Posts by Derek_McL

Quote: You know the "old saying" about "assuming" things ! I'd rather have a confirmation in Black & White I didn't assume anything just that IMO a Gable Signature collection without San Francisco (1936)...

Bleary eyed I waited up (1 a.m. in the UK) and hung around for the first hour and a half of the chat. Never could get in : is there a trick to getting your YO winging across the Atlantic quickly ? Before I get in the moans I must...

I don't think anything reverted back to Lloyd so to speak, he was much too careful to keep control of his films right from the time he became his own producer in 1923, he started with Hal Roach and part of their separation agreement...

Great as far as content and value only a lot of material to fit on seven discs, likely they will be dual layered and possibly the dreaded double sided but I'm such a big fan of silent comedy I'll buy this whatever.

I agree with Patrick Paramount have some great silents in their library. Why don't they release them on DVD ? Obviously because they believe they won't sell, a release of Wings was in the balance and that is an Oscar winner which...

I saw Welcome Danger(1929)in the so-called silent version (it is actually a hybrid of the talkie with some extra scenes and intertitles)in May at the Film Forum in New York city. Not his best by any means but good fun. Sadly as...

Is there no way people from Europe could be accomodated by making the chat a bit earlier ? Last year for the previous WB chat I managed to stay up to the early hours and I enjoyed it a lot even though I didn't get a question in. I was...

Great news on Lifeboat (1944): that will pretty much complete the Hitchcock film canon on DVD ! My New Classic Films Message Board : http://p090.ezboard.com/bthegoldenageofhollywood

Sounds absolutely superb, surprisingly really as I love musicals I was wavering a little on this. Now I know I've got to get it ! I've seen these films many times but the extras look worth the price alone. By the way discuss these...

Not many details yet but according to Annette Lloyd the Harold Lloyd Trust has signed a DVD deal with New Line entertainment to release this great silent comedian's films. See here : http://p079.ezboard.com/ftheharoldll...D=1 ...