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At one point, there was talk about King of Jazz being released as a TCM exclusive. Then it disappeared.

Regardless, provide a link in this thread please

At last, something that is truly YUUUUGE!!!!!!!!

I never knew that the Marx Brothers were in the King Kong spider pit. Learn something every day

I really don't understand that at all. If Universal does as much for the Paramount Marx Brothers films as they did for Dracula or Bride of Frankenstein, they should look spectacular. Obviously, everyone would like missing footage restored, but given the shape the existing prints of the...

I don't think he was saying that at all. My general understanding is that Universal has good elements on their Universal films of the 1940s. I think he was saying that there is no chance for an alternate version of FMTW that was never released theatrically. My guess would be that the blu of...

1. I think it's understandable that they don't publish contact info for specific studio employees. Undoubtedly, they would get cranks and they don't really have the time to vet claims anyway; 2. Any big Marx Bros. fan knows there have been missing scenes in some of the available Paramounts...

At one point, a couple of years ago, there was talk I read somewhere of them releasing it as a DVD as part of the TCM releases. It's probably still possible that it could be released in connection with something like that.

Yes, misread what I was citing. Thanks!

My understanding is that Universal's predecessor, MCA, purchased the pre-1949 Paramounts for television distribution (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount_Pictures) in 1949. Due to the low quality of 1950s tvs, MCA didn't even care that much about receiving all the elements and negatives...

I don't think they released edited versions by choice. If they found missing footage from some of those Marx Brothers films it would be major news so I wouldn't get your hopes up on that.