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The Moon Is Blue
* * *, 1953, warnerarchive.com, unrated, $20 plus shipping

Once cheeky but now amiably creaky, producer/director Otto Preminger?s box-office smash enabled that famous maverick to crack Hollywood?s antique Production Code, which wouldn?t even let husbands and wives sleep together on screen. United Artists backed him up and released this sexual comedy of manners anyway, though it was banned in a few states (leading to a successful Supreme Court case in the Kansas instance). Acted to perfection, it stars William Holden, David Niven and enormously appealing Maggie McNamara as the proper but frank young woman who mouths some of the script?s words then new to the screen: ?virgin,? ?seduce? and ?pregnant.? But after appearing in one other big movie (Three Coins in the Fountain), her career was all but over long before she committed suicide in 1978.

Richard Pryor: Live and Smokin'
* * 1/2, 1971, Weinstein/Genius, unrated, $15

Richard Pryor: Live in Concert (1979) remains the greatest stand-up comedy performance film ever, but this earlier effort is a spotty affair. As a career warm-up, it?s definitely of academic interest, but only at the end — with Pryor?s long riff on a wino — does it impress. Though the routine isn?t particularly funny, it is soul-baring and portends the comic?s acting career.

Sets

•Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; House of Flying Daggers; Curse of the Golden Flower (2000/2004, 2005 in the USA/2006, Sony Classics, PG-13/R/PG-13, $93): For those who prize the glass that?s half full, Crouching Tiger finally makes its long-overdue Blu-ray debut, and on an edition worthy of the Peter Pau photography that had as much as anything to do with a hundred-plus film critics picking it as 2000?s best movie. But this is the only way to own Tiger, Ang Lee?s enthralling early-19th-century action picture, along with two other, fine previously available films. Something akin to a Dragnet episode set in the Tang Dynasty (859 A.D.), House got an Oscar nomination for its photography, but the Blu-ray transfer is subpar. Costume nominee Flower, however, is a Blu-ray smash that meets a tough challenge: It has one of the most detailed color palettes in recent memory. Amazon.com offers this set for $40, and cduniverse.com has it for $63.75. But this is bad form on Sony?s part; if ever a movie deserved its own Blu-ray, Crouching Tiger is it.

•Liberace: Greatest Songs The French National Anthem, which features chorines with sparklers and an audience of table dwellers), tunes are performed on an empty stage to a crude laugh/applause track. Moonlight Sonata and Clare de Lune get their due, but the true payload are such selections as Take Me Out to the Ball Game and I?ve Been Working on the Railroad (with violinist brother George in railway garb). See also La Cucaracha with George on maracas.

Due Tuesday: Harvard Beats Yale 29-29, the greatest football movie ever; so-so The Soloist; Daffy Duck's Quackbusters