Tyrone Power Matinee Idol Collection

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For you classic movie buffs out there, Fox has just announced this new box set featuring Tyrone Power coming out on July 29th. This five disc set can be yours for a suggested $49.98, Tyrone was a big deal back in his day and cranked out quite a few films. Whats included in this set is listed below:

Café Metropole

Presented in full screen with mono sound, French and Spanish subtitles and the following bonus material:

· Deleted scenes

· Advertising Gallery

· Behind-the-scenes stills Gallery

· Production Gallery

An unpaid debt prompts an unconventional pay back that ultimately leads to love. Having lost his inheritance, Alexis (Tyrone Power) finds himself in debt to Café Metropole owner Monsieur Victor (Adolphe Menjou) who forces him to pose as a Russian prince and woo the rich American heiress Laura Ridgeway (Loretta Young). But events turn when the two find themselves in love. When the real prince finally surfaces, it’s Monsieur Victor who finds himself in a twisted mess.

Day-Time Wife

Presented in full screen with mono and stereo sound, French and Spanish subtitles and the following bonus material:

· “My Dad, Tyrone Powers” featurette

· Behind-the-scenes stills Gallery

· Production Gallery

When a naughty husband is suspected of having an extra-marital affair, his wife decides all’s fair in love and war. After being married for two years, Ken Norton (Tyrone Power) is itching for something more; namely his young secretary Kitty (Wendy Barrie). But when Ken’s wife Jane (Linda Darnell) suspects hanky-panky, she evens the score by taking a secretarial job with Ken’s business associate Bernard Dexter (Warren William). Things really heat up when Ken and Jane accidentally meet at a restaurant with their dates!

Girl’s Dormitory

Presented in full screen with mono sound, French and Spanish subtitles and the following bonus material:

· “Tyrone Power, Prince of Fox” featurette

· Advertising Gallery

· Production Gallery

A schoolgirl crush becomes the center of controversy at an all-girls finishing school when the headmaster becomes the object of affection. Marie Claudel (Simone Simon) professes her feelings for headmaster Stephen Dominik (Herbert Marshall) in a note that is quickly crumpled up and tossed. When the note is found and traced back to Marie, rumors abound and scandal ensues until a handsome young Count (Tyrone Power) comes calling on Marie.

I’ll Never Forget You

Presented in full screen with mono sound, French and Spanish subtitles and the following bonus material:

· Advertising Gallery

· Lobby Cards Gallery

· “See England with Ann Blyth” Gallery

· Production Gallery

Peter Standish (Tyrone Power) is living in an 18^th-century house on Berkeley Square where his distant relative – also Peter Standish – once lived centuries before. But when he is struck by lightning, he suddenly finds himself in the 18^th Century! Peter meets his ancestor’s fiancée Kate Pettigrew (Beatrice Campbell) but it is her sister, Helen (Ann Blyth) with whom he falls in love. As Peter tries to hide his true, modern identity, a jealous Kate makes trouble and before long, Peter finds himself back in the present where his true love might not be lost after all.

Johnny Apollo

Presented in full screen with mono and stereo sound, French and Spanish subtitles and the following bonus material:

· Advertising Gallery

To save his father, a young man turns to crime and gets caught up in more than he bargained for. When Bob Cain (Tyrone Power), learns his stockbroker father is mixed up in embezzlement, with shame he drops out of college and denounces him. After losing everything that matters, Cain soon comes to his father’s aid and vows to pay his debt by any means. He hooks up with racketeer Mickey Dwyer (Lloyd Nolan) and assumes the name Johnny Apollo. But Dwyer’s, gal Lucky DuBarry (Dorothy Lamour) has eyes for Johnny and before long she’s the only one Johnny can trust.

Love Is News

Presented in full screen with mono sound, French and Spanish subtitles and the following bonus material:

· “Ty and Loretta: Sweethearts of the Silver Screen” featurette

· Advertising Gallery

· Behind-The-Scenes Gallery

· Production Gallery

The richest girl in the world is about to be sold out by star reporter Steve Layton (Tyrone Power), but he gets duped when she sells a different scoop. Tony Gateson (Loretta Young), a beautiful young heiress, is constantly being hounded by the press…and one reporter in particular – Layton – is about to see what it feels like! When Gateson announces the two are engaged, she sends Layton’s life into a front-page tailspin that can only be remedied by love.

Luck of the Irish

Presented in full screen with mono sound, French and Spanish subtitles and the following bonus material:

· 2 viewing versions: green tinted and black and white

· “Jayne Meadows Remembers” featurette

· Trailer

· Advertising Gallery

· Behind-The-Scenes Gallery

· Production Gallery

A political writer finds out what really matters in life when he crosses paths with a leprechaun. While traveling Ireland, American correspondent Steve Fitzgerald (Tyrone Power) meets Horace (Cecil Kellaway), an elfin-like man who leads him to an inn run by Nora (Anne Baxter). And when Nora tells Steve that he probably met a leprechaun, Steve catches and demands gold! But back home, when Steve realizes his romance with politico D.C. Augur’s (Lee J. Cobb) daughter Frances (Jayne Meadows) are no longer a priority, it’s Horace who leads Steve back to where his heart truly belongs.

Second Honeymoon

Presented in full screen with mono sound, French and Spanish subtitles and the following bonus material:

· Trailer

· Still Gallery

A tumultuous marriage ends in divorce but reignites with a second honeymoon. Just divorced, Raoul McLiesh (Tyrone Power) and Vicky (Loretta Young) meet accidentally in Miami where Vicky is vacationing with her new husband Rob Benton (Lyle Talbot). Realizing the old flame never died, Raoul and Vicky find themselves mixed up in a menagerie of misunderstandings and circumstances that finally lead them back to each other in a reunion with a twist!

That Wonderful Urge

Presented in full screen with mono and stereo sound, French and Spanish subtitles and the following bonus material:

· Theatrical Trailer

· Advertising Gallery

· Behind-The-Scenes Gallery

· Production Gallery

A cynical newspaper reporter meets his match when a sassy grocery store heiress makes him headline news! Looking for a story, ace reporter Thomas Jefferson Tyler (Tyrone Power) poses as an admirer to get the inside scoop on heiress Sara Farley (Gene Tierney). But the tables turn when Farley announces to the world that the two are married. Soon – to his dismay – Tyler is front-page news. Finding it difficult to prove he is not married, he creates a scandal of his own along the way.

This Above All

Presented in full screen with mono sound, French and Spanish subtitles and the following bonus material:

· Trailer

· Advertising Gallery

· Behind-The-Scenes Gallery

· Production Gallery

A British military hero becomes disillusioned with the war and attempts to break free…but falls in love instead. In wartime England, a young upper-class idealist, Prudence Cathaway (Joan Fontaine), breaks from the family tradition and enlists as a Private in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force. On a blind date she meets Private Clive Briggs (Tyrone Power) and they soon fall in love. But will the realities of their differing social classes – and Clive’s secret – tear these two apart?