MORE BLAKE

After watching “Judgment Day,” judge for yourself other Blake movies currently available on home video.

Blake, then going by his real name, Mickey Gubitosi, began working in Hal Roach’s popular “Our Gang” comedies in 1936. He’s featured along with Spanky, Alfalfa, Buckwheat, Froggy and Darla in the collection Our Gang Comedies: Don’t Lie (MGM/UA Home Video, $30), which features five vintage shorts.

And Blake has a small part in 1942’s comedy Andy Hardy’s Double Life (MGM/UA Home Video, $20), which stars Mickey Rooney and Esther Williams in her first major film.

In Warner Bros.’ 1946 romantic melodrama Humoresque (MGM/UA Home Video, $20), Blake plays a young kid from New York who takes up the violin and grows up to become a famous violinist (John Garfield). Joan Crawford is the rich, bad society matron with whom Garfield falls in love. Clifford Odets penned the screenplay.

Blake also appears in one of the all-time classics, 1947’s The Treasure of Sierra Madre (MGM/UA Home Video, $20), as a Mexican boy who befriends prospector Fred C. Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart). John Huston directed this Oscar-winning drama of greed, which also stars Huston’s father, Walter, and Tim Holt.

In the ‘40s, Blake appeared as Little Beaver in the popular “Red Ryder” B-Westerns. Several of these low-budget films are available on video. The majority, unless otherwise noted, are distributed by Earl Blair Enterprises: 1946’s Conquest of Cheyenne ($30); 1947’s Rustlers of Devil’s Canyon ($20); 1945’s San Antonio Kid ($20); 1944’s Sheriff of Las Vegas ($30); 1946’s Sheriff of Redwood Valley ($30); 1947’s Stagecoach to Denver (Goodtimes, $8; Horizon Entertainment Group, $10); 1946’s Sun Valley Cyclone ($30).

In Cold Blood (RCA/Columbia, $20), writer-director Richard Brooks’ Oscar-nominated 1967 semi-documentary-style adaptation of Truman Capote’s bestseller, chronicles the harrowing story of Perry Smith (Blake) and Dick Hickcock (Scott Wilson). The two small-time crooks murdered a Kansas farm family in 1959. Well-acted by both Blake and Wilson, the movie also is known for the evocative cinematography of Conrad Hall.

Blake plays a Native American hunted down after he kills a white man in self-defense in the compelling 1969 Western Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (MCA Home Video, $20). Based on a true story, “Willie Boy” also stars Robert Redford and Katharine Ross. Blacklisted Abraham Polonsky of “Body and Soul” and “Force of Evil” fame wrote and directed.

In 1973’s cult film Electra Glide in Blue (MGM/UA Home Video), Blake stars as John Wintergreen, an Arizona motorcycle cop trying to become a detective while fighting the system. Billy Green Bush also is featured.