Some MGM/UA classic releases for December (1 Viewer)

[CineKarine]

Found the following on DVDEmpire website:

Some new releases from MGM/U-A (through Fox):

MGM Movie Legends Collection: Bob Hope
Dec. 4
Alias Jesse James
Boy Do I Have The Wrong Number
The Facts Of Life
I'll Take Sweden
Princess And The Pirate
Road To Hong Kong
They've Got Me Covered

New York, New York (77) (30th Anniversary Edition)


UA Deluxe Gift Set
Dec. 11
Marty
Twelve Angry Men
Some Like It Hot (2 Discs)
The Alamo
The Apartment
The Magnificent Seven (2 Discs)
Judgment At Nuremberg
West Side Story (2 Discs)
Birdman Of Alcatraz
Dr. No (2 Discs)
The Manchurian Candidate
The Great Escape (2 Discs)
The Pink Panther (1963)
The Greatest Story Ever Told (2 Discs)
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (2 Discs)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (2 Discs)
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
The Battle Of Britain (2 Discs)
Midnight Cowboy (2 Discs)
Fiddler On The Roof (2 Discs)
Rocky (2 Discs)
Annie Hall
A Bridge Too Far (2 Discs)
The Spy Who Loved Me (2 Discs)
Raging Bull (2 Discs)
Rain Man
Goldeneye
The Birdcage
Bowling For Columbine
Hotel Rwanda


UA Super Deluxe Gift Set
Dec. 11
The Woman In The Window
Red River
The Barefoot Contessa
Marty
The Night Of The Hunter
Dance With Me Henry
The Killing
Moby Dick
Twelve Angry Men
Paths Of Glory
Witness For The Prosecution
The Big Country
The Defiant Ones
I Want To Live!
A Hole In The Head
The Fugitive Kind
Some Like It Hot
The Alamo
The Apartment
Elmer Gantry
Inherit The Wind
The Magnificent Seven
Judgment At Nuremberg
The Misfits
One, Two, Three
Pocketful Of Miracles
West Side Story
Birdman Of Alcatraz
Dr. No
The Manchurian Candidate
The Miracle Worker
The Great Escape
I Could Go On Singing
Irma La Douce
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World
A Fistful Of Dollars
The Pink Panther
Topkapi
The Greatest Story Ever Told
The Fortune Cookie
Persona
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
In The Heat Of The Night
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Hang 'Em High
The Thomas Crown Affair
Yours, Mine And Ours
Fellini Satyricon
The Battle Of Britain
Midnight Cowboy
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Fiddler On The Roof
Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex
Last Tango In Paris
Lenny
The Wilby Conspiracy
Carrie
The Missouri Breaks
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
Rocky
Annie Hall
A Bridge Too Far
Equus
New York, New York
The Spy Who Loved Me
Coming Home
La Cage Aux Folles
The Last Waltz
Manhattan
Raging Bull
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Heaven's Gate
The Secret of the NIMH
War Games
Red Dawn
The Living Daylights
Baby Boom
Child's Play
Rain Man
Road House
Goldeneye
Leaving Las Vegas
Richard III
The Birdcage
The Man In The Iron Mask
No Man's Land
Bowling For Columbine
Dark Blue
Pieces Of April
Hotel Rwanda

 

[Patrick McCart]

Good to see Road House in the same collection as 12 Angry Men, Some Like It Hot, and Rain Man.

 

[Corey]

If those films were all remastered, I'd by the Super Deluxe set.

 

[Lord Dalek]

Lets hope New York, New York is anamorphic this time.

 

[Richard M S]

Road House is the Patrick Swayze film right, and not the Ida Lupino -Cornel Wilde film noir classic, right?

 

[Randy Korstick]

Great news on the Bob Hope set. Hopefully they are all Widescreen and Anamorphic where appropriate.

 

[Marvin]

Wasn't Fiddler on the Roof already remastered this year, for the second time?

 

[Andrew Radke]

I wonder what the chances are of "Child's Play" finally getting a widescreen release. Also, if these are new transfers, will they be made available individually?

 

[Thomas T]

I suspect they're all repackages of previously released titles which MGM tends to do.

I am happy about the Bob Hope set which features 4 new to DVD titles plus 3 previously released ones but I wonder if Princess And The Pirate will be remastered since the original release had many complaints about the transfer quality.

 

[PatH]

The Bob Hope Alias Jesse James was also edited (one or more of the cameos), if I remember right.

PatH

 

[Roger Rollins]

As I saw this list I thought to myself, I know there are going to be some films on here that weren't originally United Artists, and sure enough, there are two....

WOMAN IN THE WINDOW (An International Pictures production originally released by RKO)

MOBY DICK (A Moulin Production originally released by Warner Bros.)

Nowhere do you find KISS ME DEADLY or SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS or LILLIES OF THE FIELD or TOM JONES...but you do get that paragon of cinema that represents United Artists at its zenith (!)


DANCE WITH ME, HENRY


I wonder if the person that made this list has even watched the films....

You also gotta love 'em for putting DANCE WITH ME, HENRY in there, the notoriously awful final teaming of Abbott & Costello. At that rate, how could they have left out the majestic Patty Duke masterpiece BILLIE?

 

[CineKarine]

Same thing here - really happy about this!

If Bob Hope sells well, I hope they think of Danny Kaye next!!!!!!!!!

 

[Charles H]

As a Bob Hope completist, I miss CALL ME BWANA and I would "happily" buy the otherwise dire EIGHT ON THE LAM. Hope they do bring out the Danny Kayes and the Eddie Cantors (included the aborted KID MILLIONS).

 

[Randy Korstick]

I assume you are referring to the VHS release since this one has never been released on DVD.

 

[Charles H]

Re the cameos in ALIAS JESSE JAMES: Although James Garner vis listed by imdb, I don't recall seeing him on the VHS or in any television showings. Garner was huge at the time, and I suspect that WB might have pulled the plug on his participation.

 

[John Hodson]

DVD Times has the art for the Bob Hope Collection here.

 

[MarcoBiscotti]

Will 'Alias Jesse James' not be released on it's own?

I've never seen any of the other Bob Hope films and I'm not sure how big a fan I am of his movies and whether I want to buy the whole box set... but I'd like to own this title.

 

[JPCinema]

Sadly ...I bet none of the older films reissued will be new masters or anamorphic...such as BIRDMAN OF ALCATRAZ, TOPKAPI, ELMER GANTRY.
Great films desreve more than being recycled from a old transfer.

 

[MarcoBiscotti]

I will go so far as to guarantee that.

I mean it's pretty obvious given the context of all of this. Hopefully the reasoning behind these releases is to unload the older copies to make way for new transfers of these films.

 

[Charles Ellis]

Will the Hope titles be sold separately as well? I'm only interested in The Facts of Life and Boy, Did I Get A Wrong Number!