VIDEO . . . WHAT’S NEW : MGM Top-10 Selections Hit the Shelves

Democracy comes to video this week, as MGM/UA releases the 10 movies selected by critics and the public from a list of 100 MGM classics.

Priced at $19.95, the winners are:

“Moulin Rouge,” John Huston’s 1952 filmography of the painter Henri de Toulouse-Latrec, which will paint your TV screen with delirious scenes of swirling colors.

“Julius Caesar,” in which Americans Joseph L. Mankiewicz (director) and Marlon Brando (as Marc Antony) showed that the good old USA could put some pretty decent Shakespeare on the screen in 1953--with the help of Britons James Mason and John Gielgud, that is.

“The Blackboard Jungle”--a reasonably realistic expose of juvenile delinquency, troubled schools and put-upon teachers circa 1955, but still topical 34 years later. Glenn Ford and Sidney Poitier star, while Bill Haley’s “Rock Around the Clock” juices up the sound track--the first to feature a rock song.

“Sweet Bird of Youth,” the Richard Brooks-directed filming of the Tennessee Williams play, starring Paul Newman and Geraldine Page. And just like the play, the first half is a delicious, hotel-room-set duel of desperate characters, while the second half goes awry. Despite the let-down, this 1961 release is infinitely better than the recent Elizabeth Taylor-Mark Harmon TV fiasco.

“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” the 1932 version starring Fredric March as the good doctor and a particularly salacious Hyde--directed with atmosphere and energy by Rouben Mamoulian.

“Boys Town” (1938), with Spencer Tracy in his Oscar-winning portrayal of Father Flanagan, trying to tame tough guy Mickey Rooney.

“The Killing” (1956), a low-budget, taut, early Stanley Kubrick film about a racetrack robbery--starring Sterling Hayden, who a decade later give another commanding performance as Gen. Jack Ripper in Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove.”

“King Solomon’s Mines,” the polished, colorful 1950 version of the safari adventure, with Deborah Kerr and Stewart Granger.

“How to Murder Your Wife,” the occasionally witty but essentially misogynistic 1965 black comedy, starring Jack Lemmon and Virna Lisi.

“Lust For Life” (1956). Directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Kirk Douglas, this drama about the grim life of artist Vincent Van Gogh (Kirk Douglas) is considered by somehistorians the best of the decade’s film biographies.