5 Digitally Remastered Romances all new to DVD (Jan 27)

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FIVE Digitally Remastered Romances all new to DVD, from Warner Home Video!

On January 27, Warner Home Video will release another five classic, all new-to-DVD romantic film favorites, available as single titles and each selling for $19.97 SRP. Now fully restored and remastered, in the original uncut versions!

The Five Romance Titles include »

• Far from the Madding Crowd (175 minutes)
• Goodbye Mr. Chips (156 minutes)
• The Yellow Rolls Royce (122 minutes)
• Waterloo Bridge (108 minutes)
• Cannery Row (120 minutes)

Note: all 5 films mastered in 16x9 Widescreen (except for 1940's Waterloo Bridge, which was not filmed in the widescreen ratio).

Film Synopsis & Production Notes:

FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (1967)
Her romance with 3 men becomes a bold adventure.
Julie Christie rejoins the writer and director of her starmaking Darling (1965) in Thomas Hardy's tale of a rebellious country girl for whose affection soldier Terence Stamp, landowner Peter Finch and sheep farmer Alan Bates becomes rivals. National Board of Review Awards for Best Picture and Best Actor! This release presents the film in its original uncut form, as seen in its international release.

Julie Christie and Terence Stamp star in John Schlesinger's adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic novel. In rural Victorian England, circa 1865, a headstrong young woman (Christie) inherits her dead uncle's farm. Soon after, three very different men begin to pursue her: a failed sheep farmer (Alan Bates); a wealthy landowner (Peter Finch); and the one she falls in love with, a reckless military sergeant (Stamp) whose reputation precedes him.

A highly acclaimed, and lavish screen adaptation of Thomas Hardy´s 19th century novel, Far From the Madding Crowd is a masterful achievement from Oscar winning director, John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy). The film reunited Schlesinger with the magnificent Julie Christie (Dr. Zhivago), who won a Best Actress Oscar for her performance in his 1965 film Darling. In this epic love story, Christie shares the screen with a cast of equally acclaimed actors, as she portrays Bathsheba, a wild passionate girl who captures the hearts of three very different men: a sheep farmer (Alan Bates), a prosperous confirmed bachelor (Peter Finch) and a handsome yet reckless swordsman (Terence Stamp).

GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS (1969)
He's a shy schoolmaster. She's a music hall star. They marry and immediately have 283 children... all boys!
GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS is a remake of an older film where an elder teacher and former boarding school headmaster looks back upon his career and personal life over the decades. The magnificent Peter O'Toole earned a Best Actor Oscar nomination, and won a Golden Globe Best Actor award for his portrayal of the title role in this 1969 musical adaptation of the famed James Hilton novel. O'Toole and his leading lady Petula Clark are a beguiling romantic duo taking on the roles first established on the screen by Robert Donat and Greer Garson in 1939 original. Terrence Rattigan's screenplay is embellished by the memorable music and lyrics of Leslie Bricusse (Stop the World, I Want to Get Off).

Goodbye, Mr. Chips was Herb Ross's directorial debut, a musical remake of the classic James Hilton tale of an all-boys school and the prim and proper professor who lives for its existence. Peter O'Toole stars as Mr. Chips, the classics professor at proper Brookfield Academy who falls in love with a music-hall girl (pop star Petula Clark in a rare film role). When the two unlikely lovers marry, they learn from one another and cherish their relationship and their importance in the lives of the young boys of Brookfield.

This new DVD release presents Goodbye, Mr. Chips in its original full-length roadshow version. It stars the always terrific Peter O'Toole as Mr. Chips, a prim and proper classics professor at an English all-boy's school. This lavish epic follows the career of the professor as he falls in love with a London dance-hall girl, played by singer Petula Clark, and marries her. The couple makes Brookfield Academy for Boys its home and brightens the school with the unlikely union. The clash of the two worlds and the sordid past of Mrs. Chips is enough to threaten the repressed professor's title and reputation, but through perserverance and charm Mrs. Chips warms the hearts of all those in her presence. Her love and support warms her husband as well, who was once notorious for tyrannical teaching. Through the hardship and trials of WWII, Mr. Chips's legacy of kindness and loyalty to the school survives and he becomes an icon of the school that he calls home.

THE YELLOW ROLLS ROYCE (1965)
Everything Happens in the Yellow Rolls Royce!
At last! One of the most popular all-star 'event' films of the 1960s arrives for the first-time on DVD. Terrence Rattigan wrote the screenplay for this 'anthology' of three stories of life and love connected only by the ownership of a car… a very special yellow Rolls Royce. The film's outstanding cast includes Oscar-winners Ingrid Bergman, Shirley MacLaine, Rex Harrison, George C. Scott, and Art Carney, as well as International favorites including Omar Sharif, Jeanne Moreau and Alain Delon. The film's memorable musical score by Riz Ortolani also spawned a hit song "Forget Domani."

The adventures of a Rolls-Royce roll across Europe in this far-flung comedy. Purchased by the Marquess of Frinton as a gift for his wife, it is sold when she's caught having an affair with the chauffeur. The new owner, American gangster Paolo Maltese, sells the car after his effervescent moll, Mae, has an affair. Its last owner is socialite Gerda Millett, who uses the car to smuggle partisans into Yugoslavia - where the car becomes a symbol of freedom.

A yellow Phantom II Roll-Royce is the setting for three otherwise unconnected tales of romance and adventure. The first owner is a British diplomat whose wife uses the back seat of the Rolls to conduct an affair with one of his underlings. The car is then used in the 1930s by a gangster's moll who falls in love with a photographer. Finally, an American woman uses the car to unwittingly smuggle a political activist across the Yugoslavian border during World War II.

Following The V.I.P.'s, their film about stars stranded at the airport, director Anthony Asquith and writer Terence Rattigan, turned to this stars-on-the-road vehicle; an unconnected three part romantic drama about the glamorous owners of a classic Rolls-Royce. Lord Frinton (Rex Harrison) originally purchases the car in the 1930s as a gift for his beautiful French wife (Jeanne Moreau) only to discover that she is using it to carry on an affair. He promptly sells the car.

In Genoa, an American gangster, Paolo Maltese (George C. Scott), buys the car to tour Italy with his gum chewing moll, Mae (Shirley MacLaine). A handsome photographer (Alain Delon) pursues Mae from town to town, but she resists until Paolo has business to attend to in America, leaving them alone in the Rolls, which once again acts as an aphrodesiac. When Paolo returns, he gets wise and sells the car.

During the Second World War, American millionairess Gerda Millett (Ingrid Bergman) buys the Rolls, now looking much the worse for wear, in Trieste for a dangerous trip to war torn Yugoslavia. When she meets Davich (Omar Sharif), a dashing young Yougoslav partisan, he compels her to take him with her. While not as weighty as previous Asquith-Rattigan efforts, The Winslow Boy and The Browning Version, this continental romp still manages a nice blend of drama and romance.

WATERLOO BRIDGE (1940)
In her fist film since the triumphant Gone With the Wind of the previous year, Vivian Leigh stars as a ballerina in war-torn England who turns to prostitution when she believes her fiance has died in the war in this drama based on Robert E. Sherwood's acclaimed play. Starring Robert Taylor, Vivien Leigh, Robert Taylor, Lucile Watson, Virginia Field, Maria Ouspenskaya.

WATERLOO BRIDGE stars Vivien Leigh as Myra, a shy ballerina whose life is irrevocably altered in war-torn London. It's love at first sight when Myra meets handsome, aristocratic British officer Roy Cronin (Robert Taylor) in the midst of an air raid. The couple soon plans to wed, but Cronin is called to the front, and shortly thereafter a newspaper reports his death. Forced out of ballet school, alone and destitute, Myra turns to prostitution. When she discovers that the newspaper report was inaccurate, Myra is unable to tell Cronin about her professional life, and tragedy ensues.

The second film version of Robert Sherwood's play (the first was Universal's 1931 release featured in WHV's first Forbidden Hollywood Collection), this classic wartime love story--a 10-handkerchief weeper directed by Mervyn LeRoy--was given the deluxe M-G-M treatment as a vehicle for its popular leading man and leading lady. Joseph Ruttenberg's photography is beautiful, as is the inspired soundtrack by Herbert Stothart (The Wizard of Oz), but what makes WATERLOO BRIDGE is Leigh's stunning performance and the very real chemistry between her and Robert Taylor.

CANNERY ROW (1982)
You don't have to be crazy to live here... but it helps.
(Adaptation of John Steinbeck's novels "Cannery Row" and "Sweet Thursday". A marine biologist romances a prostitute.)

This delightful cinematic adaptation of the 1945 classic by John Steinbeck stars Nick Nolte and Debra Winger as a carelessly romantic couple who experience the impoverished life of vagabonds. Doc (Nolte) is a marine biologist who just moved to Cannery Row, a rustic oceanside village. Before long, he discovers that the only local entertainment is the brothel. That's where he meets Suzy (Winger)--a spunky, husky-voiced wanderer--who makes Doc's life on the Row a whole lot brighter. But before long their romance turns sour. Everyone on the Row hopes they'll reconcile, especially since their love for each other is the most important thing either one of them has.

Oscar-winning screenwriter David S. Ward (The Sting) made his directorial debut and penned the screenplay which brought the colorful characters of John Steinbeck's 1945 novel to the big screen. Oscar-nominees Nick Nolte and Debra Winger head an impressive ensemble cast in this unlikely romance set in the depressed waterfront area of Monterey California known as Cannery Row. Nolte gives a remarkable performance as "Doc" the bookish marine biologist who falls for Suzy (Winger), a lovable floozy who turns his world upside down. Steinbeck's vision is beautifully translated into cinematic imagery by the acclaimed cinematographer Sven Nykvist.

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