (1908-1990) and Wilfrid Hyde-White (1903-1991)

* The gripping story set in Russia circa World War 1 and the Bolshevik Revolution of "Doctor Zhivago" (1965) starring Omar Sharif and Julie Christie

* The film based upon Ernest Hemingway's (1899-1961) classic novel "To Have and to Have Not" (1944) starring Humphrey Bogart (1899-1957) and Lauren Bacall in her big-screen debut

* The chilling sci-fi/horror film "Them!" (1954) starring James Whitmore and Joan Weldon

* The comedy "The Glass Bottom Boat" (1944) starring Doris Day and Rod Taylor

* The classic musical "Top Hat" (1935) starring Fred Astaire (1899-1987) and Ginger Rogers (1911-1995)

* The hilarious "To Be or Not to Be" (1942) starring Jack Benny (1894-1974) and Carole Lombard (1908-1942)

* The extremely funny "A Day at the Races" (1937) starring Groucho Marx (1890-1997), Harpo Marx (1888-1964), Chico Marx (1887-1961) and Margaret Dumont (1882-1965)

* The Equally funny "A Night at the Opera" (1935) also starring the Marx brothers and Margaret Dumont

* The chilling original version of "A Christmas Carol" (1938) starring Reginald Owen (1887-1972)

* The exciting "Blood Alley" (1955) starring John Wayne (1907-1979) and Lauren Bacall

Of course, this is but a small percentage of the total number of films contained in the "Warner Classics Mega Collection". Other well-known films include "Casablanca", "King Kong", "The Maltese Falcon", "Singin' in the Rain", "Rebel without a Cause", "Gigi", "The Searchers", "Giant" and "Rio Bravo" just to name a few more.

The advantage of purchasing such a large set of DVD's is that you never have to worry about purchasing them separately. If you're looking to have an instant DVD collection of very enjoyable films, this 198-film library would certainly please many individuals' tastes in film. Of course, if you already own one or more of the DVD's contained in this set, you may not want to duplicate the DVD's that you already have. Also, you might not want to purchase the set if there are films contained within it that you don't want or because of the set's price. Overall, though, the "Warner Classics Mega Collection" is a very interesting mammoth-sized DVD collection that I give a combined rating of 4 out of 5 stars.