James Cagney: The Signature Collection Debuts on DVD from Warner Home Video April 24.BURBANK, Calif. -- On April 24, Warner Home Video Warner Home Video is the home video unit of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group, a division of Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. It was founded in 1978 as WCI Home Video (for Warner Communications, Inc.). It was re-named Warner Home Video in 1980. will honor one of America's greatest motion picture stars with the release of James Cagney: The Signature Collection. The Oscar([R]) winning screen icon comes to life in this collection that includes five new-to-DVD films - The Bride Came C.O.D., Captain of the Clouds, The Clouds, The attacks Socrates and his philosophy. [Gk. Drama: Haydn & Fuller, 144] See : Satire Fighting 69(th), Torrid Zone and The West Point Story. Cagney's versatile talent is on display opposite a star-studded array of screen favorites including Bette Davis, Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Virginia Mayo, Ann Sheridan and Pat O'Brien. Special features on each title in the Collection include the entertaining "Warner Night at the Movies" short subject galleries with vintage newsreels, vault treasures and classic cartoons. James Cagney: The Signature Collection will be available as a giftset with superslim packaging for $49.92 SRP SRP - A data link layer protocol. and the individual titles will sell for $19.97 SRP. The Bride Came C.O.D (1941) Stars James Cagney and Bette Davis, scripted by Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein Philip G. Epstein (August 22, 1909 – February 7, 1952) was an American screenwriter most known for his adaptation in partnership with his twin brother, Julius, and others of the unproduced play Everybody Comes to Rick's . The stars spar with harebrained hare·brained adj. Foolish; flighty: a harebrained scheme. Usage Note: The first use of harebrained dates to 1548. zest as a pilot hired to kidnap an about-to-elope heiress, and the happy result from start to end is C.O.D. - Comedy on Demand. Captains of the Clouds (1942) One of the first war-themed films to hit theatres after America entered World War II tells the expansive tale of rugged bush pilots who bring their flying savvy to the Royal Canadian Air Force. James Cagney plays pilot Brian MacLean with grit and swagger. The Fighting 69(th) (1940) James Cagney and Pat O'Brien play soldiers of the famed, largely Irish-American World War I regiment, the Fighting 69th. O'Brien is Father Duffy, the brave chaplain whose statue stands today in Manhattan's Times Square. Cagney is Jerry Plunkett, a street-tough braggart turned yellow by the horror of No Man's Land, but inspired to redemptive heroism by Duffy's courage under fire. Torrid Zone (1940) James Cagney and Pat O'Brien team up in this action comedy set in a Central American "Banana" Republic. Sheridan portrays wisecracking chanteuse chan·teuse n. A woman singer, especially a nightclub singer. [French, feminine of chanteur, singer, from chanter, to sing; see chant.] Lee Donley who's the lure to keep the plantation's best man (Cagney) from leaving the company. The West Point Story (1950) Yankee Doodle Dandy Yankee Doodle Dandy feather-capped dandy; “handy” with the girls. [Nurs. Rhyme: Opie, 439] See : Foppishness Academy Award[R] winner James Cagney puts on his dancing shoes again for this merry musical comedy packed with spirited starpower and lively tunes by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn. |
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