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DVD review of Warner Classics Mega Collection

What can I say? This is simply the largest collection of classic movies that I’ve ever seen, or imagined for that matter. What amazed me when I looked at the list was not how many I hadn’t seen, but how many that I had - and how many of my favorites were here. What I’ve done is bold the items in the list that I enjoy and recommend.

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Product Description of Warner Classics Mega Collection

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.

Warner Classics Mega Collection Titles are:

42nd Street
“Come and meet, those dancing feet ...” one of the original great musicals. I’m a fan of musicals, and truly love this depression-era “the show must go on” story
The Adventures of Robin Hood : Special Edition
Errol Flynn is the quintessential Robin Hood
Advise and Consent
Alice Adams
An American in Paris
One of my favorite Gene Kelly movies
Anchors Aweigh
Angels with Dirty Faces
Anna Christie
Anna Karenina
Annie Get Your Gun
Asphalt Jungle, The
Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer, The
Bad Day at Black Rock
Bells are Ringing
Ben Hur 4-Disc Edition
One of Charlton Heston’s signature films - a great movie, and an even better book
Billy Rose’s Jumbo
Blackboard Jungle
Blood Alley
Born to Kill
Boys Town
Bridgadoon
Another classic Gene Kelly musical, with a great musical score - happy, sad, bittersweet and triumphant.
Bringing Up Baby Two-Disc SE
A wonderful screwball comedy
Butterfield 8
Camille
Captain Blood
Casablanca 2-Disc Special Edition
One of the great films, starring Humphrey Bogart and a cast of film greats
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Chaplin Revue
a wonderful collection of some of Charlie Chaplin’s short films strung together - read the review for detail
Christmas Carol 1938
Christmas in Connecticut 1945
The Circus
Another classic by Charlie Chaplin
Citizen Kane 2-Disc Special Edition
Orson Welles great film - one of my favorites
City Lights
Another classic from Charlie Chaplin - the story of the Tramp attempting to help the blind flower girl
Clash By Night
Courage of Lassie
The Cowboys
one of the greatest cowboy movies of all time - as well as one of the best coming-of-age films ever. It was a Father’s Day present that I gave to my Dad some years ago
Crossfire
Curse of Frankenstein, The
Dark Passage
Dark Victory
A Day at the Races
One of the Marx Brothers’ finest films
Days of Wine and Roses
Designing Woman
Destination Tokyo
Dial M for Murder
Dillinger
Dinner at Eight
Doctor Zhivago 2-Disc S
Dodge City
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Dracula Has Risen From the Grave
East of Eden Two-Disc SE
Easter Parade Two-Disc Special Edition
another wonderful musical, starring Fred Astaire and Judy Garland
Face in the Crowd
Father of the Bride
Finian’s Rainbow
Follow the Fleet
For Me and My Gal
Foreign Correspondent
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
Freaks
Friendly Persuasion
Fury
Gaslight
Giant 2-Disc SE
Gigi
Glass Bottom Boat
The Gold Rush
Another classic silent film from Charlie Chaplin, highly recommended
Gone with the Wind 4-Disc Edition
Goodbye Mr. Chips
Grand Hotel
The Great Dictator
Possibly Charlie Chaplin’s best known film, satirizing Hitler’s Nazi Germany
Great Ziegfeld
Gun Crazy
Gunga Din
Harvey Girls, The
High Sierra
Horror of Dracula
House of Wax (1953)
Humoresque
Hunchback of Notre Dame 1939
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
I Confess
I Remember Mama
I still fondlyremember watching this in the eight grade - family still comes first
In the Good Old Summertime
Jezebel
Key Largo
The Kid
Charlie Chaplin’s first full-length film, and a must-see film. Highly recommended.
Kim
King Kong 2-Disc Special Edition
Most people remember Fay Raye in this film, but I remember Willis O’Brien - the father of model animation
A King in New York/Woman in Paris
Chaplin again!
King of Kings
Lassie Come Home
Libeled Lady
Limelight
Charlie Chaplin again, my favorite speaking film of Chaplin - and in my personal top 10 list of films.
Little Caesar
Love Finds Andy Hardy
Love Me or Leave Me
Love in the Afternoon
Lullaby of Broadway
Mata Hari
McQ
Mildred Pierce
Mister Roberts
A truly great film, with a great performance by Henry Fonda
Modern Times
Charlie Chaplin again, with a satire on our mechanical age
Monsieur Verdoux
A very dark Charlie Chaplin comedy
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
Mr. Skeffington
Mrs. Miniver
Mummy, The (1959)
Murder, My Sweet
Mutiny on the Bounty 1935
My Fair Lady 2-Disc SE
My Favorite Wife
Narrow Margin
National Velvet
Never So Few
Night and Day
A Night at the Opera
The Marx Brothers’ most famous movie, and justly so
Night in Casablanca
the Marx Brothers’ final film together - and one of my favorites
Ninotchka
North By Northwest
Now Voyager
Objective Burma
Ocean’s 11 (1960)
On the Town
Operation Pacific
Out of the Past
Petrified Forest
Philadelphia Story Two-Disc SE
Please Don’t Eat the Daisies
Possessed ‘47
Private Lives of Elizabeth & Essex
Public Enemy
Queen Christina
Random Harvest
Rebel without a Cause Two-Disc SE
Rio Bravo
Robin and the Seven Hoods
Scaramouche
Searchers, The
Set-up, The (1949)
Shall We Dance (1937)
Shop Around the Corner
Show Boat
Singing’ in the Rain Two-Disc SE
Son of Lassie
Stage Door
Stage Fright
Stagecoach
Star is Born, A (1954)
Story of Sea Biscuit
Strangers on a Train: Special Edition
Suspicion
Swing Time
TCM Archives: Buster Keaton
TCM Archives: Lon Chaney
Take Me Out to the Ballgame
Tall in the Saddle
Tarzan Collection
Taste the Blood of Dracula
That’s Entertainment I
That’s Entertainment II
That’s Entertainment III
The Americanization of Emily
The Band Wagon Two-Disc SE
The Barkleys of Broadway
The Big Sleep
The Cincinnati Kid
The Damned Don’t Cry
The Maltese Falcon
The Master of Ballantrae
The Prince and the Pauper
The Prince and the Showgirl
The Roaring ‘20s
The Sea Chase
The Sea Hawk
The Star (1953)
The Thin Man Collection
The Train Robbers
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
The Wizard of Oz Two-Disc SE
The Women
The Wrong Man
The Yearling
Them!
They Died with their Boots on
They Drive By Night
To Be or Not to Be
To Have and Have Not
Top Hat
Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The: Special Edition
Where The Boys Are
White Heat
Yankee Doodle Dandy: Special Edition
Young Man with a Horn
Ziegfeld Girl