IT CAME FROM THE BOTTOM SHELF!

The Warner Archive Collection announced several upcoming Blu-ray releases, including a couple of very exciting classic animation sets and an eclectic collection of catalog titles.  While Warners didn’t provide specific release dates, it is likely the titles are coming in June.

Here are the announcements from the Warner Archive Facebook page:

NEW 2019 1080p MASTERS-FROM 4K SCANS OF THE ORIGINAL NEGATIVES!

POPEYE THE SAILOR: THE 1940s-VOLUME 2 (1946-1947)

Run Time: 107:00
Subtitles: English SDH
Sound Quality: DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 – English
Aspect Ratio: ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO – 1.37:1, 4 X 3 FULL FRAME
Product Color: COLOR
Disc Configuration: BD 50

Here come 15 previously unreleased adventures featuring our favorite two-fisted fighter that are literally out of this world! The secret to the seaman’s success is “location, location, location,” and with this new collection, you’ll travel with Popeye and crew into outer space, all around the globe and under the sea!

Continuing the chronological theatrical releases, this set covers the years 1946 and 1947. Popeye not only rockets to Mars, he explores the ocean deep, becomes a cowboy out West, fights pirates on the high seas and tackles wild game in Africa. He and his lady love, Olive Oyl, also find romance (and usually a Bluto-like rival) while traveling back to medieval times or exploring the fictional Middle Easter city of Badgag, as well as climbing mountain peaks in the frozen Klondike.

This is classic animation at its finest – featuring zany cartoon action from the pen of veteran Jim Tyer and powerfully dynamic direction from animation legend Bill Tytla. Packed with a punch, loaded with laughs and heaping with heart, The 1940s, Volume 2 comes to port with plenty of Popeye appeal.

Collection includes:

• House Tricks?
• Service with a Guile
• Klondike Casanova
• Peep in the Deep
• Rocket to Mars
• Rodeo Romeo
• The Fistic Mystic
• The Island Fling
• Abusement Park
• I’ll Be Skiing Ya
• Popeye and the Pirates
• The Royal-Four Flusher
• Wotta Knight
• Safari So Good
• All’s Fair at the Fair

NEW 2019 1080p HD MASTERS!

JONNY QUEST: THE COMPLETE ORIGINAL SERIES (1964)

Run Time: 572:00
Subtitles: English SDH
Sound Quality: DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 – English
Aspect Ratio: ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO – 1.33:1, 4 X 3 FULL FRAME
Product Color: COLOR
Disc Configuration: 3-BD 50s
Special Features:

• Jonny Quest: Adventures in Animation – featurette on animators
• Double Danger: Special version of this episode with Quest Files – fun, facts and trivia
• Jonny Quest Video Handbook
• Vintage P.F. Flyers Sneaker Commercial

TV’s first animated action-adventure series is about to take you on a breathless ride. All 26 episodes charting the fantastic exploits of brave and brainy 11-year-old Jonathan Quest are yours in a 3-disc set, as originally first broadcast in prime-time on ABC-TV during the 1964-65 season. Unlike the outrageous fantasy plots of cartoons that preceded it, Jonny Quest drew on science and detective-style logic to solve mysteries and apprehend sophisticated villains. Viewers were transported to exotic locales as Jonny’s dad, Dr. Benton Quest, tackled each new government assignment, aided by ex-agent “Race” Bannon, Indian boy Hadji, family bulldog Bandit… and, of course, his fearless son Jonny.

NEW 2019 1080p HD MASTER FROM 4K SCAN!

GASLIGHT (1944)

Run Time: 114:00
Subtitles: English SDH
Sound Quality: DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 – English
Aspect Ratio: 4 X 3 FULL FRAME, ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO – 1.37:1
Product Color: BLACK & WHITE
Disc Configuration: BD 50
Special Features:

• Original 1940 British Version (SD)
• 1946 Lux Radio Theatre Broadcast starring Bergman and Boyer
• Reflections on Gaslight (featuring Angela Lansbury)-a Reminiscence by Pia Lindstrom About Her Mother, Ingrid Bergman
• 1944 Academy Award® Ceremonies Newsreel
• Theatrical Trailer (HD)

Lights flicker and dim. Footsteps sound from a sealed-off attic. Mysterious events only vulnerable young Paula sees and hears make her fear she’s losing her mind — exactly what treacherous spouse Gregory hopes. Directed by George Cukor, Gaslight shines as a superb exercise in suspense. Ingrid Bergman won her first Academy Award®* as Paula, doubting her sanity while clinging to it. Fellow Oscar® nominee Charles Boyer skillfully plays against type as smoothly evil Gregory. Joseph Cotten, Dame May Whitty and an 18-year-old Angela Lansbury in her movie debut (also capturing an Oscar® nomination) help make the Victorian era vividly realized through production design that earned an Academy Award®.

NEW 2019 1080p HD MASTER!

NONE BUT THE BRAVE (1965)

Run Time: 105:00
Subtitles: English SDH
Sound Quality: DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 – English
Aspect Ratio: ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO – 2.35:1, 16 X 9 LETTERBOX
Product Color: COLOR
Disc Configuration: BD 50

• Theatrical Trailer (HD)

A crippled C-47 transport crash-lands on a remote Pacific island. For the Marines aboard, World War II becomes smaller, but no less deadly. The atoll is held by a Japanese platoon, also cut off from its command.

Debuting director Frank Sinatra stars in this suspenseful war saga, joined by Clint Walker, Tony Bill and Olympic champion Rafer Johnson. After initial bullet-laced confrontations, the Japanese leader (Tatsuya Mihashi) offers to swap water for the aid of Pharmacist Mate Maloney (Sinatra), whom he has mistaken for a doctor. When Maloney amputates the leg of a Japanese soldier and saves his life, peace results. But can it last? There are two sides to every war. None but the Brave skillfully shows the heroism of both.

NEW 2019 1080p HD MASTER!

CORVETTE SUMMER (1978)

Run Time: 104:00
Subtitles: English SDH
Sound Quality: DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 – English
Aspect Ratio: ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO – 1.85:1, 16 X 9 LETTERBOX
Product Color: COLOR
Disc Configuration: BD 50

• Trailer (HD)

A cherry Corvette Stingray. A gorgeous girl. And a summer in glittery Las Vegas. What more does a guy need for the wildest, weirdest, funniest, freakiest time of his life? Mark Hamill (Star Wars) and Annie Potts (Designing Women) make comedic and romantic sparks fly in a revved-up tale of car-brained Kenny (Hamill), who trails a Corvette that’s mysteriously boosted after his high-school shop class restores it to perfection. The trail leads to Fun Capital, USA, and a ditzy diversion (Potts) whose dream is to become…a hooker? This damsel in distress needs a white knight on a candy-apple, metal-flake, superior-mags, mercury-tubes steed — right, Kenny? Both are in for a summer they’ll never forget.