1967’s Thoroughly Modern Millie gave Julie Andrews her third smash-hit musical role after Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music. Looking rather shabby in previous VHS and DVD releases, Kino Lorber’s brand-new Blu-ray from Universal’s 4K restoration finally does the film justice on home video.

The story from writer Richard Morris, best known for his TV work and the libretto for Meredith Willson’s Broadway musical The Unsinkable Molly Brown, is more than a little on the silly side, but its charm wins you over. It bears more than a little resemblance to Sandy Wilson’s The Boy Friend, Andrews’ first Broadway musical, which would be filmed four later by Ken Russell. Although set in 1922, the attitudes and styles are more that of a decade earlier when women wore long dresses over high-button shoes.

Andrews plays a stylish young stenographer who sets out to find a rich husband while enjoying the attention of an under-achieving young man while she looks for him. James Fox (Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines) plays the under-achiever and John Gavin (Psycho) the rich boss she finds and hopes to marry. Mary Tyler Moore, in her first major film role, plays the young innocent who becomes the target of a ring of white slavers led by the incomparable Beatrice Lillie in her first film since her cameo in Around the World in 80 Days.

Andrews and Lillie are superb, but the film’s standout performance is that of Carol Channing (Skidoo) in only her second film role. Her portrayal of the happy-go-lucky rich widow earned her a Golden Globe followed by an Oscar nomination. Three years earlier, she and Lillie had been in contention for a Tony, Lillie for her hilarious portrayal of Madame Arcati in High Spirits, the musical version of Blithe Spirit, Channing for her signature role of Dolly Levi in Hello, Dolly!. Channing won.

Jack Soo (Flower Drum Song) and Pat Morita (The Karate Kid) play Lillie’s accomplices. Philip Ahn (Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing) plays Channing’s faithful servant.

Nominated for seven Oscars overall, Thoroughly Modern Millie won one for Elmer Bernstein’s bouncy score which contains a mix of new songs and standards such as “Baby Face” and “Poor Butterfly.” Director George Roy Hill would eventually win an Oscar of his own for The Sting.

George’s Seaton’s 1968 film What’s So Bad About Feeling Good? was a rare box-office flop for the Oscar-winning writer-director of Miracle on 34th Street and The Country Girl. He would bounce back two years later with the box-office bonanza that was Airport.

What’s So Bad About Feeling Good? is a film that deserved better. It’s a real charmer about a virus affecting New York City in which everyone becomes happy for as long as the virus, caused by a bite from a long-beaked toucan, lasts

George Peppard, who rose to fame in sensitive roles in Home from the Hill and Breakfast at Tiffany’s, had long since turned to more hard-bitten roles such as those in The Carpetbaggers and Operation Crossbow. Here he returns to his roots playing a character more like those now being played by the younger Robert Redford in films like Inside Daisy Clover and Barefoot in the Park.

Peppard’s co-star is Mary Tyler Moore, in her most assertive screen role to date. Moore had played the Audrey Hepburn role in the flop Broadway musical version of Breakfast at Tiffany’s in 1966 opposite Richard Chamberlain in Peppard’s. The show died in rehearsals, never officially opening.

The film’s huge supporting cast includes Don Stroud, Susan Saint James, and John McMartin (Sweet Charity) as The Mayor, likely due to his resemblance to John Lindsay, NYC’s real mayor at the time. Thelma Ritter also has a bit part in what would be her last film, having made her film debut in a bit part in Seaton’s Miracle on 34th Street.

Warner Archive has released Sidney Lumet’s 1981 film Prince of the City on Blu-ray.

Lumet’s acclaimed film about police corruption in New York City was the director’s dream project to do the subject right, something he didn’t feel he did with 1973’s Serpico. He more than accomplishes his objective here thanks in no small measure to the meticulous cinematography of Andrzej Bartkowiak (Speed). It’s one of only two major films ever filmed in all five boroughs of NYC, the other being The Godfather.

Although Lumet had sought to film Robert Daley’s book, Brian De Palma had beaten him to it, and had written a screenplay with a partner while Lumet was busy prepping a remake of Scarface. Things changed, and ironically Lumet ended up with Prince of the City and De Palma with 1983’s Scarface. The first thing Lumet did was throw out De Palma’s screenplay and rewrite it with the assist of Jay Presson Allen (Cabaret).

The finished product ended up on many ten best lists including that of the National Board of Review. Treat Williams as the protagonist and Jerry Orbach as his best friend were the actors singled out for awards with Orbach a runner-up for Best Supporting Actor with the New York Film Critics while Lumet won for Best Director. Lumet, Williams, and the film itself were Golden Globe nominees. The film’s only Oscar nomination was for Lumet and Allen’s screenplay. This was the second time in three years that Williams failed to receive an Oscar nomination for a role for which he had been nominated for a Golden Globe. The first was for 1979’s Hair.

Also new from Warner Archive is W.S. Van Dyke’s 1941 film Shadow of the Thin Man.

The fourth film in the series, and the fourth to be released by Warner Archive on Blu-ray, Shadow of the Thin Man is the last of the series to be directed by the legendary director of San Francisco who died in February 1943.

William Powell and Myrna Loy are once again delightful as Nick and Nora, although this time they are not only upstaged by Asta, but by six-year-old Dickie Hall as Nick Jr. Barry Nelson, Donna Reed, Sam Levene, Stella Adler, and Louise Beavers co-star.

This week’s new Blu-ray releases include Beasts of No Nation and Murdoch Mysteries: Season 14.