Woman of the Year is one of the best Criterion Collection Blu-ray releases ever. Not only do we get George Stevens’ classic 1942 film, the first of nine films over a twenty-six-year period starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, we get loads of significant extras.

The extras include a new on-camera interview with George Stevens Jr., a 1967 audio interview with George Stevens, a new interview with George Stevens biographer Marilyn Ann Moss, an appropriately titled 20-minute documentary on Katharine Hepburn called Woman of the Century, and two of the best feature-length film show biz documentaries of all time, 1984’s George Stevens: A Filmmaker’s Journey by George Stevens Jr. and 1986’s The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn.

The film itself won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay and a much-deserved nomination for Hepburn. Oddly enough, neither Hepburn nor Tracy received a nomination for any of their other collaborations until their last, 1967’s Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, for which Tracy was nominated posthumously and Hepburn finally won her elusive second Oscar.

Women at preview audiences found Hepburn’s feminist character too smug so they re-filmed the ending which made her character more human by having her made vulnerable by not knowing how to fry an egg. For a time, more modern women scoffed at that, as women being successful in the kitchen as well as the office have become commonplace. Maybe it’s time to relax and just enjoy the film for what it is, one of the smartest comedies ever made.

Warner Archive has released two Blu-ray upgrades, both starring Henry Fonda.

Delmer Daves’ 1963 film, Spencer’s Mountain, was taken from Earl Hamner Jr.’s 1961 novel of the same name. Fonda and Maureen O’Hara played the parents of a large family in Wyoming. James MacArthur co-starred as their eldest son and Donald Crisp, in his last role, played Fonda’s father. Crisp, who won an Oscar as O’Hara’s father in John Ford’s 1941 Oscar winner How Green Was My Valley first played her father-in-law in Ford’s 1955 film The Long Gray Line opposite Tyrone Power.

Hamner’s 1963 sequel, The Homecoming, was made into a popular TV movie in 1971 starring Patricia Neal and Richard Thomas in the O’Hara-MacArthur roles as they await the arrival of Andrew Duggan in the Fonda role on a snowy Christmas Eve. The setting had changed from Wyoming’s Grand Tetons to Virginia’s Appalachian Mountains and the Spencers had become the Waltons. That film served as a pilot for the long-running series The Waltons beginning in 1972 with Thomas, along with Michael Learned in the O’Hara-Neal role and Ralph Waite in the Fonda-Duggan role. The 1963 film, looking gorgeous on Blu-ray, takes us back to the beginning.

Burt Kennedy’s 1965 film The Rounders is a minor modern western with Glenn Ford and Fonda as aging cowboys who still bust broncos for a living. Their characters have seen better days, and so have Ford and Fonda who can be seen to better advantage in so many better films.

A much better western is Delmer Daves’ 1950 film Broken Arrow, given a sparkling Blu-ray upgrade by Kino Lorber. James Stewart stars as the real-life Tom Jeffords, a former soldier whose job is to make peace between the settlers and Apache Chief Cochise, played by an Oscar-nominated Jeff Chandler. One of the best westerns of its era, the film also earned Oscar nominations for Best Screenplay and Best Cinematography. Stewart was an Oscar nominee himself that year, albeit for the comedy Harvey.

Kino Lorber has also released new Blu-ray upgrades of Steve Sekely’s 1948 film The Scar and Charles Vidor’s 1957 remake of Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms.

Originally released as Hollow Triumph, The Scar is a nifty film noir with Paul Henreid in the dual roles of a gangster and the look-alike psychiatrist he kills and impersonates and Joan Bennett’s as the psychiatrist’s secretary who is on to him.

Produced by David O. Selznick, A Farewell to Arms was designed as a vanity project for his wife Jennifer Jones on the heels of her recently Oscar-nominated performance in Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing. Co-starring Rock Hudson, the film is overblown and not nearly as gripping as the 1932 version with Helen Hayes and Gary Cooper as the English nurse and American ambulance driver who fall in love in World War I. It does contain a strong Oscar-nominated performance from Vittorio de Sica in the role earlier played by Adolphe Menjou as Cooper’s Italian Commanding Officer and friend. Mercedes McCambridge and Elaine Stritch play Jones’ fellow nurses.

Also new from Kino Lorber, but available on standard DVD only, Tom Gries’ 1974 TV movie The Migrants about then contemporary migrant farmworkers stars Cloris Leachman, Sissy Spacek, and Ron Howard based on a short story by Tennessee Williams. Nominated for six Primetime Emmys including Best Actress (Leachman), the film is a more recent exploration of the plight of migratory workers, but in the same vein as John Ford’s 1940 masterpiece The Grapes of Wrath.

With the release of La La Land this week, all of 2016’s major films have now been made available on home video. That means for the most part that only the dregs remain. Two of them, John Lee Hancock’s The Founder and M. Night Shyamalan’s Split, which was released in Australia in November, but held back in the U.S. until January 2017, are two of those dregs.

Hancock, whose last film was 2013’s Saving Mr. Banks, told the story of P.L. Travers’ (Emma Thompson) uneasy relationship with Walt Disney (Tom Hanks) in allowing him to adapt Mary Poppins for the screen. Thompson’s Travers was superb, Hanks’ Disney was not. He came across as too much of a smooth operator. The Founder tells a similar story about the smooth-talking salesman, Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton), who steals the McDonald hamburger business out from under the McDonald brothers (Nick Offerman, John Carroll Lynch), then takes away their name by incorporating it and forcing them to remove their name from their flagship store, the only one he allows them to keep, and then opens one of his own restaurants across the street and drives them out of business altogether. The character has no heart and neither does the film. To Keaton’s credit, he does not try to make the guy sympathetic at all, but all that’s left is a by-the-numbers primer on greed. There’s nothing here to recommend.

Split is Shyamalan’s latest unsuccessful attempt to recapture the magic of 1999’s The Sixth Sense. It fails miserably despite James McAvoy’s bravura performance as a man with multiple personalities.

This week’s new releases include La La Land and the Criterion Edition Blu-ray of Rumble Fish.