Warner Archive Collection will release 10 titles on Blu-ray and Blu-ray 3D in December 2026. All 10 are due on December 29, 2026. Every disc but Test Pilot has a new 1080p master from a 4K scan of camera negatives or nitrate protection elements.
The Bounty Hunter (1954), a Randolph Scott western that theaters showed only in 2-D, is on Blu-ray 3D in its intended 3-D version. Abbott & Costello Cartoons: The Complete Collection is a 5-disc set of all 156 Hanna-Barbera cartoons, the first complete collection of the series on Blu-ray. Clark Gable stars in Test Pilot and Judy Garland in Little Nellie Kelly. John Ford’s The Informer and the Marx Brothers’ The Big Store are also on the list.
Warner Archive Collection December 2026 releases at a glance
| Title | Year | Format | Release date |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Mask of Dimitrios | 1944 | Blu-ray | December 29, 2026 |
| Abbott & Costello Cartoons: The Complete Collection | 1967-68 | Blu-ray (5 discs) | December 29, 2026 |
| Decoy | 1946 | Blu-ray | December 29, 2026 |
| Little Nellie Kelly | 1940 | Blu-ray | December 29, 2026 |
| Till the Clouds Roll By | 1946 | Blu-ray | December 29, 2026 |
| The Informer | 1935 | Blu-ray | December 29, 2026 |
| Tea for Two | 1950 | Blu-ray | December 29, 2026 |
| Test Pilot | 1938 | Blu-ray | December 29, 2026 |
| The Big Store | 1941 | Blu-ray | December 29, 2026 |
| The Bounty Hunter | 1954 | Blu-ray 3D (3D and 2D versions) | December 29, 2026 |
The Mask of Dimitrios (1944)
Jean Negulesco directed The Mask of Dimitrios for Warner Bros. from Eric Ambler’s novel. It is the fifth of the 9 films Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre made together. Lorre plays a mystery novelist tracing a dead criminal’s past across pre-war Europe, and Zachary Scott makes his film debut as that criminal. Both stars are heard again in a 1945 Screen Guild Players radio broadcast on the disc.
Format: Blu-ray (BD-50)
Video: 1080p HD master from a 4K scan of the original nitrate camera negative, 16×9 1.37:1 with side mattes
Audio: DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono
Runtime: 96 minutes, black and white
Subtitles: English SDH
Release date: December 29, 2026
The Mask of Dimitrios special features:
- Classic WB cartoon HARE FORCE
- Classic WB short JAMMIN’ THE BLUES
- Screen Guild Players radio broadcast with Greenstreet and Lorre (4/16/1945)
- Original Theatrical Trailer
Abbott & Costello Cartoons: The Complete Collection (1967-68)
Abbott & Costello Cartoons: The Complete Collection is a 5-disc Blu-ray set of all 156 Hanna-Barbera shorts from the 1967 to 1968 syndicated series. It is the first complete collection of the series on Blu-ray. Bud Abbott voiced his own cartoon self, while Stan Irwin voiced Lou Costello. Each episode runs 5 1/2 minutes, and all of them come from masters made from 4K scans of the original camera negatives.
Format: Blu-ray (BD-50), 5 discs
Video: 1080p HD masters from 4K scans of original camera negatives, 16×9 1.33:1 with side mattes
Audio: DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono
Runtime: 858 minutes, color
Subtitles: English SDH
Release date: December 29, 2026
Decoy (1946)
Jack Bernhard directed Decoy for Monogram, with Jean Gillie as Margot Shelby. She schemes to revive an executed gangster who knows where his bank robbery loot is buried. Edward Norris and Robert Armstrong co-star. Film historian Glenn Erickson and writer Stanley Rubin recorded a commentary, and the extras add the 1945 episode of The Whistler radio series that inspired the screenplay.
Format: Blu-ray
Video: 2026 1080p HD master from a 4K scan of nitrate protection elements, 16×9 1.37:1 with side mattes
Audio: DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono
Runtime: 76 minutes, black and white
Subtitles: English SDH
Release date: December 29, 2026
Decoy special features:
- Audio commentary by film historian and critic Glenn Erickson (a/k/a DVD Savant) and writer Stanley Rubin
- Featurette DECOY: A MAP TO NOWHERE
- Episode of THE WHISTLER radio series, THE MAN WHO DIED TWICE (9/24/1945)-The radio broadcast that inspired the screenplay of the feature.
Little Nellie Kelly (1940)
Little Nellie Kelly gave Judy Garland her first adult screen role. She plays a dual role: Irish immigrant Nellie Noonan and later her lookalike daughter. Norman Taurog directed and Arthur Freed produced this adaptation of George M. Cohan’s 1922 Broadway hit, with George Murphy and Charles Winninger in support. Garland’s songs include “Singin’ in the Rain” and “It’s a Great Day for the Irish”.
Format: Blu-ray (BD-50)
Video: 2026 1080p HD master from a 4K scan of nitrate protection elements, 16×9 1.37:1 with side mattes
Audio: DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono
Runtime: 99 minutes, black and white
Subtitles: English SDH
Release date: December 29, 2026
Little Nellie Kelly special features:
- “Leo is On the Air” Radio Promo
- M-G-M Cartoon THE FISHING BEAR
- Our Gang Comedy THE NEW PUPIL
- Original Theatrical Trailer
Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)
Richard Whorf directed Till the Clouds Roll By, a Technicolor biopic of composer Jerome Kern with Robert Walker in the lead. It begins with a recreation of the 1927 Broadway opening of Show Boat. Frank Sinatra closes it with “Ol’ Man River”, while Judy Garland, Dinah Shore and Lena Horne sing in between. The disc adds 2 outtake musical sequences, “D’ya Love Me” and “Music in the Air”.
Format: Blu-ray (BD-50)
Video: 1080p HD master from 4K scans of the original nitrate Technicolor camera negatives, 16×9 1.37:1 with side mattes
Audio: DTS-HD MA 2.0
Runtime: 136 minutes, color
Subtitles: English SDH
Release date: December 29, 2026
Till the Clouds Roll By special features:
- Featurette: TILL THE CLOUDS ROLL BY: REAL TO REEL
- Vintage Fitzpatrick Traveltalks short GLIMPSES OF CALIFORNIA
- Classic MGM cartoon HENPECKED HOBOES
- Outtake musical sequences:
- “D’YA LOVE ME”
- “MUSIC IN THE AIR”
- Original Theatrical Trailer
The Informer (1935)
The Informer won 4 Oscars, one of them John Ford’s first for Best Director. Victor McLaglen won Best Actor as Gypo Nolan, who betrays a friend to the British police in 1922 Dublin. McLaglen returns in 2 of the 4 radio shows.
Format: Blu-ray (BD-50)
Video: 2026 1080p HD master from a 4K scan of nitrate protection elements, 16×9 1.37:1 with side mattes
Audio: DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono
Runtime: 92 minutes, black and white
Subtitles: English SDH
Release date: December 29, 2026
The Informer special features:
- Featurette: THE INFORMER-Out of the Shadows
- Vintage radio shows:
- Screen Guild Players with Charles Bickford (7/10/44)
- Theatre of Romance with Ed Begley (6/26/45)
- Academy Award Theater with Victor McLaglen (5/25/46)
- Your Radio Theater with Victor McLaglen (10/11/55)
- Original Theatrical Trailer
Tea for Two (1950)
Tea for Two is a Technicolor musical that loosely reworks the 1925 Broadway show No, No Nanette. Doris Day and Gordon MacRae star, with Gene Nelson and S.Z. Sakall. The extras add 2 audio-only No, No Nanette pieces: the overture from the 1930 version and a Railroad Hour radio broadcast.
Format: Blu-ray
Video: 1080p HD master from 4K scans of the original nitrate Technicolor camera negatives, 16×9 1.37:1 with side mattes
Audio: DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono
Runtime: 98 minutes, color
Subtitles: English SDH
Release date: December 29, 2026
Tea for Two special features:
- Vintage Joe McDoakes Comedy Short So You Want to Hold Your Husband
- Classic Warner Bros. Cartoon Show Biz Bugs (HD)
- No, No Nanette (1930 version) Overture (Audio only)
- The Railroad Hour radio broadcast of No, No Nanette (audio only)
- Original Theatrical Trailer
Test Pilot (1938)
Victor Fleming directed Test Pilot for M-G-M. Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy and Myrna Loy star in the Best Picture Oscar nominee. Its aerial scenes used real Boeing Y1B-17 bombers at military fields. Robert Taylor, Rita Hayworth and Robert Preston star in a Lux Radio Theater broadcast of Test Pilot on the disc.
Format: Blu-ray (BD-50)
Video: 1080p HD master from best safety preservation elements, 16×9 1.37:1 with side mattes
Audio: DTS-HD MA 2.0
Runtime: 118 minutes, black and white
Subtitles: English SDH
Release date: December 29, 2026
Test Pilot special features:
- Our Gang Comedy THE LITTLE RANGER
- Classic Cartoon POPEYE MEETS ALI BABA’S 40 THIEVES (HD)
- Lux Radio Theater broadcast of TEST PILOT with Robert Taylor, Rita Hayworth and Robert Preston
- Original Theatrical Trailer
The Big Store (1941)
The Big Store was the Marx Brothers’ last MGM film. Charles Reisner directed Groucho, Chico and Harpo Marx, with Tony Martin and Virginia Grey in support. Martin is heard again in Where There’s Music, an audio-only outtake that is one of 5 extras on the disc.
Format: Blu-ray (BD-50)
Video: 2026 1080p HD master from a 4K scan of the original nitrate camera negative, 16×9 1.37:1 with side mattes
Audio: DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono
Runtime: 83 minutes, black and white
Subtitles: English SDH
Release date: December 29, 2026
The Big Store special features:
- MGM Pete Smith short FLICKER MEMORIES
- MGM Cartoon OFFICER POOCH
- Audio only WHERE THERE’S MUSIC Tony Martin outtake
- Audio only LEO IS ON THE AIR radio trailer
- Original Theatrical Trailer
The Bounty Hunter (1954)
Andre de Toth directed The Bounty Hunter for Warner Bros. Randolph Scott stars, with Dolores Dorn, Marie Windsor and Ernest Borgnine. De Toth shot the western in stereoscopic 3-D, but theaters showed it only in 2-D. The Blu-ray 3D disc has the intended 3-D version and the 2-D one.
Format: Blu-ray 3D (3D and 2D versions, BD-50)
Video: 1080p HD 3D/2D masters from 4K scans of the original camera negatives, 16×9 1.75:1
Audio: DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono
Runtime: 79 minutes
Subtitles: English SDH
Release date: December 29, 2026
The Bounty Hunter special features:
- Warner Cartoon DRIP-ALONG DAFFY (HD)
- Warner Cartoon MY LITTLE DUCKAROO (HD)
- Original Theatrical Trailer
The 10 Warner Archive Collection December 2026 releases are due on Blu-ray and Blu-ray 3D on December 29, 2026.
