Film Buffs get New Releases from Fox Cinema Archives

LOS ANGELES, CA (February 19, 2013) – Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment today introduced 23 new films to its manufacture-on-demand (MOD) series, Fox Cinema Archives. Designed for true collectors and film aficionados, Fox Cinema Archives goes deep into the studio’s vault each month to bring classic films featuring some of the biggest stars of the twentieth century to DVD for the first time.

Launched in 2012, Fox Cinema Archives has seen the release of more than 140 films from the Studio’s library. Movie lovers can purchase previously released and new films from the Fox Cinema Archives series at major online retailers and at www.foxconnect.com.

New titles available today include:

Warlock (1959), 122 min.

The town of Warlock is plagued by a gang of thugs, leading the inhabitants to hire Clay Blaisdell, a famous gunman, to act as marshal.

Clive of India (1935), 94 min.

In the mid-1700’s the East India Company has power over commerce with the blessings of the British government, and clerk, Robert Clive, is frustrated by his lack of advancement.

Wife, Husband and Friend (1939), 75 min.

Woman hopes to be a great singer and is encouraged by her scheming teacher. After she flops her husband, encouraged by an amorous professional singer tries opera and also flops.

Mister 880 (1950), 90 min.

The Skipper is a charming old man loved by all his neighbors. What they don’t know is that he is also Mr. 880, an amateurish counterfeiter who has amazingly managed to elude the Secret Service for 20 years.

Tender Is The Night (1962), 142 min.

A  tragic romance of the young actress Rosemary Hoyt and the stylish American couple Dick and Nicole Diver.

Remember the Day (1941), 86 min.

Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost.

Apartment For Peggy (1948), 96 min.

Professor Henry Barnes decides he’s lived long enough and contemplates suicide. His attitude is changed by Peggy Taylor, a chipper young mother-to-be who charms him into renting out his attic as an apartment for her and her husband. 

Coney Island (1943), 96 min.

Smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at friend and rival Joe Rocco’s Coney Island night spot.

Holiday For Lovers (1959), 103 min.

Robert Dean is an old-fashioned psychologist who reluctantly allows his oldest daughter Meg to join a four week tour in Sao Paulo before returning to college in America. 

The Marriage-Go-Round (1961), 98 min.

A Swedish woman wants her American host to father her baby.

A Message To Garcia (1936), 77 min.

Based on the actual event of Rowan’s carrying a message from President McKinley to Garcia in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. The parts of Dory and Raphalita are added.

Oh Men! Oh Women! (1957), 90 min.

Ginger Rogers, Dan Dailey’s bored housewife, seeks psychiatric help from Dr. David Niven who also solves his own emotional problems.

Something for the Birds (1952), 81 min.

Enviromentalist Anne Richards goes to Washington D. C. to fight for getting legislation passed to save the last remaining sanctuary of the almost-extinct California Condor.

Unfaithfully Yours (1948), 105 min.

Set to music, a symphony conductor envisions multiple possible scenarios for dealing with his wife’s infidelity.

Thanks A Million (1935), 87 min.

Entertainers enter a political rally to get out of the rain and become part of the show.

The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (1947), 85 min.

In the late 1800s, Miss Pilgrim, a young stenographer, or typewriter, becomes the first female employee at a Boston shipping office.

Wabash Avenue (1950), 92 min.

Andy Clark discovers he was cheated out of a half interest in partner Mike’s business, now a thriving dance hall in 1892 Chicago.

23 Paces To Baker Street (1956), 103 min.

Famed American playwright Phillip Hannon is in London making revisions to his play currently running in the West End.

Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence (1939), 62 min.

New York store clerk joins a hobo and an illegal immigrant heading for his newly bought land in Arizona.

Lisa (1962), 112 min.

When the end came for World War II, many Jews were spread around the free world and desired to return to Palestine. Lisa Held has been promised to be returned to her native land. 

Wilson (1944), 154 min.

A chronicle of the political career of US President Woodrow Wilson.

Raiders From Beneath The Sea (1965), 73 min.

A down-on-his-luck California apartment house manager hatches a plan to rob a Catalina Island bank–and escape with his accomplices using scuba gear.