The Definitive Sinatra on DVD

The Definitive Sinatra on DVD

4.30.08
Rhino Entertainment
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Four box sets of DVDs chronicle the best of Sinatra's Films
Forty Frank Sinatra movies are coming to DVD in May, many for the first time ever. The release, timed to celebrate the legendary singer and actor on the tenth anniversary of his death in May, 1998, brings together acclaimed and rare titles from Warner Home Video and MGM/Fox. Included in the release are such landmark films as The Man with the Golden Arm, for which Sinatra received an Academy Award nomination for best actor; Ocean’s Eleven, the first of the Rat Pack movies and in recent years the source of a hit remake by director Steven Soderberg and star George Clooney; On the Town and Anchors Aweigh, two films in which Sinatra co-starred alongside the renowned singer, dancer and actor Gene Kelly; and Till the Clouds Roll By, a star-studded 1946 bio-pic that found Sinatra as a guest star alongside the cream of the MGM roster, including Judy Garland and Lena Horne. Two of the releases are five-disc box sets in which all the films are new to DVD. Frank Sinatra: The Golden Years covers 1955 to 1965 with the dramas The Man with the Golden Arm, None But the Brave and Some Came Running, and the comedies The Tender Trap and Marriage on the Rocks. The second set, Frank Sinatra: The Early Years, covers Sinatra’s first years in Hollywood, from 1943 to 1951, with Double Dynamite, It Happened in Brooklyn, Step Lively, Higher and Higher and The Kissing Bandit. Other sets include a new compilation of the three collaborations between Sinatra and Kelly, The Frank Sinatra & Gene Kelly Collection, and an “Ultimate Collectors Edition” of a set of the four Rat Pack movies. The latter set includes collectible memorabilia, including Rat Pack playing cards and original lobby card and press book reproductions. All of the films contained in the box sets will also be available separately. So will four additional Sinatra films, newly packaged to keep the cohesive look of the entire line. Those films are Till the Clouds Roll By; the 1959 World War II drama Never So Few, with a young Steve McQueen; the 1956 musical High Society, with a classic Cole Porter score; and The First Deadly Sin, the 1980 drama that marked Sinatra’s strongest dramatic role in more than a decade.