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| Sometime around Christmas, Fox Home Video will be giving us a special F.W. Murnau / Frank Borzage box, on a 3 to 8 split. Murnau's titles are Sunrise, Four Devils and City Girl while Borzage's brood includes Lazybones, Seventh Heaven, Street Angel, The River (fragments), Lucky Star, They Had to See Paris, Song O' My Heart and Liliom. That's quite a list and I fear the box is going to be as expensive as last year's John Ford collectables. |
What fabulous news!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: F.W. Murnau / Frank Borzage box set from Fox
AWESOME!! Apparently the Ford set sold well enough.
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Re: F.W. Murnau / Frank Borzage box set from Fox
I already got SUNRISE, and it did have bits of FOUR DEVILS on it. I'll still pick up the set. That FORD one was great, if not a bit cumberson
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Re: F.W. Murnau / Frank Borzage box set from Fox
They Had to See Paris! Yah!
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Re: F.W. Murnau / Frank Borzage box set from Fox
That does leave 5 more films that Borzage made at Fox from 1930 to 1932. Maybe those will be included in a second volume. I hope it does, since that would mean Young As You Feel would get a release also.
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Re: F.W. Murnau / Frank Borzage box set from Fox
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Originally Posted by Charles H
Would love to see more Borzage on dvd: WB (THE SHINING HOUR, THREE COMRADES, THE MORTAL STORM, HISTORY IS MADE AT NIGHT, GREEN LIGHT, SMILIN' THROUGH, THE SPANISH MAIN, FLIRTATION WALK, MANNEQUIN, THE VANISHING VIRGINIAN, SEVEN SWEETHEARTS), LionsGate (MOONRISE--arguably his masterpiece, THAT'S MY MAN!, THE MAGNIFICENT DOLL, I'VE ALWAYS LOVED YOU), Disney? (THE BIG FISHERMAN), and filing this under "It Ain't Going to Happen"): Columbia (MAN'S CASTLE and NO GREATER GLORY) and Universal/MCA (LITTLE MAN, WHAT NOW?, DESIRE, HIS BUTLER'S SISTER, DISPUTED PASSAGE, TILL WE MEET AGAIN). Borzage was a hugely underrated talent, and it's sad to see how neglected his output is today....possibly because of the blacklist in the fifties. It is great to see that Fox will be opening their vaults on his silent and early talkie films.
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Would be so thrilled to see ALL of these, especially the Warner and Universal titles - Borzage was one of THE greats and even his lesser efforts stood out.
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Re: F.W. Murnau / Frank Borzage box set from Fox
From ClassicFlix:
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**Fox** has announced their much anticipated Murnau and Borzage Fox Box Set for release on December 9th. Info is preliminary, including the title, and no additional details are yet available.
The titles are:
Lucky Star (1929)
Sunrise - Special Edition (1927)
Liliom (1930)
They Had to See Paris (1929)
Seventh Heaven (1927)
Bad Girl (1931)
Song 'O My Heart (1930)
Lazy Bones (1925)
Street Angel (1928)
City Girl (1930)
Retail price is 239.98. |
I take it that this only a small portion of the films that will be included?
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Re: F.W. Murnau / Frank Borzage box set from Fox
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I take it that this only a small portion of the films that will be included?
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Hopefully, otherwise the retail price sounds ridiculous.
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Hopefully, otherwise the retail price sounds ridiculous.
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Well, that's $24.00 a film if that's the final list. Do I wish it were cheaper? Yes. But realistically, this box isn't going to sell by the boatloads. Do I think it will sell twice as many items if it were half the price? I doubt it.
We would be paying collector's prices for collector's films. I'm just happy these films are being released at all. That's the key for me.
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Re: F.W. Murnau / Frank Borzage box set from Fox
I was hoping his other Will Rogers film, Young As You Feel, would be included also.
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