| However he was certainly a great actor. I believe TCM did a documentary on him in the last year or so. Perhaps that could be an extra if any of his films ever do surface (which they hopefully will). |
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| The documentary "The John Garfield Story" can be found on the POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE DVD. |
| I think Warner is eventually going to release a boxset of Garfield, but probably not before Cagney, Bogart, Flynn, Davis and Gable. |
| A double bill of 20,000 Years in Sing-Sing with Spencer Tracy and the Garfield remake Castle on the Hudson is something I could envision from WB. |
I also can't help but think that the Blacklist had something to do with his being buried and forgotten.
| TCM: In planning your film festivals, are there any particular titles which have remained elusive and possibly lost which you have tried repeated to find and exhibit? Muller: There are dozens! A clean 35mm print of Too Late for Tears is my particular obsession. ANY 35mm print of it! I'd love to show that on a big screen with a huge audience, like we did with The Man Who Cheated Himself in San Francisco. We had almost 1,000 in the house for that, and it was great. The next night we showed the only print Warners has of THE BREAKING POINT with John Garfield, but only about 350 people saw it. I wished we could have switched audiences -- THE BREAKING POINT is an incredible film and really deserves to be released on DVD. Warners? You listening? |
| It's a great film and one of the many Michael Curtiz jewels that are emerging thanks to those greats people at Warner Bros - let's hope it turns up with other great films of theirs such FOUR DAUGHTERS, DAUGHTERS COURAGEOUS and THE SEA WOLF really soon!!! |
If WB is releasing these Curtiz films which also, of course, feature John Garfield, that is news to me. It's good to see so much support for these films.| John Garfield was on display at the Palace of Fine Arts on Thursday night. While "Nobody Lives Forever" is a handsome film that highlights the beauty of Geraldine Fitzgerald and the visual magnetism of Garfield, I found that the script lacked the usual élan normally associated with the great crime writer, W.R. Burnett. The new 35 mm print of this film was funded by The Film Noir Foundation as an initial step towards rescuing our film noir heritage from disappearing forever or being solely consigned to DVD/Video. The second Garfield feature was better. Much better. "The Breaking Point" (1950) was recently resurrected by directors Curtis Hanson and Alexander Payne. For my money, this film is the definitive version of Hemingway's "To Have and Have Not"; easily trumping it's more famous Bogey and Bacall 1944 predecessor. John Garfield simply becomes fishing boat skipper, Henry Morgan, torn up between two women (Patricia Neal as a blond hottie and a lovably dedicated Phyllis Thaxter) and how to feed his family while holding onto to lost dreams. This is unquestionably one of Garfield's best films that should spur a renaissance of interest. Warner's Home DVD: are you listening? |
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Originally Posted by Sergio A
What is more, the sterling treatment of PUBLIC ENEMY, the BUSBY BERKELEY collection and the forthcoming release of BABY FACE and NIGHT NURSE there is also hope that some of the earlier, gloriously hyperbolic and top speed films made at Warners during the depression will also soon be available - but that's a totally different thread I'm sure! |
Corey's most wanted R1 dvds:
Little Darlings (1980), My Cousin Rachel (1952), The Deep Blue Sea (1955), The White Cliffs of Dover (1944), Born to Be Bad (1950), Ivy (1947), Reckless (1935), Springtime in the Rockies (1942), The Barretts of Wimpole Street
| I'm more concerned with "the only print Warners has". It means that the film requires a good deal of restoration before it can be released on DVD, doesn't it? |
Corey's most wanted R1 dvds:
Little Darlings (1980), My Cousin Rachel (1952), The Deep Blue Sea (1955), The White Cliffs of Dover (1944), Born to Be Bad (1950), Ivy (1947), Reckless (1935), Springtime in the Rockies (1942), The Barretts of Wimpole Street
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Originally Posted by Corey
Warners never said it was coming in 2007. At the last chat earlier this year, they said it would be coming in early 2008.
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Originally Posted by Charles H
Who owns the video rights to HE RAN ALL THE WAY? It was Garfield's last film and remains one of his very best...one never released on video. I suspect it maybe Fox/Sony/MGM/Tom Cruise. If Cruise owns it, I hope they'll bring it out on dvd before he remakes it with Reese Witherspoon in the Shelly Winters part.
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Originally Posted by Haggai
No announcement of this title yet from Warners, but...
I noticed that in the just-announced Errol Flynn Westerns boxset, the 1950 Flynn Western Rocky Mountain will have a trailer for The Breaking Point included as one of the extra features. Is this reason to hope for a release of that film in the near future? I wouldn't swear to this as a definite pattern, but off the top of my head, I'd say that trailers for other films on Warner classic DVD releases have generally been a decent predictor of those films being in the pipeline for a release of their own. |
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Originally Posted by Jon Hertzberg
Another Garfield film, Dust Be My Destiny, has figured prominently in one of the recent WHV documentaries, either on one of the Noir sets or Gangsters/Tough Guys collections. I can't remember which, but I do recall that it was listed in the credits with other films under the banner, "Available on Warner Home Video DVD," or something to that effect.
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