The Golden Year Collection: 1939

1939 was the Golden Year of Cinema—often described as "the greatest year in the history of Hollywood.” Hollywood movies produced in Southern California were at the height of their Golden Age and the year 1939 saw the premieres of an outstandingly large number of exceptional motion pictures, many of which become honored as all-time classic films.

Now five of those 1939 classics have been brought together in one amazing Blu-ray collection, with four of these five making their Blu-ray debut!

DARK VICTORY
Bette Davis' bravura, moving-but-never-morbid performance as Judith Traherne, a dying heiress determined to find happiness in her few remaining months, remains a three-hankie classic. Also starring George Brent, Humphrey Bogart and Ronald Reagan. Dark Victory garnered Academy Award nominations for "Best Picture," "Best Actress" and "Best Original Score."

DODGE CITY
There ought to be a law in this corrupt, bullet-ridden town and once trail boss Wade Hatton pins on a badge, there is. In his first of eight westerns, Errol Flynn is as able with a six-shooter as he was with a swashbuckler's sword. He confronts lynch mobs, slams outlaws into jail and escapes (along with co-star Olivia de Havilland) a fiery, locked railroad car.

GONE WITH THE WIND
Winner of eight Academy Awards and the all-time domestic box-office champion  ($1.5 billion), Gone With The Wind has long been considered the most celebrated motion picture in cinema history. Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Olivia de Havilland and Hattie McDaniel star in this classic epic of the American South on the eve of the American Civil War.

THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME
Victor Hugo's classic novel brought to life in one of the most stirring and poignant films ever made. Charles Laughton is remarkable as Quasimodo, the deaf, grotesque hunchback who rescues a beautiful gypsy girl (Maureen O'Hara) from the noose of an ugly mob. Laughton endured a daily five-and-a-half-hour makeup session to become the mocked and vilified bellringer of Notre Dame.

NINOTCHKA
“Garbo Laughs!” cheered the publicity for screen legend Greta Garbo’s first comedy, a frothy tale of a dour Russian envoy sublimating her womanhood for Soviet brotherhood until she falls for a suave Parisian man-about-town (Melvyn Douglas). From a cleverly barbed script written in part by Billy Wilder, Ninotchka remains serenely dignified yet endearingly ridiculous. Garbo laughs. So will you.