New Warner Archive Releases:Song of Love, The Conquerors, Riptide, Flesh, Between Two Worlds, & Crack-Up. Shop Now!
Song of Love
Song of Love, starring Kathrine Hepburn, is a 1947 true-life ‘behind the music’ tale about the love triangle between Clara Schumann (Hepburn), Robert Schumann (Paul Henreid) and critics’ darling, Johannes Brahms (Robert Walker). As her talented husband slips further into mental illness, Clara is determined to save him, while staying out of the arms of the amorous Brahms.
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Between Two Worlds
In this 1944 WWII drama set in war-torn London, John Garfield, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet and Eleanor Parker portray conflicted souls who must face the consequences of the choices they made on earth, before moving on to face their individual destinies.
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Flesh
Although uncredited, John Ford and William Faulkner both lent their talents to this pre-Hays Code 1932 drama about a hardened female grifter (Karen Morley), who takes advantage of the love and good graces of waiter-cum-wrestler, (Wallace Beery). All this, despite her ongoing love affair (and later, pregnancy) with a wrestling manager (Ricardo Cortez).
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Crack-Up
A NYC art critic and forgery expert, George Steele (Pat O’Brien), gets involved in a terrible train accident – or did he? CRACK-UP, a 1946 film noir is known for its shadowy photography and stylish storytelling, as the audience tries to determine truth from fiction. Director Irving Reis is also remembered for his series of “Falcon” films for RKO in the early 1940s.
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Riptide
Torn in the RIPTIDE (1934) between two powerful loves, Mary (played by producer Irving Thalberg’s wife, Norma Shearer), must decide on the life she most wants. Part comedy, part drama – all sexy scandal! This film casts Shearer as a NYC socialite, who marries an English Lord (Herbert Marshall) on a whim, and lives happily until circumstances in the romantic Riviera reunite her with an old flame (Robert Montgomery).
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The Conquerors
Despite the ups and downs of America’s Great Depression, THE CONQUERORS – Roger Standish (Richard Dix) and his wife, Caroline (Ann Harding) – weather the financial storm to establish an American banking empire for the ages. Originally dismissed by critics in 1932, the film subsequently earned a reputation for being an entertaining look at the economic changes the United States went through during this time in history.
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