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For a star with a limited number of feature films (21), Deanna Durbin has a high proportion of her titles unavailable. Spring Parade as detailed above has never had an official release. Here's hoping, like Abbott and Costello's "It Ain't Hay", that common sense prevails before no one alive...

Isn't this the great thing about physical media. We all like different material and unlike it being shown on TV, none of us have to switch channels. We can choose to buy or ignore the release. If the latter, we can be grateful that others have a title they want and look forward to something we...

Just checked Disney UK and yes all the titles are now gone.

Very confusing indeed. I'm just a simple, avid viewer of old films, who would love to see this film (and many others) getting the blu ray treatment.

Agreed. This needs to be released. I've not watched in 15 or more years. Best copy I have is a high definition shown on BBC2. It's reasonable, but it needs a lot of work. Trouble is there are so many other titles waiting to be looked at. And as said, I am not sure Warners has any "ownership" of...

Just ordered this. Will be here in UK this Thursday. I didn't own this on DVD and only copy was on a 25 year old Betamax recording taken from the BBC. Looking forward to this.

Living in Region 2 and B land (aka the UK), I went region free years ago. No ridiculous coding system was going to stop me watching all the great titles released in the US, but not here in the UK. The coding system was and is a nonsense. But as an earlier reply said, don't fret go region free...

My apologies. You are absolutely right. So sorry. What a shame.

You can still watch the film in question without a 4K player or 4K TV. The film is on a separate blu ray disc as part of the Columbia Classics Volume 3 boxset. I went through all the boxset yesterday to catalogue everything onto my computer. Will you have to buy the 4K set? Yes. Is the title you...

You paint a bleak picture of the only option in the future will be streaming of Fox films. Unfortunately, I have a bleaker picture to paint. In the future many films will not be available on a streaming platform either. They will languish, forgotten in the vaults and only the most notable of...

Fantastic. My set arrived at start of week. Not looked at it yet. I had no idea these bonus films were included. Excellent news.

Be nice to have the option of buying these British made films in Britain, rather than importing.

Ah no. I think the quote I was referring to was for Blandings and Stage Fright. It didn't come over right. Sorry.

Thank you for your detailed answer. All I can say is here's hoping for a release, especially as 80 odd years have passed.

Does anyone know why Spring Parade is unable to be released?

I have both of these on blu ray. However, you raise a good point. Namely shelf space (tell me about it) and cash. With this in mind, is there anywhere that lists Warner blu ray titles that are being discontinued? I was surprised to read that The Bishop's Wife is no longer available, except in a...

Yes.

Yes. Can't disagree with any of your sentiments. Or film choices. Although Random Harvest would have to be top of my list. There is a dilemma for Warners. Varying accounts of the number of films it owns ( just looking at Warners, MGM and RKO); but it is in the thousands. There is talk of 50 odd...

The Bishop's Wife. If memory serves, the blu ray came out and there was a very short sequence where the scene repeated itself. Warners did issue a corrected disc. I know, as I have both the original faulty disc and the replacement. Is this fault you are referring to?

That would be a welcome bonus. I've never seen it, but enjoy retrospective documentaries. I assume it has never had a DVD/ blu ray release anywhere previously?

Oh. What a shame. My 4K has just arrived in the UK. Was lookiing forward to watching the superior quality.

There was a UK release dating about 10 years ago on blu ray.

Just read this. You are so right.

I listened to the Raintree County element on the podcast twice. I wanted to fully appreciate the difficulties. For all of us here who love film and our relationship with Warners in particular, our big problem is that Warners has too much of a good thing, and despite all the efforts in the...

Kino have supplied me with a corrected disc to the UK. I can confirm there is nothing to distinguish the original and corrected disc.

Agreed. Valid points are lost without the clarity punctuation affords.

I know, I know that Warners has 1000s of titles, controlling Warner, MGM and RKO (and others). But, if you had told me 15 years ago ( is it 15 since blu ray began?), that only 1 Fred and Ginger would be available on blu ray, I would have found it hard to believe. However, I get it. There is so...

I suspect, if I am typical, readers here may gain more excitement from titles never released on home video, in any format, rather than titles already out, but coming out in a higher quality format. That is not to ignore an upgrade to 4K, but you see where I'm going. Bear in mind a lot of these...

Thanks for that. Just filled my replacement order in on an ipad, to come to the United Kingdom. No issues. Went straight through.

My UK release arrived yesterday. As a slight aside and thinking of Alfred Hitchcock films on blu ray, would I be right in thinking Mr and Mrs Smith is the only one of his films not upgraded from DVD?