Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group, the studio with the world's largest film library, is beginning an exciting new partnership with the authority in classic film, Turner Classic Movies. With the TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection, the two companies will release a collection of 60 top films in 15 themed groups. The TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection will whet the appetite of both serious film buffs and a new generation of movie lovers, giving them an easy way to build a personal library of classic films.

TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection: American Musicals includes four song-and-dance favorites, starring Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, and others:
Meet Me in St. Louis
The Band Wagon
Singin' in the Rain
Easter Parade

TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection: Broadway Musicals includes four classic tuners, starring Howard Keel, Betty Hutton, Jane Powell, and others:
Show Boat
Annie Get Your Gun
Kiss Me Kate
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Saddle up for TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection: John Wayne Westerns, featuring four from the Duke:
The Cowboys
Fort Apache
Rio Bravo
The Searchers

TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection: Romantic Comedies includes four hilarious films, all starring Katharine Hepburn (with co-stars Spencer Tracy, Cary Grant, and James Stewart):
Adam's Rib
Woman of the Year
The Philadelphia Story
Bringing Up Baby

TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection: Best Picture Winners includes four Oscar-winning films, including Casablanca, two memorable MGM musicals, and Greer Garson in Mrs. Miniver:
Casablanca
Gigi
An American in Paris
Mrs. Miniver

FYI these are all the existing first discs of any of the newer special editions.

If The Big Sleep came in a restored print (they've been promising this for ages), I'd buy the Murder Mysteries set in a second despite already owning the SE of Maltese Falcon. I'm assuming these are reissues of existing versions (in the case of the Hawks, from, what, 1999 or so?)?

DVD Beaver shows a Feb. 10th release of a two DVD set with THEM, THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS, WORLD WITHOUT END and SATELLITE IN THE SKY,from Turner Classics. Does anyone have information regarding doutde materials, aspect ratio, etc.? Or can I safely assume that these Turner releases are spot-on?

Warner and TCM have also set a pair of new DVD box sets for release on 9/7 (SRP $27.92 each). Look for TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection: Gangsters (includes High Sierra, Little Caesar, The Public Enemy and White Heat) and TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection: Hammer Horror (includes Horror of Dracula, Dracula Has Risen from the Grave, The Curse of Frankenstein and Frankenstein Must be Destroyed).

Hammer Horror (includes Horror of Dracula, Dracula Has Risen from the Grave, The Curse of Frankenstein and Frankenstein Must be Destroyed).

That's an excellent selection actually. I wonder if this will feature the recent restoration of Dracula or if it's just a repackaging of the old transfer (probably the latter).