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Originally Posted by Peter M Fitzgerald
ROAD HOUSE and MOONTIDE in Sept? Woo-hoo!!!
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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 Robert Crawford
How many of you have actually seen Moontide?
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Originally Posted by Peter M Fitzgerald
I have. Ida Lupino in peril, Jean Gabin getting exceptionally drunk (with, if I remember correctly, a short Salvadore Dali-designed delirium sequence), and good turns by ever-dependable Thomas Mitchell and Claude Rains. Not as great a noir as ROAD HOUSE, but good stuff nonetheless.
And --referencing another recent thread-- I've also seen the Peter Lorre flicks THE FACE BEHIND THE MASK (great, one of the best little B thrillers ever!) and ISLAND OF DOOMED MEN (a corny, fun B-pic with Lorre chewing lots of scenery). |
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Originally Posted by Robert Crawford
How did you see these films since they're not on any video format?
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Originally Posted by Peter M Fitzgerald
How was I able to see them? Quite simple. A certain little something I like to call cable TV, Crawdaddy!
MOONTIDE.... Fox Movie Channel (a few years ago, and I taped it; it's also been running again on the channel lately) ROAD HOUSE.... ditto (though I saw it first on Cinemax in the olden days) THE FACE BEHIND THE MASK..... Cinemax (late 1980s/early 1990s, when they ran lotsa rare Columbia vault titles, and I taped it) & much later on TCM (one showing, in early 2007) ISLAND OF DOOMED MEN..... TNT (early 1990s, back when the channel was much more like TCM with commercial breaks; specifically in their late-night "100% WEIRD" movie slot; they even used a clip from the film, of Lorre saying "Get that monkey away from me!!", as part of the show's regular intro montage) --for a while there, TNT played all kinds of rare Columbia, U/A and Allied Artists flicks that are often hard to get ahold of now (i.e., the full 119-minute cut, albeit P&S, of SANDS OF THE KALAHARI (1965), which to this day hasn't been released legally on any home video format anywhere in the world, ever). |
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My 25 most wanted DVDs: Chilly Scenes Of Winter (1979); The Dead (1987); The African Queen (1951); Johnny Guitar (1954); The Sterile Cuckoo (1969); The Friends Of Eddie Coyle (1973); The Rain People (196...
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Originally Posted by Paladin
I wonder if Fox will pull Boomerang! again? I was hoping Fox might release The Locket and Undercurrent (1946) in the next film noir wave. And if they want to stretch the limits of noir why not release Blood on the Moon?
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Originally Posted by Paladin
I wonder if Fox will pull Boomerang! again? I was hoping Fox might release The Locket and Undercurrent (1946) in the next film noir wave. And if they want to stretch the limits of noir why not release Blood on the Moon?
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Originally Posted by GlennH
I assume Boomerang! will still be spine #16 in the series. They should release a 4th title this time to keep the series "waves" in multiples of three. Not that it matters though.
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Originally Posted by BethHarrison
Great to see continuity in their artwork
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Originally Posted by John Hodson
I see 'Boomerang' is the old-style off kilter artwork (easily explained by the fact that they have piles of them from the original pressing waiting for the issues to be resolved); DVD Pacific has both 'Moontide' and 'Road House' on pre-order, but no 'Boomerang'.
Will it? Won't it? Kinda thrilling ain't it.... |
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Originally Posted by BethHarrison
Mate, worse than an episode of Days of Our Lives!!
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