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Starring: Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, Simone Simon, Herbert Marshall, Ruth Chatterton $28.99 Features:
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Disc 1: CAFE METROPOLE '37 + GIRLS DORMITORY '36 Disc 2: JOHNNY APOLLO '40 + DAYTIME WIFE '39 Disc 3: LUCK OF THE IRISH '48 + I'LL NEVER FORGET YOU '51 Disc 4: THAT WONDERFUL URGE '48 + LOVE IS NEWS '37 Disc 5: THIS ABOVE ALL '42 + SECOND HONEYMOON '37
If you're a Tyrone Power fan, it's very difficult to complain about the star's showing on DVD. Not only are Power's best-known films available, but the Tyrone Power Matinee Idol Collection serves up 10 titles that greatly fill in his tenure at Twentieth Century Fox. There isn't a classic in the set, just the kind of titles that audiences ate up when the handsome young actor was at his most popular. The oldest film in the box is Girls' Dormitory (1936), and Power is barely in it--he shows up in the final 10 minutes of this 66-minute drama. But it's a good one, energetically directed by Irving Cummings, about schoolmaster Herbert Marshall being dangerously worshipped by young student Simone Simon. The ending that might surprise you. Café Metropole is an efficient comedy about restaurant owner Adolphe Menjou and his plot to pay off debts by getting Power to impersonate a Russian prince and woo wealthy Loretta Young. Young is also Ty's co-star in two other 1937 pictures. Second Honeymoon pits them as a pair of exes, romping around Miami as Loretta shows off her new husband. The movie's a weirdly coarse approximation of the screwball formula that was in the air at the time. Love is News is better: Power is a newspaper reporter whose stories makes life uncomfortable for heiress Young; she turns the tables by pretending to be engaged to him. Director Tay Garnett gets a loose, knockabout quality into the performances, and Don Ameche contributes some Front Page salt. The remake of Love is News is also included: That Wonderful Urge (1948), with Power back in his role and Gene Tierney as the heiress. Day-Time Wife (1939) pairs Power with new Fox starlet Linda Darnell; he's too busy at work with his secretary, and she takes a job as a secretary herself (to wolfish boss Warren William, who could do wolfish better than anybody). In this battle of the sexes, male chauvinism reigns supreme. Power squirmed at Fox's lightweight view of him, and Johnny Apollo has a little more guts: Power is a feckless Ivy League lad who becomes disillusioned and falls into the world of the mob. You can see the actor excited by the darker possibilities of the role--but rest assured he's still every inch the elegant clotheshorse in this one. This Above All (1942) is a strange story and a dry run for Power's role as the soul-searcher in The Razor's Edge: he's an embittered soldier questioning the purpose of fighting the war. Patriotic Joan Fontaine has a few speeches for him, and director Anatole Litvak makes it all look sharp. After a run of dramatic roles and a break for WWII service, Power came back to romantic comedy with The Luck of the Irish, a whimsy-heavy thing about a reporter who tries to sell out--but not if a leprechaun (Cecil Kellaway) and a sweet Irish lass (Anne Baxter) have anything to do with it. The movie's no great shakes, but the DVD provides an option to watch the Irish scenes with green tinting, a novelty from the original theatrical release.
I'll Never Forget You (aka The House in the Square), directed by Roy Ward Baker, is a costume picture with a supernatural edge--and fans of Somewhere in Time will recognize a kindred spirit. Ty plays a scientist whose house is a portal to the 18th century, where he travels to impersonate a lookalike ancestor. This nifty romance co-stars Ann Blyth and gives a delightfully foppish role to Dennis Price. Short documentaries fill out the box, including a lovely reminiscence from Power's three children. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 
Tyrone Has Lasting Star-POWER!: 
All the movies were very, very entertaining. Even Girls' Dormitory, which only featured Tyrone. Some were more entertaining than others, such as the ones with, Loretta Young, Linda Darnell, Gene Tierney, and Dorothy Lamour. But, all in all I would recommend this collection to not only Tyrone Power fans, but movie lovers of all kinds. I actually bought it to get The Luck of the Irish, but I got a wonderful surprise with the nine other movies!
I'll Never Forget You...: 
Since the dawn of man the thought of time travel has been both mind boggling and fantastic! But this one is unique in the fact it took 50 years to get it in DVD! With actors Tyrone Power, Micheal Rennie and Ann Blyth in the cast - this one is GOLD!
Being very accurate in its own science, it depicts physics of fifty years ago.
Its "Wizard of Oz" black and white to color are well done in its story telling.
Take "The Time Machine" and you may go back "Time after Time"...
See this "Love...more info
Tyrone Power Matinee Idol Collection:
Some early work by the charismatic Power,three with Loretta Young in 1937,along with seven other memorable films.My favorites are CAFE METROPOLE,the underrated LOVE IS NEWS,JOHNNY APOLLO,and the enchanting THE LUCK OF THE IRISH.Fox has commentary on most of their DVD's,but only four featurettes here.Still,the price can't be beat!Leading ladies also include Linda Darnell,Dorothy Lamour,Gene Tierney,Joan Fontaine,Anne Baxter,Ann Blyth and Simone Simon(debut)-quite a stable of beauties!Not much filler here,so...more info
Good package but many mediocre films:
Tyrone Power was once quoted as saying that many of his films were a "monument to public patience", a telling remark hinting at the frustration which he often felt as a matinee idol rather than a highly respected actor. This DVD collection contains many examples of the former and a couple which give evidence of a talent of greater depth. The films also are a monument to the skill with which Daryl F. Zanuck promoted Power as a box office idol.
First off is 1936's "Girl's Dormitory", not a Power film at...more info
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