The Harvey Girls debuts on Blu-ray courtesy of the Warner Archive Collection receiving a new video restoration and stars Judy Garland, John Hodiak, Ray Bolger and Angela Lansbury and is out December 22.
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
— Warner Archive Collection —
(1949)
Genre(s): Comedy, Musical
Warner Archive | NR – 93 min. – $21.99 | July 20, 2021
Date Published: 07/12/2021 | Author: The Movieman
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PLOT SYNOPSIS |
| Despite being key players for the Wolves, baseball players Dennis Ryan (FRANK SINATRA) and Eddie O’Brien (GENE KELLY) harbor a passion for vaudeville. When a local gambler (EDWARD ARNOLD) puts a lot of money on the Wolves to lose a big game, he tries to win the bet by offering Eddie the lead role in a newly produced show. Though Eddie is tempted to accept, he risks incurring the wrath of both Dennis and the team’s owner (ESTHER WILLIAMS), who just happens to be his girlfriend. |
SPECIAL FEATURES – 2¼/5 |
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Features include two Deleted Musical Numbers: “Baby Doll” and “Boys and Girls Like You and Me”, “The Cat and the Memouse” Cartoon and the Theatrical Trailer. |
VIDEO – 4¾/5, AUDIO – 4½/5 |
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Warner Bros. releases Take Me Out to the Ball Game onto Blu-ray shown in the original 1.37 full frame aspect ratio, receiving a new 1080p high-definition transfer. If not for the limited bonus features, I would argue the Warner Archive Collection has some of the best catalogue titles releases on Blu-ray, this is no exception. Colors are bright and vibrant and detail is sharp and very nicely defined throughout. While a couple might have escaped me, I didn’t notice any significant film damage, dust marks or other flaws. The disc comes with a more than adequate DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono track. As singular channel lossless tracks go, this one sounds rather good with the musical numbers coming across quite nicely as does dialogue and other ambient/background noises. |
Check out some more 1080p screen caps by going to page 2. Please note, these do contain spoilers.