Pre-90s catalog on Blu - A comprehensive list

With the modest popularity of the 'Catch-Up' titles thread, and the interest on this board in older catalog titles, I thought this list would be a fun one to compile. This list is for theatrically released feature length films, and is US releases only. Please bring to my attention any releases I may have neglected.

Releases

1901-1929 (1)

The General (1927) (Kino)


1930-1939 (5)

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) (Warner)
Gone with the Wind (1939) (Warner)
Gulliver's Travels (1939) (Koch Vision) - NOTE: This release is not in its OAR
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) (Disney)
The Wizard of Oz (1939) (Warner)


1940-1949 (7)

Casablanca (1942) (Warner)
Dumbo (1941) (Disney) - coming to Blu-ray 2/??/10
Fantasia (1940) (Disney) - coming to Blu-ray 5/??/10
It's a Wonderful Life (1946) (Paramount)
Miracle on 34th Street (1947) (Fox)
Pinocchio (1940) (Disney)
The Third Man (1949) (Criterion)


1950-1959 (22)

20 Million Miles to Earth (1957) (Sony)
The 400 Blows (1959) (Criterion)
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) (Sony)
An American in Paris (1951) (Warner)
A Christmas Carol (1951) (VCI)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) (Fox)
The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) (Fox)
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956) (Sony)
Gigi (1958) (Warner)
Godzilla (1954) (Classic Media)
It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955) (Sony)
Jailhouse Rock (1957) (Warner)
Lola Montès (1955) (Criterion) - coming to Blu-ray 2/16/10
North by Northwest (1959) (Warner)
Quo Vadis (1951) (Warner)
Rio Bravo (1959) (Warner)
The Robe (1953) (Fox)
The Searchers (1956) (Warner)
The Seventh Seal (1957) (Criterion)
Sleeping Beauty (1959) (Disney)
South Pacific (1958) (Fox)
The Wages of Fear (1953) (Criterion)


1960-1969 (36)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) (Warner)
Batman: The Movie (1966) (Fox)
Battle of Britain (1969) (MGM)
Battle of the Bulge (1965) (Warner)
Becket (1964) (MPI)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967) (Warner)
Bullitt (1968) (Warner)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) (Fox)
Cool Hand Luke (1967) (Warner)
The Dirty Dozen (1967) (Warner)
Dr. No (1962) (MGM)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) (Sony)
Eagles Over London (1970) (Severin)
Easy Rider (1969) (Sony)
8½ (1963) (Criterion) - coming to Blu-ray 1/12/10
From Russia with Love (1963) (MGM)
Goldfinger (1964) (MGM)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) (MGM)
The Graduate (1967) (MGM)
The Green Berets (1968) (Warner) - coming to Blu-ray 1/5/10
How the West Was Won (1963) (Warner)
In Cold Blood (1967) (Sony)
Last Year at Marienbad (1961) (Criterion)
The Longest Day (1962) (Fox)
Monterey Pop (1968) (Criterion)
The Music Man (1962) (Warner) - coming to Blu-ray 2/2/10
Pierrot le fou (1965) (Criterion)
The Pink Panther (1963) (MGM)
Planet of the Apes (1968) (Fox)
Playtime (1967) (Criterion)
The Professionals (1966) (Sony)
Repulsion (1965) (Criterion)
The Sand Pebbles (1966) (Fox)
Thunderball (1965) (MGM)
Viva Las Vegas (1964) (Warner)
The Wild Bunch (1969) (Warner)


1970-1979 (86)

3 Days of the Condor (1975) (Paramount)
ABBA: The Movie (1977) (Polydor)
The Amityville Horror (1979) (MGM)
Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) (Image)
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973) (Fox)
Being There (1979) (Warner)
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970) (Fox)
Billy Jack (1971) (Image)
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970) (Blue Underground)
Black Christmas (1974) (Somerville)
Blazing Saddles (1974) (Warner)
A Bridge Too Far (1977) (MGM)
Caligula (1979) (Image)
Carrie (1976) (MGM)
Circle of Iron (1978) (Blue Underground)
A Clockwork Orange (1971) (Warner)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) (Sony)
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972) (Fox)
The Cowboys (1972) (Warner)
The Crazies (1973) (Blue Underground) - coming to Blu-ray 2/23/10
Damien: Omen II (1978) (Fox)
Dawn of the Dead (1978) (Starz)
The Deep (1977) (Sony)
Deliverance (1972) (Warner)
Dirty Harry (1971) (Warner)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975) (Warner)
The Enforcer (1976) (Warner)
Enter the Dragon (1973) (Warner)
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971) (Fox)
Every Which Way But Loose (1978) (Warner)
The Exorcist (1973) (Warner) - coming to Blu-ray TBD
Fast Company (1979) (Blue Underground)
Force 10 from Navarone (1978) (MGM)
The French Connection (1971) (Fox)
French Connection II (1975) (Fox)
The Gauntlet (1977) (Warner)
The Getaway (1972) (Warner)
The Godfather (1972) (Paramount)
The Godfather Part II (1974) (Paramount)
Grease (1978) (Paramount)
Halloween (1978) (Starz)
High Anxiety (1977) (Fox) - coming to Blu-ray 12/15/09
In the Realm of the Senses (1976) (Criterion)
Inglorious Bastards (1978) (Severin)
Killing Machine (1975) (Ronin)
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) (Sony)
The Last Waltz (1978) (MGM)
Led Zeppelin: The Song Remains the Same (1976) (Warner)
Life Gamble (1979) (Brentwood)
Live and Let Die (1973) (MGM)
The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue (1974) (Blue Underground)
Logan's Run (1976) (Warner)
M*A*S*H (1971) (Fox)
Magnum Force (1973) (Warner)
The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) (Criterion)
The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) (MGM)
Midnight Express (1978) (Sony)
Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) (Sony)
Moonraker (1979) (MGM)
My Brilliant Career (1979) (Blue Underground) - coming to Blu-ray 11/24/09
The Omega Man (1971) (Warner)
The Omen (1976) (Fox)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) (Warner)
Patton (1970) (Fox)
Rocky (1976) (MGM)
Rocky II (1979) (MGM)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) (Fox) - coming to Blu-ray TBA 2010
Saturday Night Fever (1977) (Paramount)
Silent Movie (1976) (Fox) - coming to Blu-ray 12/15/09
Sister Street Fighter (1974) (Ronin)
Sister Street Fighter 2: Hanging by a Thread (1974) (Ronin)
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) (Paramount)
The Story of O (1975) (Somerville)
Superman: The Movie (1978) (Warner)
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) (Dark Sky)
That's Entertainment! (1974) (Warner)
That's Entertainment, Part II (1976) (Warner)
The Toolbox Murders (1978) (Blue Underground) - coming to Blu-ray 1/26/10
The Towering Inferno (1974) (Fox)
The Twelve Chairs (1970) (Fox) - coming to Blu-ray 12/15/09
Vanishing Point (1971) (Fox)
Vengeance of the Zombies (1972) (Deimos)
The Warriors (1979) (Paramount)
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971) (Warner)
Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace and Music (1970) (Warner)
Young Frankenstein (1974) (Fox)


1980-1989 (141)

2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984) (Warner)
48 Hrs. (1982) (Paramount) - coming to Blu-ray TBD
About Last Night... (1986) (Sony)
Above the Law (1988) (Warner)
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) (Sony)
Akira (1988) (Bandai)
Amadeus - Director's Cut (1984) (Warner)
An American Werewolf in London (1981) (Universal)
Angel Heart (1987) (Lionsgate) - coming to Blu-ray 11/24/09
Batman (1989) (Warner)
Beetlejuice (1988) (Warner)
Big (1988) (Fox)
Big Trouble in Little China (1986) (Fox)
Black Rain (1989) (Paramount)
Blade Runner (1982) (Warner)
Blue Thunder (1983) (Sony)
Body Heat (1981) (Warner)
Breaker Morant (1980) (Image)
Children of the Corn (1984) (Starz)
Child's Play (1988) (MGM)
A Christmas Story (1983) (Warner)
Chronos (1985) (R&B)
Coming to America (1988) (Paramount)
Commando (1985) (Fox)
Creepshow (1982) (Warner)
Cujo (1983) (Lionsgate) - coming to Blu-ray 11/24/09
The Dark Crystal (1982) (Sony)
Day of the Dead (1985) (Starz)
Dead & Buried (1981) (Blue Underground)
Dead Calm (1989) (Warner)
The Dead Pool (1988) (Warner)
Die Hard (1988) (Fox)
Dirty Dancing (1987) (Lionsgate)
Do the Right Thing (1989) (Universal)
Evil Dead II (1987) (Starz)
Fame (1980) (Warner) - coming to Blu-ray 1/26/10
Fatal Attraction (1987) (Paramount)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) (Paramount)
Field of Dreams (1989) (Universal)
The Final Countdown (1980) (Blue Underground)
Fire and Ice (1983) (Blue Underground)
First Blood (1982) (Lionsgate)
Fletch (1985) (Universal)
The Fly (1986) (Fox)
For All Mankind (1989) (Criterion)
For Your Eyes Only (1981) (MGM)
Friday the 13th (1980) (Paramount)
Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) (Paramount)
Friday the 13th Part 3 (1982) (Paramount)
Full Metal Jacket (1987) (Warner)
Gandhi (1982) (Sony)
Ghostbusters (1984) (Sony)
Glory (1989) (Sony)
Gremlins (1984) (Warner) (Target Exclusive)
Heathers (1989) (Starz)
Hellraiser (1987) (Starz)
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986) (Dark Sky)
History of the World: Part I (1981) (Fox) - coming to Blu-ray 12/15/09
Hoosiers (1986) (MGM)
Jewel of the Nile (1985) (Fox)
Jimi Plays Monterey (1986) (Criterion)
Kagemusha (1980) (Criterion)
Kickboxer (1989) (Lionsgate)
Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985) (City Lights)
Labyrinth (1986) (Sony)
The Last Emperor (1987) (Criterion) - NOTE: This release is not in its OAR, per request of the filmmakers
The Last Metro (1980) (Criterion)
The Last Starfighter (1984) (Universal)
Lethal Weapon (1987) (Warner)
Lethal Weapon 2 (1989) (Warner)
Licence to Kill (1989) (MGM)
The Lost Boys (1987) (Warner)
Major League (1989) (Paramount)
Manhunter (1986) (MGM)
The Monster Squad (1987) (Lionsgate) - coming to Blu-ray 11/24/09
My Bloody Valentine (1981) (Lionsgate) - coming to Blu-ray 11/24/09
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989) (Warner)
Near Dark (1987) (Lionsgate)
Never Say Never Again (1983) (MGM)
New York Ripper (1982) (Blue Underground)
Night of the Creeps - Director's Cut (1986) (Sony)
Night of the Werewolf (1980) (Deimos)
El Norte (1983) (Criterion)
Omen III: The Final Conflict (1981) (Fox)
Opium and the Kung-Fu Master (1984) (Brentwood)
Over the Top (1987) (Warner)
Pale Rider (1985) (Warner)
Paris, Texas (1984) (Criterion) - coming to Blu-ray 1/26/10
A Passage to India (1984) (Sony)
Poltergeist (1982) (Warner)
Predator (1987) (Fox)
The Princess Bride (1987) (MGM)
Purple Rain (1984) (Warner)
Raging Bull (1980) (MGM)
Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) (Lionsgate)
Rambo III (1988) (Lionsgate)
Red Heat (1988) (Lionsgate)
Reds (1981) (Paramount)
Risky Business (1983) (Warner)
Road House (1989) (MGM)
The Road Warrior (1982) (Warner)
RoboCop (1987) (MGM)
Rocky III (1982) (MGM)
Rocky IV (1985) (MGM)
Romancing the Stone (1984) (Fox)
A Room with a View (1985) (BBC)
Roxanne (1987) (Sony)
Royal Space Force: Wings of Honneamise (1987) (Geneon)
The Running Man (1987) (Lionsgate) - coming to Blu-ray 2/9/10
Say Anything... (1989) (Fox)
Screw Balls (1983) (Severin)
sex, lies, and videotape (1989) (Sony)
The Shining (1980) (Warner)
Shogun's Ninja (1982) (Ronin)
Short Circuit (1986) (Image)
Silverado (1985) (Sony)
Spaceballs (1987) (MGM)
St. Elmo's Fire (1985) (Sony)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) (Paramount)
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) (Paramount)
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) (Paramount)
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989) (Paramount)
Starman (1984) (Sony)
Sting: Bring on the Night (1985) (Universal Music)
Sudden Impact (1983) (Warner)
Superman II - Richard Donner Cut (1980) (Warner)
Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense (1984) (Palm)
Tango & Cash (1989) (Warner)
The Terminator (1984) (MGM)
The Thing (1982) (Universal)
This Is Spinal Tap (1984) (MGM)
To Be or Not to Be (1983) (Fox) - coming to Blu-ray 12/15/09
To Live or Die in L.A. (1985) (MGM) - coming to Blu-ray 2/2/10
Top Gun (1986) (Paramount)
Trading Places (1983) (Paramount)
Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) (Warner)
U2: Rattle and Hum (1988) (Paramount)
The Untouchables (1987) (Paramount)
Wall Street (1987) (Fox)
Wings of Desire (1987) (Criterion)
Young Guns (1988) (Lionsgate)


Studios by decade

1901-1929

Kino - 1


1930-1939

Disney - 1
Koch Vision - 1
Warner - 3


1940-1949

Criterion - 1
Disney - 3
Fox - 1
Paramount - 1
Warner - 1


1950-1959

Classic Media - 1
Criterion - 4
Disney - 1
Fox - 4
Sony - 4
VCI - 1
Warner - 7


1960-1969

Criterion - 6
Fox - 5
MGM - 8
MPI - 1
Severin - 1
Sony - 4
Warner - 11


1970-1979

Blue Underground - 7
Brentwood - 1
Criterion - 2
Dark Sky - 1
Deimos - 1
Fox - 17
Image - 3
MGM - 10
Paramount - 7
Polydor - 1
Ronin - 3
Severin - 1
Somerville - 2
Sony - 5
Starz - 2
Warner - 23


1980-1989

Bandai - 1
BBC - 1
Blue Underground - 4
Brentwood - 1
City Lights - 1
Criterion - 8
Dark Sky - 1
Deimos - 1
Fox - 13
Geneon - 1
Image - 2
Lionsgate - 13
MGM - 16
Palm - 1
R&B - 1
Ronin - 1
Severin - 1
Sony - 15
Starz - 5
Paramount - 18
Universal - 6
Universal Music - 1
Warner - 29





Edited by Brandon Conway - Today at 10:17 am

A few things I found interesting by doing this:

- Sony has spread their pre-80s catalog releases out pretty well, going 4-4-5 in the 50s-60s-70s

- Disney has released (or plans to release) only in the earlier pre-90s decades - only 4 releases, all pre-60s

- Universal has a lot of catching up to do, which has left them with only 5 pre-90s releases, all in the 80s

- Paramount dips their toe into the pre-70s water by releasing 1 40s title this Fall

- Warner is the most prolific studio of every decade except the 40s

- Criterion is doing awesomely for their size (17 releases)

Jesus H Feltenstein, those pre-1980 lists are pitiful!

Good work - definitely interesting.

For The Exorcist, you might want to mention it's the newer version and coming in the fall.

Well the 1970s list isn't that bad in terms of numbers.

Great idea for a thread!  Thanks Brandon for gathering and analyzing all the data.

I've been shopping the U.K. for some classics like Zulu, Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers (sold seperately), Great Expectations, The Ipcress File, Black Narcissus, The Eagle Has Landed, Capricorn One, and I'm planning to get The Dam Busters with Michael Redgrave this September. I'm playing all Wee-juns these days as I've been emancipated by Momitsu.........

Did you get yours from HKFlix.com? I've been planning on buying it and from the reviews at DVDBeaver, it plays just about everything so far. I'm already region free on DVD via my Oppo. Might as well finally buy that player to play all these Blu-rays I've been buying on the inexpensive side (bargain hunting can sometimes be a pain in the ass, I ALWAYS throw away the Digital Copy bullshit and superflous crap where a booklet should've been.)
So I take it this thread isn't considering imports i.e. titles from Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, UK, Germany, France, Spain and other places? Oh well, guess I'll look on theimportforums for that particular info.

While I don't have a multiregion player, the UK is the place to look these days for deeper catalogs and Classics. 

So far I have the UK BD's of Ipcress File, Zulu and Black Narcissus.

There are several upcoming titles I have my eyes on, hoping they're not region locked.  The Innocents, The Ladykillers (1955), Angel Heart, Near Dark and several others.

 Just to be clear - many of the UK releases noted above are region-free and play in any Blu-Ray player, and that includes Iprcress, Black Narcissus, Capricorn, Zulu, and Eagle Has Landed - also have Escape From Athena and, from France, Luc Besson's Leon and The Big Blue, also region-free.  DVD Beaver has a good list of region-free imports and there are several other sites that do as well.  It's a shame, in fact, that this site doesn't.

I dunno but for some reason I get this vibe from this site they don't like talking about importing for some reason and the majority of users are Region 1 locked. I could ask in the DVD section or After Hours to see which people on the site are region-free capable, have them list their player and sites they use for importing. By the way, DVDBeaver shouldn't use YesAsia, they're damn expensive and DDDHouse.com, play-asia.com, k2dvd.com (1492: Conquest of Paradise marked down to $2.90! Region 3 NTSC) and other sites are far cheaper. But I take it alot of persons must think OH NOES THEY'RE ALL BOOTLEGS! HKFlix.com carried titles from notorious bootlegger PanMedia and my most despised company who're lazy, mainly redistribute and finally jack up the price which is Tai Seng. From DDDhouse you can get the original, non-slapped on stickers versions of Universe, Mega Star, Mei Ah and other company titles Tai Seng has the need to be lazy and call their own.
Speaking of which, I'm going to import Batman Returns BD from Amazon.co.uk and other titles. No way am I going to purchase the BD Anthology set for two films I have zero desire owning. Those're last two.

Why don't you start that list and see if the admins shut down? I'm willing to bet that they won't.

Okay I will later today after I go to the post office to go pick up an import I ordered. OH NOES I ORDERED IT FROM HONG KONG IT MUST BE A BOOTLEG! /sarcasm

I don't think HTF has any problems with imports.  In fact, there's several threads in this section alone that are exclusively devoted to imports.  And with both looser region code separation (for instance, Japan and the US are the same region) and usage by the studios, it's a valid topic for discussion.

I don't cover imports because I don't import. It's really that simple. If someone wants to contribute to this thread (or make their own) with a similar topic for non-US discs they don't need my permission.

Yes but other people do.

If these lists are only intended to benefit yourself then why bother starting a thread?  Just use an Excel spreadsheet on your PC. 

If you intend these types of lists to be a useful resource for others (aside from yourself), Imports should be included - especially Region A and non-Region locked titles.

Not to mention the many non-US members we have here.

I expect a thread like this to be a potential resource for some people, not for everyone in every scenario. It takes a lot of time to compile a list like this. I only do it up to the point where it interests me because otherwise I'm spending my free time in a manner that I don't find as worthwhile. This isn't some catch-all service. I know US releases best so that's what I stick with, and I offer it up in the chance that another few users are interested. Maybe they will be, maybe they won't be. If some people are interested in different information, so be it, they can make their own their list. Frankly, I find the attitude of criticizing a thread that doesn't fit your exact parameters pointless - people have the option of not reading or posting in my thread, or making their own thread. Seems pretty simple to me.

Added North by Northwest and Logan's Run.

Just noticed this thread was in the 'sticky' portion at the top of the HD Software page, which may have contributed to the perception that this was a thread I made in some official capacity.

Thanks for the list.  Being a fan of older movies, knowing what's out or coming on Blu-ray is helpful.

I do appreciate his list the way it is. I am pretty sure that Brandon would not mind if you would add an import list and I would like to see that one, too but I also know that it is a lot of work to cover the Blu-Ray releases of the rest of the world.

Added My Brilliant Career

Added Night of the Creeps - Director's Cut

 I recently got the Blu-Ray BOYS FROM BRAZIL from England and it plays fine in my player. This film, if released in the USA, could really use a stereo remix like the early James Bond films have had. The music score survives in terrific stereo, so I think it could be done. The film seems to cry out for a better, fuller soundtrack. The Blu Ray is mono only, as the film originally was.

John,

Was surprised to see just how good BOYS FROM BRAZIL looks on Blu-ray.

Had it imported here as well. 

Amen, Ronald. The domestic DVD is pretty blurry and if I remember right, isn't anamorphically enhanced, so getting this with a beautiful, crisp picture was quite a treat.

Added Say Anything

Fantastic resource for Blu Ray shoppers; keep up the good work, particularly with updates, as long as possible.

I got my Momitsu from Hong Kong Flix. That's where I got my Oppo 971 years ago. The player has worked out nicely. The Momitsu ought to play your DVD's just as well as your Oppo, I'd quesstimate.

I already had Zulu, which is phenomenal in Blu-ray, but I held off on Black Narcissus because Amazon.UK lists it as Region 2. Apparently, the movie is all-region, but the SD extras are region 2. so, I ordered it. Thanks.