Top 10 favourite 40s films that haven't been released on Blu-ray (1 Viewer)

[Konstantinos]

Similar to the other 50s-90s threads.
A year has passed since the creation of the last such thread, so I hope this is OK.
After all, these threads seem to be popular enough and provide with many films for consideration to people (like me) who didn't know them.

Again, there are dozens to choose from, but I tried to restrict to 10.

1940 - His Girl Friday
1940 - My Favorite Wife
1940 - The Sea Hawk
1941 - They Died with their boots on
1942 - The Man who Came to Dinner
1943 - Lassie Come Home
1944 - Arsenic and Old Lace
1944 - National Velvet
1946 - The Yearling
1949 - Little Women

 

[Frank M]

1940 - The Philadelphia Story
1941 - The Little Foxes
1942 - Gentleman Jim
1943 - Le Corbeau
1944 - The Woman in the Window
1945 - Mildred Pierce
1946 - The Blue Dahlia
1947 - Nightmare Alley
1948 - Unfaithfully Yours
1949 - Criss Cross

 

[ScottHM]

I would love to see literally dozens of films from the 1940s released on Blu-ray, and here are just a handfull...

I Love You Again
My Favorite Wife
The Philadelphia Story
The Lady Eve
Meet John Doe
Sergeant York
Random Harvest
Woman of the Year
Gaslight
Going My Way

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[Alan Tully]

Those films listed, plus Bob Hope who's very unrepresented on Blu-ray, the "Road To" films (I still have the DVD box set), plus a lot of other Hope 40's films like The Ghost Breakers. There's a couple of colourful DeMille films I'd love, Reap The Wild Wind '42, this has been on TV in HD looking stunning, & Unconquered '47, the DVD looks so good. I think Warner must have doubled the amount of 40's films on Blu-ray with all those 40's Archive releases.

I would have listed She Wore A Yellow Ribbon, but I'm sure that's a'coming.

 

[revgen]

Meet John Doe (1942) (Sony has an HD master I believe)
The Blue Dahlia (1946) (HD Master does exist)
His Girl Friday (1940)
Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
Story of GI Joe (1945)
Murder, He Says (1945)
Calling Northside 777 (1948) (HD Master does exist)
They Drive By Night (1940)
To Have and Have Not (1944)
The Woman in the Window (1944) (HD Master does exist)

There's plenty more, but that's what I could come up with for now.

 

[TheSteig]

Mildred Pierce
High Sierra
His Girl Friday
Sorry, Wrong Number
The Blue Dahlia
The Thief of Bagdad
The Glass Key
Dead Reckoning
Unknown Island
Gaslight

 

[revgen]

^The Glass Key will be released in Germany on April 28th.
LINK

 

[Matt Hough]

A random choice of ten that first come into my mind:

The Little Foxes
Now, Voyager
The Harvey Girls
The Pirate
In the Good Old Summertime
Ziegfeld Girl
Adam's Rib
Flamingo Road
Great Expectations
Mother Wore Tights

 

[Josh Steinberg]

My list could probably be entirely made up of things from all of yours. The Philadelphia Story would probably be #1. Thief Of Bagdad would look amazing. And anything with Cary Grant I'd get in a heartbeat. Probably anything Bogart too. Same for Hepburn-Tracy movies.

 

[clambake]

His Girl Friday
This Gun For Hire
The Blue Dahlia
Detour
A Walk In The Sun
Sergeant York
Mildred Pierce
He Walked By Night
I Was A Male War Bride
Nightmare Alley

 

[benbess]

Movies I know and really like just from the very first year of the decade, 1940....
The Philadelphia Story
Waterloo Bridge
The Westerner
The Shop Around the Corner
All This and Heaven Too
Boom Town
His Girl Friday
Pride and Prejudice
The Thief of Bagdad

Movies I haven't seen from 1940, but which sound promising....
Abe Lincoln in Illinois, starring Raymond Massey
Arizona, starring Jean Arthur and William Holden
Christmas in July, directed by Preston Sturges
Edison, the Man, starring Spencer Tracy
The Grapes of Wrath, directed by John Ford and starring Henry Fonda
The House of the Seven Gables, starring Vincent Price
Northwest Mounted Police, starring Gary Cooper
Remember the Night, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray

 

[ScottHM]

Movies I haven't seen from 1940, but which sound promising....

The Grapes of Wrath, directed by John Ford and starring Henry Fonda
Remember the Night, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray

These two are already on Blu-ray.

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[Robert Crawford]

These two are already on Blu-ray.

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Right, they're in my film library.

 

[TheSteig]

Thief is on bluray overseas, but I would rather wait for a Criterion release - Ive heard that they arent happy with how it looked in HD.

The Glass Key is another title that Id rather also wait for a US release. Its both funny and sad how US made films wind up on HD in Germany, look at all the 50s scifi/monster movies Anolis released ! I think Id rather own it with the words THE GLASS KEY on the spine instead of " Der gläserne Schlüssel "


Importing titles is useful in some cases, especially for movies that might not get a bluray release in the USA such as Hammer titles or titles held hostage by Studio Canal or Lionsgate- but titles that are with studios like Universal or MGM, I tend to hold off. Some overseas releases are better, such as Creepshow.

I guess it just depends really.

 

[Keith Cobby]

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Wonder Man
My Favorite Blonde
The Princess and the Pirate
The Three Musketeers
Michael Shayne (The five Nolan Fox restored films)

 

[Walsh61]

I could list more than ten (easily), but here are some I'd like to see:

The Outlaw
The Story Of G.I.Joe
The Yearling
Crossfire
Desire Me
The Man From Colorado
3 Godfathers
Oliver Twist
Whispering Smith

 

[Matt Hough]

As usual, as soon as I listed ten off the top of my head, another slew of titles began to guilt me into making another 10 list:

The Heiress
The Snake Pit
Sorry, Wrong Number
Ziegfeld Follies
Words and Music
All This and Heaven, Too
Anna and the King of Siam
Keys to the Kingdom
The Secret Garden
Take Me Out to the Ball Game

 

[Konstantinos]

Reading all these lists I feel it's a real pity that the release ratio of horror-cult B-movies of 70s-80s and contemporary ones of every genre (even the really bad ones) to all these old movies is like 10:1.

 

[Robert Crawford]

Reading all these lists I feel it's a real pity that the release ratio of horror-cult B-movies of 70s-80s and contemporary ones of every genre (even the really bad ones) to all these old movies is like 10:1.

Unfortunately, consumer demographics that actually buy video product dictates that uneven ratio.

 

[benbess]

1941
Ziegfeld Girl
Ball of Fire
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Lady Eve
A Woman's Face