Blu-ray Release: Stormy Weather

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Laurence
– January 29, 2015Find Others: Blu-ray, Movie, New Release, NewsGet More: ,

Blu-ray Release Date: Feb. 10, 2015
Price: Blu-ray $29.95
Studio: Twilight Time

The 1943 groundbreaking musical Stormy Weather features an astounding all-African-American cast.

The film’s slight show biz-based romance is really a pretext for some twenty exuberant musical numbers performed by the sterling likes of Lena Horne, Bill Robinson, Cab Calloway, Fats Waller, The Nicholas Brothers, and the Katherine Dunham dance troupe.

The outstanding musical score is highlighted by Waller’s performance of his own “Ain’t Misbehavin’” and the classic title tune by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler, sung in barn-burning fashion by the inimitable Miss Horne.

Special features on the Blu-ray include an isolated score track, an audio commentary with Dr. Todd Boyd (Professor of Critical Studies, USC) and liner notes by Julie Kirgo.

As supplier Twilight Time prints up only 3,000 copies of each title, the time to order your Blu-ray discs directly from distributor Screen Archives is NOW!

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About Laurence

Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.