Warner Bros Archive Wish List 2022 and Beyond!! (6 Viewers)

[Capt D McMars]

Now that the smoke from all the studio shuffling and buyouts maybe starting to subside, there seems to be a ray of hope among some studios, like Warner Bros. With George Feltenstein back in the saddle of WAC, I wanted to start a thread on the classic and hoped for releases that we collectors of phisical media would love to add to out ever expanding film collections.

Although some may have recieved dvd editions, some not at all...these are the titiles that we grew up with or maybe turned on to later in life. The thing is, as lovers and collectors of classic films, what are the titles that still need to be added to YOUR collection?

For me for restored editions in BD are:
Prince and the Pauper (1937), Kim (1950), Stanley&Livingston (1939), Northwest Passage (1940), The Canterville Ghost (1944), Captain Horacio Hornblower (1951), Sinbad the Salior (1941), The Iron Mistress (1952).
I am so greatful to those at Warner Archive Collection and WB and for those that give us all the heads up on the upcoming releases, it gives us all the hope that springs eternal!!!

 

[mBen989]

Council submits...

 

[SWFF]

Would love to see THE POWER (1968) and that double feature DVD of IT! (1967) and THE SHUTTERED ROOM (1967) get blu'd.

 

[Dick]

I second the O.P.'s choices of SINBAD THE SAILOR (RKO), NORTHWEST PASSAGE (MGM) and THE CANTERVILLE GHOST (MGM), the latter which looked like crap on DVD.

In addition, I would love to see, From Warner Bros.:

CAPTAIN BLOOD
BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS
CARNY
CAGED!
COUNTDOWN (ALTMAN)
DR. ERLICH'S MAGIC BULLET
LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA
NORTH COUNTRY
GOING IN STYLE (1976)
THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER
KING'S ROW
LAND OF THE PHARAOHS
THE LATE SHOW
THE ROARING TWENTIES
LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA
RACHEL, RACHEL
THE SUNDOWNERS
WHITE HUNTER, BLACK HEART

From R.K.O.:

I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE
7TH VICTIM,
TOP HAT
THE BOY WITH GREEN HAIR,
NARROW MARGIN (1952)
ROOM SERVICE
THE INFORMER
I REMEMBER MAMA
TALL IN THE SADDLE
LITTLE WOMEN (1933)

From MGM:

BEN HUR (1925)
ADAM'S RIB
CAPTAIN SINDBAD
A DAY AT THE RACES
EDGE OF THE CITY
FREAKS
THE GAZEBO
THE GREAT ZIEGFELD
GREEN MANSIONS
KING SOLOMPN'S MINES (1950)
MARK OF THE VAMPIRE
NIGHT OF THE IGUANA
OUR MOTHER'S HOUSE
PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID
THE POWER
QUEEN CHRISTINA
RED BADGE OF COURAGE
SCARAMOUCHE
THE SEARCH
7 FACES OF DR. LAO
SHOOT THE MOON
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WHOSE LIFE IS IT ANYWAY
YOUNG CASSIDY

Too much to ask?

 

[Keith Cobby]

4k:
North by Northwest
High Society

Blu ray:
Three Little Words (in the works!)
Around the World in 80 Days
The Sea Wolves
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
The Princess and the Pirate
The Narrow Margin
Slightly Scarlet
Follow Me Quietly
Armoured Car Robbery

 

[Konstantinos]

I won't be greedy.
I just want:

 

[Bernard McNair]

Can only hope that Ryan‘s Daughter and Moviola are available for us to purchase.

 

[Kevin Antonio (Kev)]

 

[Dick]

Yeah...THE WILD BUNCH on 4K, from a brand new negative scan.

 

[Angelo Colombus]

Like to see a box set of The Marx Brothers films at MGM with new transfers. It was nice to see A Night At The Opera get the Blu-ray treatment so that's a good start.

 

[Capt D McMars]

I second the O.P.'s choices of SINBAD THE SAILOR (RKO), NORTHWEST PASSAGE (MGM) and THE CANTERVILLE GHOST (MGM), the latter which looked like crap on DVD.

In addition, I would love to see, From Warner Bros.:

CAPTAIN BLOOD
BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS
CARNY
CAGED!
COUNTDOWN (ALTMAN)
DR. ERLICH'S MAGIC BULLET
LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA
NORTH COUNTRY
GOING IN STYLE (1976)
THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER
KING'S ROW
LAND OF THE PHARAOHS
THE LATE SHOW
THE ROARING TWENTIES
LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA
RACHEL, RACHEL
THE SUNDOWNERS
WHITE HUNTER, BLACK HEART

From R.K.O.:

I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE
7TH VICTIM,
TOP HAT
THE BOY WITH GREEN HAIR,
NARROW MARGIN (1952)
ROOM SERVICE
THE INFORMER
I REMEMBER MAMA
TALL IN THE SADDLE
LITTLE WOMEN (1933)

From MGM:

BEN HUR (1925)
ADAM'S RIB
CAPTAIN SINDBAD
A DAY AT THE RACES
EDGE OF THE CITY
FREAKS
THE GAZEBO
THE GREAT ZIEGFELD
GREEN MANSIONS
KING SOLOMPN'S MINES (1950)
MARK OF THE VAMPIRE
NIGHT OF THE IGUANA
OUR MOTHER'S HOUSE
PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID
THE POWER
QUEEN CHRISTINA
RED BADGE OF COURAGE
SCARAMOUCHE
THE SEARCH
7 FACES OF DR. LAO
SHOOT THE MOON
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WHOSE LIFE IS IT ANYWAY
YOUNG CASSIDY

Too much to ask? View attachment 145155 View attachment 145155

Never too much, LOL!!!

 

[mskaye]

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Please, please one day. This is the closest an epic American action film ever got (and probably will ever get) to the power, greatness and poetry of Kurosawa's Seven Samurai. I love it so indulge my hyperbole.

 

[Kevin Antonio (Kev)]

Please, please one day. This is the closest an epic American action film ever got (and probably will ever get) to the power, greatness and poetry of Kurosawa's Seven Samurai. I love it so indulge my hyperbole.

Agreed. This and the searchers are two films I wish Warners would release. There's a lot of people who want to see this in the Ford/wayne, and pekinaph camps, but I won't complain. They have given us some true gems over the years.

 

[Peter M Fitzgerald]

All on Blu-ray--

Warner Bros library:

Popeye: The 1930s Vol. 1
Safe in Hell
Blackmail ('39)
The Strawberry Blonde
Gentleman Jim
The Beast with Five Fingers
Three Strangers
Deep Valley
Life with Father
The Crimson Pirate
The Charge at Feather River (3D Blu)
The Phantom of the Rue Morgue (3D Blu)
The Bounty Hunter (3D Blu)
The Command (3D Blu)
Land of the Pharaohs
Around the World in Eighty Days ('56)
Rampage ('63)
A Big Hand for the Little Lady
Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold
Once Upon a Time in America: Extended Director's Cut (Blu-ray re-issue)

RKO Library:

The Great Man Votes
Five Came Back
Stranger on the Third Floor
I Walked with a Zombie
The 7th Victim
Sinbad the Sailor ('47)
I Remember Mama
The Threat ('49)
Double feature: Bodyguard / Follow Me Quietly
Double feature: The Clay Pigeon / Armored Car Robbery
His Kind of Woman
The Whip Hand
The Big Sky
The Narrow Margin ('52)
Split Second ('53)
Second Chance (3D Blu)
Dangerous Mission (3D Blu)
Son of Sinbad (3D Blu)
Slightly Scarlet

MGM library:

Tex Avery (the rest of his MGM cartoons)
The Captain & The Kids: Complete Cartoon Collection (+ bonus shorts: 'Jitterbug Follies' & 'Wanted: No Master')
Greed (theatrical cut & reconstructed versions)
The Crowd
Freaks
Tarzan the Ape Man
Tarzan and His Mate
Tarzan Escapes
Devil-Doll
Mark of the Vampire
On Borrowed Time
Picture of Dorian Gray (already released on Blu-ray, my bad)
Stars in My Crown
Westward the Women
The Tall Target
Scaramouche
Arena (3D Blu)
The Badlanders
Tarzan the Magnificent
Tarzan and the Valley of Gold
Captain Sindbad
She ('65)
The Wild, Wild Planet
Sitting Target ('72)
The Outfit ('73)

Allied Artists library:

William Castle double feature: Macabre / The House on Haunted Hill
Attack of the 50 Ft Woman
Three the Hard Way

Lorimar library:

The Stranger Within
The Last Dinosaur

 

[Andrew Budgell]

Picture of Dorian Gray

If you're referring to the 1945 adaptation, WAC released it on Blu-ray back in 2014. It looks gorgeous!

 

[mskaye]

Agreed. This and the searchers are two films I wish Warners would release. There's a lot of people who want to see this in the Ford/wayne, and pekinaph camps, but I won't complain. They have given us some true gems over the years.

Funny. When writing my post, the only film I felt comes close to this epic quality was The Searchers. To me, The Wild Bunch is a mash up of the epic quality and emotional poetry The Searchers with the bad ass quality and violence of My Darling Clementine.

 

[raphdude]

My short want list:
Agatha (1979)
Black Belt Jones (1974)
Fort Apache The Bronx (1981)

4K UHD
Excalibur (1981)
Outland (1981)

 

[mskaye]

Funny. When writing my post, the only film I felt comes close to this epic quality was The Searchers. To me, The Wild Bunch is a mash up of the epic quality and emotional poetry The Searchers with the bad ass quality and violence of My Darling Clementine.

One last thing to clarify, I don't think The Wild Bunch is a "greater" film than The Searchers. They are very different but share many similar elegaic, epic qualities.

 

[Keith Cobby]

I would expect both Wild Bunch and Searchers will receive 4k disc releases in due course. Another 'big film' that needs a much better release, either on blu ray or preferably 4k, is Where Eagles Dare.

 

[PaulaJ]

Y’all left off Random Harvest from your lists. We need a Blu-Ray of Random Harvest!

Would also like The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (and anything else with Ramon Navarro), Tol’able David, the remaining Judy Garland titles, how about some Jane Powell (nice to have Athena but it’s pretty lackluster as movie musicals go), truly restored/remastered Anchors Aweigh, On the Town and The Music Man, also Yolanda and the Thief, Captain Blood, The Roaring Twenties, Kung Fu (original series), and what about more Golden Harvest titles? And yes, definitely The Wild Bunch (in 4K?).

Meanwhile, a giant THANK YOU to George Feltenstein and his hardworking team!