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Esther Williams in MILLION DOLLAR MERMAID Available on Blu-ray From Warner Archive

“Who cares what a lot of females wear on the beach, as long as I can keep you in a one-piece bathing suit? Baby, you’re a swimmer. You belong in the water. Wet, you’re terrific. Dry, you’re just a nice girl who ought to settle down and get married.”

Esther Williams in MILLION DOLLAR MERMAID (1952) is available on Blu-ray From Warner Archive. Ordering information can be found HERE

James Sullivan works the carny circuit, promoting the likes of a boxing kangaroo or grappling bear. Then the wheeler-dealer meets a million-dollar idea: beautiful swimming champ Annette Kellerman. She’ll churn through a River Thames PR stunt. Cause a bathing-suit scandal among Boston bluebloods. Headline New York’s Hippodrome. And become a Hollywood swimsation as cameras roll and Rin Tin Tin looks on. Glamorous, amphibious Esther Williams portrays the real-life aquatic star in a splashy biopic costarring Victor Mature and loaded with stunning spectacle (including a must-see Busby Berkeley masterwork). Is this lovely Esther’s signature film? Well, she called her 1999 autobiography The Million Dollar Mermaid.

Fritz Lang’s MOONFLEET Available on Blu-ray From Warner Archive

Great news for fans of director Fritz Lang. His 1955 western MOONFLEET is available on Blu-ray From Warner Archive

Adventure and intrigue await all ye who venture into the small and sinister village of Moonfleet on the windswept moors of Dorsetshire. Particularly as directed by master-of-menace Fritz Lang, this colorful tale of a young boy’s experiences among some really bad companions enthralls in the tradition of Kidnapped and Treasure Island. Here, young John Mohune (Jon Whiteley) arrives at his ancestral estate, now owned by the dashing, and mysterious Jeremy Fox (Stewart Granger). Out of love for the boy’s mother, but against his better judgment, Fox grudgingly allows John to stay. He soon becomes attached to the boy, but his devotion is tested when John discovers a hidden smugglers’ lair beneath the village graveyard and learns a shocking secret that could cost both him and Fox their lives.

Fritz Lang brings his remarkable gifts for scope and spectacle to this epic swashbuckler that teams plucky young orphan John Mohune (Jon Whiteley) up with the honorable, if piratical rogue Jeremy Fox (Stewart Granger) in a wild quest for diamonds. Catacombs, double-crosses, dead-men telling tales and more, all lie in wait for the unlikely pair of adventurers in this action/adventure classic that looks sea-swept fresh thanks to this simply sumptuous new 1080p HD transfer for deep blue sea Blu-ray Disc that highlights Lang and cinematographer Robert Plank’s lush visuals and Miklos Rozsa’s soaring score. Co-starring George Sanders, Viveca Lindfors, Joan Greenwood and Jack Elam. Includes Original Theatrical Trailer (HD) 16×9 Letterbox