01-24-2005, 08:32 AM
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| I think Warner is eventually going to release a boxset of Garfield, but probably not before Cagney, Bogart, Flynn, Davis and Gable. |
Yes, I figured nothing would happen on this front until a couple of the other big ones were taken care of first. Good to see there is some other interest in a similar set for Garfield. I should have included Humoresque on the initial list. Perhaps this will show up on the inevitable Crawford set. Which films would folks like to see included in a Garfield set?
Any ideas of what might surface on WB's next Gangsters or Noir sets? Perhaps some of Garfield's WB titles, besides Postman, might make the cut? Nobody Lives Forever with Garfield as con man and Geraldine Fitzgerald as prey and The Fallen Sparrow (RKO) with Garfield as a tormented Spanish Civil war veteran are both solid noirs. Out of the Fog has Garfield cast in rare villain role opposite the always fine Ida Lupino. A double bill of 20,000 Years in Sing-Sing with Spencer Tracy and the Garfield remake Castle on the Hudson is something I could envision from WB.
It is too bad that two of his best and most enduring films, Body and Soul and Force of Evil, both originally distributed by United Artists, do not belong to Warners. Artisan has them now and has released two underwhelming discs. Hopefully, Paramount will do right by them when the rights revert to them through Viacom's acquisition of Spelling Entertainment.
Does anyone know if MGM controls Garfield's final film He Ran All the Way (UA)? For the unitiated, it co-stars Shelley Winters and it is quite the swan song--it's never appeared on video, but shows up on TCM quite a bit.
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