We start with some uncovered treasure:

Walt Disney Treasures: Wave III

The Chronological Donald — Volume Four, The Mickey Mouse Club Presents: Annette, and Dr. Syn: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh

Coming Tuesday to DVD.

Considering that Walt Disney began his career almost a hundred years ago, it’s not surprising that the movie studio that now bears his name has a seemingly endless supply of true treasures. The latest offerings arrive in their recognizable numbered tins, each filled with two discs and an exclusive lithograph.

In the final Donald Duck volume, 31 cartoons from 1951-1961 make their DVD debuts in their original wide-screen formats. The set includes the 1954 3-D experiment Working for Peanuts.

Also included is a retrospective featurette on Donald Duck, storyboards, and commentary from Leonard Maltin and Jerry Beck.

Not rated, 344 minutes.

Annette stars Disney-TV’s most popular Mouseketeer, Annette Funicello. In this series of 20 episodes, she plays a rural orphan who must adjust to city life. Also included is an extended 1991 interview with Annette, as she reminisces about her days at Disney. Also within is the tribute featurette “To Annette, With Love,” along with the first and last episodes of the Mickey Mouse Club.

The three episodes of Dr. Syn were based on popular novels of the early 1960s about a preacher (Patrick McGoohan) who becomes a Robin Hood figure at night. The discs also offer the theatrical film version, released overseas but never in this country. The DVD supplements also hold three featurettes, one on Dr. Syn, another on Disney’s first satellite studio (in England), and a “Walt Disney TV Introduction in Widescreen.”

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Fanfan La Tulipe (***) The Criterion Collection debuts this newly restored, digitally transferred, 1952 swashbuckling adventure-romance-comedy, starring ’50s French icon Gerard Philipe. Part Brad Pitt, part Robert DeNiro, this handsome star dominated French leading man roles before dying at age 36 of liver cancer.

Philipe moved between stage and screen, establishing himself as a polished classical actor before graduating to exalted movie star status. Fanfan, a huge hit in France, sees Philipe in an 18th century costume drama, as he plays the title character, a peasant escaping a shotgun wedding who joins the army of Louis XV.

But he finds himself in more romantic than military entanglements. Gina Lollabrigida and Genevieve Page, two of the most beautiful women ever to grace a movie screen, co-star as Fanfan’s objects of desire.

Director Christian-Jacque, who won the director’s prize at Cannes, never overestimates his light-hearted material, keeping the action constant with swordplay, fights and romantic interludes, all while making the breezy film enjoyable.

Not rated, 99 minutes.

The DVD includes a booklet with an essay on Philipe from LA Times movie critic Kenneth Turan, an informative half-hour documentary on Gerard, a colorized segment of the film, an optional English-dubbed version of the film and the theatrical trailer.

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Wall-E (***1/2) This latest jewel from Disney-Pixar received nothing but deserved raves for its animation and its clever, Charlie Chaplin-like storyline. The title character is a robot, left alone on a deserted Earth only to find true love with another robot. They find themselves transported to a huge spaceship where all the humans are now obese blobs.

Rated G, 98 minutes.

The DVD comes in five different options, including sets of two and three Blu-ray discs. The standard three-disc special edition also contains a digital copy of the film.

Otherwise, the first disc holds commentary, two new animated shorts, BURN-E and Presto, a featurette on the sound design, along with two deleted scenes.

The loaded second disc has a worthy documentary on Pixar, several featurettes, including a “behind-the-scenes” look, five more short films, and much more.

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Paramount Pictures

Ben Stiller, left, and Robert Downey Jr. star in Tropic Thunder , the comic story of a group of actors who become lost in the jungle while shooting a Vietnam War film. Tropic Thunder comes to DVD on Tuesday.

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Tropic Thunder (***) This is that rare movie filled with Hollywood-insider jokes that nevertheless appeals to general audiences. Ben Stiller directs and co-stars in the preposterous tale of a film production gone amok.

At the beginning of production of a Vietnam War film, a group of pampered movie stars becomes lost in the jungle. One (Stiller) thinks it’s all a setup and stays “in character,” to hilarious effect, while the others gradually realize their peril, particularly when they meet up with a large drug operation.

Meanwhile, numerous subplots play out, including Tom Cruise going over the top as an out-of-control producer. Funny movie.

Rated R, 107 minutes.

The two-disc DVD set offers the film on one disc. The other completely packed disc holds around a dozen featurettes, with the most compelling being the half hour “Rain of Madness” and 22 minutes of interviews with the cast.

Plus, two deleted scenes, two extended sequences and an alternate ending.

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Too Tough to Die — A Tribute to Johnny Ramone (**1/2) On Sept. 12, 2004, director Mandy Stein captured a group of celebrated musicians who had gathered in Los Angeles for Johnny Ramone, as he approached his death from cancer. Those performances combine with some archival footage and new interviews for this documentary on Ramone and the Ramones. The Red Hot Chili Peppers, the Dickies, X, Joan Jett and Henry Rollins all perform.

Not rated, 76 minutes.

The DVD offers a commentary from Mandy Stein, Johnny Ramone’s wife Linda Ramone and punker Joe Sib.

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Night Gallery: Season Two After The Twilight Zone, Rod Serling hosted and occasionally wrote these brief, clever productions that always delivered a twist and consistently featured top-notch casts. Individual episodes, usually about 23 minutes, were invariably followed by a briefer spoof, usually on the horror genre, providing laughs if not bizarre contrasts to the main segment.

A total of 61 of the episodes arrive on five discs along with select commentary from a trio, including Guillermo Del Toro. Plus the retrospective featurette “Revisiting the Gallery: A Look Back.”

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Also this week: Clique, Gonzo, Wedding Director