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Upgrades are nice, but wouldn't it be better to release some titles that have never been on Blu-Ray before? Suggestions: Anthony Mann westerns: WINCHESTER '73 BEND OF THE RIVER THE NAKED SPUR THE FAR COUNTRY THE TIN STAR '40s classics: HIGH SIERRA PHILADELPHIA STORY NOW VOYAGER WOMAN IN...

Re: VALENTINO I saw it in 1977, but the only thing I remember is that Huntz Hall was in it.

"Honestly, there are very few 40s film in the MGM library, unless Kino wants to tackle the extremely neglected Monogram holdings--of which none have been chosen yet." I don't know who controls the rights, but these are some MGM films overdo for Blu-Ray: NATIONAL VELVET, THE YEARLING, LASSIE...

Thanks for the feedback. I'm in.

I'm certainly glad I have a region free blu-ray/dvd player. All of the interesting titles are now being released in Europe. In America, most of the titles that the studios now see as profitable are the latest round of box office duds and straight-to-video garbage.

Does the FUNNY FACE Blu-Ray have an English language track? According to Amazon.fr, it only has a French dubbed soundtrack with English subtitles.

I'm beginning to be disappointed in the Archives. I was willing to accept the DVD-R format and the comparatively high price points as long as I had access to the titles. I purchased dozens of them during the first several months. Now the releases have slowed to a trickle and there aren't that...

Well, the current WB archive sale offers 10 titles for 99.95, a fraction under $10 per. Time to crap or get off the pot; time to put up or shut up. What will the whiners and bellyachers say now? "I'd only buy DVD-Rs if they were under $2 apiece"? If you don't move on this, I think Warner...

I have 50 of the Archive titles to date and have watched about half of them so far. Other than a couple of 1930s titles that were made from pretty rough source material, I don't really have any complaints. Among the titles in my most recent order were color/widescreen westerns: THE BADLANDERS...

I read on another site that Warners is planning another box set of Errol Flynn titles for next year. An Esther Williams set is coming later this year. Looks like they haven't completely given up on the catalog titles.

If this is really the future of home video, it will be virtually impossible to resell an Archive title for more than Warners will charge to burn one for you. But think of what will happen when the pressed DVDs begin to go out of print (I'm not talking the cash-cows like WIZARD OF OZ, GONE WITH...

Tim Tucker, I believe the coupon expires June 30.

I'd be very happy to see some of the post-1950 color/widescreen films released in good condition, like: MOONFLEET, THE LAST HUNT, THE HANGING TREE, FOOTSTEPS IN THE FOG, TARZAN THE MAGNIFICENT, TARZAN'S GREATEST ADVENTURE, etc, as well as non-widescreen westerns like RIDE VAQUERO and DEVIL'S...

The actual review thread seems to have been abandoned, so I'll report here that I broke down and ordered one of the Amazon exclusives, COLORADO TERRITORY, when the price was temporarily reduced by a few dollars. It is in fact the same as an Archive title, with the exceptions that the 'Archive...

If the Amazon exclusives do indeed represent a limited run of pressed discs, which I seriously doubt, they need to make this known in the product description. If, as someone suggested, they are not part of the Archive collection at all, then just what are they? They certainly carry the Warners...

I, too, would like some hints as to what is going on behind the scenes. Why is it all such a secret? The price on the Amazon exclusives is what makes my blood boil. Do progressive scan and VBR necessitate raising the price from 19.99 to 28.99? Why does Amazon need an 'exclusive' on any of...

I've been quite supportive of the Warner Archive program up to this point. But things are starting to move in the wrong direction. Now we are seeing titles, a few of which I would like to own, showing up as Amazon exclusives for 28.98 each. I'm certainly not a buyer at that price. I have a...

This is confusing. Why would Amazon even want to market an item that they must sell for almost 50% more than full retail to make the desired profit? Also, the fact that other sites are selling the same product for so much less sort of hurts Amazon's reputation as a place to get good...

FALLEN SPARROW (1943): Film noir meets Hitchcock; this one has both a femme fatale and a McGuffin. A good John Garfield thriller, it's in pretty good shape other than a few speckles here and there. Nice contrast. BHOWANI JUNCTION (1956): Set in India, shot on location in Pakistan; the...

PARTY GIRL (1958): A gangster film with the color and glitz of an MGM musical, even featuring a few dance scenes, it features Robert Taylor as a mob lawyer who decides to go straight, Cyd Charisse as his girl, Lee J. Cobb in a colorful performance as a syndicate boss, and John Ireland as a thug...

BILLY THE KID (1941). Robert Taylor as Billy and Brian Donlevy as a character based on Pat Garrett. The transfer is acceptable but not much more. This is one of the rare color westerns from a period when the color was great; it would have been a perfect candidate for full restoration, but alas. . .

I haven't seen too many of the other studios flooding the market with classic titles lately. Maybe they haven't gone the archive route yet, but they don't seem to be moving too quickly in the other direction either. MGM just released TIME LIMIT, YOUNG BILLY YOUNG, NORTHWEST OUTPOST, and THE...

RE: BADMAN'S TERRITORY. This is B & W. The running time stated on the box is 98 minutes; most other sources I checked say 97 minutes. I keep close tabs on the running time, and I can say that this is accurate---I wouldn't argue whether it was 97m or 98m or somewhere in between. I think there was...

BADMAN'S TERRITORY: Yet another good mid-forties western with Randolph Scott and Gabby Hayes. Also featured in the cast are Lawrence Tierney and Tom Tyler as the James brothers and Steve Brodie as Bob Dalton. The movie starts with one of those British rating announcements, which may indicate...

TRAIL STREET: Another entertaining mid-forties Randolph Scott western from RKO. Scott, Robert Ryan, and side-kick Gabby Hayes are on the side of law and order, battling villains Steve Brodie and Harry Woods. There were some rough spots in this transfer, the weakest of the Scott entries so far in...

Thanks for the discount code, Crawdaddy. Just ordered PARTY GIRL, JOHNNY EAGER, BILLY THE KID, FOUR DAUGHTERS, and THE FALLEN SPARROW, a Taylor/Garfield festival.

A report on RETURN OF THE BADMEN: This is a good Randolph Scott western, very 1940ish with Gabby Hayes in his usual role as a buffoon, and strengthened by the formidable presence of Robert Ryan as the main villain. I was very satisfied with the overall sharpness of the B&W picture, a vast...

I definitely don't think we'll see the end of hi-def; technology is moving in the opposite direction. And I can't imagine why any of the studios would want to deprive themselves of the revenue available from those who wish to own hard-copies of the movies. Blu-ray is doing quite well, thank...

Just watched CARSON CITY, which I had ordered to replace an old VHS copy recorded from television. It's not a widescreen movie, but it is in color and the color was good for the most part. It's unrestored and has some grain, but the picture is fairly sharp and a great step up from VHS. As far as...

The review thread has all but dried up. Crawdaddy, you ordered twenty titles. Give us a heads-up on some of them. I've been considering THE COMMAND. How does it look? Anyone else? Let's see some reviews on these Archive titles.