DVD Classics Corner with Dick Dinman

A weekly show devoted to Golden Age Movie Classics as they become available on DVD. Your host Dick Dinman includes a generous selection of classic scenes, classic film music, and one-on-one interviews with stars, producers, and directors.

DICK DINMAN'S JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF PAT BOONE (Part Three): Producer/host Dick Dinman's guest Pat Boone talks about his nearly fatal accident on the set of THE JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH and sheds new light on the oft-repeated story about his "refusal" to kiss co-star Shirley Jones and frankly reveals why he later in his film career accepted the against-type role of an initially immoral character and the previously unscripted demands of that role which almost caused him to walk off the film.

DICK DINMAN'S JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF PAT BOONE (Part Two): In the second part of this salute to Twilight Time's fabulous Blu-ray incarnation of the original THE JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH top-billed star Pat Boone discusses his refusal to co-star with Marilyn Monroe on another film, an accident on location in Carlsbad Caverns, and how he became a profit participant in this landmark science fiction film classic.

DICK DINMAN'S JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF PAT BOONE (Part One): Twilight Time has just released a sumptuous-looking Blu-ray rendering of the one, the only, the original THE JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH which remains to this day one of the most popular science fiction classic films in cinema history and to celebrate this great release radio and television recording legend and cinema icon Pat Boone frankly reveals to producer/host Dick Dinman his initial reservations about starring in this universally revered film. EXTRA ADDED ATTRACTION: The beautiful and talented Arlene Dahl chimes in on the challenges involved in co-starring in this physically demanding Jules Verne epic and candidly discusses for the first time her somewhat frosty relations with costar James Mason.

GEORGE FELTENSTEIN AND DICK DINMAN TAKE A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE TO CAMELOT AND CASABLANCA: Warner Home Video has just released stunning Blu-ray incarnations of A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, CAMELOT, and an amazingly sumptious 70th Anniversary CASABLANCA gift collection and producer/host Dick Dinman's favorite guest George Feltenstein (Warner Home Video's Sr. Vice President of Classic and Theatrical Marketing) returns to reveal how much work and dedication go into creating and bringing these home video gems to the marketplace in such indisputably sublime perfection.

ROBERT HAYS AND DICK DINMAN HAVE A STARMAN (SERIES) REUNION (Part Two): STARMAN star Robert Hays and STARMAN casting director Dick Dinman recall the joys of working with the actors and directors who helped make this cult classic series so uniquely special and frankly discuss the network's lack of support and failure to recognize the potential of the series which resulted in it's premature cancellation.

ROBERT HAYS AND DICK DINMAN HAVE A STARMAN (SERIES) REUNION (Part One): The happy occasion of Sony Pictures Entertainment's release of all 22 STARMAN (Series) episodes in one dvd collection reunites producer/host Dick Dinman (who was the casting director for most of the episodes) with STARMAN star Robert Hays and both enjoy reliving their experiences toiling on this cult classic television series.

WILLIAM WELLMAN JR. AND DICK DINMAN GO WESTWARD WITH THE WOMEN (Part Two): William Wellman Jr. tells producer/host Dick Dinman about the trials and tribulations faced by WESTWARD THE WOMEN'S director, cast and crew on the primitive locations chosen as the backdrop for this unique western epic and discusses his experiences with WESTWARD THE WOMEN'S star Robert Taylor as well as family friend Clark Gable.

WILLIAM WELLMAN JR. AND DICK DINMAN GO WESTWARD WITH THE WOMEN (Part One): Legendary director William A. Wellman's fact-based epic WESTWARD THE WOMEN, which recounts in blisteringly truthful fashion the epic journey of 200 women on a 2,000 mile journey by wagon train from Chicago to California, has at last been released on dvd by the Warner Archive and producer/host Dick Dinman's frequent guest actor/producer/author William Wellman Jr. recounts the multitude of challenges his father faced to bring this logistically challenging project to fruition.

CECILIA PECK AND DICK DINMAN SALUTE GREGORY PECK'S "MOCKINGBIRD" (Part Two): The character of Atticus Finch in TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD was closer to the real-life Gregory Peck than any other role he ever played and his myriad of accomplishments as both an actor and humanitarian are covered in loving detail by producer/host Dick Dinman's guest Cecilia Peck.

CECILIA PECK AND DICK DINMAN SALUTE GREGORY PECK'S "MOCKINGBIRD" (Part One): Universal Home Entertainment has just released a stunningly restored Blu-ray incarnation of the unforgettable TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD to kick off Universal's Hundredth Year Celebration and in honor of this great home video event producer, actress, and documentarian Cecilia Peck regales producer/host Dick Dinman with her alternately touching, funny, and always loving remembrances of her life and times with her legendary father.

ANDREW V. McLAGLEN AND DICK DINMAN SALUTE THE LEGENDARY PARTNERSHIP OF "FORT APACHE" DIRECTOR JOHN FORD AND SUPER-STAR JOHN WAYNE: In what is certainly one of the most exhilarating Blu-ray surprises of the year Warner Home Video has released John Ford's iconic cavalry epic FORT APACHE which teams Oscar-winning screen legends John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple and Victor McLaglen whose acclaimed director son Andrew V. McLaglen recounts to producer/host Dick Dinman his varied and always colorful experiences working with classic filmdom giants Ford and Wayne.

KIM NOVAK AND DICK DINMAN TAKE "PAL JOEY" ON A "PICNIC": Twilight Time, the exciting new film classic Blu-ray label, outdoes itself as they release PAL JOEY and PICNIC, two incredibly sumptuous looking and powerful 5.1 stereo-sounding Sony/Columbia Technicolor and wide screen classics that both star producer/host Dick Dinman's guest, the beautiful and ultra-talented Kim Novak, who describes her experiences on both films including how she infuriated short-tempered PICNIC director Joshua Logan, why PICNIC co-star William Holden felt terribly ill at ease on the more intimate sequences in the film, and how the mercurial behavior of PAL JOEY star Frank Sinatra at times negatively affected the production of PAL JOEY.

DICK DINMAN SALUTES THE TCM VAULT RELEASE OF THE TOUGH AND TERRIFIC COLUMBIA PICTURES FILM NOIR CLASSICS COLLECTION #3 (Part Two): Producer/host Dick Dinman and returning guest Rita Belda (Sony Pictures Entertainment Director of Asset Management, Film Restoration, and Digital Marketing) delve deeper and deeper into the tortuous alleyways of a shadowy world of hit men, corrupt cops, bank robbers, mob informers, hard luck losers and the absolutely mandatory Wicked Women who populate the fabulous TCM Vault release of the invigorating COLUMBIA FILM NOIR CLASSICS COLLECTION #3. EXTRA! A preview of the upcoming UPA CARTOON COLLECTION which is so eagerly awaited for by animation buffs and the JOAN CRAWFORD COLUMBIA CLASSICS COLLECTION.

DICK DINMAN SALUTES THE TCM VAULT RELEASE OF THE TOUGH AND TERRIFIC COLUMBIA PICTURES FILM NOIR CLASSICS COLLECTION #3 (Part One): Five sensational film noir classic discoveries (MY NAME IS JULIA ROSS, THE MOB, DRIVE A CROOKED ROAD, TIGHT SPOT, and THE BURGLAR) comprise Sony/Columbia's latest uncompromising foray down the dark and dirty Noir streets and producer/host Dick Dinman's returning guest Rita Belda (Sony Pictures Entertainment Director of Asset Management, Film Restoration, and Digital Marketing) reveals how and why these five classics were chosen out of a vast library which contains so many other Noir classics.

DICK DINMAN'S ANATOMY OF OTTO PREMINGER (Part Two): Producer Stanley Rubin, who produced the Otto Preminger-directed big budget western RIVER OF NO RETURN gives producer/host Dick Dinman the lowdown and not so euphoric reminiscences about the conflicts and challenges inherent on working with the Jekyll and Hyde-like Preminger as we conclude our two-show tribute to the Criterion Collection's rave-worthy Blu-ray incarnation of Preminger's mega-hit ANATOMY OF A MURDER.

DICK DINMAN'S ANATOMY OF OTTO PREMINGER (Part One): To celebrate Criterion's terrific Blu-ray release of producer/director Otto Preminger's most acclaimed and ground-breaking shocker ANATOMY OF A MURDER producer/host Dick Dinman's guests (and Preminger survivors) Kathryn Grant Crosby (who plays a pivotal leading role in this inflammatory courtroom classic), the late Peter Graves (Preminger's THE COURT MARTIAL OF BILLY MITCHELL), Geoffrey Horne (Preminger's BONJOUR TRISTESSE), and KIM NOVAK (Preminger's THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM) reveal with great candor the ups and downs of working with this most controversial of all love-him-or-hate-him directors.

GENA ROWLANDS, MARGARET O'BRIEN, KATHLEEN HUGHES, KARL MALDEN AND DICK DINMAN SALUTE "SCARLET STREET'S" EDWARD G. ROBINSON: Kino Video has miraculously pulled Fritz Lang's acclaimed film noir classic "SCARLET STREET" out of public domain hell with it's vibrant Blu-ray release which sheds new light on the incredible versatility of it's star Edward G. Robinson who is saluted on producer/host Dick Dinman's tribute show by distinguished guests and Robinson co-stars Gena Rowlands, Margaret O'Brien, Kathleen Hughes, and the late Karl Malden.

DICK DINMAN SALUTES FRED MacMURRAY (Part Two): 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment's crystal-clear Blu-ray release of MGM/UA's Billy Wilder masterwork THE APARTMENT sheds new light on Fred MacMurray's amazing versatility and producer/host Dick Dinman and author Charles Tranberg continue their tribute to beloved star MacMurray and try to solve the mystery of why this supremely popular star of four decades who played a variety of roles to perfection was perpetually ignored by his peers during awards time.

DICK DINMAN SALUTES FRED MacMURRAY (Part One): 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment has just released a mother load of MGM/UA classics to Blu-ray including three of Alfred Hitchcock's most acclaimed masterpieces (REBECCA, NOTORIOUS, SPELLBOUND), two of Woody Allen's most popular comedies (ANNIE HALL, MANHATTAN) and Billy Wilder's five Oscar winner THE APARTMENT which features stellar performances by Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine and the under-rated Fred MacMurray who is saluted by producer/host Dick Dinman and his guest author Charles Tranberg whose biography of Fred MacMurray sheds new light on this talented and versatile star and his initial resistance to starring in both DOUBLE INDEMNITY and THE APARTMENT which remain two of his most challenging and memorable roles.

PARAMOUNT TAKES "WINGS" INTO THE WILD BLU (RAY) YONDER (Part Two): Author/Producer William Wellman Jr. is joined in producer/host Dick Dinman's continuing tribute to Paramount Pictures groundbreaking Blu-ray restoration of "WINGS" by Paramount Pictures Vice President of Archives Andrea Kalas.

WILLIAM WELLMAN JR. AND DICK DINMAN TAKE "WINGS" INTO THE WILD BLU (RAY) YONDER (Part One): Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment's amazing Blu-ray restoration of "WINGS", the very first Academy Award Winner for Best Picture, is a mesmerizing home video achievement for the ages and producer/host Dick Dinman's guest William Wellman Jr. tells the fascinating story about the relentless courage and determination of his iconic father, director William Wellman, who overcame incredible obstacles and violent inter-studio conflicts in his struggle to bring this spectacular World War One airborne masterpiece to fruition.

OSCAR-WINNER GEORGE CHAKIRIS AND DICK DINMAN SALUTE WEST SIDE STORY (Part Two): George Chakiris returns to reveal the tension between WEST SIDE STORY "lovers" Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer, the hands-off direction by Robert Wise which negatively affected Beymer's performance, the conflict and stark differences between Yul Brynner and Richard Widmark on a later film, and the sheer pleasure of acting opposite legendary superstar Lana Turner.

OSCAR-WINNER GEORGE CHAKIRIS AND DICK DINMAN SALUTE WEST SIDE STORY (Part One): Who better to celebrate the Blu-ray release of WEST SIDE STORY with producer/host Dick Dinman than George Chakiris whose electric performance in the iconic musical masterwork justifiably earned him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar. Part one covers his early struggles, his surprising impressions of Marilyn Monroe, his introduction to WEST SIDE STORY, and the facts behind the unfortunate firing of co-director Jerome Robbins.

DICK DINMAN "MEETS" JUDY GARLAND IN ST. LOUIS (Part Two): Acclaimed author/producer John Fricke sheds new light on the genesis of Judy Garland's drug dependency problems and the failure of those around her to come to her aid and also discusses with producer/host Dick Dinman the causes of the ultimate career failure of MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS' least known but controversial star Lucille Bremer.

DICK DINMAN "MEETS" JUDY GARLAND IN ST. LOUIS (Part One): Warner Home Video strikes Blu-ray gold with their stunning Blu-ray restoration of one of Judy Garland's most successful Technicolor-ful hits MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS which tugs at the heartstrings more than ever today with it's warm and wonderful depiction of a turn of the century music-prone family. Celebrating the release of this joyous slice of Americana with producer/host Dick Dinman is author/producer John Fricke whose spectacular new coffee table book JUDY: A LEGENDARY FILM CAREER at long last corrects the many misconceptions about this beloved and unique artist's career and life.

DUMBO, BUGS, DAFFY, PORKY, TOM & JERRY ARE BLU!: Classic animation fans have three big reasons to rejoice as the Blu-ray format blossoms with the joyous release of Walt Disney's full length masterpiece DUMBO as well as Warner Home Entertainment's TOM & JERRY: THE GOLDEN COLLECTION (37 cartoons) and THE LOONEY TUNES PLATINUM COLLECTION (50 cartoons!) and celebrating this "animated" Blu-ray event with producer/host Dick Dinman is Linda Jones who is the daughter of the legendary animation director Chuck Jones.

JAMES DARREN AND DICK DINMAN SALUTE "THE GUNS OF NAVARONE" (Part Two): The multi-talented James Darren returns to share more stories with producer/host Dick Dinman about his life and times as a Hollywood star, teen idol, singer and director on the occasion of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment's release of a pristine Blu-ray edition of THE GUNS OF NAVARONE which stands taller than ever as one of the greatest WW2 blockbuster adventures in cinema history.

JAMES DARREN AND DICK DINMAN SALUTE "THE GUNS OF NAVARONE" (Part One): Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has just released THE GUNS OF NAVARONE, one of the greatest WW2 adventure epics of all time, in a spectacular new Blu-ray edition and NAVARONE star and acclaimed actor, singer, teen idol and director James Darren regales producer/host Dick Dinman as he recalls his experiences working with Gregory Peck, David Niven and Anthony Quinn as well as details about his lasting friendship with Frank Sinatra and many other silver screen giants.

DICK DINMAN "COLLECTS" OSCAR NOMINEE SAMANTHA EGGAR: William Wyler's shocker THE COLLECTOR, about sexual obsession carried to extreme lengths, has just been released by Image Entertainment in a striking new Blu-ray edition. This stark suspense thriller about a meek bank clerk who kidnaps and imprisons a beautiful young woman is more gripping and powerful than ever and Oscar nominee Samantha Eggar reveals to producer/host Dick Dinman the harrowing process it took to bring this ultra-challenging role to brilliant and ultimately award-winning fruition.

TWILIGHT TIME FOR A BLU "EGYPTIAN": The exciting new Classic DVD label Twilight Time rolls out one of the most controversial and misunderstood epics in cinema history THE EGYPTIAN in a dazzling Blu-ray incarnation sure to please fans of this uniquely humanistic yet lavishly produced spectacle and award-winning producer/writer Nick Redman and writer/film music aficionado Julie Kirgo reveal to producer/host Dick Dinman THE EGYPTIAN'S tortured production history which includes the controversial casting of studio head Darryl F. Zanuck's talent-challenged mistress Bella Darvi which caused Marlon Brando to quit the production and they discuss the groundbreaking collaboration of composers Alfred Newman and Bernard Herrmann on the legendary score. PLUS: Richard Widmark reveals his volatile experience with Bella Darvi.

DICK DINMAN GOES INTO THE WILD BLU YONDER WITH "AIRPLANE": AIRPLANE, widely considered by many to be the funniest motion picture ever conceived is now available in 1080p Blu-ray and 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio (as are comedy classics THE NAKED GUN and PLANES, TRAINS & AUTOMOBILES) courtesy of Paramount Home Entertainment and producer/host Dick Dinman's guests are two of AIRPLANE'S stars Robert Hays and the late Peter Graves who go into hilarious detail about their experiences on this uproarious anything-for-a-laugh romp.

BEN-HUR IS BLU!: Warner Home Video's BEN-HUR 50th ANNIVERSARY ULTIMATE COLLECTOR'S EDITION has been labeled by many critics as "the most impressive and spectacular Blu-ray transfer, classic or otherwise, ever seen" but it took years of painstaking labor combined with an almost fanatical quest for perfection and millions of dollars to restore this winner of eleven Academy Awards to it's present awe-inspiring state and producer/host Dick Dinman salutes the stunning success of this massive endeavor with Warner Home Video's Senior. V.P. of Classic and Theatrical Marketing George Feltenstein.

DICK DINMAN RAISES (BLU) "KANE": Orson Welles' CITIZEN KANE, which many film classic connoisseurs consider the greatest film ever made, is at last available in an amazing new Blu-ray 70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition that is so spectacularly vivid visually and aurally that virtually no description could possibly do justice to this groundbreaking 4K restoration from original nitrate elements and producer/host Dick Dinman celebrates this monumental event with favorite guest and home video pioneer George Feltenstein, Warner Home Video's V.P. of Classic and Theatrical Marketing.

DICK DINMAN HAS BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S: Audrey Hepburn has never looked more delectable or delivered a more scintillating performance as in her iconic role of Holly Golightly in Blake Edwards' ultra-romantic cinema classic BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S which is now available in all it's Technicolor glory in Paramount Home Entertainment's lustrous new 50th Anniversary Blu-ray incarnation and Paramount's V.P. of Restoration Ronald F. Smith and V.P. of Archives Andrea Kalas regale producer/host Dick Dinman with their account of the challenges inherent in meticulously restoring this much beloved film.

INSIDE THE WALLS OF THE WARNER ARCHIVE: Warner Home Video Senior Vice President George Feltenstein shares with producer/host Dick Dinman the inside story of the trials, tribulations and triumphs that contributed to the formation and ultimately astounding success of the Warner Archive which is the first and foremost classic dvd movies-on-demand concept that literally revolutionized the home video industry. PLUS: Exclusive announcements of upcoming Warner releases as well as two 3-D classic bombshell revelations!

THE BELLE OF NEW YORK SAVES FRED ASTAIRE (Part Two): This second-show tribute to the wonderful cd release of Fred Astaire's THE BELLE OF NEW YORK with producer/host Dick Dinman's guest George Feltenstein continues with generous samples of Astaire's BELLE songs as well as Astaire's rare jazz recordings and includes the astounding sound of the Astaire taps in spectacular syncopation with the music of some of the greatest jazz musicians of all time.

THE BELLE OF NEW YORK SAVES FRED ASTAIRE (Part One): As far as producer/host Dick Dinman is concerned the cd release of the entire songs and score to the forgotten Fred Astaire musical THE BELLE OF NEW YORK constitutes the happiest surprise of the year as this marvelous cd contains some of the most witty and tuneful songs you've never heard which are charmingly sung by Fred Astaire, and Dick and BELLE cd producer and Warner Home Video Senior Vice President George Feltenstein reflect on what qualities made Fred Astaire the favorite singer of the major songwriters such as George Gershwin, Cole Porter and Irving Berlin.

FRED ASTAIRE SAVES A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS: To celebrate the Warner Archive release of the Fred Astaire classics A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS and YOLANDA AND THE THIEF four of Fred Astaire's distaff co-stars (Kim Novak, Joan Leslie, Arlene Dahl, Terry Moore) regale producer/host Dick Dinman with their warmly affectionate takes on how it was to work with this multi-talented (dancer, vocalist, actor, songwriter, choreographer, drummer, pianist) cinema giant. PLUS: Archival comments by David Niven and Audrey Hepburn and Astaire songs galore.

THE FILMS, LIFE, AND (MANY) LOVES OF GLENN FORD. (Part Six): Glenn Ford's affair with a reticent Hope Lange, director David Swift's incendiary quote about Ford, a brilliant Ford in Vincente Minnelli's THE COURTSHIP OF EDDIE'S FATHER, Ford rides the range with Henry Fonda, Ford is Superman's earth father, the final career slide, victimized by Hollywood "jackals", Michael Anderson Jr., (Ford's co-star in his last major film) affectionately reveals Ford's prankster side, and Peter Ford summarizes his conflicted feelings about his stormy relationship with his father and praises the consummate skill which made Glenn Ford a beloved star for so many decades. DICK'S PICKS OF THE WEEK: Sergio Leone fans thrill to the news that ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST is now available on Blu-ray, courtesy of Paramount Home Entertainment, looking and sounding better than it ever has.

THE FILMS, LIFE, AND (MANY) LOVES OF GLENN FORD. (Part Five): Glenn Ford at odds with Marlon Brando in Japan, Ford and Shirley MacLaine get together, Glenn does two films with Debbie Reynolds and proposes, Glenn is voted number one box office star of the year, Frank Capra and Bette Davis verbally attack Glenn, three disastrous remakes instigate a precipitous career decline and producer/host Dick Dinman's previous guest Ernest Borgnine shares an uncomfortable experience with Ford. DICK'S PICKS OF THE WEEK: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment releases THE HEROES OF TELEMARK and THE NIGHT OF THE GENERALS which are two terrific widescreen and color "Combat Classics" available for the first time on DVD.

THE FILMS, LIFE, AND (MANY) LOVES OF GLENN FORD. (Part Four): Glenn Ford's co-star Eleanor Parker joins Peter Ford on this show and shares her not completely flattering assessment of Ford with producer/host Dick Dinman, Glenn Ford's disintegrating film career saved by two major MGM films (INTERRUPTED MELODY and BLACKBOARD JUNGLE), the "new, improved and dramatically different" Glenn Ford is finally propelled into superstardom, an affair with Jack Lemmon's eventual bride-to-be creates a lifelong coolness between Lemmon and Ford, Ford excels in three great Westerns, and delivers an incomparably finer performance in the first incarnation of RANSOM than Mel Gibson did in the remake. DICK'S PICKS OF THE WEEK: Warner Home Video releases two much-requested Stanley Kubrick classics (LOLITA and BARRY LYNDON) on Blu-ray for the very first time!

THE FILMS, LIFE, AND (MANY) LOVES OF GLENN FORD. (Part Three): Glenn Ford gets along famously with much disliked director Fritz Lang who offers Ford's young son Peter his first martini, Peter's frustratingly difficult relationship with his dad which at one point almost leads to blows, Glenn gets Rita Hayworth pregnant. DICK'S PICKS OF THE WEEK: Warner Home Video releases THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING and PAPILLON on Blu-ray for the very first time!

THE FILMS, LIFE, AND (MANY) LOVES OF GLENN FORD. (Part Two): Son Peter Ford "feels responsible" for the failure of his parents marriage, Glenn Ford's huge break with Bette Davis (who makes a pass at him), and Ford is teamed with Rita Hayworth in the ultimate erotic noir GILDA during which the two begin their tempestuous extramarital affair. DICK'S PICKS OF THE WEEK: Warner Home Video's magnificent GRAND PRIX Blu-ray puts you in the drivers seat with astonishing clarity!

THE FILMS, LIFE, AND (MANY) LOVES OF GLENN FORD. (Part One): Golden Age superstar Glenn Ford's warm and naturalistic on-screen persona was in stark contrast to the driven, remote and chronically unfaithful reality of the man himself according to son Peter Ford, whose moving and nuanced biography of his father GLENN FORD: A LIFE reveals a Glenn Ford the public never knew with the keen insight and unflinching candor that only his son could provide. Peter Ford is producer/host Dick Dinman's guest on this, the first of six shows devoted to the criminally underrated film star. Part one covers Glenn Ford's humble beginnings, his callous mistreatment by his first film director, his first real break and his ultimately unhappy marriage to MGM's "queen of tap" Eleanor Powell. DICK'S PICKS OF THE WEEK: Warner Archives' Glenn Ford military comedies DON'T GO NEAR THE WATER and ADVANCE TO THE REAR.

THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD: George Stevens was and is conceivably the only producer/director with the talent, humanity, vision, painterly eye and sheer tenacity to so successfully bring THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD, the story of Jesus of Nazareth, so powerfully and poetically to fruition and, to celebrate MGM/UA Home Entertainment's Blu-ray release of this monumental cinematic achievement, producer/host Dick Dinman's guest, Emmy award-winning writer/producer George Stevens Jr., relates the tremendous challenges, setbacks and sacrifices that were endured during the production of this once in a lifetime cinematic masterwork.

FILMS OF FAITH: THREE BIBLICAL BLU-RAY BLOCKBUSTERS: Producer/host Dick Dinman commemorates the Blu-ray debuts of 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment's THE BIBLE, Warner Home Video's KING OF KINGS and MGM/UA Home Entertainment's THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD and guest Michael Anderson Jr. talks about his thirteen month long memorable experience playing Little James, one of the Apostles, in George Stevens' THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD.

TRACY AND HEPBURN ARE TOGETHER AGAIN! (Part Two): Producer/host Dick Dinman's salutes Warner Home Video's TRACY AND HEPBURN: THE DEFINITIVE COLLECTION with Tracy co-stars John Ericson and the late Anne Francis who affectionally relate their experiences working with Tracy, and the late Oscar winner Karl Malden tells Dick his theory about what qualities made Tracy an actor without equal. Also archival insights from Tracy co-stars Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, Richard Widmark, Angela Lansbury, Mickey Rooney, Robert Wagner, Lee Marvin and Sidney Poitier as well as scenes from some of Tracy's finest classics.

TRACY AND HEPBURN ARE TOGETHER AGAIN! (Part One): For the first time ever all nine of the Spencer Tracy/Katharine Hepburn cinema classics have been released in Warner Home Video's TRACY AND HEPBURN: THE DEFINITIVE COLLECTION and producer/host Dick Dinman salutes this fabulous collection with writer/producer John Dayton for whom friend Katharine Hepburn starred in her last three films.

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE BLU! (Part Three): Paramount Pictures V.P. of Restoration Ronald F. Smith and Paramount Pictures V.P. of Archives Andrea Kalas tell producer/host Dick Dinman about the painstakingly long and arduous process that was necessary in order to bring this incredible restoration of Cecil B. DeMille's THE TEN COMMANDMENTS to fruition.

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE BLU! (Part Two): Producer/host Dick Dinman continues to celebrate the Blu-ray release of Cecil B. DeMille's THE TEN COMMANDMENTS with DeMille biographer Katherine Orrison who proves conclusively that she remains the ultimate authority on all things DeMille.

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE BLU! (Part One): Cecil B. DeMille's cinematic monolith THE TEN COMMANDMENTS has just been meticulously restored and released on Blu-ray and the results from a picture and sound perspective are so astounding that it seems certain that DeMille's masterwork hasn't looked and sounded nearly as good in all of it's theatrical incarnations. Producer/host Dick Dinman celebrates this major event with the preeminent DeMille biographer/author Katherine Orrison as his distinguished guest.

DICK DINMAN'S SAGEBRUSH SAGAS: Producer/host (and rabid Western fan) Dick Dinman celebrates the online Warner Archive release of five rip-snorting classic M.G.M. Westerns (AMBUSH, THE OUTRIDERS, RIDE VAQUERO, STARS IN MY CROWN and WILD ROVERS) with Arlene Dahl, the beautiful and abundantly talented distaff star of both AMBUSH and THE OUTRIDERS, and features generous samples of the great scores from these films composed by Andre Previn, Bronislau Kaper and Jerry Goldsmith.

CONTROVERSIAL CLASSICS: Producer/host Dick Dinman salutes eight daringly controversial films just released on Blu-ray and DVD that dared to approach previously taboo subjects with unrelenting candor and ferocity: SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS, NETWORK, ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN, AMERICA AMERICA, GIRL OF THE NIGHT, INTRUDER IN THE DUST, DEVIL'S DOORWAY, and LAST TANGO IN PARIS. Special appearance by the late Tony Curtis.

SAYING GOODBYE TO BETTY GARRETT: The prodigiously talented singer, actress, dancer, comedienne, playwright, and composer Betty Garrett who excelled in movies, theater and television was a three-time treasured guest on DVD CLASSICS CORNER ON THE AIR and on the sad occasion of her passing producer/host Dick Dinman pays tribute to this very special lady.

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VERSATILE VINCENTE (Part One): Although principally remembered and revered for his astonishing contribution to musical cinema the Warner Archives' recent release of four beautifully remastered widescreen and color Vincente Minnelli non-musicals (THE COBWEB, TEA AND SYMPATHY, THE RELUCTANT DEBUTANTE and TWO WEEKS IN ANOTHER TOWN) graphically demonstrate his inventive mastery of both stark drama and lighthearted comedy and who better to join producer/host Dick Dinman in turning the spotlight on the length and breadth of Minnelli's amazing versatility than Mark Griffin, author of the acclaimed biography A HUNDRED OR MORE HIDDEN THINGS: THE LIFE AND FILMS OF VINCENTE MINNELLI.

ALL ABOUT BETTE (Part Two): Gena Rowlands, one of the most respected and honored actresses in contemporary film and television, joins producer/host Dick Dinman to celebrate the life and career of ALL ABOUT EVE's all-time megastar Bette Davis, and reveals some hilarious and touching anecdotes about Davis and how their eventual friendship overcame an extremely rocky start.

ALL ABOUT BETTE (Part One): The recipient of an unprecedented 14 Oscar nominations (a feat unmatched in Oscar awards history until TITANIC) ALL ABOUT EVE is now available in the magic of super high definition Blu-ray from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment and to celebrate this joyous occasion producer/host Dick Dinman is joined by Turner Classic Movies host/historian Robert Osborne as well as scintillating star Joan Leslie as they all pay tribute to ALL ABOUT EVE's iconic star Bette Davis.

THE TWISTED 60's BLU-RAY WORLD OF SAMUEL FULLER: Nymphomania, paranoia, madness, prejudice, prostitution, pedophilia are all subjects banned from mainstream cinema in the buttoned-down early 60's but rebel director/writer Samuel Fuller lifts the lid on these hitherto verboten issues with shocking power in Criterion's stunning new Blu-ray releases of THE NAKED KISS and SHOCK CORRIDOR. THE NAKED KISS star Michael Dante and Samuel Fuller's widow Christa Lang Fuller regale producer/host Dick Dinman with their touching, hilarious and affectionate reminiscences on one of cinema's great rogue directors.

THE (MIS)ADVENTURES OF STEWART GRANGER (Part Five): Granger injured during longest duel in film history, major problems with George Cukor which result in the loss of A STAR IS BORN and compromises the success of his trip to Pakistan for BHOWANI JUNCTION, his own frank self-appraisal.

THE (MIS)ADVENTURES OF STEWART GRANGER (Part Four): Granger brings MOONFLEET to M-G-M and ultimately regrets it, helps Grace Kelly land her star-making role in Hitchcock's TO CATCH A THIEF, war time experiences, over-night stardom in England, loses BEN-HUR due to "his own vanity", considers himself a "failure" because he made "so many mistakes".

THE (MIS)ADVENTURES OF STEWART GRANGER (Part Three): Granger almost killed in SCARAMOUCHE stunt, sold into M-G-M "slavery", "I hate Richard Brooks", Brooks "mistreatment" of Ramon Navarro, a self-doubting Robert Taylor, an anti producer ("ugly little men") tirade.

THE (MIS)ADVENTURES OF STEWART GRANGER (Part Two): Granger loses QUO VADIS and IVANHOE, can't stand his KING SOLOMON'S MINES director who he helps fire, endures danger and sickness on African location, and regrets that SCARAMOUCHE turns out to be more comedy than drama.

THE (MIS)ADVENTURES OF STEWART GRANGER (Part One): A troubled boyhood, Granger becomes an actor to get the girls, Granger's SCARAMOUCHE disillusionment, MOGAMBO his idea but loses the part, kicks himself for "copying" Ronald Colman in THE PRISONER OF ZENDA, and David Niven's "betrayal."

Swashbuckling movie star Stewart Granger was producer/host Dick Dinman's very first star interview, the results of which at the time were considered to be, thanks to Granger's uncompromisingly candid and blunt opinion of the film world and it's denizens, much too hotly controversial for mass consumption but this scathingly frank interview is now being exclusively presented, in the 5 part series below, for the very first time in it's original uncut and uncensored form.

ELIA KAZAN: THE ACTOR'S DIRECTOR: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment returns to the retail film classic business with the truly astonishing ELIA KAZAN COLLECTION, an awe-inspiringly comprehensive dvd collection devoted to the brilliant director which includes an all-new Martin Scorsese documentary on Kazan as well as 15 cinema treasures from classic film noir to timeless period pieces featuring such stars as Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh,James Dean, Natalie Wood, Montgomery Clift and Gregory Peck. To commemorate this astonishing collection producer/host Dick Dinman chats with Kazan star Terry Moore about her experience working with the iconic director.

THE FILMS OF RITA HAYWORTH: Producer/host Dick Dinman salutes Sony Pictures Home Entertainment's just-released dvd collection THE FILMS OF RITA HAYWORTH which honors the iconic love goddess (and perpetually underrated actress) with beautifully restored and remastered transfers of five of her most acclaimed and requested film classics: COVER GIRL, TONIGHT AND EVERY NIGHT, GILDA, SALOME, and MISS SADIE THOMPSON. EXTRA: A chat with HART TO HART'S Stefanie Powers.

WALT DISNEY VS. THE NAZI'S IN SOUTH AMERICA!: At the outbreak of World War 2 the U.S. State Department sends Walt Disney and his top animators to South America as good will ambassadors to deflect growing Nazi/fascist influence and producer/host Dick Dinman's guest Theodore Thomas has written, produced, and directed a just-released on dvd documentary which reveals the unvarnished truth and hitherto unknown facts about this significantly important occurrence entitled WALT AND EL GRUPO.

THE (BLU) BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI (Part Two): Sony Pictures Home Entertainment's Senior Vice President of Asset Management, Film Restoration and Digital Mastering tells producer/host Dick Dinman how he and his tireless staff were actually able to exceed the quality of the visual and aural standards of the original theatrical release of THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI without compromising the integrity of the original negative and Rita Belda, Sony Technical Specialist, Film Restoration and Asset Management, chimes in mid-show with some exciting news about Sony's new Screen Classics By Request project.

THE (BLU) BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI (Part One): David Lean's monumental screen achievement is at long last available in the magnificence of Super High Definition Blu-ray and 5.1 DTS Surround Sound and "looks better than it did in first-run road show engagements" according to producer/host Dick Dinman's guest Geoffrey Horne who played one of the principle roles opposite William Holden and Alec Guiness and was rewarded for his efforts by receiving special introductory billing in one of the most brilliantly conceived screen epics in cinema history.

SUBLIMELY SINISTER MITCHUM MADNESS! (Part Two): Robert Mitchum co-stars Anne Jeffreys, Karen Sharpe Kramer and Jane Russell as well as producer Stanley Rubin and writer/producer William Wellman Jr. all try to top each other as they share their uproarious, touching and at times explosive experiences with Mitchum with producer/host Dick Dinman.

SUBLIMELY SINISTER MITCHUM MADNESS! (Part One): Robert Mitchum's potently terrifying performance as a bible-spouting, murderous maniac is just one of the many highlights of the beautiful and gripping masterwork THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER which is the only film to be directed by the legendary Charles Laughton and has just been magnificently restored for Blu-ray by the Criterion Collection. Producer/host Dick Dinman and guests Peter Graves and Michael Anderson Jr. salute the formidable and unique talents of the irrepressible and irreplaceable Robert Mitchum.

BOUNTIFUL BING BONANZA! OUR CROSBY CHRISTMAS CUP RUNETH OVER: Producer/host Dick Dinman's Christmas show pays tribute to Bing Crosby, the number one recording artist of all time, and salutes the happy holiday release of Universal Home Entertainment's THE BING CROSBY COLLECTION (which features six Crosby classic cinema treats) as well as Paramount Home Entertainment's stunning Blu-ray incarnation of WHITE CHRISTMAS and Dick's guest Mary Crosby dispenses holiday cheer as she she regales us with details about the release of Infinity Home Entertainment's BING CROSBY CHRISTMAS TELEVISION SPECIALS (Volume 2) and her experiences working with her dad and David Bowie, Robert Goulet, and Mary Martin.

FANTASIA'S SOUND OF MUSIC ON A WHITE CHRISTMAS!: This holiday season promises to be more magically, mirthfully and musically magnificent because of the long-awaited Blu-ray debuts of four musical masterpieces: Walt Disney Home Entertainment's FANTASIA/FANTASIA 2000, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment's THE SOUND OF MUSIC and Paramount Home Entertainment's WHITE CHRISTMAS. Producer/host Dick Dinman's guest today is legendary dancer/choreographer Marge Champion who was the Disney model/choreographer for SNOW WHITE, the Blue Fairy in PINOCCHIO, Mr. Stork in DUMBO, and Hyacinth Hippo in FANTASIA.

BOGIE BONANZA!: Producer/host Dick Dinman walks listeners through some of the cinematic highlights of Humphrey Bogart's incredible career that are included in the outstanding 24-film HUMPHREY BOGART: THE ESSENTIAL COLLECTION and features portions of a very rare Humphrey Bogart/Lauren Bacall interview conducted by legendary newsman Edward R. Murrow as well as some comments by two-time Bogart costar Joan Leslie.

THE EXORCIST MEETS KING KONG (IN BLU-RAY!): Warner Home Video pioneer George Feltenstein returns to reveal the low-down on the long-awaited Blu-ray release of the one, the only, the original KING KONG, and surprises producer/host Dick Dinman with news of some shocking discoveries that make their very first appearance on the pristine new Blu-ray incarnation of what many believe to be the scariest film ever made THE EXORCIST and shares exclusive news about upcoming Warner Home Video releases.

BLU BOGIE: THE MALTESE FALCON and THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE, two of Humphrey Bogart's most acclaimed cinema classics, have been restored to luminous perfection in Super High Definition Blu-ray and to celebrate the occasion producer/host Dick Dinman and Warner Home Video Senior Vice President of Classic and Theatrical Marketing George Feltenstein marvel at the enduring popularity of this great actor who was named the number one "Male Star of All Time" by the American Film Institute.

PRETTY MAIDS, OCEAN'S 11 AND ANGIE DICKINSON: Angie Dickinson, one of producer/host Dick Dinman's most treasured guests, returns to regale us with some uproarious memories about her participation in the outrageously controversial and feverishly erotic sex farce co-starring Rock Hudson PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN A ROW which has just been released by the Warner Archive, as well as her memories of working and frolicking with the legendary Rat Pack (Sinatra, Martin, Davis Jr. and Lawford) in the original OCEAN'S 11 which Warner has just magnificently restored on Blu-ray.

SAYING GOODBYE TO TONY CURTIS (Part Three): The late Tony Curtis reveals shocking facts in candid and blistering fashion that "he's never told anyone else" to producer/host Dick Dinman about his disastrous descent into drug-induced personal and professional hell as well as his spectacular and inspiring comeback in new and exciting artistic triumphs.

SAYING GOODBYE TO TONY CURTIS (Part Two): The late Tony Curtis shares intimate remembrances with producer/host Dick Dinman about the stratospheric highs and soon-to-be catastrophic lows that accompanied his ascendency into the rarified ranks of Hollywood super-stardom.

SAYING GOODBYE TO TONY CURTIS (Part One): A mega-movie star who was also an uncommonly versatile actor who could play light comedy and heavy drama with equal ease, the late Tony Curtis delivers a no-holds-barred account to producer/host Dick Dinman about his rough, poverty-stricken upbringing on the mean streets of New York and the miraculous first break that transported him on the road to stardom.

MARGE CHAMPION: LOVELY TO LOOK AT, DELIGHTFUL TO KNOW: The mirthful musical Technicolor delight LOVELY TO LOOK AT has just been released by the Warner Archive and helping producer/host Dick Dinman celebrate the happy occasion is one of it's stars Marge Champion who sits high atop the rarified list of great cinema dancers alongside the likes of Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, and Gene Kelly.

FORBIDDEN (BLU) PLANET!: Possibly the single most influential science-fiction classic in the annals of screen history, FORBIDDEN PLANET is finally here in the full glory of Super High Definition Blu-ray and the wonder of remastered Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound, and joining producer/host Dick Dinman is none other than it's beautiful and bountifully talented star Anne Francis who has some great stories about it's production and also candidly reveals some of the heartbreaks she experienced during her acclaimed screen career.

AN EXCLUSIVE THREE-SHOW VISIT WITH KIM NOVAK (Part Three): In this final segment Kim Novak tells producer/host Dick Dinman about what she had to go through to convince tough studio boss Harry Cohn to allow her to do her most challenging role and relates her experiences with Alfred Hitchcock and Jimmy Stewart on the Hitchcock masterpiece VERTIGO as well as with an unceasingly dictatorial Kirk Douglas, an aging and amorously-inclined Fredric March, a delightful Fred Astaire, and nineteen (count 'em!) siamese cats.

AN EXCLUSIVE THREE-SHOW VISIT WITH KIM NOVAK (Part Two): Kim Novak returns and regales producer/host Dick Dinman with her unusual take on the reputedly volcanic director Otto Preminger, her disappointingly chilly on-set non-relationship with her idol and costar Tyrone Power, as well as her experience with an incredibly uncomfortable William Holden, an extremely vulnerable Rita Hayworth, and a mercurial Frank Sinatra whose demeanor changed spectacularly from picture to picture.

AN EXCLUSIVE THREE-SHOW VISIT WITH KIM NOVAK (Part One): Kim Novak is that rare superstar who has for decades guarded her privacy zealously, granted few interviews and has virtually withdrawn from Hollywood's glaring spotlight but in this three-show DVD CLASSICS CORNER ON THE AIR exclusive and comprehensive chat she and producer/host Dick Dinman celebrate Sony Picture Entertainment's dvd release of the KIM NOVAK COLLECTION as she relates how she was virtually thrust into instant stardom and reveals her feelings about the advantages and disadvantages about this jarringly sudden fame.

RIDIN' THE RANGE WITH CLINT WALKER: To celebrate the Warner Archive remastered dvd release of the action-packed sagebrush saga YELLOWSTONE KELLY your producer/host Dick Dinman pow-wows with his boyhood idol and YELLOWSTONE KELLY star Clint Walker whose eight seasons in the title role of the television series CHEYENNE created an indelibly positive image for his millions of fans that lives on to this day.

A BLU STAGECOACH (Part Two): Producer/host Dick Dinman's salute to Criterion's spectacular Blu-ray transfer of John Ford's STAGECOACH continues with a rare treasure from his personal public domain vault: a radio version of STAGECOACH with Claire Trevor repeating her original film role opposite iconic western leading man Randolph Scott stepping in for John Wayne as the notorious Ringo Kid.

A BLU STAGECOACH (Part One): To salute the occasion of the first (and finest ever) Blu-ray release by Criterion of director John Ford's Oscar-winning western masterpiece STAGECOACH your producer/host Dick Dinman's guests director Andrew McLaglen (who knew Maine-born Ford intimately from the twenties until his death) and the late Karl Malden share touching and humorous reminiscences about their experiences with the great man.

CROSBY IN COURT! (PART TWO): Mary Crosby and George Knopfler return to discuss with producer/host Dick Dinman more sacrifices that were necessary to achieve this David vs. Goliath two million dollar plus court victory and the potential ultimate ramifications this success could have on performers similarly afflicted by their employers "creative" bookkeeping practices.

CROSBY IN COURT! (PART ONE): A ten year legal battle between interests for the Bing Crosby estate against MCA Records Inc. has just resulted in a two million dollar plus jury award in favor of the Crosby people which is a decision that should hopefully embolden those many artists who feel they've been financially mistreated by their employers to take similar action. Bing's daughter Mary Crosby and distinguished trial attorney George Knopfler share with producer/host Dick Dinman details about the trials (pun intended) and tribulations it took to bring about this major victory for artists rights.

DVD CLASSICS CORNER ON THE AIR IS IN LIKE FLYNN (AGAIN)!: Only a star of the legendarily charismatic magnitude of Errol Flynn could inspire the dvd release of no less than four collections and Warner Home Video's just released TCM SPOTLIGHT: ERROL FLYNN ADVENTURES just might be the best of a magnificent bunch. Warner Home Video V.P. George Feltenstein, Errol Flynn's daughter Rory Flynn, and fellow swashbuckler Stewart Granger explain to producer/host Dick Dinman why they feel that Errol Flynn was both a great movie star and a great actor.

DESCENDING INTO THE DARK DEPTHS OF NOIR (PART TWO):Sony Pictures Home Entertainment's COLUMBIA FILM NOIR CLASSICS (VOLUME TWO) takes viewers on a dark journey among low-lifes and mobsters, crooked cops and gun molls, and the dim-witted pawns who forever changed the landscape of cinema, and whose doomed paths are as disturbing today as when they were first committed to film. Sony's film restoration technical specialist Rita Belda explains to producer/host Dick Dinman how and why the gripping films included in this collection were chosen out of Columbia's vast noir library.

DESCENDING INTO THE DARK DEPTHS OF NOIR (PART ONE): Warner Home Video's tense, tingling, and terrific no holds barred FILM NOIR COLLECTION (Volume Five)  introduces us to the people you've always wanted to meet: murderers, thugs, blackmailers, snitches, shysters, duplicitous dames and (gasp!) politicians. Producer/host Dick Dinman's guests are Kathryn Grant Crosby who co-stars in the most relentlessly shocking film in this collection as well Warner Home Video V.P. George Feltenstein who explains his theory on why film noir retains it's popularity in contemporary times.

GARLANDS FOR JUDY: "A STAR" IS BLU! (Part Three): Warner Home Video's senior vice president of classic and theatrical marketing George Feltenstein shares with host Dick Dinman the reasons why A STAR IS BORN maintains it's reputation as the greatest musical drama in cinema history, explains why it looks better than any wide screen/color film of it's era and marvels over the incomparable brilliance of the performances of Judy Garland and James Mason.

GARLANDS FOR JUDY: "A STAR" IS BLU! (Part Two): John Fricke returns to reveal the truth about the insidious studio intrigue that resulted in the butchering of A STAR IS BORN in it's initial engagement (which probably cost Judy Garland and James Mason their respective Oscars) and the miraculous restoration that is on luminescent display in Warner Home Video's new Blu-ray release.

GARLANDS FOR JUDY: "A STAR" IS BLU! (Part One): Your host Dick Dinman celebrates Warner Home Video's magnificent Blu-ray release of the greatest musical drama ever committed to celluloid A STAR IS BORN with Judy Garland author/historian extraordinaire John Fricke as they explore the myriad of controversies surrounding the classic film and the chaotic ups and downs of it's brilliant star's career. PLUS: In an exclusive clip from Dick Dinman's very first star interview MGM leading man Stewart Granger tells Dick why he "turned down" the role of Norman Maine, an account that John Fricke regards with great ("sour grapes?") suspicion.

THE THREE LIVES OF TERRY MOORE (Part Two): Terry Moore shares more memories about the highs and lows of her Hollywood career with host Dick Dinman and reveals the identity of her favorite (and least favorite) leading man. EXTRA: THE BROTHERS WARNER  is the DICK'S PICKS OF THE WEEK!

THE THREE LIVES OF TERRY MOORE (Part One): From child actress to animal-loving teen sensation to Oscar-nominated temptress, the eternally beautiful and bountifully talented Terry Moore has led at least three on-screen lives and in this exclusive two-part chat with host Dick Dinman this entrancing lady shares some of her most memorable reminiscences about life in Golden Age Hollywood. EXTRA: Lionsgate's fabulous Blu-ray editions of THE LADY KILLERS and CONTEMPT are DICK'S PICKS OF THE WEEK!

DOCTOR ZHIVAGO IS BLU!: Certainly no film as resplendent as David Lean's DOCTOR ZHIVAGO in both picture and sound deserves more to get the full Blu-ray super-high-definition treatment and Warner Home Video's incarnation of this magnificent romantic epic astonishes in all respects. Dick Dinman's guest is the distinguished British star Rita Tushingham whose performance as Zhivago's daughter is one of the high points of this universally adored classic.

THOSE B-A-A-D GIRLS OF FILM NOIR: In the 40's and 50's the juiciest roles for actresses in Hollywood were often in B-pictures that explored the dark side of life and offered them starring roles as cool, calculating gals who could stick a knife in a guy's back and make him like it and Sony's dvd release of BAD GIRLS OF FILM NOIR (Volumes 1 & 2) showcases these dames at their most deadly and duplicitous. In a show that includes generous samplings of audio clips from these forgotten gems Sony Entertainment's restoration wizards Rita Belda and Grover Crisp tell your host Dick Dinman how and why they chose these eight films out of their vast library.

THE BROTHERS WARNER BY THE WARNER SISTERS: In the infant days of Hollywood, four brothers built an empire on a dream, revolutionized Hollywood and created the first major studio with a social conscience and your host Dick Dinman's guest , writer/producer/director Cass Warner Sperling, talks about the triumphs and challenges inherent in her 30 years of researching personal archives and conducting interviews with relatives, actors and others with close ties to the studio's history that eventually yielded the award-winning documentary THE BROTHERS WARNER which is both an intimate family portrait and an epic saga.

THE MUSIC MAN'S 76 BLU TROMBONES: Your host Dick Dinman and Warner Home Video's Senior V.P. for Theatrical Catalogue Marketing George Feltenstein chat about how the astonishing clarity and magnificent sound of this immaculately stunning super high definition Blu-ray rendition of THE MUSIC MAN was achieved. Archival commentary by Shirley Jones. PLUS: Exclusive news about upcoming Warner Home Video and Warner Archive releases.

SALUTING EDWARD G. ROBINSON: To commemorate the release of six new Edward G. Robinson classics from the Warner Archive (THE MAN WITH TWO FACES, MANPOWER, TIGER SHARK, TWO SECONDS, THE LAST GANGSTER, and OUR VINES HAVE TENDER GRAPES) your host Dick Dinman and three of Robinson's leading ladies (Margaret O'Brien, Kathleen Hughes, and Gena Rowlands) pay tribute tribute to this uncommonly versatile superstar.

TV MOVIE'S BRAVE TRUE-LIFE LADIES: THE BETTY FORD STORY: Dick Dinman's (fourth-time) returning guest, the supremely talented Gena Rowlands, won both a Golden Globe and Emmy Award as Best Actress for her stingingly uncompromising performance as First Lady Betty Ford, whose courageous revelations about her mastectomy and addiction to alcohol and prescription drugs boldly broke new ground in bringing these heretofore taboo subjects out into the open for the very first time.

TV MOVIE'S BRAVE TRUE-LIFE LADIES: BABE (Part Two): Stanley Rubin, the producer of the Emmy Award winning television movie classic BABE shares with host Dick Dinman the problems and roadblocks he and his producing partner Norman Felton had to overcome to bring this very special project to fruition. (BABE was Dick Dinman's first speaking role in a television movie and audio of the short scene is included in this show.)

TV MOVIE'S BRAVE TRUE-LIFE LADIES: BABE (Part One): Susan Clark, who so deservedly received a Best Actress Emmy Award for her bravura performance as Babe Didrikson Zaharias, who was one of the greatest Gold Medal athletes of the 20th century, tells host Dick Dinman about the myriad of challenges she faced in bringing this gallant lady back to life.

BING SINGS AGAIN! (Part Three): From daughter to mother: Mary Crosby's vivacious and charming mother Kathryn Grant Crosby offers her unique and intimate perspective about the qualities that set Bing Crosby apart from all of the other iconic entertainers while host Dick Dinman spins some great Crosby musical classics

BING SINGS AGAIN! (Part Two): Mary Crosby returns to regale your host Dick Dinman with some pricelessly humorous and surprising stories about her legendary dad and reveals the truth about the rumors of a Crosby-Sinatra feud in a show chock full of generous musical samples of the Crosby singing style that contributed to make him the most popular and longest running musical super-star of the century.

BING SINGS AGAIN! (Part One): To commemorate the release of THE BING CROSBY RADIO RECORDINGS 1954-1956 (160 song!) mega-set (and the first major Crosby cd release in decades) your host Dick Dinman welcomes Bing's talented and beautiful daughter Mary Crosby to the first of three mirth-filled musical shows devoted to saluting the gentleman who those in the know now acknowledge to be the greatest and most versatile entertainer of the twentieth century.

MIRACLE ON 34th STREET (Part Two): Conclusion of the radio version of MIRACLE ON 34th STREET.

MIRACLE ON 34th STREET (Part One): As a holiday gift to his cherished listeners and to commemorate the Blu-ray release of 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment's MIRACLE ON 34th STREET your host Dick Dinman presents and narrates a gem from his own private public domain collection: the rarely heard radio version of MIRACLE ON 34th STREET with Maureen O'Hara, John Payne and Edmund Gwenn in his Oscar winning role of Kris Kringle recreating their original roles in this charming holiday classic.

I'M DREAMING OF A BLU CHRISTMAS: A full show "Dick's Picks" program as your host Dick Dinman chooses the following Blu-ray releases as the perfect holiday gifts for classic film lovers feeling Blu: Paramount's IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, VCI Entertainment's A CHRISTMAS CAROL, 20th Century Fox's MIRACLE ON 34th STREET, and Warner's QUO VADIS, THE WIZARD OF OZ and GONE WITH THE WIND.

A CASTLE OF COLUMBIA NOIR: Host Dick Dinman and guest Rita Belda (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Technical Specialist, Film Restoration and Asset Management) salute Sony's dvd releases of THE WILLIAM CASTLE COLLECTION and THE COLUMBIA PICTURES FILM NOIR COLLECTION (#1) as they trade hilarious true stories about the outrageous stunts Castle would pull in order to ballyhoo his classic horror films after which they explore the dark depths of the classic film noir genre.

A FULLER FILM EXPERIENCE: Samuel Fuller's widow Christa Lang Fuller, Fuller star Michael Dante and host Dick Dinman salute the tumultuous life and cinematic legacy of the defiantly maverick writer-director whose brilliant works are now on display in Sony Pictures Home Entertainment's new dvd release THE SAMUEL FULLER COLLECTION.

OZ AND ENDS: In addition to sharing final fascinating facts about the creation of the astounding new Blu-ray release of THE WIZARD OF OZ, home video pioneer George Feltenstein tantalizes host Dick Dinman with previews of the Blu-ray releases of GONE WITH THE WIND and Hitchcock's NORTH BY NORTHWEST as well as other upcoming and current classic Blu-ray, standard dvd, and Warner Archive releases and reveals for the first time, in a DVD CLASSICS CORNER ON THE AIR exclusive, the name of an iconic and groundbreaking cinema classic currently being prepared for a 2011 Blu-ray debut.

THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD IN BLU (Part Three): Dick Dinman's returning guest is Warner Home Video Senior Vice President of Theatrical and Classic Catalogue Marketing pioneer George Feltenstein who discusses how he and his talented restoration wizards were able to create a new OZ Blu-ray release that visually and audibly surpasses even the original Technicolor release prints.

THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD IN BLU (Part Two): The first OZ director fired! The Tin Man hospitalized in critical condition! The first Wicked Witch leaves OZ in a huff! (Or, as Groucho Marx would say: "A minute and a huff!"). "Over The Rainbow" almost cut from the film! The second Wicked Witch badly burned! Emmy Award winning OZ producer/documentarian John Fricke returns and shares with host Dick Dinman the trials and tribulations it took to create this incredibly risky masterwork.

THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD IN BLU (Part One): In a show dedicated to the magnificence of the new 70th Anniversary Blu-ray release of THE WIZARD OF OZ Emmy Award winning OZ documentarian/producer John Fricke tells host Dick Dinman fascinating true facts about what it took to bring this once in a lifetime masterpiece to the screen.

ELEANOR PARKER'S FAVORITE (AND LEAST FAVORITE!) LEADING MAN: Three time Best Actress Oscar nominee Eleanor Parker's scores of leading men included Gable, Flynn (twice), Bogart, Sinatra (twice), Mitchum, Kirk Douglas, Heston, MacMurray, and many others of equal prominence and she returns to the show to reveal to Dick Dinman her choice for favorite leading man (and to address rumors that they were intimately involved) and in blistering no-holds-barred terms reveals the identity of a leading male co-star she despised and why. In a surprise conclusion the subject of her ire tells Dick Dinman his side of the story.

KIRK DOUGLAS'S FAVORITE FILM: Dick Dinman's distinguished guest two-time Best Actress Oscar nominee Gena Rowlands returns to the show and chimes in with her opinion of Kirk Douglas' choice for the best film he ever made as do Kirk's son Michael Douglas and producer-director Steven Spielberg.

SAYING GOODBYE TO KARL MALDEN: Dick Dinman's bittersweet send-off to Oscar and Emmy winning character star Karl Malden who will always remain one of his very favorite guests.

THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK (Part One): Only director George Stevens could transfer this extraordinary portrayal of humanity set during one of history's most inhumane periods into a motion picture of such singular power and everlasting relevance in which Dick Dinman's guest Millie Perkins brilliantly portrays the insightful 13-year-old biographer of her family's two-year hiding from the Nazi's murderous aggression in an Amsterdam attic.

THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK (Part Two): Dick Dinman's guest Diane Baker began her distinguished film career with a stunningly sensitive and deeply felt portrayal as Anne Frank's sister in this George Stevens masterwork and discusses the challenges inherent in bringing this poignant true story to the screen with such uncompromisingly authentic detail and shattering effect.

THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK (Part Three): Dick Dinman and his multi-talented guest George Stevens Jr. discuss the challenges inherent in bringing THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK to the screen as well as the unique qualities that made producer-director George Stevens Sr. a universally revered filmmaker for the ages.

ELEANOR PARKER'S INTERRUPTED MELODY: The frequently requested Oscar winning true life musical drama INTERRUPTED MELODY is finally available from the Warner Archive Collection and Dick Dinman's guest is it's three time best actress Oscar nominated star Eleanor Parker who explains in detail the incredible challenges she faced in her Oscar nominated portrayal of Marjorie Lawrence whose illustrious operatic career was sideswiped by polio. ADDED ATTRACTION: Dick Dinman goes WESTBOUND with Randolph Scott's co-star Michael Dante.

THE WARNER ARCHIVE COLLECTION: Dick Dinman's guest George Feltenstein, senior vice president in charge of Warner Home Video's classic catalogue, opens the curtain to reveal an exciting new milestone in dvd history which will make hundreds of pristine never-before-released cinema classics available to classic movie fans at their beck and call.

TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES FIFTEENTH ANNIVERSARY: Turner Classic Movies master of ceremonies Robert Osborne and senior vice president of programming Charles Tabesh celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of the one and only Turner Classic Movies with host Dick Dinman.

GLORIOUS BLACK AND WHITE: Converting a color film (NICKELODEON) to black and white may seem like a strange idea to some but this marvelous restoration proves conclusively that certain films benefit spectacularly when released in this process. Grover Crisp, Sony Pictures Entertainment senior vice president of asset management, film restoration and digital mastering, explains to host Dick Dinman why and how this unusual task was accomplished and discusses the latest Sony Blu-ray releases.

A WEALTH OF WELLMAN: (Part One) As six of director William Wellman's most controversial and banned-for-decades classics are now finally released in the new FORBIDDEN HOLLYWOOD COLLECTION (Volume Three) Dick Dinman and returning guest William Wellman Jr. expose the fiery artistic sensibilities and turbulent life experiences of one of the most tempestuous super-talents in cinema history.

A WEALTH OF WELLMAN: (Part Two) More colorful revelations about the passionately productive director William Wellman with Dick Dinman's guest William Wellman Jr.

QUO VADIS, ROBERT TAYLOR, HOLLYWOOD AND COMMUNISM: To commemorate the release of the magnificent Blu-ray dvd of one of the finest Biblical extravaganzas of all time Dick Dinman and guest Linda J. Alexander, the author of the highly acclaimed book ROBERT TAYLOR: RELUCTANT WITNESS, HOLLYWOOD AND COMMUNISM, reveal the true and never before told facts about how Taylor was forced to testify before the House of Un-American Activities and subsequently suffered at the hands of those ignorant about what really transpired during this incident at the inception of the dark days of the Hollywood blacklist. SPECIAL ADDED ATTRACTION: NATALIE WOOD COLLECTION.

CHUCK AMUCK! PART 1 Dick Dinman pays tribute to legendary Looney Tunes animation director Chuck Jones with Jones' talented daughter Linda Jones Clough as they focus on the qualities that made his contributions to the field of animation so unique and beloved as well as offer a preview of the new Turner Classic Movies documentary CHUCK JONES: MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD.

CHUCK AMUCK! PART 2 Dick Dinman's tribute to Chuck Jones concludes with his guest Peggy Stern who produced the enchanting and memorable documentary CHUCK JONES: MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD.

DICK DINMAN'S BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION FOR ERNEST BORGNINE. Hale and hearty 92 year old Oscar, Golden Globes, and Emmy-winning screen legend Ernest Borgnine celebrates his birthday with Dick Dinman and regales us with his affectionate remembrances of Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, William Holden, Bette Davis, Gary Cooper, Spencer Tracy and many other of filmdom's greats with whom he shared the screen during the course of his unparalleled fifty-two year career.

KNOW THE SCORE: THE CLASSIC MUSIC O20th CENTURY FOX. Dick Dinman's returning guest, writer, producer and film music scholar Nick Redman discusses the remarkable (and too often unheralded) "isolated score" option exclusive to many recent 20th Century Fox classic home video releases with generous samples from the scores of THE SAND PEBBLES, PLANET OF THE APES, CAPTAIN FROM CASTILLE, GARDEN OF EVIL and THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL.

DVD CLASSICS CORNER ON THE AIR SALUTES THE FINEST FILM COLLECTION OF 2008: The "Dick's Pick's" of the year is the remarkable coffee table worthy MURNAU, BORZAGE AND FOX COLLECTION which features 12 films from two directors whose magically romantic, erotic and visually extravagant styles were integral in the development of modern movies. Dick Dinman's guests are executive music producer Nick Redman and composer/conductor Christopher Caliendo who composed the scores for two of these masterpieces as well as the full-length documentary included with this awesome collection.

RANDY RIDES AGAIN Legendary western star Randolph Scott is saluted along with the director of six of Scott's finest cinema classics Budd Boetticher. Dick Dinman's guests are Michael Dante who costarred with Scott in a Boetticher directed western and has some great stories to tell, as well as Senior Vice President In Charge Of Restoration for Sony Pictures Entertainment Grover Crisp who describes the arduous and time-consuming process it took to bring the Scott-Boetticher cinema milestones to home video in such phenomenal shape.

THE POWERS OF POWER Dick Dinman and his guest Tyrone Power Jr. in a riveting and revealing profile of Twentieth Century Fox's greatest Golden Age superstar Tyrone Power, in a show that includes a generous sampling of scenes and music from some of Power's greatest films.

THE FUTURE: THREE DIMENSION IN YOUR LIVING ROOM! George Feltenstein returns to regale Dick Dinman with a prediction that the three dimension process will be an integral part of your home theater experience in the not-so-distant future. Includes audio clips from nine three dimension classics in which Randolph Scott, Edmond O'Brien, Joanne Dru, John Ireland, Richard Carlson, Arlene Dahl and Fernando Lamas extol the virtues of this "new" cinematic thrill. Special added feature: Errol Flynn out west!

THE PRESENT: CINERAMA IN YOUR LIVING ROOM! They said it couldn't be done but Warner Home Video's new Blu-ray dvd version of HOW THE WEST WAS WON makes video history by reproducing the stupendous three-panel Cinerama ultra-widescreen process for home exhibition and perfecting a technology that finally eliminates the "join lines" and unifies the images into a superb home viewing experience that actually captures the essence of the production's initial exclusive reserved seat theatrical exhibitions. Dick Dinman's guest, senior vice president in charge of Warner Home Video's classic catalogue George Feltenstein, reveals how this incredible feat was accomplished and gives us a sneak preview of upcoming classic Blu-ray releases.

A CONVERSATION WITH ROBERT OSBORNE Dick Dinman's guest is noted author, columnist, and Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne as they discuss the dramatically increased popularity of the Golden Age cinema classics as well as some major never Oscar-nominated stars whose work has always been taken for granted.

FRANK SINATRA: A TRIBUTE TO THE (ACTING) CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD Dick Dinman's guests Turner Classics Movies host Robert Osborne and three-time Best Actress Oscar nominee and two-time Sinatra leading lady Eleanor Parker (in a very rare and exclusive interview) focus on Sinatra the actor and offer some revealing and occasionally critical insights about Sinatra's dramatic abilities.

FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELTS! IT'S BETTE DAVIS' HUNDREDTH BIRTHDAY! (part one) Dick Dinman and distinguished columnist, film historian, author, raconteur and Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne in a centennial tribute to that star of stars Bette Davis. Special guest appearance by Joan Leslie whom Davis called "The nicest girl on the Warner lot."

FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELTS! IT'S BETTE DAVIS' HUNDREDTH BIRTHDAY! (part two) The Bette Davis centennial celebration continues as Dick Dinman pairs up with two time Best Actress Oscar nominee Gena Rowlands who, in addition to co-starring with Davis, was also one of her closest friends, though their relationship began on a decidedly chilly note.

PART ONE Seven year old child prodigy, THE BLUE ANGEL, Nazi brutality, escape to Paris and the United States, THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, the early days at Universal and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the great MGM scores, introduction to David O. Selznick and Alfred Hitchcock, the first Oscar nomination.

PART TWO REBECCA, SUSPICION, moving over to Warner Brothers, a revealing and unexpected portrait of studio head Jack L. Warner, the great Waxman-Warner years, free at last, first Oscar win for Billy Wilder's SUNSET BLVD, never-before-released unused SUNSET BLVD music, director George Stevens complains about Waxman's score for A PLACE IN THE SUN, second consecutive Oscar win for A PLACE IN THE SUN, Waxman score for NIGHT AND THE CITY replaced in Britain.

PART THREE Hitchcock dislikes Waxman's REAR WINDOW score, the great Twentieth Century Fox scores, back to Warner's with THE SILVER CHALICE, reunion with Billy Wilder for THE SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS, Steven Spielberg loves Waxman's SPIRIT score, a controversial PEYTON PLACE.

PART FOUR Jack Warner livid over Waxman's initial score for NUN'S STORY, BELOVED INFIDEL, ADVENTURES OF A YOUNG MAN, Bernard Herrmann calls Waxman's score for TARAS BULBA (which almost didn't happen!) "the score of a lifetime", a SUNSET BLVD finale.

Dick Dinman's DVD CLASSICS CORNER ON THE AIR is proud to present a four part tribute to Franz Waxman, the only Golden Age composer to win two consecutive Oscars. Dick's guest is his son, producer John Waxman, who shares some poignant, humorous, and always compelling stories about his father's experiences during his legendary three decade plus career. Included in these shows will be generous samplings of twenty-seven Waxman scores, some of which have never been released commercially in any home audio format.

STEVE McQUEEN : REBEL WITH A CAUSE Dick Dinman and his Oscar-winning guest Karl Malden pay tribute to Steve McQueen who was one of the most iconic screen legends of the 60's and 70's.

UP IN THE AIR WITH "AIRPLANE" Dick Dinman salutes the 25th Anniversary of one of the funniest films ever made with two of AIRPLANE'S stars Robert Hays and Peter Graves.

PRODUCED BY JOHN WAYNE. John Wayne's production company was responsible for some of the screen's most memorable efforts and Dick Dinman's guests Karen Sharpe who, after being introduced in Wayne's THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY was subsequently placed under exclusive contract to Wayne, and William Wellman Jr. whose father directed five Wayne-produced films, reveal the inside story about what went on during the filming of these popular screen successes.

SEEING RED : A SKELTON IN YOUR CLOSET. Red Skelton was one of the greatest comic geniuses of the twentieth century and three of his beautiful and talented leading ladies (Arlene Dahl, Ann Rutherford and Betty Garrett) regale host Dick Dinman with their hilarious, touching and sometimes physically painful experiences working with this totally unpredictable master clown.

MAJOR DUNDEE : RESTORATION OF A TROUBLED CLASSIC. An unprecedented restoration (with twelve extra minutes and an entirely new score) of a much-maligned mega-flop is discussed by Dick's guests Michael Anderson Jr. (who was one of the top-billed stars) and Christopher Caliendo (who composed the new MAJOR DUNDEE score). Included are some hilarious revelations about tempestuous director Sam Peckinpah, Charlton Heston and perpetually inebriated co-star Richard Harris.

SPENCER TRACY : GREATEST OF THE GREAT. Dick Dinman's guests are Tracy co-stars John Ericson and Anne Francis who affectionally relate their experiences working with Tracy, and Oscar winner Karl Malden tells Dick his theory about what qualities made Tracy an actor without equal. Also archival insights from Tracy co-stars Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, Richard Widmark, Angela Lansbury, Mickey Rooney, Robert Wagner, Lee Marvin and Sidney Poitier as well as scenes from some of Tracy's finest classics.

CAPRACORNICOPIA (part two)

CAPRACORNICOPIA (part one): Dick Dinman's two part tribute to Frank Capra with guest Frank Capra Jr. who, sadly, passed away recently. These two shows, which have been revised somewhat from the original, are repeated in his honor.

DICK'S PICKS TOP TEN LIST (part two)

DICK'S PICKS TOP TEN LIST (part one): Dick Dinman's choices for the top ten classic dvd releases of last year.

STANWYCK and LANCASTER: ALWAYS AT THEIR BEST : Stanwyck co-star John Ericson and Lancaster co-star Tony Curtis reveal what qualities made Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster such enduring cinema giants and Chad Everett tells host Dick Dinman about his riotous encounter with Lancaster.

CLARK GABLE: KING OF HOLLYWOOD: Gable co-stars Jane Russell and Audrey Totter share their experiences with Dick Dinman on working and dating the super-star and undisputed king of all the stars Clark Gable.

A FORD IN YOUR FUTURE (part three): Award winning producer-director Nick Redman and executive in charge of the 20th Century Fox classics division Richard Ashton weigh in on what it was that made John Ford one of the most revered film directors of all time.

ELMER BERNSTEIN : CELLULOID MAESTRO: Generous samples of classic Bernstein film music (as well as other legendary cinema composers) abound in Dick Dinman's tribute to the art of film scoring.

A FORD IN YOUR FUTURE : (part two): Contemporary film composer Christopher Caliendo talks about the challenges of scoring the newly-restored Ford silent classics THE IRON HORSE and FOUR SONS as well as the sorry state of the current film music industry.

A WINTER'S TALE: The brilliant comic genius Jonathan Winters returns to DVD CLASSICS CORNER ON THE AIR for the fourth time with new and riotous, as well as poignant, stories about his chaotic life and times.

A CROSBY CHRISTMAS: Dick Dinman's annual Christmas show tribute to Bing Crosby features an exclusive interview with Bing's widow as well as songs galore and scenes from some Crosby's biggest movie hits.

A FORD IN YOUR FUTURE (part one): In the first of a three-show tribute to iconic director John Ford, Dick Dinman's guest, director Andrew V. McLaglen, who knew director Ford intimately and professionally from the early 30's until his death, tells some never-before-heard stories about the unpredictable director in a show that features scenes and music from some of the great Ford classics.

MITCHUMANIAMARATHON: (part two): Dick Dinman's guests Jane Russell, Peter Graves, Anne Jeffreys, William Wellman Jr., Karen Sharpe, Stanley Rubin, and Michael Anderson Jr. try to top each other with their funny and sometimes very personal recollections about free-spirited rebel superstar Robert Mitchum.

MITCHUMANIAMARATHON (part one): Was there ever a more colorful superstar than Robert Mitchum? Not according to Dick Dinman's guest Michael Anderson Jr. who co-starred with Mitchum in THE SUNDOWNERS.

AL JOLSON: "MAMMY'S" BOY: To this day Al Jolson is considered by many to be the greatest entertainer of the twentieth century. Host Dick Dinman is joined by Betty Garrett, whose husband Larry Parks portrayed Jolson in THE JOLSON STORY, as they reveal some surprising insights about this legendary performer.

GARY COOPER: MAN OF THE WEST: When Joan Leslie was sixteen years old she became Gary Cooper's leading lady in SERGEANT YORK and Michael Anderson directed "Coop" in his last two films. Both join your host Dick Dinman as they reminisce about one of classic filmdom's greatest stars.

THE MICKEY and JUDY SHOW: Dick Dinman and his guest Ann Rutherford (Mickey Rooney's leading lady in twelve Andy Hardy films) marvel at the length and breadth of Rooney's musical talents in a show that includes songs by Rooney and Judy Garland as well as generous samplings of Rooney's untutored mastery of a multitude of musical instruments.

DANCIN' ON AIR WITH FRED ASTAIRE: Fred Astaire's co- star Joan Leslie and host Dick Dinman explore the incomparable genius of film legend Astaire not only as a dancer supreme but as a vocalist, actor, piano soloist, choreographer and songwriter. Archival comments by Audrey Hepburn and David Niven.

ROBERT TAYLOR: MOST UNDER-RATED SUPERSTAR? Taylor co-stars Arlene Dahl, Chad Everett, and Audrey Totter join Dick Dinman in a tribute to one of filmdom's most under-appreciated superstars with clips spotlighting Taylor's versatility.

MIKLOS ROZSA : MOVIELAND'S MAGICAL MUSICAL MAESTRO. 10/17/07 (part three) Dick Dinman's tribute to Miklos Rozsa concludes with the broadcast world premiere of a suite from a Rozsa score never before released on any home audio format.

MIKLOS ROZSA : MOVIELAND'S MAGICAL MUSICAL MAESTRO. 10/10/07 (part two) Why were Hitchcock and David O. Selznick not on speaking terms with Miklos Rozsa? The real scoop on Rozsa's DRAGNET theme lawsuit.

MIKLOS ROZSA : MOVIELAND'S MAGICAL MUSICAL MAESTRO. 10/03/07 (part one) The first of a three-show 100th Birthday Salute to Miklos Rozsa (BEN-HUR, SPELLBOUND, EL CID, DOUBLE INDEMNITY, THE KILLERS, etc.) as Rozsa's daughter Juliet joins host Dick Dinman in a series of shows that reveal aspects of the creative and human side of the man behind the music as well as feature generous samples of some of his most revered works.

FILM NOIR -THE BLEAKER THE BETTER (part two) Dick Dinman's guest is Film Noir's Queen of Mean, Audrey Totter, who reveals a different side of this talented lady.

FILM NOIR -THE BLEAKER THE BETTER (part one) Farley Granger (star of the two Hitchcock masterpieces STRANGERS ON A TRAIN and ROPE) and author Robert Calhoun share stories about Farley's experiences with directors Alfred Hitchcock, Nicholas Ray and Anthony Mann.

BETTY GARRETT and OTHER SONGS Dick Dinman pays tribute to his guest Betty Garrett who survived the heinous blacklist and emerged victoriously not only as a stage, tv, and screen star, but also as an award-winning director and author.

IN THE SWIM WITH ESTHER WILLIAMS (track one) Dick Dinman's guest Betty Garrett shares revealing stories about her experiences with Hollywood's Million $ Mermaid.

IN THE SWIM WITH ESTHER WILLIAMS (track two)

TALENT, GUTS, and PERSEVERANCE: THE STANLEY KRAMER SAGA (part two) Dick Dinman's guests Tony Curtis, Jonathan Winters, Abby Mann and Karen Sharpe Kramer pay tribute to Hollywood's bravest director.

TALENT, GUTS, and PERSEVERANCE: THE STANLEY KRAMER SAGA (part one) Dick Dinman's guests Tony Curtis, Jonathan Winters, Abby Mann and Karen Sharpe Kramer pay tribute to Hollywood's bravest director.

TWO REBEL DIRECTORS Michael Dante returns and paints a vivid picture of two directors he worked with, Samuel Fuller and Budd Boetticher, who defied the Hollywood "system" --- and paid a terrible price.

Joan Collins and the Seven Thieves Michael Dante, one of the stars of the classic thriller SEVEN THIEVES, reveals the real story of the on-set friction between Joan Collins and Rod Steiger and remembers legendary star Edward G. Robinson.

Katherine Hepburn's 100th Birthday! Katherine Hepburn's last three performances were in projects produced by Dick Dinman's guest, writer-producer John Dayton.

Cinema Literary Classics! Dick Dinman's guest Stewart Granger reveals the story behind his "Prisoner of Zenda."

John Wayne's 100th Birthday! (Part Four) Dick Dinman's guest: Andrew V. McLaglen.

John Wayne's 100th Birthday! (Part Three) Dick Dinman's guests: Michael Anderson Jr. and Andrew V. McLaglen.

John Wayne's 100th Birthday! (Part Two) Dick Dinman's guests: Michael Anderson Jr. and Andrew V. McLaglen.

John Wayne's 100th Birthday! (Part One) Dick Dinman's guests: Angie Dickinson and Andrew V. McLaglen.

Capracornacopia (Part Two) Dick Dinman's guest Frank Capra Jr. returns with more Capraesque stories about his father.

Capracornacopia (Part One) Dick Dinman and guest Frank Capra Jr. salute legendary director Frank Capra.

Errol Flynnathon (Part Two) Dick Dinman's guest is Errol Flynn's daughter Rory, plus comments from swashbuckler Stewart Granger.

Errol Flynnathon (Part One) Dick Dinman's guest: Flynn co-star Ann Rutherford