Warner Archive Press Release: The Harvey Girls (1948) (Blu-ray) (1 Viewer)

Ronald Epstein · Nov 5, 2020

THE HARVEY GIRLS (1946)
New 2020 1080p HD Restoration from 4K Scan of the Original Nitrate Technicolor Negatives
Run Time: 102:00
Subtitles: English SDH
Audio Specs: DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 - English
Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1 4x3 Full Frame
Product Color: COLOR
Disc Configuration: BD 50

Special Features: Feature-length audio commentary by Director George Sidney, Three Deleted Musical sequences: March of the Doagies, March of the Doagies (reprise), and My Intuition. Scoring stage sessions (audio only) featuring pre-recordings made for the film including the unused "Hayride". "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" Remixed in Stereo (HD), Original Theatrical Trailer (HD).
Judy Garland headlines The Harvey Girls, a joyous slice of Americana celebrating the "Harvey House" restaurants that brought extra helpings of civilization to the Old West. Famed M-G-M musical producer Arthur Freed brought together an impressive cast of talents for this box-office hit which features a delightful original score by composer Harry Warren and lyricist Johnny Mercer, who earned an Oscar for their On the Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe as the Best Song of 1946. Garland once again shares the screen with her "Oz" co-star Ray Bolger, clowns with Virginia O'Brien, falls in love with leading man John Hodiak, and faces off against wicked saloon gal Angela Lansbury in one of the most entertaining and enduring musical classics to come from Metro's golden age, now fully restored to its original Technicolor luster for its Blu-ray debut.

Ronald Epstein · Nov 5, 2020

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Garysb · Nov 6, 2020

"The Harvey Girls " with the cut scenes as Extras. Just as I hoped it would be released. Sourced from the original nitrate negatives? ,Three Strip, Three negatives presumably, WOW!!!!!!! Can't wait.

PMF · Nov 6, 2020

Thank you WAC and HTF for these uplifting gifts of anticipations and all good things to look forward to.

Will Krupp · Nov 6, 2020

YES!!!!!!!!!

usrunnr · Nov 6, 2020

When????

Matt Hough · Nov 6, 2020

This should look stunning. The SD transfer TCM has been showing all these years will likely look like mush compared to this Blu-ray. Can't wait.

bujaki · Nov 6, 2020

Will Krupp said:
YES!!!!!!!!!

As I told Tino, you too must be channeling Molly Bloom's final orgasmic scream at the end of Joyce's Ulysses.

lark144 · Nov 6, 2020

bujaki said:
As I told Tino, you too must be channeling Molly Bloom's final orgasmic scream at the end of Joyce's Ulysses.

Except that final scene goes on for something like over 100 pages--I saw Siobhan McKenna read it once at Symphony Space during Bloomsday; it was really long, and not especially orgasmic--and I wouldn't want to have to read that many yes-es.

bujaki · Nov 6, 2020

lark144 said:
Except that final scene goes on for something like over 100 pages--I saw Siobhan McKenna read it once at Symphony Space during Bloomsday; it was really long, and not especially orgasmic--and I wouldn't want to have to read that many yes-es.

I saw her too, but at a different venue (Circle in the Square?, my memory fails me right now). She was magnificent, and younger as well.

lark144 · Nov 6, 2020

bujaki said:
I saw her too, but at a different venue (Circle in the Square?, my memory fails me right now). She was magnificent, and younger as well.

She was definitely magnificent, with a voice like a sensuous fog and a personality indescribable but transcendent; a performance that exited on so many levels, it's impossible to forget.

AnthonyClarke · Nov 6, 2020

Best moment is when she descends down those train steps. Transcendentally beautiful.
And the disc boasts one of the best voice-over commentaries, with George Sydney, up there with the Stanley Donen-Peter Stone commentary for 'Charade'.

bujaki · Nov 6, 2020

lark144 said:
She was definitely magnificent, with a voice like a sensuous fog and a personality indescribable but transcendent; a performance that exited on so many levels, it's impossible to forget.

And for us to bring it back to The Harvey Girls, did you not see the excellent 35mm IB Tech print that used to circulate in NY during the '70s? I believe one of those screenings was the last time I saw it. Time to remedy that.

gjn123 · Nov 6, 2020

bujaki said:
And for us to bring it back to The Harvey Girls, did you not see the excellent 35mm IB Tech print that used to circulate in NY during the '70s? I believe one of those screenings was the last time I saw it. Time to remedy that.

gjn123 · Nov 6, 2020

Wonderful news I!!!

lark144 · Nov 6, 2020

bujaki said:
And for us to bring it back to The Harvey Girls, did you not see the excellent 35mm IB Tech print that used to circulate in NY during the '70s? I believe one of those screenings was the last time I saw it. Time to remedy that.

But of course! The print was stunning, awash with baby blues and blushing pinks and randy reds. Watching it was similar to seeing a roomfull of crinoline sashay against a panoply of soda fountain specials, with lots of whipped cream and chocolate sprinkes and walnuts. Though the "The Harvey Girls" is not one of my favorite MGM musicals, the Technicolor is dazzling.

Will Krupp · Nov 7, 2020

bujaki said:
As I told Tino, you too must be channeling Molly Bloom's final orgasmic scream at the end of Joyce's Ulysses.

lark144 said:
Except that final scene goes on for something like over 100 pages--I saw Siobhan McKenna read it once at Symphony Space during Bloomsday; it was really long, and not especially orgasmic--and I wouldn't want to have to read that many yes-es.

You'll both think me a philistine (as a matter of record, my drag name would be "Phyllis Stein" should I ever decide to take it up) but I have an absolute horror of James Joyce. I was scared by PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN as a young man and never got over it.

Matt Hough · Nov 7, 2020

Will Krupp said:
You'll both think me a philistine (as a matter of record, my drag name would be "Phyllis Stein" should I ever decide to take it up) but I have an absolute horror of James Joyce. I was scared by PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN as a young man and never got over it.

I took a Modern Novels course in college that included this book, and while it didn't horrify me, it didn't make me curious to further my knowledge with Joyce's Ulysses despite my professor's recommendation to pursue it.

Will Krupp · Nov 7, 2020

Matt Hough said:
while it didn't horrify me, it didn't make me curious to further my knowledge with Joyce's Ulysses despite my professor's recommendation to pursue it.

Perhaps I was using a teeny bit of hyperbole there.

lark144 · Nov 7, 2020

Will Krupp said:
You'll both think me a philistine (as a matter of record, my drag name would be "Phyllis Stein" should I ever decide to take it up) but I have an absolute horror of James Joyce. I was scared by PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN as a young man and never got over it.

I was also scared off by "Portrait of the Artist" when I was young, but was snowed in for 4 days when I was sixteen in Utica, at a friend of my parents' house. The only book worth reading was "Ulysses" and I fell in love with it. I didn't know what it meant, but I loved the language and the characters. It was unlike any book I had ever read in that it launched a thousand movies in my head. It was so visual and interactive. It was like being on the inside of images and possibly life itself, that dark undercurrent of desire and possibility. Anyway, it got me through adolescence.

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