Top Toons and Tribulations




Warner Archive Podcast show

Summary: William Wellman's war drama Battleground (1949) explodes on to Blu-ray with a stunning new master for 2017 featuring an all-star ensemble that includes Van Johnson, George Murphy, Ricardo Montalban, John Hodiak, James Whitmore and Marshall Thompson. Hanna-Barbera's canny cartoon classic Top Cat: The Original Series is back in print on DVD deftly mixes Bilko-like scheming and scamming with Bowery Boys buffoonery with Arnold Stang voicing Top Cat and the great Allen Jenkins as Officer Dibble. Also back in print is the 2003-4 anime-inspired toon, Xiaolin Showdown: The Complete First Season along with with Xiaolin Showdown: The Complete Second Season (2004-05) presented for teh first time in DVD and in it's original 16x9 aspect ratio. Finally we go over a series of back in print DVDs including Libeled Lady (1936) with Jean Harlow, The Harvey Girls (1946) and In the Good Old Summertime (1949) with Judy Garland, and I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955) with Susan Hayward.