A comprehensive list of all December 19th releases can be found at
DVD Aficionado.
Of interest to me (and maybe to you too):
Warner Home Video releases the first six winners of its DVD Decision 2006, all of which are new to DVD (otherwise it would have been a rather silly contest):
Best Foot Forward (1943, Edward Buzzell): Amazon.com Exclusive
The Illustrated Man (1969, Jack Smight)
Operation Crossbow (1965, Michael Anderson)
Presenting Lily Mars (1943, Norman Taurog)
There Was A Crooked Man... (1970, Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Up Periscope (1959, Gordon Douglas)
The 1924 Douglas Fairbanks Classic,
The Black Pirate (Albert Parker)
The suprise hit of the summer, the superb
Little Miss Sunshine (2006, Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris)
And where would we be without Alpha? This week, out favorite monitor of the public domain brings us, among others:
Atomic Age Classics, Vol. 4: Venereal Disease and YouAtomic Age Classics, Vol. 5: "C" Is for CommunistAmos 'n' Andy in
Check and Double-Check (1930, Melville W. Brown)
Delightfully Dangerous (1945, Arthur Lubin) with Jane Powell and Ralph Bellamy
Harlem Double Feature: Lena Horne's film debut,
The Duke is Tops (1938, William L. Nolte) has been paired with the Cab Calloway vehicle
Hi-De-Ho (1947, Josh Binney).
Harlem Double Feature: The Clarence Brooks films
Murder in Harlem (1935, Oscar Michaux) and
Harlem Rides the Range (1938, Richard C. Kahn) make up the other set.
And, most importantly, the 1932 version of
Vanity Fair (Chester M. Franklin), starring Myrna Loy as Becky Sharp.
