Cinema Classics: Screwball Comedies on APRIL (1 Viewer)

[KellyVO]

Ok so we know extras include Intro with Robert Osborne, is that it? Are there even trailers?

 

[Corey]

ZOMG!!!! I wasn't expecting these films to be released at all. April is gonna be really expensive.

 

[Tory]

Hopefully some bonus shorts.

 

[Eric Peterson]

Fat chance! This is Universal you know!

 

[Corey]

I pre-ordered all of these titles off Amazon for 9.99

 

[Peter M Fitzgerald]

Outstanding news! I'm especially (and happily) surprised that Universal is releasing these individually, rather than in a hodgepodge set. I'm not a big fan of SHE DONE HIME WRONG, but will definitely pick up EASY LIVING, THE MAJOR AND THE MINOR and MIDNIGHT.

Hopefully, these will sell reasonably well. If so, I nominate the following for a "Cinema Classics: Screwball Comedies 2" collection (even though these, like the above titles, don't necessarily adhere to a strict definition of "screwball comedy"):

RUGGLES OF RED GAP (1935, Charlie Ruggles & Charles Laughton)
PROFESSOR BEWARE (1938, Harold Lloyd)
REMEMBER THE NIGHT (1940, Fred MacMurray & Claudette Colbert)
MURDER, HE SAYS (1945, Fred MacMurray & Marjorie Main)

 

[CineKarine]

My nominations for the next wave would be:

Remember the Night (40)
She Loves Me Not (34) - an hilarious film practically never shown anywhere
The Gilded Lily (35)
The Affairs of Susan (45)

All of these films are truly outstanding and would be great additions to any classic film collection.

 

[RafaelPires]

Remember the night, definetly, is a must be for the next wave of these Universal Cinema Classics.
I don't know if they are going to dedicated that entirely to comedies, if so I would also pick up The Gilded Lily (one of my favorites Colbert movies).
If not it were dedicated to general movies I would like them to release:

- Remember the Night
- To Each his own
- Lady in the Dark
- Hold Back the Dawn

 

[Jefty]

I'm just gonna second any vote Remember the Night and Ministry of Fear that I see... the world is an incomplete place without those films on DVD...

and the others that Rafael mentions would be most welcome too!

 

[Eric Vedowski]

This would make a good "directed by Mitchell Leisen" set. I'd add I Wanted Wings.

 

[FrankXS]

Remember The Night starred Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck. All of these titles are musts for future Universal Classics along with The Uninvited/Blue Dahlia/Ministry of Fear/Marlene Dietrich's titles that aren't on DVD/more Betty Hutton/Five Graves to Cairo/A Foreign Affair/more Bing Crosby. UNIVERSAL START A GOOD THING ......AND THEN CONTINUE IT !!!

 

[Jefty]

I would buy every one of these too!

 

[MarcoBiscotti]

I wonder if we'll ever see ISLAND OF LOST SOULS released as part of this series?

It should've been on DVD years ago, imo.

 

[Robert Crawford]

Now, the price is over $11 per disc. Deep Discount here I come.





Crawdaddy

 

[Junior_V]

Am I the only one who want's "Female On The Beach(1955)" ?

 

[Charles H]

I'd ;ike to see Universal do a "Ladies in Distress" package in the spirit of WB's camp classics last year: Joan Crawford in FEMALE ON THE BEACH, Doris Day in MIDNIGHT LACE, Esther Williams in THE UNGUARDED MOMENT, and Loretta Young in THE ACCUSED.

 

[CineKarine]

I would buy this set in a wink - 3 of these are among the titles I most want on DVD!!!

 

[Matt Hough]

I'd buy the set for the first two alone and let the last two be blind buys.

 

[PaulP]

Just a bump to refresh the memory, these will be out soon, so don't forget, people

 

[Robert Crawford]

I already have them on preorder. Thanks for the reminder and if we want the studios to release such titles then we need to continue to purchase them.




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