Let's get these classic movies out on DVD soon, please!

Originally Posted by CLASSICFILMFAN

Hi, I'd like to meet other like minded classic movie/DVD fans. Or at least share my frustration with other classic movie fans interested in lobbying the DVD companies/studios to get more of their great, classic films (that are not available on DVD) released. There are some great films being lost to "new" audiences through shear neglect or for lack of commercial interest - I guess. Here's some examples of my classic DVD dream wish list (listed in order by the original releasing movie studio):

Universal Studios:

An Audie Murphy series, box sets from Universal (would be nice to see a series like Universal did with the Abbott & Costello catalogue a few years back), i.e. a series of 8 movies in a set covering Audie's complete films at the studio in order of their initial release.And similar box sets would also be nice and appreciated for Universal's other western stars at the time, i.e. Joel McCrea, Jeff Chandler, Rock Hudson and Rory Calhoun. Or some boxed western sets for what I call, "one shot star films" made by Universal studio: such as, 1948 Black Bart (Dan Duryea); 1955 Man Without a Star (Kirk Douglas); 1953 Mississippi Gambler (Tyrone Power); 1955 Saskatchewan (Alan Ladd); 1956 Backlash (richard Widmark); 1951 Apache Drums (Steven McNally; 1950 Comanche Territory (MacDonald Carey/Maureen O'Hara), etc..

Well, let's not forget the titles everyone's been clamoring for for years: ISLAND OF LOST SOULS, THE UNINVITED, FIVE GRAVES TO CAIRO, CAT AND THE CANARY (Bob Hope), etc. and NAPOLEON (1927).


Warner Brothers:

1959 The Hanging Tree (Gary Cooper)

Another tripple feature DVD set for Randolph Scott's remaining unreleased westerns made during the 1950's at Warner Bros. : 1951 Sugarfoot, 1952 Carson City, 1954 The Bounty Hunter, 1957 Shoot - Out at Medicine Bend and 1959 Westbound.

A tripple feature of Alan Ladd westerns at Warner Bros: 1952 The Iron Mistress; 1954 Drum Beat and 1958 The Big Land.

DVD released for 1941 The Strawberry Blonde (Cagney and DeHavilland) &
1941 The Sea Wolf (John Garfield and E.G. Robinson).

1952 Bugles in the Afternoon (Ray Milland).

THE EIMIGRANTS & THE NEW LAND (Foreign, Jan Troell); THE BIG PARADE, THE WIND, THE CROWD (silents).


20th-Century Fox:

Western Releases for:

1960 One Foot in Hell (Alan Ladd)
1960 Guns of the Timberland (Alan Ladd)
1952 Pony Soldier (Tyrone Power)
1949 Canadian Pacific (Randolph Scott), other 1949/50 Scott Fox westerns.

Affordable Fox film noir releases for 1950's Night & the City (Richard Widmark) and 1953 Pick Up on South Street (Richard Widmark) - these were released by Criterion but at 50.00 to 60.00 each it is way too expensive for the average joe.

A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN, anyone?


Turner:

Another noir box set: with RKO classics including: 1949 The Window; 1947 They Won't Believe Me; 1951 Cry Danger; 1947 Crack-Up; and some MGM film noir flicks: 1957 Party Girl MGM - Robert Taylor and 1956 Rogue Cop MGM Robert Taylor.

Westerns: 1949 Blood on the Moon Robert Mitchum (RKO); 1952 The Lusty Men (Mitchum, Hayward, Kennedy); 1951 The Half-Breed (Robert Young); 1951? Best of the Badmen Robert Ryan; RKO 1946 to 1948 Randolph Scott westerns. More Robert Taylor westerns like MGM's Ride Vaquero 1953; Devil's Doorway 1950; Ambush 1950; 1956 The Last Hunt and 1951 Westward the Women.

I second these requests, especially THE WINDOW and BLOOD ON THE MOON.

Another RKO Tarzan set (Volume 3) with Lex Barker's 5 Tarzan films from 1949 to 1953, would be really nice!


Paramount:

1951 Pony Express (Charlton Heston)
1953 The Savage (Charlton Heston)
1950 Union Station (noir with William Holden)
1943 Five Graves to Cairo (Billy Wilder WWII classic)
1959 The Hangman (Robert Taylor)
1955 Run for Cover (James Cagney, John Derek and Ernest Borgnine directed by Nicholas Ray).

Whether Through Paramount or Legend or Criterion: ONE-EYED JACKS, CRACK IN THE WORLD, DR. TERROR'S HOUSE OF HORRORS.

Allied Artists:

1955 Shack on Hwy 101 (Cult film Terry Moore, Lee Marvin, Whit Bissell and Frank Lovejoy)

Joel McCrea (Allied Artist releases?), such as: 1955 Wichita, 1957 The Oklahoman, 1956 The First Texan, 1957 The Tall Stranger, etc.


Anyone out there interested in getting these movies out on DVD. Please let the studio executives know.

Originally Posted by CLASSICFILMFAN

A tripple feature of Alan Ladd westerns at Warner Bros: 1952 The Iron Mistress; 1954 Drum Beat

Originally Posted by Joe Karlosi

Many times when discussions like this comes up, someone will inevitably say "you have to have patience with the studios and try to understand that these older catalog titles don't sell that well". Well, if that's true in the studios' eyes, then it doesn't make sense to just hold onto them; because by their own logic, if things aren't hopping off the shelves TODAY, they're less likely to do much better TOMORROW. Meaning that, with rare exceptions for some younger movie buffs, the studios' target audience is usually older people who aren't going to be around forever. Better to mine whatever cash they can ASAP rather than waiting God knows how long, while the core audience decreases.

Originally Posted by MarcoBiscotti

More Alan Ladd on DVD in general would be a good thing!

Originally Posted by CinéKarine

the Jean Harlow collection, The White Cliffs of Dover, the Andy Hardy movies, more Shearer, more Bette Davis, more Flynn, the Four Daughters film and sequels, more noir (Born to Be Bad, The Man I Love, Backfire, etc.), more Lancaster, The Enchanted Cottage (more romantic films in general!), more Cary Grant, more Stanwyck...all wonderful films/collections to wish for for sure.