``You Must Remember This'' ... ; Warner Home Video Celebrates 100 Years of America's Greatest Movie Legend March 7 With ``The Humphrey Bogart Collection''.

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Available Are New-To-Video Titles, Two Special

Editions, DVDs &More

As time goes by, the great Warner Bros. motion picture star Humphrey Bogart gets greater.

In fact, 100 years have gone by since Bogart was born. He appeared in 85 films and was nominated three times for Best Actor Oscars(R), winning once for &uot;The African Queen&uot; in 1951. Bogart was recently chosen the American Film Institute's (AFI) No. 1 male screen legend of all time.

On March 7, Warner Home Video (WHV) will celebrate this icon of American film by re-introducing 18 Bogart classics with &uot;The Humphrey Bogart Collection.&uot; All videos in the collection will be available for a limited time only at the suggested retail price (SRP) of $14.95.

Three Titles New to Video

Three first-time video releases, &uot;The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse,&uot; &uot;Black Legion&uot; and &uot;The Wagons Roll at Night&uot; highlight &uot;The Humphrey Bogart Collection,&uot; with other top titles including John Huston's three-time Academy Award(R)-winning &uot;The Treasure of the Sierra Madre&uot; (co-starring Walter Huston), &uot;To Have and Have Not&uot; (the first teaming of Bogart with wife Lauren Bacall), &uot;The Petrified Forest&uot; (with Bogart opposite Bette Davis), &uot;The Big Sleep&uot; (with Bogart as detective Philip Marlowe), &uot;High Sierra&uot; (&uot;...the movie that marked Bogart as a towering star who would redefine crime movies and action films...&uot;(1)) and &uot;Key Largo&uot; (the third of eight movies that Bogart and director John Huston made together).

Bogart Collectibles On DVD &VHS 

Special Editions of &uot;The Maltese Falcon&uot; and &uot;Casablanca&uot; -- both on the AFI's 100 Best Films of All Time -- are being made available on VHS and DVD concurrently with &uot;The Bogart Collection.&uot; The Special Editions, digitally re-mastered, contain documentaries, original theatrical trailers and limited-edition collector's cards. &uot;The Maltese Falcon&uot; debuts today on VHS and Feb. 15 on DVD. Both are priced to own on VHS at $19.98 SRP and on DVD at $24.98 SRP.

The AFI recently selected &uot;The Maltese Falcon&uot; as the film to represent Bogart's career. The Special Edition contains the documentary, &uot;Becoming Attractions: The Trailers of Humphrey Bogart&uot; (hosted by Turner Classic Movies' Robert Osborne), which traces Bogart's Warner Bros. career. &uot;Casablanca,&uot; AFI's No. 2 greatest movie of all time, co-starred Bogart and Ingrid Bergman and went on to win the Academy Award(R) for Best Picture. The Special Edition contains the documentary &uot;You Must Remember This&uot; and a special introduction by Lauren Bacall.

&uot;The Big Sleep&uot; and &uot;Key Largo&uot; will also debut on digitally re-mastered DVDs (at $24.98 SRP) on Feb. 15.

&uot;The Big Sleep&uot; DVD offers the rare opportunity to view two versions of this classic film noir. The original cut was finished in 1945 but never released. By the time the release was scheduled, Lauren Bacall (now Mrs. Bogart) had achieved smashing success in &uot;To Have and Have Not,&uot; so several scenes were reshot to better display Bacall and to heighten the couple's on-screen chemistry. This second version, released in 1946, is the one watched and admired all these years. The DVD also contains a documentary analyzing the two versions.

In &uot;Key Largo,&uot; Bogart plays a war veteran who travels to Florida where he tangles with Edward G. Robinson as Johnny Rocco, a tough mobster holding hotel guests captive during a tropical storm. Director John Huston and Richard Brooks, later a major filmmaker himself, co-wrote the screenplay based on Maxwell Anderson's Broadway hit. The top-notch cast also features Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Gomez and Claire Trevor, who won an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress as Robinson's boozy moll.

Bogart and Bacall

Bogart and Bacall's unique chemistry will be showcased in the VHS &uot;Bogart &Bacall Collection,&uot; available for a limited time only and priced at $59.92 SRP. The four-volume boxed set includes &uot;The Big Sleep Theatrical Release Version,&uot; &uot;Dark Passage,&uot; &uot;Key Largo&uot; and &uot;To Have and Have Not&uot; -- as well as a free bonus documentary, &uot;Bacall on Bogart.&uot; This loving remembrance, hosted by the woman who shared Bogart's life, includes a rich array of insider material -- color home movies, interviews with Bogart collaborators (among them Katharine Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman and John Huston) and more.

A comprehensive new &uot;Humphrey Bogart Collection&uot; Web site, www.bogartfilms.com is scheduled to debut Feb. 11. Visitors will find detailed information about Bogart's films and his career, as well as posters, stills, trivia, a downloadable Bogart screensaver and more. A unique feature of the site will allow anyone to share memories of Bogart and his films and a selection of the best will be posted.

With operations in 78 international territories -- more than the video division of any other studio -- Warner Home Video commands the largest distribution infrastructure in the global video marketplace. WHV'S film library is the largest of any studio, offering top-quality new and vintage titles from the repertoires of Warner Bros., Turner Entertainment Company, Castle Rock Entertainment, HBO Home Video and New Line Home Video.

(1) Michael Sragow, New York Times