Starring: Alastair Sim, Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, Mervyn Johns, and Hermione Baddeley.
DVD Features: Black and White and Colorized Version, Audio Commentary by Marcus Hearn and George Cole, "Spirit of Christmas Past"--George Cole remembers Alistair Sim, "Richard Gordon Remembers George Minter & Renown Pictures", "Charles Dickens--His Life and Times", Before & After Restoration Comparison, Optional Narrative for the Blind, Photo & Press Book Gallery, Cast Bios, Original American and British Theatrical Trailers, Bonus Movie: "Scrooge" (1935 Seymour Hicks Version).
See many more A Christmas Carol adaptations in the "Scrooge" Movies section.
Starring: Jimmy Durante, Terry Moore, Tom Drake, Frank Orth, and Sara Haden.
DVD Features: Includes both a fully restored and remastered black & white version and a new colorized version, and an audio commentary by star Terry Moore.
DVD Features: Audio commentary by actors Dina Merrill and Neva Patterson, Movietone News: Designers Inspired for New Creation by Film Desk Set, and a Still gallery.
Starring: Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Virginia Dale, and Marjorie Reynolds.
DVD Features: All new colorized version (original Black and White is also included, featurette on the colorization, and the soundtrack on CD. Special features carried over from previous Special Edition: Audio Commentary by film historian Ken Barnes with archive audio comments by Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, and John Scott Trotter, "A Couple of Song and Dance Men:" a retrospective of Crosby and Astaire featuring an interview with Ava Astaire-MacKenzie, "All Singing, All Dancing:" a look at the song and dance numbers of Holiday Inn, and the Original theatrical trailer.
Starring: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell, and Henry Travers.
DVD Features: Features the remastered black and white transfer from the previous release, but also a brand new colorized version as well. Also contains the same special features from the previous releases: Documentary "The Making of It's a Wonderful Life" narrated by Tom Bosley, A special tribute to Frank Capra, "A Personal Remeberance" from "Frank Capra Jr," and the Original Theatrical Trailer.
DVD Features: Includes the colorized and original Black and White versions and Max Fleischer's animated Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
NOTE: This movie has been released on DVD by several distributors and according to the reviews (seen on this Amazon page), this seems to be the best version. However, MGM now owns the rights and has released the original, uncut version, as well on their Holiday Collection box set, and that is the ONLY version released by a major studio.
Starring: Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor, Anna Smith, Lucille Bremer, Leon Ames, and Tom Drake.
DVD Features:Disc One: All-new 60th anniversary "Ultra-Resolution" digitial transfer from restored picture and sound elements (remasterd in Dolby 5.1), New Introduction by Liza Minnelli, New Commentary by Garland biographer John Fricke with Margaret O'Brien, screenwriter Irving Brecher, songwriter Hugh Martin and daughter of producer Arthur Freed, Barbara Freed-Saltzman, Music-only track (without vocals), Vincente Minnelli trailer gallery. Disc Two: "Meet Me in St. Louis: The Making of an American Classic" (Narrated by Roddy McDowall), "Hollywood: The Dream Factory" (Home video dubut of the Emmy-Award winning 1972 MGM-TV special, narrated by Dick Cavett), "Becoming Attractions: Judy Garland" (1996 TCM special), "Meet Me in St. Louis" (1966 TV pilot with Shelley Fabares and Celeste Holm), "Bubbles" (1930 Warner Bros. short featuring Judy Garland at age 7), "Skip To My Lou" (Rare 1941 musical short with Meet Me in St. Louis composers Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane), Audio Vault: Boys and Girls Like You and Me outtake (re-construction using still photographs); Lux Radio Theater Broadcast from December 2, 1946, Stills Gallery.
Starring: Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Gene Lockhart, and Natalie Wood.
DVD Features: 2 Disc Set includes the original Black and White Version and Colorized Version as well, with an Audio Commentary, Hollywood Backstory, Movietone News: Hollywood Spotlight, Promotional Short, The 20th Century Fox Hour of Stars: Miracle on 34th Street, and Featurette: Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade: Floating in History
DVD Features: "A New Romance of Celluloid" featurette, "The Miracle of Sound," Theatrical trailers for this and its remakes: In the Good Old Summertime and You've Got Mail, "A Great Story is Worth Retelling," and Production Notes.
Starring: Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen.
DVD Features: Backstage Stories from White Christmas, Rosemary's Old Kentucky Home, Bing Crosby: Christmas Crooner, Danny Kaye: Joy to the World, Irving Berlin's White Christmas, White Christmas: From Page to Stage, Commentary by Rosemary Clooney, White Christmas: A Look Back with Rosemary Clooney, Original Theatrical Trailer, and Theatrical Re-Release Trailer.
Includes four classic films: The Bishop's Wife, March of the Wooden Soldiers, and Pocketful of Miracles.
NOTE: This is the ONLY major studio release of March of the Wooden Soldiers (other DVDs are from second-rate distributors) and is only available in this box set.
