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Here are five films in Warner Home Video's new manufacture-on-demand collection worth checking out:

* 'The Actress' - George Cukor directed this delightful 1953 comedy based on the early life of actress Ruth Gordon. It stars Spencer Tracy, Jean Simmons, Teresa Wright and Anthony Perkins.

* 'Wild Orchids' - A sultry 1929 silent melodrama with Greta Garbo, Nils Asther and Lewis Stone.

* 'The Rain People' - Francis Ford Coppola directed this underrated 1969 drama starring Shirley Knight as a pregnant housewife yearning for freedom who takes the family station wagon to search for it. James Caan and Robert Duvall, who would team with Coppola again three years later in 'The Godfather,' are also featured in this delicately wrought film.

* 'The Red Lily' - A real rarity. Ramon Novarro and Enid Bennett star in this 1924 romantic melodrama directed by Fred Niblo about the ill-fated love affair between the son of a wealthy mayor and a peasant girl.

* 'Three Comrades' - The great novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald was one of the screenwriters of this enthralling 1938 adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque's novel about three German First World War vets (Robert Taylor, Franchot Tone and Robert Young) working as auto mechanics, and the vivacious woman (Margaret Sullavan, in an Oscar-nominated performance) who changes their lives.