Warner Archive’s latest batch of Blu-ray upgrades is finally here.

Easily the best of the seven new releases is Roy Rowlands’ lighter than air 1950 musical, Two Weeks with Love starring Jane Powell, Ricardo Montalban, Debbie Reynolds, and Carlton Carpenter.

A throwaway story line about summertime in Old New York set in 1913 provides the backdrop for what Powell considered her favorite film, the one that made stars of Reynolds and Carpenter singing the 1914 song, “Aba Daba Honeymoon”, their recording of which made it a bigger hit than the original.

From there, Carpenter went on star opposite Barbara Cook in the Broadway musical, Flahooley and Reynolds went on to star opposite Gene Kelly and Donald O’Connor in Singin’ in the Rain. Powell, meanwhile, was yet to make the biggest hit of her career, 1954’s Seven Brides for Seven Brothers as well as Hit the Deck and Athena both of which found her again supported by Reynolds.

Reynolds plays Powell’s sister in Two Weeks with Love. She loves Carpenter who loves Powell but Powell only has eyes for heartthrob Montalban while the girls’ parents, Louis Calhern and Ann Harding, who were about to make an even bigger splash as Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Wendell Holmes in The Magnificent Yankee, watch over their brood which includes another daughter and two sons including Tommy Rettig who was about to make TV history as the first boy to star opposite Lassie in the long-running TV series.

Included as an extra with the film is Robert Osborne’s 1995 TCM interview with Powell in which she confesses that she never knew she was famous until she moved to New York in the 1970s and people on the street recognized her. A statement like that from any other major star would sound like nonsense but from the always self-deprecating Powell it sounds genuine.

Powell was always billed above Reynolds in their films together, but by the late 1950s Reynolds became the bigger star. It was Powell who succeeded her as the star of the 1973 musical revival of Irene for which Reynolds had been nominated for a Tony.

Also included in this month’s releases are Raoul Walsh’s They Died with Their Boots On (1941), Michael Curtiz’s Bright Leaf (1950), Richard Thorpe’s The Prisoner of Zenda and Knights of the Round Table (1953), Vincente Minnelli’s The Cobweb (1955), and William Conrad’s Brainstorm (1965).

They Died with Their Boots On is a stirring if almost totally fabricated film about the life and death of George Armstrong Custer who led the charge at Little Big Horn which as everyone knows, led to his death. It provided Flynn with one of his best roles opposite his most famous leading lady, Olivia de Havilland.

The beautifully underplayed farewell scene between Custer and his wife, both of whom knew that he would not survive his next battle, is made more poignant by the knowledge of both Flynn and de Havilland, as well as their 1942 audience, that this would be the last scene in which they would appear together in in the last film that they would make together after a string of successes that began with 1935’s Captain Blood.

Bright Leaf is a fast-moving melodrama reminiscent of 1945’s Saratoga Trunk in which Gary Cooper starred opposite Ingrid Bergman. This time out, he has two leading ladies, Lauren Bacall as a bordello madam and Patricia Neal as the daughter of Cooper’s business rival, Donald Crisp. Set against the background of elaborate sets and costumes at the turn of the Twentieth Century, it features Cooper in the meanest role of his career as a tobacco magnate who slaps both his leading ladies across the face.

Jack Carson, Jeff Corey, and James Griffith provide strong support as Cooper’s employees, as do Gladys George as Bacall’s assistant and Elizabeth Patterson as Neal’s elderly cousin.

The 1952 version of The Prisoner of Zenda benefits from not sharing a disc with the definitive 1937 version of the film as it did on DVD. Seen without the comparison between the two, Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, James Mason, Jane Greer, and Louis Calhern do just fine.

Included as extra on the disc is the 1922 silent version of the film in which the prematurely gray Lewis Stone in a brown wig is quite memorable in the dual role of the titled king and his double.

Knights of the Round Table was MGM’s first film in cinemascope and the first of the many films about the Arthurian legend in the last seventy plus years. It starred Robert Taylor as Lancelot, Ava Gardner as Guinevere, and a terrific as Mel Ferrer as Arthur. Standouts in the supporting cast include Felix Aylmer as Merlin and Gabriel Woolf as Percival. It holds up extremely well in comparison to such later films as Camelot and Excaliber.

The now 92-year-old Woolf is still acting, mostly in voice work for the British TV series, Doctor Who.

The Cobweb is set in one of those psychiatric clinics where the caretakers are crazier than their patients.

Richard Widmark as the newly hired doctor in charge and Lauren Bacall as a widowed director of activities are okay in the leads but Charles Boyer as the former head of the clinic, an aging lothario, Gloria Grahame as Widmark’s wandering wife, and Lillian Gish as the clinic’s shrewish administrator are given more screen time than their annoying characters warrant. John Kerr and Susan Strasberg in their screen debuts are the film’s most sympathetic characters, a template for Keir Dullea and Janet Margolin in 1962’s David and Lisa.

Kerr and Strasberg would soon be seen to better advantage in Tea and Sympathy and Picnic, respectively, while the others all had better roles in both earlier and later films.

Brainstorm was actor William Conrad’s second of two films as a director for Warner Bros. The claustrophobic tale of a man pretending to be insane who in the end is driven insane was overlooked in its initial release but has developed a cult following over the years.

Jeffrey Hunter stars as the bright employee who saves his boss’ wife from death by an oncoming train only to be manipulated by both his boss (Dana Andrews) and scheming wife (Anne Francis) leading to his murder of his boss. Viveca Lindfors co-stars as Hunter’s psychiatrist.

Happy viewing.