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Re: TCFHE Press Release: An Affair To Remember 2-Disc Anniversary Edition
| According to imdb Love Affair was an RKO production. However, general practise in those days was for production companies remaking a film to buy the rights to the original from the original copyright holder, so it may be a Fox property now. It's a bad oversight if Fox could have included Love Affair here and didn't. |
Since Public domain copies exist, I have a feeling that Fox bought the rights to remake this film, but failed to renew them. WB probably owns the original materials, but has little motivation to release because of the multiple PD versions.
It's a shame because I consider the original to be on par with the remake.
"Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award."
Billy Wilder
"This business has come a long way in the last 30 years, but why should I depress you"
I.A.L. Diamond on the Movie Business (1986)
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