Warners Films Greatly Desired on DVD

Brian PB · 04-15-2003, 12:53 AM

My Most-Coveted Warners Titles in Need of DVD Release:

Michaelangelo Antonioni: Blow-Up (1966)
Tod Browning: Freaks (1932)
Jack Conway: Libeled Lady (1936)
George Cukor: Dinner at Eight (1933) and David Copperfield (1934)
Michael Curtiz: The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), and Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Tay Garnett: The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
Howard Hawks: Bringing Up Baby (1938) and To Have and Have Not (1944)
John Huston: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) and The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
Elia Kazan: East of Eden (1955)
Buster Keaton: The Cameraman (1928/Edward Sedgwick)
Mervyn LeRoy: Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Ernst Lubitsch: To Be or Not To Be (1942) and Ninotchka (1939)
Marx Brothers/Sam Wood: A Night at the Opera (1935) and A Day at the Races (1937)
Alan Parker: Shoot the Moon (1982)
Sam Peckinpah: Ride the High Country (1962)
Nicholas Ray: They Live By Night (1948)
Herbert Ross: Pennies from Heaven (1981)
Victor Sjostrom/Seastrom: The Wind (1928) and The Scarlet Letter (1926)
George Stevens: Gunga Din (1939) and Swing Time (1936)
Erich von Stroheim: Greed (75th Anniversary Restoration) (1925)
Jacques Tourneur: Cat People (1942) and Out of the Past (1947)
King Vidor: The Big Parade (1925) and The Crowd (1928)
Raoul Walsh: White Heat (1949)
Orson Welles: The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)***WANTED MOST OF ALL ***
William Wellman: The Public Enemy (1931)

I currently own 34 Warner DVDs, and would purchase any of the above sight-unseen. I hope Warners will continue to release their magnificent back-catalogue as quickly as possible. Thanks.

{Edited 4/15/03]

Greg_M · 04-15-2003, 10:33 AM

Like to see

"The Devils" (even if it is only the R rated version)
"Goodbye Mr. Chips" - Peter O'Toole/Petual Clark
"Fanny" Boyer, Caron

"Arthur" in widescreen

Bill Huelbig · 04-15-2003, 01:43 PM

Now that WAIT UNTIL DARK is scheduled for release on August 5th, that leaves only one more Audrey Hepburn classic from WB to look forward to: THE NUN'S STORY.

Audrey sure was good for Warner Bros. - three films, three different genres, three commercial and artistic home runs.

--Bill

Thomas Kolla · 04-15-2003, 02:00 PM

The Devils
Lizstomania
Dracula Has Risen From Grave
Taste the Blood of Dracula
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
From Beyond the Grave
Dracula A.D. 72
Moon Zero Two
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth
The Fearless Vampire Killers
Freaks
The Cat People
Curse of the Cat People
Bedlam
Mad Love (Lorre)
The Beast With 5 Fingers
I Walked With A Zombie
King Kong
Son of Kong
Mighty Joe Young
Mark of the Vampire
The Phynx
The Big Cube
The Mask of Fu Manchu
The Maze
The Giant Behemoth
Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
Valley of Gwangi
Wild, Wild Planet
The Green Slime
House of Dark Shadows
Night of Dark Shadows
Dr. X
The Face of Fu Manchu
Brides of Fu Manchu
Vengeance of Fu Manchu

Conrad_SSS · 04-15-2003, 02:10 PM

Warner Bros. no longer owns THE PASSENGER. It's owned by Jack Nicholson, who had previously licensed it to WB.

WOMAN IN THE WINDOW is owned by MGM/UA. Although theatrically released by RKO in 1944, it was an independent production that was purchased by United Artists at some point in the '50s or '60s. (I don't know when exactly).

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Brian PB · 04-15-2003, 02:17 PM

Conrad_SSS: Much obliged for the info. Edited my post to reflect this. I had heard a rumor that Jack owned The Passenger & was none-too-keen on a DVD release (hope the latter isn't true).

Patrick McCart · 04-15-2003, 04:40 PM

Of all my classic films on DVD, the Warner releases are my favorites.

I'd personally like to see a double-feature DVD with The Cameraman and Spite Marriage. Perhaps WB could commision new scores for the two. The Cameraman was restored in 1990 (watch the old MGM/UA tape and you'll see why) but still retained its horrible sounding piano score from 1927. With those two movies on DVD, it would complete the collection of Buster Keaton's silents (WB can wait for another decade for the talkies for all I care!)

Tod Browning could have another double feature consisting of Freaks and The Devil-Doll.

Some Warner releases I'd like to see:

Lon Chaney films (The Unknown, The Unholy Three (1925 and 1930 versions), Tell It To The Marines, etc...perhaps a box set of Chaney silents...)

MGM silents:
Greed
The Big Parade
The Crowd
Ben-Hur

Garbo/Gilbert silents:

A Woman of Affairs
Love
The Flesh and the Devil

Max Fleischer Popeye cartoons

Benn · 04-16-2003, 02:24 PM

From Warners, I still hoping for
Alan Arkin :THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER (1968) and
Al Pacino & Donald Sutherland : REVOLUTI0N (1985)

Jared M · 04-21-2003, 02:12 PM

Police Academy 2: Their First Assignement
Almost Heroes
Fresh Prince of Bel-Air season sets
Mamma's Family season sets
Scooby Doo and all other Hanna Barbera property in season sets