Classic Films on Blu-ray: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, BLOOD SIMPLE, CAT PEOPLE, HIGH NOON and More

Here are the classic films newly released on Blu-ray on September 20, 2016:

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1991)
BLOOD SIMPLE (1984)
CAT PEOPLE (1942)

HIGH NOON (1952)
BEWARE! THE BLOB (1972)
FANNY (1961)

Find out more about each Blu-ray release after the jump.

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1991)

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Studio:
Disney

Rating:
G

Aspect Ratio:
1.78:1

Language:
English, French, Spanish

Audio Format:
DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1, Dolby Digital 5.1

Subtitles:
English, English SDH, French, Spanish

Product Description: Be our guest at the enchanted 25th Anniversary celebration of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, universally acclaimed as one of Disney's finest animated features and now honored in the Walt Disney Signature Collection. Join brave, independent Belle on the adventure of a lifetime as she sets out to rescue her father and finds herself in the enchanted castle of a mysterious beast. Enjoy this timeless tale overflowing with unforgettable characters and Academy Award(R)-winning music (Best Song, Best Score, 1991)!

It took more than 600 animators, artists, and technicians three and a half years to complete the project. BEAUTY is the first animated Disney feature scripted by a woman, Linda Woolverton. The film marked the first time each animator was credited on screen specifically for the character he or she brought to life. Disney's animation department won a Scientific and Technical Academy Award for the design and development of the Computer Animated Production System used to make the film. The style of illustration was inspired by French painters Fragonard and Boucher.

Starring: Paige O'Hara, Robby Benson, Jesse Corti, Angela Lansbury, David Ogden Stiers, Rex Everhart

Director: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise

Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy

Running Time: 84 min

Special Features:

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Sneak Peek
Menken & Friends: 25 Years Of Musical Inspiration
Always Belle...
#1047: Walt, Fairy Tales, And BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
The Recording Sessions
25 Fun Facts About BEAUTY AND THE BEAST -- Hosted By Gus Kamp & Kayla Maisonet
Classic Bonus Preview
Audio Commentary By Directors Kirk Wise And Gary Trousdale, Producer Don Hahn and Composer Alan Menken

BLOOD SIMPLE (1984)

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Studio:
Criterion

Rating:
R

Aspect Ratio:
1.85:1

Language:
English

Audio Format:
DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1

Subtitles:
English SDH

Product Description: Joel and Ethan Coen’s career-long darkly comic road trip through misfit America began with this razor-sharp, hard-boiled neonoir set somewhere in Texas, where a sleazy bar owner releases a torrent of violence with one murderous thought. Actor M. Emmet Walsh looms over the proceedings as a slippery private eye with a yellow suit, a cowboy hat, and no moral compass, and Frances McDormand’s cunning debut performance set her on the road to stardom. The tight scripting and inventive style that have marked the Coens’ work for decades are all here in their first film, in which cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld abandons black-and-white chiaroscuro for neon signs and jukebox colors that combine with Carter Burwell’s haunting score to lurid and thrilling effect. Blending elements from pulp fiction and low-budget horror flicks, Blood Simple reinvented the film noir for a new generation, marking the arrival of a filmmaking ensemble that would transform the American independent cinema scene.

Starring: John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya, M. Emmet Walsh

Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

Genre: Crime, Thriller

Running Time: 99 min

Special Features:

Featurettes
Trailers
Booklet

CAT PEOPLE (1942)

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Studio:
Criterion

Rating:
Not Rated

Aspect Ratio:
1.37:1

Language:
English

Audio Format:
LPCM Mono

Subtitles:
English SDH

Product Description: The first of the horror films producer Val Lewton made for RKO Pictures redefined the genre by leaving its most frightening terrors to its audience’s imagination. Simone Simon stars as a Serbian émigré in Manhattan who believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with the man she loves (Kent Smith) will turn her into a feline predator. Lewton, a consummate producer-auteur who oversaw every aspect of his projects, found an ideal director in Jacques Tourneur, a chiaroscuro stylist adept at keeping viewers off-kilter with startling compositions and psychological innuendo. Together, they eschewed the canned effects of earlier monster movies in favor of shocking with subtle shadows and creative audio cues. One of the studio’s most successful movies of the 1940s, Cat People raised the creature feature to new heights of sophistication and mystery.

Starring: Simone Simon, Tom Conway, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph

Director: Jacques Tourneur

Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller

Running Time: 73 min

Special Features:

Audio Commentary
Documentary
Interviews
Trailer
Booklet

HIGH NOON (1952)

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Studio:
Olive Films

Rating:
PG

Aspect Ratio:
1.37:1

Language:
English

Audio Format:
DTS-HD Master Audio Mono

Subtitles:
English

Product Description: The myth and poetry of the old west come alive in Fred Zinnemann's (Julia) classic western, High Noon (1952). One of the great treasures of the American cinema, the film stars the legendary Gary Cooper as lawman Will Kane, a marshal who stands alone to defend a town of cowardly citizens against a gang of killers out for revenge. Engaged in the fight of his lifetime, Kane stands to lose everything when the clock strikes noon his friends, his honor, and his Quaker bride, played by Grace Kelly in one of her first screen roles. Unfolding in real time, the tension builds as we race ever closer to the climactic duel from which the film takes its name. For his career-defining role, Cooper would go on to win the Oscar® for Best Actor. High Noon's stellar cast also includes Lloyd Bridges (Try and Get Me), Thomas Mitchell (It's a Wonderful Life), Katy Jurado (Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid), Otto Kruger (Saboteur), Lon Chaney (The Wolf Man), Henry Morgan (Strategic Air Command), Jack Elam (Hannie Caulder) and Lee Van Clef (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly). High Noon won a total four Academy Awards including Best Editing, Best Score (Dimitri Tiomkin, The Old Man and the Sea) and Best Song, Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin , written by Tiomkin and Ned Washington and sung by Tex Ritter. High Noon also received Oscar® nominations for Best Picture (Stanley Kramer, producer), Best Director (Fred Zinnemann) and Best Screenplay (Carl Foreman)

Starring: Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Thomas Mitchell, Katy Jurado, Otto Kruger

Director: Fred Zinnemann

Genre: Drama, Thriller, Western

Running Time: 85 min

Special Features:

"A Ticking Clock" - Academy Award-nominee Mark Goldblatt on the editing of High Noon
"A Stanley Kramer Production" - Michael Schlesinger on the eminent producer of High Noon
"Imitation of Life: The Blacklist History of High Noon" - with historian Larry Ceplair and blacklisted screenwriter
Walter Bernstein
"Ulcers and Oscars: The Production History of High Noon" - a visual essay with rarely seen archival elements, narrated by Anton Yelchin
"Uncitizened Kane" - an original essay by Sight & Sound editor Nick James
Theatrical trailer

BEWARE! THE BLOB (1972)

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Studio:
Kino Lorber

Rating:
PG

Aspect Ratio:
1.85:1

Language:
English

Audio Format:
DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0

Subtitles:
English SDH

Product Description: Newly Re-mastered in HD! The Blob returns... more outrageous than ever in this 1972 sequel to the popular sci-fi classic! Plenty of familiar faces, including Robert Walker Jr. (Ensign Pulver), Larry Hagman (Dallas), Sid Haig (Busting), Burgess Meredith (Rocky), Dick Van Patten (Eight is Enough), Godfrey Cambridge (Cotton Comes to Harlem), Cindy Williams (Laverne & Shirley), Carole Lynley (The Poseidon Adventure), Gerrit Graham (Used Cars) and Shelley Berman (You Don t Mess with the Zohan) add to the fun. A geologist (Cambridge) unwittingly brings home an unusual frozen piece of debris from the North Pole. But when it accidentally thaws, the hungrier-than-ever Blob comes to life again, consuming nearly everyone in its path and terrorizing the town. No one is safe as it crawls into a bowling alley, oozes its way across an ice rink, becoming grotesquely bloated with the blood of its victims... can this bizarre creature ever be stopped? TV legend Larry Hagman directed this cult classic, the only feature film he ever directed upon its 1980s re-release, the film was tagged "The Film that J.R. Shot!".

Starring: Robert Walker Jr., Gwynne Gilford, Richard Stahl, Richard Webb

Director: Larry Hagman

Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

Running Time: 91 min

Special Features:

Audio Commentary by Film Historian Richard Harland Smith
Alternate Title Sequence
Trailers

FANNY (1961)

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Studio:
Shout Factory

Rating:
Not Rated

Aspect Ratio:
1.85:1

Language:
English

Audio Format:
DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1

Subtitles:
English

Product Description: The effervescent Leslie Caron (Gigi) stars in Fanny, a timeless tale of romance and the recipient of five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture.

In early 1920s Marseille, young Marius (Horst Buchholz) dreams of leaving his dull provincial life and seeing the world. But when the beautiful Fanny (Caron) declares her adoration for him, Marius must choose between an adventurous life at sea and the grandest adventure of all: love.

Directed by stage and screen legend Joshua Logan and featuring Maurice Chevalier (Love in the Afternoon) and Charles Boyer (Gaslight), Fanny is a Technicolor classic, filled with style, beauty, and heart.

Starring: Leslie Caron, Horst Buchholz, Maurice Chevalier, Charles Boyer

Director: Joshua Logan

Genre: Drama, Romance

Running Time: 134 min

Special Features:

None

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