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No matter what you’re favourite genre, there is a Hollywood classic movie for you. They are kept alive by repeat showings on TV, retrospective screenings in cinemas, at film festivals and by DVDs. Many of these features have been collected together on themed box sets. So whether you favour comedy, musicals or drama, there are hundreds of titles to choose from.

It’s nice to have some DVDs that the whole family can sit down together and watch. The Mary Poppins 2 Disc 40th Anniversary Edition reminds us of the charm of the film and has extra features too. Julie Andrews stars as the eccentric children’s nanny with tricks up her sleeve. This edition has a musical sing-along, interviews with cast members, deleted scenes, a behind the scenes feature and a musical reunion of the cast.

A 40th Anniversary Edition is available for another musical classic Hollywood film. My Fair Lady contains bonus features including the vocal recordings that Audrey Hepburn made but were never used in the film because her parts were dubbed by a singer. They are for the songs, Wouldn’t it be Loverly and Show Me. There is also footage from the Los Angeles premiers, comments from Andrew Lloyd Webber and Martin Scorsese and a gallery of photographs of the fabulous costumes, designed by Cecil Beaton.

For western fans, the Clint Eastwood Collection is a real treat. 4 Discs show his spaghetti western collection, A Fistful of Dollars, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, For a Few Dollars More and Hang Em High. Re-live the action, the cinematography and the music in these classic Hollywood movies.

Orson Welles is considered a genius of the cinema and The Third Man from 1949 shows one of his best performances. A 2 Disc edition has bonus features too. Welles plays Harry Lime, caught up in intrigue in Vienna just after World War II. Joseph Cotton co-stars.

Gangster films are forever associated with James Cagney and the James Cagney Signature Collection has four of the best in Angels with Dirty Faces, Public Enemy, Roaring Twenties, and White Heat. This same series of classic Hollywood movies also includes four films from Humphrey Bogart, namely Casablanca, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Maltese Falcon, and High Sierra. The partnership between Bogart and Lauren Bacall is celebrated in a box set containing The Big Sleep, To Have and Have Not, Key Largo, and Dark Passage. The chemistry between the two stars can be seen in these movies.

One of the great box office successes to come out of Hollywood is Gone with the Wind. Made in 1939, it is still considered a classic film of Hollywood and there is a 4 Disc Collector’s Edition available. The film has been digitally re-mastered and extras include a trailer gallery, a documentary on the making of the film and a documentary each on the movie’s stars, Clark Gable and Vivian Leigh.